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Another fatality on Lougheed Highway Mayor calls for medians in eastern section By Phil M elnyc h u k pmelnychuk@mapleridgenews.com
The photo at yet another memorial site set up along Lougheed Highway shows a young man hamming it up for the camera with his girlfriend. Pasted on to the photo that rests on the bank a few metres from speeding traffic, is a hand-drawn heart and the message ‘I love you always.’ Read The cross resting on the bank bears the name Cory Wik and according to a gofundme description, he would have helped anybody. “He is remembered as the humble person he was, by many, who would give his last shirt off his back to anyone, even if he didn’t like them,” says Trina Marie who set up the Help Us Say Goodbye to Cory Wik page. “There truly was not an evil bone in his body, he just wasn’t made that way. He supported so many in their times of weakness and helped them through their darkest moments.” According to Ridge Meadows RCMP, the three-vehicle crash, involving a car, SUV and pickup truck, happened at about 9 a.m. Thursday, (Feb. 5) in the 25500-block of Lougheed Highway. One person died at the scene and three others were taken to hospital. See Crash, 4
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Dean Wilkes, an avid mountain biker and trail builder, found the traps and fears for the safety of other riders.
Traps set on biking trails Five obstacles laid across Bear Ridge By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com
Someone is deliberately dragging deadfalls and fallen logs across a trail in Maple Ridge, in a way that could be dangerous to mountain bikers, says a local cycling enthusiast. So-called “trail traps” have also plagued North Vancouver in the past month, and now are being found in Maple Ridge. A week ago, Dean Wilkes found five obstacles placed on Bear Ridge Trail – a path that
runs between 248th and 256th streets, just north of 102nd Avenue. “I go mountain biking with my kids on these trails. There’s big potential for someone to get hurt,” he said. At first, he wondered whether it was intentional. The giveaway was a section where five logs were placed on the path, creating an obstacle that only a person on foot could traverse. Wilkes said he was the person who originally cut the five logs, after he bucked a fallen tree. He cut it into five sections, which were still so heavy that only a fit man could move them, and pushed them to the side.
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Other sections had single, slim logs dragged across them. “Somebody had purposely put trees or logs across the trail,” he said. “I’ve been building trails for over a decade. There’s no doubt in my mind they were placed there.” He said at least one of the obstacles was set up as a potentially deadly trap, in a section where a person on a bike could not see the log and stop in time to avoid a collision. Wilkes said, fortunately, he came upon it while biking uphill. “If I was going down the hill, I would have run right into it.” See Trails, 3
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