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Pitt council sticks to plan Motion to open OCP deferred until 2018

By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com

Pitt Meadows councillors voted down a motion to re-open the official community plan, and some dismissed the suggestion from Coun. Bill Dingwall as an attempt to thwart Onni’s industrial park development plans in South Bonson.

Dingwall made the motion, and it was seconded by Coun. Tracy Miyashita, in front of a council chambers filled with South Bonson residents. Their position was that the document was last rewritten in 2008, and is out of date.

Dingwall said citizens have engaged city hall about Onni’s Golden Ears Business Park, and the company’s proposed townhouse complex for 247 homes.

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All aboard Daryl Birtch, a member of the Dewdney-Alouette Railway Society, by the intersection of River Road and the Haney Bypass. The 25-year-old diorama is open to the public on the last Sunday of every month. See story, page 3.

City homeless shelter still temporary Those who remain need more support

By Phi l M elnyc h u k pmelnychuk@mapleridgenews.com

The days are winding down to the March 31 deadline for the closure of Maple Ridge’s temporary homeless shelter on Lougheed Highway.

The shelter, with a capacity of 40, remains on track to close by that date, said Maple Ridge May-

or Nicole Read.

Council, on Monday, gets a full update from B.C. Housing and RainCity Housing on the shelter, which opened Oct. 1 in a former mattress store. “Council hasn’t had any kind of conversation that suggests that date is being extended,� said Read.

The city has made a commitment to the community, which has supported opening the shelter, she added. “The goal remains to connect those people that are in need to the

services and housing they need. “We’ve got a really good idea of who’s in our community and what their level of acuity is, like what are their needs.�

The temporary shelter, funded

by B.C. Housing and operated by RainCity Housing, opened in October for six months to provide a place to go for people who were being moved out of the Cliff Avenue homeless camp behind the Salvation Army Ridge Meadows Ministries.

Read said that B.C. Housing is

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She said that as many people as possible have been helped with outreach and rental supplements.

But those remaining need more support.

Kelly Swift, general manager of parks and recreation, said it’s challenging because those remaining in the shelter are the most difficult to house and with the largest challenges.

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History down to the last detail D S tor y & photos by Colleen Flanagan

eep in the recesses of the Maple Ridge Museum lies a series of railway tracks linking Ruskin to Port Haney to Hammond and beyond.

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(Clockwise) Veer Sandhu, 3, and his mother Sharen visit the Dewdney-Alouette Railway Society’s diorama located in the basement of the Maple Ridge Museum; Maple Ridge Lumber in the diorama and the Port Haney Brick Co. Ltd., both built by Len Androsky; Tom Collins with the Coquitlam and Calgary rail yards.

building the structures just before the first open house of 2016 at the end of January.

There is a grey building that was at one time shared by Campbell’s Drug Store on one side and a clothing store on the other. Beside that there is the yellow B.C. Tel building, which was the telephone office back then.

Scott’s Meat Market is next with what they believe were apartments on the upper floor. Then there is Stevenson’s Hotel, Pelletier’s Livery and hay barn and, finally, a white house with a balcony that they could find no information about.

The attention to detail paid to the exterior of the buildings defies

logic. There are windows, doors, balconies and signs painted like the original stores, advertising the goods available inside. There is a man carrying a sack over his shoulder as he exits Haney Station, passing by travelers idly waiting for the next train to arrive. Miniature cars and trucks line the streets.

But it is the detail inside the buildings that show the full dedication of club members.

Even though you would have to strain your eyes to see, both the clothing store and Campbell’s Drug Store are fitted with cash registers and counters along with customers making purchases.

“Because you can’t see too much, there was no point in going too

much in detail,” jokes Birtch.

“But for our own satisfaction, we’ve got to know it’s there.”

There is a switchboard operator and a switchboard in the B.C. Tel building, and even a picture of the Haney Exchange on the back wall.

Scott’s Meat Market has counters and shoppers in it along with a butcher wearing a blood-stained apron.

When trains travel past streets, crossing gates clang and are lowered. Birds chirp during the day and crickets at night. And when the main lights go out, street lights come on and all of the buildings light up, illuminating the scenes inside.

The original Haney Hotel, Fuller

Watson, the Bank of Montreal, which is now the Billy Miner, and Pacific Berry Growers Ltd. line River Road to where it meets the Haney Bypass.

The Port Haney Brick Company has a kiln built inside and there is a person sawing a log at Maple Ridge Lumber.

“It’s stupidity, I guess,” Birtch says about the detail they put into each building.

“But it’s fun.”

Railway society The Dewdney-Alouette Railway Society has 23 active members, from 28 to 80 years old.

They host an open house on the last Sunday every month.

The next open house is Feb. 28.

The Maple Ridge Museum is located at 22520 116th Ave. and is open from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. every Wednesday and Sunday.

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There are three railway yards, two of which, the Coquitlam and Calgary yards, are on top of each other.

To get to these yards, the trains travel one by one through a hole drilled through a 12-inch-thick concrete wall.

Here the trains undergo general maintenance. In other words, some tender loving care.

However, to move a train from one yard to the other takes time.

They are not simply lifted off of one track and placed on the other.

You could, laughs Daryl Birtch, a member of the Dewdney-Alouette Railway Society, “but then you wouldn’t be operating it.”

So, the trains are lovingly manoeuvred back through the hole in the wall and through the entire layout of the set until they reappear in the desired yard. A trip that takes the better part of half an hour.

The two yards are located in a back room. Recently, members started to build a grain terminal back there.

“You get involved in these little projects, like we’re imagining what we are going to do up here,” Birtch says, pointing to a series of white tubes that will become the Calgary Grain Terminal.

Members of the club have been building the diorama in the basement of the museum for over 25 years.

Trains roll past mountainous landscapes and cityscapes. There is a grain elevator, a brewery and a coal mine that loads a sandblasting medium used to mimic coal into rail cars.

They have also built a historical scene depicting Maple Ridge and what it looked like along the Fraser River between 1925 to 1935.

Just this year, Birtch and fellow club member Craig Allan added six new buildings to that section.

Using old pictures provided by the museum, Birtch started drawing out plans for the buildings in October 2015 and they finished

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‘Engagement is higher in print’

By Phil M elnyc h u k pmelnychuk@mapleridgenews.com

A Maple Ridge councillor wants to end city advertising in community newspapers, saying it’s ineffective and costs too much.

Coun. Craig Speirs was commenting at Monday’s committee meeting after newspaper ads seeking input on a proposal to extend liquor service hours at a restaurant generated no responses.

“I know newspaper advertising is quite expensive and we didn’t get any responses related to that advertising.”

The City of Maple Ridge also sent out 417 letters to nearby residents about the change in liquor hours, but the city only received two replies opposing the change.

“I think the newspaper avenue for advertising is almost past and I think we should look at other venues for notification,” Speirs said. “I think we’re wasting our money with newspaper advertising, quite frankly.”

For instance, the Hammond Community Association could have been contacted for its input into the restaurant’s proposed change in liquor hours.

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wants to extend its hours for serving liquor by an hour to 1 a.m., on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

City notices about that appeared in The News, Jan. 1 and 6.

Council heard that Ridge Meadows RCMP have no concerns about the longer hours.

Speirs was told that it’s a provincial regulation that notices get posted in newspapers.

“So that’s who we should be speaking to.

I think it’s time they caught up.”

Couns. Tyler Shymkiw and Corisa Bell agreed.

Bell, however, mentioned a similar resolution was proposed at this year’s Union of B.C. Municipalities convention.

“I think we need to advocate for it, yes.”

The resolution endorsed at the 2015 UBCM resolution calls for the government to allow cities to use a variety of media to get out their notices, providing they prove that they can reach the same or more number of residents as newspapers.

The preamble to the resolution says that, “printed newspapers are no longer the only or most effective means of giving public notice.”

If accepted by the provincial government, municipalities no longer would have to use newspapers to publicize their notices.

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tract with Maple Ridge to provide the notices and legal information pertaining to bylaws and notifications.

News publisher Jim Coulter asked if there was any market research to back up statements that newspaper advertising doesn’t work or that readership has declined.

“We still have the best reach in the community. We get to every door step. Who else does that?”

It’s possible that people just aren’t that concerned about the issue of the restaurant notice, Coulter added.

Speirs said later that he had no definite numbers, but based his comments on what he’s seen in the last few years.

“We are getting almost no response when we advertise notices in the paper, and it’s a legislated thing.

“And I’m not going to try to take business from the paper. But I think we just need to go at it in a different way. We get a lot of response with online postings and that,” from the Facebook and the city’s website.

“We get quite a bit of response from Facebook,” when the city posts notices or items on neighbourhood Facebook groups.

“It’s just the changing face of community engagement. You got to deal with it the way it is.”

But the city still gets a fair amount of response

to newspaper ads on certain issues, he added.

While the City of Maple Ridge posts many notices of road closures, announcements and notices of meetings and consultations on its Facebook page, as of January, there have been no postings of statutory or legal notifications, which generate less response.

Tim Shoults, president of the B.C. and Yukon Community Newspapers Association, said engagement is three times higher from print compared to online material.

And online notices are only effective if people know where to look, he added. However, he agrees there should be a mix of media used for notifying the public.

“Reducing statutory advertising in newspapers … will harm the newspaper’s ability to serve those communities and cover local government.”

Social media companies such as Facebook and Google “don’t create any local content and they don’t pay professionals to create the local content and to cover local government.”

He said 79 per cent of English speaking adults in B.C. have read a community paper in the last week.

Statutory advertising “keeps local government accountable,” he said.

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Published and printed by Black Press at 22611 – Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge, B.C., V2X 3K1

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Who we are Maple Ridge Coun. Craig Speirs wants to end city advertising in community newspapers.

He said in a recorded meeting that the ads are ineffective, a waste of money, and that the time has come to explore other avenues of sharing government notices.

However, Speirs has no information to back up his claim other than his own anecdotal observations, including a recent post about a local restaurant extending its liquor service hours, and he later backtracked and said the city gets a fair amount of response to newspaper ads on certain issues.

It is a provincial regulation that municipal notices get posted in newspapers.

That law exists because audited newspapers, such as The News, can prove their reach, or circulation, thus providing fair opportunity for citizens to be informed about municipal matters.

According to a 2015 survey by Newspapers Canada, which represents community newspapers in every province and territory in the country, print products had higher media engagement (captivating content and ads) than radio, magazines, billboards and the internet. The same study found that nine out of 10 Canadians read newspapers each week, in all forms.

Newspaper readership, over the past three years, in print and online, proved to be stable. The study also found that “ads in newspapers continue to be among the most trusted forms of advertising.”

The News has a contract with the City of Maple Ridge to provide the notices and legal information pertaining to bylaws and notifications.

By no means is it the city’s responsibility to keep afloat newspaper revenues, no more so would editorial content be curbed to appease such clients.

However, newspapers remain the primary source for much of the information we consume about our cities, and advertisements display a community’s economic vitality.

On Tuesday in the House of Commons, a motion was passed for the heritage committee to embark on an expansive study of how Canadians, and especially local communities, are informed about local and regional experiences through news, broadcasting, digital and print media.

The MPs have committed to no less than 10 meetings for the study.

We hope the committee finds what we already know: that the loss of a strong news industry compromises our shared sense of identity, not to mention democracy.

– The News

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Free to have my own opinion W

hen I was quite young (more than half a century ago), I contemplated the possibility that I might actually live until the year 2000 and would thereby see the turn of the century.

Sidewinder At the time, I wondered who wants to be Sandy Macdougall 60 years old? It seemed like dinosaur years to me, but now that I have celebrated my 76th birthday, my attitude has dramatically changed.

Nowadays I look hopefully towards completing a century here on Earth before being placed in the terra firma of the planet.

My attitude about age and aging isn’t the only thing that has changed in my approach to life.

As many readers over the years will attest, I have grown crustier and less understanding of those with whom I disagree or share divergent viewpoints.

Myself, I don’t think I’ve changed that much, but some of you folks must suffer from a diminished mental capacity as your arguments seem to lack the clarity and pure logic of my own stated outlook on various subjects.

One thing about me that hasn’t changed is my small ‘c’ conservative approach to

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politics, which I believe to be the natural inclination of most intelligent Canadians. Before you left-leaning tree-hugging socialists and liberals start your very predictable rant, let me emphasize that I said small ‘c’ conservative.

I haven’t held a membership in any political party for many years other than a very brief foray into the ranks of the British Columbia Conservative Party.

What a silly bunch their leaders have been over the years. Prior to the last provincial election, I attended an annual meeting of the local BCCP constituency association, where a quorum of 10 members was required to make the meeting official. Only seven members had attended, and I, at age 70, was the youngest in attendance.

To say that the leadership of the British Columbia Conservative Party lacks charisma or political savoir faire is a huge understatement.

The Rhinoceros Party of several decades ago had more energy and probably more members.

As an added indication of the moribund nature of the party, it took almost three years of steady prodding on my part to get my name struck from their membership rolls and mailing list.

Local politics also leave me cold, as so many well meaning but inept candidates are elected. Even though some intelligent folks are also successful, unfortunately

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their politically inferior colleagues outnumber them.

Then there is the hate factor, which is present in almost every major public issue.

A good case in point is the Facebook hate sites, which supposedly exist to ‘protect’ Maple Ridge. A few of the members of these groups are good hearted and sincere, but too many of them can offer only hateful rants without offering any real solutions to the social problems plaguing our community.

At one time, I was probably one of the loudest negative ranters amongst these folks, but they’ve now drawn lines which members of the group can’t cross without risk of being thrown out of the group. They can’t stand criticism from within the ranks because that somehow or other threatens their own sense of superiority and infallibility.

Now that I’m definitely on the fringes, I can freely state that I no longer care because I know, deep down in my heart, that hate never solved anything.

Now that I’m almost as old as dirt, it doesn’t much matter to me if people approve or disapprove of my stated opinions. After all, if they really don’t like it, why are they reading this stuff and what sanctions can they impose on me? I guess they always take away my privileges.

Sandy Macdougall is a retired journalist and former city councillor.

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THE NEWS/letters Rural families matter, too Editor, The News: Re: Solution for school buses (Letters, Feb. 5).

How fortunate for my family the school bus service was available, without question, to public school students who lived beyond walking distance of their local school.

The lives of families are very complicated.

The ability to attend school should not depend on private vehicles.

All students need safe, secure dependable transportation to help make their school lives successful.

Rural students and their families are valuable citizens of this community.

Janet Foster Maple Ridge

online comments ‘Just like at airport’ Graham Mowatt · Re: Pay as you leave hospital parking (Letters, Feb. 17).

This was one solution I suggested two years ago that was totally ignored by the then council. Emergency vehicles could have a wireless controller to open a gate to access the hospital at will. Visitors would get a ticket upon coming to the hospital and pay for the time when leaving, just as they do at the airport. @ E-mail letters to editor@mapleridgenews.com.

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Maple Ridge ‘underserved’ Editor, The News: I have only recently moved to Maple Ridge, but I have been carefully following the ambulance situation here.

I don’t very much care for long drawn out approaches to problems, so I offer simple figures to show how Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows not only need an extra ambulance, but how even one extra is less than fairness demands we should be given.

The population of Langley is 130,000.

The population of Maple Ridge is 95,000. This gives a combined population of 225,000 serviced by seven ambulances in Langley and two in Maple Ridge.

The 95,000 people represents 42.2 per cent of the Langley/Maple Ridge population and yet we have only 22.2 per cent of the available ambulances, leaving Langley with 77.8 per cent for only 57.8 per cent of the population.

If Langley lost one ambulance to Maple Ridge, then Maple Ridge would have 33.3 per cent of the ambulances and Langley 66.7 per cent.

We would still be disadvantaged by an enormous degree by comparison.

But from everything I have read, Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows residents would be quite content with this distribution.

I think B.C. Health Emergency Ser-

vices has played on the good nature of our community for far too long and it is now time for change.

Our MP and MLAs have issued glib statements on this matter, but have failed to show any true leadership.

I call upon them now to voice real opinions on the unfair treatment of Maple Ridge and Bing Pitt Meadows residents and demand that we are given a third ambulance.

Tony Cunnington Maple Ridge

Still benefit Editor, The News: Recently, B.C. Emergency Health Services announced that an additional eight ambu- Dalton lances would be added to the Lower Mainland.

While we are disappointed that Maple Ridge is not receiving one of these new ambulances, we will still benefit from these added resources.

It is important to remember that ambulances are not constrained by municipal boundaries.

BCEHS operates on a regional deploy-

ment model, which allows for resources from one community to be redeployed to another to assist in an increase in local calls.

This means that the added ambulances in Langley and Surrey will be available to assist those currently serving Maple Ridge should the need arise.

BCEHS has also committed to monitoring call volumes and response times in Maple Ridge over the next two months, and to meet with Mayor Read to go over their findings.

We would like you know that we hear the concerns over adequate ambulance service and that both of us are working with Health Minister Terry Lake and BCEHS to ensure that Maple Ridge has the ambulance services that it needs.

We want the best service for our residents and will continue to be strong advocates for Maple Ridge.

Doug Bing, Marc Dalton MLAs for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge-Mission

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A 29-year-old Maple Ridge man has turned himself in to police and is now facing second degree murder charges.

Peter Bender, a 33-year-old Pitt Meadows father, was found dead in his car in a church parking lot off Lougheed Highway at 216th Street in Maple Ridge in December.

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Abduction attempt Ridge Meadows RCMP are checking

into a report of a possible attempted kidnapping last Friday, Feb. 12, along 232nd Street near Dewdney Trunk Road.

“We’re actively investigating the one complaint,” said an RCMP spokesman.

Police say a male passenger got out of a vehicle and grabbed a teenage girl by the arm and tried getting her into the vehicle. The girl pulled away and ran off.

The incident happened about 6:30 p.m., according to a Facebook post by one of the parents, which said the two men got back into the car swearing and tried a second time.

The parent said another incident happened a few days later in the same area as a young boy was riding his bicycle along 232nd Street, but police can’t confirm that and are not investigating that.

‘No plans to extend shelter dates’ Shelter from front

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He turned himself in on Feb. 16. He has been charged with second degree murder and is in police custody, said Cnst. Meghan Foster.

Scott was to appear in Port Coquitlam Provincial Court on Thursday.

solution for everybody, but I am optimistic that we’re speaking with the

right parties and right partners about those solutions,” she said.

“The reality is they just aren’t all pinned down yet.”

She knows that makes people uncomfortable, possibly fearing the current residents of the shelter could end up on the street.

“I can tell you, there haven’t been any plans made to extend the closure of the shelter.”

Swift said the city now has more information about the needs of the people in the shelter and what they’ll need for housing.

That allows the city to make a better case to the province for health and social services.

Coun. Gordy Robson, though, has his doubts the deadline will be met.

“It’s going to be very challenging for B.C. Housing to live up to its commitment to close that thing in six weeks,” he said.

“And I have not heard of any rational solution.”

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It’s still just a geometric exercise, but the long, winding road that leads to the door of Golden Ears Provincial Park could change over the years.

Maple Ridge staff last year looked at how they could fit together the various pieces of road and property and riverfront – and build an improved Fern Crescent, along with a separate bike and pedestrian path, leading from 232nd Street to the gates of the Golden Ears park.

“It was started to spark discussion about when we do it,” said city engineer Dave Pollock.

“That would be a long-term goal.”

“It will require a lot of consultation,” and will be a basis for ongoing talks with residents, he added.

“That would be awesome,” said Ivan Chow, chair of the Maple Ridge branch of HUB, the cycling group.

“Imagine the recreational value that would bring to Golden Ears.”

However, the pace and type of development, residents’ concerns, the environment, and the provincial government will all shape how Fern Crescent develops, as will a new bridge planned for 240th Street over the South Alouette River, if it’s ever built.

The first step, though, may be ready to take because the city has money to do some design work on improving Fern Crescent, from 232nd to 236th streets.

While a cycle path to the provincial park is years away, the twowheeled crowd is about to get immediate relief.

The separate bike and pedestrian path along 128th Avenue opens soon, providing cyclists a safe way of getting from 216th to 203rd street. Next year, the entire stretch from 224th Street will be done, giving cyclists a separate pathway from 232nd Street to Golden Ears Way. This year, a separated,

two-directional bike path will built along 203rd Street between Powell Avenue and Dewdney Trunk Road, when that road is reconstructed.

A similar path is planned for 2017 on 232nd Street from 132nd Avenue to Silver Valley Road when that road is rebuilt.

Separate pathways are nice, but Chow would like to see such paths on both sides of the road.

The current design calls for a two-directional cycle path on only one side of the road.

With cyclists riding in both directions, motorists could forget to look when crossing the path, he said.

“People are not used to looking.”

Maple Ridge allots about $100,000 a year for cycling infrastructure, although that amount is increasing, and this year plans on improving signage so that cyclists can more easily follow bike routes that use actual roads.

New signs in west Maple Ridge and along the separated bike path on Lougheed Highway between 216th and Laity streets also will help cyclists make connections to cycling routes on Donovan and Selkirk avenues that lead to the downtown.

Pollock said the city is trying to implement its transportation plan.

“One of the goals we’re trying to do is to improve the multimodal transportation system to provide people with options.”

Every city is trying to do that, he added.

“It’s going to be a process before we fully connect the bike system.”

Once the 203rd Street bike lanes on either side of Lougheed Highway are connected, cyclists will be able to pedal from Golden Ears Way to the Golden Ears Bridge.

“This is going to be a real good connection. It will connect the northern east-west route.

When 203rd Street becomes connected, that will take you right up to the Golden Ears Bridge,” said Russ Carmichael, director of engineering operations.

Cyclist Alex Pope, though, likes the im-

proved signage and markings for the routes and lanes that lead to the downtown along 117th and 123rd avenues. Signage needs to be improved “to keep cyclists on the right route.”

He said the pathway along 128th Avenue is more for recreational cyclists.

“For a lot of people who live farther south, it’s not a great commuter connector.”

Pollock said decisions will have to be made

regionally about where the growing variety of vehicles – from wheelchairs to rollerblades, skateboards, electric bicycles and scooters, motor-powered bicycles, wheel chairs and mobility scooters – will fit in.

Maple Ridge currently allows cycling on its sidewalks.

Last week, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure announced it was giving BikeBC $6 million in 2016 to help out with

costs of expanding cycling lanes throughout B.C. That’s twice the amount the government usually gives to BikeBC. Pollock said the city will check to see if any projects qualify. “We just have to look at the criteria.”

Cities have until April 8 to apply for the funding and must explain how the money would benefit the city and increase physical activity.

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“We’re booked up at the studio until July,” said owner John Wittmayer.

In the last few months, he’s turned away half a dozen companies wanting to use the studios for shooting. That happened as recently as Tuesday and Wednesday, when he turned shows away on both days.

Finding locations that will look like courthouses, police stations, mortuaries or CSI labs are hard to find throughout Metro Vancouver.

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John Wittmayer of The Ridge Studios on 224th Street is having to turn people away. he’ll be booked for the rest of the year.

Since it opened, 18 movies have been shot at the studio, including Beverly Hills 90210, Kindergarten Cop 2, along with several made-for-TV movies.

Wittmayer said the extra six-per-cent tax credit offered against movie crew labour costs have led to the film industry’s growth outside Vancouver.

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The low dollar is also a huge factor. But it was the tax incentives that helped spread the industry here, he added.

Being downtown is another bonus.

“There’s a lot going for this particular location that we think has contributed to our popularity.

“To have a community as film friendly as Maple Ridge is, takes a huge burden off film producers because they know they can come here and they’ll be welcomed as opposed to being turned away or having moratoriums or having huge issues every time they come into a community. It just isn’t worth it.”

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It also offers work experience on the sets for high school students.

The operation could expand in the spring as he looks at opening another studio of about 21,000 sq. feet.

He wants to keep the momentum going as a way of building the film industry here.

“The more business we do here … the more that we’ll build the infrastructure for filming in Maple Ridge.

“Then you begin to build a labour pool of skilled workers,” who will stay here.

Marg Johnson, film production liaison with the City of Maple Ridge, said 2016 has started out busier than last year.

So far this year, 14 productions have been shot in Maple Ridge, compared to 10 last January and February.

Disney XD is filming Mech-X4, a live-action adventure comedy, in at various locations in Maple Ridge and will be here until May. Feature films such as Scorched Earth and Legends of Tomorrow were also done here.

“With pilot season starting up, plus the low Canadian dollar, I don’t see it slowing down at all,” Johnson said.

Josh Duchamel, Greg Kinnear, Giancarlo Esposito and Aaron Paul (the last two of Breaking Bad fame, are some of the names that have showed up in Maple Ridge.

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Mayor defends consultants

By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com

The parks and recreation transition in Pitt Meadows is on track says Mayor John Becker, responding to criticism of the work done by the city’s consultants.

Last week, councillors David Murray and Bruce Bell took KDH Management Consultants to task for the pace of their work.

Coun. Mike Stark urged the consultants to determine staffing levels.

Council also decided, in committee, that all recreation services currently being provided through the joint leisure services agreement with Maple Ridge be retained, even after Maple Ridge leaves that partnership in October of this year.

Becker, who missed that meeting, said that was an important step, and now the consultants can refine their work, cataloguing what services are being provided, and presenting council with options

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Pitt Meadows passed a motion to target maintaining current recreation services. for delivery.

Tuesday night, council received the second of four consultants reports on the transition.

Council passed motions that commit the city to a target of maintaining current service levels and providing services and programs using a hybrid model.

It will include both in-house staff and outside service providers – contracted services and partnerships with other municipalities. “Our goal is to move services over as they exist, and then, in time,

sort out what really is working and how we can tailor it for Pitt Meadows,� said Becker. “At the same time, we need to determine the best service delivery model. Just because a service was delivered one way in the past does not mean that we cannot or should not consider alternative service delivery models.�

Becker wants to affirm that the consultants are doing the job. “I’m at city hall a lot.

I know they’re working hard and they’re doing

a lot.�

In October of 2015, Maple Ridge announced that it will exit the 21-year-old joint services agreement.

Pitt Meadows was left with a year to come up with plans to offer an independent parks and recreation function.

Recreation experts Kurt Houlden and David Leavers of KDH have been working with senior staff to prepare a plan for the creation of a “made in Pitt Meadows� solution.

Becker countered

claims the work was not moving quickly enough. “This criticism is unfounded and demonstrates a lack of understanding of the complexities involved,� he said. “We acknowledge that there is a lot of work to be done in a very short period of time. We are committed to ensuring quality programs and services, access to space and reasonable fees.

Last Tuesday, during question period, a member of the public suggested the city shouldn’t expect a lot for $40,000 worth of consultant’s work, but Becker said there is no issue with council’s budget for the task. “Forty thousand dollars, in my world, is a significant chunk of change,� he said. “But we are getting value for our money.�

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The latest round of fee increases announced last week affect only the group camping rate in Golden Ears, which sees a $20 increase to $120 a night.

Rates for camping in Gold Creek and Alouette campsites remain at $35 a night, while the daily rate at North Beach remains $23.

However, rates have jumped in other parks in B.C. Ministry of Environment spokesman David Karn said he doesn’t know the rationale behind the varying fee increases.

Last year, camping fees at Golden Ears jumped by $5 – to a nightly fee of $35.

Golden Ears is one of the busiest parks in the province and draws more than 600,000 visitors a year.

And between 2005 and 2015, the number of campers or overnight visitors to Golden Ears has increased by 38 per cent, to a total of 122,600.

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The new bridge has been a dream of the Ridge Meadows Outdoors Club for more than 20 years and now makes a more direct hike to the peaks above in Golden Ears Provincial Park. Both the East Canyon and West Canyon trails were also to be improved.

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The Maple Ridge Fraternal Order of Eagles, Ladies Aux iliary sent their Secretary, Joanne Krisko to the office of Chi a $500 donation to help the ldren of the Street Society to hand deliver Soc workshops for kids in Maple iety deliver their school-based prevention Ridge.

The first COBS Bread bakery in Maple Ridge at Westridge Centre raised $1,847 for Breakfast Club of Canada during their Community Day on January 20, 2016. The bakery was open from 11:00 am-5:00 pm and was busy with shoppers happy to learn the bakery was “finally open”. COBS Westridge is locally owned and operated by franchise owner Masumi Smith.

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‘No reason to open OCP’ OCP from front

Conversations about traffic safety and a pedestrian overpass came out of discussions with citizens, he pointed out.

“We have a large number of citizens that are engaged, that have comments in regard to Pitt Meadows – and, in particular, development in Pitt Meadows. And I think we have to pay attention to that,” argued Dingwall.

He said redeveloping residential properties, garden suites and airport expansion are other issues that could be addressed during a review of the OCP. He also argued that there are 19 acres identified as farmland in the OCP, which are now being developed in Phase 3 of the business park.

Dingwall pointed to the preamble of OCP, which said council must maintain livability in Pitt Meadows, protect agricultural land, protect the natural environment, and “maintain its unique small town and rural characteristics.”

Coun. Bruce Bell made a motion to defer reviewing the OCP until budget talks in 2018, which was supported by council.

He agreed there are big projects underway in South Bonson, with rezoning changes slated, lots of issues to deal with, and said there may be changes to Onni’s development plans.

“You just don’t open an OCP to think that you can shut down the developers,” asserted Bell.

Onni has completed two of the four phases located on both the north and south sides of Airport Way. Once complete, the project will cover 200 acres with almost four million square feet of industrial space.

Bell said the OCP was reviewed by council during the regional growth strategy in 2013, if not rewritten, and the past several councils have supported it. Tax rates for the city are based on plans in the document, he said.

“That’s been our course,” he added.

“We’ve had guidance from our staff that we don’t need to open it at this time,” Bell responded.

Coun. Janis Elkerton said the development plans in that area have been before the public for more than 20 years.

She said the city had communication from Onni about the issue.

“They’re very concerned that this was opened up,” she said, the company fearing it was a tactic by people who oppose the development plans.

Changing the OCP at this time could have financial and legal implications for the city, she said.

“This is a tactic to delay Onni,” she said.

Dingwall responded that it is not a tactic, but would be important dialogue about the future of the city.

“I’m going to be in Pitt Meadows until I die, so the OCP and the vision for Pitt Meadows is, I think, the most important thing for all of Pitt Meadows,” he said.

Miyashita questions whether the OCP is still relevant, and reflects what people want now.

“It’s our job to represent what the people want.”

Mayor John Becker said the farmland had been the subject of considerable debate, and the city’s Agricultural Advisory Committee was “vehemently opposed” to removing it from the protection of the Agricultural Land Reserve, unless it was used to contribute to the economic and social

stability of the community.

He said in 2013 council affirmed the OCP, and opening it would be both time consuming and expensive. It involves hiring consultants, and can take up to two years to complete.

What’s more, the OCP process would not stall development proposals, he said.

Becker concluded by saying there is no reason to open the OCP. “Grappling with garden suites does not require the OCP to be opened.”

And even if there were, staff does not have the capacity to take on the issue at this time, given the need to plan a new system to deliver parks and recreation services by the end of October 2016.

Acting CAO Mark Roberts confirmed that with city hall’s present workload, staff does not have the capacity to rewrite the OCP. During question period, Jennifer Scharf asked how Onni is able to begin site preparation work on the farmland that makes up part of Phase 3, if it does not yet have rezoning completed – the bylaw has only been given first reading.

Becker answered that the parcel is being sub-

sumed into the business park, and the developer has done nothing illegal.

Area resident Corinne O’Handley noted that developers frequently buy land on speculation, and asked whether the city has any legally binding commitments to Onni.

Becker answered that the city has no legal obligation to grant the company a rezoning.

South Bonson resident Bob Meachen noted that a group has organized and become engaged, and communicates via a Facebook page with about 600 members.

Despite comments about the group having a political agenda, he said its aim is to lobby for its neighbourhood now.

“We want this council, the one we have elected, the one we voted for, to do the right thing for south Pitt Meadows,” said Meachen.

“Most of the folks here this evening are not against development.

Some folks would love to see those fields left green.

But most folks understand that Onni has made an investment, Onni wants to make a return, we understand that. But we would like to see something that benefits the whole community, not just the developer.”

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Fraser cuts hospital beds as care homes open Health region shifting to community care B y Jeff Nage l Black Press

Fraser Health will close 80 hospital beds across the region this spring as it simultaneously opens up hundreds of new residential care beds and embarks on a long-awaited shift of aging patients out of hospitals and back into local communities.

The strategy has been years in the works and is culminating now as 400 residential beds are set to come on stream across the region.

“This will happen over the next six months,” said Tasleem Juma of Fraser Health. “As those residential care beds come available, we’ll be able to move people into them and slowly the reductions will happen.”

Beds will be cut at 10 hospitals – all of them except Delta and Fraser Canyon.

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Hospitals in the Fraser Health region continue to struggle with high levels of congestion. It’s hoped that a shift of elderly patients out to new residential care beds will help. than three per cent of Fraser’s 3,000 total hospital acute care beds.

Fraser officials hope the shift into the community will ultimately mean better, more appropriate care for

those patients, as well as fewer people clogging hospital beds and less ER congestion.

“What we’re hearing is people want to go home and they want to go back

into their communities,” Juma said.

Juma maintained the region will see a net increase in combined residential and acute care beds and a net increase in jobs as more support staff are being deployed for community care.

Ten new hospice beds are also being opened.

The 400 new residential complex care beds opening are split between four projects in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Surrey and White Rock at a cost of $34.5 million to Fraser.

Fraser has long pursued a “home is best” long-range strategy to decongest hospitals but that took on renewed urgency in 2013 when Health Minister Terry Lake ordered a review after the health region repeatedly failed to stay within its budget.

“Care in the community is certainly less expensive than hospital care,” Juma acknowledged.

“The long-term benefit is we will see those gains in the future.”

B.C. Nurses Union president

Gayle Duteil opposes the plan to close beds, saying hospitals are already heavily congested before the planned shift in resources.

“Last week we saw a record high number of patients waiting for beds in wards,” Duteil said. “Some patients were waiting in the ER for upwards of four hours just to be triaged. That is not safe patient care.”

She questioned whether enough nurses are working in community care to handle the new patients.

Juma agreed hospital emergency departments are busy right now, partly because of higher winter volumes.

“We are going to ensure the support in the community is there before we start reducing those bed numbers.”

Fraser Health’s latest report card shows the region continues to far underperform its targets on how long patients stay in hospital as well as key measures of ER congestion.

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Nothing obvious about the all-new Toyota Prius about gas prices fuelling hybrid sales.”

It would be no more than an unimagAt the risk of incurring the wrath of the inative statement of the obvious to Toyota marketing department (not that describe the all-new 2016 Toyota Prius, it would bother me), that’s going to be as a gas/electric hybrid powered car. a tough sell. The 2016 edition achieves Obvious perhaps because since its still more fuel economy gains and that launch back in 1997 its nameplate has will continue as a purchase persuader. only ever been offered with a hybrid And the price is right, an equal driver power unit. Clever marketing ensured of sales in my opinion: three trims Prius became synonymous with green No surprise starting at $25,995, which is $300 less driving and the badge showed all that than the outgoing owners were environmentally conthat the fourthgen model. scious. Since then, Toyota has sold more generation model is third Opening the doors than 3.5-million Prius models largely on a hybrid but placing reveals some things the strength of that green cred. don’t change. As No surprise that the fourth-generation the emphasis on is the norm, the model is a hybrid but placing the emthat fact is totally instrument panel is in the centre, phasis on that fact is totally inadequate which always takes me a few drives and undersells its other attributes. The inadequate and to get used to. What is different is the Japanese giant has not abandoned the undersells its other arrangement of the info screens, all the trumpeting of the car’s green nature attributes. stuff you need to pilot safely features but it’s much more low key in its new on a pair of side-by-side LED screens, marketing campaign. Instead, Toyota is Keith Morgan which essentially form a single display, trying to persuade potential buyers that and that sits neatly above a larger infotainment this new version is ready to compete in the mainscreen separated by the heating vents. stream against conventional gas-powered sedans The base console is an uninspiring black plastic but based on price, performance, technology, safety and, it’s replaced by an off-white colour on the other yes, looks! trims. That might take a time to grow on me.

Let’s get the latter point out of the way, right away. It The enlarged platform, smaller batteries and reconhas never been a looker but with its new sleek, lower figuration of where they sit, behind and under the stance it is as close to sporty as you are likely to get rear seat translates into much more cabin room and in a Prius. It appears to these eyes that red livery a more comfy rear seat ride. (Incidentally, the base gives it a sharpest appearance but blue looks good model keeps the nickel-metal-hydride units, whereas too. Less enthused about paler renderings. the top trim with a technology package used the Toyota Canada vice-president Stephen Beatty says lithium-ion battery.) the brand wants to “break the cycle of psychology

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GAS Even the most loaded editions barely pass $33,000.

Promise I’ll get behind that wheel soon. The new Prius uses a revised version of Toyota’s 1.8-litre-Atkinson cycle engine.

The official fuel economy numbers are not out yet but internal testing revealed a fuel efficiency of 4.5L/100KM (city/highway combined). The launch drive in Vancouver suggested the 4.5 number is far from being a dream.

Okay, we’re off. Normal and Power driving modes suggest this actually might be a fun drive. Normal errs on the side of economy-optimized performance.

Power packs some fun into the Prius, without serious compromising fuel economy.

The car is a gem in the city as you would expect and spirited on the highway, especially when the Power mode is selected. To be fair, I didn’t feel the need to explore my inner Boy Racer too many times.

Looking forward to spending a week in the car when I can truly put it to the test in real world conditions. keith.morgan@drivewaybc.ca

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Driveway Editor Keith Morgan will entertain and inform at this weekend’s Early Bird RV Show, at Tradex, in Abbotsford.

The veteran auto writer will make a multi-media presentation twice on Saturday called “RVing for Novices” during which he will share tips and jokes about his recent six-day, 1,200-kilometre road trip through B.C. Showgoers will see all the latest equipment and get the opportunity to win a Wildwood X-Lite travel trailer valued at $20,995.

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Safety Tip: If winter doesn’t typically mean snow or ice where you live, other conditions like darker morning and afternoon commutes and heavy rain can make driving this time of year challenging. Drive safely this winter—slow down and increase your following distance.

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B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong presents his fourth straight balanced budget in Victoria Tuesday.

NDP raps ‘fantasy fund’

By Tom Fletcher Black Press

The B.C. Liberal government’s new “prosperity fund” is effectively financed by Medical Services Plan fees, not the natural gas windfall promised by Premier Christy Clark three years ago, say opposition MLAs. In her response to the B.C. budget Tuesday, NDP finance critic Carole James said relief from MSP fees for lower-income families doesn’t take effect until January 2017, along with another four per cent overall rate increase.

A new $100 million “fantasy fund” is raised through MSP revenue and other fee increases rising this year, James said.

Changes introduced

by Finance Minister Mike de Jong will exempt children from MSP rate calculations, and raise the qualifying income for the full rate from $30,000 to $42,000 for single people.

That single adult rate rises to $78 a month starting next January, the latest of a series of increases for Canada’s only dedicated medical

service fees.

Green Party leader Andrew Weaver said the MSP changes are a “halfway step” in the right direction.

“We see individuals and families earning modest incomes continuing the pay the same rates as those who are earning six-digit salaries, and assistance remains contingent on an opt-in system,” Weaver said.

James said contrary to de Jong’s description of a nation-leading provincial economy, B.C.’s private sector job growth is sixth among provinces and average consumer debt is $10,000 higher than the national average.

“We see people leaning on payday loans and credit cards to try to pay their bills,” James said.

Tax trimmed Newly built homes worth up to $750,000 are exempt from B.C.’s property transfer tax under changes in the provincial budget that take effect immediately.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong expects to make up most of the lost revenue by increasing the tax rate from

two to three per cent on the value of homes in excess of $2 million.

For resold homes, property purchase tax continues to apply at one per cent on the first $200,000 of value and two per cent on value between $200,000 and $2 million.

The tax has produced a windfall for the province and pushed home purchase costs even higher in the hot market for homes in some urban areas. The government expects to collect about $200 million more than it budgeted for the current year, due to soaring prices and a high number of sales.

De Jong said the break is aimed at new construction to stimulate new housing construction, adding to supply in response to demand that is driving prices up.

The exemption is only available to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, and the government is resuming tracking nationality of buyers, a practice stopped in 1998.

The upper limit to qualify for the homeowner grant is also increased from $1.1 million to $1.2 million for

the 2016 property tax year.

Disability benefits Income assistance payments for people with disabilities are to increase up to $77 per month effective Sept. 1, but transit passes will no longer be covered.

Bus passes have only been provided for some regions of the province, an unfair situation for those who can’t take advantage of transit, said de Jong.

The increase will be across the board and recipients can choose for themselves if they use it for transit or other needs.

The B.C. Liberal government has resisted calls for an increase in the general social assistance rate, but has ended the clawback of child support payments to single parents.

Since 2012 the government has moved to encourage income assistance recipients to work, allowing earnings up to $200 a month without losing benefits for those who file tax returns.

People on disability assistance can retain up to $800 a month, up from $500 in 2012.

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Real estate market getting hotter

By Kevin Gillies

E

ffects from the Lower Mainland’s red-hot real estate market continue to ripple through the North Fraser region, according to statistics from the area’s realtors network.

Benchmark prices climbed again last month for all types of homes in the Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows markets.

The composite benchmark price for property in Maple Ridge jumped 5.3 per cent – from December 2015 to January 2016 – to $466,200, while in Pitt Meadows it jumped 3.7 per cent to $454,900 over the same month.

Those composite benchmark prices represent increases of 17.1 and 12.2 per cent, respectively, over the previous year.

“Fundamental economics are driving today’s market,” says Darcy McLeod, president of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.

“Home buyer demand is at near record heights and home seller supply is as low as we’ve seen in many years.”

McLeod said home buyer activity remains at near record levels across the Metro Vancouver housing market.

The number of total property sales in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows area remained steady over the month, going from 187 in December 2015 to 176 in January.

But last month’s property sales represent a 53 per cent jump in the number of home sales over the 122 sales in January 2015.

While most of those sales were detached homes, which went from 79 in January 2015 to 111 last month, the highest jump in benchmark price was among Maple Ridge condominiums.

The benchmark price for a Maple Ridge condo jumped 22 per cent over the previous month, to $202,800. That also represents a 22.8 per cent rise over the January 2015 benchmark price for Maple Ridge condo.

The benchmark price of detached homes in the region also continued to climb with homes in Maple Ridge pegged at $560,900 and homes in Pitt Meadows priced at $632,100.

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The total number of listings in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows rose 155 per cent in the past month, from 127 in December to 324 last month.

The Maple Ridge detached home benchmark price is a 2.6 per cent rise over December and a 16.6 per cent increase since January 2015.

In the past 10 years, the benchmark price for a Maple Ridge detached home has jumped 47.4 per cent (from $380,530).

The Pitt Meadows detached home benchmark price is up 4.3 per cent from December and a 18.5 per cent from since January 2015.

In the past decade the benchmark price for a Pitt Meadows detached home has jumped 62.8 per cent (from $388,268).

The Maple Ridge townhouse benchmark price jumped 6.6 per cent in a month to

323,300, while the Pitt Meadows townhouse benchmark price rose slightly (0.4 per cent) to $379,500.

The benchmark price for a Pitt Meadows condo rose 5.9 per cent to $258,200.

The total number of listings in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows rose 155 per cent in the past month, from 127 in December to 324 last month.

That is a 15 per cent jump from the 282 listings in January 2015.

The percentage of sales to listings in January was: 63 per cent for detached homes, 67 per cent for attached homes, and 30 per cent for condos.

New listings for detached, attached and

apartment properties in the entire Greater Vancouver region totaled 4,442 in January 2016 — a 6.2 per cent decline compared to the 4,737 units listed in January 2015 and a 119.8 per cent increase compared to December 2015 when 2,021 properties were listed.

Generally, analysts say that downward pressure on home prices occurs when the ratio dips below the 12 per cent mark, while home prices often experience upward pressure when it reaches the 20-22 per cent range in a particular community for a sustained period of time.

Kevin Gillies is a freelance writer for Black Press.

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$

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$

945,000

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$

229,000

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This is one of the most spectacular acreages you will ever find! Partly cleared, part forest- with nature trails, creek & gully. Supremely well kept 2 storey house w/ full unfinished basement. Subdivision potential. Previous offer collapsed over buyer's financing. BE QUICK!

$

MLS# R2029343

825,000

11790 Wilson Street, Mission SPECTACULAR PENTHOUSE

TOO NEW FOR MLS#

CENTRAL PORT COQUITLAM

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CUSTOM BUILT EXECUTIVE RANCHER ON GREENBELT! You simply must see it to believe. Open plan, vault ceilings and deluxe finishing throughout this1900 sqft masterpiece. 7266 sqft lot & premium quiet cul de sac location.

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$

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11833 249A Street, Maple Ridge

MLS# R2036367

719, 000

$

12259 252nd Street, Maple Ridge

$

219, 000

#121-2551 Parkview Lane, Port Coquitlam

Updated home on 0.35 Acre in quiet rural setting with extensive garden. Views of mtns and fields.

Over 3,500 sqft, features great layout on main w/spacious family rm, gas f/p, formal living/dining rms and gorgeous solarium/sun rm. 3 bdrms up, 1 bdrm and 2 rec rms down. Large tandem-style garage. Mostly vinyl windows, mix of h/w and laminate floors.

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SELL YOUR HOME FOR When you hire John and Dave to represent you in the sale of your home, you can be confident knowing the job will be handled skillfully and professionally by two of the top-selling REALTORS® in all of Greater Vancouver. In 2014 and 2015, both John and Dave were ranked in the top 1% of all REALTORS® overall in the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver - out of several thousand REALTORS®. With a combined 31 years' experience and, nearing 1000 combined career sales, John and Dave have the experience that is your key to achieving the best possible results in today’s real estate market. Our success is not an accident. Put our experience to work for you!

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Selling your home with Dave and John may mean more money in your pocket when all is said and done. For homes selling under $600,000, our commission rate is a flat fee of $6950 (+ GST). (*) For homes selling over $600,000, our commission structure is 1% of the sale price + $950 (+ GST). Though not all commission rates are the same, this usually equates to thousands of dollars in savings compared to rates charged by many of our competitors (often 7% on 1st $100,000 and 2.5% on balance). We firmly believe that we offer the best value proposition available in the local market today. It’s your hard earned equity - keep more of it!

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We Never Stop Moving TRI-TEL REALTY

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SOUGHT AFTER DAVISON SUBDIVISION • 4 bdrms / 3 baths • Bsmt Entry on 3’ crawl • 3 bdrms / 2 baths up • Down could be 1 or 2 bdrm suite • Gas & wood burning fp

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23264 Dogwood Avenue, Maple Ridge

$

PRICED TO SELL!!!

• 4 bedroom home • Close to Elementary school • 4 bathrooms and bus stop • 1 bdrm suite separate • 9 ft ceilings on main entrance • Master with ensuite and • Parking for 3 cars with lane walk in closet access

23659 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge

569,900

$

TRI-TEL REALTY NEW LISTING!

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20502 Deniza St., M.R.

21925 River Rd., M.R.

22147 126th St., M.R.

Bring the kids, bathing suits and friends & family to this fabulous home!!

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Elegance shines through in this 3245 sq ft 4 bedroom 4 bathroom home with new carpet new paint to die for custom chefs kitchen, Lovely view of the river and Mount Baker off the huge deck excellent for entertaining, all sitting on a huge 18,775.00 sq ft lot!! Lots of parking and tons of privacy

This 4 bdrm, den family home is located in West Maple Ridges most desirable Davidson subdivision. Windows galore let you take in the fantastic views. New kitchen, new flooring and paint, south facing for tons of light. Completely self contained 1 bdrm suite with its own washer & dryer. Out door has a private yard with a great versatile work shop/ garden shed/studio wired 220.

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Brookside Realty

THE 2015 “NATIONAL” AWARDS

AWARDS 2015 are presented by Royal LePage in recognition of these top Realtors.™

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Doug Rempel & Associates 604.859.3141

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Prices starting at $339,900 Inc. GST

MAPLE RIDGE Units 1 & 2 22637 119th Ave.

MLS# R2014429

1,388,000

$

Two duplexes, like an oasis in the middle of the City! All units updated and remodeled. Granite counter tops in kitchen and bathrooms. In suite laundry. On site parking. Gated and fenced.

13, 144 sq.ft. lot. 24 hour notice mandatory for appointments. Asking $1,388,000.00

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Your BEST Mortgage Advice is One Call Away

Welcome Scott Sawyer

Brookside Realty

ROYAL LEPAGE - Brookside is very pleased to have Scott Sawyer join their team.

If you are thinking of buying, selling or just have a real estate question, Scott would like to hear from you.

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THE NEWS/sports

Contact 604-467-1122 ext. 216 sports@mapleridgenews.com

Flames shock Outlaws Junior Bs take first two games in best-of-seven playoff series

By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com

The Ridge Meadows Flames have grabbed a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven series against the first-place Mission Outlaws in the Pacific Junior Hockey League playoffs.

The Junior B Flames shocked the Outlaws by taking the first game 5-4 at the Mission Leisure Centre on Tuesday night, then followed that up by doubling their guests 6-3 on Wednesday at Planet Ice. They can take a stranglehold on the series with another win tonight on home ice.

It was Bradley Crompton leading the offence with five points in the first game, on two goals and three assists.

Andrew Strelezki scored a hat trick, and Boston Colley had four assists.

In net, Jason Sandhu got the win with 37 saves on 41 shots.

The Flames managed to hold the league’s leading scorer, David McGowan, who racked up 84 points in 44 games, off the scoresheet.

In Maple Ridge, Crompton and Alex Furlan each scored twice.

The Flames finished a lacklustre fourth in the Harold Brittain Conference, but their offence has cranked it up for the past month.

This week’s two playoff wins make it eight times in the past 13 games that their offence has exploded for five or more goals in a game.

The Outlaws, first in the conference, had looked like heavy favourites. They finished 21 points ahead of the Flames in the standings, and had entered the series on a 12game unbeaten streak.

In the other playoff series in their conference, the Abbotsford Pilots went up two games to none on the Aldergrove Kodiaks.

In the Tom Shaw Conference, the fourth place Delta Ice Hawks upset the league champion North Vancouver Wolf Pack by a 5-0 score in their series opener on Tuesday.

Wednesday the Richmond Sockeyes beat the Grandview Steelers 2-1.

Colleen Flanagan/ THE NEWS

Playoff hockey Carter Germain (right) of the Ridge Meadows A2 Rustlers passes the puck during an atom game against the Surrey A3 Thunder at Pitt Meadows Arena on Sunday. The Rustlers won the playoff game by a score of 9-4.

Burrards load up on goaltending WLA team selects the top goalie in the draft, plus two

By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com

The Maple Ridge Burrards loaded up on goaltending in this year’s WLA entry draft, taking three backstops with their first six picks, including the kid they consider the best BCJALL goaltender available.

That’s Charles Claxton of Victoria, whom the Burrards picked in the second round, 11th overall.

That was their first pick of this year’s draft, after having traded away their first pick last month in exchange for hometown talent Luke Gillespie. He had a productive first season with the New Westminster Salmonbellies, putting up 15 goals and 31 points in 12 games last year. Gillespie was a first rounder himself. And as part of the deal, the Burrards get the ‘Bellies first-round pick in the 2017 draft.

When his first pick came, Burrards GM Daren Fridge said he was shocked that Claxton hadn’t been selected in the top 10.

“We were very surprised. He was the number one ranked goalie in the draft, and won a bunch of games for Victoria.”

The Burrards weren’t going to let him pass by, despite having an elite starting goaltender in Frankie Scigliano.

He said Scigliano will likely be playing in the NLL playoffs at the start of the WLA season again, as he was last year, and the Burrards will a starter-quality goaltender.

Last year’s number two Carson Michaud has announced that he is not returning to the Burrards due to other commitments, so there are games in net up for grabs.

So the Burrards also used their sixth and seventh round picks to select two more goaltenders, in New West’s Michael Flintoff and Port Coquitlam’s Giulio Del Bianco.

With the Burrards third round pick they took Matt Symes, who put up 14 goals and 34 points for Port Coquitlam. He also plays NCAA field lacrosse for Whittier College,

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and has good upside as a prospect, said Fridge.

In the fourth round they took New West defensive player D.J. Saari. He is a Mission kid, who wanted to play for the Burrards, said Fridge.

“He’s a defender – a tough kid who will do whatever it takes.”

They went with Maple Ridge’s Lydon Knuttila, a Poco Saint, with their fifthround pick. He will be a lefty offensive or transition player, said Fridge.

“He’s one of those tough kids to play against, and gets under the skin of opponents,” said Fridge. “He can create room for his teammates, and bang inside.”

The Burrards expect to start the season without six or seven starters due to the NLL playoffs, so the kids will get a chance to show what they can do.

“We’re happy with the draft,” said Fridge.

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Payten Smith captured a silver medal at the 2016 WCWA Women’s College Nationals in Oklahoma City over the weekend, and her Simon Fraser University women’s wrestling team finished third.

The former Maple Ridge Rambler advanced to the finals of her 191-pound weight class, but was upset.

Top-ranked Smith, was beaten in the final

by No. 2 seed Tiaira Scott (Campbellsville University) 10-0.

Smith had pinned her opponents in each of her first four matches to reach the final.

The top six finishers in each weight class earned All-America honours.

Simon Fraser, the 2013 WCWA champion, finished third with 170.4 points. No. 1 seed and two-time defending champion King University (Tennessee) won its third straight national championship, finishing first with 208 points.

Oklahoma City was second with 190.5 points.

Simon Fraser advanced seven wrestlers in 10 weight classes into semi-final matches.

Smith is one of the best Ramblers athletes ever. She won provincial silver medals in Grades 8 and 9, then gold in each of the last three years of high school.

For the record The Broadway on Ice show, presented by the Maple Ridge Skating Club, will be offered on Saturday, Feb. 27, and not this Saturday as was mistakenly reported in the Feb. 17 edition of The News.

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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach and competitor Clint Cooper of Maple Ridge and his students competed at the provincials on Feb. 6.

Cooper was able to win gold in both gi and nogi divisions, as the CBJJF (Canadian Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation) B.C. Provincials took place at BCIT. That was the third consecutive year he has been able to take double gold.

The event also was the first time some of his students had joined Cooper competing.

Lorrie Ann McDonald had her first competition match. The contest was tied after five minutes, but she lost the ref ’s decision.

Will Benson was also competing for the first time, losing a close battle, “with both him and Lorrie showing great heart and technique in their first outings,” said Cooper.

Cooper has been offering classes for children and adults in Maple Ridge since November, “with the goal of bringing our high-level, competition-based training methods to town,” he said.

Cooper said he came from and is still training under Professor Jason Gagnon in Abbotsford, where Genesis Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is based.

Genesis BJJ is part of and competes under the Alliance Jiu JItsu team banner with its affiliated schools.

At the provincials, Alliance was able to take the first-place adult gi team trophy through points acquired by podium results.

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Warren is survived by their 4 children, Rod (Debbie), Bruce (Lorraine), Karen (Bob) Light, Charlene (David) Milton; his two sisters Maureen and Donna (Trevor)Miller, 9 Grandchildren and 8 Great Grandchildren. Warren is preceded in death by his wife Lil (2015), his parents; as well as brother-in-law Ernie Semko, brother-in-law Russell MacLEAN , sister-in-law Kieran Semko and brother-in-law Moaris Semko, sister-in-law Annette Semko and great grandson Aiden Byrnell.

Funeral service to be held on Saturday, February 27th, 1 pm, at Burnett Fellowship Church 20639 123rd Ave., Maple Ridge, BC V2X 4B1 with a reception to follow. In lieu of flowers a memorial donation may be made to the Crossroads Hospice Foundation or BC Cancer Foundation.

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August 4, 1939 - February 8, 2016 Helen was born in Hepburn, Saskatchewan on August 4, 1939 and passed away peacefully on February 8, 2016.

Predeceased by her parents, Albert and Helen Fast and her son Daryl.

She is survived by her son Brent (Sylvie), daughter Shailee (Brian), grandchildren, Cameron (Katie) and Braeden, sister Marjorie (Peter), brother Roger (Shirley) and brother Dale (Rosalie). She is also survived by her many nephews, nieces and cousins.

A very special thank-you to all of her friends and the medical staff for their support and love.

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In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society or your local Hospice.

ARCHER, Linda After a lengthy illness Linda quietly passed away on the morning of Feb. 12, 2016. Linda was born in Winnipeg on Aug. 30, 1949 and following graduation from high school achieved her goal of becoming a registered nurse. Linda leaves to mourn her passing, her husband John, sons Matthew and Johathan (Elizabeth), brother Donald (Deb) and her two nieces Kailyn and Tara. The family is extremely grateful for the loving and excellent care Linda received both at Ridge Meadows Hospital and on Ruskin Hill, Baillie House. Special thanks to Dr. Cilliers Marais for his wonderful, attentive care to Linda’s needs.

In accordance with Linda’s wishes there will be no memorial service as cremation has taken place, with interment in the family plot at a later date, in Winnipeg. Flowers are gratefully declined. For those desiring, donations in her memory may be made to Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation.

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IN-HOME Caregiver required for June 27, 2016 (Twin girls - 6 yrs old, one with autism). Full-time perm. $10.75/hr. Pitt Meadows (Bonson Landing). email: gspottie@telus.net for more info.

.Flagpersons & Lane Closure Techs required. Must have reliable vehicle. Must be certified & experienced. Union wages & benefits. Fax resume 604-513-3661 email: darlene.hibbs@shawbiz.ca

required in Pitt Meadows.

Duties will include general farm labour, planting, pruning, fertilizing, weeding, picking, and all other farm duties. Work will be physically demanding; handling some heavy loads and standing for long periods of time.

... in only 6-months starts March 21st, 2016

HELP WANTED

Falcon Pest Control Inc., of Unit 919, 260 - 22529 Loughheed Highway, Maple Ridge BC. V2X 0T5 requires 10 F/T Falconers with 2+ years experience, no education required, Seasonal, 90 days work to fly falcon in farms.

Lower Mainland / Okanagan, $3500/month, 30 hours per week, $26.99 per hour.

Meat Cutter A&B Holdings Inc. dba A & S Meat & Poultry located at 12827 76 Ave #105, Surrey, BC V3W 2V3 seeks to hire 2 full time meat cutters. Job duties include: Cut, trim, fillet, grind and prepare standard cuts of meat, Ensure food storage conditions are adequate and maintain proper temperature , Observe and maintain company sanitation and food safety standards. One year meat cutting experience, High school education & workable spoken English is required. This job is full time permanent. Wage is $23.00 per hr.

Waterworks Technology School - Get certified in 6 weeks. Earn $18-22/hr. 604.625.2272

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HELP WANTED

Seasonal Falconers

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Call the School of Trades at 778-379-0410 or visit sprottshaw.com for more information.

OPTICAL TRAINING

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EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

PERSONAL SERVICES

Construction Electrician program also available.

Excavator & Backhoe Operator Training. Be employable in 4-6wks. Call 604-546-7600. www.rayway.ca

EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

F All types of concrete work F F Re & Re F Forming F Site prep FDriveways FExposed FStamped F Bobcat Work F WCB Insured

778-231-9675, 778-231-9147

FREE ESTIMATES

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Arruda Renovations Plus Home Improvements & Repairs

• Hardwood • Laminate • Painting • Drywall • Tilling • Baseboard • Crown molding • Small renos • Fences • Decks • And More!

778-903-0942 A-1 CONTRACTING. Renos. Bsmt, kitchens, baths, custom cabinets, tiling, plumbing, sundecks, fencing, reroofing. Dhillon 604-782-1936.

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES 329 PAINTING & DECORATING

CHOICE RENOVATIONS

EAGLE TILE A - 20779 Lougheed Hwy Maple Ridge

GARAGE SALES

RENTALS 706

.CAN PRO Paint and Drywall. 3 Rooms $250. 604-7717052

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Looking for the ideal employee?

PLUMBING

Polo Club Apartments

MISC. WANTED

A Gas Fitter ✭ Plumber Furnaces, Boilers, Hot Water Heating, Hotwater Tanks, Drain/Duct Cleaning & Plumbing Jobs.

✭ 604-312-7674 ✭ ✭ 604-507-4606 ✭ #1 IN RATES & SERVICE. 38 yrs.

Lic’d/Ins. BBB. Drains, renos etc.

Bonded. Chad 1-877-861-2423 .

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HOME REPAIRS

RETIRED carpenter wants to keep busy. Small carpentry jobs. Will repair or build new Ken 604-460-7803

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FLUID SOLUTIONS. Gas, heating plumbing, reno’s, repairs. 20 yrs exp www.fluidsolutionsinc.ca Lic’d. Bonded. Jack 778-835-4416

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RUBBISH REMOVAL

Call today to set up an appointment 604-467-9232

Wanstalls Tactical & Sporting Arms

WANTED; GORMAN RUPP FIRE PUMPS. Please call or text Al at (604)991-0461.

Wanted: ROYAL ALBERT CHINA, all patterns, Old Country Roses etc. Call: (604)308-7267

LANDSCAPING

JAGUAR LANDSCAPING Lawn & Garden Service.

Design, Pruning, Lawns, Cleanups, Comm/ Res. (604)466-1369

REAL ESTATE

Del green Landscaping

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

Michael Mihail 15 Years Horticultural Experience

Your Garden in our hands will look like paradise

Have unwanted or inherited firearms in your possession?

Don’t know how to dispose of them safely and legally?

Contact Wanstalls and we will come and pick them up and pay you fair value for them.

Wanstalls has been proudly serving the Lower Mainland firearms community since 1973.

We are a government licensed firearms business with fully certified verifiers, armorers and appraisers.

Clean, Quiet Well Managed Bldg.

3 Blocks to W.C. Express W 1 & 2 Bdrm Suites W 3 Appliances W Secured Garage Parking W Adult Oriented W Ref’s Req’d & Absolutely No Pets

PORT COQUITLAM

1 bdrm suite - $775 2 bdrm corner suite - $925 S Includes heat/hot water S 1.5 blocks to various bus stops S 2 blocks to Safeway/medical S City park across street S Gated parking and Elevator S Adult oriented building S References required * SORRY NO DOGS * CALL FOR APPOINTMENT

604-464-3550

709 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL PORT COQUITLAM 775-3000sqft.

Ground floor commercial space.

Office / retail / service type business. Facing onto city park. 2 blks from Lougheed/ Shaughnessy intersection. Call 604-464-3550.

OFFICE SPACE 1989 14x70 in Ruskin MHP w/View Fam./Pet ok. $42,900 w/$575pad Financing avail. 604-830-1960

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SUNDECKS

New SRI Manufactured homes Singles $74,900. Doubles $94,900.

PARK SPACES AVAILABLE REPOSSESSIONS 1974-2010 www.glenbrookhomes.net Chuck 604-830-1960 Trades. Financing. Permits.

604-465-1315

RENTALS

MOVING & STORAGE

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AFFORDABLE MOVING

Great Location

career move.

and Hydro Near Shopping & Amenities.

Atlas Vinyl Sundecks - Your Complete Sundeck Specialist. Free estimates (778)285-2107

PETS 456

FEED & HAY

TIMOTHY hay. $15.00 per bale. 60 lb. bales. Pitt Meadows. 604 505 4087

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PETS

CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866 NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE 548 TONY’S Painting

www.paintspecial.com 778-322-2378 Lower Mainland 604-996-8128 Fraser Valley Running this ad for over 12yrs

PAINT SPECIAL 3 rooms for $299 2 coats any colour

(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls

Cloverdale High Performance paint.

NO PAYMENT until Job is completed. Ask us about our Laminate Flooring.

14179 Reichenback Rd Moorage Rental Year or Semi-annual Outdoor Storage Available Starting At $30/month for Boats, RV’s, Cars, Trucks & Trailers

Includes: Heat, Hot Water

MIRACLE MOVING

classifieds for their next

STORAGE

Pitt Meadows Marina

* Renovated Suites * *Large *Clean *Very Quiet

1PRO MOVING & SHIPPING

candidates searching the

22222 Lougheed Hwy., Maple Ridge Inquire in person between 9am - 3pm or

Queen Anne Apts.

604-537-4140

by hundreds of potential

Haney Motor Hotel

APARTMENT/CONDO

$880/mo & $980/mo

LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE

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Rooms from $470/mo. Fully Furn, weekly maid service, cable TV, private bath, on bus route, 5/min walk to commuter rail.

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1 & 2 Bdrms available

$45/Hr

From 1, 3, 5, 7 & 10 Ton Trucks Licensed ~ Reliable ~ 1 to 3 Men Free Estimate/Senior Discount Residential~Commercial~Pianos

job vacancy and be seen

ROOMS FOR RENT

MAPLE RIDGE

www.affordablemoversbc.com

604 - 720 - 2009

WITNESS NEEDED: If you witnessed or have any information about a hit & run accident that occurred on January 27, 2016 at Lougheed Hwy & Meadowtown Centre Way could you please call 604-3147154. Thank you.

Call 604-467-3944

$64.00 Per Ton

~We accept Visa & Mastercard~

#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle REMOVAL ~~ ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT ~~ $$$ PAID FOR SOME. 604.683.2200

$75 OFF 1ST MONTH

Meadows Landscape Supply

solution. Advertise your

For as low as $380/mo. downtown Maple Ridge ~ 2nd Floor ~

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SBroken Concrete RocksS $25.00 Per Metric Ton SMud - Dirt - Sod - ClayS $25.00 Per Metric Ton GrassSBranchesSLeavesSWeeds

We offer the perfect

FREE TOWING 7 days/wk.

We pay Up To $500 CA$H Rick Goodchild 604.551.9022

Call: Mary @ (604)479-5919

604.465.2944

Licensed - Bonded - Fully Equip.

Residential Commercial, 1-3 Men Local & Long Distance Moves Start $45/hr ~ All size trucks Free estimate/Senior Discount www.miraclemoving.ca

• Autos • Trucks • Equipment Removal

OFFICE/RETAIL

SHARED

Landscaping, Cleanups, Pruning, Hedges, Rubbish Removal, Topsoil, Gravel.

Tree Topping, Chipping & Stump Grinding. FIREWOOD FOR SALE **Don’t FALL Behind**

Across the street - across the world Real Professionals, Reas. Rates.

Best in every way! 604-721-4555.

SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

604.465.7221

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Den’s GarDENing Services

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845 The Scrapper

mikes hauling 604-516-9237

delgreenlandscapes@gmail.com

✶Dump Site Now Open✶

2002 ACURA RSX SUPER CLEAN! $4999.

Call: 604-561-0053.

19071 Ford Rd. Pitt Meadows

Office 778-668-5110 Direct 604-446-3903

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821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS

604-476-6683

Have Unwanted Firearms?

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APARTMENT/CONDO

2 BDRM APT. $850/mo Incl heat, h/w.

N/P. Avail now.

Antiques, Furniture, China, Crystal, Stamp & Beanie baby collections, 45 years of household stuff.

Gary 467-3024

TRANSPORTATION

MAPLE RIDGE CENTRAL

Friday & Saturday Feb. 19th & 20th 10 am - 4 pm 12722 227 St, Maple Ridge

Cellular 604-671-9694

604-463-0718 eagletileandnaturalstone.com

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ESTATE / MOVING SALE Indoors

Bsmt suites, bathrooms, windows siding, H/W tank installation, etc NO JOB TOO SMALL

Local natural stone distributors.

Custom made Granite Countertops. Slate, Granite, Marble, Tile, Tumbled Stone. Large selection of Porcelain & Ceramic.

Sales & Service

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

FURNITURE

#1 Cash Buyer ~ Since 1987 ~ $$CASH $$ for your furniture, tools, electronics, antiques, appliances, computers & collectibles.

ANYTHING OF VALUE

Single Items to Entire Households 604-463-4449 604-209-6583

Launch Ramp with 3 lines and ample parking for tracks and trailers

Onsite Manager

SENIOR’S DISCOUNT

604.465.7713

604-463-2236 604-463-7450 12186-224 St, Maple Ridge Certified Crime Free Buildings

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OFFICE/RETAIL

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OFFICE/RETAIL

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OFFICE/RETAIL

OFFICE TWO INDIVIDUAL SPACE OFFICES FOR • 10’ X 8.5’ available RENT • Includes heat, A/C & window All offices on second floor, downtown Maple Ridge location, new and clean with one shared washroom on the floor.

One year minimum lease subject to credit and criminal check.

Contact Jim at 604-476-2720

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