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Darryl Pilgrim and the Salvation Army are looking for some help.

Sally Ann wants to share its spread Seeks partners for daily meal program

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

The Salvation Army Ridge Meadows Ministries wants to spread its community meal program around town, helping lighten the load on the building and neighbourhood.

To do that, the Salvation Army is looking for partners to host a meal one or more nights a week. Offering different locations to serve meals could mean more people accessing the program.

“We are open to different ideas,” said Darrell Pilgrim, with the Salvation Army. “We could cook the meals and have them served somewhere else.”

The charity has been discussing the issue with several groups for the past six weeks, but no agreements have been reached.

The Salvation Army has been running the community meal service since 2009, serving lunch and dinner to a maximum of 175 people each time.

In a month, 400 different people will get a free meal at the building on 222nd Street and Lougheed Highway.

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Kelly Cardinal and Rachel Hird-Rutter escaped Fort McMurray with their pets, including dogs Piper and Linden.

An escape from fiery hell Couple plans to return to Fort McMurray B y P h i l M e l nychuk pmelnychuk@mapleridgenews.com

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t was like the opening scene out of the zombie series The Walking Dead when Kelly Cardinal finally made it to the safety of the open road. Vehicles lay askew every which way on the wide medians and shoulders of Highway 63 that led out of flaming Fort McMurray.

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helter-skelter, doors left wide open, tailgates down, abandoned.

“Just no one there, for miles,” he said. “It was crazy.”

That and other memories have been seared into Cardinal’s memory as he joined thousands as they fled the raging wildfire, named the Beast, that devoured the northern Alberta city last week.

Cardinal, from Maple Ridge, was in the middle of his work day as a dog groomer when he noticed the sky growing dark on May 3.

He stuck his head outside and saw people running everywhere

and planes flying overhead. He knew he had to get out of the Fort McMurray suburb he was in and join the rest of the 80,000 people heading on to Hwy. 63, now a lifeline.

But the inner city roads were in gridlock and a short drive to the highway that would normally have taken 10 or 15 minutes was now a slow-motion nightmare that took hours as flames roared into the sky.

Cardinal was stuck in the Abasand subdivision, the first to be engulfed. His girlfriend, Rachel Hird-Rutter, was in their

home in Timberlea, on the other side of town.

Neither could get to Hwy. 63, which would lead them out of town from what would become hell on earth.

“It was gridlock,” Cardinal said.

They briefly tried to flee north out of town, towards the oil sands, then changed their minds, and joined the majority heading south towards Edmonton.

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Hearts and hands from the rainforest in Maple Ridge are reaching out to the northern forest wildfire victims in Fort McMurray, Alta.

From iced tea stands to business folks to shoppers picking up a case of beer, people want to send help to the 90,000 people who fled for their lives from last week’s wildfires.

“Where they’re going to need a lot of help is in the long run,” said Peter Tam, with the Haney Rotary Club.

That group along with the Meadow Ridge Rotary Club are trying to get members to open their wallets to Rotary’s Fort McMurray fire relief fund. The money will go up to the Rotary in Fort McMurray, where it will be used to help rebuild.

“We’re trying to collect as much as we can. We just don’t know what people need,” Tam said.

He added that there’s no rush because he knows the recovering and reconstruction process will take months, even years.

“We just want to plan out things properly, in the right way. I really want to involve the community.”

He’s extending the invitation to anyone else who wants to get involved.

“I’m looking for suggestions.”

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Kaylyn Lowe (left), 8, and Alexis Bliss, 6, spent Saturday selling iced tea along 122nd Avenue to raise money for victims of the Fort McMurray, Alberta fire. After five and a half hours and more than 70 customers, the cousins made $127.25, which they donated to the Red Cross on Sunday. nizers to buy what they need rather than sort through tonnes of donated goods.

“I really want to involve the community, because I know a lot of generous people in Maple Ridge are looking for some way of helping,” Tam said.

“In the long run, the best we can do is work with the people who are on the ground there.”

Brad Carr and his family also want to help. Isabella and Jaxon Fraser and Makenna and Brenyn Vanlaerhoven set up an iced tea stand outside Save On Foods on 240th Street on the weekend and raised $1,480 – “and still counting,” Carr said.

Residents near Maple Ridge secondary are also helping out as another iced tea stand on 120th Street has so

far raised $127.

People shopping at B.C. Liquor Stores are chipping in, as well. In the last five days, shoppers donated $240,000 to contribute to the Red Cross.

Every dollar donated to the Canadian Red Cross for Fort McMurray fire relief will be matched by the federal government.

The hot weather is already here, so it’s time to realize that the winter monsoons have gone and the dry time is here, which raises the threat of fires.

“The message out there, in our parks, in our trails, in our shopping malls, if you’re a smoker think twice before you throw that cigarette butt into the shrubbery or on to the ground. If it doesn’t get put out, the potential there is huge,” said Pitt Meadows assistant fire chief Brad Perrie.

And if a friendly warning from the fire department doesn’t get your attention, new fines announced April 1 by B.C. Wildfire Service may.

Any driver who gets caught tossing a burning cigarette butt out a car window could get slapped with a $575 fine.

The same penalty applies to anyone who doesn’t report a fire or fails to extinguish their campfire. If you use fire contrary to regulations, get ready for a $1,150 fine.

The new penalties are three times what they used to be.

And they’ll be needed this year, predicted to be another dry one, said Perrie.

As the land dries out, Perrie adds that people who live in areas facing the forest or wild areas should trim back hedges and shrubs away from their houses, to reduce the chance of their house catching on fire.

An SFU instructor last week said that the Alberta government hasn’t done enough to reduce the risk to cities caused by wildfires, such as the one that engulfed Fort McMurray last week.

‘People were riding their horses ... it was crazy’ Fire from front

want to leave. It got to the point, she wanted him to run downhill from the suburb and get on to the highway.

Meanwhile, Cardinal was telling her to just get out.

“I told her just go south, go south.”

But Hird-Rutter also had to endure the creeping traffic, while flames crept at her back as she made a break for Hwy. 63.

It was an eternity before she got her pickup, packed with her two dogs Piper and Linden, along with cat Mia and ferret Jinks, on to the highway.

“We’re like sitting ducks,” she remembers thinking.

“It’s not very far, maybe five kilometres, but it took us hours. You look in the rear-view mirror and you’re just seeing the smoke get-

ting close. I was just heading that way with my animals. The side of the road was on fire.”

Hird-Rutter didn’t realize how close and dangerous the fire was until seeing the flames. The air temperature gauge in her truck said 48 C and the air conditioning had stopped working.

Hird-Rutter said the only public warning she heard was the emergency tones the local radio station broadcast. But that only lasted for 45 minutes, after which the stations went off the air and began playing a repetitious selection of songs.

Once she got close to the highway, people started abandoning the rules of the road and began driving on both sides of the highway, six lanes, to escape the inferno.

The pair reunited in Grassland, safely away from the flames.

“It took 11 hours to get there. It’s a two and a half hour drive,” Cardinal said.

“It’s not very far, maybe five kilometres, but it took us hours.”

Rachel Hird-Rutter They’re now resting with family in Maple Ridge, but waiting to get back.

Their rental home is still standing, they’ve been told. That could have been because of the large empty space of the nearby baseball diamond kept the flames from the

house.

But other houses in the suburb were just steps away from the forest, with no buffer areas between homes and forest.

It was a scary thing to go through, Cardinal said, adding that police and firefighters did their best getting people out, and for that he is thankful.

“It’s something I’ve never experienced before,” added Hird-Rutter.

Her construction company has told her it will be a while, but work will pick up.

Cardinal wants to get back and help in the rebuild. Fort McMurray has been good to him.

When he left Maple Ridge five years ago, he was in debt. There he had a thriving business.

“It’s done so much for me, my business and my life. It’s my town.”

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As he sat there motionless, he thought about bailing out of his truck and running for his life.

He managed to drive to a downtown gas station, but within five minutes, the pumps had run dry.

He left his truck and work trailer there and grabbed a ride with a friend and rejoined the agonizing creep to the safety of the highway and out of town.

“People were riding their horses, running with their animals … it was like a movie, it was crazy.”

While Cardinal stalled in traffic, Hird-Rutter had an earlier start. She been sent home earlier that day with the company truck, freshly gassed up, thanks to her employer.

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Spence started with the department as a volunteer firefighter in 1985, grew with the department and completes his career as the city’s fire chief.

“Chief Spence is a modest man. In my first weeks as mayor, he gave me a tour of the fire halls and introduced me to the team that he leads. He never once used the word ‘I’ when referring to his work. This reflects his commitment to the team of firefighters he works with and to the city,” said Mayor Nicole Read.

“The fact is that his leadership has been essential as our community has transitioned from the volunteer operating model to the composite model we have today. He has been a true leader and a strong voice on our management team. He is well-respected and admired by everyone on council, his peers and our community as a whole.”

When asked about the things he is most proud of, Spence noted, with his usual humility: “I haven’t done anything by myself. I have been fortunate to work with many remarkable mayors, councillors, colleagues and community members whose support I treasured.”

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Maple Ridge fire chief Dane Spence hands Linda Sigurdson the helmet of her late husband, a long-time volunteer firefighter, in 2013.

In addition to assuring the public safety needs of the city, Spence spent considerable time in succession planning for the department.

As part of the announcement, council announced that deputy chief Howard Exner will move to the role of fire chief starting on July 1.

“My first day of retirement is July 1, Canada Day,” Spence said. “I look forward to seeing the Canadian flag flying from Tower 1 and enjoying the day with my family. I am very proud of the team we have assembled. Serving our community and answering the calls for help, has been an honour and a privilege.”

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‘A pillar’ Food from front

Dispersing that program, which attracts 100 or so people twice a day, to other parts of the city will ease pressure on the adjacent neighbourhood, Pilgrim said.

“That’s one of the reasons there’s so much strain on our neighbourhood and building,” he added.

“This is not coming from any external pressure. This is from an internal decision on what we think is the best to serve our community.”

He pointed out that most people who are served meals are housed

and are either on disability or are working. And 42 per cent are over the age of 50.

The meal program costs the Salvation Army about $75,000 a year in food supplies, not counting staff costs.

Over the course of a year, the Salvation Army serves about 100,000 meals, working out to a cost of less than a loonie for each one.

“We’re more than willing to provide those meals. We’re just looking for other locations to do it,” Pilgrim said.

“We feel that it would be a benefit for the people who come to our meals if they were dispersed

throughout the community.”

Former Maple Ridge councillor Candace Gordon, who operates a community kitchens program that teach people how to cook cheaply, said the Salvation Army won’t abandon the meal service if it can’t find partners.

“Their intention is to not leave the community in the lurch, but they’re actually in the process of transferring it to other organizations. They’re not going to stop it cold.”

She said the community meal program is a needed one.

“It feeds a lot of people lunch and dinner every day. And most of them

are just poor. They’re not homeless. It’s a major pillar in the community,” Gordon said.

Golden Ears United Church already serves meals on Saturday nights, which gives the Salvation Army a break.

Coun. Gordy Robson questions having the

meals at different locations every night and said they should be moved around for longer periods of time.

Maple Ridge council, last year, called for B.C. Housing to cut the $1 million it gives the Salvation Army Ridge Meadows Ministries yearly.

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Well spent With the tentative date of the next provincial election now less than a year away, the B.C. Liberal government is taking action to stave off what will likely be one of the opposition’s main lines of attack.

Premier Christy Clark announced last week that the province’s minimum wage would rise to $10.85 an hour in September, an increase of 30 cents more than had been scheduled.

The additional boost to the minimum wage was made necessary by the political tone-deafness displayed by the provincial government last year when it tied increases to the minimum to the rate of inflation without addressing the underlying fact that many workers are struggling to make ends meet.

While linking hikes to the minimum wage with inflation makes sense in providing some certainty for business, it does little to benefit those working for wages that lag behind the rest of Canada.

Last week’s announcement was the premier’s attempt to change the optics ahead of the election campaign, her Etch A Sketch moment, as it were.

“What the premier did today was a response to being embarrassed by the fact that we were last,” said NDP labour critic Shane Simpson.

The minimum wage is scheduled to jump 30 cents above the consumer price index again in September 2017, likely hitting $11.25. That still falls well short of the $15 an hour wage called for the B.C. Federation of Labour and being adopted by many U.S. jurisdictions.

While many might dispute the need for a $15 an hour minimum wage, it’s hard to dispute that British Columbians face some of the highest costs of living in the country. The province’s minimum wage must reflect that reality.

When the B.C. Liberal party is topping up the premier’s $195,000 salary to the tune of $50,000 a year, it would be a tough sell politically to say there’s nothing wrong with full-time workers living below the poverty line.

If this latest hike to the minimum wage can take that issue off the table, it will be political capital well spent.

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Results so far: Yes: 48% No: 52%

Pine beetle-affected trees burn in the B.C. Interior in 2014. Forests are recovering from beetle epidemic more quickly than expected, partly due to the “fertilizer effect” of extra CO2 in the atmosphere.

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Growing trees for climate change D isagreements persist on the extent of humanity’s role in the current changes to B.C.’s climate, and our ability to influence it, as many readers have told me in the past week.

But almost everyone B.C. Views seems to agree that Tom Fletcher growing more and healthier forests is a good strategy. I would add that harvesting and building with wood preserves its captured carbon, a fact not much discussed in emotional appeals against logging.

The B.C. government is finally spending some money on community fuel load removal projects this year, after an initial flurry following the Kelowna fires of 2003 faded in hard times. But the effects of decades of fire suppression in a fire-dependent forest system remain, as northern B.C. and Alberta are showing us again.

There is some positive news here. A Victoria-based government research team has published a study that calculates B.C.’s pine beetle-damaged forests are regenerating more quickly than expected.

Warmer temperatures, increased precipitation and the “fertilizer effect” of more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are factors.

“By 2020, the enhanced growth due to cli-

mate change and increased CO2 more than compensates for the carbon loss from dead, rotting trees,” said lead researcher Vivek Arora of the Canadian Centre for Modeling and Analysis.

This recovery even overcomes the projected increase in forest fire loss that comes with gradually increasing temperatures and drier periods.

The federal government is still working on its plan to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets agreed to in Paris last year. But the forest industry has stepped up with its own goal.

I spoke last week with Derek Nighbor, president of the Forest Products Association of Canada, after he announced his industry’s “30 by 30 Climate Change Challenge.”

That’s a goal to reduce the industry’s net carbon emissions by 30 megatonnes a year by 2030. That would be 13 per cent of the Canadian government emission target.

One of the main strategies is salvage harvesting and developing more products that use wood.

“It’s basically trying to use every part of the tree,” Nighbor said. “In forest operations right now, this is where we see a big part of the opportunity. Instead of the residual branches and whatnot just being left aside and slashing and burning, bring more of that out and turn it into something.”

That something might be a console in a luxury car constructed with wood fibre, or an 18-storey wood student residence build-

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ing planned for the University of B.C. The other is improving forest growth.

Logging operations have long been required to replant areas they cut, not just in B.C. but across Canada.

Another way to improve forest carbon capture is with more productive species, with genetic techniques that increase resiliency as well as wood mass.

A background paper from the B.C. forests ministry responds to common misconceptions about forest carbon, including the idea that logging should be stopped to maximize storage.

“Maximizing carbon storage in the ecosystem would make sense only if society stopped building new homes, acquiring new furniture and consuming in general,” it says.

“If the flow of forest products stops, society will turn to other products with higher greenhouse gas footprints, e.g. plastics, metal or concrete. In addition, if harvesting stopped and we continued to suppress natural disturbances, there is increased potential for larger catastrophic disturbances in the future.”

If Canada wants to make a bigger contribution to reducing greenhouse gases, forests are a good area to focus on. At 348 million hectares from the B.C. coast to Newfoundland, they represent nine per cent of the world’s forests.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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THE NEWS/letters Rush to change Editor, The News: Re: Warning industry cries wolf, again (B.C. Views, May 4).

Tom Fletcher seems to disagree with the majority of climate scientists.

Yes, he could be right as science in that area is not that exact. What if they are right and we do nothing, though?

I don’t think I need to detail the possible results that could come from rising sea levels, changes in crops, increases in pollution. We may not see the catastrophes that some predict, but I would certainly be worried.

What if they are wrong and we do rush off to change things? Well, we’d be stuck with less pollution, a variety of new energy sources.

Yes, our economy would take a hit, but in my mind this is by far the best of the two.

Paul Gregory Maple Ridge

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Kiwanis Club is exception Editor, The News: Re: The poor will always be among us (Letters, May 4).

The current homelessness situation in particular and the poverty in general in Maple Ridge is rampant and indeed a very sad and tragic situation.

Nathan Sands couldn’t have been more correct if he tried with his statements, as follows: “Here the sense of brotherhood has been lost.

We come home from work, lock our doors, watch TV, go to sleep and then wake up and do it all again”.

His next sentence is so true yet a very sad statement about

society in general today.

He states: “The need for community has been abandoned and we are concerned only for ourselves.”

Being concerned for ourselves seems to becoming more of a sad reality today.

Case in point, many organizations in general, and service clubs in particular, are struggling to get younger people to join their respective groups and clubs.

Service clubs such as the Kiwanis, Lions and Rotary are needed now more than ever in almost every community, and yet a lot of people don’t want to join these clubs and be in

position to takeover when the aging populations of members in these organizations can no longer be active.

Many of these clubs locally have had to fold because they just simply can’t get people to join for the reasons Mr. Sands mentioned.

‘Too busy and can’t/don’t want to spend the time to help those in need’ are the most common responses from people.

Many people have no idea how much these three worldwide service organizations do for their respective communities.

It will be a sad fact if and

when these clubs no longer exist ( Kiwanis is 101 years old this year) because people just won’t take the time to help.

The Kiwanis Club of Ridge Meadows is a rare situation with a demographic of younger members, but our club is the exception and not the norm, I’m afraid.

For any of your readers, I make a personal plea to ask you to look around and see how many people in your community need you and to think about getting more involved.

John Cowan Kiwanis Club of Ridge Meadows

Have no drugs at shelter and not downtown

More screen time Jaime Lenz · Re: Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows trustees vote to cut school buses.

Did any one notice that the busing ‘savings’ is exactly the same as the new internet system the provincial government has made a priority? My kids can’t get to school, but damn they can have more screen time. Great trade off. Take the screens out and teach the kids how to write. I think the bureaucrats should give their heads a shake and find out what the parents think the priorities should be. Enough is enough.

Editor, The News: Re: Homeless housing five years away (The News, May 4).

Coun. Kiersten Duncan seems to have forgotten one little point: she was elected to pursue our wishes, not her’s.

Obviously people are not for a low-barrier shelter.

That couldn’t be made more strongly, so who is she to try and push that aside, certainly not looking after what we want or don’t want.

Low barrier does nothing but give us the disaster we have now.

And no one wants it down-

town. As if these people need to be downtown, they have social workers dealing with them on a daily basis right from the shelter as it is.

Everything is already provided at the shelter. The only thing being close to downtown does is give them easy

access to drugs and stealing.

If we have to have a shelter, make it where they can not do drugs and have to be reasonable about getting accommodations, within six months.

Tim Sattler Maple Ridge

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Monday morning, however, police were contacted by a 31-yearold woman who confirmed she was hit by a train. “Even though she was injured, the woman reported running away from the scene due to being scared,� said RCMP Cpl. Brenda Winpenny.

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The male cyclist was airlifted to hospital, but according to a Ridge Meadows RCMP spokesman, his most serious injury was a fractured foot.

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A tree fell across three trucks at Downes Automotive in Maple Ridge during a brief wind storm on Sunday.

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When Trevor Downes heard the booming thunder and saw the big flash of lightning from his home in northeast Maple Ridge on Sunday, he thought it odd for this time of year and was concerned about a forest fire.

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Downes said all three truck owners were understanding.

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He cut the tree up himself so he could open up his shop.

Walter Oleschak, roads superintendent for Maple Ridge, said the city did not receive a warning about the storm, which came “quick and strong.”

Two trees fell and closed roads in the Hammond area, but no wires were reported down, he added.

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Two anniversaries for community foundation draiser for community organizations.

In 2006 the local realtor donated $1 million to the hospital foundation, which has been directed

to mental health, and the hospital’s 20-bed psychiatry unit named for the Antalek Family.

Nominee Pat Smith has been the president of the chamber of commerce and Maple Ridge Community Foundation, and was the vice-president of the Ridge Meadows B.C. Summer Games in 1998.

He has also worked for the hospital foundation.

Smith has lived in Maple Ridge for more than 50 years, with a career as an accountant, and has served on the board of various non-profit organizations in the city.

Marie Spetch was nominated for her volunteer work with the Ridge Meadows Hospital, hospice society and as the Sunshine Lady at Greystone Manor.

Her work is varied from performing as the eucharistic minister for those who are too ill to attend church, or helping seniors vote in the federal election.

At 92, she decided she should have a day off, so on Mondays she rests.

The community foundation has $800,000 in endowments from local donors, and it uses the interest to fund local causes.

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As more people pack into the city, parking problems pop up.

On Burnett Street, between Lougheed Highway and Dewdney Trunk Road, two new recent condo buildings have put more cars on to the streets.

That’s OK for resident Dale Hunter, who lives in a house across from the new buildings. But she would like some help from the City of Maple Ridge in easing some of the issues.

“I’m not mad at these people. I’m mad at city hall. It’s their responsibility to fix this problem.”

Hunter said that residents who are living in the new condos don’t have enough spaces below the buildings for all their vehicles, so they park on the road.

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Some vehicles are parking too close to the end of residents’ driveways. way, making it difficult for her to see down the road.

While signs are posted that tell motorists they can’t park within three metres of a driveway, it still happens.

Hunter would like the

city to paint lines on the road indicating where the parking lane ends to protect space in front of driveways. That would make it easier for everyone to figure out where to park.

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lations with her neighbours. Two weeks ago, when she parked her own car on the road, someone put dog excrement into her sunroof.

Another neighbour had his car smeared with it.

“I want people to get along really nice. It’s a nice neighbourhood,” she said.

“I shouldn’t have to be afraid.”

She suggests making one side of Burnett Street for cars and the other side for trucks.

The city knows about the parking issues.

“We have done several patrols and issued several tickets,” said Robin McNair, with the city’s bylaw department.

She said it’s up to the city’s engineering department to decide whether to paint lines on the road.

“In our experience, having yellow lines really doesn’t help.”

Roads are public places and anyone can park their vehicle anywhere, she said, providing they follow the parking restrictions posted.

Notice of Public Hearing TAKE NOTICE THAT a Public Hearing will be held in the Council Chamber of the Municipal Hall, 11995 Haney Place, Maple Ridge, North-East corner entrance, at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 17, 2016, to consider the following bylaws:: 1) 2016-059-RZ MAPLE RIDGE ZONE AMENDING BYLAW NO. 7234-2016 LEGAL:

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AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that a copy of the aforesaid bylaws and copies of staff reports and other information considered by Council relevant to the matters contained in the bylaws will also be available for public inspection at the Municipal Hall, Planning Department counter, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. from May 6, 2016 to May 17, 2016, Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted. Some of this information will also be posted on the City website www.mapleridge.ca on the Your Government /Meet Your Council/Council Meetings page.

2) 2015-283-RZ MAPLE RIDGE ZONE AMENDING BYLAW NO. 7177-2015 LEGAL:

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ALL PERSONS who deem themselves affected by any of these bylaws shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing before Council on the matters contained in the bylaws or by making a written submission to the attention of the Manager of Legislative Services or by sending an e-mail to the Clerk’s Department at clerks@mapleridge.ca, by 4:00 p.m., May 17, 2016.

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Dated this 6th day of May, 2016.

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School trustees wrestling with budget cuts

By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com

The decision by the Vancouver school board to vote against cutting

its budget resonates with local education politicians.

Trustee Ken Clarkson wanted the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows

board to take a similar stand in defiance of what he calls provincial under-funding of education.

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teachers union has asked trustees to pass a “needs” budget, reflecting the amount of money it requires to maintain service levels,

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Educators across the province are waiting to see what happens.

Clarkson voted against the local budget on April 27, saying “I vote no to our provincial government, which erodes public education.

I vote no to our Liberal provincial government, which denies parents the rights to expectations they have for their children …”

Trustee Eleanor Palis spoke against Clarkson’s stance.

“Any one of us could make what may be seen as a brave and heroic gesture by defying their oath of office to send a message, and possibly more than one will,” she said. “I’m not sure the desired effect will be achieved, and truly believe being at odds with each other and possibly the BCSTA and min-

istry services no good purpose at this time.”

Trustee Susan Carr also acknowledged the “symbolic” no vote from Clarkson, but would not join him.

“If I voted no, I want it to mean something more than a symbolic gesture. I want it to change something. But I know it will do neither,” said Carr.

Clarkson said the Saanich school board has also passed a deficit budget, one of nearly $1 million.

Clarkson said about half of the boards in the province are facing budget cuts, and many have been cutting for years.

“You reach a point where you can’t do it any longer,” said Clarkson, noting the board projects more cuts in each of the next three years.

Maple Ridge Teachers Association president George Serra said the action of the Vancouver board could set a precedent.

“If they get a reprieve, what message does that send,” he asked.

He has, in the past, made presentations to the board to pass a “needs budget,” listing the actual amount needed to maintain services, rather than making more cuts.

“I have been hoping they would do that for three or four years now,” he said.

Local board chair Mike Murray said the issue of underfunding comes up every year at budget time, but that trustees have generally felt that the government would fire them and appoint a trustee to conduct the board’s business.

“And make the cuts in any case.”

He said the board was blind-sided by some of the budget requirements this year.

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Still opposition to Onni CELEBRATING Next phase back before council

By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com

Plans to expand a light industrial park in Pitt Meadows are back before council, and opponents of the development are back at city hall, too.

The Onni Group has built and rented the first phase of the Golden Ears Business Park.

It is in the process of building the second phase and working on the third and fourth.

When it is completely built, the business park is to consist of four million square feet in South Bonson.

But area residents say the next phases of the business park will be an eyesore and increase traffic to dangerous levels.

Bob Meachen said it appears that council is willing to make amendments to the official community plan to accommodate Onni, which is asking for the buildings to be 15 metres high. Currently the buildings are allowed to be 12m high in a light indus-

trial zone.

While the development has a “college campus� look in the artist concepts provided to city hall, Meachen said the plans call for “straight ranks of buildings.�

At the same time, he said council refuses to change the OCP on behalf of residents who would like to see more residential development in South Bonson. “Traffic is going to be a nightmare,� he said. “Why? Five thousand parking spaces – that’s why.�

And he said there are real concerns about flooding. “Once they pave that whole thing over, where’s the water going to go?�

Meachen said residents will push for mixed use rezoning, allowing restaurants and other businesses to serve residential neighbourhoods, and he would like to see a seniors residence considered.

He is one of the spokespeople for a group that calls itself Residents United – Golden Ears Business Park. They held a

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meeting in the middle of April that was attended by 400 people, and Meachen said they are “100 per cent opposed to the proposed plans.�

In April 2015, Onni held a public consultation at the South Bonson Community Centre, where it presented a site plan. There were 47 people in attendance, and they expressed concerns over traffic, the loss of agricultural land, the height of buildings, declining property values and the overall business park land use.

Mayor John Becker stressed the plans are Onni’s submissions, for council to review.

But he said council is not going to stop Onni’s overall plans to develop the area as a business park. He said the plans for light industry in South Bonson have been in place for two decades. Past councils have already rejected a proposed strip mall there. “We are not going to

enter into discussions of a non-business park development of those properties,� he said.

The plans were on the agenda Tuesday night for discussion in council in committee.

At those meetings, issues are discussed, but final votes are at regular council, and the issue will be back before council later this month.

Council was to discuss covenants to restrict the number of driveways, make sure no loading bays face residential areas, and that there be landscape buffers.

South Bonson residents have also opposed an Onni townhouse development on Sutton Avenue, and city hall is now recommending that the density be reduced from a maximum of 247 to 220 units.

Becker asserted that rezoning both Onni developments has been “the most extended and transparent process in the history of the city.�

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Pitt Meadows Day turns 75 Looking Back

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This iconic community event got its start in 1938, when Anne Anderson was crowned the First Annual Sports Day and Strawberry Carnival Queen.

Isabel Sharpe was named the retiring queen, as she had reigned for one year after being crowned “the first and only May Queen” in 1937.

Prior to that time, residents of Pitt Meadows had headed either east to Maple Ridge or west to Port Coquitlam to celebrate in their respective May Day events.

The first Pitt Meadows Day (Strawberry Carnival) was celebrated on June 17th, a Friday.

The Royal Party, besides Anne and Isabel,

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The first Pitt Meadows annual sports day ad Strawberry Festival took place in June 1938. included eight attendants: Rose McGee, Kimie Fuji, Yasuko Eyemoto, Eunice Carlson, Joyce Murray, Rosina Severinski, Patricia Mostrenko and Mitsui Suzuki.

All of the Royal Party dressed in white and the queen, retiring queen and two main attendants wore light coloured capes with rabbit fur at the collar.

All members of the party carried bou-

quets and they stood for their official photo on the steps of the then municipal hall with a carpet at their feet and floral decorations on each side of the step framing them.

In 1939, a royal scepter was introduced and the party was shot outside the hall on a small temporary stage.

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to 16, including the addition of two young men, Melvin Holland and Preston Bailey, as flag bearers.

In 1945, the event was rebranded “Miss Pitt Meadows Day,” and in 1947 Reta Kvaas was crowned Miss Pitt Meadows and would be the last queen before the 10-year-old event went on hiatus due, in part, to the massive 1948 flood that would consume the time and energy of all the adult citizens of this and other communities throughout the Fraser Valley.

For a further three years the celebration lay dormant, thus bringing us to the reason that after 79 years we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of Pitt Meadows Day. And how did the event come to be reactivated?

In 1951, the Pitt Meadows Lions Club had formed and it was one of its early priorities to restart the celebration.

In 1952, Pitt Meadows Day returned, with Marlene Wickson as the new queen and a four-year-older Reta Kvaas as retiring queen.

The attendants, including two male flag bearers, numbered 14, and this wonderful celebration that embodies community spirit continues has continued unbroken for 65 more years.

It also bears mentioning that the club that reactivated Pitt Meadows Day in 1951 is also marking an anniversary this year.

The Pitt Meadows Lions Club formed 65 years ago in 1951, holding its first meeting on April 5th of that year and celebrating its charter night on May 25th, with a party at the Pitt Meadows municipal hall (its own hall would not be built until 1958), with Charles Armstrong as their first president, and Eugene Bennett the secretary treasurer and a total membership of 18.

Leslie Norman is curator of Pitt Meadows Museum and Archives.

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THE NEWS/arts&life Song, dance tell Joseph’s colourful story Contact 604-467-1122 ext. 214 arts@mapleridgenews.com

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treme Theatre’s upcoming production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will feature six-part harmonies.

This is the most difficult production that the theatre group has put on since it was established in 2000 because it relies solely on song and dance to tell the story.

Vocal coach Monique Lefevbre and choreographer Linnea Key Nejad have been working with the students since September to prepare for the musical.

“It’s probably our most difficult show in that it is like a mini operetta. So there isn’t any spoken words.

Everything is told in song,” said producer Wendy Holm.

“It’s been quite the project for these students, who really had to get into shape to tell this story well,” she continued.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is based on a biblical story in the Book of Genesis. The plot centers around Joseph, who is favoured by his father.

Joseph’s brothers become jealous of him when their father gives him a long-sleeved coat, a symbol of affluence at the time. They sell him into slavery in Egypt, where God gives him the ability to interpret dreams. After interpreting the Pharaoh’s dream, Joseph is able to protect Egypt from an impending famine.

The production will feature different genres of music, including country and Calypso. The Pharaoh, who was like a king in Egypt, will

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There are 41 cast members aged 14 to 18 years old, plus a 30-member choir made up of the youngest students, ages four to 13.

The show will also feature three narrators performing three-part harmonies.

Audience members will be able to follow along with their programs, which contain the full biblical story.

Holm says she gets goose bumps when she hears the actors sing and that all the hard work shows in the production.

“We thought the story was worth telling, and when it’s worth telling, you tell it well,” said Holm.

Xtreme Theatre is a group for home-schooled children to learn about being a part of a musical theatre production.

No experience is necessary to join.

It is run by volunteers, who build the sets, make the costumes and props, advertise and make the programs.

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat runs May 19 to 21 at 7 p.m. with one matinee at 2 p.m. on May 21 at the ACT, 11944 Haney Place, Maple Ridge. Show length is approximately 90 minutes with one intermission. Tickets are $15 each.

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Maple Ridge writer Annette LeBox has received a B.C. Book Prize.

The 32nd annual Lieutenant Governor’s B.C. Book Prizes Gala took place on April 30 at Government House in Victoria with British Columbia’s Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Judith Guichon, OBC, in attendance.

LeBox won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature

Prize for the best illustrated book written for children, along with illustrator Stephanie Graegin for her book Peace is an Offering.

Peace Is An Offering is a poem that LeBox wrote just after the terrorist attacks of 9-11.

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THE NEWS/sports Bat-a-thon a hit with young sluggers Contact 604-467-1122 ext. 216 sports@mapleridgenews.com

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In an annual rite of spring, it was bata-thon day in Ridge Meadows Minor Baseball on Saturday.

It was the fifth year for the annual fun competition of baseball skills, that sees kids not just hit for distance, but also speed around the bases, pitch against the radar gun, and play long toss at the greatest possible distance.

And it is also a fundraiser designed to keep baseball an affordable sport for families.

The association’s special events coordinator said some of the fundraising was out of the park.

“One of the Tadpole teams this year actually did their own Krispy Kreme donuts fundraiser, they raised $300 together,” she said. “A great result and a great team-building exercise.”

The on-field results were:

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Landon Smith takes a mighty swing at a pitch during the bat-a-thon skills competition and fundraising event for Ridge Meadows Minor Baseball on Saturday.

Rally Cap bat-a-thon: 1. Benjamin De Santis - Waves 118ft.

2. Karter Rutledge - Tigers 110 ft.

3. Brody Sharpe - Mariners 104ft.

Super-T bat-at-hon: 1. Riley Kauhane - Cubs - 125 ft.

2. Nolan Dingwall - White Sox - 115 ft. 3.

Dylan McNab - White Sox - 106 ft.

Tadpole bat-a-thon: 1. Ben Van Den Hoven 164’10” 2. Brayden Schulte 152’ 3. Owen Toothill 147’ Skills competition winners: Around the Horn - Cardinals Dragon Race - Blue Jays Shuttle Relay - Cubs Furthest hit 1. Ben Van Den Hoven 2. Zachary Rowand 3. Chris Evans Furthest throw

1. Tory Hutchinson 2. Logan Maxwell 3. Braeden Fotheringhame Mosquito bat-a-thon: 1.Kody Davey - Blue Jays 209 ft.

2. Beau Benedictson - Phillies 204 ft.

3. Mason Lemmen - Pirates 203 ft.

Skills Day: Fastest Around the Bases 1. Cooper Crowe - Red Sox 2. Jake Tanaka - Mariners Pitching accuracy Alex Dumoneceaux - Pirates Hardest pitch Second year (2005 birthdays) 1. Payton Godwin - Pirates 2. Beau Benedictson & Ben Leslie (tie) First year (2006 birthdays) 1. Cooper Crowe - Red Sox 2. - Liam Sampson - Giants Closest to cone 1. Ethan Cormack - Pirates 2. Sean Nisbet - Yankees Around the horn 1. Blue Jays 2. Mariners Two-man long toss 1. Beau Benedictson & Ben Leslie, Phillies 2. Carter Germain & Max Griffith, Mariners Home Run competition Second Year (2005 birthdays) 1. Mason Lemmen - Pirates 2. Payton Godwin - Pirates First year (2006 birthdays) 1. Kaden Johnson - Rangers Peewee bat-a-thon 1. Sebastian Wagner - Blue Jays 240 ft Skills Day: Fastest Pitch Carson Hebert - Blue Jays Pitching Accuracy Shamus Horebec - Expos 60 Yard Dash Nocholas Squeo - Yankees Around the Horn - Expos Three-man relay - Orioles

Ridge prospect taken in WHL draft Saskatoon Blades pick Ryan Denney

By Neil Corbett sports@mapleridgenews.com

Ryan Denney was in class waiting, keeping an eye on his phone, and finally it happened – he was drafted into ‘The Dub.’ His friends at Burnaby Central secondary cheered, and the texts of congratulations started to roll in for the hockey standout from Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey. He was the only Maple Ridge player selected in the Western Hockey League’s draft Thursday.

He was projected to go anywhere from the third round to the seventh, and he went 135th overall, in the seventh, selected by one of the country’s most storied junior teams, the Saskatoon Blades.

“I’m just happy to get drafted,” he said. “I was pretty excited.”

It’s a franchise that has a long list of alumni who went on to the NHL, including Wendel Clark, who would probably like the way Denney plays.

Fans in the stands can see his strength and heart.

“He goes through walls and plays hard,” said James Eccles, the director of hockey development for Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey.

“His compete on the puck is exceptional.”

Despite his ability to play a physical game, Denney is also a puck mover, said Eccles, and he did not want to predict any sort of role that he would play in the WHL when he arrives there.

“He has lots to offer.”

Denney puts up points. He played on a line with Kamloops Blazers first-round

pick Massimo Rizzo with Burnaby Winter Club last season, and had 102 points in 66 games.

“I try to play a power forward game,” he said.

If he was going to try to pick an NHLer to emulate, it would be New York Rangers star Rick Nash.

Denney played virtually all of his minor hockey in his hometown, then jumped to the Burnaby Winter Club last year to make sure scouts saw him.

His BWC Bruins won the bantam triple-A provincials and Western Canadian championships.

The scouts couldn’t miss him. He was tied for second in tournament scoring at the westerns with three goals and seven points in five games. And he blocked a shot that sent his high scoring linemate Rizzo away on a breakaway for the tourna-

ment-winning goal.

But Denney gives a lot of credit to his local association, and his father Dave, who coached him along the way, as did Mitch Bartley, who put him on the top line of the bantam A1 team as a first-year player.

“He was a big influence on me. He gave me the opportunity to be a good player,” Denney said of Bartley.

This August, Denney will be in Saskatoon for the Blades spring camp. His new WHL team and his family will decide a good place for him to continue his development – likely major midget or an academy team, he said.

Eccles said the draft is a great acknowledgement for a bantam hockey prospect.

“You’ve worked your tail off, and you’re getting rewarded,” he said.

“We’re all very proud of him.”

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West Coast United wins cup

By Neil Corbett sports@mapleridgenews.com

After three seasons and three championship games, the West Coast United men’s soccer team finally got its first President’s Cup this year.

Coach Michael Leslie explains that this team has been together for three years in the men’s division, but many of the players have known each other since they played youth soccer together.

He coached his sons, and many of the players he coached in their earliest days of soccer, as young as eight years old.

When they got together for their first season in men’s league, they had to play in the fourth division and work their way up. They won the league championship, with the one blemish on their record being a tie.

The next year, they were promoted to Division 3A, and again they were almost perfect at that level. They went undefeated for a second straight year, with just a tie.

This season, United faced the stiffer competition of the second division, and the team’s

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West Coast United won its third straight league championship and the President’s Cup. record dipped slightly, with 17 wins, one loss and two ties, to again win the league title.

Each year all the second, third and fourth division teams play off for the President’s Cup in a massive tournament between the 68 men’s teams in the Fraser Valley.

In each of the team’s first two years, United lost in the final, to teams from Langley.

But in early April, United played for the championship against the Fraser Valley Red Devils of Abbotsford, and won its first President’s Cup. “We were finally able

to break through and win it,� said Leslie.

The game was tied at the end of regulation and extra time, and United won on penalties.

United’s fifth shooter, Connor Hoekstra, who also won the Golden Boot as the league’s top scorer in regular season play with an 20 goals, put in the winner.

Leslie credits his keeper for ther win.

United will be promoted to the second division next year. “We’re going to be tested for sure,� he said. “That’s be a challenge, but I think it’s the right level for us. We’ll hold

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He said the team is well rounded on offence, with numerous threats to score. “We’ve got quite a bit of pace up front – we counter eally quickly.�

He said there is a good chance that most of the team will return for the challenging new level next season.

He has three sons: Cory, 25, Trevor, 22, and Darcy, 19, on the team. “I’ve really enjoyed coaching this group of players. Because they’ve known each other since they were eight years old, they’re more like a family.�

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