Maple Ridge Times March 8 2012

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Spring forward!

Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 11. The old adage reminds us: “Spring forward. Fall back,” so clocks should be shifted forward one hour at 1 a.m. on Sunday, returning us to Pacific Standard Time.

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In today’s edition, we take a look at some of the Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows residents who reach out and help others around the globe through a number of different initiatives, such as Project Wellness.

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Walk for awareness A candlelight walk for awareness to prevent sexual exploitation of children happens tonight in Memorial Peace Park.

The walk will start at 6:15 p.m. on March 8and conclude with a brief presentation on the importance of this issue.

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Spring forward Spring forward, fall back. On Sunday, March 11, our community will switch to Daylight Saving Time. That means some pretty drowsy drivers behind the wheel going to and from work the following Monday with an hour less of sleep.

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Ridge Meadows RCMP Const. Obermeyer and Const. Broermann handed out tickets.

Cops catch violators In 45 minutes of a Class 7 driver’s licence blitz last week, local Mounties handed out 18 violation tickets for failing to display the required “N” on their vehicle.

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Bypass work begins Paving will take place on the Haney Bypass between March 13 and 16 and March 19 and 20. The westbound lane of the Haney Bypass will be closed and traffic will be re-directed onto Lougheed Highway. Shouldering, curbing, and line painting will take place from March 21 to 27, at which time the Haney Bypass will be open to single-lane alternating traffic.

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Teen Samaritans trekking to Kenya

Students and chaperones will put their collective work boots on as they spend spring break in a small Kenyan village.

by Troy Landreville tlandreville@mrtimes.com

Poverty in Kenya has united teens from a trio of high schools across Maple Ridge.

This spring break, students from Samuel Robertson Technical (SRT), Thomas Haney, and Garibaldi secondary schools will be staying at The Maasai Mara National Reserve in Southwestern Kenya for a 14-day “Me to We” trip to Kenya in support of Free the Children.

Kenya is the destination because 56 per cent of the country’s population lives below the poverty line, and extreme poverty – defined as those living on under $1 per day – includes almost 30 per cent of Kenya’s current population.

During the group’s two weeks in the area, they will be living in the community of a local tribe and experiencing their culture first hand.

The students and their chaperones will also be helping to build a school in the small village, along with digging wells, planting trees, and assisting with a clean-water project.

“We will meet and learn from the local elders and community leaders, walk with the mamas to draw water, and even take part in daily Swahili lessons,” Garibaldi Secondary Grade 12 student Trent Harris explained to The TIMES. “This will be a rewarding and unique learning experience for us, as we take a walk in someone else’s shoes and witness ourselves, what we have been learning about in school such as: poverty, drought, and famine.”

The children in the region speak limited English, so the Swahili lessons will help the Canadian visitors interact with the locals through basic phrases, explained Danielle Zagar, a Global Studies teacher at SRT.

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Zagar, who is one of the leaders of the trip, said the local contingent is prepared to put in long days, starting at 8 a.m. and in bed by 10 at night, and a fair portion of the time there will be used to do landscaping work and building a portion of the school using bricks and clay. The group also plans on visiting a giraffe sanctuary, going on a sunset hike, and embarking on a safari.

The humanitarian journey will be an expensive one, especially for the students who have to rely on their parents and/or parttime employment to cover costs.

Each participant has to come up with $4,700, plus the cost of mandatory vaccinations, before departing to Kenya.

In the weeks and months leading up to their departure, the students were drumming up sponsorships and donations to raise money for their trip.

“Any donation would be greatly appreciated, in our efforts to go to Kenya and promote the notion that children are not powerless to affect change,” Harris said.

People often hear about Africa’s poverty, drought, and famine, but to see it first hand will be an eye-opening experience. Harris said.

“We want to be there and help make a positive difference,” he added.

Zagar said the trip to Kenya grew out of SRT’s Global Studies program.

“We will learn about the cultural, social, economic, and environmental issues facing the people of rural Kenya,” Zagar said.

The group will camp out in safari tents during the trip, which is scheduled for the start of Kenya’s unpredictable rainy season.

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(Grade 10), and Katrina (Grade 9) from Thomas Haney hoping to make the trip, said Canadian students take a lot for granted and that it would be “cool to help.”

Thomas Haney Grade 10 student Hannah Schenker took a part time job at McDonald’s to help raise funds in her quest to go to Kenya.

“It’s definitely worth it,” Schenker said. “It brings me so much joy to help other people.”

Grade 12 Shayla Singh from Thomas Haney saw the pictures from last year’s trip. “It was like, ‘Oh my God, how come we didn’t get to go’?” she said.

Anyone interested in finding out more about the trip, about SRT’s Global Studies program, or wanting to make a last-minute donation can email Zagar at danielle_zagar@sd42.ca.

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The resident animals from the giraffe sanctuary in Kenya used their tongues to grab a food pellet from students mouths during last year’s trip, while (far left) Paige Farina and Jacqui Harquail flanked a “cool dude” friend they met in Kenya. In the meantime, a group of Maple Ridge students (immediate left) are planning a goodwill trip to Kenya this weekend.

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Local charity gives Malawi the gift of water

A retired couple is behind 20 wells and other aid to a landlocked African country.

by Maria Rantanen

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The people of Malawi are getting more and more fresh drinking water, thanks to a Maple Ridge charity that draws on volunteer efforts and generous donations to help others help themselves.

Drilling wells is one focus of Project Wellness, the Maple Ridge charity run by George Klassen and his family – which includes his wife Sheila and daughter Nadine Sands – that helps the southern African country. But the organization also feeds hundreds of orphans, helps widows, and this year will be building a maize mill that will serve four villages – projects that help the people of Malawi help themselves.

Klassen and his family established Project Wellness about eight years ago, under the umbrella of Amazon Evangelical Society, the vehicle that issues tax receipts.

Klassen has been retired from the steel industry for several years, but in his mid-seventies he still visits Malawi regularly to ensure the projects are being done properly.

Klassen’s policy with Project Wellness is simple: look after orphans and widows.

“The women are still tilling the land with a baby on the back,” Klassen said, “[and] carrying the water with a baby on the back.”

While Klassen was involved in evangelical work in South America, his focus in Africa has been humanitarian work, “keeping the wolf from the door,” he said.

Project Wellness is has no paid employees and relies solely on volunteers.

That way they are able to keep their overhead costs low, and are able to drill wells for only $5,000 apiece.

It was a chance meeting in Nigeria that connected Klassen to the poor southern African country of Malawi. He was asked to go to Nigeria for two weeks as a chaplain, when he was approached by another clergyman from Malawi, who told him “you really need to come and see what’s happening in Malawi.”

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George Klassen and his wife Sheila show pictures from Malawi. (Inset) A bicycle is a valuable item in Africa as it doesn’t need fuel to run.

That was in spring 2004, and since then he’s been back and forth dozens of times.

While the Klassens are Christians and have been involved in evangelical work in other parts of the world, in their work with Project Wellness, they do not ask the children or any-

one they are helping what religion they belong to.

Twenty wells have been drilled in the Ntcheu district of Malawi in 20 different villages by Project Wellness.

Africans do not like children to be institutionalized, Klassen

said, and orphans are usually billeted with extended families.

But about 400 children come every day to a feeding centre, built by Project Wellness, where they get food and an education.

In 2012, the plan is to also build a maize mill, which Klassen hopes will make the orphans self-sufficient within a year.

Klassen has also brought a fundamental shift in how well water is used in the areas he’s worked in in Malawi. Water from wells was used for washing and cooking, but not for crop irrigation.

Watering crops was always dependent on rainwater, but Klassen insisted that well water be used also for crops.

The wells all have hand pumps as motorized pumps would cost too much to maintain with fuel at about $6 per litre on the black market.

For information on Project Wellness and its work, go to www.projectwellness.ca.

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Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows public school students were scheduled to be back in class this morning after a threeday teachers strike.

Teachers were seen around both communities at busy corners during their walkout in groups, or walking up and down streets carrying signs as they were not allowed to picket schools.

The Labour Relations Board ruled teachers were allowed to withdraw completely from their duties for three consecutive days. After that, however, teachers may withdraw services one day a week after their initial strike.

The B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the B.C. Public School Employers’

Association, which is the bargaining agent for the provincial government, have been at loggerheads over contract negotiations for about a year.

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Prefer Canada helps Africans help themselves.

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Cathy Emmerson wants to give a “hand up” not a “handout” to the people of Rwanda.

That’s what she’s been doing for about nine years, living among the Rwandan people, helping them become self-sufficient and drawing on her previous hometown of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows to help finance many of her projects.

Emmerson said she chose Rwanda as the object of her work because of the president and his government.

“President Kagame has zero tolerance for corruption. What this means is that help that is given is received by the people who need it,” Emmerson said. “So many African countries are destroyed by corruption, millions of dollars are sent to feed a starving nation only to be ‘eaten’ by the various levels of government while the population continues to starve.”

Emmerson called the Rwandan government a “leading example” for the rest of the continent.

But another big motivator is the Rwandan children who are “adorable,” Emmerson said.

“They’re the real reason I’m here,” she said.

The past nine years in Rwanda have taught Emmerson “that one person can make a difference and the strength of a team can change lives forever.”

The organization that fundraises for her is Prefer Canada – Prefer stands for “poverty reduction, education, family empowerment.”

Emmerson’s mandate is to help people help themselves and not just give out charity.

“We travel with people on their journey out of poverty, and let me tell you it is an exciting and heartwarming ride,” she said.

The genocide in 1994 was devastating for Rwanda, and the country lost many skilled tradespeople.

Prefer has a volunteer program whereby people can go to Rwanda to help for two weeks to three months.

Cathy Emmerson, a former realtor from Maple Ridge, has been working in Rwanda for nine years, mainly with local children.

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Black said she is “really, really proud,” of what the school has achieved so far.

“We have done so much fundraising,” she said.

“And it’s not just the students. The teachers have helped a lot, too. It’s really nice being from Kanaka because we take leadership and ownership.”

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kids, and donate money,” Grade 7 student Olivia Grade 7 Mackenzie Lycan Bowes has a new sense said. of appreciation of what Kanaka Creek students she has, and awareness are also making a differof what children living in ence in their own backThird World countries such yard. as Kenya don’t have.

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Led by a group of Grade 6s and 7s, students and staff at Kanaka Creek Elementary are doing their part to improve the lives of underprivileged people living halfway around the world.

Anna Crandall, a youth programming coordinator with Free the Children, recently visited the Maple Ridge school, where she accepted a cheque for $6,300.

Through the school’s “Me-to-We” program and Free the Children, the donation will help those living in the Kenyan village of Mwangaza.

The funds will help provide alternative incomes, clean water, medical services, and education for the people living in the village, which Kanaka Creek Elementary has adopted.

Free the Children’s primary goals are to free children “from poverty and exploitation and free young people from the notion that they are powerless to effect positive change in the world.”

Making positive change while raising awareness is what the Kanaka Creek’s “Me-to-We” group is all about.

Their fundraising efforts have included the sales of calendars and a charity Halloween dance. Tickets to an upcoming Vancouver Canucks’ home game will also be raffled off, with every cent of the proceeds from past and upcoming fundraisers going to the cause.

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Giving hope… compassion Many Canadians will scoff when they are told that their problems are minor, compared to the everyday difficulties faced by men and women – and especially children – in much of the rest of the world.

What about our homeless? What about the escalating costs – and lengthening wait lists – in our health care system? What about the inequities in our justice system? What about our outrageous tax increases? What about our shrinking middle class and the growing disparities between rich and poor?

Wait. Stop right there.

You want to talk about disparities between rich and poor? Most folks in Canada don’t have any idea what “poor” is. On a planetary scale, the average Canadian wage-earner is among the world’s richest “one per cent.”

The majority of this planet’s seven billion human inhabitants don’t have access to medical care, let alone our envied universal health care.

Justice for billions of people would be surviving until tomorrow, with a bit of food in their bellies and maybe one glass of relatively clean drinking water.

Justice for their future lies in education and an economic leg up.

We salute those among us who have recognized the global need and have taken action to provide help.

Canadians have a great deal more wealth than most of us realize – not just economic wealth, but wealth in education, wealth in understanding, and most importantly of all, wealth in compassion.

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Teachers’ strike? I wouldn’t mentary and secondary schools touch it with a three-metre pole or and graduated summa cum laugha yardstick or one of those pointter and was roundly applauded at ers you might find dusting your graduation. knuckles back in the day when My daughter, an alumna of corporal punishment was the Whonnock and Garibaldi schools, norm and you could hear some is soon to receive a bachelor of kid getting the strap, his cries science in biology. echoing through the halls.

Both kids having taken kinNow that was a deterrent. Not dergarten with the ageless Mo to mention the Grade 5 teacher Morgan producer and director of

by Tim Tyler who put the unruly under her numerous circuses, pageants, and desk while she sat there. It was plays, all recorded on videotape t3atyler@shaw.ca like spelunking. I haven’t been and used to embarrass the kids at able to enter a cave since. weddings and birthdays.

Aside from a few gigs as a substitute teacher I like to think that the professions should be in university when I needed beer money, my paid according to their worth, their importance classroom experience is negligible; so to criticize to the maintenance of a free and enlightened and teachers, beyond the humourous references to healthy society: police, firefighters, paramedics, Pro-D days and summer vacations in which we doctors, nurses, teachers, the indispensible. all indulge, would be blowing so much smoke on And unless their demands are really through my part. the roof, give the teachers what they want (again, My own experience as a student was almost within reason: these guys only work 10 months a completely devoid of trauma: I was made to sit year!) and let’s get on with building our lives. in the hall during physics class, my ostracism on The argument is, as always, about money and display for all who walked by; and I was witness can this government really cry poverty when, as to an explosion in woodworking class that sent has been noted in this space before, they have two teachers and a student to hospital: to this day spent millions on the Canucks’ Stanley Cup run, I can’t look at the fruit bowl I made on the wood the Grey Cup party, the bloated salaries of people lathe without seeing the skin peeling off of Mr. like former BC Ferries boss, David Hahn, legal Black’s face – the same Mr. Black who predicted I fees for political aides caught with pants down. would come to no good if I didn’t behave myself Where is all that trickle down cash from the during his riveting lectures on screwdrivers.

Olympics? We need concessions from both sides No one teacher stands out as having been an in what is essentially a schoolyard fight. inspiration, as is often the case. I was a jock, so I But George and Christy plow ahead with legiswas drawn to the phys ed teachers – and that is lation and mediation while parents make arrangewhat I studied at university – if one can be said ments for child care and hordes of students to study phys ed, now more popularly known as descend upon the leisure centre – my sanctum kinesiology, the science of movement. I ended up sanctorum – to take up gym equipment and pool delivering mail for 35 years. space. (Better they should be in the malls, right?)

Maybe Bill Black was right!?

This will all come to end, of course, with a My own children fared very well in school, resolution that satisfies neither party and we will thank you, especially the Angel Andrew, one of have peace for a few years until the contract the oft-referred-to special needs cohort. Thanks to expires and a new premier faces off against the teachers’ union. some effective lobbying by The Wife, he received Déjà vu all over again, what? excellent support throughout his tenure in ele-

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Privatization

BC Liberals selling out B.C. Dear Editor,

It seems the Gordon Campbell agenda of privatizing all profits and socializing costs is not a thing of the past. It would seem “privatize at any cost” is still alive and well in B.C. The Clark government obviously hasn’t learned any lessons on how to properly govern a democratic province and is once again about to make major changes to B.C. without a proper mandate from the voters.

The tens of millions of liquor board profits that usually go to social programs, etc. will instead go into the sweet-smelling pockets of a chosen few fat cats.

You might ask who is going to make up all that money when liquor profits are privatized – let us not forget that private businesses pay minimal taxes in B.C. The harsh reality is that yet more workers will lose half their income and drop unceremoniously out of the middle class, and the taxes from their reduced incomes will drop drastically also.

This money shall be made up one of three ways.

First it will be taken from other cash cows, such as ICBC or BC Hydro, and guess who is going to pay more for these

services as a result.

Don’t forget the BC Liberals already siphoned off a billion dollars from ICBC last year to pay for their financial ineptitude, not counting all the extra taxes they got from the HST. The second way will be to simply raise your income taxes.

The third way these shortfalls will be dealt with is by cutting social or other programs the current profits go to support.

If you think that liquor will be cheaper when it is privatized, better think again.

Private liquor stores already pay 16 per cent less for their liquor than government liquor stores do, and they pay their employees about a half what government liquor store employees earn.

That is why that tip jar is on the counter, because like all minimum wage jobs, the customer is expected to supplement their income.

And I have yet to see anything cheaper in a private liquor store.

This, like the HST, is an election issue, and if the government insists on doing it, an election should be called to get a proper mandate from the people of B.C.

Wayne Clark, Maple Ridge

Smart meters

Freedom hinges on meter battle Dear Editor,

Is it an odd coincidence that the smart meters are being installed with such fervor, that Bill C-30 is about to take away our privacy, that adjudication is about to become our new legal system leaving every person in Canada defenceless against any accusation, that new bylaws are being introduced, and that Stephen Harper wants to build more jails and possiblytake

on the American legal rule of minimum mandatory sentences?

People, stop these smart meters now! Stand up and shout and get loud about this one. We are about to lose our freedoms, and democracy is crumbling in a skillful manner.

Get more involved, get your family involved, get your friends involved, get anyone you can get fired up and involved before it becomes too late to keep

Criminal justice

Laws are made powerless Dear Editor,

In the dim and distant past, our criminal justice system worked pretty darned well. One could say that it was mostly quite effective, too.

Then a panel of lawyers thought the Criminal Code needed reworking. Perhaps it would help to make more work for lawyers, both of the criminal and civil. That was perhaps not the intended aim. Or was it?

The legislation that created this unholy mess is obscene. It is so unbalanced, it has made the hands of the prosecutors almost powerless to do their job, while the defence attorney can and often does cut a very wide swath indeed.

This can only mean that few convictions are accomplished. The rare ones who are convicted receive punishment that is often absurd. I find it infuriating.

A young woman was [allegedly] assaulted, and the prosecutors said the likelihood of obtaining a conviction was most unlikely – yet another example of how unbalanced our justice system has become. Naturally, the young woman is devastated, and once again, the criminal justice system failed in its job of taking care of the public.

The folks in Ottawa will do nothing, because they have no fire in the belly, and absolutely no sense of decency. Those people do not listen to the electorate anyway, while things grind on and our society continues to unravel.

One facet of this, no doubt, is voter apathy; it could hardly be otherwise. A great deal of criminal activity occurs because they can, and they have no fear of being held accountable.

Robert W. Stirling, Maple Ridge

our freedom, just by talking and writing. The pen is mightier than the sword, so start swinging that pen and take no hostages!

We can make a change, and the HST battle proved it! But you have to get more involved. Writing on Facebook is great, but not enough. Write to the mayor, your council members, the CAOs of cities, Christy Clark, anyone you think may need to hear the many, many voices: the papers, other municipalities, blog sites, T-shirts, bumper stickers, flyers, use your imagination.

You are the key to our freedom! Accept responsibility to ensure Canada shows the world how happy we all are just being ourselves, working hard and playing hard, achieving and living our dreams in peace and harmony without a government breathing down our necks.

Their job is to keep our streets clean and paved, get water to our homes, and the list goes on.

But we do not need them getting power hungry and thinking that this is their money.

It’s our money, and they need to be reminded permanently.

It’s up to you. I wrote this letter; it only took me about 15 minutes, but I hope it got you fired up.

Tag! You’re it.

Jacques A. Blackstone, Maple Ridge

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The organization started with grandmothers Local artist Tammy Routley has been working on a banner for the Golden helping grandmothers, Ears Go Gos. This is one example of a design that might be chosen. but the group also welcomes “grandothers.”

“Laughter happens,” King said of their The Golden Ears Go Gos, a group meetings. of largely women who function under The Grandmothers to Grandmothers the umbrella of the Stephen Lewis campaign was launched by the Stephen Foundation, has been meeting regularly Lewis Foundation in 2006. to talk about how they can help grandThe groups raise money to help African mothers in Africa who are raising their grandmothers become self-supportgrandchildren because their own children ing, and responds to community needs, have died of AIDS. including providing food, health care, Two hundred forty Go Go school fees, and school uniforms. groups exist across Canada, and King said she’s involved with the in the Lower Mainland, they’re Go Gos because she believes in the known as the Greater Van Gogos. cause.

The Golden Ears Go Gos, as an ““The grandmothers of Africa are organization, is starting slowly doing what grandparents do when – as recommended by the founheartbreak happens,” she said. dation, and the meetings include “We can help a bit to ease the a “diverse collection of Maple path.”

Ridge and Pitt Meadows people,” Upcoming fundraiser for the according to co-chair Linda King.

Golden Ears Go Gos include a gar“Many are grandparents who see the age and plant sale on May 5 at King’s material advantages enjoyed by their own complex, at 22268 116th Ave. starting at grandchildren, and wish to assist those 10 a.m. in Africa who have so much less,” King Anyone interested in getting involved said. with the Golden Ears Go Gos can call The group meets at the Maple Ridge Linda King at 604-467-2688, or email Library and its members are currently her at lindaking7@gmail.com. The planning, strategizing and getting to group meets monthly at the Maple Ridge know each other.

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Louise Manseau is an entrepreneur and an award-winning business woman, but she’s quick to shy away from any personal accolades in favour of recognition for her six-person staff at Star Five Louise Manseau Classic Country Catering.

“I love what I do… and I love working with my team and being out in this community,” Manseau said.

In her capacity as the owner and catering manager for the Maple Ridge business, she has enjoyed more than a dozen years of feeding people – primarily in the Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows communities.

So, what’s been the key to success for this local business woman?

“You do the best you can with what you do, give the best quality and service, and it will come back to you,” she insists.

While Manseau has only been at the helm of Star Five for 12 years, she has been in the food service business for more than 35 years, and she brings all those years of experience to her deli, lunch counter, and catering business operated out of facilities next to the Petro-Can station in Yennadon – at 232nd Street and 128th Avenue.

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The two women started the bakery to specialize in fresh, gluten-free fare, and creating delicious goods for those with allergies and sensitivities.

“We are a gluten-free bakery, that’s our main priority, but we also made the choice to be nut free, because there are a lot of people who can’t just walk into a bakery and buy something,” said Stiles. “Our bakery is a safe environment for people with allergies,” she added.

Zena’s came to be as a result of family health issues that required a gluten-free diet and specialty baking.

“My daughter Sofi was not gaining weight and was diagnosed with failure to thrive.

She was 18 pounds at age two,” explained Stiles. “We put her on a gluten-free diet and within two weeks she was gaining weight, after a very scary year of not gaining anything,” added Stiles.

Erin’s motivation was cultivated by a specialty diet required by her best friend.

The goal is to show the world how delicious gluten-free can be. Zena’s can make everyone delicious baked goods, including quality breads, muffins, cookies and cakes, with the finest ingredients and nutrition always in mind.

“There seems to be a need for gluten free, and we have the nicest demographic - people who value what we are doing. Thank you Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, and neighbouring communities, for a wonderful start,” Stiles said.

International Women’s Day has real significance for the owners of Zena’s. Both Stiles and Culhane have been advocates for women’s rights and support programs that empower and educate women.

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Rotary project

Charity

Parish appeals for aid

A small Pitt Meadows congregation is focused on helping people in Congo and Cameroon.

Aid sought for reform school

Dave Rempel hopes to send a container of supplies to Russia.

by Maria Rantanen

Dave Rempel has visited a boys reform school in Russia and wants to get more equipment for them.

by Maria Rantanen

A small parish of only 16 people that meets in Pitt Meadows is trying to make a difference in one of the most troubled areas in the world.

The Parish of St. Bride’s, a “traditional” Anglican parish led by Father David Marriott, has been helping the African countries of Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon for two years.

Marriott visited Congo in 2007 even after the Canadian embassy in Burundi warned him not to go.

“Congo is the most remarkable example of the failed state I’ve ever been to,” he said.

The life expectancy in Congo is about 38 to 40 years, and the villages have no seniors, Marriott said.

Because of years of fighting, many men have been killed and widows are left to bring up their young children. Marriott said St. Bride’s wants to empower the Congolese to be self-sufficient.

The small parish, along with its sister parish in Half Moon Bay, was able to give a loan of $2,000 to a group of widows from St. Francois D’Assise parish in Mosho, an area called Sud Kivu in the Congo. The widows used the money to start a co-operative, growing vegetables and selling any surplus.

The result is threefold: better nutrition, a sense of purpose for the mothers, and giving hope to the community that better times are coming.

But the need is great and Marriott is appealing for more help to pay for school teachers’ salaries and to pay for the school’s rent in Cameroon.

For more information on St. Bride’s Africa Appeal, go to www.parishofstbride.webs.com.

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Whonnock resident and school board trustee Dave Rempel has always held the plight of Russia close to his heart.

His connections to the large country – suffering from years of communist dictatorships and radical changes over the past two decades – are making a difference for juvenile delinquents.

Rempel’s focus has been on a boys’ reform school, the T.K. Tikhiy make machine parts in the shop, for Special Education School, in eastern example, they were able to make Russia. It houses and educates teens $24,000 in metal production, and who have a criminal record. $22,000 in potatoes.

The boys farm on 65 acres of land, “The school will sell everything it attend school with a strong academcan make,” Rempel said. ic bent, and learn trades.

But Rempel would like to procure All the boys are between the ages more equipment for school, as gentof 13 and 18 and “they’ve all had ly used tools – like lathes and other encounters with the law,” including woodworking equipment – are hard break-and-enters, fraud, and to come by in Russia. assault, Rempel said.

Rempel, a member of the The success rate of the boys’ Meadowridge Rotary Club, school is 85 per cent, and has applied for a grant Rempel attributes this to its to send over tools, sports strong academic program and equipment, and other the farm work, but also to the supplies to help the boys hands-on training the boys become productive memOnline receive. bers of society.

“It gives back to the comThis is the third project munity – many of the vegetables Rotary has worked on for the school. they grow go back to the orphanage The first time, funds were raised or the community,” Rempel said. to buy a dump truck, something The teens at the reform school also that has been useful in the farming

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The second time, funds were donated to buy computers to allow the boys to train for future employment.

The cost of leasing a container is about $4,000, and this will be paid for partly by the Haney and Meadowridge Rotary clubs, with a district Rotary matching grant.

Rempel is hoping to get donations from residents, businesses, and institutions in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows of machines, sports equipment, and other useful items that will help in the education of the youth at the school.

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Archeology

by Sylver McLaren

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At the end of April, the director of corporate services in Pitt Meadows will hang up her city staffer hat and don a fedora more appropriate for hotter climates.

Laurie Darcus will take her third trip to Africa, this time to Northern Ethiopia for six weeks.

Darcus is joining a Simon Fraser University project, led

by Dr. Catherine D’Andrea, called Early-stage development in Northern Ethiopia, Eastern Tigray.

“It’s an archeology project, with some humanitarian goals,” said Darcus, 51.

Darcus and her group intend to examine and document the ageold process of grinding technology Pitt Meadows resident Laurie Darcus will leave for her third trip to Africa at the end of April, where she will take part in a archeology and ensure that as new technolproject in Eastern Tigrain, Northern Ethiopia. ogy is introduced that the communal process that maintains the integrity of the group is not lost. to see what worked in other communities, Women who had spent hours upon she explained. hours grinding seeds, with the introduction “I suspect I will find that if you build of a grinding machine would find themcooperatives within the community, you selves with plenty of free time. can maintain the ties within the commun“The way it could be lost is by women ity,” she noted. becoming independent producers and creOne of the other things that Darcus will ating a class-based social system, where look at is to study the grinding stones some people or families will become marto determine if they can see a use-wear ginalized,” said Darcus. pattern. “Certain seeds make different One of the first things they’ll look at, is marks,” she said.

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Pitt Meadows city staffer Laurie Darcus heads to Africa.

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A team of 18 people from Maple Ridge’s Burnett Fellowship Church went to Belize last March. The purpose: the equivalent of an Extreme Home Makeover.

They demolished a 500-square-foot shack and spent seven days building a new fourbedroom home for a family of seven.

Now, a team of about 24 – most from the same church – is heading to Haiti next month to help build one or two toddler huts for the God’s Littlest Angels orphanage. The church is in the midst of a massive fundraising blitz for $17,000.

• Stay tuned to the print and online editions of The TIMES for more on Burnett efforts

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March 10

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• Vision impaired? Know someone who is? Maple Ridge Lions Club invites people to attend a free

Vision Impaired Resources open house at the Ridge Meadows Seniors Activity Centre, 12150 224th St., from 1 to 4 p.m. A variety of organizations will attend: services, equipment, recreation, fitness, education. Info: www.mapleridgelionsclub. org or Brian at 604-467-2696.

March 10

• Toronto’s Cuban-born award-winning harmonica wizard Carlos del Junco and his band The Blues Mongrels play at The ACT at 8:30 p.m.

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March 10

• A public roundtable featuring a guided discussion on

national Internet privacy and integrity in Canada’s democracy is set for 1 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Haney United Church, 22165 Dewdney Trunk Rd., organized by the Pitt Meadows-Maple RidgeMission riding association of the Liberal Party of Canada. continued on page A23…

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• The Ex-Service Women’s monthly meeting is at 1 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion, 12101 224th St. Lunch is provided at noon.

March 8

• Ridge Meadows Hospice Thrift Store has a sale with 50 per cent off the entire store (some items may be excluded). Store hours: Monday to Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday: noon to 4 p.m. The thrift store is at 3-12011 224th St. Info: 604463-7711.

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• SFU Philosophers’ Cafe discusses Oppression: Can we oppose oppression without demonizing the oppressor?

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March 8

• It Won’t Byte, a workshop for seniors on how to use electronic gadgets, put on by the Maple Ridge Library, will be held at the seniors centre, 12150 224th St. from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Participants are encouraged to bring their hand-held tech toys and the library’s student council members will explain how they work. Register at the library’s main floor information desk.

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March 10

• Whonnock Weavers and Spinners Guild will be meeting at Whonnock Lake Centre at 7:30 p.m. New or potential members are welcome to join. Besides spinners and weavers, they welcome felters, knitters, and basket makers. Info: Marie at 604-462-9059.

March 10

• Ridge Meadows Seniors Society at Pitt Meadows is holding a Chinese luncheon at 12:30 p.m.

Tickets are $12 and are available in the seniors lounge, 12027 Harris Rd. (recreation centre) from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Info: 604-465-2478.

...continued from page A22 • Immigrant Services Society of BC will be at the Maple Ridge Library at 2 p.m. to present a program designed specifically for the Chinese-speaking audience with information about filing tax returns. This program is in Mandarin only. Info: 604-467-7417.

• Exodus Colon Health & Wellness is launching the first gluten-free support group in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. They meet from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at #200-20395 Lougheed Hwy. RSVP at 604-465-4263.

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March 14

• Maple Ridge Parkinson’s Support Group meets from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Ridge Meadows Seniors Activity Centre, 12150 224th St. This meeting is open to anyone with Parkinson’s, their caregivers, families, and friends. Info: Peta Purdy at 604-463-1332 or rpcoco@ telus.net.

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Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times

Education

Job action could threaten 2013 student trip to Uganda days, but an application for such a trip must be in a year ahead. That can’t be done during job action, Farkas explained.

“Everything is on hold until the strike is over,” he said, noting that seeking permission from the school board is only part of the issue. His team must also raise about $15,000 in aid money before the excursion (on

by Roxanne Hooper rhooper@mrtimes.com

Ongoing job action by teachers since September is quashing the international aid efforts of local Westview Secondary students and teachers.

Westview math teacher George Farkas was hoping to take 10 students to Uganda next spring for about 10

top of the $3,000-$4,000 each student would have to pay for the trip), and he fears being unable to coordinate many of the traditional fundraisers has pushed that goal out of reach, too.

In the past six years, Farkas and his students – who unite under the banner of Students That Care – raised more than $40,000 to help feed, educate, and support children in Uganda.

Among the awareness and fundraising efforts halted by the job action, Farkas said a district dodgeball competition, held the last five years, was cancelled, as was this month’s Gulu Walk, and a dance competition.

“When the strike started, we put everything on hold and now we’ll wait and see what happens,” Farkas said.

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Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times

Sports

Unique race on On Sunday morning two races will start on one side of the Golden Ears Bridge, go over the bridge into Langley, and then cross back over the bridge into Pitt Meadows.

The first race, a half marathon, starts at 8:30 a.m., and the second one, a 10-kilometre race, will start at 9 a.m.

Both races will start and finish at the South Bonson Community Centre.

• More online: www.mrtimes.com, click on “Sports”

The Haney Hooligans roller derby team raised money for uniforms.

Hooligans party It’s time for new uniforms for the Hooligans. The Haney Hooligan fundraiser last weekend, held at the Haney Public House, was an “awesome success” with more than 120 burger and brew tickets sold and 100 patrons coming out to support the new local roller derby team.

“We were able to raise more than $1,700 from a 50/50 draw, silent auction items, and the burger and brew for our team uniforms,” said Annie Autopsy, a.k.a. Lianne Bennett.

• More online: www.mrtimes.com, click on “Sports”

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Recreation

Humanitarianism

Pitt teams give hope to Haitians

Soccer players raised money to help other players abroad get uniforms.

by Sylver McLaren smclaren@mrtimes.com

As a group of soccer kids readied themselves for a big night out the next day at BC Place to watch Canada play Costa Rica during the Olympic qualifiers, they heard something that startled them.

The Haitian women’s national team arrived in Vancouver for the tournament without a lot of luggage.

The team didn’t even have a second set of jerseys, which is mandatory at the qualifiers.

That’s when members of the U11 Pitt Meadows Pride select and U11 Pitt Meadows Junior Caps select B kicked into gear and organized a one-day fundraising blitz.

“Within a matter of 12 hours we had coordinated the fundraiser. By 8 a.m. we had sent out emails and had crews at the rec centre and on Harris Road. In five hours we raised $3,500,” explained Jamie Schwingenschloegl, the coach of both local teams.

After watching the Canadian nationals beat the Costa Rica 5-1 on Jan. 23, about a dozen representatives of the two Pitt teams headed over to the Chop House, where the Haitian team was finishing up dinner.

“I think they were really happy, but they were tired, too, from a long day. They played right before Canada,” said 10-year-old Sienna Kraus. (The Haitian team had played against Cuba, beating them

Sylver McLaren/TIMES

Members of the U11 girls Pitt Meadows Pride select and the U11 boys Pitt Meadows Junior Caps select B joined together to raise $3,500 for the Haitian women’s national team, which some of them personally presented to the team on Jan. 23.

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“We got their autographs and they were really nice,” Sienna added.

Makenzy Schwingenschloegl, 10, was impressed by the cultural difference between the two groups.

“I think it was really fun because we speak different languages and they did Haitian dances for us,” said Makenzy about the meeting.

“They were talking to us and telling us they were happy to get the money. It felt really good to help them,” she added.

“Even though we support the Canadian team it was better to give the money to the team from Haiti because they came to Canada with no second jersey and

were split up in hotels, too.” best part of the night for me. It Brendan Pardy, a nine-year-old was amazing to see their reaction. who goes to Edith McDermott They were shocked we did that Elementary, said it was “pretty for them. They were so happy and cool” to be involved with the so were we.” fundraising.

The team’s giving spirit “It makes me feel so doesn’t end here. lucky to have all these In the past year, the things and they can’t two teams have collected even afford jerseys or more than 2,000 items cleats,” he said. of food door-to-door for Ten-year-old Sierrah the Friends In Need Food More Burrows, who attends Bank, and raised more Fairview Elementary, than $1,000 for Canadian Photos summed it up.

Tire’s Jumpstart program.

Online “It’s like donating food The club was also part but it’s better because of a boot swap that generthey can buy what they want. It ates hundreds of dollars each year feels good because you are giving for KidSport, an organization that them what they need,” explained removes financial barriers preSierrah. venting some children from play“It was amazing. That was the ing organized sports.

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On Deck

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Major midget hockey Steve Cymet and Andrew Swiatkiewicz are members of Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports.

Blind skier races Maple Ridge skier Andrew Swiatkiewicz and his coach Steve Cymet are a great example of teamwork in action.

Carving perfect turns down The Cut run on Grouse Mountain, while in virtual silence, it is hard to believe that Swiatkiewicz is completely blind. Cymet, who acts as his eyes, follows behind with gentle words like left or right.

However, Swiatkiewicz can tell where he is at all times on The Cut – just by the sounds that he picks up along the way.

• More online: www.mrtimes.com, click on “Sports”

Send your scores and game reports to smclaren@mrtimes.com

Northeast Chiefs set sights on final four Two Ridge residents play for the Chiefs.

by Dan Olson Glacier Media

Lessons learned over a long regular season are about to be converted into playoff momentum.

The Vancouver Northeast Chiefs, a team which includes two Maple Ridge players, are hoping that they benefit most from any conversion.

The Chiefs wrapped up the regular season Sunday with a 7-4 victory over the Fraser Valley Bruins, giving them four straight wins as they head into

the opening round of the B.C. Major Midget Hockey playoffs.

They began the weekend with a 6-0 blanking of the Bruins, with Maple Ridge’s Jeff Smith picking up the shutout.

Port Coquitlam’s Brandon Volpe netted a goal and three assists in Sunday’s win, while Port Moody’s Truman Gonzales tallied twice.

At 23-13-4 and third overall, the squad has earned home ice advantage against the Fraser Valley Hawks, in a best-of-three series that starts Friday, 4 p.m. at Coquitlam’s Planet Ice. The Hawks, who fin-

Mark Booth/Glacier Media

Maple Ridge goalie Jeff Smith, shown here with teammate Dalton Yorke, picked up a shutout on Sunday. ished sixth at 20-17-3, present the first obstacle in the Chiefs’ goal of

advancing to the Final Four. In their regular season encounters, the Chiefs

prevailed with a 3-0-1 record.

“Just from the statistical standpoint we’ve set a number of records, team-wise,” remarked Northeast head coach Doneau Menard.

The club collected one more win than the 2009-10 season, when they also finished third.

Individually, centre Adam Rockwood won the league scoring title while setting new team records with 70 assists and 86 points over 40 games. Winger Jamie Waddington also set a new team mark with 31 goals, while chipping in 45 assists.

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Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times

Student activism

Teens forgo food for 30 hours to support World Vision

Maple Ridge Secondary students take part in an event to fight hunger.

by Sylver McLaren smclaren@mrtimes.com

A worldwide movement happened at Maple Ridge Secondary on Feb. 24 and 25, as a group of students abstained from food for 30 hours to help raise money and awareness for World Vision.

About 70 students pledged the $30 it cost to take part in 30 Hours of Famine.

“Every $30 raised can support a child in an underdeveloped country for one month,” explained Jeff Chen, a Grade 12 student and co-chair of the committee HOPE, which organized the event.

HOPE stands for Helping Other People Everywhere and is a stu-

dent activist group led by Jeff and co-chair Rachel Carrier.

“It isn’t that much, $30, if you think about it, that’s a video game, plus we had pledge forms,” said Grade 10 HOPE member Jessica Chen, who added that at lunch time the group set up a table in the cafeteria to offer information, support, and pledge forms to any interested students.

“For the 30 Hour Famine, we started with a brief video that showed impoverished children in underdeveloped nations. Then to break the ice, we played musical chairs and Duck Duck Goose, which we aptly renamed Hungry, Hungry, Thirsty,” said Jeff.

Every year, thousands of students unite to do the 30 Hour Famine. World Vision says that hunger kills a child in the developing world every 10 seconds. The funds that students

Sylver McLaren/TIMES

Members of Maple Ridge Secondary’s HOPE committee, a student-run activist group, had some fun before they began their 30-hour famine. raise by doing the famine help provide critical food and care for hungry kids around the world.

HOPE has about 40 members

who actively participate in meetings and events. It was established before any of the current members were students at MRSS, said Jeff. He became involved in

Grade 10 and then became chair in Grade 12.

The last international event HOPE participated in was Vow of Silence on Nov. 30. About 80 students refrained from talking, texting, tweeting, emailing, etc.

While this is usually a fundraiser that raises money for children who are denied human rights and denied their voice, HOPE took part only in an awareness capacity.

“We didn’t do it as a fundraiser. It’s hard enough to get kids to participate,” he explained.

“We had a lot of Grade 8 kids participate, which is really good, because they will be running this group in years to come,” said Jeff.

“For the 30 Hour Famine we had support from Save-On-Foods and Cooper’s, so we were able to distribute juice boxes every hour. We also had granola bars, yogurt, and fruit for breakfast.”

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Leo July 23-Aug. 22: Start nothing brand new before April 4. Protect ongoing projects and relationships from misunderstandings,shortages and delays (especially in financial, intimate, health, legal, travel, educational and cultural zones). Welcome resurrected or returning ventures and people from the past – important success potential lies here. You could flow into major luck/success in career, work, earnings, possessions and money. (In all this, your “foundations” are key – property, home, family.

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Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: This is your last week of weariness, obligations, restrictions and low charisma. Be spiritual, charitable, and clean up lingering threads with government and “head office.” Avoid new projects now through April 3.

You’re heading into indecisiveness – or mistakes – in your work zone. (You, co-workers, or those on another level, might misunderstand directions and communications, which can cause the mistakes; be alert, and ask if you feel confused.) Sunday/Monday bring mystery, and lucky financial action. Be duteous Tuesday to Friday: a possibly momentous career development looms.

Taurus April 20-May 20: It’s your last week of wishing and hoping, of socializing and happiness, so enjoy it to the fullest. A major relationship might start this week, or you might stumble upon a major opportunity, negotiate/litigate successfully, or relocate. Yet another major phenomena – Mercury retrograde, says don’t start anything new, nor make any big commitments, un-doable changes, or promises now through April 3. But if you look carefully, that relationship, relocation, negotiation, etc., might be a form of correcting a past mistake.

(Likely one that occurred in the past three months.)

Gemini May 21-June 20: What is it? A past good or bad deed coming due? Or a revision to a big step you took before (perhaps recently, since November 2011)? Or something you’ve long wanted or planned on? In any case, three things are happening now: 1) indecision, mistakes and delays affect ongoing projects, and will cripple brand new ones; 2) the past, past contacts, ideas, ventures, situations, tend to recur; and 3) almost every day this week, good fortune affects your financial, debt, investment, sexual, deep health and research activities. Be optimistic and brave – by next week, you’ll celebrate.

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Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: Start nothing new before April 4, especially in relationships, litigation, negotiation, public interfacing, and work, health and diet zones. Protect ongoing projects and links from mistakes, delays and misunderstandings. There is one “escape” from what seems like a dead-end: the past.

This week, especially, people and projects returning from the past can be a huge blessing – primarily in real estate, home, family, security, garden, investment, lifestyle, health and sexual zones. E.g., a home you’ve always wanted becomes available. Buy it! Someone might return, offer intimacy.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Start nothing new before April 4, especially in social, sexual, financial, group, health and lifestyle zones. A real success might come in the present week in relationships, relocation, partnering (in love or business) dealings with the public, negotiations, litigation, and communications, travel and paperwork – IF a past connection exists.

E.g., beginning a new lawsuit, advertising campaign or relationship, will likely fail; but re-establishing a relationship or finishing a neglected application could lead to great success. Communication important.

Love, romance, joy exist!

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Until April 4, start nothing new. Instead, protect ongoing projects and relationships from mistakes, misunderstandings and delays. (E.g., your factory might run out of steel fittings halfway through a major order: so order much more, or pay a premium for quick delivery, etc.) Until April, past contacts and ventures offer openings and success. An old flame might return. The week ahead offers huge success in earnings, work and health (and to some degree in sensuality). A hidden (former) ally could be instrumental – or a government agency, institution. Remember, the “past!”

Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: I keep telling you a new future, new hopes and goals and a new social circle, will come to you (2009-2023) via the difficulties that seem to beset you. (Moaning about your losses would be like renovating your house, and wailing about the destruction of old walls, even though you know the end product will be splendiferous. You are being renovated, by life, by God.) You take a giant step toward this future this week – by resurrecting the past. Do so! Romance, a risk, a speculation, a creative accomplishment are involved. Legal, travel, cultural zones also benefit. Huge luck here.

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: Start nothing before April 4. Protect ongoing projects from mistakes, delays, shortages and misunderstandings. Your “connections” to the past could prove very fruitful this week. A returning project, person or situation can bring splendid luck in financial, sexual, health, research, management, real estate, family, home and government-institution-corporate zones. Jump on anything “returning” here. (E.g., a house you deeply desired now comes back on the market – seize it.)

A former friend might appear; this isn’t really an old flame. Indirectly, money/career receive a boost.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: Start nothing new before April 4. Until then, protect your ongoing interests from false moves, misunderstandings, mistakes and delays. Have a “Plan B.” Your energy and charisma remain high. Many, many strands from past actions come together this week in an explosion of luck and significance. Don’t hesitate; do act – but preferably on something from the past or connected to it. The major areas affected are relationships, money/ earnings, possessions, important communications or travel connected to your career or social standing, and group affairs. A wish will come true. timstephens@shaw.ca

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Mobile Homes

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6050

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Apt/Condos

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604-630-3300

6508

Apt/Condos

PARK TERRACE

545 Rochester Ave, Coq

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Close to Lougheed Mall, S.F.U. & Transportation.

Spacious Bach, 1 BR, 2 BR & 3 BR Apts. Rent incls heat & hot water. Resident Mgr.

office: 604- 936-3907

AMBER (W)

401 Westview St, Coq Large Units.

Near Lougheed Mall.

Transportation & S.F.U.

office: 604- 939-2136 cell: 604-727-5178

ARBOUR GREENE 552 Dansey Ave, Coq

Extra Large 2 Bedrooms.

Close to Lougheed Mall & S.F.U.

office: 604- 939-4903 cell: 778- 229-1358

CALYPSO COURT 1030 - 5th Ave, New West Near Transportation & Douglas College.

Well Managed Building.

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Recreation Property

USA PROPERTIES For Sale or lease. Com’l retail bldg in Lynden WA. 4000 Sq Ft all on one level. $349,000 US. Can also be leased. Terms negotiable.

ANTIQUE & GIFT STORE in downtown Lynden WA. A very profitable business. $95,000 US plus inventory. MacDonough Real Estate (360) 733-3308 dobemac@comcast.net

RENTALS 6508

6065

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ROYAL CRESCENT ESTATES

22588 Royal Crescent Ave, Maple Ridge

6075

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6510

Co-ops

PITT MEADOWS. 2 & 3 BR. Shares req’d. $1050-$1134/mo.

Nr bus & schools. 604-465-1938

6525

Garages

N. West Auto Shop, 1860 sf with office, bath, paint rm, new furn. $1600/mo + utils. 604-922-4390

Large units some with 2nd bathroom or den.

On bus routes, close to S.F.U. & Lougheed Mall.

office: 604- 936-1225

JUNIPER COURT 415 Westview St, Coq

Close to Lougheed Mall, all Transportation Connections, Schools & S.F.U.

office: 604- 939-8905 cell: 604- 916-0261 KING ALBERT COURT 1300 King Albert, Coq Close to Transportation, Schools & S.F.U.

office: 604-937-7343 cell: 778-829-3567 M. RIDGE dwntwn Urbano Complex, 2 br, 2 ba, inste w/d, f/p, 2 ug prkg, nr amen, deck, n/s, n/p, Apr 1. $1150+ utils. Refs. 512-8725 MAPLE RIDGE 1 BR & 2 BR, Starting at $850, enste w/d, u/g prkg, Avail Now. 604-807-7105

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6535

6540

ANMORE. 2 BR + den. 1,250 sf.

5 appl, skylights. Painted. Quiet, big yrd. Garage. Nr Buntzen Lake & bus. $1,600/mo. 778-688-6622 Are you tired of Renting?

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6590

Rooms

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

MAPLE RIDGE 5 BR hse, 3 lvls, newly reno’d, big yd, wood f/p, $1750. Now. n/p, 604-942-2582 MISSION; 3 BR, 2 bath, all appls, dbl detached garage, fen/yard, great cond. Avail Apr 1. $1350.

Walk to WCE. 604-219-1171 POCO 2 BR, modern duplex, full bath, all appls, lrg yard. Pet ok.

Avail Apr 1. $975. 604-807-3899

POCO Very clean 2 BR side by side duplex, big yard, garden, garage. N/P & N/S. $1150. Now. 604-942-5492 or 778-865-1555

Electrical

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402.

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8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

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BBY EAST, 1 BR Coach House, 600 sqft, n/s, n/p, nr bus, $800 incls hydro & gas, Immed.

604-512-8196 or 604-722-4142

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BBY East , 2 BR grd lev, 1100 sq ft, radiant heat, share w/d, near school & bus. $850 + utils. Avail now. N/s, no dogs. Suits family 604-521-1008 or 604-789-6318

BBY, Gov’t Rd. 2 BR, grd/lvl.

1,000 sf. F/bath, f/p, h/w flrs. $990/mo incl hydro/cbl. Nr transit.

Avail immed. N/s. 604-420-3680

BBY, Metrotown. Bachelor suite.

Ns/np. $595 incl hydro. Mar 1.

604-434-5310 or 778-549-2434

BBY, N. SFU area. New, big 2 BR bsmt. 5 appl, own laundry, radiant heat, prkg. Ns/np. Includes hydro.

604-420-3269 or 604-760-7043

COQ 1BR glvl ste, NS/NP, like new, clean, nr Coq Centre, avail April 1st, shr’d w/d, prkg, $725 incls hydro, 604-941-4659

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1969 FORD Falcon Futura 302 CU in-automatic, fully restored, 1969 FORD Falcon Futura 302 immac paint & body, CU in-automatic, fully numerous restored, high performance options.

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9125

POCO, 1 BR bsmnt ste, totally reno’d, $800/mo incls utils, N/s, pets neg, on bus route, nr Costco, avail immed. Call 778-882-4026

POCO, N. Clean, quiet 2 BR. Priv entry & prkg, patio, newer paint.

Ns/np. $850/mo. 604-537-2131

PT COQ. 2 BR, full bath, shared laundry. $800/mo incl hydro/gas.

Avail now. Ns/np. 604-944-1479 WEST MAPLE Ridge, bright 1 BR kitchen, alarm, gas f/p, shr w/d, $750. ns/np. 604-347-7554

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Townhouses Rent

2 BR, quiet M Ridge nr hospital, 1.5 bath, heat/hw incl, 4 appls, 2 prkg. np. $1020 604-644-5842 COQ 2 BR townhouse, quiet family complex, no pets. Avail April 1st. $940. 604-942-2277

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8130

Handyperson

HANDYMAN Int & Ext repairs & reno’s. Carpentry, Kitch & Bath, Plumbing. Walter 604-790-0842 ● Home ● Office Renovations & Repairs ● Finishing ● Painting Glenn 778-873-8300

8160

Lawn & Garden

JIM’S MOWING 604-310-JIMS (5467) www.jimsmowing.ca

604-537-4140 www.affordablemoversbc.com

8200

Patios/Decks/ Railings

UNITED VINYL SUNDECKS LTD.

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8205

Paving/Seal Coating

ALLEN ASPHALT concrete, brick, drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187

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9129

Luxury Cars

2008 Mercedes-Benz C350 4Matic Automatic 48,000 kms Palladium silver, fully loaded, navigation, panoramic roof, keyless go, sport pkg, premium pkg, new tires, all wheel drive, AMG mags. Not veh shown in photo. $32,000 Call: (604) 618-6171

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Scrap Car Removal

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Plumbing

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Renovations & Home Improvement

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Roofing

GL Roofing cedar shake, asphalt shingle, flat roofs BBB WCB clean gutters $80. 24/7 604-240-5362

8255

Rubbish Removal 782-2474

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8220

$69/HR Lic’d/Ins. Exp & friendly Clogged drains, plumbing, small jobs OK! Call 24/7! 604-805-2488

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(604) 644-1878

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9155

Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

1992 CHEV Suburban 350 V8 1500, 2 wd, 4sp, auto, aircare 2yrs, $2950 obo, 604-985-3086 1992 DODGE Dakota pick-up, extra cab, auto, a/c, V6, aircared, runs good $1100obo.

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Sports & Imports

2008 VW Passat Wagon, 2.0T, silver, loaded, auto, low kms, wrty, no accid, non smoker, alarm, immac, $20,800 obo, 604-980-7675

9173

Vans

Minimum $150 cash paid for full sized vehicles.

604-518-3673

Domestic

Aarrow Recycling

1994 TOYOTA 4 Runner, Aircared to 2014, CD, new battery, runs well/reg maintained.

By Owner $3500. 604-230-4430

1992 VW Eurovan Westfalia, 141,000 k, grt shape! $22,000 obo, records 604-275-7808

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M.RIDGE 1 BR grd lev, own w/d, new lam flr/paint, Mar 1. $750 + 1/3 hydro. NS/NP. 604 512-3859

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Domestic

COQ, LANSDOWNE. 1 BR + den. 1,100 sf. Patio. $900/mo + 1⁄3 util. Immed. Ns/np. 604-338-5473 COQ LRG 2 BR ste. w/d, nr transit & Coq Ctr, $1350 incls utils, Apr 1, ns/np. 604-942-5380

Gutters

AUTOMOTIVE

9125 COQ CTR, 4 BR, 2 lev, 2 f/bath, garage, back yard, w/d. Avail Apr 1. $1650. N/S. 604 618-0679

8125

Find it in the Classifieds!

9105

COQ. 3 BR rancher. 5 appl, h/wd flrs, f/yrd, $1650/mo. Nr schools & shops. Immed. 604-913-7785 COQ/BBY, near Lougheed Mall/ bus/park/skytrain, 5 BR hse, 2 full baths, 2 kitchens, f/p. N/S, Ref. Avail now or Apr 1. 604-785-1699

8080

M RIDGE Room for rent in home, close to everything. $450 All inclusive, Call 778-862-3568

Houses - Rent

243RD ST, 3 BR, 1 bath up , on acreage, 2 lvls, large bsmt for storage, garage, 5appls, no growups, $1500 + utils, avail Now, Chester 604-377-2180

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8065

Hardwood Floor Refinishing

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9129

Luxury Cars

2005 ASTON Martin DB9. 'James Bond style car!' Silver metallic.

23,000 km. 6.0, V12, 450 hp. New tires. 1 owner. You deserve the best! $87,980. 604-781-7614.

2005 ASTON Martin DB9. 'James Bond style car!' Silver metallic.

23,000 km. 6.0, V12, 450 hp. New tires. 1 owner. You deserve the best! $87,980. 604-781-7614.

2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee Ltd. Silver Metallic. Like new. Flawless. Sunroof, leather, heated seats. $7500 obo. 604-418-0449

9160

604-761-7175

Sports & Imports

2001 HYUNDAI Elantra, 4 dr, new trans/brakes, ac, radio, runs good, aesthetic body wrk needed, $3500 obo, 604-852-4802, 604-309-8927, Abbotsford

2009 MADZA 5, mini van, black, 7 pass’ger, MINT cond, 45,000k kms, great on gas. No accid. No smoker. $16,000. 604-617-5348 CHEVY UPLANDER 2005. V-6, auto, 7 pass., grey, A/C, power locks & windows, cruise, tilt, 93K km. Runs very well. $6,400.

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Boats

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9155

Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

1990 GMC Suburban, 4 WD, underdrive, blue, low k’s, well kept, $6,000. Call 604-584-0324

2007 PT CRUISER. Hot deal!

Auto, low kms, very clean. Cream exterior, grey interior. A/C. Mag wheels. Spoiler. Aircared. Rear wiper. $7,299 obo. 778-242-2018 2010 TOYOTA Corolla CE, auto, 4 dr, 5800 kms, fully loaded, 778-859-0985, 604-987-0437

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