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There was some sticker shock for members of Pitt Meadows council, who saw the estimated $22.5 mil-lion price tag for an underpass for the CP Rail crossing at Harris Road.

Coun. Bruce Bell voiced his con-cerns about the cost, the impact it would have on traffic, and the po-

tential that an underpass could be an eyesore.

“It’s interesting that this has been around for decades,” said Bell, not-ing that previous councils have dis-carded the notion of building an underpass, or an overpass.

“To me, it just seems like a lot,” he said. “And it’s all tied in with traffic, and even if you had an underpass or overpass, it’s not going anywhere without doing something about Lougheed and Harris, and other parts of the city ...”

He said solving Pitt Meadows traf-

fic problems is a bigger bill than even $22.5 million.

“I, for one, wouldn’t get too excited about it, be-cause I think it’s really a pipe dream unless people are going to come forward with hundreds of millions of dollars to really solve the problem,” said Bell.

He also said an under-pass has the potential to spoil Harris Road. He envisions graffiti-covered freight cars parked on top, more rail lines added, “and

a bunch of booming and banging,” as train cars are linked.

Coun. Janis Elkerton noted that the contin-gency fund for the project would add up to 25 per cent, and that the project-ed cost does not include any sound mitigation measures, which would be necessary to shield resi-

dential neighbourhoods.Coun. David Murray echoed their

sentiments, saying he would not be

prepared to saddle Pitt Meadows residents with multiple millions of dollars in debt for the project.

“We don’t want to put the city in a bad situation financially,” he said. “I’m very, very reluctant to do this, at this point, because of the cost factor.”

Mayor John Becker prefaced the underpass presentation by saying that the conversations about the project began shortly after the new council was elected, with provin-cial and federal government rep-resentatives, and the rail company.

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An 81-year-old woman who fell and broke her hip had to wait about an hour and a half for an ambulance, ac-cording to her son.

Phil Van De Keere said he called 911 at approximately 5:45 p.m. on Jan. 15, when he found his mother, Beverly, laying on the floor. She was in agony, and Van De Keere couldn’t move her without causing her more pain.

He told the ambulance dispatcher the situation, and they waited on the kitchen floor, where she had fallen.

Beverly has a walker and a cane for stability, but she had left them to get a cup of tea.

Phil Van De Keere didn’t know how long it had been before he found her, but there were no lights on in the house, because she had apparently fallen during daylight hours.

Councillors balk at underpass costConcerns about effects on traffic, as well

Lucky LexusLexus has her bandages examined by Amanda Horacsek,

assistant technician Tonya Dolyny and veterinarian Adrian Walton at the Dewdney Animal Hospital on Tuesday after

hours of surgery required after she was hit by a car. See story, page 9.

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Tent by tent, tarp by tarp, trea-sured item after item, the homeless camp on Cliff Av-

enue slowly disassembled last fall.It didn’t happen right away,

though. It was gradual, and began only

when the temporary city shel-ter opened across the street on Lougheed Highway.

But three weeks into the process, Cliff Avenue was cleared and home-owners on the road next to the Sal-vation Army Ridge Meadows Minis-tries had their lives back.

Maple Ridge council got an update Monday about the process, in which 81 people, many of whom had been hiding outdoors for years, sleeping in forests, doorways or stairwells, were found places to live.

“It was quite a voluntary decamp-ment, remarkable, I think,” social planning analyst Shawn Matthewson told council.

Maple Ridge city staff’s work on the issue has been “exceptional,” said Mayor Nicole Read.

“Clearly, we are leaders in this con-versation. So what we’ve achieved is widely recognized.”

Council created the homeless task force a year ago and then re-named it the Maple Ridge Resilience Initia-tive. Four teams – youth, security, outreach and housing – focused on different aspects of homelessness.

“I think that council has gone

through a lot and staff have gone through a lot,” Read added.

Since the Resilience Initiative be-gan early last year, street outreach workers found homes for 67 people. Another 14 were connected with housing by the Maple Ridge tempo-rary shelter, which opened Oct. 1 at 22239 Lougheed Hwy. Forty people remain in that shelter.

Most of those housed, 54, went into apartments or basement suites, with some doubling up and sharing suites in order to cut costs. Another 17 found rooms or suites in houses. Six people went into the Alouette Heights supportive housing complex on Brown Avenue, where there is 24-hour supervision for the 45 studio apartments. Two of the 81 people who were housed, however, left their

new homes.Matthewson said what helped a lot

was getting to know the individu-als on the street and learning their needs.

“People that have been on the streets for 20 years, that have signifi-cant health issues, now have a home to call their own. You can’t measure that.

“People are really grateful for the fact that they have been afforded this opportunity to remain housed,” she added.

Everybody required help of some sort, with 82 given mental health support, through clinical or inpatient treatment or counselling.

Another 15 went into detox pro-grams, while 27 have been referred for treatment and another 10 have

gone into treatment. An additional 13 were referred to hospitals, recov-ery homes or other shelters.

Matthewson was quoting from her report after council asked for the de-tails about what has happened to the dozens of people who camped on the road at various points between May and September.

Parks and recreation services gen-eral manager Kelly Swift said the resilience initiative has cost the city $365,000 – about $40,000 more than planned.

“There are no other additional costs at this time.”

The city had to pay for renos to create the city shelter, but was reim-bursed by B.C. Housing for some of its outreach worker costs. There are now also three more street outreach

workers, 6.7 in total, in Maple Ridge, helping the homeless connect with services, compared to 2014.

Meanwhile, B.C. Housing is pro-viding rental supplements, or rental top-up payments for 72 tenants, al-lowing those on income assistance to be able to afford today’s rental mar-ket.

Outreach workers have also con-nected with a small network of land-lords who can provide places to live.

Still, the need for housing that people can afford remains pressing, as do other needs.

Fraser Health is providing out-reach psych nurses, while Riverstone Mobile Detox will promote its detox and treatment options.

Neither is there any help for people suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and those who hoard.

Coun. Gordy Robson agreed the best thing that came out was that city staff were able to understand the needs of those on the street, but said the issue of fentanyl deaths wasn’t in-cluded.

Coun. Bob Masse questioned the almost-unanimous identification of people coming from Maple Ridge. He said that according to the region-al homeless count, only two-thirds of Maple Ridge’s homeless were from this city.

And he predicted the issue of homelessness won’t get any easier.

Prices keep rising and people will keep moving here because they can’t afford Vancouver, he said.

“I see nothing but bigger challeng-es in this region. We can’t solve the housing dilemma for the whole of Greater Vancouver. I’m concerned about that.”

Dispersal of camp ‘remarkable’


They don’t want to go back to living out-side.

According to the city’s social plan-ning analyst, the 24 men and 16 women at the Maple Ridge temporary shelter, at 22239 Lougheed Highway, say they don’t want to go back to sleeping on the street or in the bush, when the facility closes March 31.

Shawn Matthewson explained the process for closing the temporary shelter to Maple Ridge council on Monday.

“Every single person, in the shelter will have a plan,” she told councillors.

Some will go to the new RainCity Hous-ing shelter in Coquitlam, called the 3030 Gordon Project. Some will go to Alouette Heights supportive housing on Brown Av-enue, while some will go into market rental housing, helped by rental supplements.

“What’s interesting to me is that every single person that’s in the shelter right now does not want to go back outside,” she told council.

Neither is anyone trying to get people to start another camp.

If the shelter closing plan works and the 40 people in the shelter are housed successfully, it would be an accomplishment for Maple Ridge, said Coun. Gordy Robson.

“This council has stuck out its neck out, es-pecially the mayor, on this issue, and if this comes to be . . . and we actually are able to transfer those 40 back, I think it would be an

incredible thing for the community.”Since the shelter opened, 72 people have

gone through the shelter, with 40 now re-maining.

Of those 72, 68 have substance abuse issues and 30 have been diagnosed with mental health issues, council heard.

Fifty-five of the 72 had been tenting, and 60 of the 72 were from the Cliff Avenue home-less camp beside the Salvation Army.

But so far, 15 people in the shelter already have applied to go to RainCity’s shelter in Coquitlam, while six applied for a suite in Alouette Heights supportive housing.

“B.C. Housing is firmly committed. There will not be another camp forming,” she add-ed.

Fraser Health, RainCity Housing, B.C. Housing, the Salvation Army, Alouette Ad-dictions Services and the Alouette Home

Start Society have all been developing an exit strategy and will work with shelter staff to figure out how to help people find places to live.

The process of closing the temporary shel-ter, which opened Oct. 1 to give Cliff Avenue campers a place to go and allow the disman-tling of the camp, will start in a few weeks, when the shelter no longer takes new arriv-als.

As each resident finds a home, the cot he or she had been sleeping on in the shelter will be removed, council heard.

From then on, it will be a matter of finding homes one by one for the people living there. RainCity Housing and B.C. Housing will handle the process, while Fraser Health will ramp up its detox and mental health services to make sure shelter residents are connected.

THE NEWS/filesThe homeless camp on Cliff Avenue was dispersed in the fall, when the city shelter opened.

Plan in place for closing temporary city shelterSome clients will go to RainCity project in Coquitlam

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many similar shelters in Vancouver, in the same way, she explained in her report.

Matthewson said since the shelter opened, the emphasis has been to be pro-active, with good communication and to deal with issues as they arise, adding in her re-port that neighbours are reporting “minimal im-pacts.”

Matthewson said neighbours around the building, a former mat-

tress store, were con-tacted and that a neigh-bourhood advisory committee was set up, which only now meets to discuss specific prob-lems.

Since it opened, some people who’ve been liv-ing in the street or the bush for years have made their way into the shelter. One 26-year-old man had been living in the bush for 10 years and never had any help, un-til he showed up at the shelter, she pointed out.

The shelter is low bar-rier, meaning that peo-

ple don’t have to be off drugs in order to stay at the shelter. They can also given regular meals and stay in the shelter all day, instead of being forced to go out and wander the streets during the daytime.

Many of residents in the shelter are young, with 12 people under the age of 25, with many of those seeing no hope or value in themselves.

But the only way to get people to value them-selves is to get their trust, said Coun. Craig Speirs.

“It always amazes me

when people think they can cure sick people with a stick.”

“I think that is the most satisfying part of it, and of course, the test is in April,” when the shel-ter closes.

The city has to be pre-pared for whatever hap-pens after the shelter closes, he added.

Coun. Corisa Bell said she was nervous about what may happen in April and was worried that a street camp may reform.

Matthewson said those remaining in shelter are “among the hardest to house, such as those who hoard or collect items.

“It’s very difficult to treat.”

The shelter also has people with physical ill-nesses, such as Hep C, and HIV, and those with post traumatic stress dis-order.

“It’s hard to be inside if you’ve experienced trau-ma indoors.”

Still, the number of emergency calls to the shelter is less than that from the Cliff Avenue camp during the six months it was open, she said.

Matthewson noted that in Abbotsford, the opening of winter shel-ter there has failed to see the removal of its camp-site.

Council passed a reso-lution asking B.C. Hous-ing to provide another outreach worker to help in the process of closing the shelter.


Fire broke out at Fraser Re-gional Correctional Centre Wednesday night, sending one correctional officer to emergency and causing more than a dozen others to being treated for smoke inhalation.

B.C. Government Employees Union spokesperson Dean Purdy said the fire started about 6 p.m., when two inmates in a segrega-tion cell set a mattress on fire in an attempt to get into the hallway to get at another inmate.

The segregation unit is where inmates go who are being disci-plined for violating prison rules and being charged internally.

“They started a fire by lighting a mattress on fire. All 19 inmates in the segregation unit were evacu-ated out of their cells into the densely, smoke-filled hallway,” Purdy said.

“Correctional officers respond-ed to the scene without breathing apparatus.”

Despite that, the guards were able to get control of the inmates, handcuff them and remove them from the segregation unit.

All 19 officers were treated for smoke inhalation, suffering headaches, burning lungs and

eyes.In addition to one guard who

was treated in emergency, others were seeing doctors on Thursday.

It’s another example of the vio-lence that correctional officers face daily in the overcrowded Maple Ridge prison, said Purdy, repeating his statement that the prison now holds 500 inmates, though it originally was built with capacity of about 254.

He didn’t have details yet about injuries to the inmates.

“We know that these type of in-cidents can happen and that vio-lence is rampant at this jail and the other five maximum-security jails,” in B.C.

An auditor’s report from 2015, said Fraser Regional had the highest number of violent in-cidents in the B.C. Corrections system.

The new Solicitor General Mike Morris just toured Fraser Re-gional last week.

Fire at Maple Ridge prison

‘Those left among hardest to house’

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were held in private.“We probably spent

more time on that par-ticular issue than any-thing else. Yet, because of the nature of those conversations, nobody knew what we were do-ing,” said Becker.

Council is moving its findings into the public arena.

“So we as a commu-nity can begin discuss-ing some of the facts and figures and options that this council was able to glean over the past 12 months,” said Becker.

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Kate Zanon noted that CP Rail would be able to build longer trains with the underpass, and could add additional track in future.

The senior govern-ment wants to improve the movement of goods through the Pacific Gateway Program.

She noted it would be possible to maintain traffic flow on Harris Road during construc-tion, via diversion lanes on city or CP-owned land on either side of the intersection.

The work would re-quire moving heritage buildings on either side

of the roadway, which would be set farther back on their lots.

The underpass would return to grade, tying back into the road net-work near 122A on the south side, and near Da-vison Road on the north side.

Zanon said that’s a much slimmer profile than had been originally envisioned.

The new roads would mean the closure of the south driveway to Otter Co-op, the elimination of on-street parking at Keystone apartments,

and there would be no Harris Road access to the West Coast Express Station, while Charl-ton Automotive Repair would lose its north driveway.

Zanon said the city must still study the im-pacts on traffic flow dur-ing construction, and sound attenuation of the rail operations.

She said the issue could be put to referendum.

Councillors said they will be interested in pub-lic feedback based the information put forward so far.

Ridge Meadows RCMP have arrested two 20-year-old Maple Ridge men in relation to an ag-gravated assault Sunday morning in Pitt Mead-ows.

“The investigation has resulted in the arrests of two individuals who po-lice believe are respon-sible for the serious as-sault,” said Cpl. Brenda Winpenny. “As reported, a 20-year-old Langley man was hospitalized af-ter he was punched and knocked to the ground on Harris Road on Sun-day, Jan. 17, 2016.”

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However, he was still in hospital four days af-ter the assault, and it is unknown if there will be any long-lasting injury as a result of the incident.

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dispensaries popping up in urban areas and thousands of unregu-lated medical licences for home growing still in legal limbo, the Justin Trudeau govern-ment is starting work on its promise to legal-ize recreational use.

Marijuana was a media darling in the recent election, but meeting in Vancouver with provincial ministers last week, federal Health Min-ister Jane Philpott found herself preoccu-pied with issues deemed more urgent.

These include shifting our post-war acute hospital model to community pri-mary care, tackling aboriginal health care needs, pooling pharmaceutical purchases to slow rising costs, and meeting an ur-gent Supreme Court of Canada directive to legalize assisted dying.

At the closing news conference in Vancouver, Philpott was asked how recreational marijuana should be sold. Licensed medical growers want exclusive rights to do it by mail as permitted by the Stephen Harper government, another measure forced by our high court. That would shut out the rash of supposedly medical storefronts, which city halls in Vancouver and elsewhere imagine they can regulate.

Philpott said the question is “premature” and federal-provincial justice ministers

were dealing with it at their meeting. Ot-tawa will have a “task force,” too.

Vancouver descended into a pot store free-for-all due to benign neglect from council and police, and Victoria isn’t far behind. Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang, a rare voice of reason in the Big Smoke, has protested dispensaries using street hawk-ers to attract young buyers, and pot stores setting up near schools.

Other communities, more aware of their limitations, have resisted issuing business licences. One recent proposal in the Vic-toria suburb of View Royal came from a fellow who insisted marijuana extract had cured his cancer. This is typical of claims that proliferate on the Internet, and is one of many warning signs about dispensa-ries that put up red cross signs to sell pot products with exotic names.

B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake was more forthcoming a few days earlier, responding to a Vancouver reporter who judged marijuana more interesting than his just-announced plan to hire 1,600 more nurses by the end of March.

Lake noted that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is keen to sell marijuana through the province’s monopoly liquor stores. B.C.’s government liquor store union has also endorsed this idea, form-ing an unlikely alliance with non-union private stores to get in on the action.

“There are public health officials that I’ve talked to who say that the co-location of marijuana and liquor sales is not advis-able from a public health perspective,” Lake said. “I think whatever we do it has to be highly regulated, quality control

has to be excellent and above all we must protect young people.”

Yes, liquor stores check ID. But the notion that marijuana might be sold next to beer and vodka in government stores deserves sober second thought, and serious scientific work of the kind that has shown damage to developing brains from teenage marijuana use.

Of course all of this urban hand-wringing over pot stores ignores the de facto legaliza-tion that has existed across B.C. for decades.

The Nelson Star had a funny story last week about a local woman’s discovery on Google Earth. Zooming in on area mountains, one finds not only the Purcell landmark Loki Peak, but also Weed Peak, Grow Op Peak, Cannabis Peak and Hy-droponic Peak.

Whatever the source of this cyber-prank, it could also be applied to other regions of B.C.

For the record, I’ll restate my long-standing position that legalization is the only logical answer. I’ll say the same about other drugs that drive most B.C. crime, but that’s a subject for another day.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter

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Life-saverIngrid RiceNews Views

Indications that the province of British Colum-bia will allow firefighters to carry naloxone, also known as Narcan, is welcome.

The drug is known as the ‘antidote’ to opiate over-dose, and can reverse the otherwise deadly effects of ingesting too much heroin or fentanyl.

Despite often being first on the scene of over-doses, firefighters, police officers and others who don’t have a required prescription for naloxone have thus far been banned from carrying the drug.

Addressing that is a move that is long overdue, given the stakes involved and the safe nature of Naloxone.

It is available over the counter in more than a dozen U.S. states, and hospitals here have been us-ing the drug for more than four decades.

Earlier this summer, Health Canada promised that it would review the drug’s prescription-only status, although a full process was expected to take more than a year.

Whatever the outcome of that review, the fact that it’s only being done now – after too many deaths from accidental overdoses – shows that our society, and our government institutions, still have much they can do to help those on the fringes who have frequently been overlooked.

Opiate use affects a far greater number of resi-dents than the casual observer may know.

While the drugs drive some into a life of home-lessness and property crime, they are also used by husbands and mothers, sons and daughters, em-ployees and bosses who conduct lives not stereo-typically associated with hard drug use.

In cases of overdose, all of those people – those on the fringes, and those in the mainstream – de-serve the best shot at life, and the best opportunity at eventually overcoming their addictions.

The quicker the province moves on this initiative, for all emergency responders, the better.

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“Of course all of this urban hand-wringing over pot stores ignores the de facto legalization that has existed across B.C. for decades.”


Editor, The News:Re: Councillors, stay in real

world (Letters, Jan. 20).Steve Ranta is still living in

the 19th Century.The reason the Republi-

cans lost the last election to the Democrats is due to so-cial media.

The reason the Conserva-tives lost to the Liberals is

social media.Social media is the voice of

the 21st Century.The days of task forces with

terms of references dictated by the administration are a thing of the past.

I inquired how to email a councillor since I did not see any email address listed for the individual councillor on

the Maple Ridge website. I was informed to email the

city and address to the indi-vidual councillor.

Now that tells me the email is read prior to the council-lors receiving it.

Social media is one of the only places left where an individual can express his honest opinion without

censorship.The mayor and council

have a duty to listen to the residents of Maple Ridge, and they should stay clear from picking and choosing which sites, or as Mr. Ranta calls, “shallow, online blow-hards.”

Len LoveringMaple Ridge

Editor, The News:Re: Pitt Meadows leans on

business (The News, Jan. 22).Neil Corbett’s story did not

contain all the facts.While Mayor John Becker

did argue against shifting any of the tax burden from residents to businesses, your story did not mention that the shift that would increase $224 to an ‘average’ business was only if that business was assessed at over $1.9 million.

Your average mom and pop and small business is assessed at nowhere near $1.9 million,

so will not see that much in-crease.

As a point of clarification to your readers, it might be more helpful and transparent if you reported that when the city reports a tax hike to the ‘average’ resident or ‘average’ business, the value is taken by the dividing the number of homes or businesses by the total assessed value of each class.

There are many more homes than businesses.

As your report accurately stated, there are only 220

businesses. That means the multimillion dollar Super-store, Cineplex theatre and Onni Business Parks (Phase 1 alone is assessed at $63 mil-lion) are included in the total, along with the much smaller businesses.

The smaller businesses will not be seeing a $224 in-crease, only those businesses assessed at the ‘average’ $1.9 million.

To miss out this vital piece of information only results in fear mongering and an at-tempt to pit business against

homeowners. For the past five years, resi-

dential tax mill rates have been steadily increased and the business mill rate has been decreased by mayor and council; you didn’t mention that either in your article.

Businesses need residents for customers and residents need businesses for goods and services.

The ideal balance is to use the term share the burden versus shift the burden.

Patricia GordonPitt Meadows

Editor, The News:You reported how Maple Ridge residents were 10 per cent

richer because of their increased property assessments. Well, my assessment went down again and it’s been going like that for the past eight years or so. I’ve lost about a $150,000 of my investment and I’m not the only one.

I am in the Thornhill area and blame Maple Ridge for this downturn. The city doesn’t want to improve my area at all. It screwed up getting a mall in Albion, and we all know that will never happen with this new council.

This town is turning into a real joke. Look at Port Coquitlam or Langley, they are building like crazy, and here Maple Ridge just does nothing and depends on the homeowners to con-tinue paying high taxes.

L. JohnstonMaple Ridge

Editor, The News:Re: New route through Pitt proposed (The News, Jan. 13).Perhaps my reaction is knee-jerk, but I want to respond

to Ken Joyner’s suggestion of taking traffic up Ford Road to Baynes Road to relieve the congestion on Lougheed Highway.

I hope that the residents on Ford Road are consulted on this. I, for one, don’t want this. I doubt that any of the Ford Road residents will. Traffic on Ford Road is crazy already, excessive speeding, no respect for marked crosswalks.

Perhaps traffic can be rerouted along Mr. Joyner’s street?Julie Bennett

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The sixth-month-old St. Bernard puppy ran onto Lougheed High-way and was hit by a car along with two other similar looking dogs.

The accident hap-pened January 18 at around 10:30 p.m., somewhere between 256th and 272nd streets.

Lexus was rushed to the Abbotsford Val-ley Animal Emergency Clinic by a good Samar-itan who hit her, and she was stabilized over night.

“The good Samaritan hit one [dog], which is Lexus, and the lady be-hind him hit one. But the dog she hit jumped up and bolted and they couldn’t find the dog,” said Jodi Dunlop, branch manager of the Maple Ridge SPCA.

“They called, but it was pitch black and they didn’t hear anything,” said Dunlop adding that it likely wasn’t injured since it got up and kept

running.Lexus, meanwhile, has

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ribs, a fractured front leg, ligament damage to her back leg and can’t walk without help.

Now at the Dewdney Animal Hospital, Lexus spent Monday in sur-gery, fixing the front leg fracture, and she will need at least one more surgery before she will be able to fully recover.

Once the front leg is stabilized with pins and she is able to bear her

weight with pain medi-cation, then she will be able to have her back leg fixed.

“It will probably take four to six weeks of re-hab before they even consider doing the other leg because they want to make sure she is weight bearing on that leg and it’s healing prop-erly,” explained Dunlop.

“It’s really hard, espe-cially with a giant breed of dog. You want to get those legs, rather than amputating them, you want to try and fix them

if possible, because she is going to be a big girl,” she said of Lexus, who is already over 60 pounds.

The good Samaritan who brought Lexus to the vet has been trau-matized by the incident and calls almost every day to see how the St. Bernard is doing.

Dunlop is grateful to the vets who are work-ing on Lexus because they discounted the sur-geries.

But medical costs could still exceed $8,000, with rehabilita-tion and pre-surgery treatment.

Once Lexus has fin-ished her surgeries, she will likely be in foster care for two to three months before being put up for adoption.

The B.C. SPCA is a non-profit organization that relies on public do-nations.

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been about an hour ear-lier, so he guessed she had already been laying on the floor at least that long.

After almost an hour of waiting, and fearing his mother might have in-ternal bleeding, he called back, emphasizing that she could have broken bones or internal bleed-ing, and that he couldn’t move her.

Van De Keere and his mother live near Lougheed Highway and 228th Street, less than 10 minutes away from the Maple Ridge ambulance station. But it was about

7:15 p.m. before an am-bulance arrived.

Van De Keere said the paramedics had come from Abbotsford, and were apologetic when they arrived.

The B.C. Emergency Health Service disputes his claim that the call took an hour and a half. According to spokesper-son Fatima Siddique, the ambulance arrived after approximately 50 min-utes.

She said when the call came in, it was dis-patched as a routine call, and after the paramedics assessed the patient, they transported that way.

Those details were from an initial inquiry, and she would not offer more.

Van De Keere said he will ask for copies of the call recordings to determine the correct response time, but even the time BCEHS claims is not acceptable to most

members of the public.“50 minutes – that’s

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benchmark for ambu-lance response in a city is that an ambulance will arrive at your door nine minutes after a 911 call.

Also, he doesn’t un-derstand why the ambu-lance would have been dispatched routine.

“I told them she had a fall, and she was in a lot of pain,” he asserts.

Van De Keere is now getting involved in the local campaign to lobby for more ambulances in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows.

A retired bus driver, he said posting only two ambulances to serve a community of almost 100,000, and having other ambulance sta-tions outside of the area cover calls there, is not efficient.

“They’re chasing their tails,” he said. “That’s like

playing Russian roulette, two ambulances … “

“We were lucky.”His mother is still in

hospital. Her pelvis was broken in two places, and she hit her head in the fall.

Van De Keere has joined Matt Kelso in collecting signatures for their petition for im-proved ambulance ser-vice. So far, they have 6,000 out of their goal of 10,000.

Kelso said during his campaign he has heard other stories like Van De Keere’s. He said it’s fright-ening for people with ex-isting health conditions, and he personally has battled brain cancer.

“Thinking that for my next seizure I might have to wait an hour or two hours for an ambulance – it’s scary,” said Kelso.

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Ridge Meadows RCMP are reviewing the arrest of a man on Jan. 18 after a video captur-ing a physical altercation was broadcast by Global News.

A woman shot the video after making the initial call to police about a man sitting behind the wheel of a truck.

The video shows a man

leaning up against the hood of a blue pickup truck in Maple Ridge Park. The officer then holds the man with one hand while reviewing paper work.

After a few moments of leaning against the hood the man, who is not handcuffed, is moved towards the cab of the vehicle.

After the man seems to raise his left arm behind him, the officer grabs him by the shoulders and slams him backwards on to the dirt.

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There is then a verbal

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“Due to his level of in-toxication, he was held here until he sobered up and was released. There were no lasting effects,” a police spokesman said of the man arrested.

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Heritage Week is celebrated in communities

throughout the province every year, with national Heritage Day on Feb. 15, as designated by the Na-tional Trust for Canada.

The Maple Ridge Museum uses February as a time to change over many of its displays, and also as a chance to showcase additional displays in the library.

This year’s library theme will be Travel through Time: focusing on transportation and travel though railway, roads and waterways.

At the museum will be a display on Women in Wartime, highlighting the medical services, with a spotlight on Helen Mussallem using artifacts from the Mussallem estate, which were donated to the museum last year. Helen was raised in Haney and was the nurse during the Sec-ond World War.

Many women who

had trained as nurses prior to the war were able to contribute to the effort by joining the nursing service. Each branch of the military had its own medical service, and nurses were vital parts of each. Over 4,000 nurses enlisted, with the majority join-ing the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. The nurses who enlisted were known as “Nurs-ing Sisters” and were commissioned offi-cers, which lent them authority. Most worked overseas both in Britain and continental Europe, and many medical units followed the fronts as they moved into Europe through Italy and France. While nurses did not work in the front lines, the medical hospitals were often very close to the fighting, and there was a certain amount of danger attributed to being a part of the medical corps. This did not deter nurses from enlisting, as military nursing offered a good salary, benefits, status,

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Helen began her career in nursing as a staff member of Vancouver General Hos-pital, where she then joined the No. 19 Royal Army Medical Corps after being told by her supervisor she would be missing out if she did not enlist. After being trained in New Bruns-wick, Helen became a lieutenant when she first arrived in England in 1944. Initially her job was to train medics in basic first aid, but she was keen to do more hands-on work, which lead her to take on a role as a surgical nurse on the front.

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morning at the seniors centre for three hours,” said Pra .In addi on to driving, Pra works on the seniors helping seniors advisory commi ee, and volunteers her me with the Intergenera onal Garden.“That means I get to spend some me in the school [Eric Langton

elementary], which I love,” she said.She is a grand buddy to a li le girl there, who Pra thought she could help. They get together a er school.“Some of it is fun, and some of it is straight academics,” she said.Keeping busy is a habit, but it was also a very deliberate decision Pra made as she entered a new phase of life.“I had parents who sort of gave up on life, and it was very discouraging,” she said.“It keeps me out of trouble,” she said of her driving, gardening, mentoring and commi ee work. “It’s been great to meet people.“Life has to be lived to be enjoyed.”Pra said the seniors centre needs more volunteer drivers. “A lot of people’s needs would be sa s ed if they extend themselves beyond their golf games,” she said. Karen Wakita is another super senior. She is a semi-re red nurse who is also very involved in the community.Wakita s ll nurses on a casual basis, which sees her at the hospital

once or twice each week.Then, she also has a whole schedule of volunteer ac vi es, many based around health care – community groups have been eager to tap into her health care exper se.Wakita does a wellness clinic every Tuesday at the seniors centre. She runs it with Peggy Lambert, another re red nurse, and they have a lot of regular clients.“They get their blood pressure checked, and have a chat with the nurses there,” she said.On a monthly basis they will bring in a message therapist, pharmacist or o er a foot care clinic.Wakita is also a representa ve for the Alzheimer Society of B.C. Her late father su ered from the disease, and she knows how tough it can be for caregivers. So she works as a facilitator for a group of caregivers who met on Fridays at Greystone Manor. They are a group of people with “a common thread” that runs through their lives, and they o er moral support and prac cal sugges ons.“I would have loved to have had that support,” she said of the group.Wakita is also a member of the Senior Network, which is tackling the issue of a shortage of seniors housing in Maple Ridge and Pi Meadows, and has worked with the Ridge Meadows Division of Family Prac ce.And her involvement doesn’t stop at

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Mobility is a key component to maintaining independence as we age. Although most of us are well aware of this fact, it is something we take for granted in our early years and o en assume that only the elderly deal with. However, mobility issues are not only a problem of old age. According to a recent study, 32% of people who experienced major mobility issues said their problems began at age 50 or under. Up un l 150 years ago, the average life expectancy in Westernized countries was 35 years old so arguably our bodies are not designed to live as long as we do now. Although scien c advances have played a major part in increasing our longevity, we s ll need to make ourselves a priority so that we are able to do the things we love far into our 80’s and 90’s. If you are going to take the me to ensure you maintain your mobility throughout the years, here are some fabulous ways to ensure you are ge ng the most from your e orts: Go get a massage and let a registered professional do the work for you. Registered Massage Therapists are experts in so ssue dysfunc on and joint complica ons in the body. They are fully trained to treat and prevent injury, pain and physical disorders. An added bene t of this service is that it is o en covered by your extended medical. In this case, there is really no reason, nancial or otherwise, not to take me to look a er yourself. Exercise and stretch. To improve mobility you do not need to run 10 kilometers every day, but you should take me out to get outside and enjoy the world around you. 20-30 minutes of daily ac vity is enough me to ensure the proper care and maintenance of our joints and so ssues. Also, ensure you take me to stretch those muscle bers before any ac vity. Stretching is key to ensuring that muscles and tendons stay limber and are able to deal with the impact of the various ac vi es that we take on throughout the day. Maintain a proper diet with supplementa on if needed. A proper diet is cri cal in avoiding chronic health and mobility issues. The food we choose to

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Lantern Making WorkshopFebruary 8, 11 am - 3 pmThe ACT Arts Centre, 11944 Haney Place, Maple RidgeThis Family Day, join us for an afternoon of crafty fun. This free workshop is suitable for people of all ages who wish to learn how to make beautiful lanterns. No RSVP required, just stop on in! Call (604) 467-2420 or visit www.downtownmapleridge.ca for details.

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Farmers Helping Seniors Pub Night FundraiserFebruary 12, 6:30 pmRoyal Canadian Legion, Branch #88 – 12101 224th St., Maple RidgeTickets $20 (Include steak or chicken dinner and a beverage) available at Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Community Services - 11907 – 228th Street, Maple Ridge. Silent Auction, Toonie Toss, 50/50. Please join the Seniors Network and Golden Ears FEAST in supporting the Haney Farmers Market’s Nutritional Coupon Program. The program provides free produce, meat and dairy products to low-income seniors and families during the 16 weeks of the Farmer’s Market. Have a heart. Help a senior. For more info, call (604) 786-7404 or email: [email protected]

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The Wild McLean Boys: Murdering Horse Thieves of Kamloops – 1879February 20, 2 – 3 pmFraser Valley Library, Maple Ridge, 22470 Dewdney Trunk Rd.The McLean Gang, composed of brothers Allan, Charles and Archie, terrorized Kamloops and surrounding area in the 1870s. This notorious gang robbed and murdered their way to the top. Join BC Historian John Mitchell for an entertaining and informative audio visual presentation with time for a Q&A.

Heart of Self ForgivingFebruary 26, March 4 and 11, 10 am – noonRMSS Pitt Meadows Seniors Centre, 19065 119b Ave.Learn deeper insights and powerful techniques for dissolving old perspectives, releasing shame/guilt/anger/resentment and how to cultivate a compassionate mindset.$45 for three sessions. Register at the Centre or call (604) 457-4771. www.rmssseniors.org

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Port Haney Seniors Activity GroupCEED Centre – 11739 223 St., Maple Ridge, 9 - 11 am.Fun activities for all levels of mobility. Come and meet your neighbours and put a little spring in your step. May involve fi eld trips or activities away from the Centre. Please call to register in case the group is meeting off-site: (604) 463-2229.

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Croker explains that by including

local talent, the community becomes more engaged in the production.

“We’ve had people who have come who are in wheelchairs, we’ve had people who have come who are in their 70s, we’ve had people who are kids under six years old. What we do is we just give them the motivation

and we’ll direct them with move-ment and where they go on stage,” said Croker, adding that it’s a lot of fun for them and for the audience.

“They get to work with profes-sional performers. They get that little window into what a performance is like,” he continued.

Croker, who is playing the roles of the Mad Hatter, Tweedledum and a rabbit, has had passion for live the-atre since he came to Canada from Australia 35 years ago.

“What movies and television tend to do is to prefocus you. They put us in positions where we see only one

aspect of the story,” said Croker.“With live theatre like this you

could pretty much look anywhere and it’s real people doing real things in real time,” he said, explaining that every performance is different and that there is always a danger that something could go wrong.

Croker promises lots of colour and action for children along with adult-style humour. There will be a fun ballet number involving Twee-dledee and Tweedledum, references to Chariots of Fire with music from Queen.

“Our goal is to communicate to the child in every adult and the adult in every child,” he explained.

Motus O Dance Theatre is based out of Souffville, Ont. and started as a collective in 1990 by the company’s artistic directors, James Croker, Cyn-thia Croker and Jack Langenhuizen.

Every year they entertain people across North America, Europe and the South Seas with their unique and innovative, energetic perfo-mances.

Motus O goes down rabbit hole at ACT

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Local artist Kristin Krimmel will be examining feelings of love and loss in her upcom-

ing exhibition Love and Grief at the Fort Gallery.

This series of work came to be after her companion of 38 years suddenly passed away November 2015.

After coming to terms with her grief, Krimmel created a 12-panel suite of text-based images to ex-plain her personal journey and to express feelings, thoughts and experiences that could not be put into words.

“Artists are people who take the pulse of society at various times,”

explained Krimmel. “I could have sunk under in grief

from time to time. But because we meet the phenomenon of grief often, I decided to analyze it and somehow express it in artwork in order to work my way through it,” she said.

The panels are done in the man-ner of photographs on aluminum. Krimmel worked on the photos in Photoshop and the only hard copy is what she is producing for the se-ries of panels.

This is the most difficult body of work Krimmel has ever done and the most personal.

It is also her first computer-based series of artwork.

“This is a huge departure for me

to go from painting, which is my usual medium, to digital imagery making,” she said.

“I’m not computer literate like the young people are. So learning how to use things like Photoshop has been a learning curve for me and challenge.”

Krimmel learned by managing her photographs for documenta-tion and doing her own posters and invitations.

Krimmel would like viewers to explore their own cycles of love and grief, both the glory and the anguish, and to remember those feelings in order to turn them into positive personal growth.

“To have people look at their own feelings and consider if they

were in the middle of something, either the love side of things or the grief side of things, if there wasn’t some way to move forward in what they were doing,” she said, hoping that this exhibition helps in that healing.

This exhibition is a culmination of work that has returned Krimmel to a place where love is once again possible.

The exhibition takes place from Feb. 3-21 at The Fort Gallery, 9048 Glover Road, Fort Langley.

Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday.

The opening reception takes place from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on February 7.

• For more information call 604-888-7411.

ContributedMotus O Dance Theatre, performing Alice in Wonderland, is based out of Souffville, Ont. and started as a collective in 1990.

Local artist examines feelings of love and loss

ContributedKristen Krimmel’s exhibition is at The Fort Gallery.

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What’s on The Motus O production of Alice in Wonderland takes place at 1 p.m. on Feb. 8 at The ACT, 11944 Haney Place, downtown Maple Ridge. Tickets are $25 for adults and seniors and $15 for youth 24 and under. To purchase tickets, go to www.theactma-pleridge.org or call 604-476-2787.

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There will be a fundraiser for SAINTS Rescue at Haney Public House on Jan. 30.

Romana Van Lissum has organized the event, which will raise money to

help senior and special needs animals find homes for their final years.

The fundraiser takes place between 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Haney Public House, 22222 Lougheed Highway in

Maple Ridge.Tickets are $20 and will include a

burger and a beer or cocktail. All ticket purchasers will be automatically en-tered to win a gift basket.

There will also be a 50/50 draw, a jel-lybean and dog treat guessing contest, a toonie toss and silent auction.

Three sets of Vancouver Canucks tick-ets will be available to win.

Tickets can be purchased at the door.• For more information, call 778-

688-1723. SAINTS (Senior Animals In Need Today Society) is an end-of-life sanctuary based in Mission, for senior and special needs animals.

Pub event to helps SAINTS

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The ACT Art Gallery

Exhibition Under Development

Until February 27Assembled sculpture, 2D and

installation work in mixed media.

Meditationin the Gallery

Friday, January 29Join us for self-guided meditation in the Gallery. Admission by donation.

Comedy NightSuddenly

Mommy & Like Father, Like Son?

Sorry.Friday, January 29

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and downs of parenting.

The Lonely:A Tribute toRoy Orbison

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Monday, February 8Join us for free crafts and a lantern

making workshop from 11am – 3pm

ALICE in Wonderland

Monday, February 8A topsy turvy adventure for

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Arts ClubOn Tour:

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The Fraser Valley Symphony will be presenting Beethoven and Friends on Sunday.

The winter concert will feature Isa-bel Lago, on violin, and Will Lin, on cello.

Both are winners of the Fraser Val-ley Symphony Young Artist Solo Competition.

Lago will perform the first move-ment of Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor.

Lin will perform the first move-ment of the Antonín Dvořák’s Con-

certo for Cello in B Minor.The symphony will then present

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major.

Lindsay Mellor is the conductor of the Fraser Valley Symphony, which is in its 32nd year.

The concert takes place Jan. 31 at 3 p.m. at Matsqui Centennial Audi-torium, 32315 South Fraser Way in Abbotsford.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $5 for children.

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Symphony plays Beethoven

ContributedThe Fraser Valley Symphony, which is in its 32nd year.

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Mike Demers and his group of talented musicians will be playing a tribute to the timeless music of the Caruso of Rock, Roy Orbison.

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The Lonely: A Tribute to Roy Orbison is a sensitive and dynamic tribute that recreates the sounds and feelings of the original recordings.

The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at The ACT, 11944 Haney Place, Maple Ridge.

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Swimmer Nathan Stein of Maple Ridge has been nominated for a Sport B.C. Ath-lete of the Year Award.

Stein, 24, was nominated in the Athletes with a Disability category. After an injury plagued 2013, he has bounced back in a big way the past two years.

Stein qualified for the IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scot-land, and the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games. At the Speedo Can Am Para-swim-ming Championships in Toronto, Stein won the S10 50-metre and 100-m freestyle, and was also second in the 100-m butterfly.

Less than a week later Stein finished third in the 50-m freestyle at the British Para-Swimming International Meet in Glasgow.

That built upon a comeback year in 2014. At the Para Pan Pacific Championships in Pasadena Stein won two medals, lowering Benoit Huot’s Canadian record in both. In the S10 100-m butterfly he took the gold and he added a silver in the 100-m free-style.

Sport B.C. announced the outstanding amateur athletes, coaches, and officials, named as finalists in award categories to be presented at the upcoming Athlete of the

Year Awards. It is one of the longest stand-ing sport recognition events in Canada, and this year is its 50th anniversary mile-stone. The ceremony and Gala dinner is set for Thursday, March 10, at the Vancouver Convention Centre East.

The selection committee, chaired by Ber-nie Pascall, included 20 highly regarded sportswriters, broadcasters, and amateur sport leaders in B.C.

“A significant number of very strong nominations for each of the categories were received this year,” said Sport BC presi-dent Rob Newman. “The Athlete of the Year Awards provides a great opportunity to recognize these talented and deserving athletes, coaches and officials.

Stein nominated athlete of the year

The CFL’s Toronto Argonauts have an-nounced that the team has signed receiver Malcolm Williams of Maple Ridge.

Williams, six-foot-three and 221-pounds, played three seasons with the Canadian Ju-nior Football League’s Langley Rams. In 2014, he hauled in 38 passes for 580 yards and seven touchdowns.

Prior to joining the Rams in 2012, he played basketball at the University of British Columbia.

ContributedNathan Stein was nominated by Sport B.C.

Argos sign receiver

ContributedReceiver Malcolm Williams with the Surrey Rams of the BCJFL.

Swimmer took three medals at Parapan Am Games

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The Ridge Meadows Flames put up two seven-goal wins during the past week of Pacific Junior Hockey League action.

First came a 7-2 vic-tory over the Sock-eyes in Richmond on Thursday, then another 7-2 win over the Port Moody Panthers on Friday night in Maple Ridge.

In Richmond, Cam-eron Alder had two goals and an assist, Brandon Galbraith scored twice, and Ha-len Cordoni, Alex Pis-tilli and affiliate player Ryan MacDonald also scored. Liam Murphy stopped 47 of 49 shots in the Ridge net.

On Friday, Alexander Furlan had a goal and two assists, Nolan Fer-guson scored twice and Boston Colley, Nicho-las Maydaniuk, Tristan

Tressel and Cordoni each had a goal and an assist as the Ridge Meadows Flames de-feated Panthers.

Jason Sandhu kicked out 30 shots to record his seventh victory of the season.

The Flames are in Aldergrove tonight

(Wedesday) to take on the Kodiaks, and po-tentially make up some ground in the battle for third place in the Har-old Brittain Conference.

Each team has played 37 games, and the Ko-diaks lead 40 to 37 in the standings.

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left in the regular season schedule, the Flames next home game will be Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Cam Neely Arena, when they host the Mission City Out-laws, who are in first place in the PJHL, and riding an eight-game winning streak.

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The Maple Ridge Ramblers boys’ basketball squad had another good week of play.

On Thursday, Ridge played at North Delta in what coach Ken Dockendorf called a poorly played game.

Down eight with four minutes to go, the Ramblers went on a 14-2 run, with Will Chartrand making two foul shots, Josh Solk hit a three to tie and Burke Brussow drained two to give the Ramblers a lead with only 11 seconds left.

Burke led Ridge with 23 points, and Tristan Coumont had 15 re-bounds.

On Friday, Ridge played its first league game at R.E. Mountain in

Langley and won 76-37. Every player on the team scored, led by Solk with 20 points, Brussow had 16, Stefan Halas, 11, Coumont, 10, and Colorado Zelinski and Kalesh Kumar with six each.

George Panagiotopavlos led in rebounding with 11 boards.

On Saturday, Ridge, a triple-A team, hosted the very strong quad-A team from Port Moody. The Ramblers were leading 32-25 at the half, but Moody played an out-standing second half and the Ridge defence faltered, said Dockendorf. The Blues won 73-62. Solk con-tributed 19 points, Coumont, 15, and Brussow, 13. Strong rebound-ing efforts came from Coumont, Zelinski, Burke and Chartrand, with six each.

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The Maple Ridge sec-ondary wrestling team took third place at the B.C. Age Class wrestling tour-nament last weekend at the Richmond Oval.

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Lindy’s talk will include interesting information about the impact of the arts in our lives through the sharing of personal stories, industry studies and statistics, plus the showing of the short fi lm “Art Can Change”, commissioned as part of the 2015 CRE8 Youth Arts Day, which showcases Maple Ridge Artists in Residence Kat Wahamaa and Robi Smith,

and Kwantlen artist Brandon Gabriel. The fi lm was produced by Marcus Kliewer under the mentorship of fi lmmaker Anne Watson.

“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed… because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events … by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.” Leonard Bernstein (American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist).

Lindy’s education and interest in the arts did get her many jobs in “the arts”, but many artists think of their work as a vocation, a calling, a passion – rather than a “job”. But other than this difference of interpretation, she couldn’t agree more with maestro Bernstein. Her life’s work has been to connect artists in creative collaborations, to introduce artists and their work to as many people as possible in possibly life changing ways, and to inspire young talent. Whether it be to simply uplift, or to inspire thought or change.

Art and creative expression is all around us and the more society appreciates its meaning in terms of creating healthy connected communities and people realize it’s value to their own lives and how important fostering their own creative expression is in whatever form – the more we will encourage the development of creative minds and future out of the box thinking leaders, rather than promoting “follow the leader” thinking, ensuring tomorrow will be there for the next generations.

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KIVIReino Timothy

April 20, 1985 - January 18, 2016

It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of Reino at the young age of 30. He will always be remembered for his warm smile, hearty laugh, and wonderful cooking. Reino will be dearly missed by his many friends and family members.The family has chosen to have a small closed family service.

In lieu of fl owers we would appreciate donations to be made to TWC (Together We Can) in memory of Reino.

McNICOLIrene Mary

Irene, age 99 years, entered into rest at Maple Ridge Hospital on January 5, 2016. Lovingly remembered by daughter Dawne (Dave) Young; grandsons Bryce (Lucianna) and Ryan; great-grandsons Lucas and Aiden; brother-in-law Loyd (Lilla), sisters-in-law Karel, Ann; several nieces and nephews as well as many relatives and friends.

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SMITHKristi Caroline

August 15, 1990 - January 21, 2016

It is with a very heavy heart we announce the passing of our beautiful blue eyed daughter. Kristi leaves behind the love of her life Richard Moody, her parents Greg and Terri, her brothers Dalyn and Brent (Chantelle) and her much loved nephew and niece Jayden and Riley.

The family wishes to give thanks to all her extended family, birth family, Moody family and the wonderful community that has surrounded her with love and support throughout the years.

The celebration of Kristi’s life will be held on Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 1pm at South Bonson Community

Centre, 10932 Barnston View Road, Pitt Meadows.

VANDENBRINKStijntje (Tine)

June 27, 1929 - January 17, 2016

Tine passed away peacefully and with such grace in the early hours of Sunday, January the 17th with family at her side, almost 3 years to the day after the passing of her husband of 60 years Michiel Laurentius VandenBrink.Born in Laren, the Netherlands, Tine immigrated with Mike to British Columbia, Canada in 1953 where they built a successful business and raised their family.Tine was adventurous and quick to laugh, and was always surrounded by loving friends.

We will all remember fondly her quirky idioms and phrases, and continue to marvel at the bucket of horseshoes she must have carried with her through life.She is survived by her children, Rob (Elaine), Guy, Stephen (Esther), Michelle (Derek), her nine grandchildren, Ryan, Ayshia, Caitlin, Talia, Colin, Everest, Dallas, Linden and Quinn as well as her devoted siblings Gerke (aka Francis) and Chris.We would like to thank the dedicated staff at the Hawthorne Care Centre in Coquitlam for the excellent, kind and sensitive care they provided to Tine for the past few years.A celebration of life will be held at a later date. In lieu of fl owers please consider a donation to the Alzheimer Society of BC (http://www.alzheimer.ca/bc/).

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22225 Brown Avenue, Maple Ridge, BC V2X 8N6 t. 604.463.4200

The Maple Ridge - Pitt Meadows School District (SD42) is looking for a qualified candidate interested in working as a Millwright effective March 1, 2016. This position completes millwright tasks to ensure safety and full use of buildings and facilities.

Rate of pay: $29.96/hr If you are interested, please send us a cover letter and a complete resume to [email protected]. Your package should include copies of your credentials and transcripts.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:•

• •

Download application at http://www.sd42.ca/application-process


115 EDUCATION

INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT SCHOOL. Hands-On Tasks. Start Weekly. GPS Training!

Funding & Housing Avail! Job Aid! Already a HEO?

Get certifi cation proof.Call 1-866-399-3853 or go to:

iheschool.com

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION!In-demand career! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-855-768-3362 to start training for your work-at-home career today!

124 FARM WORKERS

FARM LABOURERS Needed for Pitt Meadows Farms Ltd in Pitt Meadows, 12405 McTavish Road. Work includes planting, maintenance & harvest-ing of Cranberries. Some farm experience an asset. Anticipated start date March 15/16, Full time,$10.59 hour.

To Apply Fax Resume: 604-465-8311.

Attention T.Ross

OLERA ORGANIC FARMSrequires Farm Workers to start mid April. General Labour. Must be will-ing & able to work outside & lift up to 50 lbs. Salary $10.60/hr to start. Email resume [email protected]

130 HELP WANTED


124 FARM WORKERS

Seasonal Farm Workersrequired in Pitt Meadows.

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

Wages: $10.59/hr. 40-60 hrs./wk. Please email resume to:

[email protected]

Seasonal Farm Workersrequired in Pitt Meadows.

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

Wages: $10.59/hr. 40-60 hrs./wk. Please email resume to:

[email protected]

130 HELP WANTED

Atlas Power SweepingDRIVERS & LABORERS

- Sweeper Operators (Air Ticket) - Water Truck Drivers (Class 3) - Labourers (Driver License) - Night Owl needed for sweepingPower sweeping/power scrubbing and pressure washing. Must be hard working with a good attitude. Burnaby Based. Must be avail to work nights and weekends. Good driving record & abstract required Experience & air ticket benefi cial.

Email: [email protected] Fax: 604-294-5988

Child & Youth Care WorkerThe HCOS SE Dept needs a CARE Team Associate to work with our special needs students and their families in the Lower Mainland. Approx 20 hrs./week, starting at $20/hr. Detailed job description & online application form can be found at:

www.onlineschool.caClick About Us,

then Scroll To Careers at HCOS

DISPATCHERAbbotsford based long haul fl at deck company is looking for a Dispatcher. Must have knowl-edge and experience of truck-ing. Email your resume to:

[email protected]


130 HELP WANTED

GREENHOUSE WORKERSFull-Time seasonal labourers wanted for job duties that include but are not limited to: planting, pruning, harvesting, grading, packing, receiving, shipping and general greenhouse cleanup and setup for fl ower and pepper farm. Start date: April 2016. $11.75/hour. No exp. Required. Must speak and understand English and have completed grade 12.

Hollandia Greenhouses Ltd. 19393 Richardson Rd, Pitt

Meadows, BC, V3Y 1Z1Apply via email:

[email protected]

GREENHOUSE WORKERSLocal cut-fl ower greenhouse

operator in Maple Ridge, looking for F/T individuals.

The job involves the harvesting of fl owers and physically demanding greenhouse work. Must have own transportation & be able to work fl exible hrs including wknds. Must be able to speak & read English. Greenhouse experience is an as-set. $10.75/hour. Apply by email:

[email protected]

Haney Builders Supplies

NOW HIRINGForklift Drivers/Order Builder

Lumber and Forklift exp. required

Email your resume to:[email protected]

or drop off your resume in person


130 HELP WANTED

LOT ATTENDANTWest Coast Toyota requires a Full-time Lot Attendant, Monday thru Friday from 8 am to 4 pm. Must have a valid drivers licence, “N” is acceptable. Must be able to drive a Standard transmission.

Apply in person with current copy of D/L,

Abstract & resume to:

Amanda at receptionWest Coast Toyota

19950 Lougheed Highway,Pitt Meadows, BC V3Y 2S9

www.westcoasttoyota.com

Tire TechnicianTop Gun Tire Inc. mobile tire ser-vice is currently hiring for full time position. Repairing, balancing & changing tires. Must be physically fi t & have excellent customer ser-vice skills. Position requires valid drivers licence & current copy of drivers abstract. Experience pre-ferred, but willing to train.

Competitive Wage Based On Experience

To Apply Please Contact Chris:778-222-8473

Between 7 am - 7 pm


130 HELP WANTED

P/T Warehouse Worker/ Feed Store Clerk

required for Otter Co-opPitt Meadows

Duties:D Provide excellent customerto walk in & telephone customersD Perform housekeeping duties D Maintain the warehouse & yard in a neat and tidy fashionD To warehouse and convey feedproduct in warehouse DService (load cars & small trucks) retail sacked feed clients while fi lling order for feed, hay, fertilizer, twine and shavings. D Till operation / store clerk D Other duties assigned

Qualifi cations:D Warehouse experienceD Cashier experience, MatureD Customer service skillsD Number & detailed oriented D Excellent communication skillsD Able to lift 50lbs repeatedlyD Must be available weekdays & weekendsD Forklift experience is desirable

Please email your resume to: [email protected]

or fax 604-465-0718 or apply in person

12343 Harris Rd. Pitt Meadows

Wanted Heavy IndustrialSales Representative

Required for Western Canadian lubricants co. to call on mining, railroads, concrete & cement. High travel. Should have B.Sc. or B.Eng. or Dip.T. and sales experience.

Salary of up to $100K forthe right individual, plus 10%

commission, benefi ts, car and expenses.

Fax resume: 604-888-1145or [email protected]

WAREHOUSE WORKERMetrie has a F/T opportunity avail. for Graveyard or Afternoon shifts, 40hrs./wk with our growing company. Experience is an asset. Must be career driven to join our dynamic team!

Opportunity available for career advancement!

Competitive Wages & Benefi ts!Fax resume: 604-888-5242E-mail: Marcello.Fortuna

@metrie.com

131 HOME CARE/SUPPORT

RMACL is seeking female caregiv-ers interested in providing live in support. Applicants need excellent communication skills and experi-ence working with adults with a de-velopmental disabilities and/or men-tal health support needs. Call 604-467-8700

138 LABOURERS

SHOP WORKER N.Langley. $14/hr to start or higher depending on exp. level. Must have valid drivers license. Email resume to: [email protected]

156 SALES

SALESREPRESENTATIVES

Experience in moulding, millwork, doors and interior fi nishing detail an asset. F/T - Monday-Friday.Strong Client Base, Competitive

Wages, Co. Perks & Health Benefi ts After 3 Months. Fax:

604-513-1194 Email: johnh @westcoastmoulding.com


160 TRADES, TECHNICAL

Haney Builders Supplies

NOW HIRINGF/T CRANE

TRUCK OPERATOR22 ton & under folding boom

Email your resume to:[email protected]

or drop off your resume in person

Quality comes fi rst. Come join an award winning custom home builder. G Wilson Construction is currently hiring for long term posi-tions for projects in Vancouver & West Vancouver.• Senior Project Managers• Project Managers• Project Coordinators• Journeyman Carpenters• 3rd & 4th Year Apprentices• Labourers• OFA 2 AttendantsExperience in high-end custom homes preferred.

Competitive Wages & Benefi ts

To Apply Please E-mail Resume To

[email protected] Fax: 604-873-0919

Fabricator / WelderThe Langley Concrete

Group Wants You!The LCG has a well established in-house fabrication department that is responsible for manufac-turing a large amount of concrete mould equipment, machine components and other related products which are used in the daily production of quality precast concrete products.

Abilities;• Use excellent interpersonal communication skills to work closely and cooperatively with Vice-President of Manufacturing, Senior/Production Coordinators, and other welders• Prioritize project requirements, multi task, while staying focused on the project on hand.• Work from blue prints, CAD drawings, and concept drawings.• Accuracy and attention to detail in both work and appearance.• Strong practical welding skills and proven ability to fabricate structural form work or related items.

Requirements:• Minimum 3-5 years practical work / welding exp. preferably in a manufacturing setting• Min. “C” level welding training, Red seal Fabricator / Fitter preferred• Valid BC driver’s license and reliable transportation• Project portfolio and pictures

OUR COMPANY OFFERS:1.) Attractive salary and

benefi ts including extended health, life insurance, critical illness insurance, employee

assistance program, etc.2.) Supportive, Engaged

Atmosphere With ChangeMinded Management Group.

3.) Future personal growth and development program.

Please e-mail resume,including cover letter &

references: [email protected]



Welder / FabricatorAgricultural Equipment

Manufacturer is looking forWelder/Fabricators

2 Years experience & ownhand tools required.

Reply to: [email protected]

PERSONAL SERVICES

182 FINANCIAL SERVICES

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. Need Cash? Own a vehicle? Borrow up to $25,000. SnapCarCash. 604-777-5046

TAX FREE MONEYis available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mort-gage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.

Call Anytime1-800-639-2274 or

604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

203 ACCOUNTING / TAX /BOOKKEEPING

.t1 tax

218 BUSINESS/OFFICE SERVICE

Have you been denied Canada Pension Plan disability benefi ts? The Disability Claims AdvocacyClinic can help you appeal.

Call 1-877-793-3222 www.dcac.ca [email protected]


40000065 - 105 Ave, 105A Ave, 243 St, 244 St, Baker Pl, McClure Dr.

604.476.2740Circulation

[email protected]

Earn Extra Cash!Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows NEWS

Available routes in Maple Ridge40000064 - 111A Ave., 112 Ave., 237 St., 238 St., Kanaka Way40100129 - 116 Ave., Burnett St., Lougheed Hwy.40220250 - 125A Ave., 126 Ave., 220 St., 220A St.40220262 - 124 Ave., 216 St., Exeter Ave., Spring Cres, Thornton Ave.40220264 - 123 Ave., 124 Ave., 216 St. Evans St, Manor Ave.40310306 - 117 Ave., 118 Ave., 210 St., Barker Ave, Fraserview St.,

Penny Lane, Steeves St. 40310309 - 116 Ave., 117 Ave., 211 St, Berry Ave, Fraserview St.40310312 - 210 St., Cook Ave., Dewdney Trunk Road, Laity St.40310313 - 119 Ave., 210 St., 212 St, Cook St, Laity St.40310314 - 117 Ave., 207 Ave., Camwood Ave, Graves St, Owen St.,

Thorne Ave.40310315 - 117 Ave., 207 St, 209 St, Graves St, River Rd, Steeves

St., Stoney Ave.40320355 - 214 St., Carlton St., Exeter Ave, Holly St, Spring Ave.40400426 - 121 Ave., 122 Ave., 238A St, 240 St, Abernethy Way.40400442 - 138B Ave., 232 St., 232A St, Blaney Rd, Silver Valley Rd.40400443 - 230A St., 232 St., Gilbert Dr.

Available routes in Pitt Meadows41011005 - 118B Ave., 119 Ave., 193 St, Blakely Rd. 41011019 - 194A St., Cusick Cres, McMyn Ave., Park Rd. 41011026 - Fair eld Ave., Hammond Rd., Herring Pl., Wildcrest Ave.41021057 - 121B Ave., 122B Ave., 188 St., 189A St., Charnley Crt.,

Ford Rd.41021061 - 190A St., McMyn Rd. (Townhomes)

www.mapleridgenews.com - THE NEWS -- Wednesday, January 27, 2016 -- A27

www.benchmarkpainting.caCALL TODAY! 604-866-7080

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TWO INDIVIDUAL OFFICES• 10’ X 8.5’ available• Includes heat, A/C & window

All offi ces on second fl oor, downtown Maple Ridge location, new and clean with one shared washroom on the fl oor.One year minimum lease subject to credit and criminal check.

Contact Jim at 604-476-2720


236 CLEANING SERVICES

HOUSEKEEPER AVAIL NOW.Taking new clients. Great refs.

Supplies incl. 1-604-302-9291

242 CONCRETE & PLACING

UNIQUE CONCRETEDESIGN

F All types of concrete work FF Re & Re F Forming F Site prepFDriveways FExposed FStamped

F Bobcat Work F WCB Insured778-231-9675, 778-231-9147

FREE ESTIMATES

HERFORT CONCRETENO JOB TOO SMALL

Serving Lower Mainland 25 Years! *Prepare *Form *Place *Finish

*Granite & Interlocking Block Walls *Stairs *Driveways *Exposed

Aggregate *Stamped Concrete.*Interlocking Bricks *Sod Placement

EXCELLENT REF’S -WCB InsuredLeo: 604-657-2375 / 604-462-8620

257 DRYWALL

CASCADE DRYWALL. Res / Comm Drywall, taping, text. ceilings, t-bar. steel stud. Call Rob 604-218-2396.

281 GARDENING

Prompt Delivery Available7 Days / Week

Meadows LandscapeSupply Ltd.

✶ Bark Mulch✶ Lawn & Garden Soil

✶ Drain Gravel ✶ Lava Rock✶ River Rock ✶Pea Gravel

(604)465-1311meadowslandscapesupply.com

.Jim’s Mowing. 310-JIMS (5467).

.ProWorks Home & Garden. Pressure washing, lawn maint, lndscpg. Call Matt 604-465-5566 www.proworkshg.com

STEER MANURE

Delivered or Picked upWynnyk Farms

604.467.4419

283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

GUTTER & ROOF Cleaning/Power Washing since 1982. WCB/Liability insurance. Simon, 604-230-0627

.Window & Roof Cleaning Gutters Cleaned & repaired. 604-961-1280

329 PAINTING & DECORATING


287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

HANDYMAN CONNECTIONHANDYMAN CONNECTIONHandyman Connection - Bonded -Renovations - Installations - Repairs - 604.878.5232

A-1 CONTRACTING. Renos. Bsmt, kitchens, baths, custom cabinets, tiling, plumbing, sundecks, fencing,

reroofi ng. Dhillon 604-782-1936.

CHUCKS RENOVATIONSPressure Washing

Book Now! There will be a water restriction in the

summer months.D Residential D Apts

D Warehouses D Government Jobs D Concrete WashingD Roof Moss Control

D Power Washing Roofs D Clear Coat glaze on exposed aggregate

Chuck 604-319-1993Lic. Renovator, Contractor

Work, WCB, BBB

300 LANDSCAPING

JAGUAR LANDSCAPINGLawn & Garden Service.

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

S. H. LANDSCAPINGTREE SERVICES

Trimming W Pruning W ToppingClean-up W Garbage Removal

Pressure WashingGardening

Flower Beds W Allan BlocksBark Mulch W River Lava Rock

Lawn CareWeeding W New Turf

Fertilizing W Moss ControlPower Raking W Aeration

FencingFree Estimate

20 years experience in Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows

604.230.1634 or 604.467.3724

317 MISC SERVICES

✶Dump Site Now Open✶SBroken Concrete RocksS

$25.00 Per Metric TonSMud - Dirt - Sod - ClayS

$25.00 Per Metric TonGrassSBranchesSLeavesSWeeds

$59.00 Per TonMeadows Landscape Supply

604-465-1311

320 MOVING & STORAGE

MIRACLE MOVING Licensed - Bonded - Fully Equip. Residential Commercial, 1-3 Men

BIG OR SMALL MOVESStart $45/hr ~ All size trucks

Free estimate/Senior Discount www.miraclemoving.ca604 - 720 - 2009

~We accept Visa & Mastercard~

ABBA MOVERS & DEL Res/comm 1-5 ton truck, 2men fr $45. SENIOR DISCOUNT. Honest, bsmt clean up 25yrs Exp. 24hrs/7days 604-506-7576

AFFORDABLE MOVINGwww.affordablemoversbc.com

From $45/Hr1, 3, 5, 7 & 10 Ton Trucks

Licensed ~ Reliable ~ 1 to 3 MenFree Estimate/Senior DiscountResidential~Commercial~PianosLOCAL & LONG DISTANCE

604-537-4140

ABE MOVING & Delivery& Rubbish Removal$30/hr. per Person • 24/7

604-999-6020




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

www.paintspecial.com 778-322-2378 Lower Mainland

604-996-8128 Fraser ValleyRunning this ad for over 12yrs

PAINT SPECIAL3 rooms for $299

2 coats any colour(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price inclsCloverdale High Performance paint.NO PAYMENT until Job is

completed. Ask us about ourLaminate Flooring.

338 PLUMBING

FIXIT PLUMBING & HEATINGH/W Tanks, Reno’s, Boilers, Furn’s. Drain Cleaning. Ins. 604-380-2932

Full Service Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, reliable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area.1-800-573-2928

A Gas Fitter ✭ PlumberFurnaces, Boilers, Hot Water

Heating, Hotwater Tanks, Drain/Duct Cleaning

& Plumbing Jobs.

✭ 604-312-7674 ✭✭ 604-507-4606 ✭

356 RUBBISH REMOVAL

JUNK REMOVAL By RECYCLE-IT!604.587.5865www.recycleitcanada.ca

mikes hauling 604-516-9237

PETS

456 FEED & HAY

TIMOTHY hay for sale. Good quality. 60 lb. bales. $15.00 per bale. Pitt Meadows. 604 505 4087

477 PETS

CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

560 MISC. FOR SALEREFORESTATION NURSERY SEEDLINGS of hardy trees, shrubs, & berries for shelterbelts or land-scaping. Spruce & Pine from $0.99/tree. Free Shipping.Replacement guarantee. 1-866-873-3846 or www.treetime.ca

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

560 MISC. FOR SALE

SAWMILLS from only $4,397 - MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

STEEL BUILDING SALE. “REALLY BIG SALE-EXTRA

WINTER DISCOUNT ON NOW!!”21X22 $5,190 25X24 $5,988 27X28 $7,498 30X32 $8,646 35X34 $11,844 42X54 $16,386. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422 www.pioneersteel.ca

REAL ESTATE

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

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

New SRI Manufactured homesSingles $74,900. Doubles $94,900.

PARK SPACES AVAILABLEREPOSSESSIONS 1974-2010

www.glenbrookhomes.netChuck 604-830-1960

Trades. Financing. Permits.

641 TOWNHOUSES

7-12128 68 Ave. 3 bdr, 3 bth. 17yr T/H. $320,900. Sadaf Sutton Pre-mier. 604-376-0318

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

MAPLE RIDGE

1 & 2 Bdrms available $880/mo & $980/mo

Great LocationQueen Anne Apts.* Renovated Suites *

*Large *Clean *Very QuietIncludes: Heat, Hot Water

and HydroNear Shopping & Amenities.

SENIOR’S DISCOUNT

604-463-2236 604-463-7450

12186-224 St, Maple RidgeCertifi ed Crime Free Buildings

MAPLE RIDGE Central. Spacious 1 bdrm, newly painted, nr all amens, insuite w/d, d/w, lrg patio & vaulted ceilings. Available immed. N/S, N/P. $900/mo +utils. Call 604-377-8135.

PORT COQUITLAM 1 bdrm suite - $775

2 bdrm corner suite - $925

S Includes heat/hot waterS 1.5 blocks to various bus stops S 2 blocks to Safeway/medical S City park across streetS Gated parking and Elevator S Adult oriented building S References required

* SORRY NO DOGS * CALL FOR APPOINTMENT

604-464-3550

709 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

PORT COQUITLAM 775-3000sqft. Ground fl oor commercial space. Offi ce / retail / service type busi-ness. Facing onto city park. 2 blks from Lougheed/ Shaughnessy inter-section. Call 604-464-3550.

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

3 A/C Prime Location Offi ces 754sf upper fl r facing east with bathroom & kitchenette. United Blvd/Fawcett, Coquitlam. Rent incl tax, strata fee, heat & hydro. Garry 604-461-7172

746 ROOMS FOR RENT

$75 OFF 1ST MONTHRooms from $470/mo. Fully Furn,

weekly maid service, cable TV,private bath, on bus route, 5/min

walk to commuter rail.

Haney Motor Hotel22222 Lougheed Hwy.,

Maple RidgeInquire in person between

9am - 3pm or Call 604-467-3944

749 STORAGE

Pitt Meadows Marina14179 Reichenback Rd

Moorage RentalYear or Semi-annual

Outdoor Storage Available Starting

At $30/month for Boats, RV’s, Cars, Trucks &

Trailers Launch Ramp with 3 lines and

ample parking for tracks and trailers Onsite Manager

604.465.7713750 SUITES, LOWER

MAPLE RIDGE, small cabin, No pets. $450/mo. Available immed Call: 604-462-0387

TRANSPORTATION

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVALThe Scrapper

#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle REMOVAL~~ ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT ~~

$$$ PAID FOR SOME. 604.683.2200

TRANSPORTATION

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

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Are you looking for quality Child Care or a child care provider needing support?

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• Infant/Toddler • Daycare • Preschool • Before & After School Care

Preschool Registration and Open House Saturday February 13 from 10am-12pm

Providing quality childcare for children ages 9 months to 12 years old

604-463-4439www.start-smart.ca22610 Dewdney Trunk Rd, Maple Ridge

23588 105 Avenue Located inside Planet Ice

www.cott onwoodschildcare.caTransportation to and from Albion & Kanaka Elementary

Ages 30 months to 12 years oldPreschool based programming

Qualifi ed ECE Teachers

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm

20245 Dewdney Trunk Rd. Maple Ridge

604.465.1290604.465.1290

Non-Profi t LicensedGroup Daycare • Out of School Care

• Christian Daycare• Enriched preschool program• Experienced Early Childhood Educators • Large Adventure Playgrounds• Ages 2 1/2 through 12• Safe fun loving home away from home

12140 204B Street, Maple Ridge • 604.465.4442 • www.mrcs.ca

Roots to Wings Preschoolat Maple Ridge Christian School

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Little Garden Little Garden Montessori CenterMontessori Center

Preschool & Kindergarten Programs2 Day, 3 Day, 4 Day & 5 Day Programs3 Hour Classes: 9:00 am - 12:00 pmFull Day Program: Morning Preschool

& Afternoon Daycare 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

CHILDCARE: Infant, Toddler, Multi-Age & Out Of School Care

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM Before & After School Pick-Up Available from:

• Alexander Robinson • Golden Ears • Yenadon Elementary

OPEN HOUSE

SATURDAY JANUARY

30th 10 am to

12 pmNow Accepting Registration: for children 10 months to 12 years old

22299 Dewdney Trunk Rd • 604.466.572822299 Dewdney Trunk Rd • 604.466.5728(on the corner of 223rd & Dewdney)(on the corner of 223rd & Dewdney)

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WE ARE EXPANDING!LARGE GROUP CENTRE

OPENING 2016 • Infant/Toddler Program • 3-5 Preschool Enhanced Daycare • Morning Preschool Class • Before And Aft er School Care

Limited Space available604-787-7501

Little Willows was designed by a top childcare architect who shares our

passion in creating an environment that encourages the children to direct their own

learning experience. Th e Centre will be located on a quiet

one way street a block away from Haney Place Mall. 2,3 or 5 days a week spaces off ered. Morning and aft ernoon

snack is included.

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