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Robbers violent Mounties are asking for the public’s help to find two men who pushed a woman to the ground and stole her wallet during a mugging in east downtown Maple Ridge on Monday night.

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September 2015

Volunteering Matters Parks & Leisure Services invites all to a free Volunteer Celebration event that recognizes the talents of volunteers, introduces the community to diverse program areas and provides opportunities to be a part of the community. Let’s find a match for your talents and passion.

Council in Committee Meeting Sept 8, 6pm Regular Council Meetings Sept 15, 7pm Special Council Meeting Sept 29, 3pm

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As part of the national Culture Days initiative, the Katzie First Nation will be sharing their culture through activities, entertainment and food at City Hall on Saturday, Sept 26 from 2pm4pm. Join in and play Slahal, “the bone game”, learn basketweaving and weave your own cedar bracelet and watch the entertainment. A naming ceremony will be held at 2pm as City Hall meeting rooms officially receive their Katzie names. Culture Days events will be held across the country, including in Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge, over the weekend of Sept 2527. For local cultural events taking place, visit culturedays.ca.

With Pitt Meadows students heading back to school soon, it’s important for drivers to use extra caution when there are children using crosswalks and roadways. When you see a stop sign, come to a complete stop behind the white stop line if there is one, otherwise stop at the sign. You should feel a small jerk when you come to a complete stop. Look both ways, and proceed with caution when safe. Slowing down and rolling through does not count as a complete stop! Please do your part to help keep our community safe for drivers and pedestrians.

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Opened in 2011, the South Bonson Community Centre features water saving systems that recycle rain water from the roof and in the toilets and sinks, design features to enhance natural heating and cooling, and landscaping that is native to the area and requires minimal watering, as well as many other sustainable and energy saving features. The building project was submitted to the Canada Green Building Council for NC Gold standard LEED® certification, and this month the final notification of LEED® status and an official plaque was received. The plaque will be hung at the South Bonson Community Centre. For more information about the Canada Green Building Council, visit cagbc.org.

Fire Prevention Week Oct 4-10.

The message of this year’s Fire Prevention Week campaign is to install smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside each separate sleeping area, and on every level of your home, including the basement. Did you know that roughly half of home fire deaths result from fires reported between 11pm and 7am, when most people are asleep? Smoke alarms save lives. If there is a fire in your home, smoke spreads fast and you need smoke alarms to give you time to get out. In fact, having a working smoke alarm cuts the chances of dying in a reported fire in half! Visit nfpa.org for more information and tips.

Council This Month Council Working For You. Council’s regular meeting schedule will begin Sept 15 after a summer hiatus. City Council meets in this formal capacity on the first and third Tuesday of the month. Regular Council Meetings are broadcast on our website and on ShawTV (Cable Channel 4). In between the Regular Council Meetings, Council meets in Committee (second Tuesday of the month) to consider most of the issues that will be forwarded to the upcoming Regular Council meeting with a recommendation from the Committee on how to proceed with the issue. On the fourth Tuesday of the month, a Special Council Meeting is held at 3pm. This allows Council greater opportunity to discuss the issues and to meet in a more informal manner than a Council Meeting.

Go Green Let your car get dirty. Due to the hot, dry weather with very little rainfall this summer, and high water use during these conditions our water reservoir levels have reduced considerably compared to past years. Stricter water restrictions have been put into place to conserve the water supply in the region and washing your vehicle is currently prohibited. Commercial car washes that use recycled water are still in operation, but this is the summer to let your car get dirty, and help preserve the water we need for vital uses.

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All meetings are open to the public and residents are encouraged to attend.Visit the City’s website for the Council Meeting schedule at pittmeadows.bc.ca

Game Night at the Library – Sept 9 Bring your competitive spirit and enjoy a variety of board games set up around the library between 5:30pm and 8:30pm, or feel free to bring along a favourite to share with others.Visit fvrl.ca for more information

Katzie Culture Day – Sept 26 Join our Katzie First Nation neighbours on Sept 26 from 2pm4pm at City Hall as they share their culture through activities, entertainment and cuisine!

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Police seize drug at camp A man suspected of selling drugs was arrested Tuesday on Cliff Avenue. COLE WAGNER cole.wagner@mrtimes.com

Ridge Meadows RCMP made their first arrest for drug trafficking at the Cliff Avenue tent camp on Tuesday. A 47-year-old man was arrested on the evening of Aug. 25 after police executed a search warrant of his tent. The search turned up what police believe to be synthetically produced drugs, packaged for sale. Prior searches of the Cliff Avenue camp were limited to the areas outside the tents as RCMP required Alanna Dunlop grounds to search inside the shelters. Ridge Meadows RCMP “Police will be recommending charges of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking,” said Cpl. Amanda Dunlop, media relations officer with the Ridge Meadows RCMP. “Police also seized pieces of personal identification, not belonging to the suspect, that are believed to be stolen,” she added. Police were forced to release the suspect, pending another court date. The recovered drugs must first be verified in a lab before charges can be laid, said Dunlop, while the investigation is ongoing.

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A resident of the tent city on Cliff Avenue sat in quiet contemplation recently. The homeless camp – located behind the Salvation Army Caring Place – has been a source of contention for the City of Maple Ridge, and residents who live in the immediate area, as well as through the city.

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THE CARING PLACE

New model needed, mayor says When it comes to supporting the street population, it’s time to shake things up. ERIC ZIMMER ezimmer@mrtimes.com

The Salvation Army provides a lot of different services, including The Caring Place, but “they don’t seem to be able to able to have success with the street population in our community and across the Lower Mainland,” said Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read. “That’s the real issue for us.” The mayor’s comments came a day after the City announced it wants to cut ties with the Caring Place, and see the Sally Ann go. There’s a “limited number of dollars available” to fund things like The Caring

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She pointed to a shelter model in Coquitlam as one possible idea. Operated by Rain City Housing, the “purpose-built” facility has a shelter on one level, and supportive housing on the other, “so there’s different models we can look at.” Read said the City has had a number of conversations with the Sally Ann – primarily the organization’s regional leadership – over the last number of months,” and “we’ve expressed our concerns.” The type of impact a decision such as closing the Caring Place would have on the rest of the services the Salvation Army provides, was put forth to Salvation Army District Secretary Patricia Cuff, by Global BC’s John Hua. “I don’t know, but it does place us in a position of vulnerability,” she responded. “The reality is that in Maple Ridge, there’s over 100 homeless individuals and we have 25 beds.”

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New job is daunting Much like a new job, when kids first head off to daycare or kindergarten, it can be a move filled with excitement and apprehension, as TIMES columnist Kathy Booth explains.

Place and it’s important to make sure the programs and facilities are working and meeting their objectives, “otherwise, what’s the point?” she remarked. The shelter, she said, is supposed to serve as a temporary shelter for people who suddenly find themselves with no housing and need to be redirected. Instead, “people are sort of cycling in and out of the Caring Place” on an ongoing basis. “Why are we paying for that?” Read asked. “We need it to work effectively as intended, or we need to find another option.” However, Read stressed, “we’re most definitely not thinking we’re going to close 25 beds and drop those people off on the street.” Read said the City will be making an announcement “in the next day or two,” regarding the plan for a temporary shelter.

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The 92-year-old “Hammond Forever House” was a few feet taller than usual last week. To provide better insulation and allow for a new foundation to be installed, Nickel Bros. House Moving Ltd. lifted the heritage home at 11406 205th St., in cooperation with Ridgewater Homes Ltd. The lift is part of a renovation and retrofit that owners James Rowley and Leanne Koehn have been planning for what’s also known as the Whitehead residence for that past five years. It will allow for a deeper basement with seven-foot ceilings, super-insulation, and pipes in the concrete floor for radiant heat. “We originally planned to leave the basement alone, but then got excited about the idea of a super energy efficient house,” More online Rowley said. search ‘Forever’ “In 2008 we did our best to seal and insulate the house, but the basement was still losing a lot of heat, so this time we’re going all the way.” Koehn watched some of the work being done on Monday morning and is excited to see the family’s plans take shape.

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Mathew Goncalves, 11, and Andrew Goncalves, nine, checked out the big gap in the bricks at the Hammond Forever House. “It’s a vision we’ve had for five years but I couldn’t imagine the details,” Koehn said. “It was like, ‘okay that’s how they raise it, okay, that’s how they take out the whole foundation.’ We were looking at what we needed to change to improve our quality of life [in the house] for the next 50 years.” Koehn said she and Rowley have no plans on selling the home, and hope to pass it along to their children. “I don’t think it’s a popular approach in today’s day and age, where people want to own the newest house,” she added.

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City mulls smoke COLE WAGNER cole.wagner@mrtimes.com

These days, the grass is so dry that a single butt could be the cause of the next big blaze. The reality of the risk prompted the City of Chilliwack to beef up their smoking bylaw to prohibit smoking in all outdoor public places, and the news has kick started a discussion on Maple Ridge’s version of the bylaw. Under Maple Ridge’s current bylaw, smokers are prohibited from lighting up on swimming beaches, within sevenand-a-half metres of a building’s entrance, and any municipal parks where there are playing fields, playgrounds or organized fitness activities taking place. After news of Chilliwack’s Corisa Bell beefed-up bylaw hit social Maple Ridge media, both Mayor Nicole Read and Councillor Corisa Bell councillor expressed interest in having a similar discussion at the upcoming council meeting on Aug. 31. As far as Pitt Meadows is concerned, the smoking bylaw is even more relaxed than in Maple Ridge. There are no restrictions within the bylaw about lighting up around parks or playing fields, and the Pitt bylaw also excludes prohibiting e-cigarettes and vapourizers – something Maple Ridge’s council pushed to include in the bylaw earlier this year.

Sending kids back with pride Families are get ting needed support for back-to-school. RONDA PAYNE editorial@mrtimes.com

The Salvation Army Caring Place and Staples are making back-to-school easier to manage for families in need with this year’s backpack program. More than 250 backpacks filled with school supplies will be distributed to about 180 local families announced Connie McGonigal, the

Caring Place’s family and community ministries advocate. The program began more than a decade ago and has helped families with what can be a stressful time for both budgets and emotions. “The cost of sending our kids back to school is exorbitant,” McGonigal said. “Especially if there’s more than one student.” This past weekend the Salvation Army’s van and red kettles were set up at Valley Fair Mall for donations to the backpack program, with support from London Drugs as well, according to public

Connie McGonigal of the Salvation Army Caring Place shows off some of the items collected so far.

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urn on your TV and change it to a news channel, open a paper, or check the Internet. There’s a policy blizzard underway out there. In fact, its a wonder we aren’t snowed under with campaign promises. In fact, we’d have trouble keeping up if we were covering nothing but announcements from the three major political parties. While the United States is suffering through a bizarre Republican primary that is light on issues and heavy on Trump, Canada is a policy wonk’s dream. Just in the past week or so, we’ve seen the major party leaders make promises on senate reform, old age security, northern defense, business taxes, even home renovation tax credits. You could criticize some of these announcements. Many of them are on the small scale side of things. We’ve called for a debate on big issues – things like global warming, but we could as easily have said health care or the role of Canada’s military, post-secondary education, veterans and the future of our economy. So far, we haven’t seen too much discussion of those big issues. But the party leaders have a long road ahead of them, and they have to save some ammunition for September and October, when everyone’s back from summer getaways and can really get down to paying attention to the news again. Right now, we’re actually pleased that, at the very least, there are issues on the table. Not all of these issues are minor, either – when Harper talks about expanding the Junior Canadian Rangers, or Mulcair wants to return Old Age Security to 65 from 67 years, those are both indications of significant priorities for their potential governments. We’re in the middle of a long, long campaign. The leaders could have been excused for stretching things out, going to rallies, and not saying much. Instead, we’ve actually seen a lot of talk about how things would go under Trudeau, Harper, and Mulcair. It may be a little piecemeal right now, but it could be worse. We could be talking about Donald Trump. – TIMES

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have a “feels like” thermOur water comes from a ometer. 15-foot well, and no rain Indeed, it appears that means laundry gets done all of my outdoor thermat the laundromat. That’s our version of Stage 1 water ometers are “feels like” thermrestrictions. ometers. Trouble is, this morning, the Either that, or none of the same app told me that there weather apps on my phone was a 40 per cent chance that can be trusted. Thursday would bring about a Now, there’s a novel millimetre of rain. thought: the idea that the And yesterday it predicted weather predictors seldom get it right! It seems that some BOB GROENEVELD that Thursday (we’re still talking about the same Thursday, things don’t change at all, folks) offered a 60 per cent regardless of the changes in chance of providing between three and technology. five millimetres of rainfall. Actually, my forecasting app is usually Early in the week it optimistically pretty accurate… eventually. For instance, I’m writing this on Sunday declared a 90 per cent expectation of 5-10 and my app assures me that on Thursday, mm of rain on Thursday. That last became the prediction for the day you get to read this, there is a 30 Friday this morning... but now it’s hinting per cent chance that my neighbourhood at 1-3 mm, and just 60 per cent, at that. will be inundated with less than a milliIt looks like our hopes for a better metre of rain. well level are now pinned on Saturday’s Now, these days, I am looking forward expected 15-20 mm… although that to the prospect of any rain at all.

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expectation has been downgraded to just 60 per cent in the past couple of hours. I will predict that, by the time Saturday rolls around, there will be a 40 per cent chance that my weather app’s prediction will be 100 per cent right when it tells me there’s a 30 per cent chance that 10 per cent of the rain we expected on Thursday will fall on Sunday… or not. But it is always wrong about the temperature. And yet… it won’t really be wrong at all. Not the predicted temperature – not one day all summer has it predicted the temperature accurately enough to win a kewpie doll at the fall fair. But the current temperature, that’s another story. There’s the old joke about the radio weatherman sticking his head out the window and still getting the weather report wrong. That’s my app on temperatures. It very helpfully offers me two current temperatures at any given moment:

there’s the “actual” temperature and the “feels like” temperature. I guess the latter takes additional factors – wind speeds and humidity and the like – into account, so it can tell me that, although the “actual” temperature outside is 27 degrees, it feels like 30. Thing is, nearly every day this summer, my app’s “actual” temperature has been two, three, and sometimes four degrees shy of what my own thermometers have been telling me. My thermometers have been in perfect agreement with my app’s “feels like” temperature for my neighbourhood. In fact, the only time my app gets the “actual” temperature right is when it’s the same as its “feels like” temperature. Now only one really pertinent question actually remains. Why the heck do I bother to pull out my phone and check my weather app to determine that it’s simply too darned hot to do anything. Read Matthew Claxton’s Painful Truth online at mrtimes.com

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Pastor upset: Caring Place needs more Dear Editor,

An Open Letter to Maple Ridge Mayor & Council: I am greatly discouraged by the news of your attempt to defund The Caring Place and the similar review of Alouette Heights funding. Since the recent election, hate and anger directed at people experiencing homelessness has dramatically increased. This has created growing tensions on social media, heightened fear, and exacerbated the prejudices against The Caring Place and community members living on the street who are in great need. Politicking aided in creating this public outcry, and now you give this portion of our community what they want – what you want – to

rid this city of a compassionate organization you claim as the cause of homelessness related problems. Tens of thousands of dollars have been spent without consulting a single housing provider in Maple Ridge, the Community Network (of which I am a member), the Housing Table of the CN, and without the input of most of our community’s service providers – even while we have sought to offer resources, help and input. Despite the claim of transparency, we are left in the dark of your

process and your decision making, and you are left in the dark to community collaboration and information from service providers who know our community (housed, sheltered and unsheltered) best. As the pastor at Open Door Church and a fully engaged member of this community from multiple perspectives, I implore you to seek additional solutions rather than attempting to defund current solutions before new operations (or even a greater community plan) are in place.

Rather than defunding a service that cannot address the scope of the problem, start addressing our limited post-shelter, mental health and addiction resources, while continuing to add, not remove, more housing options. No, The Caring Place doesn’t work for Maple Ridge, they work for people in need – a voice and perspective drastically needed at the Maple Ridge Council and Resiliency Initiative tables. Bradley ChristiansonBarker, Pastor, Open Door Church

We, the true residents of Cliff Avenue, have endured many incredibly disturbing days and nights since the camp evolved on Cliff Avenue. From the dangerous altercations between

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Dear Editor,

I have had some concerns with the angle that your paper has taken in regards to the campers at tent city and around the community of Maple Ridge.

the camp residents fighting and yelling profanity at all hours of the night, we have lived in fear for months and feel that our mental health due to this environment has completely deteriorated, however it seems that our rights

I was extremely displeased to see that our successful and peaceful rally was associated with a terrible event that happened later that evening.

and feelings don’t matter. Council has not checked in on us or asked how we are dealing with living in this environment and yes, the residents feel abandoned in all of this. We were told by

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In light of the Cliff Avenue tent city and growing homeless issues in Maple Ridge, the City council has issued a public statement that it is withdrawing support for the Salvation Army’s Caring Place and asking BC Housing to end the Caring Place’s shelter contract.

“The Salvation Army Caring Place provides many valuable services to those in need in our community and should be allowed to continue to provide those services. However I am in complete agreement with Mayor Read that, as a shelter, it has lost the faith of community and should no longer operate in that capacity.” – Chris Bossley

“I cannot believe what I am reading this is not going to be good. I guess the mayor caved in money always wins. The Salvation has always tried to help the poor and people that have no where to go. This is a sad day for all.” – Susan Szabo

“About time some one does something productive, the poor people should get jobs like the rest of us.” – Cory White

“The Sally Ann should have had their licence pulled years ago and this problem would never had arisen. All that i see coming out of this is the Mayor and council now looking good and the Sally Ann looking the bad guys! I suppose the Mayor needed a scapegoat to wriggle out of the problem she created !” – Alvin Cohen

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Cliff Avenue’s true residents matter, too Dear Editor,

Doug Bing, MLA

the Caring Place that the campers on Cliff initially were there because they were not welcome at the shelter due to their lack of consideration in following the shelter’s rules or because they were demonstrating violent behaviour and drug use. Why is it okay for them to act like that on a residential street with small children? We invite anyone to pull up a chair on Cliff in the evenings and watch. There is a huge criminal element here amongst “tent residents,” and we as true residents are really tired of hearing the “camp people are scared,” yet the residents and children are expected to “suck it up” and deal with it when we have tenters who have been intimidating us since this whole things started. We’ve seen bows, bats, pipes, golf clubs and spiked balls on chains attached to clubs. The community is all tired of being scared and we matter, too.

Lisa Durant t Sullivan, Maple Ridge

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MAPLE RIDGE SEA CADETS Rider Cole Stovman surveyed his surroundings recently at the Albion Bike Park – just one of the many varied options available in town for those who like to play on two wheels. Troy Landreville/TIMES

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or years, both profesOf course, those looking for sional racers and cycling a bit more of a thrill, can rip enthusiasts have been it up on the region’s offerings coming to Maple Ridge of mountain bike trails as well – notably in Golden Ears and Pitt Meadows to check out Provincial Park. the ride offerings in the area. Beginner to advanced riders With bike lanes on many will enjoy the parks comstreets, bike lockups at sevbination of singletrack, wide eral businesses and annual doubletrack, to quality gravel cycling events, it’s no wonder and paved roads. the area is so popular with Many of the park’s trails two-wheeled-travellers. meander through a forest of To close out this series, I’d western red cedar, Douglas fir, like to highlight some areas in and red alder. which to find your rhythm. Although • Blue Heron CYCLE SERIES some of the Loop steeper trails This trail TIMES reporter and bike may prove chalis north of enthusiast Eric Zimmer lenging, most Lougheed wraps up his month-long are passable by Highway along series on local riding. intermediate the Maple riders. Ridge and Pitt The following Meadows bortrails are suitable for mountain der. biking: Alouette Mountain Fire • Hawk Rotary Loop Access Trail, East Canyon Trail, This trail loops around the Menzies Trail, and the Alouette western part of Pitt Meadows Mountain/Switchback/Eric taking in the business area Dunning Trail. along Harris Road and north to •The Woodlot the Fraser River and west along For the more advanced and the dikes.

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Aug. 28 Hominum • Hominum Fraser Valley – an informal discussion and support group for gay, bi-sexual and questioning men – holds a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Call Art at 604-462-9813, or Don at 604-329-9760 for meeting location.

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competed in the dairy showmanship event during the 4-H Festival at the Fair at the PNE this past weekend, while Maple Ridge’s Stepanie Jackson (far right) danced in Mermaid Tales, an underwater-themed musical performed on the BCAA ToonCity stage. These are just a few of the free daily events offered during the PNE, which runs until Sept. 7.

Aug. 29 Special Olympics • Special Olympics Ridge Meadows hosts a registration event at Haney Place Mall, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cost is $30.

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Aug. 29 Culture celebration • Spirit of the Pacific Cultural Society hosts Polynesian Days, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Memorial Peace Park. Dancing performances and mini-dance lessons in Hawaiian, Tahitian, and Maori. Crafts and Polynesian-themed vendors. Aug. 30 Car show • West Coast Nissan hosts a classic car show. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., with the show running from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. $10 entrance fee, and event includes a barbecue, door prizes, and a 50/50 draw. All proceeds go to the Friends in Need Food Bank.

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Sept. 3 Local Voices • Celebrate Maple Ridge through the voices of its citizens, at Local Voices, taking place at 7 p.m at the Maple Ridge Library. Presentations combine talks, readings, and performances with community dialogue. > See the full list at www.mrtimes.com

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Crease collision: While driving to the net with the puck, Ridge Meadows Flames forward Boston Colley crashed into both the Mission City Outlaws’ goaltender and one of their defenceman, during last Friday’s Pacific Junior Hockey League preseason game at Planet Ice. The Outlaws defeated the Flames 4-1. The Flames’ pre-season continues this Friday, Aug. 28, when they host the Port Moody Panthers at Planet Ice. Opening puck drop is 7:30 p.m. The Maple Ridge junior Bs’ regular season opener is Friday, Sept. 11, when they host the Delta Ice Hawks. Troy Landreville/TIMES

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Neptunes finally claimed the U12 championship gold, with a dominant performance in the final. The U14 team surprised everyone by battling their way into the championship game, before falling to the Coquitlam Sharks and claiming the silver medal. The U16s fought hard to get to the bronze medal game, and then went the distance with the North Delta Sunfish in the third place game, going to overtime and then falling in a shootout to finish fourth overall The U18 team, which was largely the same team as the U16s, ended up third after beating Coquitlam in the

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Canadian women’s hockey team member and gold medalist Meghan Agosta recently visited Pitt Meadows to help wrap up a weeklong hockey camp.

A registration event for Ridge Meadows Special Olympics (RMSO) takes place this Saturday at Haney Place Mall. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the cost to register is $30. RMSO is always looking for volunteers. Info: http://www.specialolympics. bc.ca/local/sobc-ridge-meadows.

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