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B.C. Housing has offered to buy the Quality Inn for supportive housing.

Petitions against Quality Inn shelter ‘Revisit through public consultation’

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

Former Maple Ridge councillor Michael Morden is leading the opposition to a supportive housing centre near downtown by starting an online petition. Morden As of Monday, 270 people had signed it, saying they oppose B.C. Housing’s purchase of the Quality Inn on Lougheed Highway, near 216th Street, for use as a long-term supportive housing complex. “People are very concerned about what’s going on,� said Morden Maple Ridge is about to upgrade its sports and recreation facilities costing millions. “Where are we going to house the incoming sports teams?� he asked. “I’m looking for the questions to be asked, and to be answered.�

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Heather Hopp, a server at The Pantry, and restaurant owner Kenny Shih look at a petition she started to oppose turning the adjoining Quality Inn motel into supportive housing.

‘Inn is not the right place’ Staff oppose bid by B.C. Housing to buy motel

By P h i l M e l nychuk pmelnychuk@mapleridgenews.com

K

enny Shih is not taking any restaurant reservations for the month of June.

The owner of The Pantry Restaurant in Maple Ridge is not sure what’s going to happen to his business of 31 years, after learning that the Quality Inn next door is about to be bought by B.C. Housing and converted into long-term supportive housing.

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Shih would like a phone call, from anyone, telling him what’s going to happen to his business in June, when the 61-unit motel, to which the restaurant is attached, is renovated and converted to institutional use. “Till now, no one has contacted me,� Shih said Monday, taking time out from the pre-lunch rush.

On a spring-break week, the place on Lougheed Highway and 217th Street is busy with its crowd of seniors who have trundled in off a bus, mixed with minor hockey players on a road trip from Terrace. “Our restaurant has stayed here more than 30 years,� said Shih.

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“We need to stay here, it’s most important.�

Shih says neither head office, the motel nor the city have contacted him. “At this moment, I don’t know. Everyone says it’s only a proposal. At this moment, I won’t project anything into the future.�

Shih is not only worried about keeping his own business going, but also for the 22 employees who work in the family restaurant. Some are long-term employees, having worked there more than 20 years.

If the renovations take place and the motel is converted to supportive housing, he’s not sure he can remain

open in the space that he leases.

Many of his customers are seniors who he says wouldn’t come to the restaurant if it’s next to long-term supportive housing.

Staff and customers feel the same way. Server Heather Hopp has started a petition demanding, “Stop the Move of the Homeless Shelter to the Quality Inn.� It’s placed at the counter and already has more than 100 names. “I’m not fighting for my job, I’m fighting for my community. Obviously, I want my job, but my community is the future,� said Hopp, a server at The Pantry for 17 years.

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Enviro school expands to Gr. 12 Elementary program started in 2011

By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com

The parents of students in the Environmental School are excited that their kids will now be able to attend their unique classes right though to graduation.

Maple Ridge’s environmental school, which sees students attend classes among the trees of the UBC Research Forest, is being expanded from elementary school to secondary.

Environmental school vice-principal and administrator Clayton Maitland talked about the new development while students explored erosion on the North Alouette River, caused by the heavy rains of the past week.

He talks with confidence about “real, lived experiences” as being important to learners, about the value of place-based learning for children, and the ecological pedagogy of his school.

The school was developed and opened in 2011, with the help of community partners and a $1 million federal grant. It is a self-guided, projectbased, hands-on learning experience.

The secondary environmental school is a pilot project, and there is no model to copy. The secondary program will be built using principles proven at the elementary level, and borrowing from some education programs that embrace the same values.

It will start in September.

“It might be ambitious, but I think it’ll work,” said Maitland.

It’s not a simple matter of taking traditional high school classroom work outside.

“You have to look at learning, instead of looking at the work that’s

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Environmental School students pound stakes into the ground for a school project in a scene from the documentary Found in the Forest, by Craig Cerhit. The stakes supported cones, which were used to protect newly planted saplings from being eaten by deer. done,” said Maitland.

Students will be challenged to find ways to learn through experiences, and apply it to the provincial high school curriculum. They must meet all the required graduation standards.

“I think the students are going to have to work harder, not less,” he said.

True academic rigour occurs when students “take on things with a passion, and start learning about it,” he asserts He expects the effects of the environmental school that he has observed in elementary students to continue for those in secondary grades. They become more of problem solvers and critical thinkers, said Maitland.

“The kids become more and more

resilient. And as a group, they help each other with problem solving.”

He said the environmental school model can work for anybody, but is generally a popular option for parents who home school their children, or kids who take online education.

“We get lots of interest from people who want to do things differently,” said Maitland. “Those people have been asking lots of questions,” about the secondary environmental school.

He said there are always talented and smart children who don’t thrive in the traditional school system.

“There’s a need for this.”

Parents of the elementary school students were excited by the decision by the school board on Wednesday

night.

Craig Cerhit is a documentary filmmaker who produced Found in the Forest about the environmental school. With time off, he was following his son, who is now in Grade 4 in the school.

Parents can be as engaged as they want to be with the school, he said.

Cerhit started filming and produced a two-hour feature.

He’s glad his son will have the option to continue his education the way it started.

“It’s great to have that choice. I’m happy to see the school board continued with being open to having a lot of different ways to look at education,” he said. “And it’s working for my son.”

He expects continuing the environmental school will be a popular choice for most with elementary students enrolled.

“We see a good thing happening, and we want it to continue,” he said.

“They’re outside and engaged, and learning through experience.”

Environmental school parent Melanie Gaudet has three boys in Grades 1, 2 and 7. Her oldest applied to attend Thomas Haney, which they felt offered some of the freedom he had at the environmental school, but he was assigned to Garibaldi. So the new secondary environmental school will be a better fit for him, she said.

He attended the environmental school from Grade 3 onward, and she watched him become more confident and excited about learning.

“The way he’s been learning is inquiry based and promotes independent learning,” she said. “It’ll prepare him better for life and for university.”

They will take a close look at the new program.

“I want to make sure he meets all the core requirements for high school.”

Her two youngest are well suited to an outdoor classroom, as well.

“They’re little boys, and they’re busy-busy.”

Shannon Hyde has a son in Grade 11 and a daughter in Grade 9 who both graduated from the environmental school to regular high school. Her son adapted well, but her daughter wasn’t happy with the system in her Grade 8 year. She has been home schooling her daughter in a child-centered approach she recently learned is referred to as “unschooling.”

Hyde said her daughter is happy to be able to return to the environmental school program for her remaining high school years.

“Kids need daily social contacts.”

• There will be a parent meeting about the new environmental secondary school on March 31 at 7 p.m., in the rotunda at Thomas Haney secondary school.

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both directions due to downed power lines, according to the City of Maple Ridge.

Sections of 284th and 286th streets were also closed.

Power was restored to all parts of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows by morning, though.

The Maple Ridge Fire Department has six weather-related calls Sunday and worked with Hydro, RCMP and the city in a unified effort to set priorities during the storm.

“Luckily, we didn’t get widespread damage,” said Russ Carmichael, city director of engineering operations.

“It was a fairly short-term event.”

Still, he added, crews worked hard to restore power and clear roads by morning.

It was the second severe storm in B.C. in a week.

On March 10, another powerful wind storm left tens of thousands of residents and businesses without electricity across southwestern B.C. and closed schools.

Most of Pitt Meadows south of the Lougheed Highway were without power, some 6,000 customers, and there were about a dozen outages in Maple Ridge, the largest affecting 3,100 customers north of Dewdney Trunk Road to Silver Valley, between 232nd and 216th streets.

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Power was out in parts of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows and roads were closed due to downed wires after another wind storm Sunday night.

Environment Canada issued a wind warning for much of B.C.’s southwest coast earlier that day, predicting gusts of up to 90 km/h.

“Strong winds across Victoria, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley have left 28,000 cus-

tomers without power,” at one point, according to B.C. Hydro.

Crews were dispatched in all affected areas to restore all customers as quickly as possible.

Power was out near Silver Valley, and in east Maple Ridge, as well as some areas of Pitt Meadows, mostly due to fallen trees on wires.

Several visitors to Golden Ears Provincial Park were stuck behind its entrance gates because of downed trees in the area, according to Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue.

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‘They could go to other shelters’ Morden added that there’s been no neighbourhood consultation and there’s been nothing to measure the impact of such a complex.

“I don’t believe that going into the Quality Inn is the right answer,” he said, speaking personally, not on behalf of the local chamber of commerce, of which he is president.

Morden, who ran against Mayor Nicole Read in the November 2014 civic election, gives some credit to council for attracting $5.5 million in spending from B.C. Housing.

But he wants council, as well as local MLAs and B.C. Housing, to revisit the issue and go through a public process to re-evaluate the selection of the Quality Inn as a site where sup-

portive housing will be offered to the remaining 40 residents of temporary homeless shelter in downtown Maple Ridge.

He also wants to know exactly how the complex will operate. He favours a long-term supportive housing complex, provided it’s in the right place.

“Otherwise, decisions will be made in the same way that the RainCity shelter was made, in absence of any kind of process.”

B.C. Housing also announced last week that the temporary shelter at 22239 Lougheed Highway would stay open another three months, until the Quality Inn had been renovated.

Initially, the temporary shelter was to be open only from Oct. 1 to March 31 to allow the city to clear the Cliff Avenue homeless camp be-

side the Salvation Army.

Morden said turning the hotel into a supportive housing complex will remove about half of the hotel spaces in Maple Ridge.

“This is about the community here. There are places where this can work,” he said, adding he knows that supportive housing has to be near services.

Mayor Nicole Read said that it would be difficult for council to refuse the hotel location.

Doing so would mean scattering sites across the city.

“I don’t think that’s a better option,” she said.

B.C. courts have also ruled that cities have to provide place for people to live, and if they don’t, people are allowed to camp outside.

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ago and a street camp resulted, Read pointed out.

“When B.C. Housing comes forward with $5.5 million and a plan … that they are saying they believe will work, it’s very difficult position for council to say, ‘No, we don’t want to see you try to make that work.’”

Read said B.C. Housing has also mentioned building a purpose-built facility, possibly similar to the 3030 Gordon complex in Coquitlam, and which could operate in tandem with the long-term supportive housing complex at the Quality Inn. “The city would have to find land, so there’s a lot of work that needs to be done on that,” Read said.

Maple Ridge and B.C. Housing have yet to sign a memorandum of understanding calling for the opening of the supportive housing complex. That will be final-

ized after a public input session on the proposal, a date for which has yet to be set.

Read also said that the province will follow the city’s rezoning process, which will require a public hearing. It’s possible if councillors change their vote that the proposal could be defeated.

Only Couns. Gordy Robson and Corisa Bell opposed the initial March 7 resolution calling for converting the Quality Inn. “I don’t think this has been an easy process,” said Read.

She admitted she was angry and frustrated at the temporary shelter not closing by the March 31 deadline.

“I was not at all happy to have to move forward on the resolution to keep it open for another three months.”

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“I just feel that this is not the right area. I think

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Instead of a shelter, she thinks treatment centres are needed. Keeping homeless people in a room and closing a door isn’t helping them, she added.

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Housing was surprised by the acuity of addiction and mental illness of the shelter’s last 40 residents. That meant it has taken longer to find them housing.

She pointed out that the Quality Inn has been for sale for a while and, if it sold, it could have been used for other purposes, removing those hotel rooms from the city tourism resources.

It’s now more urgent that Maple Ridge get more hotel spaces.

Robson said if the city had rejected converting the Quality Inn into long-term housing, he doubts that the temporary shelter residents would have been put out on to the street.

Those people could have been relocated to other shelters, he said.

Robson was the contractor and co-owner of the hotel when it was built in the 1980s.

“These people don’t need housing, they need treatment. They’re un-

houseable. It’s going to tear the town apart.”

Council, on Monday, approved a motion calling for Housing Minister Rich Coleman to work with MLAs Bing and Marc Dalton to affirm that the Quality Inn is the best place for a supportive housing project, and to name an alternative if that wasn’t the case.

Dalton said it’s been a “very challenging situation for our community.

It’s not easy.”

He wants to wait until public consultation process to take place, adding there’s no easy solution, although providing housing and servicing is important.

The province has stepped up and purchased the property because of the need, he added.

But waiting for something else to be built could take a while and create a lag in services.

“We’re walking through this together.”

there’s got to be a better location, I really do,” she said.

Keara Baggio has also worked at The Pantry for 17 years and has written Premier Christy Clark, Housing Minister Rich Coleman and Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read after learning last week of the plans.

“Everybody is shocked.

We couldn’t believe it,” she said.

She thinks converting the motel to housing would destroy the business.

“I feel that this is the wrong approach, taking our hotel.”

No one wants to bring their kids or grandparents to a place surrounded by homeless people, Baggio said.

In her letter, she said many travelers stay at the Quality Inn. “I’ll say it once again,

that this is the wrong place to have a homeless shelter.”

Instead, she suggests a long-term facility be built, and in the meantime, people in the shelter could be housed at the former Riverview Hospital for the mentally ill in Coquitlam.

“Because we don’t have anything in our community.”

Matt Kelso, who’s been watching the temporary shelter since it opened in October, said converting the motel into housing is just matter of moving the people from one place to another.

He’s concerned about the number of closed meetings that council is having.

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Conundrum Several petitions have been started online against long-term supportive housing at Quality Inn, including one by former Maple Ridge councillor Mike Morden, the other by staff at The Pantry, adjoined to the hotel on Lougheed Highway since it was built in the 1980s.

The latter fear for their jobs.

Morden and others think the hotel is a poor location and want more consultation.

Some have suggested supportive housing for those moving out of the city’s temporary homeless shelter be further east, although Morden understands such services need to be close to others. Some others wish not to see such a facility in Maple Ridge, period.

The conundrum is that those who are difficult to house need support or they could end up back where they came from, camping on the street.

And as Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read has pointed out, refusing B.C. Housing’s $5.5 million offer to buy the hotel, which was listed for sale, would be difficult, since there are few other existing options with enough space, and that B.C. courts have previously ruled cities are required to provide supportive accommodations if they won’t allow homeless to camp.

B.C. Housing is planning a public information session and will have to follow the city rezoning process.

Council, though, has already voted 5-2 in favour of an initial resolution to convert the Quality Inn. Coun. Gordy Robson was one who opposed it. He thinks those at the city shelter should be moved to treatment facilities. He and others also fear supportive housing at the hotel could tear the neighbourhood, even the community apart.

We would side with him, except that downtown Maple Ridge has been dealing with homelessness and its associated ills – addiction, mental illness, thefts and property damage – for more than a decade. No neighbourhood suffered more than that around the Salvation Army. The only real improvements occurred when the temporary shelter opened.

Passing problems around is no solution. The province is offering to purchase the hotel because a need exists.

But is this decision being rushed? If the temporary shelter funding can be extended three more months, why not six, while more consultation occurs to see if a resolution that more appeases the community can be found?

To suggest that waiting could create a lag in services is to pretend they existed here to begin with.

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Tent camp next to Victoria courthouse persists even as shelter and housing spaces are added. Housing Minister Rich Coleman says some campers are there as a protest and they want a confrontation.

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s the B.C. government spends millions on an international brand campaign with the recycled slogan “Super, Natural B.C.,” another brand identity has spread across Canada.

B.C. Views This one’s uninTom Fletcher tentional. It hit a new peak last week with the arrival of two young men from Saskatchewan, who were given oneway tickets to Vancouver and Victoria by typically burdened social services ministry staff in North Battleford.

Sorting through the blizzard of soothing sound bites and sympathetic TV clips, a clearer picture emerges.

In his initial interview with the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Charles NeilCurly, at 23 the elder of the two, said he decided to head west when shelter staff told him his time had run out and he asked for bus tickets to B.C. “When they asked if I had a place to go, I just said, ‘yeah’,” Neil-Curly said.

“I was going to the next homeless shelter anyway.”

Transients and panhandlers aren’t the only ones who say whatever they figure will get them through another day.

Politicians do it, too.

Admitting she knew little about the arrivals, Premier Christy Clark sug-

gested that both were mentally ill and deserve every support the province can give them.

B.C. housing czar Rich Coleman has also demonstrated factual flexibility as he presides over the creation of his latest single-room-occupancy drug ghetto in a residential neighbourhood in Victoria.

After quietly proposing a closeddown nursing home called Mount Edwards Court as a temporary solution to the filthy “tent city” that sprang up on provincial property last fall, Coleman abruptly announced from his Langley office Feb. 5 that the building had been bought and partly renovated for $4 million. It would house 38 people for up to a year.

I asked him if the purchase meant the conversion of Mount Edwards into permanent “low-barrier” housing for 100 people was a “done deal,” as area residents believe. “They’re wrong,” Coleman indignantly replied, and there would be community consultation over the next year.

In subsequent comments to reporters, he said the province doesn’t really need city zoning, but will apply for it anyway. (That won’t be a problem with Victoria’s far-left city council, which is keen to add a supervised injection site, too.)

On Feb. 24, Coleman was asked if he is concerned that the 88 housing units at two locations would fill up and other transients would arrive to take

their place. By that time the tent squat appeared to have about 100 people in residence, with the usual overdoses, violence and prostitution.

Coleman assured us it hasn’t happened in Abbotsford or Maple Ridge, where tent camps have finally been cleaned up after shelters and housing were provided.

The next day, he was asked if transitional accommodations would be sufficient to end the camp.

“They’re not actually all that transitional,” Coleman replied. “We’ll take Mount Edwards through a zoning process. We’ve got about 100 beds there.

We’ve bought the building so it’s hardly transitional. We’ve permanently done that.”

Fast forward to March 11. The 38 Mount Edwards spaces are full, another 40 rooms and camping spaces at a former youth custody centre are almost full, and the province applies for a court order to clear the Victoria camp.

A representative of the advocacy group Together Against Poverty Society goes on local radio to pledge legal support for the campers. How many are there now? At least 100, he says.

Meanwhile in Maple Ridge, where the “homeless” problem is all fixed, Coleman has just extended temporary shelter funding and offered $5.5 million for a 61-room motel to fix it some more.

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

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Ginger Elton · Re: Funding for temporary homeless shelter extended.

Yes, open Riverview and utilize all of the lands for housing, mental health assistance and rehab. I already have problems with homeless going though my yard, so much that I can’t let my children outside to play on their own. Do you worry about the safety of your children in your yard up in Silver Valley, Nicole? This hotel is at the end of my street.

Where is the consultation? Will there be increased police patrols? Will the residents of this area get a tax break for the decrease in property values?

• Joanne Ingalls · Re: Funding for temporary homeless shelter extended.

I don’t think it’s right to take a business that is already there and make it into a housing unit. I have friends who work in the Pantry restaurant.

Do you honestly think people will continue to go there to eat? ... I agree, something needs to be done, but, seriously, find somewhere else.

• Sandra Schellenberg-Ralston · Re: Funding for temporary homeless shelter extended.

Instead of buying the Quality Inn, they should open Riverview again and really try to help them.

• Valerie Ross · Re: Funding for temporary homeless shelter extended.

Good work, Maple Ridge. It’s so sad that people complain so much but do nothing to help bring positive change in their community. We live behind the cold weather shelter in Port Moody, have never had a single problem and our property value continues to go up. Solutions are needed to support the vulnerable members of every community.

• Lee Mccartney · Re: Funding for temporary homeless shelter extended.

Not only are the property values going to go down, but how many times are our houses going to be broken into and things stolen from the yards. Not to happy about this. I guess it’s time to move.

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Is this a ‘take it or leave it’ location from the provincial government or did it offer options for council?

My guess is that council impulsively jumped at the first option presented to the province without giving the big picture a second look.

Did anyone consider the impact this will have on the commercial and residential area?

Will we now become a community closer to a resolution in managing the homeless or has council just opened up the doors more to allow outside transients to prey on the less fortunate and vulnerable?

If so, then what is the point of moving the current situation from one location to another, where accountability will once again be nonexistent and selfharm will continue to run rampant?

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On site intervention and counselling is paramount if sobriety is the goal.

The hardest part of sobering up is recognizing the need to alter your life to make the change and believing in yourself.

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Not consulted Editor, The News: Re: Homeless shelter extended (The News, March 11).

I will say this until I am blue in the face, I have nothing against the unfortunate and homeless, but why wasn’t the public consulted about the Quality Inn? It is so close to a day care facility, an elementary and high school. Why was there no consideration toward the east end of town?

Oh, and at the last minute, when the

deal is final, you’ll have a public meeting for residents who have questions?

I have a question: why not go east? Why so secret? Did you consult the surrounding businesses?

This isn’t a new pet store you’re opening.

There are so many variables to consider instead of just trying to slam a solution on a problem.

I don’t think any of our concerns were considered here in the west of Maple Ridge.

Thanks for nothing.

Dalene Lazarenko Maple Ridge

We knew it Editor, The News: Re: Homeless shelter extended (The News, March 11).

We knew the shelter wouldn’t close in March. Let’s extend it for another $270,000.

Meanwhile, we have the Quality Inn soon to be a run down garbage dump (remember Cliff Ave).

How about giving the people who live and work in Maple Ridge the right to vote on it. We used to have a lovely city, a pleasure to live in, but not anymore.

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Last week we did the soft launch of our ‘Hot Topics’ link off the home page of the City website at mapleridge.ca.

Click on the flaming photo on the right and you are taken to an ever-changing menu of items that will allow you to find important information that is before Council, public engagement work that’s underway and topics that are trending on the community radar. It’s that simple.

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If you are unable to attend a Council Meeting, Public Hearing, Workshop, or Committee of the Whole meeting you can now watch these meetings on your computer 24/7. The entire unedited meetings are posted two to three days after the meeting. The video is indexed to the agenda package so that you can watch them in their entirety or click through by agenda item. Go to mapleridge.ca and click on the video link at the centre of the home page. In addition, Council Meetings, Workshops, and Committee of the Whole are now broadcast on the internet via live streaming using the same technology used for our live budget Q&A sessions. For more information about the live stream go to the ‘Council Meetings’ page at mapleridge.ca.

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In addition to Easter weekend holiday hours, upcoming events include the Spring Brush Chipping Program, the society’s annual general meeting on April 5, Life After School Transition (LAST) committee’s transition resource fair on April 12, and Earth Day on April 23.

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There will be no curbside recycling pickup on Good Friday, March 25, or Easter Monday, March 28.

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Breeders typically charge in excess of $1,000 for these animals and don’t accept returns.

The whole micro, mini pig industry is a scam developed by unscrupulous people who don’t care one bit about the animals.

Pet pigs who are devastated by the loss of their family. It needs to stop.

– Magdalena Romanow is a volunteer at Katie’s Place animal shelter.

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2015 Annual Report

Maple Ridge Community Foundation

funding from the Maple Ridge Community Foundation has subsidized the money we receive from the churches, commiting sustainability to this important program. It has also helped us increase capacity over the years,” says Hemminger, “In 2015 we expanded to the alternate school, Connex, and we plan to expand further in 2016.”

Treasurer’s Report As our great community of Maple Ridge continues to grow, demands for more grants and further investment from our Foundation increase as well. In order to manage the annual budget and plan for the future, our goal is to increase these funds from $800,000 to $1,000,000 in 2016. By increasing our permanent endowment funds we will be better able to meet the educational, cultural, and physical needs of the community, and to continue improving the lives of local residents.

We plan on achieving this financial goal by way of the Legacy Campaign, in line with our 40th Anniversary in 2016. As we grow the Foundation’s funds, we will work with our Investment Advisors who will help ensure good fiscal health, as well as administer funds for the operational and investment objectives.

Your contributions support profound change for the individuals and non-profit organizations in our community, and we are counting on them to help us achieve these goals.

Kathi Halpin, CPA, CGA Treasurer, Maple Ridge Community Foundation

2015 Grants Alisa's Wish Child & Youth Advocacy Centre, Maple Ridge Community Services $3,750 for the Child and Youth Victim Abuse Support Program ($3,000 from MRCF and $750 provided by the George Mussallem Youth Fund) Alouette Addictions Services- $1,000 for YAPP - Youth Awareness Power Program CEED Centre - $800 for purchase of new chairs Eric Langton Elementary, School District 42 - $2,750 for Meal Program Enhancement (funds provided by the George Mussallem Youth Fund) Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Society for BC - $1,000 for Local Speech and Language Therapy Resources

Financial Position - Snapshot

Maple Ridge Historical Society – $1,500 for Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Times Collection

Current Assets $ 60,847 Investments $687,883 Endowment Fund $110,000 $858,730

Ridge Meadows Youth Advocacy – $2,300 for Youth Diversion Program Awareness

Current Liabilities $ 4,714 Unrestricted net assets $ 44,234 Restricted net assets $809,782 $858,730

The Salvation Army Caring Place – $1,500 for Community Meal Program Three Rivers Scouts - $1,500 for Scout Membership (funds provided by George Mussallem Youth Fund)

Funds Under Administration YFC Youth Unlimited - $5,000 for Breakfast Program for SD42 High School Students

General Endowment

Agency

Anne and Richard Vogel Fund Austin Pelton Memorial Fund Brian Elliott Family Fund Bruce Johnston Fund Communitiy Endowment Fund Dave and Donna Telep Fund Directors’ Endowment Dunning Family Fund John and Douglas King Family Fund Marv Jones Family Fund Patrick Smith Family Fund Robert Harrison Family Fund Shantz Family Fund Stephen and Joanne Telep Fund Tom Meier Fund

Ridge Meadows Youth Advocacy Fund Ridge Meadows Hospice Society Fund Ridge Meadows Seniors Fund

Donor Advised Community Chest Founders’ Cup Charity Classic Founders’ Cup Special Fund Mussalem Youth Fund Rotary of Haney Youth

Scholarship Mussallem Vocational Education Fun Turell Brown Memorial Scholarship

MRCF grants 2000-2015 Health & Social Services

$228,012 $57,668 Seniors & Disabled

$29,850

Food & Shelter

Children & Youth

$28,500

$99,889 Planet Environment

$17,718 Ron Merkley Memorial Library Fund Van Vloten Cultural Fund

How to Give

$24,752

Arts & Culture

Place text here Environmental Endowment Fund

Hemminger enjoys recounting a story of a tremendous breakfast program success. A young lady was an early arrival at her high school, mainly because she needed to get out of her house as soon as possible. She sat in the hallways and didn’t acknowledge many people. Some of the program’s volunteers eventually convinced her to join them for breakfast, where she eventually became a regular. Their rapport grew to an invitation to help prepare and serve, and this young lady is now a consistent volunteer who has invited other students to volunteer. She has taken on a leadership role and the Youth Unlimited team counts on her opinions when it comes to the mechanics of the breakfast mornings. From no contact to leadership within two year! Breakfast, encouraging workers and our extraordinary volunteers made it so.

Leisure & Recreation

Education

$145,256

...continued from page 1...

Youth Unlimited has received four grants from MRCF, all of which have helped facilitate an expansion to their breakfast program each year. “The

Designated Endowment

Endowment for Physically Disabled Robson Family Fund Rotary of Haney Endowment Fund

For the Youth Unlimited team, it’s so much more than simply providing a nourishing meal. It is one way for them to begin building relationships with those students who need a helping hand. This is one introduction to them, where they can get know their journey and to inspire them to keep going. Their goal is to be there to do what they can to see that students get what they need in life. At some schools they supervise games rooms at lunchtime, or get involved in other clubs. They get their hands dirty, literally; once a week Hemminger washes dishes at one of the school’s cafeterias.

Total $631,645

Preserving Local History The Maple Ridge Historical Society received a very large collection of negatives and prints, covering all of the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Times’ photography from 1985 to 2002. Val Patenaude, of MRHS, explained, “This is a huge organizational project, to sort through all of these images! What a special undertaking, though, to preserve these important pieces of our community’s history in a modern, efficient way. I’m honoured that we get to be a part of it.

Though the 1980’s and 1990’s may not feel particularly historic now, they will soon. We are collecting these now, to preserve for the future.”

In November 2015, Maple Ridge Community Foundation granted $1,500 to the Maple Ridge Historical Society. These funds helped to purchase a quality negative to digital scanner, ensuring the society had the most productive tools to complete their project.

Big or small, every donation will make a difference.

Gifts to the Maple Ridge Community Foundation are tax deductible and offer you a great deal of flexibility in how you make your donation. For instance, you can: * * * * *

Make an outright gift of cash, securities or real property Set up an automatic payment schedule Donate property for a desired purpose Provide for a bequest in your will Take out a gift of life insurance

For more information, or to easily give online, please visit www.mrcf.ca/giving.

Maple Ridge Community Foundation PO Box 370 Maple Ridge, B.C. V2X 8K9 Telephone: Email: Twitter/Instagram: Facebook:

604.466.3312 execassist@mrcf.ca @wearemapleridge facebook.com/MapleRidgeCommunityFoundation

Hemminger keeps in touch with many graduated students, and enjoys the opportunity to offer support in different areas of their lives. One breakfast club connection is a young man who Dennis helped move into his own place last year, and meets for coffee regularly to keep in touch, discuss budgeting, and other important life aspects.

“We understand that part of our job is to connect outside of the school, after hours, on the weekend. We get to build these important lasting relationships that way. One great kid even borrowed my car for their road test, and crashed it!” he adds with a chuckle.

The Maple Ridge Community Foundation has one annual deadline for receiving grant applications, which is the 2nd Friday of October.

Learn more about MRCF’s granting opportunities at mrcf.ca.

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2015 Annual Report

Maple Ridge Community Foundation

funding from the Maple Ridge Community Foundation has subsidized the money we receive from the churches, commiting sustainability to this important program. It has also helped us increase capacity over the years,” says Hemminger, “In 2015 we expanded to the alternate school, Connex, and we plan to expand further in 2016.”

Treasurer’s Report As our great community of Maple Ridge continues to grow, demands for more grants and further investment from our Foundation increase as well. In order to manage the annual budget and plan for the future, our goal is to increase these funds from $800,000 to $1,000,000 in 2016. By increasing our permanent endowment funds we will be better able to meet the educational, cultural, and physical needs of the community, and to continue improving the lives of local residents.

We plan on achieving this financial goal by way of the Legacy Campaign, in line with our 40th Anniversary in 2016. As we grow the Foundation’s funds, we will work with our Investment Advisors who will help ensure good fiscal health, as well as administer funds for the operational and investment objectives.

Your contributions support profound change for the individuals and non-profit organizations in our community, and we are counting on them to help us achieve these goals.

Kathi Halpin, CPA, CGA Treasurer, Maple Ridge Community Foundation

2015 Grants Alisa's Wish Child & Youth Advocacy Centre, Maple Ridge Community Services $3,750 for the Child and Youth Victim Abuse Support Program ($3,000 from MRCF and $750 provided by the George Mussallem Youth Fund) Alouette Addictions Services- $1,000 for YAPP - Youth Awareness Power Program CEED Centre - $800 for purchase of new chairs Eric Langton Elementary, School District 42 - $2,750 for Meal Program Enhancement (funds provided by the George Mussallem Youth Fund) Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Society for BC - $1,000 for Local Speech and Language Therapy Resources

Financial Position - Snapshot

Maple Ridge Historical Society – $1,500 for Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Times Collection

Current Assets $ 60,847 Investments $687,883 Endowment Fund $110,000 $858,730

Ridge Meadows Youth Advocacy – $2,300 for Youth Diversion Program Awareness

Current Liabilities $ 4,714 Unrestricted net assets $ 44,234 Restricted net assets $809,782 $858,730

The Salvation Army Caring Place – $1,500 for Community Meal Program Three Rivers Scouts - $1,500 for Scout Membership (funds provided by George Mussallem Youth Fund)

Funds Under Administration YFC Youth Unlimited - $5,000 for Breakfast Program for SD42 High School Students

General Endowment

Agency

Anne and Richard Vogel Fund Austin Pelton Memorial Fund Brian Elliott Family Fund Bruce Johnston Fund Communitiy Endowment Fund Dave and Donna Telep Fund Directors’ Endowment Dunning Family Fund John and Douglas King Family Fund Marv Jones Family Fund Patrick Smith Family Fund Robert Harrison Family Fund Shantz Family Fund Stephen and Joanne Telep Fund Tom Meier Fund

Ridge Meadows Youth Advocacy Fund Ridge Meadows Hospice Society Fund Ridge Meadows Seniors Fund

Donor Advised Community Chest Founders’ Cup Charity Classic Founders’ Cup Special Fund Mussalem Youth Fund Rotary of Haney Youth

Scholarship Mussallem Vocational Education Fun Turell Brown Memorial Scholarship

MRCF grants 2000-2015 Health & Social Services

$228,012 $57,668 Seniors & Disabled

$29,850

Food & Shelter

Children & Youth

$28,500

$99,889 Planet Environment

$17,718 Ron Merkley Memorial Library Fund Van Vloten Cultural Fund

How to Give

$24,752

Arts & Culture

Place text here Environmental Endowment Fund

Hemminger enjoys recounting a story of a tremendous breakfast program success. A young lady was an early arrival at her high school, mainly because she needed to get out of her house as soon as possible. She sat in the hallways and didn’t acknowledge many people. Some of the program’s volunteers eventually convinced her to join them for breakfast, where she eventually became a regular. Their rapport grew to an invitation to help prepare and serve, and this young lady is now a consistent volunteer who has invited other students to volunteer. She has taken on a leadership role and the Youth Unlimited team counts on her opinions when it comes to the mechanics of the breakfast mornings. From no contact to leadership within two year! Breakfast, encouraging workers and our extraordinary volunteers made it so.

Leisure & Recreation

Education

$145,256

...continued from page 1...

Youth Unlimited has received four grants from MRCF, all of which have helped facilitate an expansion to their breakfast program each year. “The

Designated Endowment

Endowment for Physically Disabled Robson Family Fund Rotary of Haney Endowment Fund

For the Youth Unlimited team, it’s so much more than simply providing a nourishing meal. It is one way for them to begin building relationships with those students who need a helping hand. This is one introduction to them, where they can get know their journey and to inspire them to keep going. Their goal is to be there to do what they can to see that students get what they need in life. At some schools they supervise games rooms at lunchtime, or get involved in other clubs. They get their hands dirty, literally; once a week Hemminger washes dishes at one of the school’s cafeterias.

Total $631,645

Preserving Local History The Maple Ridge Historical Society received a very large collection of negatives and prints, covering all of the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Times’ photography from 1985 to 2002. Val Patenaude, of MRHS, explained, “This is a huge organizational project, to sort through all of these images! What a special undertaking, though, to preserve these important pieces of our community’s history in a modern, efficient way. I’m honoured that we get to be a part of it.

Though the 1980’s and 1990’s may not feel particularly historic now, they will soon. We are collecting these now, to preserve for the future.”

In November 2015, Maple Ridge Community Foundation granted $1,500 to the Maple Ridge Historical Society. These funds helped to purchase a quality negative to digital scanner, ensuring the society had the most productive tools to complete their project.

Big or small, every donation will make a difference.

Gifts to the Maple Ridge Community Foundation are tax deductible and offer you a great deal of flexibility in how you make your donation. For instance, you can: * * * * *

Make an outright gift of cash, securities or real property Set up an automatic payment schedule Donate property for a desired purpose Provide for a bequest in your will Take out a gift of life insurance

For more information, or to easily give online, please visit www.mrcf.ca/giving.

Maple Ridge Community Foundation PO Box 370 Maple Ridge, B.C. V2X 8K9 Telephone: Email: Twitter/Instagram: Facebook:

604.466.3312 execassist@mrcf.ca @wearemapleridge facebook.com/MapleRidgeCommunityFoundation

Hemminger keeps in touch with many graduated students, and enjoys the opportunity to offer support in different areas of their lives. One breakfast club connection is a young man who Dennis helped move into his own place last year, and meets for coffee regularly to keep in touch, discuss budgeting, and other important life aspects.

“We understand that part of our job is to connect outside of the school, after hours, on the weekend. We get to build these important lasting relationships that way. One great kid even borrowed my car for their road test, and crashed it!” he adds with a chuckle.

The Maple Ridge Community Foundation has one annual deadline for receiving grant applications, which is the 2nd Friday of October.

Learn more about MRCF’s granting opportunities at mrcf.ca.

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Maple Ridge Community Foundation Board of Directors

Andy Cleven Director

Roger Cummings Director

Ernie Daykin Director

Bart Findlay Director

Jan Hickman Director

Rick Howard Director

Patricia Van Vloten Director

Monica Hampu President

Phil Bourque Vice President

Brandee McWhinney Secretary

Kathi Haplin Treasurer

President’s Message The Maple Ridge Community Foundation reflects on 2015 as a year of transition, progress and commitment. Our President of 9 years, Robert Prince, retired, and another respected board member, Lori Graham, also moved on. It was our pleasure to welcome Roger Cummings, Ernie Daykin and Bart Findlay as new Directors. They are valued additions to our team, and have already offered excellent support and vision.

With contributions from our Maple Ridge business community and residents, we continue to grant much-needed funds to organizations working hard to make a difference. In 2015, we were able to support ten local non-profits in the areas of education, environment, health & social services, food & shelter, arts & culture, and leisure & recreation.

In 2016 we are celebrating our Ruby Anniversary, 40 years of the Maple Ridge Community Foundation. We are immensely proud of the contributions we have been able to make to this community. It is also the 25th Anniversary of our Citizen of the Year Award. We look forward to seeing many of you at our Citizen of the Year Award fundraiser dinner on May 14th, where we will be celebrating with the theme ‘There’s No Place Like Home’.

Please be sure to also mark your calendars for the 5th Annual Community FORE Charity golf tournament on June 13th.

Congratulations to all staff and volunteers, donors and sponsors who made 2015 a great year. Special thanks to our Board of Directors who volunteer their time, believe in our vision, support our plans, and provide immeasurable personal time investment.

I would like to personally encourage you to get involved, to reach out and connect with us. I am looking forward to a meaningful and memorable year ahead.

Monica Hampu President, Maple Ridge Community Foundation

Congratulations to our 2015 Citizen of the Year Award Recipient,

Think of the Maple Ridge Community Foundation as Maple Ridge’s permanent savings account...

The Maple Ridge Community Foundation (MRCF) manages a permanent endowment in order to respond to emerging and changing community needs, today and in the future. This allows us to be able to provide a vehicle and service for donors with varied interests and at various levels of charitable giving.

MRCF accumulate capital through gifts from individuals, families, and businesses. The annual investment income on this capital is granted to charitable organizations in Maple Ridge that address needs in education, health, recreation, the environment and the arts.

Since its inception, Maple Ridge Community Foundation has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants back to local non-profit organizations.

In 2016, Maple Ridge Community Foundation celebrates 40 years of service.

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She works with the Golden Ears Gogos group supporting the Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign in Africa, has been a longstanding member and past Director of the Ridge Meadows Recycling Society, served many years on the municipal Social Planning Advisory Committee, and was a valuable Director and President at the CEED Centre.

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THE NEWS/arts&life A pro show for Kanaka choir

By Colleen Flanagan cflanagan@mapleridgenews.com

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ward-winning children’s entertainer Rick Scott will be returning to the ACT with Kanaka Creek elementary Kid’s Choir.

The three-time Juno nominee and 2013 Children’s Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards will be performing with the 57-member choir, accompanied by his trademark Appalachian mountain dulcimer. Or, as the children like to call it, an electric snowshoe.

It will be an evening of song and story telling with Scott, who combines music and humour in a concert for all ages.

For over 45 years Scott has performed more than 1,000 shows in schools, festivals and concert halls in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Southeast Asia.

He has released 18 albums, including a four-disc musical audio novel and seven children’s albums.

The choir will be performing 12 to 14 of Scott’s original works and will be joined by 37 Kindergarten students for four of them.

Choir director Dawn Flanagan has

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Tina Zubek-Smeding, Grade One, mimics playing the violin during rehearsal with the Kanaka Creek choir on Thursday. worked with Scott in the past.

“One of the great things about Rick is that his songs are so much fun and

he genuinely interacts with the kids,” said Flanagan.

“He came for a practice last week

and it was like magic. They just connect with him.”

The choir has been practicing after

Contact 604-467-1122 ext. 214 arts@mapleridgenews.com

school once a week since January for the concert.

Eh Canada! is Graydon Fuller’s favourite.

“There are funny parts for people who aren’t from Canada,” said the Grade 2 student.

Lily Austin, Grade 7, likes Angels’s Do. “It’s for kids who are autistic and about them not being so different from us,” said Lily.

Flanagan first thought of moving the concert to the ACT following a performance with Norman Foote held in the school’s gym.

“If you’re last in the door, you’re not going to see your kid. You are not really going to hear them. It’s just packed,” said Flanagan. “To have it at a venue like the ACT, which is beautiful and it is part of our community, and get kids and families into the theatre, it’s great. It’s better seating, it’s better sound. They get the whole experience, the big stage.

And it feels like a more professional show all around.”

• Rick Scott will be performing with the Kanaka Creek Choir on March 23 at 7 p.m. at The ACT, 11944 Haney Place, Maple Ridge. Tickets to the concert are $15 for adults, $13 for seniors, youth and children.

For more information, call 604-476-2787 or to www.theactmapleridge.org.

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St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Jam Tuesday, March 22 With special guests The Navvies and the Mission Pipe Band!

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Two local individuals have been honoured with scholarships in their names, a first by the ACT’s board of directors.

The newly named scholarship awards honour the legacies of Judith Bergthorson and Amy Wallace, who both passed away last year.

“This is the first time we’ve ever named a scholarship after anybody,” said Karen Pighin, communications manager at the ACT. There are five $1,000 scholarships handed out each year by the ACT in the categories of music, dance, drama/technical theatre, visual and media arts and literary arts.

The theatre scholarship is now in the name of Wallace and the music one is in the name of Bergthorson.

Wallace was a resident of Port Coquitlam, but her early training was at the Peggy Peat School of Dance in Maple Ridge.

She was in the 2004

Arts Club production of SUDS at the ACT and was nominated for a Jesse Award for her role as Belle in the Stanley Theatre’s production of Beauty and the Beast.

She spent four seasons as Anne of Green Gables at the Charlottetown Festival. In 2012, she starred as Mabel in Pirates of Penzance at the Stratford Festival and as Sally in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. Her last performance on stage was in 2014 as a soloist performing the music of Lerner and Lowe with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Bergthorson was the founder of the Bergthorson Academy of Musical Arts in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. In 2003, she moved to Maple Ridge after 25 years of teaching vocal, guitar and piano students in Stonewall Manitoba. It was here that she opened up the music academy with the goal of creating

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“Judith Bergthorson left a huge legacy of involvement and support of the arts in this community and is dearly missed,” said Pighin Over 450 people attended a memorial for her in February 2015, an example of the respect and appreciation she garnered in the community.

The tribute, organized by her friends and supporters, had 40 performers on two stages at the ACT and featured famous opera singers, renowned classical and chamber musicians, contemporary pop, rock and bluegrass bands.

“Amy Wallace, who had this amazing career, left us very young and early.

Her father’s been on our board for the last few years, it’s pretty special,” continued Pighin.

Investors Group, where Wallace’s father is a consultant, has added funding to her scholarship.

Any staff or board member can recommend a scholarship memorial to the board.

• Application information and forms can be found at www.theactmapleridge.org/communitygiving/scholarships.

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12:00 pm ‘THE BEAR NECESSITIES’ ~ Class for Kids.

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1:00 pm ‘BUTTERFLY GARDEN’ Join Hendrick, the Butterfly Expert, for an informative seminar about how to enhance your garden for butterflies!

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FREE ‘Kids Nature Day Clue Hunt’ 10am - 4pm, where kids will be encouraged to search for clues to answer our Nature Quiz and be eligible to enter our PRIZE DRAW! HUNGER MANAGEMENT FOOD TRUCK WILL BE ON SITE FROM 11AM - 2 PM

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By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com

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Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey is running its annual three-on-three Family Hockey Jamboree later this month, and it will benefit a local hockey family that is in the middle of a cancer fight.

Jayme Chmiliar is battling Stage 4 cancer, and friends of the local hockey family are helping out.

In January, his wife Brenda entered him into a contest for a promotional treatment that would have cost $17,000, and is not covered by the health care system. Jayme is willing to try the treatment, but only if it does not put his family into debt. The cancer has spread from his head to his lymph nodes and lungs.

“We haven’t been given a lot of reason to hope,” said Brenda. “And if you want to try to do something different, you have to have tons of money.”

They were not successful in the promotion, but now friends are helping them with a $17,000 fundraising goal.

The three-on-three tournament runs on March 25 and 26 at Planet Ice, and teams play three games for their $650 registration fee. Adults receive one pub ticket as part of the team registration fee.

The pub night will be held on Friday, March 25 at the Breakaway Bar and Grill. Additional tickets for those not playing hockey may be purchased. Kids are welcome until 10 p.m.

First hosted in 2008, the Family Hockey Jamboree is a community event committed to supporting local hockey families in the Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge communities.

For more information, email

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Mitchell Shelton of the Ridge Meadows A3 Rustlers during a game against the Seattle A1 Admirals at the Hometown Heroes hockey tournament at Planet Ice on Sunday. The A3 team recently won the Presidents Series playoff banner.

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And friends are also running an online donation site for the Chmiliars.

It can be found at gogetfunding.com by searching “Give a Great Family Hope.” So far, it has raised $1,800 for the Chmiliars.

Jeremy Bator, who worked with Jayme in the cinema industry for 15 years, said his former work colleagues wanted to help. Bator explained that the cinema industry gives a lot of kids their first job, and Jayme was always a great mentor for young people.

“He’s a good family guy, and always one to look after people,” said Bator.

Now he and his family need some looking after, said Bator.

“His kids are roughly the same age as mine. I can’t even imagine.”

B.C. juvenile A championships Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey is hosting the provincial juvenile A championships, starting Thursday at Planet Ice. The Ridge Meadows Moose would have qualified for the provincials as the host team, but defeated top-ranked North Delta 7-3 last week to qualify as one of two Lower Mainland teams.

The Moose went 2-1 in the Final Four round.

Other teams at the provincials include Juan de Fuca, Langley, North

Vancouver and Vancouver.

The opening ceremony and puck drop for the provincials take place Thursday at 6:45 p.m. in Cam Neely Arena.

In juvenile C, the Ridge Meadows C2 team, coached by Glen Mund and Earl Bloom, won the Lower Mainland green division playoff banner, going 3-1-2 and edging North Delta by a point.

In bantam A3, the Ridge Meadows Rustlers won the Presidents Series playoffs.

The team, coached by Bruce Vasarhely, went 5-1 in the playoffs and sealed the championship by winning back-to-back games against Chilliwack A3 last week.

The Ridge Meadows Atom A2 Rustlers hockey team captured the banner for the FVC Flight 3 final four championship on home ice Thursday night, defeating a strong Chilliwack Atom A2 team 7-4.

After the three-game final four tournament in South Delta earlier in the week, the two teams were forced to play a tiebreaker game where it was winner take all.

Coach Andy Wingrove secured home ice for this fourth and deciding game by winning the coin toss, setting the stage for the final at Pitt Meadows Arena. It was standing room only for what turned out to be another dominating performance by the A2 Rustlers, led by second-year forwards Dustin Hemminger, with a goal and two assists on the night, and Aidan Chabot who chipped in with two goals. First-year centre Cooper Crowe who had another strong game adding a goal and an assist.

It was a successful year for the group, who had captured the league championship at the end of February, led by the coaching staff of Wingrove, Brad Young and Joe Germain.

The roster includes goaltender Beau Benedictson and Brandon Botelho; defencemen Blake Hebert, Gavin Bell, Carter Germain, Brandon Osborne, Paul Taylor and Scott Williams; and forwards Joshua Bettesworth, Blake Young, Logan Myers, James Kitsch, Kolby Koran and Max Wingrove.

Lisek 2nd-team All-American Maple Ridge secondary grad Monique Lisek earned second-team All-American honors as part of the SFU women’s 4x400 metres women’s relay team at the NCAA Division 2 Indoor Track and Field Championships in Kansas on Saturday.

The SFU women’s 4x400 relay is the Great Northwest Athletic Conference record holder and came into the national meet as the No. 9 seed off the 3:46.31 the foursome of Alana Mussatto, Chantel Desch, Valda Kabia, and Monique

Lisek turned in at the GNAC Championships on Feb. 20 in Nampa, Idaho.

Saturday, the Clan was clocked in 3:47.13 for 11th place, picking up AllAmerican second-team honours.

The team was third in the second heat during the race.

The U.S. Track an d Field and Cross Country Coaches Association awards All-American second-team honours to student-athletes who finish ninth to 16th in an event.

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The Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation is hosting a fun event - get your teams together and join us for a SPIN-A-THON! That’s right, we’ll be bringing in the bikes, cranking the music, and spinning through the day! We’ve got hourly themes planned (Giddy’Up Cowboy, Pirate Party, Superhero Spin, Tacky Tourist, Glam Squad anything goes!), prizes and great food too!

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Harry Hooge elementary wasn’t even going to have a boys’ basketball team because it had no coach.

But in stepped the principal’s husband, Shawn Blakeway, and now the Harry Hooge Knights are competitive league district champions.

At first, principal Kristi Blakeway said the school could not find a basketball coach.

“The boys were very disappointed when they heard there may not be a team.”

She shared the story at home and with her husband and he offered to coach.

“We had 40 enthusiastic boys tryout and we formed a team,” Kristi said.

The team was registered in the house league.

But the boys were playing really well and winning every game.

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Harry Hooge and Alouette met in the district elementary basketball playoff final. petitive league,” Kristi added.

But no more changes were allowed, so Harry Hooge played again, winning once more.

“It was clear, we really should be competitive – and so the call went out to the competitive league to see if we could swap places,” she said.

The Eric Langton elementary team was willing to change divisions, but the two teams would have to adopt each others’ win-loss records.

Harry Hooge was now last in the competitive

league at 0-4.

Making the playoffs seemed unlikely. But the team played some extra exhibition games and won its last two league games, sneaking into the playoffs.

Harry Hooge defeated first-place Whonnock elementary to open the postseason, then dispatched of St. Patrick’s.

In the district playoff final, Harry Hooge edged Alouette elementary 31-28.

When it came time to present the banner, it had not yet arrived.

“So, instead, the boys decided to pose for a picture, and invited Alouette to join in celebrating their accomplishment, as well,” Kristi said. “Two great teams and some great kids.”

Members of the championship Harry Hooge Knights: Lucas Hokanson, Seth Ojo, Dylan McCuaig, Rhys Bowden, Riley Csanyi-Fritz, Ryan Armstrong, Zaid Amir, Gage Quesnel, Aiden Lowe, John Han, Sam Jeon, Jake Carl, Nick Blatchford, Evan Johnson.

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March 16, 1946 – March 15, 2015

In Loving Memory of my Mother Audrey Washington

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Remembering you is easy, we do it every day, Missing you is the heartache that never goes away.

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Che William Bonter was born May 31st, 1970 at 12:01am, weighed 8 pounds 5 ozs and was 20 inches in length. It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden and tragic passing of Che Bonter on March 8th, 2016 the age of 45. Survived by his loving family: His wife, Elizabeth Bonter, parents Karen and William Bonter, sisters Cory Bonter and Jill Bonter, nieces Shelby Underhill and Elizabeth Bonter, daughter Brianne Bonter, step daughters Jaime Parks(Ed) and Candice Parks(Nathan), & his grandchildren; Rhyann, Aydan, Annabella and Goose. He also leaves behind many wonderful friends and extended family and in-laws.

He will be sorely missed for his wonderful humour, wit and antics.

As well, for his great big beautiful heart that he so willingly gave of and shared. Che was a passionate person with an avid love for riding his Harley, fishing, hunting, quading and making great memories with amazing friends. He had a natural flare for adventure, always searching for his next one.

We will celebrate his life and send him on to his next adventure.

There will be a pot luck celebration for Che’s life on Sunday, March 20th 2016 at 1:30 p.m. in the Whonnock Lake Centre, 27871 113th Avenue Maple Ridge, BC. By request please no black clothing. In lieu of flowers we are accepting donations for a local charity at the ceremony. If you have a special memory of Che please make a note to be shared at the ceremony, drop it into our card box.

You can shed tears that he is gone, or you can smile because he has lived.

You can close your eyes and pray that he’ll come back, or you can open your eyes and see all he’s left.

Your heart can be empty because you can’t see him, or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember him only that he is gone, or you can cherish his memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind, be empty & turn your back.

Or you can do what he’d want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.

Either way he will be riding his Harley in that great big highway in the sky with all the other greats that have fallen before him

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We regret to announce the passing of Elmer Calvin Erickson Sr. who died peacefully at home on March 3, 2016.

Predeceased by his first wife Jean Erickson.

Survived by his spouse Zora, his sons Alan, Kenny and Elmer Jr., daughter-in-law Wendy Erickson, his grandchildren & greatgrandchildren.

Service to be held at 1:30pm on March 19th at Maple Ridge Alliance Church, 20399 Dewdney Trunk Rd, Maple Ridge.

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McINTYRE Wilfred Murdock

An extremely committed family man and exceptionally caring grandfather he will be greatly missed by his wife Aline, his daughter Tanya and her husband Greg and their three children Aiden, Ainsley and Caius, his son Ian and his wife Michelle and their two children Jaxon and Isabelle. Survived by his sister Barbara Heino, brother Roy McIntyre, sister Marybelle Haney and many nieces & nephews.

Funeral services will be held at the Maple Ridge Funeral Chapel 11969-216th street Maple Ridge, BC. Viewing will be from 7-9pm on Thursday March 17 with a Celebration of Life and gathering to follow on Friday, March 18, 2pm. Memorial donations in memory of Wilfred may be made to Heart and Stroke foundation or Prostate Cancer Canada.

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In 1968 he was married to Aline Wilcott in Winnipeg Manitoba. They have two children Tanya Oppedisano and Ian McIntyre. Wilfred McIntyre engaged in a distinguished lifetime dedicated to the cause of improving the lives of workers, their families and communities as a union leader, negotiator, organizer, and mediator. He served as the President of IWA local 2693 of Northern Ontario, the President of the Port Arthur Labour Association, the National Executive Vice President of IWA Canada and the United Steel Workers. He sat as a chairman, trustee and member of many boards and councils including his role as President of International Labour Council, Advisory Board Member of Lakehead University, Chairperson of the IWA Aboriginal Committee and Board Member of the Norther Ontario Heritage Trust Fund. He will be most remembered for his engaging personality and tremendous laugh, passion for his country, community and politics, love of travel and fishing and how he always made time for his beloved grand kids.

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BUSST Harold Bernard With profound sadness, we announce the passing of Dad and Grandpa (A.K.A. GG) in the early morning of March 11, 2016. Longtime resident of Pitt Meadows and Haney. Predeceased by his loving wife Clara and grandson Thomas Busst.

Survived by his 10 children, Ian, Karen (Leo), Judy (Phil), Theresa, Lorraine (Norm), Fay (Tom), Kim (Csaba), Rhonda (Brian), Elizabeth (Dave), Ruth; 20 grandchildren; 35 great grandchildren; and 4 great great grandchildren.

Viewing will be Thursday, March 17 from 6:00 - 8:00pm at Garden Hill Funeral Chapel - 11765 224th Street, Maple Ridge. Service will be Saturday, March 19 at 11:00 am, also at Garden Hill Funeral Chapel. Reception to follow.

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

Purewal Blueberry Farms Ltd. 13753 Hale Rd, Pitt Meadows, BC, V3Y 1Z1 requires 38 Fruit Farm Workers. Start immediately.

Full Time, permanent positions. $10.59/hour for 40 hours/week.

Must be available for all shifts and able to work in all outdoor weather conditions. No experience necessary, will train. Job duties include: Plant, cultivate, irrigate, prune & harvest crops. Load, pick, pack & sort blueberries. Operate & maintain farm machinery & equipment.

Examine produce for quality and prepare for market. Must be able to handle heavy loads, be in good physical condition, able to stand for extended periods. Walking, bending, crouching, kneeling and repetitive tasks are required. Able to meet tight deadlines.

If you are interested in becoming part of our team, please fax your resume to: 604-465-0649 by March 31/16

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

HEALTHCARE DOCUMENTATION SPECIALISTS are in huge demand.

Employers want CanScribe graduates. A great work-from-home career! Train with Canada’s best-rated program. Enroll today. www.canscribe.com 1.800.466.1535. info@canscribe.com.

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

Funding & Housing Avail!

Job Aid! Already a HEO? Get certification proof.

Call 1-866-399-3853 or go to: iheschool.com

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HELP WANTED

Golden Eagle Farms is looking for seasonal general farm workers available between May December 2016. Duties include weeding, preparing land for planting, fertilizing, cultivating, spraying, irrigating and harvesting crops, pipe and drainage repair, operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment, and other related duties. Work is outdoors, in all weather conditions and is physically demanding. No education or previous work experience required. Pay is $10.59/hour at 40+ hours per week.

Please fax resume to: (604) 460-0944 Attention: SAWP Coordinator

Golf Shop Merchandiser & Golf Shop Staff

HELP WANTED

Earn Extra Cash!

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

Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows NEWS Available routes in Maple Ridge

40000038 - 119A Ave, 119B Ave, 237A St, 238A St, 238B St, 239 St, Dewdney Trunk Rd. 40100116 - 119 Ave., 216 St., 217 St., Dewdney Trunk Rd., Donovan Ave., Evans St., Hall St., Howison Ave. 40100124 - 229 St, Cliff Ave, Fuller Ave, Gee St 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, Charlton St, Exeter Ave, Holly St, Spring Ave. 40320361 - 123 Ave, 123B Ave, 124A Ave, 204 St, 205 St, 206 St. 40320379 - 121A Ave, 123 Ave, 201 St, 201B St, Telep Ave. 40330336 - 119A Ave., Bruce Ave., Bruce Pl, Dunn Ave., Sentinel St., West St. 40400432 - 139 Ave, 229 St, 230 St, Docksteader Circl.

40400442 - 138B Ave., 232 St., 232A St., Blaney Rd., Silver Valley Rd. 40400443 - 230A St., 232 St., Gilbert Dr.

Available routes in Pitt Meadows 41011005 - 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. 41011032 - Alouette Blvd, Blaney Dr, Blaney Way, Bonson Rd, Tully Cres.

41021057 - 121B Ave., 122B Ave., 188 St., 189A St., Charnley Crt., Ford Rd.

Circulation

604.476.2740

brian@mapleridgenews.com

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

Required for

Mission Golf & Country Club

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Part Time or Full Time.

ACCOUNTING / TAX /BOOKKEEPING .Window & Roof Cleaning Gutters Cleaned & repaired. 604-961-1280

Golf knowledge an asset.

Must be 19+ years Must be avail. to work weekends and afternoons. Good computer skills required. Golf playing privileges included.

Classifieds reach people

Please email resume to: missiongolf@shaw.ca or drop off resume at 7983 Nelson St. Mission B.C.

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GARDENING Prompt Delivery Available

7 Days / Week Pacific Coast Traffic Planning is seeking certified TCP’s for seasonal & F/T employment.

Day, swing & Night shifts Available. Students Welcomed!

Must have reliable vehicle and provide clean drivers abstract.

Starting Wage $15.00/hr.

Guaranteed hours!

Please email resume: grasdald@telus.net

.cuttingedge 604-466-9514

Meadows Landscape Supply Ltd.

Traffic Control Personnel

✶ Bark Mulch ✶ Lawn & Garden Soil ✶ Drain Gravel ✶ Lava Rock ✶ River Rock ✶Pea Gravel

(604)465-1311

meadowslandscapesupply.com

STEER MANURE

Tell the world with a FODVVL¿HG DG

Delivered or Picked up

Wynnyk Farms 604.467.4419

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SALES

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SALES

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SALES

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SALES

Inside Sales Consultant WALDUN FOREST PRODUCTS Needs experienced Shingle Sawyers & Packers. Also needing labourers for physically demanding positions. These are F/T positions with excellent wage and benefit packages.

Qualified applicants can apply in person at:

Golden Eagle Group is a blueberry and cranberry farm located in Pitt Meadows, B.C., Canada

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

9393 287th Street Maple Ridge, BC

131

HOME CARE/SUPPORT

IN-HOME caregiver req for June 27, 2016 (twin girls - 6 yrs old, one with autism). FT. perm. $10.75/hr.

Pitt Meadows (Bonson Landing). email: gspottie@telus.net

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TRADES, TECHNICAL

Commercial Transport & Diesel Engine Mechanics Required for Cullen Diesel Power Ltd. and Western Star and Sterling Trucks of Vancouver Inc. Positions available in Surrey.

Late model highway tractor exp. considered an asset. Factory training provided.

Union Shop - Full Benefits Fax Resume: 604-888-4749 E-mail: ars@cullendiesel.com FITTER / FABRICATOR Maple Ridge shop req. full time Fitter/Fabricator with specific pressure vessel/heat exchanger experience. Can interpret shop dwgs is well versed in layout, fitting and tacking of pressure vessel tube and shell heat exchangers & tanks w/minimum supervision.

Please e-mail resume

mike@emmfg.com

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FINANCIAL SERVICES

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed?

Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

The Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows News has an opportunity for an Inside Sales Consultant.

Candidates for this position will possess the ability to create strong marketing programs and nurture existing clients for our print and online publications.

You will be innovative and have an entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy working independently.

Special features will be an important part of your job description along with developing and prospecting new business. Your career is built on relationships with customers and you understand the importance on consulting with clients about their objectives and developing marketing solutions that help them achieve their goals.

Our environment is fast-paced and you can adapt quickly to change and work in a deadline driven environment. You may have a marketing degree or experience but your personality and enthusiasm will sell your application. Knowledge and familiarity with Mac based office programs is required.

We offer a competitive salary plus commission and the opportunity to grow your career with Black Press, Canada’s largest private independent newspaper company with more than 180 community, daily and urban newspapers in B.C., Alberta, Washington State, Ohio and Hawaii.

If you are up to the challenge, please send your resume by March 15th to: Lisa Prophet Ad Manager admanager@mapleridgenews.com No phone calls please and only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Advertising Sales Consultant

The Now Newspaper has an opening for an advertising consultant.

This is a career opportunity for a results-driven individual looking to contribute to one of the fastest growing communities.

The ideal candidate should be a strong communicator, well organized, self motivated and enjoy working in a fast-pace environment. The ability to multi-task and meet deadlines is a must.

Previous media sales experience is preferred. A car and a valid driver’s license are required.

The Now Newspaper offers a competitive salary plus commissions, car allowance and a FRPSHWLWLYH EHQH¿ WV SDFNDJH The Now Newspaper is part of Black Press, Canada’s largest private independent newspaper company with more than 170 community, daily and urban newspapers in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, Washington, Ohio, California and Hawaii.

If you are up to the challenge, please email your resume with a brief note on why you are a great candidate to: Dal Hothi – Sales Manager dal.hothi@thenownewspaper.com Deadline for Submissions: March 31, 5pm

blackpress.ca X bclocalnews.com 7477406

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES 287

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES 320

MOVING & STORAGE

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES 338

A Gas Fitter ✭ Plumber

AFFORDABLE MOVING

Furnaces, Boilers, Hot Water Heating, Hotwater Tanks, Drain/Duct Cleaning & Plumbing Jobs.

www.affordablemoversbc.com

$45/Hr

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

LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE

604-537-4140 ABE MOVING & Delivery & Rubbish Removal

✭ 604-312-7674 ✭ ✭ 604-507-4606 ✭ 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 FIXIT PLUMBING & HEATING H/W Tanks, Reno’s, Boilers, Furn’s.

Drain Cleaning. Ins. 604-380-2932

$30/hr. per Person • 24/7

604-999-6020

MIRACLE MOVING

PLUMBING

356

RUBBISH REMOVAL

Licensed - Bonded - Fully Equip.

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

HANDYMAN CONNECTION HANDYMAN CONNECTION Handyman Connection - Bonded -Renovations - Installations Repairs - 604.878.5232

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

604 - 720 - 2009 ~We accept Visa & Mastercard~

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HOME REPAIRS

300

LANDSCAPING

560

MISC. FOR SALE

RENTALS

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

STEEL BUILDING SALE...”BIG BLOW OUT SALE-CLEAR OUT PRICING IN EFFECT NOW!” 20X20 $5,444 25X26 $6,275 28X28 $7,454 30X30 $8,489 32X34 $10,328 42X50 $15,866. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800668-5422 www.pioneersteel.ca

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MISC. WANTED

Have Unwanted Firearms?

Have unwanted or inherited firearms in your possession?

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

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

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

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

Wanstalls Tactical & Sporting Arms

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

Best in every way! 604-721-4555.

Great Location

New SRI Manufactured homes Singles $74,900. Doubles $99,900.

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

NO Wood byproducts used all soils are tested for Optimum growing requirements.

17607 Ford Road Pitt Meadows

PICK-UP ...... or .... DELIVERY

604-465-3189

PETS

LANDSCAPING DESIGN / INSTALLATION and MAINTENANCE AKITA PUPS Championship. $800 each.

Call 604-751-0191

Call (604)763-8795

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

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

604-464-3550

709 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

POLE BARNS, Shops, steel buildings metal clad or fabric clad.

Complete supply and installation.

Call John at 403-998-7907; jcameron@advancebuildings.com

$64.00 Per Ton

Meadows Landscape Supply

604-465-1315

329 PAINTING & DECORATING

329 PAINTING & DECORATING

Ask about our

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$

ROOM SPECIAL

CALL TODAY! 604-803-5041 www.benchmarkpainting.ca 741

OFFICE/RETAIL

MISC. FOR SALE

741

OFFICE/RETAIL

REFORESTATION NURSERY SEEDLINGS of hardy trees, shrubs, & berries for shelterbelts or landscaping. Spruce & Pine from $0.99/tree. Free Shipping.

Replacement guarantee.

1-866-873-3846 or www.treetime.ca 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.

741

OFFICE/RETAIL

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

One year minimum lease subject to credit and criminal check.

Contact Jim at 604-476-2720

• Autos • Trucks • Equipment Removal

PORT COQUITLAM 775-3000sqft.

Ground floor commercial space.

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

746

ROOMS FOR RENT

FREE TOWING 7 days/wk.

We pay Up To $500 CA$H Rick Goodchild 604.551.9022 #1 FREE Scrap Vehicle REMOVAL ~~ ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT ~~ $$$ PAID FOR SOME. 604.683.2200

$75 OFF 1ST MONTH

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

21387 Dewdney Trunk Rd. Maple Ridge

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

Call 604-467-3944

A Jack of all Trades? The classifieds are where you find services like tree removal, carpentry, lawn care, plumbing, masonry, remodeling and car repair. Call us today

604-702-5552 BlackPressUsed.ca

To Advertise in this space call 604-575-5555

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE 560

SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

DOWN TO BUSINESS

TOY POODLE PUP 6 weeks old.

Cream color, female. $800. Call 604-820-4230, 604-302-7602

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

845 The Scrapper

604-466-5799

✶Dump Site Now Open✶

TRANSPORTATION

APARTMENT/CONDO

Glenwood Manor Apartments

604-702-5552

MISC SERVICES

To Place An Ad Call 604-702-5552

Clean & Spacious 1 Bdrm avail. No pets.

317

604.465.7713

CRIME FREE BUILDING

Strata, Commercial & Residential, Pavers, Walls, Spring Garden Clean-ups, New Lawns & top dressing & Drainage.

Onsite Manager

12186-224 St, Maple Ridge Certified Crime Free Buildings

Sorry No Pets

PETS 477

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

604-463-2236 604-463-7450

PORT COQUITLAM

(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls

Cloverdale High Performance paint.

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

and Hydro Near Shopping & Amenities.

1 bdrm suite - $775 2 bdrm corner suite - $925

RECREATIONAL

640

1 Bdrm units available.

Great location for seniors!

Clean, quiet & affordable!

Includes heat, h/w, cable.

Senior Move-In Allowance.

Ref’s & Credit check req’d.

2 coats any colour

14179 Reichenback Rd

Includes: Heat, Hot Water

we are here to assist you!

Let us help you meet your advertising challenges. CALL US TODAY! 604-702-5552

(604) 463-9522 Central Maple Ridge

mikes hauling 604-516-9237

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

Fast * Mighty * Visible * Dependable! Whether you’re a classified reader or a classified advertiser,

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

PAINT SPECIAL 3 rooms for $299

Pitt Meadows Marina

* Renovated Suites * *Large *Clean *Very Quiet

SENIOR’S DISCOUNT

GARIBALDI Court

When QUALITY Matters

STORAGE

Queen Anne Apts.

CLASSIFIED ADS!

RENTALS

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

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$880/mo & $980/mo

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

www.paintspecial.com

APARTMENT/CONDO

1 & 2 Bdrms available

706 D Garden Blend Soil D Lawn Blend Soil D Custom Blends avail.

D Composted Mushroom Manure

706

RENTALS

MAPLE RIDGE

Fully furnished 3 cabin on Westside Rd, native leased land. l_trant@yahoo.com for additional information.

329 PAINTING & DECORATING

JAGUAR LANDSCAPING Lawn & Garden Service.

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

REAL ESTATE

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

1PRO MOVING & SHIPPING

REPAIRS, Misc Service Jobs, etc., big or small, call Robert at 604-8444222 If I can’t do it, it can’t be done

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

LANDSCAPING

CLEANING SERVICES

FENCING

Del green - Lawn & Garden Care Commercial - Irrigation Systems - Garden Design, - Pruning & Hedging Installation & Repair - Tree Removal - Grass & Sod - Seasonal Installation Maintenance - Planting Beds & & Cleanup Containers

Michael Mihail

15 YEARS HORTICULTURE EXPERIENCE Your garden in our hands will look like paradise!

OFFICE: DIRECT:

778-322-2378 Lower Mainland 604-996-8128 Fraser Valley Running this ad for over 12years

“We will improve your Corporate & Residential image”

Services: • Office Cleaning • Janitorial • Pressure Washing • Window Cleaning

• Wood or Chain Link Fencing • Storage Sheds • Gazebos and Arbors • Custom Decks

778-668-5110 604-446-3903

www.intexjanitorial.com Tel: 604-786-3466

For all your Outdoor Projects

PLUMBING

PAINTING

POWER WASHING

DN Painting

WINDOW & ROOF CLEANING

EMAIL: delgreenlandscapes@gmail.com

YBS PLUMBING For all your plumbing needs NO JOB TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL • Basement development • Renovations • Hot water tank • Drain cleaning

- Top Quality - Affordable Prices - Exterior/Interior - Drywall Repair - Years of Experience - WCB Covered

Call 604-816-3595

FREE ESTIMATES

ybsplumbing@gmail.com

LANDSCAPING

www.paintspecial.com S. H. LANDSCAPING

Landscaping - Residential &

PAINTING

Call for a quote

778-246-2404

WorkSafeBC insured

Gutters cleaned & repaired www.expertpowerwashing.com

Mike 778-862-1515 604.961.1280

PAINT SPECIAL 3 rooms for $299 2 coats of any colour (Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale High Performance paint.

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

TREE SERVICES

Trimming • Pruning • Topping • Clean-up • Garbage Removal • Pressure Washing GARDENING Flower Beds • Allan Blocks Bark Mulch • River Lava Rock LAWN CARE Weeding • New Turf • Fertilizing • Moss Control • Power Raking • Aeration FENCING Free Estimate

20 years experience in Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows

604.230.1634 or 604.467.3724

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Pink Flowering Currants

Here Now for a Healthy Tomorrow Fig Trees $18.97 Goji Berries $12.97 Paw Paw Trees $49.97 Persimmon Trees 59.97 Red Currants $14.97

in Bud ‘n Bloom!

Sale $1.17 ea ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

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Blooming Pansies

Hicksi Yew Hedge

Pink Dogwoods

Large packs of 8 plants

Sale $3.97 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

Let’s Get Healthy!

Sea Berry – Prized throughout Europe & Asia for its medicinal value. Excellent source of vitamin A, E, and 7 times the vitamin C of lemons! Hardy.

Plants to -40°C!

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6 Packs of Parsley

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New for 2016

Organic Potting Soil Perfect for herbs & vegetables 20 Litre Bags $5.97ea

Great for sun or shade

4 foot plus, budded

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Japanese Willow in Tree Form

Loaded in Seed Potatoes!

Yukon Gold

Regular $49.99 ea

Climbing Hydrangeas

Sale $7.97

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for Sun or Shade!

White Flowers

Fragrant French Lilacs Tons to Choose from #1 Pot Regular $14.99

Palms Trees Here now! #2 Pot

Sale $10.97

#3 Pot Regular $34.99

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Weeping Japanese Maples

2 litre jug covers 2,000 sq ft

on our Parking Lot Sale Red serrated leaves – 8 years old Regular $149.99

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Purple Raspberries!

Roses

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Seed Potatoes

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Sweet velvet purple Raspberries on virtually thornless vines Sale $9.97ea

1 Pot Sale

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Climbing or Bush Regular $14.99

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Time for Moss Killer

Sale $24.97 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

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Hot Dog Sale

“Good for You” Kale

by Donation to the Breast Cancer Fund

Saturday & Sunday

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Eversweet Everbearing Strawberries

Premium Silo 4 Perch Bird Feeder

4” Pots $1.27ea Pack of 25 $16.99

Sale $7.97

Bird Food

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CLIP COUPON

25% off ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

WILDCARD COUPON

Spring Party! Saturday, March 19/16 only.

28% OFF ANY ONE TREE & SHRUB *

Any Reg Price

* With coupon. Limit one coupon per household. Valid March 19/2016 only.

Spring Party!

Sunday, March 20/16 only.

26% OFF

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Any Reg Price

ANY ONE ITEM IN OUR ENTIRE INVENTORY *With coupon. Limit one coupon per household. Some restrictions apply – see in-store for details. Valid March 20/2016 only

SALE ON MARCH 17 - 21 • WHILE QUANTITIES LAST

20503 Lougheed Highway, Maple Ridge

TRIPLE TREE

Lougheed Hwy.

Keep informed... Email Club www.tripletreenurseryland.com Visit our website www.tripletreenurseryland.com

207th St.

Open Daily 9 am - 7 pm

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203rd St.

604-465-9313 or 604-465-6015