Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Times April 10 2014 by Maple Ridge Times

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Ridge passes smoking bylaw in second round The mayor brought back a bylaw he felt the community wanted in place. by Maria Rantanen

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For Councillor Al Hogarth, it was about the distance; for Coun. Michael Morden, it was about enforcement; and for Coun. Corisa Bell, it was about passing another bylaw that wouldn’t necessarily be enforced.

The three councillors voted once again against a smoking bylaw that proposed banning lighting up 7.5 metres from doorways and windows. But, unlike the first vote on March 25, which was defeated 3-3 because one councillor was away, this time it passed 4-3 with Coun. Judy Dueck adding her vote to the “yes” side. Mayor Ernie Daykin brought back the defeated bylaw as he is allowed to, according to the Community Charter that governs municipal affairs. The provincial legislation bans

smoking three metres The three-metre from entrances, but provincial ban was Daykin said he wanted good enough, in more. Hogarth’s opinion, “I think that our comadding that the 7.5 munity deserves... is metres pushes people looking for more than the too far. minimum,” he said. Bell said she hasn’t Dueck said the health heard a “single comaspect was one important plaint” about smoking, Judy Dueck reason for her to support and she questioned Maple Ridge councillor it. how the bylaw will be “We are modelling for enforced. our children and our grandchil“But I have a real issue with dren,” she said, adding that this having our bylaw department bylaw “acknowledges the rights putting forward a bylaw like of everybody.” this when the plan isn’t even to

enforce it and it’s an educational plan,” Bell said. Bylaws director Liz Holitzki said that the first thing her department does is education, not necessarily issuing tickets or taking residents to court. “We use education in bylaw enforcement as a tool in many cases,” she said. Morden said he understood the health aspect of the bylaw but for him, it is about enforcement which he said “isn’t consistent from where you are in the District,” he said.

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Ridge on ‘best’ list Maple Ridge is ranked among the top 25 best places to live in Canada. The ranking, which comes from Money Sense magazine, placed the District at 23rd on the list of small cities with a population fewer than 100,000, and 47th overall of 201 Canadian communities. • More at www.mrtimes.com

Dogs neglected An Abbotsford dog breeder, who also bred dogs in Maple Ridge, has been banned from owning animals for 20 years. In December 2013, Mel Gerling was convicted of two charges of animal cruelty in relation to the SPCA seizure Marcie Moriarty of 14 badly negSPCA lected dogs from an Abbotsford property in September 2010. This week, a judge sentenced Gerling to a 20-year ban on owning animals, 50 hours of community service and a six-month conditional sentence. BC SPCA prevention and enforcement officer Marcie Moriarty said the agency is “extremely pleased” with the sentence. • More at www.mrtimes.com

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There are still some maybes among Maple Ridge councillors about running in the fall election, but definitive answers have come from Cheryl Ashlie, who’s not running, Corisa Bell who is running for re-election, Ernie Daykin, who wants a third term as mayor, and Michael Morden, who’d like to replace Daykin in the mayor’s chair. Bob Masse and Al Hogarth have both said they will make a decision in a few months, while Judy Dueck said she’s “leaning towards not seeking re-election.” The buzz about November’s election has started early and this year there is more at stake with the province introducing four-year terms for municipal councils and school trustees. Topics that Morden feels should be discussed during the election are taxes, building complete communities – a lack of employment, a stagnant local economy, and the lack of amen-

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ities in new neighbourhoods “quite a lot” to consider running – municipal services, crime and for the mayor’s position, but she homelessness, transportation, plans to run for councillor. and infrastructure. Bell said she’s felt “pushback” Another big topic for Morden to the new energy she’s brought is “what is to council. holding us Bell would back as a comlike election munity?” topics to cover Leading up to this fall’s municipal Daykin taxes and straelection, The TIMES will be asking tegic economic would like to current elected officials to answer see the next development. council term In the questions about key issues. be focused upcoming This week, we are asking Maple Ridge on the impleelection, if he council whether changes are needed to mentation of decides to run, how garbage is picked up and, if so, what the commerMasse would changes are necessary. cial/industrial like to debate strategy, build“whatever the ing on the success of the downpublic wants to hear about.” town revitalization program, Masse said in his first term he expanded transit, more shopping has focused on advocating for options, and assurances that the improved mental health treat“customer service experience in ment and tackling social issues municipal hall is efficient.” in the downtown area, as well Bell said she has been asked as pushing for more post-second-

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ary presence in Maple Ridge. It’s easy to “find faults,” Hogarth said, and during the election, “rather than debate topics I would like to hear solutions that candidates have to a perceived problem.” While he likes the work happening with moving forward with post-secondary education in Maple Ridge, his number one priority continues to be jobs creation. Dueck has been a councillor for 12 years after serving as a school trustee for nine. “After 21 years of a very full plate, it’s time to consider other things,” Dueck said. But, despite “definitely” leaning towards not running again, she is getting a lot of pressure to run for another term. Ashlie announced in March that she isn’t running.

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Heritage tea kicks off centennial party

The public is invited to an event at Heritage Hall on Saturday. by Maria Rantanen mrantanen@mrtimes.com

Pitt Meadows Museum has a memory band surrounding its fence with a hundred phrases that reflect history of the City. This is just one of the ways that the museum, located on Harris Road near the railway tracks, will celebrate the 100th birthday of Pitt Meadows. This weekend, the first official event of the centennial year takes place – the Heritage Tea, scheduled for Saturday at the Heritage Hall public. Getting ready for this year’s heritage tea has been more stressful than other years

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because of the centennial component, but the museum’s curator Leslie Norman said, especially with the “dressup angst” over, “we’re at the point when we’re doing the fun stuff.” Participants are encouraged to come in costume or wearing a special hat, Norman said. At the tea, there will be an exhibit about the history of Pitt Meadows, “Through a Century of Progress 1914-2014.” There will also be a corsagemaking station, a photo booth, and at 2 p.m. the birthday cake will be cut. The event is free and open to the public. On Pitt Meadows Day, there will be a ribbon-cutting event to officially recognize the memory band. The heritage tea take place on Saturday, April 12 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall, 12460 Harris Rd.

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Wesbrooke co-owner Pat De Luca (left), Pitt Meadows City Councillor Gwen O’Connell, and Wesbrooke co-owner Celeste De Luca are ready to go for this weekend’s record-attempting food drive in Pitt Meadows on Saturday.

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Go time for record This Saturday is Pitt Meadows’ big food collection day. by Eric Zimmer ezimmer@mrtimes.com

It’s down to the nittygritty for Gwen O’ Connell and the gang at the Wesbrooke. In fact, this Saturday will be an important one for everyone in Pitt Meadows. It’s the day the city will take its shot at a Guinness world record: most food collected for a food drive in a single day For O’Connell, the day is a culmination of an effort that really began around December, but it’s also a result of passion that extends further back. She explained that two or three years ago, she was volunteering at the Friends In Need Food Bank, when a child came in with her mom. “That little girl told her mom she was hungry in front of me, and I had to turn away because I was crying,” said O’Connell. “I thought, ‘this is disgusting that little kids are hungry.’” This past December, the need in the community once again became all too

clear to her. “This Christmas, when the toy train came in, it arrived late and the weather was so bad,” O’Connell said. “They didn’t get the food or the money they normally get. I was up at the warehouse doing some stuff and there was no food in there, and I thought ‘this is ridiculous.’” She added she spoke with other food bank members in Pitt Meadows and heard the same refrain over and over again: they had run out of items. For O’Connell, that was the last straw and she decided something needed to be done. Now, she said, the support from the community for this initiative has been incredible. “We’re Pitt Meadows and that’s what we’re about.” The amount needed to break the world record is 600,000 pounds of food, or approximately 37 pounds of food per household. The food drive kicks off at 9 a.m. on Saturday, and for more information, people can call or email Gwen at the Wesbrooke – which is also one of the many collection locations, at 604-460-7006, or goconnell@thewesbrooke.com More at www.mrtimes.com

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A weapon-totting carjacker was probably as surprised as the truck owner early Tuesday morning when he was interrupted while stealing a pickup from a Haney yard. Police don’t believe it was a targeted theft, but rather a crime of opportunity when a 2005 Ford F350 white pickup was broken into out front of a residence on York Street and Dewdney Trunk Road just after 5 a.m. on April 8, said Cpl. Alanna Dunlop. The man came out of his home – unaware of the situation – and interrupted

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The TIMES had such a blast bringing you the yearlong Where Am ‘i’? and Who Am I? giveaway, which all came out of a displaced letter “i” that fell from our sign on the outside of our building. Well, the contest has ended, and the “i” has been restored to the outside of the building thanks to TIMES publisher Shannon Balla and her husband D’Arcy. So now, all that awaits is the unveiling of the winner of the contest. Drum roll please... the winner is Ron Croswell. Stay tuned to learn what prize Ron will receive, as well as what’s up next in the way of a fun and interactive games with The TIMES.

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Decision a puff of cleaner air We tend, in this space, to be critical of politicians and the things they do. It’s expected of a free and open media in a free and open society to hold our leaders’ feet to the fire from time to time. But it’s also important that we – occasionally, at least – offer a pat on the back when the politicians (or enough of them to complete a decision) get it right. And Maple Ridge council did get it right this time. Furthermore, Mayor Ernie Daykin deserves a special tip of the hat for recognizing the need for the doorway smoking ban that his council passed this week, after turning it down previously. It is a mayor’s prerogative under B.C. law to return a defeated bylaw to the table (within 30 days of its defeat), but it’s not always a popular move, and takes a bit of strength of character. But Daykin was right in doing so, and his councillors are now also right – at least those who followed his lead. The devastating impact of smoking – and particularly of second-hand smoke – on individual health cannot be overstated. The cost it incurs in terms of human suffering is outrageous. If refrigerators were a tenth as deadly as cigarettes, the iceman would still have a job restocking our ice boxes. Those who wish to pollute their bodies with tobacco have a technical right to do so. The tobacco taxes help to offset their added health care costs – and besides, studies have suggested that smokers may cost the rest of us less overall, because they are less likely to live longer and enter the more expensive geriatric stage of life. Smoking near a doorway turns the building into a chimney, drafting each puff of smoke indoors. That puff of smoke might not seem all that damaging, but sometimes it may be the final puff that starts a cancer going. And smokers do not have a right to inflict that suffering on others. – B.G.

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Universal thoughts off-centre The human capacity to deny important place in the universe, the obvious is truly infinite. but apparently not all humans. The latest explosion of ostrich Kate Mulgrew, for instance, behaviour comes courtesy wasn’t important enough to of a minor scandal involving inform that she was recording renowned physicists, a known dialogue for a movie about geoanti-semite, and the former capcentrism – she’s had to publicly tain of the United Federation of point out that she does not supPlanets starship Voyager. port this odd notion. We’ll start with Kate Mulgrew, One of the key scientists quoted the actress who played Capt. was Lawrence Krauss, who was Kathryn Janeway on the fourth apparently asked about cosmic by Matthew Claxton Star Trek series. A snippet of microwave background radiation. Mulgrew’s voice turned up in the This is a pretty big deal, physicsnarration of a trailer released earlier this week wise, but the film’s producers say it raises quesfor a movie called The Principle. tions such as, is the Earth is the centre of the What is The Principle about? Judging by the universe? (Short answer: no.) barrage of talking heads, CGI of whirling galShould you believe Sungenis? No. First, axies, and stock footage from around the globe, because there’s lots of evidence for a rotating it’s hard to tell. Dark matter? Physics? Religion? Earth in a heliocentric solar system. Like the That leads us back to the man who pushed for fact that you can use your GPS-enabled phone. the movie’s creation, and who is featured as one Second, because Sungenis isn’t an expert – he’s of its talking heads, Robert Sungenis. a man with a doctorate from a diploma mill on In 2006, Sungenis released a toe-crushing Vanuatu with a history of anti-semitic writings. 1,000-page tome, entitled Galileo Was Wrong, He is not qualified to talk science. which claims that the Earth is still the centre of Despite the controversy, and despite the mounthe universe. Sungenis is a proponent of the – to tains of evidence on the side of Earth-orbits-sun, put it lightly – dubious idea that the sun, moon, sun-circles-galaxy, Sungenis’s documentary will stars, galaxies, and all that we can see in the have fans. It will convince some people. Why? night sky orbits around the Earth. For the same reason these ideas have taken Why would Sungenis believe this, exactly? It hold of Sungenis himself. only goes against about half a millennium of “If you see the Earth as just a humdrum planet recorded scientific observations. among stars circling in a vast universe, then Heliocentrism (the idea that the sun is the we’re not significant, we’re just part of a crowd,” centre of the solar system) was an immensely he said in an interview after the release of his useful idea for astronomers when it was first book. proposed. Until then, explaining the strange Sungenis wants to believe that he’s importbehaviour of the planets had baffled and frusant, and to believe that, he has to believe that trated starwatchers for thousands of years. A the Earth is special, and to believe that, he has vast and shaky structure of “crystal spheres” had to believe it is the literal centre of the universe, been thought to hold the many visible celestial to the point that he’s rejected every piece of eviobjects, some of them rotating back and forth dence, from Foucault’s pendulum to the moon through complex epicycles to produce what landing. Earthbound observers saw. I try not to let my need for importance blind Sungenis likes to think that humans have an me quite that much.

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Education funding

Students pay for budget cuts

Dear Editor, Marc Dalton asked, “How was it they were able to balance it?” [Schools squeezed, April 2, TIMES] The answer is simple: at the expense of students. It cannot be said enough, the to education budget cuts in this provthe ince will affect all kids, but it is particularly troublesome for the most vulnerable population in the education system, those with special needs. As the special needs funding amount is allocated at a district level and school districts are not required to spend it solely on the student who has been identified, many children with designations are not receiving the full assistance required to flourish. Families are being forced out of the public

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system and towards alternative methods (such as a distributed learning program) in order to gain more control over the special education funds that their child is entitled to, at an immeasurable cost to the whole family, both short-term and long-term. We do not need any politician to remind us about long-term pain or living within our means. Special needs families like mine already understand the financial realities facing many British Columbians. We are simply asking for our children to receive a fair and inclusive education, and for school districts not to have to make tough decision after tough decision each year. But, hey, as Dalton suggests, it could be worse. Jaclyn Spittle, Maple Ridge

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Environment

Supertanker fuel destroys air, too

Dear Editor, I want to talk about the miracle scenario painted by the warm and fuzzy propaganda campaign being drummed into the people of B.C. 24/7 365 days a year, where a pipeline doesn’t leak into our rivers and pollute and poison the land, and there are also no supertanker catastrophes or leaks to destroy our beautiful B.C. coastal environment and kill

millions of aquatic and forest creatures. It would only take one to destroy thousands of jobs and millions of wild creatures, and B.C.’s coastal environment for decades or even centuries to come. Kinder Morgan and Northern Gateway will launch hundreds of supertankers a year, and the proposed LNG plant in Kitimat will send up to seven or

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Dear Editor, Apparently, veterinarians have a licence to print money. The issue is a vet’s unwillingness to quote a full price prior to attending to a pet. They know that the owners have an emotional attachment, and use that as leverage to hit you with a whopper of a bill after the fact. Lots of people may have paid more or less willingly, but the issue is with a vet’s inability to quote a price in full in advance. It’s nothing more than a glorified version of negative billing, which they get away with because they can. In our case, the expensive x-ray and “time under care” ruled out nothing. Good thing my wife picked up our pet. Legalized thievery is what this is. I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it any more. I will never go to that vet again, and any vet we do use will provide a full, accurate quote, or I’m out. Randal Lovig, Pitt Meadows

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eight supertankers a day all the way up 240 kilometres of the fourth most dangerous waterway in the world. Let’s not forget the supertankers that will be hauling all that coal from at least three B.C. coal ports. No one is talking about catastrophic amounts of air pollution from supertankers. Supertankers burn bulk crude – the sludge left over after the oil-refining process. You can literally walk on it when it is cold. It has up to 4,500 times as much sulphur as the diesel you put in your car. Those floating pollution factories pump out sulphur dioxide, CO2, heavy metals, and all the other pollutants generated by burning this cheap, extremely dirty fuel. Their motors are five storeys high, and burn 37,000 litres an hour – about 20 tons of crude a day. Just one of those behemoths emits as much as 5,000 tons of sulphur a year. Just 16 of those supertankers produce more pollution than all the cars in the world. Is it any wonder our oceans are dying, with more than 500 supertankers and super-cargo-carriers plying our oceans, and more being built every day? It is a cheap fuel to move product around the world, but the health and environmental costs are astronomical. Do you consider that cheap? Canada stopped America from building the SE2 power plant – fueled by comparatively clean natural gas – at Sumas on the B.C. border because the pollution hazard was unacceptable: it would have been like putting another 500,000 cars on our roads. Pollution from the giant supertanker oil bombs will dwarf that pollution, and nobody is even talking about that aspect of this lose-lose disaster for the people, animals, environment, and economy of B.C. Wayne Clark, Maple Ridge

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End of an era

Bidding adieu proves difficult after 16 years

HE END. I’ve thought for a long time that I would like to begin an article with those two words. I’ve done so today because I want to say goodbye, and I want to examine how language allows us to tell that it’s all over, done, finished, kaput, curtains, amen. The more I thought about it, the more I wondered why we need so many words and phrases to say it’s finished. Finished after all is a straight forward, honest word. There’s no nonsense about it and knowing, that in French it’s finis, we are right to think it comes from Latin and has been around a long time. With just a few words we can tell something is finished by saying simply, “that’s it,” meaning it’s over and done with, enough. Exodus

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But the language is rich in the use of finalities. There is a whole army of words available to describe something that has been actively or forcefully finished off: terminated, exterminated, annihilated, eradicated, obliterated, liquidated, extirpated, undone, got rid of, disposed of, bumped off, rubbed out, dispatched, brought down, overcome, beaten, conquered, bested, worsted, wasted, polished off, and iced. We may be ruined, defeated, overthrown, broken down, killed, and put to death, There are a variety of subtle differences between one ending and another. You bring something to an end when you finish what you are doing, there’s the end of an affair when two people come to the conclusion that the

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fire has gone out; the end that comes too soon when your brief holiday is over, or you turn the last page of a book you have enjoyed. There is an abrupt end when someone else decides to finish what you are doing as in, “you’re fired.” We are told that we should finish what we start. We have a sense of accomplishment when we bring a project or task to a conclusion. We can bring to a halt, wind up or down, settle, put an end to, cut, break off, culminate, put paid to, peter out, disappear, vanish. We can close up or down, conclude, accomplish, clinch, complete, finalize, fix, nail down, settle, wrap up, shut down, wipe out, kill off. Shakespeare wrote that love

lasts until the edge of doom, a word not used everyday. It knocks around with fate, karma, kismet, death, ruin, destruction, termination. We create for ourselves artificial endings in games and movies. We borrow finale from Italian when we talk about the last part of a piece of music or the last act of a play, and we go to French denouement to unravel the plot. The opera may not be over until the fat lady sings, but her turn will come and the curtain will fall. We come to the end of a meal, the end of a story, we turn off the lights and say good night.

Here and There by Alan Woodland

I shouldn’t forget the word we started with, finish with its friends, stop, cease, conclude, complete, accomplish, perfect, achieve, carry out, fulfill, consummate, clinch. Of course the final end is death and for that the language is rich: popped his clogs, kicked the bucket, gone for a Burton, bought it, met the grim reaper, expired, gone, perished, spent, washed up, cold, lifeless, lost, departed, passed on, met his maker. That’s the lot. A fond farewell to all my readers. Here and There is over and done with, that’s all there is, there isn’t anymore.

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Celebration of life

‘Noteworthy’ lawyer mourned

Dick Lester practised law in Haney for many years, during which time he was on the school board and ran unsuccessfully for an MLA’s seat.

ested in academics. While Lester was well known for his involvement with the local school board, and being active in the Lions Club, he held political aspirations too. He ran as a Socred candidate in the Dewdney constituency and lost by about a thousand votes to NDP’s Dave Barrett in 1963. by Roxanne Hooper During that same era, Lester also served rhooper@mrtimes.com as president of the B.C. School Trustees Association. He was also an inaugural A once prominent Maple Ridge lawyer, member of the SFU Board of Governors school board official, and Social Credit and served a term as chairman, and contender passed away four days after his was president of the Western Canadian 86th birthday. Universities Marine Biological Richard Egerton Matheson Society. (Dick) Lester died of congenital Lester left Maple Ridge in heart failure on March 26, after 1969, and returned to UBC to what his children call an “active study political science before and full” life. resuming his work as a lawyer Born and raised in Toronto, – primarily focused on labour Lester lived in Maple Ridge for law – until he retired in 1996. the better part of two decades, His kids describe him as havdrawn here in the early 1950s to ing “an adventurous spirit, deep practise law after being called to intellectual curiosity, and pasthe bar in 1952. sion for new experiences.” Before entering the world Dick Lester He was an avid sailor, reader, of litigation, Lester hitchhiked 1928-2014 and music lover with an insatiacross the U.S. in 1948, recountable appetite for knowledge, ed his eldest son Doug. and was bright and alert to “He’d tell us about when he the very end, Doug explained. got here with 50 cents in his Doug is one of four of Lester’s pocket,” said Doug. children – all of whom were Not wishing to return home to born in Maple Ridge. Like Dad, Ontario again, Lester set down three of the four went on to roots in B.C. and took up work practise law: Doug operating as a diamond driller – first at the his own civil litigation firm in Britannia Beach mines and later Abbotsford, Reid practising in in the Yukon for a few years. Toronto, and his only daughter Gillian Knowing he didn’t want to work in the currently posted as acting dean of law at mines forever, Lester thought a career in California’s Berkeley university. Mark is engineering might be more to his liking. After just one year of studying engineer- the only child not involved in the law. Lester is survived by his four children, ing at the University of B.C., however, their partners, six granddaughters, and Lester realized that wasn’t his calling one grandson. He was predeceased by either, and switched over to law. A short time after graduation, he and his Lois, his wife of 57 years, in 2009. “He truly touched all who came to know new bride Lois moved out to the “hinterhim,” his kids said. “He will be deeply lands” of Haney and went to work with missed.” a few “noteworthy lawyers” through the A celebration of life is planned for years including Stuart Leggatt and Charles Monday, April 21 at the Great Hall in the Campbell. He was a partner at one point Gleneagles Golf Course on Marine Drive in the local firm of Lester and Vernon. in West Vancouver. In lieu of flowers, Vernon, now 77 years old and enjoying the family ask that donations be made to retirement in White Rock, said Tuesday the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation or the that he admired Lester and remembered Union Gospel Mission. him for having a very serious side and a very humorous nature and a keen inter• More at www.mrtimes.com, search “Lester”

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Edward Marke Antonsen will stand trial for a shooting death last spring outside Haney Place Mall. Judge Garth Smith ruled, following a recent threeday preliminary hearing in Port Coquitlam provincial court, that there was enough evidence to take Antonsen to trial for murder. He’s set to appear next in New Westminster Supreme Court on May 15, to set a date for his trial. The killing occurred almost a year ago, April 29, when 26-year-old Claude Deguire was gunned down in the Thrifty Foods parking lot. A few days later, Antonsen was arrested at his Maple Ridge home without incident.

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ouglas Bell knows hunger isn’t a community has already been “quite good. seasonal thing. People are aware of this,” he said. And that reality is the reason He added drives like this are crucial as the franchisee of the Maple many food banks have been forced to cut Ridge Extra Foods on Dewdney Trunk back how much they can give due to lack Road is happy to support of donations. the store’s parent grocery chain Loblaw, as they once again hold the Extra he Chamber of Helping Spring Food Drive. Commerce Business “All the Loblaw stores are Excellence Awards involved,” said Bell. take place this Friday, at “People often think about the Meadow Gardens Golf food bank donations at Course. Christmastime, but they Beginning at 6:30 p.m., don’t necessarily think the event is “the communabout them year-round,” he by Eric Zimmer ity’s chance to say thanks” said of the company’s reato those businesses and son for the drive. individuals in the community who norTaking place from now until April 24, mally sit in the background, but whose customers are encouraged to drop off food in the collection bins of any Loblaw- contributions to the community are invaluable, said chamber president Terry affiliated grocery store, or purchase a $2 Becker. donation coupon at the till. “It’s about recognizing and celebrating Bell explained that 85 per cent of donathese businesses,” she explained. tions go to the local food bank, and the Becker added that when it comes to other 15 per cent is dispersed provincially Friday’s event her team and the committo communities who may not necessarily even have a food bank, but where people tee is ready to go. She added the number of nominees for are in need. awards this year was overwhelming. He explained that each day, representaFor more information on the event, as tives from the Friends In Need Food Bank well as ticket availability, people can visit come into the store to collect the day’s www.ridgemeadowschamber.com. food donations, while cash donations are The golf course is located at 19675 distributed by the store’s head office. Meadow Gardens Way in Pitt Meadows. Bell noted that the response from the

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editorial@mrtimes.com public education event, starting at 9 a.m. at Maple Ridge Baptist Church, 22155 Lougheed Hwy., Maple Ridge. The event is put on by Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Community Services. Info: 604-467-6911.

April 10: The ACT

• Norm Foote gives a funfilled performance, Always Be Yourself, at The ACT, 11944 Haney Pl., Maple Ridge at 7 p.m. Tickets: www.theactmapleridge.org or 604-476-2787.

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April 11: Carnival

• Yennadon Elementary at 23347 128th Ave., Maple Ridge, is holding a spring carnival from 5 to 8 p.m.

April 12: Volunteers

• Volunteers are invited to a free breakfast at Boston Pizza, #510-19800 Lougheed Hwy., Pitt Meadows. Info: asingh@comservice.bc.ca.

April 11 & 12: Manure

• Maple Ridge Secondary and Pitt Meadows Secondary track team manure sale takes place from 3 to 8 p.m. on Friday, April 11 and from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and on Saturday, April 12. Students will bag 50 pounds of manure for $5 at the MRSS east parking lot. To preorder, go to www.mrsstrackandcrosscountry.com or call 604-306-0627.

April 13: Bear essentials

• Park staff will be on hand to talk about how to stay safe around bears at Kanaka Creek Regional Park from 1 to 4 p.m. Meet at the riverfront, south of Lougheed Highway and River Road in Maple Ridge. Info: 604-4326359.

April 14: Gardening

• Amsterdam Nurseries and the Pitt Meadows Garden Club present author and plant expert Linda A. Gilkeson at Amsterdam Greenhouse & Nursery, 19100 Old Dewdney Trunk Rd, Pitt Meadows at 7 p.m. Info: 604-465-6614. The cost is $5, free for children and club members.

April 11 to 20: Theatre

• Theatre in the Country presents The Lower Room by Pat Wooley, a play about the story of Jesus’ passion through the eyes of those who were the last of the followers at the cross, and the first at the tomb: women. The play runs on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., on Sunday at 4 p.m., and April 18, 19, and 20 at 7:30 p.m.

April 15: Writers’ group

• Golden Ears Writers meet in the lobby of The ACT, 11944 Haney Pl., Maple Ridge, from 7 to 9 p.m. Info: www.facebook.com/goldenearswriters.

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• Dr. Deborah Bell talks about bringing up resilient children and Marnie Goldenberg talks about raising sexually intelligent children at a free seminar, Alisa’s Wish child-focused

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• Ridge Meadows Ex-Service Women’s Club meets at the Royal Canadian Legion, 12101 224th St., Maple Ridge. They meet at noon for lunch and their business meeting starts at 1 p.m.

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Congratulations to the Citizen of the Year Finalists Join us Thursday, April 24 at Meadow Gardens for the Maple Ridge Citizen of the Year Presentation and Maple Ridge Community Foundation’s Annual Fundraising Dinner.

A cleanup crew helped pull invasive plants from Allco Park last month.

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The Green Team invaded Maple Ridge again – and helped get rid of invasive plants from Allco Park. At the end of March, a group of nine volunteers, under the auspices of the Lower Mainland Green

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Every year, the parents and volunteers with Xtreme Theatre, a home-schooling musical theatre program, wonder how they will top their performance next year. But every year, they seem to come up with more and more elaborate sets, costumes, and productions, said Wendy Holm, the founder of Xtreme Theatre and the producer of this year’s Willy Wonka Junior production, set to hit the stage at The ACT on April 16. “I don’t know how we’re going to top it next year – that’s what we say every year,” Holm said. Currently there are 130 students registered with Xtreme Theatre, Holm said, and they draw on the talents of the parents. “The bigger we get, the more excitement we generate with the parents... they want to do more,” Holm said. Willy Wonka Junior is a musical based on the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. The home-schooled children and youth started rehearsing already in September, and the program, besides giving them school credits, helps them make social connections, Holm said.

This year, the set will include a green screen on stage so they can create special effects during the play. Xtreme Theatre, which has kids participating from all over the Lower Mainland from White Rock to Abbotsford, used to perform at the Terry Fox Theatre in Port Coquitlam, but they soon grew too big for that venue and have since moved to The ACT. “Our set builders are amazing – [they] go above and beyond,” Holm said. While the kids pay a monthly fee for being in Xtreme Theatre that pays for rent and the teachers, ticket sales will go to help put on the next year’s production. Holm started Xtreme Theatre 14 years ago and it’s a “one of a kind” group in the Lower Mainland, she said. Anyone can join the group, but, for the plays, the kids have to audition for the parts. Next fall, Xtreme Theatre plans to have three groups to replace the junior and senior groups they have now. They will have a group with kids aged five to eight, a group with kids aged nine to 13, and a senior group with teens aged 14 to 18. Xtreme Theatre presents its juniors’ show Willy Wonka Junior at 7 p.m. on April 16 and 17 and at 2 and 7 p.m. on April 19 at The ACT, 11944 Haney Pl., Maple Ridge. Tickets are $14 apiece and are available at www.theactmapleridge. org or by calling 604-476-2787.

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Local restaurants and producers are the focus of an upcoming CEED Centre fundraiser.

The folks who bring you an upscale food festival each year are spreading the message that eating local food has benefits extending far beyond the obvious. Choosing to buy from local producers is better for one’s health, the local economy, and one’s taste buds, said Wendy Rairdan, president of the CEED Centre Society. “It just so happens that it’s better for the environment, too,” she added. The CEED Centre features local restaurants and B.C. wine and beer at its annual fundraiser, Cheers to the Planet: Eat, Drink and be Eco. “We want to draw attention to local food and drink as a major change maker in our community,” said Christian Cowley, executive director at the CEED Centre. “With climate change and a rapidly changing global economy hit by higher energy costs, we have to shorten the distances food and drink travel.” Cowley points out that the nutritional content of fresh produce harvested locally is often higher than long distance food. The economic benefits flow far beyond farmers’ fields. “About half of the world economy is attributable to food directly or indirectly, so when you localize the activities you gain a world of economic benefit,” said Cowley. Rairdan spoke enthusiastically

CEED Centre president Wendy Rairdan and executive director Christian Cowley checked out wines for the upcoming Cheers to the Planet fundraising event set for April 27. about the local food phenomenon. “Our eco-gala, Cheers to the Planet, introduces local chefs and vintners to the attendees,” she said. “They are usually out of sight in the kitchen at their restaurants. At Cheers, they can talk directly to you to tell the story of your dinner.” This year, Cheers will see the return of Big Feast Bistro, Kingfishers Waterfront Pub, Seasonal 56, and Bruce’s Country Market. So far, Pitt Meadows-based Stomping Grounds Cafe & Bistro is the first new food service to join. On the beverage side, Dead Frog Brewery will be featured alongside local distributors, Steve the Wine Guy and Firefly Fine Wines and Ales. More are expected to sign on closer to the event. But what would wine be without

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Gardening by Anne Marrison

about six weeks. Cardboard or newspaper makes a good base for a garden bed of mounded soil and compost. Ultimately, both rot, so deep-rooted plants can establish themselves well. Tightly woven landscape fabric makes a good weed barrier under a gravel or paver path for virtually every weed except couch grass (a.k.a. quack grass), a perennial grass with fat white needle-pointed roots that can punch through many landscape fabrics. If it appears in gravel, it’s much easier to attack from above. Boiling water kills top growth most effectively, though it should never be used in gardens anywhere near toddlers or pets, or by people with balance problems. Other organic weedkillers are usually based on horticultural vinegar. You may need to douse the offenders several times. When weeds get past the seedling stage, triage is sometimes necessary. Anything with seedheads, flowers, or buds should be dealt with first. If there’s no time for pulling, at least cut them off so that crops or flowers can get ahead. Pulling is much easier when the soil is moist.

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WE CAN HELP YOU Contact your local victim services program below, or call Victimlink BC at: 1-800-563-0808 Ridge-Meadows Community Based Victim Services 604-467-6911 Exts 227 or 228 Ridge-Meadows RCMP Victim Services 604-467-7640 or 604-467-7641

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Holy Thursday, April 17 7pm at Golden Ears UC Maundy Thursday Worship Good Friday, April 18 11am at Trinity UC Good Friday Worship 2211 Prairie Avenue Port Coquitlam

Easter Sunday, April 20 Golden Ears United Church 7am at Haney Wharf 22165 Dewdney Trunk Road Easter Sunrise Service Maple Ridge 9:15am at Pitt Meadows UC 604.463.9611 Family Easter Celebration with Music, Flowers & Surprises Pitt Meadows United Church 12109 Harris Road 10am at Golden Ears UC Pitt Meadows Family Easter Service Communion & Connection 604.465.6233

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General Interest & Personal Development

Seven local B.C. scouting members are being recognized this weekend in Victoria. ezimmer@mrtimes.com

It will be a birthday to remember for Maple Ridge’s Matt Piton this weekend. The young man is one of seven local B.C. scouting members who will be given a special award in Victoria this Saturday, the same day he turns 19. Piton, a venturer, and his local peers are part of a total 63 Scouts from across the province who will be given the highest award in Scouting: The Queen’s Venturer

added. Scout Award. He also enjoys working Receiving the award with youth and passing means the recipients have along knowledge and skills been recognized by the to younger generations company, the advisor, and as they come up through Scouts Canada. It signifies the ranks, as well as just that a venturer has both giving back to his comthe character and ability munity. to be of significant help to “It’s a mix between other people. volunteer hours, doing For Piton, the award is a different camps and trips, pretty big deal. and planning and leading “It means a lot to me, youth on the trips,” he because I’ve come all the Matt Piton explained. way up through scouts,” The awards will be he said. Scouting Venturer presented in the governPiton has been a Scouts ment house by Judith Guichon, Canada member for 12 years. Lieutenant-Governor of B.C. Asked what’s kept him in it so Scouts Canada is the country’s long, he simply replied, “I like campleading youth serving organization ing.” with more than 100,000 members. But there’s more than that, Piton

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times Travellers Silver Kuris, 10, (left) Sydney and MacKenzie Mack, both 11, and eight-year-old Liam Kuris – all students at Whonnock Elementary – recently returned home from a trip to New York. During their vacation, they had a picture taken holding a copy of their hometown newspaper, The TIMES, from the top of the Rockerfeller Centre. The Empire State Building can be seen in the background.

WEEKEND WARRIORS: SCOTTSDALE EDITION (DAY 2) by Sarah Bancroft

From vintage couture to modernist architecture, fresh-pressed juice to fried cauliflower, Scottsdale’s got our name on it. Read the Day 2 Arizona itinerary on where to shop, dine, drink and shop some more on www.vitamindaily.com

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