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Creative expression: Catherine Browne showed one of her paintings. She’ll have her work on display at the spring art show and sale, Los Colores de Primavera, taking place this weekend at the Vicuna Art Studio.

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A fight erupted Monday at the homeless camp growing along Cliff Avenue (behind the Caring Place), where two women got into a brawl.

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Paramedics attended to a woman who had her finger partially bitten off during an altercation at the Cliff Avenue homeless camp Monday afternoon.

A homeless task force has evolved into a ‘new entity’ said its founder.

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Since the formation of the homeless camp on Cliff Avenue, there have been mornings where Nicole Read Maple Ridge Mayor mayor Nicole Read said she has woken up “feeling sick,” thinking about the best way to proceed with the issue, in a way that benefits the community as a whole and leads to the best possible outcome for everyone, homeless or not.

Read made the comments during a presentation made in Maple Ridge City council chambers last Thursday, to a variety of community stakeholders in the audience, in which she provided an update on the Mayor’s Homelessness Solutions Task Force.

“A lot of work has been done over the last several months,” she said.

“We wanted to make sure from the beginning of this process that we’re doing the right thing, the right way,” Read explained.

The task force has “evolved into a completely new entity,” she added.

“And this new entity really comprises a lot of community partners.”

The structure of the task force was broken down into separate teams, the mayor said.

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A woman bit off a piece of another woman’s finger at a homeless camp on Cliff Avenue.

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An argument between two residents of the Cliff Avenue homeless camp turned violent Monday afternoon, leaving to one woman in policy custody,

and another in an ambulance.

Shortly after 12 p.m., Pam Banks – who lives on Cliff Avenue – heard a yelling match taking place outside her home.

“There was a lot of screaming and yelling,” said Banks, who added that the confrontation turned violent shortly after.

The fight was particularly brutal, as one woman had the tip of her finger bitten off by the other, said Ridge Meadows RCMP Cpl. Jason Reader.

Yelling matches are commonplace at the camp, said Matt Nielsen, whose girlfriend

lives on Cliff Avenue. opposition from residents, and However, this altercation ”is mayor Nicole Read. the worst we’ve seen so far,” “Talk of this BBQ has creNielsen added. ated fracture in this City and Nurses and first responders we are watching residents on the scene put the finger organize a protest against the on ice, and transported the BBQ,” Read wrote on the SHA victim away on a Facebook page. stretcher.

Join Facebook “Our City is Charges have doing things the discussion since been recomright way. We have mended against the assailant. goals that are in common with But the violence hasn’t disthe Social Housing Alliance. In suaded members of a group spite of this, you seek to concalled the Social Housing verge on our City with buses Alliance from planning a of out-of-town citizens. For community barbecue on Cliff what purpose?” Read added.

Avenue for Saturday afterThe barbecue is slated to noon, despite a great deal of begin at 1 p.m. on June 6.

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Police hunt for man A composite drawing of an assault suspect was released Wednesday, more than four months after an alleged attack in Downtown Maple Ridge. Dating back to Feb. 1, a woman was accosted by an unknown man while walking along the 22300 block of Selkirk Avenue at about 5:30 p.m. Now Mounties need the public’s help identifying the assailant.

TIMES columnist, artist, and environmentalist Liz Hancock shares some insight into the wild cherry trees and huckleberry bushes that speckle our North American landscape, and how their enjoyed by bees, animals, and humans alike. This is Liz’s last column. She’s retiring.

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Shredding curbs identity theft In an effort to reduce identity theft and fraud in this community, the local Mounties are hosting a shredding event in conjunction with this weekend’s Pitt Meadows Day festivities.

Partnering with Iron Mountain Canada, the Ridge Meadows RCMP are inviting people to drop off bills, documents, and items that contain personal information

for free, confidential shredding, explained Sgt. Brenda Gresiuk.

“This is a great opportunity to act to safeguard your privacy and prevent becoming a victim of identity theft,” she said.

The drop-off point is being set up from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the parking lot beside the Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall, in the Harris Road Park, on Saturday.

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Wearing nothing more than shredded hiking shorts, a pair of socks, and just one runner, a very disoriented and severely scratched up Maple Ridge man suffering from onset hypothermia stumbled out of the backwoods of the Malcolm Knapp’s research forest in Maple Ridge early Friday morning.

Rescue crews were in the Silver Valley park overnight, combing trails and waterways for a missing man in his 40s who apparently frequented the trail system near his home for runs and hikes.

Search members received a call just after 11 p.m. Thursday.

Indications were that the park caretaker heard screams for help coming from inside the park around dusk.

Despite efforts of a dispatched fenced-off hydro right-of-way towards the parking lot and parks crew to find the source road, Laing said. of the cries in the south end of He was in “pretty rough the forest, police and ultimately shape,” Laing added, noting the Ridge Meadows Search & Rescue team were brought in to there were scratches all over his body from manouvaid in the quest. ring through the bushes.

That overnight search included members of But more concerning was the volunteer rescue the fact that the missteam focusing on a few ing man was unaware of kilometers of trails and where he was (he actualseveral fenced off areas ly thought he was in of the park near the Hope), how he got there, Rick Laing or what had happened.

Alouette River, explained Rick Laing, manager Bundling the scantily of the volunteer-based Ridge clad man up in blankets and Meadows Search & Rescue. feeding him water, searchers Their search efforts were aug- hurried him into the heated cab mented by the use of a police of a rescue truck to await the dog to sniff out some rough ter- paramedics, who subsequently rain around a popular (but dan- transported him to hospital. gerous) cliff often used by kids While there were no obvious for cliff diving, as well as the injuries speaking to this man assistance of the RCMP Air One having taken a fall, Laing helicopter with a forward lookfeared his condition and his ing infrared camera to scope inability to remember – even the river, Laing said. where he was – likely came At first light, searchers were as the result of a fall where he just about to reignite their possibly hit his head. pursuit, with some reinforceAt least 16 different indiments from neighbouring resviduals were involved in last cue teams en route, when the weekend’s search. subject of the quest came stumMore online search bling towards them.

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Help in arsons needed Mounties are asking for help to solve a rash of suspicious fires this weekend in Maple Ridge.

It’s believed an individual or group is responsible for as many as six arsons early Sunday morning, said Ridge Meadows RCMP Const. Amanda Harnett.

The first blaze was reported in a garbage can at the Dunn Avenue West Coast Express station about 2:40 a.m.

Three other fires were discovered at marked bus stops on Dewdney Trunk Road (between 201st and 203rd Streets). Then, just before 3:30 a.m., police were called to a church on Laity Street, where arson damaged the entrance.

The sixth case involved a garbage can lid being set on fire behind Maple Ridge Square at 224th Street and Dewdney.

As of Wednesday, investigators were still following up leads.

Anyone with tips is asked to call the Ridge meandws RCMP at 604-463-6251. >Read more: mrtimes.com, search ‘arson’

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Happy campers: Manager Neal Khade and his staff, along with a little customer, gathered outside the Tim Hortons location at 22987 Dewdney Trunk Rd., for a group photo at lunchtime on Wednesday, June 3, which was Camp Day. The first Wednesday in June is Camp Day – Tim Hortons biggest fundraiser of the year. It’s the day Tim Hortons restaurant owners donate 100 per cent of their coffee proceeds to the Tim Hortons Children’s Foundation, which sends economically disadvantaged kids to one of the Tim Horton camps. Khade, who has been the manager at the Dewdney Trunk location for the past six years, said “this is a day we look forward to, to raise money and send kids to camp… it’s very important.”

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Garbage pickup pondered, again City staff delivered a detailed report on the feasibility of a trash pickup service in Maple Ridge.

COLE WAGNER editorial@mrtimes.com

Maple Ridge City council got an update from City staff about the potential for a municipal garbage pickup service at a council workshop Monday morning.

Councillors were told that the potential cost of such a service could be anywhere from around $250 to $350 per household annually, depending on a number of factors such as the geographical scope of a pickup service, and whether additional City staff would manage the service.

The numbers are just a preliminary estimate of costs, said David Pollock, a municipal engineer with the City.

Currently, residents of Maple Ridge can haul their trash to the Albion Transfer Station, and dump their garbage for a flat fee, while some residents choose to contract out a private pickup service for their household.

A survey conducted by the Ridge Craig Speirs Meadows Recycling Society, cited in councillor the report from City staff, found that 60 per cent of the Maple Ridge residents surveyed participate in some kind of private pickup arrangement.

The report also states that private garbage pickup companies have already made it clear that should a municipal service begin, rural Bob Masse households risk being left at the councillor curb.

“Should the City move to a municipally administered garbage collection system for largely urban areas only, they [private haulers] would most likely not continue to service the rural properties given that the low number of potential customers and associated higher costs,” reads one section of the report.

Thanks to a new Metro Vancouver ban on organic waste, food scraps are no longer allowed to be lumped in with other garbage – which leaves Maple Ridge residents with a new consideration when it comes to waste disposal.

The Albion Transfer Station currently has a spot for green waste, while private waste companies are rolling out new organic pickup services in the near future, according to a staff report.

Ultimately, council unanimously decided that more information would be necessary before moving forward concerning a pickup service.

Councillors Bob Masse and Craig Speirs were selected to form a subcommittee, to identify what information council needs to form a referendum question about a municipal service.

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he Chamber of Commerce serving Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows recently represented our community at the BC Chamber annual general meeting and conference in Prince George.

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wners of a Maple Ridge garden shop are frustrated with the theft of six custom-planted showpiece baskets on Sunday night.

The three massive hanging baskets and three home-built wall toppers had been chained to Grow & Gather’s storefront.

The garden centre’s owners Renata Triveri and Bill Hardy were hopeful that the baskets would grow to reach the ground over the summer, but they weren’t entirely surprised to find them stolen in the night.

The company’s previous owners twice had their show-baskets lifted, and finally quit installing them.

“We’re really disappointed,” said Triveri. “We’ve been growing these baskets since February, and we had hoped that thieves would be dissuaded by our camera system this time.

The retail price of the stolen pieces is about $1200, she added.

“But we’re gardeners, so the real worth was in the anticipation of seeing them fill out, and in the response we receive from our neighbours and customers.”

The couple is reviewing video surveillance to identify the midnight landscapers.

The theft of garden elements is a growing problem, particularly in municipal plantings and recently when a $65,000 bonsai collection was lifted in Surrey.

A $200 reward has been offered to anyone who reports the location of the bubble-gum pink moss baskets and wall-toppers.

Those with information can call call Ridge-Meadows RCMP or Grow & Gather directly at (604) 4663254.

One of the hanging baskets that was lifted from Grow & Gather here in Maple Ridge on Sunday night. The owners need your help in locating them.

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Each day the conference is “jam-packed” with professional speakers, ministers

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“It’s exciting to return home with fresh ideas, more enthusiasm and a widened perspective and knowing that the chambers matter and we make a difference to business nationwide,” she added.

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axing wealthy property speculators is always going to be a popular proposition. Taxing wealthy, allegedly foreign property speculators who are driving the middle classes out of the detached housing market? It sounds like a sure fire winner.

A new Insights West poll found 73 per cent of B.C. residents agree that taxing absentee homeowners to quell real estate speculation is a pretty darned good idea.

But what kind of a tax would deter speculation?

Take a look at the last 10 years of real estate values in the Lower Mainland. According to Fraser Valley Real Estate Board figures, the value of a detached house went up 80.8 per cent in the Lower Mainland in the last decade. That’s a pretty good rate of return compared to most stock markets, and unlike the Dow Jones or NASDAQ, there haven’t been nearly as many decreases in housing prices.

So sure, tax absentee home ownership. But unless you make the tax incredibly onerous, don’t expect it to change the behaviour of the investors much. After all, if you buy a $3 million mansion just so you can flip it for $4 million in a couple of years, what’s the problem with paying $50,000 in extra taxes a year? That’s still a fraction of the expected profit. Given how intense the market for housing is in B.C. right now, any speculators who do exist are likely to just tack that onto the selling price anyway.

Adding to the complications is figuring out what “absentee” is. A foreign buyer might rent their home, hire a decent property manager, and be an overall good landlord. Meanwhile, a born-and-bred B.C. resident could be flipping properties like mad. Are rented properties to be exempt? If not, how many folks with a single investment property will be hit for the full tax? How long does a house have to be empty before it qualifies for any tax?

There’s been a lot of speculation about speculators, but with little hard information, any tax is likely to be ineffective, easily avoided, or to hit the wrong targets entirely.

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that Jews murder Christian worry future generations children. That claim has led to won’t have a complete centuries of prejudice, pogroms picture of how weird our and genocide, and is the protoworld really is. Most of type of countless other claims our society is reality-based, or against many minority ethnic close to it. But there are many groups. corners of the world ruled by More recently, the Satanic the conspiracy theorists, and Panic of the 1980s was without understanding them, the idea that secret cults we can’t understand our own of Satanists were scattered times. through all of society. That Conspiracy theories tell us MATTHEW CLAXTON panic helped send multiple a lot about the anxieties and innocent people to jail, accused aspirations we feel as a society. of molesting children, and muddied some A conspiracy theorist isn’t usually menreal child abuse investigations. tally ill. Your average conspiracy kook At the other end of the scale of harmfulis someone with typical brain functionness, but with incredible staying power, ing who has gone down a rabbit hole is the conspiracy theory known as the and believes in some odd things, but is Shakespeare authorship question. Going otherwise a mostly functional member of back to the 1800s, this is the idea that society.

William Shakespeare was a front man for Conspiracy theories come in all shapes one or several other authors; popular canand sizes, and many of them don’t even didates have included Francis Bacon and involve the usual suspects of evil governthe Earl of Oxford. ments and millionaires. One of the oldest These days, we’re most familiar with is the Blood Libel, the 2,000-year-old lie

government conspiracy theories, in which the government has been/will be taken over by some evil force. This force will then implant us all with microchips/ enforce communism/harvest our organs for their alien overlords, etc. They’ve also faked the moon landing, can control the weather, cause earthquakes, have built a giant network of secret concentration camps, and probably rigged it so that the Canucks never win a Stanley Cup, too.

The only thing they seemingly can’t do is silence the people putting up websites revealing all their secrets to the world.

People who try to put their theories into practice tend to cause pretty horrific consequences. The idea that drug companies are just out to make money (more than a grain of truth there) has led to people rejecting well tested vaccines as harmful (false) and not giving their kids measles shots. The widespread networks of Freeman on the Land believers think they can avoid paying child support, income taxes, or even putting license plates on their cars if they just say the right pseu-

do-magical words. Many of them are now in jail, having tested these theories on judges.

Most who study conspiracy theories suggest it gives people a sense of control, that at least they understand how the universe works.

Bad things happen, all the time.

Children die or are abused. Businesses fail, banks go under, and hard working people lose their jobs. Planes fall from the sky, world leaders can be brought down by lone nuts with cheap mail order rifles.

Wars start over pride and stupidity.

A Freeman on the Land or a believer in the Oxford theory of Shakespeare authorship both share the same sense that they have seen through the sham. The rest of us are living in a dream world, too stupid or lazy to see things as they really are.

Even with Satanists, lizard people, and Satanist lizard people out of the picture, the real world of random weirdness still seems scarier to me.

Read Matthew Claxton’s Painful Truth online this week at mrtimes.com

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Good Samaritan earns trust of homeless Dear Editor,

I’m driving down a dark alley in Maple Ridge.

Looking for someone. Well, anyone really.

It is 11 on a Sunday night, and the streets seem pretty much deserted.

Unless you know where to look.

I turn into a vacant parking lot and spot a few people tucked up against a brick wall.

Approaching, I see that it’s Serena, Laura, Nick, and Rob. I park the car and get out, grab a box full of containers from my trunk and walk over to them. They all know me by now – I’ve been around long enough, and I’ve earned at least some of their trust and respect.

Mostly because I don’t yell or throw things at them.

So after the obligatory “hellos” I put the box down and take a seat on the asphalt.

Tonight, I’ve been given some good stuff to bring out.

I open the containers and Nick goes to his backpack and comes out with a roll of foil.

He tears a few pieces off and forms them into makeshift bowls. (Later, he’ll drop them in a recycle bin, he’s pretty serious about not littering.)

They start dividing up the fruit and veggies as well as some cake I’ve brought. They are extremely grateful and repeatedly tell me to thank the person who donated this food.

Laura and Nick are out here because they have no other

place to go. They’ve been barred from the Caring Place, maybe for good reason, maybe not, it’s not my place to judge the Caring Place management’s position. But the fact is that the only place they can reliably get food most nights won’t let them in. So they scrounge.

I hear that the bins behind certain restaurants throw out some pretty good stuff, and sometimes staff even leave leftover food in bags or boxes for them (and others).

Brian Smeding, Maple Ridge

[Editor’s note: Names have been changed, at Mr. Smeding’s request.]

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Targeting speeders will make roads safer Dear Editor,

I read with interest the story about the speeding at Albion school [School speeders frustrate family, May 28, Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows TIMES] and I agree with the lady that it is a problem not only there but at all schools in the City.

I remember when I was involved with the speed watch in the

1980s, and we clocked a lady in a corvette doing a 109 km/h in the school zone because she was late to pick up her child and she had no concern about what else could happen because of her speed.

I believe that speed watch, while being a education tool, has no effect whatsoever on the motoring public, because when a driver

Nixing buses reprehensible Dear Editor,

Having followed the painful decisions the local school board has had to make over the last few years regarding “administrative savings,” I find it very strange that none of these “savings” affect administration.

Do they, in fact, have any adverse affect on administration?

Cancelling the bus service to a percentage of the school population of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows – notably, the children in the Parents, you most remote parts of Maple Ridge – is rephave the rehensible and will ability to probably result in of the families make changes many affected selling their – do it. properties and moving elsewhere.

All the parents of children in Maple Ridge, in fact the entire province, need to be aware of this.

The school act declares that all the materials needed for a child to be educated from kindergarten to graduation, must be supplied.

That means all school equipment necessary for a child to graduate.

It does not include buses.

Nor does it include yearbooks or pictures.

Those are not necessary to graduate, but getting to school is.

Parents, you have the ability to make changes – do it.

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Joan Carr, Maple Ridge

receives a letter in the mail a month or so after they are clocked speeding, it is just ignored by them.

The only way to get their attention is with a real speeding ticket that affects their pocketbook, and gets their attention.

As a professional driver travelling all over the Lower Mainland, I see these drivers who are either

in a big hurry to get somewhere or just don’t care about other people on the road.

I agree that distracted and impaired driver kill people, but so does speeders, and all these should be considered important to enforce at all times.

Only until this is done will the roads be safe to travel.

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four, winced as a bucket poured water onto the pavement below at Maple Ridge Park late last week.

Sofia was among the little ones who cooled off in the park’s water park on a very warm afternoon.

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Senior fun: A Hat On Afternoon Tea

hosted by Ridge Meadows Seniors Society on Monday brought dozens, including Elva Dinn (right), together at the seniors activity centre to celebrate the kick off to seniors week in Maple Ridge. Likewise, the society held a mini-sports day on Wednesday, complete with walker races. And a variety show is being hosted Friday and Saturday (see story, page A19).

Purely Pastel Places: A Place For Dreaming, created by Janine Smith, was inspired by the local artist’s love for the beauty of the dikes around Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. It was one of 16 paintings from the Garibaldi Art Club that was recently showcased at a juried art exhibit in Vancouver’s Granville Island. The Purely Pastel exhibition was organized by the Pastel Artists of Canada and hosted by the Federation of Canadian Artists last month.

Parade season arrives:

Julia Chiasson is always busy, when parade season hits in the Lower Mainland. The 15-yearold Maple Ridge teen frequently steps up to represent the War Amps and their child amputee program at community parades.

Last month, for instance, Julia took this message to the masses as part of the Mean Machines float at the Cloverdale Rodeo parade. This local youth wants kids to play safe and warns them about the very real dangers involving in operating lawn mowers. She has met many kids who have lost limbs in such accidents.

Giving to veterans: An in-house raffle at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 88 in Maple Ridge netted $2,200 that was recently presented to Bob Sutherland for the Veterans Transition Program.

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Thomas Haney Secondary Grade 12 student Nicholas Girard is making a difference at home and abroad.

Avalanches were also a concern, he added.

To keep the group safe, Niraj Jirel put their well being before his during the trekking trip, Girard said.

Thomas Haney students are also planning a car wash in the very near future, with proceeds going to the cause. week after coming home from Nepal, Girard had to TROY LANDREVILLE deal with crushing news on tlkandreville@mrtimes.com a personal level when his grandhe spring of 2015 will ma, Marie Girard, passed away resonate with soon-to-be unexpectedly.

Thomas Haney Secondary “It took me by surprise,” he said. graduate Nicholas Girard “I really didn’t expect it. It was for quite some time. really sad. It shocked me. She was Less than a month after Girard so healthy.” and his school mates came home And while his Grandma Marie from a three-week trip to Nepal, won’t see him graduate, Girard is they were shocked by the news that ensuring his other grandmother (his a magnitude 7.8 earthquake had mom’s mom) will have that opporrocked the country on April 25. tunity.

The death toll from that natural Alba Mazzarolo has dementia and disaster – the first of two earthlives at a seniors care home in Port quakes that shook Nepal in under Coquitlam. a month – stands at more than Yesterday (Wednesday, June 8,000 with tens of thousands more 3), Girard visited Alba at her care injured. home, and was dressed in his grad The 18-year-old Girard was gown and outfit. among 15 students from Thomas “The biggest lesson I Haney, one from Pitt Meadows think my son is learning is how to Secondary, and a handful of adult be compassionate, He’s always had chaperones who left the developing a big heart, but with his grandma country just weeks before the quake having dementia it made him even hit. more compassionate and aware of The group that included students dementia, and he has the biggest in Grades 10 to 12 left for Nepal respect for seniors,” Nicholas’s March 10 and returned to Canada mom Gisel said. “He loves to visit March 31. with her and jokes around with her.

“We were [among] the last My mom’s eyes light up when she people to see these hissees him. There are toric buildings [intact],” days that she doesn’t She’s so Girard said. “I think desrecognize who he is, tiny has a part to play special to but I know she feels in this.” the love and support me. I want Of the three weeks in when he’s there and her to see me Nicholas knows that Nepal, two were spent trekking the Himalayas she still loves him very graduate.” in the Everest region. much.”

Nicholas Girard Along the way, some “My grandma has students did science been like a second experiments on elevamom to me,” Girard tion and the human response, one said. “My dad and my mom both student monitored blood pressure worked when I was growing up.” and oxygen saturation rates as the Alba is from Uruguay and primargroup climbed higher, while others ily speaks Spanish. As a young boy, did a follow-up presentation about Girard acted as her translator. the trip and completed an outdoor “When she would go to the corpursuits course. ner store, she wouldn’t really know fter hearing about the earthhow much money to give, so I quake, Girard and fellow would tell her,” said Girard, who Thomas Haney students learned to speak Spanish through sprung to action, raising $2,000 his grandma. through a bottle drive and donaRecently, Alba’s dementia has tions collected at the school. gotten worse.

Funds raised will go to Nepal “It’s really sad when your own Vision Treks, the company that the grandma who you’ve had all these group used during their visit, and memories with can’t really recogone guide in particular who went nize you,” Girard said. above and beyond for the Canadian Because Alba can’t make it to contingent.

Girard’s graduation ceremony, he “In Nepal we were walking on will bring the ceremony to her. these huge cliffs… and any mistake “She’s so special to me,” Girard could be the end of you, so it’s a said. “I want her to see me graduvery dangerous place,” Girard said. ate.”

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Jeff Willan wants to see a paradigm shift in drivers’ behaviour once they enter school zones in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows.

The Maple Ridge dad to two children, fiveyear-old Sebastian and three-year-old Zoe, has founded School Safety Online, a group that is starting a campaign for the 2015/16 school year named Respect Our School Zones.

The group (which can be found on Facebook at www. facebook.com/ SchoolSafetyOnline) is working towards becoming a registered society to receive funding as a nonprofit.

“I’m going to be working on a campaign outline for the end of the school year,” Willan said.

A father to two young children, including a kindergartner, Maple Ridge resident Jeff Willan is hoping drivers will think and slow down when they enter school zones, parks, and places where children are at play, Willan emailed Const. Eric Obermayer from Ridge Meadows RCMP traffic services, inviting the local community speed watch program and community policing to be part of this campaign next school year.

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The problem of motorists speeding along 232nd Street near a crosswalk a few steps south from the Black Sheep Pub and just west of Yennadon Elementary School – where Sebastian goes to kindergarten – was put into perspective when community speed watch volunteers spent six hours there over the course of one day this past December.

During that time volunteers checked 732 vehicles via radar and found that the average speed via radar was 15 km/h over the posted speed limit.

Similar to Tammy Millar, a mom profiled in the May 25 Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows TIMES [School zone speeders frustrate family], Willan and his three-year-old daughter were nearly struck by a vehicle in October 2014.

“We stopped using the crosswalk because I just thought it would be too dangerous,” Willan said, adding that there are two issues with that stretch of roadway: speeders travelling along 232nd, and that some drivers even “challenge” pedestrians to dare to walk across the street.

“They’ll actually rev their motor up,” Willan said. “They figure if they are going fast enough, the pedestrians will see them and won’t even attempt to cross because it is too dangerous.”

Willan said on May 15, he witnessed motorists with boats

in the Maple Ridge & and trailers attached Pitt Meadows TIMES to their hitches going regarding the Millar 60 km/h to 70 km/h through a school zone. family’s frustration with careless “This is everybody’s drivers near Albion problem,” Willan said.

Elementary, readers “There’s a role for vented on the TIMES’ everybody regarding Facebook page. the issue. It’s not just “I just had the Yennadon, it’s not same issue on 232 just Albion, it’s all the near Golden Ears elementary [schools] Elementary. People and all of the high drive at top speeds schools. It’s as though the motoring public through the crosswalk, thinks it’s okay to there is no sidewalk speed in Maple Ridge, and no pedestrian and it’s definitely okay light,” wrote Andrea to speed in a school Lister. zone as long as maybe Added Jackie Sewell there’s no kids there Perler: “I agree that or ‘I’m only doing 50 this occurs in every [km/h] instead of 30.’” school zone and it is Willan said the issue frustrating. I live on can’t be put solely into Kanaka Way by the the hands of the local school and witness RCMP, adding that crazy driving on a its traffic regular enforcebasis (I This is ment should add everybody’s hours of department is “well the day). problem. underKanaka staffed.”

Speedway Jeff Willan “I’d is a good ultimately descriplike the tion!” public to know that it’s “It’s the same at Eric not okay to speed in langton on 227th side our school zones,” he of the grounds,” noted said, adding, “we’ve Ashley Paine. had parents driving And Robert through the school Tremblay wrote: zone going almost “Crackdown on speeddouble the speed limit ers in school zones. and we’re all yelling Was a very high at them, ‘Shame on priority in Calgary. you.’”

Automatic four points Willan hopes means another infracMaple Ridge and Pitt tion you lose your Meadows residents driving privileges. We will get involved have to protect chilby “liking” the dren. There’s no reaSchool Safety Online son for the high speed Facebook page. on city streets. Now if He is not alone in they could also enforce his concern about the noise pollution from way drivers behave in cruiser motorcycles areas where kids go to and big 4wheeler school and play. trucks with extra loud After the story ran ‘silencers.’”

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Annual civic celebration chock-full of food, fun

Pitt Meadows Day features a full schedule of activities for the whole family.

COLE WAGNER editorial@mrtimes.com

Pitt Meadows Day – the annual community celebration that acts as the unofficial kick off to summer – will celebrate its 74th year this Saturday with one of the largest parades in recent history.

Around 75 entries are in for this year’s parade, which kicks off at 11 a.m. before winding its way down Harris Road.

This year’s parade will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Canadian flag.

But while the parade is sure to be a highlight, it’s only one part of what is really a three-part festival, explained Erin Mark, vice president of planning with the Pitt Meadows Day Society.

“The Lions do their pancake breakfast, and then there’s the parade, community festival, and then

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• 5 p.m.: Salmon and chicken barbecue at the heritage hall.

• 6:30 p.m.: Family dance at heritage hall.

• 10 p.m.: Fireworks display at Pitt Meadows Athletic Park the fireworks in the evening,” she added.

The pancake breakfast, hosted by the Pitt Meadows Lions Club begins at 7 a.m., for everyone who comes early to stake down a spot along the parade route.

But if pancakes or early mornings aren’t your cup of tea, there are plenty of other food options for hungry festival goers this year.

A variety of food trucks will be in attendance, including locally owned Hunger Management, which specializes in gourmet sandwiches and chips.

Pitt Meadows firefighters will also be on hand to feed the festival, as they

will once again be working the grill, serving up a portion of salmon or chicken with all the fixings for $10.

While festival-goers will be pleased with a number of returning favourites as far as entertainment options are concerned – including a performance by local entertainer Norden the Magician – there are a couple brand new acts as well, said Mark.

“One of the neatest things is the Vancity Village,” said Mark.

The village brings together a number of local environmental groups and community organizations with the theme of building more sustainable communities, she added.

Queen Elsa is also slated to make an appearance, telling stories and singing songs for the Frozen fans in attendance.

Live music will grace Centennnial Stage from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m., after which most will start to migrate towards Bonson Field to watch a fireworks

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Pitt Meadows Day returns for its 74th anniversary this Saturday, with a full schedule of activities geared towards families, including a parade, live entertainment and music, and numerous food options.

display put on by the Pitt Meadows fire department.

With so many moving parts, Mark said the team of around 20 organizers – all volunteers – put in “literally hundreds of hours planning the event,” in addition to a number of community groups who are also essential to a smooth

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It’s not quite the crack of dawn, but for those feeling peckish before the parade, the Pitt Meadows Lions Club will have your early morning hunger pangs covered this Saturday.

The annual pancake breakfast, hosted by the Lions Club, will start at 7 a.m. at the old rec hall.

Come early enough, and you might catch a couple members of the Pitt Meadows Firefighters Association, who usually grab breakfast with the Lions after flagging out the parade route, said Brad Perrie, assistant fire chief.

Between 300 to 350 people are expected, said Lorie Ouellette, Lions Club president.

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“There is a huge amount of ownership in the community – people want to participate,” she said.

The Pitt Meadows Day Society, which is responsible for planning the annual event, is comprised entirely of volunteers.

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Pancakes are the perfect way to kick off day.

Even still, Mark said the event wouldn’t run without a collaborative effort from a variety of community groups, including the Pitt Meadows Firefighters Association, the Pitt Meadows Lions Club, Church on the Rock and a healthy dose of support from the City of Pitt Meadows.

“It’s the day where you see all your community, all your neighbours – I couldn’t be happier to be a part of it,” she said.

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Joyner picked as Citizen of the Year A former alderman and his wife spearheaded numerous past projects in Pitt Meadows.

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This year’s recipient of the Pitt Meadows Citizen of the Year award may have earned his stripes a couple times over.

Ken Joyner will be crowned as this year’s standout citizen in Pitt, after years of volunteer and civic service – much of that done alongside his wife Thelma.

“Really, this is an award mini soccer program for boys for both Ken and Thelma,” aged four to seven. said Michael Hayes, presAs well, North Bonson ball ident of the Pitt Meadows diamond received an upgrade Community Foundation, thanks to Joyner’s fundraising which sorts through nomefforts. inations in order to pick a Finally, Joyner worked with winner. the Terry Fox Run and the BC “They go everywhere and Heart and Stroke foundation do everything together,” throughout the ’80s.

Ken Joyner added Hayes.

For Hayes, Ken Joyner was Citizen of the Year Joyner, who has lived in an “not a surprise choice.”

Pitt Meadows for more than And conferring the award at 50 years, was instrumental in petitionPitt Meadows Day – another communing the province to create another Pitt ity event that Joyner had a hand in at Meadows school in the 1970s, eventuone point – seems fitting, said Hayes. ally leading to the creation of Davey The award is “about community, Jones Elementary. about who we are, and Pitt Meadows Sports was another of Joyner’s pasDay was a natural representation of sions, as he and Thelma founded a that element,” said Hayes.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Volunteering is ‘essential’

Pitt Meadows graduate Raffi Toscano believes in the value of volunteer work.

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Raffi Toscano will graduate from Pitt Meadows Secondary later this year, but she’s determined to coax a few more of her fellow students into volunteering before she leaves the school for good.

Toscano is this year’s recipient of the Raffi Toscano Lynn Papp Award, Lynn Papp given annually to a award winner someone 18 years old or younger from Pitt Meadows, who tirelessly serves the community in a volunteer role.

By all accounts Toscano earned the distinction in spades – in addition to serving as the volunteer coordinator for both Pitt Meadows Day and the annual Canada Day celebration in Pitt Meadows, Toscano also volunteers at the Ridge Meadows Hospital.

For Toscano, volunteering is an essential part of being a well-rounded person, and something she urges more of her peers to be involved in.

“Having a job isn’t the same as volunteering – you learn so many different skills, and you make so many connections through volunteering,” she said.

Gerri Willms, who coordinates the annual award in conjunction with Pitt Meadows Day (this Saturday, June 6), spoke highly of Toscano’s ability to rally her peers.

“Her number of hours just stood out – over 200 hours – but it was her enthusiasm and ability to draw others into volunteering” that sealed the deal for Toscano, said Willms.

The award will be presented during the Pitt Meadows Day opening ceremony at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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A few of the sights from past Pitt Meadows parades, included a waving Sparky the fire dog, firefighters clowning around, and Pitt Meadows firefighters and their friends getting their groove on.

Enjoy The Parade & Have a Great Day

MORNING TO NIGHT

Firefighters integral to fun ‘Everybody chips in,’ says a Pitt fire chief.

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Planning parades, working the grill, and becoming temporary pyrotechnicians is all in a (Pitt Meadows) Day’s work for local firefighters.

The Pitt Meadows Firefighters Association plays an integral role in the execution of the annual celebration, doing everything from mapping the parade route, to inciting water fights among the festival goers.

But the team of around 30 firefighters, some retired, but most of whom remain on active duty, looks forward to the festival, said Brad Perrie, assistant fire chief.

“We’re out there at

7 a.m., staking the parade route out,” said Perrie.

After planning the 11 a.m. parade, most of the team will stop off to enjoy the pancake breakfast, hosted by the Pitt Meadows Lions Club, before heading back to the fire hall to prepare the

trucks for the parade – as well as loading up on ammunition for the water fights along the way, said Perrie.

Meanwhile another team sticks around at the hall to prepare salmon in a “secret marinate.”

The salmon hit the grill around 5 p.m.,

while yet another team will prep for the fireworks display in the evening.

“It’s a lot of work, but it’s a lot of fun,” said Perrie.

“We get to do things most people don’t – we launch fireworks and have a huge water fight,” he laughed.

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7:00 to 10:00 am Lions Pancake Breakfast at Heritage Hall; $4/adult, $2/12 & Under 11:00 am Parade starts from Hammond Road & Blakely Road, travels West to Harris Road, then travels North up Harris Road.

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11:00 am to 4:00 pm Pitt Meadows Museum, “From Home to the Front” display, Blacksmithing displays and tours 12:00 to 5:00 pm Community Festival at Harris Road Park including live music, children’s activities, community crafters and artisans 1:30 pm Opening Ceremonies including the Crowning of Miss Pitt Meadows & Citizen of the Year & Lynn Papp Award Presentations 2:00 pm Youth Scooter Competition at the Action Park for youth 13 to 18; lots of prizes! *New this year!

5:00 pm to 7:00pm “World Famous in Pitt Meadows” salmon/chicken barbeque dinner at Heritage Hall; $10/plate while supplies last 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Family Dance at Heritage Hall; everyone welcome, no charge!

After Sunset Fireworks display at the Pitt Meadows Athletic Park

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CREATIVE EXPRESSION

Aspiring artists share and sell their work

Vicuna Art Studio, devoted to artists with the Ridge Meadows Association for Community Living, hosts an art show and sale this weekend.

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A colourful and eclectic variety of artwork created by artists with developmental disabilities will be showcased in Hammond this Friday and Saturday.

The spring art show and sale, “Los Colores de Primavera,” takes place at the Vicuna Art Studio, #1 – 11491 Kingston Street.

The event runs June 5 and June 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.

Vicuna Art Studio is studio space devoted to people who are involved with the Ridge Meadows Association for Community Living, as well as artists from other community agencies.

It is a busy studio, helping artists develop their creative expression with support and instruction working with such media as acrylic, watercolour, drawing, as

well as clay.

“The artists in the studio are encouraged to work on their own creative initiatives and goals,” said Ilse Phillips, who took the art director reins from Maria Daley, who retired recently after founding the studio eight years ago.

Phillips said is “the goal of the studio” to recognize the artist’s efforts by regularly exhibiting their work in the community through art shows, displays in businesses, and other community buildings, as well as a future website.

“People are really interested in learning to be artists and to paint and be expressive, and to have an opportunity to have a new hobby, a new skill,” Phillips said.

In total, 61 paintings by roughly 35 artists, primarily from the Ridge Meadows Association for Community Living, will be on display over the two days.

“We’re totally excited,” Phillips said.

One of the artists is painter Farrah Desjarlais, who has her own technique, using a fine brush for her paintings and carefully applying several layers of

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Jenny Ainsworth is one of the artists who visits Vicuna Art Studio in Maple Ridge. She said doing artwork has a calming effect on her. Meanwhile, Jodi Main worked on a piece at Vicuna Art Studio in Maple Ridge.

paint to give depth to her paintings.

“Farrah likes to work quietly and independently,” Phillips said.

“She has sold many paintings at the studio art shows over the three years she has been attending [Vicuna].”

Other artists who’ll be showing

their work over the three days include Jenny Ainsworth, Jodi Main, and Catherine Browne.

Ainsworth said art calms her.

Main noted that through art, she’s able to “express myself and be creative, and a lot of different things.”

Also on display will be pieces from Pottery Works, a ceramic studio in Burnaby supported by Community Living Society.

Pottery Works is a collective of potters, painters, and jewellers who create original works of art for exhibition and sale.

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Showcasing singing seniors

Seniors promise to take audiences ‘around the world’ in a classic variety show performance.

Phyllis Rathbone, who founded Variety Plus, and Arnold Maclean perform at the final rehearsal before this weekend’s performances.

The pair are one of many musical acts in the show.

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In most communities, B.C. Seniors’ Week kicked off on Monday, June 1, and a group of Maple Ridge seniors – dancers, comedians, and singers among them – will send off the week-long celebration with two variety shows on June 5 and 6.

Variety Plus, a group run by the Ridge Meadows Seniors Society, puts on two shows per year, and features a multitude of acts, including comedy skits, songs, and a dance number.

“It is fun, but it is challenging,” said Mary-Ellen Smith, the director of the past three shows put on by Variety Plus.

While most of the members of Variety Plus have some background in performing on stage, not everyone has a history of showmanship, said Smith.

“We have a man who used to sing in a barbershop quartet – he’s got a fabulous voice,” said Smith.

But the challenge was adapting his group style of singing to a solo performance, said Smith.

Though some acts are a work in progress, at least one performer has the chops and

the experience to deal with the pressures of being on stage.

Phyllis Rathbone – now in her 90s – founded Variety Plus “about 13 or more years ago” said Smith.

Rathbone continues to perform in the show today, said Smith.

In addition to the singing acts, a couple seniors perform skit comedy, sometimes borrowed from contemporary comedians like Tina Fey, said Smith.

“We see if we can adapt some things for seniors – you throw out the stuff that doesn’t work,” she said.

The theme of this year’s performance is “around the world,” and tickets are $8 before the show, and $10 at the door.

Tickets can be picked up at the Ridge Meadows Senior Centre, which is also where the shows will be held. The

curtain rises on June 5 at 7 p.m., and on Saturday June 6 at 2 p.m.

Events for the Seniors’ Week have been in full swing since Monday, with a variety of daily events planned by the Ridge Meadows Seniors Society.

Daily walking tours of the art and mosaics of Maple Ridge – guided by members of the Downtown Business Improvement Association – have been extremely popular, said Heather Trealevan, senior network coordinator at the Ridge Meadows Senior Society.

A strawberry tea takes place on Thursday, June 4 at the Pitt Meadows Seniors Centre, and Trealevan expects it to be full.

“Its always a hit, very delicious,” she said, of the tea and cheescake combination.

Finally, this Saturday, June 6, at the Haney Farmers Market, a seniors tea will be held at no cost to seniors.

INTERGENERATIONAL UNDERTAKING

Garden infused to keep growing Local seniors are being brought together with elementary and preschool kids thanks to $10,000 from the province.

The project is overseen by the seniors network, in partnership with the City of Maple Ridge, the local school district, and Ridge Meadows Seniors Society, explained coordinator Heather Treleaven.

At the garden, senior volunteers mentor students from Eric Langton Elementary, St. Patrick’s School, SD42’s environmental school, Preschool Around the Corner, and several parks

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Maple Ridge’s intern“Students learn how to generational garden will grow their own food and keep growing, in large part enjoy cooking activities and thanks to a cash infusion sharing the fruits of their of $10,000 from the provlabour with the volunteers ince. and neighbours,” Treleaven The announcement was said. made recently at the gar“The seniors network is den, with Maple Ridge-Pitt A large contingent of volunteers and very proud of the garden partner representatives from the Meadows MLA Doug Bing and its ability to grow intergenerational garden in Maple Ridge presenting a cheque on relationships between genbehalf of the B.C. ministry turned out for the receipt of a $10,000 erations, as well as prodof community, sports, and cheque from the provincial government. uce,” she elaborated. “We cultural development. gratefully acknowledge the “The intergenerational garden is a teaming financial support of the province of B.C. for our experience for people of all ages,” Bing said. project.”

“The fact that some of the produce from the In addition to this much-needed infusion of garden is donated to the Friends In Need Food cash, garden coordinator Sue Fleming said the Bank is quite impressive,” he elaborated. program is also in much need of volunteers The garden is located at 22527 121st Ave. in – young and old.

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Friends in Need Food Bank has made it their mandate to feed the hungry – and sometimes, that includes those who are hungry for knowledge., as well.

Recently, the truck used to transport food to the food bank was put into action for a different kind of delivery – more than 2,000 books donated by First Book Canada were transported to the CEED Centre in Maple Ridge to be distributed to local community groups.

The idea behind the program is to give children from low income families a chance to have a brand new book of their own, donated to First Book straight from the publisher, said Elaine Yamamoto, adult literary facilitator with the Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows Katzie Literacy Committee.

Six organizations picked up a crate of brand new books recently, including Fraser Health Social Services, Ministry of Social Development and

Jennifer Rumley, a social assistance worker, showed off just a fraction of the books donated to community groups in town.

Social Innovation, School District 42, the Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows Katzie Literacy Committee, the Family Education and Support Centre, and Community Services.

Despite the Friends In Need Food Bank not appearing on the official list of recipients for the books, Yamamoto put aside a number of books for the food bank to distribute with their children’s birthday packs.

It may seem like a small gesture to drive to Richmond and collect free books, but the

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Meditation in the Gallery Friday, June 26 – 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

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contribution of the food bank made the program much easier from a logistics standpoint, said Yamamoto.

In the past, grant money had to be used on a fleet of vehicles to pick up the books, which – in years past – have sometimes numbered up to 6,000 physical copies.

“One year, I actually took my husband’s pickup truck to get the books,” said Yamamoto.

“He looked at the springs after, and said ‘I hope you drove this slow,’” she laughed.

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Local athletes part of top team in Canada Four Ridge players were part of gold medalwinning water polo squad.

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Gabby Mantyka, goalie for 16U girls team from the Fraser Valley Water Polo club, makes a save during a game at the nationals competition this past weekend in Calgary. The team took gold in the tournament.

After qualifying for nationals earlier in May and winning silver at the Western Championships, the 16U girls team from the Fraser Valley Water Polo traveled to Calgary this past weekend to take on teams from Eastern Canada, as well as the host Calgary team.

Included on the Fraser Valley roster were four Maple Ridge-raised players including Alex Rose, Ava Morrant, Kat Preocanin, and Yuri Cowie.

After winning the semifinal match on Friday against a team for Quebec, the local foursome – along with the rest of the Fraser Valley team – faced off against the Calgary Renegades, a team which had beat them in the final two weeks, earlier this year at Westerns.

The team put on a dominant performance on their way to winning the game by a score of 14-11 in Fraser Valley’s favour.

After the game, the team attended a tournament awards gala on Sunday night, where Fraser Valley Team captain Brianna Utas was named the MVP, and coach Justin Mitchell captured the MVC (most valuable coach) award.

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Karina LeBlanc readies for World Cup and retirement MARC WEBER Special to The TIMES

With games finally set to begin, the Women’s World Cup in Canada is a chance for thousands of young girls to see some exceptional role models.

Among those representing team Canada on the soccer fied and international stage, will be Maple

Ridge’s own Karina LeBlanc, who recently announced she will retire from international soccer after this month’s event.

What she does next will make for fascinating viewing.

Inspirational speaker?

Television? Charity work?

She’s been a UNICEF Canada ambassador since 2013, making trips to Honduras and her native Dominica, the small Caribbean island her family left for Maple Ridge when she was eight.

Those trips have provided some of the most powerful moments in her life, including the time a little girl said to

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LeBlanc after her talk: “I believe I am special and, today, I believe I am beautiful.”

Whatever she does, she’ll do it with that infectious passion and positivity of hers.

When kids approach LeBlanc for a photo — and no Canadian player, save Christine Sinclair, is approached more — she’ll shout “Goofy face!” and shatter the kid’s shyness.

She’ll break down the barrier between fan and star because she believes there shouldn’t be one.

“It’s not what you do,” she said. “It’s who you are.

Everyone’s interesting to me.”

On a recent flight into Vancouver, she asked the woman next to her: “What makes you proud to be Canadian?”

That’s LeBlanc. Always trying to find what makes people tick, and to figure out how she can tap into something greater through soccer.

LeBlanc has played 17 years for Canada’s national team, backing up Erin McLeod for most of the last three.

She has 110 caps, she’s been to two Olympics, and this will be her fifth Women’s World Cup.

Warriors win gold on weekend

Ridge Meadows all the Rage

Maple Ridge’s U14 Warrors Softball team went to Vernon for a tournament this past weekend, where they went undefeated in six games and brought home the gold. The team is coached by Tony Dujmovic and James Gilmore.

Ridge Meadows “Rage 2001” U14B girls softball team battled in the final game at the annual Kelowna ‘Spring Sizzle’ tournament this past weekend, May 29 to 31. The team won all four of its round-robin games.

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In talking to other athletes about retirement, she’s prepared herself for as best she can.

“They say there’s a hole you’ll never fill,” she said. But everyone also tells her: “You’ll be just fine.”

There’s a sense LeBlanc’s at the start of something, not the end.

“I’m now in a position where I can truly make a difference in people’s lives,” she said. “When I go to sleep, that’s what makes me smile.”

– written by Marc Weber for The Province

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On the Fly

A local soccer star prepares to take on the world at home.

History continued TIMES columnist and fishing enthusiast Jeff Weltz continues his historical series on North American Fly fishing.

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Burrards beat Cyclists race through Haney streets An annual biking event on home floor saw its biggest turnout

Victoria and Maple Ridge meet again tomorrow night.

MARIO ANNICCHIARICO Special to The TIMES

Six points each from Corey Small, Cory Conway and captain Scott Ranger paced the Victoria Shamrocks to their second straight win, a 13-6 effort over the Maple Ridge Burrards on Sunday night at Planet Ice Cam Neely Arena.

Now it’s the Shamrocks’ turn to host the Burrards on Friday at 7:45 p.m. at The Q Centre in the provincial capital.

Small scored four times and added two assists, while Conway had five helpers to go with his lone goal.

Ranger had his second straight two-goal performance with four assists as the team’s offence has kicked into gear the past two games.

Newcomer Daryl Veltman and veteran Rhys Duch added a goal and three assists each, while Jesse King and Chris Wardle chipped in with a goal and an assist each.

Karsen Leung and Ben McCullough rounded out the scoring for the Shamrocks.

Mike Mallory and Connor Goodwin had two goals apiece for the Burrards.

Andrew Murphy and Tom Johnson had the other tallies.

Burrards goalie Frank Scigliano faced a total of 44 shots in net for Maple Ridge.

The team’s early season record is now 0-2 as a result of the loss.

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ever this past weekend.

Bubble ball bounds into community A type of soccer with a twist will be introduced at Pitt Meadows Day. West Coast Auto Group Football Club (WCAGFC) is broadening their horizons.

The local soccer club, which offers competitive and recreational soccer playing opportunities for 4,000 regis-

especially those who might be interested in soccer and want to get to know a bit about the Club,” says Dan Mikolay, President of WCAGFC. WCAGFC’s soccer development program provides local players at all levels of play the best opportunity to reach their potential. The Club is currently in the midst of registration for 2015/2016 Fall and Winter programs for U4 to U18 age groups. Registration for adult teams will open in the next few weeks.

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tered players of all ages, will be launching bubble soccer this Saturday at Pitt Meadows Day during the field activities at Harris Road Park between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The giant plastic inflated bubbles are worn by players who then play a game, bouncing against each other and on the field. Bubble soccer will be open for the public to join in and try.

“We added the bubbles to have something fun to share with the community,

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took place as part of the event over the weekend, including the time trial in Abbotsford, and the provincial road race event that was held in Mission.

There were some local ERIC ZIMMER notable results as well, ezimmer@mrtimes.com including top finishes from In what was the best16-year-old Maggie Coles attended event since the Lyster, who finished secannual race began 12 years ond in the elite women’s ago, 180 riders category, and raced through fifth and sixth More online Maple Ridge’s in Mission and search downtown core, ‘Lyster’ Abbotsford. during the Town In the elite Core Criterium, men’s category, part of this year’s Race The Maple Ridge cyclist Brett Ridge event, according to Wakefield, scored seventhLocal Ride’s Barry Lyster, place in the road race. organizer of the event.

Pitt Meadows’ Kelsey The Town Core Criterium MacDonald finished 18th in was one of three races that the elite women’s criterium.

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Thank You! The Rotary Club of Haney would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for their assistance making the 14th annual Charity Classic Golf Tournament a great success!

Thank you to our Major Sponsors –

RBC Wealth Management (Dr. Patrick O’Brien CIM), Chances Maple Ridge, The TIMES Newspaper; West Coast Auto Group; Marv Jones Honda; TASK Tools; Meyers, Norris, Penny LLP; Perler Financial; The NEWS newspaper; Findlay, Gunnel, Sandor Lawyers; Three Peaks Kinesiology; Mercroft Construction, Canadian Tire.

Thank you to our live auction and prize donors – Walter Van Vloten, Specimen Trees (Kris

Johnsen), Highland Redi Green Turf, Hank’s Trucking, Four Seasons Lawn and Garden Care, Lang’s Fishing Adventures, Big Sky Golf Course, At Source Recycling, Sun Peaks Grand Resort, Chef Trevor Randle (SD42), Swan E Set Bay Golf and Country Club, Meadow Gardens Golf Club, Pitt Meadows Golf Club and many, many silent auction donors.

Thank you to our Corporate Hole Sponsors – Westack Developments, Pacific

Western Systems Supply, Omega Environmental Drilling, H & K Drywall, Haney Builders’ Supplies, Graestone Redi Mix Concrete, Fraser Valley Building Supplies, Evolution Plumbing, Ken Worley Cement Contracting, Jamie Robertson Painting and Finishing, Avanti Financial Planning, Wade and Associates Land Surveyors, Remax Results Realty (Paul and Peter Hayes), Coldwell Banker Tri-tel Realty, MacDonald Realty, Scott Charlton Construction, Big Valley Heating and Sheet Metal, Paper Chase Bookeeping Solutions, P and L Speedprint, ASC Professional Security Services, Northside Pete Products Ltd., GRP Construction, H and I Roofing, Hub Insurance

Thank you to our organizing committee and volunteers – Gay Conn, Margaret Bakstad,

Michael Morden, Laura Egan, Bob Thompson, Peter Hayes, Rod Hughes, Scott Charlton, Theresa YatesMacLean, Nancy Murray, Mike Murray, Neil Smith, Darrell Pilgrim, and the many on course volunteers who make the day run so smoothly.

And Thank you to the 144 golfers who participated in the event and contributed through their donations and auction purchases!

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June 5 Variety • Variety Plus hosts Around the World – a tribute to travel through music song, and comedy, at the Maple Ridge Seniors Centre, 12150 224th St. The show takes place at 7 p.m., and again on Saturday, June 6, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door. Info: 604-4679636, or varietyplus@ telus.net.

June 5 Dora the Explorer • Dora the Explorer visits Maple Ridge during an interactive live show,

June 5 Theatre • SPECC-tacular productions presents A Walk Down Memory Lane” A 1940s Musical Revue, at the Pitt Meadows Seniors Centre. Tickets are $35 (cash only,) and the show runs from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Open to all ages.

June 6 Pitt Meadows Day • The 74th annual Pitt Meadows Day kicks off at 7 a.m. with a Lions Club pancake breakfast, and includes a Harris Road parade, festivities, live entertainment at Harris Road Park throughout the day, evening fireworks at Pitt Meadows Athletic Park, and more.

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located at 23580 Dedney Trunk Rd., next to St. George’s Church, hosts a bake sale from 9 a.m. to noon. Pies, breads, and many other goodies available.

June 6 Concert • Award-winning Canadian band Austin Belle performs at The Well, inside Chances Maple Ridge, located at 22710 Lougheed Hwy. Complimentary admission. Info: www.chancesmapleridge. com.

June 7 Theatre • SPECC-tacular productions presents A Walk Down Memory Lane A 1940s Musical Revue, at The ACT in Maple Ridge.

Tickets are $25 (includes Strawberry Tea) and the show runs from 2 to 4 p.m. Open to all ages.

June 8 Concert band • Maple Ridge Concert Band performs at The ACT at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10. Information: www. theactmapleridge.org June 11 HUB cycling • Join the HUB Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows committee at their monthly meeting at the Maple Ridge Library in the Alouette Room, from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m., to discuss cycling issues in the community.

June 13 Strawberry Tea • St. John the Divine Church, located at 21299 River Rd., hosts its annual Strawberry Tea, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

June 13 Shred-a-thon • Maple Ridge Friends of the Library holds a shreda-thon from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For a small donation to the Friends of the Library, Shred-it will safely dispose of confidential documents.

June 14 Open house • Pitt Meadows Paddling Club hosts their annual open house, from noon to 4 p.m. at 14411 Harris Rd. Free for everyone, and refreshments included.

June 16 Retirees • Municipal Pension Retirees Association hold a meeting at 10:30 a.m. at the Maple Ridge Library.

Feature speaker is Ealaine Cook, a certified diabetes educator.

June 17 Garden club • Maple Ridge Garden Club holds a meeting at 7 p.m. at Fraserview Community Centre, 22610 116th Ave. Speaker is Albert van Baarsen, from Grow and Gather Nursery.

June 26 Abra Cadabra • Abra Cadabra, a tribute to ABBA performs at The ACT at 7:30 p.m. Tickets available at The ACT. June 26 Hominum • Hominum Fraser Valley holds their monthly informal discussion and support group for gay, bi-sexual and questioning men. Call Art at 604-4629813, or Don at 604-3299760 for more information, and meeting location.

July 09 HUB cycling • Join the HUB Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows committee at their monthly meeting at the Maple Ridge Libray in the Alouette Room, from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m.

Ex-service women • The ex-service women meets the 2nd Thursday of each month from September to June at the Legion (downstairs.) Light lunch served from 12 to 12:45 p.m.; meeting starts at 1 p.m. Info: Margaret: 604-463-0043. > See the full list at www.mrtimes.com

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