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Dancers from the Asian Arts Banghra Club performed as part of the recent Diwali celebrations at the Maple Ridge Library. The festival of lights, which traditionally spans five days, got underway with various multicultural performances, food, henna tattoos, and pottery decoration.
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cleanups – idle, abandoned, or underutilized land – and facade improvements valued at more than $100,000 could all be eligible for tax incentives if council approves the staff recommendations. In addition, any construction that incorporates certain green elements would get enhanced benefits. The incentive program has been in place for three years and has resulted in the construction of 7,500 square feet of
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Election approaches With the municipal elections just about a year off, Maple Ridge Councillor Michael Morden said he is “seriously considering” running for mayor to focus on the basic concerns on citizens. “I’ve been asked to do it, and I would like to do it, but it is, of course, early days,” he said. Municipal elections for mayor, council, and school board take place on Nov. 14, 2014. • More at www.mrtimes.com
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Environment draws protesters More than 50 protesters gathered at Randy Kamp’s office Saturday to oppose pipelines, tankers, and tarsands. Rick Moyer Special to The TIMES
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A group of about 50 people were or online at MP Randy Kamp’s office on Saturday expressing their concerns about the environment. Across Canada, similar demonstrations were held on what was dubbed a “national day of action.” Locally, former Green party candidate Mike Gildersleeve said he wanted to stand up and say it’s a “critical time” for
the environment, with issues like new pipelines, tarsands expansion, and fracking on the table. “We want to say ‘no’ to this kind of development, or, at least, slow it down,” he said, adding that governments should be leaders in environmental issues. Gildersleeve is also concerned that the provincial government is moving ahead with pipeline expansion in “super natural British Columbia.”
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Chest helps families out of crises Local agencies and a foundation are partnering to stop the poverty cycle.
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A head full of lice is expensive to treat and if left untreated, a child with lice can’t go to school or daycare. And the longer they stay away from school or daycare, the more marginalized they become and less likely to succeed in life. Staff at Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Community Services deals with a lot of clients with exactly this issue – or other crises that just need a few dollars to fix. This is why they were asked to be the host organization for, and identify people who could benefit from, a Maple Ridge Community Foundation initiative: the Maple Ridge Community Chest, which will provide emergency funding to avoid a family spiralling into a cycle of poverty. The community chest was officially launched Nov. 1 and is a joint effort of the foundation and the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Katzie Community Network. “If we can help a family stay afloat by providing a brake job for the family car so mom or dad can continue to get to work and thereby not have to look to social assistance – we think that’s a worthwhile contribution to the community,” said Vicki Kipps, executive director of Maple RidgePitt Meadows Community Services, the host organization that will oversee the day-to-day operation of the Maple Ridge Community Chest program. “If we can provide funding to repair a sliding glass door or pay a Hydro bill so that a struggling single mother and her children can sleep warmly in their home through the winter, we believe that’s a good way for neighbours to show generosity towards someone who needs a slight
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Community service’s Vicki Kipps, Colene Thompson with the community network, and Robert Prince with the Maple Ridge Community Foundation want locals to fill their “community chest” to help people in crisis. boost to avoid becoming part of the cycle of poverty that afflicts too many in our community,” she added. The community foundation directors are hoping that people in Maple Ridge will take on a fundraising project to raise money for the community chest. This might be a lemonade stand or a pub night, but every dollar will go towards helping people make it through a crisis situation, said Robert Prince, chairperson of the Maple Ridge Community Foundation. “No donation is too small,” said Kipps. “We’ll take those $5,000 donations as well,” Prince said, but, he added, “the reality is there is a limited number of people who can do that on a regular basis.” Asking people for money is easier to do when there is something that’s easy to
visualize, and this community chest gives a focus to the foundation’s fundraising. Sometimes it’s hard to just say to people, “give money and we’ll help the community,” Prince said. The foundation plans to hold a community chest day in February, but they are asking people to start fundraising now. “We’re launching the Maple Ridge Community Chest Day project as a way to encourage people to do something big or small for their neighbours,” said Prince. “We don’t care what the project is, and we don’t care how much each project raises, but we would encourage everyone to do their best between now and the end of February to help fill the Maple Ridge Community Chest.”
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Marijuana decriminalization
Former councillor pushing hard to legalize pot
A man who served for 12 years as a Maple Ridge council member is canvassing for Sensible BC. by Troy Landreville
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“Get a job,” a senior muttered to former Maple Ridge councillor Craig Speirs Thursday afternoon. “Excuse me! Hey! It doesn’t cost a damn thing to be polite!” Speirs yelled at the man, who strolled by on the sidewalk along 224th Street. “I had a job! I’m retired. What are you doing?! Get a cause!” Speirs continued. Speirs – who served four terms on Maple Ridge council (from 1999 to 2011) – is collecting signatures for Sensible BC, a group with the goal of decriminalizing marijuana possession in 2014. He plans on gathering names in front of Memorial Peace Park every day until the end of November. “This is our spot,” he laughed. If Sensible BC can gather more than 400,000 signatures from folks across the province between Sept. 9 and Dec. 5, there will be a B.C. referendum to decriminalize marijuana possession in 2014. To qualify for a referendum, Sensible BC needs to collect signatures from 10 per cent of regis-
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Former Maple Ridge councillor Craig Speirs and a Sensible BC supporter who goes by the first name Jim stood near the Cannabus, parked along 224th Street Thursday afternoon. tered voters in every electoral district in B.C. Sensible BC advocates are calling upon the provincial government to pass the Sensible Policing Act, which would stop police from searching or arresting individuals for possession of marijuana. The act also demands the federal government repeal mari-
juana prohibition, and mandates the B.C. government to determine the rules needed for what the organization describes as “a legal marijuana system in B.C.” “We want to complete our goal, so that we can move our society forward,” Speirs said. “We have to change. We know prohibition doesn’t work, and we know it will never work. It’s a
dead end. We have to get out of a dead end.” Speirs believes decriminalizing pot would, each year, save B.C. taxpayers $10.5 million, due to decreased policing and court costs. “It’s a huge saving and that rolls over every year,” Speirs said, noting that there were 16,000 marijuana-related arrests,
3,800 charges, and 1,600 convictions last year. Marijuana should be treated the same way as tobacco is, in Speirs’ opinion. “There are social limits on that, agreed upon on distances from people, and stuff like that,” he said. “You’ve got to remember that tobacco has, like, 4,000 different chemicals in it. Pot has 400. It doesn’t have the same physical effect on your lungs, and it may smell a little skunky, but it’s not a toxic smoke,” he added. Speirs said there are a few studies out of Israel (“North America is not doing any [studies] because of the repressive political atmosphere,” he pointed out) that “prove that smoking pot actually gives a blanket protection to cigarette smokers.” “So there’s a decrease in lung cancer when people are poly, when they smoke cigarettes and cannabis,” he said. “So we’ve got to be real about the science on it.” The “Cannabus,” decorated with signatures and well wishes, parked briefly in front of the park in downtown Maple Ridge Thursday, before leaving for its next stop. A passenger on the bus was Jim, who wouldn’t give his last name. “We go around and we support the local canvassers,” Jim said. “People say, ‘Hey, the bus is here! Let’s go see the “Cannabus!’”
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Protest
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Songs were used to express displeasure at hospital parking fees.
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pital staff or Fraser Health to Saturday’s protest, organizer Oosha Ramsoondar said the public was supportive. “We spoke to a few visitors who were leaving or entering the hospital and by Roxanne Hooper they were very supportive,” she said. View rhooper@mrtimes.com photos Curnew said Fraser Health and the with local municipal council should quash A musician who got ticketed for the parking fees, insisting that the parking at the local hospital joined a or money could be found through other group of raging grannies on Saturday online methods to avoid charging upwards to protest pay parking. of $3.50/hour. Last year, Rus Curnew and the RX Agreeing with the Raging Grannies, Rockers were performing at Baillie who were on site to sing their protest House when they got ticketed even songs, Curnew said these fees are though they had parking passes. victimizing sick people and their careAfter complaining, their tickets were givers. revoked. He was glad to meet up with the Raging Since then, Curnew has been a vocal Grannies, and said it’s motivated him to opponent to the parking fees, which is continue his lobbying efforts – especially why he and the band’s bass player joined pushing the municipal council to advocate the grannies in their Saturday protest. change. While there was no reaction from hos-
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sawdust silos after their startup malfunctioned, according to deputy fire chief Howard Exner. The initial concern was by Maria Rantanen that, as a worst-case scenmrantanen@mrtimes.com ario, there could be a dust explosion, so emergency Residents near the personnel decided to warn Hammond mill were close-by residents, said awakened early Friday Exner. with police asking them to “As a precaution, the evacuate their homes. RCMP started to contact Firefighters were called neighbours to to the mill around have them evacu5:30 a.m. with a ate,” Exner said. possible fire, and The situation as a precaution in resolved itself, case of an exploExner explained, sion, residents in allowing firefight14 homes were ers to leave the asked to leave for mill at about 7:30 about two hours. a.m. The Pogany Dane Spence The fire caused family that lives Maple Ridge fire chief minor damage to to the southwest the baghouse, and side of the mill no one was injured. were getting ready to go Maple Ridge fire chief to work at 6 a.m. when police arrived at their door Dane Spence said he is not worried about dust buildasking them to take their up at the Hammond mill. emergency supplies and He pointed out local leave. mills that process cedar “Nothing like this has ever happened to us,” said don’t have the same type Bert Pogany who has lived of dry, beetle-killed wood that other mills around the in Hammond for more province are dealing with. than 30 years. According to Interfor, The millworkers were the mill has a spark detecconcerned that there was tion system and baghouse a fire either in the sawsprinklers. dust bag house or in the
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Couple restores boy’s smile Nathan Antone has a new bike, light, and lock after readers heard his was stolen last Tuesday. by Roxanne Hooper
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Life is better than good for a 12-yearold autistic boy who was victimized by thieves last week. Nathan Antone’s bicycle was stolen from in front of the Maple Ridge Library late last Tuesday afternoon, while he and his younger sister Alyssa were inside on the computers and their mother was across the street getting a few groceries. But thanks to the generosity of a local couple, that youngster was smiling Friday afternoon when he was given a new bike, complete with a light and lock. “To see the smiles on everyone’s faces was touching,” Nathan’s mother Kassandra said Friday, shortly after Nathan received the bike. “This would not have been possible without [The Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows] TIMES getting our story to the public so quickly,” Mom said. But, more over, there wouldn’t have been such a happy ending to this story if not for the kindness and compassion of TIMES readers. Nathan was devastated when he discovered the bike given to him for his ninth birthday had been taken. For him, it was more than just losing a mere possession. For this young, highfunctioning autistic boy attending Grade 7 at Glenwood Elementary, the bike was a lifeline to the world. He rode it to school daily, as well as to the library and drop-in hockey on a regular basis.
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Honouring Our Veterans
Emotional poetry moves audience Third annual contest pays tribute to veterans.
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My Dad by Silver Kuris
(won first place in the elementary category) My daddy went to war today Will anything ever be okay? He hugged me close and blew a kiss I treasure it so, because I know I will miss.
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Children and parents alike were beaming with pride over the winners of the third annual Honouring Our Veterans poetry contest. Contest founder and coordinator Joe Robinsmith kicked things off at the winners’ reception at The ACT Tracey Rayson/TIMES on Remembrance Day with opening remarks. Silver Kuris wrote a It included an explanation of how poem inspired by her he started the contest three years ago to give children a chance to say late father, who is thank you with the written word and pictured in her locket remember those who gave in service. alongside her. Silver’s “We had 66 entries and I was poem (right) earned ecstatic over the quality and quantity her first place in the of the entries,” he said. elementary category “This year we partnered with the of the Honouring Royal Canadian Legion Branch 88 Our Veterans poetry in bringing this poetry together. All contest. Meanwhile, of the entries I received will be foradult category winner warded to them with the chance to Darren Morrey (above) go on to the regional and national put his poem to music awards if selected locally.” Maple Ridge Mayor Ernie Daykin, and performed it during who donated a number of the prizes the poetry reception and was on hand for the reception, on Remembrance Day was equally impressed with the talat The ACT. It can be ent of the young poets and the caliheard with the online bre of their writing. version of this story. “This contest is a way to honour those who sacrificed so we can enjoy what we enjoy today,” Daykin said. “It’s a great way to pass the torch In the elementary grade category, of remembrance to those coming up first place was won by Silver Kuris, behind us.” second place by Teegan Fowle, and Poetry winners in secondary school third place by Sarah Weber. included first-place winner Marlowe An especially moving poem was Evans, who also won in the youth written by 10-year-old Silver Kuris category during the inaugural contest who drew inspiration from her fathin 2011. er’s passing in a workplace accident “I love writing poetry and back in 2011. View I take every opportunity to “I thought it was a good idea video & write it and show it to other to write from a child’s point of photos people. I’m glad that someone view because I know what it’s with in the community has taken like to lose a dad,” Silver said. that torch and showed younger “It was hard because it made or online people how to hold it too,” me feel very sad. I know lots Evans said, anxious to see of dads didn’t come home from more secondary students enter the war.” next year. Silver wore a sterling silver “I’ll try and see if next year locket with a photo of herself more of my friends would like to do and her dad inside. The French it.” inscription read: Plus que ma propre Second place in the secondary catvie. The translation: “More than my egory went to Anika Piir, and third own life.” place was won by Lexi Askew. “This year there were a lot of
Everyday I pray to God, To take care of my daddy so far abroad That he will come home safe to me, Can you hear my desperate plea? I know my daddy is fighting for what’s right But I wish someone else would fight the fight I just want him home safe with me Do you think that could ever be?
All of the entries from 2013 will be available to view online this week at: www.mrtimes.com, search “poetry”
poems that were very well done and it was a difficult decision for the judges,” said Robinsmith, noting that entries were judged by university students Paige Peterson and Colton Robinsmith. “We judged on things like technique and originality,” said Colton. The first-place winner in the adult category went to Darren Morrey. He wrote a poem/song lyrics entitled Trees to Trenches, which he performed with his acoustic guitar to a delighted audience. He dedicated the song to the memory of his great-grandfather, Roy Munro, who was a Canadian soldier in the First World War and who fought at Vimy Ridge. In the meantime, second place in the adult category was awarded to Rebecca Franklyn, and third place was awarded to Bonnie Roda for her poem entitled Day to Remember.
Winners of this year’s contest were gathered for a picture with the mayor.
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Few surprises in youth report What a surprise! A quality-of-life survey released by the Vancouver Foundation last week came up with the amazing revelation that more needs to be done in Metro Vancouver to fight poverty, work on homelessness, and fix transportation problems. Not surprisingly, the Youth Vital Signs report notes that the current minimum wage of $10.25 per hour is not enough to sustain even a single person living alone in one of the highest costof-living regions in Canada – indeed, in North America. Of course, with a youth unemployment rate at nearly a full quarter of the employable base, that minimum wage doesn’t have much meaning – except that some folks will naturally interpret it to mean that it should be lowered, rather than raised… to ensure that, while more young people might find jobs, even more of them will be working for their below-poverty-level existence. Hand-in-glove with the province’s poverty-stricken minimum wage and high youth unemployment rate is the problem of homelessness. It’s not hard to make the connection – young people without enough money to survive comfortably find ways to survive uncomfortably. It’s as simple as that. Transportation is a problem for everyone, but here again, it’s clear that students and others having difficulty making ends meet can’t pay increasing transit fares. The report does include one surprise: it found that high living costs are driving young people out of Metro Vancouver and into Maple Ridge and Langley. What’s surprising is that the surveyors were apparently unaware that Maple Ridge and Langley are both part of Metro Vancouver – although both do tend to be overlooked a lot, especially when it comes to that transit issue. – B.G.
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Understandably misunderstood I think I have it figured out. brother, to “Take care of the I believe it’s a problem with house.” communication – a simple misWe knew Pippin wouldn’t understanding caused by misunderstand the concept of guardinterpretation of a few simple ing anything for us right away, words used in an unfamiliar but we felt it would be good to context. give him a similar job to ease From the very start of the into – and we had no idea how Senate Scandal I had difficulty totally he would misinterpret understanding how Mike Duffy my request that he “Take care and Pamela Wallin could have of Mom.” Nearly every morning got themselves trapped with their I gave Pippin his job, he would by Bob Groeneveld hands in the cookie jar. soon get into a fight with Sam. Patrick Brazeau, as someone You see, Sam had a habit of long involved in politics, never confused me. sitting in Mom’s chair from time to time, and we But as seasoned journalists, I was puzzled by finally figured out that, in Pippin’s former world, how Duffy and Wallin could do something that he’d never had reason to understand the word they knew would have been major news when “care,” but he did know the word “chair.” it was discovered – and I use the word “when” Pippin, as a dog, operates under dog logic because both should have known, from their (amazingly similar to Senate logic) which dicown experiences on the other side of such messtates that I take what I can get and own what I es, that discovery (by people such as themselves, can keep, and if you can’t keep me from taking no less) is inevitable. it, then that’s your fault, not mine. The answer came to me while I was playing So naturally, through understandable misball with Pippin. I was pondering how much understanding – coupled with dog logic – Pippin he has changed since he came to us as a rescue misinterpreted my instructions to “Take care dog. I marvelled at how adept he has become at of Mom” to mean that I was giving him Mom’s understanding plain English, far beyond the curt chair – so Sam had no right to be there. commands, like “sit” or “stay,” that many dog All I had to do was reword my command to owners rely on to communicate with their fourmake it more comprehensible to the relatively footed companions. new addition to our family – words he could easIt has been estimated that, contrary to many ily understand: “You be good to Mom.” folks’ beliefs, dogs can develop vocabularies No more fights. of more than 400 words, and in some cases as And I think that’s what happened to Duffy and many as 1,500 – basically what you might expect Wallin – dog logic and misunderstanding. of a gifted four-year-old child. Perhaps the prime minister may have said – in When Pippin first came to us, he was a pretty reference to Duffy’s journalistic pre-existence messed-up little guy. He’d been badly treated – something like, “You are a worthy scribe.” and he had difficulty understanding affection. You can see how Duffy may easily have underOne of the things we did to bring him into the stood him to have said, “You are worth a bribe.” family – into the “pack” – was to give him some Perhaps one breakfast, a prime ministerial jobs. While he now readily responds to simple aide casually motioned towards Wallin and said, commands like “shake [a paw]” and “dance,” “Could you please pass her some honey?” we also gave him a more complex job. You see? Like Pippin, they were merely victims Every morning, I asked Sam, Pippin’s big of perfectly understandable misunderstanding.
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minutes later with their bags bulging, and Dear Editor, huge smiles on their faces. I am a teacher at Highland Park They are so excited to be helping, you Elementary in Pitt Meadows. We have many can hear them coming back down the hall Filipino families at our school, and we were saying, “Whoa! This weighs a ton! We’ve moved by the terrible news footage from got tons of money!” or, “This class the Philippines. brought in so much money, Mrs. T!” Last week our entire school They aren’t concerned which class began a fundraiser to help the vichas the most, they just cheer when tims of Typhoon Haiyan. The chilthey hear the total each day. dren in every class are in a race to We’ve learned where the Philippines see who can collect the most for Letters to the Canadian Red Cross’s Typhoon the Editor islands are on the globe, learned about math and money (sorting, counting, Haiyan Disaster Relief Fund, and graphing our totals each day), talked about in two days we already collected $750. how the money will be spent, and mostly, We are collecting for three more days, we are learning about helping others. and hope to crack $1,000. And don’t forget, The whole school, from the little kinderthe Canadian government is matching every garteners to the big Grade 7s and all their dollar donated. families, have been helping. I’m really My Grade 1-2 class made posters to hang proud of everyone’s efforts and our school around the school, and every day my little community. students go to each class with their Ziploc bags empty – and they come back a few Tammy Tomlinson, Highland Park school
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Dear Editor, Not all of Maple Ridge council supports the Sensible BC Pot petition. I have received several communications criticizing council since the mayor signed the petition. If I was mayor, I would have emphasized that this was a personal position. I personally do not think that the decriminalization of marijuana addresses the harm that this drug does to our society. We have witnessed harm in the form of violence in our community, neighbourhoods rendered unsafe for our kids to play, noxious odours that cause health problems for many, the destruction of our housing stock through growing operations, both legal and otherwise, and the tremendous wasted resources and safety risks for our protective services. We need a solution that provides corrective measures and appropriate resources to deal with what is purported to be a $9 billion industry. We need to be realistic that decriminalization will not provide proper solutions to address the harms from marijuana. Sensible BC wants to work towards legalization. Just like alcohol, legalization won’t solve the resultant problems faced by our
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Donations do nothing to decrease taxation Dear Editor, The donation of this year’s seven per cent pay increase by Pitt Meadows mayor and council [Council donates pay increase to charity, Nov. 7, TIMES] is yet more smoke and mirrors on the part of Mayor Deb Walters and her three consorting councillors, Doug Bing, Gwen O’Connell, and Tracy Miyashita. The donation is a meaningless response to increasing requests from the taxpayers to keep personal property taxes at the current level. The mayor repeatedly says that is “unrealistic,” and it would mean cuts to critical services like firefighters and police. What is actually unrealistic is her wasteful spending of public money for her own benefit, whether it be posh Vancouver hotel rooms at $500-plus per night so she doesn’t have to make that arduous trip back to Pitt Meadows, hiring someone to do yet another study for an indoor pool which she wants but which is not justifiable as previous studies and common sense indicate, or annually raising her own salary by thousands of dollars. This year, Mayor Walters’s salary rises by more than $5,000 to $70,864, an increase of more than $24,000 over the past five years. I would sure like to be able to increase my annual income by $5,000 by just a stroke of the pen. Donating all or a portion of this year’s salary increase to charity becomes meaningless when one recognizes that, regardless of what these people do with their unwarranted increases, they are still getting them. And that also means next year’s increases will be larger as a percentage of the nowincreased salaries. Mayor Walters and her three colleagues have shown contempt for the citizens they were elected to serve. Byron Hosking, Pitt Meadows [Note: A fuller version of this letter and similar ones are online at www.mrtimes.com. Click on Opinion/Letters.] For more letters to the editor visit... www.mrtimes.com – Click on Opinion/Letters.
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remier Christy (liquid natural gas). and her new BFF Here in B.C., we are still Premier Alison from debating what we are going Alberta are trying to to do about exporting LNG. sort out oil and gas transIn Texas they are building portation, and both are very LNG facilities and will be excited about the potential exporting LNG before B.C., of future energy taxes to even though we had a 10benefit their provinces. year head start. The discovery of an This new technology is by Gordy Robson almost unlimited supply of waking up the world. natural gas has been made Great Britain believes it has possible by recent innovations that have two or three hundred years of gas energy led to horizontal drilling and fracking. below its island, and has recently changed A reader may ask why it is important to its law to allow fracking. us. Actually, the technology of fracking is I realize a number of my “green” fans transforming the economic, environmentwill be immediately reaching for picket al, and the geopolitical course of history. signs against fracking. I suggest before Last week, the United States became an they storm the barricades, they read oil exporting nation. In the 1990s, the oil Zuckerman’s book. resources in the U.S. started diminishing In the 2010 documentary, Gas Line, a and dependence on oil from Arab counColorado homeowner opens the kitchen tries crippled the United States economy. faucet and strikes a match to its tap water How do you measure the cost of a galand sees it explode into a fire ball. The lon of gas if your country has to go to documentary somehow intimates that it war to protect the supply? Because of the has something to do with fracking. frackers, those days are over. Methane has been seeping into the A new book by Gregory Zuckerman, The water wells and springs throughout Frackers, captures how six wild-catters history. Many towns have the name of have changed the history of the world. “Burning Springs.” In those towns, people Because of the technology they discovgrew up with methane long before frackered, which included horizontal drilling ing was thought of. and fracking, the world is again awash in So Madam Premiers, I don’t think the energy. Americans are going to want our oil pipeWilliston, North Dakota, has doubled in line anymore, and they are going to be population (mind you, a lot of them have one of your biggest competitors in LNG. been living in their trailers on the WalThe good news for all my readers is that Mart parking lot) and is apparently sitting energy prices are coming down, and the on oil reserves that match Saudi Arabia’s. more we can switch from coal and oil to Before they discovered the humongous gas, the better our planet will be. gas reserves in Texas that became availJust saying… able through the fracking technology, Gordy Robson’s column appears Tuesdays nobody in the U.S. could have conceived in the print and/or online versions of The TIMES. Reactions can be emailed c/o editorial@mrtimes.com. they would become an exporter of LNG
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Poppy volunteer Vina Thompson (left) of Maple Ridge was asked by friend and poppy committee chair Diane Cougar (not in picture) to mingle amongst the crowd at the Pitt Meadows Remembrance Day ceremonies, and give out poppies – hopefully in exchange for donations to the Royal Canadian Legion. But Thompson said her main goal, in this first-time effort, was to ensure everyone was wearing a poppy during the services. Roxanne Hooper/TIMES
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of Maple Ridge’s Smokey Smith knew before they ever g lon Linda Jones ldier served in met. This infantry so r with Jones’ Wa the Second World ard her sing he er lat ars father, then ye veteran tribute in one of her many himself. They ed uc shows and introd So, when the s. nd frie t became fas h nc of the Royal North Vancouver bra s honouring the wa Canadian Legion rance Day, they mb me Re late Smith on interupting her surprised Jones by her with a few g tin sen show and pre sakes, including special Smokey keep Smith was the s. photographs and pin ipient of the rec n dia na last living Ca hest and most Victoria Cross, the hig llantry in the ga for prestigious award d in 2005. sse pa He y. em face of the en TIMES Rick Moyer/Special to
Laura Butler (left), development officer for the Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation, received a $20,000 cheque from the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 88. Poppy co-chair Gail Springer and branch president Mike Ward made the presentation on Remembrance Day, following the parade and ceremonies.
Thirteen-yea r-old Julia Chiasson, a young amputee, h elped pass on the War Am ps legacy b y laying a wre ath, on beh alf of the organ ization, at h er hometown cenotaph d uring the services in d Maple Ridge owntown .
RCMP traffic Sgt. Dale Somervi lle (forward right ) was among retired and current servin g Mounties who participated in the recent Maple Ridge Remembrance Day ceremon ies. Somerville ha s been a member w ith the local detachm ent for a total of 12 combined ye ars, but has recent ly been promot ed to the rank of st aff sergeant. He will be moving to the RCMP’s E-Div ision headquarters within the month.
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It’s been a busy year for the Stave Fall Scottish Dancers. They held a Christmas bazaar on Saturday at the Golden Ears United Church, and before that the performance team returned from a trip to Disneyland. While these wee dancers didn’t travel to Disneyland, they did recently perform Off to Neverland in a Disney-themed recital.
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Foundation he’s optimistic they’ll get the project started soon. At a cost of roughly $250 each, this could prove to be an expensive undertaking, he said. But Walters insists it is a worthwhile and meaningful tribute that would live on for decades, and he’s by Roxanne Hooper garnering a lot of support for the prorhooper@mrtimes.com ject – including participation from the For more than a year now, Len Walters local Royal Canadian Legion has been toying with the idea of creating a Branch 88. veteran banner program in his hometown The banners would feature of Pitt Meadows. one large photograph of a Stealing the idea from Langley City, veteran, and gathering those where he works as head of parks, Walters quality images might be the wants to roll out a series of street-side second biggest challenge of banners boasting large portrait pictures of this undertaking – running each of the community’s war vets. second only to confirming who all the Garnering the support of the Pitt veterans have been through the years, Meadows Community Foundation he Walters said. said he’s especially keen “What we need now is to get this off the ground the names of the veterans “I thought it would be in time for next year’s and the photographs,” a nice gesture to do on he Remembrance Day. said, inviting locals to our centennial year.” Since 2014 marks the contact him directly if they 100th anniversary of the have a family member Len Walters start of the First World who should be honoured. War, and it’s also the cen“Until we confirm tennial for the City of Pitt Meadows, it’s names, [the project] is technically still up the perfect time to kick off the program, in the air, but this is something I’m very said Walters, husband of the City’s mayor. passionate about and want to see happen. “I thought it would be a nice gesture I won’t let it die,” Walters said. to do on our centennial year,” Walters After the kickoff next year, he’d like to explained, unfolding a sample banner expand the program to eventually include for guests to see following the City’s banners for all recent and current Pitt Remembrance Day services on Monday. Meadows soldiers, as well. He’s not too sure yet how many vetIn the meantime, people interested in erans there are in Pitt Meadows – both recognizing a family member are asked to those who have passed away and those contact him at 604-465-0969 or via email still living – but Walters has secured at lenndeb@telus.net. some seed money from the Pitt Meadows “If you know of someone from Pitt centennial committee and thanks to the Meadows who is a veteran, contact me… support of the Pitt Meadows Community Let’s make this banner tribute a reality.”
Len Walters (back left) is spearheading a project to fly portrait banners around Pitt Meadows next year honouring each of the community’s veterans. He’s already garnered support from fellow members of the Pitt Meadows Community Foundation Michael Hayes (left), Jim Milburn (right) and Donna Milburn (back). Roxanne Hooper/TIMES
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Salvation Army
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The Caring Place is asking for monetary help with their daily meal program.
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Poppy fund up by $9,000 The local legion raises $71,000 this year to support veterans. by Maria Rantanen mratanen@mrtimes.com
Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows residents gave at least $9,000 more this year to the poppy fund than last year. A preliminary count last week of the money collected in the weeks leading up to Remembrance Day by the local Royal Canadian Legion put the total well over $71,000, compared to about $62,000 last year. There were more legion members out doing poppy tagging this year and there was a good response from the local
cadets as well, said Diane Cougar, who co-chairs the poppy campaign along with legion member Gail Springer. “It brings tears to my eyes to see how generous our small communities are,” Cougar said. She pointed out that a lot of the funds go to help modern-day veterans, young men coming back from war with families to support. The money helps pay for items like wheelchairs, ramps, hearing aids, and glasses. This year Cougar toured four local pubs on a poppy pub run, and this was well received by pub patrons. “The people in pubs just thought it was wonderful to have the drummer and the piper,” she said. She plans to do the pub run again next year.
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The local Salvation Army kicked off its kettle campaign on Friday morning, and it will continue right up until Christmas Eve, collecting money for its hot meal program. Volunteers will ring bells at 12 locations in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows to collect money, which will all stay in Maple Ridge to be used for the 10,000 meals served every month at the Caring Place at 222nd Street and Lougheed Highway. As of Dec. 1, the Caring Place will have 14 kettles situated throughout the community. These locations include the Real Canadian Superstore, Wings Liquor Store, Meadowtown BC Maria Rantanen/TIMES Liquor Store, Canadian Tire, Safeway, Westgate Anne Burgess Clark is the kettle coordinator for this year’s Caring Place’s Liquor Store, both Savekettle campaign. She was joined by the Salvation Army’s Sally Ann ringing on-Foods locations, Thrifty bells. Foods, Extra Foods, Valley of funds raised by the Place. Fair BC Liquor Store, Christmas kettles goes In addition to hot London Drugs, Coopers directly to the communmeals at their facility on Foods, IGA Marketity meal Lougheed Highway, the place in Pitt program, Caring Place provides more Meadows, which than 168 bagged lunches and provides each day for children of Chances Real Canadian Superstore warm low-income families at Maple Wings Liquor Store meals to various elementary schools Ridge. Meadowtown BC Liquor Store the most throughout in Maple Ridge The goal IGA Marketplace needy in and Pitt Meadows. is to raise Save-On Foods – 203rd location The Caring Place is $90,000, Save-On Foods – Valley Fair Mall the community. looking for bell ringers said Darrell Thrifty Foods The for the Christmas Kettle Pilgrim, Extra Foods kettle Campaign. To volunteer, director of Valley Fair BC Liquor Store camcontact Anne Burgess Clark the Caring London Drugs paign, at 604-463-8296, ext. 104, Place. Coopers Foods which or bellringer@caringplace. “Last year Chances Maple Ridge began as ca. we didn’t a soup Volunteer shifts are flexmeet our kettle put out for donations ible for any schedule and goal and had to cut serviin San Francisco in the are just two hours. ces,” he said, adding that early 1900s, pays for about It’s also possible to it affected their drop-in 60 per cent of the hot donate online at www.fillhours. meals served by the Caring thekettle.ca. One hundred per cent
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market. There are the scientific diets developed by expert nutritionists such as those with Science diet, Nutro, Iams, and Royal Canin. Then we saw a trend toward grain-free diets and low-carbohydrate diets such as Orijen and Acana – even though there has not been a lot of research, the thought was that there would be fewer allergies although that remains unconfirmed by experts. There was a wave of so called “holistic” diets, such as Now and Go and Summit. They have now dropped the holistic attachment, as nobody really knew how that term applied to pet foods. There has also been a strong movement toward wild-game-based diets such as Blue Buffalo. It is made in the U.S.A., like many diets,
and although there is a lot of advertising, there is little science in nutritional development. Pet owners have been looking for the right diet. We know people try to feed themselves and their families by choosing healthy ingredients, whole food items that are nutritious with minimal lists of ingredients and minimal processing. Finally a new diet has been launched that addresses these needs for animals. Rayne Clinical Nutrition is a Canadian company, founded recently by a number of leading nutritionists who have been in the pet food business for years and knew there was a need for a superior product. They worked closely with a number of veterinary dermatologists and internal medicine specialists to meet the particularly needs of dogs and cats with food allergies, gastrointestinal issues, and urinary tract problems.
They have taken the whole food approach. They produce cooked/frozen diets locally in Burnaby, as well as wet food diets, and dry diets. They utilize novel proteins that are less likely to cause allergies, such as kangaroo and sweet potato or butternut squash, cod, pork and turkey, as well as some rabbit in a few of the cat diets. They are all extremely palatable and the results they have demonstrated have been very impressive. The diets are simple and do not list a large number of additives that a lot of diets do. It is good simple whole food nutrition like you would prepare yourself. Rayne’s philosophy is based on quality, dedication, and transparency. They do not use artificial colours, chemical preservatives, artificial flavours, grains, by-products, nor wheat. All food is made to human-safe standards
pet nutrition. The diets have just become available this month. If you are looking for a healthier alternative diet for your dog or cat, feel free to ask us about Rayne diets and treats or visit their website at www.raynecanada.ca.
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Global outreach
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A Ugandan man suffering with paralysis is receiving support from a couple that includes a woman who has lived most of her life in Maple Ridge. by Troy Landreville tlandreville@mrtimes.com
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woman who grew up in Maple Ridge is doing everything she can to help a father of four in Uganda struggling with potentially deadly health issues. Rachael Strean and her husband Ralph are trying to raise funds and awareness to help 41-year-old Ugandan Wilson Luketa, who has been facing paralysis since last December. A MRI in Kampala revealed that Wilson’s paralysis is due to tumors on his spine. Rachael quoted one of the hospitals she and Ralph are in correspondence with in India, concerning Wilson’s condition. “In purview of the details sent, patient needs urgent detailed evaluation and might need laminectomy and excision of tumor. Based on the biopsy result patient might also need radiation therapy.”
Rachael and Ralph Strean are doing what they can to help garner funds and attention for Wilson Luketa, (inset) who lives in Uganda and is battling serious health problems. The 41-year-old father of four, pictured with his wife Percy, has tumors in his spine. A laminectomy is a surgical operation to remove the back of one or more vertebrae, usually to give access to the spinal cord or to relieve nerve pressure, she shared. Rachael met Wilson and his family after she accompanied her father George Farkas, a teacher at Westview Secondary, and Westview students on a school trip last spring. Farkas asked his daughter to join the students on their spring break trip as Rachael had been to Uganda
previously. “They thought it would be great if I assisted with showing the students different non-governmental organizations [NGOs]and orphanages in the area they would be visiting,” Rachael said. A few days before the group was scheduled to fly home, Rachael decided to stay behind and do more volunteering. “My first trip to Uganda was prompted by curiosity and restlessness,” she said. “I can honestly say
I have the most wonderful family and parents, however, I was definitely self-absorbed and even selfdestructive at times when I was younger. Uganda was one of the best things I ever experienced not so much because of what I saw, but just how it helped change my perception of things.” Originally, Rachael said she “had this romantic idea in my head of what going to Africa and volunteering would be like.” “In high school I wanted to go
be a hippie and travel across North America with one of my cousins and go where ever the wind took us,” she said. “Unlike my hippie day dreaming, this Uganda journey actually materialized and led to other trips in the last seven years and many life-changing moments.” She and Ralph rented an apartment in Jinja, and a longtime Ugandan friend moved in. “A couple weeks after, we met Wilson [who] would have died if we hadn’t helped,” Rachael shared. “He came to live with us and I was able to use some of the nursing school background I had to help. We are not with any NGOs or churches – just a couple trying to help another couple that is in a very difficult situation right now.” Rachael had help caring for Wilson – who lives in a small village roughly four hours away from Kampala – from two Ugandan friends who assisted her every evening for a few months. “Wilson would have died on multiple occasions if we hadn’t helped with his care,” she said. Rachael and Ralph live in Pensacola, Fla., but Rachael isback home this month visiting her parents. Maple Ridge has been home to Rachael from grade school to college, right up until she and Ralph married in 2011. continued on page A19…
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Having paralysis in North …continued from page A18 America can be very danCurrently, Rachael is trygerous as victims are more ing to garner attention for prone to UTI infections and the plight of a man whom tissue breakdown which she describes as “one of cause bedsores, just to name the most gentle, easy-going a few potential problems, people I have ever met.” Rachael explained. Wilson can not feel any“Having this condition in a thing from his waist down, Third World however he country is often experi“Having this condition in extremely ences severe a Third World country is life threatpain in his ening due upper back, extremely life threatening to a lack Rachael due to a lack of proper of proper shared. education, “Even education, sanitation, sanitation, when he is medical supplies, and/or medical supin pain or not having access to clean plies, and/ uncomfortor not havable, Wilson water or electricity.” ing access to tries to make Rachael Strean clean water others smile or electriand remains city,” she added. hopeful,” she said. “He is “Wilson faces many also one of the most grateful critical issues – he has an people I have ever known.” indwelling catheter which Before Wilson fell ill he has led to multiple urinwas providing for his family ary tract infections that can by working in construction. impair the kidneys. This “He is a wonderful huscan lead to kidney failure. band and father and loves We also are concerned that his family dearly,” she said. He currently faces ongoing without surgery the tumors will spread, causing further infections and the difficulty damage.” of limited transportation to Anyone wanting to help access a doctor in Kampala. Wilson can visit savewilThe nearest hospital is a son.com which links to the three- to- four-hour drive indiegogo page. away.
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November 22: SPCA fundraiser
• Art for Animals, a fundraiser for the Maple Ridge branch of the SPCA, an art, wine, and cheese event, takes place at The ACT from 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $35. They can be bought at the shelter, 10235 Jackson Rd., or at 604-463-9511.
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November 19: Art club
• Garibaldi Art Club has open painting for members in the craft room at The ACT, 11944 Haney Pl., from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
November 19: Writers group
• Golden Ears Writers present Kathleen Rake on the topic “Advancing your writing career through blogging.” The group meets from 7 to 9 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month at The ACT. Info: Katherine at 604-467-7198.
November 19: Support group
• “It’s all About Connections,” a group for parents of children with extra support needs, meets to discuss strategies for preparing for the upcoming Christmas season. They meet at The Hive at Eric Langton Elementary, 12138 Edge St., from noon to 2 p.m. Info and to RSVP: Tracy at tracy.hewgill@rmacl. org or 604-467-8700, Carol at carol@ rmcdc.com or 604-463-0881.
November 19: Pensioners
• Municipal Pension Retirees Association holds a meeting and a potluck finger food lunch at the Maple Ridge Library at 10:30 a.m. There will be a speaker on home adaptations. Info: Fern at 604-463-8669.
November 22-24: Variety show
• Ridge Meadows Seniors Society is putting on its fall and Christmas show with performances at the Ridge Meadows Seniors Activity Centre, 12150 224th St., on Nov. 22 at 7 p.m., Nov. 23 at 2 p.m., and a scaled-down production at the Pitt Meadows Seniors Centre, 19065 119B Ave., on Nov. 24 at 1:30 p.m. The show is put on by the Variety Plus seniors entertainers and features singing, dancing, and skits. Tickets for the Maple Ridge show are available at the seniors centre for $8 in advance or $10 at the door. Tickets for the Pitt Meadows show are $5 and must be bought in advance at the Pitt Meadows Seniors Centre.
November 23: 3D printing
• See 3D printing in action at the Maple Ridge Library, from 2 to 4 p.m. with members of 3D604 during an afternoon of discussion and demonstration at a drop-in event.
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• Ridge Meadows Autism Information and Support Group hosts Skye Scholander, a speech and language therapist who will share information on social referencing and autism. They meet at 11641 224th St., Maple Ridge, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. RSVP: tracy.hewgill@rmacl.org at 604-467-8700.
November 26: Seniors
• The seniors network presents “Being a Caregiver to an Aging Parent” as part of the Aging Gracefully series. Participants will gain an understanding of how certain messages, demands, or beliefs can
• Pitt Polder Preservation Society holds its annual general meeting at the Pitt Meadows Library, #200-12099 Harris Rd. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the meeting starts at 7 p.m. Everyone welcome. • The seniors network presents “Protect Yourself: Frauds and Scams” as part of
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• Families, businesses, schools, and churches can take part in Operation Christmas Child by filling empty shoeboxes with toys, school supplies, and hygiene items for impoverished children around the world. Drop-offs began on Monday and continue to Sunday, Nov. 24 at Maple Ridge Baptist Church at 222nd Street and Lougheed Highway from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: Barb at 604-467-9794 or www. SamaritansPurse.ca/occ.
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Perry Bateson, 53, captured gold and silver medals from a pair of high-level jiu jitsu tournaments in California recently.
Martial arts instructor Perry Bateson continues to compete in jiu jitsu to test himself and set an example to his students in Maple Ridge.
by Troy Landreville tlandreville@mrtimes.com
In 2002, retired NBA guard Allen Iverson ranted about the difference between the trivialities of practice and playing in a game that actually matters. In a way, 53-year-old martial arts instructor Perry Bateson can relate. Bateson – a married father of three grown children between the ages of 21 and 26, who has run Yuen’s Family Martial Arts in the Hammond area for the past 19 years – has a competitive fire that burns inside of him. “I enjoy competing,” he said. “I think it teaches me more about the art that I’m practising. It’s kind of like, if you practised baseball and you never played in a baseball game, why would you practise baseball? The game is where people are cheering and you are competing, and you are being tested at your highest level of skill.” Another motivator for Bateson: being a role model to his many young students, to show them that Yuen’s system “teaches good jiu jitsu.” “It gives my students courage to compete, also,” Bateson said. “If I’m doing it, and they’re seeing that I’m not afraid and that I’ll go out there, then I can also come back and say, ‘This is what happens when you’re out there.’ So I can coach them better.” These are the reasons why he travelled stateside last month to compete in two elite competitions in California: the Master and Seniors World Jiu Jitsu Championship Oct. 5 and 6 in Long
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Beach, followed by the US Open Brazilian jiu jitsu tournament on Oct. 19 and 20 in Santa Cruz. Representing North West Jiu Jitsu Academy, Bateson took home a silver medal from Long Beach, losing 5-0 on points to John Manzi of Brazilian Top Team in the championship match of the purple belt, senior 4 male lightweight division. Third place went to David Clark of Brasa, followed by Glen Yoshio Isobe from Atos Jiu Jitsu.
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“My first match was the one that I won, I outpointed [my opponent] by 20-0, and submitted him with a head and arm choke,” recalled Bateson. In his lone match in Santa Cruz, Bateson defeated Mish Groysman from Team Silva BJJ 13-0 on points to capture the senior 4 purple belt lightweight division title. “This was a tougher match,” Bateson said, comparing the two events. “My competitor was one of those guys who competes every weekend and wins a lot. He was ready to take me out. It was gold or silver. It was all or nothing. He was good. Everything that I moved, he attacked. It was very, very strategic.”
These tournaments focus strictly on ground fighting, with points being awarded for controlling one’s opponent and gaining advantages through positions (side control, top control, and controlling the back of your foe). Striking and kicking are prohibited, which inevitably makes these tournaments safer for competitors than traditional mixed martial arts events. However, the danger element still exists. “You can get hurt; you have to be on your game, and you have to be conditioned and trained for it,” Bateson said. Matches are five minutes in duration and Bateson said they can feel much longer than that. “The difference between doing something for five minutes and competing in jiu jitsu is, jiu jitsu is measured by every second,” Bateson said. “Things change on a second. Times five minutes by all the seconds… you move a little bit the wrong way and one way the right way can mean the difference between being swept or submitted and losing that match.” Bateson has trained in jiu jitsu since 2008 and over the past five years figures he’s been involved in about 16 tournaments, but nothing of the calibre of the competitions he took part in last month. And even with his age and experience, Bateson battled nerves heading into his matches. “It’s about how you manage the nervousness,” he said. Whether his students follow his lead and compete is entirely up to them. Bateson noted there are jiu jitsu organizations that are “very competitively driven.” “That’s not a negative, it’s just that, that’s the way their organization is set up,” he added. “Our organization is not set up that way.”
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Bateson’s instructor Brian Johnson, from Seattle, is a second-degree black belt in jiu jitsu and competes at a world class level on a consistent basis. Johnson recently made a surprise visit to Yuen’s Family Martial Arts, and formally awarded Bateson with a brown belt in jiu jitsu. Bateson has black belts in tae kwon do, kung fu, and equivalent rankings in stick fighting disciplines.
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Saturday, November 30 AND
VISITS
11am - 1pm • 2pm - 4pm 224th & Lougheed
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U N F O R G E T TA B L E M O M E N T S
YOU’RE
INVITED TO OUR PL ACE
Come in a
Bag!
See our newly Extended Selection Now on Display
FOR THE HOLIDAYS. HOLIDAYS
The Perfect Gift at the Right Price from our convenient Maple Ridge store.
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OPEN FOR HOLIDAY LUNCH AT 11:30AM - WED THROUGH SUN, DEC 4TH TO DEC 22ND.
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OPEN: Mon to Sat 9am - 5:30pm
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
STILL TIME
to make your Christmas Wine Love your wine. Guaranteed.
DRAW
Dec. 24 th, 2013
THE MORE YOU MAKE, THE MORE YOU SAVE Vintners Reserve
For every $10 spent* you will receive 1 ticket toward a chance to win a light saber.
Save $10 off your First Wine Save $15 off your Second Wine Save $20 off your Third Wine Call us for details. Offer expires Nov.30, 2013. Cannot be combined with any other offer.
Gift Certificates Available
It’s About Wine! On Premise Winemaking
2-20306 Dewdney Trunk Rd, Maple Ridge
PRIOR TO TAXES*
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604.467.4913
AUTHORIZED RETAILER
Dress to Impress
th 11 Annual
th
Sat. Nov. 30 1:30-4:00pm at The Act Theatre
Make this Christmas Dinner the Hi-Light of Your Holidays Many unique gift ideas to choose from Maple Ridge Lighting
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HOPE
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FREE PHOTOGRAPH FOR ANYONE IN NEED! An opportunity for people that have... To help people that don’t
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PEOPLE A SHIFT IN THINKING ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY
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Kettle donations help to feed your Community Help us this
Christmas Kettle
season
3,400 hours
still needed for kettle volunteers 2 hour shifts Flexible for any schedule Call Anne 604-463-8296 x 104 bellringer@caringplace.ca
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Friday, December 6, 7:00pm Tickets at
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or Call 1-855-985-5000
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Introducing the new Slate finish Exclusively at Fuller Watson BrandSource Home Furnishings
BEAUTIFULLY BLENDS IN TO TRULY STAND OUT Inspired by the rich texture of stone, GE’s exclusive Slate finish exudes refinement and elegance for a look unlike anything on the market today. A warm, inviting alternative to stainless steel, Slate allows you to push the style envelope in your kitchen – and keep it looking new with ease, because fingerprints and smudges don’t show.
INTRODUCTORY OFFER!
SAVE15%
ON ALL GE SLATE APPLIANCES FOR A LIMITED TIME
604.463.4168
*all products shown may vary in-store.
22390 Lougheed Hwy., Maple Ridge
www.fullerwatsonbrandsource.ca
Monday to Thursday 9am - 5:30pm, Friday 9am - 9pm, Saturday 9am - 5:30pm, Sunday 12 - 5pm *See sales associate for details. Offer available on select GE appliances only. Offer excludes discontinued or obsolete products and accessories. Cannot be combined with any other offer unless specified. Offer available to Canadian residents only. Offer is not available to dealers, builders or contractors. Maximum allowable appliances eligible for instant rebates on the same invoice is limited to eight. Effective dates Nov 15-Dec 31, 2013. Sale applies to finished goods only, not accessories or parts. See dealer for details .GE Slate is a trademark of General Electric Company. MC Commercial Inc. and Mabe Canada Inc. are licensees.
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Cariboo Genuine Draft 12 Cans
DAILY
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All daily specials come with fries & a bottomless fountain pop
Substitute onion rings or sweet potato fries - $2.50 Monday - The Canuck Burger ........... • A classic bacon cheeseburger
$11.49
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$11.49
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• ADDITIONAL CHARGES FOR SPECIALITY FILTER & ADDITIONAL OIL • ECO FEE EXTRA • NOT COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER OFFER • SEE STORE FOR DETAILS • EXPIRES 12/01/2013.
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2-20306 Dewdney Trunk Rd, Maple Ridge
Wiser’s Deluxe
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Order by phone or online 604.465.2828 www.yummysubs.com
VALID ONLY AT: IN MAPLE RIDGE:
• 22838 Lougheed Highway • 20522 Lougheed Highway • 23981 Dewdney Trunk Road
IN PITT MEADOWS: • 12473 Harris Road
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22292 Dewdney Trk. Rd., Maple Ridge
604.463.1111
19162 McMyn Rd., Pitt Meadows
604.465.3521
WE’VE G GOT YOU COVERED HURRY FINAL WEEK!
SAVUPETO
50
%*
OFF T
*SELEC STYLES
SALE
Stain-resistant -resist for beauty that endures. Remarkabl durable and soft, Lees is built Remarkably like no other carpet. So you’ll love your floors for years to come.
Durable & Soft
MAPLE RIDGE
CARPET ONE® CARP
20758 Lougheed Hwy, Maple Ridge
604.463.7755
www.mapleridgecarpetone.com
Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon
Cariboo Genuine Draft 12 Cans
1.5L
$13.99
+ Dep
$14.50
+ Dep
All Sales While Supplies Last!
19267 Lougheed Hwy Pitt Meadows (next to the Ramada Inn)
OPEN 9am - 11pm - 7 DAYS A WEEK
HARRIS RD.
MAPLE RIDGE
$11.49
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3 Expires Nov. 30, 201
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