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ransforming into a 16th century king, queen, knight, fairy, or archer isn’t something you do halfway. Once the performers who are taking part in the B.C. Renaissance Festival Christensson, for at Albion Fairgrounds this example, researched the Friday to Sunday (Aug. 15 era, and his character, and View More to 17) put on their period discovered he and King Photos costumes, they aren’t so Henry VIII are similar in with easy to just slip out of, in more ways than one. favour of 21st century duds. “King Henry liked Hence the dilemma a poetry, and I like poetry; handful of the performers he was very ‘artsy’ and Layar or faced Aug. 5 when they I’m very ‘artsy’ as a peronline arrived at the Maple Ridge son, so in some ways I did Museum for a photo shoot identify with the character to promote a festival that’s Troy Landreville/TIMES a lot,” said Christensson, being held in Maple Ridge who at 6’2” matched the B.C. Renaissance Festival performers include, left to right, Tanya Kozak (Summer the Fairy), Chilam (Sheriff McNabb), Charlie Cook (Queen Catherine of for the first time in its eightking in height. “And I just Aragon), Melissa Housser (Flora the Mad Archer), Kyle Christensson (King Henry VIII), and Christina Carr (Capt. Charity Rackham) will be performing at year history. thought for me, it was just the Albion Fairgrounds this weekend during the eighth annual Renfest. The event moved from Langley to Maple Ridge this year. They had another photo a very challenging role, op scheduled just an hour because he’s this hardyear hiatus, is the jousting demThunderbird Show Park, and events or theme parks influenced after the one at the museum, edged type of guy, kind of onstration and competition. A Pacific Stables. by history. They are about enterso Tanya Kozak (Summer the opposite of what I am, personallocal team, the Hazelnut Grove But, as Carr put it, “changes tainment, atmosphere, and perFairy), Chilam (Sheriff McNabb), ity-wise.” Clydesdales will compete in in laws not permitting functions, formance, noted Carr. Charlie Cook (Queen Catherine More volunteers for set up and events, or even weddings on Education is woven into various the first half of the show, as of Aragon), Melissa Housser tear down, and actors are needed agriculturally zoned lands” in aspects of the event and disguised the games portion. After that, (Flora the Mad Archer), Kyle for this year’s Renfest. To take J.A.W.S. (Jousting Alliance of Langley caused Renfest organizers as entertainment. “Edutainment” Christensson (King Henry VIII), part, email info@bcrenfest.com. Washington State), an educato move the event north of the is the focus. and Christina Carr (Capt. Charity Tickets, at $20 for adults ($10 tional, not-for-profit jousting team on Friday), $17 for youth ($8 on Fraser River, The main storyline cast is usuRackham) elected to keep their from the U.S., will do a competito Maple ally set in either Henry VIII’s costumes on, and went for lunch Friday), and $10 for children and tive joust. Ridge, and time period of Elizabethan, and at the downseniors ($6 on Friday) are avail“Full armour, full lances, full in particular, the entertainment, vendors, and town Tim able online or at the gate. everything,” said Carr, who startthe fairdemonstrations are open to any Hortons to kill The festival runs from 3-9 p.m. ed the B.C. Renaissance Festival grounds at time period or history influenced some time. Friday, Aug. 17, and from 9 a.m. 10 years ago, with the event 23448 105th performance or product. It must have to 8:30 p.m. both Saturday and going public two years into its Ave. This year, there are 11 primary been quite a Sunday, Aug. 18 and 19. existence. “Maple cast members and between seven sight. he Friends In Need Food “I just love history, period,” she Ridge and to 10 “villagers.” Dress rehearsBank is benefiting. A dishe main cast performs early said. “There’s a lot of freedom to Coquitlam als aside, history count will be given to those in Henry the Eighth’s time it, there’s a lot of hard work to it. battled will be made, or who arrive at the gate with nonwith Catherine of Aragon at To me, it’s where a lot of modern over us,” Carr said. “We said at least acted out, perishable donations to the food his side. The Jade Dragon Pirates culture comes from and it should to both Townships, whichever at the fairgrounds bank that helps people in Maple be respected.” one of you could provide the right continue to arrive and cause over three days. Ridge and Pitt Meadows. ach of the main characters kind of property at the right price, trouble and the story from the Since 2007, the festival For more on the event, visit have their own reasons for year previous receives another you get us. Maple Ridge wound has been held in Aldergrove www.bcrenfest.com. taking on a different perchapter. up being the winner.” (2007) and in Langley (2008 • More at www.mrtimes.com, Back this year, after a onesona. Renfests are historically based to ’13), including Aldor Acres, search “Renaissance”

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A charred sofa chair sat outside a Laity Street townhouse following a fire Monday.

Cigarette ignites fire Fire officials believe a cigarette is to blame for a blaze in a Laity Street townhouse complex Monday morning. A worker nearby noticed smoke coming from an upstairs bedroom in a unit in the 11900 block of Laity Street at about 8:30 a.m. Four people were evacuated as a precaution. • More at www.mrtimes.com

Kids meet their heroes Kids have a chance to meet both firefighters and police officers during a special Hero Day being hosted Wednesday. Parks and leisure services is hosting the annual event at Memorial Peace Park about noon, but it’s part of the parks department’s summer camp programs, explained programmer Jennifer Baillie. “This is great day for kids in the camp to connect with our first responders in our community. Hero Day is about building positive relationships and spending quality time with the heroes kids look up to,” Baillie said. Info: www.recreg4u.ca. • More at www.mrtimes.com Handyman Morgan Jensen will answer your home improvement questions.

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The dirt path led me around a corner and promptly presented me with a fork in the route and two choices: right or left? I stood there for a moment, weighing my options and fooling myself into thinking I actually knew which way to go. Briefly I considered turning back and taking the easy way out, but as I turned around and looked where I had come from, I quickly realized that attempting that would be just as much of a gamble as well. With no one to tell me where to go and unable to really see that far in front of me, I eventually settled for a path on the left Eric Zimmer/TIMES hand side. Brad Hopcott and his sister-in-law Sarah gave All was going great for a little bit until I turned another corner the TIMES’ Eric Zimmer a quick tour of the where the path abruptly ended grounds before he attempted it on his own. and I was faced with a wall of amongst nearly a million corngreen stalks. stalks. That’s when it hit me. But the design is far from ranI was lost. And this wasn’t even the hard- dom. The maze design gets drafted est route. during the winter with the help I paid my first visit to of an Idaho-based corn maze Meadows Maze at Hopcott design company, explained Farms on Thursday morning, in Hopcott, who joined me on a advance of this past Saturday’s quick tour of the grounds before opening - an opening which I attempted my solo mission. maze co-manager Sarah Hopcott The company will take the said was “fantastic.” design concept and the artwork, The purpose of my trip was to check out what’s in store for vis- format it into maze, program it into a GPS unit, and itors to the always-popular when the corn is just a few educational centre, and inches tall, the company explore the maze myself. plows out the paths with a What I didn’t expect was tractor. how thoroughly planned More “The corn is planted in and thought out everything Photos the spring, and the maze was. Online design gets cut out in And as I stood in the June,” said Hopcott. maze, wondering if I This means that the maze would make it out of there and back to the office at a reasonable design changes every year. The design of this year’s maze time without having to call for is a tribute to the 100th annihelp, I realized how impressed I versary of 4-H clubs in B.C., was with the whole thing. Hopcott added. Located at 13672 Reichenbach More than just a walk through Rd., Meadows Maze offers three different courses, totaling almost a cornfield however, the mazes offer an interactive experience, nine kilometres of trails, set

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where participants collect clues that help them solve such mysteries as which animal stole farmer Joe’s pie in the Farm Tracks maze, or Farm Scene Investigation in the second largest maze – a game that Hopcott said resembles Clue. Admission to Meadows Maze is $13 for adults, $10 for children aged three to 12, and children under two are free. Meadows Maze is open until Oct. 19. Outside of the maze, attractions like a petting farm, bee observatory, a corn cannon (which isn’t included in the admission price – but people

can win a prize by firing cobs of corn and hitting specific targets) and Cornference rooms (large private clearings in the cornfield that groups can rent for varying costs, which come equipped with tents, tables and barbecues) are all offered as well. At the moment however, the more pressing issue is how exactly to find my way out of here. Eventually (-and after a few more wrong twists and turns) I rounded another corner which eventually led me down towards the exit of the maze. I’ve made it through. Now it’s your turn.

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A single mother is grateful to four young men for coming to her aid as she tried to put out a mattress fire in her Maple Ridge home Thursday. Channi Gonzales was getting set to retire for the night at about 10:30 p.m. when she heard a ruckus coming from her children – who were supposed to be sleeping. Her oldest son, Deshaun, seven, had been playing with a lighter, lit some paper and dropped it onto the bed. She ordered her kids to go outside as she tried fighting the fire with buckets of water from the washroom, but her youngest son, Demani, three, came back inside, wanting to get his teddy bear. “I didn’t know he ran back in,” Gonzales said, recalling the night. “I was running from the bathroom to the bedroom with a bucket of water, trying to put the fire out.” During the melee of Gonzales, Grifyn McErlean – who lives nearby on Olund Crescent – was walking past the house in the 22000 block of Telosky Avenue, when he heard a commotion. “There was this one child [Deshaun] screaming, ‘help, help, fire!’” McErlean recalled. “I pulled out my cell to call 9-1-1 and a neighbour called out saying they already had. I asked the boy if there was anybody in the house and he said his brother and mom were in there.” McErlean told the sevenyear-old to stay on the lawn and ran inside. He ran up the stairs and noticed Gonzales filling a

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Serving music up for lunch A series of concerts are being held at Memorial Peace Park this month.

Lunchtime Concert Series. The series runs every Tuesdays through Thursdays for the rest of August, with a local musician entertaining people during the lunch hour. “This is a great idea,” Daly said, sitting on a blanket with her granddaughter. “It’s good to have the culture, it’s good to have it for free and it’s certainly good to have it here as it’s so nice out.” The purpose of the series is to showcase local musicians and to attract people to downtown, DMRBIA’s Ineke Boekhorst.

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It was great day to be at Memorial Peace Park for Barb Daly and her one-year-old granddaughter, Scarlett Johnston. Last week, the pair was sitting in the shade, having lunch, and enjoying live music courtesy of the Downtown Maple Ridge Business Improvement Association’s (DMRBIA)

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Autos too hot for pet safety People keep gaining notoriety, or rather infamy, for leaving pets inside a vehicle. Wake up folks. One of the worst examples of late came in May, when dogwalker Emma Paulsen claimed that six dogs were kidnapped from Langley. We learned later that they overheated in the back of her truck and died. For those who haven’t noticed, society’s attitudes have changed. People are no longer willing to let sleeping dogs lie, as it were, when they see animals in vehicles where there is the threat of overheating. People will contact police and – if others deem appropriate – the vehicle owner could face smashed windows, not to mention legal consequences. Even when temperatures aren’t like this week’s heat wave, vehicles get too hot for animals to be safe. Yet for too many, the message isn’t registering. “In July, our call centre dispatched 310 calls for animals in hot vehicles across the province,” said Jennifer York, manager of the Maple Ridge SPCA. “That number is alarmingly high, considering how much awareness is now around the issue,” she told The TIMES. Unless a vehicle is equipped with temperature controls that stay on when the engine is off, there’s no way to keep the vehicle temperature from rising. On a 24 Celsius degree day, a vehicle will get to 38 degree in about 10 minutes and 48° in about 30 minutes. If you can’t comfortably sit in the vehicle, why assume a pet in fur can? Pets and people have incredible bonds, but that’s never licence to put their lives in danger. Leave animals at home where they have access to water and shade. Otherwise there may be an opportunity to spend time in a courtroom, not to mention the court of public opinion. And that’s when things really heat up. – H.C.

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“THIS made Hitler cry,” never any links or attachments. Oy vey. An email showed up So far Canada’s Anti-Spam in my work spam filter with that Legislation (CASL) has had no subject line. effect on the quantity or qualWe get a good chuckle about ity of the emails being snagged some of the stuff that comes in my spam filters. I suspect it through from the approximately will be the same for most people 200 emails most of us in the because these (what’s the fashnewsroom get in the average day. ionable term this week for these “Are you about to go on a date scams/attempts/etc.) don’t oriwith a criminal?” ginate in Canada and even those “Unable to process your most that do won’t likely worry too by Heather Colpitts recent payment.” much about these laws. CASL “Cordless outdoor motion only came in recently, there are sensor.” grace periods to allow for people to make chan“Has your auto warranty expired?” ges and it would take years to prosecute, so they “Discount male enhancement” and have a bit of time to continue deluging you and “Demonstrate your love to her” and more vulgar I. versions. Oh, how I sometimes long for the good ol’ There’s the usual butt load of emails offering days when people had to put some effort into discount Viagra and Cialis. A healthy majority of scamming you. These young pups with their the spam emails are weighted toward the prodtechnology need only buy a sucker list and creucts and services devoted to losing pounds. ate a form letter. And there’s no lack of fake invoices for stuff In my day, people had to have the courage to never ordered, never purchased, and certainly come to your door to pretend to be your grandnever received. But we’re just supposed to blind- child and ask for money or claim to be canvassly pay them. ing for a charity created in their fertile imaginaThere’s pitches for photo retouching services. tions but 10 minutes before they presented themSorry, don’t use ’em. The most we will do is fix selves in front of you. red eye a few times a year in the odd photo. And the Nigerian financial scams. People used The spam keeps coming. I blame you. to have to type up form letters, get them printed, They keep coming because enough people fall search out addresses, and pay for postage (one for them that it’s worthwhile for the spammers assumes, unless they were stealing it). Then the to continue. sob story would arrive and in other newsrooms This is an industry that has tapped into a key of my past, we would regale each other with facet of the human psyche – curiosity. the sad tale, like the widow trying to unburden What made Hitler cry? What do I owe on these herself of the millions left by her dead husband invoices from companies I’ve never dealt with through connections with the UN, some bank or and statements from American banks I’ve never a multinational firm. even heard of? So the lesson here is don’t open anything Okay, I’ve looked at a couple, that one about unless it’s clearly identified as being from somethe Dutch furniture polish and one with a subject one you know… or me. I have a great plan to line about a community event (turned out to be get my millions out of an international bank a pitch from a Chinese plant that make sculpaccount and just need your name, address, bank tures), but none of the pervy ones and certainly account, and PIN number.

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Teachers are not babysitters Dear Editor,

The teachers strike and lockout should be of concern to everyone, because the children are the future and should be encouraged to develop to their fullest potential. It is already difficult for teachers to give their best, but with the new government demands, it will be almost impossible. Other unions working within the government seem to win much larger settlements without much difficulty, but teachers are sometimes even belittled through the media as glorified babysitters! Why is that? Government would like teachers to be an essential service, but they don’t have the same life-or-death responsibility of health care workers, firefighters, or police. And, if class sizes are increased and too many children with learning disabilities are in the mix, school boards may have to

insist that those children are drugged with Ritalin. Disruptive children, though, can sometimes be the smartest, however they won’t develop without help. But governments don’t want free-thinking children, just obedient unquestioning ones. And after graduation, most of the special needs could be on medication for life. Who would that serve?

Gary Huntbatch, Abbotsford

Government must pay Dear Editor,

Despite advertisements to the contrary, the B.C. government continues to pay nothing for class size and class composition. This “net zero” shell game has to stop. Our kids are too important.

Brent Crich, Maple Ridge

[Note: Full versions of the letter is online at www.mrtimes.com. Search “Crich”]

Rodent problems

Rats disappear without food Dear Editor,

If you have rats or other rodents, start with yourself [Rodents a growing problem, July 24 Letters, TIMES]. I live on some acres and we had rats, and I am sure we still do. So all feed for the animals are in closed containers, even in my house I have my groceries in closed containers. I do feed the birds, but the minute I see a rat there, that birdfeeder is empty. I

Animal welfare

Story leads to witchhunting Dear Editor,

I’m wondering how you decide which dog altercations to report in your paper [Pitbull attacks, kills dog] July 23 Kids meet their heroes , The TIMES]. I have personally witnessed altercations that have not appeared in your paper. A memorable one occurred in Jerry Sulina dog park: a mastiff bit a Chihuahua cross (the Chihuahua started it to by the way) and the the smaller dog naturally had to be hospitalized. I don’t remember a story about that one. I don’t recall seeing any stories about how owners of small dogs often don’t correct their dog’s anti-social behaviour, and how they antagonize larger dogs, etc. If you’re going to report dogfights, please put some thought into the consequences of the choices you make. Villainizing certain breeds leads to witchhunt type behaviour that pits neighbour against neighbour and results in destruction of dogs because of ignorant and/or irresponsible behaviour by their owners. In an encounter between a large dog and a small dog, the small dog will naturally lose; but that does not absolve the small dog owner from responsibility. All dog owners should have total control of their dogs at all times.

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Gina Louise, Maple Ridge

try not to use rat poison, because eagles, hawks, blue herons, owls, and other birds eat them – and I do not want to kill those. Having a cat or a dog does help. Do not have garbage laying around, and if you have to, yes poison, but only for awhile. If there is nothing for them to eat, rats will leave.

Geeske de Boer, Pitt Meadows

What you’re telling us on Facebook Ridge’s top cop commented •onMaple the recent two murders in this

community, saying these two incidents should not take away from the gains that have been made or the vision for the future. Readers reacted:

“Kinda seems almost like false assurance to me, the fact is that there is dangerous criminal activity that happens in any city but that this happened the way it did I personally think that it is just a matter of time before an innocent citizen is caught in the crossfire.” – Jay Bailey “Do you know what happens when flood gates open? Water pours everywhere... Surrey is pouring over into Ridge!” – Amanda Dawn “Try working at the Re-Max, where the stabbing happened. This morning we were having to step over homeless people and drug addicts, and when the RCMP were called, they said that we have to put up with more issues around the building because of the death. Is this really what this town has come too! ” – Kristi Roberts “I very much hope justice is served, so the families can have the closure they so very much need and deserve.” – Selby Tinfenbach “Two more murders that will go unsolved in Maple Ridge. Just like the Tigger Bourgeois case to name one of many! Two years now and no arrests. I feel sorry for the families expecting justice in Maple Ridge!” – Boomer Melba

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SCHOOL BUS SERVICE 2014 - 2015 In the spring of 2014, families were requested to submit applications to register for school bus service for the upcoming year. Bus routes are being developed based on the applications received. If you were unable to submit an application in the spring, it will be necessary to do so as soon as possible. The deadline for application and payment is August 15, 2014. Students not registered may be refused service. Applications can be made on-line on the district website or forms can be picked up from the main reception desk at the District Education Office at 22225 Brown Ave., Maple Ridge. Questions can be directed to the Transportation Department at 604-466-6236 or email pharrison@sd42.ca.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

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Endless summer Ayla Gauthier, six, took a drink during her visit to the Maple Ridge spray park on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 7. There was a slight reprieve from the heat late last week, before the hot weather returned to Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, and the Fraser Valley over the weekend, with no rain in sight.

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ood news! Apparently it is its future growth. That decision caused possible for Maple Ridge to a court fight between Metro and the take a sober, second thought Township, and the court ruled that Metro and divorce itself from Metro had no right to dictate land use for local Vancouver’s regional planning process, if municipalities. it wants to. Of course, Metro appealed the decision Last Saturday, the Vancouver Sun led using regional taxpayers’ dollars, then with a front page story and two additional causing Langley’s taxpayers to fund their full pages by Kelly Sinoski. The well-writdefense. Theoretically, Langley taxpayers ten story explained the adopted plan for are funding both sides of the legal process. Metro Vancouver for the next 30 years. According to Kelly’s article, Burnaby At this point, our current Mayor Derek Corrigan, the Maple Ridge council is supiconic master of regional porting a decision made in manipulation, said, “There’s 2011 that gave away our always a creative tension in control of the community’s local government because future to Metro Vancouver. we’re not a mega-city; you Under the 2011 agreeare really dealing with a ment, the region’s 21 munisituation where it is concipalities were required stantly an evolving proto submit a plan called a cess.” Regional Context Statement “It’s a little bit like a marby Gordy Robson with urban containment riage. You work together to boundaries. make it work or you break What is interesting in the apart.” entire article, is Maple Ridge is not menOh my God, Derek said, we are allowed tioned. With a three-per-cent weighted to break apart. As Coun. Long said, vote, we don’t count. Our context state“When it comes to things Metro does ment, which is based on our Official well, we love it; parks, sewers, but with Community Plan (OCP), is intended to the planning thing, we just have to learn guide long-term growth. to get along.” Long-time Langley Township Councillor It is sadly ironic we are not even worthy Bob Long has verbalized Langley’s deciof a mention in Sinoski’s article, and sion not to submit a context statement to apparently no one has communicated any the regional government, so far. Yes, Bob planning on how to handle the approved is a Maple Ridge boy and was the founder Genstar development of tens of thousands of an upstart, tabloid paper in Maple of homes in the future Silverdale town Ridge. plan – on our eastern boundary in the Coun. Long said, “Metro is supposed to Fraser Valley Regional District. assist regional municipalities, but it is now Hopefully Maple Ridge council canbecoming ‘we’re telling you what’s wrong didates for November’s election will and right in your communities’.” research what we have done and what If Maple Ridge wishes to make changes, our options are for the future. It’s called they must go to the Metro board for a 2/3 “Vision.” Just saying… majority vote. Gordy Robson’s column appears Tuesdays in print and/or Langley Township rezoned some lands online versions of The TIMES. Reactions can be sent to editorial@mrtimes.com to support Trinity Western University and

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Vicki Kipps, executive director of the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Community Services, spoke at the recent launch of Alisa’s Wish. This is a child and youth advocacy centre that opened July 22 and will provide services for children and youth 18 years or younger who are victims of abuse and/or witnesses to violence. The pilot project is the result of two years of work with various levels of government, police, and other agencies – some of which were were represented at the event (far left and below).

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August 12: Shakedown • Three classic artists from the Canadian Prairies are performing in communities across Western Canada, in the Western Shakedown Classical Concert tour. They are stopping in Maple Ridge for a show tonight, 7 p.m., 23575 124th Ave. Tickets are $15 at the door.

August 13: Purple pirate • Pitt Meadows Library is hosting the Purple Pirate. He has a treasure box full of laughs and pirate magic he’s offering up for the whole family at the library, 12099 Harris Rd., from 2 to 2:45 p.m.

August 13: Hero Day

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Steve Dillen, Frank Payne, Rob Birnie and Colleen Birnie – all of Maple Ridge – gave it their all during the Tough Mudder Whistler challenge earlier this summer. All four of the team mates finished the 19-km course and earned the right to be considered part of Mudder Nation.

• Parks & Leisure Services, police, and firefighters join forces to host Hero Day at Memorial Peace Park at noon. Participants in the summer day camps are taking part in this meet-and-greet event where kids can watch the Air 1 helicopter land, visit first responders, and climb on apparatus. Info: www.recreg4u.ca.

August 13: Puppets in park • Come and meet the library’s smallest stars – their talented puppets! Pack a dinner to bring along to the library’s early evening entertainment. Puppets in the Park takes place at the Bandstand in Memorial Peace Park from 6:45-7:15 p.m. and will present Amazing Animals.

Aug. 13: Summer Seranade

k & Clown Company Donna Milburn (top) of Clic -old Lily Dalton, of made two-and-a-half-year during the Osprey Edmonton, a balloon doll ws on Saturday. ado Me Day festivities in Pitt er Shannon Balla Meanwhile, TIMES publish zer Anahi English, ani caught up with event org cess of this year’s suc the for congratulating her TIMES for more festival. Stay tuned to The event. d’s coverage on this weeken

Langley MP Mark Wa rawa and Pitt Meadows-Maple RidgeMission MP Randy Kamp were at the Albion wharf recently ahead of the opening of the sockeye salmon fishin g season on the Fraser River. The season opened Monday for three hours from 3 to 6 p.m . Eric ZImmer/TIMES

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• Summer in Pitt Meadows is sizzling with the swinging sounds of the Bruce James Orchestra at free weekly concerts in Pitt Meadows’ Spirit Square every Wednesday evening from 7 to 9 p.m.

August 18: Music on Wharf

• Maple Ridge Historical Society presents the Whisky Mistrels at the Music on the Wharf concert series. The concert is at 7:30 p.m. at the Port Haney Wharf. Donations will be collected at each performance. Consider bringing lawn chairs, sunglasses and a sweater for sundown.

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and understory in The TIMES at the goes daily end of June. physiotherapy That’s to continue when his walking, buddy Quinn as well as Callander, also speech therseven, decided apy. The to set up a cerebral palsy Quinn Callander and Brayden Grozdanich lemonade affects the stand to raise right side of the necessary $20,000 to help his his body. His hands, his legs, Hammond Elementary classmate and all his muscles on the right and fellow Beaver. side of his body is stiff, spastic, Brayden has cerebral palsy and always charged, a family

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by Eric Zimmer Meadow Ridge Knights Football Club hosted their annual Knights of the Round Tournament this past weekend at Samuel Robertson Technical Secondary’s Rotary Field. The Knights’ atom and peewee teams played on Saturday, and the junior bantam teams played on Sunday. “It was a great weekend of sun and football,” said Jill Ogloff, registrar for the Knights’ club and manger of the midget team. The tournament is the first organized scrimmage most teams face. “The tournament was a success in accomplishing exactly what it was supposed to,” said Mark Ogloff, president of the club and head coach of the midgets. “All teams at every level improved their play and performance.” The Meadow Ridge gold and blue atom teams also came first and second in their divisions, which included teams from North Delta, North Surrey and New Westminster. The Knights home opener is Sept. 6.

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There was hard-hitting fast action during game two of the playoff series between the Maple Ridge Burrards and the Burnaby Lakers. The series was all tied up after Saturday night’s home game and carries on this week.

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Burrards break even with Burnaby

Playoff action is heating up between Maple Ridge and Burnaby as the series continues this week. by Eric Zimmer

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After losing game one of their playoff series on the road against Burnaby last week, the Maple Ridge Burrards lacrosse squad returned the favour Saturday night back home at Planet Ice. In a game that saw a string of penalties (which equalled combined total of 307 minutes,) the

11-5 victory for the Burrards was no cakewalk. It was the Burrards who came out swinging in the first period and opened the scoring courtesy of a goal by Riley Loewen. The Lakers rallied back with two unanswered goals, before Garrett McIntosh and Jarret Davis each put the ball in the net and at the end of the first, the Burrards led 3-2. The Lakers found the back of the net first in the second period, but the celebration was short-lived as Ben McIntosh put the Burrards back in the lead with his goal. It was the first of two goals for McIntosh, who was joined on the scoresheet by Andrew Murphy, as well as Davis who recorded his

second of the game. The second period was also the start of the parade to the penalty box thanks to a five-minute major that was doled out to Burnaby’s Nathan Klein, who was joined by his teammate Scott Rouse. The Burrards took full advantage of the five-on-three lineup, as both Murphy and Ben McIntosh found the back of the Lakers’ net and put the home team up by three points. The Lakers managed another goal before Garrett McIntosh and Davis each scored their second goal of the night and brought the Burrards to an 8-4 lead at the second intermission. The Burrards turned up the heat in the third period as Riley

Loewen scored, Ryan McMichael found the mesh, and Tyler Codron put one in an empty net to give the Burrards an 11-4 lead. The Lakers managed one more goal for the final 11-5 score. It was after a hit on a Burnaby player by Mitchell Banister that a steady stream of players made their way to the penalty box throughout the last 10 minutes of the game. The series was set to continue Monday night in Burnaby and results were not available by the TIMES press deadline. The series will ramble on tonight (Tuesday, Aug. 12) when the teams return to Planet Ice for home advantage. Game time is 7:45 p.m.

Come be a kid again! Wednesday, August 13th It’s the one day a year when adults can be kids again and enjoy their very own Pirate Pak! And for each one we sell, we’ll donate $2 to the Zajac Ranch for Children. Adult Pirate Paks only available on Wednesday, August 13th, 2014 after 11am.

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WE’VE RESCHEDULED! HOCKEY FOR GOOD IS NOW SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2014 kids to camp! Grab your stick and join The Caring Place for a fun road hockey tournament in Maple Ridge.