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Cole Landreville, three-year-old son of Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows TIMES reporter Troy, picked up the pumpkin he wanted at Laity Pumpkin Patch on Thursday, Oct. 16.

The patch, part of 18 acres of farmland, was slow to start with and has grown as the years have gone by. “Now everybody comes to pumpkin patches and corn mazes, so it’s changed,” Laity said. Laity said as she and Don are approaching their 70s, they’ve recruited some help in the form of one of their sons and his wife. by Troy Landreville The couple has four sons, two daughter-intlandreville@mrtimes.com laws, and six grandchildren, many of whom help Heather Laity and her out, along with who Laity husband Don have been describes as “a perfect welcoming the public to staff.” their pumpkin patch for “All of us 65-year-old more than two decades. pensioners… we’re perfect Heather said the hot, dry staff, here,” Laity said. summer, followed by early Laity Pumpkin Patch is fall rainfall, proved perfect open seven days a week for pumpkin-growing. until Oct. 31. “We had a good crop Hours of operation for and I’m sure all pumpkin the public are: farmers had a good crop • Mondays to Fridays this year with all the sunfrom 1:30-5 p.m. shine,” Laity said. • Saturdays, Sundays, Troy Landreville/TIMES So, just how many and holidays from 9:30 orange gourds can Following in his daddy’s footsteps, Cole Landreville, a.m. to 5 p.m. and, on be found at the Laity three, snapped a photo of one of the resident goats Friday, Oct. 24, from 9 Pumpkin Patch? at Laity Pumpkin Patch last week. a.m. to 5 p.m. “Count a hundred, and Admission is $5 per perthen count a thousand, and you know how son (three years of age and older) and $20 per many’s in a thousand and the next area will be family (two parents and children residing in the another thousand, and I go by that,” laughed same household). Dogs are not permitted on the Laity. “Just in the school area, I like to keep pumpkin patch. about 3,000 at least, just in that small area. The For more information, people can visit the big ones, I don’t worry about because they’re patch’s website www.laitypumpkinpatch.com. for the public, but we do have to have enough • More at www.mrtimes.com, search “Laity” for our school tours.”

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One More Girl was honoured at the B.C. country music awards night on Sunday.

Country stars lauded Maple Ridge’s popular country duo, One More Girl, and the McKillip family scooped up a series of accolades at Sunday’s B.C. Country Music Awards. The singing sisters Carly and Britt earned the title of BCCMA’s group/duo of the year, while Carly earned keyboardist of the year, and their father Tom McKillip brought home the bling and title of producer of the year. Also on the winners list was Roosters Country Cabaret, that won as country club of the year, and Aaron Pritchett, who broke into the business DJing at Roosters, was presented Fans Choice Awards. • More at www.mrtimes.com

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Peace on Earth and Honouring Our Veterans are the themes of poster, essay, and poetry contests that are mrtimes.com open to all Maple Ridge and Excellence shortlisted Pitt Meadows residents. A list of the best businesses in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows – as selected by the chamber of commerce, has been released. The shortlist for the Business Excellence Awards was released late last week, and now a nominees lunch is set for Thursday, Oct. 30, 11:30 a.m. at Pitt Meadows Golf Club. Registration: www. ridgemeadowschamber.com. • More at www.mrtimes.com

Judy Ballard and Joe Robinsmith are promoting Remembrance Day-themed poster, essay, and poetry contests open to students and adults in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows.

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With Remembrance Day fast approaching, folks from all walks of life in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows can express their thoughts about peace, and those who have served our country, through three different mediums. Royal Canadian Legions across the nation, including Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows’ Branch 88, are facilitating poster and literary contests, open to all students in the school system. Candidates must complete an official registration form, available from the local branch or online at legion.ca/contests, and attach it to their entry (no staples). National first-place posters will be displayed at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa for one year, while second- and third-place winners will be displayed at Parliament Hill during Remembrance Week. Poster entries must be no larger than 56 x 71 cm. Literary entries (poems and essays which can be submitted in either English or French), will be marked on the basis of originality of thought, expression, presentation, grammar, spelling, and Canadian content. The poster contests are categorized into primary (students ranging from kindergarten to Grade 3), junior (Grades 4-6), intermediate (Grades 7-9), and senior (Grades 10-12). The literary (essays and poems) contest categories are primary (kindergarten to Grade 3) junior (Grades 4-6), intermediate (Grades 7-9), and senior (Grades 10-12). Senior literary entries must submit an essay that doesn’t have more than 800 words and a poem of not more than 32 lines; intermediate is an essay of 500 words or less and a poem of not more than 32 lines; and junior essays can’t exceed 350 words and their poems can’t have more

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than 32 lines. Branch 88 youth education chair Judy Ballard said this contest has been going on for “years, and years, and years.” Ballard said on a local level, the poster applications are sent to the school board, which then sends them to the schools in the district. “A lot of times when I go check at schools, they don’t have the information,” Ballard said. “So we’re looking at other avenues to try and get the information out.” Whonnock Elementary is a regular participant in the contest, while students from James Cameron School have also been contributors. The theme for both the literary and poster contests is peace. “What we’re looking for in the poster contests and the poems, is remembrance and peace, because that’s what we want,” Ballard said. “It’s very hard to portray it [peace], that’s why some of the posters are really unbelievable.”

Honouring Our Veterans Joe Robinsmith is organizing a separate poetry contest, called Honouring Our Veterans, in which scribes can email their poems to the Maple Ridge-Pitt

Meadows TIMES, via: editorial@ mrtimes.com. Contestants must include their full name, email address, phone number, and community. The keyword “veterans” should be in the subject of the email. In 2010, Robinsmith, who said he has no connection with the military, entered a poem into the Festival of Light poetry contest and had an opportunity to do a reading as one of the three winners. “All these kids showed up, they had all entered this contest and they didn’t get to read,” Robinsmith said. “They were all excited, they had these little booklets of poems.” This sparked the genesis of the contest. Robinsmith thought, there must be an event for kids, and he came up with the theme of Remembrance Day. It’s already recognized in schools through assemblies, and for most people, it is a holiday. “It’s a perfect tie-in for the schools to give kids a voice,” Robinsmith said. “I didn’t want to restrict it just to kids, so we have an adult side to it, as well.”

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Hence, categories cover elementary and secondary students, as well as adults. Robinsmith publishes all of the entries, as well. The contest had a strong local presence last year, with roughly 40 poems submitted, and was restricted to one entry per person. This year, that’s been changed toa maximum of three entries per contestant. “The second year we did it, we had 66 entries, but I had seven from one person and eight from another,” he said. “It became a book of their poems, almost, and I don’t exclude anybody. I thought, last year we’d try it with one [poem] per person and that restricted the number of people who entered. Some people want to enter more than one, they feel they’re both equally good, so we restricted it to three, this year.” Robinsmith is working with the legion to ensure that all the poems submitted by students through his Honouring Our Veterans poetry contest will also be entered into the legion, students only, contest.

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Thefts Raid nets drugs and guns prompt warning Six thefts during the past several weeks have Ridge Meadows RCMP issuing personal safety messages. “Ridge Meadows RCMP have received reports of three incidents where citizens are coming from their banks after using the automated banking machine where a male approaches them in an attempt to steal the cash recently withdrawn,” said Cpl. Alanna Dunlop. “All three of these took place during daylight hours as the victims return to their vehicles. Investigators are looking for a lone male suspect in all three incidents, but it is unknown if it is the same person in all three.” Police are also investigating three other thefts involving purses during the same time period. In one of these thefts, police are looking for a female suspect. •More at www.mrtimes.com, search “banking”

A Maple Ridge man is facing 10 charges involving drug and gun offences. Christopher Leigh Harmes, 30, is alleged to have been carrying two concealed handguns and was in possession of fentanyl – a synthetic opiate similar to heroin – as well as cocaine, and methamphetamine when he was arrested last week. He remains in custody after appearing in Port Coquitlam provincial court on Thursday, Oct. 16. Harmes – who is reportedly well known to police – was prohibited from carrying weapons from a previous conviction, said RCMP Cpl. Alanna Dunlop. Search warrants were also executed on two homes associated with Harmes. “The Street Enforcement Unit followed up on the search of a house on 224 Street last week, with two more searches,” Dunlop said. Search warrants were executed on a Garden Street and a 122 Avenue home Wednesday, with guns and a “substantial” quantity of illegal drugs – packaged

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Small business not at all small Don’t let the label fool you: “small business” is big business in B.C. It’s Small Business Week this week. It’s a time set aside each year to recognize the important contributions that smaller businesses make to the economy, and to our communities. Officially, the “small business” tag covers a wide range, from those that are operated by one self-employed man or woman, all the way up to anything with no more than 50 employees. About 98 per cent of businesses in B.C. are classified as small business. They create pay cheques for more than a million British Columbians – about 56 per cent of the province’s entire privatesector workforce. Small business generates 26 per cent of B.C.’s Gross Domestic Product. Any way you look at it, small business is a significant force behind the provincial economy. At the community level, the small business impact is arguably greater than its effect on economic indicators. The cold numbers, like the 56 per cent private-sector employment figure, become a lot warmer when you realize that most small businesses employ people in or near their communities – jobs created by small businesses in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows are, for the most part, putting food on tables in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. And the owners and employees of those small businesses are your neighbours. They coach (and sponsor) the local minor hockey and soccer teams. They contribute to local arts and culture. Their children attend school with your children. They worry about the cleanliness of the local environment. In fact, we may be talking about you. It’s been said that small business is the heart of the community. And with good reason. –B.G.

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I am not alone! But it doesn’t really matter. I used to think that I was the (Important Note: Do not post only smart individual on the such a story about yourself, scene. unless you have a thick skin and I was under the impression that are able to withstand the wave of I was the only intelligent one in Internet outrage that will inevitthe room. ably sweep over you… if anyone I felt justified in reasoning that notices, that is, and you don’t I was the only person on the simply become a part of the tide planet capable of getting through of information flotsam and jetlife without making any mistakes, sam that fills most of the trillions without slipping up, without of pages of detritus that pervades by Bob Groeneveld losing my concentration for just the medium, and you slip into a moment, without fumbling the the natural obscurity of pre-interball – without making a costly net humanity.) error. If your post is noticed, and the information it But I was wrong! conveys is sufficiently abhorrent (such as a video See? of a girl with her dress tucked into the back Not only was I living in a universe built on an of her pantyhose, or a guy tripping on a crack erroneous assumption, but I have discovered that in the sidewalk) but premature or lacking in there are people out there who are even better enough detail for anyone to develop a reasoned than I am. understanding of what really happened, just It turns out that there are thousands – perhaps watch the self-righteous comments fly. millions – of people who never make any misOkay, those things are chuckle-worthy takes at all. (although I’m not sure I understand why someThere may even be billions of them – people one wouldn’t tap such a girl on the shoulder and who make not even the tiniest error of assuming explain her modest faux pas instead of pulling that they are alone in their perfection. out a smart phone and tossing three or four minIndeed, the internet is teeming with people utes of the unconscionable error – the grievous who are loaded to the gills with perfection. assault on fashion – on Facebook). They thrive on their perfection and the perfecBut just watch the comments grow like a slimy tion of (carefully selected!) others. mould under the post. They and their perfect companions have so The girl probably should have taken a steak much communally cultivated perfection in them knife into the ladies room and slashed a few that they are veritably overflowing with their throats there, instead. She would have garnered righteous indignation. more sympathy. They’re full of it! And for heaven’s sake don’t let anyone catch Just post a story about someone who has you being robbed or beaten or allowing yourself inadvertently slipped up and caused something to become in any way victimized. to happen. Somehow, in the topsy-turvy world that is the Something bad. internet, the greatest sin is to be a victim. Something good. Victims are the real perpetrators. Something mediocre. Victims are their own fault. Funny is good. Internet society abhors victims. Pain is better. Even more than the rest of us.

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Dear Editor, What is going on with drivers in Maple Ridge? Twice within a week my husband and I have witnessed what likely could have been fatal accidents. On one occasion, we were stopped at a red light on 227th to Street at Lougheed Highway. My the husband started to advance on the green light when I caught sight of a car heading east towards us on Lougheed, at full speed, completely unaware of what he was doing. If I had not yelled to my husband to stop, we would have been T-boned, and at the speed the other car was travelling, I have no doubt all three of us would have died. A few days later, we were heading west on Lougheed in the right lane, stopped at a red light. The traffic had started and was well advanced, heading south on Laity. In the lane next to us, a small minivan

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sped through the red light. If my husband had not honked, the driver on Laity could well have been a fatality. The driver on Lougheed also braked, and miraculously avoided the collision by entering into a lane of the eastbound traffic. For a short time she was driving counter to traffic heading east, until she U-turned into an auto mechanic shop. Fortunately, no cars were in that lane. To the best of my knowledge, neither of the offending drivers was distracted by cell phones or other devices, but both appeared to be completely oblivious. If we witnessed two near fatalities in the short time we were are on our roads, I can only imagine how dangerous our roads are becoming. Pay attention, people, you or your loved ones could be next. Chris Olsen, Maple Ridge

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Dear Editor, Mr. Bulpitt’s comments [Benefits outweigh emissions, Oct. 7 Letters, TIMES] consisted largely of specula-

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Animal welfare

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Dear Editor, Neither the television news coverage I saw nor your article about the Thanksgiving Day dog rescue at Cliff Falls Park [Rescuers pluck dog from cliff’s edge, Oct. 16, TIMES] mentioned dogs are supposed to be leashed in the park. It’s nice that the dog was rescued, but all the trouble and expense, not to mention potential risk to pooch or people, could have been avoided if the owner had obeyed the rules. I have seen dogs off-leash more than once in Cliff Falls Park. It was ironic that it was reported the owner suggested it might be a while before Ozzi earns rights to off-leash again. Some owners never learn, and think that the rules are for other peoples’ dogs. It would have been a nice public service and good reporting to mention the fact that the rule exists. Paul Stanley, Whonnock

What you’re telling us on Facebook protesting the inconvenient park•ingPetitioners arrangement at Ridge Meadows Hospital aren’t alone, if our Facebook followers’ comments are any indication.

“I would have signed it. The parking should be free at the hospital.” – Carol Skene “So stupid! It’s not like we are going to the hospital to have fun! I don’t mind paying, but the price is unbelievable and uncalled for!” – Taryn Kelley “I would have signed & my husband also – this is so rude, paying those prices!” – Shortie Polly “I’m a mom of four children. My youngest was two when she was hospitalized for five days two years ago. There are much better ways my family could have used that money. Parking was not cheap. “First, it’s the assumption people are emotionally coherent enough to deal with extra stress of paying for parking. If you have a child going into emergency, you’re not worried about parking. It’s deplorable to expect it. “Second, it’s the expectation that everyone has money to give for parking, either credit cards or change. None of these people have ever lived pay cheque to pay cheque and experienced an emergency. “Third, the parking lots are already purchased with tax dollars and fixed with tax dollars. So how does one have the right to double dip?” – Joleen Watson

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largest and fastest growing contributor of emissions. Regulations for this sector have spent years sitting on the environment minister’s desk. The Conservative government subsidizes the sector, which is ironic for a government that believes in “free market economics.” Economists warned us years ago that delaying a transition to renewable energy would cost us dearly in the long run. As it becomes obvious to all that climate change comes with a huge price tag, we need to ask: Who will pay the bill? Taxpayers? Polluters? Future generations? As a country that commanded international respect in the past, it saddens me to see our current prime minister ducking and running, damaging our image and moral credibility on the world stage. Elizabeth J. Rosenau, Maple Ridge

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Dear Editor, We are being told that Canada doesn’t stand by and do nothing when there are injustices in the world. The question becomes whether what Canada is doing is going to help the problem or make it worse. How many innocent people will become collateral damage during the bombing Canadians are participating in? If Canada decided that, instead of bombing, we would spend our efforts on humane activities, would we still be generating antagonism towards Canada? Sheila Pratt, Maple Ridge

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Oct. 21: Writers • Golden Ears Writers hosts Blending Fact and Fiction in Novels with mystery author Debra Purdy-Kong from 7 to 9 p.m. at The ACT.

Oct. 21: Opening night • Edge of the Page Poetry hosts its opening night at Bean Around Books, located at 22626 Lougheed Hwy. from 7 to 9 p.m. Hosted by Phil Ransom, and featuring singer Ria Jade, and actress/ writer Sherry Duggal.

Oct. 21: Wellness seminar • Judy Guido, a national director with the Inner Peace Movement of Canada is speaking on finding one’s life purpose at the Maple Ridge Best Western, 21650 Lougheed Hwy. A talk will be held at 1 p.m. and at 7 p.m. Talks are 1.5 hours long. Admission: $21. Info: www.innerpeacemovement. ca.

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• Ghost Ridge returns to the Albion Fairgrounds, located at 23448 105 Ave, and runs 6 to 9 p.m. nightly until Thursday, Oct. 30. Admission is $8 and group rates are available. Family-friendly viewing takes place on Sunday Oct. 26, and Monday, Oct. 27, from 5 to 6 p.m. Info: www.ghostridge.ca.

Oct. 24: Zombie Walk

Oct. 25: Children’s benefit

• Downtown Maple Ridge BIA hosts its annual Zombie Walk. Festivities begin at 2:30 p.m. and the walk starts at 4 p.m. Held in support of local businesses and the Friends in Need Food Bank.

• Costumes, magic, princesses and other characters are part of Ghosts, Goblins, and Tiaras, a benefit for the Children’s Wish Foundation. Featuring a special screening of Hotel Transylvania, the

event happens at Hollywood 3 Cinemas in Pitt Meadows, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Costumes are encouraged. Tickets: $20 or four for $60. Info: http://ggt.childrenswishevent.ca.

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• Elvis – The Moments is a show featuring Pete Paquette with Rudy and the Angels Showband. It takesplace at the ACT, beginning at 7:30 p.m.. Tickets and info: www. theactmapleridge.org.

Oct. 26: Field naturalists • Alouette Field Naturalists meet for a walk at Blackie’s Spit. Info: Duanne at 604463-8743.

Oct. 26: House halloween • Haney House Museum, at 11612 224th St., hosts Pumpkins and Pioneers from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. $3/kids, parents free. Info: mrmeventplanner@gmail.com.

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• Community fireworks display at Albion Fairgrounds, 105 Avenue and Lougheed Highway, 7 p.m. Food bank donations accepted.

TOPS •TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) invites new members to their weight loss group. Gail: 604-941-2907. • Full listings: www.mrtimes.com

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Oct. 22: Pension plan info • A citizen services specialist from Service Canada will be at the Maple Ridge Library from 2 to 3:30 p.m., to provide information on Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security. Info: 604-467-7417 ext. 5518.

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Blue Mountain Elementary held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open its new $35,000 playground. It took four years to raise the money. Pictured: Sydney Constable, Brynn Morgan, Michael Scarcella, Maridee Wersta, and Luke Constable, Kira Fontaine, Chiara Teal, Corky Teal, Debra Van den dool, Vickie Fulton, Beth Schwarz, Sydney Fulton, and Gracie Wersta were among those on hand for the ceremony. Christopher Sun/TIMES

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Event coordinator Rick Tippe, and his wife Bonnie watched as their grandson Coleton took in the sights and sounds of the Greater Vancouver Toy Show at Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall on Sunday, Oct. 12.

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At the monthly meeting of the Maple Ridge Garden Club, outgoing president Gayle Lyons (second from the right) presented Daryl Stone (right), past president of the Lower Mainland chapter of Sunshine Dreams for Kids, with a cheque for $6,500. The money was raised from the garden tours in Maple Ridge in June. Other committee members Arlene Mator (left) and Margaret Spratt were also on hand Brennan Martens , 12 of Abbotsfor Rick Moyers/TIME for the presentation. The money will go directly to providing S d, came to the to Meadows dresse y show in Pitt d for the occasio a dream for a child. The Sunshine foundation has a dream n. lift planned for Dec. 10, in which they will be flying 80 Anthony W Rick Moy ers/TIMES children and their escorts White, s hite, three, and ix, of Pit t Meado Brendan out the to Disneyland for the day. w awe sc Do you have a local photo of someone or some place you’d like to share with the the Grea some array of hecked Hot Whe ter Vanc rest of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows? Email it to us as a high-resolution .JPEG to o els at uver Toy momen ts later, editorial@mrtimes.com. Please include a brief description – including everyone’s Brendan Show… and own wit won one h a raffle of his ticket. ﬁrst and last name. Put “faces & places” in the subject line of your email.

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ardeners who grow chives, leeks and other kitchen onions don’t always think about their exotic flowering relatives, alliums, which are grown for their beautiful flower heads of purple, pink, white, lavender, and sometimes yellow or blue. After flowering, the easyto-dry seedheads can be cut for winter vases or left in the garden where they add interest until winter winds take them. Cut early, flower heads tend to keep their original colours, albeit faded. Besides being hardy and unusually healthy, alliums have a vertical growth habit that fits very well into containers and small spaces. They reliably come back year after year. Though alliums will grow in most soils that aren’t swampy, their favourite conditions are the same ones that crocuses and tulips like – sun and well-drained soil. The foliage dies down immediately after they flower (or even a little

before in some). Once they’re dormant, drought doesn’t bother them. Most of their bulbs can be planted below or within the roots of other plants, and their flowers will rise well above compact annuals. Squirrels seem to ignore alliums, as do other pests. Breeders are working on creating the deepest possible purple alliums such as the 1.2-metre Ambassador. But most of the tall, largeglobed ones, including Globemaster, Lucille Ball, or Allium giganteum are pinkish purple or purplishpink. Virtually all alliums return year after year without hogging space, but the Sicilian Honey Garlic (Nectaroscordum siculum) gradually makes a thick and ever-increasing mat of bulbs. The flowers produce

90 cm stems of bells in an unusual blend of white, pink, purple, and green. Another strange plant is Allium schubertii. It has a ragged head of long, medium, and short floret stems of pink flowers, and a fascinating shape for vases. One of the most beautiful is Allium christophii, only 30 cm tall, but with heads that can reach 25 cm in diameter. It’s another lovely one for drying. Each starry floret is centered with a black seed. One new and unusual species is Allium obliquum, from Siberia, reputed to be evergreen. Few alliums have yellow flowers, but this one does. It grows 100 cm tall and is said to be hardy to zone 2. Another pretty allium is Chameleon, which begins flowering rosy-pink, then morphs into white petals with a purple stripe.

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Also unusual is Allium atropurpureum. It flowers a deep purplish-red. It isn’t generally known that leeks, shallots, and vegetable onions can produce very pretty flowers, though with leeks and onions it doesn’t happen till their second year, and by then, the root isn’t much use for eating. Most flowers of vegetable alliums are white, but red onions or purple-tinged leeks may produce flowers with a purple blush, purple stamens, or purple seeds. Once you have a flower, you may obtain viable seeds for garden planting. Obtaining seeds is best tried with one or two plants that you’ve moved out of the vegetable garden. Old roots are susceptible to diseases and pests.

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It’s back to basics for Ridge Meadows Flames head coach Jaime Fiset. And it’s an approach that seems to be working for the hockey squad. On Friday night, the Flames

topped the Abbotsford Pilots 3-2 in a back-and-forth home game at Planet Ice. The teams traded a number of scoring opportunities, but it was Flames captain Danny Wilson who found the back of the Abbotsford net with less than two minutes left in regulation time to give the Flames the victory. “We’re really happy with our efforts,” said Fiset. “I thought we played a fairly decent 60 minutes.” The win was the second one out of the team’s last three games.

Prior to this streak, the team had suffered three straight losses. For Fiset, the change results from simplifying the team’s Jamie Fiset overall Head coach game plan. “We just went back to things that made us successful at the

beginning of the year,” he said. As the season progresses, Fiset said teams will try new and different things. “Some things work, and some don’t,” he noted. The team has returned to a “defence first” strategy, where focusing the strength in their own zone and “taking care” of their goalie has “rewarded” the team with “offensive opportunities.” Fiset also said he was “really happy with the leadership of our team,” and added it “really is leading by example.”

Football

Mission mashes Marauders

Registration on Mini rugby is returning to the Ridge Meadows Bruins Rugby Club in January, but the time to register is now. Those with children born between 2003 and 2009, who are interested in the sport, are encouraged to register early to secure a space. Registration is accepted online at www.bruinsrugbyclub.com. • More online: www.mrtimes.com, click on “Sports”

by Howard Tsumura

Special to the TIMES

Bowl for curling Rev’s Maple Ridge Bowling Centre will host a benefit night for the Golden Ears Winter Club (GEWC) this Saturday, Oct. 25. The cost is $20 per bowler which includes shoe rental. The event takes place from 6:30 to 9 p.m., and supports the GEWC as they prepare to host the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 2015. • More online: www.mrtimes.com, click on “Sports”

Benefit for ride Roosters Country Cabaret in Pitt Meadows is hosting a benefit for the BC Cancer Foundation and the Ride To Conquer Cancer, tonight (Tuesday) at 7 p.m., at the bar, 19040 Lougheed Hwy. • More online: www.mrtimes.com, click on “Sports”

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A dog’s day on the dikes

A young woman had her hands full (with leashes) as she took a handful of dogs for a walk along the dikes that run past Laity Pumpkin Patch on a cloudy but otherwise pleasant Thursday morning, Oct. 16. The stretch of nice weather has allowed for numerous outdoor recreational opportunities.

Titans

Varsity squad posts first game win It took a season and a half, coaching changes, numerous player movements and the dedication of a small group of returning players to bring the Samuel Robertson Technical (SRT) senior varsity Titans football squad to their first BC High School win this past weekend. The Titan’s took on Abbotsford’s Rick Hansen Secondary Hurricanes, battling between the 40 yard markers for a full scoreless quarter.

Mark Dait opened the scoring in the second quarter, while the team converted on a two pointer to pull ahead. Hurricane’s quickly responded but failed on the convert – but the two points would be costly in the end. The balance of the game was a defensive clash lead by SRT Titan’s #42 Scott Murdoch with 14 tackles and defensive Titan Brandon Ramsay, Riley Leopky, Rueben Marin

– denying Hansen any movement down field. Dait’s day included two more touchdowns, 102 kick-off return yards, a 45-yard catch, and four carries for 42 yards. Quarterback #16 Ryan Borys returned to the fold after missing a couple games and rambled up the middle for a 49-yard touchdown and threw two for five with receptions to Dait and #85 Malcolm Cooke.

Jesse Walker picked the perfect time for his first pick six of the season. Mission’s savvy, explosive quarterback helped B.C.’s No. 2-ranked team to a 20-point win over the Pitt Meadows Marauders (3-1) on Friday, returning an interception 50 yards for the major score. The Roadrunners (3-0) won a battle of Eastern Conference unbeatens. “A wet soggy day, and a knock-down, drag-out football game, a great football game,” said Mission head coach Danny Jakobs after the contest. “In Pitt, we got a well-prepared, well-coached team and they played with a ton of heart tonight.” Satvier Bhullar was a pillar along the defensive line, Arjay Shelley, a Grade 11 corner, picked off another Pitt pass, had two big knockdowns and made a number of solo tackles. Dayton Robertson, the Mission fullback, scored a late touchdown. Final score: Mission 33, Pitt Meadows: 13.

– Howard Tsumura is a reporter with the Province

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

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