Tuesday, December 9, 2014 Santa arrived in town this weekend, making appearances at a variety of Christmas celebrations in both Maple Ridge and PItt Meadows..
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The Hellier family’s dog, two cats, and a pet rodent were lost, and their worldly belonging destroyed when fire ripped through a Haney home.
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A working smoke alarm saved a teenage Maple Ridge girl’s life, after a fire destroyed her family’s townhouse and three pets this weekend. A lamp in too close a proximity to a couch is believed at fault for causing a fire that consumed a home in the 23100 block of the Haney Bypass just after 5 p.m. Friday (Dec. 5). A teenage girl was in the shower on the second floor of the townhouse when she heard the smoke alarm activated, explained fire chief Dane Spence. “She wrapped herself in a towel and went downstairs to investigate and was met with a wall of black smoke,” he said. She managed to grab some clothes and get out of the burning structure uninjured, but the family dog, two cats, and a pet rodent were lost in the blaze. The other occupants, the girl’s father, Jason Hellier, and younger sister, were not home at the time of the fire, Spence said. “While the family is insured, the loss of the family pets and belongings is a horrible way to start the holiday season,” said the chief. Some members of the community,
A Maple Ridge townhouse was destroyed by fire late Friday afternoon, a teenage girl narrowly escaping with her life, the family’s pets perished in the blaze. A security guard is stood watch over the home this past weekend. Rick Moyer/TIMES
including those who know Hellier and his daughters through the Barracuda hockey association, have expressed interest in helping out the family after this devastating loss and what friend Shannon Suzukovich described as a “challenging” and “difficult” year for the family.
While the family is sure to need household items, and other belongings in the coming days and weeks – as they start to rebuild their lives – Suzakovich has set up an “in trust” account for the Helliers at the Pitt Meadows branch of the Scotiabank, account #83030-00252-16.
“Let’s get the word out so we can help the Helliers and try to make their Christmas special,” Suzukovich said. What this narrow escape drives home, Spence said, is the need to have smoke alarms and to test them regularly to ensure they’re working properly.
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Neighbourhood social media pages popping up
Numerous Facebook pages have started up in recent months to address politics and community issues around Maple Ridge. by Christopher Sun dfdf
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Chatting with neighbours about community concerns used to be as easy as stepping outside the house, but many are now choosing to do that online, instead.
About three years ago James Rowley attended a City of Maple Ridge workshop about community engagement. Inspired by what he learned, he started the Hammond Neighbours page on Facebook as a way for his area to talk about local issues, promote home businesses, and get to know their neighbours. “The number one rule is don’t be a jerk,” Rowley said, who ran unsuccessfully for school board last month. “People can use it in any way they want to use it, there is no mandate.”
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Rowley continues to moderate the page, which has more than 650 members. The page not only informs people about what’s going on and of new development proposals, but is also used as a classifieds page, allowing people a venue to connect with old friends, advertise things for sale, or free giveaways, and alerting members of missing and found pets. Since Hammond Neighbours started, many other community pages have sprung up including ones for Albion, Haney, and Yennadon. Recently, a Maple Ridge parliament
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watch was started, in advance of the 2015 federal election, and there is a page devoted to “perceived wrong doings” during the last municipal election. Katherine Wagner started up the Yennadon Community Association page about two years ago to galvanize neighbours against a proposed gravel mine in their community, which was defeated. Since then, she has continued updating the page with things going on in the community.
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Plants are being sold to help Meadow Ridge Rotary with a Nicaragua building project.
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Meadow Ridge Rotary is selling locally grown Cyclamen’s at Ridge Meadows Hospital, today and tomorrow, to help raise funds for a 2015 humanitarian project in Nicaragua. • More at www.mrtimes.com
For the record Incorrect information was reported in The TIMES about a charity Santa Clause party for underprivileged kids being offered by the Kiwanis Club of Golden Ears and the Key Clubs at Garibaldi and Thomas Haney Secondaries on Saturday. This event is NOT open to the public. All participants were pre-registered. Stay tuned for followup to the lunch. • More at www.mrtimes.com
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After attending a disappointing Christmas festival in Port Coquitlam recently, Ashley Bellmas made a point to attend Maple Ridge’s annual Christmas in the Park and parade this year. And her hometown didn’t disappoint. “We went to the one in PoCo and it sucked,” Bellmas said, after the parade ended. “This one is Rick Moyer/TIMES More so much better, that’s why Santa interacted with kids from his sled during the Maple Ridge Santa Parade. I told my friend [along with Photos Online her son], she had to come the boring experience they Christmas Festival Society presout to this one.” had, the week before. ident. Bellmas came out with her 11“This was good,” Rendall said. “This was one of our best month-old son, Bryson, continu“I was surprised that Maple events yet,” Enns said. “Even ing a tradition that started when Ridge had this.” with the crappy weather we had her parents brought her out An estimated 10,000 people all day, while setting up, people when she was a child. came out to watch this year’s eventually came out, when the She convinced her friend, Christmas parade and at least rain stopped.” Amanda Rendall, to come out 2,000 checked out the events at The rain stopped once the from Langley with her three-year- Memorial Peace Park this year, parade started at 6 p.m., with old son, Caide, to make up for said Dianne Enns, Maple Ridge intermittent sprinkles. There www.mrtimes.com
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were 40 floats this year, including fire trucks, dancers, a rugby team and Santa, himself closing the parade. At the park, service groups such as Kiwanis, Three Rivers Area Scouts, Port Hammond Pathfinders, Burnett Fellowship, and Salvation Army, gave out free popcorn, hotdogs, hot chocolate, S’mores and candy canes. The BC Renaissance Fest had a booth set up, along with BC Hydro, Karate for Kids, HSBC, the Gideon’s, and there was also a nativity scene. The annual event relies heavily on volunteers, and costs about $11,000 to put on. That cost and decreasing amount of sponsors is making it difficult for the event to continue, Enns said. “In the last few years, we have lost many sponsors,” Enns explained, blaming the 2008 financial crisis. “We are in desperate need for cash donations.” Enns said a lot of money is spent on safety measures, such as hiring flaggers to keep drivers and pedestrians safe. “We just finished this year’s but we’ll have to start fundraising again soon for next year,” Enns added.
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Maple Ridge tree sales have global impact The memory of a husband and father who died six years ago lives on through Christmas tree sales, which have a global and local reach.
Cindy Boileau, widow of Troy who died in a work-related accident in August 2008, runs the Christmas tree farm that he had hoped to start up six years ago.
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Troy Boileau was killed in a work-related accident in August of 2008 but his legacy has impacted people from Malawi, to Nicaragua, to his hometown of Maple Ridge. His Christmas tree farm at the corner of 98th Avenue and 256th Street in Maple Ridge’s Thornhill area has had a global and local reach. Troy married his high school sweetheart Cindy shortly after they graduated from Garibaldi Secondary. He worked in his family’s two businesses – Boileau Meats and Boileau Logging. On his family’s property in Thornhill, a Christmas tree farm was planted and in 2008 he was going to harvest his first crop of trees. Since that year, proceeds from the tree
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sales have helped build a well and feeding centre in Malawi, as well as kitchens in Nicaragua. Cindy travelled to Nicaragua last January with the Haney Rotary Club. The tree farm is a family business, run by Cindy with helping hands from her parents Gene and Vicki Carlson, partner Tom Woodward, father-in-law Dennis Boileau, and sons Jake, 24, and Sam, 18. The year Troy died at the age of 41, Cindy opened the Christmas tree farm he started four years prior. “All the family helped me clean it all up, get it ready for opening,” Cindy recalled. The Malawi project gained traction from money donated at Troy’s service.
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“We had a cause through Project Wellness, which is [headed up by] George and Sheila Klassen, where they were funding wells in Malawi,” Cindy elaborated. “It was a school project at Kanaka that I had caught onto... with my youngest boy in [that] school.” The first two years, all donations from the tree sales went to Project Wellness, and through it, a well and feeding centre was built in Malawi in Troy’s name. The well is adorned with a plaque and Troy’s photo. More recently, in partnership with School District 42 and the MeadowRidge Rotary Club, funds raised from tree sales went towards building kitchens in Nicaragua.
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Fun was had inside and out at A Pitt Meadows Christmas Friday night. Inside the Pitt Meadows Family Recreation Centre, two-year-old Addison Eggen (top left) checked out the Christmas tree decorated by the Leash Animal Welfare Society, while five-year-old Carter Schramek (above), a 1st Pitt Meadows beaver, showed off an ornament he made for his tree. Similarly, Melanie Foster showed eight-year-old Brownie Carmelita MurphyBrown (far left) how to make ornaments out of boughs, while Grade 10 Pitt Meadows Secondary student Kathrine Alamouti put a smile and a bit of paint on the face of sevenyear-old Mia Lyford.
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Family fun was abound, inside and out, during a Christmas festival in Pitt Meadows Friday.
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An evening party in the centre of Pitt Meadows, with 2,000 or so area residents, was the perfect way to mark an end to a year-long City centennial bash. Event founder Michael Hayes said they couldn’t have asked for a much better evening – weather included – for the annual A Pitt Meadows Christmas festival on Friday.
“I feel our 2014 A Pitt Meadows Christmas was another amazing success. But then I am a little bias,” said Hayes, president of the Pitt Meadows Community Foundation. Each year the foundation partners with the City to host the annual holiday celebration. “Although it appears our attendance numbers were down a little, the quality of this year’s event was the greatest it ever been,” he added, noting the crowd at the 2013 event was about 2,500. “Having the centennial photo both again this year and roaming carol-
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Four-week-old Greyson Klein slept comfortably in Santa’s arms as he had his picture taken on Sunday night, during the annual tree lighting event at Osprey Village in Pitt Meadows. The Klein family was one of dozens of families who came to the Village in the South Bonson Neighbourhood to mix and mingle with one another, while marking a tradition that’s been around as long as Osprey Village itself.
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Though the lighting event was Greyson’s first, Klein said she and her husband have attended the treelighting evening at Osprey “for the past couple” This Christmas will be an extra special of years. one for Osprey Village residents, the “It’s just fun to meet neighbours and Klein family. stuff,” she remarked. Pitt Meadows Four weeks ago, they welcomed a Mayor John Becker gave the official new baby boy into the world, and on More Photos countdown, and just after 6 p.m., the Sunday night, little Greyson had his Online Village Christmas tree lit up, delighting picture taken with Santa during the the dozens of families and residents treelighting at Osprey Village. who came to help Osprey Village ring in “It’s exciting to have him this year,” the season. said Greyson’s mom, Ashley.
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Giving voice to homeless, addicts I was excited to hear, in our new mayor’s sionate, and innovative people. Let’s be regional inaugural speech, that she’s insistent on immedileaders in approaching homelessness and addicate action to deal with the homelessness, addiction in our City,” she said. tions, and mental illness that are rampant on Honestly, I feel a solution can’t come soon Maple Ridge’s city streets. enough. In a bold move, Mayor Nicole Read has vowed While there are hundreds in our community to have a mayor’s task force up and active within facing any or all of these struggles every day of 90 days of her being elected, and their lives, I want to use this col“to align the right stakeholders umn space to turn the spotlight toward a solution.” on a few local cases. Mayor Read tells us that havThis week, with the assistance ing dealt with the challenges of of Maple Ridge Alliance Pastor mental health and addiction in Neil Penner, I want to tell you her own extended family, she is about one of this community’s no stranger to the “complexities homeless residents who recently inherent in addressing homelesslost his life on the streets. ness, and I will apply the same Like so many of our homeless, resourcefulness that I am wellthey’re just faces. But thanks known for to see our task force to the pastor, I’m able to tell by Roxanne Hooper through to success.” you more about the 52-year-old And looking around the council man who was killed crossing chambers, it would appear she in the 20400 block of Lougheed has a fistful of like-minded advocates anxious to Highway on a rainy night in mid-October. cure these ills. Let me tell you a little something about Jeff Included in the support team, she has returnHouse, who was on the streets from the age of ing Councillor Bob Masse, who has been a strong 15 (first in Toronto and later out West – in recent proponent for reopening of Riverview or a similar years more often found sleeping in the entrance facility to care for people with mental illnesses. of Maple Ridge Alliance Church). She has former mayor Gordy Robson, who was Just an hour before his death, a family was directly involved for years in trying to clean up driving by and saw Jeff. As Penner tells it, they the local streets when he and a small team of “felt nudged in their spirit” to give a turkey dinprofessionals sought to build personal relationner to Jeff, and so they did. ships with each of the community’s homeless. “As Jeff always did, he thanked them, and And by getting to know each one, they assisted asked if they were Christians, and as they said, these individuals in figuring out what was needed ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘Me too’… Jeff was not perfect. He to turn their lives around, and offered them some had an addiction that controlled him… he taught necessary connections to help make that happen. us not to judge the outer shell of a person. Jeff “Councillor Robson, I expect to call on your taught us to love unconditionally. Jeff taught us strategy and boldness often, especially as we the heart pain of addiction. Many of you still look explore solutions to homelessness and drug addic- for him as you drive through this City, thinking tion in our community,” Read said in her speech. you will see him. He is gone. But what he taught Mayor Read tells us she wants residents to feel us stays with us as we reach out to love and safe in their homes, on our streets, and in our accept those around us.” parks. Likewise, she wants our homeless citizens • Next week, I’ll tell you the story of a longto feel embraced, supported, and protected within time Maple Ridge woman who is lucky to be our larger community. alive after being attacked while driving down the “We are a community of thoughtful, compasHaney Bypass recently.
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the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy [NTREE] estimated to it would cost Canada and the its people $5 billion/year by 2020, but more if significant action is not taken. Mr. Kamp clarified that it was not $5B to the federal government, but to Canada at large before he responded. He is right, climate change will impact people, provinces, municipalities, businesses, the insurance industry, etc., as well as the feds. His clarification speaks to a corporate mindset of downloading costs from the federal budget to the rest of Canada, then claiming credit for “strong fiscal polAppreciation icy” – a short-sighted and selfish approach. Seven months after submitting my questions to Mr. Kamp, I received a detailed reply in which he stated his party “would Dear Editor, not have an estimate about the cost of cliOn behalf of all of the members of the mate change.” He offers the excuse that any Stave Falls Artist Group, we would like to estimate would be “uncertain.” thank you for taking the time to interview Yes, it is a complex problem, which and photograph Ron Hedrick at his studio makes the shuttering of the NRTEE and [Art show returns, Nov. 6, The TIMES]. muzzling of science that much more foolish. Your article featuring Ron and details The NRTEE report anticipated Canadian of our group was instrumental in promotcosts to climb steeply after 2020, to between ing our show at the Meadow Gardens Golf $21B and $43B per year by the 2050s, Course, and helped to bring out the highest depending on what action we take. attendance we have seen. We look forward I don’t think Stephen Harper’s economic to working with you again next year. policies are a credit to the UofC. Shannon Coates, Stave Falls Artist Group James Rowley, Hammond
Dear Editor, I wouldn’t call Stephen Harper an “economist” [Carbon benefits small population, Nov. 20 Letters, The TIMES]. He may have studied economics as he rose up the political ranks from the Progressive Conservatives to the Reform Party, but it seems what he learned best at the University of Calgary was what corporations do so well: externalize costs. I asked MP Randy Kamp at a pre-budget consultation on Jan. 14, 2013, how much the Conservative Party estimates climate change will cost Canada in the next few years. In 2011, just before Stephen Harper “wound it down” (Mr. Kamp’s term),
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Dear Editor, The homeless should not be painted with those who reside in the vacant property behind the Caring Place. How many have seen the mothers and/or fathers take their children to the Caring Place for breakfast or for a meal at the end of the day? How many have seen someone leave the Caring Place with a loaf of bread, which would be their sustenance for the next day? I have, on my way to and from work, and it breaks my heart. Focus on the root of the problem. Get the vacant area behind the Caring Place cleaned up, and the issues such as the “death kit” hidden in hedges [Shelter blamed, Oct. 30, The TIMES] will disappear. Rose Lindberg, Maple Ridge
What you’re telling us on Facebook Last week, the Iron Horse Youth Safe House •announced it’s closing on New Year’s Eve. Federal funding is gone. Readers reacted:
“Government should be ashamed to not continue funding this much needed facility. I think they have their wires crossed, it is beyond belief that they will provide free heroin to chronic drug uses and not fund a safe house for teens. New Year’s will be a very sad time for Maple Ridge youth who are lost and vulnerable.” – Nancy McConnel “I feel so sad about this announcement. I remember how excited we all were when the house first opened. Over and over again our most vulnerable will suffer because of some dumb political play.” – Nel Joostema “…Forget about the money, the damage that can and will be done to these young people will cost millions compared to keeping this shelter open.” – Jim Arthur
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27,000 have found work, and more than 4,800 new shelter beds have been created. For every dollar we’ve invested, over two dollars has been added by other governments, community stakeholders, or private and not-for-profit sectors. Housing First involves first moving homeless people from the streets and short-term shelters into immediate and permanent housing. Once stable housing is obtained, the focus shifts to connecting them with supports that meet their individual needs. Housing First has been widely endorsed by stakeholders, including the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness and the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Project proponents were given almost two years’ notice that Housing First was becoming the cornerstone of the new HPS. Project applications were assessed by a Community Advisory Board (not politicians), but there were many more applications than could be funded. While I understand the disappointment of the Alouette Home Start Society, I remain hopeful that another funding source can be still be found – perhaps the provincial government. Randy Kamp, MP, Pitt Meadows – Maple Ridge – Mission Letters on this page have been edited for space. For longer versions, or more letters to the editor visit... www.mrtimes.com – Click on Opinion, or search the writers’ names.
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It’s providing links to newspaper articles and City announcements. She called the flourishing of Maple Ridge neighbourhood groups as a sign that people want to be informed, active, and know who their neighbours are. “We don’t have time anymore to chat with our neighbours and with how neighbourhoods are set up now, it’s not always possible to go out on the porch and talk to your neighbours,” Wagner said, and added many people have come up and talked to her while grocery shopping, because they recognize her from profile picture. “Particularly in our climate, how many people sit outside from November to the end of May or April?” While the Yennadon page isn’t very active, it’s the opposite for another page she started last year, Maple Ridge Council Watch. Being a “political junkie,” the former school trustee, started the council watch group after becoming alarmed with what was going on at City hall. “There was quite a bit of stuff in the papers regarding [Councillor] Corisa Bell being bullied by people on council,” Wagner said. “A bunch of people, including myself, then showed up at council meetings to see what was happening and to hold them to account.” Maple Ridge Council Watch soon became a
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Katherine Wagner is the Maple Ridge Council Watch page moderator. forum for residents to talk offensive or had nothing to about civic politics. During do with City council. The the last municipal election, group currently has 631 information about various members. candidates were posted, “It’s a somewhat suballowing the public to learn jective job being moderabout the 26 council and ator, but I try to be fair,” five mayoralty candidates, Wagner said, adding she and even interact with now has a second modersome of them. While that ator helping. “At the end of was positive, Wagner had the day, I’m the one who to actively keep watch on has to draw the line.” postings, as things would During the election, it turn nasty, quickly. became apparent that a “A lot of people were school board version was posting that this was the needed. Elizabeth Taylor, first time they knew what who unsuccessfully ran for was going on,” Wagner a trustee seat, volunteered said. “But there was also and started up SD42 Board some nasty things writWatch Pitt Meadows and ten, which I removed right Maple Ridge. away.” “During the election Wagner wouldn’t go people were putting things into details, but personal on council watch, which attacks and false accusawasn’t the appropriate tions were made. During place for it,” Taylor said. the election, she spent up “We had 130 members to three hours a day modduring the election.” •More at www.mrtimes.com, erating, reading posts and search “watch.” deleting those that were
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times
GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEED!
ALL MEN’S & WOMEN’S SWEATERS BUY ONE GET ONE
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*Second item must be of equal or lesser value.
DOOR CRASHER DEALS!
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T-max®
MEN’S T-MAX® WATER-RESISTANT 3-IN-1 JACKET
WOMEN’S T-MAX® VESTS
FLEE MEN’S BASIC FLEECE
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Our Reg. $69.99 SALE $34.99 Style shown: 7BWDDHFW4-427
Our Reg. $29.99-$49.99† SALE $17.99-$29.99† Style shown: 28DD-DHH2 More colours and styles available.
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Our Reg. $239.99 SALE $119.99† Style shown: 7AVEWRFW4-2701
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OUR WARMEST SOCKS SAY GOODBYE To CoLD FEET.
MEN’S & WOMEN’S T-MAX HEAT™ SOCKS
Our T-MAX HEAT™ socks are made to keep feet warm, longer. By using high bulk yarns, a special knitting method and intensive brushing, you’ll enjoy increased heat retention, maximum insulation and thicker cushioning for comfort.
Our Reg. $9.99-$10.99
More colours and style available.
$999 $1099
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