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Bridget Maylor (left), 10, enjoyed a Christmas Eve dinner at the annual Christmas Haven, while two young girls (below) danced to the entertainment.

Local businessmen will match community donations of up to $12,500 to keep shelter open. by Christopher Sun csun@mrtimes.com

Youth staying at Iron Horse Safe House have a home for at least one more month. Local Tim Hortons franchise owners Barj Dhahan and Gurtek Shoker are donating up to $12,500 to help Alouette Home Start Society (AHSS) keep the local youth shelter open until the end of January, said executive director Stephanie Ediger. On Dec. 22, Dhahan and Shoker presented a $5,000 cheque to AHSS, and the rest will be matched by donations received. “This gives us some Stephanie Ediger time to work on those AHSS executive director long-term plans, without interrupting the overall services we provide,” Ediger said. “We are very grateful.” Shelter staff and the City have been working to keep the safe house open for six months, buying time to find a long-term solution. The province has committed to paying one-third of the cost to keep the shelter open for that time, if matched by the federal government and AHSS. A federal funding decision was expected Monday, but was not announced prior to press deadline.

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Christmas Eve dinner

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Almost 300 people attend annual dinner held at The ACT Maple Ridge. Christopher Sun csun@mrtimes.com

Instead of having Christmas Eve dinner alone, almost 300 people decided to spend it with their neighbours. Maple Ridge’s annual Christmas Haven dinner was held on Wednesday, with 289

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guests attending the event at The ACT. “It was wonderful, magical and fantastic,” said co-organizer Corisa Bell about the event. “It was such a great evening. Everyone had an amazing time and there was such a great sense of community. It was wonderful,” she said. Christmas Haven was originally conceived so people in the community didn’t have to spend the holidays alone. The event now attracts small families as

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well as single people, couples and seniors. Every adult and child who attended was given a Christmas present, which for some, may be the only present they receive, Bell added. “It gives me goosebumps,” she said about the gift giving. “Some people open it right away and want to see what others got, but some say no, they are going to wait to open it on Christmas Day.”

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Accidents plague Pitt A few accidents in Pitt Meadows kept local police and firefighters busy during the holidays. One was an incident involving a young man struck and killed by a train near the West Coast Express station off Harris Road in Pitt Meadows at about 2 a.m. Christmas morning. The case is under investigation, Ridge Meadows RCMP Cpl. Alanna Dunlop said Monday. Meanwhile, there was also a singlevehicle crash on Lougheed Highway near Old Dewdney Trunk Road on Dec. 27. The woman driver had to be cut out of her SUV after colliding with a pole, but escaped serious injury, Dunlop said. • More at www.mrtimes.com

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An SUV had to be pried out from under a tractor-trailer on Dec. 23. More pics online.

Driver rear ends semi Traffic westbound along Lougheed Highway, at the entrance to the Pitt River Bridge, was at a stand still Dec. 23, after an SUV driver smashed into the back of a semi. The driver was taken to hospital, but not believed to be seriously injured. • More at www.mrtimes.com

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West Coast Express ran its annual Santa Trains for two weekend in December, collecting toys en lieu of fares.

Train delivers toys

Those who climbed board the West Coast Express Santa Trains this month – at the Pitt Meadows, Maple Meadows, and Port Haney stations on Dec. 6 and 13 – helped collect 770 new toys and $220 for the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Christmas Hamper Society. • More photos at www.mrtimes.com

Survival

Hiker rescued from ridge after a week Search members spent a long cold night in an emergency shelter in Golden Ears Provincial Park, after locating a 23-year-old man hiking to Garibaldi Park.

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Winter conditions slowed the search for a missing hiker. But he was found, after spending more than a week near the summit of Golden Ears Mountain.

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A 23-year-old Maple Ridge man suffering from mild frostbite, dehydration, blisters, sleepdeprivation, and hunger, was airlifted off the Golden Ears last week, after seven or eight days hunkered down in the park’s remote emergency shelter. “He was in pretty good shape, all things considered,” said Rick Laing, manager of the Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue, explaining all the man had left for food was raw eggs, with no heat source to cook food or provide warmth for himself. Manoeuvring through winter conditions on Dec. 20, local rescuers combed the West and East Canyon, Viking Creek, and Evans Valley hiking trails for the young man reportedly traversing the park on a three-week hike to Garibaldi Provincial Park. The hiker left his Maple Ridge home on Dec. 10. His parents feared he was not well enough prepared with clothing, equipment, or experience to make such a long and complicated journey. A few days after his departure, his parents called police. In turn, RCMP called search and rescue on Dec. 18. But, uncertain which of the many possible routes the man could have mapped out for his foot trek to Garibaldi (including the Pitt Lake area, Squamish/ Whistler, or through Hope), rescue crews were unable to even begin a search, Laing said. In the days that followed, his family did some investigating of their own, and the search team was contacted by police again on Saturday. They’d learned the park rangers at Golden Ears

Provincial Park had witnessed the man entering the Maple Ridge park on Dec. 11 – the day after his journey commenced. Further investigation turned up his discarded soft-side cooler and some empty food cans in a dumpster in the West Canyon parking lot. That information helped narrow the search a little further, and gave Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue a point from which to start, Laing said. Sunday morning, about 7 a.m., a number of rescue members began combing the various trails off the West Canyon parking lot, and found signs that the missing hiker had camped overnight at least one night at Alder Flats. In the meantime, another team was sent up by helicopter at about 10 a.m. – once the clouds cleared – to a higher point on the mountain – Panorama Ridge. Recent snowfall and slick conditions made the search slow, but it was the crew searching the higher levels that eventually made voice contact with the missing hiker at about noon on Sunday. They were able to

locate him at the emergency shelter on a ridge on the approach to the Golden Ears summit at about 2 p.m. By the time the team physically laid eyes on the hiker and assessed his condition, however, it wasn’t possible to bring a helicopter in to the shelter area because of clouds, Laing said. Further, the man was in no shape to try to hike out to a pickup site some three to four hours away. “It was too risky to hike him out of there at that point,” Laing elaborated. Consequently, a chopper was still sent up, but only to drop supplies and food to the team, who then rejoined the man and hunkered down with him overnight in the shelter. “It was cozy,” Laing said, grateful he wasn’t among the half dozen bedded down in the tiny shack overnight. They heated up food, gave the hiker liquids and dry clothes, and waited out what Laing described as a small storm that saw gusts of wind drop the temperature outside to -15º C overnight. At about 4 a.m. the next morning (Dec. 22), Laing received a call from the team on the mountain, anxious to come home. They reported clear skies and no

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wind, and confirmed it was safe to land a chopper. Three trips were made by helicopter, retrieving the hiker, searchers, and all the supplies – including ropes and equipment that had been strewn on the mountain during the rescue efforts, Laing said. Paramedics met the hiker and team at the old park services headquarters, where the search and rescue command centre had been set up since Saturday. The hiker was examined on scene, then taken to hospital for a further check over. But, Laing reported the man was released later that same day. At least 24 members were involved in various aspects of the search, and Laing said that what had started out as a “needle in a haystack” type of search turned out to be a good news story. “It was a great rescue,” he added, glad the team was able to return the young man home to his family in time for Christmas.

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Herd given more room to roam by Troy Landreville

A 16-year-old Buck, a North Fraser Therapeutic Riding Association (NFTRA) horse, looked on during a recent ribbon cutting for a new outdoor riding arena. The arena was made possible – in part – by a $13,000 donation from MeadowRidge Rotary.

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A week before Christmas, a Yuletide wish came true at the North Fraser Therapeutic Riding Association (NFTRA) facility. On Thursday, Dec. 18, NFTRA supporters joined Peter and Ineke Boekhorst from the MeadowRidge Rotary Club for a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the association’s new outdoor riding arena. The ceremony served as a “thank you” to sponsors who made the arena a reality. While total costs are still being calculated, the estimated price tag for the project is between $28,000 and $30,000. Title sponsor MeadowRidge Rotary, though the Sports’ Banquet Legacy Fund, donated $13,000 towards the cost of the new arena. “Without their support this dream would never have made it to reality so quickly,” NFTRA general manager Sharolyn Wandzura said. “The funding was to expire at the end of December, so I really wanted to get the project moving forward,

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since with MeadowRidge’s Rotary help we were 50 per cent on our way to raising enough funds.” While planning for the outdoor arena took 10 months, construction started in the beginning of December, and the fence was put up in midDecember. Jack Polo and Lafarge Aggregates were also key in bringing this project to completion, Wandzura added. The NFTRA gathered to “honour all the contributors who came together to bring hope to another generation of horse lovers of all sizes,” Wandzura said. “Our therapy herd now has more space to roam, frolic,

and move freely when not doing their innate magic with our riders.” The association also celebrated its new pasture fence line with a name plaque, to thank the City of Maple Ridge for its donation in the spring of 2014. NFTRA is a nonprofit organization that provides therapeutic horseback riding lessons to children and adults with varying degrees of disabilities. Thirty per cent of the NFTRA’s clients come from Maple Ridge or Pitt Meadows. Now that NFTRA has a place to call home guaranteed for five years, with hopes of 10 years, it is ramping up therapeutic programming to support

people between the ages of three and 73 through connecting with horses, Wandzura said. NFTRA’s main program is therapeutic riding which runs six days a week with more than 95 weekly riders being supported by close to 100 volunteers. There are nine NFTRA horses ranging in age from nine to 20. The association is always looking for volunteers and its next training session is Jan. 11, 2015.

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www.mrtimes.com All decked out in holiday red, Sue Agabob and her mount Finnegan, and Barb Taylor and her horse Aries, took a Christmas ride on the Maple Ridge dikes.

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Dec 31: Operation Red Nose

• New Year’s Eve marks the final night of service from Operation Red Nose Ridge Meadows for the 2015 season. The service offers a ride home to patrons in their own car. Donations are appreciated and go to PacificSport Fraser Valley. Info: 604834-4554.

Jan 1: New Years Day run

A pair of six-year-old Kristi Tetzlaff photo Maple Ridge girls, Br ooklyn Tetzlaff and Chloe Hunter, spen t much of the day on Dec. 17 – in the rai – collecting food “fo n r people in our tow n that don’t have any.” They decorated a donation box and setup a table at the end of the Tetzlaff’s Glenhurst Street dri veway. In five hours they collected 70 po , unds of non-perish able food and $45 for the Friends In Need Food Bank.

TIMES ad representative Anne Gordon (flipping her hair) led one of the dances for a recent Zumbathon for the Friends In Need Food Bank held at the Wesbrooke seniors facility. Meanwhile, five-year-old Nina Lavrikova (below), also lent a hand to the dance efforts that raised 368 pounds of food.

• Generation Charity Family Fun Run returns to Osprey Village in Pitt Meadows. Run begins at 10 a.m. No pre-registration required, but participants are encouraged to arrive at 9:30 a.m. Registration by donation.

Jan 1: Polar Bear Dip

• Polar Bear Dip returns to Alouette Lake. Ring in the new year with a splash. Plunge takes place at noon.

Jan 3: Bottle drive

• 1st Pitt Meadows Scouts hold a bottle drive from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Pitt Meadows Elementary.

Jan 3 & 4 : Search and Rescue

• Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue along with the 1st Haney Scouts hold a tree chipping by donation event, then again on Jan. 10 and 11, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Chipping takes place at the Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue building, 23598 105th Ave.

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Jan 3 & 4 : Lions, Guides

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• Pitt Meadows Lions, and Pitt Meadows Girl Guides team up to chip trees for their causes, at Meadows Landscaping, 18020 Kennedy Rd., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Jan 3 & 4: Cancer research

A team of Zumba instructors recently led a Zumbathon for the Friends In Need Food Bank at Wesbrooke in Pitt Meadows. Among those who took turns leadin g a dance were (top) Samira Pigeau (jum ping), Jocelyn Allen (above), and Laura Taylor and Nina Lavrikova (left). This was the inaugu ral Zumbathon event for the food bank, and organizers are expecting to do it again.

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• CB Yard Services hosts tree chipping by donation, at 22289 Lougheed Hwy. Proceeds go towards prostate cancer research.

Jan 4: Harry Hooge

• Tree chipping will take at Harry Hooge Elementary, 12280 230 St., from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m, and again on Jan 10. Minimum $5 donation requested; proceeds towards the building of a new playground.

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A bit happier than ever For many people, the quiet days between Christmas and New Year’s Day are lost days. For others, they are days of introspection – days to reflect on the past and to look to the future with optimism… or to dwell on pessimism. This is ordinarily not a period of crazy-busy commerce in retail shops and stores – except for those who take the opportunity to return or exchange unwanted or ill-fitting gifts. In fact, apart from those who hope they’ll find some special deals among the leftovers on store shelves, it is usually welcomed as a wind-down period after the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping, Christmas decorating, Christmas visiting… well, of Christmas in general. It’s a quiet time. It’s a time to sit a spell. It’s a time when most of us can set aside a moment to think. New Year’s Day is just an arbitrary point in the earth’s yearly trip around the sun. While it’s become the dominant starting point of that 365¼-day journey, that’s a recent development, as many cultures each had their own first day of the year – and some still do. So while there’s no real significance to the date in a physical sense – it’s not even a solstice or an equinox, which would be an astronomically recognizable benchmark – it is certainly a great time to set goals for the year ahead, and to make an annual evaluation of how well that exercise worked out last time. Many people find it a convenient time to make “new year’s resolutions,” and even those who don’t go about it in a formal way tend to take a moment to think about what they might change in their lives, to try to improve things for themselves and those they care about. In that spirit, we offer this simple resolution: let’s all try to be just a little bit better. All those little bits would go a long way to a much better 2015. Happy New Year! – B.G.

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Darkest days draw to a close I’m writing this just a couple then he went off and did some of days after the winter solstice, math, and a few weeks later they a.k.a. the longest night of the were asking contractors for bids year. Here in coastal B.C., this on a few thousand tons of Welsh tends to coincide with rain and stone, suitable for building giant heavy cloud cover, giving us the arches. impression that we’re trapped I’m just as pleased as the inside a damp grey gym sock in a ancient tribal leaders about the poorly-lit basement. passing of the solstice, but even All this darkness can induce a being able to look up to the secdepressed mood for many people, ond the time we pass from fall the dreaded Seasonal Affective into winter doesn’t really help by Matthew Claxton Disorder. Although we’ve only much. named this feeling in the last few The changes in minutes of daydecades, it’s clear it’s been around throughout light from Dec. 21 to Dec. 22 or 23 aren’t really and before recorded history. that impressive. A couple of minutes. Just a few Take England’s Stonehenge, for example. moments shaved off the darkness. Thousands of years ago, neolithic hunter-farmI’m thinking we need another holiday. Not er-gatherers did not have a lot to look forward to around Christmas, obviously, and even New during the winters. They got up every day and Year’s isn’t far enough away. tramped through muddy forests, chasing muddy We need a celebration somewhere around animals, only to return to houses made from early February. dried mud, to huddle around peat fires (peat is By that time, we’ve been shrouded in grey and basically mud that burns), for a nourishing meal grim weather for three or four months, startof suspiciously grey-brown mush. Things got a ing from around the end of October or early bit monotonous, is what I’m saying. November. After centuries of watching the sun, moon, and But in February, you finally start to notice that stars, they figured out that there was a tipping the days are getting longer. point when things were at their grimmest, but The sun can actually make it over the tops of after that there was slow and steady improvethe trees, and standing on the south side of a hill ment, until finally spring and then summer conis no longer a necessity when it comes to produquered the land, and the world was only made cing a bit of vitamin D. of 30 per cent mud! Maybe 40. We should celebrate this vague milestone, this Finally one chieftain turned to his top spiritual halfway point between the darkest depths of advisor, and said something like this: winter and the true return of spring. It’s that day “By Cernunos (or whatever anthropomorphwhen things start to look brighter, both literally ized natural processes archeologists think we and figuratively. worshipped) we need to pin down exactly when I don’t think we want to build a giant stone the darkest day of the year takes place! calendar/ritual site this time. This wallowing in grey misery for a couple of Instead, let’s just get some legislation that weeks is intolerable! If we can pick a date, we’ll allows everyone an extra day off sometime have a big party and barbecue some pigs and between January and March. everyone can get drunk.” Send your boss an email, tell them it’s time, And the spiritual advisor nodded and stroked and head outside. his beard and tried to look suitably mystical, and It beats hauling giant rocks 200 miles, anyway.

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It is hard for me to have confiDear Editor, Letters dence in either government when This little badger would like to bring to they have stripped down laws proto light the most recent Mount Polley the tecting our environments, to expeddisaster and the many questions that ite the extraction of our natural cannot be answered [Special interest badgers stifle growth, Dec. 18 Editor resources by corporations over the cries of First Nations, scientists, and Letters, TIMES]. the public. What will the long term effects be Safety has not been a priority, for if it on our ecosystem? How will the stream, had, we would have our right to clean air, lake, and river respond to the spill and the water, and soil written into our constitution. chemicals it now must assimilate? How Maybe then I would jump off the NIMBY long will it take the company to clean up wagon. the mess, and what about the mess it can’t clean up? Who and what will suffer for it? Deborah Winkler, Maple Ridge

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amounted to young ladies in bathing suitstyle attire – perhaps a little fluffy, but still, no more “no clothes on” than an ad featuring a swimsuit model in a two-piece. How about we step out of parochial times here and applaud the very significant generosity of a local business and the employees who work there. I suppose that, if the Caddy Shack caved in to a few naysayers, those same people would gladly step up to the plate with matching yearly donations to replace this loss to those in need in our community? Darlene Mercer, Pitt Meadows

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After a successful season of selling Christmas trees, the 1st Haney Scouts will now partner with Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue to chip tree in exchange for a donation to the two groups. The tree-chipping partners are among a number of groups that will benefit from chipping donations. Rick Moyer/TIMES

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From those looking to build a new playground to those who want to fund prostate cancer research, there’s no shortage of people who will take your Christmas tree and chip it for a good cause. In the case of Harry Hooge Elementary, the school is hoping its third annual treechipping event, which kicks off this weekend, will help fund a new playground. “We have an intermediate playground that’s no longer usable,” said Natalie McConkey, a Harry Hooge parent. The school will be hosting its event this

Sunday, Jan. 4, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and again on Saturday, Jan. 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A minimum $5 donation is requested. After a successful selling season, the 1st Haney Scouts is partnering with Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue, and will be chipping on Jan 3, 4, 10, and 11. Email scoutchipping@gmail.com for information. Over in Pitt Meadows, people can support the Pitt Meadows Lions and Pitt Meadows Girl Guides, as they team up with Meadows Landscaping, on Jan. 3 and 4, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m, at 18020 Kennedy Rd. to chip trees. Finally, Robert Jeglum, of CB Yard Services, will be chipping trees on Jan. 3 and 4, at 22289 Lougheed Hwy, for prostate cancer research.

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Steve Phillips and daughter Ashley would like to thank all their friends and customers from Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows for making the short trip across the Golden Ears bridge to see them at Willowbrook Chrysler. Your business has helped establish the Langley Bypass location as Canada’s fastest growing Chrysler dealer! Steve said “After 22 years in Maple Ridge I am touched that so many people have chosen to continue their car buying relationship personally with me. If you haven’t come to see us yet drop by our Langley Bypass showroom for a chat and coffee - Remember, I’M STILL CLOSER THAN YOU THINK!” New e g Brid

WILLOWBROOK CHRYSLER

Johnston Meier INSURANCE AGENCIES GROUP

22367 Dewdney Trunk Rd Maple Ridge

604.467.4184

11924 - 207 St. Maple Ridge

604.467.5111

19174 Lougheed Hwy. Pitt Meadows

604.465.5507

19611 Langley Bypass, Langley 604 530 7361 • willowbrookchrysler.com

Steve’s Cell Phone: 778-242-6679

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