Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Times July 9 2013

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Bing remains as councillor There won’t be a by-election in Pitt Meadows after a new MLA decides to continue council duties until January. by Maria Rantanen mrantanen@mrtimes.com

Sporting toms eye-catching hair styles, Sophia Rogers and Jouya Nabavian (inset) were among hundreds who gathered at Memorial Peace Park Sunday for Adstock. This year’s music festival included performances by Mountain Man, Remember Lite-Brite?, Guts & Glory, Damn The Eyes, The Easy Brothers, Abriosis, Ninjaspy, and Bone Daddies.

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AdStock: Another year older Event organizer looks for someone to take over organizing concert series.

Adam Rayburn is ready to hand over the reins of Adstock after another successful music festival rocked Maple Ridge this weekend. Rayburn, founder and ongoing organizer of Adstock, told The TIMES it was his ninth annual music festival and anxious to go out on a high note, he’s now hunting for his replacement. “I want fresher, newer, younger people to put on the music festival. Now, it’s about

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finding the next generation to put it on. One of these days I’m not going to be available to do it,” said Rayburn. The 26-year-old has been doing Adstock since he was 18 when “I was running around putting up posters on my bike.” “In the early days it was not my intention to hold a music festival,” he said, explaining its origin. “When I found out you could rent the gazebo for free as long as it was a community event I thought this could be a lot of fun,” said Rayburn, who is a drummer for the band Anion, as well as a drum teacher at Bergthorson Music Academy.

Newly elected MLA Doug Bing will do double duty as a Pitt Meadows councillor to avoid triggering a by-election. Bing, who represents the riding of Maple RidgePitt Meadows, plans to stay on council until January, at which time he will step aside as a councillor. Discussing the issue with members of the public, Bing said there was an overwhelming feeling that a by-election wasn’t necessary. Originally Bing asked Pitt Meadows council to grant him a leave of absence until January, at which time he would have stepped aside to MLA Doug Bing avoid triggering a by-election. Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows But council didn’t grant him the leave of absence, leaving the decision to him whether to step aside and trigger the by-election or do double duty. “[The leave] would have simplified the situation,” Bing said. Bing said he’s spoken with the mayor of Pitt Meadows, Deb Walters, and she was pleased with his decision. Bing hopes that some of his council committee duties can be given to other councillors. Bing has stopped collecting a salary for his Pitt Meadows council position to avoid “double dipping” from taxpayers, he said. Bing made his inaugural speech as an MLA last week in the legislature, which is sitting this month to pass the budget. The BC Liberals won the May 14 election despite widespread predictions that the NDP were poised to form government. There is a sense of “disappointment” coming from the opposition benches, Bing said, and the tone has been somewhat “snarly.” “I get the sense the opposite side is licking their wounds from the election,” Bing said.

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