By Neil Corbett [email protected]ere would likely be blasting at a new quarry on Sheridan Hill al- ready, if not for the opposition of Pitt Meadows City Hall and resi- dents. Mayor John Becker said the pro- cess for the Ministry of Energy and Mines to approve a quarry is like a “negative billing option.” e applicant files a no- tice of work, and it is up to neighbours or other opponents – including a municipal government – to “ramp up their opposi- tion in a very short time,” he said. e original application called for work to begin in early April. “If we had been asleep on this one, it would have been a complete disaster,” said Becker. e applicant, Meadows Quarry of Maple Ridge, would like to start a quar- ry on the south side of Sheridan Hill, removing 240,000 tonnes per year, and lowering the height of the hill by 30 metres, to 45 metres from 75. e City of Pitt Mead- ows and Katzie First Na- tions are ramping up their official opposition to the Sheridan Hill quarry. Pitt will formally request an ar- cheological investigation of Sheri- dan Hill and a full environmental assessment of the proposed quarry there. At the same time, the Katzie First Nation has called for “an immedi- ate halt to the mining development proposal at our creation site, Sheri- dan Hill,” in a press release from Chief Susan Miller. “As a nation, we are not willing to let our rights be further extin- guished and are prepared to assert these rights,” said Miller. Arts: Bruendl soars in Cinderella. 13 By Neil Corbett [email protected]In the transit referendum there has so far been few ballots processed from Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. But Elections B.C. is expecting the mail-in plebiscite will reflect the local decision eventually. Elections B.C. is reporting that it has received 54,000 out of 415,000 ballots sent to voters in the City of Vancouver, and 9,000 out of 294,000 from Surrey. For the rest of the region, including Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, it re- ports having processed none. It seems a small return out of 1.5 million voting packages that were mailed to eligible voters between March 16 and 27. ‘New quarry would be underway’ Pitt council trying to stop ‘runaway train’ Tim Fitzgerald/THE NEWS Teed up Chloe Phillips, 5, takes a cut at the ball off a tee with her family Monday by Samuel Roberts Technical secondary school. See Transit, 5 See Quarry, 5 Becker None reported from Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows Transit ballots slow to return Business: Fire causes extensive damage to Electra restaurant. 4 sive nt. 4 Ar t s in Ci Wednesday, April 5, 2015 · mapleridgenews.com · est. 1978 · (office) 604-467-1122 · (delivery) 604-466-6397 Sports: Ogloff off to SFU. 15 files A quarry on the south side of Sheridan Hill would extract 240,000 tonnes a year. [email protected]johncashin.com Each office independently owned & operated JOHN CASHIN 778.903.2274 #202 12020 207A St Maple Ridge 880 sq ft, 2 bdrm, 2 bthrm Westbrooke, Rare, South Facing Corner Unit $ $ 20 209,800 9,800 JO
There would likely be blasting at a new quarry on Sheridan Hill al-ready, if not for the opposition of Pitt Meadows City Hall and resi-dents.
Mayor John Becker said the pro-cess for the Ministry of Energy and Mines to approve a quarry is like a
“negative billing option.” The applicant files a no-tice of work, and it is up to neighbours or other opponents – including a municipal government – to “ramp up their opposi-tion in a very short time,” he said.
The original application called for work to begin in early April.
“If we had been asleep on this one, it would have been a complete disaster,” said Becker.
The applicant, Meadows Quarry of Maple Ridge, would like to start a quar-ry on the south side of Sheridan Hill, removing 240,000 tonnes per year, and lowering the height of the hill by 30 metres, to 45 metres from 75.
The City of Pitt Mead-ows and Katzie First Na-tions are ramping up their
official opposition to the Sheridan Hill quarry.
Pitt will formally request an ar-
cheological investigation of Sheri-dan Hill and a full environmental assessment of the proposed quarry there.
At the same time, the Katzie First Nation has called for “an immedi-ate halt to the mining development proposal at our creation site, Sheri-dan Hill,” in a press release from Chief Susan Miller.
“As a nation, we are not willing to let our rights be further extin-guished and are prepared to assert these rights,” said Miller.
In the transit referendum there has so far been few ballots processed from Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows.
But Elections B.C. is expecting the mail-in plebiscite will reflect the local decision eventually.
Elections B.C. is reporting that it has received 54,000 out of 415,000 ballots sent to voters in the City of Vancouver, and 9,000 out of 294,000 from Surrey.
For the rest of the region, including Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, it re-ports having processed none.
It seems a small return out of 1.5 million voting packages that were mailed to eligible voters between March 16 and 27.
‘New quarry would be underway’Pitt council trying to stop ‘runaway train’
Tim Fitzgerald/THE NEWS
Teed upChloe Phillips, 5, takes a cut at the ball off a tee with her family Monday by Samuel Roberts Technical secondary school.See Transit, 5
See Quarry, 5
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Only a handful of people remain homeless after an explosion and fire at Sun-rise Apartments.
Matthew Colling, with the B.C. Lower Mainland Red Cross, which is coor-dinating the resettlement of those who lost their homes in the fire on March 21, said only eight cases remain outstanding, with some of those to be placed soon.
That leaves two or three families still needing homes, but it’s expected they’ll find a place within the next 10 days.
“In the very near fu-ture, people will be able to find alternative housing,” Colling said.
Families had been staying at the Quality Inn, where the Red Cross had been co-ordinating its efforts with the City of Maple Ridge’s emergency social services.
Patrick Cullen, with emergency social services, said a total of 106 people registered at the youth cen-tre in the days after the fire.
“Things are going pretty
well.”All residents from the
53-unit building, on 122nd Avenue in downtown Ma-ple Ridge, were evacuated, either because of fire dam-
age or safety hazards and no one can reoccupy the building until extensive renovations take place.
“It will be months and months before anybody’s
living in that building again.”
Colling said the Red Cross picks up the hotel bills for families after the period covered by emergency so-
cial services expires. But people are usually eager to find another home of their own.
“It always amazes me how resourceful people can be
even after they have gone through such a difficult cir-cumstance. No one wants to stay in a hotel for an ex-tended period of time.”
He reminded people that renter’s insurance is im-portant to have, although it can be expensive for some.
Ridge Meadows RCMP are still investigating the cause of the fire and pos-sible criminal charges may be laid, said civilian me-dia spokesman Dan Her-branson. However, it’s not an arson investigation, he added.
A Kelowna lawyer is urg-ing the City of Pitt Meadows to rethink its bylaw prohibit-ing the production of medical marijuana within municipal boundaries.
Jennifer Thorne, a criminal defense lawyer, is represent-ing a client who wants to start a medical marijuana facil-ity in Pitt Meadows. Thorne said because of the sensitive nature of the issue, the client wants to remain anonymous.
Thorne sent a letter to Pitt
Meadows council on March 23 and says the bylaw is “like-ly unconstitutional,” that it in-fringes upon certain agricul-tural rights under the Right To Farm Act.
In the letter, Thorne said it’s not within the city’s jurisdic-tion to create an outright pro-hibition of the production of medical marijuana on prop-erty in the Agricultural Land Reserve.
Bylaw 2626 was put in place last March and amended the city’s zoning to prohibit the cultivation, processing, dry-ing, storing, distribution or testing of medical marijuana in all zones of the city.
Thorne said she hopes the city will rethink it’s position
as opposed to going down the costly road of court.
“I hope not, certainly that’s always the last resort,” said Thorne, who is a member of the National Organization for the Reform of Mari juana Laws in Canada.
“You have to appreciate that places like Pitt Mead-ows enacted their bylaw at a time when things were very new and there was a lot of unknown, so you do the best you can with the information you have.”
Thorne said since the time the bylaw was put in place, a number of issues have been clarified through Health Canada and she believes an impending decision by the
provincial minister of agri-culture, Norm Letnick, will force the city to change its stance.
However, Pitt Meadows Mayor John Becker, also a lawyer, said until the city hears otherwise, the ban will stay in place.
“These facilities are of par-ticular concern to the neigh-bourhood, even in a rather dispersed farming commu-nity,” said Becker. “Growing medical marijuana is a prob-lematic industry right now because of the decades of pro-hibition and the significant involvement of the criminal element in its production, sale, and distribution. We’re not talking about cranber-
ries.”Becker said the city is cau-
tious about moving down the road of allowing medi-cal marijuana facilities in its boundaries, but will comply with the legalities as imposed by the provincial govern-ment.
“We are taking a wait and see attitude,” he added.
However, Thorne said the regulations being put in place by Health Canada before any-one can open the door on a medical marijuana facility should alleviate the city’s fears.
“The hurdles that an ap-plicant has to meet are so in-credibly onerous that only the most sophisticated and well prepared applicant is going to
get through and get a licence,” she said. “It’s so heavily regu-lated that it I understand the fear, and it’s partly because of the history of how medi-cal marijuana production has gone, but I really don’t think there is reason for fear, when you understand how the regulations work in practice. When I say heavily secured, that is a drastic understate-ment. They’re more secure than banks, you could argue.”
She said any new operation and its owners will be sub-jected to detailed background checks.
“I can’t say who my client is, but I can say my client fits the bill as a responsible and so-phisticated applicant.”
THE NEWS/filesNo one will be allowed to occupy the Sunrise Apartments, damaged by fire on March 21, until extensive renovations have taken place.
Lawyer questions Pitt ban on medical pot
AssistanceA Facebook group Sunrise Apart-ment Fire Donations and Support is coordinating donations while the Maple Ridge Christian Reformed Church is accepting financial donations for the fire victims.
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A longtime night spot in Maple Ridge burned early Saturday morning.
Electra Pizza, which bills itself a fixture in Maple Ridge for 36 years, and “a late night eatery with style,” is behind yellow tape, it’s windows blackened with soot.
Assistant fire chief Mike Van Dop said firefighters were called to the building, at 22541 Lougheed High-way in downtown Ma-ple Ridge, at 3:20 a.m. on Saturday morning, and they arrived to find smoke pouring out of the roof of the building.
While he stopped short of calling the building gutted by fire, he said the damage ap-peared to be extensive.
“Whenever you have fire inside a box like that, the damage from fire, heat and smoke is the issue,” he said. “It won’t be opening any-time soon.”
Van Dop said fire in-
vestigators are still try-ing to determine the cause of the fire.
Extensive damage to Electra
Tim Fitzgerald/THE NEWS The Electra Restaurant, which opened 36 years
ago, is expected to be closed for a while.
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“We must ensure that our traditional territory’s cultural and ecological sites are protected for fu-ture generations of the Katzie people, as well as for our friends and neighbours who reside here. We stand united with them as our part-ners in protest of this development.”
She explained that Katzie territory in-cludes land from the Pitt and Alouette wa-tersheds, and land on both sides of the Fraser River in Pitt Meadows, Langley and Surrey.
She said the Katzie’s rights were infringed upon through the ex-isting Lafarge quarry on the north side of Sheridan Hill, which was done without the band’s consent.
“Given that we have not been consulted or accommodated, we feel
that it is important to make this public decla-ration: We do not con-sent to the continued destruction of Sheri-dan Hill and the site of our creation story,” said Miller. “Further destruction to this cul-tural site is like erasing our beginning, which further extinguishes our sense of identity and sense of place. We can’t allow that to hap-pen.”
The motions before council at last night’s meeting were to have staff write the Min-istry of Energy and Mines, requesting that the Katzie be provided with an opportunity to conduct an archaeo-logical investigation, and that a hold be put on processing the quarry application un-til it is done.
It is also asking for copies of technical re-ports done to support
the quarry application, and that the quarry’s approval be postponed until the city has time to review them.
The city will also write the Ministry of Environment, request-ing a full environmen-tal assessment be re-quired for the quarry application, “on the basis that the proposed extraction volume of 240,000 tonnes per year was chosen in or-der to avoid the man-datory requirement for an environmental
assessment at 250,000 tonnes per year and the concern that there will be little or no se-nior government over-sight on the project to ensure that no more than 240,000 tonnes per year is extracted.”
Becker said these measures are “an at-tempt to slow this run-away train,” and added that the approval pro-cess is done with a “ri-diculous time frame.”
He added: “It insults the notion of consulta-tion and due process.”
Katzie want investigation
Transit from frontElections B.C. sent 54,000 packages to Maple
Ridge, and 13,000 to Pitt Meadows, each with a yellow postage-paid return envelope.
But Elections B.C. communications manager Don Main said the early results are not a reflection of the interest in the Metro Vancouver Transporta-tion and Transit Plebiscite.
“It’s early days, and people have until May 15 to get their voting packages, and voters have until May 29 to complete their ballots,” said Main.
The ballots must be received by May 29 – not postmarked.
“We send it to them, and it’s in their hands.”The referendum question asks: “Do you support
a new 0.5 per cent Metro Vancouver Congestion Improvement Tax, to be dedicated to the Mayors’ Transportation and Transit Plan? Yes or No.”
Main explained that the largest population cen-tres received their ballots first, so people in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows will not have had their voting packages for long. The first ballots were returned from Vancouver voters and received by Elections B.C. on March 19.
Elections B.C. will also open nine offices in the Metro region on April 13, where voters will be able to drop off their ballots, or obtain packages. He declined to say where those offices will be at this time.
Voting results will not be counted until after the ballot return period ends on May 29.
• Those who have not yet received a voting pack-age can ask for one at 1-800-661-8683 or elections.bc.ca/ovr before midnight on May 15.
May 29 is deadline
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NDP spring nominationNDP members in Maple Ridge and
Pitt Meadows will choose their can-didate for the October federal elec-tion on May 3, near the border of the two cities.
Members will vote for either Jack Emberly and Bob D’Eith after each of the candidates speaks at Hammond Community Centre, 20601 Westfield Ave., at 1 p.m.
“They’re both very different can-didates,” said riding president Janet Amsden.
Emberly is a retired educator and environmentalist, while D’Eith is an entertainment lawyer who is also the executive-director of Music B.C.
Amsden said it’s never been a three-way race between Liberals, Conser-vatives and NDP in the riding.
In the 2011 election, Conservative
Randy Kamp took 28,803 ballots, versus NDP Craig Speirs’ 18,835. The Liberals earned only 2,739 votes.
The Liberals also had a dismal re-sult in the 2008 election, finishing behind the Green party.
Kamp has held the riding since 2004, but isn’t seek re-election.
“Part of our objective is to remind people if they don’t want the Con-servatives to win, they should vote NDP,” Amsden said.
Asked if she thought the NDP could win the new Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge riding, she added, “That’s all we can think.”
Maple Ridge-Mission MLA Marc Dalton and Kamp’s executive-assis-tant Mike Murray are competing for the Conservative nomination.
About 240 members are eligible to vote at the NDP meeting.
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www.mapleridgenews.com - THE NEWS -- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 -- 5
VICTORIA – The labour situation in B.C. is showing increased signs of strain, even before a long-promised boom in heavy construction gets set to ramp up this summer.
Jobs Minister Shirley Bond announced last week that B.C. is suspending its “provincial nomina-tion” program for 90 days. This program allows the province to recommend people for federal immigration, based on skills in demand in B.C.
The B.C. provincial nomination pro-gram saw its number of applications triple to 1,200 for the month of December, as the federal government cracked down on the temporary foreign worker program. Thousands of temporary foreign work-ers who have hit the four-year deadline are being sent home, with many of them turning to the provincial nomination track.
Bond has been pleading with Ottawa to raise B.C.’s annual provincial nomination quota from 5,000 to 7,000 or more. The three-month pause is so her ministry can add staff and speed up processing time. Backlogged applicants will still be con-sidered, and exemptions for health care workers and a northeast pilot program are being maintained.
Even with the current slump in energy prices and before anticipated pipeline and
liquefied natural gas projects start, the labour shortage in the northeast is near crisis.
The last time I was in Dawson Creek, radio ads were offering signing bonuses for qualified truck drivers. In Fort St. John, grocery and hardware retailers have come to depend on foreign workers to keep going.
While supposedly educated young people work part-time and refuse to leave the comforts of southern city life, this is the reality up north, and it’s only going to get worse.
This summer, work is scheduled to start on the Site C dam on the Peace River, the most costly construction project in B.C. history. And a union vs. non-union battle reminiscent of the old Expo 86 labour wars is underway.
The B.C. and Yukon Building Trades (BCYT) are demanding a project agree-ment that requires all workers on Site C to be paid their rates, and are warning of chaos on the huge project if they don’t get their way.
B.C. Hydro CEO Jessica McDonald told me that’s not all they want. They are also seeking quotas for members of their unions on a project that will be a small city of 1,700 people at peak construction.
BCYT executive director Tom Sigurd-son says that while all sides acknowledge the need for foreign workers for Site C, he wants to control that too, working with their affiliated unions in the United States.
There will be non-union construction firms, some of them owned by aboriginal communities in the north. There will be
contractors affiliated with the Christian Labour Association of Canada. The BCYT hopes to set wages and conditions for them all, and influence Ottawa’s tempo-rary foreign worker program to boot.
McDonald and Premier Christy Clark have politely told them to pound sand. Their formula would add millions in costs to the project, driving up B.C. Hydro rates even more than they are already rising. B.C. Hydro has already done dam upgrade projects using a “managed open site” model and it’s not inclined to return to the era of W.A.C. Bennett as Sigurdson demands.
Sigurdson makes a valid point that when two concrete masons compare pay cheques on the Site C project and one sees he’s making $5 an hour less, he won’t be happy. He will want the higher rate, and the BCYT is taking B.C. Hydro to court to ensure they can recruit new members on the site.
It looks like a hot summer ahead.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.
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When is it appropriate for politicians to use personal email? When they are engaging in personal communication. Period.
Anything associated with their positions as elected public representatives must be part of the public record. That means the strictly man-dated use of email addresses that is officially monitored, recorded and preserved.
Most people are aware of the recent American controversy involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her use of personal email for official purposes, and the subsequent dele-tion of some of that communication.
It is a prime example of why there must be clear direction for all Canadian politicians in terms of maintaining and protecting the public record.
Posting on Facebook to contact through per-sonal email rather than public address is a de-batable choice.
Obviously, not all email correspondence re-ceived by politicians should be, or needs to be, made public.
However, the information contained in offi-cial city hall email may eventually form part of an important political decision or conduct.
At that point, the public right to know may take precedent over privacy, as legislated under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act.
Platforms like Facebook and Twitter are gen-erally public, and are useful tools for politicians to communicate with their electorate.
Hence, they shouldn’t be stifled through pol-icy.
However, clear rules about the public record are imperative for emails in which a politician is serving in his or her elected role.
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“Sigurdson makes a valid point that when two concrete masons compare pay cheques on the Site C project and one sees he’s making $5 an hour less, he won’t be happy.”
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Editor, The News:Re: School buses on chop
block (The News, April 3).I wrote this time last year
when the school district was considering eliminat-ing or charging for riding the buses to school.
I attended the public meet-ing and was disappointed, when the board decided that it would charge $215 for a student to ride the bus to school.
I will again attend the public meetings this year to try and prevent any further cuts in this area.
Our family resides in the Albion/Thornhill area and when we built our home 10 years ago we were part of the Albion elementary catchment area.
As this area continues to grow and expand, the school quickly filled to over capacity and the school dis-trict was unable to convince the provincial Liberals that an additional school was re-quired in our area.
The school district finally
resorted to redrawing the catchment boundaries for a number of the subdivisions in the eastern parts of Al-bion.
Our subdivision was switched to Whonnock el-ementary and adjacent sub-divisions were transferred to Blue Mountain and Web-ster’s Corners elementary schools.
That was reasonable as long as the school district was providing the bussing to transport these elemen-tary students to school.
The problem we are faced with here is that the vast majority of the parents travel westward to work (in either central Maple Ridge or elsewhere in Metro Van-couver).
Our new catchment schools lie to the east or northeast, which makes it almost impossible for par-ents to transport their chil-dren to school on there way to, or from work.
This is not a problem for the high school-aged stu-
dents as SRT was strategi-cally placed in the centre of Albion, so it is not a long walk for most of those stu-dents.
We live five minutes from SRT, but over eight km on narrow, forested roads to Whonnock elementary.
I find it unacceptable that parents in this area are hav-ing to pay, over and above our school taxes, an addi-tional $215 a student to get our children to their catch-ment school. Talk about double taxation.
Until such time as the school district can convince the provincial Liberals to fund our much-needed second elementary school
in Albion, I feel the school board has a moral responsi-bility to transport these el-ementary students to their distant catchment schools.
I am pleased to see that Mayor Nicole Read and council have also identi-fied this need for additional school space in Albion and Silver Valley as a high pri-ority.
We have to remember, Maple Ridge and Pitt Mead-ows, while many would like to think they are urban mu-nicipalities, both contain large rural areas, which will require school buses for some time to come.
Ian StrachanMaple Ridge
Editor, The News:Re: Council considers garbage pickup (The News, April 1).It seems that there does need to be an affordable solution to
the disposal of garbage in Maple Ridge as the minimum fee to take your garbage to the transfer station was $10.
I take my four cans of garbage there every two weeks; that’s a lot of money for 100 kilograms of garbage.
To make things even worse, effective April 6, on Easter Monday, the minimum fee increased to $15.
I think this is criminal and something needs to be done to make disposing of garbage affordable.
Pitt Meadows picks up garbage weekly. I think Maple Ridge should do the same. The transfer station fee increase will only lead to garbage being dumped in other spots.
The municipality can sell garbage containers to residents for a fixed yearly fee and pick up weekly the garbage in those containers.
Barry KazakoffMaple Ridge
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Benefits of garbage contractKen Ogden:Re: Council considers garbage pickup (The News, April 1). I work for a municipality that contracts out waste collection. There is a lot of municipal staff time involved to manage the contract and handle inquiries. If there is a problem, people generally call city hall, not the contractor. From the municipal side, it is never easy: schedules change, regulations change, pickups are missed or refused, people get angry. On the plus side, programs are well run and communicated, waste is better handled and reduced. I honestly believe there are environmental benefits.
Who saysBruce E. McWilliam:Re: School buses on the chop block (The News, April 3).As taxpayers, show us in the B.C. School Act where it says that school boards are required to provide school bus service.
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Metro Vancouver may-ors aim to introduce road pricing, which could re-place the current system of tolling only new bridg-es, with consistent tolls on all existing crossings, or per-kilometre road use charges on all major routes.
So is that idea also scut-tled if Metro voters defeat the proposed 0.5-per-cent sales tax increase that would fund transit expan-sion across the region?
The Mayors’ Council intends to explore road
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A referendum No vote on the congestion tax does not block tolls on a replaced Pattullo Bridge, nor does it prevent an eventual move to road pricing.
Mayors propose road pricing be revenue-neu-tral under a Yes outcome that authorizes the new sales tax; road use fees would replace bridge tolls within eight years and al-low a six-cent-per-litre re-duction in the TransLink gas tax.
A No vote that blocks the extra $250 million per
year from sales tax may create more pressure to instead pursue the idea as a revenue generator.
Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore said there’s been no debate about that and the province has been clear that any new fund-ing source has to go to referendum.
Road pricing is part of the mayors’ long-range vision because making drivers pay to travel by road is expected to have a profound effect on how they choose to get around.
Road tolls that change by the time of day – charging more at peak
times and less or zero off-peak – would spur some drivers to drive at cheaper times or take transit, eas-ing the worst congestion at rush hour peaks and making the system more efficient, experts say.
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Years of study is ex-pected before one recom-mended model for road pricing emerges.
According to mayors’ council estimates, each penny charged per kilo-metre could add up to $100 million a year in rev-enue under a road pricing scheme.
Transportation Minister Todd Stone has promised a review of the province’s current tolling policy, for new infrastructure.
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Drug-impaired driv-ers who roam the roads mostly undetected are a top traffic safety priority for B.C. police chiefs.
Their association wants the federal gov-ernment to approve a roadside testing device that would make it eas-ier for officers to arrest stoned and otherwise drugged drivers.
“Whether it’s marijua-na or prescription drugs, there are people who are driving high and, for a large part, it goes undetected because we don’t have a really good tester and we don’t have many drug recognition experts,” said Transit Po-lice chief Neil Dubord, who chairs the traffic committee of the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police.
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Four Metro Vancouver pharmacies are part of a research project that aims to eventually offer person-alized medicine to patients who undergo genetic test-ing.
UBC researchers are part-nering with community pharmacists to collect DNA from saliva samples to test how an individual’s genetic makeup can alter decisions on medication choice and dosage to make their use more effective.
The B.C. Pharmacy As-sociation says its $400,000 18-month project with Genome BC, dubbed Ge-nomics for Precision Drug Therapy in the Community Pharmacy, should bring the promise of personal-
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it was largely due to the constant en-thusiasm and encouragement of his early ballet teachers, Louise Warren, Keri-Lyn Battrick, and Karrie Hill.
She also attributed his drive to succeed to the Pitt Meadows dance community as a whole, where Erik felt confident enough to pursue his love of ballet in his middle school years.
Bluendl thrived on his numer-ous performances at dance recitals, dance competitions and with the Royal City Youth Ballet at the ACT in Maple Ridge.
In Grade 9, realizing the need to train seriously, Bluendl transferred to Thomas Haney secondary, where he could complete his academics in the morning and train at the Half Day Intensive Program at Pacific Dance Arts in Vancouver.
During the summer of 2013, he was asked by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School to join their year-round training program.
While the allure of training at one of Canada’s most renowned schools was enticing, Bluendl once again chose a different path.
“There’s lot of different paths to follow. I just wanted to keep train-ing locally and it’s been a great op-portunity.”
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Bruendl soars with spot in Cinderella
ContributedThomas Haney’s Erik Bluendl will take on several roles in Coastal City Ballet’s production of Cinderella.
The 2015 Cedric Lit-erary Awards are fast approaching and or-ganizers of the writing competition are putting out a final call for sub-missions on May 1.
The Cedric Literary Awards are a first-of-
their-kind in Canada, created specifically to recognize and celebrate unpublished English and French-speaking B.C. writers of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and First Na-tions storytellers, age 50 or older.
“We’ve been receiv-
ing a steady stream of submissions since we put out the call for sub-mission on February 1,” said Cedric Literary Awards’ executive di-rector Veronica Osborn. “We’re hoping for more so that we can have a competition that is truly representative of the tal-
ent we know is out there of writers with a lifetime of experience to share.”
The Cedric Literary Awards is a juried com-petition, and a prize of $3,000 will be awarded to each of the category winners, with an ad-ditional prize of $3,000 given to a First Nations
storyteller. Details about a gala
awards event will be an-nounced at a later date.
“I want The Cedric Literary Awards to be the best writing compe-tition of its kind in Can-ada,” said Peter Dale, creator of the writing competition.
“Although we’re fo-cused on B.C. writers and storytellers this year, we hope to take this program nation-wide next year.”
Cedric Literacy Awards celebrate best in B.C. Arts&life
• Authors interested in taking part in this exciting new writing competition should log on to the web-site at: www.thecedrics.ca or email Veronica Osborn, at [email protected].
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Of Clay, Wattles and Cloth
March 7 – April 25, 2015Mixed media artist, Melanie Thompson;
ceramic artist, Claire Olivier; and fi bre artist, Kaija Rautiainen share the spotlight as they bring together a
collection of their work imbued with both natural and formal elements.
Xtreme Theatre: Disney’s My Son
Pinocchio Jr.April 15 – 18
This show includes a pre-show by our mini students who will perform a variety
of songs and dances.This is Xtreme Theatre’s 16th year of performing musical
theatre in our community.
National Volunteer Week Celebration
Sat, April 18 – 10:30 a.m.Join us for Cake, a Volunteer
Opportunity Fair and the Umbrella Art Installation. Add your voice to the
conversation by telling us what you love about volunteering and make your own
raindrop for the display!
Showstoppers Academy: Disney’s Beauty & the
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Step into the enchanted world of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Jr. Featuring songs
from the Academy Award-winning animated feature.
Ridley BentSunday, April 26 – 7:30 p.m.
A high-energy performance of musical tales woven with wisdom and intrigue.
Canadian country singer-songwriter, Ridley Bent brings us his keen fascination
for creating characters.
Directly Aff ectedMonday, April 27 – 7:30 p.m.
Who is directly aff ected by the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline proposal currently facing British Columbians? And
are their voices being heard? Join us for this special screening prior to our GEMS fi lm.
GEMS: WatermarkMonday, April 27 – 7:30 p.m.
Following their acclaimed collaboration Manufactured Landscapes,
photographer Edward Burtynsky and fi lmmaker Jennifer Baichwal reunite
to explore the ways in which humanity has shaped, manipulated and depleted one of its most vital and compromised
resources: water.
Lobby NightsFree evenings of performance and creativity.
Songstage with Ivan Boudreau
Apr 14, 7 – 9 pm
You can vote YES in the transportation and transit referendum knowing that
the tax money collected will go to pay for the critical transportation and transit
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Jim Pattison’s Public Accountability Committee will monitor and
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“Burst” might sound like a dif-ficult characteristic to define, but when you see a football player who’s got it, there’s no better word for it.
And Tyrel Ogloff has more than his share of burst – a first-step quickness that is surprising to fans in the stands, and shocking down at field level.
His football talents carried the running back to just under 1,500 rushing yards through 10 games with the Ridge Meadows Knights midget team last year.
Playing on the defensive side of the ball as a linebacker, he got a few more than 70 tackles, and four in-terceptions. Two of those he ran all the way back for touchdowns.
And it has also got the Samuel Robertson Technical graduate a spot on the field with the Simon Fraser University Clan next year.
Ogloff had offers from CIS pro-grams in Ontario and Nova Sco-tia, and he also got an offer from a Third Division NCAA school in Indiana, but he chose the Clan for academic reasons, and to be near family and friends. The Clan is also the only Canadian team that plays in the U.S. based NCAA, in the sec-ond division.
“I wanted to be close to home, and the main goal is to get a PhD in chemical or nuclear engineering,” said Ogloff.
He has an outstanding academic burst as well, and is taking a 4.0 GPA to SFU.
The Clan is rebuilding the football program under new coach Kelly Bates – the longtime B.C. Lions of-
fensive lineman, with the help of legendary Lions quarterback Joe ‘The Throwin’ Samoan’ Paopao, who will be the offensive coordina-tor.
Ogloff said he will definitely be used on special teams kick returns. It’s a great opportunity for an elu-sive player to shine.
“That’s exciting,” he said. “Once you get the ball in your hands, you have a chance to showcase your skills”
As a rookie, it’s tough to get on the
field, and Ogloff and will have to earns his reps with the offence.
“I’m going to have some tough competition – which is what makes athletes better,” he said.
He has been chosen to play in the 2015 Star Bowl game in Chilliwack on April 25.
Last month, he and fellow Knights midget players Matt Oye, Phillip Cromwell and Alex Pongracz took part in the Senior Bowl Week at B.C. Lions training camp, where they got the opportunity to work
out with some of the CFL pros. The camp ended with an intrasquad game, and Ogloff was awarded of-fensive player of the game for his team. He also won running back practice player of the week.
On April 1, Ogloff signed a com-mitment letter to play for the Simon Fraser University in September.
He was also accepted into the SFU Faculty of Applied Sciences, and plans to pursue an engineering de-gree with his ultimate goal of a PhD in nuclear or chemical engineering.
Knights running back joins Clan
Local Ride Racing’s spring classic bike race Jeremy’s Roubaix is set to hit the rural roads and gravel dikes of Pitt Meadows on April 12.
The name for this annual event has been changed to honour a Canadian cycling legend, Jeremy Storie, who passed away in 2013.
This year’s event will be the first race of Cycling B.C.’s Premier Road Series, with winners in their respective catego-ries receiving leader jersey’s and brag-ging rights heading into the next race in the series, Race The Ridge on May 30.
New for this year will be the inclu-
sion of full youth categories in the BC Premier Road Series. Jeremy’s Roubaix will also offer upgrade points for riders looking to move up in categories.
Support for Jeremy’s Roubaix has been outstanding, and Fort Langley Cyclery has stepped-up to offer prizing and to provide technical support at the wheel pits.
“I am very pleased to have Fort Lang-ley Cyclery on board for this year’s race. Their bike shop has a very strong road, cyclocross and track presence in the area, and it was also one of Jeremy’s favorite local bike shops to visit,” said race organizer Barry Lyster.
Registration closes April 8 at 6 p.m. There is no registration on the day of the race.
• For more information and to regis-ter, please go www.localride.ca.
Tim Fitzgerald/THE NEWSTalented running back Tyrel Ogloff has signed to play football for Simon Fraser University next season.
Jeremy’s Roubaix cycle race set for Sunday
ContributedMud-soaked riders compete in the Roubiax race, which takes them along the city’s dikes and backroads.
First event in Cycling BC’s Premier Road Series
Tyrel Ogloff will playfor SFU next season
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Invited to U-16 camp
Two local football players have been invited to try out for the provincial team.
Zachary Mayer-Buss, a defensive lineman from Westview secondary, and Liam Cumarasamy, a line-backer with the Meadow Ridge Knights, will attend the 2015 Team B.C. U-16 May long weekend camp, on May 16-18 in Rich-mond.
The camp is the final cut-down prior to competition at the Tanoa Bowl (May 23-24) in Auburn, Wash. That event features teams from Washington, Alaska, Oregon and Hawaii.
Pee Wee C2 wins Squamish tourney
The pee wee C2 hockey squad from Ridge Meadows won the Squamish tour-nament, which ran from March 21-23 and included teams from across the prov-ince, including three from Ridge Meadows.
The pee wee C2s won gold with a 6-0 win over Coquitlam in the final.
The team’s roster includes Alex Paulsen, Seth Erlend-son, Nicholas Miller, Colby Anderson, Aidan McKay, James Ross, Griffin Far-rell, Brody Desaulniers, Cameron Budisa, Dawson White, Michael Paulsen, Hayden Gowitt, Brayden Medford, Ruben Gurm, Brendan Morrison and Ri-ley Lyons.
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Guiseppe du Toit of Maple Ridge was part of the Cana-dian under-20 rugby side that has qualified for the 2015 Junior World Rugby Trophy.
The Canadian men won their way into the prestigious event af-ter defeating the U.S. in two qual-ifying games, the final 41-6 win being played on March 28. That followed a come-from-behind win for Canada on March 23, by a score of 24-23.
Du Toit was the hero of that first game, as he nailed a game-
winning penalty kick on the same field at Shawnigan Lake, where he played high school rugby. He hit three penalty kicks in the game.
He also hit three penalty con-verts in the blowout second game.
The Junior World Rugby Tro-phy will be held in Portugal next month, and Canada will be up against sides from Fiji, Georgia, Hong Kong, Namibia, Tonga and Uruguay.
The national junior side placed seventh in the tournament in 2014.
On to junior worldsSports
Contributed
Guiseppe du Toit kicks for Canada.
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All thanks go out to Abbotsford Emergency and Baker B for letting Roy pass in comfort.
Celebration of life will be held at the Eagles Hall at 23461 Fern Crescent in Maple Ridge on the 12th of April from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. We encourage people to participate in a Pot Luck during this celebration of Roy’s life. There will be a dona-tion box at the Eagles Hall for the S.P.C.A and Katies Place.
Roy always lovedhis pussy cats!
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PACHECO, Terri(nee Nixon)
August 3,1964 - April 2, 2015Heaven has gained such a beautiful angel in Terri (Teresa Lynn). As she plays her heavenly harp, Terri is watch-ing over the love of her life, George, and her beautifully amazing children Jamie, Braydon and Ryan, all of whom she has always been so proud of.In the afterlife she joins her father Bunny (Bernard) and her grandparents Genevieve and Trigvi Gudmundson and Margaret and Robert Nixon. Left waiting on earth is Terri’s mother Dianne Yusko, sisters Laurie (Patrick) Darcus and Brandi Nixon (Kevin Fulton), and brothers Dan (Keeley) and Darryl Nixon. All miss her deeply and look forward to the day they will be with Terri again.Born in Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, Terri moved to Pitt Meadows in 1973. She excelled in sports and academics through elementary and high school, and achieved top academic honors at BCIT. After graduat-ing BCIT in 1989 Terri spent the next 26 years working in Medical Records at various locations for Coastal Health.Once her children came along she moved to South Surrey. Terri became the mom who helped organize all the fund-raisers and volunteered every time the opportunity presented itself. She was such a selfl ess giving person who always made people she encountered feel special.Terri loved her walks along the beach, and we will remember her in every sunset - so bright and beautiful.There will be a Catholic Funeral
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March 26, 2015It is with great sadness we an-nounce the passing of Wally, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfa-ther. He leaves behind his loving wife of 62 years Nancie, his children; Gail (Glenn), Ron (Cheryl) and Susan. Loving Pa to Lindsay, Kaiti, Megan, Julie, Nancie; step grandchildren Jaime and Brad and great granddaughter Evelyn. The family would like to thank the staff in the emergency room of Ridge Meadows Hospital for their care and compassion.
Condolences may be sent towww.mapleridgefuneral.ca
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FARM WORKERSSeeking 3 farm workers, F/T, per-manent needed as soon as possible for L&R Resources Ltd. (253 Street & 124 Ave area, Maple Ridge, BC, V4R 1T8) to work on a Christmas tree farm and fruit orchard. Duties: cultivat-ing, plowing, planting, pruning, irrigate crops, operate farm machinery & equipment. Must be physically able. No education or exp. req’d, will train. English req’d. Location of work in Maple Ridge/Harrison Mills, 40 hours per week, $11/hr.
130 HELP WANTEDCOMMERCIAL LAUNDRY in PoCo requires FT inside workers, M-F, 8am to 430pm, $11.45 to start plus benefi ts. Apply in person at 205-1515 Broadway Street PoCo
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FOUR INDIVIDUAL OFFICES• 10’ X 8.5’ available• Includes heat, A/C & windowONE OFFICE• Inside with no windows 12’ x 8’• Includes heat & A/C and hydroONE CORNER OFFICE• With windows on 2 sides• Plumbed with sink and shower 10’x9.5’• Includes heat & A/C and hydro
All offi ces on second fl oor, downtown Maple Ridge location, new and clean with one shared washroom on the fl oor.One year minimum lease subject to credit and criminal check.
Contact Jim at 604-476-2720
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
300 LANDSCAPING
D Garden Blend SoilD Lawn Blend SoilD Custom Blends avail.D Composted Mushroom Manure NO Wood byproducts used
When QUALITY Mattersall soils are tested for Optimum
growing requirements.
17607 Ford RoadPitt Meadows
PICK-UP ...... or .... DELIVERY
604-465-3189
S. H. LANDSCAPINGTREE SERVICES
Trimming W Pruning W ToppingClean-upW Garbage Removal
GardeningFlower Beds W Allan Blocks
Bark Mulch W River Lava RockLawn Care
Weeding W New TurfFertilizing W Moss ControlPower Raking W Aeration
Incl heat, hot water & parking.Close to stores and Schools.
SUNRISE22292 122nd Avenue
(604)349-5982
SORRENTO22260 122nd Avenue
(604)319-9341
709 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL
PORT COQUITLAM 775-3000sqft. Ground fl oor commercial space. Offi ce / retail / service type busi-ness. Facing onto city park. 2 blks from Lougheed/ Shaughnessy inter-section. Call 604-464-3550.
Westwood Corporate Centre2963 Glen Drive
~ 4 story offi ce building ~ In the heart of Coquitlam Centre surrounded by residential high rises, commercial business &
Coquitlam shopping mall. 700sf-5000sf large offi ce space
Additional info......604-944-2963
741 OFFICE/RETAIL
RENTALS
736 HOMES FOR RENT
SOUTH SURREYEXECUTIVE
Fully Furnished & Equippedor Unfurnished Based on
Your Needs.
Short Term orLong term!Hotel Living
Like New Townhouse. Only 3 years old. Immaculate Deluxe, 2 bdrm. + Rec. Room/Offi ce + 2 Full Bath T/House. Flr. to ceiling storage + storage rm. in garage. 6 s/s appli. d/w, w/d, Garburator. Crown Mouldings, 9ft. ceilings, H/W laminate fl ooring and slate tile. Gas F/P & Alarm. 1 car garage parking. Covered patio lower & outdoor patio upper. Amenities room incls. full gym, outdoor hot tub & pool. Walk to Morgan Heights shopping.NO Smoking inside & NO Pets!
$2050/mo. or negotiableAvailable NOW or April 15.
604.488.9161
741 OFFICE/RETAIL
Maple Ridge Offi ce & Retail Space
Unbelievable Rates,Starting at $495/month.
Various sizes 320sf. - 2000sf.Various downtown locations. Updated and well maintained.
Rick MedhurstRoyal LePage Realty
604-463-3000
746 ROOMS FOR RENT
$75 OFF 1ST MONTHRooms from $445/mo. Fully Furn,
weekly maid service, cable TV,private bath, on bus route, 5/min
walk to commuter rail.
Haney Motor Hotel22222 Lougheed Hwy.,
Maple RidgeInquire in person between
9am - 3pm or Call 604-467-3944
749 STORAGE
Pitt Meadows Marina14179 Reichenback Rd
Moorage RentalYear or Semi-annual
Outdoor Storage Available Starting
At $30/month for Boats, RV’s, Cars, Trucks &
Trailers Launch Ramp with 3 lines and
ample parking for tracks and trailers Onsite Manager
604.465.7713750 SUITES, LOWER
MAPLE RIDGE ctrl. Newly reno’d 2 bdrm gnd lvl suite, full bath, nr bus and school. NS/NP. Avail May 1st. $950/mo incl utils. 604-719-4848.
752 TOWNHOUSESPITT MEADOWS: 2 - 3 bdrm co-op T/H $1108/mo - $1211/mo. Shares req’d. Close to WCE, schools & shopping. No subsidy available. 19225 119th Ave. For more info & to book an appt. call 604-465-1938
