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The public has voted against TransLink, and the region’s may-ors should start looking at ways to reform the transit authority’s gov-ernance, says Pitt Meadows Mayor John Becker.
When the Metro Vancouver
board sits again, Becker will make a motion that it prepare a report on alternative governance struc-tures for the delivery of public transit in the region.
The regional transit referendum saw 62 per cent of the region’s vot-ers saying no to a 0.5 per cent pro-vincial sales tax increase to fund transit improvements across the region.
Becker said he has observed the reaction to the referendum result, which was released Thursday.
Interim TransLink CEO Doug Allen is the one person to say the result is not an indictment of TransLink.
“He may be the only per-son the province with that perspective,” said Becker. “The current structure needs to be changed. The funding model needs to be changed.”
On Monday, Pitt Meadows city hall issued a press release regard-
ing Becker’s proposed transit governance re-port.
“What I see from the referendum results is that people want bet-ter transit, but there is a governance problem with TransLink,” Becker said in the release. “The mayors’ plan addresses the transportation needs
of the region going forward, but we need to find new ways of gov-
erning that model in a way that is efficient and serves the needs of transit users.”
What does he see as the gover-nance problem?
“At its heart is the lack of direct accountability,” he answered.
There are 23 members of the Mayor’s Council that operate TransLink, but there are four other boards that handle various aspects of the transit authority, he pointed out.
Forest fires in southwestern B.C. and Washington State have caused air con-ditions that are canceling flights at Pitt Meadows Regional Airport and had the Fraser Health Authority issue a health alert.
Fire smoke hung in the air over Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows early Sunday and Monday, creating a sky that was entirely a haze, with just a pink blot of sun.
Harbour Air’s flight from Pitt Mead-ows Airport to Victoria at 7:30 a.m. on Monday morning had to be cancelled due to limited visibility in the smoky sky. Harbour Air also cancelled other flights in the region.
Fix transit governance: BeckerPitt mayor says public voted against TransLink
Tim Fitzgerald//THE NEWSHarbour Air cancelled morning flights from Pitt Meadows to Victoria Monday morning, but resumed in the afternoon, when visibility improved.See Haze, 3
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Temperatures are baking and there’s no rain in the making, but the fish in the South Alouette River are surviving, thanks to the river – just being a river.
The outlet from the Alouette Lake reservoir is maintaining a minimum flow and trees and bushes along the river bank are cooling the water and insulating young salmon from possibly fatal jumps in water temperature.
“We’re definitely checking it here, and it, of course, is warmer than usual,” said Nicole Driedger, interim director of ARMS.
“We’re not sounding alarm bells yet.”
She said two weeks ago, on June 22, the water temperature in the South Alouette River at Allco Park hatchery at the north end of 248th Street was 17 C.
On July 3, the temperature was 21 C. “The fish start stressing at 23 C and they start dying at 25 C.”
Coho and chum fry were re-leased into the river earlier this spring, while the wild coho wait around a year before making a run for the open Pacific Ocean.
“They’re still alive, so obviously, the river is doing its job.”
Driediger said the outflow from Alouette Lake is below the sur-face level, which means the water that’s running out of the dam is
cooler than at the surface. Then, as the water flows down the river, it’s cooled some more thanks to vegetation above, in and around the river.
However, the temperature of water that’s being released could increase as the lake level drops. There’s no snow melt, after a warm and dry winter, to feed into the lake.
“It’s extremely important not to cut down a whole bunch of veg-etation,” said Driedger.
Then water temperatures would climb, she added.
“It is, ecologically, doing well,” Driediger said of the river system.
“We’ll hit the panic button if we don’t get the fall rains, because the fall rains bring the fish back.”
She also referred to a recent meeting by the Alouette monitor-ing committee, which also said river conditions were adequate.
Since 1999, there have been only 35 days when the recorded water temperature for the entire South
Alouette was higher than 21 C.She didn’t know about the con-
ditions of the North Alouette River, which is naturally fed by the watershed instead of the res-ervoir.
It’s a scarier story in the Kanaka Creek system, says Ross Davies, with the Kanaka Education and Environmental Partnership Soci-ety. “We haven’t had a stretch like this ever – that I can remember.
“I can’t stress enough, this is off the charts.
“You get the sense that some-thing has changed, something is wrong.”
He’s lived in Maple Ridge since 1988 and has never seen the 38 C temperatures he saw Sunday.
Davies said that temperatures in Kanaka Creek, upstream of the Bell Irving Hatchery on 256th Street, hit 23 C for a few hours in the afternoon. Then the waterflow from the ground-fed tributaries cooled it down.
“This year, for all intents and purposes, summer started in April and it’s just sort of gone from there.”
The steam flow is about a third of what is usually is, he added.
Juvenile salmon in the stream could see their numbers drop as more die from predation.
But if the fall rains return and stream levels come back to the usual levels, the returning salmon will be able to get up the stream to spawn.
For the next week at least, there’s no change expected in the sunny, hot weather according to Envi-ronment Canada.
Davies said baby salmon are try-ing to get out of the main stem of Kanaka, where daytime temps reach about 20 C, into the smaller tributaries, such as Thornvale Creek, which are spring fed and have cooler water at 17 C. But the smaller streams mean fish are more visible to other creatures looking for a snack.
“They’re really looking for cool-er water so they’re more vulner-able to predators right now.”
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Tim Fitzgerald/THE NEWSSophie Smith of ARMS checks the temperature in the South Alouette River on Monday, when it reached 21 C.
It’s rare to see air quality like this: FH doctor
Tim Fitzgerald/THE NEWSSmoke from forest fires, combined with extreme heat made for poor air quality in the region on the weekend and early this week.
River temperture rising during record hot spell
Haze from frontIt was able to offer service in the
afternoon, as air quality improved.Harbour Air executive vice-pres-
ident Randy Wright said sightlines were covered in smoke.
“We need three miles of visibil-ity, and we had a mile and a half on Monday,” he explained. “Safety is our number one priority. We could fly by GPS, but we’re not doing it.”
Wright said a southwest wind blew much of the smoke inland, but a change in wind direction could once again bring smoke into the area.
Tasleen Juma of Fraser Health said the region’s hospitals have seen an increase in the number of patients attending at emergency wards com-
plaining of respiratory issues, likely caused by a combination of high temperatures and heat.
“It’s extremely rare for us to see air quality like this,” said Dr. Lisa Mu, medical health officer, and Fraser Health’s regional lead on air quality.
“It’s a convergence of heat, as well as poor air quality.”
The air quality started as high risk on Monday, but was moderate by the afternoon.
Those at risk include asthmatics, those with heart, lung and other chronic medical conditions, the el-derly and infants.
Mu said people with heart con-ditions can experience difficulty breathing, fatigue, weakness, and swelling in the legs and feet due
to poor air quality. It can bring on heart attacks or even strokes.
Anyone at risk should avoid any strenuous activity altogether, she said.
A healthy person can attempt strenuous activity in moderate risk air, but Mu advises they watch for symptoms such as breathing dif-ficulty or weakness, and postpone the activity if they experience them.
Anyone experiencing wheezing or difficulty breathing is advised to seek medical attention.
The air quality advisory will re-main in place until weather condi-tions change.
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There were two fires Sunday, one at Thomas Haney secondary, and another at a house near-by.
The first was at the high school at about 5
a.m., caused by a fault in an electrical motor on the roof. Firefight-ers quickly contained the blaze, and there was damage to just one room in the school.
Summer school was scheduled to start the
next day, and was able to begin at Thomas Haney on Monday morning without interruption.
On Sunday, at ap-proximately noon, fire-fighters were called to a house fire on the 11600 block of 231B Street,
across from the high school.
Flames were shooting through the roof as they arrived, as fire burned through the attic.
The house was gutted, but all occupants were able to get out safely.
An attached garage and the truck inside of it were destroyed.
Again, the cause of the fire was determined to be electrical.
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Maple Ridge firefighters were called to a house fire on 231B Street Sunday afternoon.
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There was a four-car accident at the Pitt River Bridge early on Sunday morning, and occupants of all four vehicles were injured.
Coquitlam RCMP were conducting road checks in the eastbound lane, looking for impaired drivers, just east of the Pitt River Bridge. At approximately 1 a.m., a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed slammed into the back of the line of vehicles that were stopped for the roadblock, causing a chain-reaction accident that involved three other vehicles.
All four drivers suffered “moderate but non-life-threatening injuries,” according to Coquitlam RCMP media relations.
The driver who is alleged to have caused the acci-dent was given a Breathalyzer test, but was found to not have been drinking.
“The driver, obviously, was not paying attention and rear-ended the vehicle. It is possible they fell asleep,” RCMP Cpl. Quentin Frewing told CBC News.
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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau came to Van-
couver last week to unveil his environ-mental platform for the Oct. 19 federal election.
Trudeau promised an overhaul of the National Energy Board and a vaguely defined intention to work with provinces to impose a “price” on carbon dioxide emissions across the country.
Trudeau’s media tour took him to the Burnaby facilities of General Fusion, where, like Premier Christy Clark a few weeks before, he stood at his podium before a prototype fusion reactor. This massive octopus of pistons and wires is an attempt to capture the nuclear reac-tion that powers the sun and other stars, containing its fury within steel walls and magnetic fields.
The old joke about controlled fusion is that every 20 years, scientists tell us it’s just 20 years away. If it ever is developed, such a process could quickly put an end to our hand-wringing about fossil fuels, largely replacing them with endless, emission-free energy.
This is the type of technological revolu-tion that Prime Minister Stephen Harp-er’s officials indicated would be needed, after Canada announced a pledge with other G7 leaders to make their econo-mies carbon-free by 2100. That’s right,
some time within the next 85 years.Clark visited General Fusion in May to
announce her new climate action advi-sory panel, which has to give her a plan to take to Paris next December. That’s the next big United Nations climate summit, where Trudeau hopes to lead a delega-tion of premiers to stop the flow of “fossil awards” given to Canada by people in polar bear suits.
Asked about the fusion reactor she had just toured, Clark laughed off the ques-tion, comparing it to the “flux capacitor” used for time travel in the Michael J. Fox movie Back to the Future.
Trudeau recently told university students that we need to change our concepts of time and space, and he didn’t seem to be kidding.
The point here for voters is that all these leaders, Harper, Trudeau, Clark and many others, are talking down to you. You aren’t sophisticated enough to understand this climate business.
The Pope has weighed in, assuring us that carbon trading systems are not going to cut it. This is a rebuke to California, Quebec and the European Union, where effective carbon trading is, like controlled fusion, just around the corner.
Pope Francis warned that our “throw-away culture” views nature “solely as a source of profit and gain” and so people won’t voluntarily do the right thing. (The results of the Metro Vancouver transit plebiscite could be interpreted this way, if you ignore the bumbling, waste and political posturing that really did it in.)
The Pope concludes that there is “an
urgent need” for a “true world political authority” to impose order on the greedy capitalist humans that infest our beautiful planet. Presumably this would be the run by the UN, so my advice is to start hoard-ing candles and cat food now.
B.C.’s frozen carbon tax has ceased to have much effect, with gasoline con-sumption back up over 2008 levels amid the usual volatility of prices. Gasoline is going for around $1.30 a litre, despite the prolonged slump in crude oil prices, and people have basically forgotten about this tax on top of all the other gas taxes.
Perhaps B.C. can brag in Paris about the Pacific Carbon Trust, which limps along after its near-death experience in 2013.
The trust continues to divert tax dol-lars from B.C. government operations to purported carbon-saving activities, including paying coastal First Nations not to log the portions of forests that they demanded be preserved.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.
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Yellow grassIngrid RiceNews Views
There should be a lot of yellow lawns in the coming months.
As of Friday, Metro Vancouver is calling to cut lawn watering to one day a week. No power wash-ing driveways or decks for aesthetic purposes, ei-ther.
Watering school yards, sports fields, cemeteries and golf courses should be minimal.
All this because B.C. has basically been having summer since April.
It hardly rained in May or June, and Sunday the temperature reached 38 C in parts of Maple Ridge.
Given the long dry spell, water reserves have tanked recently.
Water use is up almost 20 per cent in the region.So the time to conserve is now.What water we manage to conserve now will
help to avoid shortages in the months ahead.
Stage 3 is next and would mean pools and hot tubs can’t be refilled. Public fountains would have to be turned off. Watering plants with tap water would be prohibited.
Watering your lawn with a hose for hours in the morning would also be a no.
With the normally hot July and August still to come, we can be assured that water will be more in demand.
If that means sacrificing your green lawn for one resembling a wheat field, then so be it.
At least you don’t have to cut it, which also helps conserve energy or improve air quality.
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Gasoline is going for around $1.30 a litre, despite the prolonged slump in crude oil prices, and people have basically forgotten about this tax on top of all the other gas taxes.
Water use is up almost 20 per cent in the region. So the time to conserve is now.
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Editor, The News:Re: Maple Ridge tops No vote (The
News, July 3).It was no surprise to me that the peo-
ple of Maple Ridge voted 3-1 against the proposed transit financing referendum.
They are in tune with the rest of Metro Vancouver when it comes to the manner in which the transit system is managed.
Governance is the key to this issue. I’ll never understand why the politi-
cians of today do not realize they have no business taking our hard earned tax money and using it to spend on a propa-ganda campaign to convince us why we should vote for this financing.
The No side had to do the job on a shoestring budget, none of which was from my tax pocket.
The people who have been manag-ing the transit operations to date have shown a disregard for the concern we all have when it comes to spending our money.
Too much is paid to Ian Jarvis, his tem-porary replacement and all of the others
at the trough of the transit pay cheques. If the leaders are seeking ways to fund
these projects, I would start by suggest-ing a tax of approximately 50 cents per ton of every raw material (coal, sulphur, oil, timber), which passes through the Metro Vancouver region on the railways, CN and CP.
Look to our trading nations to assist us with the transit financing necessary to help them get their raw materials to markets overseas while making our abil-ity to move around in the same region that much more efficient.
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Not only is it the ugliest edifice in the district, the builders made it even uglier by growing what appears to be crab-
grass on the roof. Lucky homeowners in the area will
have the dubious privilege of looking out their windows at this monstrosity in perpetuity.
At this point, it appears that the crab-grass is growing unrestrained.
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Who they likeBruce McWilliam · Re: Education’s future looks bleak (Sidewinder, July 3).Unfortunately the unions donate heavily to elect candidates so quite often we only end up getting who they like, especially considering B.C. schools are often the largest employer in many communities.
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Council has approved spending $10,000 to hire a public relations com-pany so it can manage communications around the Cliff Avenue home-less camp.
“We need a strategy around the camp,” May-or Nicole Read said at Monday’s meeting dur-ing an update on the Resilience Initiative, for-merly the homelessness task force.
“Is our current com-munications resourcing adequate? I would say it’s not,” she said.
“My opinion is, we do not have enough com-munications capacity, period.”
The money would be used to hire a firm that would create a strategy for the city to follow as it tries to deal with in-formation requests from the public and media via social media, e-mail, the web about the homeless-ness issue.
Currently, Maple Ridge’s communications department has only one employee, corporate communications man-ager Fred Armstrong.
“We think we need a bit of a media strategy. They [the public] wants
open, transparent gov-ernment and they want to know what’s going on,” Read said later.
Part of the solution to the homelessness issue could be in opening a temporary shelter, while another long-term hous-ing project could also be built, both in partner-ship with B.C. Housing.
Those topics were dis-cussed Friday at a meet-ing between the mayor and Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows MLA Doug Bing.
“We had a wide-rang-ing discussion about the tent city and homeless-ness issue,” Bing said.
They didn’t get into any specifics about what kind of shelter the city wants, he added.
However, Read said later that the Salvation Army Caring Place shel-ter has only 25 beds. A new temporary shelter, location, yet unknown, could be a place to refer people now at the Cliff Avenue camp.
“We need to relieve the pressure from Cliff Av-enue.”
The size of the shelter would depend on the re-sult of information sur-veys now underway of those living at the camp. Several agencies could operate such a shelter.
“B.C. Housing is will-ing to explore that. We need to identify space,” Read said.
Maple Ridge could also get another facility similar to the Alouette Heights, a 45-unit sup-portive housing complex on Brown Avenue, that opened in 2012.
“There’s definitely some interest on the province’s part to do an-other Alouette Heights, if that’s in the interest of the city, which I think it is,” said Bing.
Alouette Heights is funded by B.C. Housing, with the city donating the land on which it sits.
Bing toured the facil-ity Friday and said he doesn’t recall any time limits on tenancies.
“I’m not sure you could arbitrarily pick a num-ber,” of months that a person would be allowed to stay at the Heights.
Read has criticized Bing earlier for not step-ping up to help the city with the homeless camp that developed on Cliff Avenue this spring.
Bing, though, says he was never formally asked to be involved.
Councillors wanted to ensure whatever gains are made by re-ducing the numbers of unsheltered people on the streets are not lost as more homeless move into the area.
Read said when some-one new comes into the camp, the permanent residents and the street outreach workers would know about it and dis-courage them from lo-cating there. Every tent
in the camp is mapped out with the number and identity of the oc-cupants.
“But we can’t tell someone they can’t be there,” Read said.
The camp started forming in March, then in May grew to about its present size when peo-ple blocked the street and decided they were no longer going to be moved along by bylaws officers, said the mayor.
Ridge Meadows RCMP advised that in order to move people, you have to have a place for them to go, added general manager of community develop-ment and recreation services Kelly Swift.
The current stretch of hot, dry weather is also posing a safety risk to the area. Homeless people are now ventur-ing down the wooded slopes seeking shade and coolness.
But with the woods tinder dry, that’s a safe-ty risk.
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To ease the fire risk, tents have been spread out along the street so they’re at least a metre apart.
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L o o k i n g B a c kBy Matthew Shields
Fire was a major threat to the wood-framed communities of Port Hammond and Port Haney.
Port Hammond lost several buildings along Ma-ple Crescent in 1916; Port Haney, on River Road in 1932.
House fires were common throughout the urban and rural portions of the district, where almost all homes used wood-burning stoves for heat.
Fires were also frequent in the foothills north and east of town, where logging companies ran heavy machinery, with sparks and flames, in the summer’s dry woods.
An enormous 1931 blaze started at the Brown and Kirkland logging operation based on Pitt Lake, burnt over the northern slope of the Golden Ears mountains and down the valley of Gold Creek, decimating the forest in that area and barring the return of industrial logging to the area around Alouette Lake.
Before 1945, the city had no organized fire protec-tion. Firefighting was a community effort, under-taken by citizens with the equipment at hand.
Port Haney and Hammond voted to construct public water systems only in the late 1920s.
In the 1916 fire in Hammond, labourers at the lumber mill helped witnesses stage a bucket brigade from the nearest water source – the Fraser River.
Telephone calls were placed to Port Coquitlam and New Westminster, which had “pump trucks” capable of maintaining a water line, but neither was able to respond.
The municipality of Point Grey, separate from Vancouver until 1929, did respond – taking three hours to arrive.
Damages from this fire were estimated at $65,000 – equivalent to $1.25 million in improvements to-day.
Pressure to organize the local response to fires came to a head in 1945, after the house of the Bai-ley family on 15th Avenue (236th Street) caught fire while Mrs. Bailey returned a lantern to a neighbour.
Despite the efforts of neighbours, the house burned down, killing two children.
This tragic incident spurred the community to ac-tion.
Spencer Pallot chaired a public meeting, resulting in the foundation of the Haney Volunteer Fire De-partment.
Council voted to allocate $400 towards urgently needed firefighting equipment, and the existing air raid siren was used as a fire warning.
The volunteers would be covered under municipal insurance.
Under first fire chief Jack Stanyer, who was un-paid, volunteers visited other valley centres to study their units and procedures.
Stanyer remained chief at the time of the disas-trous and well-remembered fire at the Maple Ridge High School in 1953.
By this time, renamed the Maple Ridge Volunteer Fire Department, the municipal force was assisted by firefighters in the service of B.C. Forest Products at the Hammond Mill.
Although Stanyer lamented publicly that low wa-ter pressure in the municipal pipes had made the efforts difficult, the response time was reported as only a few minutes.
Population growth has since demanded the con-struction of fire halls in Hammond, Haney, and Whonnock, with a fourth planned for Albion.
The department now includes about 55 full-time paid employees, in addition to about 60 paid-on-call members.
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Becker said he does not want to pre-judge his proposed reports findings, but he would prefer a model that makes elected officials directly responsible.
He says the regional staff should explore a public utility model, similar to the water and liquid waste utilities that are administered by Metro.
“The political decision makers and the tech-nical advisors would be much more closely aligned,” he explained.
“Subjectively, I would say they operate more efficiently,” said Becker.
Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore agrees and says most members of the Mayors Council be-lieve TransLink should be governed by locally elected people. Having Metro run TransLink would be one way to achieve that.
Moore was a key voice in selling the transit plan to voters before the referendum. He said
most voters would agree that the region is grow-ing and needs more transit infrastructure, and most would not take issue with the plan as presented.
They voted no because of their “challenges” with Translink, he said.
He said Becker’s mo-tion is “good process.”
“If we can move water and sewage throughout the region and cooper-ate, we can use a similar model to move people and goods throughout the region,” Becker said.
He expects the motion to stimulate informed debate about alterna-tives.
“But it’s a notice of motion – I may not even get a seconder.”
He added that Trans-Link is “a creature of the province,” and Victoria would have to pass new legislation in order to change the governance.
However, he believes the conversation should start soon, and the may-or’s council should play a leading role.
Maple Ridge council is listening to the YMCA about a partnership
that could see a second indoor pool built in the city.
Steve Butz, CEO of the YMCA of Greater Vancouver, told coun-
cil Monday about partnerships in which municipalities and the organization work out financial arrangements to build aquatic, rec-
reation or community centres.
But it’s important the YMCA be involved from the beginning.
Maple Ridge council
wanted to hear about the possibility of part-nering with the YMCA of Greater Vancouver as it tries to implement the recreation master
plan passed years ago. The plan calls for a sec-ond pool for the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows area once the combined population hits 100,000.
The totals of both cities are not that far away, with about 78,000 people in Maple Ridge and about 18,000 in Pitt Meadows.
The YMCA is already discussing a new facility in Coquitlam, as well as building a second com-plex in Surrey after the opening the Tong Louie Family YMCA facility in 2002. It’s also discuss-ing a second facility in Vancouver.
“We’re working on a lot of projects right now,” Butz said.
No location for a sec-ond pool has been iden-tified in Maple Ridge, but Mayor Nicole Read said most of the growth is happening in the east-ern part of the city.
Council passed a reso-lution telling staff to meet with YMCA man-agers and report back to council.
Council also told staff to work out a financial
framework to show how such facilities would be paid for, over time.
The discussions with the YMCA will take place following council’s recent approval of $5.5 million in renovations to the Maple Ridge Lei-sure Centre. Those are proceeding regardless.
“We need another one,” Read said.
But it’s going to take time, to save for the fa-cility and to examine the finances to see if there are various ways to pay for it.
Sports fields continue to be her top priority for improving recreation in Maple Ridge.
Council recently ap-proved seeking grant funding to create artifi-cial surfaces in Albion Sports Fields.
“I think this council is very clear, we need fields.”
Coun. Craig Speirs wasn’t as enthusiastic as some on council.
“There’s a lot of stuff that we’re seeing and a pool is at the bottom of my list,” he said.
“The biggest challenge for us is the recreation master plan was never funded,” Read added.
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The new street trees need your help during the heat wave, but if your lawn has gone that crispy brown – forget about it.
The City of Maple Ridge is asking its resi-dents to do two things during the drought that’s descended on to B.C. this long, hot sum-mer.
First, it’s asking peo-ple with young street trees in front of their homes, to give them about 70 litres of water, twice a week.
That can be done by setting a garden hose to a slow trickle and leaving it under the tree for four hours, either before 9 a.m. or after 7 p.m., a couple days a week.
Another way of wa-tering the young trees is by punching holes in a 23-litre pail and leaving it under the tree. Put a ring of bark mulch around to keep in the water.
Another way of wa-
tering trees is to use a deep-root watering at-tachment available in most nurseries.
But that’s all residents have to do for street trees. Piling dirt or bark mulch up the tree trunk will kill the tree. As for any pruning, leave that to the city’s crews.
Maple Ridge’s second request is to only water lawns once a week.
That’s a result of Met-ro Vancouver moving to Stage 2 watering re-strictions on Friday.
People can now only
water their lawns once a week – between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m., Mon-days only for even-numbered addresses and Thursdays only for odd-numbered ad-dress. An hour of wa-ter is enough for most lawns.
More watering is al-lowed for newly plant-ed lawns, but a permit is needed from Maple Ridge city hall.
Watering is still OK for flower and vegeta-ble gardens, planters, shrubs and trees and
garden ponds.But hosing down
driveways just to make it look good or pres-sure-washing a house is banned. That can only be done for heath or safety reasons for preparing a surface for painting.
People can still wash their pickup trucks or SUVs, or boat, as long as they use a spring-loaded shut-off nozzle.
According to the city’s website, one hour of lawn sprinkling uses as much water as 25 toi-let flushes, five loads of laundry and five dishwasher loads, com-bined. The same water-ing restrictions are in force in Pitt Meadows.
“We are seeing re-cord temperatures and there was virtually no rain in June when nor-mally we have rain on about 12 days,” Metro Vancouver board chair Greg Moore said. “We all have to do our part and conserve water whenever possible, and that now includes only watering lawns once a week.”
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Please be advised that construction for the Stave Falls Grounding Upgrade Project is scheduled for July 13 to late September 2015 at the Hayward Lake Recreation Site.
Construction will begin on the northern section of the Hayward Lake Railway Trail, approximately half a kilometre south of the Off Leash Dog Beach. To accommodate construction, the northern section of the Railway Trail will be closed from July 13 to August 21, 2015. Once crews reach the Beaver Pond, the northern section of the Railway Trail will be reopened and access will be available via Harry’s Trail.
All work along the Railway Trail is weather dependent.
Construction will continue to proceed north, from the Railway Trail to the Stave Falls Visitor Centre. No additional trail closures, picnic area closures, or Visitor Centre closures will be required. All construction is scheduled to be completed by late September 2015.
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The Downtown Maple Ridge Business Improvement Association is hoping to strike the right key with visi-tors to Memorial Peace Park this summer.
The DMRBIA has joined up with provincial Piano Teach-ers Federation to launch the inaugural Pianos on the
Street project. The piano will be placed on
the bandstand at Memorial Peace Park from July 8 until September 26 and will be free to use for the public to create music.
The unveiling of the piano will take place July 8 at 7:15 p.m.
Following the event, the DMRBIA will host its movie
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Families can come and watch The Lego Movie after the official ceremonies are completed.
Ineke Boekhorst, execu-tive director of the DMRBIA, said the theme for the piano is compassion, a designation the city of Maple Ridge is seeking.
“Most importantly we want to be able to bring culture to the streets and make it acces-sible for everyone to enjoy,” said Boekhorst.
The piano was painted by artists of the Ridge Meadows Association for Community Living, under directorship of Ilse Phillips and assistance of artist in residence Robi Smith.
It may be one of the hottest sum-mers on record, but Emerald Pig has The Winter’s Tale on its
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performing in Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge, and this year they chose one of Shakespeare’s lesser known but wildly entertaining pieces ever written.
“It’s a more fantasy-like play,” said director Cathie Young. “It works kind of like a fairy tale.”
The Winter’s Tale was one of the last plays the Bard ever wrote, dat-ing back to 1610. It was not pub-lished until the First Folio of 1623.
The play veers between romance and comedy and peers into the dark world of the jealous King Le-ontes, who condemns his innocent wife, Queen Hermione, to death and abandons his newborn daugh-ter Perita in the wilderness.
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cited for the opportunity to finally bring the characters to life. That she gets to direct the play outdoors in such a community-friendly ven-ue is an added bonus.
“The thing about community theatre is that it’s open to everyone. You have people who have never
done Shakespeare, kids who are new to it and are so excited, and people who have been with Emer-ald Pig for years,” said Young. “But it’s fun in that fact that everyone pulls together.”
She said an example of that is the casting of deaf actor Jonathan Scott, playing the character off Time.
“There’s a beautiful scene where Time is using sign language to deliver his lines while it’s being dubbed over the speakers. It’s won-derful.”
She said the continued success of Emerald Pig comes from its volun-teers behind the scenes. With a cast close to 20 for this year’s produc-tion, the play relies on the count-less people donating their time to building sets and designing cos-tumes. Young said the dedication of everyone involved has an infec-tious spirit.
“It’s really inclusive of the whole community, from kids to seniors and everyone in between. We do it because we love it. We were out here Sunday all day and it was 38 degrees.”
Young said patrons are encour-aged to bring their own lawn chair or blankets. The Friends in Need Food Bank will be taking donations.
• For more information visit www.emeraldpig.ca.
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Tim Fitzgerald/THE NEWSGrant Vlahovic (left) joins Leanne Koehn, Derek Boe and Brooke Knudson in Emerald Pig’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: A Faerie Tale for a Summer’s Eve.
Tim Fitzgerald/THE NEWSArt instructor Maria Daley with the Piano in the Park.
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Maple Ridge Actor Ben Odberg is headed in the right direction as he pre-pares for the debut of The 39 Steps.
Odberg joins White Rock’s Peninsula Productions, July 8 to July 25 for the classic play that was adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and later adapted into the classic 1935 movie di-rected by Alfred Hitchcock.
Odberg joins fellow actors Cory Haas, Laura Caswell and Ashley O’Connell as they take on 139 different characters in the fast-paced whodunit.
In The 39 Steps, a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent
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Odberg is excited to finally get the chance to perform in the Hitchcock classic, a role he said he has wanted to play for years.
“It’s one of the funniest plays around and getting to take on all these differ-ent characters is a dream come true,” said Odberg, who is performing in his fourth production with Peninsula Pro-ductions.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students and seniors.
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The Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship is under way at Softball City in Surrey, and Maple Ridge’s softball fans watching national teams will have some locals to cheer for.
Larissa Franklin is an impact player for the senior women’s team, and this week Elizabeth Murphy was selected for the junior team.
She is a pitcher and first baseman for the White Rock Renegades, and was the MVP pitcher at the 2014 nationals.
The juniors play in the Futures Gold division of the Canadian Open Fast-pitch International Championship from July 3-12, before competing at the WBSC XI Junior Women’s World Softball Cham-pionship Aug. 9-15 in Oklahoma City, OK.
Murphy is going into Grade 12 at Maple Ridge secondary. Her goal is to win an NCAA athletic scholarship, and study engineering.
Another local, Rae Samuelson, was chosen an a team alternate.
Franklin finished her distinguished college ca-reer with the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers of
the NCAA as a two-time All-Region honoree and a three-time All-Conference selection. She is an outstanding slap hitter who batted .398 in 213 ca-reer games, while scoring 173 runs and stealing 91 bases. She tied WKU’s record for longest hit streak at 15 games.
And that has carried on this summer.The Canadian Women’s National Team earned a
fourth-place finish at the US World Cup of Soft-ball X (Irvine, California). Franklin hit .524 (11
for 21) to lead the team in batting average, and scored four runs in the seven games.
She earned a spot on the Junior Wom-en’s National Team in 2011, then joined the senior women’s nats in 2013. In 2014, Franklin started nine games for Team Canada at the ISF Women’s World Cham-pionship in Haarlem, Netherlands, fin-ishing second on the team with a .409 batting average.
The Open’s women’s international divi-sion began play Tuesday. Canada took on the NJCAA All-Stars Tuesday afternoon
while national squads from Japan, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Dominican Republic were also in action.
Canada returns to the field today (Wednesday) at 3 p.m., when they face Mexico at Softball City’s Diamond 1. Canada plays at least one game each day until Saturday, when playoff rounds begin. The championship is set for Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at Softball City.
Both local throwers with Dyna-mo Throws of Maple Ridge med-laled at the national junior cham-pionships in Edmonton over the weekend.
Natasha Akbarizadeh won the women’s hammer throw – her second national title in three years.
Her throw of 57.08 meters ranks her fourth all-time in Can-
ada for junior/under-20 women and earns her a spot on the Cana-dian national team that will com-pete at the Pan American Junior Championships, coming up July 29-31 in Edmonton.
Olivia Moriconi won bronze in the discus with a throw of 44.04 meters
Akbarizadeh had to have that one big throw. She put the first two attempts into the cage, so she had to get her third one in
bounds to move into the finals. She made some minor technical adjustments and she gathered herself and on her third throw went 57.08 m which ended up being the best throw of the day.
“She went in with pressure and expectation and came out on top,” said coach Bradley Graham.
“I’m very proud of her. She’s earned the right to wear the ma-ple leaf and will represent herself, club and country very well.”
THE NEWS/files Larissa Franklin has become a consistent slap hitter atop Team Canada’s batting order.
Another national titleNatasha Akbarizadeh
won the national
junior women’s hammer
throw over the
weekend, for her second
national title in three
years.
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Larissa Franklin with seniors, Elizabeth Murphy with juniors
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The Ridge Meadows Royals appeared to be on the verge of their second tournament title of the season over the weekend in Kamloops, but they could not hang on in the final game and
ended up placing second in the 10-team Kamloops Can-Am Classic.
The midget tournament began on Friday morning against the Calgary Dinos. Seth Injates had
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The Royals made a few costly mistakes and ended up on the wrong end of a 5-4 score in
nine innings.In the second game
of the day, the Royals bounced back with a 2-1 win over the North
Delta Jr. Blue Jays. Chris Bailey started and went 4.2 innings while striking out three. Tristan Reed picked
up the win in relief, al-lowing only a hit while fanning three.
On Saturday the Royals entered the
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came out hot as they mercied the Aldergrove Dodgers 10-0 in six innings. Trevor Big-gin dominated on the
mound for the Royals, allowing only two hits while striking out five.
The Royals’ fourth and final round-robin game saw them beat the Spruce Grove White Sox 5-4 in 10 innings. Injates drove in Domenic Baptista in the 10th to secure the walk-off win and a place in the semi-finals. Trevor Reed threw 7.2 innings allowing four runs while striking out six.
In Sunday morning’s semi-final the Roy-als shut out the White Rock Jr. Tritons 6-0. Bailey, in his second start of the tournament, was lights-out on the mound, throwing a complete game shutout while fanning seven.
Brayden Slaughter led the way offensively, going 3-4 with a pair of doubles and an RBI. Kyron Smith also had a strong game, go-ing 1-3 with two runs scored and a stolen base.
The championship was a rematch with Spruce Grove. Much like the day before, this game was a barn-burner that came right down to the final pitch between two solid teams. The Royals jumped out to an early lead and held a 4-0 advantage after four innings. Spruce Grove, much as the Royals had done the night before, fought back and tied the game 4-4 after five innings.
The Royals jumped back ahead and held a 5-4 lead going to the bottom of the seventh. However, the Royals could not hold on despite being a strike away from vic-tory, as the White Sox scored two runs to win by a final of 6-5.
Smith had a solid day at the plate, hitting a double and a triple with an RBI and a run scored.
The Royals will return to league play this week, with five games on the schedule.
Their magic number to clinch the regular season title is one, and they will have their first chance to secure their third pennant in five seasons with a win against Tri-City on Wednesday. The game is at 7 p.m. at Ham-mond Stadium.
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This individual will project a confi dent and professional image for Van-Kam. Applicants should have previous sales experience which demonstrates an ability to ‘grow the business’ and to seek creative solutions to transporta-tion issues. The successful individual will develop and imple-ment new business strategies that capture revenue, aiding in the growth and profi tability of the drayage market. We are seeking an individual with knowledge and experience in the transportation industry, in particular, the overseas container business - these individuals will be given preference.
The successful applicant must be self-motivated and have above average organizational, customer service and negotiation skills. In addition, you will have an excellent command of the English language (oral and written), be a self-disciplined team player, the ability to travel within the region, be goal oriented and have at least intermediate excel skills.
Excavator & Backhoe Operator Training. Be employable in 4-6wks. Call 604-546-7600. www.rayway.ca
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BLIND & DRAPERY INSTALLER. Must have own van. Criminal record check. Some ladder work. $2000+/month. Call 604-820-1679
.Flagpersons & Lane Closure Techs required. Must have reliable vehicle. Must be certifi ed & experienced. Union wages & benefi ts. Fax resume 604-513-3661 email: [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
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FLAGGERS NEEDED. No Certifi cation? Get Certifi ed, 604-575-3944
HOUSE PARENTS for Children’s Residence. Looking to contract a couple to support children in a live-in home setting. Go to www.inclusionpr.ca - careers for more information or 604.485.6411.
Landscaping Sales & Service Opportunities
Up To $400 CASH DailyF/T & P/T Outdoors. Spring /
Summer Work. SeekingHonest, Hard Working Staff.
www.PropertyStarsJobs.com
P/T Warehouse Worker/Store Clerk
Duties:D Provide excellent customerD Perform housekeeping duties D Cash register operationD Maintain the warehouse & yard in a neat & tidy fashion D Load cars & trucks with sacked feed, fertilizer, hay, twine, shavings, etc. D Other duties assigned
Qualifi cations:D Sales experienceD Grade 12 educationD Customer service skillsD Number & detailed oriented D Excellent communication skillsD Able to lift 50lbs repeatedlyD Must be available weekdays & weekendsD Forklift experience is desirable
If you are interested in becoming a member of our Team, please submit your resume to: [email protected]
or fax 604-465-0718 or apply in person
12343 Harris Rd. Pitt Meadows
160 TRADES, TECHNICAL
GPRC, Fairview Campus requires a Heavy Equipment Technician In-structor to commence August 15, 2015. Caterpillar experience will be an asset. Visit our website at:https://www.gprc.ab.ca/careers.
Pipe ForemanTraffi c Control Persons
TYBO CONTRACTING is quickly becoming an industry leader in the excavating & civil contract-ing business. Tybo is currently re-tained by some of the largest developers in B.C. We are cur-rently offering top wage & benefi t pkgs as well as opportunities for advancement. Email resumes to:
GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.
1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com
INCOME TAX PROBLEMS? Have you been audited, reas-sessed or disallowed certain claims by Canada Revenue Agency? Call Bob Allen @ 1-250-542-0295 35yrs. Income Tax experience, 8.5yrs. with Revenue Canada. Email: [email protected] C- 250-938-1944
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PERSONAL SERVICES
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LARGE FUNDBorrowers Wanted
Start saving hundreds of dollars today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mortgage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.
Call Anytime1-800-639-2274 or
604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
236 CLEANING SERVICES
HOUSEKEEPER AVAIL NOW.Taking new clients. Great Refs.Call anytime 1-604-302-9291
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www.benchmarkpainting.caCALL TODAY! 604-803-5041
Ask about our$99
ROOM SPECIAL
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TWO INDIVIDUAL OFFICES• 10’ X 8.5’ available• Includes heat, A/C & window
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
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
COLLIE DOODLE (collie x poodle) puppies, born June 12, specially created, ideal family dogs, intelli-gent, easy to train, good natured, gentle, good with animals & kids, low/no shed for hypoallergenic, will be med. size about 50lbs 23-24in tall, 1st shots, dewormed, male & female, black and rare blue merle, home raised with kids. $950.Mission, 604-820-4827
LAB GERMAN Shepherd Rottie cross pups, 4 females @ $545.00 ea, 4 males @ $495.00 ea, 3 black, 3 tan with black & 2 rottie col-our, vet checked, de-wormed. 8 weeks old. Phone 604-864-1004
MINI DACHSHUND puppies - born June 6, males & females, smooth coat, red. Raised by 13 yr old girl, well socialized. 1st shots & de-wormed, $850 (will go toward edu-cation fund) 604-820-4827 Mission.
P/B CANE CORSO PUPPIES, 1st shots, de-wormed, parents on site, ready to go! $1500. 604-802-8480.
STEEL BUILDINGS... “OUR BIG 35th ANNIVERSARY SALE” 20x20 $4500. 25x24 $5198. 30x30 $7449. 32x36 $8427. 40x46 $12,140. One end Wall included. Pioneer Steel1-800-668-5422www.pioneersteel.ca
MERCHANDISE FOR SALE
542 FRUIT & VEGETABLES
ALL Natural, No Spray, Blueberries. U-Pick/We pick. Tanoa Farms, Pitt Meadows. 604-897-6303/ 460-6408
548 FURNITURE
Oak Dining Room Suite - hutch, 6 chairs, 2 leaves - New condition -$1300: 4 pce oak bdrm suite, im-mac. condition- $300: Medical Bed - $300: (778)837-6983
REAL ESTATE
609 APARTMENT/CONDOS
ABBOTSFORD
ANCORA HOUSING SOCIETY
Non-Profi t Seniors Housing (55+)
2 bdrm. 850 sq. ft. Apt.Refund. Membership fee $55,000
Max. 2 people - No petsLow monthly maintenance fee
includes hydro. Close to hospital & all amenities.
Good Apartment SizesHeat SH/W S Parking 1 & 2 bdrm. Available
$810/mo. No Pets Ref’s & Credit check req’d
MAPLE RIDGE. 11671 Fraser St. 2 bdrm corner apt. with view on 3rd fl oor. 750 sq. ft. $850/mo. Avail. now. 604-945-7490
MAPLE RIDGE
1 & 2 Bdrms available $840/mo & $940/mo
Great LocationQueen Anne Apts.* Renovated Suites *
*Large *Clean *Very QuietIncludes: Heat, Hot Water
and HydroNear Shopping & Amenities.
SENIOR’S DISCOUNT
604-463-2236 604-463-7450
12186-224 St, Maple RidgeCertifi ed Crime Free Buildings
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.
741 OFFICE/RETAIL
R E A C HAdvertise across the lower mainland in the
17 best-read community newspapers.Call bcclassified.com at 604-575-5555
RENTALS
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
750 SUITES, LOWER
Maple Ridge 1 bdrm g/l ste, incl hy-dro & gas, new laminate fl oors, avail now. $750m. 604-367-7673
PITT MEADOWS, 2 bdrm suite, re-duced rent for basic household help. Ref’s & Criminal record check req’d. 604-537-4618
752 TOWNHOUSES
PITT 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
TRANSPORTATION
838 RECREATIONAL/SALE1990 FORD MOTOR HOME
27’ sleeps 6, excellent unit with 6 new tires. Must see. $7900. Call 604-768-6771 (Abbotsford)
845 SCRAP CAR REMOVALThe Scrapper
#1 FREE SCRAP VEHICLE REMOVAL
ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT $$$ PAID FOR SOME
604.683.2200
• Autos • Trucks• Equipment Removal
FREE TOWING 7 days/wk.We pay Up To $500 CA$H
Rick Goodchild 604.551.9022
847 SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES
2009 MAZDA TRIBUTEV6, totally loaded, incl: blue tooth,
back up camera. 98,100/km’s. $13,900. Text/Call 604-209-5530.
MAPLE RIDGE: Sat. July 11, 9am - 4pm. 21508 BERRY AVE. Lots of assorted goods, wedding decor, etc
MOVING SALE 8-3 SATURDAY, JULY 11, 23021 Foreman Drive. EVERYTHING MUST [email protected]
Pitt Meadows CLOSING OUT SALE
New Italian clothes under $19 A lot of household ~ $1 to $15
Friday,Saturday,Sunday 11am to 6 pm
#10-12350 Harris Road last unit in the bldg facing the
west Coast express train station
551 GARAGE SALES
604.463.416822390 Lougheed Hwy., Maple Ridge
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