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use of herbicides.
The purpose of the PMP is to describe the vegetation management
program in the FTSACA chart area in the Fraser Timber Supply Area.
Vegetation control methods in this plan include aerial foliar
spray, ground foliar spray (including backpack and power nozzle),
stem injection (hack and squirt), basal bark sprays, manual
girdling, power saw, stem bending and pulling and mechanical site
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communities of the Fraser Valley. There are numerous dwellings
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NEWS
POLITICS
DEithwins NDP nodCOLE [email protected]
Bob DEith, a former musician, entertain-ment lawyer, and
executive director of Music BC, will represent the New Democratic
Party in the Maple RidgePitt Meadows riding in this falls federal
election.
DEith was named as the candidate on May
3 after mem-bers of the local NDP riding asso-ciation voted.
Also running
was local environ-mentalist and author Jack Emberly.
Jack is a really good guy, and has a lot of great connections in
the community, said DEith.
This fall will be DEiths first time as federal candidate.>
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Tuesday, council announces plan to clean up Cliff Avenue.TROY
[email protected]
Its a hardscrabble existence, one where a peaceful sleep,
showering, and basic personal hygiene are luxuries.
And dignity can be hard to hold on to.
Its a life 59-year-old Bert Woldring and 18-year-old Kali
Chartrand are living, residing in a tent city set up along Cliff
Avenue across the street from Shepherds Hill Medical Clinic and
just south of The Caring Place.
Theres no break from it, Woldring said. Its 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. Everything you need youve got to carry with you.
Theres no safe place. You cant even sleep deeply because youre
outside, vulnerable, and some-body can set you on fire, kick you,
whatever.
Ive been set on fire before, Chartrand added.
Last week, Maple Ridge council approved $325,000 for an
integrated approach to deal with the issues around home-lessness,
with a focus on pro-viding outreach to help those suffering from
addiction and mental health issues and who have ended up on the
streets.
Theres work underway to ensure bylaw compliance around derelict
properties and targeting the criminal element, particularly the
drug culture, which preys on vulnerable people.
Meanwhile, the City is look-ing to break up the camp.
We will be ready to launch all facets of our task force
initiative within a few weeks, however in just under one week of
more relaxed enforce-ment a substantial camp has sprung up on a
roadway near one of the service providers in our community,
highlight-ing the very issues our task force is working to deal
with, Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read said.
We are in the process of informing the people [who] are
squatting on the street that they will need to pack up their
belongings and leave the area.Woldring has been homeless
for five months, and set up his tent on the side of Cliff Avenue
Tuesday night.
I realized when police were letting them [the homeless on Cliff
Avenue] know they had till eight oclock [Wednesday morning] to
leave, that were going to have a big problem, he said.
To tackle homelessness in Maple Ridge, Woldring said every
community member has to focus on creating solutions. Its not going
to happen until we all start working together to achieve that end,
he added.
Part of the solution is chan-ging the view on homeless people,
opined Chartrand, who noted that many look at the local homeless
like they are less than human.
Its really depressing how society has turned against people,
said Chartrand, who says she has been on the street since she was
16.
They see us as some other living creature, not just a human
being.
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development, parkland DCCs are collected from developers solely for
new residential developments in the community. In
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MAPLE RIDGE & PITT MEADOWS TIMESA6 Thursday, May 7, 2015
COMMUNITY
After 38 years as a community journalist, Bob Groeneveld
retires.TIMES editor Bob Groeneveld
has announced his retirement, handing over the reins to
long-time community journalist Roxanne Hooper.
After 38 years of liaising between community news-makers and
news readers, I decided it was time to explore some of my other
interests, Groeneveld said.
My garden has been getting short shrift the past couple of
years, he said, and my guitar and sax have been sitting far too
idle for far too long.
Groeneveld will step down as editor of the Maple Ridge &
Pitt Meadows TIMES and its sister paper, the Langley Advance at
end of day Friday, May 8.Hooper, who has been assist-
ant editor of The TIMES and the Advance since 2010, is moving
into the editors chair for both papers.
Bobs contributions to community journal-ism go further than most
of us can imagine, said Ryan McAdams, pub-lisher of both the TIMES
and the Advance.
Bobs retirement is a bittersweet day at the TIMES, and I
personally wish Bob and Donna all the best in this new chapter of
their life. Its not a goodbye its more of a See you soon.
The whole community thanks you for all you have shared over the
years, Bob.
McAdams was pleased to announce that Hooper accepted
the new post.Roxanne brings a lot of
experience and goodwill to the position, he said, and Im
confident that all of our readers will appreci-ate the commitment
that she has to community service.
Groeneveld said he was pleased to be suc-ceeded as editor by
Hooper, whom he first met when she started her career in newspapers
at the Advance in 1980.
I have a great deal of respect for Roxannes abilities as a
journalist and editor, and she has a tremendous understand-ing of
the concept of commun-ity, he said.
Hooper first began reporting in this community in 1990. >
Related column on page A8, and
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TIMES appoints new editor
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Wearing a taekwondo helmet for protection, two-and-a-half year
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BMX course.
Home showhailed a success
TIMES reporter Troy Landreville was on site this weekend for the
Ridge Meadows Home Show, and brings you a series of photos and a
story about the communitys single largest annual event, held last
weekend at Planet Ice and the Albion Fairgrounds.
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Witnesses and tips are being sought after a Maple Ridge house
was bombed early on May 4.
An incendiary devise was thrown through the win-dow of a home in
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a.m., said RCMP Insp. Dan Splinter.
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Renter laudedQuick thinking on
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Whonnockians lined the seats at City hall Monday afternoon at a
committee of the whole meeting, where two local environmentalists
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The greenhouse in question, owned by Tantalus Labs, has been a
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medical marijuana grow-ing operation, and not a sylvi-culture
facility, as Dan Sutton of Tantalus Labs initially indi-cated to
residents.
Mondays presentation largely focused on the risk the Tantalus
Labs installation could pose to the sensitive Grant-Hill
aquifer, which is the source of groundwater for much of
Whonnock.
Pointing to a well report undertaken by Tantalus Labs, Betty
revealed that the facilitys well was graded to pull about 27,000
gallons of water per day.
But, using figures from another legal growing oper-ation, she
argued that an instal-lation the size of the Tantalus Labs
greenhouse would have to pull closer to 500,000 gallons of water
per day, in order to operate at full capacity.
Sutton had previously said that if the company finds itself
short of water, it would look into drilling more wells on the
property, which was a cause
for concern for TAPS.There are no accurate ways
to predict how a heavy draw might impact the surrounding wells
on other property, said Betty.
City councillors reiterated their own frustrations with senior
levels of government, which largely control where and when the
sites can start growing, prompting a letter to the federal health
minister from the mayor of Maple Ridge last month.
In the letter, Nicole Read urged Health Canada to be more
forthcoming with infor-mation about potential medical marijuana
facilities.
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Clockwise from left: worried locals Klaus von Hardenberg, Dennis
Striefel, Tom McLennan, Mitch Jensen, Sylvie Jensen, Betty von
Hardenberg, and Birgit Mischke voiced concerns to council
Monday.
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Join us into the future
If youre a regular reader of the Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows
TIMES, you will probably have noticed a few changes by now. Weve
given ourselves a little bit of a facelift a nip here, a tuck
there, and a bit of a freshening-up all around.
None of this means that were going to stop doing what weve been
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of our continuing commitment of service to our community.
The changes in the printed version of your community newspaper
are intended to reflect both the changing communications
environ-ment that surrounds us all, as well as the way local news
gathering and disseminating continues to change.
In other words, we intend to keep providing our community with
information and the interactive forum that make newspapers
essential to a healthy community and well keep working on doing it
better.
The reality of community journalism over the past three decades
has taken our readers from mostly words printed on newsprint, into
the advent of black-and-white photojournalism, past an explosion of
colour, and then into the virtually unlimited internet, where we
pro-vide web-savvy readers with their local news at
www.mrtimes.com. First, a few hundreds of you turned our pages
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Our web-space reality is now augmented with our social media
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our communities journalism lexicon. The terrain may look a little
differ-ent, but this is not unfamiliar territory for community
journalism. The web and social media are just improved tools to do
what weve done all along. A healthy community stays in
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on its weaknesses.
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TIMES
How do you sum up 38 years as a com-munity newspaper reporter
and editor in the few lines offered by this meagre space?
The simple answer is, of course, you dont.
I arrived in the Fraser Valley after a few years of studying
agricultural science at UBC, where I had initially enrolled with an
eye to becoming a teacher.
I grew up on Vancouver Island in the Alberni Valley, at that
time a thriving, progressive fishing and logging community
dominated by sawmills and a world-class pulp mill.
My dad and all my oldest brothers worked in that pulp mill, and
they have all done well with their lives.
Nevertheless, it was not a future I envisioned for myself.
I discovered in my first year at school that I had a natural
bent for the written
word. I enjoyed learning each letter, and I loved the way they
came together to form words and captured thoughts.
My handwriting was abys-mal. It was the basis for many, many
nasty notes penned on report cards that were otherwise dominated by
glowing reviews of my fer-vour for reading.
But the reading was for me, none the less, all about writ-ing.
By the time I got through Fun With Dick and Jane, I
was thinking mostly about the people who wrote that stuff.
I wanted to be one of those people.But the world I was in then
was far
different from the one were in now. In those days, as you got
into high school, your career options grew progressively
narrower.
And the only serious career options I had been exposed to by the
time I got to Grade 12 were working in the mill, like
my dad and brothers, or going into educa-tion and emulating some
of my favourite teachers.
Its funny. My mother was always proud of the marks I brought
home, and she bragged that I was on the univer-sity track at
school. But forever after I announced I was not going to work in
the pulp mill, but would go to university to be a teacher, her
favourite derogation for me when I got her angry (I was a
teen-ager) was a derisively intoned, Student!
I did work in the mill. I worked there for a year and ensuing
summers to make money to go to university.
And after I was done with UBC (or more accurately, after UBC was
done with me) I worked as a construction labourer before stumbling
into a job as a reporter at the Langley Advance.
Jim Schatz, then editor, publisher, and owner of the Advance,
cautioned me at the outset of my job interview, Youd better love
this work, and youd better love to write, because its not about the
money youre not going to get rich
in this business, but if youre unlucky enough that the printers
ink gets into your blood, you cant find a better way to make a
living.
Within a week, my blood was saturated with that dastardly
ink.
I had found my niche purely by acci-dent, only because Jim was
the father of a friend I had made in 4-H.
Not only was I blessed with the oppor-tunity to write for a
living, but better still, it was exactly the writing that I
realized I had always wanted to do.
I got to meet and talk with and write about people I would not
otherwise have met, in all corners of the community.
Nearly five years ago, I was hauled into my publishers office
and told that I would thenceforth be editor of the Advance and the
Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows TIMES.
The position came with a raise whose size only confirmed Jims
earlier caution.
But it also came with Roxanne Hooper as my assistant editor now
your editor.
Im leaving you in good hands.
Chance opportunity parlayed into 38 years of writing
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Dear Editor,Dumping of garbage
on urban and rural roadsides and pull-outs is a continual
problem.
In the past two months, at the park-ing area at 28101 Dewdney
Trunk Road, an area accessed by the public for recrea-tion and
enjoyment of our great outdoors,
has had no less than 10 loads of personal and light construction
materials dumped.
That site is by no means the only one.
Occasionally, con-cerned citizens such as a group of parents and
staff of SD42 Maple Ridge Environmental School take their own time
and do a clean up: thank you!
Otherwise, it is left to adjacent land man-agers or owners to
clean up.
The most recent dumps at this location occurred sometime on
March 24 and 25. One of the loads had personal papers and
photographs in a plas-tic container. Most documents are dated
1980-90s and some much earlier, and are also from Quebec.
It appears to be estate-related, either dumped by a trash
hauler, or perhaps a family member.
Another of the dumps had remnant
painting materials, possibly dumped by a renovation
contractor.
For those of us who put effort and pride in keeping our outdoor
free of this trash, con-sider the frustration when days after
effort has been put into cleaning up, it is back to the same old
stuff again!
This is a much wider issue that affects the community as a
whole, and as such deserves leadership and direction from community
and prov-incial bodies!
Jonathan Smyth, Maple Ridge
Illegally dumped garbage affects whole community
Letters on this page have been edited for space. For longer
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Anti-vaxxers unfair to othersDear Editor,
I am sorry Mr. Smith has had bad experiences with doctors
[Vaccination personal choice, April 30 Letters, TIMES], and I agree
they can seem more concerned with fixing rather than preventing,
perhaps due to their traditional training, exacerbated by the
pressures of too many patients and too few doctors.
There is, however, a flood of poorly supported information out
there, and one needs to read carefully and to note where the
information is coming from: read, but read critically.
I also have investigated a bit, and believe that
anti-vaccination fears are not borne out by sci-entific literature.
The dangers of vaccination are far outweighed by the benefits.
In the end, you are responsible for your fam-ilys health, but it
is unwise and unfair to the rest of us to refrain from
vaccinating.
Paul Gregory, Maple Ridge
Facebook feedback
The supreme court in India recently upheld convictions of three
men charged in the mur-der of a Maple Ridge woman in 2000, a
killing allegedly arranged by her mother and uncle.This poor girl
was killed by the person she should have been able to trust the
most, her mother, in 2000! Fifteen years later and proper justice
still has not been served! There is something seriously wrong with
our justice system. Come on Canada, do whats right for once and
extradite these horrible people back to India!
Jennifer Crewe
They should pay for their crimes. Todd Hill
Ship em back pronto. Alvin Cohen
I worked with Jassi for a short while and I remember how kind
and sweet she was. Breaks my heart. I want justice for her.
Melanie Williams
Ship the animals back. Tom Manion
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Dear Editor,On our regular dog walks,
part of my route is along the half-kilometre trail in North
Cottonwood Park between Abernethy Way and 121B Ave.
Every single day I walk this trail, I see many brightly
col-oured plastic bags in yellow, black, blue, and white along the
edge of the trail and in the trees. Every single bag appears to
contain dog waste.
Today, I spotted three bags. Three entrances to this trail
one at the north end, one at the south end, and one in the
middle, by the basketball court on 238B Ave. Each entrance has a
municipally supplied trash container.
Why do some dog owners (a small minority, Im sure) go to the
trouble of collecting their pets waste and then leave it on the
trail or toss it into the bush, instead of carrying the bag an
extra 20 feet to deposit it in a trash container?
They (and we) would prob-
ably be better off if they did not bother with the bag and just
pushed the waste into the bush, where it would be washed away with
the rain and those who enjoy walking the trail would not be subject
to the array of plastic bags.
I am sure some of these inconsiderate pet owners believe the
world revolves around them, but it does not!
Places like this trail and public walking areas in our community
and others are not your personal waste-dump-ing grounds. Pet owners
who find it a chore to clean up after their pets should consider
those of us who pay taxes, and are entitled to waste-free walk-ing
trails.
Otherwise we may face a proposal like the one in Coquitlam,
requiring pet owners to flush their pets waste down a toilet.
Mind you, that would not affect owners who just seem not to
care. It would just make it harder on those of us pet owners who
do.
K .Kahle, Maple Ridge
Bagged poop worse than bushed waste
Dear Editor,Is anyone else as angry as I
am over the Mayors Council using more than $6,000,000 in
advertising, trying to tell us that there is no plan B?
They are our tax dollars, despite them saying it is not new
money because it was already in TransLinks budget.
The question is, what was it earmarked for, or was a slush fund,
and then, why?
Dont be scared into vot-
ing yes (while holding your nose, as Jacky Chow has sug-gested).
There will be a plan B, you can count on that.
TransLink has forfeited its reason for existence, with all its
bungling. Outrageous wage and benefit packages, voted on by
themselves, must be rescinded, by voting them down
convincingly.
So, if you have not yet voted, do so with a resounding NO.
Walter Verwoerd, Maple Ridge
TransLink forfeits reason to be
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2015
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Among the cutest: The TIMES and Ridge
Meadows Home Show ran the inaugural Cutest
Dog contest, and received close to 50 local entries.
While each is a winner, heres a sampling of those
submissions, including Chooey (right). The rest are online.
Thanks to everyone for entering. Start snapping
those pictures now, for next years contest.
MAPLE RIDGE & PITT MEADOWS TIMES Thursday, May 7, 2015
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Faces & PlacesGot photos? Do you have a local photo of
someone or some place youd like to share with the rest of Maple
Ridge and Pitt Meadows? Email it to us as a high-resolution JPEG to
[email protected]. Please include a brief description,
including everyones first and last name. Put Faces & Places in
the subject line of your email.
Meet Beezuzu.
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cutest dog
CONTEST
Cutest canine crownedMeet Baxter Schick.ROXANNE
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Meet Baxter.This little gaffer has earned
the distinguished title of being this communitys 2015 Cutest
Dog, and as such was invited to walk the runway Saturday at the For
The Love of Dogs Show during the Ridge Meadows Home Show.
Amid applause and awes from the audience, he and his sister
Karen Horne had a few minutes in the spotlight.
But it was actually Baxters story of how he came to be in Maple
Ridge to live with Hornes mother Sandy Schick that was the most awe
inspiring for those who visited with Baxter at the subsequent
meet-and-greet after the show.
He is a rescue dog from Alberta, and when Schick decided to
adopt another dog after loosing her four-legged friend Winston
eight months earlier she honestly had her heart set on another
maltipoo.
So, imagine her surprise when the rescue group told her the
wrong dog had been shipped, and her maltipoo was on its way to
Manitoba.
Despite the mixup, Schick agreed to foster this little dog while
Sagebrush Dog Rescue tracked down her dog.
It was only supposed to be a temporary arrangement. But within
an hour of meeting and playing with Baxter, Schick agreed to be the
adoptive rather than foster mother.
Turns out two dogs were set to be shipped out to new homes that
day from Alberta, and a little girl who later confessed her sins to
her priest switched out the col-lar and shipping tags.
That little white maltipoo that was supposed to come to Maple
Ridge ended up going to a sick little girl in Manitoba who had also
wanted him.
Well, the girl got her wish, and ultimately, so did Schick.
The six-month-old terrier cross is now a member of the Schick
family, and Sandy and Baxter are almost inseparable.
Baxter Schick gave Emma Horne, 11, kisses Saturday, during his
moment of stardom.
Meet Frank and Alice Sherwoods grandson Lincoln.
Meet Clover.
Meet Sunny, a therapy dog that works with adults and
children.
Meet Ruby.
Meet Spike.
Meet Brennan.
Meet Nacho Business
(Nacho for short).
Meet Blu.
Meet Angus.
Meet Breeze.
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BUSINESS
During the month of May, Maple Ridge Hyundai will be donating
$100 per vehicle sold to the Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation for
new equipment.
The goal of Operation 100 is to sell 100 vehicles in 30 days,
resulting in a donation of $10,000.
As an added incentive for buyers, all cars, trucks and SUVs are
marked down by thousands to guarantee the business reaches its
target.
Supporting the local com-munity is important to our business,
said John Kot, president of Maple Ridge Hyundai.
After a successful first year of business under our management,
the residents of Maple Ridge have been nothing but welcoming and we
look forward to giv-ing back,
Kot said he understands how important it is to have proper
medical care, as his daughter has been affected by heart problems
consistently since birth.
Having the ability to help our community provide a higher level
of health care for all families will help everyone through an
already difficult time in their life, said John.
LUNCH AND LEARN
The Chamber of Commerce serving Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows is
hosting a Lunch and Learn business information session, next
Wednesday, May 13.
The event takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the North
Fraser Business
Innovation Accelerator Office, located at 22470 Dewdney trunk
Rd., the title of the session is Priority Management with Danny
Kerr.
The goal of the seminar is to have par-ticipants leave with a
break-down of year-end goals, and how to fill
their agenda with items that hit that goal.
The seminar is open to everyone, and is compliment-ary for
chamber members, or $10 for non-members.
As a sort of save-the-date
aside, Ill also let you know that the next chamber BizNiz Mixer
takes place at the best Western Maple Ridge, 21650 Lougheed Hwy.,
from 5 to 7 p.m., two weeks from today, on Thursday, May 21.
Admission is also free with membership, or $10 for non-members.
WORK HERE OPENS
Maple Ridges newest professional co-work-ing space is now open,
in the form Of Work Here. The space is located at 200-22674 Dewdney
Trunk Rd. A range of memberships can be purchased, and the business
offers things like free printing, unlimited coffee, free wifi, and
the chance to network with other businesses and build connection in
the community.
Get all the goods at www.work-here.ca, or visit them on
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Department to their core.
Petti, from Pitt Meadows, and Anderson, a Maple
Ridge resident, were among 12 firefight-ers from Canada who
travelled to the coun-try, which was hit by a magnitude 7.8
earth-quake on April 25. The death toll there
has surpassed 7,500 with countless others missing or
injured.
Joining Petti and Anderson from April 27 to May 2 were Maple
Ridge residents Steve Leslie, Dave Samson, and Rob Hourigan, and
Pitt Meadows resident Niel Stevenson, all with the Burnaby Fire
Department.
Led by their union, IAFF Local 323, the crew volunteered to
travel to Nepal, with some expenses coming out of their own
pock-ets, however Cathay Pacific paid for their airfare.
Their mandate was to search and locate, Petti said.
We went in with search dogs and we would try to locate bodies,
or people who were alive, possibly, he said. The dogs could signal
whether [people] were alive or dead. If we got the signal they were
alive then we would dig for them. Almost all the signals we got
were for dead [bodies].
The group used search cameras attached to a 11-foot rods that
could be maneuvered through tight spaces, as well as Delsar
LifeDetectors, seismic/acoustic lis-tening devices that detect and
locate live victims trapped in col-lapsed structures.
They are a bunch of little pucks that go out on the rubble and
you can interpret the sounds that come back through it, Petti
explained.
The team marked the buildings they searched, and heavy
machinery was used to break through the rubble to find
bodies.
They did manage to find a chicken coop and saved a few
chick-ens, Petti said.
We never actually found any people who were alive, Petti added.
We did mark a lot of scenes where people had passed
away. We were able to locate them.
Larger scaleIn Pettis case,
this was his second deployment to a disas-ter zone.
In July 2013, he joined a team from the department in High
River, Alta., to help out flood victims there.
But the damage done by the fast-mov-ing floodwaters in High
River paled in comparison to what happened in Nepal, where villages
have been flattened and structures reduced to rubble.
In Kathmandu, entire buildings had collapsed and many of the
buildings that were still standing suf-fered cracks and struc-tural
damage.
It was an over-whelming situation, Petti said. The level of
destruction that was there was some-thing Ive never seen before.
You see the pictures on the news but when you actually see it in
real life, the destruction it almost stuns you.
Were emergency responders and weve seen a lot of things, but
that much [dam-age] is something that none of us would expect to
see, of course, Anderson added.
Just the scale of it was bigger than any of us have ever seen.
Weve all seen, on a smaller scale, building collapses and large
emergen-cies, but when a citys impacted like that, its something
that youd never anticipated.
Petti said after visit-ing Nepal, he has a for what he has in
Canada.
Its like night and day, he said, compar-ing Canada to Nepal,
especially after the earthquake.
They have so little, and then to have this on top of that is
devastating. But the people there are so resilient. To see them
devastated like that and to see them come back so strongly and so
quickly, it gives you a sense that you can always do better.>
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NATURAL DISASTER
Local firefighters see stunning damage in Nepal
Maple Ridges Kris Anderson and Pitt Meadows Doug Petti were
among the contingent from the Burnaby Fire Department who travelled
to Nepal on a search and locate mission.
Left: The damage inflicted by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in
Nepal was unlike anything the local firefighters have ever
seen.
MAPLE RIDGE & PITT MEADOWS TIMES Thursday, May 7, 2015
A13NEWS
The damage inflicted by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal was
unlike anything the firefighters have ever seen.
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COMMUNITY
GRANT
Shelter lives on
A series of dona-tions and now an infusion of prov-incial money
are allowing the youth safe house in Maple Ridge to keep
oper-ating, albeit in a different form.
Iron Horse Youth Services morphed into a day program back in
February, after federal fund-ing for the local program dried and
the 24/7 emergency shelter for youth had to be closed.
On April 29, local MLA Doug Bing presented Iron Horse with a
$27,000 transition grant.
The cash infusion, coupled with support from private donors will
keep Iron Horse running as is, while executive director Stephanie
Ediger hopes to transition back to an over-night shelter.
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A real bamboo set, a host of massive (costumed) gor-illas, the
music of Phil Collins, and a cast of almost 50 teens between the
ages of 14 and 18 will come together this May to recreate the story
of Tarzan, live at The ACT.
Welcome to the jungle, indeed.
The production represents eight months of hard work on the part
of Xtreme Theatres senior group, who started rehearsing for Tarzan
last September, said Wendy Holm, artistic director of the show.
This is our biggest under-taking so far, said Holm of the
massive production. We wanted to be very authentic to the way it
was put on on Broadway, she added.
Xtreme Theatre, now in its 16th year, is a theatre group for
children and teens who are homeschooled.
While the group is still ama-teur (the actors are not paid),
Holm said the level of commit-ment for these students is well above
the average community theatre group.
Forty-eight students form the cast of Tarzan, but the
produc-tion was bolstered by an array of parent volunteers, who
chipped in by building sets, designing costumes, or work-ing on
technical elements of the show, said Holm.
Just the fringe on one of the costumes took about five hours,
and we had to make 50, said Holm.
This is a cooperative if your children are involved, youre
expected to chip in as a volunteer, added Holm.
As far as what audiences can expect in the production, Holm said
the show follows largely the same plot as the Disney film, with
more added musical numbers.
The senior production of Tarzan marks the end of the 2015 season
for Xtreme, which will begin once again in September, running
programs for minis (eight and under), juniors (eight to 14) and
sen-iors (14 to 18).
The junior production of My Son Pinocchio Jr. took the stage at
The ACT last month, and was a big hit with audiences, said Holm,
who called it the best junior production weve ever put on.
Tarzan is on stage at The ACT from May 13 to 16, with nightly
shows at 7 p.m. and a matinee on May 16 at 2 p.m. Tickets are
available online at www.theactmapleridge.org or by calling 604 476
2787.
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ALS took Michael Sands life the afternoon of Thursday, Jan.
15.
To the very end, his wife Nadine says, it couldnt take his
spirit.
She said the Maple Ridge husband, dad, and grandfather lived as
fully as he could, to his last breath.
Michael was the inspiration behind Nadines recently published
book, Hold On, Let Go: Facing ALS with courage and hope, and it has
a message: Sometimes life is good and some-times its not. Either
way, keep smiling, keep trying, and keep looking up.
Easier said than done sometimes, but this is how Mike lived,
Nadine said late Saturday, April 4, a few hours after sup-porters
lined up inside the Save-On-Foods at Valley Fair Mall for a book
signing.
It was pretty incredible. He never gave up, he smiled a lot, and
he had an awesome attitude and a strong faith in God. He gave
thanks for every day and if he lived to see the next one, he
counted it as icing on the cake.
Nadine described her first ever pub-lished book as a stay
positive in difficult times story about Michael who was diagnosed
with ALS in March 2011 and his familys journey as he battled the
terminal illness.
Its about giving thanks in every cir-cumstance, having faith,
being hopeful and bottom line, its about love, Nadine said.
Amyotrophic lateral sclero-sis (commonly referred to as ALS, and
also known as Lou Gehrigs Disease) is a progressive neuro-muscular
disease in which nerve cells die and leave voluntary muscles
paralyzed.
According to ALS Canada, every day, two or three Canadians die
of the disease.
Michael spent the
final two nights of his life at Ridge Meadows Hospital.
Nadine finished her book in late September 2014, and even though
her husband passed roughly four months later, she was able to put
Michaels obituary on the very last page while it was still in the
typesetting stage.
Nadine wrote about the last days of Michaels life in her blog
post.
The blog post is called Greener on the Other Side and can be
found on her web-site at alswithcourage.com.
ALS took away a man who was very active, an avid run-ner who
played ball hockey and soccer, said Nadine, who
met Michael through mutual friends.
He lived in a big house with a bunch of guys, and one of those
guys was a friend of mine, she recalled. Mike was working two jobs
as a regis-tered nurse when he was diagnosed with ALS.
The first signs of the disease started to show about eight
months before Michael was diagnosed with ALS on March 7, 2011.
He felt muscle twitching in his arm and chest and after that
lost the strength in his right hand.
The diagnosis was devastating. Michael was told he likely had
two years to live, maybe five at most.
He lived for four years after the diag-
nosis, so he actually did well, although of course it, seemed so
fast, Nadine shared.
Michael leaves behind three children and one granddaughter.
His and Nadines
daughter Erin is 26, their son Nathan is 24 and their daughter
Madison is 21.
Their granddaughter Leah (Nathans child), is six.
The family remains positive.
It was hard to be sad or discouraged around Mike. He was so
strong and he never complained. He kept us laughing and smil-ing
until the end, Nadine said.
We have a strong
faith in God who enabled us, and poured out an abun-dance of joy
in the middle of our sorrow.
Moving forward liv-ing without Michael is a day-by-day effort
for Nadine and her family.
I always say, We are doing okay, speaking for all of us. Im
always on the verge of tears, but most of the time you will find me
laughing or smiling, Nadine said.
The sorrow and joy Nadine writes about in her blog and book is
just as present as ever.
Sometimes I say, Im really sad today and sometimes I hear it
from one of the kids or my sister, she said.
For me, its usually at night, when I go to my bedroom alone.
Thats when I feel it the most.
continued on page A18
WRITING
Book shares Maple Ridge couples journey with ALS
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Maple Ridge author Nadine Sands visited with supporters as she
signed copies of her recently published book Hold On, Let Go:
Facing ALS with courage and hope at Valley Fair Mall on Saturday,
April 4.
A local mom shares, in writing, her personal journey with her
late husband Michael, who passed
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MOTHERS DAY
For those looking for a fresh Mothers Day weekend activity or a
place to get the perfect gift, it might be worth heading to
Memorial Peace Park in Maple Ridge on Saturday.
Its where the weekly Haney
Farmers Market kicks off its 2015 season from 9 a.m. to 2
p.m.
We welcome new farmers Ossome Acres and Wandering Row, said the
markets execu-tive director Eileen Dwilles.
Three wineries and one distil-lery have interesting tastes to
try.
Theres also live music, and a celebratory cake cutting at 11
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A local Mothers Day weekend event returns again this yeart.
ERIC [email protected]
Every year on Mothers Day weekend, artists and artisans from
Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows open their creative sanctuaries to
visitors.
The Art Studio Tour is a veritable treasure hunt of arts
(contemporary and traditional) presented by both established and
emerging artists.
Painters, potters, jewelers, sculptors, fabric artists and more
all participate in the two-day event, and the tour is a unique
opportunity to meet the artists, explore the stories behind their
art, and gain insight into their creative process as well as their
work environment.
Thirty six artists are par-ticipating in this years event, which
is a record number, explained tour coordinator, Kerry McLaren.
Were all excited, and everyones in their studios cleaning,
painting, and prepar-ing, she said.
The free tour, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., fea-tures
artists from Pitt Meadows all the way to Whonnock, and because the
tour is self-guided, there is no set route people must follow.
To participate, people can simply pick up a map online at
www.artstudiotour.ca, the Maple Ridge Library, the Pitt
Meadows Library, the Tourism Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows
office, Little Cricket Gift Gallery, and The ACT.
Holding the event on Mothers Day weekend has a been a popular
draw for fam-ilies looking to do something a little bit different,
whether its a family taking mom on the tour, or vice-versa.
We see all kinds of smiling faces, said McLaren.
More tour information is available on the website.
TOUR
Art studios opening doors
TIMES files
Pitt Meadows artist Daisy Randall displayed her work last
year.
Writing healing for Sands continued from page A18
Writing has been a form of catharsis for Nadine, and continues
to be very therapeutic on the other side of MIchaels passing.
Nadine said she is so grateful for the outlet, and for all her
blog readers, and now, her book readers.
In the introduction of the book, Nadine wrote about how at one
time she told Michael that she was going to write some-thing
someday and how he encouraged her.
Little did I know he was the some-thing I was going to write
about, Nadine remarked.
Hold On, Let Go: Facing ALS with cour-age and hope is avail-able
on amazon.com and at www.influence-publishing.com.
Nadines most recent book signing was this past Saturday at Ts
Once Upon a Tea Leaf, which has also released a tea inspired by
Michael called To the Moon and Back.
Three dollars from every jar will be donated to ALS research in
Michael Sands name.> More at mrtimes.com,
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This month at The ACTMaple Ridge Art GalleryConversations with
Nature Janet DwyerMay 2 July 4, 2015Using high resolution scanning
technology, award-winning photographer, Janet Dwyer, captures
botanical and nature scenes with a distinct painterly touch.
Opening ReceptionSaturday, May 2 - 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.With live music
by guitarist, Allan MacKinnon.
Youth Talent NightMonday, May 4 - 7:00 p.m. The Youth Talent
Night is a night lled with all sorts of performances from guitar
solos, to dance routines to magic tricks!
Hairspray Jr.Presented by Showstoppers Academy of Performing
ArtsMay 8 -9 - 7:00 p.m.The 1950s are out and change is in the air!
HAIRSPRAY JR. the family-friendly musical piled bouffant high with
laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs is adapted from the
Original Broadway Version. CRE8 Youth Arts DaySaturday, May 9 10:00
a.m. 4:00 p.m.This year participants can choose 2 workshops, from
Special Effects Make-up to DJing, Hip Hop and more! CRE8 lls up
fast Register online now! Ages 13-17
TarzanPresented by Xtreme Theatres Senior StudentsMay 13 - 16The
Stage Musical Based on the Disney Film
Buddy Holly & Fab FoureverMonday, May 25 - 7:30 p.m.The
concert will present the music of Buddy Holly and how it affected
the Beatles career featuring all the early Beatle hits.
Felice Womens Choir PresentsVoices in BloomWednesday, May 27
7:30 p.m.This community based choir pursues excellence in
performance and celebrates a varied repertoire from classical to
folk and pop.
Meditation in the GalleryFriday, May 29 9:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m.Well
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your gaze and a place where no ones going to interrupt you for an
hour. Self-guided, bring your own mat to be comfortable.
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> SPORTS EXTRAS Go to www.mrtimes.comBurrards host Barn
Burner tournament
The fourth annual Ridge Meadows Burrards Barn Burner midget
lacrosse tournament takes place this weekend at Planet Ice. Teams
from Langley, Saanich, Coquitlam, Delta, and Juan de Fuca are all
scheduled to participate.
Search Burrards at: www.mrtimes.com
Fishing for historyTIMES columnist and fishing enthusiast
Jeff
Weltz continues his series on the history of fly fishing in
North America. This week, he talks about the accidental discovery
of a new species in California in the late 19th century, resulting
from a failed hatchery venture that would forever change the
tastes, so to speak, of fly fishers for all time.
Search Weltz at: www.mrtimes.com
Its all good for 2015 golf season
Metro Vancouver golf course operators - including at Swan-e-set
Bay in Pitt Meadows are expecting the upcoming season to be a
bounce-back year, after what turned out to be smoking good start to
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Katelyn Erhardsen, a Grade 12 student at Samuel Robertson
Technical Secondary, has received an athletic scholarship to Simon
Fraser University.
A Maple Ridge high school soccer player is preparing to take the
next step in her athletic career.
ERIC [email protected]
Seventeen-year-old soccer player Katelyn Erhardsen has a dream.
I would love to play for the national team, she said.A soccer
player since the age of four, Erhardsen
is a Grade 12 student at Samuel Robertson Technical Secondary,
and is taking the next step in making her dream closer to a
reality: she recently received an athletic scholarship to Simon
Fraser University, to be part of the soccer team, beginning this
fall.
Im really excited, she said.SFU is classified as an NCAA
Division II school, meaning shell be able to remain in Canada
for her edu-cation which Erhardsen said was an important factor and
still have the opportunity to travel all over the U.S. for games
and tournaments, thereby increasing her exposure, and level of
competition.
It will also give her family the opportunity to come watch her
games when the team plays at home.A multi-sport athlete, whose
other interests
include basketball and volleyball, Erhardsen cred-ited her two
older brothers with helping to instill in her a passion for the
game of soccer.
Both my brothers played soccer, so Id always watch them play,
she explained. I think its because of them that I really got into
it, and Ive just loved it forever.
Growing up with soccer siblings played a factor in developing
her desire to win.
They never took it easy on me, because they didnt want to lose
to their little sister, so I think that made me better too, she
said.
The opportunity to play for SFU also means Erhardsen will be in
somewhat familiar territory when it comes to actually playing the
game.
She explained she began her soccer career play-
ing with a local club team, then joined a spring league, was
then connected to a high-performance league team, played with them
for two seasons, and finally, was selected to play for the
Whitecaps girls elite team, which she has just finished a two-year
stint with.
The SFU field is our practice field, so I practiced with the
Whitecaps out there, she explained.
But balancing full-time school with what essentially was a
full-time commitment to soccer, was no cakewalk.Its about a 45
minute drive one way to the
field, and practices can run up to two-and-a-half hours, so it
takes a good chunk out of my day, she said.
Not only that, Erhardsen was also involved with school sports,
which took up more time.
I had a lot of late nights finishing my home-work, studying for
tests and stuff like that, but it seems to have worked out, she
remarked, adding that despite all the extra-curricular
com-mitments, she is still, for the most part, a straight-A
student.
There have been some tests of char-acter for her along the way
as well.
I tried out for Team BC when I was younger, and was told the
only reason I didnt make it was because I wasnt tall enough, she
said. That was
awful for me to hear, but it also made me work harder, get
better, and become stronger.
So much so in fact, that in the following years, Erhardsen was
accepted on to the U15 and U16 teams, and we went to nationals in
Halifax, she said.
In fact, travel has been a big part of her soccer career
already.Soccers given me the chance to travel all over the States,
as well as Canada, she said, list-ing off places shes played which
included Las Vegas, San Diego, and Florida.
Soccers done a lot for me, and given me so much, she said. Ive
grown up with it, and thats all I know.
Erhardsen has learned some valuable life lessons from the game
as well.
Soccer taught me the meaning of commitment, she said. To put
this much time and effort into something, it has to be your
passion.
SOCCER
SRT player readies for SFU
Soccer has taught me the meaning of commitment.Katelyn
Erhardsen
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