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Fox still inspiresA 14-year-old Pitt Meadows girl, who wasn’t even alive when Terry Fox died, is so inspired by the Canadian legend that she will join hundreds for Sunday’s fundraising walk.

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Hundreds are expected to run, walk, or stroll – starting from Pitt Meadows Spirit Square this Sunday.

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Terry Fox, a Canadian hero, died on June 28, 1981, 20 years before Elise Muller was born.

Even so, Fox continues to be an example for 14-year-old Elise, whose parents Eric and Lorie are avid runners.

“He’s inspiring,” Elise said, of Fox. “When I run with my mom and I have a cramp, my mom says to me, ‘Remember Terry Fox: he ran through everything.’”

Fox’s story is woven into the fabric of Canadian culture.

Despite having his right leg amputated six inches above the knee in 1977, Fox started his run to raise funds for cancer research in St. John’s, Nfld., on April 12, 1980.

Fox ran close to 42 kilometres a day through Canada’s Atlantic provinces, Quebec, and Ontario.

But on Sept. 1, 1980 after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres, Fox was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ont., because cancer had appeared in his lungs.

Ten months later, the cancer that took Fox’s leg also claimed his life.

He was 22.Fox’s legacy lives on through Terry Fox

Runs held throughout the world. To date, more than $650 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research in Terry’s name through the annual run.

This Sunday, Sept. 20, the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Terry Fox Run starts and finishes at Pitt Meadows Spirit Square for the first time ever, to mark the 35th anni-versary of Fox’s Marathon of Hope.

Participants have three routes to choose

from: one, five, or 10 kilometres and they can ride, roll, or stroll, all to raise funds for cancer research.

Those doing the longest route will trek to Hammond Park in Maple Ridge before returning to Spirit Square.

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. at Spirit Square at 12027 Harris Road, with the opening ceremonies getting underway at 10 a.m.

There is no minimum registration fee and all donations are welcome.

To register in advance, visit www.terry-fox.org.

Elise and her family are helping local committee chair Ali Wakeling organize the run.

Wakeling has a deep, personal connec-tion to cancer; her husband Sandy was diagnosed with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor, a relatively rare form of sarcoma.

Sarcoma is a type of cancer that develops from certain tissues, like bone or muscle.

After her husband died on July 27, 2013, Wakeling decided to do all she could to raise funds and awareness in the fight against cancer.

“I think it’s a motivating factor, for sure,” Wakeling said, about her husband’s cancer battle. “We were involved with the Terry Fox Run before Sandy was ever diagnosed with cancer. I grew up in Port Coquitlam, so I was 10 years old when

Terry was doing the Marathon of Hope, and it had an impact on me, as a kid.”

She added, “Of course, I’m highly motivated. If I could singlehandedly get out there and find a cure, I would do it, but this is the best thing I could do.”

The fundraiser is an emotional time for Wakeling, because of Sandy as well as Terry Fox.

“As a teacher, when we teach kids about Terry Fox, I’m weeping every year, in the gym,” Wakeling said. “It’s an emo-tional story. His passion is contagious.”

Wakeling has been touched by cancer in many ways. She lost her husband, father, and very close friends to the disease.

And the battle continues: “I know people who are fighting right now – friends who are fighting right now. This is for them and it’s also for my kids and myself. Cancer doesn’t play fair. You never know.”

Wakeling referenced a famous quote from Fox, in which his brother Fred asked him “Why did this have to happen to you?”

Fox answered,”Why not me?”“I think that is important for everybody

to remember, and if that’s not enough to get people out here, rain or shine, if a per-sonal connection is not enough, then ‘why not me?” Wakeling elaborated. “It could be anybody. It could be you, it could be your child, your parent, your spouse. When 84 cents on every dollar [raised] goes to cancer research, that is the differ-ence.”

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Canadian hero’s resolve inspires effort

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Modelling the 2015 Terry Fox Run t-shirts at Pitt Meadows Spirit Square (the site of the start/finish of the Sept. 20 fundraiser for Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows) are, foreground left to right: Sebastien Wakeling along with Brady and Parker Campbell, and, back row left to right: local Terry Fox Run committee chair Ali Wakeling with Eric and Elise Muller.

TERRY FOX RUNAnnual fundraiser for cancer research

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The Prime Minister spent an afternoon with party supporters.

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As the Rolling Stones’ classic, Gimme Shelter’s familiar lyrics filled the Sky Helicopters hang-ar at the Pitt Meadows Airport, Conservative party supporters waited eagerly to hear what Prime Minister Stephen Harper had to say.

Harper made a stop along his campaign trail at the Pitt Meadows airport Tuesday, where he was joined by a number of Conservative party candidates from around the area.

Harper was introduced by a beaming Mike Murray, the

Conservative party candi-date in Pitt Meadows–Maple Ridge.

The Prime Minister spoke to the audience for about 40 min-utes, repeat-edly empha-sizing that his Conservative party was the only party to trust with the handling of the economy – a point that was met with rau-cous applause from the blue crowd.

Harper also touched on national security, briefly noting that Canada had a role to play in helping to resettle refugees from Syria, before emphasizing the importance of maintaining secure borders.

The Conservative leader com-mitted to supporting and defending Israel, and to keep the mil-itary pressure on terrorist groups in the Middle East, pledging to “keep taking the fight to

ISIS.”But the bulk of the speech

centred on the economy, a topic which the Prime Minister returned to frequently to attack the NDP and Liberal party.

On Oct. 19, Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows residents will have five candidates to choose from– one from each of the four major parties, and one independent.

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Harper rallying the Valley

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Conservative hopeful Mike Murray introduced Stephen Harper.

A “block party-style” event to celebrate the “true residents of Cliff Avenue” and recog-nize the “hardships, trials and tribulations they have been sub-jected to for far too long” is set to take

place at Memorial Peace Park, on Sunday, Sept. 27, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event is being organized and pre-sented by members of the Facebook group, Maple Ridge Tax

Payers Against Tent City.

The family-friendly event will provide hot dogs and drinks, and “all we ask is that you bring a non-per-ishable food item to donate to the Friends

In Need Foodbank,” said group spokes-person, Jesse Stretch. “Thanksgiving’s com-ing up and we want to make sure the needier in our community are taken care of.”

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TIMES VIEW

Olympics still too pricey

Toronto will not bid for the 2024 Olympic Games, extending another long period in which it’s unlikely that either a sum-mer or winter Olympics will be held in North America.

That may be a very good thing.It cost VANOC $1.9 billion to stage the games – that is,

the actual athletic competitions seen by locals and viewers – but the total cost including infrastructure was closer to $7 billion. So while the games themselves broke even, the province and feds spent quite a bit on new roads, the Canada Line, and venues.

Some of that was needed. Richmond is fast growing and needed its SkyTrain extension, and improving the Sea to Sky Highway will reduce crashes.

But basing infrastructure spending around a brief sporting event is no way to do long-term planning. Maybe some communities in the east-ern part of the Lower Mainland should host the 2024 games – we might actually get some better bus and light rail service sometime in the next decade.

While Vancouver broke even on the games themselves, that has not been the experience of many recent host countries. Russia spent about $50 billion on its winter Olympics, China $40 billion on its 2008 summer games, London about $14.6 billion in 2012.

Canada has done better than most when it hosts games – most of the infrastructure keeps being used, but the Olympic Village itself proved a huge headache for both the City of Vancouver and buyers.

More than anything, it’s increasingly hard in a post-recession, slow-growth world to stomach being told that we’re going to have to tighten our belts, retire later, work harder, save more on our own – and then watch the government splash out money to host an event that’s over in less than a month.

In light of these issues, it’s no surprise that Toronto is opting out. It’s possible that someday the Olympics will become more about sport than spectacle, more about the athletes than national medal contests, and maybe then they’ll be cheap enough to host again.

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H ow did we get here?I’m a Baby Boomer. I’ll be

the first to admit that I’ve had it easy, bar the odd little dip or

turn in the road, all of my life. And I know that what those dips and turns have been to avoid pebbles, compared to the boulders that most in the world encounter in their own lives.

I was born on the down-slope of the curve, just a bit past the top of the bell, in the early-mid 1950s.

The baby boom bell curve was born of hope in the aftermath of one of the most despicable displays of what we technically call humanity – although there was very little humanity in that terrible exercise that was the Second World War.

You don’t have to have been there to realize that even the “good guys” did a lot of inhumane things to get through the ’40s.

The Baby Boom was the embodiment of hope as the world tried to rebuild itself. It was the result of a flood of love that filled the huge hole that all the hate had left.

That hope caused me to be born here in Canada, at that time effectively a Third World country that nonetheless was a shining star that drew the eyes – and the minds and bodies – of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of Europeans seeking a new and better place than their former homes in the epicentre of hate.

Although I lived through most of the decade, I don’t remember the ’50s much.

Mother’s-knee sort of stuff: playing in the garden, playing in the fields, playing in the living room, playing on the front porch.

But I remember the ’60s.Mind you, I was still young enough

that mine was mostly an outsider’s view.

I could dig the peace, but I didn’t really know what the free love was, much less get any of it, even if my hair was “long as God can grow it” by the end of the decade.

Maybe it was all just a smokescreen for angst and neuroses that had only been temporarily buried – just a scratch beneath the groovy surface.

There were many who suggested that the “flowers in your hair” thing was just a passing fad, and that the vast majority of hippies were just hangers-on, rolling with the in thing until it wasn’t “in” any-more.

They all had to turn 30 at some point, that point at which reality would swallow them up and turn them into money-grub-bing mind slaves of the establishment.

I began to suspect as much myself when the ’70s brought us EST and trans-actional analysis and all the other “you have to love yourself before you can truly love others” excuses for being selfish and self-centred.

Perhaps we humans are just that at the

core: selfish and self-centred. There is sound science behind the

suggestion that even altruism is actually the result of a selfish quest for personal approval – it’s the good feeling you get from doing a good deed that you’re seek-ing, not the good deed itself.

So perhaps it wasn’t all that hard for the powers-that-be to peel away the veneer of inner bliss and happiness, and expose the selfish fear that seems to have taken over.

Honestly, you have a statistically great-er chance of being murdered by a serial killer than you have of being injured by a terrorist in Canada.

And yet, we have Bill C-51, we have a government that campaigns for re-elec-tion by promising to keep us “safe,” and we have a rising tide of activism against immigration – against people who like my parents and like those of many of the anti-immigrant supporters, just want a safer place to find hope.Read Matthew Claxton’s Painful Truth online

this week at mrtimes.com

Boom! Hope fades as natural selfishness rushes back

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“Maple Ridge is just out of control with the criminal activities. First a cop is plummeted from behind, now the food bank is vandalized? This community is just getting sicker by the day.”

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Dear Editor,Re: The editorial We can do

more to help, [Sept. 10, The TIMES] Canada could help the Syrian refugees but with some conditions.

Canada needs to define the maximum number of refugees it can accept.

The editorial quoted situations in 1957, 1975, and 1979 were different due to the anticipated maximum number of refugees then.

This is not the case now due to the already four million refu-gees who fled and potentially many more millions in the pipe-line.

In the earlier quoted situations the refugees came from a single war torn country – this is not the case now, they are coming from several countries, some of them even without war.

Both the Hungarian and Asian immigrants assimilated very well and quickly became productive members of the Canadian soci-ety.

This may not be the case now due to the cultural, religious, and economic backgrounds of a wide variety of immigrants from a variety of countries.

Since these immigrants are coming from countries with different terrorist factions, the danger to import terrorism may be very high.

According to past experien-ces, the subsequent generations born in the host country with a widely different view of their background and culture can easi-ly be radicalized via the internet, which is one of the most widely used means.

These radicalized young people then go abroad to fight for terrorism and on their return create a major security risk for the host country.

The rich Arab Gulf States (UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Saudi-Arabia) aren’t tak-ing refugees.

Their excuse is that the refu-gees may bring in terrorism. Really? The same condition

applies to Canada and the other western countries.

Perhaps Canada’s course of action would be to financially support the temporary settle-ments of refugees somewhere in the Middle East.

This way the refugees can return home easier when the situation stabilizes in their coun-try.

However, Canada could take some refugees with three caveats:

(a) define the maximum num-ber of refugees and stick to that number

(b) Canada needs to very care-fully select who it will admit to avoid long term internal security risk to the country

(c) Canada should take only vetted refugees who come from war torn countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and not people who use this crisis to enter illegally into the western world for economic reasons.

Steve Fekete and Lynn Allard, Maple Ridge

Conditions needed before taking refugees

Dear Editor,The rape and pillage of the last green space in

West Maple Ridge has begun.In spite of impassioned pleas to council from

residents who filled the chamber on two occasions – many of whom have lived in the neighbourhood for more than 20 years – council determined that 207A Street would be pushed through to 123rd Avenue, and 21 houses would be built on the extension.

When we moved onto 207A Street more than 20 years ago, we were told by the City that the dead end would never be pushed through to 123rd; that at the most, a cul de sac with approximately 11 houses would be built.

The City said that because two arms of McKinney Creek, a salmon bearing stream, went through the green space, variances had been put into place to protect the streams, hence development would be limited. Guess what?

When the money is right, variances can be changed and indeed they were.

Our neighbourhood was sold out for the sake of a bike lane on 123rd Avenue and better lighting… oh yes, and tax dollars from the 21 homes that are being squished in.

Numerous safety concerns were cited by the residents if the road was pushed through.

These include the high probability of traffic acci-dents as cars travelling east on 123rd Avenue stop to turn onto 207A Street; concerns for the residents of 207A Street as the volume of traffic would increase significantly with cars cutting through from Dewdney Trunk Road to 123rd Avenue, and vice versa, concerns for pedestrians and children walk-ing to school; and concerns for the wild life and the salmon bearing streams.

Nothing mattered.When the vote to allow the development to take

place passed, each council member – including the mayor – told us that this development was in the best interest of our neighbourhood.

Considering that none of council live in our neighbourhood, this was particularly condescend-ing.

We have since found out that our homes will decrease in value due to the development. In our best interests, indeed.

Greg and Cherilynn Toll, Maple Ridge

Developer accused of ‘raping’ west RidgeDear Editor,

While it is very understandable to have a strong reaction to the refugee crisis, especially because of the picture of that little boy, we do well to stay level-head-ed about it.

Have we forgotten the Vietnam boat people some 40 years ago? It was good in many ways. However, one of the consequences was the violent Vietnam youth gangs we ended up having to deal with, both in greater Vancouver and else-where.

In fact, it could well be far worse this time around, because we have already seen how easy it has been for

Islam radicals to enter into Canada.

That is why I sup-port the approach Prime Minister Steven Harper is taking. Even though he is accused of being too strict and unmoving, he is the only one in this elec-tion who can make the actual decisions.

My only regret is that I wish that Steven Harper would have been a bit more flex-ible, for instance by saying that for now we will start with 10,000 and see from there. And, for the reason mentioned before, it is imperative that we do the proper screening.

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Sean Orcutt and a group of volunteers called the “Friends of Jackson Farm” are thrilled that work will soon begin on a long-promised path through the natural and untouched Jackson Farm.

The path had always been a part of the agree-ment between the original property owners, and the City who purchased the Jackson Farm property.

The Friends of Jackson Farm spent a considerable amount of time this sum-mer clearing invasive and persistent blackberry bush-es from around four fruit trees on the property.

After clearing bushes around fruit trees, the group isolated a low-grade area for the path to connect to the upper por-tion of the old farm, and Albion Park.

Orcutt anticipates work on the path itself to begin “soon,” he said.

As for the Friends of Jackson Farm, Orcutt said the group will push for the property to be designated as “passive parkland,” meaning minimal develop-ment would take place on the property.

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Sept. 9 was one wild day at Dewdney Animal Hospital.

“Doing three bird surgeries in one day for wildlife is unheard of. Just all of a sudden, we got slammed, yesterday,” the hospital’s veterin-arian and clinic owner Dr. Adrian Walton told The TIMES late last week. “It was nuts.”

The birds – a Cooper’s hawk, red-tailed hawk, and great blue heron – were all treated and will live.

Walton and staff at the hospital treated the Cooper’s hawk that was shot out of the sky with a pellet gun. The fall fractured the hawk’s leg and it was left to die.

“It was brought in by [Maple Ridge’s] Raptor’s Ridge,” Walton said. “They are not allowed to take on these animals because they don’t have a rescue permit, so they brought it [the hawk] here.”

Because it had been shot, the hawk was moved to the Orphaned Wildlife (OWL) Rehabilitation Society’s facility in Delta.

Another patient was a red-tailed hawk whose wing had to be amputated.

It too, was taken in by OWL.“It had been apparently injured

for a week or two,” Walton said. “It was brought in here yester-

day, we took a look at the wing, we decided it was not salvageable because both wings are broken and partially healed. But the one wing had a bone sticking out, called a compound fracture. We contacted [O.W.L.] and said, ‘Look, this bird is never going to be able to fly again, but they do have somebody who is able to take and rehab an injured bird for non-release.”

As well, Walton removed a fish-hook from the throat of a great blue heron, which was found near

the Albion Sports Complex and brought in by the SPCA.

On Sept. 10, Walton transported the great blue heron along with a pheasant – found on 126th Avenue – to the Wildlife Rescue Association of BC in Burnaby.

“We got the hook out, it’s going to be just fine,” Walton said.

Walton said the challenge with the heron is, as a defence mech-anism, it will “pluck out your eyeball in a heartbeat,” so eye protection was mandatory when handling the bird.

It was another day at the office for Walton and Thurlow, who do

this work pro bono because, Walton said, “it’s the right thing to do. If I didn’t love this I would not be doing it.”

While the clinic has been at its location for more than 30 years, Walton has owned it for more than eight.

“We treat mostly dogs and cats but we’re a bit of an exotics practice so we literally have a zoo back there, right now,” Walton said. “You name it, we’ve got it.”

The hospital is a licensed rescue facility for non-native species, so conservation officers will often-times bring in giant snakes and other such animals that have been seized, to the facility.

When it comes to treating wild birds and exotic animal species,“We’re all kind of self-taught on this stuff,” Walton said. “We have our wildlife rehab permit from the government that allows us to take these animals in, so we’re able to hold on to them more than the 24 hours,” he added.

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The annual walk drew a solid crowd to Spirit Square on Saturday.ERIC [email protected]

By all accounts, this year’s annual Parkinson Superwalk was a success, according to the event’s coordinator.

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Parkinson support group which meets once a month.

In total, 290 walkers took part in this year’s event, including 20 volunteers, who helped to make it

happen.This is an increase over last

year’s total number of par-ticipants which equaled 180 walkers.

A grand total of $29,529 was raised, which beat last year’s total as well, by $8,000.

“It was a fabulous hot and sunny day,” Elliott added, and thanked all those took part.


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Almost 300 people took part in the annual Parkinson Superwalk, which took place this past Saturday in Pitt Meadows at Spirit Square.

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A fire in a stand-alone garage on 121 Avenue just across from Garibaldi Secondary School drew Maple Ridge firefighters and local RCMP officers to the scene. The fire was contained, although smoke billowed out of the garage and into the neighbourhood.

Man soughtMounties are

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MAPLE RIDGE & PITT MEADOWS TIMESA12 Thursday, September 17, 2015 COMMUNITY

Pilot program aims to keep sewers clear.ERIC [email protected]

Metro Vancouver launched a pilot project in Pitt Meadows this week, aimed at changing what people deposit down the toilet drain; namely anything other than number one, two, or toilet paper.

The campaign is targeting the so-called “flushable” women’s wipes, and how the deposit-ing of these wipes can result in unpleasant backlogs and clogged sewage systems.

“This problem has been around for a long time,” said Darrell Mussatto, chair of util-ities for Metro Vancouver.

“Across Canada, probably about $250 million is spent annually on dealing with this problem.”

This year, in Metro Vancouver alone, about $100,000 has already been

spent on the unclogging and removal process.

“The bottom line is, there’s only certain things that should be going in the toilet,” said Mussatto.

The goal of the campaign is two-fold: “try to educate people not to put any of these wipes or personal hygiene products in the toilet, and B, come up with standards for wipes that are labeled flush-able,” he said.

As it stands currently, no such standard exists for wipes.

“You can make a piece of cloth that won’t break down for 1,000 years, call it ‘flushable’ because of that, and people throw it in the toilet.”

Pitt Meadows was chosen

for the pilot project, because it’s a “clearly defined area where most of the sewage goes through a single pump station:

the Baynes Road pumpstation.”

If the campaign is successful, the hope is to launch it across the region. If not, “maybe we can look at tweaking it a bit to make it so.”

The campaign involves post-ers, material in papers, and in washrooms. It will avoid finger-pointing, and use more of a “hum-ourous” approach instead, explained

Mussatto.“Adult toilet training,” he

quipped. “Teaching adults how to use the toilet and how to properly dispose of wipes.”> More: mrtimes.com, search ‘toilet’

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Four years after its opening to the pub-lic, the South Bonson Community Centre has been awarded official LEED Canada NC

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Carnival cool down: Sydney Taylor (above) enjoyed a break from the hot weather in a makeshift dunk tank at the NorthRidge Church family carnival, which took place Saturday at Thomas Haney Secondary. Meanwhile, (bottom) Greg Skerratt handed out balls for those wanting to douse family and friends. And (middle) Kaylee Soo took a ride on a pony at the church carnival, waving to her mom Kathy.

TIMES Travellers:

Rob Dramer visited old friends and attended a wedding in Majuro, in the Republic of The Marshall Islands. While there, he visited the local newspaper, The Marshall Island Journal, run by Joe Murphy, Dramer’s friend from his Peace Corps days. He had a chuckle having his picture taken in front on the newspaper office holding up a copy of his hometown newspaper, The TIMES.


Sept. 19Pie time • Haney Farmers Market hosts an Apple Pie Chal-lenge. Participation is free, and entrants are asked to supply two pies: one for judging and one for sale.

Sept. 19, 20Celebration • Golden Ears Cheese-crafters, located at 22270 128th Ave., hosts a fourth anniversary and harvest celebration, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit cheesecrafters.ca, for more information.

Sept. 20Terry Fox Run • The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Terry Fox Run takes place at Spirit Square in Pitt Meadows. Registra-tion is begins at 8:30 a.m., and the run gets underway at 10.

Sept. 23Egg drop • Kids in Grades 1 to 3 are invited to put their engin-eering skills to the test at the Maple Ridge Library at 3 p.m. Create a container to protect an egg from a 25-foot drop, and then test it in the foyer of the library. All materials supplied.

Sept. 25Hominum • HOMINUM holds a meeting at 7:30 p.m. The informal meeting aims to help gay, bi-sexual, and questioning mean, with the challenges of being married, separated, or single. For information and location, call Art: 604-462-9813, or Don: 604-329-9760.

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Kick-butt fundraiser: The third annual Ridge Meadows Barracudas golf fundraiser took place at Golden Eagle golf course over the weekend. Every hole was sponsored by a local business, and organizer Terry Passley said the event “kicked butt.” Members of the Ridge Meadows Moose women’s hockey team (above) showed up to Golden Eagle golf course on Saturday to support girls hockey in Maple Ridge. The Moose are alumni of the Ridge Meadows Barracudas, the girls hockey organization that hosted the golf fundraiser.

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Dr. Michael Orser is a veterinarian and owner of Alouette Animal Hospital, and a monthly TIMES columnist.

In this month’s column, he take a look at canine water consumption.

“Since dogs do not sweat, except from their nose and foot pads, they eliminate heat by panting – that can cause a lot of water loss through evaporation, which needs to be replenished by drinking,” Orser explained.

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Total dollar amounts raised from this year’s Paws for a Cause event in Maple Ridge are still being tallied, but the local shelter’s new branch man-ager isn’t hesitating to call this year’s event a success.

About 56 people and their

pooches took part in the walk this year, said Jennifer Stack.

“Online registrations were down, but ‘walk-ins’ were a little bit higher,” she explained.

Overall, Stack was impressed by what she saw.

“There were more vendors than last year, more people and more dogs,” she said.

“Thank goodness the weather was nice. It seemed like every-body enjoyed themselves and enjoyed things like the agility demos as well,” Stack added.

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Two special guests also took part in this year’s event.

Willow the husky – who was found emaciated and was res-cued, and adopted earlier this year, and Trooper – the golden retriever who was rescued after being found severely emaciated in 2010 – carried the banner and led the walk.

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For almost three decades, Haney Builder Supplies has hosted a charity golf tour-nament to benefit organiza-

tions in the community.And next Thursday, Sept. 24,

that tournament returns to the Pitt Meadows Golf Course, with all proceeds going to the Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation.

While registration for the event closed on Sept., 11, expectations are high for another great com-munity showing of support.

“Haney Builders’ Supplies has teamed up with the Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation again this year to raise support for a variety of greatest need pro-jects,” said tournament chair, Karl Peters.

Whether people play in the tournament, attend just the dinner, or make a donation to the silent auction, “every little bit helps,” Peters added.

“Last year – through the golf/sponsorship fees, contests and the 50/50 – $11,340 in funds were raised and used to provide qual-ity health care for the residents of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows.”

Best of luck to all those involved this year.

Food and funds

It’s a great meal for a great cause.

Next Saturday, Sept. 26, a fundraiser for the Ridge Meadows Youth Diversion Program (RMYDP) is being held at the Maple Ridge Equi-Sport Centre, located at 21973 132nd Ave.

For $25, attendees receive a full steak dinner, including a baked potato, dinner roll, three different salads, baked beans, and one tap drink.

All ticket proceeds will be donated to RMYDP.

The evening will also feature

a 50/50 draw, toonie toss, and a silent auction.

Tickets are still available, and can be picked up at Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Community Services, said Justine Maki. “We’re open until 4:30 everyday.”

Find the office at 11907 228th St. And those interested can also email: [email protected].

The evening starts at 6 p.m.

‘Crafters celebrate

The fourth is strong with this business.

Okay, that might be a cheesy way to begin this business mention, but when the business I speak of has built their brand on craft dairy products among a host

of other offerings, it seems appropriate.

Punny references aside, the point of all this is to tell you that Maple Ridge’s own Golden Ears Cheesecrafters (GEC) is marking four years in business this year, and this weekend (Sept. 19 and 20,) they’re partying all weekend long, with a Harvest

Celebration, and would love it if you came.

The homegrown business is hosting day-long events both days, beginning at 9 a.m. and lasting until 5 p.m.

Among the activities and attrac-tions, there will be family-friendly features such as a farm animals petting zoo, a honey bee demo station on Saturday, a BC Diary Classroom live cow milking and calf feeding on Sunday, tons of tasty food, artisan goods, and live music.

Interested artisan vendors are encouraged to email [email protected] for informa-tion.

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A festival Saturday will celebrate sustainable communities.


What started five years ago as a “party for the community,” has grown into a sizeable and popular annual event.

And this Saturday, Sept. 19, GETIfest will return once again to Memorial Peace Park.

Taking place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and hosted by the Golden Ears Transition Initiative (GETI), the festival is another way the group aims to grow and foster a sense of community involvement and development.

“GETI works towards build-ing a healthy, resilient and self-reliant community,” said Gerry Pinel, one of GETI’s founding members.

“We’re an umbrella group that connects many local initiatives that are active in the areas of local agriculture, the environment, food security, transportation, arts, culture and so on.”

The festival itself helps to promote and celebrate those resilient, localized, and sustain-able communities.

“You can do the work in the community, you can form the groups, each group can do cer-tain things, but the thing that really ties everybody together is celebration, and that really is one of the keynotes of the tran-sition movement,” Pinel said.

Each year brings a new theme, and this year’s theme is a focus on celebrating “Our Local Heritage.”

The idea for the theme “came out of a discussion we had with the Heritage Commission about a year-and-a-half ago,” he said.

“They were talking about how GETI might be able to mix in and collaborate with the commission about taking the best of the past, making it into what we have today, and creat-ing a better future.”

While much will be familiar to those who have attended in the past, there will be some changes and new additions for people to look forward to.

“We’ve changed things a bit to help improve the flow of the festival, as well as make it pos-sible to get more participation,” Pinel said.

Also on deck for this year is geocaching, presented by the Downtown Maple Ridge Business Improvement Association, classic and electric vehicles showcased at the sta-tion, entertainment on the main stage, and a bike exhibit.

As the festival has grown, so too have the number of dis-

plays, vendors, and attendees.“The first year we had about

25 exhibitors and about 500 people,” Pinel recalled. “Last year we had somewhere between, 2,500 and 3,000 people and we’re hoping to increase that number this year.”

The day-long festival will also include 140 displays, live music, and a host of activities for people to partake in.

And while the festival itself may only be a day, prepar-ing for the event begins in February.

Pinel estimated that a festival the size of GETIfest would probably cost “about $80,000 to $100,000 to put on, if we had to pay for it all.”

However, thanks to the gen-erosity of sponsors, both pri-vate and public, “we put it on for a little over 3,000 dollars.”> More: mrtimes.com, search ‘geti’

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Two Thomas Haney grads aim to help orphans in Ghana.

School has only just begun, but a couple local university students Miranda Tymoschuk and Leah Bedford already have their plates full.

Like many 19 and 21-year-olds, Tymoschuk and Bedford are balancing jobs with their full-time studies at Simon Fraser University.

But in their spare time, the minds of both women are elsewhere – halfway around the world in impoverished Ghana, where a local school for orphans and homeless youth is in serious danger of closing down.

Last March, the pair decided to take a pro-active approach, forming their own non-profit society “Infinite Hope for Change,” with the goal of providing relief for the West African Children’s Foundation that runs the school.

Both women have had experi-ence working with international development – the subject is even Bedford’s major.

The magnitude and logistical issues with creat-ing a non-profit geared towards a Ghanian school, practically a world away, was not lost on Tymoschuk.

“We spent the first little while just making sure the school was legit,” said Tymoschuk.

Funds are so tight at the school that the teaching staff has been forgoing salary for the past few months. But even these emergency measures won’t be enough to keep the school going, said Bedford.

“We don’t want to just hand them cash, we want to make them sustainable,” said Tymoschuk.

Two events have been planned so far; on Sept. 19, the group will host a pub night at Fox’s Reach, and on Sept. 26, a hot dog sale will take place at Save-On Foods in Valley Fair mall.

Tickets are available for the pub night by contacting [email protected]., or in person at the Save-On in Valley Fair.

> More: mrtimes.com, search ‘hope’

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The local recycling society can barely keep up with the demand for new recycling containers.COLE [email protected]

Summer might be coming to an end, but there is still a chance to get your hands on one of Maple Ridge’s hottest items this fall: a brand new recyc-ling bin courtesy of the Ridge Meadows Recycling Society.

The summer was a busy one for the society, which began rolling out the new bins at Maple Ridge’s Canada Day celebrations.

Leanne Koehn, community rela-tions manager with the society, expected to give out around 600 boxes over the course of the day.

Instead, the society handed out its full supply of 800 boxes in just over four hours – and the bins have proven to be a hit ever since.

The bins are designed to replace the old bags provided by the recyc-

ling society for its weekly pick up service, said Koehn.

Those still on the hunt for a free bin are in luck; the society has two more events planned for September where they will also be handing out more boxes to those who haven’t yet got their hands on one.

GETIFest at Memorial Peace Park on Sept. 19 will be the next chance for residents to pick up a bin.

Then, on Sept. 27, the society will join with the Alouette River

Management Society in Alco Park to celebrate Rivers Day, and hand out even more bins to Maple Ridge residents.

The bags will even-tually be phased out, said Koehn, but people don’t have to worry if they haven’t yet

received their bin.“We’ll still pick up recycling if its

in the bag,” said Koehn.Part of the advantage of handing

out the bins at community events has been the face-to-face conversa-tions that Koehn has been able to have with locals on the subject of recycling.

For a full list of what you can and cannot recycle in Maple Ridge, visit www.rmrecycling.org.

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Pursuant to Section 403 of the Local Government Act, the following properties will be offered for sale by public auction to be held at the Council Chambers, Pitt Meadows City Hall, 12007 Harris Rd, Pitt Meadows BC on Monday September 28, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. unless the delinquent taxes plus interest are paid.

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0049.354 319 12350 Harris Rd Lot 54 Plan BCS2789 District Lot 261

0061.754 104 19677 Meadow Gardens Way Lot 154 Plan BCS2427 District Lot 224

0093.450 11175 Carter Close Lot 51 Plan BCP28584 District Lot 254 & 282

0166.214 14 19252 119 Ave Lot 14 Plan NWS3280 District Lot 283

0216.009 11843 189B Street Lot 9 Block 5N Plan NWP78907

0229.011 11729 Harris Rd Lot 1 Block 5N Plan BCP20980

0811.000 18365 Lougheed Hwy Lot B Block 6N Plan NWP14497

1083.278 19777 Sunset Lane Lot 78 Plan LMP33705 District Lot 223

1362.000 14791 Harris Rd Lot 89 Plan NWP2933 Parcel A

Any person upon being declared the successful bidder must pay by cash or certi� ed cheque by 2:00 p.m. the same day. Failure to pay will result in the property being offered for sale again at 3:00 p.m. the same day.

The City of Pitt Meadows makes no representation express or implied as to the condition or quality of the properties being offered for sale. Prospective purchasers are urged to inspect the properties and make all necessary inquiries to municipal and other government departments, and in the case of strata lots to the strata corporation to determine the existence of any bylaws, restrictions, charges or other conditions which may affect the value or suitability of the property.

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TIMES reporter Cole Wagner shares what he discovered at the kingdom of An-Tir.COLE [email protected]

It is midday in Albion, and I’m watching Godfrey Von Ravensberg spend the afternoon practising his swordplay with his apprentice, Alessandra.

Alessandra is quicker than Van Ravensberg on this day, but the difference in reach between the two swordsmen leads to an even exchange of parries and thrusts, with neither gaining the upperhand.

That is, until Alessandra shuffles a half-step to the right, and drives the point of her rapier into the chest of Van Ravensberg – a fatal blow that ends the match, much to the delight of the crowd surrounding the fighters.

Luckily for Van Ravensberg, safe-ty gear has really improved in the past 500 years, and he should be in good enough health to return to his normal life as Jerry Kittel when the weekend’s festivities wrap up.

Kittel is a member of the Society for Creative Anarchonism (SCA), a medieval history and re-enactment group that falls somewhere between a renaissance fair, and a live action role playing game.

The group was founded in California as a “practical history” society in 1966, and chapters have since spread across North America,

and around the world.Members of the SCA attend

events in their local “principalities,” where they dress in traditional medieval costumes, compete in armoured combat, host royal tour-naments, feast, and refer to each other through their medieval mon-ikers.

But while one of the organizers

for the local branch of the SCA, Leanne Witherly, admits that the society aims to recreate “medieval history without all the negativity,” she also pointed out that there is an undercurrent of history education within all of the SCA activities.

There are no fire-breathing dragons in the kingdom of An-Tir (which encompasses the pacific northwest, according to the SCA).

Members of the SCA are invit-ed to take part in regional events, which usually take place about once per week – depending how far they are willing to travel.

After Alessandra and Van Ravensberg finish their match, they retire to another side of the fairgrounds to watch some of the armoured combatants warm up.

Meanwhile, merchants selling everything from tunics to goblets, set up shop near one of the barns.

Elsewhere, children in knee-length tunics of red and blue are chasing after each other.

One particularly ferocious girl spars with an older knight who gently fends off her attacks, causing a voice beside me to remark “We’ve got a little Valkyrie on our hands here.”

Families, it seems, are right at home in the dark ages.

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Godfrey Von Ravensberg and his apprentice Alessandra practise swordplay, as part of the Society for Creative Anarchonism event Saturday in Albion.

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There was plenty of hockey action and fun to be had on Saturday, as Burnett Fellowship hosted a community tournament, which organizers say will become an annual summer event.

A fun tourney Saturday was a conclusion to a summer series.


About 70 people took part in the first of what Glory Destura said will become an annual event this past weekend.

Destura is the

children’s ministry worker for the Burnett Fellowship Church which hosted a com-munity ball-hock-ey tournament on Saturday.

“It went really well,” she said. “We had over 70 people come from all over the com-munity.

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Destura said the decision was made to use the money for a community endeavour, and the twice-weekly summer ball hockey series was born.

“The Fairview one kind of petered out, but because Albion’s a newer area with tons of houses, tons of kids showed up” for the games on Tuesdays and Thursdays, she said.

On Saturday, kids in Grades 1 to 6 played until noon, and the older crowd played from 1 to 3.

At the end, it was Art Van Pelt who pre-sented the medals.

“It was a great day,” Destura said.

GOOD GAME

Burnett ball hockey enjoyed

The Junior B team kicked off the year with a tailgate party.


The sun was shining, and the grill was hot during the season- opening 10th annual tailgate pregame party for the Ridge Meadows Flames, held before puck-drop on Friday night at Planet Ice.

But the grill wasn’t the only thing on fire that night.

As the Flames went head-to head with the visiting Delta Ice Hawks, the team’s respective goalies (Flames’ Jeremy Tamelin, and Hawks’ Jacob Latrace) faced a combined total of more than 100 shots.

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team the 5-4 victory.In addition, Pitt Meadows

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Teammates chatted and a pre-game tailgate party on Friday evening signalled the beginning of the Ridge Meadows Junior B team’s season.

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Painting- Commercial, Residential,Strata, Small Reno’s (778)829-4414

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353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

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356 RUBBISH REMOVAL


356 RUBBISH REMOVAL

372 SUNDECKS

374 TREE SERVICES

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PETS

477 PETS

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CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

CATS OF ALL DESCRIPTION in need of caring homes!

All cats are spayed, neutered, vaccinated and dewormed.

Visit us at: fraservalleyhumanesociety.com

or call 1 (604)820-2977

NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604-856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

551 GARAGE SALES

Pitt Meadows 19349 118B AVEMoving sale. Everything must go!Christmas decor, household items Kitchen wares, small furniture. Saturday 19th, 2015 9a.m.- 4p.m.

563 MISC. WANTED

FIREARMSI will purchase Firearms & Ammunition. 604-290-1911

Sex and the KittyA single unspayed cat canproduce 470,000 offspringin just seven years.

Be responsible -don’t litter!

www.spca.bc.ca

PUBLIC NOTICEPROPOSED SBA CANADA TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITY

50-METER MONOPOLE STRUCTURE

CottonwoodDrive

PROPOSED STRUCTURE: SBA Canada is invitingthe public to comment on a proposed multi-tenanttelecommunications facility consisting of a 50-metermonopole structure and ancillary radio equipmentsituated on a former landfill property onCottonwood Drive, Maple Ridge.

LOCATION: 11400 Cottonwood Drive, Maple Ridge, BC.COORDINATES: 49° 12’ 46.84” North, -122° 34’20.99”West

ANY PERSON may comment by close of business dayon September 27th, 2015 with respect to this matter.

SBA CONTACT: Further information can beobtained by contacting:Brian Gregg, SitePath Consulting Ltd.1903 – 838 W Hastings Street, Vancouver,BC V6C 0A6Email: [email protected]

REAL ESTATE

636 MORTGAGES

Mobile Mortgage SpecialistRenee Dubois • TD Canada Trust

Call: 778-686-5107E-mail: [email protected]

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

AMBERROCHESTER545 Rochester Avenue,

Coquitlam

Close To LougheedMall, Transportation, &

SFU, Colleges.Near Coq./Bby. Border.

Linda 604-813-8789

AMBER (W)401 Westview Street,

Coquitlam

Large Units.Near Lougheed Mall,

All Transportation,SFU & Colleges.

Near Coq./Bby. Border.

604-727-5178

ARBOURGREENE

552 Dansey Avenue,Coquitlam

Extra Large 2 Bedroom’s.Close To Lougheed Mall,

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BURQUITLAM APTS561 Cottonwood Avenue,

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underground parking, near busstop, school, SFU, Lougheed

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RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

CALYPSOCOURT

1030 - 5th Avenue,New Westminster

Near Transit & Skytrain,Douglas College & More.Well Maintained Building.

Call for info/viewing

604-813-8789

COTTONWOODPLAZA

555 Cottonwood Avenue,Coquitlam

Large Units. Some With 2nd Bathrooms or Den.

On Bus Routes, Close To SFU & Lougheed Mall.

604-936-1225GARDEN VILLA

1010 6th Avenue,New Westminster

Suites Available. Beautifulatrium with fountain. Byshops, college & transit.Pets negotiable. Ref req.

604-715-7764Bayside Property Services

HARRIS ROADHOUSING CO-OP

Pitt Meadows

3 BR $1235/mo$3500 Share purchase.

Available Sept 1st.•Fenced back yard

Near bus & school. No subsidy.Pets OK.

Email for INCENTIVE:[email protected]

604-465-1938

JUNIPERCOURT

415 Westview Street,Coquitlam

Close to Lougheed Mall,All Transit Connections,

Skytrain & Schools;SFU, BCIT, Colleges.

604-939-8905NEW WESTMINSITER,

2 bdrm Apt., $980 incl ht/cbl.Nr college/mall. N/P. Refs req’d.

Available now.778-980-4178

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

KING ALBERTCOURT

1300 King Albert,Coquitlam

GREAT LOCATION;Close To Lougheed Mall,All Transportation, SFU,BCIT, Colleges & More.

Offi ce: 604-937-7343Cell: 778-863-9980

Park TerraceStarting at

2 Bdrm. $870In beautiful Langley City.

Also Available:• Bachelor $700

• 1 Bdrm. $770 • 2 Bdrm. $870In beautiful Langley City.Includes Heat, Hot Water,Parking. On-Site Manager.

604-530-0030www.cycloneholdings.ca

ROYAL CRESCENTESTATES

22588 Royal Crescent Avenue,Maple Ridge

Large Units. Close ToGolden Ears Bridge,Shopping & More.

GREAT RIVER VIEW!

Offi ce: 604-463-0857Cell: 604-375-1768

SKYLINE TOWERS102-120 Agens Street,

New Westminster

Hi-Rise Apartment withRiver View & Indoor Pool.

1 BR 7 2 BR Available. Rentincludes heat & hot water.Remodeled building andCommon Area. Gated

underground parking available.References required.


VILLA MARGARETA320-9th Street,

New WestminsterSuites Available.

All suites have balconies,Underground parking available.

Refs. req. Small pet OK.


RENTALS

736 HOMES FOR RENT

Maple Ridge - Smaller 3 bdrm. house. Pets welcome. Avail. Oct. 1 $1300/mo. 1-250-379-2123

748 SHARED ACCOMMODATION

CENTRAL MAPLE RIDGE house to share, all utils incl. Near amens & WCE. $500/mo. 778-689-8424

752 TOWNHOUSES

Pitt Meadows 19250-119 Ave. Townhouses;

3 BR $1235, share $3500 & 2 BR $1130 shares $2500. Small pet ok.

604-465-1938

TRANSPORTATION

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

• Autos • Trucks• Equipment Removal

FREE TOWING 7 days/wk.We pay Up To $500 CA$H

Rick Goodchild 604.551.9022

859 UTILITY TRAILERS

Utility Trailer. Good Condition. From Home Depot. $500 OBO. Call: 604-465-4441

It Startswith You!

www.pitch-in.ca

MAPLE RIDGE & PITT MEADOWS TIMES Thursday, September 17, 2015 A27SPORTS

Rick Moyer/TIMES

Paddle power: Ridge Canoe and Kayak Club hosted the Pacific Cup and BC Bantam championships at Whonnock Lake this past weekend. The two-day event was an end-of-season competition for U15 and younger, Masters, and Para athletes who came from B.C., Washington, and Alberta.

An open house marked the season’s start.


The members of the Golden Ears Winter Club are itching to curl.

That was the scene at an open house on Sept. 12 – hosted at the winter club – where a number of curlers, both new and old, took to the ice to test their skills.

“I’m not doing bad,” remarked John Jacobs, who was practicing by throwing stones for both sides.

The club continues to grow in size, said Earl King, a member of the Winter Club’s board of direc-tors.

King said the club experienced a drop in membership a number of years ago, but has been recovering since.

“Curling struggled across the country,” said King.

“It could be economics, or it could be ergonomics,” he quipped.

This season, the winter club will host curling six nights a week at its facility attached to Planet Ice on the Albion Fairgrounds.> More: mrtimes.com, search ‘curling’

CURLING

Cole Wagner/TIMES

John Jacobs curled for both sides of a match at the winter club’s open house.

More online

Club’s season begins

More online

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Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Times, September 17, 2015

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