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Police files

Swirlyarrestedby Roxanne [email protected]

Mr. Swirl, a formerteacher and convictedchild sex tourist, is backbehind bars in connectionwith a local and foreignchild pornography case– some of which ties backto his time living in MapleRidge.

Christopher Paul Neil,39, was arrested by B.C.RCMP Integrated ChildExploitation (ICE) inves-tigators in Vancouver onFriday.

His arrest is in connec-tion with two investiga-tions – one by the RCMPICE unit and the otherby Vancouver Police,explained RCMP Sgt. RobVermeulen.

Neil was in PortCoquitlam provincial courtMonday and remandeduntil April 10 for a bailhearing.

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Carol Campos had to get rid of her backyard chickens despite livingin a rural area in Maple Ridge.

Some Maple Ridge residents hopepoultry will be allowed in ruraland residential areas.by Maria [email protected]

Carol Campos would just like tohave a few chickens in her backyard,as pets.

And, if a recommendation from theDistrict of Maple Ridge’s agriculturaladvisory committee comes to fruition,she may be allowed.

Campos and her husband bought aproperty in Maple Ridge zoned rural,but they didn’t realize that havingpoultry depended on the lot size.

The property she and her husband

bought on 128th Avenue in MapleRidge belongs in the zoning RS-3,which is agricultural.

The Camposes had chickens as pets– as opposed to dogs or cats – forabout 20 years in west Maple Ridge,and no one ever complained.

When they bought their new prop-erty, Campos even went down to thebylaw office at municipal hall andasked whether they were allowedchickens in their area.

But later she found out that becauseher property is smaller than one acre(0.4 hectares), she is not allowed tohave poultry on her property, eventhough it’s in the agricultural area.

After a warning from the bylawoffice, the couple received a lettersaying if they didn’t get rid of them,they’d be fined $500 per day.

After they got rid of their chickens,which Campos called “gardening com-panions,” she didn’t feel like going inthe backyard.

“After they were gone, it was heart-breaking,” she said.

Campos said across the street fromher home, property owners havecows, a calf, and chickens.

“It’s silly not to be able to have afew hens,” she said.

Like hobby beekeeping, which usedto be strictly agricultural but is nowallowed on larger single-family lots,backyard chickens could be an “urbanagricultural activity,” said Districtplanner Diana Hall.

The advisory committee passed amotion to ask council to look intoallowing chickens, and the topic willcome to a workshop meeting.

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Agricultural group pushes for backyard chickens

Spring arrivesin the forestRuth Ross caught these pictures ofspring coming alive in the backwoodsof the Spirea NatureTrail in Golden EarsProvincial Park duringa recent hike.“They arerepresentative ofthe changes springbrings to the forest.Beautiful green moss,interesting fungi,and swollen creeks,”Ross said. She’s one of The TIMESreaders who has chosen to share herstunning spring photographs. You can,too, just email local spring photos [email protected].

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posted a smaller reduction in power useduring Saturday’s Earth Hour comparedto last year. Hydro customers wereencouraged to turn off their lights foran hour on Saturday evening. Whilelast year, power consumption in PittMeadows went down 2.7 per cent, thisyear the reduction was only 0.6 per cent.Maple Ridge reduced its power by 0.7per cent this year, compared to 2.5 percent last year.


Sidhu bids farewellJesse Sidhu, who served as executive

director of the Chamber of Commerceserving Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadowsfor three and a half years, stepped downrecently to run his own business. Sidhuwrote a farewell letter to the community.


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Betty and Klausvon Hardenbergwant to ensurethat the waterin the Thornhillaquifer staysclean andplentiful.

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The District is developing anenvironmental strategy.by Maria [email protected]

For a Thornhill couple, wateris one of the more importantissues in an eco-plan beingdeveloped by the District ofMaple Ridge.

Klaus and Betty vonHardenberg were pleased tosee two items as part of theDistrict’s draft environmentalmanagement strategy: the dis-cussion of mapping all aquifersand a discussion about the man-agement of groundwater.

“There’s nothing more import-ant than water,” said Klaus vonHardenberg, adding that “every-body has a right to water so wehave to plan the city with that inmind.”

The District of Maple Ridgeis in the midst of developingan environmental manage-ment strategy, and a consultantrecently made a presentation tocouncil on its progress, includingsome recommendations.

The goals of the strategy areto conserve and manage naturalassets in Maple Ridge, designand build sustainable neighbour-

hoods, and improve communica-tions and environmental aware-ness.

Betty von Hardenberg saidthat some might argue that theenvironmental managementstrategy gets “in the way” ofdeveloping one’s own property,but she believes it works toeveryone’s advantage.

“If people could look at this asprotecting assets and not beingdetrimental – it’s a benefit for usall,” she said.

The vonHardenbergsestablishedthe ThornhillAquiferProtection Study(TAPS) eightyears ago, and afew weeks agothe group, via the CEED Centre,received a $2,500 RBC BlueWater Project Community Actiongrant.

The focus will be educatingthe public on how to protectgroundwater.

Because many of the wells onThornhill are shallow wells, likethe von Hardenberg’s two wells,they can easily get contamin-ated from day-to-day activities,for example, changing oil in adriveway.

With new residents movinginto Thornhill, it’s important toeducate them on how wells needto be maintained, said Betty.

The money will be used tomake a larger poster format dia-gram to show “how the aquiferworks, how users of the aquiferuse it, and how they can affectit,” Betty explained.

TAPS has been working onwater issues in Thornhill foreight years, and their enthusi-

asm isn’t waning,Betty said.

She believesthe District is ata “very criticalpoint” in develop-ing the environ-mental strategy.Having languageabout the aquifers

and groundwater management inthose documents are “two crit-ical things,” she added.

She said she is “really appre-ciative” that District staff isworking on the plan, becauseof the all the natural assets inMaple Ridge.

“This work is very, veryimportant for the District to sup-port,” she said.

The strategy is expected tocome back to council later thisspring for final approval.

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Elections

Katzieswear incouncilThe First Nations held anelection on March 1 tochoose three councillors.by Maria [email protected]

The Katzie First Nationwill swear in its new counciltoday (Tuesday).

Elections were held onMarch 1, and the three coun-cillors who were elected werePeter James, Rick Bailey, andRobin Green.

The chief, Susan Miller,was acclaimed earlier thisyear, after a short stint asinterim chief.

In the March 1 election,James received 108 votes,Bailey received 68 votes, andGreen received 60 votes.

Voting took place on allthree Katzie reserves: onKatzie 1 in Pitt Meadows,Katzie 2 in Langley, and onKatzie 3 on Barnston Island.

All three councillors– James from Barnston Islandand Bailey and Green fromthe Pitt Meadows reserve –have served previously on theband council. Green servedduring the preceding two-yearterm.

The ceremony will takeplace in the long house onthe reserve in Pitt Meadows.

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Costs are expected to be minimalwhen designation is changed.

The District of Maple Ridge councilvoted unanimously last week to becomethe City of Maple Ridge.

Only three Maple Ridge residentsexpressed opposition to becoming a

city in an alternative approval process,whereas it would have taken 10 percent of the vote – or 5,372 responses– to force a referendum on the issue.

It will take six to nine months tocomplete the transition, which has to beapproved by the Lieutenant-Governor.

It’s not expected to cost more than$3,000 to change signs .

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A Ryan Jewellers staffer pursued athief several blocks to retrieve items.by Jean [email protected]

A jewelry store employeechased a thief through therainy streets of downtownHaney Thursday night, retriev-ing some but not all of thejewelry stolen from his ValleyFair Mall shop.

The brazen theft occurredat Ryan Jewellers just before8:30 p.m. on March 27, whena customer was trying on jewelry thensuddenly bolted from the store.

When the owner’s son heard screamsand a commotion in the front of the store,he came out to learn they’d been robbed.

Without any delay, he gave chase, andbeing a runner he was able to follow andeventually catch up to the suspect a fewblocks west, close to Haney Place Mall,he told The TIMES.

“I grabbed him and just said ‘give meback what you took’,” the staffer recalled.

The suspect, out of breath and tiredfrom the chase, complied. He took oneearring out of his ear, another out of hispocket, and handed it back. Then, afterhe handed back a watch, the son released

his tight grip on the man’s arm and lethim walk away.

He did get back a watch valued at$7,500, and the diamondstud earrings that were worthabout $1,000.

But, unbeknownst to him,the crook still made off withanother diamond Gucci watchvalued at about $3,000.

“When I got the merchan-dise back, I felt good,” buthis heart sank a bit when hereturned to the store to findhe hadn’t retrieved every-thing.

Prior to the theft, the manhad been trying on a pair of diamondstud earrings while chatting with thesales clerk standing behind the counter.

When she looked down for a moment,the man grabbed two men’s Gucci dia-mond watches and hot-footed it out thestore. The clerk ran after him but wasunable to catch him. That’s when theson, also in pursuit, took over.

“It has never happened to me before,”the owner’s son said. “I’ve never had torun after a customer.”

Anyone with information is askedto call Ridge Meadows RCMP Const.Stacy MacDonald at 604-476-6935 orCrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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The Pitt Meadows City coun-cillor is spearheading the city’scrack at a Guinness world rec-ord: most food collected in asingle day – 600,000 pounds tobe precise.

With the collection day lessthan two weeks away, O’Connellsaid the spirit of the communityhas been shining through.

“I’m truly overwhelmed andhumbled by the community’sresponse to this,” she said.

“Pitt Meadows gets behind thiskind of stuff and people wantto make this goal – everybody’sgetting on board with this.”

For example, O’Connell said,the Pitt Meadows IGA has an in-store display where for $10, cus-tomers can buy a 13-pound bagof pre-packaged foods to donate.

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“During a meet-ing, we discusseddifferent ways wecould help supportPitt Meadows’ 100-year anniversary,”she explained.

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was trying to do this, and wethought, ‘OK, let’s donate’.”

Even though she’s not entirelysure yet “what 1,400 poundsof food will look like,” there’s

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Customer response has alreadybeen incredible, she added,noting they can donate food orcash.

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OpinionA6 Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Our View

Still time totrash bad plan

The B.C. government is trying to fixsomething that isn’t broken – and it’smaking a mess in the process. Citiesand towns in B.C. have successful recyc-ling systems in place, but the provincehas thrown everything into confusionby mandating the creation of a monstercalled Multi-Materials B.C.

Since MMBC began ramping up, oneprotest has followed another, as munici-palities and businesses began to realizethe effects it would have on them.

Premier Christy Clark called its cre-ation a “bumpy road.” Business groupshave allied under the banner Rethink ItB.C., to demand the government delayimplementation and sit down to talkabout changes to the new entity.

The theory is that the companies thatprofit from products that produce wasteshould have to pay the cost of recyc-ling that material. Proponents say theadded cost will also be an incentive forthose companies to reduce the amountof packaging they use, as not producingwaste is a better solution than recyclingit after it is produced.

MMBC, beginning May 19, is a B.C.initiative – run by a board of directorsrepresenting Unilever Canada, Wal-Mart,Tim Hortons, Loblaws, Coca-Cola andProcter & Gamble. Does anyone expectthem to put B.C.’s interests first?

MMBC’s fees will be much higherthan those in other regions. Forinstance, newspapers would have to pay20 cents per kilogram, compared to 0.42cents in Ontario.

About 85 per cent of all newspaper inB.C. is already recycled, and municipal-ities generate revenue from it because itis the most valuable recycled material.

Peter Kvarnstrom, CanadianNewspaper Association chair, warnedthat the added costs will force layoffs inan industry that is already fragile.

Everyone, including critics of MMBC,can get behind reducing waste. But thisplan needs more thought.

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I expect that, soon after youstart reading this, you’ll glancetowards the top of the page,smile knowingly… and make anincorrect assumption.

So, to head you off at the pass:no, this is not an April Fool’sjoke.

Apparently, today’s federalConservatives really are this stu-pid.

Economic brainiac PrimeMinister Stephen Harper and hisbusiness-approach-to-governmentflunkies have been basing theireconomic policy on… wait for the drum roll…Kijiji.

According to the Poynter Institute – the peoplewho regularly update the journalism bible inNorth America – significantly more than half ofthe people reading this only get their mass infor-mation from printed paper.

That may be difficult to believe, consideringall the smart phones, pads, mini-pads, tablets,laptops, desktops, Dick Tracy wrist watches, andother and sundry devices aimed at luring ourreaders out of the material world and into cyber-space.

Even people within our industry are having dif-ficulty with the concept that our trek into a total-ly electronic future is a longer, slower slog thanwas envisioned by the folks who in the 1980spredicted it would be complete within 10 yearsand furthermore, their vision of an electronicfuture was not anything like the one we appearto be heading towards – considering that, at thetime, only a handful of people in large universi-ties knew anything about the ARPANET, and fewof them had any inkling that it would years laterbecame our ubiquitous Internet.

So, bear with me while I try my best to explainKijiji for the electronics-challenged.

Kijiji is an online classified ad service.There, now that wasn’t so hard, was it?Harper and his cronies, however, appear to be

a bit more challenged than aver-age.

They thought Kijiji was a suit-able replacement for StatisticsCanada when decipheringCanada’s overall employmentsituation, in preparation for set-ting national policy on such littlethings as filling the country’sfuture skilled labour needs, orallowing corporations to hirefrom out-of-country and bypassCanadians seeking jobs.

Economists (other thanHarper) wondered where the

Conservative policies were coming from, as theyseemed completely at odds with the informationcoming out of Statistics Canada… the organiza-tion on which Canadians spend millions of dol-lars to collect and parse information so that thefederal government (in this case Harper and hiscronies) can get a reasonable idea of what thecountry has and what it needs, for – you know– policy development.

But Harper and his Conservatives tried toemasculate Statistics Canada a few years back– remember? – making much of the fundamentaldata-collection through the census voluntary.

That was just before the time when it startedbecoming clear that Harper didn’t have muchuse for scientists who tended to come up withthe “wrong” answers when investigating any-thing to do with climate change.

Statistics, science… who needs all that com-plicated stuff when a quick look at the want adscan get you all the answers you prefer?

Perhaps the most depressing part of it all ishow the Conservatives react when the real worldis explained to them.

Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenneysimply admitted his ignorance, claimed nobodyelse knew more than he did anyway, and intim-ated that nobody should be “laughing at Kijiji.”

Well, nobody is laughing at Kijiji, MinisterKenney. We’re all laughing at you.

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Odd Thoughtsby Bob Groeneveld

Harper’s policy ordinary joke

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Nothing! Leave it alone.

If I knew, I would have told someone.

Just tweak the American system.

Look at European models.

Open market: everyone for themselves.

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Dear Editor,Last month, Environment

Minister Mary Polakannounced what seemedlike good news: small busi-nesses would be “exempt-ed” from the province’sonerous new packaging andprinted paper regulationcoming into force this May.

Unfortunately, it lookslike the real news for smallbusiness isn’t quite so good– many are not actuallyexempted, and some willnot survive.

The new recycling policyfundamentally changes thecurrent blue-box program.Instead of being run by localmunicipalities, the B.C. gov-ernment has given controlover the blue-box programto an unelected body, called

Multi MaterialB.C., governedby multinationalcorporations outof Toronto.

If this has youscratching yourhead and won-dering what waswrong with theexisting blue-box program,you are not alone.

Opposition to Polak’splan is growing. Last week,a coalition of B.C-basedbusinesses representingagriculture, newspapers,landscaping, manufactur-ing, retail, wholesale, food,and waste collection sectorsheld a press conference toannounce a #RethinkItBCcampaign to fight the newrules.

If small busi-nesses really were“exempt,0” whywould so many ofthem band togetheragainst this newpolicy?

Minister Polak didput in place somecompliance thresh-

olds around gross revenue,packaging volumes, andnumber of locations. Theproblem with her approachis that the thresholds aretoo low, and in some casesdon’t apply at all.

The bottom line is that toomany small businesses arestill being hurt by a policythat adds a lot of cost andbureaucracy for no environ-mental benefit.

For example, under thenew rules, franchises arenot exempt.

Several pizza franchiseeshave reported to us theywill be paying between$200 and $400 a week intaxes to MMBC. Pizza jointsdon’t have fat margins, andpaying for this might meanselling another 100 pizzasa week – or passing thosecosts on to customers.

Some small businesses arebeing bullied into compli-ance by big corporations.Several major grocery storeshave sent letters to suppli-ers, saying they will only dobusiness with firms that areMMBC compliant, regardlessof whether or not they fallunder Polak’s exemption.

One went as far as threat-ening to withhold partialpayment as a fine for lack ofMMBC compliance.

These same supermarketswill not accept any priceincreases associated withcompliance – small businesshas to eat the cost.

In small towns, commun-ity newspapers and localrecycling depots are at riskof going out of business,thanks to the new policy.

B.C’s newspaper indus-try is facing $14 million ofadditional taxes. They willbe paying 4,762 per cent(that’s not a typo) moreper kilogram of waste thanthe equivalent program inOntario. How many joblosses that translates intohas yet to be seen.

That it is at odds with thegovernment’s stated “strongeconomy, secure tomorrow”agenda is crystal clear.

The only good news inthis mess is that it is nevertoo late to reverse course onbad policy. Premier Clarkhas shown she has thecourage to admit mistakesand change course wherenecessary. It’s necessarynow. The new recyclingrules don’t work for smallbusiness or the communitiesthey support.

Laura Jones,Canadian Federation

of Independent Business

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Animal welfare

Keepmessy cats at homeDear Editor,

Cat owners should be held accountable.More than 200 million birds lose their lives to outdoor

cats each year (greater than any other causes combined).Loose cats dig up my plants to have their crap every day.

It just doesn’t really give you an appetite when you see andsmell cat feces and cat pee between your veggies.

If I allowed my dog to run loose, crap in someone’s yard,or chase the cats and squirrels as they wish, everyonewould be in a big uproar. Cats should be under the samerules as our dogs. Cats should be leashed, licensed, andcontrolled. Keep them in your own yard.

W. Rutledge, Maple Ridge

• A small victory for smokers in MapleRidge last week, council defeated a bylawchange that would mandate puffers tosmoke 7.5 metres or more away from build-ing entrances. One argument was it would be toohard to enforce. Readers were asked their thoughts:

“…why should we have to smell and walk through clouds ofsmoke whenever we want to go near a building?”

– Dianne Fernandes Enns“The further away the better. It may be too hard to enforceright now, but you have to start the process.”

– Kelly Lilley“People still smoke?” – Vicki McLeod“Who enforces the existing regulations? Why not createsmoking areas for these pariahs? Somewhere out of town.”

– Tim Tyler“Some people ignore the three metres but the majoritywill abide. I think 7.5 metres just emphasizes the impactsecond-hand smoke has, and how far it travels. Only 16 percent of Maple Ridge residents do smoke. Wow.”

– Tom Manion“It should be the 7.5 metres, in fact smokers shouldn’t evenbe anywhere near entrances, period.” – Alvin Cohen

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For those of you who cross the Golden Ears Bridge andreceive your transaction statements electronically, makesure you check the entries carefully, because if you glossover them, you might be paying charges for crossings youdidn’t make. In my case, I was charged for 23 crossings thatI did not make.

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In Greek mythology, aphoenix is a bird that isassociated with the sunand fire and obtains

new life by rising from theashes of its predecessor.

Who would guess ourlatest phoenix comes froma Tim Hortons coffee shop?

In the 1960s, the B.C.justice department openeda youth camp at BoulderBay on the Alouette Lake reservoir. It wasfounded on the philosophy of the outwardbound programs, which were in vogue inthe day as a way to get kids back on thestraight and narrow.

Premier Dave Barrett did some shiftsthere while he was working at Haney cor-rectional institute – before he got fired.

The facilities were later abandoned andstarted to deteriorate. In 2007, formerMaple Ridge mayor Carl Durksen – whoran Boulder Bay – joined forces with for-mer Mission mayor Abe Neufeld, who wasregional director of prison, and with a fewother local citizens made a very seriouseffort to save the facilities, suggesting it beused for a residential drug rehab facility.

After spending thousands of dollars onproposals, the Mission City council decid-ed in its wisdom to send the Mission firedepartment to Boulder Bay and burn thefacilities to the ground.

Soon after, they discovered that BoulderBay wasn’t in the District of Mission.

Oops! It was too far west. Maple RidgeDistrict staff of the day did not believe it,and chose not to investigate the possibilitythat it actually was in Maple Ridge.

And like a phoenix, a possible newcamp is rising from the ashes. NowMission is referring to it as the children’scamp on Pine Lake.

Durksen and Neufeld will be happy to

know that the Tim HortonsChildren Foundation(THCF) has been workingon a proposal to MissionCity for more than a year.

Mission somehow gotpermission to extend itsboundary from the CentralFraser Valley RegionalDistrict (I still can’t figureout how that is geographic-ally possible, as it is west ofMission), to enable them to

make a deal with Tim Hortons.THCF has seven camps that provide

camping experience for 17,000 disadvan-taged children annually.

THCF has been in discussion with fed-eral, provincial, and municipal govern-ments over construction of a $17-millionyear-round camp on the site.

To get to the east side of the lake, oneheads 20 miles north from the Stave Lakedam. The first eight kilometres of the roadwere upgraded in the past four years, toprovide year-round access to Zajac Ranch.

In April last year, then Finance MinisterMike DeJong announced the BC Liberalgovernment would put up $5 million toimprove the old logging road to serve“Tim Hortons Children’s Camp on PineLake” (www.THCF.com).

THCF is currently working to obtain thetwo remaining core infrastructure require-ments needed: BC Hydro and Telus. Oncethose two services are acquired, THCFannounced, it will be in a position to com-plete the due diligence planning requiredprior to the construction of the camp.

I hope they have better luck with theMission staff than the mayors did.

Just saying…Gordy Robson’s column appears Tuesdays in the print and/oronline versions of The TIMES. Reactions can be emailed c/o

[email protected].

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2014 Seasons in the ParkMarch 22 - April 26, 2014The Maple Ridge Art Gallery is pleased to welcomeback the local Garibaldi Art Club for its spring 2014exhibition. The many seasons of Memorial PeacePark in Maple Ridge will serve as the inspiration forthis year’s show.

One Man Lord of the RingsApril 3 – 7:30 p.m.Following the success of his One Man Star WarsTrilogy last season at The ACT, Canadian actorCharles Ross, using a pair of elbow pads as his onlyprop plays every character, casts every spell, fightsevery battle and shrinks Peter Jackson’s epic filmtrilogy down to a hilarious fantasy-filled homage toone of the most popular series of all time.

Always Be Yourself with Norm Foote &FriendsApril 10 – 7:00 p.m.Come join us for this fun-filled family friendlyperformance with Norm Foote!

Willy Wonka Jr.April 16 – 19An Xtreme Theatre production of Roald Dahl’s WillyWonka Jr.

Annie Jr.April 25-26Showstoppers Academy presents the favouritemusical Annie Jr.

Nijinsky Gibber Jazz ClubApril 26 – 7:00 p.m.On April 26 The ACT lobby transforms into theNijinsky Gibber Jazz Club, a free performance ofjazz music and dance that’s sure to inspire.

Jesse PetersApril 26 – 8:00 p.m.From classic jazz and blues covers to his owncompositions like Face Time, played on CBC, you’llbe enchanted by this Canadian gem. Let go and letthe music and performance draw you in for the ride.

Lobby Nights at the ACTJoin us on select Tuesdays and Thursdaysfrom 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. for a free evening ofentertainment, including Spinning with theWhonnock Weavers, SFU Philosophers Café,Songstage with Ivan Boudreau and Celtic Jam withNigel Tucker. Visit www.theactmapleridge.org/lobby-nights for schedule.

Friday Night DanceCheck out our website for the Friday Night DanceSchedule with Robyn Picard, everything fromBallroom to Swing! Drop in classes. Singleswelcome!

Register for Spring Arts Programs!Lots of art programs for all ages in Maple Ridge andPitt Meadows. Check them out in the Spring Artsand Recreation Guide.

Visit www.theactmapleridge.org for schedules.Register at recreg4u.ca or 604-465-2470.

Maple Ridge Art Gallery:This month at The ACT

Garibaldi Arts Clubmembers Jean Abbot(left) next to her piece,They Gave All, artistDiane Speirs (immediateleft), with her pieceMoon rising over theACT, Donna Wakefield(below left) with herpiece Determination,and (bottom) Connie-Jean Moore, next to herpiece, Even ChickadeesGet Cold, wereamong the artists inattendance during therecent opening of theSeasons in the Parkexhibit in the MapleRidge art gallery.The art club hostsan annual springexhibit at The ACT.

How can you share?Do you have a local photo of someone or some place you’d like to share with the rest of Maple Ridge and PittMeadows? Email it to us as a high-resolution .JPEG to [email protected]. Please include a brief description– including everyone’s first and last name. Put “faces & places” in the subject line of your email.

Ridge Meadows Hospice staffers LaraLee and Paige Charron participated ina recent Shades of Green St. Paddy’sfundraising pub night at Samz Pub in PittMeadows. The event raised $3,800.

MLAs Doug Bing (left) and Marc Dalton (right) presented a $6,000

cheque to KidSport Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows recently on behalf

of the provincial government. The money helps this local organization

get under-privileged kids enrolled into sports in this community.

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Showcasing someof this community’speople and happenings

April 1: Holy Wow Poets• Holy Wow Poets meet for theirlobby night at The ACT, 11944Haney Pl., from 7 to 9 p.m.

April 1: Recycling AGM• Ridge Meadows RecyclingSociety’s 2014 AGM takes placeat 6:30 p.m. at The Well, locatedinside Chances Gaming Centre,22710 Lougheed Hwy., MapleRidge. Info: www.rmrecycling.org.

April 1: Support group• Coquitlam prostate cancer sup-port group meets at 7 p.m. in theCoquitlam Pinetree CommunityCentre, 1260 Pinetree Way. Info:Norm at 604-936-8703 or Ken at604-936-2998.

April 2: Taxes• Understanding Taxation andFiling takes place at the MapleRidge Library, #130-22470 DewdneyTrunk Rd., at 7 p.m.

April 3: Seniors• A Seniors Helping Seniors meetingtakes place at 9:30 a.m. at the RidgeMeadows Seniors Activity Centre,12150 224th St., Maple Ridge.

April 3: The ACT• Canadian actor Charlie Ross per-forms in his one-man show OneMan Lord of the Rings at 7:30 p.m.at The ACT. Info: www.theactmap-leridge.org or 604-476-2787.

April 3: Support group• Parkinson’s caregivers supportgroup meets at 10 a.m. Info: JulieLloyd at 604-459-9071 or [email protected], or Joanne Long 604-462-9735 or [email protected].

April 4: Band• Ninjaspy will stop in PittMeadows at the community church,12109 Harris Rd., at 8 p.m., as partof the band’s Jump Ya Bones tour.

April 5: Cartoonist• Cartoonist Ernie Poignant will beselling copies of his book of car-toons, Poignant Moments, at theMaple Ridge Library at 2 p.m. Allproceeds from sales of his book willbe donated to Canucks Place.

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Young people areinvited to express theiridea of the future inshort videos.

by Cindy St. [email protected]

Cinema Politica RidgeMeadows is challengingyouth to contemplatethe future of their com-munities for an upcomingyouth film festival.

The theme for theYouth Film Festival RidgeMeadows 2014 is calledRidge Meadows 2034, host-ed by Cinema Politica andthe Golden Ears TransitionInitiative.

This year OoshaRamsoondar, an eventorganizer at CinemaPolitica, said the organiza-tion decided to get youthinvolved.

“We decided that wewould have this festivalthat would encourageyouth to think about thefuture, what kind of asociety or community theywould like to live in, andhow they see the chal-lenges that we are facingnow being resolved, or onthe way to being resolvedas they are adults liv-ing in our community,”Ramsoondar said.

The theme is based onthe idea of the transitionmovement, which focuseson relying on more nat-ural and local resourcesin order to minimize theeffects of fossil fuel.

Those who are inter-ested must submit a videobetween six and eight min-utes in length, portrayingwhat they want their com-munity to look like whenthey are adults.

The video should focuson issues such as foodsupply, modes of transpor-tation, poverty, homeless-ness, and the economy.

Judging will be basedon content, creativity,impact/effectiveness, andtechnical excellence.

The contest is open toresidents in Maple Ridge

and Pitt Meadows 25 yearsand younger.

The screening of thevideos will be on May 8 atthe Maple Ridge MunicipalHall.

Videos must be submit-ted by April 28 on a USBflash drive. To submit avideo, contact RichardFarrance at [email protected], Gerry Pinel [email protected], OoshaRamsoondar at [email protected], orVerity Howarth at [email protected].

For more informa-tion call Ramsoondarat 604-466-3144 or visitthe Facebook event pagecalled 2014 Youth VisionFilm Festival.

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Breanne Behari, Shayla Riggins, Ziggy Martin, Thea Morgan, and OoshaRamsoondar from Cinema Politica are promoting a youth film festival.


SAWYERS LANDING LOCAL SERVICE AREA-UPDATED PARCEL TAX ROLLIn accordance with section 208(3) of the Community Charter, notice is hereby given that the 2014 Parcel Tax Rollfor the Sawyers Landing Local Service Area created by “District of Pitt Meadows Local Area Service Parcel TaxBylaw - Bylaw No. 2263, 2006” is available for inspection at the Pitt Meadows City Hall during regular office hours.

A person who owns a parcel included on the parcel tax roll may request that the roll be amended respecting amatter referred to in section 205 (1) of the Community Charter, but only in relation to the person’s own property.

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Charles Rossperforms a one-man show about aclassic tale, infusingit with humour andimprovisation.

Charlie Ross follows his Star Warsshow last year with a play based onthe Lord of the Rings.by Cindy St. [email protected]

Charlie Ross will bring the Lord of theRings trilogy to life in a one-man show atThe ACT.

Last year, Ross sold out his One ManStar Wars Trilogy performance, which hehas been performing for 13 years.

After the play’s success, he decided tomake one based on the Lord of the Ringstrilogy.

“Obviously a popular film is a greatway to take advantage of a built-in fanbase,” he said.

On April 3, he will be performing hiseight-year-old One Man Lord of the Ringsshow, with a pair of elbow pads and min-

imal lighting as his only props.He created the show back in 2004, but

couldn’t start performing for a few yearsuntil he got the rights for it.

The entire Middle-Earth trilogy issummed up in 3,600 seconds, using 10hours of final cut film and special effectsto accompany Ross as he plays everycharacter and fights every battle.

“If I’m really honest with myself I’dsay the show continually changes. It hasits obvious scripted form, but new jokesare always just arriving. I’m trying newthings all the time,” said Ross.

Ross is a B.C. actor who followed hisheart and his career to Halifax, N.S., in1999. He started creating his one-man tril-ogies when he was doing Fringe theatrearound the age of 26.

One Man Lord of the Rings runs at 7:30p.m. at The ACT. For information or fortickets, call 604-476-2787, go online atwww.theactmapleridge.org, or visit TheACT, 11944 Haney Pl., Maple Ridge.

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WATER MAIN FLUSHINGThe City of Pitt Meadows Public WorksDepartment will be flushing water mainsthroughout the municipality forapproximately twelve weeks beginningMarch 3, 2014. During this time there maybe a temporary drop in water pressure or anoticeable discolouration in tap water. Tocorrect problems with milky water, openthe cold tap slightly to bleed air from the water lines. If youexperience problems with dirty water, turn on an outside tapand let it run until the water clears. The City thanks residentsfor their patience during this routine maintenance of the watermains. If there are any questions or concerns pleasecall 604-465-2434.

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Pitt Meadows Heritage & Museum SocietyNOTICE OF ANNUALGENERAL MEETING

TheMuseumSocietywishes to thankthe followingindividuals,groupsandbusinesses for their support in2012:

Wednesday, April 10th at 7:00 p.m.At the Genera l S tore s i te o f the

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(members and people wishing to become members are welcome)

A Reminder: the Pitt Meadows Museum’s Annual HeritageReunion Tea and Penny Drive falls on Saturday, April 20th from

1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Old Heritage Hall on Harris Road.For more information or to volunteer some time pleasecontact the Museum at 604-465-4322 or email us at

[email protected].

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A Reminder: the Pitt Meadows Museum’s Annual Heritage Reunion Tea PennyDrive falls on Saturday, April 12th from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Old Heritage

Hall on Harris Road. This year in celebration of the 100th birthday ofPitt Meadows the Tea is open to the general public. Please join us for tea,

treats and birthday cake and to learn more about the Pitt Meadows Heritageand Museum Society and the Pitt Meadows Museum and Archives.

For more information or to volunteer some time please contact the Museumat 604-465-4322 or email us at [email protected].

Wednesday, April 9th at 7:00 p.m.

TheMuseum Society wishes to thank the following individuals,groups and businesses for their support in 2013:

Meeting commences at 7:00 p.m.

At the General Store site of thePitt Meadows Museum & Archives12294 Harris Road, Pitt Meadows

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(members and people wishing to become members are welcome)

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hero Larry Walker, a standoutbaseball player and left-handedpower hitter, was part of aspecial group recognized thispast Saturday. A season openerbetween the Mets and Jaysincluded a Montreal Expos tribute.It celebrated the former team’sbest season – that was 1994 –which was due in part to Walker.• More online: www.mrtimes.com,

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Club cash raisedThe New Ridge Dart Association

1998 held its spring fundraiserthis past Saturday at the HaneyPublic House. The fundraiser wasorganized to bring about aware-ness of the league, and attractnew players, as well as promotelocal business involvement.• More online: www.mrtimes.com,


Season opensPitt Meadows’ SFU track athlete

Michael Hutchinson was part ofthe team’s season opener at UBCon Sunday.

Hutchinson took one of the topspots in the 400-metre dash andfinished in fourth place.• More online: www.mrtimes.com,


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Recreation

Results postedCanadian Junior Golf

Association’s BC Junior Openfeatured local golfers, and resultsfrom the tournament are in.• More online: www.mrtimes.com,


NRDA’s Diane Cougar on Saturday.

The Abbotsford Heat team willpay tribute to former NHLerBrendan Morrison during agame this Friday.by Eric [email protected]

He’s a family man, formerNHLer, and a Pitt Meadows-raisedproduct of Ridge Meadows MinorHockey.

And this week, BrendanMorrison will be at the AbbotsfordHeat game on April 4, as part ofthe Legends of Hockey Series.

Morrison, who was born inNorth Vancouver, but raised in PittMeadows, got his start playing inthe Ridge Meadows Minor HockeyLeague.

He said he was “humbled” whenhe was asked to appear as part ofthe series.

“It’s an honour when you geta call from someone saying theywant to honour you as a legend ofhockey,” Morrison told The TIMES.

“It’s pretty overwhelming – youlook at some of the guys that havebeen honoured this year and it’squite the group.”

Morrison’s NHL career spanned17 seasons, in which he played ona number of teams, including eightseasons on the Canucks roster.

These days, he lives in Calgarywith his wife and four young chil-dren.

Morrison may be finished play-ing on the professional circuit butthat doesn’t mean he is slowingdown.

“Four kids equals activitiesalmost every night,” he said.

He also started his own com-pany, and has some commercialreal estate ventures on the go witha Vancouver-based group.

To top it off, the ex-NHLer alsohosts his own fishing show, whichis available on six different chan-nels in B.C., including CHEK.

“It’s been good. Really good,” hesaid, of life after the NHL.

Morrison is still involved withhockey, though, as both his oldestson and youngest daughter are act-ive in the minor league.

“I help with coaching them,” he

explained.As for further future profes-

sional involvement with hockey,Morrison hasn’tclosed the door.

“I’m done playing,but is there a chanceI might get back intothe game in somecapacity? For sure.”

Not this yearthough.

“This year is about dedication tothe family.”

And Morrison expects family to

be a big part of next week’s gameas well.

Even though he’s in town forone night only, andis attending thegame solo, Morrisonexpects the eventwill be a familyaffair.

“My mom anddad are still inPitt Meadows, my

sister’s there – a bunch of familyis still in the area. They’ll be out atthe Heat game,” he explained.

Even though his career has seenhim play in cities like New Jersey,Washington, Chicago, and Calgary,Morrison never forgets where he’sfrom.

“I always tell people I’m fromPitt Meadows,” he said.

“I have very fond memories ofgrowing up there.”

More information on thisFriday’s game and hockey tributein Abbotsford, as well as start timeand ticket information, can befound online at www.abbotsford-heat.com.

Tribute

Heat honours Pitt hockey legend

Brendan Morrison, NHLveteran, and a RidgeMeadows Minor Hockeyproduct, will be honoured inAbbotsford this Friday duringthe Heat game. Morrisonplayed for a number ofteams over the course ofhis career, including theVancouver Canucks and theNew Jersey Devils.

“I’m done playing…this year is aboutdedication to thefamily.”Brendan Morrison

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