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D’Eithwins NDP nodCOLE [email protected]

Bob D’Eith, a former musician, entertain-ment lawyer, and executive director of Music BC, will represent the New Democratic Party in the Maple Ridge–Pitt Meadows riding in this fall’s federal election.

D’Eith was named as the candidate on May

3 after mem-bers of the local NDP riding asso-ciation voted.

Also running

was local environ-mentalist and author Jack Emberly.

“Jack is a really good guy, and has a lot of great connections in the community,” said D’Eith.

This fall will be D’Eith’s first time as federal candidate.> More at mrtimes.com,

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Tuesday, council announces plan to clean up Cliff Avenue.TROY [email protected]

It’s a hardscrabble existence, one where a peaceful sleep, showering, and basic personal hygiene are luxuries.

And dignity can be hard to hold on to.

It’s a life 59-year-old Bert Woldring and 18-year-old Kali Chartrand are living, residing in a tent city set up along Cliff Avenue – across the street from Shepherd’s Hill Medical Clinic and just south of The Caring Place.

“There’s no break from it,” Woldring said. “It’s 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Everything you need you’ve got to carry with you. There’s no safe place. You can’t even sleep deeply because you’re outside, vulnerable, and some-body can… set you on fire, kick you, whatever.”

“I’ve been set on fire before,” Chartrand added.

Last week, Maple Ridge council approved $325,000 for an integrated approach to deal with the issues around home-lessness, with a focus on pro-viding outreach to help those suffering from addiction and mental health issues and who have ended up on the streets.

There’s work underway to ensure bylaw compliance around derelict properties and targeting the criminal element, particularly the drug culture, which preys on vulnerable people.

Meanwhile, the City is look-ing to break up the camp.

“We will be ready to launch all facets of our task force initiative within a few weeks, however in just under one week of more relaxed enforce-ment a substantial camp has sprung up on a roadway near one of the service providers in our community, highlight-ing the very issues our task force is working to deal with,” Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read said.

“We are in the process of informing the people [who] are squatting on the street that they will need to pack up their

belongings and leave the area.”Woldring has been homeless

for five months, and set up his tent on the side of Cliff Avenue Tuesday night.

“I realized when police were letting them [the homeless on Cliff Avenue] know they had till eight o’clock [Wednesday morning] to leave, that we’re going to have a big problem,” he said.

To tackle homelessness in Maple Ridge, Woldring said every community member has to focus on creating solutions. “It’s not going to happen until we all start working together to achieve that end,” he added.

Part of the solution is chan-ging the view on homeless people, opined Chartrand, who noted that many look at the local homeless like they are less than human.

“It’s really depressing how society has turned against people,” said Chartrand, who says she has been on the street since she was 16.

“They see us as some other living creature, not just a human being.”

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MAPLE RIDGE & PITT MEADOWS TIMESA6 Thursday, May 7, 2015 COMMUNITY

After 38 years as a community journalist, Bob Groeneveld retires.

TIMES editor Bob Groeneveld has announced his retirement, handing over the reins to long-time community journalist Roxanne Hooper.

“After 38 years of liaising between community news-makers and news readers, I decided it was time to explore some of my other interests,” Groeneveld said.

“My garden has been getting short shrift the past couple of years,” he said, “and my guitar and sax have been sitting far too idle for far too long.”

Groeneveld will step down as editor of the Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows TIMES and its sister paper, the Langley Advance at

end of day Friday, May 8.Hooper, who has been assist-

ant editor of The TIMES and the Advance since 2010, is moving into the editor’s chair for both papers.

“Bob’s contributions to community journal-ism go further than most of us can imagine,” said Ryan McAdams, pub-lisher of both the TIMES and the Advance.

“Bob’s retirement is a bittersweet day at the TIMES, and I personally wish Bob and Donna all the best in this new chapter of their life. It’s not a goodbye – it’s more of a ‘See you soon.’”

“The whole community thanks you for all you have shared over the years, Bob.”

McAdams was pleased to announce that Hooper accepted

the new post.“Roxanne brings a lot of

experience and goodwill to the position,” he said, “and I’m confident that all of our readers will appreci-ate the commitment that she has to community service.”

Groeneveld said he was pleased to be suc-ceeded as editor by Hooper, whom he first met when she started her career in newspapers at the Advance in 1980.

“I have a great deal of respect for Roxanne’s abilities as a journalist and editor, and she has a tremendous understand-ing of the concept of commun-ity,” he said.

Hooper first began reporting in this community in 1990. > Related column on page A8, and

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Wearing a taekwondo helmet for protection, two-and-a-half year old Benjamin Seldon rolled over a wooden ramp on a BMX at the kids’ BMX course.

Home showhailed a success

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Witnesses and tips are being sought after a Maple Ridge house was “bombed” early on May 4.

An incendiary devise was thrown through the win-dow of a home in the 20900 block of Dewdney Trunk Road on Monday, at about 5:45 a.m., said RCMP Insp. Dan Splinter.

There was no explosion or fire, but the intent to do damage was there, Splinter said.

Renter laudedQuick thinking on

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Locals worry a massive grow-op could damage wells.COLE [email protected]

Whonnockians lined the seats at City hall Monday afternoon at a committee of the whole meeting, where two local environmentalists condemned the industrial size medical marijuana facil-ity under construction in Whonnock.

Klaus and Betty von Hardenberg, who are a part of an organization known as the Thornhill Aquifer Protection Study (TAPS), posed a number of questions to council regard-ing the contentious greenhouse facility.

The most pressing of these questions: “how could this have happened, and why?”

The greenhouse in question, owned by Tantalus Labs, has been a lightning rod of contro-versy, since it was revealed to be a medical marijuana grow-ing operation, and not a sylvi-culture facility, as Dan Sutton of Tantalus Labs initially indi-cated to residents.

Monday’s presentation largely focused on the risk the Tantalus Labs installation could pose to the sensitive Grant-Hill

aquifer, which is the source of groundwater for much of Whonnock.

Pointing to a well report undertaken by Tantalus Labs, Betty revealed that the facility’s well was graded to pull “about 27,000 gallons of water per day.”

But, using figures from another legal growing oper-ation, she argued that an instal-lation the size of the Tantalus Labs greenhouse would have to pull “closer to 500,000 gallons of water” per day, in order to operate at full capacity.

Sutton had previously said that if the company finds itself short of water, it would look into drilling more wells on the property, which was a cause

for concern for TAPS.There are no accurate ways

to predict how a heavy draw might impact the surrounding wells on other property, said Betty.

City councillors reiterated their own frustrations with senior levels of government, which largely control where and when the sites can start growing, prompting a letter to the federal health minister from the mayor of Maple Ridge last month.

In the letter, Nicole Read urged Health Canada to be more forthcoming with infor-mation about potential medical marijuana facilities.

> More at www.mrtimes.com. search “marijuana”

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None of this means that we’re going to stop doing what we’ve been doing for the past 30 years. On the contrary, this is just a part of our continuing commitment of service to our community.

The changes in the printed version of your community newspaper are intended to reflect both the changing communications environ-ment that surrounds us all, as well as the way local news gathering and disseminating continues to change.

In other words, we intend to keep providing our community with information and the interactive forum that make newspapers essential to a healthy community – and we’ll keep working on doing it better.

The reality of community journalism over the past three decades has taken our readers from mostly words printed on newsprint, into the advent of black-and-white photojournalism, past an explosion of colour, and then into the virtually unlimited internet, where we pro-vide web-savvy readers with their local news at www.mrtimes.com. First, a few hundreds of you turned our pages electronically, and now you number in the tens of thousands.

Our web-space reality is now augmented with our social media entries: “follow us” (on Twitter @mapleridgetimes) and “like us” (on Facebook.com/MapleRidgePittMeadowsTimes) are familiar entries in our communities’ journalism lexicon. The terrain may look a little differ-ent, but this is not unfamiliar territory for community journalism. The web and social media are just improved tools to do what we’ve done all along. A healthy community stays in communication with itself, to build on its strengths and to improve on its weaknesses.

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How do you sum up 38 years as a com-munity newspaper reporter and editor

in the few lines offered by this meagre space?

The simple answer is, of course, you don’t.

I arrived in the Fraser Valley after a few years of studying agricultural science at UBC, where I had initially enrolled with an eye to becoming a teacher.

I grew up on Vancouver Island in the Alberni Valley, at that time a thriving, progressive fishing and logging community dominated by sawmills and a world-class pulp mill.

My dad and all my oldest brothers worked in that pulp mill, and they have all done well with their lives.

Nevertheless, it was not a future I envisioned for myself.

I discovered in my first year at school that I had a natural bent for the written

word. I enjoyed learning each letter, and I loved the way they came together to form words and captured thoughts.

My handwriting was abys-mal. It was the basis for many, many nasty notes penned on report cards that were otherwise dominated by glowing reviews of my fer-vour for reading.

But the reading was for me, none the less, all about writ-ing. By the time I got through Fun With Dick and Jane, I

was thinking mostly about the people who wrote that stuff.

I wanted to be one of those people.But the world I was in then was far

different from the one we’re in now. In those days, as you got into high school, your career options grew progressively narrower.

And the only serious career options I had been exposed to by the time I got to Grade 12 were working in the mill, like

my dad and brothers, or going into educa-tion and emulating some of my favourite teachers.

It’s funny. My mother was always proud of the marks I brought home, and she bragged that I was on the univer-sity track at school. But forever after I announced I was not going to work in the pulp mill, but would go to university to be a teacher, her favourite derogation for me when I got her angry (I was a teen-ager) was a derisively intoned, “Student!”

I did work in the mill. I worked there for a year – and ensuing summers – to make money to go to university.

And after I was done with UBC (or more accurately, after UBC was done with me) I worked as a construction labourer before stumbling into a job as a reporter at the Langley Advance.

Jim Schatz, then editor, publisher, and owner of the Advance, cautioned me at the outset of my job interview, “You’d better love this work, and you’d better love to write, because it’s not about the money… you’re not going to get rich

in this business, but if you’re unlucky enough that the printer’s ink gets into your blood, you can’t find a better way to make a living.”

Within a week, my blood was saturated with that dastardly ink.

I had found my niche – purely by acci-dent, only because Jim was the father of a friend I had made in 4-H.

Not only was I blessed with the oppor-tunity to write for a living, but better still, it was exactly the writing that I realized I had always wanted to do.

I got to meet and talk with and write about people I would not otherwise have met, in all corners of the community.

Nearly five years ago, I was hauled into my publisher’s office and told that I would thenceforth be editor of the Advance and the Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows TIMES.

The position came with a raise whose size only confirmed Jim’s earlier caution.

But it also came with Roxanne Hooper as my assistant editor – now your editor.

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Letters

Dear Editor,Dumping of garbage

on urban and rural roadsides and pull-outs is a continual problem.

In the past two months, at the park-ing area at 28101 Dewdney Trunk Road, an area accessed by the public for recrea-tion and enjoyment of our great outdoors,

has had no less than 10 loads of personal and light construction materials dumped.

That site is by no means the only one.

Occasionally, con-cerned citizens such as a group of parents and staff of SD42 Maple Ridge Environmental School take their own time and do a clean up: thank you!

Otherwise, it is left to adjacent land man-agers or owners to clean up.

The most recent dumps at this location occurred sometime on March 24 and 25. One of the loads had personal papers and photographs in a plas-tic container. Most documents are dated 1980-90s and some much earlier, and are also from Quebec.

It appears to be estate-related, either dumped by a trash hauler, or perhaps a family member.

Another of the dumps had remnant

painting materials, possibly dumped by a renovation contractor.

For those of us who put effort and pride in keeping our outdoor free of this trash, con-sider the frustration when days after effort has been put into cleaning up, it is back to the same old stuff again!

This is a much wider issue that affects the community as a whole, and as such deserves leadership and direction from community and prov-incial bodies!

Jonathan Smyth, Maple Ridge

Illegally dumped garbage affects whole community

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Anti-vaxxers unfair to othersDear Editor,

I am sorry Mr. Smith has had bad experiences with doctors [Vaccination personal choice, April 30 Letters, TIMES], and I agree they can seem more concerned with fixing rather than preventing, perhaps due to their traditional training, exacerbated by the pressures of too many patients and too few doctors.

There is, however, a flood of poorly supported information out there, and one needs to read carefully and to note where the information is coming from: read, but read critically.

I also have investigated a bit, and believe that anti-vaccination fears are not borne out by sci-entific literature. The dangers of vaccination are far outweighed by the benefits.

In the end, you are responsible for your fam-ily’s health, but it is unwise and unfair to the rest of us to refrain from vaccinating.

Paul Gregory, Maple Ridge

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The supreme court in India recently upheld convictions of three men charged in the mur-der of a Maple Ridge woman in 2000, a killing allegedly arranged by her mother and uncle.“This poor girl was killed by the person she should have been able to trust the most, her mother, in 2000! Fifteen years later and proper justice still has not been served! There is something seriously wrong with our justice system. Come on Canada, do what’s right for once and extradite these horrible people back to India!”

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Dear Editor,On our regular dog walks,

part of my route is along the half-kilometre trail in North Cottonwood Park between Abernethy Way and 121B Ave.

Every single day I walk this trail, I see many brightly col-oured plastic bags in yellow, black, blue, and white along the edge of the trail and in the trees. Every single bag appears to contain dog waste.

Today, I spotted three bags. Three entrances to this trail

– one at the north end, one at the south end, and one in the middle, by the basketball court on 238B Ave. Each entrance has a municipally supplied trash container.

Why do some dog owners (a small minority, I’m sure) go to the trouble of collecting their pets’ waste and then leave it on the trail or toss it into the bush, instead of carrying the bag an extra 20 feet to deposit it in a trash container?

They (and we) would prob-

ably be better off if they did not bother with the bag and just pushed the waste into the bush, where it would be washed away with the rain and those who enjoy walking the trail would not be subject to the array of plastic bags.

I am sure some of these inconsiderate pet owners believe the world revolves around them, but it does not!

Places like this trail and public walking areas in our community and others are not your personal waste-dump-ing grounds. Pet owners who find it a chore to clean up after their pets should consider those of us who pay taxes, and are entitled to waste-free walk-ing trails.

Otherwise we may face a proposal like the one in Coquitlam, requiring pet owners to flush their pets’ waste down a toilet.

Mind you, that would not affect owners who just seem not to care. It would just make it harder on those of us pet owners who do.

K .Kahle, Maple Ridge

Bagged poop worse than bushed waste

Dear Editor,Is anyone else as angry as I

am over the Mayors’ Council using more than $6,000,000 in advertising, trying to tell us that there is no plan B?

They are our tax dollars, despite them saying it is not new money because it was already in TransLink’s budget.

The question is, what was it earmarked for, or was a slush fund, and then, why?

Don’t be scared into vot-

ing yes (while “holding your nose,” as Jacky Chow has sug-gested). There will be a plan B, you can count on that.

TransLink has forfeited its reason for existence, with all its bungling. Outrageous wage and benefit packages, voted on by themselves, must be rescinded, by voting them down convincingly.

So, if you have not yet voted, do so with a resounding NO.

Walter Verwoerd, Maple Ridge

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Meadows Home Show ran the inaugural Cutest

Dog contest, and received close to 50 local entries.

While each is a winner, here’s a sampling of those

submissions, including Chooey (right). The rest are online. Thanks to everyone for entering. Start snapping

those pictures now, for next year’s contest.


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

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Cutest canine crownedMeet Baxter Schick.ROXANNE [email protected] as

Meet Baxter.This little gaffer has earned

the distinguished title of being this community’s 2015 Cutest Dog, and as such was invited to walk the runway Saturday at the For The Love of Dogs Show during the Ridge Meadows Home Show.

Amid applause and “awes” from the audience, he and his “sister” Karen Horne had a few minutes in the spotlight.

But it was actually Baxter’s story of how he came to be in Maple Ridge – to live with Horne’s mother Sandy Schick – that was the most “awe” inspiring for those who visited with Baxter at the subsequent meet-and-greet after the show.

He is a rescue dog from Alberta, and when Schick decided to adopt another dog – after loosing her four-legged friend Winston eight months earlier – she honestly had her heart set on another maltipoo.

So, imagine her surprise when the rescue group told her the wrong dog had been shipped, and her maltipoo was on its way to Manitoba.

Despite the mixup, Schick agreed to foster this little dog while Sagebrush Dog Rescue tracked down her dog.

It was only supposed to be a temporary arrangement. But within an hour of meeting and playing with Baxter, Schick agreed to be the adoptive rather than foster mother.

Turns out two dogs were set to be shipped out to new homes that day from Alberta, and a little girl – who later confessed her sins to her priest – switched out the col-lar and shipping tags.

That little white maltipoo that was supposed to come to Maple Ridge ended up going to a sick little girl in Manitoba who had also wanted him.

Well, the girl got her wish, and ultimately, so did Schick.

The six-month-old terrier cross is now a member of the Schick family, and Sandy and Baxter are almost inseparable.

Baxter Schick gave Emma Horne, 11, kisses Saturday, during his moment of stardom.

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MAPLE RIDGE & PITT MEADOWS TIMESA12 Thursday, May 7, 2015 BUSINESS

During the month of May, Maple Ridge Hyundai will be donating $100 per

vehicle sold to the Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation for new equipment.

The goal of Operation 100 is to sell 100 vehicles in 30 days, resulting in a donation of $10,000.

As an added incentive for buyers, all cars, trucks and SUVs are marked down by thousands to “guarantee” the business reaches its target.

“Supporting the local com-munity is important to our business,” said John Kot, president of Maple Ridge Hyundai.

“After a successful first year of business under our management, the residents of Maple Ridge have been nothing but welcoming and we look forward to giv-ing back,”

Kot said he understands how important it is to have proper medical care, as his daughter has been affected by heart problems consistently since birth.

“Having the ability to help our community provide a higher level of health care for all families will help everyone through an already difficult time in their life,” said John.

LUNCH AND LEARN

The Chamber of Commerce serving Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows

is hosting a Lunch and Learn business information session, next Wednesday, May 13.

The event takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the North Fraser Business

Innovation Accelerator Office, located at 22470 Dewdney trunk Rd., the title of the session is Priority Management with Danny Kerr.

The goal of the seminar is to have par-ticipants leave with a break-down of year-end goals, and how to fill

their agenda with items that hit that goal.

The seminar is open to everyone, and is compliment-ary for chamber members, or $10 for non-members.

As a sort of save-the-date

aside, I’ll also let you know that the next chamber BizNiz Mixer takes place at the best Western Maple Ridge, 21650 Lougheed Hwy., from 5 to 7 p.m., two weeks from today, on Thursday, May 21. Admission is also free with membership, or $10 for non-members.

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The devastation they witnessed in earth-quake-ravaged Nepal shook Lieutenants Doug Petti and Kris

Anderson – along with fellow members of the Burnaby Fire Department – to their core.

Petti, from Pitt Meadows, and Anderson, a Maple

Ridge resident, were among 12 firefight-ers from Canada who travelled to the coun-try, which was hit by a magnitude 7.8 earth-quake on April 25. The death toll there

has surpassed 7,500 with countless others missing or injured.

Joining Petti and Anderson from April 27 to May 2 were Maple Ridge residents Steve Leslie, Dave Samson, and Rob Hourigan, and Pitt Meadows resident Niel Stevenson, all with the Burnaby Fire Department.

Led by their union, IAFF Local 323, the crew volunteered to travel to Nepal, with some expenses coming out of their own pock-ets, however Cathay Pacific paid for their airfare.

Their mandate was to “search and locate,” Petti said.

“We went in with search dogs and we would try to locate bodies, or people who were alive, possibly,” he said. “The dogs could signal whether [people] were alive or dead. If we got the signal they were alive then we would dig for them. Almost all the signals we got were for dead [bodies].”

The group used search cameras attached to a 11-foot rods that could be maneuvered through tight spaces, as well as Delsar LifeDetectors, seismic/acoustic lis-tening devices that detect and locate live victims trapped in col-lapsed structures.

“They are a bunch of little pucks that go out on the rubble and you can interpret the sounds that come back through it,” Petti explained.

The team marked the buildings they searched, and heavy

machinery was used to break through the rubble to find bodies.

They did manage to find a chicken coop and saved a few chick-ens, Petti said.

“We never actually found any people who were alive,” Petti added. “We did mark a lot of scenes where people had passed

away. We were able to… locate them.”

Larger scaleIn Petti’s case,

this was his second deployment to a disas-ter zone.

In July 2013, he joined a team from the department in High River, Alta., to help out flood victims there.

But the damage done by the fast-mov-ing floodwaters in High River paled in comparison to what happened in Nepal, where villages have been flattened and structures reduced to rubble.

In Kathmandu, entire buildings had collapsed and many of the buildings that were still standing suf-fered cracks and struc-tural damage.

“It was an over-whelming situation,” Petti said. “The level of destruction that was there was some-thing I’ve never seen before. You see the pictures on the news but when you actually see it in real life, the destruction… it almost stuns you.”

“We’re emergency responders and we’ve seen a lot of things, but that much [dam-age] is something that none of us would expect to see, of course,” Anderson added.

“Just the scale of it was bigger than any of us have ever seen. We’ve all seen, on a smaller scale, building collapses and large emergen-cies, but when a city’s impacted like that, it’s something that you’d never anticipated.”

Petti said after visit-ing Nepal, he has a for what he has in Canada.

“It’s like night and day,” he said, compar-ing Canada to Nepal, especially after the earthquake.

“They have so little, and then to have this on top of that is devastating. But the people there are so resilient. To see them devastated like that and to see them come back so strongly and so quickly, it gives you a sense that you can always do better.”> More at mrtimes.com,

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NATURAL DISASTER

Local firefighters see ‘stunning’ damage in Nepal

Maple Ridge’s Kris Anderson and Pitt Meadows’ Doug Petti were among the contingent from the Burnaby Fire Department who travelled to Nepal on a search and locate mission.

Left: The damage inflicted by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal was unlike anything the local firefighters have ever seen.

MAPLE RIDGE & PITT MEADOWS TIMES Thursday, May 7, 2015 A13NEWS

The damage inflicted by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal was unlike anything the firefighters have ever seen.

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Shelter lives on

A series of dona-tions and now an infusion of prov-incial money are allowing the youth safe house in Maple Ridge to keep oper-ating, albeit in a different form.

Iron Horse Youth Services morphed into a day program back in February, after federal fund-ing for the local program dried and the 24/7 emergency shelter for youth had to be closed.

On April 29, local MLA Doug Bing presented Iron Horse with a $27,000 transition grant.

The cash infusion, coupled with support from private donors will keep Iron Horse running as is, while executive director Stephanie Ediger hopes to transition back to an over-night shelter.

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High school students put on Tarzan this month at The ACT.COLE [email protected]

A real bamboo set, a host of massive (costumed) gor-illas, the music of Phil Collins, and a cast of almost 50 teens between the ages of 14 and 18 will come together this May to recreate the story of Tarzan, live at The ACT.

Welcome to the jungle, indeed.

The production represents eight months of hard work on the part of Xtreme Theatre’s senior group, who started rehearsing for Tarzan last September, said Wendy Holm, artistic director of the show.

“This is our biggest under-taking so far,” said Holm of the massive production. “We wanted to be very authentic to the way it was put on on Broadway,” she added.

Xtreme Theatre, now in its 16th year, is a theatre group for children and teens who are homeschooled.

While the group is still ama-teur (the actors are not paid), Holm said the level of commit-ment for these students is well above the average community theatre group.

Forty-eight students form the cast of Tarzan, but the produc-tion was bolstered by an array of parent volunteers, who chipped in by building sets, designing costumes, or work-ing on technical elements of the show, said Holm.

“Just the fringe on one of the costumes took about five hours, and we had to make 50,” said Holm.

“This is a cooperative – if your children are involved, you’re expected to chip in as a volunteer,” added Holm.

As far as what audiences can expect in the production, Holm said the show follows largely the same plot as the Disney film, with more added musical numbers.

The senior production of Tarzan marks the end of the 2015 season for Xtreme, which will begin once again in September, running programs for minis (eight and under), juniors (eight to 14) and sen-iors (14 to 18).

The junior production of My Son Pinocchio Jr. took the stage at The ACT last month, and was a big hit with audiences, said Holm, who called it “the best junior production we’ve ever put on.”

Tarzan is on stage at The ACT from May 13 to 16, with nightly shows at 7 p.m. and a matinee on May 16 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available online at www.theactmapleridge.org or by calling 604 476 2787.

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ALS took Michael Sands’ life the afternoon

of Thursday, Jan. 15.To the very end,

his wife Nadine says, it couldn’t take his spirit.

She said the Maple Ridge husband, dad, and grandfather lived as fully as he could, to his last breath.

Michael was the inspiration behind Nadine’s recently published book, Hold On, Let Go: Facing ALS with courage and hope, and it has a message: “Sometimes life is good and some-times it’s not. Either way, keep smiling, keep trying, and keep looking up.”

“Easier said than done sometimes, but this is how Mike lived,” Nadine said late Saturday, April 4, a few hours after sup-porters lined up inside the Save-On-Foods at Valley Fair Mall for a book signing.

“It was pretty incredible. He never gave up, he smiled a lot, and he had an awesome attitude and a strong faith in God. He gave thanks for every day and if he lived to see the next one, he counted it as icing on the cake.”

Nadine described her first ever pub-lished book as a “stay positive in difficult times story” about Michael – who was diagnosed with ALS in March 2011 – and his family’s journey as he battled the terminal illness.

“It’s about giving thanks in every cir-cumstance, having faith, being hopeful and bottom line, it’s about love,” Nadine said.

Amyotrophic lateral sclero-sis (commonly

referred to as ALS, and also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease) is a progressive neuro-muscular disease in which nerve cells die and leave voluntary muscles paralyzed.

According to ALS Canada, every day, two or three Canadians die of the disease.

Michael spent the

final two nights of his life at Ridge Meadows Hospital.

Nadine finished her book in late September 2014, and even though her husband passed roughly four months later, she was able to put Michael’s obituary on the very last page while it was still in the typesetting stage.

Nadine wrote about the last days of Michael’s life in her blog post.

The blog post is called “Greener on the Other Side” and can be found on her web-site at alswithcourage.com.

ALS took away a man who was very

active, an avid run-ner who played ball hockey and soccer, said Nadine, who

met Michael through mutual friends.

“He lived in a big house with a bunch of guys, and one of those guys was a friend of mine,” she recalled. “Mike was working two jobs as a regis-tered nurse when he was diagnosed with ALS.”

The first signs of the disease started to show about eight months before Michael was diagnosed with ALS on March 7, 2011.

He felt muscle twitching in his arm and chest and after that lost the strength in his right hand.

The diagnosis was devastating. Michael was told he likely had two years to live, maybe five at most.

“He lived for four years after the diag-

nosis, so he actually did well, although of course it, seemed so fast,” Nadine shared.

Michael leaves behind three children and

one granddaughter.His and Nadine’s

daughter Erin is 26, their son Nathan is 24 and their daughter Madison is 21.

Their granddaughter Leah (Nathan’s child), is six.

The family remains positive.

“It was hard to be sad or discouraged around Mike. He was so strong and he never complained. He kept us laughing and smil-ing until the end,” Nadine said.

“We have a strong

faith in God who enabled us, and poured out an abun-dance of joy in the middle of our sorrow.”

Moving forward liv-ing without Michael is a day-by-day effort for Nadine and her family.

“I always say, ‘We are doing okay,’ speaking for all of us. I’m always on the verge of tears, but most of the time you will find me laughing or smiling,” Nadine said.

The sorrow and joy Nadine writes about in her blog and book is just as present as ever.

“Sometimes I say, ‘I’m really sad today’ and sometimes I hear it from one of the kids or my sister,” she said.

“For me, it’s usually at night, when I go to my bedroom alone. That’s when I feel it the most.”

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For those looking for a fresh Mothers Day weekend activity or a place to get the perfect gift, it might be worth heading to Memorial Peace Park in Maple Ridge on Saturday.

It’s where the weekly Haney

Farmers Market kicks off its 2015 season from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“We welcome new farmers Ossome Acres and Wandering Row,” said the market’s execu-tive director Eileen Dwilles.

“Three wineries and one distil-lery have interesting tastes to try.”

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A local Mother’s Day weekend event returns again this yeart.

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Every year on Mothers Day weekend, artists and artisans from Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows open their creative sanctuaries to visitors.

The Art Studio Tour is a veritable treasure hunt of arts (contemporary and traditional) presented by both established and emerging artists.

Painters, potters, jewelers, sculptors, fabric artists and more all participate in the two-day event, and the tour is a unique opportunity to meet the artists, explore the stories behind their art, and gain insight into their creative process as well as their work environment.

Thirty six artists are par-ticipating in this year’s event, which is a record number, explained tour coordinator, Kerry McLaren.

“We’re all excited, and everyone’s in their studios cleaning, painting, and prepar-ing,” she said.

The free tour, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., fea-tures artists from Pitt Meadows all the way to Whonnock, and because the tour is self-guided, there is no set route people must follow.

To participate, people can simply pick up a map online at www.artstudiotour.ca, the Maple Ridge Library, the Pitt

Meadows Library, the Tourism Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows office, Little Cricket Gift Gallery, and The ACT.

Holding the event on Mother’s Day weekend has a been a popular draw for fam-ilies looking to do something a little bit different, whether it’s a family taking mom on the tour, or vice-versa.

“We see all kinds of smiling faces,” said McLaren.

More tour information is available on the website.

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Pitt Meadows artist Daisy Randall displayed her work last year.

Writing healing for Sands… continued from page A18

Writing has been a form of catharsis for Nadine, and continues to be very therapeutic on the other side of MIchael’s passing.

Nadine said she is “so grateful for the outlet,” and for all her blog readers, and now, her book readers.

In the introduction of the book, Nadine wrote about how at one time she told Michael that she was going to write some-thing someday and how he encouraged her.

“Little did I know he was the ‘some-thing’ I was going to write about,” Nadine remarked.

Hold On, Let Go: Facing ALS with cour-age and hope is avail-able on amazon.com and at www.influence-publishing.com.

Nadine’s most recent book signing was this past Saturday at T’s – Once Upon a Tea Leaf, which has also released a tea inspired by Michael called To the Moon and Back.

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Youth Talent NightMonday, May 4 - 7:00 p.m. The Youth Talent Night is a night � lled with all sorts of performances from guitar solos, to dance routines to magic tricks!

Hairspray Jr.Presented by Showstoppers Academy of Performing ArtsMay 8 -9 - 7:00 p.m.The 1950’s are out and change is in the air! HAIRSPRAY JR. the family-friendly musical piled bouffant high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs is adapted from the Original Broadway Version. CRE8 Youth Arts DaySaturday, May 9 – 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.This year participants can choose 2 workshops, from Special Effects Make-up to DJing, Hip Hop and more! CRE8 � lls up fast – Register online now! Ages 13-17

TarzanPresented by Xtreme Theatre’s Senior StudentsMay 13 - 16The Stage Musical Based on the Disney Film

Buddy Holly & Fab FoureverMonday, May 25 - 7:30 p.m.The concert will present the music of Buddy Holly and how it affected the Beatles’ career featuring all the early Beatle hits.

Felice Women’s Choir PresentsVoices in BloomWednesday, May 27 – 7:30 p.m.This community based choir pursues excellence in performance and celebrates a varied repertoire from classical to folk and pop.

Meditation in the GalleryFriday, May 29 – 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.We’ll provide soothing nature sounds, lovely artwork on which to focus your gaze and a place where no one’s going to interrupt you for an hour. Self-guided, bring your own mat to be comfortable.

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Burrards host Barn Burner tournament

The fourth annual Ridge Meadows Burrards Barn Burner midget lacrosse tournament takes place this weekend at Planet Ice. Teams from Langley, Saanich, Coquitlam, Delta, and Juan de Fuca are all scheduled to participate.

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Fishing for historyTIMES columnist and fishing enthusiast Jeff

Weltz continues his series on the history of fly fishing in North America. This week, he talks about the accidental discovery of a new species in California in the late 19th century, resulting from a failed hatchery venture that would forever change the tastes, so to speak, of fly fishers for “all time.”

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Katelyn Erhardsen, a Grade 12 student at Samuel Robertson Technical Secondary, has received an athletic scholarship to Simon Fraser University.

A Maple Ridge high school soccer player is preparing to take the next step in her athletic career.

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Seventeen-year-old soccer player Katelyn Erhardsen has a dream.

“I would love to play for the national team,” she said.

A soccer player since the age of four, Erhardsen is a Grade 12 student at Samuel Robertson Technical Secondary, and is taking the next step in making her dream closer to a reality: she recently received an athletic scholarship to Simon Fraser University, to be part of the soccer team, beginning this fall.

“I’m really excited,” she said.SFU is classified as an NCAA

Division II school, meaning she’ll be able to remain in Canada for her edu-cation – which Erhardsen said was an important factor – and still have the opportunity to travel all over the U.S. for games and tournaments, thereby increasing her exposure, and level of competition.

It will also give her family the opportunity to come watch her games when the team plays at home.

A multi-sport athlete, whose other interests include basketball and volleyball, Erhardsen cred-ited her two older brothers with helping to instill in her a passion for the game of soccer.

“Both my brothers played soccer, so I’d always watch them play,” she explained. “I think it’s because of them that I really got into it, and I’ve just loved it forever.”

Growing up with soccer siblings played a factor in developing her desire to win.

“They never took it easy on me, because they didn’t want to lose to their little sister, so I think that made me better too,” she said.

The opportunity to play for SFU also means Erhardsen will be in somewhat familiar territory when it comes to actually playing the game.

She explained she began her soccer career play-

ing with a local club team, then joined a spring league, was then connected to a high-performance league team, played with them for two seasons, and finally, was selected to play for the Whitecaps girls elite team, which she has just finished a two-year stint with.

“The SFU field is our practice field, so I practiced with the Whitecaps out there,” she explained.

But balancing full-time school with what essentially was a full-time commitment to soccer, was no cakewalk.

“It’s about a 45 minute drive one way to the field, and practices can run up to two-and-a-half hours, so it takes a good chunk out of my day,” she said.

Not only that, Erhardsen was also involved with school sports, which took up more time.

“I had a lot of late nights finishing my home-work, studying for tests and stuff like that, but it seems to have worked out,” she remarked, adding that despite all the extra-curricular com-mitments, she is still, “for the most part,” a straight-A student.

There have been some tests of char-acter for her along the way as well.

“I tried out for Team BC when I was younger, and was told the only reason I didn’t make it was because I wasn’t tall enough,” she said. “That was

awful for me to hear, but it also made me work harder, get better, and become stronger.”

So much so in fact, that in the following years, Erhardsen was accepted on to the U15 and U16 teams, “and we went to nationals in Halifax,” she said.

In fact, travel has been a big part of her soccer career already.

“Soccer’s given me the chance to travel all over the States, as well as Canada,” she said, list-ing off places she’s played which included Las Vegas, San Diego, and Florida.

“Soccer’s done a lot for me, and given me so much,” she said. “I’ve grown up with it, and that’s all I know.”

Erhardsen has learned some valuable life lessons from the game as well.

“Soccer taught me the meaning of commitment,” she said. “To put this much time and effort into something, it has to be your passion.”

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“Soccer has taught me the meaning of commitment.”Katelyn Erhardsen

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