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Ridge Meadows RCMP are telling Cliff Avenue residents who are fed up with the homeless campsite in front of their houses that they know they’re frustrated and angry, but don’t become vigilantes.

“Many of them are angry to the point where they’re actually start-

ing to take matters into their own hands,” said Supt. Dave Fleugel.

He made the comments Monday on Global BC’s news show Unfil-tered, which featured interviews with him and Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read.

“Leave the policing to the police,” Fleugel said.

Police are ready and able to re-spond to calls for service, which have increased in the area behind the Salvation Army’s Caring Place, this year compared to last.

“We’re coping with it. We can’t

continue to cope with it forever. It has to come to a successful resolu-tion,” Fleugel said.

RCMP civilian spokesman Dan Herbranson echoed Fleugel’s re-sponse Tuesday.

“We monitor Facebook and from time to time people indicate they may take the law into their own hands,” he said.

“If people plan on taking the law into their own hands, they’ll find themselves charged. When we’re enforcing the laws, we’re enforcing the laws for all people.”

Area resident Matthew Bosco said groups of people are walking or driving around the streets near the camp just to show that people are watching.

“I think most definitely they have taken things into their own hands. I don’t know if you’d call it vigilan-tism. If we go out and see a shop-ping buggy in the middle of the street, that looks like stolen goods in it, we will clean it out.”

But no one’s going to put their lives at risk or create a confrontation.

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Only a few weeks after Maple Ridge applied for a federal grant to improve Albion Sports Complex, the city has learned it will get the entire half mil-lion dollars.

Council told staff June 15 to apply for the grant from the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program. The money will be used to convert two, under-used full-sized gravel soc-cer fields into smaller artificial fields.

MP Randy Kamp and Mayor Nicole Read both announced Friday that Maple Ridge will get $500,000.

What’s still to be resolved is the ac-tual layout of the artificial turf areas.

‘Leave policing to police’RCMP are worried about vigilantes

Tim Fitzgerald/THE NEWSJames Brieley (left) and Moises Chavez play keepaway on a gravel field at Albion Sports Complex on Monday.See Fields, 9

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Gravel fields to be converted to artificial turf

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The fences are up and dogs are already running around enjoying the opening of the Westview Park off-leash park.

It is the first of three that will open in the next few months as the city tries to make life easier for dog lovers and non-dog-lovers alike.

But it’s only open on a six-month trial period and if people nearby don’t like what’s happening, they can let the city know so it can re-view it.

Westview, on Wicklund Avenue and 209th Street, features an area fenced off in the centre of the park in order to reduce noise. Shorter opening hours, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., should also make life easier for the neighbours who live nearby because they won’t be disturbed during the early morning or late at night.

Geoff Mallory, city manager of parks and open space, said feed-back from the neighbours was col-lected last summer, when a tempo-rary off-leash area was set up for a week.

The parks and leisure services commission approved three new locations in January. Tolmie Park and Upper Maple Ridge Park are the other two slated for creation of off-leash areas.

The parks and leisure services

commission developed a new pro-cess to establish off-leash areas. It involves consultation in each neighbourhood and trying out temporary sites to gauge the im-pacts and get input.

Temporary parks are then estab-

lished to allow for a longer term monitoring of the impacts of the new facilities.

“This new process has allowed us to have more meaningful con-versations with members of the community and ensure that these

facilities enhance neighbourhoods and provide opportunities for neighbours and pets to interact in a positive way,” Mallory said.

• People who have comments can e-mail them to [email protected].

Off-leash area open at Westview

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The next public art project will go into the eastern part of the city and have a functional purpose.

It will be called BLOOM and installed at Whonnock Lake Park next spring.

It will feature a shelter area framed by coloured canopies and western red cedars.

The shelter will have seats and a table and will have space for people to retreat in a shaded

and sheltered environment.Maple Ridge’s public art

steering committee chose the design, created by Collabor8 Architecture + Design.

It made the decision after reviewing competitors from across Metro Vancouver and Canada.

“We are very excited to see the high calibre of artists and public artwork for our commu-nity,” said Susan Hayes, chair of the steering committee.

“It’s an opportunity for public art to complement the beauty of Whonnock, add a new fea-ture and further celebrate one of the oldest neighbourhoods.

We look forward to having the public art program evolve with the community.”

Collabor8 is an artist col-lective of professional archi-tects and designers who have worked together for years.

The team is an amalgamation of Chandler Associates Archi-tecture Inc. and Maxam Design International and consists of Francis Wong, Daniel Clarke, Janet Tucker, Onifur Garcia, Ryan Kennedy, Tina Lisa Mat-thiesen, and Chris Huxtable.

The artists will meet the com-munity at various times, in-cluding Whonnock Lake in the fall.

THE NEWS/filesThe off-leash area at Westview Park features shorter operating hours than other ones.

Public art project creates a cedar shelter

‘Not safe’Camp from front

It’s just a matter of resi-dents who live in the area being seen, Bosco said.

“Just keeping an eye on things,” he added.

“That’s all it takes is just for them to realize, we’re out there watching them.”

He tries to get out with others or by himself in his truck a couple times a week.

Bosco says police can’t be there all the time and residents just make the phone calls to RCMP, even though he knows that po-lice can’t get to every call.

“Every day, with more and more of them moving here, it’s getting harder for the police …

Bosco said there are oth-er camps around Maple Ridge and that there are more than 65 people liv-ing on Cliff Avenue.

“Everyone in Maple Ridge feels insecure be-cause of the drug addicts that are going through the backyards, the driveways … leaving needles in the front yards where kids can step on them, public parks.

“Nobody feels safe any-where.”

Police have responded to at least three fights at the camp in the last two months.

One last week involved a baseball bat. Previous, a woman lost part of a fin-ger.

An artist works on a public art in-stallation called Balance on the north east corner of 224th Street and Lougheed Highway. The piece is symbolic of a maple tree.

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Some interesting numbers from Country Fest: It

was the 114th annual show, there were al-most 100 volunteers, and the most senior of them was 102 years old.

Maple Ridge cente-narian Dorothy Rouch kept an eye on the silent auction items, and at the end of her volunteer shift went for a twirl on the Ferris wheel.

She was also the old-est participant in the Home Arts and Gar-den competition, with

various knitting sub-missions, including scarves, dish cloths,

and blankets.Sunday morning’s

rain put a dent in atten-

dance, which was likely down from last year’s 18,000.

But festival manager Lorraine Bates is gen-erally more impressed by the work of her vol-unteers than the size of the crowds, and said the traditional farm fair is in good shape going forward.

“What spells success for me is Sunday night, at our volunteer bar-becue. When you hear them talking about what they’re going to do next year – they’re still exhausted from this year, but they’re think-ing about next year.”

Those organizers and volunteers did an ex-emplary job of filling the fair with things to do, added Bates.

This year the fair add-ed a cat show.

The Cat Fanciers of B.C. put on the show, which had about 150 entries.

The B.C. Blueberry Council hosted Blueber-ry Festival at the fair, and it included pie eating, blueberry wine tasting and children’s activities.

Those were in ad-dition to the midway, sheep dog demos, Ridge Meadows Got Talent competition and other Country Fest staples.

Country Fest remains one of the premier 4-H events of the year, at-tracting people from the Interior and Van-couver Island to com-pete with their calves, hogs, sheep and all manner of livestock.

Sunday morning’s rain didn’t wash out the church service, but at-tendance was down for the church at Country Fest service.

“By noon it was nice, and then we were busy,” said Bates.

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Neil Corbett/THE NEWSRui Charles Yuan feels the soft down of a gosling at the Country Fest petting zoo.

Volunteers make ag event sing

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The winners in the youth category:• first, Amanda Lau;• second, Deja Arnold;• third, Katrina Becker-Gedge.

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Tender Documents are available for download from BC Bid at www.bcbid.ca. Unverifi ed bid results will also be available on BC Bid after closing time.

A non-mandatory site tour will be held on July 31, 2015 at 10:30am at Albion Sports Complex Spray Park located at 23778 104 Avenue, Maple Ridge, BC. Although it is not mandatory to attend the site tour to have your tender submission considered, this meeting will be the only opportunity for tenderers to visit the site accompanied by City representatives

The Bidder will be required to submit as part of their bid a Consent of Surety. Details can be found in the tender documents. A Bid Bond is not required.

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A 26-year-old Maple Ridge man suffered life-threatening injuries Monday after being hit by a car on Lougheed Highway.

The man was crossing the highway from north to south in the 20800-block of Lougheed Hwy. when he was struck by an eastbound car. He was not in a crosswalk when the incident occurred.

The area has limited street lighting, noted Ridge Meadows RCMP civilian spokesman Dan Herbran-son, but weather was not a factor.

The driver stayed at the scene and cooperated with police, and had not been consuming alcohol.

The police Integrated Collision Analysis and Re-construction Service was called to investigate.

The highway was closed in both directions for several hours for the investigation.

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VICTORIA – One of the rituals of life in southern B.C. commu-nities is cross-border shopping for certain items.

Even corner store owners are known to pop down to Wash-ington border towns to load up a CUV with U.S. milk, taking advantage of a price difference generated by our “supply management” system.

The recent slide in the Canadian dollar reduces this pressure in the short term, but the fact remains that dairy producers are propped up in Canada.

And that’s increasingly a problem as Canada pursues entry into the Trans Pa-cific Partnership, the next big trade deal.

With the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zea-land and other countries involved, it would form the largest trading bloc in the world.

Canada uses tariffs of up to 300 per cent to protect its dairy and poultry industries from foreign imports, and the higher do-mestic price on milk and eggs is a burden that falls most heavily on poor people.

The industry group Dairy Farmers of Canada and others argue that reducing or removing Canada’s import protection won’t change the huge farm subsidies paid by European and U.S. governments.

The recent trade agreement between Canada and the European Union has already chipped away at this protection.

The Conservative government is tiptoe-

ing on this issue as a fall election approach-es, with rural seats across the country at stake.

But the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand have deregulated their dairy industries and the Canadian industry is already facing increased cheese imports due to the European Union agreement.

It’s an issue to watch as the federal elec-tion heats up. The NDP has positioned itself as a defender of supply management, a particularly touchy issue in rural Quebec, while the federal Liberals are committed to keeping up with the U.S. and joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The trend toward freer trade is broad and long. The Stephen Harper govern-ment ended the monopoly of the Canadian Wheat Board in 2012, and grain growers continue to compete globally. A trade deal with Korea saw tariffs come off Korean import vehicles, and life goes on.

Another controlled and protected com-modity that is seldom discussed is logs. That’s changed with the push for the Trans Pacific Partnership, as Japan protests fed-eral and provincial restrictions that push up the cost of logs for export.

Ottawa regulates the export of private land logs, but only in B.C. This is a long-standing irritant for private land owners, holding the domestic price for premium “J grade” Douglas fir logs below $80 per cubic metre, while the price in Asia and Washington state has climbed above $100.

The U.S. has long complained about B.C.’s cheap Crown land stumpage and low do-mestic log prices in general, viewing them as a subsidy to lumber production.

Indeed, this whole protection apparatus is designed to stimulate domestic milling, although it doesn’t seem to be working.

The main investment by B.C. forest com-panies recently has been buying southern U.S. sawmills.

The coastal industry has maintained that profits from log exports are keeping logging alive, paying for the harvest and processing of logs in B.C.

With Pacific trade talks in the back-ground, pushed hard by U.S. President Barack Obama, the latest Canada-U.S. lumber agreement is due to expire in October.

It will be more difficult to defend what University of Alberta economist Jack Mintz calls a “Soviet-style approach to price determination.”

B.C. used to do something similar to this with wine, protecting a backward industry cranking out mostly god-awful plonk.

Competition made the wine industry better, and now it’s world class.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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The public is demanding stiffer penalties for drivers who text or talk on cellphones while be-hind the wheel.

If B.C. residents who responded to a poll have their way, the current $167 fine (the second-low-est in Canada) and three penalty points, currently levied against distracted drivers could see a big boost.

Other provinces have done far more to try to curb the practice. In Saskatchewan, repeat offend-ers can see their vehicles impounded, while in Ontario, distracted drivers face a potential $1,000 ticket.

Whether that’s led to better results than B.C.’s –where 88 people died last year as a direct result of distracted driving – we can’t say. But it might be worth a try.

We’re all for anything that makes people stop and think before they do something that puts their own and others’ lives needlessly in danger.

The problem is, you can’t legislate a social con-science.

There are always going to be people who will put their own immediate needs ahead of what is best for the group, whenever the latter doesn’t suit them.

The problem is, being self-centred not a mind-set that was created overnight and it’s not one that can be remedied quickly.

The only long-term solution we see is education, with the focus placed on an upcoming generation of drivers, to help them develop safer habits from the outset.

It’s a painfully slow process, we know, but it’s worked in the past — with seatbelt and helmet use, for example.

While we’re looking to the future, that’s not to say we shouldn’t make breaking the rules sting a little bit more in the present, as well.

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With Pacific trade talks in the background, pushed hard by U.S. President Barack Obama, the latest Canada-U.S. lumber agreement is due to expire in October.


Editor, The News:Re: What’s happened to

our home? (Letters, July 22).I agree with Paul Gurm,

who has lived here for 40-plus years, on how Maple Ridge has deteriorated quite a bit in such a short period of time.

I too have lived here since 1985 and it wasn’t until may-be five years ago I was so un-comfortable walking or be-ing close to 224th Street and Lougheed Highway.

I am so sick and tired of go-ing anywhere near 224th St.

I’m tired of homeless peo-ple asking me for cigarettes (I don’t smoke).

I’m tired of people ask-ing me if they could borrow money.

When Target was around, the minute I got out of my vehicle someone was there bugging me for something.

I am entitled to go shop-ping (which I never do here anymore) and be left alone. I don’t deserve to be scared to get out of my car.

I too thought about getting

the basic necessities here like buying socks or under-wear and people kept telling me to go to the mall in Pitt Meadows. Why do I need to drive 15 to 20 minutes to buy these necessities? Why can’t these necessities be read-ily available in Maple Ridge anymore?

Twenty-some years ago, we had Woodwynn in Haney Place Mall. We had multiple shoe stores. We also had an athletic store, and we had lots of clothing stores.

There were ample shop-ping opportunities in Maple Ridge and now they are all gone.

Council only focuses on small mom and pop shops that are on 224th St. and in the downtown area.

We don’t need another su-shi place, or consignment store. We don’t need another coffee shop, dollar store or cheque cashing place.

We need the basics. We would like to spend

our money in our city, but there is no point in shopping

downtown because you ei-ther get harassed for money or you can only park for one hour.

Why does council pro-mote shopping downtown when you are only allowed to park for one hour?

I remember downtown about 10 years ago had two-hour parking.

Please stop wasting tax-payers money to widen the sidewalks again, or put water fountains in, or even ripping out the centre median and re-doing it. It’s not going to make a difference.

We have lost, period. Sonja OgdenMaple Ridge

Downtown depressingEditor, The News:Re: What’s happened to

our home? (Letters, July 22).Indeed.We have lived in this com-

munity for 50 years and all we see now is an old and tired town with lots of home-less wandering the streets.

Why does it seem that the druggies and junkies have more rights than the taxpay-ing businesses and citizens?

The only thing we have to look forward to is higher taxes every year and nothing to show for it.

There are no places to shop and very few places to eat.

The municipality has spent a fortune on trying to make downtown look nice for the homeless since all our tax-payers are shopping in Pitt Meadows.

A business wanted to open a strip mall on some property along the Haney Bypass, but was rejected by council, telling us that this store would take away from the downtown core.

The downtown core is de-pressing with various run-down buildings and old stores and is not a very at-tractive area to encourage new business.

So Mayor Nicole Read, it is certainly time to take action.

Dennis, Linda ConollyMaple Ridge

Editor, The News:Re: Stage 3: No more lawn watering (The News, July 22).It appears by the lush green lawns that a very large ma-

jority of the people living up in Silver Valley believe they are exempt from the watering restrictions.

Whereas the older subdivisions have very brown lawns. Bylaws should head up the hill for their cash-grab fines. Better yet, every building – home, commercial, barn –

should be metered. S. Shea

Maple Ridge

Editor, The News:Re: Noise is too much (Letters, July 17).If Dave Douglas thinks the noise from Onni’s use of a

land compactor is too much, wait until it starts developing phases 3 and 4. It has only just begun.

The next phases will be meters away from existing homes surrounding Osprey Village, as well as the community in Bonson Landing. The noise will go on for years unless we can convince our mayor and council to not approve Onni’s submission to rezone this land from agricultural (not in the ALR) to light industrial.

I urge all Pitt Meadows residents, and in particular those who live south of Airport Way, between Harris and Bon-son roads (Phase 4) to make your feelings known to our council now. Unless, as Mr. Douglas states, you want Pitt Meadows to become Port Kells.

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Pitt Meadows council is getting overzealous in its scrutiny of city hall expenditures, accord-ing to councillors Bill Dingwall and Tracy Mi-yashita – the only two members of council who did not campaign as part of Mayor John Becker’s

team.Dingwall said there

are about 1,000 items on the list of expenditures councillors are currently examining, and some of the expenditures are as low as $4.

“We hire and pay a CAO and senior ad-ministrators and senior managers within the city to manage our opera-tion, and they do so with credibility and good faith,” said Dingwall.

Council has always reviewed expenditures over $25,000 as part of

the annual statement of financial informa-tion report. But after the late Tom Murray, a Pitt Meadows property tax crusader, received a list of all expenditures under $25,000, council mem-bers asked questions about those figures, too.

Each councillor will now forward a list of items from the 2014 list that require clarification.

Staff has also been asked whether they can develop a new system that will categorize these payments, and include a description on the list – along with the amount and the recipient which are recorded now.

Dingwall suggested a more narrow scope for council’s “fishing,” and said questions should only be asked of expen-ditures of at least $500, $1,000 or $2,000 – or whatever amount coun-cil chooses.

Miyashita also said council should trust city staff.

“That’s their job, to manage the work of the city, and I completely trust the work our staff are doing,” she said.

Miyashita said the expenditures of city councillors should also be closely scrutinized, because some claim no expenses, while others claim thousands.

Coun. Bruce Bell sup-ports closer spending scrutiny, noting that the list of expenditures un-der $25,000 adds up to $2.4 million, and council is “doing due diligence,” to ask questions. He would like to see notes included with each line item.

“It is the taxpayer’s money, and I do believe it’s council’s job to make sure the taxpayer’s mon-ey is spent prudently,” said Bell.

“This group ran on fis-cal responsibility, at least a number of us did, and I think that goes to why we are looking at every-thing we can to save the taxpayers money,” added Coun. Janis Elkerton.

Coun. Mike Stark said the spirit of his raising the issue was more trans-parency for the public, and education for coun-cil. He noted that finance department staff said it would not be onerous.

Similarly, a motion to direct staff to prepare an analysis of the sal-ary, bonuses, and ben-efit increases paid to all exempt parks and recre-ation staff met with op-position from Dingwall and Miyashita.

The motion from Elk-erton asked for the fig-ures from January 2012 to date, to include any increases which have been committed but not yet implemented, and to include the name of the individual, position, base salary percentage increase in each catego-ry, and dollar increase in each category.

Dingwall said he could not support the motion because Pitt Meadows partners with Maple Ridge for recreation ser-vices.

“I think a notice to Maple Ridge about this kind of interest would have been in order,” said Dingwall. “It sends the wrong message without engaging Maple Ridge.”

Elkerton said she is concerned with rising costs.

“I’ve seen our parks and recreation budget go from $100,000 in 1994 to millions today.

“We pay 20 per cent of this budget. I think it is up to council to be doing our due diligence and scrutinizing expen-ditures.”

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Dividing the space, which now has two full-size soccer fields, into three or four smaller ones will allow Super 8 soccer, rugby, foot-ball and lacrosse to be played. Pathways would divide the fields. Artifi-cial sports fields allow constant use while pro-viding practice space to take the pressure off the full-size fields.

David Boag, director of parks and facilities, said there is steady and increasing demand for artificial fields, even after the construction of one at Samuel Rob-ertson Technical, West-view and Pitt Meadows secondary schools.

“They allow the un-limited play we need to support youth devel-opment in soccer, and football, and rugby and lacrosse,” said Bruce McLeod, manager of parks planning.

As well, the Albion project insures that no other natural or artifi-cial turf fields in Maple Ridge or Pitt Meadows will be affected and

instead will make bet-ter use of existing field space.

The gravel fields were installed in 1998 as an alternative for teams when the natural turf fields were closed due to weather.

But now that there are three artificial fields, demand has fallen and the gravel fields are only used as a last resort, Boag told council previ-ously.

It’s doubtful a full-size soccer pitch will be part of the project.

“That would be a sig-nificant change from the concept. We see the value in being able to use this for mul-tiple uses at once,” said McLeod.

Improving the fields, about a $3-million proj-ect, also will require more parking for the Albion Sports Complex. Those extra spaces will be created by adjoining the existing gravel lot.

The federal money will pay for about 17 per cent of the project.

Space is limited in the area because of streams

and setback areas.A washroom that will

serve the water park area and the new fields has recently gone to the process of asking for construction bids.

McLeod pointed out that Hammond Sta-dium has recently been upgraded, allowing year-long baseball.

The infrastructure grant coincides with Canada’s 150th birth-day so the money won’t be dispersed until April 2017. Construction has to be done within a year, under the conditions of the grant.

“We really didn’t know that an announcement was coming as quickly as it did,” McLeod said.

The department is grateful for the funding, he added.

Kamp said in a re-lease that the federal 2015 budget earmarks $150 million for infra-structure. However, a key condition of the program is that money must be used to reno-vate or expand exist-ing buildings. He said the grant was approved

by Minister of State for Western Economic Di-versification Michelle Rempel and officials at Western Economic Di-versification.

Asked why the grant was announced so quickly after applying, Kamp said Maple Ridge applied at the end of the four-week intake pe-riod.

But in Maple Ridge’s case it was known that the city needed a deci-sion as soon as possible.

“Also, it’s not unusual for governments to want to complete their legislative and program agenda as the end of the parliament approaches.”

He said the announce-ment wasn’t made, to his knowledge, in time for the federal election, Oct. 19.

Kamp’s executive as-sistant Mike Murray and Maple Ridge-Mis-sion MLA Marc Dalton are both seeking the Conservative nomina-tion to succeed Kamp, who’s retiring.

A date hasn’t been set yet for a nomination meeting.

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Ridge Meadows RCMP have hit two criminals where it hurts – in their bank accounts.

A Maple Ridge drug dealer was forced to forfeit half the value of the property where a drug lab was located, and a landlord who did not evict a tenant had to give up rental income for the property, police said.

RCMP want to coun-ter the view that crimi-nals get off without hav-ing to pay.

“Sometimes this is far from the truth, as law enforcement will apply for civil forfeiture in cases where criminals are living off the pro-ceeds of their criminal behaviours,” said Sgt. Brenda Gresiuk.

In February 2012, po-lice executed a search warrant on a home in the 22500 block of 136 Avenue, and found a

drug lab. They seized a significant quantity of drugs and a large cache of firearms and ammu-nition. The owner of the property was convicted of possession of a con-trolled substance for the purpose of trafficking, and illegal storage of firearms.

Once the convictions were registered, police applied for a civil for-feiture. They were able to provide evidence the home owner was using the property to produce illegal drugs, and was profiting from the pro-ceeds of this criminal behaviour. The court ordered the accused to forfeit half of the prop-erty’s value, as well as the firearms and ammu-nition, to civil forfeiture.

Police civilian spokes-man Dan Herbranson did not know the precise figure the home sold for, but characterized it as a million-dollar property.

“Ridge Meadows RCMP will continue to

use the full force of the criminal code and Civil Forfeiture Act to deter unlawfully activity in the community,” said Gresiuk. “We want to send a strong message that crime, such as il-legal drug activity, will not be tolerated. Real estate values in the Low-er Mainland are some of the most expensive in Canada and using a home for a grow opera-tion or drug lab could have significant finan-cial implications for the owner.”

Between Jan. 27 and April 12, 2013, the Ridge Meadows RCMP Street Enforcement Unit executed three sepa-rate drug warrants on a house in the 12200 block of 228th Street. The home was being rented, and each investi-gation resulted in a sei-zure of illegal drugs and criminal charges against the tenants.

As part of the police investigation, members

advised the home owner about the illegal activi-ties taking place inside the house. However, the owner did not take any action against the renters.

Once the criminal court proceedings were concluded, police ap-plied for civil forfeiture against the owner of the house. Again, the courts were satisfied the evi-dence police provided proved the home owner was profiting from the proceeds of criminal be-havior by accepting rent money that was directly linked to the criminal drug activity. The courts ordered the owner to forfeit several of those rent payments to civil forfeiture.

The proceeds of civil forfeiture can be ac-cessed by law enforce-ment, and Herbranson said the local detach-ment has applied for and received funds for night vision goggles and other surveillance equipment.

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plans and projects to support the needs of older adults. “The Age-friendly Conversation is an important opportunity for residents of both Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows to impact the way their local governments approach the age-friendly aspects of their communities,” explained Treleaven.

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Heather Jonatschick, is impressed with the work of volunteer seniors at the Intergenerational Garden on Edge Street.Jonatschick recently took over as garden coordinator. She is known to the community for the haunted house she and her husband organize, called Glenhurst Manor, which supports the Friends in Need Food Bank. She has a background in gardening, and has been the manager of a garden centre.“It’s very well used,” she said of the Intergenerational Garden. “All of our watering and work is done by seniors – they do everything.”There is weeding, cutting back plants, harvesting, freezing, composting, and 80 per cent of the work is done by

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for the first time as it outgrew its home at Peace Memorial Park.

For Hotel California original member Mike Dimoulas, Sat-urday’s show is just one more chapter in the long history of recreating one of rock’s most en-during sounds. Dimoulas said he started Hotel California as a way to revive the music of one of the 1970s’ most influential bands. The Eagles sold more than 100 million records, recorded six No. 1 albums and won six Grammys. But by the mid-1980s, infight-ing amongst the band had lead to individual projects and left Ea-gles’ fans out of luck. A reunion seemed unlikely.

For Dimoulas, a guitarist and vocalist, the chance to pay hom-age to the legendary work on the Eagles was a perfect fit. With bass and vocals band mate Andy Lapointe joining Hotel California a year later, in 1987, the two have gone on to play countless shows and earn an international reputa-

tion that has paved the way for their success. They have shared stages with such bands as the Doobie Brothers and Lynyrd Sky-nyrd and as individual musicians have played with iconic Canadian bands like the Guess Who and April Wine.

“When we started doing this 28, 29 years ago, nobody else was doing it,” said Dimoulas from his home in Toronto. “Their music has such range. The bass and the harmonies, along with the signa-ture guitar riffs.”

But starting a tribute band is one thing. Keeping it going for close to three decades is another matter.

Dimoulas said the continuity he shares with Lapointe over the years has helped establish Ho-tel California’s signature sound. While some members have moved on, drummer and vocal-ist Dean Young has been with the band for the past 11 years, while guitarist Rick Spyder joined in

2008. Dimoulas said by playing 80 to 100 shows a year, they have been able to perfect their ap-proach.

“We’re a very well oiled ma-chine, so to speak. We’re a group of four individual artists who re-spect each others’ creativity and strengths and built our sound off that. It’s just getting stronger and stronger as the years go by.

He said the band had its best touring year in 2014 and contin-ues to shine. As for why they’ve been able to survive while so many other bands come and go, Dimoulas said it always comes down to the fans. He said they have to leave feeling like they’ve been more than just entertained for a couple hours. Entertain-ment is about the experience and Dimoulas said with the Eagles, it’s all about the sound. He said he can’t keep count of the times fans have told him that if they close their eyes, it feels just like an Eagles show.

“I think we get it pretty close. We have the vocals down as tight as we can. The guitar, bass and drums are tight. We have so many people tell us it’s dead on. They walk away feeling they’ve seen an authentic tribute band.”

As for headlining a Caribbean festival, Dimoulas said people love live music and aren’t bound by genres. He said the music of the Eagles fits so many categories, from rock and ballads, to coun-try.

“Everyone is so familiar with the songs it makes for great fan experience,” he said.

While the Eagles soared to the top of the charts in the ’70s, he said one of the great parts of be-ing in Hotel California is seeing each new generation of fan come to the shows.

“It never gets old seeing the young fans who are just discover-ing the music. They’re just as into it as the people who grew up with the Eagles.”

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Auditions for SPECC-tacular Pro-ductions’ Christmas pantomime Hansel and Gretel get under-way Sunday, Aug. 9.

Anyone interested in dance will have an op-portunity to audition at the Maple Ridge Dance Circle, 12011 224 St. in Maple Ridge from 11 a.m. to noon.

Following that there will be 10-minute open auditions for cast from noon to 3 p.m.

SPECC-tacular Pro-ductions will hold an-other round of audi-tions following the same timeline on Sunday, Aug. 16. Callbacks will

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green Ogre will be at Memorial Peace Park on Wednesday, July 29.

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Ridge Business Associa-tion is showing Shrek as part of its summer Mov-ie in the Park event.

The free film will be shown at 9 p.m. on a 28-foot inflatable screen following the Haney Farmer’s Market, which starts at 6 p.m.

The inaugural event is sponsored by The John-ston Meier Insurance Agencies Group and is

suitable for all ages.

Self meditateThe Maple Ridge Art

Gallery will be holding a self-guided medita-tion meeting on Friday, July 31 from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. Bring your mat, blanket, pillow or whatever you need to be comfortable for an hour. Chairs will be also be provided.

The art gallery will provide soothing nature sounds, lovely artwork on which to focus your gaze and a place where no one’s going to inter-rupt you for an hour.

Admission is by dona-tion.

The event, normally held on the last Friday of each month, will not run in August. It will resume again on Friday, Sept. 25 from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m.

Osprey DayThe Osprey Village

Business Association is looking for volunteers for Osprey Day.

The free event will take place Saturday, Aug. 8 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The event has fun and festivities for all ages with live music, kid’s activities, community salmon dinner, vendor market, beverage gar-den and silent auction.

Organizers are look-ing for volunteers to help with serving the community dinner, set up and take down, bar-ricades, and volunteer coordination. All ages and skill sets welcomed including high school students and youth.

Adults 19 and older are needed as barricade volunteers to keep traf-fic out of festival zones.

Workplaces are also encouraged to join in with teams of volun-teers. Training is pro-vided for all volunteer positions and many shift options are avail-able between 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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The Ridge Meadows Royals capped off an amazing season by winning the 2015 pro-vincial midget AAA championship in Na-naimo, going 6-0 in the weekend tourna-ment.

The Royals had a remarkable tournament, scoring 33 runs while allowing only seven against in six games.

Tristan Reed was named the tournament’s top hitter, while Nick Peters was given the top outfielder award.

The Royals will travel to Fremont, Califor-nia on Wednesday to take part in the CABA West National Championships.

They faced off against the Kamloops River-dogs in the B.C. final, as two of the most successful midget teams of the past decade clashed.

“The final game lived up to the hype as a tightly-contested, well-played game be-tween two great teams,” said Royals GM Nor Ljunggren.

His team won 2-1.The Royals started the tourney Thursday

against the South Fraser Giants and mercied them 11-1. Seth Injates got the start on the mound and did not allow a run through 4.1 innings. Peters led the offence, going 3-3

with two doubles and four runs batted in. Injates (2-4, triple, RBI), Domenic Baptista (1-1, double, 3 RBI), and Tristan Reed (2-3, double, 2 runs, RBI) also chipped in with the bats.

In the second game, the Royals met the host Nanaimo Buccaneers. Trevor Reed threw a complete game shutout while allow-ing only two hits en route to a 3-0 win.

Tristan Reed (2-3, double, RBI), Baptista (1-3, double, RBI), and Colton Beard (1-2, RBI) all swung the bat well in the win.

Friday against the Richmond Chuckers, starter Chris Bailey allowed only two hits while striking out seven in 6.2 innings, lead-ing the Royals to a 6-0 win. Beard had a great game at the plate, going 3-4 with a double

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The Royals beat the Tri-City Indians 2-1 to finish the round-robin 4-0. Starter Baptista allowed a run on four hits while striking out nine. Trevor Reed went 2-4 with a double and a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth.

Their semi-final matchup was the Chilli-wack Cougars, who finished second in league play, nine games behind the Royals.

The game got off to a rough start, as the Royals allowed three runs in the top of the first inning. But they bounced right back by scoring two in the bottom half of the inning to get within a run.

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ContributedMembers of the Ridge Meadows Royals celebrate their midget championship in Nanaimo over the weekend. They have won a berth in a prestigious California tournament.

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As a team, the Ridge Meadows Pride U-16A softball team slipped out of the batter’s box as hosts of the provincial championships, then hit their stride and won the silver medal.

It was a terrible start to the tournament. They lost 7-0 to the heavily favoured White Rock Renegades in their first game, and then their own home-town rival Pride 2000 team managed to upset the Pride 1999 in their second game of the tournament, with a 4-3 walkoff win.

Friday’s rain washed away a number of games, and the sched-ule had to be reworked. The round-robin por-tion of the tournament had to be cut down to three games instead of four for each team. So there was no room for error – the Pride needed to mercy the Surrey Storm in their third game on Saturday morning, or be elimi-nated.

They did just that, and continued on a roll

that took them all the way to the champion-ship game. They again met the White Rock Renegades, and lost the provincial final 4-0.

“We ended up with the silver medal – sometimes not always the best colour, but trust me – in this case it was well earned.” said coach Tom Bowen. “At the end of the day, I am proud of our girls and their efforts.”

Pitchers Kelsey Mor-gan and Carri-Anne Hoar both came up with big performances in the key games, to get their team to the gold medal games.

“They both did their job, but there was a lot of good things happen-ing, by a lot of good kids,” said Bowen.

They will now leave for the U-16 national championships next month, being held in Calgary Aug. 5-9. The Pride will be one of four teams from B.C. in the 24-team tournament.

Bowen said the team has picked up three quality players from the Storm to help bolster the roster.

“Traditionally, the two strongest provinces have been B.C. and On-tario. I like our chanc-es,” said the coach.

Host Pride regroup, win silver

Neil Corbett/THE NEWSPitcher Kelsey Morgan winds up in a must-mercy-win game against the Surrey Storm on Saturday.

U-16 team off to softball nationals

Starter Injates locked down the Cougars’ bats, while the offence continued to score to lead the Royals to a 9-4 win and a berth

in the final.The final was won on a pair of

sacrifice flies by Baptista and Pe-ters. Trevor Reed, who came on in relief of Bailey in the 6th in-

ning, recorded the first two outs of the 7th, but then allowed a single and a walk. He struck out the cleanup hitter on a curveball to clinch the provincial title.

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In loving memory ofAgnes (Sandy) LazarowichMay 18, 1930-July 29, 2014

AndTerry Lazarowich

July 25, 1928-January 10, 2003

We are unable to hold you in our arms but in our hearts you will reside forever more. Not a day

goes by that we don’t think of you and how fortunate we were to have you in our lives. We miss

you both so very much.With love and gratitude from

your familyGordon, Tracy, Paige, Emmett

Julie, Jim and Bear

BRODY, Henry (Hank) Samuel BrodyJanuary 18, 1917 -

June 29, 2015

Hank Brody passed awaypeacefully at his daughter’s home in Pitt Meadows on June 29, 2015 at the age of 98. He was born in Vancouver, B.C. on January 18, 1917 to Annie and Henry Brody. Hank was prede-ceased by his devoted wife Mary (February 2007), brother Albert (February 2011) and sister-in-law Connie (August 2014). Hank is survived by his 3 children, Bev (Ricky), Minna (Steve), Chuck (Helene), and his 3 grandchildren; Brandon (Whitney), Stuart and Danell. He loved his work and was a very successful businessman. He traveled throughout the in-terior of British Columbia rep-resenting Dayton Shoes and various furniture manufactur-ers and fi nally retired at the age of 80. Throughout his ac-tive life Hank enjoyed curling, gardening and fi tness classes at the local Y. Hank enjoyed spending time with his family which included traveling to Ke-lowna, Kauai and Powell River. He loved to play crib & bridge and was often the ‘life of the party’ at social gatherings. His optimistic outlook on life and thoughtfulness of others will be long remembered. Hank had a profound & positive infl uence on everyone he met and will be greatly missed. A private family remembrance will be held.

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AGRICULTURE FARM SUPERVISORS

Golden Eagle Group is looking for three Agriculture Farm Super-visors, specializing in agricultural land managing, to support blue-berry and cranberry operations in Pitt Meadows, BC. Work will commence as soon as possible. Candidates require knowledge in drainage & irrigation, disease and crop infestation; have sound knowledge of crop activity plan-ning; must be able to maintain and operate with fi nancial and production records; have experi-ence in dealing with machinery suppliers; will be responsible for supervising general farm work-ers; maintain project timelines and budget performance; inspect and maintain farm equipment and fi xtures; perform some general farm duties.Work is outdoors, in all weather conditions and is physically de-manding. Pay is $14.00/hour.

Please fax resume to:(604) 682-6183

Attention: Enrico Peraga

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located in Pitt Meadows, B.C., Canada

FABLE Farms needs vegetable greenhouse workers. No experi-ence needed. Mon-Sat start at 6:00 am. Apply in person 13460 Ripping-ton Rd. Pitt Meadows, or to [email protected]. $10.49/hr.

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5 IN MEMORIAM

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

7 OBITUARIES

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

33 INFORMATION

TRAVEL

74 TIMESHARE

EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

108 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

114 DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING


114 DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING

115 EDUCATION

124 FARM WORKERS

130 HELP WANTED


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134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES

142 OFFICE SUPPORT/CLERKS

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172 ASTROLOGY/PSYCHICS

182 FINANCIAL SERVICES

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338 PLUMBING

356 RUBBISH REMOVAL

359 SAND, GRAVEL & TOPSOIL

374 TREE SERVICES

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

509 AUCTIONS

542 FRUIT & VEGETABLES

REAL ESTATE

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

REAL ESTATE

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

709 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

736 HOMES FOR RENT

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

RENTALS

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

746 ROOMS FOR RENT

747B SENIOR ASSISTED LIVING

750 SUITES, LOWER

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

RENTALS

752 TOWNHOUSES

TRANSPORTATION

821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

Pitt Meadows CLOSING OUT SALE

New Italian clothes under $19 A lot of household ~ $1 to $15

Friday,Saturday,Sunday 11am to 6 pm

#10-12350 Harris Road last unit in the bldg facing the

west Coast express train station

551 GARAGE SALES

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

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$2819 $2949

Copper Moon Pinot Grigio

1.5 L

Wolf Blass Yellow Label

Cabernet Sauvignon 750 ml

$1330

Miller 18 Bottles Budweiser 24 Cans

SAVE $300

$156 PER BEER!

$123 PER BEER! THE BEST DEAL

IN TOWN

SAVE $330

SAVE $150

SAVE $300SAVE $100ONE TIME BUY - LIMITED AVAILABILITY

SAVE $405

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Screw It Shiraz 1.5 L

Santa Rita Secret Reserve Red

750 ml91 Point rated wine

Skinny Girl Margarita 750 ml

$1299 $1122

$1048

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CELEBRATE AUGUST LONG WEEKEND

WITH MASSIVE SAVINGS!

CoC

$1291

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$2099

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THE PERFECT SUMMER WHITE WINE

Cono Sur Viognier 750 ml

$848

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Advertised prices are plus 10% Liquor Tax and 5% GST

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$1799

Canadian 15 Cans

JUST $120

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