maple ridge news, march 09, 2016
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March 09, 2016 edition of the Maple Ridge NewsTRANSCRIPT
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Staff want to get going on putting together a massive to-do list for re-vamping recreation in Maple Ridge, but they’ll have to wait a week, at least.
A recommendation at Monday’s workshop that staff write up a draft work plan was delayed for a week, as council got bogged down on other
topics. But even when the discussion of new swimming pools, ice rinks or sports fields gets back to council, it’s not a “slam dunk” that it will OK ev-ery project.
“There’s definitely going to be some discussion about it,” said Coun. Bob Masse.
Staff have created bundles of recre-ation projects that could proceed to-gether in order save time and money in construction and operation.
For instance, a new wellness facility and aquatic centre would include a fitness centre, a six-lane curling rink
and suspended running track – costing up to $70 million. A new museum could be paired with a small theatre – costing $11 mil-lion.
Masse, though, says coun-cil has to review all of those bundles before giving staff the go-ahead to create a work schedule and finance plan.
Deciding on the wellness facility-aquatic centre is a big decision, Masse added.
“I think that’s a pretty sig-nificant decision that we have to make there.
“If we bundle it all togeth-er, then we’re talking about a very significant asset,” with significant expendi-ture and property acquisi-tion, he said.
Council hasn’t had a full discussion on that, yet.
“We haven’t had that dis-cussion and said, ‘OK, we understand that this what that package repre-sents,’” and here’s the total cost and
tax implications.’”That could take place at the meet-
ing next week and council could then tell staff to make up a project list and work schedule.
Time is pressing, though, says a staff report.
“It is important to make a timely decision on whether or not council wants to proceed with a new aquatic facility,” says a March 7 report, be-cause that will determine when re-pairs to the Maple Ridge Leisure Cen-tre take place.
Sports: Williams new bench boss for Burrards. 14
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There has been no official announce-ment that the province will fund a new school in the Albion area of Maple Ridge, but the district is ready to ex-propriate land for the project.
The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows school district already owns land at 24137 – 104th Ave., and wants to ac-quire the adjacent property, at 24093 – 104th Ave., for South Albion elemen-tary.
That latter would contain the school, a neighbourhood learning centre, and a community centre, developed in partnership with the City of Maple Ridge.
Time ticking on recreation planDraft work plan gets delayed a week
Colleen Flanagan/THE NEWS
GlitzyKim Clarke, a teacher at Maple Ridge secondary, hangs graduation dresses in preparation for Putting on the Glitz last Wednesday. See story, page 8. See School, 5
See Recreation, 3
Masse
Expropriation notice on next agenda
District has eye on land for school
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Municipal: Plan proposed to preserve historic Hammond. 3
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There is now a plan to save historic Hammond, allowing it to face the fu-ture.
That pleases James Rowley – providing Maple Ridge council and the public also ac-cept most of what’s called the Hammond area preliminary concept plan.
“I’m very happy because having a general plan for the area is so much more efficient and positive. It gives residents that security over not having any plan,” said Rowley, who lives in the most heritage-rich part of Ham-mond.
Following public input last year, staff cre-ated the draft plan for the Hammond area, bordered roughly by Lougheed Highway and the Fraser River, and by the Maple Meadows West Coast Express station in the west and 207th street in the east.
It calls for preserving the street grid, even the back alleys, maintaining the heritage trees that have grown up in the past century, and requiring any new development to fit into the character of the area that sprung up along the Fraser River in 1883.
Diversity in housing types, allowing seniors to age in place instead of having to move, and reusing existing buildings are some of the other objectives.
Rowley said if there was no plan and each new condo or housing proposal was con-sidered piecemeal, “We could get in trouble very fast,” because there would be no ratio-nale for refusing designs that don’t fit with the heritage area.
Hammond was first registered as a town-ship in 1883 and each portion developed at different times. For instance, the north Ham-mond area, closer to Lougheed Hwy., was developed in the 1980s. Upper Hammond, adjacent to Maple Crescent, began in the
1880s. The opening of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Hammond train station in 1885 spurred more growth.
Lower Hammond, alongside the Fraser River and south of the railway tracks, took longer to grow and remains more rural. The fourth sub-area, called a precinct in the plan, is the Maple Meadows Business Park.
The draft plan proposes one of three tools that could preserve the heritage-rich upper Hammond, which contains dozens of small homes built near the Hammond cedar mill.
One option is to create a heritage conser-vation area, where any major renovations to a house would require a heritage altera-tion permit from the city. Homeowners still would be able to paint or re-roof their houses.
Another option is making an expanded
commercial use zone, which would allow owners of detached homes to have business-es in them – provided they designate their homes as heritage buildings.
The third strategy would be to just create a permit area in which any new condo or town-house would have to conform to strict rules, prescribing colours, building materials, and design features and heritage-style landscap-ing.
Rowley likes the idea of doing something specifically to protect upper Hammond.
“That’s something I think would really help.” Many of the residents want to preserve the
character of that area, and creating a separate strategy for upper Hammond would do that instead of forcing the same restrictions on to all of Hammond.
“If you don’t have guidelines with any teeth to them, you end up having monster houses next to tiny, little mill houses.”
Rowley has already signed a heritage con-servation agreement with the City of Maple Ridge, allowing him to renovate his home while preserving its historic character.
“Our experience is with a heritage agree-ment, is that it’s quite flexible and much more reasonable than people think.”
The draft plan, though, proposes higher density uses, such as condos and townhous-es, for other parts of Hammond. That would allow revitalization of the area while ideally preserving its character.
Low-density housing, such as townhouses and fourplexes, are proposed along transpor-tation routes and near the West Coast Express Maple Meadows station, while medium-den-sity development, allowing townhouses, con-dos and row houses, would be allowed near 207th Street and Lougheed Highway.
Increasing population density is better than having suburbs expanding into the moun-tains, Rowley added.
Relatively little of the Hammond area is proposed for commercial development.
City planner Lisa Zosiak said the plan is still preliminary and goes to an open house March 30 at Hammond elementary. Input from that will be used to create the final ver-sion to go to council in the summer.
The plan was in Monday’s workshop but was deferred until March 14’s meeting.
“We still want to have a further discussion with the community. We want to hear what they say about this, how much tweaking they want us to do. Maybe they say this density is too much or maybe they’ll say, ‘maybe you can do a bit more,” Zosiak said.
“These are not rules, these are guiding prin-ciples,” which will then form the basis of by-laws, she added.
The city, last year, received input from two open houses, online questionnaires, input via Instagram and Facebook, a photo project and video interviews. Maple Ridge’s previous council started the planning process.
Plan proposed to preserve Hammond
ContributedHammond is divided into four portions, which could each be developed their own way.
Aquatic centre ‘highest priority’
THE NEWS/filesThe $6-million plumbing and repair project for the Leisure Centre has been put on hold.
New development would have to fit character of area
Recreation from frontThe $6-million plumbing and repair
project has been put on hold until a de-cision has been made on a new aquatic centre.
With some unspecified projects cost-ing between $6 million and $12 million, total cost for the new facilities could add up to between $111 million and $138 million.
Those numbers include a wellness facility-aquatic centre ($70 million), as well as: two new artificial sports fields and a 5,000 seat stadium at the Albion sports fields, costing $20 million; a mu-seum or cultural facility, costing $11
million; two new ice sheets at Planet Ice (converting the old curling rink), cost-ing between $15 and $25 million; and other projects not defined that could cost up to $25 million.
Once council confirms the schedule and priority list, staff will work on how to get the public involved.
A process for obtaining the public’s as-sent to borrow the money also will be determined. That could be in the form of a simple plebiscite, in which taxpayers vote yes or no to any required borrowing and subsequent tax increase.
The public’s OK could also be obtained through an alternative approval process,
by which 10 per cent of eligible voters have to say no to the proposed borrow-ing and spending in order to defeat it or force a plebiscite.
Some recreation projects, such as re-pairing the Leisure Centre, building a youth action park or a water play park in Memorial Peace Park, are already in the work plans, with most of the funding already allocated.
The report says that once priorities have been set, staff will come back with a schedule for building the projects.
The recommendation in the March 7 report says the aquatic centre is the highest priority.
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Four high schools in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows district are going to be exploring new ways of studying English language arts.
One class of students at each of Thomas Haney, Garibaldi, West-view and Pitt Meadows secondary schools will be part of an innova-tion partnership, which was announced by the province last week. A group of local educa-tors was selected for one of 15 partnership projects.
Kirsten Urdahl-Serr, a district helping teacher overseeing the project, characterized the new curriculum in B.C. schools as “a major paradigm shift in edu-
cation.” The innovation proj-
ects encourage educa-tors to discuss and plan how the new curricu-lum should be imple-mented, from changing timetables to opening new academies, she said.
The participating stu-dents will use a mod-ule design approach to learn English language arts. There will be two or three teachers as-signed to multi-aged groups of students, in grades 10-12. Teach-ers will choose areas of their students strengths and passions in devel-oping the curriculum.
Urdahl-Serr ex-plained that could be anything from poetry to graphic novel study.
“I don’t know what the teachers will come up with.”
The students chosen to participate will be those who have shown an ability to work inde-pendently, and they will
select study modules based on their interests over the school year.
Urdahl-Serr said the module design pro-posal outlined in the new curriculum is “a little pie-in-the-sky,” and local teachers in the innovation project will put a framework around it. When the new curriculum rolls out at the secondary level next year, teach-ers should be able to get moving with it.
“The best laid plans always come down to logistics.”
The district will re-ceive $8,000, and most of that will be used to provide relief teachers to spring the innova-tion project team mem-bers from their class-rooms.
“The teachers we have are well seasoned, well versed, experienced people,” said Urdahl-Serr.
She added that School District No. 42 is well
known for innovation. Leading the way with the Thomas Haney student directed learn-ing model, the envi-ronmental school, or recently becoming one of four districts in the province to eliminate letter grades from re-port cards at the el-ementary level.
“We’re well known for being a hotbed of trying things out,” said Urdahl-Serr. There’s an innovative spirit here.”
The education minis-try said it has changed the curriculum in re-sponse to a world that is in a state of con-stant change and rich in technology, where knowledge is growing at an exponential rate, and is instantly avail-able.
“The redesign of cur-riculum maintains a focus on sound founda-tions of literacy and nu-meracy, while support-ing the development of citizens who are com-petent thinkers and communicators, and who are personally and socially competent in all areas of their lives,” says an introduction to the document.
Much of the work has been done by teachers, and one of key people involved in curriculum development is former district superintendent Jan Unwin.
The local agreement is one of 32 innovation partnership programs
now in place in pub-lic and independent schools throughout the province.
Projects are select-ed by the Innovation Partnership Working Group, including the B.C. Teachers’ Fed-eration, B.C. Schools Superintendents Asso-ciation, B.C. Principals’ and Vice-Principals’ Association, the Fed-eration of Independent School Associations of BC and the Ministry of Education.
The working group received 119 project proposals for the first two intakes of the In-novation Partnership.
“It’s an interesting page we’re turning in education,” said Ur-dahl-Serr.
“We’ve got a year left to pull it all together.”
Local educators work on English module designNew curriculum requires innovation
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Storage Building andShed ConstructionProject No: ITT-OP16-10
INVITATION TO TENDER
The City of Maple Ridge invites tenders for the construction of a storage building and shed at the City’s Operations Centre located at 23925 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge, BC. The work generally consists of providing all civil, architectural, structural, mechanical, fi re protection and electrical works as outlined in the Tender Documents.
Tender Documents may be downloaded from BC Bid at www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca. All addenda, amendments or further information will be published to BC Bid. Unverifi ed bid results will be available on BC Bid after closing time.
The Tender Documents may be viewed at the Plan Room of the Vancouver Regional Construction Association, 3636 East 4 Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5M 1M3.
A mandatory site visit has been scheduled for March 16, 2016 at 10 am Local Time. Contractors are requested to meet at the front of the City’s Engineering Operations Centre located at 23925 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge, BC. Attendance is mandatory to submitting a bid.
Tender submission requires the accompaniment of a Bid Bond in the amount of ten per cent (10%) of the total Tender Price and a Consent of Surety to provide a Performance and a Labour and Material Payment Bond if the tender is successful, each in the amount of 100 per cent (100%) of the Tender Price.
The City reserves the right to reject any or all bids received and to accept any bid which it considers advantageous, whether or not it is the lowest priced bid. The City will not be responsible for any costs incurred by the Tenderer in preparing the Tender.
There will not be a Public Opening for this Tender.
For all inquiries, contact Daniela Mikes, Manager of Procurement at Tel: 604-466-4343 or email: [email protected].
Tender Closing Date: Friday, April 1, 2016
Tender Closing Time: 2:00 pm local time
Tender Deposit Place: City of Maple Ridge Reception Desk (First Floor) 11995 Haney Place Maple Ridge, BC V2X 6A9
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123 Avenue Corridor Management Strategy
OPEN HOUSE
The City of Maple Ridge, in partnership with Urban Systems Ltd., has completed a corridor study which considered traffi c and transportation concerns along 123 Avenue. A feasibility study of potential road improvements was completed and the resulting options have been proposed and supported by the Neighbourhood Transportation Advisory Committee (NTAC).
You are invited to attend an Open House to view these proposed options and provide feedback. We appreciate your attendance as we fi nalize this corridor evaluation.
The Open House events are scheduled for:
Segment of 203 Street to Laity Street
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2016Time: 5:00 pm to 8:00 pmLocation: Laity View Elementary School Main Gym (enter from east side of building)
Segment of Laity Street to 216 Street
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2016Time: 5:00 pm to 8:00 pmLocation: Laity View Elementary School Main Gym (enter from east side of building)
The Open House events will be casual in nature and there will not be a formal presentation. You are welcome to attend anytime within the above hours.
The proposed options will be on display and City staff will be available to answer your questions. Should you have any questions regarding the Open House, please contact the Engineering Department at 604-467-7339 or [email protected].
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128 Avenue (Abernethy Way) Widening
INFORMATION SESSION
You are invited to attend an Information Session on the 128 Avenue road widening from 216 Street to 224 Street. The City of Maple Ridge is planning to widen this roadway from two to four lanes and improve intersections. The project also includes street lighting and construction of a multi-use path and equestrian trail on the north side of 128 Avenue. Construction is scheduled for this summer.The Information Session is scheduled for:
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2016Time: 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm Location: Maple Ridge Municipal Hall Lobby area at the Dewdney Trunk Road entrance 11995 Haney Place, Maple Ridge
Design boards will be on display and City staff, as well as the design consultant, will be available to answer your questions. Should you have any questions regarding the Information Session, please feel free to contact Erica Messam at 604-467-7429.
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One person died after an apparent head-on colli-sion along Lougheed Highway in east Maple Ridge on Monday.
The crash occurred in the 26400-block of the highway at around 3:45 p.m. Both cars ended up in a ditch along the highway, one upside down.
An air ambulance landed on the highway, which was closed during the investigation.
RCMP confirmed that one person passed away.
Fatality in Lougheed crash
Curtis Kreklau/Special to THE NEWS Emergency services respond to a collision along Lougheed Highway on Monday.
School from frontThe land to be expropriated is bare, and was ac-
quired by the owners last year, said school board sec-retary treasurer Flavia Coughlan.
The board has made two written offers to purchase the property from the owner, dated Nov. 23, 2015 and Feb. 24, 2016. But according to the board, the owners have not accepted or made any counter offer in response to either from the district.
The proposed site of the school and community centre would be described as on the north side of 104th avenue, between 240th Street and Samuel Robertson Technical School.
The adoption of an expropriation notice bylaw is recommended by staff, and is on the agenda for school board trustees to consider tonight (Wednes-day).
The vote must be unanimous.Politicians with the school board and city have
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The board is to submit its proposal for the approxi-mately $19 million facility by the end of this month.
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Premier Christy Clark had her dancing shoes
on as yet another “cli-mate change” meeting ended in disarray in Vancouver last week.
“This is not the end,” Clark assured report-ers after Prime Minis-ter Justin Trudeau and the premiers emerged with no agreement on a national minimum carbon price. No kidding.
Trudeau declared victory by announc-ing the unanimous consent to a “Vancou-ver Declaration,” which basically pays lip service to the concept of “carbon pricing” and kicks another grand federal election promise down the road.
As the rest headed for jets waiting at Vancouver airport, Clark expressed the hope that the public would say “they got together and they made progress.” Did they? Let’s take a look.
Going into the Whistler-Vancouver stop on Trudeau’s globe-trotting glamour tour, Clark correctly noted that it’s other prov-inces that need to make progress. B.C. has a clear price on carbon emissions; it’s been held at $30 a tonne since Clark suc-ceeded its creator, Gordon Campbell.
Clark’s advice for other premiers is to follow Campbell’s example of a revenue-neutral carbon tax, offset by income tax reductions. You won’t build public sup-port for a carbon tax that makes people poorer, she said.
Of course that’s what Alberta is doing, at a time when many residents are getting poorer already. Alberta’s NDP govern-ment plans to match the rate of B.C.’s carbon tax within two years and spend the proceeds.
Other premiers have more creative defi-nitions for pricing carbon.
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil pointed to transmission lines and power purchases from the Muskrat Falls dam under construction in Labrador, to substitute hydro for coal-fired power. The highest electricity prices in Canada are their “carbon pricing” plan.
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall point-ed to SaskPower’s Boundary Dam carbon capture and storage project. It is the world’s first coal-fired power station to capture carbon dioxide after combustion. The CO2 is sold to oilfield operators who inject it into declining wells to push more oil out, and the project intends to capture sulphur dioxide and fly ash to process and sell for other industrial uses.
Wall is the only Canadian leader to state a couple of inconvenient truths. The pur-pose of this exercise is to reduce carbon emissions, not to raise tax revenues. And now is the worst possible time to impose more taxes on the oil and gas industry.
Clark’s stand-pat strategy on the B.C. carbon tax is going to change this year, as positioning begins for the 2017 election. A B.C. government advisory panel has recommended a 33 per cent increase, conveniently starting in 2018, with annual increases after that.
The current seven-cent-per-litre carbon
tax on gasoline sold in B.C. is hardly a deterrent these days, as pump prices have tumbled and could stay low for years to come. And with a fragile economy, it seems unlikely that a big boost in carbon taxes will find favour with voters a year from now.
The B.C. NDP is trying to rebuild its credibility on climate policy. NDP leader John Horgan tried to revise the party’s history, claiming in year-end interviews that the NDP didn’t oppose the carbon tax, only making it revenue neutral rather than spending the money on green initia-tives, as Alberta wants to do.
Alas, the NDP’s “axe the tax” campaign going into the 2009 election is a matter of record. The party’s election platform warned that Campbell’s plan “increases taxes for average families by tripling the gas tax” to its current level.
Last week, the NDP issued a news re-lease denouncing Clark for presiding over increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.
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Hanging upIngrid RiceNews Views
One would think it wouldn’t still need to be said.
But RCMP and ICBC are again reminding drivers to leave the phone alone.
They’re launching yet another campaign aimed at underlining just how dangerous it is to use a phone while driving.
And it is dangerous.According to ICBC, 25 per cent of all road
deaths in the province involve distracted driv-ing. That’s one in four.
And, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the odds of crashing increase five times when using a phone, whether dialing, texting, reading or using social media.
In the Lower Mainland, it’s estimated that 27 people are killed in distracted driving-related crashes every year.
Faced with those numbers, it’s hard to imag-ine why drivers would still use their phone while they’re behind the wheel.
But they do. According to a recent survey by Ipsos Reid, 34 per cent of cell phone users said they use their phone between one and five times out of every 10 trips.
“It’s time we all commit to leaving our phones alone and avoid other forms of distraction when we’re behind the wheel,” said Lindsay Matthews, ICBC’s director responsible for road safety.
Police, backed by volunteers, will be on the roads watching for drivers who have not yet got the message.
“We’re cracking down on those who cannot police themselves,” said Chief Constable Neil Dubord, Chair of the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police Traffic Safety Committee.
“Even when you’re at a red light or in slow moving traffic – you’re still in control of a ve-hicle – and the law still applies.”
But we can all be part of the solution. Talk to your family, talk to your friends and remind them that if they’re driving without their full attention on the road they’re an accident wait-ing to happen.
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Editor, The News:Re: Bowing to the power of
judges (B.C. Views, March 2).Tom Fletcher’s article was
interesting to read, refresh-ing in its honesty.
So much written lately on euthanasia is very hard to take, not so much for the complexity of the issues as for the sudden and intense media promotion of such an ominous about-face in how our Supreme Court views the rights of the individual and ignores the effects that these choices will have on others.
There is something seri-
ously wrong when a small group of unaccountable individuals can change the way we view the role of medical professionals who not long ago were so highly esteemed and valuable to all of us because of their role as healers.
Now we are made to be-lieve that medical aid in dying no longer is limited to providing comfort and empathy as we live out our final days with courage and dignity, but now includes helping to kill us.
How is it that the Supreme Court judges can hide be-
hind a so called “living tree doctrine” and claim that po-litically motived polling and some kind of judicial wis-dom of Solomon is license to turn our country upside down almost overnight?
Yes, indeed, the endur-ing legacy of Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
What do we have to look forward to with his son in charge?
The right to kill depressed teens?
The duty to die for seniors who are a burden on their caregivers?
Seniors afraid to enter care
homes or hospitals for fear that they will be put down with the same standards we apply to our replaceable do-mestic animals?
Canada needs real heroes who will not stand for this.
What we seem to have right now are secular saints like Sue Rodriguez, Svend Robinson and Justin , who are better described as icons of the “Dictatorship of Relativism,” where there is no right and wrong, just personal autonomy and the battle cry is “choice.”
Richard WhalenMaple Ridge
Editor, The News:April 1st always seems to
come early in my little town that now poses as a city.
So it turns out the tempo-rary shelter is quite possibly being replaced with an in-terim project.
Last time I checked, just
before the so-called tem-porary homeless shelter opened, there was a statistic supplied by some task force that claimed Maple Ridge had about 23 homeless peo-ple and some story about it being a myth that the drug use amongst the homeless is
exaggerated. Now I read we have had
141 people that have stayed in or have been referred to the shelter in this six-month period, as well as a reported 40 overdoses have been re-corded in the homeless shel-ter.
I feel we are being played for fools by a number of players.
But, hey, it’s almost April 1st, isn’t it?
For solutions, we must first be honest, don’t you think?
Grant BakerMaple Ridge
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Adding it upDale Wakefield · Re: Pitt Meadows doubles tax revenue in decade (The News, March 4).An insignificant increase in population, but a double increase in tax rev-enue, and still we need a mega business park. Something doesn’t add up.
More or lessDon MacLean · Re: Pitt Meadows doubles tax revenue in decade (The News, March 4).The revenue has increased dramatically because of projects like the Onni business park and the Meadowtown mall. More commercial/industrial tax base will allow the city to undertake needed infrastructure and keep our taxation rates amongst the lowest in Metro Vancouver. If you consider that for every residential tax dollar collected, the city spends $1.25 to service our needs. Without other classes of taxation, such as malls and business parks – that do not use as many services – we would either be paying a lot higher tax rate or would have substantially less services.
Not the last timeShelley Popadiuk · Re: One dead in Maple Ridge collision (mapleridgenews.com)They need to finish the highway so it is four lanes all the way. With bridge tolls and more people moving to Mission, the highway is getting nuts. It is a big drag race to get in the single lane, in both directions. Until this is done, sadly this will not be the last time this will happen.
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Graduation night will be magical for some local high school stu-dents thanks to Putting on the Glitz.
The fourth annual event, held last week, welcomed 23 girls and nine boys facing fi-nancial challenges that would otherwise pre-vent them from attend-ing their graduation ceremonies.
Hundreds of gradua-tion outfits, including gowns, tuxes and suits, were available to the students, along with their choice of shoes, jewelry and accessories to complete their en-sembles.
Once the gowns and suits were altered by volunteers, the stu-dents received free makeovers, includ-ing hair and makeup before posing for free graduation pictures and glam shots.
“It was just remark-able. The girls leave feeling really cherished and beautiful and that they were never in need in the first place,” said volunteer Kimber-ley Clarke.
The program is run through PLEA Com-munity Services So-ciety of B.C. and supports graduating students from schools in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows.
“It is open to all
schools in School Dis-trict No. 42 and school councillors make the referral on behalf of the youth. That way we know they are finan-cially in need and that they are also on track to graduate,” said orga-nizer Michelle Cherak.
Selected students are sent official invitations by mail, although last minute referrals are never turned away.
“If they are in Grade 12 and if they are in
need, then we will do our best to accommo-date,” said Clarke.
The students get to keep the outfits for the night of their actual graduation ceremo-nies.
Cherak is always looking for donations. She is most in need of plus-size dresses, but all donations are wel-come.
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MNP proudly congratulates Aaron Collins on receiving the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (CPABC) Service to the Profession Award. The award recognizes members who have distinguished themselves through their dedication, commitment and outstanding volunteer contributions to the CPA profession.
Aaron is an energetic leader driven to making the Surrey / Langley / North Delta CPA chapter a vibrant resource for its members and community, quickly rising from volunteer to Vice Chair in less than five years. He is an avid advocate of the profession, promoting accounting at the University of Fraser Valley and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Aaron also coaches children’s hockey, soccer and football.
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3 armed robberies in a week
Treasure huntThe Spring Treasure Hunt is returning to downtown Maple Ridge for its eighth year, March 9-23.Since 2001, families have hunted for hidden eggs in participating local businesses for a chance to win one of five Easter prize baskets.Pick up a free passport from a participating merchant, or download one free from the Downtown Maple Ridge Business Improvement Association website (down-townmapleridge.ca). Find all 20 participating businesses listed on the passport. Each business has hidden eggs in its store. Find one egg, bring it to the store’s customer service representa-tive in exchange for a small prize and passport stamp. Collect all 20 stamps and en-ter the completed passport for a prize basket.“The Spring Treasure Hunt has been gaining popularity since 2001, with businesses eagerly vying for the limited spots,” said Michelle Zazulak of the DMRBIA. “Not only is this event a great free activ-ity for families and kids to do over spring break, but it’s also a terrific opportunity for the community to discover new businesses and services they didn’t know existed in downtown Maple Ridge.”The Spring Treasure Hunt is also great way for new busi-nesses to interact with the community and showcase their products and services, she added. Among the newer busi-nesses are Brownie’s Chicken and Seafood, Emerald Moon, Hansel and Gretel Bakery, and Kleem Candle Market.
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Ridge Meadows RCMP are investigating three armed robberies in Maple Ridge that oc-curred between Sunday, Feb. 28 and Saturday, March 5.
In each case, a Cau-casian male pulled a knife on the cashier and escaped with a small amount of cash.
A police spokesman said this type of crime is not common in Maple Ridge, so to have three in one week is alarming.
The latest was on Satur-day at 7 a.m., at the Chev-ron in the 20500-block of Lougheed Highway, where a lone male pro-duced a knife and stole cash, lottery tickets and cigarettes, then fled on foot.
The suspect is 30 to 35 years old and has a medium build. He had a moustache and was wearing glasses, a dark hooded sweatshirt, with the hood up, grey sweat pants and black and white running shoes.
There was a similar robbery on Thursday. At approximately 10 p.m. on March 3, a male and female walked into the Little Caesar’s Pizza in the Meadow Ridge Shopping Mall, in the 11900 block of 207 Street.
After getting their food order, the male produced a knife and demanded money from the till. The couple did get a small amount of cash before leaving the area in a white pickup truck, with no canopy, in an unknown direc-
tion on Dewdney Trunk Road.
The male suspect is described as being Cau-casian, about 25 years old, 5’ 8” tall, with a medium build, and brown co-loured hair. He was wearing a faded black h o o d i e , with the hood up at the time of the rob-bery.
His female accomplice is described as being Caucasian, 5’ 2”, with black hair and thick eye-liner. She was also wear-ing a black hoodie with the hood up.
Police responded im-mediately to the call, but the suspects and vehicle were not located.
On Feb. 28, a lone
male robbed C&H Mar-ket in the 22200-block of Dewdney Trunk Road at about 7:30 p.m., and fled
on foot.He was de-
scribed as Cau-casian, approxi-
mately 5’10”, with an av-
erage build and dirty blond hair. He wore a scarf across his
face during the robbery.
The Integrated Foren-sic Identification Section has been asked to exam-ine the latest scene for any evidence, and police are asking for anyone with any information to call Ridge Meadows RCMP at 604 463-6251 and quote file No. 2016-4812.
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The Golden Ears Pre-school Association will be looking for a new home when their lease expires at the Maple Ridge Leisure Centre, where it has been for the past 14 years.
But finding a new place will not be easy and will mean higher fees for parents.
A review of the Lei-sure Centre this spring could see other uses found for the pre-school space.
And even if the re-view says the space should continue to be used for a pre-school, Golden Ears is already looking for a new lo-cation so it knows it will have something by September.
Golden Ears Pre-school Associa-tion chairman Blake Whitelaw said that having a preschool in the Leisure Centre provides a convenient location and helps low-income families use the recreation
space without having to travel.
The central location also means parents who don’t have cars can get to the school, the Leisure Centre, as well as the library.
The preschool was formed 28 years ago, when the city asked parents to take over running a non-profit preschool from the city. The current lease is $674 a month.
“Most cities in Great-er Vancouver provide a space in city-owned community centres for preschools to operate from,” Whitelaw said in a letter to Maple
Ridge council.“If the city contin-
ues with the current process, Maple Ridge would be one of the few who does not. That would be a shame considering how few dedicated preschool spaces there are down-town.”
Meanwhile, the school is still taking registrations for next year because if it de-lays, it will lose stu-dents to other schools.
Whitelaw said the as-sociation is asking the city to give the school a one-year grace peri-od so that it can make plans to relocate.
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L o o k i n g B a c kBy Leslie Norman
There is a lot of talk these days about the pos-
sibility of an underpass at the Harris Road CP Rail crossing.
At the Pitt Meadows Museum, we are acutely aware of what this could mean for both the approximately 18,000 vehicles that travel Harris Road each day, as well as for the heritage build-ings that make up the museum site.
When the Old Gen-eral Store, the museum’s main site and also the home of the community archives, first opened on Harris Road in 1908, the CPR’s line through Pitt Meadows was only 23 years old and was not yet double-tracked.
Two trains (the Fraser Valley Local) passed each day, one going west in the a.m. and the other going east in the p.m.
This was hardly a handicap for the few travellers who used Har-ris Road, then a narrow dirt track.
By the time the former owners of the Museum’s second site, the Hoff-mann and Son shop, arrived in the area (in 1934) Harris Road had expanded to a two lane graded road and the CPR was only running a few more trains each day, again not inconvenienc-ing users of Harris Road too much.
Fast forward to the last few decades and times have truly changed with more than 18,000 vehicle trips each day on Harris and approximately 22 trains crossing the road in a twelve hour period between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Further, it can take up to 12 minutes for a single train to clear the road and longer if another train arrives on the second set of tracks.
At the museum, we know all too well the frustration of drivers sitting in line waiting to get underway. So much so that sometimes we think we can actually see the steam rising from the vehicles.
Inside the building we seldom even notice when a train is passing, save for the gentle rocking of office furniture and, unfortunately, histori-cal objects and archives racking. But occasion-ally the engines are loud
enough to cause staff and volunteers to stop talking until they pass and we can hear again.
That said, should an underpass (or an overpass) become a reality necessitating the “… relocation of heritage buildings just a little further back … ”
What will that mean for this small community facility? A small move from a location point of view does not always translate into a small task for the limited number
of individuals involved in operating the facility. In 1998, when the museum moved from its former location on Davison Road to the Gen-eral Store site, it took the part-time staff member, a small band of volunteers and a community busi-ness who offered some support when needed more than six months of inventorying, packing and moving.
An additional six months of unpacking and setting up at the new
site was also required. During that time, we
managed to stay open to the public for most of the months and held our annual summer Heritage Thursdays for Children sessions without missing a beat.
Since then the muse-um’s object and archives collections have almost doubled and the Hoff-mann and Son site, with its own large collection, has also come on line.
As we discuss the possibility of a ‘little relocation’ here at the museum, the task would seem almost overwhelm-ing. But we also make reference to the fact, should a move become a reality, it won’t be the first relocation for the 130-year-old building, as it was originally moved to this site in 1908 in order to take advantage of the fact the CPR was so close by.
It would seem the more things change, the more they stay the same.
– Leslie Norman is curator at Pitt Meadows Museum and Archives.
The more things change
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Joyce Campbell is smitten with the Arctic.It is the current theme for the local art-
ist’s work.She loves the landscape and feels over-
whelmed by it every time she visits her daugh-ter on Baffin Island.
Each time she returns to her home in Maple Ridge, she can’t wait to put her paintbrush to canvas, although she finds the vast expanse of the arctic difficult to translate.
“You think it would be easy. I’m there, I’ve photographed it. Look at it, it’s beautiful. It’s amazing,” Campbell said from home.
“Gradually, I started to realize that you have to put in lots of sky. It’s the sky that’s overwhelm-ing. There are no trees. There is an enormous amount of light. And wind,” said the artist, who paints in water colour and acrylics.
Campbell has no choice but to photograph the landscapes she wants to paint.
There is no such thing as plein air painting in the arctic. During the winter, it can be mi-nus−30 C, and windy.
“Even the camera, you can take one or two shots and then it goes next to the breast again to warm up or back in the pocket,” explained Campbell, adding that even when the weather warms up there are too many bugs to paint in the open air.
One of her pieces was painted from a photo-graph of rocks dotted with orange lichen, taken in the autumn of 2010.
“I wanted to experiment to show its absolute
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reflects that, adding warmth to an otherwise bleak landscape.
Another one of her paintings is a winter scene of the mountains on the east coast of Baf-fin Island, done in different shades of blue with subtle hints of pink.
“How do you get it to look sharp and massive and cold, like if you had your hands it would cut,” the artist asks of her work.
These works and the rest of the local artist’s recent explorations of the arctic tundra can be seen at the newest Group of Nine exhibition, happening this weekend.
The show will also feature acrylic pieces by Florence Nicholson, paintings of vintage trucks by Jean Abbott, misty water colour landscapes by Margaret Bale, colourful ab-stracts by Suzette Fram, oil landscapes by Jane Duford Johnston and Jo-Anne Lewis, florals by Shirley Felgner, and miniatures painted by Betty Coy.
Each artist will also have their sketch books available for people to see their thought pro-cesses. They will also have all their materials to paint and demonstrate their techniques.
Campbell has been a member of the Group of Nine for seven years and said it offers great encouragement.
“We tend to really spur on each other’s cre-ativity. That’s what we do,” said Campbell.
“What I like most about the group con-cerning art is the excitement that comes from sharing a passion together. You bounce off each other with ideas and technique.”
Translating the vast Arctic
Colleen Flanagan/THE NEWSLocal artist Joyce Campbell with one of her paintings of the rugged landscape of Baffin Island that will be at the Group of Nine Art Show and Sale this weekend.
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Everybody hates the tax man. Or do they?
You’ll have to wait to find out in the Royal Ca-nadian Theatre Compa-ny’s production of Love, Sex and the IRS.
This modern day American farce takes place in New York City, where two young men, Jon and Leslie, share an apartment. The out-of-work musicians don’t have much money be-tween them, so Jon has been doing both of their taxes. In order to save money, Jon has also been claiming Leslie as his wife.
But now the tax inspec-tor has come snooping around and wants to meet the lovely lady. So, Leslie has no choice but to dress up as a woman. This, though, is not the pair’s only problem.
They have to avoid the custodian of the building when Leslie turns into a woman because the building manager doesn’t allow unwed couples to live together.
In addition to that, Jon’s fiancé Kate has been hav-ing an affair with Leslie. Cue Jon’s mother, who has flown to New York unexpectedly to meet the bride-to-be and organize the wedding. At the same time, Leslie’s girlfriend shows up to sort out their relationship.
Then, in a panic, the tax inspector is invited to dinner, where Leslie serves up Mung Chow-der Gumbo, a fictional dish consisting of tuna, molasses, custard, vin-egar and cream. An ab-solute disaster.
Originally written in 1978, director Ellie King had to make some minor alterations to bing it into
the present day.“I had to do a little bit of
editing because the stuff from 1978 doesn’t play now. Like there’s a line in there about burning your draft card and things like that,” said King
This is the sixth show at the ACT for the theatre group, which prides itself on high production value and use of local talent.
Royal Canadian is known for comedies and thrillers.
“We believe in giving new talent an opportu-nity,” said King.
“We have three grads from Capilano Univer-sity – one from the film acting program and two from the stage and mu-sical theatre acting pro-gram. Our stage manager also is a grad from the Capilano music pro-gram,” she said.
Love, Sex and the IRS is the last of the series at the ACT.
Next season, starting in October and running until March, the com-pany will be presenting a family friendly Hallow-een spoof called It was a Dark and Stormy Night, followed by Beauty and the Beast, and finishing with Opening Night, by Canadian playwright Norm Foster.
Auditions for Opening Night and Beauty and the Beast will be held in May.
The company also of-fers opportunities for youth to learn the basics of singing, dancing and acting, free of charge.
“We make all their costumes, we rent all the performance spaces, we rent all the rehearsal spaces and its completely free to them. All we ask is that they join the society and it’s 10 bucks for in-surance purposes,” said King, explaining that theatre can help children deal with external issues
like anxiety and bring them out of their shells.
Love, Sex and the IRS plays March 10-12 at 8 p.m., with an extra show-ing at 3 p.m. on March 12 only, at the ACT, 11944 Haney Place, downtown Maple Ridge.
General admission is $28, seniors and under 14 are $18, a family pack of four tickets for $85, groups of 10 or more for $15 each and groups of 20 or more for $10 each.
Tickets for the new sea-son will also be on sale.
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Chris Gill is stepping down as head coach of the Maple Ridge Burrards for the coming Western Lacrosse Association season and will be replaced by his former assistant, Rob Williams.
GM Daren Fridge expects Williams to be a player’s coach.
“Not only has he played at every level, his greatest asset is his ability to connect with players,” Fridge said.
“He’s got a fiery presence about him, and he’s respected by the play-ers,” Fridge added. “He knows what we have, he knows what we need, and he knows where we need to shore up.”
Williams is living in Pitt Meadows and is a good friend of Gill, who will be available to confer with.
“We’re confident the transition will be really smooth,” said Fridge.
Williams played with the Hamilton-
based Ontario Raiders in 1998, the first Canadian team in the NLL, and also spent three years with the Van-couver Ravens – the hometown team for the Burnaby boy – from 2002 to 2004.
“That was a highlight for me,” Wil-liams said.
He played in front of crowds of 15,000 in Colorado, and in storied venues like the Boston Gardens.
He played for Team Canada when it lost the gold-medal game to the U.S. in 1998, and also at the 1993 world juniors in New York with a team that finished third.
He also played 13 seasons in the WLA, split between the Burnaby Lakers and Maple Ridge Burrards.
Williams’ NLL career ended with the Edmonton Rush in 2008, and saw him play 106 regular season and three playoff games, scoring 60 points.
“I was not a superstar by any means, but I managed to stick with those teams,” he said.
And he still can’t wait to walk into the rink.
“I still love it. I love coaching – it’s
gotten into my system.”He has been the Burrards’ defensive
coach for the past eight seasons.Williams said most fans will see a
similar Burrards team to what they have the past two seasons under Gill.
“We’ve had pretty good success, so I don’t see us changing much.”
He said the team has one of the best rosters in the WLA, and he likes the job Gill has done.
“He added a lot of little nuances. He pays attention to details.”
Gill got the Burrards into the WLA final for the first time in more than 20 years in his first year as head coach, and followed that up by making the playoffs again last season – some-thing the Burrards have not been able to accomplish with consistency.
Fridge sees the organization as trending in the right direction, and said with a full season of Frankie Scigliano in net, the Burrards would likely have finished second in the league last year.
Gill will stay in the organization as the director of scouting.
He is stepping down because of com-
mitments coaching both with the NLL Colorado Mammoth and his daugh-ters’ minor lacrosse teams.
Assistant coaches for the upcoming WLA season have been named. Tyler Codron and Rob Dalzell will be join-ing Williams behind the bench.
Codron has been the Burrards cap-tain for the last four seasons and has been a dominant defender. He is un-able to play this season due to a knee injury he sustained in the NLL. He has been a Burrard since being draft-ed third overall in the 2008 draft.
“Tyler is respected by his peers and will be a huge addition to our coach-ing staff,” said Fridge.
Dalzell has been involved in la-crosse one way or another for the last 30 years. He was drafted first over-all in the 1981 WLA draft, where he went on to win the rookie of the year award. He has been an assistant coach in the Jr. A league for the last five sea-sons, most recently with the junior Salmonbellies.
“Rob is a local Maple Ridge resident who will bring fire and passion to our team,” said Fridge.
Burrards get new bench boss
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The Ridge Meadows Flames Junior B hockey club is hosting a spring break half-day hockey camp March 15-18 at Planet Ice.
The camp will be for play-ers born in 2007, 2008 and 2009, and willl once again be run by Flames head coach Bayne Ryshak, who is also a minor hockey atom rep coach, and Brenden Vogt.
• Email [email protected] to register.
The Meadow Ridge Knights community foot-ball association is taking registration for the coming season.
Members will be at Haney Place Mall from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 9.
Fall flag leagues for chil-dren ages 5, 6 and 7 is $91. Other costs:
• atom (8-9), $290;• peewee (10-11), $310; • jr. bantam (12-13), $330; • bantam (14-15), $350; • midget (16-18), $400;• spring flag, $150;• cheerleading $150.See www.meadowridgek-
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The University of the Fraser Valley rowing team posted strong results at its home regatta, Head of the Fort, on Saturday.
Maple Ridge residents Genelle Grubb and Karen Chung were both part of a UFV novice crew that fin-ished fourth in the women’s fours.
The event, held on the Bedford Channel at Fort Langley, featured entries from the Cascades, SFU and several non-university rowing clubs from around the Lower Mainland.
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The B.C. high school
boys’ basketball cham-pionships are being held this week, starting today, and there will be
no Maple Ridge or Pitt Meadows teams for local hoops fans to cheer on.
It’s a sign that high
school hoops needs a boost in the district, says longtime Maple Ridge Ramblers coach Ken
Dockendorf.His Ramblers were the
last team eliminated, as they bowed out of the
Fraser Valley tourna-ment with losses to Sur-rey schools Southridge, 82-74, and L.A. Mathe-
son, 70-60, last week.“The community
sports have taken over. The interest in high school sports is definite-ly down,” he said.
Kids are more likely to sign up for hockey, soc-cer or lacrosse in this district, he said.
They get involved in those club sports at the age of five, and those sports become their pri-orities.
Basketball is one of the last sports where stu-dents learn to play, right up to elite levels, in the school system. The pro-vincial tournament this week will be well attend-ed by college recruiters.
So, the school system needs to have good bas-ketball coaches to teach kids how to play the game.
“There are very few teacher/coaches now – less and less,” he said. “You need coaches, first and foremost, and they need to be in the schools,” Dockendorf said.
He retired 10 years ago, but is in his 46th year of coaching high school ball.
Pitt Meadows coach Rich Goulet has a couple years on Dockendorf. Both have had provin-cial championship sea-sons.
They coached through the glory days of high school hoops in the dis-trict, when the Maraud-ers met the Ramblers in the provincial champi-onship in 1989.
The local basketball scene has had its ups and downs, but this is the worst shape it has ever been in, Dockendorf said.
He thinks he’s got a shot to get back to the provincial tournament in the next couple of years. He missed this year, but has a young team. Eight players will be returning, and they are skilled.
“Things are looking brighter for the next couple of years,” he said.
But Abbotsford has five high school teams playing at the 4A and 3A tournaments this week, and Surrey schools are also big on basketball, he said.
With strong coaching at all levels of the sport, those will be the Valley teams to beat in the fu-ture, he predicts.
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www.mapleridgenews.com - THE NEWS -- Wednesday, March 9, 2016 -- A17
It is with profound sadness that we announce the
passing of Bill Kok. After a courageous battle
with cancer and all its complications, Bill passed
at Surrey Memorial Hospital on March 5, 2016.
Lovingly remembered by his wife of 54 years,
Ria, his sons Danny (Tanya), Jerry (Marnie),
grandchildren Jessica, Devon, Jennifer, David,
new great-grandson Lukah and extended
family overseas. The family would like to thank
the amazing staff at Surrey Memorial Hospital.
Service to be held at Garden Hill Funeral Chapel
on March 12 at 2:30pm. Celebration of Life to
follow at Maple Ridge Golf Course at 4:00pm. In
lieu of fl owers, donations to the Canadian Cancer
Society are appreciated.
Bill KokMay 31, 1940 - March 5, 2016
ELLIOTTMary (nee Petrie)
January 22, 1934 - February 20, 2016
Mary passed away peacefully on Feb-ruary 20 in Maple Ridge surrounded by loved ones. Predeceased by her hus-band Robert and son George. Survived by her daughter Jennifer, grandchildren, Zachary, Matthew, Jacob, Arianna, her two sisters Barbara, Janet and her nieces, nephews and extended family. Mary was born and raised in Vancouver attending school at King George and King Ed and later UBC.
Mary met the love of her life while attending a local dance in Van-couver and later moved to North Delta to raise their two children.After retirement, Mary moved to Maple Ridge to be closer to her daughter and grandchildren. Mary had a love for music, games and reading. Mary had a kind generous heart and always greeted you with a smile. From early on, she made many lifelong friendships and cherished each and every one. Mary will be greatly missed and lov-ingly remembered by her family & friends. Mary is now with her Lord.
We wish to thank the staff at Holyrood Manor for the care Mary re-ceived in the last 3 years. A Celebration of life will be held on March 11th at 1:00 pm at Haney Presbyterian Church, 11858 216th Street Maple Ridge. In lieu of fl owers, donations can be made to theSalvation Army Ridge Meadows Ministries.
Condolences may be sent to www.mapleridgefuneral.ca
URBANJohn Louis
June 27th, 1939 - February 25th, 2016Born on a homestead in Alpen Siding Alberta. John passed away in Ridge Meadows Hospital after a courageous battle with cancer. He is predeceased by his parents Walter and Valeria and his older brother Joe (Beth). He is sur-vived by his devoted wife Peachie, daughters Patti (Mark) and Jadi (Rick), son David, brother Mike (Matilda), the joy of his life his two grandsons James and Jared, as well as extended family and Friends.
Service to be held Sat, Mar 12/16 at 11am at Burnette Fellowship 20639 123ave Maple Ridge BC. Thank you to the staff at Ridge Meadows Hospital for all of their care and support.
Condolences may be sent to www.mapleridgefuneral.ca
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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
4 FUNERAL HOMES
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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
5 IN MEMORIAM
Amanda WoodthorpeMay 26, 1990 - March 8, 2010
To Our PreciousDaughter and Sister
If Roses grow in Heaven Lord please pick a bunch for us Place them in Amanda’s arms And tell her they’re from us Tell her we love her and miss her And when she turns to smile, Place a kiss upon her cheek And hold her for awhile Because remembering her is easy, We do it every day, But there’s an ache within our hearts That will never go away.
Love Mom and Dad, andJennifer and Cassandra
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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
5 IN MEMORIAM
Silvi LivaJan. 19, 1953 - March 10, 1996
It’s the 20th anniversaryOf the day we lost you,
And for a time it felt as thoughOur lives had ended too.
Loss has taught us many things
And now we face each day,With hope and happy
memoriesTo help us on our way.
And although we’re full of sadness
That you are no longer here,Your infl uence continues
to guide usAs we still feel you are near.
What we shared will never dieIt lives on within our hearts,
Bringing strength and comfortTo us while we are apart.
Missing you --Till we meet again,Your family
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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
10 CARDS OF THANKS
COPELANDClive
A very special thank-you was missed in my husband’s obituary of
February 26th and March 2nd.
I would like to thank the Fraser Health Home Health Staff
(Community Health Workers, Nurses & Occupational Therapists) for their wonderful care & support
of Clive over the past year.It was very much appreciated.
21 COMING EVENTS
Hammond ElementarySpring BazaarFriday, April 8th, 5-9pm
11520 203rd St. Maple RidgeDrive west to access parking lot.
Tables Still Available [email protected]
Door PrizesRaffl e Baskets
Scholastic Book FairCONCESSION
HOME BUSINESSESLOCAL CRAFTERS
SPRING EQUINOX Wellness event March 20, 9-5, at the Ramada Inn-Pitt Meadows. Come enjoy FREE DOOR PRIZES, mini-sessions with wellness practitioners, workshops, Intuitive readers, spiritual jewelry, and more. Facebook.com/spiritsou-lafaire
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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
21 COMING EVENTS
ANTIQUE SHOWSunday, March 13th
Admission $2.00We Buy Old & New Things703 Terminal Ave. Vancouver
8:30am to 4:30pm Over 80 tables of antique &
collectible treasures.Join us on Facebook
For info 604 685 8843Always buying
Antiques & Collectibles
TABLES ONLY $40www.vancouverfl eamarket.com
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108 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIESCANADA BENEFIT GROUP Do you or someone you know suffer from a disability? Get up to $40,000 from the Canadian Government. Toll-free 1-888-511-2250 or www.canadabenefi t.ca/free-assessment
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EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
PLANT SUPERVISOR Langley, BC
Fuchs Lubricants Canada Ltd. is the Canadian operating unit of Fuchs Petrolub S.E., the world’s largest independent manufacturer of specialty lubricants. Qualifi cations: • Minimum fi ve years’ experience in lubricants, chemical, or related manufacturing. • Forklift experience• Demonstrated ability to super-vise hourly personnel. Computer profi ciency in Microsoft Offi ce, Outlook, and SAP. • A Bachelor’s degree is highly preferred or applicable exp. in lieu of education is needed.
Fuchs Lubricants CanadaLTD. offers an excellentcompensation, benefi ts
package, and bonus plan.
To learn more about thisworld-class organization, please visit the company
website at www.Fuchs.comor apply by e-mail:
114 DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING
CLASS 1 DRIVERSExperienced Class 1Truck & Pony Drivers
required for localtrucking company.Fax: 604-460-7853
Email: [email protected]
130 HELP WANTED
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
114 DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING
DRIVER’S WANTEDWe are an industry leader of building products, located in Surrey. We require “Top Notch” driver’s with a positive attitude and willingness to learn. Must have ability to lift heavy product. Mon.-Fri. Start Immediately!
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115 EDUCATION
Become a Plumber - No experience necessary!
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• 5 week practicum which is conducted 25/hrs per week, for a total of 125 hours.
• The program will provide students w/350 hrs towards apprenticeship training.
Construction Electrician program also available.
Call the School of Trades at 778-379-0410 or visit
sprottshaw.com for more information.
130 HELP WANTED
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
115 EDUCATION
Excavator & Backhoe Operator Training. Be employable in 4-6wks. Call 604-546-7600. www.rayway.ca
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124 FARM WORKERS
AUJLAS’ FARMS LTDFARM LABOURERS required
5 or 6 Days/Week40 or 50 Hours/Week
$10.59/HourHorticultural work such as:
Planting, pruning, spacing andharvesting the crop.
Employment starts early June /16Submit your application to:
Phone: 604-465-8153or by Fax:604-465-9340 or
by mail:12554 Woolridge Rd., Pitt Meadows, B.C. V3Y 1Z1
General Farm Workers Golden Eagle Farms is looking for seasonal general farm workers available between May - December 2016. Duties include weeding, preparing land for planting, fertilizing, cultivating, spraying, irrigating and harvest-ing crops, pipe and drainage repair, operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment, and other related duties. Work is out-doors, in all weather conditions and is physically demanding. No education or previous work experience required. Pay is $10.59/hour at 40+ hours per week.
Please fax resume to:(604) 460-0944
Attention: SAWP Coordinator
Golden Eagle Group is a blueber-ry and cranberry farm located in Pitt Meadows, B.C., Canada
130 HELP WANTED
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
124 FARM WORKERS
Seasonal Farm Workersrequired in Pitt Meadows.
Duties will include general farm labour, planting, pruning, fertiliz-ing, weeding, picking, and all other farm duties. Work will be physically demanding; handling some heavy loads and standing for long periods of time.
Wages: $10.59/hr. 40-60 hrs./wk. Please email resume to:
130 HELP WANTED
.Flagpersons & Lane Closure Techs required. Must have reliable vehicle. Must be certifi ed & experienced. Union wages & benefi ts. Fax resume 604-513-3661 email: [email protected]
GOLF SHOP STAFF Required for
Mission Golf & Country ClubPart Time to Full Time.
Golf knowledge an asset. Must be 19+ years
Must be avail. to work weekends and afternoons. Good computer
skills required. Golf playing privileges included.
Please email resume to:[email protected] drop off resume at
7983 Nelson St. Mission B.C.
SHINGLESAWYER
Required Full-Time for a local shake and shingle mill. Must have previous experience.
Excellent Wages & Benefi ts.
Call Wayne 604.615.2464
Traffi c Control PersonnelPacifi c Coast Traffi c Planning is seeking certifi ed TCP’s for seasonal & F/T employment.
Day, swing & Night shifts Available. Students Welcomed!
Must have reliable vehicle and provide clean drivers abstract.
Starting Wage $15.00/hr.Guaranteed hours!
Please email resume:[email protected]
131 HOME CARE/SUPPORT
IN-HOME caregiver req for June 27, 2016 (twin girls - 6 yrs old, one with autism). FT. perm. $10.75/hr. Pitt Meadows (Bonson Landing). email: [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
160 TRADES, TECHNICAL
Commercial Transport& Diesel Engine Mechanics
Required for Cullen Diesel Power Ltd. and Western Star and Sterling Trucks of Vancouver Inc. Positions available in Surrey. Late model highway tractor exp. considered an asset. Factory training provided.Union Shop - Full Benefi ts
Fax Resume: 604-888-4749E-mail: [email protected]
PERSONAL SERVICES
182 FINANCIAL SERVICES
GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.
1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com
. Need Cash? Own a vehicle? Borrow up to $25,000. SnapCarCash. 604-777-5046
TAX FREE MONEYis available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mort-gage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.
Call Anytime1-800-639-2274 or
604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
203 ACCOUNTING / TAX /BOOKKEEPING
.t1 tax
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
242 CONCRETE & PLACING
HERFORT CONCRETENO JOB TOO SMALL
Serving Lower Mainland 25 Years! *Prepare *Form *Place *Finish
*Granite & Interlocking Block Walls *Stairs *Driveways *Exposed
Aggregate *Stamped Concrete.*Interlocking Bricks *Sod Placement
EXCELLENT REF’S -WCB InsuredLeo: 604-657-2375 / 604-462-8620
257 DRYWALL
CASCADE DRYWALL. Res / Comm Drywall, taping, text. ceilings, t-bar. steel stud. Call Rob 604-218-2396.
281 GARDENING.ProWorks Home & Garden. Pressure washing, lawn maint, lndscpg. Call Matt 604-465-5566 www.proworkshg.com
.cuttingedge 604-466-9514
.Jim’s Mowing. 310-JIMS (5467).
15 % seniors discount, A+ rating with bbb, established 1995, aerat-ing,power raking, pruning, lawn cut/trim, hedges, trees, free esti-mates,inured,wcb, complete gar-dening ltd. Brad 778 552 3900
STEER MANURE
Delivered or Picked upWynnyk Farms
604.467.4419
160 TRADES, TECHNICAL
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
281 GARDENING
Prompt Delivery Available7 Days / Week
Meadows LandscapeSupply Ltd.
✶ Bark Mulch✶ Lawn & Garden Soil
✶ Drain Gravel ✶ Lava Rock✶ River Rock ✶Pea Gravel
(604)465-1311meadowslandscapesupply.com
283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS
.Window & Roof Cleaning Gutters Cleaned & repaired. 604-961-1280
GUTTER & ROOF Cleaning/Power Washing since 1982. WCB/Liability insurance. Simon, 604-230-0627
M.T. GUTTERSProfessional Installation5” Gutter, Down Pipe, Soffi t
30 YEARS EXPERIENCE ~ FULLY INSURED ~Call Tim 604-612-5388
287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS
ArrudaRenovations Plus
Home Improvements& Repairs
• Hardwood • Laminate • Painting• Drywall • Tilling • Baseboard• Crown molding • Small renos• Fences • Decks • And More!
778-903-0942
A-1 CONTRACTING. Renos. Bsmt, kitchens, baths, custom cabinets, tiling, plumbing, sundecks, fencing,
reroofi ng. Dhillon 604-782-1936.
288 HOME REPAIRS
REPAIRS, Misc Service Jobs, etc., big or small, call Robert at 604-844-4222 If I can’t do it, it can’t be done
300 LANDSCAPING
JAGUAR LANDSCAPINGLawn & Garden Service.
Design, Pruning, Lawns, Cleanups, Comm/ Res. (604)466-1369
160 TRADES, TECHNICAL
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YBS YBS PLUMBINGPLUMBINGFor all your plumbing needsNO JOB TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL
• Basement development• Renovations• Hot water tank• Drain cleaning
Call 604-816-3595Call [email protected]
PLUMBING
Laminate, Hardwood, Laminate, Hardwood, Tiling & Baseboard Tiling & Baseboard
InstallationsInstallationsPackage Deals Package Deals
AvailableAvailableCall Nico for PricingCall Nico for Pricing778-878-2369778-878-2369
FLOORING
778-862-1515778-862-1515FREE ESTIMATESFREE ESTIMATES
- Top Quality- Top Quality- Aff ordable Prices- Aff ordable Prices- Exterior/Interior- Exterior/Interior- Drywall Repair- Drywall Repair- Years of - Years of
Experience Experience- WCB Covered- WCB Covered
DN PaintingDN PaintingPAINTING
Trimming • Pruning • Topping • Clean-up • Garbage Removal • Pressure Washing
GARDENINGFlower Beds • Allan Blocks
Bark Mulch • River Lava Rock LAWN CARE
Weeding • New Turf • Fertilizing • Moss Control • Power Raking • Aeration
FENCINGFree Estimate
20 years experience inMaple Ridge/Pitt Meadows
604.230.1634 or 604.467.3724
S. H. LANDSCAPINGTREE SERVICES
LANDSCAPINGCLEANING SERVICES
“We will improve your Corporate & Residential image”
www.intexjanitorial.com Tel: 604-786-3466
• Offi ce Cleaning • Janitorial • Pressure Washing • Window Cleaning
Services:
POWER WASHING
WINDOW & ROOF CLEANING
WorkSafeBC insured
Gutters cleaned & repaired
www.expertpowerwashing.com
Mike 604.961.1280
For all your Outdoor ProjectsCall for a quote
778-246-2404
• Wood or Chain Link Fencing• Storage Sheds• Gazebos and Arbors• Custom Decks
FENCING
www.paintspecial.com778-322-2378 Lower Mainland
604-996-8128 Fraser Valley
Running this ad for over 12years
PAINT SPECIAL3 rooms for $299
2 coats of any colour(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale High Performance paint.
NO PAYMENT until Job is completed. Ask us about our
Laminate Flooring
PAINTING
- - Residential & Residential & CommercialCommercial
- - Garden Design, Garden Design, Installation & RepairInstallation & Repair
- - Grass & Sod Grass & Sod InstallationInstallation
- - Planting Beds & Planting Beds & ContainersContainers
- - Lawn & Garden CareLawn & Garden Care- - Irrigation SystemsIrrigation Systems- - Pruning & HedgingPruning & Hedging- - Tree RemovalTree Removal- - Seasonal Seasonal
Maintenance Maintenance & Cleanup& Cleanup
Del greenLandscaping
Michael Mihail15 YEARS HORTICULTURE EXPERIENCEYour garden in our hands will look like paradise!
OFFICE: 778-668-5110DIRECT: 604-446-3903EMAIL: [email protected]
LANDSCAPING
OFFICESPACEFORRENT
TWO INDIVIDUAL OFFICES• 10’ X 8.5’ available• Includes heat, A/C & window
All offi ces on second fl oor, downtown Maple Ridge location, new and clean with one shared washroom on the fl oor.One year minimum lease subject to credit and criminal check.
Contact Jim at 604-476-2720
Ask about our$99
ROOM SPECIAL
CALL TODAY! 604-803-5041www.benchmarkpainting.ca
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
300 LANDSCAPING
D Garden Blend SoilD Lawn Blend SoilD Custom Blends avail.D Composted Mushroom Manure NO Wood byproducts used
When QUALITY Mattersall soils are tested for Optimum
growing requirements.
17607 Ford RoadPitt Meadows
PICK-UP ...... or .... DELIVERY
604-465-3189
317 MISC SERVICES
✶Dump Site Now Open✶SBroken Concrete RocksS
$25.00 Per Metric TonSMud - Dirt - Sod - ClayS
$25.00 Per Metric TonGrassSBranchesSLeavesSWeeds
$64.00 Per TonMeadows Landscape Supply
604-465-1315
320 MOVING & STORAGE
MIRACLE MOVING Licensed - Bonded - Fully Equip. Residential Commercial, 1-3 MenLocal & Long Distance Moves
Start $45/hr ~ All size trucks Free estimate/Senior Discount
www.miraclemoving.ca604 - 720 - 2009
~We accept Visa & Mastercard~
AFFORDABLE MOVINGwww.affordablemoversbc.com
From $45/Hr1, 3, 5, 7 & 10 Ton Trucks
Licensed ~ Reliable ~ 1 to 3 MenFree Estimate/Senior DiscountResidential~Commercial~PianosLOCAL & LONG DISTANCE
604-537-4140ABE MOVING & Delivery
& Rubbish Removal$30/hr. per Person • 24/7
604-999-6020
1PRO MOVING & SHIPPINGAcross the street - across the world
Real Professionals, Reas. Rates. Best in every way! 604-721-4555.
329 PAINTING & DECORATING
www.paintspecial.com 778-322-2378 Lower Mainland
604-996-8128 Fraser ValleyRunning this ad for over 12yrs
PAINT SPECIAL3 rooms for $299
2 coats any colour(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price inclsCloverdale High Performance paint.NO PAYMENT until Job is
completed. Ask us about ourLaminate Flooring.
.CAN PRO Paint and Drywall. 3 Rooms $250. 604-7717052
338 PLUMBING
A Gas Fitter ✭ PlumberFurnaces, Boilers, Hot Water
Heating, Hotwater Tanks, Drain/Duct Cleaning
& Plumbing Jobs.
✭ 604-312-7674 ✭✭ 604-507-4606 ✭
Full Service Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, reliable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area.1-800-573-2928
329 PAINTING & DECORATING
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
338 PLUMBING
FIXIT PLUMBING & HEATINGH/W Tanks, Reno’s, Boilers, Furn’s. Drain Cleaning. Ins. 604-380-2932
356 RUBBISH REMOVAL
JUNK REMOVAL By RECYCLE-IT!604.587.5865www.recycleitcanada.ca
mikes hauling 604-516-9237
PETS
454 EQUESTRIAN
CEDAR HOGFUEL
SPECIAL FALL PRICESSawdust Available
Augustine Soil & Mulch Ltd.Pitt Meadows, BC
604-465-5193, 604-465-5197www.augustinesoilandmulch.com
456 FEED & HAY
TIMOTHY hay. $15.00 per bale. 60 lb. bales. Pitt Meadows. 604 505 4087
477 PETS
CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866
MERCHANDISE FOR SALE
509 AUCTIONS
Massive RestaurantEquipment Auction
March 12th @ 10amwww.KwikAuctions.com
7305 Meadow Avenue, Burnaby, BC - Shipping/Storage Available
New Equipment Liquidation –Structural Concepts, True, Delfi eld Refrigeration, Imperial, Royal,Prime, US Ranges, S.S. sinks, tables, shelvings, carts, janitorial, bakery, packaging, matching plates, refurbished equipment, bottling line, soft serves, Hobart mixers & dishwashers, back bars, rotary glass washers, cutlery.
560 MISC. FOR SALEPOLE BARNS, Shops, steel build-ings metal clad or fabric clad.Complete supply and installation. Call John at 403-998-7907; [email protected]
REFORESTATION NURSERY SEEDLINGS of hardy trees, shrubs, & berries for shelterbelts or land-scaping. Spruce & Pine from $0.99/tree. Free Shipping. Re-placement guarantee. 1-866-873-3846 or www.treetime.ca
SAWMILLS from only $4,397 - MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD:www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.
329 PAINTING & DECORATING
MERCHANDISE FOR SALE
563 MISC. WANTED
Have Unwanted Firearms?Have unwanted or inherited fi rearms in your possession?Don’t know how to dispose of them safely and legally?Contact Wanstalls and we will come and pick them up and pay you fair value for them.Wanstalls has been proudly serving the Lower Mainland fi rearms community since 1973.We are a government licensed fi rearms business with fully certifi ed verifi ers, armorers and appraisers.
Call today to set up anappointment 604-467-9232 Wanstalls Tactical & Sporting Arms
REAL ESTATE
625 FOR SALE BY OWNER
ARCHITECTURAL VIEW HOMEin Victoria, 180 deg. view, 3600 sqft 4 Bdrm, 3 bath on 1/2 acre.$797,000. Call: 250-474-1984
633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS
New SRI Manufactured homesSingles $74,900. Doubles $99,900.
PARK SPACES AVAILABLEREPOSSESSIONS 1974-2010
www.glenbrookhomes.netChuck 604-830-1960
Trades. Financing. Permits.
REAL ESTATE
639 REAL ESTATE SERVICES
TIRED OF the snow and cold? Instead, relocate to sunny Sunshine Coast, just an hour away from Van-couver. Enjoy a serene family homestead, consisting of 14.88 acres of lush forest, meadows, your own private waterfall, an enormous 3374 sq.ft. workshop, a great family home and a carriage suite above a triple garage and a beautiful in-ground pool. For more information call Susanne Jorgensen, Remax Oceanview 604-885-1398.
RENTALS
706 APARTMENT/CONDO
MAPLE RIDGE
1 & 2 Bdrms available $880/mo & $980/mo
Great LocationQueen Anne Apts.* Renovated Suites *
*Large *Clean *Very QuietIncludes: Heat, Hot Water
and HydroNear Shopping & Amenities.
SENIOR’S DISCOUNT
604-463-2236 604-463-7450
12186-224 St, Maple RidgeCertifi ed Crime Free Buildings
MAPLE RIDGE CENTRAL
2 BDRM APT. $850/mo
Incl heat, h/w. N/P. Avail now. 604-476-6683
PORT COQUITLAM 1 bdrm suite - $775
2 bdrm corner suite - $925
S Includes heat/hot waterS 1.5 blocks to various bus stops S 2 blocks to Safeway/medical S City park across streetS Gated parking and Elevator S Adult oriented building S References required
* SORRY NO DOGS * CALL FOR APPOINTMENT
604-464-3550
RENTALS
709 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL
PORT COQUITLAM 775-3000sqft. Ground fl oor commercial space. Offi ce / retail / service type busi-ness. Facing onto city park. 2 blks from Lougheed/ Shaughnessy inter-section. Call 604-464-3550.
746 ROOMS FOR RENT
$75 OFF 1ST MONTHRooms from $470/mo. Fully Furn,
weekly maid service, cable TV,private bath, on bus route, 5/min
walk to commuter rail.
Haney Motor Hotel22222 Lougheed Hwy.,
Maple RidgeInquire in person between
9am - 3pm or Call 604-467-3944
741 OFFICE/RETAIL
RENTALS
749 STORAGE
Pitt Meadows Marina14179 Reichenback Rd
Moorage RentalYear or Semi-annual
Outdoor Storage Available Starting
At $30/month for Boats, RV’s, Cars, Trucks &
Trailers Launch Ramp with 3 lines and
ample parking for tracks and trailers Onsite Manager
604.465.7713
TRANSPORTATION
845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL
The Scrapper
#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle REMOVAL~~ ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT ~~
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$1998.00Although every precaution is taken, errors in prices and/or specifi cations may occur in print. We reserve the right to correct any such errors. May not be used with any other promotion. Some special items may not be on display but are available via our special order program. *See store for details.
+ SAVE UP TO AN ADDITIONAL
$30000
FACTORY AUTHORIZED
RICHMOND 3 Pc. SET KING STORAGE BED Plus 2 NIGHT STANDS
Reg. $4798.00. SALE PRICE $3698.00
TOTAL SAVINGS $1400.00
TOTAL SAVINGS $588.00
$3398.00$30000Off
Matching pieces available at discount prices
NORWOOD LEATHER POWER RECLINER SOFA Reg. $3498.00. Sale Price $2798.00
$2598.00TOTAL SAVINGS $900.00
SUPERSTYLE FABRIC SOFA Reg. $1698.00. Sale Price $1443.00
Reg. $2586.00. Sale Price $2198.00
1455 United Blvd., Coquitlam, BC
604.522.5144
Store HoursMonday - Thursday 9:30 am - 6:00 pmFriday 9:30 am - 9:00 pmSaturday 9:30 am - 6:00 pmSunday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
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$1333.00 TOTAL SAVINGS $365.00
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SOLID WOOD MONTREAL 7 Pc. DINING SET
Y A L E T O W N I N T E R I O R SS in ce 1989
www.lanestore.ca
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