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Maple Ridge council has tossed the political hot potato of housing the homeless over to the Liberal MLAs for the city.

A majority of council OK’d two resolutions at a hastily called spe-cial meeting Wednesday. One of the resolutions called for the delay

of the entire proposal to convert the Quality Inn motel into a 61-unit sup-portive housing complex until MLAs Doug Bing and Marc Dalton confirm their support for the loca-tion.

Another stipulation was that B.C. Housing prom-ise to answer questions about the design and op-eration of the complex at a soon-to-be held open house.

“As to the current status of our

MLA not yet signing off on that, we do look for-ward to that. I think it is confusing to the public,” Mayor Nicole Read said of Liberal MLA Doug Bing (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows).

Usually you see the pro-vincial government in alignment, she said.

“So we certainly need them strongly at the table.”

Read said she expected to hear Thursday from Bing.

B.C. Housing made the proposal to buy the motel, which had been up for sale, and convert it to a sup-portive housing complex in order to house the 40 people remaining at the temporary shelter at 22239 Lougheed Highway. That closes in three months after getting a three-month extension on its closing date.

Bing said on Tuesday that he per-sonally doesn’t oppose the location, but knows that many people do so and expressed that to the housing ministry.

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If Maple Ridge city council and B.C. Housing weren’t sure about how local residents felt when it comes to changing a motel into long-term housing for the homeless, they know now.

Three petitions or surveys are in the works to sound out how resi-dents and business people feel about the idea.

B.C. Housing announced last week it will buy the Quality Inn on Lougheed Highway and 217th Street for conversion into a 61-unit long-term supportive housing facility.

The intent is to renovate the hotel, selling for about $5.5 million.

Housing now up to MLAsCouncil votes for support on Quality Inn

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When trees fallBrenda Laface inspects the damage to her backyard fence after a tree on city property fell over during a wind storm last week. See story, page 9.See Survey, 10

See Support, 13

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It took years of ama-teur sleuth work, tracking down ob-scure records, check-ing directories and

documents, cajoling and per-suading police to investigate, but now a chapter in Scott Magri’s life has been closed.

It happened March 9 in Port Coquitlam provincial court, where the man who indecently assaulted him 37 years ago entered a guilty plea.

Gilles Joseph Paul Brophy, born March 16, 1952, en-tered the plea to one count of indecent assault on a male. Brophy, from St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, received a nine-month conditional sentence, to be served in the communi-ty, a year’s probation, had to provide a DNA sample and is on the national sex offender registry for 20 years.

“It’s taken a while to pro-cess, right?” said Magri, a Pitt

Meadows resident.“He had to give his DNA,

so that’s a good thing. If we didn’t do all this work, that wouldn’t have happened.

“He never would have been on the offender’s list, so that would have never happened.”

Magri was only 10 years old when the incident happened in 1979 in a Pitt Meadows trailer court.

While Magri went on to live a tumultuous life, his mother Carol Magri didn’t know what happened until 2012, when Scott wrote about it in his book Lessons: Crimes, Games and Pain.

Since then, it’s been an or-deal for both as they started an investigation that would go in fits and starts with piec-es slowly falling into place, all the while trying to get the po-lice on side to follow the case.

He didn’t know the man’s name and only later learned that he went by the name of Joe, but that was enough to start the hunt.

“No prison record either,

that’s why he was hard to find,” Scott explains.

After reading the book, Carol talked to her son.

“I did not want to push him,” she said.

But the search began, a quest that would take four years, until finally in Decem-ber 2014, Scott identified the suspect from a series of pho-tos that police showed him.

“As soon as he saw him, he knew,” said Carol.

She has kept meticulous records about the case, all neatly collated into a binder with photocopies of sentence orders, probation orders, police correspondence and news clippings.

“You think, as a mom, you can protect your child. These things happen and you can’t.”

She doesn’t forgive Brophy, she added. “He took Scott’s life away.”

Brophy is walking free, she

says.“He got nothing, really.”Searching through her cor-

respondence, she comes to a selection of photos of Scott from when he was a kid and holds it up.

“This is who he took away from me, my little guy,” Carol says.

She still wants to get a tran-script of the case so she has a complete record.

During their quest, Scott and Carol kept feeding bits and pieces of information to the Ridge Meadows RCMP and wrote a letter to the com-missioner of the RCMP, ask-ing police to step up their work. Locally, Const. Kim Granneman did the legwork.

“She worked her butt off and she said this is a case she’ll never forget.”

Hats off to her, Scott added later.

Anything else that’s thrown on her desk will be a piece of cake, she told him.

With the case in court, Scott also had a chance to

talk about what happened.“I didn’t think it had that

big a [effect] on me,” he said.But after talking to victim

services, it became apparent how his past affected his fu-ture life, such as his drug use to heal the pain.

His book details Scott’s “painful life of drugs, crime and physical brutality.”

Most of the book was writ-ten under the influence of oxycontin and describes a never-ending roller coaster of escapades, fights and hair-raising life experiences.

He decided to start writing the book after his third sui-cide attempt.

“This book was designed so that when you have a bad day, you can open the book to any page and find something that happened to me. It will remind you that you are not alone,” he says in the forward.

Some people have easy lives, some don’t.

It’s amazing how many oth-er people are going through the same thing, he added.

A memory that won’t go awayColleen Flanagan/THE NEWS

Carol Magri holds up pictures of her son Scott from his youth. He was assaulted by a man when they lived at a trailer park in Pitt Meadows in 1979. Last week that man was given a nine-month conditional sentence for the offence.

THE NEWS/filesScott Magri, who has been active in trying to rejuvenate the Katzie Slough, details his experiences in a book.

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Almost half a year after the surprise federal Lib-eral win, the MP for Pitt-Meadows-Maple Ridge now has a place to call home.

Dan Ruimy’s office is about as central as you could get when it comes to the latter community.

His new office is on

Lougheed Highway, just west of 224th Street in downtown Maple Ridge.

Until now, he’s been us-ing his coffee shop, just a few blocks east, as a base of operations for helping constituents.

“That’s where people have been finding me,” Ruimy said.

So far he’s talked to or helped about 1,000 people with employment

insurance, disability in-come, immigration and even electoral reform, since his surprise win over Conservative Mike Murray and NDP can-didate Bob D’Eith in the Oct. 19 election.

The new office has space for a large table with room for about 15 people so that Ruimy can host gatherings on issues.

Next week, he’s back in Ottawa as the Liberals present their first budget on Tuesday.

He’s been trying to convey local concerns to ministers, such as the possible expiry of sub-sidies to co-op housing, which could make more people homeless

Ruimy is also getting involved in local issues and attended a recent Maple Ridge council meeting that dealt with supportive housing and homelessness.

“I asked to be part of it. Right from the election I said I would be involved.”

Ruimy says that just by being involved in the is-sues can possibly lead to solutions.

“What I do is look for opportunities,” he said.

“My role is to support council. I don’t want to be the guy bystanding on the side.”

He sympathized with council’s predicament of trying to deal with the issues of homeless-ness and drug addiction and the selection of the Quality Inn as location for a long-term sup-portive complex.

“I don’t think we have a lot of options avail-able.”

It takes a lot of parties to come to the table, on such an issue, he added.

MP opens downtown officeColleen Flanagan/THE NEWS

Liberal MP Dan Ruimy in his new office on Lougheed Highway, near 224th Street.

Grand openingRuimy’s office is located at 22369 Lougheed Hwy. Its grand opening is Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Safety and security incidents have soared at most B.C.’s prisons over the last few years, according to newly released statistics for 2014 from B.C. Corrections.

The biggest one-year increase was at Surrey Pretrial Centre, where the number of incidents tripled to more than 900 in 2014.

The long-term trend has been steadily up at several other jails.

Safety incidents have nearly doubled by 2014 from five years earlier in Vancouver Island Re-gional Correctional Centre, North Fraser Pretrial and Ka-mloops Regional Correctional Centre.

Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge re-corded more than three times as many incidents – nearly 700 by 2014 compared to less than 200 in 2009.

Fraser Regional Correctional Centre in Maple Ridge had near-ly 1,100 incidents in 2014 and recorded the largest numbers of any sites in B.C. in each of the six years.

NDP MLA David Eby said the statistics he requested are about a year overdue and undercut government claims prison vio-lence was declining.

“I’m incredibly concerned that we were told that violence was trending down when their own numbers show it’s trending up and dramatically up,” he said.

Eby said a staff shortage in B.C. prisons is a probable factor.

“When prisons are under-staffed by guards that means things are less safe for both staff and prisoners,” Eby said.

“You don’t have anybody screaming about rival gang members being put in the same place at the same time. You don’t have anybody just physically present to encourage everybody to be on their best behaviour.”

He also cited the overcrowding of prisons from the practice of double-bunking.

“When you have two or three

people in a cell as opposed to a single person in a cell that leads to an increase in violence as well.”

B.C. government officials say the statistics include not just vio-lence but other safety and secu-rity incidents, including inmate illness, threats and contraband.

“B.C. Corrections is housing more inmates with gang affilia-tions and mental health issues,” Public Safety Minister Mike Morris said. “The potential for violence is an unfortunate real-ity.”

Once the new Okanagan Cor-rectional Centre is completed later this year near Oliver, he said, the B.C. Corrections will have added nearly 800 cells since 2008.

Morris said 440 more correc-tions staff have been added since 2007 and more than 240 new full-time correctional officers will be added for the Okanagan jail.

There were four deaths in B.C. correctional facilities in 2015 – three at Kamloops and one in Surrey – and a total of 26 deaths since 2009.

Stats point to rise in B.C. prison violence

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“Hatch Match’r Fly and Tackle in Maple Ridge is working with B.C. Hydro to mini-mize death to salmon fry due to high water fluctuations. If you encounter large num-bers of dead salmon fry, please take pictures and note locations.”

Store owner Randy Morgan posted the notice after Alouette

River fishermen told him of stranded fish. “Hydro’s ramping down the water in the

reservoir too fast,” says Morgan. “Fry are trapped on lawns, behind logs, in puddles in the bush. It was bad last year, too. Hydro wants the guys to take pictures, and give locations.”

“It’s mostly reservoir management,” Rob Harrison of B.C. Hydro explained. “Not so much when the gates are open and closed, but to what extent – the duration. In the last week, it’s in response to high volumes in the reservoir. That’s issue one, and the fish caught in the pools. People are opening and closing the flow too fast. They have a protocol for a certain speed,” but “the guy might be new.”

If there was a spill, DFO’s Dan Sneep told me, “I’d like to find out what impact Hydro observed. They have to salvage fish

stranded. If they haven’t done that, we have to have an appropriate response.”

“Typically,” Harrison told me, “there’s a salvage crew that goes to sites on the river, removes the fish and puts them back. The next time we plan to open a gate, we’d notify Randy about a discharge and he’d have people on the river to keep their eyes open for an estimate of fish and species and loca-tions. We want to know of the other areas because this will happen again and we want to reduce that as much as possible.”

Arthur Olesiak, who fishes steelhead, works for Morgan. He says he’s never seen Hydro scooping up stranded fry, but knows where they can find them.

“I’ve seen lots near Egan’s Hole near Da-vidson Pool, and Glacier Hole above 240th, and on the grass in people’s yards on Fern Crescent.”

Richard Bray says he’s fished every morn-ing for 40 years without seeing salvage crews.

“I’m in a group of guys who call ourselves ‘The River Stewards.’ We report anything we see wrong right away. I walk the low corners around 240th and 232nd streets. I’m seeing hundreds in puddles in the bushes. Some had their yoke sacs on them.

“There was a time I’d get 80 steelhead a season; this year, 10. We’re losing our little jewel of a river.”

It’ll take the joint effort of Maple Ridge and Hydro to prevent that.

ARMS past president, Geoff Clayton: “No,

I’ve never heard of Hydro’s salvage crew.” He says Silverdale has changed “from a rain forest to a concrete jungle.”

Add climate change and more rain water into storm drains than anticipated when they were built, and excess water from the reservoir tips the scale against fry. It’s time for the city and Hydro to solve the problem collaboratively.

Harrison is receptive to this idea. “I’m not sure how we could alter the

operations,” he says, “but, we could benefit from discussion. I’ll give Rod Stott a call.”

Stott, an environmental officer with the city, is ready.”

We can plan and manage for smarter water uses – B.C. Hydro water use plans, water conservation strategies, conservation, impact from urban development ... to offset impacts from climate change.”

ARMS manager,Greta Borick Cunning-ham agrees.

“The amount of run-off is something the city and Hydro should consider working on together. ARMS could create a Facebook web page to educate the public to keep storm grates clear so flooding is reduced.”

Even then, the problems of Alouette salmon won’t be over. ARMS just learned Hydro will no longer fund its 10-year hatchery program to reintroduce sockeye to Alouette Lake.

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Moving ahead Ingrid Rice

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Maple Ridge council, at a special meeting on short notice Wednesday, built itself a way out of the contro-versy boiling over the proposed purchase of the Qual-ity Inn for supportive housing.

Council voted to “pause” the project, which requires city rezoning approval, until B.C. Housing comes for-ward with a date for a public meeting and specific de-tails about the housing project.

A second condition, which passed 4-3, was that local MLAs Doug Bing and Marc Dalton work with their own Liberal government and support the project. Neither was present at the special meeting, although Liberal MP Dan Ruimy was, as were no less than four members of the previous council.

Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read has accused Bing, specifically, of not supporting the housing project. He has not publicly done so, although he said on Tuesday that he’s not opposed to it.

That’s not the same.But what does it matter the MLAs’ stance if B.C.

Housing is already on side and offering money, and an operator, to help the city continue its efforts to help those who are most difficult to house?

The real difficulty is coping with the backlash and repercussions of taking one of only two motels in the city and threatening the jobs of hundreds of workers in the area, not to mention angering nearby residents.

Read deflected many questions from the public on Wednesday and directed them at B.C. Housing. But if the city is confident enough to move forward with this project, council and staff must have considered most of what residents are asking and, therefore, should be able to respond to them in some form.

It would be neglectful otherwise. What the mayor is doing is what she is often accused

of, and that is not being transparent.Gordy Robson revealed at the meeting that during

in-camera discussions at one time a “barge” was con-sidered for the next stage of housing for those at the temporary shelter. Read did acknowledge a different housing approach, as well, called scattering.

But such options are not being presented. An expla-nation might help, as both sound more appealing than the present suggestion.

We understand there are no easy answers here, that the urgency is tied to funding, and that fear exists.

Nobody wants the supportive housing project near them.

Reopening Riverview is everyone’s fallback solution, except for the provincial government.

And the health region is woefully underserved with beds to help those who occupy homeless shelters – the mentally ill and addicted.

Some municipalities in the region, just as some provinces, don’t want to take on this problem.

If Maple Ridge council is willing to do so, then it needs to commit and move ahead, not waffle over election promises or getting re-elected, no matter who’s sitting in the gallery, or not.

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Along the FraserJack Emberly


Editor, The News:Re: Funding for temporary

homeless shelter in Maple Ridge extended (The News, March 11).

I am writing this as a con-cerned taxpayer of Maple Ridge.

I don’t think I have to explain how we find ourselves in this situation.

From Cliff Avenue tent city to the supposedly temporary shel-ter at the old Sleep Shop, it has been a spiral straight down hill.

Now we are facing an even bigger challenge: 61 rooms that B.C. Housing is insisting will be low barrier housing.

Minister Rich Coleman obvi-ously does not know what he is talking about. Low barrier does not work.

It would appear to be well supported by our mayor and council. That confuses me. How could they possibly sup-port this? It is ruining our town. They have all enabled the drug addicts to continue their un-healthy lifestyle.

We do not want to live with this way of life. The addicts have

chose their life and the way they wish to live it, but that does not mean we must enable them to do it.

For some strange reason, our MLA, Doug Bing, seems to think it is OK to let our mayor eat her words about her fool-ish statement about fixing the homeless situation.

Whatever intentions of our mayor, we have learned since October that low barrier hous-ing does not work.

We are now faced with Cole-man and B.C. Housing saying it is the only housing they are offering.

B.C. Housing should be help-ing low income, not low barrier housing.

I have to question the reason-ing behind this housing. Why are we taking the responsibility for the mentally ill and the drug entrenched people?

This issue is provincial. Build facilities for them. They

need professional help, not en-abling to the point of multiple overdoses per day.

This is a dire situation. We are being forced to accept this and

it is not something we can ac-cept.

There will be a rally this Sat-urday March 19, 11 a.m. at the Quality Inn.

Hopefully our mayor will come forward and help us save our town.

Premier Christy Clark ap-pears to have placed mental is-sues into housing issues.

A cop out on all their parts.Pamela McDonagh

Maple Ridge

‘Unacceptable’Editor, The News:Re: Funding for temporary

homeless shelter in Maple Ridge extended (The News, March 11).

This suggestion is totally un-acceptable.

Many of us who are in close proximity to the previous Cliff Avenue situation are well aware of the issues of property loss and other neighborhood issues that this escalating situation has caused over the past years and are no longer sympathetic to the plight of these people.

Their activity and presence have done nothing to help their situation and the enabling of the continuing drug abuse by the various so-called supportive means has only invited further influx of more individuals who care not for regulation, disci-plined behavior or contribute to the community.

There is no accountability to anyone, it seems, and this solu-tion will do nothing but exacer-bate the previous ugly situation in the neighborhood, not to mention the poor businesses that are trying to operate in the immediate area. This will kill business, devalue property, and cause undue stress similar to what happened last summer.

The idea of a taxpayer-funded drug house will travel fast and far, believe me.

Just so you know, as long-time taxpayers in this commu-nity and the province, we get more and more disappointed in the authorities’ approach to dealing with this ridiculous, ongoing situation.

Ron and Catherine Thomey

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‘We can do better’Heather Crum · Re: ‘Quality Inn is not the right place’. This is so unfortunate. The owner and staff at The Pantry are wonderful com-munity members. I know of many seniors who eat at The Pantry every day and they will surely miss the kind, friendly service and good food they depend on. It is sad that one vulnerable segment of our population will suffer to meet the needs of another vulnerable segment. Surely there must be a better option. As a community we can do better.• Cristie Rauer · Re: ‘Quality Inn is not the right place’. Defiantly the wrong place to set up. Hotels in our town bring movie business to our town and The Pantry has been a staple for my grandparents to go to every month for breakfast and if the hotel is made into a shelter they don’t plan to go anymore because it isn’t safe ...• Glenda Stark-Serena · Re: ‘Quality Inn is not the right place’. The people eating at your restaurant have family or friends that are probably in need of some kind of help, whether it is addiction or not. I get it, they just don’t want to have to see it or think about it, especially when they’re eating.• Cheryl Linden Sherman · Re: ‘Quality Inn is not the right place’. Nobody has a problem with the homeless being helped in our community. What we do have a problem with is the allowance of open drug use (needle-riddled playgrounds and streets) and theft from our homes and local busi-nesses (they aren’t even arrested for crimes for the most part) . If they were to use the term drug-addicted criminals instead of homeless people, you wouldn’t be so quick to judge the people of Maple Ridge.• Tim Graham · Re: ‘Quality Inn is not the right place’. It’s not a case of NIMBY-ism, it’s simply the wrong place. It’s in the middle of a residential area. Let’s be honest, anywhere you put a place like this is going to cause an increase of B&E crimes. It really needs to be put in an industrial area ...

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Brenda Laface is fuming red in the face.

During one of the wind storms last week, a cherry blossom tree along a thoroughfare connect-ing 203rd Street to Hammond Road crashed into her backyard, crushing her fence.

Laface called the Maple Ridge operations department, expect-ing the city to clean up the mess.

The tree was, after all, on city property, and Laface had com-plained about it in the past.

“Last October we had a huge wind storm and trees were down all over Maple Ridge,” said La-face.

“I phoned the city and I said there’s a dead tree and it needs to come down before the next wind storm because it is going to end up either on my roof or my backyard or, worse yet, on the power lines.”

That phone call took place on Oct. 5, and on Oct. 13 a city worker came out, assessed the tree and cut off a damaged por-tion.

“Someone came and cut down the standing dead part and left the tree. A branch that was growing out of the stump, out of a rotten stump. Why they left it, I don’t know,” said Laface.

Now she is being told that it is city policy not to clean up trees that fall into people’s backyards.

“I need the city to come and deal with it. It was their tree. It should have been cut down be-fore,” said Laface.

Russ Carmichael, director of engineering operations for the City of Maple Ridge, said once a tree lands on private property, it is up to the property owner to deal with it because of the insur-ance that’s involved.

“We do not have authority to go on private property except for life safety issues,” Carmichael said.

Typically, a home owner should contact their insurance company, which would deal with the insurance company for the city. Homeowners can also file a claim in writing to the

city for the damages and liabil-ity would be determined by the facts of the case.

This could take as little as a month or as long as two, de-pending on how straightforward the case is.

“We advise people to get somebody, get your insurance company involved right away to mitigate the damage,” said Car-michael.

“Then this would be part of the claim, the cost of repairing the fence or removing the tree and that sort of thing,” he continued.

In the case of the last wind storm on March 10, there were 87 incidents that city workers had to assess, many that involved trees. They are still reviewing 14

of those cases.Carmichael said the city is

aware of the conditions of the trees along that walkway.

“In this case, clearly the home-owner was correct in that the tree may come down and it did. We did do an assessment when we were asked and the assess-ment deemed that it was healthy. Unfortunately, the wind was strong enough to bring it down.”

Laface’s deductible is $1,000, and by making a claim she will lose her claim free discount.

“I’m not making the claim with my insurance company. I’m not paying $1000 for that to happen. Because it’s the city’s responsibilty, in my view,” said Laface.

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B.C. Housing would then move in the 40 people at the temporary homeless shelter who haven’t been able to find a place to live.

The temporary homeless shelter was only supposed to be open from October to March to allow the city to clear out the Cliff Avenue homeless camp. That now will stay open another three months, with B.C. Housing paying another $270,000 in costs to allow that to hap-pen, and for Quality Inn the motel to be renovated.

The latest poll is an e-mail survey by the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Chamber of Commerce, asking both members and non-mem-bers if they favour the pur-chase and conversion of the Quality Inn for long-term housing, and if they want the chamber to speak up about the issue?

The survey was only out for a few days and already a third of the membership has responded, said cham-ber president Mike Morden.

The chamber executive decided to send the survey after hearing concerns from businesses.

People on the whole are upset and didn’t feel they’ve been consulted, said Mor-

den who, individually, has also launched his own on-line petition against the project.

People are worried about the effect on business and that there won’t be enough support or services for the people who’ll be living there, said the former coun-cillor and mayoral candi-date

Already in the area, “there is quite a bit of crime.”

Morden also raised the question of putting such a facility on the main road into Maple Ridge.

“We’ve already had several people killed on Lougheed Highway.”

That danger could be heightened if people suf-fering from addictions live next to a busy and fast part of the road, he added.

As more responses come in, the chamber will consid-er the results, then prepare a response to Maple Ridge council.

So far, 803 people have signed Morden’s own Ac-tion Maple Ridge online petition, opposing the pur-chase of the motel for long-term housing.

“I cannot think of a worse location for a facility like this. On an extremely busy highway, across from a day-care, neighbouring success-ful family businesses, and

backing on to a residential area. What are they think-ing?” Morden said.

“I can’t believe our mayor and majority of councilors voted to support this B.C. Housing proposal,” writes Bruce McLaren on the Change.org petition page.

Morden, who ran for the mayor’s chair in the No-vember 2014 civic elec-tions, says his opposition to the shelter is not politically based and that he’s con-cerned about the commu-nity.

Most politicians don’t want to have to take sides on the issue, he added.

“My phone has not stopped ringing.”

He previously said the he wants council to get more input and reconsider the lo-cation, which is adjoined to a popular family restaurant.

Long-time server at The Pantry restaurant Heather Hopp says there are now 500 names on her petition opposing the project.

“It’s crazy. I’m proud of our community for sup-porting us. People are com-ing in off the street just to sign the petition.”

A rally against the hous-ing project has been sched-uled for Saturday at 11 a.m. outside the Quality Inn.

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“I’m not personally. I’ve had lots of citizens contact me,” he said.

“I’m just reflecting what our citizens are telling me.”

However, “right now, this is the best site.”

City chief administra-tor Ted Swabey, however, said that Bing is not yet committed to supporting the project in that loca-tion.

The vote on the resolu-tions wasn’t unanimous. Coun. Corisa Bell voted against both motions because she opposes the project. She was alone in opposing the first mo-tion of ensuring informa-tion about the complex is provided at a future open house held by B.C. Hous-ing.

But Couns. Bob Masse and Craig Speirs also op-posed the second motion that was attempting to in-volve the MLAs.

Speirs said he doesn’t like the location, but that there aren’t many options.

Turning the motel into a housing complex puts the future of the popular Pan-try Restaurant next door in doubt.

Two petitions have been created opposing the housing project.

Coun. Tyler Shymkiw argued for delaying it.

“To me, if the govern-ment MLA doesn’t have confidence in the minis-ter’s own proposed solu-tions, I find it raises very serious concerns for the community. And in that context, I don’t see how we can proceed at this time.”

The two resolutions were the latest volley in a tennis match between the city and the province over the issue.

On Monday, city coun-cil passed a motion call-ing for Housing Minister Rich Coleman to work with Maple Ridge-PItt Meadows MLA Bing or Maple Ridge-Mission MLA Marc Dalton to af-firm that the Quality Inn is the best place for a sup-portive housing project, and to name an alterna-tive if that wasn’t the case.

Coleman returned that Tuesday with a letter af-firming the location of the Quality Inn as a sup-portive housing complex, but not mentioning Bing or Dalton.

Coleman also reiterated a commitment to build another purpose-built transition housing com-plex elsewhere in Maple Ridge.“Homelessness is a complex issue and re-quires all of us to work

together,” Coleman said.Bell pointed out that the

new Maple Ridge coun-cil, in its first year, could have begun talking about shelters and housing and what it wanted for the city.

“In that time, simply didn’t have those conver-sations.”

She wanted to approach the issue on a regional ba-sis, involving the Lower Mainland Local Govern-ment Association.

“I think this is a Band-Aid solution.”

Masse said he’d like a regional solution, but that takes time.

Speirs doesn’t like the location for the long-term housing project, but said there weren’t many op-tions.

“If they come here and see it as a place of refuge, that’s not the worst thing that can happen.”

The meeting drew a crowd that filled up three-quarters of the council chambers, including four former members of Ma-ple Ridge council, Judy Dueck, Cheryl Ashlie, constituency assistant to Doug Bing, former mayor Ernie Daykin and former mayoral candidate and councillor Mike Morden.

“My question is around the notice to the public of this meeting,” said Dueck.

She only found out at 5 p.m. about the meeting that started at 6 p.m.

The meeting was posted on the city’s Facebook page, but there was no

media release on the home page of the city’s website telling the public of the meeting, although it was listed under a tab labelled meetings.

Dueck said that long-term businesses around the motel are worried about it turning into a sup-portive housing complex.

“I think what you’re hearing is the location and the model.” Is it a low-barrier shelter or is it housing? Dueck asked.

Read said it is support-ive housing. However, it’s also up to B.C. Housing to clarify how it will operate.

Coun. Gordy Robson said whatever council does should help the people in the shelter who have mental illness and drug addiction.

“I don’t feel it’s good for our community.”

Darryl Mathieson, owner of the Montessori

Beginnings PreSchool and Childcare, across the Lougheed Highway from the motel, said parents have told him they’ll take their kids out of the school if the motel is turned into housing.

If students leave, he’d have to close the pre-school, at a loss of 200 pre-school spaces. “We haven’t been consulted at all,” he said.

B.C. Housing will host a public meeting on March 29 with RainCity Housing.

This model of hous-ing works because it ad-dresses the root causes of homelessness, Coleman said Thursday, after the special meeting.

“There will be full 24/7 staffing and support ser-vices, as well as a partner-ship with Fraser Health to ensure the Quality Inn is a success.”

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Standing at my patio’s sliding glass door a couple weeks ago, I was stunned to see the cutest little squirrel rappel up

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And indeed he was.It turns out there was a gap where one of the

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I immediately remembered a television commercial of a mother typically calling at a bad time – during a spy’s gun fight and helicopter escape – to say, ‘The squirrels are in the attic again and your father says this time it’s personal.’

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With some feeling of success and conquer, I got dressed and went up the ladder to see the little varmint trying to chew his way out of my trusty trap.

Then I placed him in the truck and drove him over the bridge, to a lush forest, and used my fireplace poker to open the trap and watch it scurry into the woods.

I replaced the trap on the roof, but there has been no activity for more than a week.

So the fascia-board gap will be filled this weekend.

Feeling some sense of accomplishment, I didn’t wait for mom’s call to tell her about it.

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– Kevin Gillies is a freelance writer for Black Press.

When encountering a squirrel

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The 2015/16 season has been one of suc-cess and growth for the Ridge Mead-ows Minor Hockey Association, with

A and C division teams finding their way to league titles and playoff championship rounds, in addition to individual achievements.

“RMMHA invested towards its membership three seasons ago with the hiring of James Eccles as director of hockey development, and the ex-ecutive on the board built a new direction,” said Blaine Hallman, vice-president of A hockey.

“Mr. Eccles and a very talented development team have delivered an elite program for all ages.”

Hallman said the future is particularly bright in the atom division, where the players have benefited from opportunities provided by a dedicated parental group, along with develop-ment strategies and concepts that the associa-tion values.

“The young athletes play a high octane brand of hockey in its truest form,” Hallman added.

And it showed on the ice.The atom A2 team, coached by Andy Wing-

rove, won the Pacific Coast Tier 3 league banner and the Final Four playoff title.

The atom A1 team, coached by Bayne Ryshak, participated in Pacific Coast Tier 1 Final Four.

In peewee, the Ridge A4 team, coached by Josh Lowe, won the Pacific Coast North Presi-

dent Series banner.In bantam, the Ridge A2 team, coached

by Eric Arksey, won the Pacific Coast Flight 3 league banner, as well as the Tier 2 President Se-

ries title. The A3 Rustlers, coached by Bruce Vasarhely,

won the Pacific Coast President Series banner for Tier 3.

And the A4 team, coached by Ryan Douglas, made a Final Four appearance.

The midget A1 team, coached by Spence Le-van, also made a Final Four appearance.

The Ridge juvenile A1 team, coached by Derek Ferguson, advanced to the Final Four and this weekend is hosting the provincial champion-ship.

Individually at the A level, Kyle Henrikson, Colton Beard , Dylan Grier and Conner Liver-sidge participated in the recent midget A schol-arship tournament based on strong academics, limited penalty minutes and high skill level.

Bantam A2 goalie Madison Fox participated in the B.C. Cup under-16 identification camp.

Midget A1 goalie Matt Trulsen scored a goal against Hollyburn in January at Cam Neely Arena.

At the Hockey 1-4 levels, cross-ice games were introduced in the second and third years with positive results.

“It was exciting for athletes and spectators, as the small area games allow all athletes to be engaged at all times, which is great for devel-opment,” said Derek Gullmes, president of C hockey.

The atom C division was also strong this sea-son, with Ridge teams occupying eight of the top nine spots.

Ridge teams played one another in the top two playoff groups, with C7 and C6 winning ban-ners.

“Lots of talent here,” Gullmes said.In pee wee C, Ridge teams were represented in

three of four championship games.And in midget, Ridge C3 played for its group

championship, while juvenile C2 won its group championship playoff banner.

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The popularity of lacrosse has not yet led to a registration cap for the box game, although that is a possibility for the next field season. But both require more space to play.

“No official ‘capping’ yet, but we are getting close,” said Ron Williams, president of the Ridge Meadows Minor Lacrosse Association.

“Our growth is crazy,” he added. “We are the largest field and box club in the province.”

And one of the more successful.The Burrards won one gold medals and

two silver and three bronze at the 2016 B.C. field lacrosse championships.

At the 2015 provincial box lacrosse cham-pionships, the Burrards won four gold and three silvers.

As well, the association boasts close to 20 players representing Team B.C. programs in both box and field.

“Credit goes to the players and coaches,” Wil-liams said.

But they need some help.Box lacrosse has 688 registered players this

season: 37 teams (27 boys, 10 girls). That total is up from 620 last season and 535 in 2014.

The association, however, does not have enough outdoor boxes to run tryouts.

Williams said other municipalities, such as Coquitlam, Port Moody and Langley, have cov-ered boxes that are available year-round and al-low for all-weather play.

“We have nothing like that here,” he said.“Once we are up and running, our arenas are

adequate for our programs. We have enough room. We would like more subsidized time, though.”

He said rental rates, especially in Pitt Mead-ows, are high. Nustadia charges close to $70 hour at Pitt Meadows Arenas, while the city rents Cam Neely Arena at Planet Ice in Maple Ridge to the association for about $48.

Williams said other municipalities pay closer to $30 for floor time, which is the biggest cost to the local club and the reason its fees are among the more expensive.

For field lacrosse, Williams said the associa-tion may have to cap registration this coming season.

It had 342 players and 17 teams this past sea-

son, and two home game slots on turf. Once the weather worsened and grass fields were closed, the association had just two or three teams playing on home turf each weekend, and 14 or 15 on the road.

“The league has ordered us to find more turf time,” Williams said. “As well, we have to have four teams practice on one field, at all times.”

That is a disadvantage to teams because they don’t have space to run important drills.

He said the association struggles to get teams one to two practices a week.

“All of our opponents receive two practices.” In fairness, he said the association does have a

fair amount of grass time every week.“But the grass fields are usually closed for he

bulk of our season.”The minor lacrosse association has met with

Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read while the city considers borrowing money to improve sports and recreation facilities.

“Our main focus was more turf field time,” Williams said. “She seems to be listening, and I understand there are turf fields in the immedi-ate plan.”

The association would also like a third out-

door box, a covered one. The two existing uncovered boxes are difficult to use in the rainy season, and the association doesn’t have enough room for every team to practice during the week.

Williams said a new covered box would pre-sumably be built in Pitt Meadows, allowing more teams time for tryouts and practices, and give them to play “proper lacrosse on a dry floor.”

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Many of us at one time or another have experienced a muscle cramp – a sud-

den, involuntary, usually painful muscle contraction accompanied by nerve firing which is relieved usually by stretching and resting the muscle for a few minutes.

Some cramps can recur for hours during the day. There are a variety of muscle cramps, but I will primarily be discussing those that occur during or after exercise.

The incidence of exercise-related muscle cramps is around 30-50 per cent in the general population and can be as high as 95 per cent of an active, exercising population for at least one occurrence of cramping.

Since these muscle cramps often occur with profuse sweating and sometimes in hot condi-tions, the cause for decades was thought to be related to dehydration or electrolyte depletion or balance. This is probably because of the role of water and electrolyte balance in muscle function and that cramping usually occurs with profuse sweating. Mechanisms were

proposed for the role of lactic acid, sodium, potassium and others. This then led to a wide and sometimes colourful array of cures for cramp-ing, including eating bananas or drinking pickle juice, among others.

However, when scientific research has been done, hydration and electrolyte loss are not the culprits. A number of recent studies have been done at long distance races, such as Ironman triathlons and ultra-endur-ance marathons. In these studies, the athletes who experienced cramping

during or after the race were evaluated for de-hydration and electrolyte composition. Those with cramping had no significant difference in hydration or electrolyte levels compared to those athletes in the race that had no cramp-ing. However, one factor was common to the cramping groups, and that was that their race pace was significantly faster than their training pace, or they raced further or longer than they had trained for. This indicates that fatigue, or pushing the muscle beyond its training limits may be prime factors in triggering muscle

cramps. Researchers also noted that athletes who had cramping during the races also had a history of muscle cramps.

Studies over the last decade have increas-ingly led researchers to conclude that muscle cramping is related to nervous system mal-functioning. There is still some debate about whether the peripheral or central nervous sys-tem is the trigger, though the central nervous system currently seems to have the balance of the evidence.

Each muscle has feedback loops via the ner-vous system to protect the muscle from injury. One of these loops consists of stretch detec-tors inside the muscle fibres called muscle spindles. When these spindles detect stretch in the muscle, they send a message to the spinal cord, which in turn sends a message to the muscles to contract so they don’t get pulled apart or torn.

On a separate feedback loop, each tendon contains another sensor called the Golgi Tendon Organ. When the GTO gets stretched under sufficient load, it sends a message to the muscle, telling it to relax, again presumably to prevent overload and damage. When enough

fatigue occurs in the muscle, sometimes the spindles become overactive, creating a positive feedback loop and contract the muscle invol-untarily and continuously giving the athlete painful contraction we know as cramping. The normal relaxation mechanism does not occur and so the athlete must try to gently stretch the muscle themselves, activating the GTOs, thereby sending relaxation messages and normalizing muscle function.

It is interesting to note that cramping most often occurs in muscles that are already short or in muscles that cross two joints, such as the calf, the quadriceps or the hamstring group.

To date, there is no known sure-fire preven-tion for muscle cramping, though athletes are well-advised to maintain optimal levels of flexibility (especially of two joint muscles), and taking care not to compete at levels much beyond training levels.

And if cramping does occur, performing passive stretching will help alleviate the cramp.

Kerry Senchyna holds a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology and is owner of West

Coast Kinesiology in Maple Ridge.

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ERICKSONElmer Calvin

October 12, 1939 - March 3, 2016

We regret to announce the passing of Elmer Calvin Erickson Sr. who died peacefully at home on March 3, 2016.Predeceased by his fi rst wife Jean Erickson.Survived by his spouse Zora, his sons Alan, Kenny and Elmer Jr., daughter-in-law Wendy Erickson, his grandchildren & great-grandchildren.

Service to be held at 1:30pm on March 19th at Maple Ridge Alliance Church,

20399 Dewdney Trunk Rd, Maple Ridge.

WATSON, Gail RichardGail is survived and greatly missed by his wife of 60 years, Phyllis Arlene (nee Ufl and), his daughters Linda (Terry), Jennifer (Ron) & Susan, his grandchildren Kevin, James & Carly and his sis-ter, Carolyn. Gail requested spe-cial mention also be made in his obituary of the following: Lucia Hoess, Kevin Kalinowski, Brian Baine & all the ASHL N. Shor Barbarians Hockey Team mem-bers; Max Shepherd & all the badminton crew; the N Scale rail-roaders George Carol, Claude & Peter along with Bill & Cathy from Central Hobbies and the guys at Cameo Hobbies; Maya, Scott

Percival & all the members of the Westcoast Society for the Protec-tion & Conservation of Reptiles. Gail also expressed how tremen-dously thankful he was for the amazing care and kindness he re-ceived from Dr. Ken Burns, Gillian and all the team at Westgate Medical, Dr. Ed Auersperg & Peggy, Gail Hestermann & her team at Access Health and everyone he came in contact with at Ridge Meadows Hospital. Gail was born in Calgary, AB and moved with his family to North Vancouver, BC in 1970 and then to Maple Ridge, BC in 2011. Fondly nicknamed “Snakeman”, Gail retired in 1988 from his career with Revenue Canada to pursue his lifelong pas-sions of hockey, badminton, N scale railroads and the protection & conservation of reptiles. Gail requested there be no funeral servic-es; instead hoped that the groups of people he meant something to have individual get-togethers to enjoy a good time. He was such a thoughtful guy he even prepared a self-eulogy: “Gail has passed away; his family & friends will be greatly missed.

I will miss you all but I hope none of you will spend any time sadly missing me. The best thing to do is just think of me when you’re

walking on the beach, or lying on the sand in the dark looking up at the stars and satellites, or throwing stones in the water or watching

planes and boats and trains. Once in a while just say, “This is the kind of thing Gail (or Dad or Grampa) really liked”,

and then go on enjoying yourselves. Excerpt from GRW Self-Eulogy

GABRIEL, Stacy Kathleen (nee Bagshaw)

Stacy passed away on Feb.17th at the age of 46 after a gallant Battle with cancer. Stacy, always a high energy person, always smiling and lighting up a room was never afraid to let a disability stand in her way. She was an inspiration to all her family & friends. Her lead-ership took many directions, as a wife, a mother, a daughter &

friend to so many.A Celebration of Life has been planned for March 19th at 1pm

at the Coast Tsawwassen Inn.

BALLENTINEConstance Isabelle

May 11th, 1934 - March 14th, 2016

We are saddened to announce the passing of our beloved Mother ‘Connie’ born in Vegraville Alberta. Connie is survived by her children, Robert Rutherford, Marjorie Ruth-erford, Kathleen (Eddie) Macken, grandchildren, Jamie-Rae (Tim) Kilgallon, Patrick Foulkes and Sean Rutherford, and sisters, Beverly, Maureen (Lorne), Lynda (Ed), and Kory (Ken), as well as many other nieces and nephews, and her part-ner of 10 years, Murrray Whalen.

Connie possessed a genuine, easygoing, fun loving nature that was infectious to all she came in contact with.

In lieu of fl owers, please donate to a charity of your choice. Memorial Service to be held on Saturday, March 19th at 2pm at Garden Hill Funeral Chapel 11765 224th Street, Maple Ridge. The Celebration of Life is taking place at the ANAF unit 379 on March 26th, at 2pm.

Expressions of sympathy can be made at www.gardenhill.ca

.

.

In Loving Memory of Laurie Kedziora

Missing You.... Tony

GAIL is survived and greatly missed by his wife of 60 years, Phyllis Ar-lene (nee Ufl and), his daughters Linda (Terry), Jennifer (Ron) & Su-san, his grandchildren Kevin, James & Carly and his sister, Caro-lyn. Gail requested special mention also be made in his obituary of the following: Lucia Hoess, Kevin Kali-nowski, Brian Baine & all the ASHL N. Shor Barbarians Hockey Team members; Max Shepherd & all the badminton crew; the N Scale rail-roaders George Carol, Claude & Peter along with Bill & Cathy from Central Hobbies and the guys at Cameo Hobbies; Maya, Scott Perci-val & all the members of the West-coast Society for the Protection & Conservation of Reptiles. Gail also expressed how tremendously thankful he was for the amazing care and kindness he received from Dr. Ken Burns, Gillian and all the team at Westgate Medical, Dr. Ed Auersperg & Peggy, Gail Hester-mann & her team at Access Health and everyone he came in contact with at Ridge Meadows Hospital. Gail was born in Calgary, AB and moved with his family to North Van-couver, BC in 1970 and then to Ma-ple Ridge, BC in 2011. Fondly nick-named \\”Snakeman\\”, Gail retired in 1988 from his career with Reve-nue Canada to pursue his lifelong passions of hockey, badminton, N scale railroads and the protection & conservation of reptiles. Gail re-quested there be no funeral servic-es; instead hoped that the groups of people he meant something to have individual get-togethers to enjoy a good time. He was such a thought-ful guy he even prepared a self-eu-logy: \\”Gail has passed away; his family & friends will be greatly missed. I will miss you all but I hope none of you will spend any time sadly missing me. The best thing to do is just think of me when you’re walking on the beach, or lying on the sand in the dark looking up at the stars and satellites, or throwing stones in the water or watching planes and boats and trains. Once in a while just say, \\”This is the kind of thing Gail (or Dad or Grampa) really liked\\”, and then go on enjoy-ing yourselves.\\” Excerpt from GRW Self-Eulogy

In Loving Memory ofGregory Alvin GiesbrechtMarch 12, 1962 ~ March 21, 1997

Your inner strength,beautiful spirit, and gracious time you were near to us will

never be forgotten or replaced.

Always remembered and loved by daughters, Kara and Kasia,

Mom and Dad,brother Doug and Yuden,

Yeshey and Tobden.

Judy ClarksonJune 15, 1955 - March 18, 2015

One year ago it broke my heart to lose you,

you did not go alone for part of me went with you.The day you left your home

you left me beautiful memories.Your love is still my guide,and though I cannot see youyou are always at my side.Our chain is broken andnothing seems the same,

as we are called one by oneour chain will link again.

Oh how I miss you~ Love, Mum

.Ridge Meadow Hospital Foundation 604-463-1801

.21st Century Flea Market.Mar 20th 10am-3pm. 3250 Commercial Drive Vanc. Info: 604-980-3159. Adm. $5.

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

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

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WITNESSES WANTEDAnyone witnessing a motor vehicle accident on Lougheed Hwy at 224th St. on Feb. 22, 2016 at approx. 1:00pm involving a white Hyundai Sonata & black Dodge Caravan with Licence plate commencing with “BL”

Please call 604-908-1149

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Golden Eagle Group is a blueber-ry and cranberry farm located in Pitt Meadows, B.C., Canada

Assistant GrowersCanadian Valley Growers in business since 1991 provides a complete line of annuals, bed-ding plants, and food -safe vegetables/herbs is interested in hiring two individuals who are high energy, detail-oriented, pro-active, and skilled in all aspects of plant production. Completion of a horticulture program is pref-erable and with at least two years work experience or a combination of training & work experience. You will be expected to report to the Owners and work collabora-tively with the Grower in a fast-paced, multilingual and multicul-tural environment; produce quality product through appropri-ate use of growing conditions, monitor for pests, and prevent plant disease; step-in to meet all production requirements and have the know-how to streamline work processes; perform, demon-strate and communicate all as-pects of growing to the green-house workers; and maintain and complete reports electronically. Work locations: 5271 256 Street Aldergrove & 4479 Bradner Road, Abbotsford, BC. Full-time, permanent. Wage: $20/hour. Pls. forward resume & cover letter to: [email protected]

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OFFICESPACEFORRENT

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of Porcelain & Ceramic. Sales & Service604-463-0718

eagletileandnaturalstone.com

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

JAGUAR LANDSCAPINGLawn & Garden Service.

Design, Pruning, Lawns, Cleanups, Comm/ Res. (604)466-1369

Den’s GarDENing Services & Trees

Let us SPRING into actionTree Topping, Tree Removal, Pruning

Fruit trees, Hedges,Lawn Clean-ups, Garden

Maint. Stump Grinding **Don’t be Stumped**

604.465.2944

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

LANDSCAPING DESIGN / INSTALLATION and

MAINTENANCE

Strata, Commercial & Residential, Pavers, Walls, Spring Garden Clean-ups,

New Lawns & top dressing & Drainage.

Call (604)763-8795

Del green LandscapingMichael Mihail

15 Years Horticultural Experience

Your Garden in our hands will look like paradise

Offi ce 778-668-5110Direct 604-446-3903

[email protected]

Dump Site Now OpenSBroken Concrete RocksS

$25.00 Per Metric TonSMud - Dirt - Sod - ClayS

$25.00 Per Metric TonGrassSBranchesSLeavesSWeeds

$64.00 Per TonMeadows Landscape Supply

604-465-1315

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

604-537-4140

1PRO MOVING & SHIPPINGAcross the street - across the world

Real Professionals, Reas. Rates. Best in every way! 604-721-4555.

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~

ABE MOVING & Delivery& Rubbish Removal$30/hr. per Person • 24/7

604-999-6020ABBA MOVERS & DEL Res/comm 1-5 ton truck, 2men fr $40. SENIOR DISCOUNT. Honest, bsmt clean up 25yrs Exp. 24hrs/7days 604-506-7576

TONY’S Painting

DN PaintingTop Quality/Affordable Prices

Exterior/InteriorDrywall Repair

Years of Experience

WCB Covered

FREE ESTIMATES

778-862-1515www.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

A Gas Fitter PlumberFurnaces, Boilers, Hot Water

Heating, Hotwater Tanks, Drain/Duct Cleaning

& Plumbing Jobs.

604-312-7674 604-507-4606

FLUID SOLUTIONS. Gas, heating plumbing, reno’s, repairs. 20 yrs exp

www.fl uidsolutionsinc.caLic’d. Bonded. Jack 778-835-4416

JUNK REMOVAL By RECYCLE-IT!604.587.5865www.recycleitcanada.ca

mikes hauling 604-516-9237

Atlas Vinyl Sundecks - Your Complete Sundeck Specialist. Free estimates (778)285-2107

AKITA PUPSChampionship. $800 each.

Call 604-751-0191

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

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

TOY POODLE PUP 6 weeks old. Cream color, female. $800. Call 604-820-4230, 604-302-7602

#1 Cash Buyer~ Since 1987 ~

$$CASH $$ for yourfurniture, tools, electronics,

antiques, appliances,computers & collectibles.

ANYTHING OF VALUESingle Items to

Entire Households6 0 4 - 4 6 3 - 4 4 4 96 0 4 - 2 0 9 - 6 5 8 3

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

WE BUY RECORDS& BOOKS

Hemingway’s 33765 Essendene Ave.

Abbotsford ~ 604-855-1894

[email protected] make housecalls!

New SRI Manufactured homesSingles $74,900. Doubles $99,900.

PARK SPACES AVAILABLEREPOSSESSIONS 1974-2010

www.glenbrookhomes.netChuck 604-830-1960

Trades. Financing. Permits.

GARIBALDI Court(604) 463-9522

Central Maple Ridge1 Bdrm units available. Great location for seniors!

Clean, quiet & affordable!Includes heat, h/w, cable.Senior Move-In Allowance.Ref’s & Credit check req’d.

Sorry No PetsCRIME FREE BUILDING

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

Polo ClubApartments

19071 Ford Rd. Pitt Meadows

Clean, Quiet Well Managed Bldg.3 Blocks to W.C. Express

W 1 & 2 Bdrm SuitesW 3 Appliances

W Secured Garage ParkingW Adult Oriented

W Ref’s Req’d & Absolutely No Pets

604.465.7221

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

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.

$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

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

2007 TOYOTA CAMRY XLE, auto, 4 door, 110,000 kms. Heated seats. Great condition. (604)826-7979

The Scrapper

#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle REMOVAL~~ ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT ~~

$$$ PAID FOR SOME. 604.683.2200

• Autos • Trucks• Equipment Removal

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

Rick Goodchild 604.551.9022

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE

Notice is hereby given that on March 18th, 2016, Mayfair Self Storage, of 20070 Stewart Cres., Maple Ridge; the contents of the following lockers will be sold at auction, or otherwise disposed of to recover outstanding storage costs.

#043.........................L. Hoffman#571.............................M. Bragg#439........................J. MacInnes


287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS


288 HOME REPAIRS

300 LANDSCAPING


317 MISC SERVICES

320 MOVING & STORAGE

329 PAINTING & DECORATING


329 PAINTING & DECORATING

338 PLUMBING

356 RUBBISH REMOVAL

372 SUNDECKS

PETS

477 PETS

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

548 FURNITURE

563 MISC. WANTED

REAL ESTATE

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

709 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

746 ROOMS FOR RENT

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

RENTALS

749 STORAGE

TRANSPORTATION

821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

Fantastic Garage Sale

Sat & Sun March 19 & 209 am - 6 pm.

#11 - 11282 Cottonwood Dr.Maple Ridge.

Norman Rockwell plates, skiis, electric bike, offi ce furniture,

luggage, household plus more!

GARAGE Sale this Sat March 19th 10am-3pm & Sun March 20th 11am-3pm. Lots of Furniture to choose from - 4 Couches,Tables, Wardrobe, Air Hockey Table, Bikes, Pictures, Baby/Toddler Toys, Patio Sets, Tools, DVD’s and so much more!!! Come on down to 12512 222nd St just off 124th. You won’t want to miss this Garage Sale!!!

Maple Ridge

Lawn Bowling Club11445 - 232nd Street

Saturday, March 19, 9:00 am - 3:00pm

A great variety of treasuresRain or shine

551 GARAGE SALES

604-575-5555

Use our Community Announcement to advertise your…

craft show, school fundraiser or an upcoming event. Include the date, time and address of your event and entice more attendees than ever before.

741 OFFICE/RETAIL741 OFFICE/RETAIL

22390 - Lougheed Hwy, Maple Ridge FULLERWATSONBRANDSOURCE.CA

Monday - Saturday 9am - 5:30pm • Sunday Noon - 5pm

Proud to serve the community for the past 92 years

604-463-4168

HOME FURNISHINGS • MATTRESSES • APPLIANCES

A tradition of service excellence since 1924

ALL MATTRESSES AND BOXSPRINGS

ON SALE NOW!

WE’RE OVER-STOCKED!

40% OFFIn-stock only

Savings up to


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