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Eight new ambulances and 34 paramedics have been allocated to Lower Mainland cities, but de-spite a citizens petition that has more than 8,000 names calling for such services, Maple Ridge will get none.

The demand and deployment

review by the B.C. Emergency Health Services, announced Fri-day, was a disappointment to Matt Kelso, who will continue with his petition calling for an increase in ambulance service beyond the two vehicles stationed in Maple Ridge.

“I feel like we’ve hit a brick wall,” he said.

Still, he will continue with the petition, and plans to be at Save-On Foods at Valley Fair Mall on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. His goal is 10,000 signatures, and

to present the petition to Health Minister Terry Lake.

“Langley is getting seven ambu-lances, and we’re stuck with two,” Kelso said. “It’s very frustrating.”

Those calling for more ambu-lances in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows have argued there is a disparity based on the populations served.

With the changes, Langley Township and City, with a com-bined population of 130,000, will now be served by seven ambu-lances. Maple Ridge has two am-

bulances for 95,000 population.Three ambulances will go to Sur-

rey, two to Abbotsford and one to the North Shore. Some of the new paramedics will also be stationed in Tri-Cities.

Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows MLA Doug Bing had agreed that, based on population alone, it ap-peared that there was a need for another ambulance serving his riding.

“I share the community’s disap-pointment,” he said of the review.

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Despite outspending his opponent five to one, Mike Murray’s effort and expenses proved futile against the Liberal wave in October’s federal election.

Mike Murray spent just more than $100,000 in an effort to keep the Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge seat for the Conservatives, while Liberal challenger Dan Ruimy spent about $18,000 to win the seat.

“We obviously spent a lot more than the winner,” said Murray.

Despite the disparity, Ruimy won more votes, 17,673 – to win with a 1,300-vote margin against Murray.

No new ambulances for Maple RidgeEight deployed to other mainland communities

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What got to Vijay Ram the most

was the sight of a little girl, maybe eight years old, hoisting 20 litres of water on to her head and hauling it home.

He describes that in his fund-raising pamphlet as one of the chores millions of women and children have to do daily in Africa so the family has water for cooking, washing and drinking.

“Sometimes they’ll be walking 10 kilometres,” said Ram, a Maple Ridge resident. Sometimes they’ll have to make two or three trips a day. If they’re lucky, they’ll have a bicycle or motorcycle.

But many still trek through dust and heat for hours to get life’s ne-cessity.

The problem is, “When the kids are out getting water, they’re not able to go to school.”

That’s why Ram, 53, loves what he does with Friends in Action International, a Christian char-ity group. One of the group’s proj-ects is driving a water well drilling truck around African countries and drilling wells in the thousands of rural villages.

Burkina Faso is the latest focus for Friends, but previous efforts took place in Ghana and Ivory Coast.

At about the rate of a new water well every two days, a crew of vol-unteers moves from village to vil-lage drilling wells and providing clean water, decreasing disease and allowing kids to go to school.

“We can’t meet the need. There are so many villages out there that need this,” Ram said.

Without wells, people have to rely on polluted pond water in a coun-try where temperatures reach 40 C.

Ram remembers once a dead frog

had been lying in putrid water and one local resident simply tossed the frog aside, filled a glass of water and drank it.

In Burkina Faso, people drink water that Canadians would hesi-tate to wash their feet in.

The girl hauling water, in the pamphlet, was one of the lucky vil-lagers who had a well and now only has to walk 100 metres to fetch wa-ter instead of five kilometres. She can also go to school and people can raise more crops and farm ani-mals. Thanks to the efforts of a few, the village has been changed for-ever, Ram said.

He was born in Fiji and knows

what it’s like to live in a poor coun-try. He didn’t have his first pair of shoes until he was seven.

He has been to Africa five times on such missions, but this year is stalled as he deals with his own health concerns.

Last May, he noticed a pain in his side and went to get it checked out. The diagnosis came back as pan-creatic cancer.

“They said six months at the time, because of the size and the loca-tion,” of the tumour.

It’s now been nine months and Ram is fighting all the way by get-ting regular chemotherapy treat-ments.

His doctor calls him a survivor.“I’m comfortable with it. It’s noth-

ing I’ve done to get it. I’m not bitter or anything about it. It’s just one of those things that happen in life.”

And so far, the cancer has re-mained stable, although last week he had to make a trip to the emer-gency for a high fever.

“We’re not in control of anything in our lives,” he adds. “We can make plans,” but things happen.

“My hope is to return to Africa and work there full-time and get this cancer under control and I can go back.”

And although he can’t be in Afri-ca now, he’s trying to help from his

hometown through his own effort, Sincerely Africa.

His goal is to raise $300,000, which will pay for a good chunk of the cost of a $450,000 new drill-ing truck to speed up the drilling process.

All money raised online or in his campaign is directed to the Friends in Action charitable organization.

Ram compares the pause in his overseas charity work to a military term, “clear weapons,” which refers to the pause that tank crews take during battle as they check weap-ons and vehicles before moving on.

Ram spent 15 years in the Cana-dian Armed Forces, in which he drove Leopard 1 and 2 tanks, with the Royal Canadian Dragoons. “All the kids should go,” for a one-year stint, he says.

There’s no real connection, though, to his career in the armed forces and his charity work over-seas. Each trip to Africa costs him about $3,500 out of his own pocket.

“Nothing really has made such a big difference in people’s lives as the work we do in Africa. That cause, it’s touched my heart in a big way.”

He still remembers that eight-year-old girl lugging home the water.

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Colleen Flanagan (above)/contributed (below)Vijay Ram works with Friends in Action International to dig wells and provide water to villages in Africa, helping children there go to school.

“There are so many villages out there that need this.”Vijay Ram, Friends in Action International

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The City of Maple Ridge has launched the second phase of the Strong Kids Team Launches Youth Sur-vey.

The survey was first opened online in De-cember. It is geared to-wards parents, teach-ers, community leaders and service providers to allow citizens to talk about the issues and

resources that are re-quired to ensure that youth have the oppor-tunity to achieve all they are capable of.

The second phase was made available on Monday, with another

online survey, this one geared towards youth and young adults in the community.

“The information for these surveys is guid-ing our work on Phase Three of the Strong Kids Team Commu-nity Forum, said Su-san Carr, school board trustee and co-chair of the Strong Kids Team.

The forum is to be held March 7 at the ACT.

“The first survey al-lowed us to see the most pressing issues for the people in the community who are entrusted with guid-ing our youth to adult-hood,” Carr added.

“This second survey will allow us to deter-mine if there’s align-ment of the issues that are priorities for youth and their care givers.”

The Top 3 issues identi-fied in the parent, teacher and leader survey:

• mental health (anxi-ety, depression and stress);

• nicotine, alcohol and other drugs;

• effects of social media and screen time.

The upcoming com-munity forum will present speakers and information to initi-ate a conversation around the most up-to-date research and approaches to dealing

with the issues that have been identified as most pressing.

Details of the com-munity forum speak-ers and format will be announced in mid-February.

The Strong Kids Team is part of the broader Maple Ridge Resilience Initiative, started by the city.

The goal of that team is to ensure that chil-dren and youth in our community have the best environment to grow up and thrive in.

“This is an invest-ment in the future,” said Mayor Nicole Read. “As we deal with the issues around us in the community today, we need to invest time and resources to break

the cycle that leads to homelessness. As a parent, I’m looking forward to the upcom-ing community forum and engaging the com-munity in this impor-tant issue.”

The youth survey will be available until Feb. 27.

• For more informa-tion about the youth survey or the overall work of the Strong Kids Team, contact Susan Carr at [email protected] or Tony Cotroneo at [email protected], or call 604-467-7392.

The new survey is also available in hard copy at the Maple Ridge Leisure Centre and the Greg Moore Youth Centre.


The first step in design-ing a new elementary school and community centre in the Albion area begins tonight, with a public consultation and workshop.

“It’s the first step, and it’s the big-idea phase,” said Kelly Swift, general manager of community development, parks and recreation.

The city is partnering with the school district

to develop the school site on 104th avenue, build-ing a new elementary school and community centre. They want public input as to what kinds of facilities should be lo-cated there.

“We’ll see what ideas come forward from the community,” said Swift.

Mayor Nicole Read said the process will be open-ended, but already there is talk about a facil-ity to replace the Albion Hall – a building that was demolished five years

ago.The city has begun a

separate process of bor-rowing up to $110 mil-lion to build recreation facilities, because council feels Maple Ridge hasn’t kept pace with the needs of the growing popula-tion. That funding could be used, and recreation projects dovetail into the partnership with the school district, said Read.

“There’s obviously go-ing to be some synergies there,” she said.

Council identified a

small theatre space, seat-ing 100 to 150, as a po-tential new project, and it’s an example of the type of facility that would work at the site.

“I don’t think this would be a location for some-thing larger, like a swim-ming pool,” said Read.

What amenities to lo-cate at the school site will depend on public feed-back Feb. 10, she added.

“I’d like to encourage people to come to the community engage-ment,” she said. “We’d

like to see a huge turnout there.”

The proposed elemen-tary school will be a neighbourhood learn-ing centre, which could incorporate a range of programs. The public will see what is offered in other communities, but there will be no menu of options to choose from, said school dis-trict spokesperson Irena Pochop.

She said the public consultation will be aug-mented by an online

survey, which will be of-fered beginning Feb. 11. On Feb. 25 there will be an open house presenta-tion titled “Your Voice, Your Neighbourhood” to show the results of the online and workshop consultation. That will be held Feb. 25 from 6-9 p.m. at Samuel Robert-son Technical. Pre-regis-tration will open on Feb. 11.

The school district will have a proposal to the Education Ministry by next month.

The timeline from the early planning stages un-til a new school opens is typically 37 to 49 months.

The first workshop runs tonight at Albion el-ementary, from 6-9 p.m.

Because parking at Albion elementary is limited, shuttle service will be available from Al-bion Sports Park to the workshop. The service will start running at 4:45 and will run throughout the night until all parties have returned to their ve-hicles.

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An update into an ongoing study about social service needs in Maple Ridge shows higher dissatisfaction ratings when it comes to housing the home-less and seniors.

Meanwhile, housing for First Nations, refu-gees and the LGBTQ

community was con-sidered more adequate, based on a survey of so-cial service and health organization leaders in Maple Ridge.

Scott Graham of the Social Planning and Research Council of B.C., was at council last week to give an update of the project, which surveyed the opinions of those who do the helping in Maple Ridge.

Twenty-six represen-tatives from groups, such as the Salvation

Army or Alouette Ad-dictions Services an-swered the survey.

When it comes to mental health – servic-es for youth, family and women had the highest ratings of inadequacy. About 21 of those who responded considered those population sec-tors under-serviced.

The survey also rated the adequacy of ser-vices for substance use. Services to youth and women were rated the most inadequate, with

16 of the respondents giving that description.

Coun. Craig Speirs objected to the term “substance use,” say-ing instead the word should be addiction.

“It’s about addiction. Research shows that roots of addiction come

from childhood and life trauma.

“We keep missing the mark on this.”

Trauma makes kids vulnerable “so they have that little seed in-

side them that has them looking for escape.

“So for me, the more

we can focus on chil-dren and their needs around trauma and life’s challenges, I think the better we’ll do in the long run.”

Coun. Kiersten Dun-can said anyone who’s looking for mental health treatment faces an intimidating pro-cess of having to wait in a office that’s clearly labelled as providing mental health services.

Mayor Nicole Read repeated her call of hav-ing better data to un-

derstand homelessness and how people move in and out of shelters, saying that the Metro Vancouver homeless count is flawed.

And different agen-cies competing for grants means there’s no sharing of information.

“We have seen a de-cline in treatment beds for youth,” said Coun. Tyler Shymkiw.

The final report of the study will conclude the project started last summer.

Maple Ridge social service study underwayMental health ‘under-serviced’

“Research shows that roots of addiction come from childhood and life trauma.”Coun. Craig Speirs, Maple Ridge

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After 20 years of represent-ing B.C.

coastal First Nations to negotiate what U.S.-directed activists labeled the Great Bear Rainforest agreement, a weary Dallas Smith expressed his relief and frustration.

At a ceremony to sign the final agree-ment in Vancouver last week, Smith, president of the Nan-wakolas Council of remote Central Coast communities like Bella Bella, joked that he’s finally out of a job. Then he got seri-ous.

“My communities still aren’t better places to live yet,” he said.

But the land use agreement with the province and forest companies over a vast coastal area up to the Alaska border means the years ahead will be better.

He said when he started, it was like be-ing caught in a divorce between the B.C. forest industry and international environ-mental groups. Dutch-based Greenpeace, its California offshoot ForestEthics and others moved on from their Clayoquot Sound battle to the B.C. coast, looking to continue the blockades against logging.

“It’s the First Nations of the Coast who stood up and said ‘no, this is how it’s go-ing to work’,” Smith said.

How it’s going to work is that logging will continue on 550,000 hectares of coastal forest, with a greater share for

First Nations, and with 85 per cent of the region preserved after a century of log-ging that began with sailing ships.

Aside from a few diehards who are ei-ther paid to protest or can’t get past issu-ing demands, B.C. aboriginal people have grown tired of being used as props in global de-marketing campaigns directed from San Francisco or Amsterdam.

The protesters’ tactic of organizing customer boycotts that damage far-away economies might be good for interna-tional fundraising, but it’s bad for poor people.

Formally begun 10 years ago with $30 million from Ottawa, $30 million from B.C. and $60 million from a group of wealthy U.S. family foundations with a larger anti-development agenda, the land use plan remains under attack.

Among the many protest outfits is Pacific Wild, which has specialized in Great Bear Rainforest campaigns and now needs a new enemy.

Its credibility was demonstrated recently when potty-mouthed U.S. pop star Miley Cyrus decided to speak out against B.C.’s wolf kill.

Typical of celebrities, Cyrus had no idea about the struggle to preserve dwindling herds of mountain caribou. She barely knows where B.C. is, a fact made plain when Pacific Wild toured her around the North Coast, far from the Kootenay and South Peace regions, where the wolves in question actually roam.

Cyrus’s handlers spoon-fed video and statements to urban media, who were so anxious to exploit her global popularity

that they played down the fact she was at the wrong end of the province spouting nonsense.

After periodically attacking their own B.C. agreement as inadequate, Green-peace and ForestEthics have moved on to what they call the “boreal forest,” which we like to call northern Canada.

The same bully tactics with forest prod-ucts customers and producers have been featured.

This time, a Quebec company that signed an accord in 2010 is suing Green-peace for “defamation, malicious false-hood and intentional interference in economic relations.”

Aboriginal companies on the B.C. coast will continue to log, including areas of old-growth forest and secondary growth. They will continue to export logs as economics dictate. They will continue to harvest animals, including grizzly bears.

And, I expect, they will continue to be subjected to attempts to supervise and di-rect them by members of urban society’s new religion, environmentalism.

The leaders of this movement don’t like peace.

It’s bad for their business.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Protesters fear peace in forests

Timing offIngrid RiceGuest view

We just celebrated our fourth Family Day in B.C., and some of us are not happy about the timing.

Andrew Johns, for one.He worked on the second Monday of the

month because he works in the financial mar-kets and the rest of the country won’t be taking that day off.

Six other Canadian provinces have a holiday in February, but they all happen on the third Monday. So do our American cousins, who will be celebrate Presidents Day on Feb. 15.

Johns, who says he would like a day off with his wife and children, is petitioning the pro-vincial government to move Family Day to the third Monday of the month.

So far, he’s gathered 17,000 signatures online.The Surrey Board of Trade has also called on

the provincial government to move B.C.’s day off into line with every one else.

Board of Trade CEO Anita Huberman says because the B.C. holiday happens when the rest of Canada and the U.S. is working, many people here can’t take the day off because their colleagues elsewhere are working.

So why is B.C. so out of synch?A little recent history is in order.Back in 2011, when the provincial govern-

ment decided B.C. residents deserved a break between New Year’s Day and Easter, it did an online poll that found a majority of those who participated, preferred the second Monday, precisely because it was on a day when the rest of North America would be working.

The reasoning was B.C. residents would have less trouble getting into vacation destinations with the rest of Canada and the U.S. working.

As the Wikipedia entry notes, as a new holi-day, “there are no traditional activities that are associated with (Family day).”

Except, perhaps, for complaining about the timing of it.

What do you think? Should B.C. move the holiday to match the rest of Canada and the U.S.?

Or is the advantage of time off when everyone else is working worth keeping?

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Last year in B.C., 465 people died of a drug overdose, and the number of overdoses has been increasing at an alarming rate over the past few years.

The aim of our new initiative is to save lives and give first responders, as well as paramedics the necessary training and oversight to safely ad-minister naloxone.

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‘A piece of themselves’Editor, The News:Re: ‘She died in from of me’ (The News, Jan. 29).Colleen Flanagan, your article offends me deeply. I am a paramedic and have had to respond to many overdoses in my career. I have also been unsuccessful in reviving people who have suffered a cardiac arrest due to an overdose. This experience is traumatic for all parties involved. There has not ever been a cardiac arrest that hasn’t affected my heart. The death of a patient is extremely hard on emergency responders, but professionalism holds us from showing that emotion publicly.All this said, your article was written without due care for clarifying facts. Starting from top of your article, CPR should never be initiated on a person who still has a pulse as it can cause much more harm than good.The fire department arrived with in two minutes, not 10, and even though at this time they cannot administer Narcan, they have other very effective skills to assist in an overdose. Narcan will not reverse a cardiac arrest. It will only help in an opioid overdose, and with thousands of chemical compounds a person could consume to cause an overdose, it’s not a guarantee. When a person is found alone in cardiac arrest, with no information, paramedics have very little to go on as to the reason of the cardiac ar-rest, overdose is only one of dozens of options for the cause of the arrest. When the paramedics arrived seven minutes after the call, not 30 as your subject leads the reader to believe, I assure you they did much much more than “pump on her chest.” They would have preformed dozens of tests and procedures to not only treat the cardiac arrest, but to also find the initial cause of said arrest, and I can assure you they would never give 30 shots of Narcan. Also, best treatment is to stay on scene and do everything possible to get pulses back before moving the patient. Your article is extremely disrespectful to the men and women who give a part of their heart to attend to people they don’t know in situations they didn’t create, but take all the blame when even their best isn’t enough. I hope you reflect on how poorly you covered this story, write an apology to the paramedics and firefighters who gave a piece of themselves to try to save lives and do a much better job of writing in the future.

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Motorists got a jolt Wednesday night as they were heading home on the Lougheed Highway after their ve-hicles smashed into a sharp pothole.

The tire eater was on the entry ramp to the eastbound lanes of the highway off the Haney Bypass.

City of Maple Ridge crews heard about it too at about 9 p.m., when motorists contacted the city. The incident was then relayed to Mainroad Contracting, which is responsible for maintaining Lougheed Highway, a provincial road.

“From what we under-stand, there were quite a few damaged vehicles,” said Russ Carmichael, Maple Ridge’s director of public works.

The city dispatched a

worker to check it out and alerted Mainroad, which put in a tem-porary cold patch that night. That will be fol-lowed up with a hot patch of asphalt when conditions allow.

According to Face-book, more than a doz-en cars were pulled on to the side of the road, either getting towed or fixing flats.

Ryan Douglas said both his tire and rim were destroyed by the pothole, adding that

it’s been there for three days.

With the dark and the rain, it was impossible to see.

“I hit that tonight on my way home. Water was covering it, didn’t even see it … bang, I was lucky,” added an-other.

Given the relatively mild winter with no snow, it hasn’t been a bad year for pot holes, said Carmichael.

“But they’re still out there.”

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Notice of Public HearingTAKE NOTICE THAT a a Public Hearing will be held in the Council Chamber of the Municipal Hall, 11995 Haney Place, Maple Ridge, North-East corner entrance, at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 16, 2016 to consider the following bylaws:

1a) 2012-004-RZ

MAPLE RIDGE OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN AMENDING BYLAW NO. 7159-2015

LEGAL: Parcel “G” (Reference Plan 1387) Except: Portion on Plan LMP38552 of the South East Quarter, Section 16, Township 12, New Westminster District

LOCATION: 23791 112 Avenue

PURPOSE: To amend Schedule “B” of the Offi cial Community Plan, as shown outlined in heavy black line on map below.

FROM: Conservation

TO: Urban Residential

& PURPOSE: To remove Conservation from Schedule “C” of the Offi cial Community Plan, as shown outlined in heavy black line on map below.

1b) 2012-004-RZ

MAPLE RIDGE ZONE AMENDING BYLAW NO. 7111-2014

LEGAL: Parcel “G” (Reference Plan 1387) Except: Portion on Plan LMP38552 of the South East Quarter, Section 16, Township 12, New Westminster District

LOCATION: 23791 112 Avenue

FROM: RS-3 (One Family Rural Residential)

TO: R-1 (Residential District)

PURPOSE: To permit a future subdivision of approximately 16 lots.

2) 2015-334-RZ


PURPOSE: To amend the text of the Maple Ridge Zoning bylaw to direct the use of Shipping Containers.

3) 2014-087-RZ


LEGAL: Lot A Except Part Dedicated Road on Plan BCP13823, District Lot 401, Group 1, New Westminster District, Plan 9541

LOCATION: 11980 227 Street

PURPOSE: Site specifi c text amendment for the subject property located within the Town Centre Area Plan, to permit a full range of professional services in the CS-1 (Service Commercial) zone.

AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that a copy of the aforesaid bylaws and copies of staff reports and other information considered by Council relevant to the matters contained in the bylaws will also be available for public inspection at the Municipal Hall, Planning Department counter, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. from February 4, 2016 to February 16, 2016, Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted. Some of this information will also be posted on the City website www.mapleridge.ca on the Your Government /Meet Your Council/Council Meetings page.

ALL PERSONS who deem themselves affected by any of these bylaws shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing before Council on the matters contained in the bylaws or by making a written submission to the attention of the Manager of Legislative Services or by sending an e-mail to the Clerk’s Department at [email protected], by 4:00 p.m., February 16, 2016. Please note that all written submissions provided in response to this consultation will become part of the public record which includes the submissions being made available for public inspection.

Dated this 4th day of February, 2016 .

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Election from front“Dan Ruimy must be

very thankful to [Liberal leader] Justin Trudeau for the rest of his days. You can quote me on that one,” Murray said Tues-day.

Despite having the numerical advantage in many ways, none of it worked for the Conserva-tives.

Murray, former con-stituency assistant for outgoing Conservative MP Randy Kamp, said his nomination night drew about 1,000 Conserva-tive party members, and that Ruimy’s nomination drew 14.

“It just goes to show, when people want a change …”

“It’s certainly a wave,” Murray added.

That’s why he’s not rul-ing out running in the next election in 2019, when he hopes Lib-eral popularity will have waned.

The Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge riding was one of the closest in the country and the seventh closest in Canada for Conservative candidates, said Murray.

Ruimy said he spent a lot of time knocking on doors and that putting up the four-by-four, colour election signs was a good thing to do.

“I went out and I met with a lot of people. I talked with a lot of people. I invested a lot of time to really hear what the peo-ple had to say.”

He acknowledges, his campaign didn’t spend a lot.

“Had to work hard. I was just careful with where we used funds.”

And nationwide, “We saw a lot of young peo-ple going out and vot-ing across the country. It was a strong enough of a desire to go out make change happen.”

Murray said when Conservative volunteers worked to get people out

to vote at the polls, they found there were no Lib-eral counterparts doing the same, while he didn’t see any Liberal scruti-neers at polling stations.

Ruimy won with 34 per cent of the votes, while Murray took 31 per cent. Bob D’Eith for the NDP took 29 per cent.

Murray said the late date for the August nomina-tion date, which Murray won over Liberal MLA Marc Dalton, also made for a late start, though he’s not saying that’s the only reason he lost. Prime Minister Steven Harper even made a campaign stop in Pitt Meadows.

“But we were just in tough here, Murray said.

“You could call this the worst climate for Conser-vatives for a number of years.”

And still they drew al-most 17,000 votes. So in the middle of a red wave, Murray feels good about that.

Ruimy’s victory remade electoral history for the riding, formerly known as Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission. In the 2011 federal election, the Liberals won only 2,739 votes.

Murray said if the Liber-al government is looking at changing the electoral system from the current first-past-the post system, he should recognize the narrow win in this riding.

Although the 2015 cam-paign involved a new rid-ing, the turnout was up from 60 per cent in 2011 to 72 per cent.

Candidates have until Feb. 19 to declare their expenses, with the spend-

ing limit in this riding at about $220,000.

Ruimy said last week from Ottawa that he now has his committee ap-pointments.

Ruimy was assigned to both of the standing com-mittees he requested: the standing committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities and the standing committee on Industry, Science and Technology.

Ruimy has a downtown riding office that is be-ing renovated, and will open later this month. He did not want to reveal the address, because he is not yet ready to receive people there. However, he said it is on the Lougheed Highway in the down-town core.


Matt Kelso’s efforts to lobby for improved ambulance service in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows were brought to the attention of the House of Commons.

MP Dan Ruimy, on World Cancer Day, Feb. 4, honoured Kel-so, who survived brain cancer, in the House of

Commons.“We get very few

chances to actually talk in the House,” said Rui-my. “But I thought it would be good to bring attention to the cause, and celebrate what one of our citizens is doing.”

“He’s a cancer survi-vor who has gone out of his way to work for the betterment of the com-munity.”

Ruimy agreed that

compared to service levels in other cities of similar population, it appears that Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows should have more am-bulances. He stated that in the House, as he rec-ognized Kelso.

“The problem, Mr. Speaker, is that there are only two ambulanc-es to serve the needs of 100,000. This is unac-ceptable,” said Ruimy.

He explained the re-sult is long waits for ambulances, and that Kelso himself could face a life-threatening situation if both ambu-lances are busy and he calls.

“With every signa-ture that he collects, he raises awareness and continues the fight to make our riding safer,” continued Ruimy.

“Thank you Matt.”

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Maple Ridge has joined the campaign for clean environment by request-ing a provincial bill of en-vironmental rights that calls for the right to have clean air, water, safe and healthy food and func-tional ecosystems.

Council is also asking the provincial govern-ment to give the public a say on environmental issues, redress when en-vironmental rights are infringed upon, along with whistle-blower pro-tection.

The resolution was passed at Maple Ridge council’s Jan. 26 meeting after being introduced by

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“The aspirational goals of the Blue Dot move-ment are actually alive and well in our commu-nity,” Mayor Nicole Read said in a news release.

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tree protection bylaw and has established an environmental advisory committee. “It is great to translate our values into action,” Read said.

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Weathered stones at the Whon-

nock cemetery mark the graves of three siblings: Murdoch, Hannah and Agnes Kirby.

They were highly re-spected old-timers and loyal supporters of the Anglican Church.

Sixty years ago, Han-nah was the last to be laid to rest. She was 98.

The three settled in Whonnock in 1911 on land across from the railway station on River Road, later Lougheed Highway.

In 1888, at the age of 23, Murdoch immigrat-ed to British Columbia from England with his friend Charles Sprott. They homesteaded on land in south Langley near the U.S. border, each on a quarter sec-tion – 160 acres of land.

Hannah joined Murdoch as soon as he had finished building a log cabin, and Agnes arrived in 1903.

More than 30 surviv-ing letters to Agnes, written by Hannah and Murdoch between 1888 and 1895, provide a unique window on their settling years.

It was not an easy life by any means.

“We have had a very wet week,” Murdoch wrote in October of 1888. “The rain came through the tent. If it had not been for my McIntosh, my bed would have been wet through.”

The two friends moved into a fixed-up shanty. The door had to be moved over the door opening until they had a chance to buy hinges.

They first built Mur-doch’s house: “a very small one I am afraid as

Charlie and I built it by ourselves.”

Having problems splitting cedar, they used fir logs to build the log cabin, where early in the summer of 1889 Murdoch welcomed his sister Hannah. Fortu-nately, a few weeks later Charlie’s house was also finished and he could move out, as they were “rather cramped for room.

“The house is com-fortable and the sitting room very pretty,” Murdoch wrote.

Next, he turned his attention to clearing his rough land, convert-ing over time what he cleared into pastureland, hay fields and an or-chard. The land did not produce any sizable in-come for years, but the Kirbys, living frugally, were financially not dependent on revenue from the land.

Removing endless quantities of stones, Murdoch prepared first of all a garden where

they could grow their own food. Hannah also grew flowers there, including some “good roses, the ones that have no centre to them.”

The Kirbys had two horses, a couple of pigs and Hannah kept chick-ens. They raised some cattle and at one time invested in a half-share of a pair of wide-horned oxen, Tom and Jake, to work the land.

Hannah named the place “Mahonia Ranche,” after the Oregon grape shrub. Ranching – not farm-ing – was the term used in those days for their efforts.

Before the local Glenwood post office opened in 1892, the Kirbys picked up their mail and sent letters at the post office in Blaine, Wash. They walked and rode endless miles over muddy trails to get there and anywhere else. Occasionally, someone went to New Westmin-ster, but Blaine was the

main place to shop.The letters reveal

a lively community working and playing together. Many names of people coming and go-ing appear in the letters, but there was a core of neighbours and friends. They frequently enter-tained, sharing meals or teas in the English fashion or they gathered at someone’s home for dances. We often read about card games played in the evenings and on rainy days.

Soon after she arrives, Hannah wrote: “Men here very rarely see any ladies at all [and they] would not miss a chance of walking home with a lady.” But that is as far as it went. She never married – neither did Murdoch or Agnes.

Contentedly they lived together, much valued by the communities they chose to call home.

Fred Braches is a local historian who lives in

Whonnock.

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This maintenance work will improve the water quality; however, during this cleaning process some residents could experience water pressure drops and milky or dirty water.

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The fall of the Cana-dian dollar has been bad news for the Fraser Valley Regional Library (FVRL), which operates 25 community libraries, including Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows.

People who use the li-brary can expect slightly fewer available copies of books and slightly lon-ger waits for on-hold titles.

That’s because the FVRL, like most Ca-nadian libraries, buys 80 per cent of its books from the U.S.

In 2015, the year the Canadian dollar did a nose-dive against the U.S. currency, the FVRL reduced the number of books and other “physi-cal items” it purchased

from 187,000 to 180,000.In January of 2015, the

Canadian currency was worth about 86 cents U.S.

As of Tuesday, it had fallen to 72 cents.

The change in the exchange rate has in-creased the cost of U.S. books by about 30 per cent, FVRL Chief Exec-utive Officer Scott Har-grove estimates.

“Our ability to pur-chase has declined quickly and badly,” Har-grove said.

“It’s been a big hit, no question about it.”

The library has man-aged to avoid steep cuts by trimming the num-ber of copies it buys of any given title and by moving money around to help maintain book purchases.

Library users will no-

tice some less-popular titles aren’t as available, Hargrove said.

“When you’re buy-ing fewer copies, people have to wait longer [for an on-hold book].”

It helps that the library recently won approval for a modest budget increase, which isn’t enough to completely cover the rising price of U.S. sourced materials,

but will make a differ-ence.

This year, the FVRL expects it will be able to maintain purchases at close to last year’s level.

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“But we still have opportunities to press our case.”

The review revealed an overall plan for emergency health services in the region, and there is more work to be done, and the health ministry has yet to approve the overall plan, said Bing.

“I’m going to be pressing the case in Victoria,” said Bing.

Kelso added Pitt Meadows May-or John Becker to his petition over the weekend, and Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read was an early signatory.

“I was surprised to learn that eight new ambulances were added in the Lower Mainland and none were allocated to our community,” Read said in a release Friday.

“I had the opportunity to speak with BCEHS executive vice-pres-ident Linda Lupini this afternoon to express my concern and explore

the basis for the decision.”Lupini agreed to supply the city

with background data used to sup-port the allocations and reassured Read that BCEHS is carefully tracking response times in Maple Ridge.

“A petition with over 8,000 sig-natures is an indication of the level of concern in this community sur-rounding ambulance response times,” said Read.

In a conference call, Lupini spoke about the challenges the ambu-lance service faces in meeting the needs of a population that is both growing and aging. Demand is projected to increase 40 per cent by 2020.

She said ambulances are fre-quently called out of their commu-nities, so adding to an ambulance hub can improve services overall.

“I wouldn’t rule out putting am-bulances in Maple Ridge,” she said, and that BCEHS will “look careful-ly where we need to put our cars.”

Demand projections show that there were 4,930 calls in Maple Ridge in 2014, and the projection is that will increase to 7,308 calls by 2020.

They are looking at ways to gain efficiency, like reducing the 17,000 hours that paramedics spend in emergency departments last year.

‘Response times tracked’Ambulance from front

“A petition with over 8,000 signatures is an indication of the level of concern in this community surrounding ambulance response times.”Nicole Read, Maple Ridge mayor

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The Garibaldi Interdisciplinary Arts Academy is taking audiences back to the era of poodle skirts and slicked

back hair for its production of Grease: The Musical.

The 1971 musical was written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey and follows the lives of 10 teenagers entering their senior year at Rydell High.

The musical is named after a working-class subculture called Greasers, popularized by acting icons Marlon Brando and James Dean.

The story takes place in 1958, when an Aus-tralian girl named Sandy Olsson meets Danny Zuko on summer vacation at the beach, where they fall in love.

Danny is the leader of a Greaser gang called the T-Birds and on the first day of school tells his friends about Sandy.

He is not aware that Sandy has also enrolled at Rydell High for her senior year.

Sandy makes friends with Frenchy, a mem-ber of the Pink Ladies.

When Sandy tells them about the boy she fell in love with over the summer, Rizzo, the group’s leader, discovers it is her ex-boyfriend and arranges for them to bump into one an-other at a pep rally.

Danny’s indifference to seeing Sandy again

causes her to run off. Will Sandy and Danny be able to rekindle

their love despite Sandy’s good-girl image?The audience will be able to relive the 1978

film starring John Travolta and Olivia New-ton-John with songs from the hit soundtrack

like Summer Nights, Hopelessly Devoted to You and You’re the One That I Want.

Grade 11 student Daniel Coutts plays Doo-dy, a member of the T-Birds, and Cody Mar-thaller, Grade 12, plays Eugene Felsnick, a not-so-popular student at Rydell High.

This will be the first Garibaldi production for both of them and they are huge fans of Grease.

“Things haven’t really changed,” says Coutts, comparing high school relationships today to that in the musical.

“I feel like it’s very related to how society still is, how cliquey people are. The nerds don’t fit in with the preppy kids and the preppy kids are always the popular kids,” continued Mar-thaller.

Both agree that people of all generations can relate to the characters in Grease.

Coutts loves the challenge of playing Doody.“I like how different he is to me. He’s the

least tough of the five [Greasers], but he’s tougher than me. I find it really entertaining,” said Coutts.

Marthaller likes how fun and positive his character is given any circumstance.

“Even if it is a bad situation, he’ll do some-thing and then it’s a positive situation for him,” explained Marthaller.

But both actors like the positive message that can be gleaned from the end, that friend-ships can always be fixed.

Garibaldi takes on Grease

Colleen Flanagan/THE NEWSGaribaldi students are performing Grease: The Musical, which follows the lives of 10 teenagers entering their senior year at Rydell High.

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What would you do if you found a box full of cassettes in your garage?

Most people would throw them out.

However, local quilter Lysa Flower used them as inspiration for a project that got her into one of the biggest modern quilt shows of the year.

‘Recently Flower,’ whose real name is Lysa Mair, learned that not only did her quilt make it into QuiltCon, an inter-national exhibition held each year in the United States by the Modern Quilt Guild, but that it was one of nine chosen to feature the event in the Los Angeles Times news-paper.

With a combined print and online weekly au-dience of 4.1 million, that is big exposure for Flower, whose studio is in Ruskin.

“That was really cool because my quilt was sitting beside my quilt-ing hero, Carolyn Fried-lander. Her fabric was the fabric I used in my quilt,” said Flower.

“And my quilt, on the website, was right beside her quilt and she’s like a quilting superstar.”

Flower, whose back-ground is in print mak-ing, co-founded the Fra-ser Valley Modern Quilt Guild in 2010.

Every year the guild has a challenge where quilters are given a stack of fabric with rules on where to use some of the fabric and the size of the piece.

“When I started the quilt, I just had a pile of fabric and a vague plan. It wasn’t from any pattern, I made up the pattern as I went,” explained Flower.

“I am really into mun-dane objects. So, objects that you use or have used in the past. And I’m quite interested in the things that we used in the past. The vintage stuff,” she continued.

“I started thinking about the diagonal that I could get with the brown tape part,” she continued about the cassette pat-tern.

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With the playoffs coming up, and a tough opponent ahead for the fourth-place Ridge Meadows Flames, they faced two of the Pacif-ic Junior Hockey League’s toughest teams over the weekend.

The Flames took on the two top teams out of the Tom Shaw Con-ference over the weekend, and dropped both games.

The Flames lost 2-1 to the Grand-view Steelers on Sunday night at the Burnaby Winter Club. To blame was a sputtering power play, which went 0-6 and allowed the Steelers to win the special teams battle with one power play goal in their four attempts.

But team general manager Jamie Fiset was satisfied that his team had played a tough opponent – the Steelers are second in their con-ference – and given themselves a chance to win.

“It was a real back-and-forth game, and we played them well,” he said.

Marco Ballarin got the Flames only goal, and Jason Sandu stopped 28 of 30 shots.

The Steelers got the game win-ning goal from former Flame Jake Holland, the Maple Ridge product who was traded last month.

The Flames lost to the first-place

North Vancouver Wolf Pack 5-1 on Friday night.

Boston Colley got the only goal for the Flames.

“North Van really took it to us in the third. We couldn’t get anything going,” said Fiset.

After a good first period, where the shots were 9-9, the Flames were outshot 35-16 over the sec-ond and third periods.

Last Tuesday the Flames blasted

the Delta Ice Hawks 6-3.Brandon Inwood scored a hat trick

for the Flames, Colley and Bradley Crompton each had two assists, and Dale Howell, Cameron Alder and Ryan Welburn each scored.

They have a record of 17-20-2-3, and will finish in fourth place, and face either the Mission City Out-laws or Abbotsford Pilots in the first round of the playoffs.

Either will be a big challenge to

upset, but Fiset believes its do-able.

“We’ve beaten both of them,” said Fiset.

“Mission has that deadly offence, but Abbotsford has maybe a hard-er working team.”

Ballarin a big boostThe Flames got a boost when

Ballarin returned from playing

junior A for parts of three sea-sons. The 20-year old rejoined the Flames 13 games ago, and has given his old team a boost, with seven goals and 14 points so far.

In his third season with the Flames in 2013-2014, Ballarin was tearing it up with 16 goals and 32 points in 23 games, when he was moved up the hockey lad-der.

He was signed by the Prince George Spruce Kings of the BCHL. He finished that season and played there the next, before being traded to the Lloydminster Bobcats of the Alberta Junior Hockey League. He was having a solid campaign statistically, with 15 points in 25 games, but was again traded – this time to a Sas-katchewan Junior team, in a little town of 2,700 in the far north.

Rather than report to the La Ronge Ice Wolves at the end of his final season, the New West resident chose to finish up close to home, with his old team.

• The Flames have just two games left on the regular season schedule.

On Thursday they will take on the Langley Knights at the George Preston Recreation Cen-tre, and on Friday they will host the Grandview Steelers at 7:30 p.m. at Planet Ice.

On Saturday night they will learn who they face in the first round, and the playoff schedule for the best-of-seven series will begin the following week.

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Maple Ridge field lacrosse teams were all over the medal podium, as the B.C. Lacrosse Association youth field provincial championships for the U18, U15 and U13 levels were held at Wil-loughby Community Park, Feb. 4-8 in Langley.

Two Burrards U13 tier two teams met in the gold-medal game on Mon-day, with Ridge 2 defeating Ridge 3 by a score of 9-8.

The Ridge 2 team was dominant, winning all four of its previous tour-nament games by an aggregate score of 45-19.

The U18 Ridge Tier 1 team downed Delta 14-7 in the bronze-medal game.

The U13 Burrards Tier 1 team de-feated Pacific Rim 11-6 in the bronze game.

And the U15 Tier 1 Burrards made it to the bronze game, but lost 9-8 to the Coquitlam Adanacs.

The Burrards won a provincial silver in the U12 division, Feb. 6-8 in Port Coquitlam.

The Burrards couldn’t get past a tough New West team, which was the only team to defeat them during round-robin play, and also downed them in the gold-medal game by a score of 7-4.

ContributedMarco Ballarin started the season with the Junior A Lloydminster Bobcats, but has looked great in a Flames’ jersey again.

Inwood scores hat trick against the Ice Hawks

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Playoff puck battleChad Herman (left) of the Ridge Meadows Rustlers C4 team fights for the puck with Jer-emy Jackson of the C6 team during a bantam playoff game at Pitt Meadows Arenas on Sunday.The C6 team won the game 4-2.

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Keith Morton of Maple Ridge is driving a brand new Toyota as this year’s grand prize winner of the West Coast Auto Group Football Club’s annual raffle draw, which raised over $50,000.

Now in it’s fourth year, the raffle is the soccer club’s main fundraiser. Funds go toward providing soccer programs and training for players in the com-munity.

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up and generously donated some fantastic prizes this year,” said the club’s vice-president, Jeff Dumont.

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Up in arms Members of the Maple Ridge Ramblers cheer team took third place in the school team category as they competed at Cheer Fest in Abbotsford on Satur-day. It was the second largest cheerleading competition in the province.

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The Maple Ridge Ram-blers senior boys’ basket-ball team jumped into league play last week, with the visiting Rick Hansen Hurricanes on Thursday, the No. 1 ranked triple-A team in the province.

They proved to be “very difficult,” said Ramblers coach Ken Dockendorf, as the host team soundly de-feated Ridge 81-40.

Hansen started on fire and never cooled off, he said. The Rambler defence did not show up, and only Burke Brussow with 13 points and Tristan Cou-mont with 11 contributed in double figures.

On Friday, Ridge host-ed the No. 1 team in the league, the Abbotsford Panthers.

The game was tied at 35 at the half, and with 25 seconds to go Ridge was only down three, but lost 73-68.

Despite a stellar team de-fensive effort against the top player in the province, Chase Claypool was still able to lead the Abbotsford team with 37 points.

A strong offensive effort by the Ramblers was led by the scoring of Josh Solk with 17, Coumont with 16, Brussow 15 and Will Chartrand 13.

On Saturday the Ram-blers won an exhibition game against New West-minster 70-67 with some clutch shooting and de-fence from Coumont with 25 points, and Brussow with 17. Colorado Zelinski scored 13 and had nine re-bounds.

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Feb. 12• The Maple Ridge/Pitt

Meadows/Katzie Seniors Network, Haney Farmers Market Society and Golden Ears FEAST (Food, Education, Action Strategy Table), are working together to help support local

seniors. The organizations will be co-hosting a sold out Pub Night to raise funds for the Haney Farmers Market’s Nu-tritional Coupon Program. The Farmers Helping Seniors Pub Night is being held on at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch

88 in Maple Ridge. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and dinner is at 6:30 p.m. There will be a Toonie Toss and thanks to many generous donors, a silent auc-tion with over $2,500 worth of merchandise up for bid. Tickets are sold out, but anyone wish-

ing to donate to the fundraiser can contact Heather at (604) 786-7404 or email [email protected] for more information.

Feb. 13• Transforming Anxiety

presentation will be offered on Feb. 13 from 9 a.m. to noon at Burnett Fellowship, 20639 123rd Ave. Nate Searle, MSc BCBA, has been working in the field of behaviour analysis for 15 years now. He specializes in helping families deal with challenging behaviours. He has recently been learning about anxiety, and is excited to present “Transforming Anxiety: 10 Daily Practices to Experience Anxiety as a Friend Instead of a Foe.”

Feb. 15• Pitt Meadows Garden

Club is inviting members and anyone interested to its monthly meeting. Meet our January guest speaker Ron Kok, owner of Amsterdam Greenhouses on the topic of Starting a New Garden. At Pitt Meadows Community Hall, adjacent to Community Church (corner Harris and Ford Roads) at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome, come grow with us, enjoy coffee and homemade treats; drop-in fee is $2 for non members. For information call Ineke at 604-467-2420.

• Conversation Circles: Are you an adult trying to improve your spoken English? Would you like to meet new friends in the community? Pitt Meadows Library, in partnership with the MR/PM/Katzie Community Literacy Committee (604-721-3738), will be hosting free conversation circles at the library on Mondays from 12:30-2 p.m.

Feb. 18• Teen Film Series: Teens

are invited to a retro movie night at the Maple Ridge Public Library on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. Travel back in time to the 1980s with a vintage film. Admission is free and snacks are provided.

Feb. 25• Tarlington Training: Free

On-camera Audition Workshop at Thomas Haney Secondary on Feb. 25 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Courses begin March 31. Register early to avoid disappointment. For children or teens interested in acting for film or TV.

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by Thomas Haney second-ary Sightlines Theatre will play March 2-4 at the school (23000 - 116th Ave.) Sightlines presents Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer award-winning play about learning to appreciate each and every day. Curtain will be at 7 p.m., doors open at 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $8 for seniors and students and $10 for adults. For more informa-tion, or to purchase tickets, please contact Thomas Haney Secondary at 604-463-2001 extension 2156. Tickets will be also be available at the door.

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FLORITTORobert Charles

July 17, 1955 - January 26, 2016Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Raised by his loving parents Rino and Diana in Burnaby. He later moved to Maple Ridge in 1988 to raise his family. He passed away in his Maple Ridge home after a battle with Liver Disease. Predeceased by his mother Diana and aunt Bea.

Survived by his father Rino, aunt Ines, sisters Lisa and Elaine, sons Nick and Dan (Jessica), granddaughter Ciana, and good friends Les Halmos, Dave Perrish, Brian Elder and Bob Wiseman. He loved fi shing, hunting, camping, travelling, scuba diving and coaching his sons soccer teams. He was a great friend and father and will be greatly missed.

A Celebration of his Life will be held at Eagle Hall, 23461 Fern Cres, Maple Ridge, Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 12pm. In lieu of fl owers, donations can be made in his name to The Maple Ridge SPCA or Saints Animal Rescue. For more information about this charity and how to donate, contact Daniel Floritto at (604)837-1777.

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Virtual Server & Network Security Administrator (Intermediate)Black Press Media Group – Surrey B.C.If you’re looking for a permanent position working for an international media company as an intermediate virtual server and network security administrator, please consider applying for an immediate opening with Black Press Media Group. This is your chance to pursue your career and craft at our head office in Surrey, BC.

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Email cover letter, resume and attachments to:[email protected] referencing 012816IVSA.

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TARA MELINDAEVANS

Arrival February 28, 1978 -Departure February 10, 2015

We’re gathered at the table, the whole family is there. But wait, there’s someone missing, we have an empty chair. A year ago you left us. We really wonder why You had to go so suddenly, no chance to say goodbye. You had your life before you, your travel plans were made Your job and friends were good ones. If only you had stayed. But fate it had decided ‘twas time for you to leave While those of us who love you are left behind to grieve. So, we’ll raise our glasses to you. A toast it will be made To our beloved Tara. Your memory will not fade.

~ Loving you andmissing you terribly

Dad, Mum, Sian, Brian,Bronte & Maya

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BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL CHILDMINDING. I currently have two spaces available in a warm and nurturing family home in a family neighbourhood on River Road, close to MRE. I provide safe trans-portation to and from school or les-sons, nutritious snacks and break-fast. $500/month includes PD days and early dismissals. Full day dur-ing Spring Break is available. (604) 209-2828

EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

108 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

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108 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIESGET FREE VENDING MACHINES. Can Earn $100,000.00 + Per Year - ALL CASH. Protected Territories - Locations Provided. Full Details CALL NOW! 1-866-668-6629

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HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT? Arthritic Conditions/COPD?Restrictions in Walking/Dressing? Disability Tax Credit $2,000 Tax Credit $20,000 Refund. Apply today For Assistance: 1-844-453-5372.

109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIESSTART A NEW CAREER in Graph-ic Arts, Healthcare, Business, Edu-cation or Information Tech. If you have a GED, call: 855-670-9765


109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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A22 -- Wednesday, February 10, 2016 -- THE NEWS - www.mapleridgenews.com

The Langley Times has an opportunity for an Inside Sales Consultant.

Candidates for this position will possess the ability to create strong marketing programs and nurture existing clients for our print and online publications.

You will be innovative and have an entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy working independently.

Special features will be an important part of your job description along with developing and prospecting new business. Your career is built on relationships with customers and you understand the importance on consulting with clients about their objectives and developing marketing solutions that help them achieve their goals.

Our environment is fast-paced and you can adapt quickly to change and work in a deadline driven environment. You may have a marketing degree or experience but your personality and enthusiasm will sell your application. Knowledge and familiarity with Mac based offi ce programs is required.

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If you are up to the challenge, please send your resume by February 15th to:

Jean HincksPublisher, Langley [email protected]

No phone calls please.

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Inside Sales Consultant

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604.476.2740Circulation

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115 EDUCATION

Become a Plumber - No experience necessary!

The Sprott Shaw College Plumbing Foundations

Program prepares students for

entry level employment in the plumbing trade.

• 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.

Excavator & Backhoe Operator Training. Be employable in 4-6wks. Call 604-546-7600. www.rayway.ca

INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT SCHOOL. Hands-On Tasks. Start Weekly. GPS Training!

Funding & Housing Avail! Job Aid! Already a HEO?

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MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION! In-demand career! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-855-768-3362 to start training for your work-at-home career today!

Professional Training. Excavator and backhoe Courses. Be the best operator! IHE Heavy Equipment Operator Training, Langley BC. 1-866-399-3853www.iheschool.com

115 EDUCATION


Waterworks Technology School - Get certifi ed in 6 weeks. Earn $18-22/hr. 604.625.2272

130 HELP WANTED


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:

[email protected]

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:

[email protected]

130 HELP WANTED

Do you or anyone you know spe-cialize in EAST INDIAN CUISINE? Popular restaurant in Kamloops needs you immediately. Full Time- starting $20.00/hour. 250-374-0340

FABRICATOR /INSTALLER REQUIRED

for aluminum and irongates and fences.

Experience an asset.Please call: 604-474-0977

or Email:[email protected]


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 but not required. 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.


131 HOME CARE/SUPPORT

IN-HOME Caregiver required for June 27, 2016 (Twin girls - 6 yrs old, one with autism). Full-time perm. $10.75/hr. Pitt Meadows (Bonson Landing). email: [email protected] for more info.

134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES

KITCHEN HELPERSGM EAST INDIAN Restaurant is now hiring Dishwasher & Kitchen Helpers, full-time and part-time.

Drop in with resume to: 20726 Lougheed Hwy,

Maple Ridge, BCbetween 2-5pm.

No phone calls please.

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

218 BUSINESS/OFFICE SERVICE

Have you been denied Canada Pension Plan disability benefi ts? The Disability Claims Advocacy Clinic can help you appeal. Call 1-877-793-3222 www.dcac.ca [email protected]

236 CLEANING SERVICESHOUSECLEANER accepting new clients. $20/hr, min 3/hrs. 5 Yrs exp. Refs upon request. 604-674-7111

HOUSEKEEPER AVAIL NOW.Taking new clients. Great refs.

Supplies incl. 1-604-302-9291

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

STEER MANURE

Delivered or Picked upWynnyk Farms

604.467.4419Prompt Delivery Available

7 Days / WeekMeadows Landscape

Supply Ltd.✶ Bark Mulch

✶ Lawn & Garden Soil✶ Drain Gravel ✶ Lava Rock✶ River Rock ✶Pea Gravel

(604)465-1311meadowslandscapesupply.com

.ProWorks Home & Garden. Pressure washing, lawn maint, lndscpg. Call Matt 604-465-5566 www.proworkshg.com

.Jim’s Mowing. 310-JIMS (5467).

283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

GUTTER & ROOF Cleaning/Power Washing since 1982. WCB/Liability insurance. Simon, 604-230-0627

287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

A-1 CONTRACTING. Renos. Bsmt, kitchens, baths, custom cabinets, tiling, plumbing, sundecks, fencing,

reroofi ng. Dhillon 604-782-1936.

300 LANDSCAPING

JAGUAR LANDSCAPINGLawn & Garden Service.

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

317 MISC SERVICES

✶Dump Site Now Open✶SBroken Concrete RocksS

$25.00 Per Metric TonSMud - Dirt - Sod - ClayS

$25.00 Per Metric TonGrassSBranchesSLeavesSWeeds

$59.00 Per TonMeadows Landscape Supply

604-465-1311

329 PAINTING & DECORATING


320 MOVING & STORAGE

1PRO MOVING & SHIPPINGAcross the street - across the world

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

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

MIRACLE MOVING Licensed - Bonded - Fully Equip. Residential Commercial, 1-3 Men

BIG OR SMALL MOVESStart $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

604-999-6020


.CAN PRO Paint and Drywall. 3 Rooms $250. 604-7717052

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.

338 PLUMBING#1 IN RATES & SERVICE. 38 yrs. Lic’d/Ins. BBB. Drains, gas, renos etc. Bonded. Chad 1-877-861-2423

FIXIT PLUMBING & HEATINGH/W Tanks, Reno’s, Boilers, Furn’s. Drain Cleaning. Ins. 604-380-2932

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

A Gas Fitter ✭ PlumberFurnaces, Boilers, Hot Water

Heating, Hotwater Tanks, Drain/Duct Cleaning

& Plumbing Jobs.

✭ 604-312-7674 ✭✭ 604-507-4606 ✭

356 RUBBISH REMOVAL

mikes hauling 604-516-9237

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

130 HELP WANTED

Read the Classifieds


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DOWN TO BUSINESS

To Advertise in this space call 604-575-5555

Hot Water Tank & Furnace InstallWater Main / Drain Cleaning

PROMPT - RELIABLE - HONESTLicensed & Insured

Call Wayne 778.952.8044

[email protected]

WRD PLUMBINGPLUMBER/B-GAS FITTER

Partial Fee to benefit the Maple Ridge

Food Bank

PLUMBING

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

LANDSCAPING

CLEANING 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

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

FREEPAINT

UPGRADE WITH THIS AD

Have your house painted and provide job opportunities for students working

to fund their tuition.

“Book now before summer fills up” Painting May thru AugustFree estimates, 2 year warranty,

Work Safe BC, and BBB.

Call 778-887-3765 • www.collegepro.com Email: [email protected]

PAINTINGNotice of Proposed TM Mobile Inc. (“TELUS”) Telecommunications Facility &

Community Consultation Meeting

Description: As part of the public consultation process required by the City of Maple Ridge and Industry Canada, TELUS is inviting the public to comment on a proposed telecommunications facility consisting of a 45 metre monopole tower and ancillary radio equipment to improve wireless service in the Maple Ridge area.

Proposed Location: 25762 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge, BC, PID: 008-606-943Coordinates: 49° 13’ 5.5” N, -122° 30’ 28.6” W

TELUS is inviting the public to a Community Consultation Meeting:

Date: Thursday, March 3, 2016 From: 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Meeting Location: St. George’s Anglican Church Maple Ridge 23500 Dewdney Trunk Rd. Maple Ridge, B.C. V2X 3L8

For More Information:

Contact TELUS at:Tawny Veriginc/o Cypress Land Services Inc.Agents to TELUS Suite 120, 736 Granville StreetVancouver, BC V6Z 1G3tel: 604-620-0877email: [email protected]

The public is welcome to comment on the proposal by the end of the business day on March 17, 2016 with respect to this matter.

TELUS File: BC1572 – Dewdney Trunk Road & 256 St

NOTICE OF NOTICE OF CIVIL CLAIM

TO: Jaswinder Kaur Kular

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BRITISH COLUMBIAAction no. M175659, New Westminster Registry,

British Columbia, Canadabetween Jamie Allen Norrie, Plaintiff,and Jaswinder Kaur Kular, Defendant

TAKE NOTICE that Jamie Allen Norrie has issued a Notice of Civil Claim in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, New Westminster Registry, against you, for general damages, special damages, future care costs, costs, prejudg-ment interest, and such further and other relief as deemed meet by the Court, as a result of injuries, damage and loss which he sustained in an accident on April 16, 2013 on 240th Street at the intersection of Lougheed Highway, in Maple Ridge, BC. Your whereabouts being unknown, the Court ordered ser-vice of the Notice of Civil Claim on you by way of this advertisement as well as by posting a copy of the aforementioned Notice of Civil Claim on the door of the premises at 13795 Silver Valley Road, Maple Ridge, BC and mailing a copy to you at 13795 Silver Valley Road, Maple Ridge, BC, V4R 0C2. The grounds alleged for the relief claimed are stated in the Notice of Civil Claim. If you wish to be notifi ed of any further proceedings, the steps you must take are set out in the Notice of Civil Claim. A copy of the Notice of Civil Claim will be mailed to you on your request addressed to the District Registrar, Supreme Court of British Columbia, 651 Carnarvon Street, New Westminster, BC, Canada, V3M 1C9. If you do not fi le a Response in the aforementioned Reg-istry and take the other steps set out in the Notice of Civil Claim within twenty-eight (28) days of the date of the Notice of Civil Claim being affi xed on the door of the premises at 13795 Silver Valley Road, Maple Ridge, BC, being mailed to you at 13795 Silver Valley Road, Maple Ridge, BC, V4R 0C2, or the date on which this Notice is published in this newspaper, whichever occurs last, then you will not be entitled to further notice and the Plaintiff may pro-ceed and relief claimed be given against you in your absence. THIS NOTICE is fi led by the law fi rm of Findlay Gunnell Sandor, Barristers and Solicitors, 22311 - 119th Avenue, Maple Ridge, BC, V2X 2Z2, solicitors for the Plaintiff.

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


374 TREE SERVICES

TREE BROTHERSSPECIALIST

Tree Removal/Topping/Spiral Thinning/Hedge Trimming/Stump

Grinding. Free Estimates.WCB/Fully Insured

$25 Off with this AdJerry, 604-500-2163

PETS

477 PETS

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

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

509 AUCTIONS

2 DAY Online auction Feb. 16 and Feb 17. 1000 plus lots incl $350K ins. claim of food equip (some in orig. pkg), 7 bailiff seizures of restaurants/gro-cery stores, high end sausage making equip, 3x350 gallon steam kettles w-agitators, ice cream equip and complete cappuccino bar equip. Visit www.activeauctionmart.com to view, register and bid. Onsite viewing opens Feb 9. Call 604-371-1190 or email:[email protected] for more info.

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

560 MISC. FOR SALE

POLE 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.Replacement 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/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

STEEL BUILDING SALE...“REALLY BIG SALE-EXTRA WINTER DISCOUNT ON NOW!!” 21X22 $5,190 25X24 $5,988 27X28 $7,498 30X32 $8,646 35X34 $11,844 42X54 $16,386. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422 www.pioneersteel.ca

563 MISC. WANTED

Wanted: ROYAL ALBERT CHINA, all patterns, Old Country Roses - etc. Call: (604)308-7267

REAL ESTATE

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

1989 14x70 in Ruskin MHP w/View Fam./Pet ok. $42,900 w/$575padFinancing avail. 604-830-1960

New SRI Manufactured homesSingles $74,900. Doubles $94,900.

PARK SPACES AVAILABLEREPOSSESSIONS 1974-2010

www.glenbrookhomes.netChuck 604-830-1960

Trades. Financing. Permits.

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

Glenwood Manor Apartments

Clean & Spacious 1 & 2 Bdrm avail. No pets. 21387 Dewdney Trunk Rd.

Maple Ridge 604-466-5799

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

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

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

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.

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

3 A/C Prime Location Offi ces 754sf upper fl r facing east with bathroom & kitchenette. United Blvd/Fawcett, Coquitlam. Rent incl tax, strata fee, heat & hydro. Garry 604-461-7172

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

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

821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS

2002 ACURA RSXSUPER CLEAN! $4999.

Call: 604-561-0053.

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

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

$$$ PAID FOR SOME. 604.683.2200The Scrapper

TRANSPORTATION

851 TRUCKS & VANS

2003 FORD 250 XLSuper Duty. 4 X 4

With canopy. 346,000 kms.

$3,850. obo. Call Kevin: 604-851-4509

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

EXTRA INCOME Classified ads are a direct line to extra income. Somewhere there is a buyer for the things you no longer want or need. 604-575-5555

YOURCOMMUNITY.

YOUR CLASSIFIEDS

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

Langley Farm MarketLangley Farm Market

Prices in effect Wed., Feb. 10 - Sun., Feb. 14, 2015. While Quantities Last.

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FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:• PRODUCE STOCKER • MEAT CUTTER• PRODUCE STOCKER • MEAT CUTTER

• CASHIER • GROCERY CLERK• CASHIER • GROCERY CLERK

FreybeBlack Forest Ham (100g) ..................

$109

WE ARE HIRINGWE ARE HIRING

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NEW HOURS: Monday to Friday 8:30am - 8:00pm, Saturday to Sunday 8:30am - 7:00pmNEW HOURS: Monday to Friday 8:30am - 8:00pm, Saturday to Sunday 8:30am - 7:00pmHolidays 9:00am - 6:00 pmHolidays 9:00am - 6:00 pm

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For freshness & quality you can count on!For freshness & quality you can count on!

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GROCERYGROCERYAnnie Chun’s Noodle BowlsAssorted 168-246g ...................................................................

$399

Yorkshire Orange Pekoe Tea250g .........................................................................................

$499ea.

Level Ground Heirloom RiceAssorted 700g ..........................................................................

$599

Eat Wholesome Organic Beans (Italy)Chick Pea/Red Kidney/Mixed 389mL ....................................

$139

Grimms Pizza Pepperoni (100g) .....................99¢ Creamy Havarti

Cheese (100g) ....................................$139

MEAT MEAT (12438 Harris Rd., Pitt Meadows & 11935 207th St., Maple Ridge only)(12438 Harris Rd., Pitt Meadows & 11935 207th St., Maple Ridge only)

ea.

ea.

ea.

MAPLE RIDGE#1-22621 Lougheed Hwy.604-466-0281

MAPLE RIDGE11935 207th Street

604-465-5330

99¢ea.

HEADLETTUCE

product of California

BROCCOLI CROWN

product of California(1.94 kg)

88¢lb.

LOCALGALA APPLE

product of BC(2.18 kg)

99¢lb.

U.S. POMELO

product of USA

$32 for

CLEMENTINEMANDARINEproduct ofCalifornia (2 lb. bag)

CARROTSproduct ofCalifornia

(5 lb. bag)

$72 for

RUSSET POTATO

10 lb bag (Product of BC/US)

$72 for $72 for

RUSSET

98¢lb.

LARGE NAVEL ORANGE

product of California ($2.16kg)

PRODUCE

lb.lb.lb.

Top Sirloin SteaksFamily Packs • 13.21/kg ...................

$599 Chicken DrumsticksFamily Packs • 5.49/kg ....................

$249 Pork Shoulder RoastBoneless • 6.59/kg .............................

$299Canadian Beef AAA Hormone Free Hormone Free

ea.ea.ea.

Dark Rye Bread650g ....................................................

$199 Oatmeal Raisin Cookies280g ...................................................

$249 Madeira Loaf430g ...................................................

$229

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maple ridge news, february 10, 2016

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