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B.C. RenaissanceFestival has relocatedto Maple Ridge.by Troy [email protected]

Transforming into a16th century king,queen, knight,fairy, or archer

isn’t something you dohalfway.

Once the performerswho are taking part in theB.C. Renaissance Festivalat Albion Fairgrounds thisFriday to Sunday (Aug. 15to 17) put on their periodcostumes, they aren’t soeasy to just slip out of, infavour of 21st century duds.

Hence the dilemma ahandful of the performersfaced Aug. 5 when theyarrived at the Maple RidgeMuseum for a photo shootto promote a festival that’sbeing held in Maple Ridgefor the first time in its eight-year history.

They had another photoop scheduled just an hourafter the one at the museum,so Tanya Kozak (Summer theFairy), Chilam (Sheriff McNabb),Charlie Cook (Queen Catherineof Aragon), Melissa Housser(Flora the Mad Archer), KyleChristensson (King Henry VIII),and Christina Carr (Capt. CharityRackham) elected to keep theircostumes on, and went for lunchat the down-town TimHortons to killsome time.

It must havebeen quite asight.

Dress rehears-als aside, historywill be made, orat least acted out,at the fairgroundsover three days.

Since 2007, the festivalhas been held in Aldergrove(2007) and in Langley (2008to ’13), including Aldor Acres,

Thunderbird Show Park, andPacific Stables.

But, as Carr put it, “changesin laws not permitting functions,events, or even weddings onagriculturally zoned lands” inLangley caused Renfest organizersto move the event north of the

Fraser River,to MapleRidge, andin particular,the fair-grounds at23448 105thAve.

“MapleRidge andCoquitlambattled

over us,” Carr said. “We saidto both Townships, whicheverone of you could provide the rightkind of property at the right price,you get us. Maple Ridge woundup being the winner.”

Renfests are historically based

events or theme parks influencedby history. They are about enter-tainment, atmosphere, and per-formance, noted Carr.

Education is woven into variousaspects of the event and disguisedas entertainment. “Edutainment”is the focus.

The main storyline cast is usu-ally set in either Henry VIII’stime period of Elizabethan, andthe entertainment, vendors, anddemonstrations are open to anytime period or history influencedperformance or product.

This year, there are 11 primarycast members and between sevento 10 “villagers.”

The main cast performs earlyin Henry the Eighth’s timewith Catherine of Aragon at

his side. The Jade Dragon Piratescontinue to arrive and causetrouble and the story from theyear previous receives anotherchapter.

Back this year, after a one-

year hiatus, is the jousting dem-onstration and competition. Alocal team, the Hazelnut GroveClydesdales will compete inthe first half of the show, asthe games portion. After that,J.A.W.S. (Jousting Alliance ofWashington State), an educa-tional, not-for-profit jousting teamfrom the U.S., will do a competi-tive joust.

“Full armour, full lances, fulleverything,” said Carr, who start-ed the B.C. Renaissance Festival10 years ago, with the eventgoing public two years into itsexistence.

“I just love history, period,” shesaid. “There’s a lot of freedom toit, there’s a lot of hard work to it.To me, it’s where a lot of modernculture comes from and it shouldbe respected.”

Each of the main charactershave their own reasons fortaking on a different per-

sona.

Christensson, forexample, researched theera, and his character, anddiscovered he and KingHenry VIII are similar inmore ways than one.

“King Henry likedpoetry, and I like poetry;he was very ‘artsy’ andI’m very ‘artsy’ as a per-son, so in some ways I dididentify with the charactera lot,” said Christensson,who at 6’2” matched theking in height. “And I justthought for me, it was justa very challenging role,because he’s this hard-edged type of guy, kind of

opposite of what I am, personal-ity-wise.”

More volunteers for set up andtear down, and actors are neededfor this year’s Renfest. To takepart, email [email protected].

Tickets, at $20 for adults ($10on Friday), $17 for youth ($8 onFriday), and $10 for children andseniors ($6 on Friday) are avail-able online or at the gate.

The festival runs from 3-9 p.m.Friday, Aug. 17, and from 9 a.m.to 8:30 p.m. both Saturday andSunday, Aug. 18 and 19.

The Friends In Need FoodBank is benefiting. A dis-count will be given to those

who arrive at the gate with non-perishable donations to the foodbank that helps people in MapleRidge and Pitt Meadows.

For more on the event, visitwww.bcrenfest.com.

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Weekend festivities

Ren-speakSome terms now, and then,• What time is it? – How standsthe hour?• Where are the restrooms?– Whither be the privies?• What is your name? – What bethy tide?• Yes – Aye/Yea• Never – N’er• Please – Prithee/Pray• Darn it! – Alack/Alas• Thief – Cutpurse• Thank you – Grammercy

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B.C. Renaissance Festival performers include, left to right, Tanya Kozak (Summer the Fairy), Chilam (Sheriff McNabb), Charlie Cook (Queen Catherine ofAragon), Melissa Housser (Flora the Mad Archer), Kyle Christensson (King Henry VIII), and Christina Carr (Capt. Charity Rackham) will be performing atthe Albion Fairgrounds this weekend during the eighth annual Renfest. The event moved from Langley to Maple Ridge this year.

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Parks and leisure services is hostingthe annual event at Memorial Peace Parkabout noon, but it’s part of the parksdepartment’s summer camp programs,explained programmer Jennifer Baillie.

“This is great day for kids in the campto connect with our first responders inour community. Hero Day is about build-ing positive relationships and spendingquality time with the heroes kids look upto,” Baillie said. Info: www.recreg4u.ca.

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TIMES reporter EricZimmer recalls his a-maze-ing experience at an annualattraction in Pitt Meadowswhich opened to the publicthis past Saturday.

by Eric [email protected]

The dirt path led me around acorner and promptly presentedme with a fork in the route andtwo choices: right or left?

I stood there for a moment,weighing my options and foolingmyself into thinking I actuallyknew which way to go.

Briefly I considered turningback and taking the easy wayout, but as I turned around andlooked where I had come from, Iquickly realized that attemptingthat would be just as much of agamble as well.

With no one to tell me whereto go and unable to really seethat far in front of me, I eventu-ally settled for a path on the lefthand side.

All was going great for a littlebit until I turned another cornerwhere the path abruptly endedand I was faced with a wall ofgreen stalks.

That’s when it hit me.I was lost.And this wasn’t even the hard-

est route.I paid my first visit to

Meadows Maze at HopcottFarms on Thursday morning, inadvance of this past Saturday’sopening - an opening whichmaze co-manager Sarah Hopcottsaid was “fantastic.”

The purpose of my trip was tocheck out what’s in store for vis-itors to the always-populareducational centre, andexplore the maze myself.

What I didn’t expect washow thoroughly plannedand thought out everythingwas.

And as I stood in themaze, wondering if Iwould make it out of there andback to the office at a reasonabletime without having to call forhelp, I realized how impressed Iwas with the whole thing.

Located at 13672 ReichenbachRd., Meadows Maze offers threedifferent courses, totaling almostnine kilometres of trails, set

amongst nearly a million corn-stalks.

But the design is far from ran-dom.

The maze design gets draftedduring the winter with the helpof an Idaho-based corn mazedesign company, explainedHopcott, who joined me on aquick tour of the grounds beforeI attempted my solo mission.

The company will take thedesign concept and the artwork,format it into maze, program

it into a GPS unit, andwhen the corn is just a fewinches tall, the companyplows out the paths with atractor.

“The corn is planted inthe spring, and the mazedesign gets cut out inJune,” said Hopcott.

This means that the mazedesign changes every year.

The design of this year’s mazeis a tribute to the 100th anni-versary of 4-H clubs in B.C.,Hopcott added.

More than just a walk througha cornfield however, the mazesoffer an interactive experience,

where participants collect cluesthat help them solve such mys-teries as which animal stolefarmer Joe’s pie in the FarmTracks maze, or Farm SceneInvestigation in the second lar-gest maze – a game that Hopcottsaid resembles Clue.

Admission to Meadows Mazeis $13 for adults, $10 for chil-dren aged three to 12, andchildren under two are free.Meadows Maze is open untilOct. 19.

Outside of the maze, attrac-tions like a petting farm, beeobservatory, a corn cannon(which isn’t included in theadmission price – but people

can win a prize by firing cobs ofcorn and hitting specific targets)and Cornference rooms (largeprivate clearings in the cornfieldthat groups can rent for vary-ing costs, which come equippedwith tents, tables and barbecues)are all offered as well.

At the moment however, themore pressing issue is howexactly to find my way out ofhere.

Eventually (-and after a fewmore wrong twists and turns) Irounded another corner whicheventually led me down towardsthe exit of the maze.

I’ve made it through.Now it’s your turn.

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Brad Hopcott and his sister-in-law Sarah gavethe TIMES’ Eric Zimmer a quick tour of thegrounds before he attempted it on his own.

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Putting out a house firein Maple Ridge was agroup effort last week.by Christopher [email protected]

A single mother is grate-ful to four young men forcoming to her aid as shetried to put out a mattressfire in her Maple Ridgehome Thursday.

Channi Gonzales wasgetting set to retire for thenight at about 10:30 p.m.when she heard a ruckuscoming from her children– who were supposed to besleeping.

Her oldest son, Deshaun,seven, had been playingwith a lighter, lit somepaper and dropped it ontothe bed.

She ordered her kidsto go outside as she triedfighting the fire withbuckets of water from thewashroom, but her young-est son, Demani, three,came back inside, wantingto get his teddy bear.

“I didn’t know he ranback in,” Gonzales said,recalling the night.

“I was running from thebathroom to the bedroomwith a bucket of water, try-ing to put the fire out.”

During the melee ofGonzales, Grifyn McErlean– who lives nearby onOlund Crescent – waswalking past the house inthe 22000 block of TeloskyAvenue, when he heard acommotion.

“There was this onechild [Deshaun] scream-ing, ‘help, help, fire!’”McErlean recalled. “Ipulled out my cell to call9-1-1 and a neighbourcalled out saying theyalready had. I asked theboy if there was anybodyin the house and he saidhis brother and mom werein there.”

McErlean told the seven-year-old to stay on thelawn and ran inside.

He ran up the stairs andnoticed Gonzales filling a

bucket with water and athree-year-old child sittingin a smoky room, wherea mattress set was on fire.He scooped the toddler upand ran outside.

“There was a little bit ofhesitation going in there,”McErlean said. “I stoppedhalfway up the stairs, won-dering, ‘should I do this,should I do this?’ and I didit.”

“There was a lot ofsmoke ... It wasn’t blackyet, but a lighter, whiter,grayish colour. I could notsee clearly but could seehim [Demani].”

Three next-door neigh-bours then rushed inside tohelp Gonzales extinguishthe blaze.

“We were in the back-yard and we saw smokeand heard her older soncrying,” said KainanKostuk, 20.

“We ran instinctively intothe house. We dumpedsome garbage cans andused that to throw wateron the fire.”

The fire was put out

before firefighters arrivedand Gonzales was takenaway by ambulance forsmoke inhalation.

She was extremelythankful to the young menwho came to her aid.

“If it wasn’t for them, Iwouldn’t have a house,”Gonzales said.

“The guys carried meout. I was falling andcouldn’t stand up any-more.”

The fire caused damageto the mattress set, a night-stand, and a small strip on

the floor.Gonzales, who is on

disability, received aneviction notice from thehomeowner the day afterthe fire.

“They said I did exten-sive damage to the prop-erty,” Gonzales said.

Regardless, she said,she is thankful that noone was seriously hurt orinjured and for the helpshe received.

“Thank you to the youngguys for helping… Thankyou.”


Deshaun Gonzales came out of his Maple Ridge home Thursday night screaming “fire” and directed a passingneighbour, Grifyn McErlean, to the fact that his little brother, three-year-old Demani (centre) was still inside.

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Serving music up for lunch


Barb Daly with her granddaughter, one-year-old Scarlett Johnston, enjoyed live music by localmusician Caden Knudson at Memorial Peace Park last week, part of the Lunchtime Concert Series.

A series of concerts are being held atMemorial Peace Park this month.by Christopher [email protected]

It was great day to be at Memorial PeacePark for Barb Daly and her one-year-oldgranddaughter, Scarlett Johnston.

Last week, the pair was sitting in the shade,having lunch, and enjoying live music cour-tesy of the Downtown Maple Ridge BusinessImprovement Association’s (DMRBIA)

Lunchtime Concert Series.The series runs every Tuesdays through

Thursdays for the rest of August, with alocal musician entertaining people during thelunch hour.

“This is a great idea,” Daly said, sitting ona blanket with her granddaughter. “It’s goodto have the culture, it’s good to have it forfree and it’s certainly good to have it here asit’s so nice out.”

The purpose of the series is to showcaselocal musicians and to attract people todowntown, DMRBIA’s Ineke Boekhorst.

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Tree cutsponderedRedesigning the parkinglot could mean axing afew park trees.by Christopher [email protected]

A few trees in WhonnockLake Park may face the axeas preliminary work beginson a redesign of the muni-cipal park’s parking lot.

Surveyors have been outmarking trees in the park-ing lot, identifying whichones pose a hazard and

which onesneed removaldue to theredesign.

However,park planningtechnicianSylvia Pendlsaid there willbe a concerted

effort to save every tree.“The trees are a great

big part of the character ofthe park and we are tryingto design around them,”Pendl said.

“We might have toremove an odd tree or twobut we are hoping to keepthat down to a minimum.”

Pendl said the parkinglot is regularly overflowingin the summer and driversare parking, unknowingly,on environmentally sensi-tive areas because the lotis often full. There is alsoconcern for pedestrian anddriver safety due to thecurrent layout.

Mayor Ernie Daykin hasfaith park staff will keeptree removal minimal.

“It’s going to be donevery carefully,” he said.

“What’s happening rightnow is people are park-ing everywhere on theold campsites and I thinkthat’s having a greaterimpact on the environ-ment. It’s compacting thesoil and causing root dam-age,” Daykin added.

Coun. Michael Mordenwasn’t aware choppingtrees in the parking lot wasa possibility, but he seeswhy it might be necessary.

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Our View

Autos too hotfor pet safety

People keep gaining notoriety, orrather infamy, for leaving pets inside avehicle. Wake up folks.

One of the worst examples of latecame in May, when dogwalker EmmaPaulsen claimed that six dogs were kid-napped from Langley. We learned laterthat they overheated in the back of hertruck and died.

For those who haven’t noticed, soci-ety’s attitudes have changed. People areno longer willing to let sleeping dogslie, as it were, when they see animalsin vehicles where there is the threat ofoverheating.

People will contact police and – ifothers deem appropriate – the vehicleowner could face smashed windows, notto mention legal consequences.

Even when temperatures aren’t likethis week’s heat wave, vehicles get toohot for animals to be safe. Yet for toomany, the message isn’t registering.

“In July, our call centre dispatched310 calls for animals in hot vehiclesacross the province,” said Jennifer York,manager of the Maple Ridge SPCA.

“That number is alarmingly high,considering how much awareness is nowaround the issue,” she told The TIMES.

Unless a vehicle is equipped withtemperature controls that stay on whenthe engine is off, there’s no way to keepthe vehicle temperature from rising.

On a 24 Celsius degree day, a vehiclewill get to 38 degree in about 10 minutesand 48° in about 30 minutes.

If you can’t comfortably sit in thevehicle, why assume a pet in fur can?

Pets and people have incrediblebonds, but that’s never licence to puttheir lives in danger. Leave animals athome where they have access to waterand shade.

Otherwise there may be an opportun-ity to spend time in a courtroom, not tomention the court of public opinion.

And that’s when things really heat up.– H.C.

“THIS made Hitler cry,”Oy vey. An email showed up

in my work spam filter with thatsubject line.

We get a good chuckle aboutsome of the stuff that comesthrough from the approximately200 emails most of us in thenewsroom get in the average day.

“Are you about to go on a datewith a criminal?”

“Unable to process your mostrecent payment.”

“Cordless outdoor motionsensor.”

“Has your auto warranty expired?”“Discount male enhancement” and

“Demonstrate your love to her” and more vulgarversions.

There’s the usual butt load of emails offeringdiscount Viagra and Cialis. A healthy majority ofthe spam emails are weighted toward the prod-ucts and services devoted to losing pounds.

And there’s no lack of fake invoices for stuffnever ordered, never purchased, and certainlynever received. But we’re just supposed to blind-ly pay them.

There’s pitches for photo retouching services.Sorry, don’t use ’em. The most we will do is fixred eye a few times a year in the odd photo.

The spam keeps coming. I blame you.They keep coming because enough people fall

for them that it’s worthwhile for the spammersto continue.

This is an industry that has tapped into a keyfacet of the human psyche – curiosity.

What made Hitler cry? What do I owe on theseinvoices from companies I’ve never dealt withand statements from American banks I’ve nevereven heard of?

Okay, I’ve looked at a couple, that one aboutthe Dutch furniture polish and one with a subjectline about a community event (turned out to bea pitch from a Chinese plant that make sculp-tures), but none of the pervy ones and certainly

never any links or attachments.So far Canada’s Anti-Spam

Legislation (CASL) has had noeffect on the quantity or qual-ity of the emails being snaggedin my spam filters. I suspect itwill be the same for most peoplebecause these (what’s the fash-ionable term this week for thesescams/attempts/etc.) don’t ori-ginate in Canada and even thosethat do won’t likely worry toomuch about these laws. CASLonly came in recently, there are

grace periods to allow for people to make chan-ges and it would take years to prosecute, so theyhave a bit of time to continue deluging you andI.

Oh, how I sometimes long for the good ol’days when people had to put some effort intoscamming you. These young pups with theirtechnology need only buy a sucker list and cre-ate a form letter.

In my day, people had to have the courage tocome to your door to pretend to be your grand-child and ask for money or claim to be canvass-ing for a charity created in their fertile imagina-tions but 10 minutes before they presented them-selves in front of you.

And the Nigerian financial scams. People usedto have to type up form letters, get them printed,search out addresses, and pay for postage (oneassumes, unless they were stealing it). Then thesob story would arrive and in other newsroomsof my past, we would regale each other withthe sad tale, like the widow trying to unburdenherself of the millions left by her dead husbandthrough connections with the UN, some bank ora multinational firm.

So the lesson here is don’t open anythingunless it’s clearly identified as being from some-one you know… or me. I have a great plan toget my millions out of an international bankaccount and just need your name, address, bankaccount, and PIN number.

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My two centsby Heather Colpitts

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Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine.

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• Maple Ridge’s top cop commentedon the recent two murders in thiscommunity, saying these two inci-dents should not take away from thegains that have been made or thevision for the future. Readers reacted:

“Kinda seems almost like false assuranceto me, the fact is that there is dangerouscriminal activity that happens in any citybut that this happened the way it did Ipersonally think that it is just a matter oftime before an innocent citizen is caughtin the crossfire.”

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“Do you know what happens when floodgates open? Water pours everywhere...Surrey is pouring over into Ridge!”

– Amanda Dawn

“Try working at the Re-Max, where thestabbing happened. This morning wewere having to step over homelesspeople and drug addicts, and when theRCMP were called, they said that wehave to put up with more issues aroundthe building because of the death. Is thisreally what this town has come too! ”

– Kristi Roberts

“I very much hope justice is served, sothe families can have the closure they sovery much need and deserve.”

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“Two more murders that will go unsolvedin Maple Ridge. Just like the TiggerBourgeois case to name one of many!Two years now and no arrests. I feel sorryfor the families expecting justice in MapleRidge!”

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Animal welfare

Story leads towitchhuntingDear Editor,

I’m wondering how you decide whichdog altercations to report in your paper[Pitbull attacks, kills dog] July 23 Kidsmeet their heroes

, The TIMES].I have personally witnessed altercations

that have not appeared in your paper. Amemorable one occurred in Jerry Sulina

dog park: a mastiffbit a Chihuahuacross (theChihuahua started itby the way) and thesmaller dog natur-ally had to be hos-pitalized.

I don’t remembera story about thatone.

I don’t recall seeing any stories abouthow owners of small dogs often don’tcorrect their dog’s anti-social behaviour,and how they antagonize larger dogs, etc.

If you’re going to report dogfights,please put some thought into the conse-quences of the choices you make.

Villainizing certain breeds leads towitchhunt type behaviour that pits neigh-bour against neighbour and results indestruction of dogs because of ignorantand/or irresponsible behaviour by theirowners.

In an encounter between a large dogand a small dog, the small dog will natur-ally lose; but that does not absolve thesmall dog owner from responsibility.

All dog owners should have total con-trol of their dogs at all times.

Gina Louise, Maple Ridge

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Editor

Dear Editor,The teachers strike and lockout should

be of concern to everyone, because thechildren are the future and should beencouraged to develop to their fullestpotential.

It is already difficult for teachers to givetheir best, but with the new governmentdemands, it will be almost impossible.

Other unions working within the gov-ernment seem to win much larger settle-ments without much difficulty, but teach-ers are sometimes even belittled throughthe media as glorified babysitters!

Why is that?Government would like teachers to be

an essential service, but they don’t havethe same life-or-death responsibility ofhealth care workers, firefighters, or police.

And, if class sizes are increased and toomany children with learning disabilitiesare in the mix, school boards may have to

insist that those children are drugged withRitalin.

Disruptive children, though, can some-times be the smartest, however they won’tdevelop without help. But governmentsdon’t want free-thinking children, justobedient unquestioning ones.

And after graduation, most of the specialneeds could be on medication for life.

Who would that serve?Gary Huntbatch, Abbotsford

Government must payDear Editor,

Despite advertisements to the contrary,the B.C. government continues to paynothing for class size and class compos-ition. This “net zero” shell game has tostop. Our kids are too important.

Brent Crich, Maple Ridge[Note: Full versions of the letter is online

at www.mrtimes.com. Search “Crich”]

Education

Teachers are not babysitters

Dear Editor,If you have rats or other rodents, start

with yourself [Rodents a growing prob-lem, July 24 Letters, TIMES].

I live on some acres and we had rats,and I am sure we still do.

So all feed for the animals are in closedcontainers, even in my house I have mygroceries in closed containers.

I do feed the birds, but the minute Isee a rat there, that birdfeeder is empty. I

try not to use rat poison, because eagles,hawks, blue herons, owls, and otherbirds eat them – and I do not want to killthose.

Having a cat or a dog does help.Do not have garbage laying around, and

if you have to, yes poison, but only forawhile.

If there is nothing for them to eat, ratswill leave.

Geeske de Boer, Pitt Meadows

Rodent problems

Rats disappear without food

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In the spring of 2014, families were requestedto submit applications to register for school busservice for the upcoming year. Bus routes are beingdeveloped based on the applications received. If youwere unable to submit an application in the spring, itwill be necessary to do so as soon as possible.

The deadline for application and payment isAugust 15, 2014.

Students not registered may be refused service.Applications can be made on-line on the districtwebsite or forms can be picked up from the mainreception desk at the District Education Office at22225 Brown Ave., Maple Ridge. Questions can bedirected to the Transportation Department at604-466-6236 or email [email protected].

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EndlesssummerAyla Gauthier, six, tooka drink during her visitto the Maple Ridgespray park on Thursdayafternoon, Aug. 7. Therewas a slight reprieve fromthe heat late last week,before the hot weatherreturned to Maple Ridge,Pitt Meadows, and theFraser Valley over theweekend, with no rain insight.Troy Landreville/TIMES

A8 Tuesday, August 12, 2014 Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows TimesOpinion

Good news! Apparently it ispossible for Maple Ridge totake a sober, second thoughtand divorce itself from Metro

Vancouver’s regional planning process, ifit wants to.

Last Saturday, the Vancouver Sun ledwith a front page story and two additionalfull pages by Kelly Sinoski. The well-writ-ten story explained the adopted plan forMetro Vancouver for the next 30 years.

At this point, our currentMaple Ridge council is sup-porting a decision made in2011 that gave away ourcontrol of the community’sfuture to Metro Vancouver.

Under the 2011 agree-ment, the region’s 21 muni-cipalities were requiredto submit a plan called aRegional Context Statementwith urban containmentboundaries.

What is interesting in theentire article, is Maple Ridge is not men-tioned. With a three-per-cent weightedvote, we don’t count. Our context state-ment, which is based on our OfficialCommunity Plan (OCP), is intended toguide long-term growth.

Long-time Langley Township CouncillorBob Long has verbalized Langley’s deci-sion not to submit a context statement tothe regional government, so far. Yes, Bobis a Maple Ridge boy and was the founderof an upstart, tabloid paper in MapleRidge.

Coun. Long said, “Metro is supposed toassist regional municipalities, but it is nowbecoming ‘we’re telling you what’s wrongand right in your communities’.”

If Maple Ridge wishes to make changes,they must go to the Metro board for a 2/3majority vote.

Langley Township rezoned some landsto support Trinity Western University and

its future growth. That decision causeda court fight between Metro and theTownship, and the court ruled that Metrohad no right to dictate land use for localmunicipalities.

Of course, Metro appealed the decisionusing regional taxpayers’ dollars, thencausing Langley’s taxpayers to fund theirdefense. Theoretically, Langley taxpayersare funding both sides of the legal process.

According to Kelly’s article, BurnabyMayor Derek Corrigan, theiconic master of regionalmanipulation, said, “There’salways a creative tension inlocal government becausewe’re not a mega-city; youare really dealing with asituation where it is con-stantly an evolving pro-cess.”

“It’s a little bit like a mar-riage. You work together tomake it work or you breakapart.”

Oh my God, Derek said, we are allowedto break apart. As Coun. Long said,“When it comes to things Metro doeswell, we love it; parks, sewers, but withthe planning thing, we just have to learnto get along.”

It is sadly ironic we are not even worthyof a mention in Sinoski’s article, andapparently no one has communicated anyplanning on how to handle the approvedGenstar development of tens of thousandsof homes in the future Silverdale townplan – on our eastern boundary in theFraser Valley Regional District.

Hopefully Maple Ridge council can-didates for November’s election willresearch what we have done and whatour options are for the future. It’s called“Vision.” Just saying…

Gordy Robson’s column appears Tuesdays in print and/oronline versions of The TIMES. Reactions can be sent to

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Steve Dillen, FrankPayne, Rob Birnie andColleen Birnie – all ofMaple Ridge – gaveit their all during theTough Mudder Whistlerchallenge earlier thissummer. All four of theteam mates finishedthe 19-km course andearned the right tobe considered part ofMudder Nation.

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August 12: Shakedown• Three classic artists from theCanadian Prairies are performingin communities across WesternCanada, in the Western ShakedownClassical Concert tour. They arestopping in Maple Ridge for a showtonight, 7 p.m., 23575 124th Ave.Tickets are $15 at the door.

August 13: Purple pirate• Pitt Meadows Library is hostingthe Purple Pirate. He has a treasurebox full of laughs and pirate magiche’s offering up for the whole fam-ily at the library, 12099 Harris Rd.,from 2 to 2:45 p.m.

August 13: Hero Day• Parks & Leisure Services, police,and firefighters join forces to hostHero Day at Memorial Peace Parkat noon. Participants in the summerday camps are taking part in thismeet-and-greet event where kidscan watch the Air 1 helicopter land,visit first responders, and climb onapparatus. Info: www.recreg4u.ca.

August 13: Puppets in park• Come and meet the library’ssmallest stars – their talented pup-pets! Pack a dinner to bring alongto the library’s early evening enter-tainment. Puppets in the Park takesplace at the Bandstand in MemorialPeace Park from 6:45-7:15 p.m. andwill present Amazing Animals.

Aug. 13: Summer Seranade• Summer in Pitt Meadows is siz-zling with the swinging sounds ofthe Bruce James Orchestra at freeweekly concerts in Pitt Meadows’Spirit Square every Wednesdayevening from 7 to 9 p.m.

August 18: Music on Wharf• Maple Ridge Historical Societypresents the Whisky Mistrels at theMusic on the Wharf concert series.The concert is at 7:30 p.m. at thePort Haney Wharf. Donations willbe collected at each performance.Consider bringing lawn chairs, sun-glasses and a sweater for sundown.

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Vicki Kipps, executive directorof the Maple Ridge-PittMeadows Community Services,spoke at the recent launchof Alisa’s Wish. This is a childand youth advocacy centrethat opened July 22 and willprovide services for childrenand youth 18 years or youngerwho are victims of abuse and/orwitnesses to violence. The pilotproject is the result of two yearsof work with various levels ofgovernment, police, and otheragencies – some of which werewere represented at the event(far left and below).

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Langley MP Mark Warawa andPitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission MP Randy Kamp wereat the Albion wharf recentlyahead of the opening of thesockeye salmon fishing seasonon the Fraser River. The seasonopened Monday for threehours from 3 to 6 p.m.Eric ZImmer/TIMES

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The little boy from Maple Ridgehad his life changed not once,but twice in the past month.

The public first heard of seven-year-old Brayden Grozdanichs

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That’swhen hisbuddy QuinnCallander, alsoseven, decidedto set up alemonadestand to raisethe necessary $20,000 to help hisHammond Elementary classmateand fellow Beaver.

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There was hard-hitting fast action during game two of the playoff series between the Maple Ridge Burrards andthe Burnaby Lakers. The series was all tied up after Saturday night’s home game and carries on this week.

Playoff action is heatingup between Maple Ridgeand Burnaby as the seriescontinues this week.


After losing game one of theirplayoff series on the road againstBurnaby last week, the MapleRidge Burrards lacrosse squadreturned the favour Saturday nightback home at Planet Ice.

In a game that saw a string ofpenalties (which equalled com-bined total of 307 minutes,) the

11-5 victory for the Burrards wasno cakewalk.

It was the Burrards who cameout swinging in the first periodand opened the scoring courtesyof a goal by Riley Loewen.

The Lakers rallied back withtwo unanswered goals, beforeGarrett McIntosh and Jarret Daviseach put the ball in the net and atthe end of the first, the Burrardsled 3-2.

The Lakers found the back ofthe net first in the second period,but the celebration was short-livedas Ben McIntosh put the Burrardsback in the lead with his goal.

It was the first of two goals forMcIntosh, who was joined on thescoresheet by Andrew Murphy, aswell as Davis who recorded his

second of the game.The second period was also the

start of the parade to the penaltybox thanks to a five-minute majorthat was doled out to Burnaby’sNathan Klein, who was joined byhis teammate Scott Rouse.

The Burrards took full advan-tage of the five-on-three lineup, asboth Murphy and Ben McIntoshfound the back of the Lakers’ netand put the home team up bythree points.

The Lakers managed anothergoal before Garrett McIntosh andDavis each scored their secondgoal of the night and brought theBurrards to an 8-4 lead at the sec-ond intermission.

The Burrards turned up theheat in the third period as Riley

Loewen scored, Ryan McMichaelfound the mesh, and Tyler Codronput one in an empty net to givethe Burrards an 11-4 lead.

The Lakers managed one moregoal for the final 11-5 score.

It was after a hit on a Burnabyplayer by Mitchell Banister thata steady stream of players madetheir way to the penalty boxthroughout the last 10 minutes ofthe game.

The series was set to continueMonday night in Burnaby andresults were not available by theTIMES press deadline.

The series will ramble ontonight (Tuesday, Aug. 12) whenthe teams return to Planet Ice forhome advantage.

Game time is 7:45 p.m.

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Meadow RidgeKnights Football Clubhosted their annualKnights of the RoundTournament this pastweekend at SamuelRobertson TechnicalSecondary’s RotaryField.

The Knights’ atomand peewee teamsplayed on Saturday,and the junior ban-tam teams played onSunday.

“It was a greatweekend of sun andfootball,” said JillOgloff, registrar for theKnights’ club and man-ger of the midget team.

The tournament is thefirst organized scrim-mage most teams face.

“The tournament wasa success in accom-plishing exactly what itwas supposed to,” saidMark Ogloff, presidentof the club and headcoach of the midgets.“All teams at everylevel improved theirplay and performance.”

The Meadow Ridgegold and blue atomteams also came firstand second in their div-isions, which includedteams from NorthDelta, North Surrey andNew Westminster.

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