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Despite assurances that the city will try to minimize the impact from the new temporary shelter that opens soon in the downtown, Louis Bayard is worried.

Mostly so about grocery carts being parked outside his Louis Leather store, across from the new shelter on Lougheed Highway in downtown Maple Ridge.

And also about how he’ll react

if he sees someone else using the front of his store as a bathroom, as happened Monday morning.

“Forty of them in one room, they’ll have their buggies all over the place.”

Homeless people are already starting to use the back alley be-hind the temporary shelter as a bathroom, he added.

“They go there and pee right in the corner.”

On Thursday, RainCity Hous-ing is hosting an open house at the location of the new shelter, in the old Sleep Shop building at 222nd Street and Lougheed Highway.

The meeting will allow neigh-

bouring businesses to get to know the shelter operators so they can deal with any issues, said Sean Spear, with RainCity.

He opened 14 similar shelters around Vancouver and said Rain-City tries to be as responsive as possible when issues arise.

The goal of the temporary city shelter is to find residents perma-nent housing or support. The time for that will vary for each person.

The shelter will have 40 cots in an open space, a lounge area, wash-rooms and laundry. Food service is still being arranged and there will be some storage space.

Because it’s a 24-hour shelter,

people will be able show up when they want, thus avoiding long line-ups of everybody arriving at once. As well, being able to remain inside will give people a chance to rest in-stead of being turned out on to the streets during the day.

The temporary shelter is con-sidered “low barrier,” meaning that people using drugs or alcohol won’t be turned away or required to be abstinent.

“The reality is that people use … but open drug use and open alco-hol use, that’s not the scene you would find in the shelter either. They’ll find ways to do that.”

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Maple Ridge council isn’t just go-ing to sit back and let the federal election happen without it chipping in what it can.

This Sunday, local councillors are hosting the five contenders for the Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge seat, at an all-candidates debate with ques-tions and answers, from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The action takes place at Maple Ridge Seniors Activity Centre, on 224th Street.

“It’s so exciting,” said Coun. Corisa Bell, who received her council’s sup-port for the idea. Most of the city councillors should be there to hear their would-be federal counterparts.

Concerns about new shelterRainCity Housing hosting open house

Tim Fitzgerald/THE NEWSDowntown business owner Louis Bayard is concerned the new city shelter at the former Sleep Shop building on Lougheed Highway is going to increase vandalism in the area.

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This year your kid could be-come an authority on whales, coral or money.

As the B.C. school curriculum shifts away from a long list of topics and facts that children must learn by rote, educators will be able to try a new education program called Learning in Depth (LiD).

Jocelyn McIntosh has been us-ing LiD with Grade 4-5 students at Glenwood elementary for the past two school years.

“They get a topic, and they be-come an expert for the year,” she explained.

The learning process is like a mini PhD thesis, and their exper-tise makes the students believe in themselves as a student. They have an “emotional connectedness” to the material, she said. Learning be-comes easier.

The psychology is similar for children and adults, said McIntosh

“Learning one thing in depth helps us feel confident,” she said. “The more you know about a topic, the more you feel confident and

engaged.”She said the LiD plan fits well into

the new curriculum in B.C., which will be implemented over the next three years.

“Flexible learning is at the heart of the refined approach and it will help teachers tap into the pas-sions and interests of individual students. Students can learn about core subjects while doing projects related to their interests, such as music, hockey, or dinosaurs,” said the Education Ministry’s press re-lease on the new curriculum.

McIntosh has been a teacher for 10 years, and said the traditional

curriculum was “a checklist of things we had to teach, but there was no depth to it.”

That criticism aside, McIntosh still covers all of the bases in the curriculum.

“We don’t just abandon every-thing else,” she said. “There’s still parameters, so you’re still going to get a good education.”

But she doesn’t assign a lot of homework. Her students’ home-work is to research their LiD topic.

It is self-regulated learning, about their own interests, and students are supposed to enjoy it.

“You don’t want to give a work-

sheet about their LiD topic, be-cause you want them to love it. It’s supposed to be fun.”

It starts with them making a movie trailer about their LiD topic on the program iMovie, and ends with their year-end presentation to the class.

They studied a wide range of top-ics, from money to coral.

Nola Dyck took to LiD like a fish to water.

“I loved it. I really love whales – I started learning about them when I was six,” she said.

She will tell you about rare pink dolphins and other facts. This year she will do research about whales in Mexico, where her grandparents have a property.

Olin St. Louis did a project about aircraft and airports, and talks about planes that travel 5,000 km/h. For his final report, he did a half-hour presentation with visu-als.

His mother Kristal said her son worked on his LiD project with purpose.

“He was always looking at stuff, and researching stuff at home, so for him it was just something else fun that he got to do,” she said. “The work on it seemed really good.”

They also learn from each other. Ben Patterson said he enjoyed the

presentation of his classmates’ projects, like Mckenzie’s work on space.

“I learned how there’s a difference between a comet and a meteor, and what the solar system is,” said Ben.

While the school system is chang-ing, Glenwood principal Jovo Bikic said parents still expect their kids to learn the fundamentals of read-ing, writing and arithmetic well, “but in a way that captures their child’s interest.”

He said the Grade 1 class has a wonder wall, where students can pose questions, then find ways to get the answers. He walked up to see what some of the questions might be, and was impressed at what six-year-olds wonder about.

“They’re asking why are a butter-fly’s wings are the colour that they are,” he noted.

“These kids come into the world curious, they come into our world wanting to know things, and we’ve got to foster that as a school.”

McIntosh did a masters in Imagi-native Education at Simon Fra-ser University, and LiD was part of the program. She will be offer-ing a workshop on LiD during an October professional development session.

“It’s another way to teach – an-other tool.”

Jocelyn McIntosh has been using LiD with Grade 4-5 students at Glenwood el-ementary for the past two school years.

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A Maple Ridge driver of an SUV died after his vehicle crashed into a ditch in Pitt Meadows on Saturday – the third such death in the city this year.

The Ford Explorer landed upside down in water-filled ditch in the 17900-block of the Ford Road Detour just after 11 a.m., near the Pitt Meadows Regional Airport.

Firefighters hooked the vehicle up to a winch and lifted it enough to free the 55-year-old man who, according to a wit-ness, had been under water for at least 10 min-utes. Two people saw the initial crash and tried to remove the man from the SUV.

“The vehicle was upside down, submerged again, same sort of scenario as last time, and no vehicle access,” said Pitt Mead-ows fire chief Don Jolley.

“We had to winch the vehicle on its side to gain access.”

Once the vehicle was raised from the ditch,

firefighters were able to free the victim.

Jolley confirmed it took about 10 minutes for the fire department to get to the accident scene, hook up the vehicle and raise it enough to free the man.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The investigation is ongoing. It was raining heavily at time of the crash.

The death is the third fatal accident involving a vehicle submerged in a ditch in Pitt Meadows

this year.On Sept. 1, a man was

found dead in his truck, upside down in a ditch at Harris and McNeil roads.

In May, an 18-year-old Pitt Meadows girl died after the car she was driv-ing rolled into a water-filled ditch on Woolridge Road.

Jolley said cars and truck crashing into the deep ditches of agricul-tural Pitt Meadows is an ever-present danger.

“We’ve had cars in ditches for as long as I’ve been a member of this fire department. But it happens all over the community.”

The whole community is full of ditches.

Jolley said driving on roads with steep ditches on each side is different than roadsides with gen-tle slopes or flat ground. People need to be careful on the rural roads.

“You have to be very careful, if you get your wheels off the road on to the shoulder, it’s going to happen very quickly and the ditches are steep sided.

“You lose control, you can be off that road ex-tremely quickly and it’s very unforgiving.”

But nothing can be done. Drainage ditches are just part of a farming community.

Firefighters regularly train for such scenarios.

“Once you’re under water for more than a couple of minutes, your chances of survival are very low.”

In the Saturday acci-dent, water was up to the bottom of the SUV’s win-dows. He guesses there was about a metre of wa-ter in the ditch, although there wasn’t as much wa-ter as in the Sept. 1 crash on Harris Road.

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Shane MacKichan/Special to THE NEWSA Ford Explorer landed upside down in a ditch along the Ford Road Detour on Saturday.

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One person is presumed drowned and three went to hospital suffering hypothermia after their boat cap-sized on Alouette Lake on Sunday afternoon.

The group had been up to the northern end of the lake, and were returning when they encountered me-chanical difficulties, said The Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue team manager Rick Laing.

They stopped at North Beach and made repairs to the boat, and then continued on. But the boat started taking on water, and then was swamped by a wave, and sunk. It was about 4 p.m.

The four occupants swam for shore, which was an estimated distance of 50 to 100 meters, but only three made it.

A 26-year-old woman from Surrey is presumed drowned.

There were two men aged 24 and 22, and another woman aged 18, who survived. They were from Surrey and White Rock.

None of the occupants of the boat were wearing their life jackets. Police could not confirm whether alcohol was involved.

Laing said a helicopter and two search and rescue boats combed a well-defined area where the boat sunk, while a ground teams searched the shoreline. They searched from 5 p.m. until dark, but did not re-cover the fourth party member.

Laing said they would have faced a challenging swim.

“Alouette Lake is very, very cold, and it was a windy day on the water,” he said. “It [the cold] really drains the strength out of you.”

An air ambulance was called to transport the survi-vors to hospital.

Head-on collisionPolice are investigating a head-on collision on

Lougheed Highway, near 273rd Street, in Maple Ridge on Saturday.

The accident happened at about 8:15 p.m., when a westbound Nissan Sentra collided with an eastbound GMC pickup truck. A GMC Yukon was also involved in the crash.

Only the driver of the Sentra, a 25-year-old man, ad-dress unknown, was taken to hospital.

His injuries are not life threatening, according to Ridge Meadows RCMP.

Police closed the highway in order to investigate the accident.

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The federal elec-tion campaign has produced a

jumble of conflicting claims about whether or not Canada has a balanced budget or a deficit, how it was de-termined, and whether it even matters.

The definitive word on this came out last week, with the release of the Government of Canada Annual Financial Report, signed off by Auditor General Michael Ferguson.

“The government posted a budgetary surplus of $1.9 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015, compared to a budgetary deficit of $5.2 billion in 2013-14,” the report says.

“Revenues increased by $10.7 billion, or 3.9 per cent, from 2013-14, reflect-ing increases across all major revenue streams. Program expenses increased by $5.2 billion, reflecting increases in major transfers to persons and other levels of government, offset in part by a decrease in direct program expenses.”

The Conservative government’s pre-election budget calculated that last year was in deficit, and this year would be the first in the black since 2008. Ottawa pundits say this “surprise surplus” was engineered with intentionally pessimis-tic budget estimates, so Prime Minister Stephen Harper would get a boost right about now.

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau claimed

last year’s surplus was partly generated by cuts to Veterans’ Affairs and Aborigi-nal Affairs. Wrong and wrong. Veterans’ Affairs spending was up 13 per cent, and Aboriginal Affairs spending rose nearly 30 per cent.

Trudeau has also insisted Canada is in recession now, which helps his suddenly adopted position that a Liberal govern-ment would run deficits for the next three years to build infrastructure.

Harper ran the biggest deficits in Canadian history after the 2009 crash, bailing out auto makers and building lots of “shovel ready” infrastructure, as did the U.S. and other countries. The question raised by Trudeau’s plan is whether it’s a good idea to keep doing that without a financial crisis.

France, for example, has run operating deficits every year since the early 1970s, although the current Socialist govern-ment vows to balance the books by 2017. France’s operating debt is now equal to 91 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product.

Canada’s net debt-to-GDP ratio is cur-rently around 30 per cent, down from frightening levels in the 1990s before the Chrétien government finally balanced the budget.

(Fun fact: then-finance minister Paul Martin not only cut transfers to prov-inces, unlike the current government, he inflicted the largest-ever cuts to the CBC. Harper’s CBC cuts were part of govern-ment-wide reductions, again due to that 2009 crisis.)

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair has prom-ised to balance the budget every year of

his mandate, should he form Canada’s first-ever socialist government. He will spend the rest of the campaign trying to reconcile this promise with the grandiose spending plans he has piled up.

Meanwhile in B.C., Finance Minister Mike de Jong may have benefited from Harper’s lowball budget. In his first quar-ter update last week, de Jong reported that his February budget forecast is on track, with a $277 million surplus.

This is despite a $300 million bill for forest firefighting, thanks to personal and corporate income tax revenue expected to be $374 million higher than budgeted. B.C. bases its tax revenue figures on fed-eral estimates, and the ones they got early this year were clearly low.

Understated or not, this is a nice problem to have. De Jong says that at the current pace, B.C. will pay off its accumu-lated operating debt by 2020.

The last time the province was free of operating debt was 1982. The big debt peak came during the NDP 1990s, with another spike from 2009 to 2013 under the B.C. Liberals.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and

columnist for Black Press.

Do balanced budgets really matter?

Still need moreIngrid RiceGuest view

There seems no shortage of armchair solutions to the problem of homelessness.

Were it only that easy.Last week, the City of Chilliwack announced an-

other attempt to find an answer – this time marshal-ing local resources while tapping into the collective strength of the Union of B.C. Municipalities.

Critics quickly dismissed the effort, citing what they see as a litany of failed attempts and insincere tries.

In fact, Chilliwack has made significant gains in addressing the issue. Five years ago the 23 transi-tional units in the Chilliwack Health and Housing Centre didn’t exist. There were no transitional and emergency shelter beds (44 in total) at Ruth and Naomi’s. The 33 units at The Village on School Street had yet to be built. And the four emergency shelter beds for at risk youth at the Cyrus Centre were also only a dream.

In all, there are currently 142 transitional beds, as well as 22 emergency shelter beds in the city. There has also been an increase in options that provide greater affordability.

Is that enough?Clearly not.But to suggest no effort has been made to help

people get off the streets is simply wrong.The fact that there are people still living under

bridges and sleeping in city parks illustrates the complexity of the issue.

Part of that complexity is sorting out responsibility.Municipalities are not equipped, nor were they

ever intended, to fund and provide complex social services for their residents. This has traditionally been the purview of other levels of government.

And yet, after the federal and provincial govern-ments essentially abandoned the field, this is where cities like Chilliwack find themselves.

Unlike some communities, Chilliwack has stepped up to fill that gap. Private citizens, businesses and politicians have worked behind the scenes to find long-term solutions that will work within the lim-ited parametres of a municipal mandate.

They understand more needs to be done.But they also know it will take more than an un-

wanted couch dumped under a bridge, or pithy on-line comments, to fix the problem. It will take a col-lective community effort – and pressure on higher levels of government to do their part.

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“B.C. bases its tax revenue figures on federal estimates, and the ones they got early this year were clearly low.”


Editor, The News:Now that the election cam-

paign is more than half over, we are seeing what Stephan Harper considers part of Canada’s “security needs.”

The subject of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jets is now be-ing discussed in public as it relates to the various Political Parties Armed Services Pro-curement Policies.

The Conservatives, under Mr. Harper, have been forg-ing ahead with this purchase and the other parties have reservations, to say the least. Keep in mind, these planes are built for one reason and one reason only: to destroy property and kill people.

These purchases need to be investigated to determine whether or not each partici-pating nation is paying the same price as the others. A

price, I remind you, which to this day is fluid. We have no total price or costs of operat-ing these aircraft, but I assure

you it is in the billions. Furthermore, if Mr. Harper

wants to spend billions on se-curity, then I would suggest

he invest in more Canadian-built ice-breakers, patrol ships and surveillance aircraft for all three coasts and not take our fight overseas.

We must defend Canada’s borders and the money spent to defend Canada must be invested in Canada, for Ca-nadians.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fight-er Jet program is well over budget and the bugs have not yet been ironed out. Be-sides, who is it Canada wants to kill with these machines? Won’t drones do the job at much less cost? They have been quite successful for the United States when it comes to killing terrorists and many others who happen to be standing in the neighbour-hood at the time.

Mike Boileau Maple Ridge

Editor, The News:I’m curious to know if

there has ever been a dis-cussion around amalgama-tion of Maple Ridge and Pitt

Meadows governing bodies. It would seem, to me, far

more cost effective. One mayor, one council,

one staff. Slightly larger

tax base.It just makes sense regard-

ing economies of scaleJoanne Richards

Maple Ridge

Editor, The News:I have live in this community for 18 months and have con-

cerns every day about my safety.Bikers, skateboarders and rollerbladers use the sidewalks

and travel at high speeds without concerning other pedestri-ans using the sidewalks. Most bikers have no lights after dark. If they run over anybody, it will be a major disaster. Also, peo-ple with power wheelchairs are doing nothing better.

It is time for our city council to set up appropriate bylaws and enforce them. If the city does not enforce dismount poli-cies, it will cause pedestrians to give the city council a class action lawsuit.

Anthony YaoMaple Ridge

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Help save livesBruce McWilliam · Re: Driver dies after crashing into Pitt Meadows ditch.No post barriers at intersections and cable barriers between the shoulders and ditches to keep vehicles from leaving the roadways (where required) would help save lives. Look at all the investments in widening roads to accommodate bike lanes through the agricultural area over the past 15 years. More invest-ments in transportation safety improvements are needed before any more lives are tragically lost.• Ernie Daykin · Re: ‘Don’t flush wipes’ pilot project planned in Pitt Meadows.Oh so many comments come to mind as captions for the picture!! Good sense of humour Mayor John!

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Two events on Rivers Day will remind Maple Ridge residents about how lucky they are to live where they do.

Sunday, Sept. 27 is World Rivers Day and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Kanaka Education and Environmental Partnership Society will be offering canoe tours

down Kanaka Creek to the Fraser River. Ev-eryone is welcome and there’s no charge for the ride.

Displays will also be part of the day and the location is the riverfront part of Kanaka Creek Re-gional Park, by Lougheed Highway and the Haney Bypass.

The Alouette River Heritage Society is hav-ing its own event to cel-ebrate the day.

The 22nd annual Ridge Meadows Rivers Day will take place at the Rivers Heritage Centre in Allco Park at the north end of 248th Street, also from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Live entertainment will

be there, plus a barbecue, a fishing pond, raffle, auction and games and exhibits.

And if the weather holds that day and into the evening, stop by at the Port Haney Wharf on the Fraser River at 224th Street, between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. for “River Songs and Stories.”

Matter of scheduling for MurrayThe city has proposed

three debate topics, the justice system, housing and the environment, which candidates will discuss for an hour.

“Everyone’s con-firmed,” Bell said.

Conservative, Liberal, NDP, Green and inde-pendent candidates will be there.

“The intent of this is not to be a confronta-tion. It is not a place to take out personal issues.

“This is going to be a community conversa-tion about the candidates who are running,” Bell said.

Doors will open at 1 p.m. so people can min-gle a bit.

And you don’t even have to be there to par-ticipate. Twitter and Facebook will allow you to send in your question, which could be posed to the candidates by a pan-el. Use the #Engage2015 hashtag.

As well, voter regis-tration will be possible at the event for anyone who’s not on the list, Bell pointed out.

Questions will also come from the floor.

Another all-candidates’ meeting takes place Thursday, Oct. 1, at Whonnock Lake Centre, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Each candidate will give a three-minute opening speech, followed by a two-minute rebuttal.

After a 10-minute break, written questions from the floor will be added. Candidates then will give a two-minute summary.

However, organizer Phil Jonson said Con-servative candidate Mike Murray won’t be at the event, saying he was told that the Conservatives are going to only two all-candidates’ meetings in the campaign.

Murray’s campaign manager Davis Friesen said it’s a matter of sched-uling. He said Murray committed earlier to the first two debates that take place on Sept. 27 and Oct. 5.

“Very simply, it’s just scheduling.”

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All five candidates will be at that event, which runs from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Everyone’s welcome and there’s no charge.

The Maple Ridge Pub-lic Library is another venue to see the can-didates in person. The library is hosting an in-formal meet-and-greet on Tuesday, Oct. 6 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Can-didates can bring their pamphlets and chat with votes in an informal set-ting.

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The shelter isn’t set up as a supervised injection centre, he pointed out. Some people at the shel-ter may be at the point where they’re getting off drugs, he added.

“As far as it being a barrier, people are com-

ing indoors and that’s not a barrier to ser-vice. If they continue to use substances, yes we find ways to provide as much safety and secu-rity around that, but it’s not an open situation or a fully sanctioned set up like a fully supervised injection site.”

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Spear said the shelter will meet the basic needs of people and allow them to connect to ser-vices, “and start to pick up some of the pieces.”

So far, RainCity is on schedule for the Octo-ber opening, although it’s still trying to work out the logistics of food provision.

“It’s definitely an ur-gent situation that we’re responding to. We’ve been able to mobilize and respond quickly.”

It’s a lot of work right up opening day, Spear said.

B.C. Housing is paying the shelter’s operating costs, while the City of Maple Ridge is paying the monthly rent for the building for six months and for renovations.

Bayard would like lighting in the alley way near the shelter to be

improved. And he won-ders is the Cliff Avenue homeless camp will ac-tually be disbanded.

“They’re going to end up throwing me in jail,” if he sees someone else use his storefront as a bathroom.

“Me, I can take care of it.”

Fears that the shelter won’t be temporary are echoed in a petition be-ing circulated. It claims that people are upset because there’s been no consultation about the shelter.

A letter from the city, though, explains that it had to move quickly in order to start the pro-cess of removing the six-month-old homeless camp on Cliff Avenue, behind the Salvation Army.

“The shelter will close in March of 2016,” the city says in a letter to area businesses.


Weather conditions could have been bet-ter for the 35th Terry Fox Run as rain and wind pelted participants Sunday, and the results showed.

“We still had a pretty good turnout,” said or-ganizer Ali Wakeling.

About 300 people turned out for the event raising about $14,000, down $2,000 or so from last year.

That total will grow once returns from the

elementary and second-ary schools roll in.

This year, the run fol-lowed a new route along Hammond Road start-ing and ending in Spirit Square in Pitt Meadows.

About 50 volunteers helped put on the event.

As usual, politicians, MLAs and city council-lors were invited and showed up. And with a federal election on, two candidates for the Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge riding entered the race, Peter Tam running for the Green party and Mike Murray with the Conservatives.

Donna Milburn didn’t like seeing politicians promoting themselves at the run, though.

“This was not the time or place to be advertis-ing for your personal gain. We heard quite a few comments that peo-ple were not pleased,” she said on Facebook.

But Wakeling said any team is welcome, whether it’s for a gro-cery store or any other organization.

“We really love to see teams out at our events at all the Terry Fox Runs.

“Any team that comes in and is raising money

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Wakeling said she didn’t get any com-plaints about that.

“All kinds of people come and do the run. Cancer doesn’t care what political party you belong to.”

The national goal this year is to raise $1 from every Canadian, or about $35 million nationwide. Fox had a similar goal in 1980 when he started his run across Canada on one leg.

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Looking at photos of the bright and airy kitchen, it’s nearly impossi-ble to imagine that the existing space was dark and dated.

Described as a typical ‘U” shaped kitchen with little counter space and no room for entertaining, lead designer at Troico, Nancy Vornbrock’s main goal was to recon-fi gure the kitchen to allow an island with seating and to brighten up the space.

“We had to re-locate the fridge and pantry, so we removed an exist-ing pantry and in its place we built a custom pantry with pull out shelves,” she says. “Next to it [was] an integrated paneled fridge. We were limited with space, so the fridge needed to be discrete.”

Reconfi guring the kitchen in this manner allowed them to build a nine-foot island with storage and seating, including views of a beauti-ful garden seen through the French doors and kitchen window for those sitting at the island. Th is picturesque focal point opens up the area by in-corporating visually accessible ele-ments of nature, not highlighted in the previously drab kitchen. Being

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To create a lighter and bright-er space, Vornbrock selected lighter fi nishes.

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elegant veining running through it. Th e perimeter of the kitchen is painted with their “Troico White,” and to cre-ate some balance and contrast, they made the island in “Walnut.” To create a little drama they selected Vicostone’s Calacatta for the island countertop, explains Vornbrock.

“I wanted to com-pliment the orig-inal house design so the cabinets are

all built face frame with inset doors and drawers with detailed furniture kicks,” she adds.

With seventeen years of experi-ence, Vornbrock has spent most of her life around millwork.

“I spent my early days learning how cabinets were built working in my family’s millwork shop,” she says. “I took this knowledge with me when I started designing. I was fortunate to collaborate with some of the industry’s leading de-

signers creating beautiful spaces.”When it comes to executing the

intricate details of a project, it takes a skilled designer to make sure the fi -nal layout is on par with the plan and budget.

“Today, homeowners are so inter-ested in reality TV renovation shows that they get a misconception of the investment required in renovations,” says Vornbrock. “Oft entimes it is not clear what makes up that budget, is design included, is labor included, are all materials included, and are the appliances included? It’s diffi cult to work with clients on a budget when they have misconceptions about how much [the renovation] should cost.”

Th e budget for this particular proj-ect was $100,000 and proved to be enough. By sticking to their process - drawing a fl oor plan and off ering

their client various options based on what they think would work best - they were able to stay within budget and produce a successful fi nished product. Th is collaboration between client and company ensures both functionality and design are achieved.

“At Troico we are unique in that we work on a fi xed price for all renova-tions, so you won’t get a surprise half way through the job that you’ve spent your budget and you’re not fi nished yet,” says Vornbrock. “Sometimes it can feel tedious for clients, but we insist on choosing everything so we all have clear picture of products and budget. From there we provide a fi xed price. If we need to alter prod-ucts or fi nishes to reach the desired fi xed price then we do it all before construction starts. Th is provides transparency between the home

owner and us to ensure everyone isclear on the investment and all costs.”

In this case, the end result was abeautiful kitchen and a very happy homeowner.

“She loves how much brighter thespace is,” says Vornbrock, “and sheenjoys sitting at the island eating hermeals looking out at her beautiful garden.”

Troico is an award winning, full ser-vice design fi rm, General Contracting Company & Custom Millwork Shop all in one. Th ey are unique in that they also have a custom millwork shop in house. Th is allows them to service the design, manufacturing and build phase of all projects. Having a custommillwork shop enables them to control the quality, delivery times and custom fi nishing of all renovations / new build construction.

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A house that is properly prepared for winter is one that will keep you warm and dry through the cold, wet months, and one that won’t generate expensive repair bills at the worst possible time… which is pretty much any time.

Ed Cardenas of Wash Me Prop-erty Services specializes in helping people “winterize” their home with cleaning services for siding, gutters, windows and more, and he has some useful suggestions on how to make sure your home is winter ready this year.

The starting point, says Cardenas, is to remember that water is your home’s enemy, and your job is to protect it from the wet stuff. If you do nothing else to get your home ready for the fall and winter rains, he offers, make sure your gutters are clean and in good repair.

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It’s a funny thing, the way people re-spond to visual stimuli. Something that they wouldn’t even have thought to consider suddenly becomes a possibility when they see someone else doing that very thing.

Take moving a house from one location to another, for instance. It’s something the guys from Ridgewater construction do about once a year on average, and each time they do so people start phoning to inquire about the possibility of doing something similar.

It happened again just recently, says owner Daryl Berden, when his company moved two heritage homes to Hammond from North Vancouver. Once the neighbours saw the buildings being moved into the area and set up on piers in preparation for future work, some of them called Ridgewater to see whether jacking up their own home to create more square footage was a possibility.

Berden, who’s been in the renovation busi-ness for 25 years, admits it’s good advertising for his renovation, custom home building and heritage building restoration company – that is, moving a building to a new location – but for him the biggest kick out of doing the work is the ability to help save heritage build-ings from demolition.

Some people, like him, just appreciate the classics, such as old cars or buildings, and there’s a satisfaction in being able to save them, says Berden. For that reason, being able to work on and rescue heritage buildings is a special passion for the restoration specialist.

For those like him who want to save an older building to help preserve a neighbourhood, or who want to move an older building to another area so it will blend into the community, the process can be ex-pensive. That said, it’s often cheaper to move a building or lift it to add a basement than it is to start building from scratch, and that has the added benefi t of preserving the building’s façade.

The process of moving a building, says Chuck Cahoon, Ridgewater’s construction manager, is pretty straightforward. Ridgewater’s pri-mary job with a move is before and after the big event, as they leave the actual transporta-tion to expert companies like Nickel Bros.

There’s a lot of prep work needed to keep a house together during a move, says Cahoon, who has 45 years of experience, and who specializes in wood frame construction. Cut-ting off services, shoring up parts that need extra support and detaching the building from its foundation are just some of the tasks that need doing.

Once that’s all done, however, the actual move is pretty straightforward. You jack it up so it can be put on skids, wheels are attached to the skids, and off you go. If it needs to be

fl oated to its new location, a barge is brought in. There really isn’t any limit to the size of the house to be moved, says Cahoon, as they’ve seen large mansions being transport-ed to new locations.

After transportation is completed, Ridge-water gets to work putting everything back together. A new foundation is prepared, ser-vices will have to be connected, and renova-tions and restoration will likely be necessary.

Berden says moving a house is always interesting, but more of his company’s work with older homes involves lifting them to make more square footage available, as the really old homes were often single story structures. Someone investing money in preserving an old building may want to preserve the heritage, but they will most often want more space (a basement or a new wing) to make the building more comfortable and useful. They also generally want the building modernized for convenience, and they also have to deal with bringing the structures up to present building code requirements.

It can defi nitely get expensive, Berden concedes, but given the cost of new con-struction it’s possible to save money while getting what one wants at the same time. It’s also generally a less expensive way to get the extra space many people want for their older home.

“It takes a certain person with a certain

vision to preserve a heritage home,” he says. “For those people the cost isn’t always the determining factor.”

It also takes a certain kind of company to do the work because renovating an older home often requires specialty materials that modern building supply stores can’t provide. Cahoon says they often have to manufacture certain parts if they can’t fi nd what they need, and having a good understanding of old building methods is helpful too.

For many folks, lifting or moving a home is something they likely wouldn’t even think about, but for Berden and his Ridgewater team it’s all in a day’s work.

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Pools are big investments and, while they provide for plenty of summer fun, chances are they don’t get much use after September or October. However, just because they’re not being used doesn’t mean you can ignore them through the winter, as you still have to protect your investment even when nobody is using it.

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The starting point with pools, says Hank, is not to fall into the trap of thinking you need to drain the water out.

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“Winterizing a pool is a great way to protect the pool and its parts,” says Hank, “but it also makes spring start up a whole lot easier because you won’t have as much cleaning and repair to do.”

Now, if you don’t want to go through the hassle or cost of winterizing your pool fully, you can always “close” it, Hank offers.

Closing the pool involves the same chemical pro-cess, but there is no cover involved, and you don’t shut down the pump because you want to keep the water circulating to prevent freeze up. However, the heater must still be bypassed to prevent corrosion of

the unit and a costly repair or replacement bill come spring.

One thing to keep in mind is that the water must be treated properly with chemicals whichever route you go so as to avoid algae build-up through the winter, and to prevent calcium being leached from concrete, rubber and plastic parts. Not enough calci-um means those materials will begin to break down, and that will eventually cost you money.

Don’t close or winterize your pool until late Octo-ber or early November, is Hank’s advice, as closing it when the average temperatures are still near 20 degrees Celsius will only encourage algae growth.

Anti-freeze is useful because it will not only pre-vent freezing of any water left in important equip-ment, but it will also keep gaskets lubricated. Also, a good blast of something like WD40 to the pump motor shaft will keep it lubed and prevent rusting.

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moss and other debris is swept away. Do a chemical treatment on the moss if you prefer, but get the big clumps off the roof so they won’t roll into the gutters in the middle of a storm and plug the downspouts.

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Cardenas says gutters should be cleaned at least once per year (twice if your property is surrounded by a lot of trees), preferably as soon as the last leaves have fallen. However, if you take a look at an easily accessible gutter now and see that there’s a lot of debris build-up, then they should be cleaned now before the heavy rains start.

He adds gutter cleaning and repair is all about preventative maintenance, and doing the work can prevent rotting fascia or water wicking up under the shingles to seep into the house and so cause rot.

“Water is a house’s worst enemy, and you need to ensure the systems installed to take it away are working properly.”

Always thinking ahead when it comes to water, Cardenas suggests a good idea to get ready for next summer’s potential drought is to install rain barrels to catch some of that water so it can be put to use when restrictions are next imposed.

It’s important to take care of the little things to ensure bigger headaches don’t crop up later. Hose bibs that aren’t going to be used should be shut off from inside of the house, and it doesn’t hurt to insulate them to prevent freezing. Also, any water pumps for fountains, ponds, etc. should be winterized.

Now, while water damage caused by overfl owing gutters can be a big problem for your wood trim, so can algae build-up. The green slime can be damaging and dangerous if left to do it’s thing on wood and concrete, so Cardenas suggests now is a good time to remove any algae accumulation by having the house washed, and concrete walks and driveways pressure washed.

Any wood should be cleaned at least once every three years, to prevent paint deteriora-tion or rot. Using proper soaps and algaecides should control the problem.

After the gutters and siding, another fall cleaning task that a lot of people tackle is window cleaning. Cleaner windows, besides looking better, actually let in a lot more light during the winter months, which really brightens things up.

Some other things Cardenas suggests you consider:

• Make sure your storm drainage is clear• Store the summer fun stuff, like patio fur-

niture, barbecues and tents, to prevent grime and mildew build-up

• Rake up leaves to prevent lawn damage• Prune any vegetation that’s either rubbing

up against the side of your house or over-hanging the roof. This will prevent moisture being in permanent contact with your siding, as well as moss build-up beneath the shade of overhanging branches.

• Consider installing inexpensive non-slip strips on exterior stairs to prevent falls.

• Get some salt or de-icer in case it does snow

• Call a chimney sweep if you haven’t had your chimney cleaned in the past year.

• Get your ducts cleaned now to prevent the dust, etc. that built up through the summer from blowing through your home.

• Check the weather stripping around doors and windows, and replace as necessary

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When the fall and winter months set-tle in, our homes have a tendency to get a bit darker, and less cheerful. The days are greyer, and the house starts to lose some of the cheeriness that sunshine imparts to any home. Left untreated, the dullness eventually translates into the winter “blahs”.

Luckily, interior designer Tammy Haywood of STYLICIOUS, who provides design, shopping, staging and consulting services, has half a dozen or so inexpensive and easy-to-do home dé-cor projects that will help brighten your home and defeat the winter “blahs.”

De-ClutterThe Pitt Meadows-based designer

suggests the easiest way to begin the brightening process is to de-clutter, par-ticularly in areas that have lots of shiny surfaces like kitchens and bathrooms.

Yes, as strange as that might sound, Haywood says getting the stuff off your counters and other refl ective surfaces can go a long way to improving the brightness factor in your home.

Let the gloss from your solid surface countertops refl ect your indoor lighting, creating a brighter environment. Clutter eats up light and prevents refl ection, so the more stuff you clear away, the better.

Functional storage with refl ective surfaces can help both brighten and corral clutter. For example use a mirrored tray to contain bathroom essentials in easy reach.

Bring On Some BlingInserting more “bling” into your home is also a

great way to introduce more brightness, says the design consultant, and it doesn’t have to be all that

expensive.“Add some metallic fi nishes (gold in particular is

popular at the moment) to any room and you’re go-ing to make it brighter. Décor pieces with mirrored, jeweled, or metallic fi nishes can be placed strate-gically through the home. Try crystal embellished candlesticks, or use a jeweled tray as a place to store oils and vinegars in eyesight.”

There are lots of ways to increase the bling quotient in a room, and all of them will help refl ect whatever natural or artifi cial light is present to make the room seem brighter.

Treating the winter home blahs


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Add Some ColourSplashes of the right colour, placed strategically

in a room, can really brighten things up, says the Haywood. Get away from browns, blacks and grays, and go with chartreuse, orange, peacock blue or purpose – not the deep purples that absorb light, but the lighter, more vibrant purples. These colours are popular right now, and when you use them in silks or velvets, they really warm up a room as well.

Let There Be LightSometimes, bright-

ening up a room can be as straightforward and obvious as ensuring the light bulbs are in good condition. One dead or dull bulb can really dampen the brightness factor in a room, so if you feel there isn’t enough light then make sure all the bulbs are full wattage. Get new bulbs, if necessary, or consider LED white lights for lower energy consumption and brighter light.

Haywood notes the addition of lamps, both freestanding and table, can add warmth and ambience to any room. There are lots of inexpensive options available in a variety of lighting and home stores, and the looks are very modern with more glass and more refl ective surfaces.

When In Doubt, Paint!A coat of paint is THE go to option when trying to

brighten up a room. There are lots of shades of paint that will brighten a room, and you don’t have to do all the walls.

A single feature wall can make a dramatic differ-ence in terms of brightness.

“Many of my clients are investors wanting to

maximize their impact on a tight budget. Painting a ceiling can make a room much brighter because ceilings tend to get dull and dirty over time.”

Consider The Best Designer TrickAdd mirrors at the lighting source to maximize

sparkle and refl ection. Set one on the table under a pretty chandelier or on your wall behind sconces as

an interesting focal point that also makes the room brighter.

One Last IdeaBring the outdoors inside. Plants and fl owers are

great additions to any room. As the weather forces us indoors, we can still enjoy natural elements, many of which are being refl ected in fabrics this year. Look to large fl orals, leafy ferns and coral patterns to con-nect you to the happier feelings we get in tropical or summer locals. After all, making the room cheerier is just the ticket to beat those winter “blahs.”


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Culture Days celebration this weekend

ContributedAfroVibras Peru will bring Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Peruvian dance traditions to the ACT as part of Culture Days, with a performance from 1-2 p.m. on Sunday.

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This weekend the arts calendar is chock full of free entertainment and activities as Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows join a nationwide celebra-tion known as Culture Days.

The event runs Friday through Sunday and involves numerous community groups.

Activities in the visual, literary and performing arts are designed to be family friendly, and are accessible to all ages.

The Arts Centre Theatre will cel-ebrate culture days on Sunday with arts class samples for adults and teens. There will also be a perfor-mance of Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Peruvian dance traditions by Samba Fusion and AfroVibras Peru, from 1-2 p.m.

The arts sampler features time slots at 11 a.m., noon and 2:15 p.m. with sketching, textile art, acrylic paint-ing and “play in the mud.”

Haney artist in residence Kat Wa-hamaa’s Where the Light Gets In community photo collage will be on

display.The Katzie First Nation will have

storytelling, drumming, crafts, displays, traditional foods and en-tertainment in their Culture Days event on Saturday from 2-4 p.m. at Pitt Meadows City Hall (12007 Harris Rd.) There will be a special ceremony at 2 p.m., when city hall meeting rooms will be given Katzie names.

Fern Crescent artist in residence Robi Smith has a lantern installation that invites people of all ages to make a lantern on the theme of a river, ei-ther individually or collectively on larger pieces, at 23740 Fern Cres.

Osprey Village artist in residence Rebecca Fisher will mark the oc-casion with a community yurt felt-ing project that allows everyone to contribute some creativity towards a portable tent made of felted ma-terial, for community use, at 10973 Barnston View Rd., unit No. 102.

There will be a heritage walking tour, artists demonstrations, minia-ture railway construction at the mu-seum, building wind chimes with the Maple Ridge Lapidary Club and more.

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A unique fundraiser in Maple Ridge is coming up next month, in a Jane Austen costume ball.

Maureen Floris of Youth Unlimited is confident the new dance on Oct. 23 will be “epic.

“This is a first time for us, but Jane Austen has a huge following,” she said.

She got the idea from a friend in California who organizes Jane Austen dances, and said they sound like a lot of fun.

“They’re something totally different, and something our com-munity has not done before.”

The theme is early 1800s country dancing. People can Google Pride and Prejudice images for an idea of their costume, but Floris said women can wear simple white dresses with flat shoes, and men should wear cummer-bunds around their waists and cravats instead of ties.

She said the people of the time would get together to dance and have fun as a community, “which is what we’re all about.”

There will be a live band and a profes-sional caller who will teach dance steps

from the period, which were typically group dance steps performed in lines.

“There will be experienced dancers on the floor, which will help us all learn it.

“And you don’t have to have a dance partner to come.”

Austen also wrote about young wom-en trying to find rich husbands, but “we won’t be focussing on that aspect,” joked Floris. The theme is more about charity.

The event will got Tick-ets are $35 each or $60 for a couple, and there will be raffles and door prices. The age limit is 16 and older.

The event will be held at Burnett Fellowship Church (20639 – 123 Ave.) with doors opening at 6 p.m. and dancing from 6:30 until 10 p.m.

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Floris said the group has a goal of rais-ing $17,000 for the night. It will be put toward the Youth Unlimited breakfast program, which sees meals like pan-cakes and sausage or egg sandwiches served to students at four different high schools in Maple Ridge.

• Questions can be directed to Mau-reen Floris at 778-242-8907.

Dancer on a big stageMaple Ridge dancer Aimee Payne (right, in black) was invited by Janet Jackson’s creative director to an invite-only audition in L.A. for her Unbreakable World Tour, and she made the final cut. Payne danced in the Vancouver show as part of the Rhythm Nation piece for the first show of the tour that opened in Vancouver on Aug. 31. Footage of her dancing beside Janet Jackson was on Entertainment Tonight.

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Art from Attic benefits orphans

The Golden Ears Gogos are taking part in the Art From the Attic sale on Oct. 10 to raise funds for African grandmothers raising AIDS-orphaned children.

As part of the Greater Van Gogos, the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows grandmothers are working with groups from Burnaby, Coquitlam and New West to stage this event. They have over 1,500 pieces of art donated – originals, prints, photo-graphs and posters. Some are signed by interna-tionally known artists such as Calvin Hunt and Robert Bateman, and others are by local artists such as Vancouver photographer Elaine Forsey and Vancouver Island painter Jan Smart.

All proceeds will go to the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, Stephen Lewis Foun-dation, which supports women raising a genera-tion of children orphaned by the AIDS pandem-ic in Africa.

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The Ridge Meadows Flames losing streak hit four games after taking an 8-1 drubing at the hands of the Richmond Sockeyes Friday night at Planet Ice.

The Flames’ team defence continues to be a problem, giving up 51 shots to the Sockeyes, 40 over the final two periods.

Trailing 1-0 after the first frame, the Flames’ defence came unhinged in the second, giving up four goals on 21 shots while

registering just five.Down 5-1 heading into

the third, the Flames then came un-

glued. The team took seven mi-nor penalties and two 10-min-ute misconducts,

including Ryan Welburn getting

booted for a checking from behind major.

In total, the Flames racked up 13 penalties for 50 min-utes.

Bradley Crompton scored the Flames’ only goal 17:47 into the second period, with assists going to An-drew Strelezki and Jacob Cronin.

Rookie goalie Liam Mur-phy took the loss for the Flames, giving up four goals on 37 shots. Starter Jeremy

Tamelin played 10:26 of re-lief and gave up four goals on 14 shots.

The Sockeyes went 3-9 on the power play, while the Flames were blanked on thier two chances.

The Flames have given up 27 goals in five games while scoring just 10.

The Flames will look to get back into the win column Friday, when they host the Langley Knights at Planet Ice.

The Flames will be looking to take advantage of a tired team, as the Knights play

host to the Mission City Outlaws on Thursday, Sept. 24. The Knights have one win, two losses and an over-time loss this year, sitting one point ahead of the last place Flames in the Harold Brittain conference.

The Flames are on the road to take on the young North Vancouver Wolf Pack Saturday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m.

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The Pitt Meadows Ma-rauders will have a week off to lick their wounds and re-bound after a 44-0 loss to the Ballenas Whalers in AA var-sity exhibition game Friday.

The outmanned Maraud-ers had a difficult time gen-erating any offence, said head coach Matt Todd.

The Whalers, from Parks-ville on Vancouver Island, were led by running back Matt Price, who ran rough-shod over the Pitt defence, racking up 189 yards on 15 carries.

Marauders defender Bai-ley Mountford lead the team with 10 tackles, followed by Brandon Hunt with five.

Pitt Meadows plays it final exhibition game under the lights Friday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. against the Vernon Second-ary Panthers.

They open their regular season on the road Friday, Oct. 9 against the Rick Han-sen Hurricanes at 3:45 p.m.

Junior varsityThe Samuel Roberts Titans

continue their junior varsity exhibition season Thursday, Sept. 24, when they hit the road against the Abbotsford

Panthers. Kick-off is at 3:45 p.m.

The Titans opened with a 22-6 win on Vancouver Is-land against the Spectrum Thunder.

The win came after the Ti-tans went the 2014 season

winless, finishing with an 0-7 record. SRT scored just 26 points in 2014, while giv-ing up 251.

The Titans wrap up their exhibition season on the road in Chilliwack against G.W. Graham Sept. 30 at

3:30 p.m. The Titans open the sea-

son at home against the W.J. Mouat Hawks on Wednes-day, Oct. 7 at 3:45 p.m. at SRT secondary.

• The Pitt Meadows Ma-rauders open their junior

varsity season on the road in Abbotsford against against the W.J. Mouat Hawks on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 6 p.m.

The powerhouse Hawks had the Number 2 offence and defence in the Fraser Valley division in 2014 and

beat the Marauders 36-12 last year. They finished 6-1 and lost in the second round of the playoffs to Vancouver College.

The Marauders finished last year 1-6 and missed the playoffs.

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Flames losing streak continues

Offence flails and defence no match

Too many shots and plenty of penalties doom chances

Up nextRidge Meadow Flames vs. Lang-ley Knights on Friday, Sept. 25 at Planet Iceat 7:30 p.m.

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The Meadow Ridge Blue Knights fell 8-0 to Chilliwack Red in FVMF league action Saturday, Sept. 19.

The road loss was the first of the season for the pee wee Blues after they opened the season

with a pair of shutout wins.

The Blue Knights edged Abbotsford White 6-0 in the season opener and backed it up with a 19-0 thump-ing of North Langley.

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The RMMHA is hosting new refer-eeing Level 1 clinics in October and still have room for refs to sign up.

All boys and girls 12 years old or playing in their second year of pee wee and older are eligible to sign-up.

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Guard’s play turning headsMaple Ridge second-

ary grad Kate Head helped lead the Univer-sity of the Fraser Val-ley women’s basketball team to a split in its weekend exhibition se-ries against the Calgary Dinos on the weekend.

Head, a rookie, made her starting debut with the CIS team in Abbots-ford on Saturday, after coming off the bench in Friday’s game.

Playing at UFV’s En-

vision Athletic Centre on Sat-urday evening, the Cascades won 64-59, after losing the opener 69-57.

Cascades head coach Al Tuchscherer was pleased with the play of his new point guard Head, and shooting guard Sydney Williams, a transfer from Thomp-

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Tuchscherer said his rookie guard duo played “fan-tastic.”

Williams counted a pair of three-pointers among her

eight points, and Head’s four points were highlighted by a huge fourth-quarter trey

to help the Cascades maintain the lead.

With last year’s Ram-blers girls, Head was an all-star at the Fraser Valley tournament, and then led her team with an average of 15 points per game at the provin-cial championship.

The Cascades now take a break from game action for a couple weeks before participat-ing in the Regina Cou-gars’ preseason tourna-ment, Oct. 8-10.

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skills - enjoy bouncing, singing and rhyming with stories. Babytime is designed to be a fun, social bonding activity for babies and caregivers.

• Senior Snooker on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at the Pitt Meadows Seniors Activity Cen-

tre (19065 – 119B Ave.) Play snooker on 5x10 tables. All skill levels welcome from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. League play Wednesday and Thursday mornings.

• The Great Egg Drop on Wednesday, Sept. 23, from 3-4:30 p.m. at the Maple Ridge

Public Library, (130 - 22470 Dewdney Trunk Rd.) In honor of Science Literacy Week, the challenge is to put your scientific engineering skills to the test. Create a container to protect an egg for a 25-foot drop, and then test your inven-

tion in the foyer of the library. All materials supplied. For kids in Grades 3-7.

Sept. 24• Storytime Thursdays:

at the Pitt Meadows library from Sept. 24 to Dec. 3 from 10:15-10:45 a.m. Introduce kids to the love of books and language with Storytime. Children and caregivers will enjoy interactive stories, songs, rhymes, and more. Storytime prepares children to learn to read.

• Cinema Politica Ridge Meadows film presentation on Thursday, Sept. 24, 7-9 p.m. at Maple Ridge City Hall, Council Chambers. Silence of the Labs is an investigation into the changing landscape of public funding for scientific research and its relationship to public policy. Over the past five years the federal government has dismissed more than 2,000 scientists, and hundreds of programs and world-renowned research facilities have lost their funding.

Sept. 26• CreAtrium Collaborative

Art Project on Saturday, Sept. 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Maple Ridge Public Library. Each year, the Teen Advisory Group creates an art installation to suspend in the library atrium over the winter. In 2015, they’re inviting the whole community to join them. Drop by for the launch and contribute a craft to the final installation. Can’t make the launch date? Watch for opportunities to participate throughout the fall. All ages welcome.

• Fraser Valley Food Truck Festival on Saturday, Sept. 26, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Albion Fairgrounds (23448 105 Ave.), with 20 food trucks, an artisan market, live music and family fun and entertainment. Admis-sion cost is $2 at the door, with kids 13 and under free.

Sept. 27• Rivers Day: KEEPS,

Metro Vancouver Parks and Bell-Irving Hatchery will be hosting a World Rivers Day event at Riverfront in Kanaka Creek Regional Park on Sun-day, Sept. 27 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Canoe tours down to the Fraser will highlight the day. The event is suitable for all ages and admission is free.

Ongoing• The Secret book study

meets every Thursday from 7-8 p.m. at the Maple Ridge Library, second floor. Free to attend, and for more information, contact Jenn at 604-353-8799 or email at: [email protected]

• The TOPS group in Maple Ridge meets Thursdays from 6-7:30 p.m. The new leader Diane deGroot can be reached at 604-460-6498.

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Earn Extra Cash!Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows NEWSAvailable routes in Maple Ridge40000064 - 111A Ave, 112 Ave, 237 St, 238 St, Kanaka Way.40220250 - 125A Ave, 126 Ave, 220 St, 220A St. 40220257 - 124 Ave, 126 Ave, 219 St, Harkness Crt, Higgins Crt, Highview

Pl, Isaac Cres.40220262 - 124 Ave, 216 St, Exeter Ave, Spring Cres, Thornton Ave.40220264 - 123 Ave, 124 Ave, 216 St Evans St, Manor Ave.40220270 - 123 Ave, 124 Ave, 221 St, Canuck Cres, Gray St.40310307 - 113 Ave, 114 Ave, 207 St, Lorne Ave. 40310313 - 119 Ave, 210 St, 212 St, Cook St, Laity St.40320370 - 123 Ave, 201 St, 202 St, 203 St, Allison St, Chatwin Ave, Davenport Dr, McIvor Ave.40320384 - 124 Ave, 125 Ave, 209 St, Blanshard St, Meadow Pl.40330332 - 113 Ave, 114 Ave, 115 Ave, 205 St, Barclay St, Latvalia Ln,

Lorne Ave, Maple Cres, West eld Ave.40330333 - Charlton St, Chigwell St, Ditton St, Eltham St, Hampton St,

Kent St, Lorne Ave, Princess St.40330337 - 116 Ave, 203 St.

Available routes in Pitt Meadows41011003 - 120 Ave, 120B Ave, 121 Ave, 121A Ave, 121B Ave, 193A St,

Blakely Rd. 41011005 - 118B Ave, 119 Ave, 193 St, Blakely Rd 41011010 - Wildwood Cres N, Wildwood Pl. 41011022 - Bonson Rd, Maple Pl, Somerset Dr.41011024 - 119 Ave, Hammond Rd.41011029 - Barnston View, Bishops Reach, Fraser Way

Vantage Way

Bindery WorkersBlack Press has opportunities for Bindery Workers at our Delta location to assist with the mechanical insertion of advertising fl yers into our Lower Mainland newspapers. Applicants must be available to work a variety of scheduled evening and night shifts. Additionally, successful applicants will need to be available on a call-in basis.

Excellent remuneration. Experience an asset, but not a requirement. Reliable transportation is a pre-requisite.

Interested applicants should email their resume to Derrill Imrie at: [email protected]

Competition closes: October 16, 2015We thank all those who are interested in this position, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

109-7979 Vantage Way, Delta, V4G 1A6

blackpress.ca bclocalnews.com


130 HELP WANTED

FLAG PEOPLEMust be Certifi ed and have a car. Full-Time. Medical/Dental. $15 - $21/hour post Probation. Please send resume to: [email protected] or visit bcroadsafe.com

. HIRING FLAGGERS. Must be certifi ed! $15-$18/hr. 604-575-3944


130 HELP WANTED

LOT ATTENDANTWest Coast Toyota requires a part-time Lot Attendant. Must be available 3 to 9 Monday thru Friday, and 9 to 6 on weekends. Must have a valid driver’s licence, “N” is acceptable. Must be able to drive a Standard transmission.

Apply in person with current copy of D/L,

Abstract & resume to:

Sales ManagerWest Coast Toyota

19950 Lougheed Highway,Pitt Meadows, BC V3Y 2S9

www.westcoasttoyota.com


134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES

SERVER / COOKServe tables, take phone or-ders and help in our award winning kitchen. Exp in food service & hospitality a bonus, but willing to train. Preference given to applicants 19+ years.

Please apply in person to:Jim’s Pizza

11952 224th St, Maple Ridge

156 SALES

INSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVE

Experience in moulding, millwork, doors and interior fi nishing detail required. Full-time Mon to-Fri.

We offer Competitive wages & health benefi ts after 3 months.

Fax: 604-513-1194 Email: [email protected]

PERSONAL SERVICES

182 FINANCIAL SERVICES

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.

1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

NEED A LOAN? Own Property? Have Bad Credit? We can help!Call toll free 1-866-405-1228www.fi rstandsecondmortgages.ca.

.Need Cash, Own 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

236 CLEANING SERVICES

HOUSEKEEPER AVAIL NOW.Taking new clients. Great Refs.Call anytime 1-604-302-9291

242 CONCRETE & PLACING

UNIQUE CONCRETEDESIGN

F All types of concrete work FF Re & Re F Forming F Site prepFDriveways FExposed FStamped

F Bobcat Work F WCB Insured778-231-9675, 778-231-9147

FREE ESTIMATES

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 DRYWALLCASCADE DRYWALL. Res / Comm Drywall, taping, text. ceilings, t-bar. steel stud. Call Rob 604-218-2396.


260 ELECTRICAL

LOW RATES 604-617-1774Licensed, Bonded, Expert trouble shooter. 24/7. 100% guaranteed.

263 EXCAVATING & DRAINAGE

DRAIN Tiles, Sewer, Water Video Inspection, Jack Hammering, Hand Excavating Call Tobias 604.782.4322

281 GARDENING

STORM & FALL Clean-upsROOF & GUTTER Cleaning

Power WashingPaving / Retaining WallsArtifi cial Turf Installation

Landscape Design / Installation & Maintenance

Over 25 yrs experience.

mygardenerlandscaping.ca

Call (604)763-8795

Prompt Delivery Available7 Days / Week

Meadows LandscapeSupply Ltd.

✶ Bark Mulch✶ Lawn & Garden Soil

✶ Drain Gravel ✶ Lava Rock✶ River Rock ✶Pea Gravel

(604)465-1311meadowslandscapesupply.com

.Jim’s Mowing. 310-JIMS (5467).

283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

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

.Window & Roof Cleaning Gutters Cleaned & repaired. 604-961-1280

Gutter Cleaning & Repairs. (Res. & Strata). Prompt Service. Window

Cleaning & Pressure Washing. Grants Home Maint 604-936-2808.


283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

M.T. GUTTERSProfessional Installation5” Gutter, Down Pipe, Soffi t

30 YEARS EXPERIENCE ~ FULLY INSURED ~Call Tim 604-612-5388

287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

CHUCKS RENOVATION

Fence Building, Interior Painting, Kitchen Cabinets & Counters, Laminate Floors, Baseboards,

Crown Mouldinigs, Drywall, and Basement Suites.

* Lic’d, Insured, WCB, BBB *Call 604-319-1993

HANDYMAN CONNECTIONHANDYMAN CONNECTIONHandyman Connection - Bonded -Renovations - Installations - Repairs - 604.878.5232

Top Line Projects Ltd.Established 1994

D Home Repairs D All types of carpentry

D Renovations

Call Mike 604 - 306 - 4468

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

reroofi ng. Dhillon 604-782-1936.

HANDYMAN CONNECTIONHANDYMAN CONNECTIONHandyman Connection - Bonded -Renovations - Installations - Repairs - 604.878.5232

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Chilliwack Progress PRINT AD: Includes photo and 3-lines for one week.

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www.mapleridgenews.com - THE NEWS -- Wednesday, September 23, 2015 -- A27

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

On September 28, 2012, at 19040

Lougheed Highway, Pitt Meadows,

B.C., Peace Officer(s) of the Ridge

Meadows RCMP seized, at the time

indicated, the subject property,

described as: $590 CAD, on or

about 00:53 Hours.

The subject property was seized

because there was evidence that

the subject property had been

obtained by the commission of an

offence (or offences) under section

5(2) (Possession for purpose of

trafficking) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act of Canada.

Notice is hereby given that the

subject property, CFO file Number:

2015-3003, is subject to forfeiture

under Part 3.1 of the CFA and will

be forfeited to the Government

for disposal by the Director of

Civil Forfeiture unless a notice of

dispute is filed with the Director

within the time period set out in

this notice.

A notice of dispute may be filed by

a person who claims to have an

interest in all or part of the subject

property. The notice of dispute

must be filed within 60 days of the

date upon which this notice is first

published.

You may obtain the form of a

notice of dispute, which must meet

the requirements of Section 14.07

of the CFA, from the Director’s

website, accessible online at www.

pssg.gov.bc.ca/civilforfeiture. The

notice must be in writing, signed

in the presence of a lawyer or

notary public, and mailed to the

Civil Forfeiture Office, PO Box 9234

Station Provincial Government,

Victoria, B.C. V8W 9J1.

In the Matter of Part 3.1 (Administrative Forfeiture) of the Civil Forfeiture Act [SBC 2005, C. 29] the CFA

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT:

www.benchmarkpainting.caCALL TODAY! 604-866-7080

Ask about our$99

ROOM SPECIAL


300 LANDSCAPING

Ed’s ROTOTILLING& LANDSCAPING*Rototilling *Levelling

*Gardens *Loader Work*Brush Cutter *Plowing

~ Free Estimates ~604-941-2263 / 604-725-7246

D Garden Blend SoilD Lawn Blend SoilD Custom Blends avail.D Composted Mushroom Manure NO Wood byproducts used

When QUALITY Mattersall soils are tested for Optimum

growing requirements.

17607 Ford RoadPitt Meadows

PICK-UP ...... or .... DELIVERY

604-465-3189JAGUAR LANDSCAPINGLawn & Garden Service.

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

312 MAINTENANCE SERVICES

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

320 MOVING & STORAGE

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

604-999-6020

1PRO MOVING & SHIPPINGAcross the street - across the world

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

Commercial & ResidentialLocal & Long Distance Moves* Licensed * Insured * Bonded

All Truck Sizes & TrailersAmazing Rates! FREE Estimates.

778-928-5995

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~

ABBA MOVERS & DEL Res/comm 1-5 ton truck, 2men fr $45. SENIOR DISCOUNT. Honest, bsmt clean up 25yrs Exp. 24hrs/7days 604-506-7576

329 PAINTING & DECORATING



A-1 Painting Company - Interior / Exterior 20 years exp. Summer Special 10% off (604)723-8434

TONY’’S PAINTING

www.paintspecial.com 778-322-2378 Lower Mainland

604-996-8128 Fraser ValleyRunning this ad for 10yrs

PAINT SPECIAL3 rooms for $299

2 coats any colour(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls

Cloverdale Premium quality paint.NO PAYMENT until Job is

completed. Ask us about ourLaminate Flooring.

Pay-Less Pro PaintingEXT/INT FALL SPECIAL

LOOK for our YARD SIGNS D Free Estimates D Insured

Licensed D ReferencesResidential D Pressure Washing

Serving Tri City 35 Yrs. Call 24 Hrs/7 Days

Scott 604-891-9967 paylesspropainting.com

AAA PRECISION PAINTING. Quality work. 778-881-6096.

DN PaintingTop Quality/Affordable Prices

Exterior/InteriorDrywall Repair

Years of Experience

WCB Covered

FREE ESTIMATES

778-628-7590NORTH STARS PAINTING

www.northstars-painting.comAMAZING WORK,AMAZING VALUE!

778.245.9069

338 PLUMBINGFull 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

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

A Gas Fitter ✭ PlumberFurnaces, Boilers, Hot Water

Heating, Hotwater Tanks, Drain/Duct Cleaning & Plumbing Jobs.

✭ 604-312-7674 ✭✭ 604-507-4606 ✭

#1 IN RATES & SERVICE. Lic’d/Ins. Local Plumber. Drains, gas, renos etc. Bonded. Chad 1-877-861-2423



356 RUBBISH REMOVAL

mikes hauling 604-516-9237

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

359 SAND, GRAVEL & TOPSOIL

TOPSOIL• SCREENED TOPSOIL• MUSHROOM MANURE• BARK MULCH

604-467-3003www.jonesbroscartageltd.com

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

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

PETS

477 PETS

CATS OF ALL DESCRIPTION in need of caring homes!

All cats are spayed, neutered, vaccinated and dewormed.

Visit us at: fraservalleyhumanesociety.com

or call 1 (604)820-2977

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

559 MEDICAL SUPPLIES

3 yr. old. Pride Legend Electric SCOOTER. All the bells & whis-tles & new battery 2015. Up to 25 mi. per charge. 24” wide. 350 lb. limit. Hardly used by my Dad. $900. Call 604-460-2005

560 MISC. FOR SALE

PRESSURE WASHER - new; 5 HP Shop Vac - new; GE Dishwasher - new; Weight Reducing Machine; King size Waterbed Frame with drawers & heater. All open to offers. Moving/Must Sell. (604)467-0799

REAL ESTATE

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

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

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

REAL ESTATE

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

New SRI *1296 s/f Double wides fr $94,900. *New SRI 14’ wides

fr $72,900. Repossessed mobile homes from $1900.

www.glenbrookhomes.netMANUFACTURED HOMES.

MOBILE HOMES. MODULAR HOMES.NEW & USED

Call Chuck at 604-830-1960~ your local SRI dealer ~

New SRI 14x60. $74,900. Pad rent $550/mo. 55+.

Call Chuck 604-830-1960

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

2 Bedroom Apartments BRIGHT & LARGE

Central Coquitlam Co-opAND

Seniors only building No subsidy

Cls to transit, schools & shops

Dasl ~ 604 945 5864 [email protected]

MAPLE RIDGE

1 & 2 Bdrms available $840/mo & $940/mo

Great LocationQueen Anne Apts.* Renovated Suites *

*Large *Clean *Very QuietIncludes: Heat, Hot Water

and HydroNear Shopping & Amenities.

SENIOR’S DISCOUNT

604-463-2236 604-463-7450

12186-224 St, Maple RidgeCertifi ed Crime Free Buildings

MAPLE RIDGE

Reno’d 1 Bdrm suite$710/mo

Util + sec pkng extraNo pets. Close to amen.

Ref’s & Credit Check Req’d.

McIntosh PlazaSuit Mature Adults

22330 McIntosh Avenue(604)463-6841

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

Searching for your dream homeor selling it? This is the location. Listings

include everything from acreage, farms/ranchesto condos and waterfront homes.

bcclassified.com

RENTALS

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

Maple Ridge Offi ce & Retail Space

Unbelievable Rates,Starting at $495/month.

Various sizes 320sf. - 2000sf.Various downtown locations. Updated and well maintained.

Rick MedhurstRoyal LePage Realty

604-463-3000

746 ROOMS FOR RENT

$75 OFF 1ST MONTHRooms from $445/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

RENTALS

750 SUITES, LOWER

MAPLE RIDGE, East: 2 Bdrm bsmt suite, 1400 sq.ft., own lndry, sep yard. NP/NS. $1200 incl cbl & utils. Oct 15. (604) 306-6746, 467-6746

752 TOWNHOUSES

PITT MEADOWS: 2 - 3 bdrm co-op T/H $1130/mo - $1235/mo. Shares req’d. Close to WCE, schools & shopping. No subsidy available. 19250 119th Ave. For more info & to book an appt call 604-465-1938

TRANSPORTATION

821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS

2000 VW PASSAT for parts, runs, needs transmission, $1,000. obo. Call 604-302-3281.

2002 ACURA RSXSUPER CLEAN! School ready.

$5999. 604-561-0053.

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

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

$$$ PAID FOR SOME. 604.683.2200The Scrapper

• Autos • Trucks• Equipment Removal

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

Rick Goodchild 604.551.9022

851 TRUCKS & VANS

150 NEW GMC 4 Dr pick-ups. Payments from $245. Also 400used vehicles to choose from. Easy fi nance - low payments. Eagleridge GMC [email protected]

551 GARAGE SALES

Pitt Meadows

Closing Out Sale#10 12350 Harris Road

All good quality clothing all under $10

A great variety of household items and décor,

tools, books and much more!Friday, Saturday 11 am to 6 pm

Sundays 12:30 am to 6 pm

Leave it to us. bclassified.com

Local Shops Support

Local Events & Teams

Monday - Friday 9 am - 9 pm • Saturday 9 am - 6 pm • Sunday 10 am - 5 pm Maple Ridge Store Only

20758 Lougheed Hwy., Maple Ridge 604-463-7277

TWO DAYS ONLY!

STOREWIDESALETAKE AN ADDITIONAL

20%OUR ENTIRE^ STOREFRIDAY ANDSATURDAY

ONLYSEPTEMBER25th & 26th

OFF

ONLY AT MARK’S MAPLE RIDGE

THE ONLY DAYS

& ALL WORK BOOTSGO ON SALE!*

Offer valid on all jeanspurchased between

Aug. 18 – Sept. 28, 2015. ‡Get 500 bonus SCENE points

with any jeans purchase. Visit scene.ca/marks for details.

GET A FREE MOVIE^

WITH ANY PURCHASE OF 2 PAIRS OF JEANS.‡ We have the perfect jeans

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§Applies to our regular priced items only ending in .99¢. *Second item must be of equal or lesser value. ^New redemption rates apply as of Nov. 4, 2015. See scene.ca for details.

PLUS GET A SCENE CARD FOR A FREE MOVIE,PLUS SAVE

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