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Learn lessons on a wired world. p3Plane crash
Pitt pilot survives, two others perish. p5
Maple Ridge council has rejected its consultant’s advice and is focus-ing on two scenarios that call for the most intensive development of Albion fl ats.
The decision came at its Tues-day meeting, to be followed by more discussion on Monday, when
council hammers out exactly what it wants to see for the farmland on Lougheed Highway and 105th Av-enue.
In his report to council, consul-tant Mark Holland recommends all four scenarios that came out of the brainstorming and public meet-ing sessions last fall be sent to the Agricultural Land Commission for comment.
Scenarios 2 and 4 call for develop-ment on both sides of 105th Avenue and a minimum of 1.7-million sq. feet of commercial/industrial space, while Scenarios 1 and 3 call for less
intense development, emphasizing recreation and leaving most of the west side as farmland.
“I do think there’s a lot more conversation we can have with the public,” said Coun. Cheryl Ashlie.
She pointed out that the ALC could favour an option calling for heavy recreational use, which the district couldn’t afford anyways.
She favoured the idea of only sending two scenarios, as long as some elements from the other two could be considered.
Council hired top planners to sketch out options for the area af-
ter getting community input, but it’s council’s job to decide what to do with it, added Mayor Ernie Daykin.
“We’ve been working on this a while,” he added. “It’s quite clear, folks want to see more shopping options.”
Council could settle on a blend of all scenarios, then have an open house to get public comment be-fore forwarding a scenario to the ALC for comment on what portions could be excluded from the agricul-tural reserve for development.
Council will refi ne ideas before sending for comment
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Shopping scenarios to ALC
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Like fatherNicholas Hutchinson, 5, and his father Matthew skip stones on the South Alouette River by Maple Ridge Park on Thursday afternoon.
More portables at FRCC
The installation of six new por-table units at a Maple Ridge men’s prison has the union that represents prison guards in B.C. worrying the province is preparing for another infl ux of refugees.
The containers were installed at the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre last month in an area which already houses men who fl ed Sri Lanka and arrived last summer on the MV Sun Sea.
The holding area has also received upgrades to wiring and its satellite system.
“Our concern is there are two more boats of 500 migrants on their way,” said Dean Purdy, chair of the corrections and sheriffs services component of the B.C. Government and Service Employees Union.
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See Albion, p14
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Flowers not just for Valentine’s Day.p19
Opinion 6
Health Care 6
Home&gardening 19
Parenting 34
Acts of Faith 35
Scoreboard 43
Classifi eds 44
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www.mapleridgenews.com - THE NEWS -- Friday, February 11, 2011 -- 3
Cpl. Todd Balaban estimates his teen daughter’s Black-
berry buzzes every 15 seconds, vibrating when friends update their sta-tus, send or receive mes-sages, post pictures, or tweet.
“Quite frankly, it drives me nuts,” says Balaban, whose insight into the wired world of teenagers comes first-hand through his four kids.
The first thing he no-ticed when he returned from a year spent train-ing police in Afghanistan was: The big World Wide Web had gone mobile.
Everything you once did on a large desktop computer was compactly packed into a little smart-phone.
“I come back and it’s gone from Hotmail and MSN to Black Berry Mes-senger being the biggest thing,” he says.
“Mobility has become a big thing for kids. There is no downtime for kids anymore. They are be-ing instantly notified of everything that’s going on.”
According to an Ipsos Reid study, 76 per cent of Canadian teenagers aged 12 to 17 now have a social network profile, up from 50 per cent in 2007.
These days when some-thing happens inside or outside a classroom, it is not just the small group of people present who know about it, it’s out
everywhere, says Bala-ban, posted on Facebook, chronicled on Twitter and possibly filmed or photographed.
Photographs of a gang rape last September in Pitt Meadows that went viral after being posted on Facebook show that social media can some-times open a Pandora’s box of evil.
Investigators struggled to get teenagers to stop sharing the photographs
and get websites to take them down.
There are also many stories about people who were stalked by someone they met online, had their identity stolen, or had their computer hacked.
Balaban knows par-ents sometimes can feel outpaced by their tech-nologically savvy kids. Technology aside, there are lessons that parents can teach to help kids stay safer as they social-
ize online.He knows his daugh-
ter’s Facebook password and is a friend on her page.
Far from being a snoop, Balaban says, it allows him to stay informed.
“It keeps you in the loop with your child be-cause your child looses their interpersonal skills when they are always on-line,” he explains.
He’s told his daughter to be careful about who
she accepts as friends, make sure the person she’s adding is someone she really knows.
He also takes away the Blackberry until she’s completed her home-work.
“You have to find a way to monitoring your child,” says Balaban.
“I know parents get busy, but you have to be on top of it like anything else. It’s a balance for the kids.”
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Clint van Blanken, volunteer and crime prevention program coordinator for the District of Maple Ridge, is organizing a work-shop on social media for Feb. 16 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall.
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Workshop on social media will off er tips to help kids stay safe as they socialize online
Social safetyWhile social networking sites can increase a person’s circle of friends, they also can increase exposure to people with less than friendly intentions.Tips for helping your kids use social networking sites safely:• help your kids understand what information should be private;
• explain that kids should post only information that you – and they – are comfortable with others seeing;• use privacy settings to restrict who can access and post on your child’s website;• remind your kids that once they post information online, they can’t take it back;• talk to your kids about avoiding
sex talk online;• tell your kids to trust their gut if they have suspicions. If they ever feel uncomfortable or threatened by anything online, encourage them to tell you;• go where your kids go online;• review your child’s friends list;• understand sites’ privacy policies.
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WorkshopCpl. Todd Balaban is one of three presenters who will be speaking at social networking at a workshop in Pitt Meadows on Wednesday, Feb. 16. The workshop will look at social media staples like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Black Berry Messenger; why social media
matters to parents of teenagers and how to notice potential problems. Other speakers: Tony Cotroneo, youth services co-ordinator with parks and rec-reation; and Tabasom Eblaghie, a professional clinical counsellor. The workshop takes place from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall, 12460 Harris Road.
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“They are pretty strong rumours. Usually when there isn’t going to be anything, you see them down-grade things, so it leads us to be-lieve that the rumours that are out there are true.”
The possibility of adding more people to the already overcrowd-ed facility on 256th Street has the union very concerned.
Built to hold 254 inmates, Fraser regional is 200 per cent over capac-ity, said Purdy.
“It’s only going to make our cur-rent situation more diffi cult to deal with.”
The Canadian Border Service Agency confi rmed that the por-tables were brought in at their request, but assures they are only being installed to house staff.
“It is actually CBSA working space,” said spokesperson Shakila Manzoor.
“It improves their working condi-tions.”
She would not say if the agency is aware that more ships with asylum seekers are headed to Canada.
As of Monday, the CBSA had re-leased 337 adults who arrived on the MV Sun Sea from custody.
That means 112 still remain in de-tention, 12 of those on federal court stays.
Of those 112, 106 men and six are women.
Manzoor couldn’t say how soon the 112 people will be processed.
“It’s on a case by case basis.”Conservative MP Randy Kamp is
not aware of any imminent arriv-als, but said federal government agencies are is keeping an eye on human smuggling activities over-seas.
“I’ve heard the weather condi-tions are such that a ship probably wouldn’t try to make that voyage until later in the spring,” he added. “We hope there are no more on their way and I haven’t heard of any.”
Besides working with countries like Thailand, Kamp said, the fed-eral government has proposed Bill C-45 as a way to curb human smug-gling. The bill calls for a fi ve-year waiting period before those who arrive by smuggling can apply for permanent residency and allows for jailing for up to a year while their status is determined.
“It is putting pressure on our re-sources and the integrity of our im-migration system and that’s why we felt like we need to introduce legislation that address it,” said Kamp.
Opposition parties, however, have said they won’t support the bill in its current form.
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A gravel mine in the Pitt Polder has been given the green light to
expand.Approval from the
provincial Ministry of Energy and Mines was rubber-stamped just before Christmas, four months after Lafarge
Canada Inc. tweaked its plans to move the mine’s boundary fur-ther away from homes.
Pitt River Quarries’ revised plan shifted the proposed mine expan-
sion 200 metres away from the nearest houses on Sheridan Hill. The distance was double the original 100-metre setback originally set out.
The changes to the expansion plan follow a heated public meeting between Lafarge and Sheridan Hill residents last March.
“We revised the plans to address the concerns of the public,” said Brad Kohl, general manager of aggregates and ma-rine division for La-farge Canada (Vancou-ver area).
The current gravel mine has enough stone and rock for another 20 years of extraction and covers 54.7 hectares.
The proposed expan-sion will allow Lafarge Canada to continue mining at the site for an additional 10 to 15 years.
The expansion will now follow a “natural draw,” or gully, that exists in the rocky out-crop.
Kohl hopes residents who initially opposed the expansion are sat-isfi ed with the revised plans. He hasn’t re-ceived any negative feedback since the changes were an-nounced last summer.
“We followed the pro-cess,” said Kohl. “Now, hopefully, we can go back to being good
neighbours.”Residents who vocally
fought the mine expan-sion, in both its revised and original form, were surprised to fi nd out its permit was approved.
They still remain con-cerned for wildlife, the destruction of vegeta-tion and the eventual grinding down of a hill that’s a landmark in the Pitt Polder and which is purported to be the location of a lost gold mine. It also fi gures prominently in First Nations legends.
Brent Richards said the provincial govern-ment promised to no-tify him of any develop-ments.
He hasn’t received a letter or verbal con-fi rmation that Pitt River Quarries’ expan-sion had been rubber-stamped.
“It should have been common courtesy to let us know,” said Rich-ards.
The gravel mine has been located on Sheri-dan Hill since the 1960s, before a tony subdivi-sion was built near it.
Besides supplying gravel to nearby mu-nicipalities and devel-opments, the quarry was a major supplier of aggregate for the Pitt River Bridge.
It is currently sup-plying cement for the construction of the new Port Mann Bridge.
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Pitt River Quarries revised expansion plan will see the mine grow along a natural draw or gully, leaving be-hind most of the mound that is known as Sheridan Hill.
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The District of Maple Ridge invites tender submissions from interested and experienced parties for the replacement of the tiles in the Men’s and Ladies Change Rooms at the Maple Ridge Leisure Centre Pool. The tender document is available for download from the District website: www.mapleridge.ca.
Bidders are invited to attend a non-mandatory site meeting at the Maple Ridge Leisure Centre, Reception Desk, 11925 Haney Place, Maple Ridge, BC at 1:30 pm on February 16, 2011.
Sealed tenders must be received by the undersigned, no later than 2:00 P.M. Local Time, March 7, 2011: Daniela Mikes, Procurement Manager - TD The District of Maple Ridge 11995 Haney Place, Reception Desk (Main Floor) Maple Ridge, BC, V2X 6A9
There will be no public opening for this tender. Tender documents received after this date and time will not be accepted or considered. Delays caused by any delivery, courier or mail service(s) will not be grounds for an extension of the closing time.
The District may not necessarily accept the lowest priced tender or any tender. Once a contract has been awarded the name(s) of the successful bidder(s) will be available to anyone upon request. All submissions become the property of the District of Maple Ridge and are subject to the Freedom of Information and Privacy Legislation.
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One of the pilots in a mid-air crash involving two small planes just east of Mission Wednesday is from Pitt Meadows.
According to RCMP, Don Hub-ble, 60, from Langley was the pilot of the Cessna 150 that crashed into Nicomen Slough. He along with his passenger, Patrick Lobsinger, 70, from Surrey, passed away.
The pilot of the second plane that made a emergency landing in a fi eld was Paul Knapp from Pitt Meadows.
The two planes were part of a formation team with two others.
Ron Smit, was driving home from work when he heard about the crash. Being a pilot himself, he headed towards the site, near Waring Road and Lougheed High-way. When he arrived on Waring, he saw a Cessna 150 in the fi eld and realized he knew the pilot, then went over and spoke with his friend.
The pilot said he was fl ying with three other planes and lost sight of the other aircraft when one suddenly fl ew into his aircraft at speeds Smit estimated would have been 100 mph (160 km/h). The
planes hit, locked together, then spiralled out of control and head-ed towards the ground.
Smit said his friend worked the controls and tried to disconnect the planes. At about 500 feet, the planes came apart and the pilot surprisingly found all his controls were functional. He was able to shut off the fuel, power down the plane, then make an emergency landing into the fi eld.
The other plane crashed into the slough, and according to Mission RCMP Sgt. Miriam Dickson, one of the two occupants in the air-craft perished on scene. The other was taken to Royal Columbian Hospital via air ambulance and died later in the evening.
A Transportation Safety Board
(TSB) investigator said the lead plane that crashed into Mission’s Nicomen slough was rear-ended by the second plane, which made an emergency landing in a farm-er’s fi eld.
Langley Airport manager George Miller said the small for-mation team fl ies out of the Lang-ley airfi eld on a regular basis and has taken part in Remembrance Day fl y-overs in the area for the past half a dozen years.
TSB’s Damien Lawson said the area of the crash is offi cially rec-ognized for training and that the four planes were fl ying in a dia-mond formation when the incident occurred. He could not elaborate as to why the two planes came in contact with one another.
Formation fl ying is a regular occurrence in the area, Lawson added, and the distances between planes are not regulated and are up to the individual pilots. The four practised together regularly, he said.
“This is really just a tragic acci-dent,” he said.
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I wish we could be-lieve all the health claims a great
variety of companies make about their products.
If they where really true, then we should have the healthiest population in the world; doctors offi ces and hospitals would be underutilized and our taxes and health care premiums would go down.
A brief reality check makes it pretty clear that either we do not make use of these natural or not-so-natural health foods, detoxifi ers and herbal cures, or they do not work.
Given the overwhelming demand for government fi nanced health care, it is pretty clear that most of the claims are bogus.
And that includes the claim “your money back” if not satisfi ed. I have not heard of anyone who successfully got their money back after purchasing any of these remedies or cures.
That may partly be due to placebo phe-nomenon. There is much evidence that if one strongly believes in the benefi ts of ingesting a substance, it will make you feel better even though in fact it leaves the body without doing anything benefi cial at all.
Other people just cannot be bothered to claim their money back after they
fi nd out that they are wasting their cash. In the meantime, clever advertising
playing on people’s fears and desires supports a multi-billion industry of “health products” that are of question-able benefi t and largely unnecessary if people would adopt a better lifestyle.
The Canadian government has been rather lax in requiring scientifi c evidence of health benefi ts that are claimed by food manufacturers. This is in contrast with the European Union, where so far every application for a health claim label has been refused on account of lack of evidence that it works as claimed.
I will just touch on two of these claims.In the Canadian print media and on
television, we regularly see images of very healthy appearing people promot-ing probiotics, leaving the erroneous impression that their healthy appear-ances are due to the use of high concen-trations of these live yeasts and active bacterial cultures in specifi c brand-name products.
As far as I know, there is no harm in buying probiotics other than the harm to your pocketbook.
However, health-wise, I suggest that you benefi t equally if you stick to basi-cally the same natural organisms that are commonly found in a variety of regular yogurts, cheeses and other dairy products. Your pocketbook may like that better, too.
Either way, they are thought to help balance the hundreds of different intes-tinal organism species, each of which
can be present in the millions. It is con-ceivable that in restoring or maintaining that balance, one could prevent diarrhea and other digestive tract disturbances. But these health benefi ts are not fi rmly established.
Other advertisements claim the benefi ts of prebiotics. No, this is not a spelling mistake and the one-letter dif-ference in the words pro- and prebiotics refers to two very different substances. Confusing? Yes.
In contrast to probiotics, the prebiotics are soluble fi bers and not live organ-isms.
Probiotics are great food for the ben-efi cial bacteria living and multiplying in the gut. In theory, that would lead to the same results as are claimed for the pro-biotics. Based on that theory, these fi -bers are added to many processed foods, and since they are not fully digested, will help to make you feel full.
Instead of consuming expensive processed foods with added probiotics, it makes much more sense to eat a good variety of lots of fruits and vegetables.
You will then get all the prebiotic fi bers your body needs and in a much healthier form.
Moreover, you will get all the neces-sary vitamins and minerals without hav-ing to resort to supplements. The end result may well be that not only you look and feel better, but your bank account may look healthier as well.
Dr. Marco Terwiel is a retired family physician who lives in Maple Ridge.
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Day after day they show up in the heat and cold, subject to scrutiny of the secret police, demanding democracy, to have a
vote that counts and to make their living free from corruption.
The heroic Egyptians continue to amaze the world.
Since Jan. 25, they have risked their lives and those of their families to fi ght corruption and rid their country of a dictator and oppressor.
It’s a struggle that’s gripped the world in real time and can only be compared with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 that marked the end of the Iron Curtain.
In Egypt, dictator Hosni Mubarak is, for all in-tents and purposes, done. While he refused to step down completely on Thursday, despite the anticipation of millions who’ve awaited his de-parture, his announcement that he’s transferring powers to the vice-president to await elections in September, is also a victory.
While he may technically may still have the title, Mubarak is no longer in control. In the past few weeks, he’s made concession after concession. That trend won’t stop until he’s gone completely.
Providing there isn’t a bloody reaction of inhu-man scale, the people of Egypt, who’ve already tasted freedom and self-determination, won’t let up until there’s no trace of Mubarak and his henchmen.
It’s a lesson we should mind in comfortable Canada: Free elections, democracy, a clean gov-ernment, freedom of expression, never should be taken for granted, even here.
Each generation must ensure this torch is passed to the next.
To Egypt, your liberation is at hand.The world salutes you.
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EDITOR, THE NEWS:Re: No agreement on fu-
ture of Albion flats (ma-pleridgenews.com)
Perusing the various op-tions and plans presented, I must say that there was nothing there that spoke to me, all more uninspir-ing that the other. Clearly, if there was one it would stand out immediately as the contender for fur-ther consideration.
We are not there yet and the reason for that is the basic questions have not been put forward to define the terms of reference. Some of these might be:
• What is the geographic area to be studied? Given the poor performance of the south side of Albion, why was it not included in the study area?
• What are the key is-sues or goals that should be addressed?
• Is job creation a prior-ity? We all know that this is a most important as-pect, so why not include the derelict south side and re-invent it?
• If keeping good qual-ity agricultural land in our ‘bank’ is important, why pave it over when the south side is begging? The ag lands are not the issue,
jobs are.• I’ll say it again, the key
to preserving agriculture land resides on the south side.
• If we want to maintain and possibly expand the recreational lands, why redevelop that side? Let’s keep it for future expan-sion.
• If we want to expand on the exhibition multiplex idea, why not develop the south side? Let’s keep some land for future ex-pansion.
• Why was the West Coast Express not identi-fied or connected or used
as a catalyst on any of the options? This is the most important piece of infra-structure in this area and not taken into consider-ation. I am totally baffled. Any plan for the Albion north or south has to take this as a key component.
Ideally, a new station should be located at the centre of gravity, probably at 105 Avenue, as this rep-resents the main north-south connector. I know it needs an overpass, or un-derpass, but all can be re-solved. Let the engineers figure that out – and they would.
The plan I developed along with Claus Andrup for the Albion waterfront was never meant to com-pete with downtown, but to create a new neighbor-hood with some services, but most of all create a sense of place, possibly an attraction that would draw folks from beyond our dis-trict borders.
By the way, the village on the sketch used up only 20 per cent of the area, or 10 per cent of all Albion land, north and south, so close to 75 per cent was for busi-ness park and industrial producing– conservatively around 3,000 jobs.
Imagine young families moving into townhouses or condos and being able to walk to work, bring the kids to school without taking the car and min-gling with visitors at the bistros in the evening.
This is about creating a lifestyle, and jobs.
All of the above is offered without any political affili-ation, nor in the pocket of any land owner nor at the service of any developer, just as I believe, a basic and sound planning opin-ion.
ROD GRUZELIER
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EDITOR, THE NEWS:Re: Hammond Rd. proper-
ty split in 4 (The News, Feb. 9).
Many thanks to Mayor Don MacLean and Couns. John Becker and Doug Bing for doing the right thing and opposing the rezoning on Hammond Road, which passed with the votes of Couns. Bruce Bell, Tracy Miyashita, Gwen O’Connell and Deb Walters.
The larger lots on the south side of Hammond Road between Blakely and South Bonson and the com-
munity should not be abused by muddle-headed think-ing. They are located on a very high traffi c route that should not be bastardized by small-lot development.
There is no rear lane ac-cess to properties along Hammond Road, yet four councillors thought it made sense to put four new homes on midget lots and at the T-intersection of North Bon-son and Hammond Road, no less.
Obviously not enough was learned from the sub-division of larger lots into
two on the north side of Hammond Road in the 19300 block. At that time, we con-ducted traffi c counts and had the support of all but one property owner in oppo-sition. That council ignored us – the people who live on Hammond Road. Today, we live with more driveways, more vehicles needing to park along and to turn onto and off Pitt Meadows’ busi-est single-family street.
My neighbours across the street can most often not see cyclists and higher speed westbound traffi c as
they leave their driveway because the adjacent small-lot houses need to park sev-eral vehicles on Hammond Road. We knew this could happen and said so. council did not listen.
I’m paying attention and I hope others are too – plan-ning, zoning and rezon-ing require very careful con-sideration. Hammond Road is not just any other street. If some councillors can’t re-spect the differences, they should be replaced.
F. G. HIGGS
PITT MEADOWS
EDITOR, THE NEWS:To my amazement, while watching news of the devel-
opments in Egypt, I heard a man in a group of people at Tahrir Square, Egypt, say that he wants a parliamen-tary system in his country, and a prime minister.
I acknowledge what the Egyptians have lived through in the past 30 years, as much as my mind can conceive from my western viewpoint. I think to myself, and we here in Canada have a parliamentary system, a prime minister.
Did I realize today when I woke up the peace I had because I reside in a country lead by a government as ours? Looking past complaint and human mistakes, am I thankful for our democracy? For our fearless leader?
I think about this Egyptian man in the square. He wants a parliamentary system, and a prime minister.
I pray the best for the Egyptian people and govern-ment. I sit here today, thankful that, regardless of which election, and how many elections I am invited to, that I can vote.
ALISON RACHEL MAPLE RIDGE
Not there yet on Albion flatsThankful that I can vote
Council needs to listen on Hammond Road
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A good dayFrom: clausandrup, posted on www.mapleridgenews.com.Re: No agreement on future of Albion flats (mapleridgenews.com)With or without intent, last night Maple Ridge council did a good thing. In not accepting an invitation by the ALC to have that senior arbiter of ‘all that grows’ review the four Albion concepts, council has accepted its own challenge, and that of staff, to come up with a single concept that would be acceptable to all, including the ALC. It is less of a challenge than one might be asked to believe as the components en-visioned for the Albion number only a few: jobs, recreation, commerce and agriculture. The trick, of course, is how to get the ratios right on a given piece of land – in this case, Albion. It seems to me that jobs top out head and shoulders over all other contenders.An added and, perhaps, less obvious reason why I so like last night’s decision is simply this: with Albion’s future now in disarray, the downtown development has been given an extended period during which it gain momentum and traction. Council’s decision to provide up to $75,000 in benefits to developers in the downtown has now more credence than ever before. All in all, a good day for council and a terrific day for Maple Ridge.
How can we be so blind?From: Rayma, posted on www.mapleridgenews.com.Re: Egypt and Albion are similar (Letters, Feb. 4).What an excellent letter. I visited Egypt two years ago and Tunisia just last November. It is amazing how people can eke out a living on land that seems to be nothing but desert. And we think land like that owned by the Pelton family or in Albion is not good to grow anything on? How can we be so blind and not recognize what is happening all around us in the world?India has seen simple staples like onions go up by 80 per cent in price.We have the lowest food prices of any country, but that can and will change very fast. If we are dependant on imports, we are vulnerable and in danger.
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A waterfront village proposed for Albion would link to the West Coast Express and would offer a sustainable lifestyle while provid-ing jobs and preserving agricultural land.
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RCMP believe a group of people in Maple Ridge hold information that could be crucial to cracking a murder in Mission that’s remained unsolved for the past two years.
Payton Booker Buckner’s body was found on Dec. 31 2008 in a snowbank on the driveway of a house on Laurel Avenue.
Police believe Buckner, 21, died after a fi ght that took place at a house party nearby that was at-tended by as many as 80 people.
An autopsy revealed he was stabbed.Cpl. Dale Carr with the RCMP’s Integrated Ho-
micide Investigation Team said police have spoken to some partygoers, but feel there is a core group of people who have critical information to the in-vestigation have yet to come forward.
People from Maple Ridge and Coquitlam attend-ed the party, the said.
“We feel they have fi rst-hand, intimate knowl-edge of the incident. To protect someone that has committed a crime as senseless as this one is un-acceptable,” Carr added.
“Holding on to information about a homicide is a heavy burden to carry. Now is the time to unbur-den yourself of that information and come forward with the full details regarding the murder.”
Buckner was a graduate from Hatzic Secondary School and had minor “brushes” with the law.
Carr said Bucker was targeted by a group of peo-ple who are responsible for his murder.
“We believe the altercation was not initiated by Buckner at all.”
• Anyone with information on Buckner’s murder is asked to call the IHIT tip line at 1-877-551-IHIT. If you wish to remain anonymous call 1-800-222-TIPS.
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If council likes the con-cept, another 86 homes will be built in down-town Maple Ridge, on 222nd Street and Brown Avenue.
Focus Architecture is applying to build the four-storey building and is seeking rezoning to allow that on three parcels that will be com-bined for the project.
In reviewing the pro-posal, the district’s advi-
sory design panel made several suggestions, such as creating a plaza corner at Brown and 222nd Avenue, adding more bicycle stalls and reviewing the garbage enclosure and ensuring there are at least 30 cen-timetres of top soil for the landscaping around the building. An infor-mation meeting was held in January, but only one nearby resi-dent attended, while Fo-cus said it will address the design concerns.
The size of the units will range from 465 to 841 sq. feet, and will in-clude bachelor suites and, one- and two-bed-
room suites.According to staff, the
project qualifi es for the Town Centre Incentive Program, which pro-vides a range of incen-tives from relaxed park-ing requirements, fast tracking of applications, as well as fee and tax discounts.
The latest incentive offers builders of green, multi-unit apartment buildings up to $75,000 in direct, non-repayable grants from the dis-trict for building in the downtown.
“In putting this pro-gram together, council has pulled out all the stops,” district fi nancial general manager Paul Gill told council Tues-day.
“It’s a much better program than we used to have,” much better than other municipali-ties, added Mayor Ernie Daykin.
Meanwhile, another 46-unit apartment com-plex that was supposed to be built on the north side of Brown Avenue has yet to start. B.C. Housing is funding a $9.2-million energy smart building tenta-tively called Alouette Heights that will be op-
erated by the Alouette Home Start Society.
The supportive hous-ing project will give peo-ple in drug or mental rehab programs a place to live, under 24-hour supervision. All but the caretaker suite will be bachelor units.
The complex will be a green building and could reach the gold certifi cation under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental De-sign.
Some of those fea-tures include, low-fl ow plumbing fi xtures, wa-ter conserving land-scaping and bio swales, or ground depressions, to treat runoff water.
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A Maple Ridge dad is questioning why the municipality took four days to clean equip-ment at a playground which was coated with pepper spray.
Robin Monkman re-ported the incident to police on Saturday night after he noticed a tunnel in a park off Fletcher Street was smeared with a bright orange-red residue.
Monk’s four-year-old son and wife com-plained about stinging eyes and skin when they returned home from the playground that night, even though they stayed away from the tunnel.
Monkman said he called 911 after trying to contact the District of Maple Ridge, but failed to reach a per-son.
A RCMP offi cer re-sponded and told Monkman he would contact the municipal-ity’s operations de-partment after his shift ended Saturday night.
Monkman said the police offi cer told him not to worry and that the smeared residue was probably coffee.
On Wednesday, how-ever, Monkman’s wife called him from the park to tell him his son’s eyes and skin were burning – again.
When he checked the playground tunnel by rubbing his little fi n-ger along its edge, he found the peppery or-ange residue was still inside.
The residue stung his skin when he rubbed it on his wrist.
“I reported it and it wasn’t dealt with prop-erly,” said Monkman.
“It should have not been brushed off.”
The fi re department taped off the tunnel on Wednesday after being
called to the scene.District crews washed
it down the next day, but confi rmed there was no complaint re-ceived about the pepper spray until Wednesday evening.
Playground tunnel pepper-sprayedIncident reported to police on Saturday, but dad fi nds equipment was never cleaned
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Firefighters tape off playground equipment Wednesday after it was smeared with pepper spray and a child complained that his eyes and skin were burning.
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A formal application to exclude the land would come later.
Ashlie and Daykin were supported by Couns. Al Hogarth, Judy Dueck and Mike Morden in focusing on the development sce-narios.
Dueck said only one scenario should be sent forward and didn’t be-lieve development in Albion fl ats would hurt the town centre.
“I believe quite the op-posite actually.” More shopping will keep people from having to leave Maple Ridge and there’s enough demand in Maple Ridge to sup-port both areas, she said.
Hogarth said Maple Ridge has to be more clear in what it sends to the commission. “I think we can come up with something ex-tremely unique.”
With climate change making weather in-creasingly unpredict-
able, Hogarth ques-tioned if the fi elds in the fl ats are still suitable for farming. “I think we need to do our job. That’s what the public expects from us.”
That doesn’t mean spending more money for further studies, he added.
Coun. Linda King and Craig Speirs were frus-trated by the decision. No option would be ex-cluded by sending all four scenarios, Speirs pointed out.
“Everything is includ-ed.”
Getting the commis-sion’s comment on all four options can help the district avoid the pitfalls it encountered in 2010, when it sent an exclusion applica-tion for the Pelton tree nursery lands on 203rd Street, an application that was turned down by the ALC, he pointed out.
“I would like to get this off the table.”
Speirs questioned how
much more public opin-ion the district needs given the brainstorm-ing sessions and meet-ings that took place last summer and fall.
“If we send forward one proposal and that proposal is rejected, we are hooped for several years,” said King.
“We may not like it, but the Agricultural Land Commission is more powerful than we are, in so far as agricul-tural land is concerned.
“And they have the power to say no and they have said no in the past.”
She found her col-leagues’ decision “in-comprehensible.”
“I’m just completely puzzled and mystifi ed as to why we’re proceed-ing the way we are.”
She said council now has a chance to hear what the land commis-sion has to say, then choose the option that’s most likely to receive ALC approval.
Holland said previ-
ously that developing both sides of 105th Av-enue could effect the downtown’s viability. According to one of the background reports, there only would be de-mand for 303,000 sq. feet of commercial space by 2017 – assuming mall projects planned in Pitt Meadows and on Kwantlen First Nations land east on Lougheed Highway don’t proceed.
However, both Sce-narios 2 and 4 favoured by council call for at least 1.7 million sq. feet of commercial/indus-trial development.
Daykin said large for-mat stores help keep shoppers at home. “Peo-ple are leaving town to shop now.”
In his covering letter to council, Holland said the community and in-terest groups generally supported developing the east side of 105th Avenue, while there was disagreement on what to do with the west side of 105th Avenue.
“Forwarding all sce-narios will accurately refl ect what was heard from all groups at the public forum and will enhance the usefulness of feedback from the ALC.”
Morden called for a full business case for whatever the district decides. “We best have a case that shows what that looks like and what the offset is.”
SmartCentres repre-sentative Nathan Hil-debrandt was happy with the outcome.
“We think they made the right decision.” The company owns several acres on the west side of 105th Avenue, along Lougheed Highway.
Those scenarios will allow the landowners to make their case for developing the land and to address agricultural concerns.
“The land owners have to come up with that story, that justifi ca-tion,” he said.
But Daykin said land-owners have had their say during the consulta-tions last fall. “It’s coun-cil’s discussion.”
Council watcher and candidate for next elec-tion, John MacKenzie was disappointed, how-ever.
All scenarios should be sent because the commission will make the fi nal decision any-ways, he said Wednes-day.
“The citizens better start getting involved in this issue.”
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School District No. 42 is conducting a review of its class scheduling, just three years after switch-ing to a coordinated timetable – a move that sparked student protests across the district.
Superintendent Jan Unwin said the district has hired a consultant to review all schedules and timetables, to look at ways of improving learn-ing, reducing absentee-ism, and saving money.
“We know we aren’t going to please everyone, but if we move to any-thing different, we want to have the research to
back it up,” she said. “These are tighter
times, so we have to make sure we are mak-ing smart decisions.”
The district adopted the coordinated linear timetable for all second-ary schools in 2008 un-der former superinten-dent John Simpson. That move sparked outrage by students and teachers at the time, who felt the move was made without proper consultation.
Unwin said she was, and continues to be un-happy with the move to the coordinated time-table.
“For some students, semesters work bet-ter,” she said. “For some classes, semesters work
better. They should have that option.”
Currently, second-ary students take eight courses for the entire length of the school year. Class starts at precisely 8:28 a.m., with lunch run-ning from 11:11 to 11:49 a.m. before school lets out at 2:37 p.m.
One option the district is considering is mov-ing to a coordinated bell schedule at all schools, that would allow each secondary school the au-tonomy to choose either a linear, semester, or quarterly curriculum.
“If it was set up with four blocks per day, you could just combine the blocks,” said Unwin.
However, Unwin said a move to balanced year-round schedule, like that already in place at Ka-naka Creek elementary,
would be unlikely.“If we heard from the
consultant there was an overwhelming desire for it, then we would obvi-ously consider it,” she said. “But my feeling is that it is too much of a change for this commu-nity at this time.
“But from an edu-cational perspective, would it be better? Abso-lutely.”
Unwin said she chose to hire a consultant to conduct the review, rath-er than staff, in order to gain an outside perspec-tive on the issue.
The expense came out of her $40,000 annual dis-cretionary budget, but will cost much less than that, she said.
Unwin said she expects the consultant’s report back by early March at the latest.
Kindergarten registra-tion is up in School Dis-trict No. 42, but its still not enough to make up for the district’s falling enrollment.
As of Wednesday, 857 kindergarten students have signed up for the 2011/12 school year, an increase of 50 to 60 stu-dents compared to this time last year, superin-tendent Jan Unwin said at Wednesday’s school board meeting.
French immersion has proved especially popu-lar, she noted. Forty-two students have registered for Eric Langton elemen-tary’s French immersion kindergarten program, while another 15 are on the waitlist. Laity View elementary had added a third French class af-ter 56 kids signed up for next year, and at Pitt Meadows elementary, 44 students have registered for French immersion, with 18 on the waiting list there.
Meanwhile, only 13 stu-dents have signed up for Pitt Meadows elementa-ry’s English program.
Unwin said the dis-trict’s fi rst priority will be to fi nd French immersion spaces for every child, but that space may not be at the parents’ fi rst choice of school.
There are 962 kinder-garten students cur-rently attending school in School District No. 42. Unwin expects the 2011/12 kindergarten class to number close to 1,000 by the time school starts in the September.
While kindergarten enrollment appears to be trending upwards, the incoming students fell short of making up for the more than 1,200
graduating Grade 12s who will leave the dis-trict at the end of the school year, resulting in a net loss of students.
“That trend will con-tinue for four or fi ve years.” Unwin said. “So even though we’re up, we’re down.”
Kanaka Creek el-ementary, which oper-ates on a year-round balanced calendar, also saw strong registration numbers, with 73 stu-dents signing up for kin-dergarten.
The district’s new en-vironmental school took
in 20 kindergarten stu-dents, as well as 40 stu-dents in Grades 1 to 7. The program, which will offer students an out-doors hands-on curricu-lum, drew fi ve students from out of district, and nine who were previ-ously home-schooled.
SD 42 reviewing class schedulesSuperintendent Jan Unwin not pleased with coordinated linear timetable
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Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows are at odds about where hundreds of little fi sh found ex-pired in the North Alou-ette River almost two years ago actually died.
While environmental-ist Jack Emberly found the fi sh a few hundred metres east of Neaves Bridge, the fi sh kill sup-posedly happened in Maple Ridge, Pitt Mead-ows council heard last week.
“There’s been a bit a misunderstanding as to where this took place,” said Pitt Meadows May-or Don MacLean.
“A lot of people, in-dividual residents of Maple Ridge, feel that it was in Pitt Meadows and I don’t believe it was,” MacLean said at the Feb. 1 council meet-ing.
“The fi sh kill was ac-tually within Maple Ridge’s jurisdiction on the North Alouette,” said Kim Grout, direc-tor of development ser-vices.
She said later that Pitt Meadows initially learned of the incident from Maple Ridge.
“We know Maple Ridge was working on it with their council and there was some discussion on it and it was described to us as upstream.”
Grout said the City of Pitt Meadows was only concerned with the unauthorized installa-tion of the water intake
pump by Golden Eagle Group, also in the North Alouette. The company says there’s no connec-tion between the pump’s installation and the fi sh kill.
An Environment Can-ada report from July 2009 found no cause for the death of the fi sh.
Maple Ridge Mayor Ernie Daykin disagrees about the location of the fi sh kill.
“I’m 99.8 per cent sure that it happened in Pitt Meadows.”
Emberly confi rmed last week that he found the fi sh downstream of the irrigation intake, within Pitt Meadows boundaries.
Geoff Clayton, with the Alouette River Man-agement System, said Grout should recheck the city’s boundaries. “That just doesn’t hap-pen to be true.”
Amanda Balcke, exec-utive-director of ARMS, also saw a dozen dead fi ngerlings on May 25, 2009 near where Golden Eagle Group excavated before installing the 45-centimetre wide wa-ter intake pipe for its cranberry fi elds.
The company has ad-mitted it installed the pipe in early June and pumped 100,000 litres from the river without a receiving a water li-cence from the Water Stewardship Division of the Ministry of Environ-ment.
That’s still under in-vestigation by the At-torney General depart-ment.
Debate on where fish kill originatedWas it in Maple Ridge or Pitt Meadows?
A mud blowout near the South Alouette River last week was handled well, according to the Alouette River Management Society.
The incident happened last Friday as crews were drilling horizon-tally beneath the river in order to install a sani-tary sewer line exten-sion to Fraser Regional Correctional Centre on 256th Street.
“It was a huge sur-prise, a bit of an embar-rassment to the contrac-tor,” said Geoff Clayton.
On the other hand, he added, there was a good
response.The hole had been
capped with driller’s clay, but after heavy rains, pressure in-creased and the plug fractured, spewing mud on to Alouette Road.
Clayton was called about half an hour after the incident. Crushed rock dams were built to contain the fl ow and four truckloads of mud were vacuumed up dur-ing the cleanup.
He said that what little got in the river was well handled.
Ministry of Environ-ment and Fisheries and Oceans Canada also were contacted.
“It seemed like the system worked.”
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Public NoticeThis notice is issued in accordance with Sections 94 and 227 of the Community Charter.
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the District of Maple Ridge proposes to adopt Maple Ridge Revitalization Tax Exemption Bylaw No. 6789-2011.
Program details
The Program applies to construction projects meeting certain conditions, in the Town Centre Investment Incentive Areas:
Apartment or Mixed Use Building • construction of:
Four-storeys or higher occurring • within Sub Area 1; or,Five-storeys or higher occurring • in Sub Area 2.
New Commercial construction with • a building permit value greater than or equal to $1,000,000; Commercial Renovation with a • building permit value greater than or equal to $20,000;Commercial Façade Improvement • with a building permit value greater than or equal to $10,000;LEED®-Silver or better or Alternate/• Renewable Energy Projects.
Reasons for and objectives of the program
The District of Maple Ridge has made signifi cant investments in the Town Centre over the last several years, in keeping with Council’s vision to create a vibrant and dynamic Town Centre. An incentive program has been established to accelerate private sector investment in residential and commercial projects to help achieve Council’s vision, and this Revitalization Tax Exemption Program Bylaw is one element of that incentive program.
A Revitalization Tax Exemption Program is established under this bylaw to:
Encourage residential investment • to diversify housing options, to increase density in the Town Centre, to provide a larger base of residents to support commercial activities;Encourage commercial investment• to create a strong local economy and expand employment opportunities for citizens;Increase pedestrian traffi c with • added residential and commercial activity, both to support local business, and to enhance safety; Encourage and support the use • of environmentally sustainable building construction methods and materials, and encourage energy effi ciency and alternative technologies.
How the objectives will be accomplished
It is intended that this tax exemption program will encourage
various types of development to achieve a range of economic, social and environmental objectives, and that growth in the residential and commercial sectors will follow. Increased density will support enhanced commercial activity and increase pedestrian traffi c, achieving greater live/work options, improved safety for individuals and property, and an expanded customer base for local businesses.
Tax exemptions available
The tax exemption is equivalent to 100% of the municipal property tax on the non-market change attributed to an eligible project (pursuant to this bylaw), for three years. For LEED®-Silver or better or Alternative/Renewable Energy Projects, a tax exemption of six years will apply.
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A copy of the bylaw and the staff report considered by Council will
be available for public inspection at the Municipal Hall Reception Desk between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm from February 8 toFebruary 22, 2011, Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays excepted. This information is also posted on the District’s websitewww.mapleridge.ca on the Town Centre Investment IncentivesProgram page.
ALL PERSONS who deem themselves affected by this bylaw shall be afforded an opportunity to make their comments known to the Municipal Council by forwarding written submissions to the attention of the Manager of Legislative Services or by sending an email to the Clerk’s Department at [email protected] by 4:00 pm, February 22, 2011. All written submissions and emails will become part of the public record.
Dated this 8th day of February, 2011.
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Designated area for the Program – Town Centre Investment Incentive Areas
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In a few months, hungry eastbound Maple Ridge com-muters will be able to pull in to Golden Ears Cheeseworks off 128th Avenue and pick up a couple kilos of ched-dar, gouda, havarti or even creamy fromage frais, maybe pick up some locally grown veggies, some beer or wine, and come home and enjoy a local meal, from well within the 100-mile diet radius.
The cheese that will be sold in the new building, now under-way on the lush farm-land, just west of 224th Street, couldn’t be more local.
It will be made on site under the supervi-sion of Emma and Jen-na Davison and their mom and dad, Kerry and Lynn.
Kerry’s older brother will be supplying the milk from the 85 Jer-sey cows from his farm next door, a stone’s throw away from the cheese factory.
While Emma will handle the business and marketing, Jenna and Lynn will do the actual cheese mak-ing in a room with a window so custom-ers can see them do their craft.
“This is where the
magic happens. We’ll have racks and racks,” Emma said during a tour.
With certain chees-es requiring certain room temperatures, the 5,500-sq.-foot build-ing will have separate rooms in order to en-sure optimum curing conditions.
The project has been a few years in the mak-ing, said Kerry, whose full-time job is teach-ing heating, ventilation and air conditioning in Langley. Opening day is expected in June.
It’s also been a costly
one, hitting about a million dollars. Fire and sprinkler alarm systems and a failed attempt to use geo-thermal power pushed up costs.
Since the opening of the Golden Ears Bridge in 2009, more traffic, all of them po-tential customers, is flowing on to 128th Av-enue, bringing volume to about 5,300 vehicles a day.
“The location is a huge plus now that it’s joined the Abernethy Connector to the Gold-en Ears Bridge. It just
made fantastic sense to do this value-added thing.
“Since that bridge opened, you can’t be-lieve how busy that got.”
While Golden Ears expects to sell its products to other local retailers, they plan on selling 75 per cent of their produce on site.
In addition to the employee suites on the second storey, the Golden Ears Cheese-works will have a bed and breakfast suite for tourists who want the farm experience.
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Lynn Davison, co-owner of Golden Ears Cheeseworks Ltd. with her husband Kerry, holds open a cheese vat that will be used to pasteurize milk and make cheese in at their new handcrafted artisan cheese factory at 224th Street and 128th Avenue in Maple Ridge. Emma and Jenna (left) Davison will be running the cheeseworks.
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in runn
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www.mapleridgenews.com - THE NEWS -- Friday, February 11, 2011 -- 19
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner.
If you really want to make your special person happy, here is something you may fi nd interesting.
The Society of Ameri-can Florists partnered with world renowned researcher Jeannette Haviland-Jones, Ph.D., of Rutgers University, on some ground-break-ing research to examine the effect of fl owers on human emotion and well being.
Over 10 months, some very interesting results were discovered.
Dr. Haviland-Jones and her research team found that the presence of fl owers triggers happy emotions, heightens feel-ings of life satisfaction and affects future behaviour in a positive manner far beyond what is normally true.
Flowers are a natural and healthful mod-erator of moods.
“Common sense tells us that fl owers make us happy,” says Dr. Haviland-Jones, “and now science shows that not only do fl owers make us happier than we know, they have strong positive effects on our emotional well being.”
Here are fi ve main points as condensed from her report.
• Flowers have an immediate impact on happiness. Study participants expressed true or excited smiles upon receiving fl ow-ers, demonstrating extraordinary delight and gratitude. This reaction was universal, occurring in all age groups.
• Flowers have a long-term positive effect on moods. Study participants reported feel-ing less depressed, anxious and agitated after receiving fl owers, and demonstrated a higher sense of enjoyment and life satis-
faction.• Flowers make intimate connections.
The presence of fl owers led to increased contact with family and friends.
• Flowers are a symbol for sharing. The study explored where in their homes people displayed fl owers. Once received, arrangements were placed in areas of the home that are open to visitors – such as foyers, living rooms and dining rooms –
suggesting that fl owers make the space more welcoming and create a sharing atmosphere.
• People who buy more fl owers are happier. Once learning the study results, participants in all ages and gift categories reported that they would be buying more fl owers in the future.
This may seem like a bit of promotion for the fl oral and horticultural industry, but I
thought these results would be interesting to everyone.
With so much stress and depression in today’s world, it’s great to know that some-thing as simple as a bouquet of fl owers can help to cheer someone up – a nice thought just before Valentine’s Day.
Brian Minter owns and operates Minter Gardens just outside of Chilliwack.
Metro Creative Connection
Study participants reported feeling less depressed, anxious and agitated after receiving flowers.
THE NEWS/home&gardeningFlowers not just for Valentine’s Day
Gardening Brian Minter
“Common sense tells us that flowers make us happy.” Dr. Jeannette Haviland-Jones, Ph.D. Rutgers University
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Westside 1/4 AcreComplete reno done in this 4 bdrm character home. Access to the rear for shop or carriage home. Walk to Laityvew and Westview schools. Super location, great private yard for the kids. Easy access to the Golden Ears bridge.
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New Listing! Great potential in this Westside home. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, large fenced yard, newer roof. With some TLC you would have a great home. Close to West-view and Laityview schools.
Builders/InvestorsOldtimer zoned for 2 lots and a du-plex lot. City may approve 4 lots on cul-de-sac, with a great vew of the Golden Ears mountains. Close to Harry Hoogie school, quick access to Abernathy Way to the Golden Ears bridge.
Ground FloorAdult building - 980 sq. ft. 2 bed-room unit. Pets are welcome, gas fi replace, in-suite storage room, secure underground parking. Close to town and on the quiet side of the building facing east. Nice patio and garden area for summer.
Somerset RancherPrime Pitt Meadows location, 1560 sq. ft. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths and completely remodeled. Open fl oor plan, granite counters, wood fl oors, heat pump, central air, vaulted ceiling and private yard backs onto green space.
$$414,900414,900
Call for detailsCall for details
$$334,900334,900
$$749,000749,000
$$184,900184,900
$$483,700483,700
OPEN SUN 2-422519 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge
Deb HogarthDeb HogarthUnlicensedUnlicensed
Aleesha HogarthAleesha Hogarth
THE HOGARTH TEAM Our Family Working For Yours
604-467-9300Al HogarthAl HogarthAssociate BrokerAssociate Broker
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22519 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge
Great family home close to schools, shopping, recreation & transit. Features 6 bedrooms, family room, large covered deck and hot tub. New laminate fl ooring, kitchen cupboards and fresh paint.
Downtown core, great opportunity to rezone for small apartment building. Potential for 6 to 10 units depending on form and character proposals. Rear lane access for parking. All services available. Older home presently rented. Value mainly in land.
22688 Kendrick LoopIdeal Investment
Only $399,900Only $310,800
Open Sunday 2-4
SUE GALWAY604-828-8476
ANNY AN 安玉人
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604-828-8476
$$211,900211,900
$$259,900259,900
$$284,900284,900
$$219,000219,000
$$269,500269,500
$$244,800244,800
Still Under Warranty
Private Patio
2 Bedrooms + Den
Rancher! No Stairs!
Luxurious Living
The View Is Awesome!
• Bdrm & den• 775 sq. ft., f/p• In-suite laundry• Monthly strata $183• Gym, lounge, etc• Pets welcome• Rentals allowed
• 2 bedrooms• 2 baths• SS Appliances• Granite counters• Gas fi replace• 920 sq. ft.• In-suite laundry• Pets allowed
• Pitt Meadows• 2 bdrms + den• 2 baths• Gas fi replace• 1,325 sq. ft.• Pets welcome!• The quiet side of
Kimberley Court
• 2 bdrms, 1½ baths• Gas fi replace• In-suite laundry• Low maint $232
includes cable• 1,096 sq. ft.• 2 parking stalls• Pets welcome
• 2 bedrooms with walk-in closets
• 2 baths• Granite counters• Gas fi replace• 1,108 sq. ft.• In-suite laundry• Pets allowed
• North Burnaby• Huge bdrm + den• 805 sq. ft., • 2 decks• Pool, hot tub &
exercise rm• Close to shopping,
transit & SFU
Buying or Selling, We promise you a high level of service, honesty and integrity. Give us a call today!
$$195,000195,000
Maple Ridge• 1 bedroom• Gourmet kitchen• Elegant dark
cabinets
• Granite counters• SS appliances• In-suite laundry• Low strata $132
• Pets allowed• Centro - still
under warranty• Walk to shopping
OPEN SUNDAY 2-4OPEN SUNDAY 2-4#102 - 22363 Selkirk Avenue
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26576 - 103rd Ave., M.R.
#22, 22555 - 116th Ave., M.R.
• Over 4500 sq. ft. in Thornhill area
• 6 bdrms/5 baths• Custom built on
4.94 acres
• Views of Golden Ears & Mt. Baker
• Huge self-contained suite
• 2 road frontages
• Adult Oriented Fraserview Village
• 2400 sq. ft.• 3 bdrms/3 baths
• Master on main• View of Fraser
River• Stunning & private
backyard
$1,149,800
$429,800
• Custom built 2 storey on 8000 sq. ft. lot
• Over 2900 sq. ft.• Solid hardwood on main• In-fl oor radiant heat• Kitchen to die for!• 3 bdrms + games rm
& den• 5 pce ensuite in master• 4 car garage
• Well cared for 3 bdrm rancher
• 1257 sq. ft. on 7920 sq. ft. lot
• Hardwood fl oors• New furnace, h/w tank &
gas f/p• No thru street• Wall to schools, shops
& transit
• Approx 3000 sq. ft.• 5 bdrms + rec rm & den• Deluxe ensuite• Architect built for his own
family• Deck overlooks backyard
& creek• Simply stunning!
12277 - 189A Street, Pitt Meadows
12180 Dover St., Maple Ridge
11865 - 249A St., Maple Ridge
$689,800
$429,800
$559,800
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2-4
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2-4
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#44 - 11229 - 232nd St., M.R.
• 3 bdrm/3 bath• 1250 sq. ft.• Single garage• 13’8” storage area• New appliances
• Bright eat-in kitchen
• Easy commute by West Coast Express
$269,800
Hot New Listing
Reduced$40,000
TRI-TEL REALTY
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Terry Passley & Associates
604-467-9300Kim FabbroKim Fabbro [email protected]
On the bluff in Silver Ridge.Construction has begun on
these high end luxury homesPackages Available!
Beautifully maintained house with 3 bedrooms and den on a quiet cul-de-sac location. Updates include custom cabinets throughout, new roof, hot water tank and high effi ciency furnace. Home is also air conditioned. Kids will enjoy the large, private backyard.
Over 3800 sq. ft. 3 level split home with mortgage helper on 2.03 acres. Gently sloping up backside of Iron Mountain, babbling brook runs right beside property. Fully gated. Huge shop 1600 sq. ft., concrete fl oors, 220 wiring.
9940 - 2721.03 acres plus basement entry home
$489,0009860 - 272
15 acres with home and outbuildings$889,000
9960 - 2721.33 acres - build your own home
$299,000
$$549,900549,900
$$749,900749,900
19266 - 123rd, Pitt Meadows
19378 Dewdney Trunk Rd., Mission
Gorgeous View Lots
Pitt Meadows Prime!
2.03 Acres
Acreages To Live On
OPEN SUNDAY 2-4
OPEN SAT 2-4 • SUN 1-322519 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge22519 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge
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“We keep our promise, or you don’t keep us.”
Ted HedrickTed Hedrick604-418-4799604-418-4799
• Impressive 2 storey, 3/4 bdrm home in mint condition• Craftsmanship & lavish attention to detail - inviting &
comfortable layout. Hardwood fl oors, extensive crown moldings• Impressive 2 storey foyer with open staircase, stunning living
rm, fi ve star gourmet kitchen, 2 fi replaces, the list goes on!• Entertainment sized family rm & huge games room
• Excellent location - easy stroll to all amenities• 2 spacious bdrms & 2 full baths• Panoramic mtn view - well appointed bright open fl oor plan• Entertainment sized living rm, open to large sundeck• Fully equipped oak kitchen with eating bar• Sumptuous master bdrm and ensuite. Shows beautifully!
LIVEABLE LUXURY! WARM & CHEERFULLY WELCOMING
GORGEOUS END UNIT TOWNHOME
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45+
Large Landscaped &
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#42 - 22308 - 124th Ave., Maple Ridge
$$539,500539,500 $$249,900249,900
MARIO CASORIA 604-454-8102 [email protected]
Call me today for ALL Your real estate needs. I would LOVE to help.
#402-19673 Meadow Gardens Way 2 Bedroom & Den - 1180 Sq. Ft
Tri-Tel Realty
#31 - 11502 Burnett
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Danette Ball604-467-9300Quality Service You Can Trust!
THE CREST AT SILVER RIDGE!13655 Blake Loop, MR $549,000
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• Stunning view• 3 or 4 bedrooms• 3 baths
• Maple kitchen• River rock fi replace• Vaulted ceiling
AMAZING VIEWS OF THE VALLEY
Randy Randy CookeCooke778-835-9832778-835-9832
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#211 - 11665 Haney ByPassFantastic 2 bdrm, 2 bath unit. Great location, backing onto green space. Very nice fl oor plan in 4 year old building. Low maintenance fee $171/mo, fl ooring allowance available. To view this home, please call Randy Cooke [email protected]
OPEN SUNDAY 1-3
$$219,000219,000
Duplex Style TownHome
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ridge-meadows realty EACH OFFICE INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED223 & Dewdney 604.466.2838
“Trust your dreams!”
DEBBIE SHEPPARD604-466-2838
Great basement home in East Central Maple Ridge and offers beautiful slate and laminate fl ooring on main fl oor, 3 bedrooms up, 4th bedroom down, easily set up for a suite, garage can be easily converted back to a double garage, large covered deck off the kitchen with views of the Golden Ears. What a price! Don’t miss it!$418,900$418,900
12394-231B St., Maple Ridge OPEN HOUSE SAT. 2-4 PM AND SUN. 1-3 PM
Cheaper than rent! Your own piece of property - no pet or rental restrictions! This rancher offers 1034 sq. ft. of living enjoyment, fi replace in the living room, large deck off kitchen, 2 bedrooms easy to convert back to 3, 78 x 84 level lot with room for rec vehicle parking, walking distance to all downtown amenities. Call today!
$279,900
Bring OffersBring Offers
This rancher has been beautifully updated with laminate fl ooring, heritage mantle around the fi replace in the living room, family room addition off the kitchen, 3 bedrooms, oversized deck and adventure playground in the 62 x 120 fenced yard, single garage and plenty of rec vehicle parking, in the Laityview catchment area. Treat yourself.$426,900$426,900
OPEN HOUSE SUN. 2-4PM21009 Stonehouse Ave., Maple Ridge
Sweeping mountain views can be enjoyed from the main living areas in this gorgeous home located in one of Maple Ridge’s most desirable neighbourhoods. Great room plan with fl ex room, 3 bed-rooms upstairs plus a fl ex room, approx. $50,000 spent in top qual-ity fi nishings in the basement including granite countertops, cork fl ooring, 2 more bedrooms down, very suitable. Upgrades to the upgrades: over $57,000 was spent on upgrading all washrooms to granite with vessel sinks, high end appliances, air conditioning, landscaping, fencing and custom wrought iron gate and railings, and so much more. Not to miss!
$649,900$649,900JUST LISTEDJUST LISTED
FORMER SHOW HOME SILVER RIDGE
This rare townhouse is located in the super desirable 55+ adult complex, Holly Lane in Pitt Meadows. Offering 1483 sq. ft. of living enjoyment, the master bedroom is on the main fl oor, living room offers vaulted ceilings, formal dining room, new appliances in the bright kitchen, 2 more bedrooms and washroom upstairs, single garage, plenty of storage! Don’t miss it!REDUCEDREDUCED $329,900 $329,900
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13332 McCauley Cresent, Maple Ridge“Rock Ridge” Bedroom and den on the • main fl oor4 bedrooms upstairs and 2 bdrms in the • basement with suite potentialMain fl oor has Corian countertops, • hardwood fl oorsBuilt-in maple entertainment unit & gas • fi replace in the family rm
$669,900
1/4 ACRE LOT WITH A VIEW
24933 - 108 Avenue, Maple Ridge‘Baker Ridge’2 storey with a full unfi nished • walkout basement4 bedrooms, 3 baths • Maple kitchen with granite counters, island • and walk-in pantryFamily rm with a rock faced gas fi replace• Soaker tub, separate shower & double sinks • in ensuite
$584,900
LIKE NEW - WITH A VIEW
10916 - 240 Street, Maple Ridge
Kanada View Estates basement home• Main fl oor has a family room with a gas • fi replaceMaple kitchen with island • 3 bdrms + den. 2 bedroom inlaw suite• Double garage from lane•
$452,900
2 BEDROOM INLAW SUITE
#42-22977 116 Ave., Maple RidgeSeveral plans to choose fromSeveral plans to choose from• • Fireplace, granite counter tops. GarageFireplace, granite counter tops. Garage• • 7 appliances, garage opener and blinds 7 appliances, garage opener and blinds • • includedincludedLarge fenced yard. Near schools, shopping Large fenced yard. Near schools, shopping • • and transitand transit
New ‘Duet’ TownhomesStarting at $449,900
including net HST
OPEN EVERY DAY EXCEPT FRI 12-4
13782 - 232A St., Maple Ridge(Off 232nd St. onto Silver Valley Rd.)
‘Silver Views’. Deluxe new 2 storey homes • with daylight basements Some homes have fi nished legal suite in • the basementDouble and triple garages• Some homes with valley views•
Lovely Mountain and Valley View
Starting at $619,900
OPEN EVERY DAY EXCEPT FRI 12-4
Main Stone Creek
Starting at $463,90010132 - 240 St., Maple Ridge
56 26 single Family Homes built by • Onni GroupNew 2 storey homes with unfi nished basement• Open fl oor plans, gas F/P, maple kitchen with • granite counters, pantry & island Includes 6 appliances, garburator and blinds•
OPEN EVERY DAY 12-5
24256 - 101A Ave.,Maple Ridge
(south off 102nd Ave onto 242B St)
‘Castle Brook’ 3 to 6 bedroom homes• Finished & unfi nished basements• Some homes back onto greenbelt• Double and single garages•
New 2 Storey Homes With Basements
Starting at $499,900
OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1-4
Starting at $354,900#21 13771 - 232A St., Maple Ridge(off 232 St. onto Silver Valley Rd.)
Executive new townhomes ‘Silver Heights’• 2 storey plus a fully fi nished basement• 3 bedrooms and 4 bathroomsMaple cabinets, granite counters, fi replace.• Single and double garages• 6 appliances and blinds included.•
New Townhomes with New Townhomes with Finished BasementsFinished Basements
OPEN EVERY DAY EXCEPT FRI 12-4
604 - 5 61 - 0 053604 - 5 61 - 0 053CallCallLUKELUKE
Selling?Buying?
Your own Wilderness Home just 5 minutes from downtown Maple Ridge. 2.56 Acres zoned RS-1, on municipal water and sanitary sewer. Features 3 bdrm rancher, detached trailer/shop/offi ce, barn and some fencing, property is cleared and mostly pasture.
OPEN SAT. 2-412296 248th Street, Maple Ridge
$$878,800878,800
Great location, close to West Coast Express, schools & sports fi elds. Freshly painted main fl oor is rented out for $1,200 and features 2 bedrooms, 4 piece bath and living room with new laminate fl oors. Two bedrooms, kitchen and 3 piece bath down rented for $850. Covered 12 x 14 sundeck with mountain view. Total rent $2,050 per month!
19359 Hammond Rd, Pitt Meadows$$399,000399,000
Minutes to WC
Express
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ACREAGE
778-988-1224Terri SmithTerri Smith
View more pictures and information at www.terrismith.ca
This stunning Coquitlam condo features two bedrooms & two baths and enjoy the level entry out to the covered patio and gardens! You will surely enjoy the outdoor pool this summer too! View anytime – call Terri today at 778-988-1224
IT’S A SWEETHEART! GROUND FLOOR NO CAR?
$589,900$589,900
No worries! This solid basement home is located within a short walking distance to schools, shopping and transportation in Maple Ridge! A private backyard too! Come see the value offered here at this Maple Ridge home.
This large –fully fi nished Maple
Ridge home features 6 bdrms
and a den. Lots of (two) family
quality living space in a great
family area. Put this home on
the top of your view list today!
$296,500$296,500 $382,800$382,800
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ridge-meadows realty EACH OFFICE INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED223 & Dewdney 604.466.2838
JOHN DALE604-816-96042009Master Member
JUSTIN HENNESSEYReal Estate Specialist 604.805.4669
View more photos and map on Google Earth @www.justinhennessey.com
Located in the Thornhill Urban Reserve with • gentle south slope, no creeks and not in the ALR
Solid 3,000 sq. ft. home with new roof and • laminate wood style fl oor, PLUS 2 bedroom 900 sq. ft. mobile home
• Great income potential or build your dream home on this unique property$849,900
THORNHILL 4.86 ACRES Invest In Your Future
26227 98th Ave., Maple Ridge
REDUCED $100,000!
ROB JEEVES604-240-2629
www.AskRobJeeves.com
$639,00023710 110th Ave.
$649,900 $600,000#23 - 11442 Best St.24752 Kimola Dr.
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Dreams Come TrueThis home gets its appeal due to the fact that it is built on a one acre lot in Alouette
Estates, an area of distinct homes on acreages.Wait until you see the difference it makes when an architect has enough land to design
a wide oor plan for a lifestyle of enjoyment both inside & out. Spacious and elegant two storey with basement and triple garage. Impressive kitchen with maple cabinets, island, pantry and granite counters, all brand new stainless steel appliances, extended family room with feature replace and double French doors to party-sized deck & hot tub and very private garden. Three bedrooms upstairs–master has two-way replace leading into deluxe ensuite. Total of 3 replaces in this home. Downstairs features a large media room, another bedroom, a den, plus storage.
COME AND ENJOY OUR OPEN HOUSE OR CALL DAVID AT 604-209-4944
24848 130A Avenue Maple Ridge
Beautiful Backyard
Open House Sunday 1-4 pm ON ONE ACRE
$799 500
Travel East on Dewney Trunk Road, turn north on 248th, then left on 130A
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19126 Ford Rd., Pitt Meadows
2 Storey T/H 3 bed/2.5 bath• Separate eating area• Fenced/private backyard• Single garage & extra parking• Backs onto neighbourhood park• No pet restrictions•
$299,900$299,900
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Overlooking inner courtyard• Ground level unit with expansive patio• 1 Bedroom & Den• Deluxe kitchen w/granite & s/s appliances• Gym, clubhouse, sauna, pool table• Rentals and pets allowed w/restrictions•
#103 19673 Meadow Gardens
Minutes to Tee Time
$239,900$239,900
604-341-3575VICKIVICKIRAINERRAINERRAINER &&&& VICKIVICKI
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Quiet West Maple Ridge location
$449,900$449,900
FRANK BUDD 604-466-2838
New ListingNew Listing Great central location on a quiet cul-de-sacThis split entry home features a good sized living and dining area with a natural gas fi replace for those cold winter nights. Enjoy the spacious kitchen with a new built in microwave. The home has 3 good sized bedrooms up and a completely reno’d bath-room and a 2 piece ensuite off the master. The partially fi nished downstairs has a large rec room and den. The huge sundeck overlooks a very private fenced backyard. Enclosed double car garage, new roof last year round out the package.
$419,000$395,000
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$579,900
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$317,000NEEDS A LITTLE LOVEALOUETTE PARK ESTATES
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Maple Ridge Offi ce 22718 Lougheed Highway 604.467.3871 www.macrealty.com
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JENNIFER NIXON604.467.3871
www.jennifernixon.ca
NEW LISTING$229,000
RIO-This 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom contemporary modern home is steps from the heart of the community, Maple Ridge. Plus it features an open concept layout with beautiful granite countertops, cozy fi replace, balcony and laminate fl ooring. Call me for a viewing.
THE WILLOWS55++++
Immaculate 1-bedroom ground fl oor condo in Fraserview subdivision. Quiet east-facing patio with view of landscaped grounds. Pet OK. Excellent location, great value!
MITCH & JEWEL YOURCHEKCell 604-813-5476YourchekTeam.com
$154,900$154,900
KELLY YOUNG604-928-1753
12598 Blackstock StreetUpdated 3 bedroom rancher• 9,039 square foot lot• 3 separate shops with 220 power• RV parking•
ANDREW ETEY604-230-4020
HAVE CASH BUYER$700,000 - $800,000
Wanted: 2 storey home with in-law acc. on level, usable ½-1¼ acre offering privacy. Maple Ridge -
Mission area. Close to Golf Course preferred with RV parking.
WANTED$424,900$424,900
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604-802-6694 604-340-4167
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Marketed at $229,000
BEST KEPT SECRET
11701 Fulton Street
Listed at $243,000
* Value and Location* Move in ready* 3 bdrm, 2 baths* Updated flooring* Freshly painted* New vinyl windows* Newer roof* Walk to schools* Low fees
#411-6168 120th Street
Offered at $237,900
WALK TO EVERTHING
PENTHOUSE AT SALUS
* 120th & 66 Ave Surrey* 0ne bdrm + den* Salt water pool* Sauna & steam lounge* Yoga room* Exercise room* Only 2 yrs old* Convenient location!* Walking trails nearby
11515 - 198 Street* Prime Pitt Meadows* 8700+ private lot* Beautifully reno’d* NEW flooring* NEW kitchen* Fully fenced b/yard* Lots of parking* RV PARKING* Quiet, family area
Settle in at $549,000WILDWOOD PARK
1 13887 Docksteader* Master on main!* Silver Ridge area* Great room plan* Backs on greenbelt* Gorgeous kitchen* Hi-end appliances* Granite counters* Walk out basement* View to relax to
Yours at $584,900 “VIEW” BY NATURE
Marketed at $624,900
19843 Silverthorne Pl
* Bonson’s Landing* 3 bdrms ~ 3 baths* 8439 s f fenced lot* Cul-De-Sac location* Prime Pitt Meadows* 2 storey home* 600 s f master bdrm* hardwood flooring* too much to list!
RELAX & STAY!
Listed at $559,000
* Mountain view* 4 bdrm, 3 baths* Over 2700 sq ft* RV parking avail* Gourmet kitchen* S/S appliances* Fully fenced yard* Triple garage* Fully finished bsmt
22706 125A Ave
TRIPLE GARAGE!
HOMES $250k to $350K#307 - 2109 Rowland
Offered at $258,400
* Top floor* 2 bdrm, 2 baths* Over 1000 sq ft* 2 parking stalls* Central Poco* Walk to everything!* Rainscreened bldg
#17 - 21960 River Rd
* Foxborough Hills* Half duplex style* Double garage* Over 1200 sqft* 3 bdrm, 2 baths* On greenspace* Near WCE & transit* End unit
Listed at $259,000
* 1280 square feet* 3 bdrm ~ 2 bath* Westside location* 2 level townhome* Fenced backyard* Family complex* Playground*Bring your toolkit!
23 - 11757 207th St.
Listed at $262,000
#48 - 23151 Haney BB
Offered at $314,900
* 2259 Sq. Ft. T/H* 3 bdrm + den* 3 baths* Recreation room* Walk to W C Express* End unit* New roofing* Huge deck!
R V PARKING
11310 Harrison St.* 4 bdrm ~ 2 bath* RV PARKING* Huge sundeck* Central location* 2 storey home* Finished basement* Basment suitable* Walk to amenities
Yours at $382,000
Listed at $369,000BEST VALUE IN TOWN!
#52 - 11282 Cottonwood
* “Wallmark Homes”* 3 bdrms, 4 baths* Double garage* S/S appliances* Large master suite* 5 pce ensuite* Huge rec room* Pets welcome OPEN SUN 2 - 4
SOLD!OL !S D
#125 - 2721 Atlin Place
* 3 level townhome* 3 bdrms - 3.5 baths* Gorgeous views* Hardwood flooring* Central location* Fam rm w. wet bar* Tons of storage* Great backyard
THE TERRACES
#306 - 12075 228th
* 902 sq. ft condo*2 bdrms ~ 2 baths* BRAND NEW* NO HST!* Central location* Secure parking* Steps to shopping* Low strata fees* Rentals OK
NEW LISTING at $449,000
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Maple Ridge Offi ce 22718 Lougheed Highway 604.467.3871 www.macrealty.com
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JOAN WARN604-828-3369
www.joanwarn.com
Executive Home with Views$694,900
Spectacular views from this 4 bedroom executive home in Maple Crest. Enjoy the great views of Golden Ears as you eat breakfast overlooking your 3 tiered backyard with a sports court. Extensive use of accent lighting in the garden. Yard has in-ground sprinklers. Basement has a separate entrance.
MLS # V863392MLS # V863392
Priced to sell quicklyThis 2 bedroom condo has new fl ooring, new cabinets, new stainless steel appliances, new plumbing, new paint new roof and a tremendous view of the pool area. Visit my site for more info and pictures.
RON MITCHELLCell 604-617-9642
www.ronmitchell.bc.ca
Dave 604-341-0783 • Lisa 604-970-2209www.teamtelep.com
DAVE TELEP PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORPORATION
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301 - 9149 Saturna Drive, BBYNew Price $206,900
1 bdrm 1 bath• Bright, clean unit• Near SFU, Lougheed Mall• Beautiful park-like setting• Pets & Rentals OK!• In suite laundry•
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REDUCED!
Call Lisa at 604-970-2209
11163 Creekside Street
$609,900 INCL. HST
OPEN Sat & Sun 2-4
2 story w/ bsmt• 3700 sq ft• Granite throughout• SS appliances• RV pkg.• 4 bdrms up•
Must See!
Call Dave at 604-341-0783
23870 106th Ave
$779,900 INCL. HSTOPEN Sat & Sun 1-3
New construction• Still time to choose your • colours!Granite, crown • mouldings throughoutS/S appliances• Triple Garage• Quiet neighbourhood•
Your Dream Home!
Call Dave at 604-341-0783
#36 - 11282 Cottonwood
$329,900OPEN Sun 2-4
Shows like new!• Granite counters • w/ S.S appliancesLaminate fl oors throughout• Spa inspired ensuite• 3 bedrooms• Double garage•
Attn: First Time Buyers!
Call Lisa at 604-970-2209
13360 McCauley Cres.
$559,900 OPEN Sun 2-4
Desired Rock Ridge • NeighbourhoodHardwood throughout• Huge spa-style ensuite• 3800+ sqft on 6500 sqft lot• Fully fi nished bsmt•
Unbeatable Value!
Call Lisa at 604-970-2209
3 - 11255 232nd St
$289,900
Great central location• 3 bdrms, walk in closet• Crown mouldings• Lovely bright kitchen• Low maintenance fees• Private fenced yard•
Quiet Family Complex
Call Lisa at 604-970-2209
NEW LISTING
TRAVIS FRANKLIN Cell: 604-351-0235 • E-mail: [email protected]
$699,000
OFFICE / RESIDENTIALFOR LEASE
2710 sqft OFFICE / RETAIL MAPLE RIDGE - TOWN CORE
FOR SALE22320 119TH AVE
Renovated with many upgrades• New kitchen and appliances• New furnace, heat pump & windows• New water treatment system• Laminate fl oors - freshly painted• YOUR OWN PIECE OF PARADISE
PRIVATE SETTING - 3 ACRES27150 106TH AVE
2922 sq. ft. of space• 400 sq. ft. offi ce• 2 bay doors• Space could be easily divided in half•
BESIDE GOLDEN EARS BRIDGE
7 - 20071 113B AVE
MAPLE MEADOWS INDUSTRIAL PARK
$525,000
BRENDA EXNER 604-603-8043
www.BrendaExner.com
3314 Jervis Street, Port Coquitlam$479,900
ATTENTION MECHANICS! Super 20 x24 shop with pit and overhead hoist and separate lane access. Beautifully maintained 3 BR plus den 2 storey home has newer roof, wiring, and fl ooring. Walk to Coquitlam Town Center, walking trails, schools and bus.
Call Brenda Exner: 604-603-8043
Flat buillding site• Gated Subdivision - Mission • Top of the World View• Drilled Well in place• Perc test done - Septic approved• Bring your Dream House Plans•
4.45 ACRES 4.45 ACRES
JASON EXNERCell 604-818-9851www.jasonexner.com
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11692 - 236TH ST11692 - 236TH ST
Ultimate handyman special• 2 acres - park like setting• Close to town• House needs work• Creek running through• Very private•
Thinking of selling your
home? Call today for a free market evaluation 604-818-9851$399,000$399,000 $349,000$349,000
$243,900$243,900
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12248 224TH St
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24062 - 102A AvenueROOM FOR THE MOTHER-IN-LAWFabulous 3 level, 5 bedroom home with detached double garage and lane access. Maple kitchen cabinets, black appliances. Finished basement with separate entrance.CALL BRENDA FOR APPOINTMENTS TO VIEW (604)816-6961.MLS # V867517MLS # V867517
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604-857-3232Mike Harris
604-832-5813
CENTRAL MAPLE RIDGE Recently reduced• Spacious top oor unit w/loft• 930 sq ft 1 bdrm, 1 bthrm• Vaulted ceiling, covered deck, raised oak • cabinetsLots of storage, bonus den or family room• Great Fraserview Location• Slight view of the Fraser River •
$149,900
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CENTRAL MAPLE RIDGE One bedroom home features open kitchen/• center island and granite countertops. Gas replace, fully tiled soaker tub. • This unit is vacant and ready • for immediate possession.
Jim Isherwood
604-250-7755
$191,900
BRIGHT & SPACIOUS APARTMENT
WEST MAPLE RIDGE2 bedroom home with huge bedrooms and • could be a 3rd bedroom40 yr aluminum roof, thermal windows• RV parking and room to build a shop• Located on quiet side of street •
Jim Isherwood
604-250-7755
$349,500
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EAST MAPLE RIDGE 1 acre on sewer and city water • 5 minutes to shopping and a short walk to • Meadow Ridge School Home has been tastefully remodelled• 1 bedroom suite for Grandma or • boomerang child Huge shop with oversized doors, perfect • for your RV
Gina Halinda
604-467-5000
$979,900
A MUST SEE
12258 224 Street
OPEN SAT SUN 1 - 4
Jim Isherwood
604-250-7755
Stonegate• Starting at $279,900• From 1170 to 1358 sq ft • Granite counters, slate back splash, • stainless steel appliancesGreat location •
$279,900
OPEN SUN 2 - 4
#39 - 22308 124 Ave 45+ age restriction• Level entry rancher style home with 2 • bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Living room with a gas replace and bay • windows Fenced yard with covered patio• Clubhouse for social and recreational activities• $2000 decorating bonus!•
$289,900
Luke “Mr. Rogers”
604-780-2304Pat Drummond
604-467-5000
22206 124 AveCopperstone Ridge - only 2 left! • Brand new, totally upgraded • Greenbelt, incredible Golden Ears • Views Fully nished show home #1• HST Included •
OPEN SAT SUN 1 - 5
$409,900
OPEN SUN 2 - 4
14 13210 SHOESMITH CRESRare rancher boasts over 3700 sq ft • Over 7000 sq ft yard w/270 sq ft deck!• Features hardwood, granite, crown etc, etc• Price includes HST!•
Joel Lycan
604-466-1440
$623,500
Chris Frandsen
604-467-5000
CENTRAL MAPLE RIDGE Carefree-lock up and take a holiday• Convenient location close to all amenities• Cost effective-share in the overall • maintenance of the buildingLarge, one bedroom and den, 4th oor • securityVacant, small pets welcome, adults 55+•
$205,000
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Chris Frandsen
604-467-5000
CENTRAL MAPLE RIDGECorner apartment in Fraserview Village, • adults 55+Approx. 1305 sq ft, 2 bedrooms, • 2 bathroomsFamily room with double sided replace• Dining room, eating area in kitchen• 2 balconies, top oor for added security •
$265,000
LARGE CORNER APARTMENT
WITH RIVER VIEW
OPEN SAT 2 - 4
#48 - 11229 232 ST3 bedroom townhome in • fabulous family complexMany updates include new • hardwood ooring Walking distance to both elementary and • secondary schools, not to mention shopping and transitMove in ready and priced to sell•
$268,000
Laurell Swaré
604-788-4792
OPEN SUN 1 - 4
23271 Dogwood AveCozy, beautiful remodelled 1,247 sq ft • Open layout, new kitchen w/large island• Vaulted ceiling, energy ef cient. gas • replace and lots of windows overlooking a very private , .23 acre lot with a variety of fruit trees 16’ x 10’ workshop, close to parks, schools • and all amenities
$405,000
Yolanta Siwinski
604-462-7619
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#12-11282 Cottonwood Dr 22788 124 Ave 12284 227 Street
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407 11667 Haney By-Pass 208 22515 116 Ave 26581 96 Ave Spacious 3 bdrm end unit w/large great • room plan and fully nished bsmtFeatures include 9’ ceilings, laminate oors, • granite counters, stainless steel appliances. Club house, playground ,walking distance to • schools, transit, shopping.
Huge 7110 sq ft lot• Lots of room to play or garden• 7 years young• Nice rock f/p open oor plan and views of • Golden Ears 3 bdrms, un nished bsmnt could have 2 • more or suite Great central location, minutes to Abernathy • Connector
1 oor of comfort living• 10 minute walk to shopping & leisure • amenitiesMaster bedroom with roomy ensuite• Low maintenance landscaping • Double garage - great for workshop• Laminate wood ooring •
Well kept 3 bdrm, 2 bath end • unit in PepperwoodLaminate ooring throughout the main• Deck off kitchen• Fenced yard • Amenities include: outdoor pool, • hot tub and gymnasium
Penthouse living, watch sun rise and set on • the Mighty Fraser River3 bdrm, 2 bath corner unit with ex• Open concept with vaulted ceiling in lvgrm• Maple kitchen with granite counter tops, 5 • high end appliances, and breakfast barInsuite laundry and storage as well as • additional storage in bsmnt
Adults 45+ small pets welcome• Over 1700 sq ft on 2 levels, corner unit• 2 bedrooms and a den, vaulted ceiling in • living room Family room off kitchen, formal dining room • Amenities include indoor pool, club house • exercise room and lots more
3800 sq ft log home on 3.46 acres• Thornhill with river & mountain views• Inground pool, very private!• Large kitchen with 2 stoves• Gorgeous Sunroom• Great entertaining property!•
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“The Willows” at FRASERVIEW Village
Enjoy the comfort of these Air-conditioned units and all the amenities that are offered from spa, pool, exercise area , workshops plus secure living with out the yard work. Both units offer oak cabinets, laminate oors ,open plans. gas places (gas included in maintenance fee), insuite laundry and built-in vacuum #105 is a ground oor court side with patio,,1 bedroom and large livingroom. #206 is a 2 bedroom plus with vaulted ceilings in livingroom, master on main, ensuite with 2nd bedroom, bathroom ,den with wet bar, sundeck plus large storage area in loft area. New Prices $204,900 and $248,000
#105 & #206 11578 225th St.
Riverside Nature Hideaway
This serene area is one of Maple Ridges Best Kept Secrets. 2 Acres with private bridge access ,Enjoy this 4 level contemporary home with extensive decks ,patios ,pool and Hot tub. Spacious bedrooms, dens family room and storage areas. New appliances ,bathrooms etc. Wake up with the deer sleeping in your yard. If acreage is your forte, this is a must see. $969,900
12680 239th Street (Davison Pool area )Enjoy the solitude and beauty of this quality built 2 storey with 2 bedroom basement suite. The main levels of this awesome home offers warm angular oak hardwood and tiled oors, vaulted ceilings in living room, den, beautiful kitchen opening to family room. The upper area has 4 bedrooms with a large ensuite in the main bedroom. All this and a great yard for entertaining and relaxing in. $699,000
11309 238th Maple Ridge
Great for the Commuter
Awesome Falcon Manor 3rd oor unit That’s close to West Coast Express Granite counter tops ,open plan with 2 bedrooms plus 2 bathrooms and ensuite with soaker and separate shower. Immediate possession available. $279,900
308-22150 Dewdney Trunk Road
Paradise In Whispering Falls
Former “Lindal Cedar Showhome” set in parklike 1.52 acres of serenity surrounded buy greenbelt and creeks. Power Smart 2 storey post and beam wish 30 foot ceilings, natural hardwood oors, sky lights, solarium kitchen and low E windows all this including 3 bedrooms, den numerous patios and decking. You’ll enjoy your leisure time in this beautiful setting. Reduced $759,000
12627 261st Street
V857893
Hobby Farm with added Potential
South Slope Thornhill 2.42 acres featuring immaculate split level home with out buildings. New roof and rear deck over looking this mini park Enjoy all this knowing there is future potential for your investment. $789,900
25360 102nd Ave
V843065
This beautiful home shows better than new. Loads of features from hardwood oors, vaulted ceilings awesome kitchen and top of the line plumbing xtures. Come have a look yourselves you’ll want to move right in. Sellers will throw in Flat Screen TV. Reduced $569,500
23617 112A AvenueV849955
“Buy land, They ain’t making anymore of the Stuff” Will Rogers
SELLERS SAY GET IT SOLD!
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Michelle DonDebi
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Brookside Realty 11933 - 224th St., Maple [email protected]
Service with IntegrityService with Integrity
www.ThePearceTeam.com
MLS #V865132
Over 3000 Sq. Ft. of living space• Lots of updates including a new furnace• Large covered deck, hot tub with privacy • fenceSeparate BBQ & dining area•
23828 113B AVE.
$$574,900574,900
ENTERTAINER’S DELIGHT
MLS #V867823
Updated 1900 sq ft basement home with• bachelor suiteUpdated floors, paint, appliances, bathroom • crown mouldingsNet cost per month just over $1000 • ALL IN!
$$359,900359,900
FIRST TIME BUYER ALERT!
MLS #V858128
11951 PINYON DR.
$$139,900139,900
FAMILY LIVING ON GREEN BELT
Manufactured 3 bed home• 384 sq ft professional addition• 2 pets welcome• Pad fee only $260/month and includes • cable, garbage pickup and facilities
MLS #V866770$$309,900309,900
Complex has only 8 units, is only 6 yrs old• All 4 bedrooms are upstairs• Master has a 4 pc. ensuite and one bed-• room has a ‘cheater’ door to main bathroomQuality laminate floors in living/dining rm.•
#7 - 11528 BURNETT ST.
LARGE PRIVATE FENCED YARD
$$524,900524,900
OPEN SUNDAY 1 - 419538 PARK RD.
MLS# V866546
• Upgrades include roof, furnace, heat pump, hot water tank and more!
• Private yard with large deck and 12 x 10 covered por tion over the hot tub
• Over 1900 sq ft of living space
$$569,900569,900
OPEN SUNDAY 2 - 423945 107TH AVE.
MLS# V867662
• 4 yr old home with open plan & 19 ft ceilings• Child safe fenced yard with covered deck• Living on the main, 3 or 4 beds up,
par tially finished bsmt downstairs
18921 124TH AVE.
MLS# V865400$$514,900514,900
• 9000+ sq ft lot, 12 x 16 wired shop• Cul-de-sac close to schools• Lots of room for everyone and
very easy to suite
DESIRABLE PITT MEADOWS
$$499,900499,900
BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME26310 DEWDNEY TRUNK RD.
10 acres with city water at road, •
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21504 DEWDNEY TRUNK RD.
604.318.5254
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NEW LISTING• 2300sq ft, 4 bed + den• Private south facing lot,• Immaculate condition inside and out• Laminate throughout• Great Pitt Meadows Location
$589,900
OPEN OPEN SAT SAT 1 - 41 - 4
OPEN OPEN SUN SUN 2 - 42 - 4
• Greenbelt • 2700+Sq ft• Whistler Inspired • Like New
• Huge Daylight Basement
• Southern exposure• Future Development• No Creeks• Pride of Ownership
• Newer Roof
#25 24185 106 B
25360 102ND
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YOUR OWN PRIVATE PARK
MLS# V856425
MLS# V868108
$514,900
$789,900
$289,900$234,900
Central location • Storage• Golf course nearby• Recreation nearby• Shopping nearby• Fireplace• Security System• Drapes Window • coveringsAppliances Included•
2 bed, 2 bath, • TownhouseLarge Master Bed-• room, Fenced YardGood complex, • Newly UpdatedPark - like setting•
ONE OF THE NICEST CONDOS IN TOWN
MLS # V845844
GREAT LOCATION AFFORDABLE NICELY UPDATED
# 407 22150 DEWDNEY TRUNK
#35 19696 HAMMOND RD
MLS# V867171
MLS V851168 10268 MCEACHERN
$559,000
MLS V861951 #114 12096 222ND
$112,900
JUST SOLD JUST SOLD
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Gorgeous new home over
looking greenbelt. 4 bedrooms.
Over 2800 sq. ft. Hardwood & slate
fl oors, granite counters.
Move in now!
604-467-0811OPEN HOUSE SAT-SUN 1-4
$$679,900679,900
13443 235th Street Maple Ridge
604-612-7005Ralph Tedford
Brookside Realty, 11933 224th Street Maple Ridge Brookside Realty, 11933 224th Street Maple Ridge
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TStunning home inside & out. Shows like new with tons of upgrading and colors. Kitchen has slate backsplash, stainless steel appliances, colored sink, large eating area and adjoining family room with gas fi replace. Spacious living room/dining room make entertaining easy. Large main fl oor laundry room was recently renovated. Upstairs has 3 bedrooms, master with ensuite. Fully fi nished basement has large rec room, bedroom, 4 piece bath and 2 storage/fl ex rooms. Private backyard on greenbelt. Close to Kanaka grade School, and public transportation ie: West Coast Express. Call Ralph 604-612-7005
11056 238th
Maple Ridge
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Welcome to your new home....The Pointe, Maple Ridge’s newest Master Planned Community, featuring 29 single family homes is close to town, West Coast Express, schools and Kanaka Creek Park.
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New Release
The Carltonfrom
$524,900
3 bedroom with unfinished basement, 2700 sq ft.
The Renafrom
$562,9004 bedroom with unfinished basement, 3300 sq ft.
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Stainless steel appliances
Screens
Granite in the kitchen
Maple cabinets throughout
Vaulted ceilings
Wrap around verandah
Full size homes with open and efficient floor plans
Overlook Greenbelt
EnerGuide rated homes
Exterior upgrade of Hardie and choice of stone
29 Single Family Homes priced from just
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Brookside Realty 11933 224th St., Maple Ridge
Call Vicky604-999-2452
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Dave Rickard
Brookside Realty, 11933 224th Street Maple Ridge
• Great value, quality built 6 or 7 bdrm, dble garage, excellent street parking, lane access.• Close to elementary, secondary schools and parks. Lots of natural light w/9ft ceilings.• Very attractive, practical and open plan that is sure to please.• All set up for an in law suite, ideal family spot. Call for your viewing today.
$529,900 FOR THE FAMILY! THORNHILL HEIGHTS
Call Dave Rickard 604-802-333110351 Robertson Street10351 Robertson Street
GOLDEN EARS MOUNTAIN VIEW
• Close to shops, buses, civic amenities and services. • Level street approach makes it easy for walking and scooter access for mobility issues. • Maintenance fee includes hot water heat and gas fi replace. • Huge balcony and generous room sizes. • Solid, well maintained building ideal for retirees, snow birds.
$134,900 2 BEDS & 2 BATHS FOR $134,900THE ALOUETTE APARTMENTS
Call Dave Rickard 604-802-333111957 223rd Street11957 223rd Street
AFFORDABLE DOWNTOWN LIVING
Call Dave Rickard 604-802-3331
• Gorgeous bright spacious fl oor plans on 9 ft levels.• Legal 2 bedroom suite with self contained laundry. 3 ft crawl space for loads of storage.• Well crafted home with top notch materials, granite counter tops on main fl oor. • Sprinkler system for fi re safety.
$589,900
OPEN SAT & SUN 1 - 4 PM
10 LOTS COMING SOON in Maple Ridge starting from
$254,000 for 6000 sq ft
HOME OF THE FUTURE!BAKER RIDGE WITH GOLDEN EARS VIEW
24916 108B MAPLE RIDGE24916 108B MAPLE RIDGE
604-802-3331See virtual tours at www.daverickard.com
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Be quick to view this hard to fi nd 4 bdrm + den custom built 2 storey plan with central air. New roof, RV parking. Ultra convenient location.
For adults 45+ This is an excellent opportunity to reno-vate to your own taste! Very desirable rancher with garage + driveway parking and covered patio in fenced back yard. Priced for quick sale!
Rancher In Brandywynd
$$269,900269,900
Spectacular views and privacy! The “Crest View” plan in Highland Vistas on immense .35 acre lot. Almost new w/balance of home warranty and NO HST!
Highland Vistas
$$579,900579,900$$489,900489,900
Falcon Landing! Deluxe fully fi nished 2 storey + walk-out basement home with greenbelt outlook. Double garage, heat pump, 4 bdrms, 4 baths. Sunset views!
10251 - 244 St. Maple Ridge
$$419,900419,900
Remodelled split level with tons of character and up-dates. New kitchen and laminate fl oors accent well the rus-tic custom fi replace mantle and pedestal tub upstairs. Must be seen!
Character In Pitt Meadows
$$449,900449,900
Backing onto Kanaka Creek Park and what a great house too! Metal roof, new windows, oak fl oors and so much more. Located in the Urban reserve in the path of development!
1.44 Acre Estate Property
$$749,900749,900
Spotless 2 bdrm, 2 bath unit at Woodford Manor, in the heart of Pitt Meadows. Near WC Express, shopping & rec. Sunny West exposure balcony. This one shows fantastic inside!
Great Building - Great Choice
$$232,900232,900
Gorgeous split entry bsmt home on 1/4 acre lot. Oak fl oors, Swedish f/p, 4 bdrms, 2 huge rec rms. Professional grade 40x20 shop with hoist, pit, 220 wiring & sep driveway!
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If you have been fol-lowing, you’ll know I have talked about
some proposals made by grade 9 students to over-haul the school system.
Last week I referred to their desire to see a lot more of the teaching and reinforcement of basic subject content to be on-line, that is, they would watch outstand-ing instructors on their own time and then sub-mit assignments to be graded on-line. No need to spend a long day in school and many oppor-tunities to learn at their own speed, on their own time and in their own way (assuming there were several instructors for each lesson with various ways of getting the point across).
That is not to say that the institution of school and the physical presence of a building is not necessary. To the contrary, most students were very much in favour of the school as a drop-in centre, a sports
complex, an arts facil-ity and a place where, if they needed some academic support, they could fi nd it. Almost to a student they wanted to study quietly, on their own and at their own pace. But they all felt it was very important to have a well-rounded education and social life and knew that sports, bands, and various clubs would need a place to meet.
So here is my sum-mary of the educational model they seemed to be leaning towards.
On a typical morning, a teen would sleep until he or she felt like getting up. Once up, time could be spent doing some of the lessons targeted for the day, or not. Some students might cram a week’s lessons into a couple of days and have a job the rest of the week or some might spread them out over time.
Likely sometime in the middle of the afternoon, a general drift towards
the school facility would take place where band practices and sports teams would be scheduled on a calen-dar that all students could access on-line or on their phones.
If a student needed some academic help, had to attend a lab in a sci-ence course, or wanted to write a super-vised exam in a subject that they have completed on-line, that could be arranged either before or after the other activities. The school building would be open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on a regular basis to allow fl exibility of schedules. Some teach-ers would also be on-line resources that students could access virtually any time of the day and night and students could form discussion groups
on-line with other stu-dents from around the province/country/world
to exchange ideas on mate-rial covered in the course.
The notion of 24-hour “tech support” and global interface opportunities seemed quite reasonable to them, from a customer ser-vice perspec-tive.
Once a stu-dent completed
a credit, he or she would be paid a fi xed sum for it. Like the current system, there would be a required number of credits to graduate over a variety of disciplines. But since every student could access every course in the province, there would be a lot more choice. Students could do one course at a time in a condensed fashion or could take three or four at a time similar to a semestered program now.
The use of on-line scheduling of activities like student council or various interest clubs appealed greatly to them. They envisioned being able to get up in the morning, look at the school calendar and plan their study time, social time, athletic time, arts time and leadership opportunities as they wished, obviously with some limitations on per-sonal fl exibility, but with much more freedom than they currently have sitting in classes most of the day.
Eventually, I got them to consider the notion that perhaps this kind of freedom might be a bit much for some students, particularly the youngest high school students like them. They did think this might be a problem initially, but felt that once students got rolling with indepen-dent learning skills, in combination with some restrictions that would hold students who are not doing anything accountable, students would respond to a loss of freedom.
Those not completing work at a reasonable pace would be required to show up at the school for classes, albeit the same on-line classes, but with a teacher present to ensure they were do-ing the work.
In the end, we’d looked at a novel way to ap-proach making educa-tion, or more accurately schooling, more relevant to students.
Students pick own education model
Parenting Graham Hookey
See Hookey, p35
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This time of year, you can’t turn on the TV or look at
a newspaper without seeing ads telling us what we need to do for Valentine’s Day to show people how much we love them.
Usually these involve spend-ing a great deal of money, stressing that if you really care about the per-son, then you’ll spend lots of money showing them just how much.
It’s great to be able to show the people around us that we love them, but buying jewelry or fl owers and focusing on one specifi c day aren’t necessary.
Some people fi nd Val-entine’s Day depressing. maybe they are alone or feel stuck in an unhappy relationship.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
We all have many different signifi cant rela-tionships in our lives.
Our relation-ships can be happy and healthy but still have struggles. It’s how we deal with those struggles which affect our relation-ships that either makes or breaks them.
Anger and bitterness create walls and cause a lack of vulnerability, which ultimately breaks down our relationships.
Taking the time on a regular basis to show or tell our loved ones how we feel about them makes the bond between us stronger. I can disagree with someone I love without ending the relationship if we know our relationship is solid.
My husband and I have determined that
no matter what our marriage is, ‘till death do us part’. Does that mean that it’s perfect? No, but it means that we won’t give up on each other even when things are tough.
My children know that no matter what, I will always be there for them. That doesn’t mean they’re always perfect, but they know they have a safe place where they are loved and accepted and corrected, when need be.
I have made it a prac-
tice to tell my children every day that I love them. I never want them to be uncertain of where they stand with me.
We have a Heavenly Father who loves us. He loves us in a way that cost Him everything. He sent His only Son Jesus to die on the cross for us, to take the punishment that we deserve, so that our sin wouldn’t keep us separated from God.
When we know Jesus as our Saviour, it doesn’t mean that life is perfect, that we no longer have
diffi culties and strug-gles. But it does mean that we have Someone who loves us uncondi-tionally, is always there for us and corrects us when we need it.
If you don’t know about His love for you, why not read His love letter to you, the Bible.
If you want to tell someone you love them, don’t wait for a special occasion. Life is too short, too much is unex-pected. Tell them today.
May this be your best Valentine’s Day.
Rev. Colleen Shearing is co-senior pastor at
High Way Church.
Someone who loves us unconditionally
Hookey from p34
But there were many questions still coming up and much debate about the possible solutions to them.
This semester, I am starting the course with a new group of students with this educational design project as a central theme of their work.
I’ll be interested in seeing what more time and more thought produces from all of us.
Graham Hookey is an educator and writer
Let’s see what happens
Acts of Faith Colleen Shearing
WILD SALMONISN’T INFINITE
If everybody in the world ate a wild salmon every time they got a salmon craving two
things would happen. Wild salmon would go extinct and there’d be an international dill
and lemon shortage. Salmon farming supplements the world’s supply of salmon, feeding millions and taking pressure off of
wild salmon stocks. Pressure that, unchecked, would eventually lead to the
destruction of wild salmon.
SALMON FARMERS PAY IT FORWARD
Salmon farmers rehabilitate an area of sea floor that is larger or provides greater value
than the amount covered by any salmon farm. These rehabilitation zones offset any potential impact a farm may have and they help improve and protect water quality and ocean ecology. Over time they will also build
up BC’s stock of potential salmon habitats—not just for farmed salmon but
wild salmon as well.
WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH SEA LICE?
There are a lot of questions surrounding sea lice; one of the most common is ‘What are they?’ Sea lice are a naturally occurring external parasite that live on many species of wild fish including salmon. They’re not
harmful to grown Pacific salmon, but young salmon are vulnerable to them. The concern regarding salmon farms is that, even though the salmon that are raised on a farm all enter
the water completely free of sea lice, it’s possible for them to carry sea lice that are transferred to them by wild fish. These lice could then in turn be transferred to young
wild salmon. To combat this salmon farmers test their fish regularly to ensure that they
don’t harbour high numbers of sea lice. In the unlikely event the sea lice count
reaches elevated levels a veterinarian can prescribe a medication to be added to the salmon’s food called SLICE. This rids them of sea lice and is used only as a last resort to protect the health of the farmed salmon and as a preemptive measure to protect young wild salmon who may pass near a
farm. SLICE is also never present in a fish that is going to market. Any fish who have been medicated must go through a waiting
period before they are harvested to ensure the medication has left their systems.
THERE’S MORE TO SALMON FARMING THAN TAKING CARE
OF SALMONSalmon farmers are good stewards of the environment. They have to be—without a healthy marine habitat, they wouldn’t be in business. That’s why salmon farming is one of the most strictly regulated agricultural businesses in the province. All BC salmon farmers monitor water quality and must
produce regular environmental reports on sea-floor health. These reports are
monitored to ensure farm sites, and the entire coast, remain beautiful and
productive for years to come. That’s good for the environment and it’s good for business.
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Community Calendar
Community Calendar lists events in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. Notices are free to local non-profi t
groups courtesy of the News. Drop off details to 22328 119 Ave., fax to 604-463-4741 or e-mail [email protected] at least a week before the event. Include a contact name and number. No submissions by phone. Listings appear as space permits. For guaranteed publication, ask our clas-sifi ed department at 604-467-1122 about non-profi t rates.
Friday, Feb. 11• The Seniors’ Lounge at the Pitt
Meadows Recreation Centre is hosting a Valentines Party at 1 p.m. Tickets are $3.50. Phone 604-465-2476 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. for more information.
Saturday, Feb. 12• Ridge Meadows Hospice Society
is hosting an “Evening of Romance” pasta dinner fundraiser at Golden Eagle Golf Club. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m. There will be music, dancing, a silent auction and golf fun with a golf prize pack-age. Tickets are $25 each and are available by calling 604-463-7722.
• Friends In Need Food Bank presents a Chinese New Years Celebration at Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall, 12460 Harris Road. There will be live entertainment, Chinese Buff et, silent and live auction. Doors open 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets $25 per person, or a table of 16 for $350. For tickets call 604-466-3663.
• St. Patrick’s School is hosting Ready, Set, Learn! literacy camp from 10 to 11:30 a.m. This event is for three- and four-year-olds. To register, please contact the school
offi ce at 604-467-1571. 22589 121st Avenue, Maple Ridge
Tuesday, Feb. 15• Ridge Meadows Retired Teachers’
Association is holding a friendship pot luck luncheon at Thomas Haney secondary from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Bring a hot or cold dish of food that serves a small family and enjoy guest speaker talking about maintain-ing physical health. 23000 116th Avenue, Maple Ridge. For more information, contact Don Sears at 604-464-3886, or [email protected].
• The Wellness Connection presents Empower Yourself, Release Stress at the Maple Ridge Library, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Join Registered Clinical Counsellor Sandra Wallin and Nia instructor Sharolyn Wandzura to get moving and be inspired. Free admission. Call Sharolyn at 604 623-4888 or visit www.well-nessconnectionbc.com for more information.
Wednesday, Feb. 16• The Pitt Meadows Book Club is host-
ing a discussion of Miriam Toews’ book, A Complicated Kindness at 7 p.m. Drop by the Pitt Meadows Library to pick up a Book Club copy of this title. 12047 Harris Road.
Ongoing• The Pitt Meadows library presents
the Mumble Jumble Storytime preschool program, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 to 11:30 a.m., until April 14 (Excluding the week of March 21). The program features stories, singing, dancing, puppets, and lots of fun and laughter for kids of all ages and stages. Drop in, no registration required.
• Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) meets every Monday (except holidays) from
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Ridge Meadows Seniors’ Activity Centre library, 12150 224th Street, Maple Ridge. For more information, contact Elma at 604-463-4831, or by email at [email protected].
• Don’t just sing in the car or the shower – share your voice with the world. The Maple Leaf Singers invite you to join our unique show chorus for our 2011 season. No matter where you live, in or beyond Metro Vancouver, you’ll enjoy meeting and practicing with enthusiastic singers from all over and performing at a variety of events. First soprano, baritone, and bass voices preferred, but all are welcome to audition. Call Anne Baird at 604-922-9827 or email [email protected]. Learn more about The Maple Leaf Singers at www.maple-leaf-singers.com.
• Ridge Meadows Hospice Society Thrift Store is in need of volunteers for various jobs within the store, located at #3-12011 224th Street. Training pro-vided and shifts are fl exible. Call Rhonda at 604.463.7711 or email [email protected].
• Cythera Thrift Store has volunteer opportunities for weekend Retail Cashiers. Shifts are one hour in duration. Full training and support provided. Please call Shelley at 604-467-4671. Net proceeds support women and children who are fl eeing abuse.
• The North Fraser Therapeutic Riding Association needs volunteers to help groom and tack horses and to lead or side walk with riders during their lesson. Horse experience is great but not required. If you enjoy the outdoors, working with wonderful people of all abilities, and love animals, this is the place for you. Please contact 604-462-7786 for further information or to sign up.
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The aging Pattullo Bridge might be refur-bished rather than re-built in order to save money and avoid a con-troversial decision to charge tolls on it.
Despite TransLink’s 2008 decision to build a new six-lane bridge, the provincial government has ordered a pause in design work while its own engineers consider whether a fi x-up might suffi ce instead.
“The province wanted to come in and look at other options potentially
for rehabilitating and expanding the existing structure, as opposed to building a new one,” said TransLink spokes-man Ken Hardie, adding Victoria’s aim is to avoid tolls.
“Obviously if you can get a facility you don’t have to toll, that’s a good thing.”
TransLink has listed tolls as the only apparent way to pay for what it ex-pected to be a $1-billion-plus project. But poten-tial tolls on the Pattullo have been a lightning rod for criticism from motor-ists and politicians, many of whom say it’s unfair to toll every bridge into
Surrey.Tolls on the Golden
Ears, Port Mann and the Pattullo bridges would force drivers who want a free crossing of the Fraser River to detour south to the Alex Fraser Bridge.
Successive transpor-tation ministers have pledged to explore non-tolled options.
Public meetings had been slated in New Westminster and Sur-rey last fall on how the new Pattullo would con-nect to area roads. They were abruptly cancelled with little explanation, although Hardie said at the time there was “no question” a new bridge is needed. He now says offi cials at the transpor-tation ministry simply want to see if there’s any alternative that has been overlooked.
“They’ve got some pretty bright people at the Ministry of Transpor-tation in the engineering
side,” he said.Hardie said the prov-
ince also wants Trans-Link’s justifi cation of the need for six lanes, which he said is in part to en-sure effi cient connec-tions to the North and South Fraser Perimeter Roads.
Hardie said the public meetings will likely be rescheduled for June. It’s not clear how many lanes a refurbished Pat-tullo might end up with.
The 73-year-old bridge is 12 metres wide, far tighter than the mini-mum 19-metre width for a four-lane bridge built to modern standards today.
Twenty-eight people have died in fatal crashes on the Pattullo or its ap-proaches from 1986 to 2005, when TransLink began nightly centre-lane closures to reduce the risk.
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TransLink may install digital billboards on some of its properties to pull in more cash.
The idea is under con-sideration by the Trans-Link board, which was recently briefed on the potential.
Spokesman Ken Har-die said the transpor-tation authority will look at what locations might be suitable for billboards, particularly electronic ones.
“We owe it to every-body to have a good look at it,” he said. “Ev-ery dollar we raise that way is a dollar we don’t have to raise from taxes and fares.”
TransLink already raises at least $9 million a year through adver-tising but aims to pull in even more.
LED billboards have brought big-screen video-style outdoor ad-vertising to select spots
in Vancouver and the North Shore.
The City of Surrey has also approved digi-tal billboards for the ap-proaches to some of its bridges.
Hardie stressed the concept is in its early stages and had no de-tails on how much rev-enue could be earned or where TransLink might install billboards.
“We have many, many locations where there’s high traffi c, with many people going by,” he said.
But TransLink could conceivably look at park-and-ride lots, ex-teriors of SkyTrain sta-tions and even places where overhead rapid transit guideways cross major roads.
Canada Line operators previously sought to in-stall digital billboards outside rapid transit stations in Richmond, but the idea was reject-ed in 2009 by council, with the mayor calling the displays hazardous
to vehicle traffi c.The Richmond pro-
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Existing displays in Metro Vancouver in-clude 11-by-22 foot LED billboards outside B.C. Place Stadium and larger 14-by-48-foot dis-plays installed by the Squamish Nation on reserve land at the ap-proaches to the Burrard and Lions Gate bridges.
Lamar Transit Adver-tising president Byron Montgomery confi rmed he is advising Trans-Link on the matter but could not comment fur-ther.
TransLink also re-cently added advertis-ing to its monthly tran-sit passes.
Hardie said riders “grumbled a bit” but the ads bring in $84,000 a year, enough to pay for the printing of the passes.
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THE NEWS/sportsSection coordinator:Robert Mangelsdorf 604-467-1122 ext. [email protected]
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Pitt Meadows secondary Grade 12 student Martin Duckhorn is off to Simon Fraser University next season after receiving a scholarship to play for the Clan’s NCAA Division II football program.
Martin Duckhorn doesn’t have much time for stereo-types.
When he’s not on the football fi eld or in the gym, the Grade 12 student at Pitt Meadows secondary is too busy studying to take much notice. His grades are consistently As and Bs, and is an honours stu-dent at the school.
Still, as the Pitt Meadows Ma-rauders senior football team’s star linebacker and tight end, some people will occasionally assume he’s nothing but a dumb jock.
“That really annoys me,” Duck-horn says. “Some people think just because you play football, you can’t be smart.”
He is doing much to tear down that particular stereotype.
Last Thursday, Duckhorn offi -cially inked a lucrative scholarship with the Simon Fraser University
Clan football program, which will see him studying free of charge on Burnaby Mountain for the next four years while playing in NCAA Division Two.
It’s a rare opportunity for a kid from Pitt Meadows, and no one knows this better than Duckhorn himself.
“It’s humbling,” he says of the op-portunity. “I really want to make the most of it.”
Duckhorn says he plans to be-come a doctor someday, and will likely study pre-med at SFU. It’s not the typical career choice for a scholarship football player, but then he is hardly a typical football player.
“I want to be able to help people,” Duckhorn says. “I think it helps take away from the image of the big, dumb jock, too, and that’s a good thing.
“The time of the dumb athlete is over.”
He has had his struggles with grades, he admits, but the lessons of focus and hard work he’s learned on the fi eld have helped him in the classroom.
Betting against Duckhorn is ill-advised, however. He has a con-sistent habit of making those who
doubt him eat crow.Since the age of 10, Duckhorn
has known that he would be a foot-ball player. However, it took time to convince some of those around him.
“A lot of people told me I wasn’t good enough,” he said. “Friends, coaches, even some family.
“But that just motivated me.”In 2009, Duckhorn was cut from
the B.C. all-star team despite be-ing one of the top tacklers in the province. He felt the decision was unfair, and he vowed to make the selectors realize their mistake in 2010.
He did just that with a stunning 2010 season that saw him named to the B.C. AA all-star team at line-backer.
Duckhorn said his scholarship is a testament to his teammates on Marauders as much as it is a prod-uct of his own abilities.
“I wouldn’t have this without them,” he says. “By me going [to SFU], I feel like I’m bringing the whole team with me.”
Duckhorn credits much of his success to the four years he spent with the Marauders.
Duckhorn remembers one prac-tice where head coach Dave Hol-
leran, a former receiver with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, was riding him pretty hard. Holleran eventually dragged him off the fi eld, and Duckhorn asked him why he was being singled out.
“He said I was one of two guys on the team that were good enough to play college football, so don’t [screw] it up,” Duckhorn said. “That was the fi rst time it was re-ally apparent that I had a chance.”
The other player Holleran re-ferred to was Malcolm Williams, who recently signed a basketball scholarship to play for the UBC Thunderbirds.
While Williams won’t be continu-ing his football career, it won’t be
for lack of ability.“I’ve been standing in his shadow
since I was 10 years old,” Duckhorn says. “I thank him for that. He re-ally pushed me, and that healthy competition helped me be a better player.
“I think it helped both of us.”The support hasn’t ended at the
sidelines, however, and Duck-horn’s family has played a pivotal role in his football career thus far. His mom, Suellen Larsen, was the team’s medic, while his step-dad, Victor Larsen, is the team’s unof-fi cial photographer.
“He’s come to every game I’ve played, he took me to the hospital when I was hurt, he helped put together my scholarship pack-ages together,” Duckhorn says. “He man not be my biological dad, but he’s my dad. He’s always been there for me.”
His sisters Kori, Lacey, and Jen-nifer, meanwhile, have been his biggest cheerleaders, while his brother Andrew may be his big-gest fan.
“When you look at the number of people who get the opportunity to play NCAA football, it’s a pretty small group,” he says. “It’s hard not to feel humbled by that.”
Marauder star Duckhorn no dumb jockAll-star linebacker and tight end lands scholarship to SFU, plans to become a doctor
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“A lot of people told me I wasn’t good enough... But that just motivated me.” Martin Duckhorn,Pitt Meadows Marauders linebacker
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The Junior Adanacs are com-ing to Maple Ridge.
Not the Minto Cup-winning B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League franchise from Coquitlam, which is currently up for sale, but four of its players: Chris Seidel, Riley Loewen, Garrett McIntosh, and Garrett Stick-ler.
The four members of last year’s championship Adanacs team were all drafted by the Maple Ridge Burrards Tuesday night in the first four rounds of the Western Lacrosse Associa-tion draft.
Head coach and general manager Daren Fridge said he was pleased with the pieces he picked up, however, there was no intent to target Adanac players.
“It’s funny how it worked out
that way,” said Fridge. “I was very happy with the draft, as far as filling our needs, we did very well.”
The Burrards claimed Adan-acs netminder Seidel with their first round pick, taking him fourth overall. At six-foot-three, 240 pounds, the 21-year-old will slot in behind return-ing goaltender Ron Schibild, winner of the WLA’s 2010 o u t s t a n d -ing goalten- d e r award.
“Ron has committed to be-ing available for 13 games for us this season,” said Fridge. “Chris should get at least four or five starts, which is pretty good for a rookie. Depending on how things go, he could get more.”
Loewen had 44 points in 16 games Adanacs and the Burn-aby Junior Lakers last season, scoring 26 goals in that span.
“We were surprised he was still available when he was, we had him going much higher on our list,” said Fridge. “His out-
side shot is not where it could be, but he is a crease-man, and he really gives us some offen-sive depth on the left side.”
Loewen’s offensive talents will come in handy this sea-s o n after Fridge r e - v e a l e d
star for-w a r d J o e l
Dalgarno likely won’t
be available this season due
to work and school commit-ments. Fridge said Dalgarno is expected to return for the 2012 season, however,
The Burrards passed on Ma-ple Ridge native Jarrett Toll to select Loewen. Given the of-fensive hole Dalgarno leaves in his absence, Fridge said he couldn’t justify picking up a defenceman instead of Loe-wen.
Fridge wouldn’t rule out the possibly of trading for Toll in the future, however.
The Burnaby Lakers selected Junior Adanacs team captain Matt Beers with the first over-all pick.
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Winter SkateNatasha Streiling of the Maple Ridge Skating Club performs in the pre-intro women’s interpretive category at the 2011 B.C. Coast WinterSkate competition at Sungod Arena in North Delta on Saturday. A total of 35 skaters from the local club competed in 16 categories. Among those, Emily Bator, Jianna Ballard, Joshua Ballard, Dale Kilgour, and Lauren Westhaver qualified to compete at the 2011 Pacific StarSkate Championships in Cranbrook, March 4- 6. The Maple Ridge Skating Club is currently accepting online reg-istration soon for their spring CanSkate and StarSkate sessions. For more information, visit www.mapleridgeskating.com
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Ridge Meadows Flames scoring
Players GP G A Pts P/G PIMDanny Brandys 42 16 46 62 1.5 16Dustin Cervo 40 15 31 46 1.2 58Ryan Stewart 37 17 24 41 1.1 107CJ Legassic 40 14 19 33 0.8 84Sean Kavanagh 37 13 17 30 0.8 80Matthew Keller 35 14 13 27 0.8 102Paul Piluso 34 13 13 26 0.8 37Matthew Hargreaves 34 8 14 22 0.6 70Shane Harle 40 11 8 19 0.5 18Alexander Smith 34 4 7 11 0.3 84Dean Gilmore 23 3 6 9 0.4 22Tristano Falbo 16 2 6 8 0.5 43Matthew Bevilacqua 39 0 8 8 0.2 66Reece Rivard 41 1 6 7 0.2 40Felix Fiedler 24 3 3 6 0.3 2Cory Day 20 3 2 5 0.3 67Bayne Ryshak 41 2 1 3 0.1 64Adam Bartsch 29 2 1 3 0.1 4Joey Weilmeier 41 0 3 3 0.1 64Lucas Douglas 35 2 0 2 0.1 8Todd Fletcher 1 2 0 2 2.0 0
PIJHL scoring leaders
Players Team GP G A PtsLiam Harding Ice Hawks 39 30 38 68Danny Brandys Flames 42 16 46 62 Riley Lamb Pilots 38 26 33 59 Cody Smith Ice Hawks 37 23 35 58 Marko Gordic Steelers 40 24 27 51 Kevin Lourens Pilots 37 28 20 48 Sebastien Pare Sockeyes 41 16 32 48 Kentaro Tanaka Steelers 41 13 35 48 Jake Roder Sockeyes 41 25 21 46Dustin Cervo Flames 40 15 31 46Michael Nardi Devils 35 23 22 45Trevor Kang Black Panthers 40 20 25 45Spencer Traher Ice Hawks 41 19 26 45Marco Finucci Devils 36 22 22 44Aaron Merrick Ice Hawks 41 16 26 42
BCMML scoring
Player Team GP G A Pts PIMKerfoot, Alex Giants 33 33 62 95 54Reinhart, Sam Giants 32 34 39 73 6Gordon, Luke Cougars 36 27 29 56 58Johnson, Levon Cougars 35 23 29 52 96Petan, Nicolas Canadians 33 17 29 46 36Lloyd, Seb Cougars 26 13 32 45 24Grobowski, Taylor Silvertips 34 16 28 44 27Bissett, Matthew Chiefs 30 22 19 41 30Popoff , Carter Canadians 36 17 23 40 61Hunt, Dryden Ice 34 17 22 39 56Cox, Trevor Hawks 25 14 25 39 14Neil, James Hawks 33 18 21 39 58Witala, Tyson Cougars 33 13 25 38 103Nielsen, Brodyn Canadians 36 21 16 37 118Santucci, Joey Chiefs 33 12 24 36 60Cuglietta, Diego Blazers 33 19 17 36 51Burroughs, Kyle Hawks 33 10 25 35 52Kilistoff , Kevan Hawks 33 17 18 35 6Hannoun, Demico Canadians 35 15 20 35 38Georgopoulos, Derek Ice 34 19 15 34 20
Pacifi c International Junior Hockey League
Harold Brittain ConferenceTeam GP W L OTL PTS GF GAAbbotsford Pilots 41 24 12 5 53 147 122Port Moody Black Panthers 42 20 16 6 46 146 163Ridge Meadows Flames 42 19 21 2 40 152 167Mission Icebreakers 42 15 22 5 35 122 154 Aldergrove Kodiaks 41 13 21 7 33 130 178
Tom Shaw ConferenceTeam GP W L OTL PTS GF GARichmond Sockeyes 41 33 5 3 69 200 98Delta Ice Hawks 42 32 8 2 66 185 122Grandview Steelers 42 24 14 4 52 151 124North Delta Devils 43 23 15 5 51 161 153Squamish Wolf Pack 42 6 32 4 16 111 224
B.C. Major Midget Hockey LeagueRegular season standings
Name GP W L T Pts GF GAVancouver NW Giants 34 24 4 6 54 163 87 Cariboo Cougars 36 25 10 1 51 180 115 Valley West Hawks 33 21 6 6 48 150 67 Vancouver Canadians 36 21 9 6 48 157 107 South Island Thunderbirds 36 14 14 8 36 130 135 Vancouver NE Chiefs 34 13 14 7 33 135 132 North Island Silvertips 34 13 15 6 32 115 130 Okanagan Rockets 34 13 17 4 30 104 126 Fraser Valley Bruins 33 9 17 7 25 109 126 Kootenay Ice 34 6 22 6 18 115 160 Thompson Blazers 34 1 32 1 3 60 233
Hockey
Vancouver North East Chiefs scoring
Players GP G A Pts PIMBissett, Matthew 30 22 19 41 30Santucci, Joey 33 12 24 36 60Rockwood, Adam 34 7 20 27 12Del Bianco, Daniel 34 9 16 25 34Scobie, Michael 29 12 12 24 30Martin, Tyler 34 8 16 24 58Hermany, Nick 34 8 13 21 16Centis, Dominic 34 7 14 21 36Waddington, Jamie 24 8 12 20 2Allan, Matt 29 5 13 18 20Wensley, Jacob 32 9 6 15 32Sutton, Trevor 29 8 7 15 12Gonzales, Truman 34 6 8 14 84Pearce, Liam 20 2 9 11 18McCoach, Conor 34 3 5 8 30Hughes, Derek 32 1 4 5 45Green, Taylor 21 1 4 5 45Dubbeldam, Corey 14 2 1 3 10
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Cecil R. BowmanJune 3, 1924 ~ Feb 15, 2006
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FANTIN Vito
Passed away peacefully February 9, 2011 in Ridge Meadows Hospital at 69 years of age. A viewing will be held from 7 - 8 pm on Tuesday, February 15 at Garden Hill Funeral Chapel, 11765 - 224th St, Maple Ridge. Funeral Mass will be held on Wednesday, February 16 at 11 am at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 22587 - 121st Ave, Maple Ridge. For full obituary and to leave expressions of sympathy please visit www.gardenhill.ca
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It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Betty, Mom and Grandma, after a short, yet courageous battle with cancer. She will be deeply missed by her daugh-ter, Wendy (Johnny) grandchil-dren, Kevin, Lina, Isabella and Sophia as well as many friends and family. Prede-ceased by her son, John. She will always be remembered for her days in “The Mart”, her great story telling, walks or en-joying a glass of wine with friends, and a love to laugh. Nelson Island held a special place in her heart. A celebra-tion of Betty’s life will be held on Sat. Feb.19th from 2 - 4 p.m., at the Sechelt Seniors Centre, 5604 Trail Ave. In lieu of fl owers please consider a donation to the B.C. Cancer Society. Betty will be dearly missed by everyone whose lives she touched.
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MORRISEYJudy
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Judy passed away while bat-tling cancer which was diag-nosed 1 year ago and also struggling with a debilitating in-jury which occurred while vol-unteering as a nurse in Africa in late 2009. There is not enough thanks to express to her sister Donna, who cared for her in her rehabilitation af-ter 13 surgeries. Also, to so many friends who have been supportive, encouraging and caring in so many ways. Spe-cifi cally, Alice, Ken & Sandi, Rosemary & family, Clayton & Ana, Carmen & Buckley. No service by request.In lieu of fl owers, contributions would be appreciated to RMH Ambulatory Care Unit or Sam’s Orphanage in Goma, Congo. Judy worked in MRH for almost 35 years and was in Goma working as a volunteer while she was injured. Contri-butions to Goma can be sent via her sister Donna Hryniuk [email protected] or 780-481-1374
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We also offer an
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CHILDREN
98 PRE-SCHOOLS
We offer a caring, supportive and stimulating environment in which
children happily enjoy the freedom to explore and learn at
their own pace the realms of numeracy, literacy, geography,
science, music and art.
OPEN HOUSE & REG. FOR SEP/2011Thornhill Corner MontessoriSaturday, Feb. 5th 9am-12pm
#7 - 9975 - 272nd St.Tel.: (604) 462-1400
Websters Corner MontessoriSaturday, Feb. 12th 9am-12pm
25102 Dewdney Trunk Rd.Tel.: (604) 466-5681
The schools are 6 minutes apart and you can enroll your child for 2, 3 or 5 days per week programs
Please visit us at www.montessoricorner.ca
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
108 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Direct reach to BC Sportsmen and women...Advertise in
the 2011 BC Freshwater Fishing Regulations Synopsis, amazing circulation 400,000 copies, year long impact for your business!
Please call Annemarie at 1-800-661-6335 or email
Janitorial Franchise OpportunitiesCoquitlam & Pitt Meadows
(604) 317-7222
109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
115 EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
108 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIESNeed more money? Want a ca-reer? Work from home! Use your computer! Free Training!www.liveyourdreamtoo.com
109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS MANAGER
ESL school is looking for an inter-national operations manager with experience and potential for sen-ior management. Candidate must possess the fol-lowing attributes:• Minimum 10 years experi-
ence in ESL operations man-agement
• Degree or undergraduate• Experience in multiple inter-
national environments• Excellent written and verbal
communication skills• Proven track record with ref-
erencesPlease forward a cover letter with full reference list, portfolio and/or resume to:
Close Date: February 14th, 2011
114 DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING
Bronco Transportation re-quires company drivers & owner operators for BC, Washington, Oregon and Al-berta runs. Must have previ-ous fl at deck experience. Please fax resume & abstract to: 604.888.2956/ 888-8777CLASS 1 Driver wanted for drywall delivery in lower mainland. Hiab ticket & exp an asset. Labour inten-sive job, based out of Coquitlam. Email or fax resume & abstract to [email protected] / 604-521-1810 Pay depends on exp & certifi cation.
CLASS 1 OR 3 DRIVERS Terrifi c career opportunity with outstanding growth potential to learn how to locate rail defects using non-de-structive testing. No Exp. Needed!! Plus Extensive paid travel, meal allowance, 4 weeks vacation and benefi ts pkg. Skills Needed - Ability to travel 3 mos. at a time, Valid D.L. & High School Diploma or GED.
Apply online at www.sperryrail.com under careers, Click here to apply,
keyword Driver.DO NOT FILL IN CITY OR STATE
TransX Class1 Drivers & O/OPSNeeded for B.C-AB & U.S L.H
Signing Bonus! 1-877-914-0001
109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
115 EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
114 DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING
FAMILY ORIENTED trucking co. specializing in O/D freight. Must be able to cross border. Home most weekends. Min. 2 years exp. Fax resume & abstract to 604-852-4112
115 EDUCATION
Basic Chainsaw Operator Training- 2011.
The BC Forest Safety Council’s basic chainsaw op-erator course provides hands-on training to everyone from new to experienced chainsaw operators. Learn how to safely maintain and handle a chain-saw for most non-falling appli-cations. Key topics covered in-clude creating a personal safety plan, chain sharpening, identifying tension and binds and how to safely make your cuts. This two-day course is endorsed by the BC Forest Safety Council and provides participants with training and competency evaluation in a form acceptable to WorkSa-feBC. Numerous sessions of chain-saw training are scheduled around the province starting in April, 2011. To learn more and to obtain an enrollment form, visit our website atwww.bcforestsafe.org or call toll free 1-877-741-1060, Mon-day to Friday, 8am – 5pm.
DGS CANADA2 DAY
FORKLIFTWEEKENDCOURSE
Every Saturday at 8:30am #215, 19358-96 Ave. Surrey
NO reservations: 604-888-3008www.dgscanada.ca
Ask about our other Courses...*Stand up Reach *Fall Protection *Aerial Lift *RoughTerrain Forklift*Bobcat *WHMIS & much more.
“Preferred by Employers
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
115 EDUCATION
INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR SCHOOL. Locations in Alberta & BC. Hands on real world training. Full sized equipment. Job placement assistance. Funding available. www.iheschool.com1-866-399-3853
Optician Training*6-month course
starts April 4th, 2011
BC College Of Optics604.581.0101
www.bccollegeofoptics.ca
115 EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
124 FARM WORKERS
FARM WORKERSNeeded for Seasonal work from April to November in Pitt Meadows Duties: Weed control, pruning, harvesting berries & all general farm labour. Must be reliable & able to work in all weather condi-tions with minimum supervision. Wage $9.28/hr, 40-60 hrs/wk. Fax resume: Attn: Sue to 604-465-0300
125 FOSTER/SOCIAL CARE
Some great kids aged 12 to 18 who need a stable, caring home
for a few months. Are you looking for the opportunity to do
meaningful, fulfi lling work?PLEA Community Services is looking for qualifi ed applicants
who can provide care for youth in their home on a full-time basis or
on weekends for respite. Training, support and
remuneration are provided. Funding is available for
modifi cations to better equip your home. A child at risk is waiting
for an open door. Make it yours.
Call 604-708-2628www.plea.bc.ca
127 HAIRCAREPROFESSIONALS
Dye To Be Different HAS CHAIR RENTAL AVAILABLE.
Also a room for rent for Esthetician or anything that will fl ow with the salon. Rentals start at $500/mo.
Call Debra @ 604-375-3219
130 HELP WANTED
CLEANING STAFF needed for Mon. Wed. & Thurs. early morn-ings. Also every 2nd Sunday. We P/U & drop off. Must be mature. Call 604-463-5054 before 7am.
FLAGGERS NEEDEDIf not certifi ed, training available for
a fee. Call 604-575-3944
HEAVY DUTY Mechanics required for busy Coastal logging company on Northern Vancouver Island. Must have extensive mechanical experience, certifi cation an asset. Above industry average (wages), plus excellent benefi t program. Fax or email resume to: 250-956-4888 or offi [email protected].
LOG TRUCK drivers required for Campbell River. Experi-enced drivers please apply. Fax drivers abstract and re-sume to: 250-287-9914.
NOW HIRING-Experienced Bobcat Operator - Experienced Line Painters - Labourers
DRIVERS- Powersweeping & Water Truck. Class 5 w/air or Class 3.
Good driving record required. Must be hard working w/good at-titude. Experience benefi cial. Fax or Email resume w/drivers abstract to: [email protected] 604-294-5988
OUTREACH COUNSELLORChildren, Youth and Families
This position is temporary full-time.
35 hours per week - 1 year maternity leave until February 28, 2012.
Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows
Community Servicesis an equal opportunity employer.
For further information please refer to our website at:
www.comservice.bc.ca
Please forward resume to:[email protected]
by: February 18, 2011
This position requires union membership. This position is
open to male and female applicants.
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
130 HELP WANTED
CARRIERS NEEDEDThe following routes are now available to deliver the NEWS
in Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows
40108 - 116 Ave, Telosky Ave, Fisher St. Burnett St40109 - Lougheed Hwy, Harrison St, Olund Cres, Gillis Pl, 113 Ave40113 - Lougheed Hwy, River Rd, Carshill St, 221 St, Cliff Ave40114 - Dewdney Trunk, Dover St, Laurie Ave, Lougheed Hwy, 218 St, Wicklow Way40116 - Dewdney Trunk, 119 Ave, Donovan Ave, Howison Ave, 216 St, Hall St, Wicklow Way40127 - Dewdney Trunk, Acadia St, Wicklow Way, 218 St, Dover Rd, 220 St40212 - 128 Ave, 227 St, 228 St, Barnsdale, 229 St, 230 St40213 - 125A Ave, Abernathy Way, 124 Ave, Reid Ave, 123 Ave, 227 St, 228 St40215 - Abernathy Way, 227 St, Kendrick Loop40223 - Eagle Ave, 122 Ave, 121A Ave, Peach Tree Crt, 231 St, Blossom St40226 - 125A Ave, 124B Ave, Abernathy Way, 230 St40254 - 124 Ave, 123 Ave, Hillside St, 224 St40262 - 128 Ave, Thornton, 126 Ave, Exeter, Spring, 124 Ave, 216 St40325 - Lorne Ave, Hampton St, Ditton St, Chigwell St, Kent St, Wharf, Princess St, Beckley, Bromley St40330 - Princess St, Beckley St, Bromley St, Kingston St, Hazelwood St, Wharf St40333 - Melville, Eltham St, Charlton St, Princess St, Kent St, Chigwell St, Ditton St, Hampton St, Lorne Ave40334 - Ospring St, Wandstead St, Lorne Ave, Princess 40339 - 116B Ave, Hammond Rd 203 St, 202B St, 202A St40352 - 123 Ave, Campbell, Laity St, 214 St, Creston St40401 - 121A Ave, Dewdney Trunk, 232B St, 240 St40418 - Dewdney Trunk, 234 St40426 - Abernathy Way, 122 Ave, 238A St, 240 St41005 - 119B Ave, 119 Ave, 118B Ave, 193 St, Blakely Rd41017 - Wildwood South, Joyner Pl, Wildwood North, Bonson Rd41031 - Dorado Cres, Meadow Gardens Way41034 - Hoffman Way, Barnston View Rd, Shingleton Cres, Fraser Way41058 - Ford Rd, 119B Ave, 188A St, 189A St, 189 B St, 190 St
If you live on or near one of these routes and you are
interested in delivering papersplease call circulation @ 604-466-6397 and quote
the Route number.
OUTREACH COUNSELLORChildren, Youth and Families
This position is temporary full-time.35 hours per week for one year
until: February 28, 2012.
Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Community Services
is an equal opportunity employer.
For further information please refer to our website at:
www.comservice.bc.ca
Please forward resume to:[email protected]
by: February 18, 2011
This position requires union membership. This position is
open to male and female applicants.
Wanted exp. Janitors $14.85/hr & Cleaning Supervisor. $16.92/hr Resume to [email protected]
134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES
GM EAST INDIAN Restaurant is now hiring: Dishwasher, Kitchen helper & Servers full time & part time. Drop in with resume to 20726 Lougheed Hwy, between 2 & 5pm. No phone calls please.
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
160 TRADES, TECHNICAL
• FLAT ROOFERS• F/T ESTIMATOR(Service Department)
Metro Roofi ng based in Langley B.C. requires experienced Flat Roofers & Estimator. BUR, torch, (TPO & PVC). Minimum 5 yrs experience. Lots of work, commercial & industrial projects.
Call: 604.888.4856Mechanics & WeldersAmix Salvage & Sales
Work for an industry leader andhelp save the planet by being a part of the largest scrap metal recyclingco. in BC. Seeking Mechanics andWelders for our Chilliwack and Surrey shops. We offer an attractive wage and a range of benefi ts including great dental. Work well independently and possess a strong sense of safety awareness? Then apply online at:
www.amix.ca or email to [email protected]
SHOP FOREMAN required. L.E.Steel Fabricators Ltd., Langley. More details are available atwww.lesteel.com fax 604-856-2363
WANTED
5 years minimum experience Excavator Operator
& Labourer.
Call Josh 604-992-4923JH Services Ltd
Want to advance your career?Drillers Assistants (labour)
Entry level positionsJob entails:
Lift 25-100lbs, repetitive manual labor, working outdoors, long hours, travel in BC, strong work ethic, team player, multitasking, self-motivated. Ability to take direction, valid BC drivers license, clean abstract, reliable transportation. Mechanicallyinclined an asset.Provide resume and drivers abstract to:
[email protected] or fax to 604-888-4206.
No phone calls.
165 WORK WANTED
PLASTERER - PF-STUCCO-Paul Fischer 23712 Dewdney Trunk Rd Maple Ridge, BC, need, Plasterer (7284), ASAP, $24 p/h. Perm. F/T, 3 yrs exp speak & read english, Main Duties: Clean and prepare surfaces mix plaster ingredients, Stucco & Lathers etc. Apply by email pjfi [email protected]
PERSONAL SERVICES
171 ALTERNATIVE HEALTH
604-460-8058#7 - 20306
Dewdney Trunk, M. RidgeCorner Max Gas Station
Open 10am-8pm Daily.
JASMINES RELAXATION TOUCHPain/ Stress Relief. Country Setting*Easy Prkg *7Days. 778-888-3866
The Best Team & Service !
# 101-1125 Nicola AvenuePort Coq. (behind COSTCO)
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173 MIND BODY SPIRITExclusive Swedish Massage
• European • Private • VIP ServiceBy appointment: 1.604.230.4444
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PERSONAL SERVICES
173A COUNSELLING
DO you have a problem with alcohol or drugs?
Call Alouette Addiction Services at (604)467-5179
Check our websitewww.alouetteaddictions.org
182 FINANCIAL SERVICESDEBT CONSOLIDATION
PROGRAM Helping Canadians repay debts, reduce or eliminate interest, regardless of your credit. Steady Income? You may qualify
for instant help. Considering Bankruptcy? Call 1-877-220-3328 FREE Consultation Government
Approved, BBB Member
* 12% ROI – Paid Monthly• Federally Regulated – Audited Annually• RRSP, RIFF, RESP, LIRA,
etc. Eligible • Backed by the hard asset of
Real EstateTo fi nd out more contact:
Jarome Lochkrin778-388-9820 or email
[email protected]*Historical performance does not guarantee future returns.AVOID BANKRUPTCY - SAVE UP TO 70% Of Your Debt. One af-fordable monthly payment, interest free. For debt restructuring on YOUR terms, not your creditors. Call 1-866-690-3328 or see web site: www.4pillars.caGET BACK ON TRACK! Bad cred-it? Bills? Unemployed? Need Mon-ey? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Accep-tance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420.
www.pioneerwest.com
NEED A LOAN - BAD CREDIT?Has your credit prevented you from getting a loan? Buying a home or having your own busi-ness? We can help you get up to 1 million business or mortgage loan and up to 200K personal loan with interest rates starting at 2.9% APR. Bad credit ok.Apply now at:
www.oncreditloans.comor call 1-877-500-4030
NEED CASH TODAY?
✓ Do you Own a Car?✓ Borrow up to $20000.00✓ No Credit Checks!✓ Cash same day, local offi ce
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604-777-5046
NEED Mortgage Money?Get Mortgage Money!
quick, easy, confi dentialno credit or income required
1st, 2nd, 3rd mortgagesCall 604-328-6409
Origin Home Financial PartnersMatt Sadler - www.mattsadler.ca
190 MEDICAL HEALTH
FOOTCARE NURSEVeteran/Seniors do you need foot care? Call Jorjina’s, LPN, CSSW,
Refl exoligist, (604)826-0397
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
203 ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING
ACCOUNTING DONE ACCURATE-LY small bus. p/u/del. bkkeeping, payroll, tax returns. HST/PST.604-814-0967 or 604-862-1596
Bookkeeping & AccountingPayroll, Year-end, Financial Statements, Income Taxes
E-FILE Service Ph: 604-465-2123
Cellular: 604-788-0161
236 CLEANING SERVICES“AN EXTRA HAND” Exp. Hardwork-ing, reliable cleaning lady. Rea-sonable rates Louise 604.467.3665
Brisk Home Cleaners6 years in Business
Weekly W Bi-Weekly W MonthlyProfessional staff
Reasonable Rates Insured & Bonded, Exc. ref’s.www.briskcleaners.com
Terri 604.837.1709INTEX VENTURES
Janitorial, Offi ce/Window Cleaning✶10 years exp. ✶Free Estimates4 6 5 - 1 3 0 2 ✶ 7 8 6 - 3 4 6 6
242 CONCRETE & PLACING
HERFORT CONCRETENO JOB TOO SMALL
Serving Lower Mainland 23 Years! *Prepare *Form *Place *Finish
*Retaining Walls *Stairs *DrivewaysExposed Aggregate & Stamped
Concrete ***ALSO...Interlocking Bricks &Sod Placement
-Excellent Ref’s -WCB Insured
LEO: Mobile #657-2375, 462-8620
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
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
257 DRYWALL45 Years in the drywall trade. All size jobs boarding, taping, spraying. Big or small. Wayne 778-242-2060
COMPLETE DRYWALL SERVICE, res/com. ref’’s. reno’’s, reasonable rates. All work guaranteed. 604-941-8261, cell 778-999-2754.
FRANKS Drywall *Boarding*Taping *Spraying no job too sm. Seniors rts Free ests. 604-939-7029, 809-1945
PROFESSIONAL Drywall & Taping, all textures. Big/small projects. Best Prices in Town. 604-970-1285
PRO QUALITY DRYWALLFor all your drywall needs. 30 Years exp. We aim to exceed your expectations. Call (778)809-2875
Taping & Finishing, small boarding jobs, textured ceilings, respray. 30 years exp. Call Del 604-505-3826
260 ELECTRICALDC ELECTRIC (#37544). Bonded. 24 hr service. We specialize in jobs too small for the big guys! 30 yrs exp. Free est. 460-8867.
REISINGER Electrical (#102055) Bonded, Specializing in Renos, New Const, (Comm./Res.)Free Est 25 Yrs Exp. 778.885.7074 Trent
YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 Service Call Lic #89402 Same day guarn’td We love small jobs! 604-568-1899
263 EXCAVATING & DRAINAGE
HYTRAC EXCAVATING LTD.
Mini Excavating W Bobcat, Residential / Commercial
Snow removal W LandscapeReno’s & Trenching
Call 604-312-5050
269 FENCINGFENCE-IT-RIGHT Installations -- 604.639.6626 Cedar, Chain Link, Ornamental iron, Vinyl (Insured, Experienced, Competitive Pricing)
275 FLOOR REFINISHING/INSTALLATIONS
Ceramic Tiles, Hardwood LaminateGuaranteed work, Free Estimate.
Cell 604-618-6401 Marcel.
PROF. LICENSED & Insured fl oor layer, laminate, hardwood and tile. Supply and/or install. 604-716-7774
278 FURNITURE REFINISHING
LARIC FURNITUREREFINISHING
Specialists in: - ANTIQUES, HOME & OFFICE FURNITURE - RESTORATION & REPAIRS
Free Estimates, Pick-up & Delivery
Ph: 604-469-2331
281 GARDENING
LAWNS PLUS Landscape Maintenance
D Economical Lawn MowingD Complete Grounds MaintD Pruning & ShapingD Aeration & Power RakingD Fully Insured
Residential~Strata~Commercial
(604)671-2746Free Estimates
Prompt Delivery AvailableSeven Days a Week
Meadows LandscapeSupply Ltd.✶ Bark Mulch
✶ Lawn & Garden Soil✶ Drain Grave ✶ Lava Rock✶ River Rock ✶ Pea Gravel
465-1311meadowslandscapesupply.com
YOUR SNOW CONTACT
D FENCING GUTTERS D LEAVES/TREES/HEDGES D ANYTHING INSIDE OR OUT
Fully InsuredResidential/Strata/Commercial
604-202-1956www.lawnsnmore.ca
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS
M.T. GUTTERSProfessional Installation5” Gutter, Down Pipe, Soffi t28 YRS EXP. *FULLY INSURED
Cleaning & Repairing
Call Tim 604-612-5388
283A HANDYPERSONS
LARRY THE HANDY GUY. For all your Household needs. Reno’s, Hauling & Power Washing Elec/ Plumb/ Tiling(778)823-0736
287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS
HIGH CALIBER CONSTRUCTION CUSTOM HOMES • Basement,
Kitchen & Bath Remodels • Room Additions • Drywall • Paint • Texture
• Finishing • Floors & MoreSince 1972 Dan 778-837-0771
A-1 CONTRACTING. Renos. Bsmt, kitchens, baths, custom cabinets, tiling, plumbing, sundecks, reroofi ng. Dhillon 604-782-1936.
ADDITIONS & RENOVATIONS
35 YEARSCarpenter Experience
HANDYMANCall Don 604-462-8905
Cell 604-880-4904
Alberto - 604-461-7679Cel: 604-319-7671
TOTAL CAREHOME REMODELLING
The Basement Finishing Specialists* Bathroom Renovations * Drywall* Electrical * Carpentry * Ceremic
Tiles * Plumbing * Sundecks * Laminate Flooring * Refs Avail.
CHOICE RENOVATIONS
Bsmt suites, bathrooms, windowssiding, H/W tank installation, etc
NO JOB TOO SMALL
Gary 467-3024Cellular 604-671-9694
EAGLE TILEA - 20779 Lougheed Hwy
Maple Ridge & 101 - 19070 Lougheed Hwy,
Pitt MeadowsYour local natural stone
distributors. Custom made Granite Countertops.Slate Granite MarbleTile Tumbled stone.
Large selection of Porcelain & Ceramic Sales & Service
604.463.0718 ~ 604.460.6656
Home Renovations and New Construction
Kitchens, Bathrooms, Flooring, Drywall, Garages, Decks & more
* 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE*INSURED ~ WCB
Dean 604-834-3076
HOOT & OWL BE THERE!BUILDING MAINT &
REPAIRS LTD.Renovations & repairs
Concrete, asphalt, vinyl decks,Roof & gutter repairs
Custom bathrooms & tile work. Reliable contractor
Email: hoot&[email protected] 604-339-5430
MDG HOME SERVICESDoes your house have
the winter blues? Need to spruce up the yard?
Just can’t fi nd the time?
W Power wash the houseW Sidewalks and driveways
W GuttersW General yard cleanup
W Painting W Any little job....
Let MDG Home Services do the work for you...
Just pick up the phone and give us a call!!!
(604)999-5454
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
288 HOME REPAIRS
Repairs, Maintenance, Renovation Guaranteed work, Free Estimate.
Cell: 604-618-6401. Marcel.
RETIRED carpenter wants to keep busy. Looking for small carpentry jobs. Will repair or build new. Will also do small painting & plumbing jobs. Call Ken 604-460-7803.
300 LANDSCAPING
All aspects of Landscaping and Landscaping MaintenanceStrata, Commercial, ResidentialPavers, Patios & Retaining walls
Winter clean upsSNOW CLEARING
Fully INSUREDCall (604)763-8795
AUGUSTINEBark Mulch Products
Composted W Bright W NuggetsGarden Blend & Lawn Blend
Topsoil
465-5193
AUGUSTINEBark Mulch Products
Composted W Bright W NuggetsGarden Blend & Lawn Blend
Topsoil
604-465-5193
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
SOIL ANALYSIS UPON REQUEST
WHOLESALE PRICES
17607 FORD ROAD, Pitt Meadows, B.C.
PICK-UP or DELIVERY
604-465-3189
DUTCH TOUCHGreen Services Ltd
Landscape ConstructionRenovations W Maintenance
604-463-3644604-861-1490
JAGUAR LANDSCAPINGLawn & Garden Service. Design, Pruning, Lawns, Cleanups, Comm/Res. (604)462-1369
SAWDUSTHemlock, Fir & Cedar
Available for DeliveryCall for pricing
604-465-5193 or 604-465-5197www.augustinesoilandmulch.com
SH LandscapingTree Services
Trimming W Pruning W ToppingClean-upW Garbage Removal
GardeningFlower Beds W Allan Blocks
Bark Mulch W River Lava RockLawn care
Weeding W New TurfFertilizing W Moss ControlPower Raking W Aeration
Free Estimate16 years experience in
Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows604.230.1634 or 604.467.3724
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
300 LANDSCAPING
✶ Commercial & ✶ Residential
Call for all you
landscaping needs. 778-847-0441
317 MISC SERVICES
✶Dump Site Now Open✶ D Broken Concrete RocksD
$21.00 Per Metric TonD Mud Dirt Sod ClayD
$21.00 Per Metric TonGrassSBranchesSLeavesSWeeds
$56.00 Per TonMeadows Landscape Supply
(604)465-1311
320 MOVING & STORAGE
AFFORDABLE MOVINGLocal & Long Distance
From $45/Hr1, 3, 5, 7,10 Ton Trucks
Insured ~ Licenced ~ 1 to 3 MenFree estimate/Seniors discount
Residential~Commercial~Pianos
604-537-4140
SPARTAN Moving Ltd. Fast & Reliable. Insured
Competitive rates. Wknd Specials. Call Frank: (604) 435-8240
329 PAINTING & DECORATING2 HUNGRY PAINTERS & Power Washing. Low prices. Int/Ext. Man & wife 75 years combined exp. 604.467.2532 twohungrypainters.ca
A-TECH Services 604-230-3539Running this ad for 7yrs
PAINT SPECIAL3 rooms for $269, 2 coats(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls
Cloverdale Premium quality paint.NO PAYMENT until Job is
completed. Ask us about ourLaminate Flooring &
Maid Services. www.paintspecial.com
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L. Roberts Painting3 Rooms for $299
walls onlyIncludes 2 coats Top Low VOC
paint. No payment until job is complete.
Over 20 years exp Free Estimate
(604)961-4391MILANO PAINTING. Int./Ext. Prof. Painters. Free Est. Written Guar. Bonded & Insured. 604-551-6510
SEASIDE PAINTING& Decking 604-462-8528, 218-9618
332 PAVING/SEAL COATINGALLAN Const. & Asphalt. Brick, conc, drainage, found. & membrane repair. 604-618-2304; 820-2187.
338 PLUMBING
10% OFF if you Mention this AD! *Plumbing *Heating *Reno’s *More Lic.gas fi tter. Aman: 778-895-2005
$38/HR!Clogged drains,drips,garbs sinks, Reno’s toilets. No job too small! Lic’d/insured. 778-888-9184
✔ ALL YOUR PLUMBING NEEDSCall Niko Plumbing Ltd. 24/7. Res/Com, clogged drains. h/w tanks. ★15 yrs exp. 604-837-6640PLUMBING, heating, gas, reno’s, repairs. 20 yrs experience, reliable and courteous. Licenced, bonded. Call Jack 778-835-4416,
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
338 PLUMBING
341 PRESSURE WASHING
DAVIDS WINDOW CLEANINGWindowsW GuttersW Siding Washing
Pressure/Hand WashingFree Estimates
4 6 5 - 1 3 0 2 W 7 8 6 - 3 4 6 6
353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTSABACUS ROOFING *25yrs Exp.
Call Chris 604-462-9009. - Also Snow Removal -
Conscientious Roofi ng - 24 Hoursrepairs, re-roof, all types of roof & conversions. WCB. 604-340-4126.
wayneroofi [email protected]
356 RUBBISH REMOVAL
RECYCLE-IT!#1 EARTH FRIENDLY
JUNK REMOVAL
604.587.5865www.recycle-it-now.com
359 SAND, GRAVEL & TOPSOIL
TOPSOIL• SCREENED TOPSOIL• MUSHROOM MANURE• BARK MULCH
604-467-3003
374 TREE SERVICES
A1-TRI-CRAFT Tree Serv. Dangerous tree removal, spiral pruning hedge trimming, stump grinding, topping. Insured, WCB Free Est
Arborist ReportsAndrew 604-618-8585
$ Best Rates $
A.C. TREE SERVICE
30 years experience
Bob Fitz-James 604-467-0333
Bucket Truck.
PAUL BUNYANTree Service
* ISA Certifi ed Arborist*Hazard Tree Removal
* Crown Reduction & Falling* Stump Grinding
*Prune & Hedge Trim* Arborist Reports
Insured WCBFree Estimates
604-942-6907
TRI-CITY TREE SERVICE
All Tree Services -- Fully Insured -- 24 Hrs
604-462-0865
Your LOCAL Tree Service,
For Honest Prices & Quality Work
Call Scott at604-618-0333
Certifi ed Arborist
Free Estimates *Fully Insured
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
374 TREE SERVICES
Your LOCAL Tree Service,
For Honest Prices & Quality Work
Call Scott at604-618-0333
Certifi ed Arborist
Free Estimates *Fully Insured
PETS
453 BOARDINGFULL BOARD. Lighted ring, 10’ X10’ stall with mats. Near trails. Lotsof TLC! No mud. $300/mo. Call 604-466-1634.
456 FEED & HAYHAY, 1st cut, round bales $50, 2nd & 3rd cut square bales. Excellentquality. $8 bale. 604 991 3056HAY, ORCHARD GRASS, Call forprices. (604)302-5573LOCAL HAY FOR SALE. Good Quality! 60lb bale average. $4/bale.Pitt Meadows. Call 604-505-4087.
468 LIVESTOCK
ORDER CHICKS NOW!
We are nowaccepting Chick
Orders for spring.___________________
Catalogues areavailable in our
Agri Centre. Call1-800-249-4474
[email protected]___________________
Fraser ValleyBuilding Supplies
Only 20 mins from Maple Ridge & Abby!
7072 Wren St., MissionMon-Fri: 6am-8pmSat-Sun: 8am-6pm
ORDER your SPRING CHICKS now!
W specialty breeds W brown egg layers
W broilers and turkeys
check-out the availability list at www.otter-coop.com
and click on the Pitt Meadows Branch button
Order forms available in-store
Otter Co-op at Pitt Meadows12343 Harris RdPitt Meadows BC
604-465-5651 or 604-465-8755
477 PETSAMERICAN PITT BULL X PresaCarnario puppies. 3 males. BornDec. 16. $400. 604-729-8549Australian Shepherd (Aussie’s)pups, Lt teddy bears looking for for-ever homes, $500. (604)625-7509BEAGLE PUPS, tri colored, goodlooking, healthy, $500. (604)796-3026. No Sunday callsBERNESE Mountain X Great Py-renees pups, gorgeous, excellentmarkings, parents to view, health guar’d, $850. Call (604) 607- 5051BUDGIES to good home. $10 ea. Good colours. 3-8 mos old.(604)858-4488CANE CORSO puppies, shots, de-wormed, vet checked, ready to go. $1100. 604-825-8362. View photos& info at: www.freedoglistings.comCATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adultcats. 604-309-5388 / 856-4866DOBERMAN PUPS, tails & dewclaws done, dewormed, view bothparents. $700. Call 604-798-7579.FREE TO A GOOD HOME 2 cuteOutside kittens. Have to stay to-gether (siblings) 1 black & white & 1 black (7 month old) includes carrieras “Cathouse” for over night (604)463-8590
German Shepherd Puppieshttp://[email protected]
250-442-8070GREAT DANE X Dane Mastiff 11wks. 2 Merle Male one Black Female $1000. 604 823 2316GREAT DANE X Mastiff. 5yrs old.Free to good home. Can be aggre-sive to strangers & other animals,not good around children. Needssomebody who has time to spend with him. Sleeps inside. Goodwatch dog. Serious inquiries only-Call Peter leave msg604-465-1826MALTESE PUPS: 3 males, Incl 1st shots, vet checked, dewormed, $800 fi rm. Call 604-464-5077.
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PETS
477 PETS
NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604-856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com
PUGS P/B Black. Ready to go. Fem/Males. 604-595-6713, 604-200-2647, 604-725-2192. (Surrey)
WHITE ARCTIC WOLF X puppies for sale $1000. Call Carol 604-853-9444
YORKSHIRE TERRIER CKC reg. black & tan, fi rst shot, dewormed, Fem. $750, M $650. 604-581-4459.
MERCHANDISE FOR SALE
523 UNDER $100
JENNAIR 21.5 cu.ft. french door fridge, black, prefect work cond, no damage, $250 obo. (604)463-4484
545 FUEL
BEST FIREWOOD 32nd Season & 37,000 Cust Deliv.
Fully Seas. Maple, Birch, Alder604-582-7095
548 FURNITURE
#1 Cash Buyer
“Since 1987”$$CASH$$ for your furniture,tools, electronics, antiques,
appliances, computers & collectibles.
WWANYTHING OF VALUEWW
Single items to entire households463-4449 or
209-6583
MOVING MUST SELL: 5/Pce bed-room suite $250. 2/Pce chesterfi eld set $400. Call 604-467-9134.
551 GARAGE SALES
MAPLE RIDGE huge indoor sale 30 yrs. of collecting EVERYTHING Every Feb. weekend. Sat. & Sun. 10-4. 11760 256 St.
560 MISC. FOR SALE
HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com
566 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
TWO pianos; 1927 Heintzman up-right & a Henry Herbert upright, original ivories with no cracks or chips. Pianos have been viewed by a licensed tuner and is available for verifi cation. Buyer will be respon-sible for moving & retuning. $800 each. 604-853-2089.
REAL ESTATE
612 BUSINESSES FOR SALE
Successful Weight Loss Clinic for sale. Great opportunity in expand-ing market. Voted #1, Langley. $179,000. Dennis Germyn, Mac-donald Realty. 604-590-2444.
627 HOMES WANTED
WE BUY HOUSESOlder Home? Damaged Home?
Need Repairs? Behind on Payments? Quick CASH!
Call Us First! 604.657.9422
633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS
2011 CANADIAN Dream Home 3 bed/2 bath, 1512 sqft, CSA-Z240 $109,950 includes delivery and set up in lower BC, 877-976-3737 or 509-481-9830 http://www.hbmodu lar.com/images/email_jan2.jpg
636 MORTGAGES
BANK ON US! Mortgages for purchases, renos, debt con-solidation, foreclosure. Bank rates. Many alternative lending programs.Let Dave Fitzpatrick, your Mortgage Warrior, simpli-fy the process!1-888-711-8818
REAL ESTATE
660 LANGLEY/ALDERGROVE
HOMES FOR SALE-SUPER BUYSwww.dannyevans.ca
Homelife Benchmark Realty Corp. Langley
RENTALS
706 APARTMENT/CONDO
CENTRAL MAPLE RIDGE 11735-225 St. 1 bdrm $600 incls heat & ht water. No dogs 604-467-9420
COQUITLAM nr L’heed mall/sky-train, 533 Cottonwood, reno’d, adult bldg, quiet, n/p, gated prkg, video surveillance, 1 bdrm $780, incl
heat, h/w, Jan. 1, Crime-Free, Cert. 604-937-7812
www.greatapartments.ca
GARIBALDI Court(604) 463-9522
Central Maple RidgeAvailable March
2 BEDROOMGreat location for seniors! Clean, quiet & affordable!
Incl. heat, h/w, cable. Senior Move-In Allowance.Rrefs & Credit check req.
Sorry No PetsFor more info. google us.
MAPLE INN 11695 -224th St
Maple Ridge 1 bdrm - $625/mo includes hot water
Certifi ed Crime Free Building Mature adult oriented.
Close to uptown604-463-4131 for appointment
(9am-5pm)
MAPLE RIDGE
1 & 2 Bdrs from $740/mo
GREAT LOCATIONQueen Anne Apts.
* Renovated Suites *
Clean, very quiet, large,INCLUDES: HEAT,
HOT WATER & HYDRO
Near Shopping & Amenities.
604-463-7450 604-463-2236
12186-224 St, Maple RidgeCertifi ed Crime Free Buildings
MAPLE RIDGE
1 BEDROOM SUITES
✶ Move InAllowance
McIntosh PlazaSuit Mature AdultsHighrise 1/2 Block to Town
F/F fridge & easy clean stovesNO PETS
22330 McIntosh Avenue(604)463-6841
MAPLE RIDGE. 2 bdrm in quiet bldg. Nr hosp. N/S. N/P. Refs. $850 incl heat & hotwater. 604-465-2905
MAPLE RIDGE
AVAILABLE NOW1 & 2 BDRM SUITES Heat, hot water & parking. Close to stores & schools.
MAPLE COURT I 22437 121st Ave
604-467-0715&
MAPLE COURT II22423 121st Ave
604-467-4894
MAPLE RIDGE
AVAILABLE NOW1 Bedroom
Heat, hot water & parking.Close to stores & schools.
SUNRISE APARTMENT22292 - 122nd Ave
604-319-9341
MAPLE RIDGE CENTRAL 2 bdrm condo in Golden Tower, 4th fl oor, 5 appli, u/grnd prkg, $1000/mo. Call 604-467-4450 or 604-833-4450.
MAPLE RIDGE Central Adult build-ing 1 Bdrm apt., newly reno’d u/g parking, dig cable incld $675-$700/mo, n/p, ref’s, For appoint-ment call 11am to 5pm Mon to Fri (778)327-8405.
Maple Ridge CentralCertifi ed Crime Free Clean, Quiet Building for Mature Adults Only
1 Bdrm, First fl oor, Newer Appli’s, N/P, Non Smoker
$525/mo. + util’sNow with Seniors discount
(604)467-5271
RENTALS
706 APARTMENT/CONDO
Maple RidgeCentral
Certifi ed Crime Free Multiple Housing
New renovated 1 Bdrm suites. $590/mo. incl hot water, cable.
Ref’s req’d. N/P. Adult only building
Mon to Fri 9am ~ 6pmBy appointment only
604-418-1932MAPLE RIDGE City Ctr cute 1 Bdrm 22235-119th Ave. btwn $650 &$750. n/p. Immed (604)999-9882MAPLE RIDGE Ctrl adult building. Large 1 Bdrm $750/mo incls heat/ hot water, ref’s, N/P (604)467-2606
Maple Ridge
Glenwood ManorApartments
1& 2 Bdrms from $670 & $835Clean, Spacious
Includes cable, heat, hot water & parking
Seniors discount21387 Dewdney Trunk Rd
(604)466-5799MAPLE RIDGE large 1 bdrm apts. Quiet adult oriented building. Incl heat, hot water, covered prkg. N/S N/P. $680-$700/mo. Avail immed. 604-465-8274
Maple RidgeSwan Court Apartments
Large 1 & 2 Bedrooms. Hardwood fl oors, adult oriented,
heat, h/w & cable incl’d, f/p, n/pets.Criminal Record check may be reqd
Resident Manager OnsiteNow with
SENIORS DISCOUNT604.477.9189
Maple RidgeWILLOW PLACE22256 ~ 119th Ave
Partially reno’d,quiet,spacious & bright suites 1 Bdrm Apt. Avail ImmediatelyInc. heat, h/w, prkg & storage
W No Pets W (604) 369-1096 or 317-3130
Mission
Large 3 Bdrm2 Level Townhomes
Starting at $1175/mo.
1.5 baths, f/place, dishwasher,w/dryer, secured garage and
storage with a backyard. *Family Oriented*
Call 1-604-820-1205www.aptrentals.net
PITT MEADOWS
CHELSEA PARK APTS
1 & 2 Bdrms Apts, Also 3 Bdrm T/Homes Avail
Conveniently located. Nice, bright & large suites.
Call 604-830-7846Visit our website:
www.aptrentals.net
PITT MEADOWS
The MeadowsGated underground parking, heated outdoor pool. Heat, hot water & 3 appliances included. 2 min. walk to Westcoast Express.
Large 1, 2 & 3 Bdrm Suites Available
Call: 604-460-7539 604-465-0008 or 604-465-5818
Polo ClubApartments
19071 Ford Rd. Pitt Meadows
Clean, Quiet Well Managed Bldg.3 Blocks to W.C. Express
W 1 & 2 Bdrm SuitesW 3 Appliances
W Secured Garage ParkingW Adult Oriented
W Ref’s Req’d & Absolutely No Pets
604.465.7221PORT COQUITLAM 1 Bdrm + den in newer building. Granite counter-tops, high end appl’s, insuite W/D, fi replace, covered patio, 1 u/g park-ing space, gym & amenities room. Avail immed. $1100/mo. For more info call (604)790-5508
PORT COQUITLAM 1 Bdrm Top fl r apt. $775 2 Bdrm Corner apt. $895
S Incl heat/hot wtr, wndw cvrngsS Close to bus stop S Walk to shpng/medical/WCE S Across from park w/Mtn viewsS Gated parking and Elevator S Adult oriented building S References required
CALL FOR APPOINTMENT604-464-3550
W.W. PLATEAU. Montreux Bldng. 2 Bdrm, 2ba, 2prk, near all schools, ns/np. Mar. 1. $1195. 604-941-3259
RENTALS
709 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIALSt Johns & Moray St, Port MoodyStore Front & Offi ce. 700-1500sf, A/C, Concrete Bldg, prkg Affordable 604-525-8839, 604-649-9273
713 COTTAGESMAPLE RIDGE 264th St. 2 Bdrm cottage, March 1st. $925 incl utils.Call 604-462-0369, 604-767-5641.
715 DUPLEXES/4PLEXESMAPLE RIDGE, 1 bdrm. SxS du-plex, quiet street, priv. yard, h/w fl oors, new appli’s. N/S N/P. Avail immed. $800/mo. 604-465-8274.MAPLE RIDGE. 2 bdrm, carpeted. 2 appls. Nr shops. Carport. N/P. Avail Feb. 1. 604-465-4339MAPLE RIDGE 2 bdrm duplex on quiet street, newly reno’d with new appli’s, ns/np, avail March 1, $1150/mo +utils. 604-465-8274.
Maple Ridge Central1 Bedroom DuplexAdult Only Complex
$550/mo + util’scredit check, ref’s & damagedeposit required. Avail immed
(604)466-6348Leave a message
MAPLE RIDGE. Sunny, bright & priv. 2 Bdrm unit. Cat ok. Avail. Immed. $850. N/S. 604-240-8358.
736 HOMES FOR RENTMAPLE RIDGE 2 bdrm ste, approx 1000s/f, fncd yrd, sml pet OK, refs, avail now. 604-710-4250, 618-6884MAPLE RIDGE, 4 bdrm., f/s, w/d, d/w, on acre. 21617 128 Ave. April 1. $1500 + utils., 604-722-5609MAPLE RIDGE/MISSION BORDER - Stave Falls - Bright 1 bdrm. Two-level cabin on shared acreage. Suitable for quiet N/S single person. One cat ok. $750 mo. includes hydro and heat. Avail. March 1. 604-462-8837MAPLE RIDGE W 2 bdrm rancher 2 bath, 4 appls lge yd, lots of prkg Avail now. $1100. 604-803-0919
MISSION, West: 3 bdrm on acreage all appls incl 604-936-3088
741 OFFICE/RETAILMAPLE RIDGE Central Offi ce/ Retail space approx 800 sqft. $920/mo + hst (604)467-2606
MAPLE RIDGE
OFFICE& RETAIL SPACE
Various downtown locations. Avail. Now! Updated and well maintained. Various sizes 320sf. - 2000sf. Starting at $495/month.
Call: Rick Medhurst, Royal LePage
6 0 4 - 4 6 3 - 3 0 0 0
743 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
MAPLE RIDGE
2 Bdrm apartments All inclusive $840/mo
2 Bdrm bsmt suites $700 ~ $850/mo
4 Bdrm 2 level bsmt suite, 1 acre river view
(Silverdale) $1350/mo
Call Maria @ Ridge Meadows
Property Management (604)466-2838
Mon ~ Fri 9am ~ 5pmwww.ridgemeadows
propertymanagement.com
746 ROOMS FOR RENT
$75 OFF 1ST MONTHRooms from $435/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
747B SENIOR ASSISTED LIVING
POCO DOWNTOWNAll-Inclusive
Seniors Residence1 Bdrm. Apartment
Rent incls. freshly prepared meals, cable, housekeeping,
emergency response & activities.www.rjkent.com
2675 Shaughnessy St.Call: 778-285-5554
748 SHARED ACCOMMODATIONMAPLE RIDGE large bedroom, hardwood fl oors, full bath, W/D, bus route, $460/mo incl’s cable & util’s N/S, N/,P immed 604-783-3860MAPLE RIDGE West, lovely Town-house fully furnished, incls all util’s $500mo avail immed 604-467-9921
RENTALS
750 SUITES, LOWERALBION AREA, 1 bdrm, priv ent, 5 appl’s, N/S, small pet ok. Avail. Mar. 1st. $750 incl cable and utilities. 604-476-1812 or [email protected] LAKE furn’d room in bsmt of home, $500 all incl. Pri entry. Avail now. (604) 939-1337 or 374-6646.Coquitlam bright, lrg reno 1 bdrm $795 incl cbl, utils, own w/d, alarm. new carpets. ns/np 604-767-0599.COQUITLAM. Lougheed area. 2 bdrm grnd lvl. Priv entry. Ensuite. Laundry. $985/mo. incl. utils. NP/NS. Avail now. 604-931-3677.COQUITLAM, W.W. Plateau. New, lrg 3 bdrm, sep entry, bright/spac kit & fam/rm. 1500 sq.ft. All appls. Nr amenits. NS/NP. $1375/mo incl utils. Avail March 1. 604-941-8109.MAPLE RIDGE, 232rd area. 1 bdrm bsmt suite. Sep ent. Avail Feb 15. N/S N/P. $700/mo. incl utils. 604-467-2518 lve. msgMAPLE RIDGE 2 bdrm lge g/l patio, cls to ament ns/np $800m Mar 1. 604-476-0909, 626-9027MAPLE RIDGE (Albion) New Large 1 BR bsmt suite. Large kitchen w/ island. Utilities inc. NP, NS, no laundry. Avail. $800. 778-833-4005 or [email protected] RIDGE, Central, 1 lrg g/l bdrm ste, NS/NP Incl utils/cbleW/D. $700mo 604-467-5482.MAPLE RIDGE Ctrl bright 2 Bdrm 5 appl’s March 1 $1100 incl util n/s, n/p (604)463-1035 / 778-241-7512MAPLE RIDGE CTRL Lrg bright 1 bdrm in new hse. Above ground, sep entry, off st prkg, 6 appl, $750 incl util/alarm. Avail Mar 1. Suit sgl. NP/NS, ref’s req. 604-908-0860MAPLE RIDGE East. Lg 1 Bdrm plus den bsmt suite, sep entry & laundry, sep kitch/din, l/rm, close tobus. N/S. N/P. Ref’s req. $800 incl util. Avail Mar 1. Call Kim 604-329-4219.MAPLE RIDGE Kanaka 2 bdrm g/lvl, avail March 1. NS/NP. $750 incl util & sat. Refs 604-467-9682MAPLE RIDGE newly reno’d 2 bdrm, bright large (1400sqft) grd/level, priv entry, W/D, country setting. $900/mo. (604)467-1990MAPLE RIDGE, newly reno’d suite, sep entr., lrg 1 bdrm, own W/D, Util incl. NS, pets negotiable. 1 year lease. Refs. req. $760/mo Please leave msg. Immed. (604)467-1307.Maple Ridge. Sml 1 bdrm cabin $850 incl gas/cble. Very pri. ent garage/storage. Cat ok. N/S. Availl now. Suit single. 604-716-7039.MAPLE RIDGE W. 1 bdm lower ste. Parking. Near bus. Own W/D. N/S. N/P. $650 + 1/3 utils. 604-477-1000MAPLE RIDGE West (207th Street)1 Bdrm bsmt suite, lrg lvngrm, h/w fl rs, d/w, shared w/d, nr all amens, WCE, etc. NS/NP, Avail now. $750 incls utils/cable/net. 778-231-4943.Pitt Meadows 1 bdrm g/l ste light cable w/i net NS/NP no ldry Mar 1. Clse to WCE $750. 604-465-7620PITT MEADOWS. 1 bdrm nr WCE. $650/mo. incl. utils. N/S, N/P. Immed. 604-839-8442 Gurjeet.PITT MEADOWS - $700/mo 1 bdrm avail immed. Clean, large, pri entry, close to school, WCE. Incl hydro & cable. N/S, N/P. 604-657-1145PORT COQUITLAM 2 bdrm, newer house, w/d, d/w, cbl. N/P, $900 incl all utils. March 1st. (604) 722-5470.
751 SUITES, UPPERMAPLE RIDGE West 3 bdrm upper, own laundry, $1300/mo + 60%utils pets neg, March 1 (604)467-7062
MAPLE RIDGE, E Central: 3 bdrm, 2 bath, upper fl oor, balcony w/ mtn view, gas F/P, 5 appls, shrd W/D, sat. TV, fen’d yard w/fl ower beds, approx 1100 sf, $1150 + 2/3 utils. Refs. NS/NP. immed 778-998-7857
PORT COQ new lrg 3 bdrm main fl r fam/rm, liv/rm, 5 appls. Good loca-tion. near all amens. $1100/mo Feb 15. 604-590-2827 or 778-386-0024
752 TOWNHOUSES
Maple Ridge Central3 Bedroom 21/2 bath
Avail immed. $1200/moDamage deposit ~ Ref’sCredit check ~ No Pets
Call 604-466-6348Leave message
MAPLE RIDGE twnhse 2bdrm with cheater ensuite, ns/np, $1100 Imm. Derek 604-839-6024. After 4pm
PITT MEADOWS: 2-3 bdrm co-op T/H $1005/mo - $1089/mo. Shares req’d. No subsidy available. Orien-tation 2nd Sun. 2 pm & 3rd Tues. 7 pm ea mo. 19225 119th Ave., Pitt Meadows V3Y 2B2. Send SASE or leave msg 604-465-1938
TRANSPORTATION
810 AUTO FINANCING
818 CARS - DOMESTIC
1998 DODGE Stratus, 4 door, au-tuo, A/C, Aircared. New tires/brakes. $2400. 604-477-2702.
2000 CHRYSLER NEON, 4dr, se-dan, 118kks, auto, 46kks on new trans. $3,000 obo. 604-575-8003
2001 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE 4 dr, fully loaded, Aircared, 146K, really nice car. $2100 obo 604-504-0932
2004 BUICK LASABRE V6, 4/drAbsolutey spotless! BCAA Cert.Private $9800. 778-565-1097.
827 VEHICLES WANTED
836 OFF-ROAD VEHICLES
2003 YAMAHA TTR 225, $2,700 OBO. Like new cond. Motorcycle access: shirts, pants, size XL boots (size12/13) gloves 604-466-7887.
838 RECREATIONAL/SALE
2006 MAX SPORT 24RB
Great Value!Awning, A/C, Super Clean.
$12,995 (stk.21646A)www.fraserwayrv.com
1-800-806-1976 DL #30644
2011 EVERLITE 31RLS
Rear livingroom, dbl. entry doors, power tongue jack, enclosed/htd. underbelly, sofa/kitchen slideout.
$30,995 (stk.28865)www.fraserwayrv.com
1-800-806-1976 DL #30644
2011 LUX LITE 21FB
Front bedroom, a/c, awning, mag wheels, LCD TV, microwave etc.
$22,995 (stk.30673)www.fraserwayrv.com
1-800-806-1976 DL #30644
TRAVEL with bcclassified.com604 575 5555
TRANSPORTATION
838 RECREATIONAL/SALE
New 2010 Trailer. ONE ONLY! 18XLT Wildwood
STK#28163. $11,990
604 - 530 - 3030
845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL
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AAA SCRAP CAR REMOVALMinimum $150 cash for full size vehicles, any cond. 604-518-3673
Autos • Trucks• Equipment Removal
FREE TOWING 7 days/wk.We pay Up To $500 CA$H
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847 SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES
2006 LAND ROVER LR3 SE,dark blue, 40K MLS/64K KMS, no accid, lady driven, new tires, batt &
brakes, immaculate @ $27,900 604-943-0210.
851 TRUCKS & VANS
1976 FORD 150 Ranger XLT129,000org miles. 390 V8 mechani-cally sound but cab mounts have to be replaced. Excellent rubber. Willsell for parts $500. (604)463-7401
1991 GMC 3/4 ton 4WD p/u, auto. w/canopy. New brkes/tires w/pump.Aircared. $2800. 604-477-2702.
2004 TUNDRA TRD 4X4 acc cab,orig owner $15,800. Exceptionallywell maintained. 604-793-8158
Notice is hereby given that on February 26, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. at 11985 - 203rd St. Maple Ridge, B.C., the under-signed; Advanced Storage Centres will sell at Public Auction, by competitive bidding, the personal property heretofore stored with the undersigned.
Joanne Marie MichalecUnit 2047
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Low-Cut Reg $109.99
Now $$99999999
Rubber Shoes & BootsRubber Shoes & BootsNow In!Now In!
$$24249999 - - $$39399999
Steel Toe Mid & Low Cut Duck Boot
X-Tra Over-BootReg $119.99
Now $$69699999
Reg $54.99
Now$$44449999
• Waterproof grizzly leather upper
• Rubber half shell• Dri-Tec® lining with
Freshtech™
• Removable EVA/latex footbed
• EVA midsole• Tarantula® anti-slip rubber
outsole
• Waterproof natural rubber• Knit lining• Adjustable buckle• Wide bellows tongue
• Waterproof crazyhorse leather upper
CSAApproved
Also Available in Steel ToeReg $149.99
Now $12999
ot
SAVE$10
Sale ends February 20th, 2011