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Summer arrives in time for Canada DayMadelaine Visser, two, had fun at the Harris Road spray park in Pitt Meadows on Thursday afternoon. Madelaine visited the park with her three-year-old sister Kaitlin Ann and their dad. After a wet start to the weekend, clearskies and warm temperatures have returned to Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, and the rest of southern B.C. so far this week.

The Labour Relations Board hasdeemed year-round schooling anessential service.by Maria [email protected]

Kanaka Creek Elementary will be in ses-sion starting Wednesday following a rul-ing by the Labour Relations Board (LRB).

Teachers have been on strike for twoweeks, but most schools were windingdown the school year when the strikestarted.

Kanaka Creek Elementary, however,

because it is a year-round school, wasscheduled to be in session until July 23.

Laurie Meston, acting superintendent ofschools in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadowsschool district, sent a letter to parentsat Kanaka Creek Elementary on Fridayinforming them that the LRB had deemedyear-round school an essential service.

Classes will resume on July 2 and allteaching, clerical, and support staff willbe working. There will be no picketing atthe school.

Meston thanked parents for theirpatience and understanding “throughoutthis difficult process.”

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Fire victim identifiedThe man who perished in a fire on

June 19 in west Maple Ridge has beenidentified by the B.C. Coroners Serviceas Craig Peter Philip Davey, 37. The fireripped through an end unit of a town-house on 207A Avenue around 11 p.m.

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Garden being plannedThe City of Pitt Meadows is planning a

Centennial Garden for Bonson’s Landing.The garden will be located at the foot ofBarnston View Road at the north edgeof the Waterfront Commons Park. Thesurvey can be found online – look for thelink at www.pittmeadows.bc.ca.


Residents surveyedThe District of Maple Ridge has posted

the first in a series of surveys aboutthe Hammond area plan that is beingdeveloped. Questionnaires will be postedbetween now and September and resi-dents are asked to fill them out. For moreinformation, go to www.mapleridge.caand search for “Hammond area plan.”


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Investigators tried to figure out how atownhouse fire began in west Maple Ridge.

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The Maple Ridge firedepartment used its newtender truck at a fire onThursday afternoon.

by Maria [email protected]

The Ruskin General Store andgas station are closed followinga fire on Thursday afternoon.

A call came in just after 5p.m. that the building at 287thAvenue and Lougheed Highwaywas on fire, eliciting a responsefrom all three Maple Ridge fire-halls.

No one was hurt in the blaze– only one employee was on siteat the time, explained deputyfire chief Howard Exner.

It took Maple Ridge firefight-ers about 50 minutes to containthe fire.

The fire was largely contained

to three offices in the back, how-ever, there was smoke and waterdamage to the store as well, headded.

This was the first fire where

the fire department’s new tendertruck, which carries 3,600 USgallons of water, was used aswell as a second truck with acapacity of 2,200 US gallons.

“The area is a non-hydratedarea so we had to use our ten-der trucks to put [the fire] out,”explained Exner.

The new truck “performedreally well,” he said, helping toget the fire out more quickly.

The fire department acquiredthe new tender truck after retir-ing the previous one, whose cap-acity was 1,000 US gallons.

There are a lot of areas inMaple Ridge that don’t havefire hydrants, Exner said, largeparts of Thornhill, eastern areaslike Ruskin and Whonnock,Iron Mountain, Golden EarsProvincial Park, and the UBCResearch Forest, hence, the needfor tender trucks.

“The tenders are an integralpart of the equipment [needed]to do our jobs in those areas,”Exner said.

The fire department is investi-gating what caused the fire.

Fifty firefighters responded tothe fire in Ruskin.

Emergency

Fire closes Ruskin General Store and gas station

Ridge Meadows Search & Rescue spenttwo days looking for a 23-year-old.by Maria [email protected]

The search for a woman who went intofast-moving waters in Golden Ears ProvincialPark Wednesday has been called off.

Ridge Meadows Search & Rescue werecalled to the park on Wednesday afternoonafter a call came through to emergency ser-vices that the 23-year-old was seen goinginto the water in the Upper Falls.

Crews searched Wednesday until duskand Thursday for several hours, said RickLaing, manager of Ridge Meadows Search &Rescue. North Shore Search & Rescue camewith their kayak team to see if they couldhelp but the water was too swift to go in.

“We’re going to wait for water levels tochange and reassess [before resuming thesearch],” Laing said.

Twenty-five men were out on both dayslooking for the woman. The RCMP broughtin their Air One helicopter on Thursday tohelp in the search.

When a search ends without a conclusion,it’s tough on the volunteer search and rescuecrew, Laing said.

“We call ourselves search and rescue,” hesaid. “When we can’t do the rescue, it canbe hard on the people.”

Mounties say the woman is not fromMaple Ridge or Pitt Meadows.

Emergency response

Search called off for missing woman

Ridge Meadows Search & Rescue scaled rugged terrain in an attempt to find a woman who was seen going fast-movingwaters in the Upper Falls area of Golden Ears Provincial Park on Wednesday.

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A fire hit Ruskin General Store in east Maple Ridge on Thursday afternoon.

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• Late last week, TIMES reporter SylverMcLaren lost her battle with cancer. Whennotified of her passing on Facebook, thecommunity response was immediate. Hereare a few notes of condolences you offered.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the McLaren Familyat this very sad time. Sylver’s laugh and glorious presencewill be missed. Rest in peace you beautiful angel!.”

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“...Put many a smile on my face and put many greatpeople, deserving people out there to the community!!!God bless RIP.” – Nathan Burke“Sending love to family, friends and colleagues. It was apleasure to know and work with Sylver. Much belovedand will be sadly missed.”

– Vicki McLeod“Sylver, your integrity and special heart will be missedimmensely. Each tear that falls from my eyes now are ahundred thank yous for how much you made my life bet-ter. God bless and hold you tight.”

– Laurie Nixon Darcus“She was passionate about her work, her friends, and thecommunity. She will be missed. Our condolences to herfamily and work colleagues.”

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The community ismourning the loss ofTIMES staff member.by Roxanne Hooper &Maria [email protected]

The TIMES Facebookpages were inundated thisweekend after the news ofreporter Sylver McLaren’spassing was posted.

Community membersremembered her infec-tious, booming laugh andher smile and rememberedher interviewing them forvarious stories.

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grad, McLaren started asa reporter with the MapleRidge-Pitt Meadows TIMESin June 2011 and workeduntil her diagnosis of braincancer in August 2013.

Maple Ridge firechief Dane Spence wasimpressed from the onsetby McLaren, recalling howshe worked hard to under-stand the issues she wasreporting on.

“She really cared aboutgetting it right,” Spencesaid. “She was unpreten-tious as hell. She wasgenuine. She was who shewas, and she had no airsabout her. She really caredabout what she did, caredabout the community, and

cared about the people shemet… she was fun. Shewas a good person, andshe had a very good heart.She was the real deal, andshe will be missed.”

McLaren was born on

Feb. 28, 1972. She leavesbehind her son Chase, 18,her mother and father,two sisters, and extendedfamily.

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Katie’s Place is wherehomeless cats from MapleRidge and beyond go to beadopted, and those whodon’t find homes right awayare in good hands.by Troy [email protected]

Volunteers at Katie’s Placelearn very quickly that you don’tget in the middle of a cat fight.

That’s because once engaged,two peeved off felines swiftlybecome one, a frenzied, furryball of claws, teeth, and attitude.

Separating them with yourhands can be a painful, some-times bloody endeavour.

Founder Magda Romanowshared that feline fisticuffs dohappen occasion-ally, a by-productof 90 cats room-ing together 24/7.

And when theodd “disagree-ment” doesoccur, the trick isto use a spray ofwater to separatethe combatants.

However, atour through the1,800-square-footcat shelter, located right nextto the Maple Ridge SPCA facil-ity, shows dozens of content

residents, lazing about in vari-ous perches located in the nine10-x-12-sqare-foot rooms, withadditional outdoor patios.

Katie’s Place,which recentlycelebrated its13th year of find-ing homes forcats, started asan annex shelterfor felines, work-ing in partnershipwith an animalrescue group ineast Mission. Theshelter was situ-ated in a barnbehind the MapleRidge home of afriend of Katie’sPlace co-founder Carol Hine.

Within two years, Romanowand Hine acquired charitablestatus for their shelter, andbecame separate from the other

rescue group.“We stayed in

the same loca-tion, had thesame name,and the samecats and volun-teers,” Romanowexplained. “Wejust became ourown entity.”

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named Katie in the barn,”

Romanow said. “That’s why wenamed it Katie’s Place, becausewe wanted to appease the greatgod Katie.”

In 2008, afteran ambitiousfundraisingdrive that gener-ated “hundreds ofthousands of dol-lars,” Romanowsaid, she andHine relocatedthe shelter to itscurrent location.

“They werewonderful to usbut we reallytook a toll ontheir property,”Romanow said,

regarding the owners of theproperty where the barn waslocated. “They were awesomepeople. And we outgrew it, too.”

While Hine now runs SAINTS(Senior Animals In Need Society)in Mission, Romanow remainswith Katie’s Place. This doesn’tmake her a “cat person,” butsomeone who loves all animals.

Whether their stay at Katie’sPlace is short or extended, theresident felines have an impacton Romanow.

“There are cats in here, whenthey go, it’s pretty tough,” shesaid.

Quite a few came from verypoor conditions and have thrivedsince arriving at Katie’s Place,which is run by more than 100volunteers ranging from their

early teens (who join their par-ents there) to longtime helpersBarry and Val Allen, both sen-iors.

“You see them become veryhappy and outgoing,” Romanowsaid. “For some of them, youcan see this is their home.”

Oakley, an orange tabby, isone of those cats. He came tothe shelter on Nov. 5, 2012.

“This is his place, here,”Romanow said. “He’s happyhere. He has the run of theplace.”

With so many “special issue”cats, Romanow said, prospectivenew families can’t simply comeinto the shelter and “take homea cat.”

“We really screen our homes,”Romanow said. “I’m not goingto say it’s super easy. We really

make sure [that] we try and findthe right fit. We do checks, wephone your vet, if there’s a land-lord, we phone your landlord…I’m not going to say it’s easy.But then again, these animalshave been through enough. They[prospective new owners] haveto be pretty dedicated [to thecare of their new cat].”

There are also a few cats fromKatie’s Place living in temporaryfoster care.

Katie’s Place hosts open hous-es every Saturday and Sundayfrom noon to 2 p.m.

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Owen is a friendly feline looking for a home.


Katie’s Place co-founder describesAmelia as a “pretty round tabby onthe heavy side.”


Bobbin hasn’t lost any spunk,despite missing a front leg as aresult of getting hit by a car.


Katie’s Place is home to 90 cats,including Ferdinand.

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OpinionA6 Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Our View

Big day fora big dream

Today is Canada Day. It’s Canada’s147th birthday, and it is a day for cele-bration. This is a day to celebrate every-thing that is good about this country– and that’s a lot to celebrate, becauseby anyone’s standards and regardless ofthe yardstick used, Canada is at or nearthe very top of any list of the very bestcountries in the world.

Like any birthday, this is also a goodday to take positive note of things thatwe could improve as the clock ticksthrough our next year.

We’re not going to get into a lotof nitpicking here, but we’re going tomake one suggestion for one improve-ment that could make an important dif-ference throughout the world.

Really, it’s a follow-up to a sugges-tion made by Glacier Media reporterand columnist Matthew Claxton recently[Canada could destroy cancer, June 19Painful Truth, TIMES].

The headline of his column says itall: Canada could destroy cancer.

It’s not a far-fetched idea. As Claxtonnoted, it could be Canada’s equivalentto America’s moonshot of the 1960s.

Canada is already a world leaderin cancer research and awareness,thanks in no small part to Terry Fox’sMarathon of Hope, which was aimed atraising just one dollar per Canadian atthe time, but which has snowballed intoworld-wide Fox Runs that have raisedhundreds of millions of dollars.

Canada could pick up the ball thatcancer took from Terry’s hands inThunder Bay in 1980, and run it pastthe finish line in a massive – but doable– effort. Like the moonshot, the benefitsand economic side-effects of such a shotaimed at the heart of cancer would faroutweigh any cost of the attempt.

Canada Day is a great time to cele-brate and count our blessings – andovercoming cancer would be a greatblessing to add to the list.

– B.G.

Start in Victoria. Stand on theedge of the bluffs in Beacon HillPark, overlooking the PacificOcean. You can almost imagineseeing all the way to Japan.

It seems almost forever as youlook out over the blue waters andoff into the horizon. It takes 22hours to fly to Australia.

But you can walk farther thanthat and stay right inside Canadaall the way.

Walk down to the ocean anddip your toes in the clear, saltywater, wander along the seashore to the north-ern tip of Vancouver Island. Take another glancewest from Cape Scott Park before rounding thetip of the Island and following the shoreline toNanaimo. There, you can catch a ferry fromDeparture Bay to Horseshoe Bay… and now thereal journey begins.

Head north, still along the shoreline, cutoverland from the southern tip of the AlaskaPanhandle into the Yukon, mosey on over toInuvik, and continue following that endless,relentless coastline through the northern territor-ies, tracing out Hudson Bay to Nova Scotia.

That’s Canada.There are countless Islands along the way –

Ellesmere and Baffin are among the bigger ones– you could circumnavigate along the way. Andcertainly, you’ll want to outline Newfoundland.

But even without them, it would be a heftyroute from Victoria to Halifax that would takea longterm commitment: about 30 km per day,each and every day for about 25 years.

You’d walk far enough that, if you were towalk straight up, you’d get further than twothirds of the way to the moon – not quite farenough to let Luna’s gravity take over and allowyou to fall the rest of the way!

Or instead, you could get into your car andmake a beeline for the Atlantic at Halifax: about5,000 kilometres down the road.

That’s Canada, too.

Either route – or any of a mas-sive number of routes betweenthe extremes – you’ll be pass-ing through some tremendouslybeautiful country.

Geographically, Canada is thesecond largest country in theworld, second only to Russia, ourneighbour just across the pole.

But there’s more to Canadathan sheer size. In fact, mostpeople around the world haveabsolutely no idea just how bigthis country is. They see it on a

map, but they have no idea.Remember when SARS in Toronto took a huge

dent out of B.C.’s tourism market?Forest fires in B.C. leave people around the

world fearful of trips planned to the Atlanticprovinces – no idea how big this country is.

Even people who have lived here all their livesoften don’t really comprehend the distances.

The distances are great enough to accommo-date different thoughts, different viewpoints, dif-ferent ideas, even different cultures.

Sometimes, the distances between Canadiansare great enough that we don’t see what muchthe world sees in us. This is a country filled withpeople who struggle – sometimes against eachother, but mostly with each other.

Anger over the distances between ideologiesmay rise to a national level – but pointed refusalto say “please” or “thank you” is about as vio-lent as most arguments get.

This is a country that was born of peaceinstead of war, and has a proud reputation forpromoting and nurturing peace wherever itmight be found, or wherever it might be encour-aged to take root. People in other countries lookto us with hope because of that. They look atCanada and know it can be done.

The rest of the world doesn’t always under-stand just how big this country is, but it oftensees us better than we do ourselves.

Ah! Canada! Happy Birthday!

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Dear Editor,I am a person with a disability, and I rely

heavily on the C43 and C44 to get to workand to and from town.

I just learned that the hours of theseroutes are going to be cut, as well as thoseof the C47, and will only run once per hour,instead of every half an hour, beginning inSeptember.

I have a daughter and it will be veryinconvenient for us to have to wait aroundfor that extra time, especially once it getscolder. There are many vulnerable people

who rely on these routes to go to the hospi-tal for appointments, etc.

There are other routes in the LowerMainland being cut, but I heard MapleRidge is being affected the most.

If you don’t drive in Maple Ridge, youare dependent on the buses, and it is onlybecause these routes run every half an hourthat I have been able to get to work ontime.

This just goes against encouraging peopleto drive less and take public transit instead.

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Dear Editor,I did not write to demon-

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Ron McNutt’s commentsthat companies were install-ing stealth devices in homesand his inference that itwas about profit over care[Gabriola Effect amusing,

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the power output isso low that it is noteven worth talkingabout, let alonetelling stories aboutsick people gettingwell after removalof a smart meter.That is the GabriolaEffect working at

its finest.In fact, the power output

almost disappears nine feetfrom the meter – droppingto 0.001 per cent of the ori-ginal signal strength.

The first 25 years ofmy working life includeddesigning and manufactur-ing colour TV, design of thefirst desktop computers, andthen with Atomic EnergyCommission of Canada,helping to design anddevelop the X-ray machinesused today, and finally, thedevelopment of radiationequipment for eradication ofcancerous cells.

Mr. McNutt need notattempt to prove his theor-ies to me. I am very wellversed in frequencies andpower outputs and whatthey can and cannot do.

Ron McNutt and all thosewho doubt their safety havenothing to worry about.

Thanks to Lance Felgnarfor his supporting comments[What benefit gained fromkilling customers?, May 13Letters, TIMES].

Richard Mead, Maple Ridge

Smart meters

Gabriola Effect continues to work

Smart meters

Bigger things to worry aboutDear Editor,

We are still having some concerns regarding smartmeters, as voiced by Ron McNutt [Gabriola Effect amus-ing, but missed point, June 24 Letters, TIMES].

While I do have uneasy feelings about the seeminglynever-ending growth of wireless contraptions, I do thinkthis one is a bit overblown. According to BC Hydro, themeters transmit for less than a minute a day. They are sup-posedly less energetic than cellphones, and are transmittingfrom outside the home.

They could be lying, of course, but I’m not sure whymuch more frequent data tracking is necessary. Yes, I sus-pect there are pressures to do some sort of time-relatedcharging, but that could be done with much less detaileddata-gathering than Mr. McNutt fears.

Cellphone hazards have been researched for some time.The World Health Organization has considered them poten-tial hazards, but admits there is little evidence, and warnsus to be prudent. I think that a reasonable approach.

I suspect that Wi-Fi and cellphones are much more of aconcern than meters. We are inundated by electromagneticradiation, and worrying about one small source seemscounterproductive.

Paul Gregory, Maple Ridge

LettersLetterstothe

Editor

Dear Editor,I believe if you listed, as you did public

employees’ pay [Top pay for Maple Ridgeand Pitt Meadows municipal employeespublished, June 17, TIMES], what the teach-ers already have versus what they want, thepublic would have a clearer picture on theissues.

Simply list the benefits alone. I think itwould shock people: the unlimited dental,the physio, chiro, the massage, the MSP,the sick leave, the bereavement leave…honestly, the list goes on and on… the costof pro-D Days, the conferences, the meals,the travel costs, the hotel rooms.

I asked a teacher friend a long time agowhy they had to go to the King Fisher Inn(spa retreat) for conferences, and not a gymin one or the other of the schools in a dis-trict. I mean, OK, pay them wages to attendconferences, but why the extravagance ofconference facilities?

She replied that the idea was to get teach-ers away, get creative juices flowing, so tospeak.

“I thought that that was a bit much,”in her own words, because it cost theRichmond school district, which she workedfor, a hundred thousand dollars for the con-ference centre.

The ferry trip (including spouses), therooms, the spa package, the meals/drinks,the banquet, and then the conference washuge – Friday (pro-D day) to Sunday.

I believe a list would shock people, andthen maybe we could get back to the kids.Take their wants and put it towards theneeds – the kids’ needs.

Lorilee McMyn, Maple Ridge

Labour dispute

Educationmoney wasted on benefits

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The LRB also ruled that summer schoolwill go ahead for students who failedGrade 10, 11, and 12 courses.

These courses will be taught be non-union administrative staff (called “exemptstaff”) as much as possible.

The school district will then decide howmany teachers will have to teach in sum-mer school.

The LRB ruling states that hearingswill be held on Friday if there are anyoutstanding issues concerning summerschool.

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The two sides are not far apart in wagenegotiations, but the other sticking pointin negotiations has been to find a deal onclass sizes and the composition of classes,that is, how many special needs studentscan be in a classroom.

The province offered a $1,200 signingbonus if a deal was reached by Monday.There was no word of a deal on Mondaybefore The TIMES press deadline, how-ever the BCTF confirmed negotiationswere ongoing.

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Founder and leader of the Spirit of theCoast Canoe Journey, Chris Cooper(right), was presented with a wovencedar hat from members of theKwantlen First Nation. He’s takingalong their nation’s son, BrandonGabriel, on the journey, andmembers of Gabriel’s family cametogether for a blessing ceremonybefore the expedition departedearlier this month.Roxanne Hooper/TIMES

Whonnock’s Charlie Whittaker and his wife Joan will be joining theSpirit of the Coast Canoe Journey for two weeks next month. This local

couple has paddled with Pitt Meadows skipper Chris Cooper and his wifeBarbara a few times in past.

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Pitt Meadows residents and adventurers Chris and Barbara Cooper

were honoured and moved to be part of a traditional aboriginal

send-off, hosted by the Kwantlen First Nation, for the Spirit of the

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But everyone identifies the RedEnsign as the former Canadian flag.

The Red Ensign was a red flag

with the Union Jack in the top left-hand corner and the Canadian coatof arms on the right.

The Red Ensign was never offi-cially adopted as the Canadian flag,but it was the flag under whichCanadian forces fought for decades

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I know I journeyed herefrom somewhere elsebut I want my poems born in Canada

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I want wordscut from the heart of giant cedarseagle wordsto search among the mountainsand follow great grey whales along the shore

I want to wrap my poems aroundthe enormous gift of this countryand find cords of words strong enoughto bind it close

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Vicki McLeod brought her mentor Steve Dotto to Social Media Day last week.

Among the mostprolific andmuch over-looked plants in

and around this area arethe magnificent ferns.

Here you will findthem along the rivers andstreams, in boggy fieldsand forests, waving theirfan-like fronds with thewind and adding to thebeauty of the landscape,clustered in any boggyor shady place they canfind.

Ferns are found world-wide, ranging throughwetlands to desert, and are one of theoldest plant species there is, with thefirst fossils appearing in the carbondeposits around 360 million years ago.

Since then, some newer families offerns have appeared, showing up in fos-sils around 145 million years ago in theCretaceous period.

One of the most fascin-ating is the funny-lookinghorsetail fern. It is theonly living example of theequisetum family, whichis more than 100 millionyears old.

This fern could grow to30 feet high, not some-thing you would see now.

The horsetail has a longhistory of medical use,none of it substantiated,so I do not recommendyou try it, but it is a diur-etic and has been used as such aroundthe world.

It contains thiamin, which slowsthe heart rate and can cause lack ofcoordination.

Ferns are considered vascular plants,which means they do not have flowersor seeds but reproduce by spreadingspores in the air.

Some of the fronds are sterile, whileothers carry small cases on the backsof their leaves which contain the sporepowder. These fronds are slightly nar-rower than the sterile ones.

The new shoots of the ostrich fern

and bracken are called fiddleheads, andcan be eaten, lightly steamed.

The rhizome (rootstock) of brackencan also be roasted and eaten, which isreported to be nutritious.

There is a fern here in the PacificNorthwest called the licorice fern, which

in the early days waspopular with the FirstNations people for its fla-vour – and I think I havefound one in my garden.

Here in our area of theLower Mainland, we haveseveral groups of ferns:the sward fern with itssmooth dark green sharp-edged fronds; the ostrichfern with the smaller,segregated, more delicateleaves on one long stem,standing upright just likeostrich tail feathers; brack-

en, which grows in short branches off acentral stem; and the lady fern.

There is also the small maidenhairfern, which grows in rock faces andaround waterfalls.

So next time you are walking alongthe river paths or up by the AlouetteLake, take a look along the edges ofthe trails. In some places the ferns areconsidered a weed, but here in the rainforests of British Columbia they help tomake the land what it is.

– Liz Hancock is a member of the Alouette RiverManagement Society. The Maple Ridge woman is alsoan artist, writer, environmentalist and teacher of self-

sustainable living.

Ancient plants

Ferns help shape landscape

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There are a variety of different types of fern growing in the LowerMainland.

River TalkRiver Talkby Liz Hancock

Discover the joys of flora and fauna in ourrural areas. Liz welcomes questions at

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Social Chick Vicki McLeod was happyabout an event meant to help peopleconnect online.by Maria [email protected]

Sixty people in MapleRidge learned about con-necting through socialmedia last week.

The second annualSocial Media Day, runby the Social Chicks,which includes TIMEScolumnist Vicki McLeod,took place Thursdaymorning in councilchambers.

McLeod said the par-ticipation in the four-hour event was “excel-lent” and the feedbackshe received is that par-ticipants want it to growand become an evenbigger event next year.

“We hope sponsors and presenters willget on board next year,” she said.

The presenters were both local and

from across the region.Leanne Koehn from Ridge Meadows

Recycling, communications managerfor the District of Maple Ridge Fred

Armstrong, and JordanGarn of the FraserValley Regional Librarysystem were part of apanel discussion.

Steve Dotto, knownas “Canada’s favouritegeek,” who is a formercomedian, was thekeynote presenter.

McLeod said shehopes next year therewill be more presentersand a longer session.

“People came awayfrom it... feelinginspired and [say-ing] they have lots ofideas,” McLeod elabor-ated.

Other comments shereceived were thatSocial Media Day gaveideas on ways to con-

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nesses, representatives of non-profit agen-cies in town, and municipal staff.

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Phones have become an integral part ofsocial media – here Social Chick WendyMcLelland checked hers during Thursday’sSocial Media Day in Maple Ridge.

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Ball hockey finalsThe Maple Ridge Ball Hockey

finals were decided in dramaticfashion last Sunday.

The Maple Ridge Camelsdefeated the Maple Ridge BallDanglers in a finale that camedown to a shootout.

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Sports Recreation

Camels’ team members celebratedtheir win. The past weekend provided

a mixed bag of results forMaple Ridge’s lacrosse squad.by Eric [email protected]

Less than a week after facingoff against Victoria at Planet Ice,the Maple Ridge Burrards wenthead-to head again with the squadin the provincial capital on Fridaynight.

The back-and-forth game washighlighted by Burrards’ playerCurtis Dickson, who scored a totalof five goals, including one in the10-minute overtime.

The game would end in an over-time tie, with both teams findingeach other’s net nine times.

In addition to Dickson’s efforts,Riley Loewen grabbed a pair ofgoals, Mike Mallory managed toput one in the net, and JarrettDavis helped round out the effortwith another.

The Shamrocks outshot theBurrards 45-47 in the game.

On Sunday night, CarsonMichaud stopped 28 out of 32shots to help give the Maple RidgeBurrards an 8-4 victory over theNanaimo Timbermen at Planet icein Albion.

Though the first period wasscoreless from both ends, theBurrards goalie was kept busy,as he blocked 11 attempts byNanaimo to put the ball in thenet.

It wasn’t until the second per-iod, when Loewen put one behindTimbermen goalie Zach Boychuk

to get the Burrards on the score-board first.

That was quickly followed by apair of goals from the Timbermen.

Maple Ridge answered backwith three unanswered goals,courtesy of Zack Porter, AndrewMurphy, and Mitch Banister.

Nanaimo would put another twogoals in the back of the Burrardsnet, but Maple Ridge wasn’t doneyet.

A pair of goals from Loewen,as well as two separate goalsfrom Spencer Evans and GarrettMcIntosh brought the Burrards toan 8-4 win over the Timbermen.

The Burrards get a bit of abreak now, as they prepare fortheir next game on July 8 againstCoquitlam at Planet Ice.

Game time is 7:45 p.m.The weekend results leave the

Burrards with a 4-2-0 record athome, and a 2-3-1 record on theroad.

Maple Ridge to hostFor the first time ever, the Ridge

Meadows Girls Minor LacrosseAssociation will be taking on host-ing responsibilities for the 2014Provincial Championships.

The tournament takes placeJuly 9-13, with top teams fromeach division – Peewee throughto Junior - competing at the PittMeadows Arena and at Planet Icein Maple Ridge.

“I would like to congratulateWes Eaton and the rest of thefemale provincial committee inputting together a very memor-able lacrosse event,” said RonWilliams, president of RidgeMeadows Minor Lacrosse.

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Forward focusEllen Hayhoe of the Haney Neptunes was the picture of concentration asshe swam the breaststroke portion of a Div. 5 girls relay race Saturdayafternoon at Al Anderson Memorial Pool in Langley. The Neptunes wereamong the clubs that took part in the Langley Flippers Invitational Meet.

An annual made-in B.C.ride for cancer tookplace recently.by Eric [email protected]

At 3:30 a.m., onSaturday, June 21, MapleRidge resident Dave Rosehopped on his bike inKelowna and began whatwould be a 19-and-a-half-hour ride to Delta.

Rose was one of 140people who took part in the tenthannual Ride2Survive – an independent,volunteer-run, cycling fundraiser for theCanadian Cancer Society.

“I like the idea of raising money forcancer research,” Rose explained, whoadded that, although he has taken partin the much bigger Ride to ConquerCancer twice, this was his first time withRide2Survive.

“A friend of mine found out aboutthis a couple years ago, and volunteered

with the event lastyear,” he said.

“He kind of talked meinto doing it.”

The event was startedand is still organizedannually by Kerry andVicky Kunzli.

“What started outas a way for me andmy friends to raisesome dollars for cancerresearch, has turnedinto an incredibly inspir-ational event raisingmillions,” Kerry said.

Rose said that, dueto the nature of the route, including thetrek up and over the Coquihalla, theride is harder than the Ride to ConquerCancer, but “the group of people you’reriding with is fantastic.”

Rose explained he was “one of thevery few lucky ones,” and though justabout everybody else on the ride wasclose with a cancer fighter or battlingthemselves, neither he, nor any memberof his family was.

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July 1: Canada Day• Canada Day celebra-tions run from 10 a.m.to 3 p.m. at MemorialPeace Park. The officialceremony is at 12:30p.m. The RCMP willhold its annual booksale, this time to benefitSpecial Olympics.

July 1: Canada Day• Pitt Meadows cele-brates Canada Dayfrom 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.at Spirit Square. Livemusic will run fromnoon to 3 p.m.

July 1: Lawn Bowling• Maple Ridge Lawn Bowling Club, 11445232nd St., Maple Ridge, invites all membersto its Canada Day Celebration starting at 10a.m. A potluck supper/barbecue will takeplace after the events.

July 1: Haney House• Haney House Museum, 11612 224th St.,Maple Ridge, hosts its annual Canada Daycelebration and this year there will be a pic-nic in the park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Info:604-463-5311 or [email protected].

July 2: Puppets• The Lost and Found Puppet Co. presentsJust Enough - A Puppet and Clown Showfrom 6:45 to 7:15 p.m. at the Memorial PeacePark bandstand. Just Enough is based on theYiddish folktale Something From Nothing byPhoebe Gilman. In this adaptation, a grand-mother makes her granddaughter a quiltweaving a story with each piece of fabricused. For more information, call the MapleRidge Library at 604-467-7417.

July 4: Dancing• Friday Night Dance with Robyn Picardtakes place at The ACT, 11944 Haney Pl.,Maple Ridge, from 7 to 10 p.m. with a begin-ner lesson from 7 to 8 p.m. and practicedance from 8 to 10 p.m. For more infor-

mation, go to www.ilovetodance.ca orwww.theactmapleridge.org.

July 5: Fundraiser• Noble Hearts, a fund-raiser for the CaringPlace, takes place atBlenz Coffee, #122-22441 Dewdney TrunkRd., Maple Ridge. Therewill be singers, bands,poets, rappers, Arabicdancer, comedy, andbagpipes. The eventtakes place from 5:30 to10 p.m. Donations willbe accepted at the door.

July 5: Farmers market• Haney Farmers Market’s annualArt Extravaganza is on with ArtistsExtraordinaire. It’s the final day of the selfiecontest, your last chance to win $500 in farm-ers’ market coupons. Children will be makingladybugs and storytime is at 11 a.m. GourmetGrannies are talking about white carrots. TomHammel entertains. All in Memorial PeacePark in downtown Maple Ridge from 9 to 2p.m. Info: www.haneyfarmersmarket.org.

July 6: Choir• A mixed choir of 44 members from UralUniversity of Russia will be singing at St.Luke’s church in Maple Ridge at 3 p.m.Tickets are $20 for a family, $8 for studentsand seniors, and adults are $10. For tickets,contact at Sammy 604-467-4806 or Nita at604-467-1011.

July 7: Magician• Magician Andrew Dalziel will be at the PittMeadows Library from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. withhis assistant Rocky the Raccoon. Their specialbrand of fun, energetic magic is sure to bringlaughter to your summer. N.B. Tickets forthis event have all been distributed but if theweather is good, the event will take place inSpirit Square and everyone will be welcome.

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Eight gardens werepart of the fifth CountryGarden Tour.by Maria [email protected]

Six thousand dollarswill go toward SunshineFoundation’s Dreams forKids thanks to a gardentour in Maple Ridge.

The Maple Ridge GardenClub hosted its sixthgarden tour recently, sell-ing tickets for $20 whichallowed participants towander through eight localgardens and enjoy themusic of the Golden EarsJazz Band.

Proceeds were ear-marked for the SunshineFoundation, an organiza-tion that lets sick childrenfulfill a dream – the fiveprevious tours raised$49,000.

“The weather was per-fect and all the commentsI received were very posi-tive,” said Gayle Lyons,one of the organizers.

Daryl Stone, a MapleRidge resident and pres-ident of the SunshineFoundation, said he heardcomments about the June22 tour, praising it as the“best yet” and with com-ments like “I sure wish

the jazz band could haveplayed all afternoon.”

“The event had classwritten all over it fromthe selection of the show-case gardens, to the qual-

ity of the draw prizes,the performance of theGolden Ears Jazz Bandand the refreshment standset up by the SunshineVolunteers,” said Stone.

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2014 Maple Ridge Art Gallery:Falling From Grace –The Tapestries of Barbara HellerNow – July 26Works signifying key moments in Heller’scareer that are often linked to war, politicalaggression and the impact of humankind onthe environment.

Film Screening: TANA BANA:Wisdom of the LoomFriday, July 4 – 5:00 p.m.Spend an evening focused on works of greatbeauty and skill found in rural locations inAfrica, Laos, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan,while immersing yourself in the world oflooms and weaves.

Weaving Demonstration at theMaple Ridge Art GallerySaturday, July 12 – 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.Barbara Heller will demonstrate thetechniques used to create her tapestries.

Arts Club ON TOURSeason subscriptions on sale now!Get the best seats for the best price andenjoy three fantastic comedies you won’twant to miss:

Avenue QSaturday, November 8 – 8:00 p.m.Sunday, November 9 – 2:00 p.m.Princeton arrives in New York City lookingfor love, a job, and his purpose in life. Theonly neighbourhood he can afford is themulticultural Avenue Q, where SesameStreet-esque puppets rub shoulders withhumans. Ages 18+

The Odd CoupleSaturday, January 10 – 8:00 p.m.The classic comedy of mismatched roomies.Will these two friends learn to meet in themiddle or will their differences split themapart?

The ForeignerSaturday, March 14 – 8:00 p.m.Charlie realizes that people will say the mostextraordinary things when they think that noone can understand them.

Summer Arts CampsRegister today for summer fun at The ACTand South Bonson Community Centre! Halfand full-day camps in animation, fashiondesign, drama, dance and more!

Check out our website for the FridayNight Dance Schedule with Robyn Picard,everything from Ballroom to Swing!

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