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MurdersuspectarrestedA local man is charged in thestabbing death of Stacey King.

A 39-year-old man from thiscommunity has been arrested andcharged in the stabbing deathof Stacey King on the streets ofdowntown Maple Ridge earlier thismonth.

The Integrated HomicideInvestigation Team (IHIT) arrestedKenneth Trevor McCulloch, whohas since been charged with second-degree murder and remanded in jail.

McCulloch, who is known topolice and has a criminal record dat-ing back to 1992, will be appearingin provincial court in Port CoquitlamThursday – via video – to fix a date.

The attacktook place justafter midnighton the Aug. 2,to the cornerof DewdneyTrunk Roadand 223rdStreet inHaney,explainedIHIT Staff Sgt.Jennifer Pound.

“The suspectfled the sceneprior to the

police attendance, but early indica-tions and evidence retrieval suggest-ed this to be a targetted attack,” sheadded, confirming the men kneweach other and had been involved in“some kind of dispute.”

“Investigators have been workingnon-stop to identify and apprehendthe suspect in this homicide. Theirdedication and determination infinding the suspect has successfullyyielded an arrest and second-degreemurder charges,” she said during apress conference in Surrey Thursday.

“Having charge approval less thantwo weeks after a homicide is a verypositive outcome, and speaks tothe success and effectiveness of thepolice integration,” Pound said.

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Environmentalists worry about whereall the Alouette sockeye have gone to.by Christopher [email protected]

This year’s Fraser River sockeye salmonrun is predicted to rival 2010’s bounty of30 million, but something fishy is going onat the endangered Alouette River – as nonehas returned thus far.

“Usually each year we have a run ofsockeye salmon but we haven’t had any atthe Allco Fish Hatchery fence to date,” saidGreta Borick-Cunningham, Alouette RiverManagement Society (ARMS) executive dir-ector. “We’d usually be in our sixth weekby now but we haven’t had any at thefence and we haven’t had any in the trap.”

The Alouette River run is unique asreturning sockeyes are trapped and thentransported, about seven kilometres,past the BC Hydro dam to continueits journey to Alouette Lake.

Some salmon do make it past theAllco Fish Hatchery and then reachthe bottom of the dam, which alsohas a trap. None have been trappedthere either.

The Alouette doesn’t see largenumbers as only 10 returned in2013, but large returns tend to occurevery four years.

In 2010, 115 returned so again a largerreturn was expected this year.

“To get zero is disturbing,” Borick-Cunningham said. “Who knows what mayhave happened.”

Last year a garbage bag of dead

Alouette run sockeye was found, Borick-Cunningham added.

Last week, a Ministry ofEnvironment snorkeler swam fromthe Allco Hatchery down to about224th Street. The snorkeler spottedtwo sockeyes, but because theyhave not made it into the traps,they cannot be counted,

Borick-Cunningham explained.Geoff Clayton, past-president

of the society, wondered if theAlouette destined sockeyes were allscooped up during the recent com-

mercial opening on Aug. 11.“The theories could be they are either

late in returning or a casualty of the bigcatch,” Clayton said. “This is always thetragedy when you have a big run.”

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Teacher barred foreverA former Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows

teacher, who was convicted of takinginappropriate photos and videos ofunsuspecting women and girls, has hadhis teaching certificate cancelled.

John Charles MacKinnon, who was alearning support/special education teach-er, agreed to the cancellation last month.

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Zakery Rowland, six and his brother TarrenRowland, 10 in the Great LEGO Challengeat the Pitt Meadows Library recently.

Searchers still haven’t found the bodyof a student who went missing at theUpper Falls of Gold Creek in late June.by Roxanne [email protected]

Fifty five days later and searchers are nocloser to finding the body of a young womanwho drowned in Golden Ears Provincial Park.

Search crews were up in the park lastWednesday night and again all day Saturday,hunting for the body of a 23-year-old inter-national student who went into the water ofthe Upper Falls of Gold Creek on June 25.

Searchers were able to get into areas ofthe creek they previously could not accessbecause of high and fast-moving water,explained Rick Laing, manager of the RidgeMeadows Search & Rescue.

Despite more than three hours of huntingWednesday by a team of 18, and a further10 hours of searching Saturday by a teamof 15 (including searchers from Surrey andCoquitlam), the body was still not located.

Initially, the team couldn’t get within50 metres of the falls and pool where thewoman was last seen.

By this past week, despite the recent rain-fall, they were able to get closer and checkuncharted areas of the creek including poolsand under the falls themselves – both withunderwater cameras and surface searches bymembers of the swift-water rescue team.

The lack of success, however, is frustrat-ing, said Laing.

“We want her family to have her back, sothey can take her home,” he added, notingsome of her family was at the park Saturdayat the end of the day getting a search updatefrom rescue members.

“I wish we had better news for them,”Laing said.

The search for the missing woman began

within hours of her initial disappearance atUpper Falls, and rescue members were in thepark for the subsequent two days combingGold Creek.

They were back a third day, during thatinitial week, to set up a containment net atthe Lower Falls. Since then, they’ve beenback for two large team searches, and a fewsmaller parties have gone up, he explained.

But the fast-flowing rapids and high-levelsof the water made searching all the pools,eddies, and crevasses, too difficult until now.

“It’s very frustrating for us, that we can’tfind her,” Laing said, “especially when youknow roughly where she is.”

Given the comprehensive searching alreadydone, there are only three possible options

left, Laing said.First, which he doesn’t believe to be likely,

is that she was quickly swept out to AlouetteLake before the containment nets wereinstalled, in which case they might never findher.

Second, and more likely, her body istrapped under one of the many huge boul-ders in this twisty section of creek, and theycan’t see her.

Or third, since their last search down-stream, her body may have moved furtherdown the creek towards the containmentfencing at the Lower Falls. Laing said it’sunclear when the team will next resume itssearch in Gold Creek, but he expects that willbe the next plan of attack.

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Falls still not giving up body

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Ridge Meadows Search & Rescue members were in Golden Ears Provincial Park again Wednesdayand Saturday searching for the body of a woman who went missing over the Upper Falls on June 25.

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When hot temperatures– especially without rain– persist for weeks, it motiv-ates people to rethink andre-evaluate their gardening

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Creating with LEGOWorking against the clock, and with

only a limited number of LEGO blocks,a couple dozen children had to pair upand take on a challenge to build the mostinnovative piece. There were space ships,forts, skyscrapers, and other creationsthat emerged during the afternoon eventat the Pitt Meadows Library. Find outmore about this event, and other pro-grams at www.fvrl.bc.ca.


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Some fears quelled at openhouse, other worries remain.by Christopher [email protected]

Fraserview area residents wantwhat they call a “criminal superhighway” blocked.

An open house on rehabilitat-ing the wetlands by ChancesGaming Centre cleared the air asto why an excavator was seenon the property, but the spot-light has shifted to the Districtof Maple Ridge as residents fear

opening of new pathways in theirbackyards will lead criminals andhomeless straight to their homes.

Approximately 60 peopleattended an open house lastweek, where residents wereinformed about a 2009 agree-ment where Chances agreed torehabilitate the wetlands andcreate attractive pathways forresidents in exchange for beingallowed to build the gamingcentre on the corner of 227thStreet and Lougheed Highway.

Many residents were unfamiliarwith these plans, which prompt-ed speculation when they saw

the excavator arrive, said AndyLa Croix, general manager ofChances Maple Ridge.

“There was some misinforma-tion going around in the com-munity and we wanted to beproactive,” La Croix said. “Thatis why we held this open house.”

Attendees were informed thatthe stream was not paved overby the excavator. Instead, woodchips and gravel were installedto create a natural finish to thestream, which will be morefree-flowing, eliminating currentpools of stagnant water that arehavens for bugs and mosquitoes.

Phil Ransom of Maple RidgeCouncil Watch said the openhouse satisfied his concerns onthe wetlands but he was dis-appointed that there were noDistrict representatives to addressthe residents’ security concerns.

“There is concerns about thehomeless having access to moreof the area because of the newtrails,” Ransom said, explainingthis is currently a problem.

“It’s going to be wide openthere and their concern is thepathways will be a criminalsuper highway.”


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Public schoolskeep changing

With the ongoing labour disputeparalysing the B.C. public school sys-tem, it’s no wonder that there’s been alot of interest in private schools.

Education is now vastly more com-plicated than it was in the 1930s, whenB.C. schools tended to concentrate onthe three Rs, the vast majority of stu-dents would never see post-secondaryeducation as an option, and one-roomschoolhouses were still common.

Now most students will go to uni-versity or a technical or trade school.Computers are as important to mechan-ics and nurses as they are to engineers.Literacy and numeracy are more vitalthan ever, but to those basic skills wehave added a vast range of social issueswe expect teachers to address.

A society used to choices and moreoptions for the future of its next genera-tion has demanded more choice from itsschools. To a great degree, the provinceand school districts have provided that.

An article in Sunday’s VancouverProvince sang the praises of privateschools – smaller class sizes, special-ized programs, higher test scores. Yetit capped that coverage with a photofrom the Langley Fine Arts School– a public school. Choice schools likethis, dedicated to everything from theInternational Baccalaureate program toFrench immersion, from athletics to per-formance to the fine arts – have becomea feature of the landscape. And theseschools are open to every student whocan meet their requirements, regardlessof their parents’ ability to pay.

A danger of praising private schoolstoo highly is that parents may not eventry to find out what is available in thepublic system.

Another danger is that, if too manyof our political elites enroll their chil-dren in private programs, what incen-tive do they have to add more choicesand support to the public schools?

– M.C.

Albertans have offered aninteresting perspective on theMount Polley Mine dam breach.Rather than joining the majorityof British Columbians in outrageover the potential environmentaldisaster that the uncontrolledspill of about 15 million of cubicmetres of mine waste repre-sented, they’re outraged that wearen’t keen to allow Enbridge toplace our pristine wilderness in asimilarly precarious position.

Instead of demanding thatImperial Metals Corp. be brought up to thesame strict environmental scrutiny that BritishColumbians are demanding of Enbridge’sNorthern Gateway oil pipeline disaster-in-wait-ing, pundits on the other side of the Rockiesseem to prefer the “what’s good for the goose”approach, demanding that B.C.’s environmentministry bureaucrats look the other way, as theyappear to have done at Mount Polley.

One clever lad from Alberta asked specifically,“Why is an Alberta-based oil-and-gas companysubjected to such intense scrutiny while a B.C.-based mining company gets a relatively lightpass?”

He follows that up with a righteous demand:“The citizens of B.C. are entitled to a full explan-ation.” Indeed, we are.

Update after update was spewed out from theB.C. Minister of Environment, starting practicallyfrom the moment the dam broke, spilling about10 million cubic metres of water and 4.5 millioncubic metres of mine tailings into the naturalwatershed.

To put the amount of crud involved into per-spective for the metric-challenged, one cubicmetre converts to about 264 US gallons – sowe’re talking about something close to four bil-lion gallons of potentially dangerous material.

The ministry’s missives were filled with sun-shine, from the outset, loaded with words ofencouragement and wishful thinking – but ser-

iously short on facts.While it now appears that we

may be relatively lucky, and thespill may not be as devastatinglytoxic as could have been (nothanks to Imperial or the B.C.government), the ministry’s reac-tion demonstrated an importantdistinction between its perceivedrole and what it actually does.

We are subtly led to believethat Mary Polak’s ministry isa steward of the environment,but in fact, it is a body whose

chief function is to administer the environment,renting it out to various business interests, andacting as a liaison between business and theenvironment’s owners (B.C.’s citizenry).

B.C.’s environment ministry sees the environ-ment as a commodity, an asset to be exploitedfor business purposes – and we get to play withwhatever is left over.

What the Albertans don’t understand, whenthey bemoan Enbridge’s treatment at the hands ofthe nasty B.C. government, is the political climatecurrent at the time decisions had to be made.

It wasn’t about B.C. companies vs. Alberta (oranyone else’s) companies; it was about what theB.C. government could (or couldn’t) get awaywith. Premier Christy Clark’s contentious FiveConditions aimed at mitigating Enbridge’s poten-tially devastating environmental impact (conten-tious outside of B.C., that is) would never havehappened if an election wasn’t looming at thesame time that B.C. citizens got seriously con-cerned about their environment.

Big decisions like Enbridge are usually timed tooccur right after, instead of just before, an elec-tion – to give us time to forget.

Every once in a while, the B.C. governmentfinds it prudent to listen to us.

Albertans also ignore the fact that, unlikeImperial, Enbridge had already earned a reputa-tion for lack of environmental trustworthiness inKalamazoo, Michigan.

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Dear Editor,Both Barry Donna and John Claassen

talk about road conditions in our town[Warning needed and Traffic hopeless,Aug. 5 Letters, TIMES].

I don’t know why they are sosurprised about the conditions onour roads being so different fromothers that they might have experi-enced elsewhere in their travels.

There are several examples ofweirdness on our roads that youwill not find any other place buthere, one being 4-way stops with acouple of left turn lanes added just to messwith your head over who has the right ofway. I mean, after all, it is a 4-way, andonly one car should be entering the inter-section at a time.

There’s the curb lane southbound on227th Street that turns into a left turn atBrown Street that so many people on a dailybasis ignore and drive straight through,completely oblivious to fact that they weresupposed to turn. This one is particularlydangerous, as when these people do this,

they are cutting over into the through lane,and yes, people if you hit someone whiledoing this, you should be 100 per cent atfault.

Another is our 50 feet ofbus lane at the intersectionof Dewdney Trunk Road andLougheed Highway where youwill never see a bus, as it does notgive them enough room to crossthree lanes to make the left turnapproximately 150 feet across theintersection.

Then there are the round-abouts that were installed near Maple RidgeSecondary, which are so tight that a full-size pickup can’t get around without rub-bing the curb. That’s not black paint on theconcrete.

These are just some examples that jumpto mind without thinking too hard about it,as that would really be depressing.

So Barry and John need not fear, it isn’tjust you: we truly do live in the land of theloonies when it comes to our roads!

Dan Fraser, Maple Ridge

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Dear Editor,I was horrified again

to read of another poor,defenseless little dog mur-dered by an untrained andout-of-control pit bull.

The owner of the pit bullshould be heavily fined andnot allowed to own or havecontrol of any large, pot-entially dangerous dog forabout 10 years.

I have had German shep-herds all my life, and I havealways taken the time toproperly train them. I knowthat many people think thatbuying a dog licence and abag of pet food once in awhile is all that’s needed.

What a crock! Ownersneed to be properly trained,as well as the dogs. Theyshould have to pass a test inorder to get a dog owner’slicence, a dog licence andinsurance, public liabil-ity, and property damagethrough ICBC.

All dogs are relativelyeasy to train. Most peopledon’t know how.

I wonder what is it goingto take to get political actionon this matter, before achild gets mauled or worse.

Colin Burdall, Maple Ridge

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Greetings and smiles aboundDear Editor,

I like my town of Maple Ridge, and the small town feelit has. I like the Farmer’s Market and the many events wehave. I like going to the Alouette River on a summer dayand exchanging greetings and smiles with the countlesstubers who are out enjoying the water and nature.

I like walking the trails, meeting folks, and making smalltalk about anything and everything.

And yes, I like going to Riverfront once in a while andsimply having some quiet time in nature.

Mr. Sawdon says he lived here 12 years [Shame on therude people, Aug. 5 Letters, TIMES]. I have been here 26.

Gosh, I must have been awfully lucky that whole time.Ross Davies, Silver Valley

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Dear Editor,It would appear good

King Harper has invokedthe Divine Right of Kingsand once again put himselfabove the laws of Canada.He claims he can’t becalled to testify at Mike

Duffy’s trial because he hasanswered all those ques-tions already in the Houseof Commons.

The first thing Harper andevery other MP, governorgeneral, etc. did when theytook office was swear the

Oath of Allegiance, an oaththat represents egalitariangovernance and the rule ofCanada’s laws. It signifiesthat, here in Canada, justiceis done not in the name ofthe prime minister or themayor or the police chief,as in totalitarian nations,but by the people, in otherwords: it’s a democracy.

Elected individuals areexpected to act patrioticallyand in the best interests ofthe country and its people.

The court system is dif-ferent from Parliament: ifthey can prove you lied orcommitted a crime, theycan put you in jail – whichis obviously why Harperwants to stay away fromthat troublesome reality.

Wayne Clark, Maple Ridge

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• The nation is in shock about RobinWilliams’s suicide, but some share mem-ories of his visit to Maple Ridge.

“I remember watching Jumanji being filmed right out fromof my house on 100th Avenue in Albion. and Robin Williamstook time during a break to visit with kids at the school. Hewas an amazing man and he will be missed dearly.”

– Kathleen McKamey

“I had the opportunity to shake his hand, and get an auto-graph while he was filming on 100 Avenue. So very sad!.”

– Debbie O’Leary

“I also had the chance to meet Robin while filming Jumanjion 256th Street. He will sadly be missed. R.I.P.”

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Inever spent much time thinkingabout the Panama Canal, until lastweek. On its 100th anniversary, thehead of the Panama Canal Authority

announced that, if the drought continuedin Panama, starting this winter, theywould have to begin restricting the size ofvessels going through the canal.

To me, that was counter-intuitive. Ithought we were just moving ships fromone ocean to the other by using locks tomake the difference in ele-vation acceptable.

The Suez Canal is almostlike that, in that it is basic-ally a trench built throughthe desert to move ships.

Turns out the PanamaCanal has three locks goingup and three locks goingdown at each end of GatunLake, an artificial lake 26metres above sea level.

The idea of building acanal across Central America was ser-iously suggested by a German scientistin 1800. In 1819 the Spanish governmentauthorized the construction of a canaland created a company to build it. TheSpanish, of course, took a long time anddiscussed other potentials. Nicaragua andMexico were seriously considered andsurveyed.

Not much happened until the Frenchcompleted the Suez Canal in 1869. Theywere inspired to tackle an apparentlysimilar project to connect the Atlanticand Pacific Oceans, and were confident itcould be carried out with little difficulty.

Ferdinand de Lesseps, who was incharge of the construction of the SuezCanal, used his reputation and persuadedspeculators to invest $400 million inthe Panama project. I have no idea how

much that would be in today’s dollars,but quite incredible.

In 1881 they started digging. Theyimported somewhere around 20,000 menfrom the West Indies and lots of youngengineers from France. By 1890 the deathtoll of workers was more than 10,000, andsurviving French engineers went home.

Malaria was just one of the problems.The French effort went into chaos, and

the project stopped. Theodore Roosevelt,who became president ofthe United States in 1901,arranged for the purchaseof the French project for$40 million. He then triedunsuccessfully to obtain theGovernment of Colombia’spermission to acquire theland.

Undaunted, the U.S. sup-ported Panamanian rebels,who declared independencein 1903. In a deal with the

new Panamanian government, the U.S.took possession of the Panama Canalzone in 1904. The canal opened in 1914,a technological miracle that revolution-ized world shipping. The canal saves12,600 kilometres on a trip from NewYork to San Francisco by sea.

The Gatun Lake was created by block-ing the Chagres River with a huge earth-en dam. The Chagres River basin is in thelongest draught in 100 years. No rain, noriver, no lake, no canal.

Every time we hear another story likethis, it proves the world’s weather pat-terns are being altered by human occupa-tion of the third rock from the sun.

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Aug. 20: Food bank open mike• Open mike from 5:30 to 7 p.m.at Kanaka Creek Coffee. Bring non-perishable food for food bank. ScottJackson and Darren Morrey perform7 to 8 p.m. Info: 604-463-6727.

Aug. 20: Anti-Spam workshop• Paula Skaper leads a workshop onCanadian Anti-Spam Legislation atthe business acceleration office inthe District of Maple Ridge tower,from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Freefor chamber members, $10 for pub-lic. Info: www.ridgemeadowscham-ber.com, or 604-457-4599.

Aug. 20: Gardens and ponds• Maple Ridge Garden Club meetsat 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30) atFraserview Community Centre,116th Avenue and 227th Street.Speaker from Grow and Gathernursery. Info: 604-467-4594.

Aug. 20: Summer serenade• The Bruce James Orchestra hostsweekly concerts in Pitt Meadows’Spirit Square every Wednesdayfrom 7 to 9 p.m.

August 20: Teen readers• Maple Ridge Library winds up itsteen summer reading program witha party at 3 p.m. Bring books totrade. Info: 604-467-7417.

August 20: Babytime• Pitt Meadows Library presentsbabytime from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m.every Wednesday until Aug. 20.Info: 604-465-4113.

August 21: Storytime• Pitt Meadows Library presentsstory time every Thursday untilAug. 21 from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m.Info. 604-465-4113.

August 23: BIA garage sale• Maple Ridge BIA hosts a com-munity garage sale from 9 a.m. to 2p.m. on 224th Street. Info: 604-467-2420 or [email protected]

August 25: Music on Wharf• Maple Ridge Historical Societypresents the Willy Blizzard at theMusic on the Wharf concert series,7 p.m. at the Port Haney Wharf.

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Pitt Meadows air cadet IanPark spent his summer atthe Regional Gliding School(Pacific) on the air cadetprivate pilot scholarshipcourse. Park, a member of583 Coronation Squadron inMaple Ridge, is one of 36 aircadets in B.C. selected to gettheir private pilot licence. Parkwas trained on a Cessna 172 injust seven weeks. See his storyat www.mrtimes.com, search“cadet”

Maple Ridge Museums’s 40thanniversary bash attracted a lot offamiliar faces on the heritage scene,including recently retired historicalsociety volunteer Beryl Cunningham(top), MLA Doug Bing and his wifeDr. Helen Henderson, long-timehistorians Don and Bernice Gehring,Brenda Smith, and Craig Speirs.Sheila Nickols (right) was also onhand for the celebrations, showingoff her new book, Looking Back,Volume One, a compilation of Nickol’scolumns published since 1987.

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He may not have been riding one himself but 13-year-old Anthony Montechelle and his grandma

Connie Arnold, both from Seattle, got the chance toget up close and personal with Kendal Campbell andher horse Vie-Va Vancouver (also inset) at Renfest in

Maple Ridge this weekend.

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Kendall Campbell’s day job includesbeing a jeweller at her dad’s store andrunning a horse and carriage company.She is also married and has a three-year-old daughter named Scarlett.

However, for one weekend in thesummer, she dons her medievalattire, grabs her lance, hoists herselfonto Vie-Va Vancouver, her 1,900lbs Clydesdale horse, and becomesLady Mae, a knight of HazelnutGrove.

Campbell (nee Venning), per-formed at the BC Renaissance Festival atthe Albion Fairgrounds this past weekend.The horse enthusiast was born in Burnabybut moved to Maple Ridge when she wasfour and has lived in the community for30 years. Her middle name is Mae.

Her dad, Chris, grew up with horseswhich resulted in Campbell and her sib-lings riding horses at a young age andjoining the local 4H club. She started rid-ing a Clydesdale horse when she was nineand now owns three of them.

Campbell was knighted for theRenaissance Festival last year and it was asudden transformation.

“Christina [Carr, an organizer of theevent] contacted me because a jousting

team they had booked, couldn’t makeit,” Campbell said. “I had six weeks toput something together and I had no ideawhat medieval games were.”

In those six weeks, Campbellresearched, trained her horses and thensewed costumes for herself and herhorses. She participated in the event andloved it.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Campbell said.“I now want to learn to actually

joust and I would like to get somereal armour but it’s costly.”

This year the BC RenaissanceFestival moved to Maple Ridge afterseven years in Langley. Campbellplans to be involved again next yearand she is hoping the event will getbigger, but corporate sponsorship isneeded for that to happen.

“It would be nice to open this up as anactual competition,” Campbell said, add-ing there needs to be a draw for peoplefrom outside the area to come.

“We would need sponsors for that tooffer some good prizes.”

Now with the Renaissance Fair finishedfor another year, Campbell’s focus ison an upcoming drill team show at thePacific National Exhibition in Vancouver.She is a member of the ThunderingImpact Draft Horse Drill Team and theywill be at the PNE on Aug. 20.

“I’ve always wanted to be able to havehorses in my life,” Campbell added.

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As we are now in the hottest timeof the year, dog owners must bevery aware of the risks of heatstroke.

It is common knowledge that we donot leave our dogs in a hot car even forjust a few minutes in the hot weather,but heat stroke canalso happen in othersituations such asexcessive exercise –particularly in somebreeds.

Generally, heatstroke or hyperther-mia can happenwhen body temper-ature rises above thenormal 38.5 degreesC to above 41 C.

The critical temper-ature where organfailure and impending death occurs isaround 41.2 to 42.7 degrees C.

The primary way that dogs regulate tem-perature is by panting.

Dogs do not have sweat glands likepeople except for a small number in theirpads.

Humans primarily cool themselves bysweating and then cool off as the sweatevaporates.

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being left in a yard without access to

shade or cool water, long exposure to hairdryers at grooming salons, and vigorousexercise on a hot day.

Breeds such as boxers and pugs andbulldogs – with pushed in faces – are atgreater risk, and care should be taken toavoid exercise with them on hot days.

Dogs that weara muzzle can alsobe prone to heatstroke as they can-not pant properly,so muzzles shouldbe avoided whenexercising dogs onhot days.

A dog sufferingfrom heat stroke is amedical emergency.They may needintravenous fluidsand cool water

applied to their head, stomach, armpits,and feet to cool them down. Sometimessupplemental oxygen is also needed.

The prognosis depends on how longthe temperature has been elevated. Mostpets will recover if otherwise healthy.However, if the damage to internal organsis too severe it is quite possible for thedog to die from heat stroke.

Always be careful with your dog in hotweather as they may overdo the exerciseto be with you and the symptoms of heatstroke can sneak up very fast.

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Jennifer York wouldlike everyone to comeand see the facilities andtrails that surround theMaple Ridge SPCA.

And it’s for this reasonthat this year’s Paws for

a Cause SPCA fundraiserwill be held at the branchitself, located at 10235Jackson Rd.

“People can comeexperience the trails,meet the animals, andtake tours if they like,”York said.

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The annual walk takesplace on Sunday, Sept. 7,and registration begins atnoon, with the walk kick-ing off at 2 p.m. A host ofactivities at the shelter isplanned for the day, too.

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Milkshake was transferred to us fromanother shelter. She is about 9 or 10years old. She does not look her age.She’s a spunky brown tabby who stilllikes to play when the mood strikes her.Milkshake is a diabetic and gets insulininjections twice a day. She is extremelyeasy to medicate. Milkshake can beadopted as a permanent foster so Katie’sPlace will continue to pay for any costsassociated with her diabetes. Milkshakeis a sweet girl but she’d probably do bestin a one cat home. She’s undemanding,independent, and she likes her ownspace. She needs a quiet home to whereshe can relax in her senior years.

Glinda originally came to Katie’s Placein 2005. At that point she was a yearold and was an indoor/outdoor cat. Forsome reason after she was spayed shestarted peeing outside her litter box. Itwasn’t all the time but her owners gaveher up. Glinda is a stunning girl whomay have some Norwegian Forest Catin her. She was adopted quickly. Therewas no issues with her at the newhome, where she lived with a dog for9 years. Unfortunately Glinda’s ownerpassed away and to her dismay shefound herself back with us. Glinda is stillstunning, and friendly, and loveable, andwe hope someone choses to enjoy hercompany for the next 9 years.

Gracie Bob is a character, full of life,and even though she’s about 9 years oldcould easily pass for a cat half her age.She’s mischievous and amusing. Gracie’sowner passed away and she was takenin by a family member, who unfortunatelyalso passed away. Gracie Bob has alwaysbeen an indoor cat and will need anindoor only home. She’s also been theonly pet, but she seems comfortablewith the other cats in her pen. She’s abeautiful girl with huge green eyes.Gracie can be a bit timid when she firstmeets you but once she gets to know youshe’s full of love and affection.We are hoping her luck turns around andshe finds the perfect forever home.

Mikey is a very good looking puregray cat, and a manx. He really standsout in the crowd. Mikey was found asa stray in the Hatzic area. He showedup on someone’s deck looking thinand forlorn so the person startedfeeding him, but unfortunately couldnot keep him. This boy was definitelya house pet not too long ago becausehe’s very friendly, not weary ofhumans the way many strays are, andhe fit right in to the life at the shelter.Mikey is in overall good health andabout 5 years old. He is laid back, easygoing, and would probably fit in nicelyinto any household.


A social media fundraising andawareness movement spilledover into Maple Ridge recently.Story and photo by Eric [email protected]

It’s a simple choice: Donate $100to ALS research or dump a bucket ofice water on your head while peopletake pictures or video.

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•More at www.mrtimes.com, search “Ineke”

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Campaign gives participants chillsInekeBoekhorst(left) andTarynStephensonacceptedThe Ice BoxChallengelast weekin supportof ALSresearch.

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SportsMaple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times Tuesday, August 19, 2014 A13

Recreation

Burrards in finalsAfter defeating the Burnaby

Lakers and winning the ser-ies Saturday, the Maple RidgeBurrards will now compete in thefinals against Victoria. Game 1 isthis Wednesday in Victoria. Game2 is this Friday at Planet Ice.• More online: www.mrtimes.com,


Burrards face Victoria in the finals.

Ridge Meadows is lookingto build on what the Flamesconsider a successful season.by Troy [email protected]

Forming a Pacific Junior HockeyLeague team – or more accurately,trying to form one – in mid-to-lateAugust is like spinning a roulettewheel.

General managers at the jun-ior B level pull the hypotheticalwheel, then step back and crosstheir fingers, hoping it clicks to astop on a certain number.

For Ridge Meadows Flames headcoach and general manager JamieFiset, that number is somewherein the neighbourhood of 17 – as inroughly 15 players returning fromlast year’s team that qualified forthe playoffs, along with two skat-ers ripe with potential who havegraduated from the BC MajorMidget ranks.

But here’s the rub:Junior A teams, particularly ones

in the B.C. Hockey League, pos-sess the hole card.

As competitive young athletes,hockey players strive to play atthe highest level possible, meaningmany of them will be attendingjunior A camps over the next fewweeks.

If they make theirrespective junior Ateams, they won’tbe in the PJHL pic-ture this season.

It’s a conundrum,a situation that’scompletely out ofFiset’s control.

All he can do isput together thebest team pos-sible out of training camp, whichwrapped up Friday, Aug. 15 atPlanet Ice.

“Junior A is running so long,right now,” he said, referring tothe B.C. Hockey League, whichbegins its regular season Sept. 19with the Bauer BCHL Showcase.“We probably aren’t going toknow what our final roster is

[going to be] until about earlySeptember. I could see possibly 10kids [from the Flames]… they’regoing to junior A camps, and acouple of them will probably make

it.”Sixty players

were pared to30 as Fiset madebrutal, but ultim-ately necessary,cuts in time for theFlames’ first exhib-ition game thisFriday, Aug. 22 atPlanet Ice, wherethey’ll host theDelta Ice Hawks at

7:30 p.m.Thursday night, Aug. 14, marked

day three of the Flames’ trainingcamp, and Fiset, a Langley teacherdressed in a black polo short andshorts as he stood in the frontfoyer of Planet Ice, shared hisviews about the season ahead.

The Flames had three prac-tices scheduled in preparation

for Friday’s game versus the IceHawks.

“We like what we have; we def-initely like what we have,” Fisetsaid.

Returning forwardsJake Holland andMichael Bell – bothfrom Maple Ridge– impressed Fiset attraining camp.

Also on board areNick Ponak and AndrewStrelezki.

The duo finished one-two in team scoring withthe BCMML’s FraserValley Thunderbirds,with Ponak leading theway with 26 goals and 55 points in40 games, and Strelezki two pointsback with 27 goals and 53 pointsin 40 games.

If they pull on Flames jerseysthis season, Ponak and Strelezkicould add firepower to a RidgeMeadows team that made somestrides in 2013/14.

While a 17-22-2-3 regular sea-son record (good for third in theHarold Brittain Conference) and afour-games-to-one elimination atthe hands of the Abbotsford Pilotsin the opening round of the PJHLplayoffs isn’t overly impressive onthe surface, there were positives.

Reflecting on last season, Fisetsaid he was “really happy with theway things went.”

“We, for the most part, dressed15 rookies every single night,”he said. “We had the longestundefeated streak [eight games]out of any Flames team over thelast eight years. And if we didn’trun into injury problems in lateJanuary, early February, we wouldhave done a lot better down thestretch. But, you know, that’s theway it goes.”

Fiset credited the players fromlast season with making a bigdifference in changing what hedescribed as “the culture” of theteam.

“We really believed in the play-ers we had last year,” he said.“They’re just good, quality people.It was fun coming to the rink lastyear.”

The attitude will now shift fromlearning and building a core groupto just plain old winning, as theFlames looks to make a big impactin 2014/15.

“We were real happy to fin-ish third [in the HaroldBritain Conferencestandings last year], butthis year we’re going tofinish first,” Fiset said.

An ambitious goal, butone that isn’t out of therealm of possibility, inFiset’s opinion.

“That’s what we wantto do,” he said.

ICE CHIPS: There’s anew look to the PJHLthis season.

The North Delta Devils havere-located to Brookswood and arenow the Langley Knights, play-ing out of the George PrestonRecreation Centre. The Knightsare in the Harold Britain alongwith the Flames, Pilots, AldergroveKodiaks, and Mission CityOutlaws.

Hockey preview

Flames look to keep fire hot

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Ridge Meadows forward Jake Holland, pictured in action against the Abbotsford Pilots lastFebruary during the Pacific Junior Hockey League playoffs, is one of the players who hasimpressed head coach and general manager Jamie Fiset at the Flames training camp.

Jaime FisetFlames head coach

PJHLpreseasongameWho: Ridge MeadowsFlames vs. Delta Ice HawksWhere: Planet IceWhen: Friday, Aug. 22,starting at 7:30 p.m.Tickets: At the door

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