An elderly diabetic woman recently arrived at Ridge hospital with pneumonia, high blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
Switch to city status will make Maple Ridge more marketable to far flung places.
Sandy Macdougall is a retired journalist and former district councillor.
Many old-time residents will recall local Mountie Al Millhouse.
Government leaders still cling to the system which created huge revenue streams from the sale and regulations governing alcohol.
Every commercial huckster in the known universe has been out there preying upon folks who celebrate the season.
The old saying “Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse” had become Sandy MacDougall's mantra.
For most mentally ill people, large warehouse type facilities are not the answer
It reminds me of Mark Twain’s famous quote: “There are three kinds of lies – lies, damned lies and statistics.”
Sandy Macdougall is a retired journalist and former District of Maple Ridge councillor who writes monthly for The News.
Local councils have been forced to relinquish much of the control over their own official community plans to Metro.
Municipal council needs even more Coun. Bells and fewer development-oriented, conflicted councillors.
Taxpayers are burdened with excessive senior staff salaries with the end result being a Rolls Royce bureaucracy in a Chevrolet world.
Someone should review Maple Ridge’s history of commercial real estate investment for the current edition of municipal council.
Put the marijuana out there alongside the lettuce and green beans
The course currently generates $140,000 per year in lease payments for use of the approximately 40-acre site.
Easily the most outstanding example of a regional function run amok in terms of services provided to outlying municipalities.
