Maple Ridge News

Mayor Mike Morden said the council conduct bylaw puts everything under one roof. (THE NEWS/Files)
Mayor Mike Morden said the council conduct bylaw puts everything under one roof. (THE NEWS/Files)
Buddy Benches, which were part of the neighbourhood small grant program in 2015, were painted by students and parents at Hammond Elementary and were constructed by inmates at Fraser Regional Correctional Centre. (City of Maple Ridge image)

Maple Ridge offering grants to groups that ‘ease impact of social distancing’

City opens applications to its neighbourhood small grant program

  • May 4, 2020
Buddy Benches, which were part of the neighbourhood small grant program in 2015, were painted by students and parents at Hammond Elementary and were constructed by inmates at Fraser Regional Correctional Centre. (City of Maple Ridge image)
Christina Shearme is the coordinator for Community Network. (Special to The News)

COMMUNITY NETWORK: Coming together in a time of crisis

Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, and the Katzie First Nation show just how resilient they are amid COVID

  • May 3, 2020
Christina Shearme is the coordinator for Community Network. (Special to The News)
Larry Walker Jr. at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, the day after he, along with Derek Jeter, was elected to the baseball hall of fame. (National Baseball Hall of Fame)

Hall of Fame event cancelled, Maple Ridge’s Larry Walker to wait one more year

Walker is to be inducted with Derek Jeter, Marvin Miller, and Ted Simmons

  • May 1, 2020
Larry Walker Jr. at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, the day after he, along with Derek Jeter, was elected to the baseball hall of fame. (National Baseball Hall of Fame)
Maple Ridge city hall. (THE NEWS – files)

Maple Ridge extends tax deadline to October

Taxes are now due Oct. 1, 'without penalty'

  • May 1, 2020
Maple Ridge city hall. (THE NEWS – files)
Trucks from U.S. line up at Aldergrove border crossing after border restrictions were put in place, March 18, 2020. (Black Press files)

Normally taken for granted, B.C. truckers now in the spotlight

Pitt Meadows Protrux owner Darren Racine says there's a silver-lining to trucking during COVID-19

  • Apr 30, 2020
Trucks from U.S. line up at Aldergrove border crossing after border restrictions were put in place, March 18, 2020. (Black Press files)
Joshua Bradshaw wears The Cap Shield he designed and manufactured. (submitted photo)

Maple Ridge man hopes to hit home run with face shield that clips to baseball cap

'We were kind of targeting the food industry but it's gone beyond that,' company operator says

  • Apr 29, 2020
Joshua Bradshaw wears The Cap Shield he designed and manufactured. (submitted photo)
FIFA Joel Waterman (FIFA 2019)

Maple Ridge soccer club moves game to virtual world

Club to host a FIFA 19 Xbox tournament on Friday

  • Apr 28, 2020
FIFA Joel Waterman (FIFA 2019)
An 82-year-old Pitt Meadows man died after the Subaru he was a passenger in crashed in Port Coquitlam on Sunday. (Contributed)

Crash claims the life of a Pitt Meadows man

The accident happened in Port Coquitlam on Sunday

An 82-year-old Pitt Meadows man died after the Subaru he was a passenger in crashed in Port Coquitlam on Sunday. (Contributed)
If you have a letter you’d like to submit to the editor for consideration, please email us at editor@mapleridgenews.com. Look forward to hearing your thoughts.If you have a letter you’d like to submit to the editor for consideration, please email us at editor@mapleridgenews.com. Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

LETTER: Dr. Henry is motivated by people, not power

Unity as Canadians will allow us to get through the COVID pandemic, according to one letter writer

  • Apr 27, 2020
If you have a letter you’d like to submit to the editor for consideration, please email us at editor@mapleridgenews.com. Look forward to hearing your thoughts.If you have a letter you’d like to submit to the editor for consideration, please email us at editor@mapleridgenews.com. Look forward to hearing your thoughts.
If you have a letter you’d like to submit to the editor for consideration, please email us at editor@mapleridgenews.com. Look forward to hearing your thoughts. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

LETTER: Good reason there isn’t public health by public opinion

A Maple Ridge letter writer opposes the concept of herd immunity for COVID

  • Apr 27, 2020
If you have a letter you’d like to submit to the editor for consideration, please email us at editor@mapleridgenews.com. Look forward to hearing your thoughts. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)
Protestors are expected to roll up on Fraser Regional Correctional Centre and Alouette Correctional Centre for Women early Sunday afternoon to lobby for release of inmates because of COVID.  (Facebook)

Caravan demonstrates outside Maple Ridge prisons

Two rural jails are latest to see protesters calling for release of inmates amid COVID pandemic

  • Apr 26, 2020
Protestors are expected to roll up on Fraser Regional Correctional Centre and Alouette Correctional Centre for Women early Sunday afternoon to lobby for release of inmates because of COVID.  (Facebook)
Maple Ridge-Mission MLA Bob D’Eith

LETTER: MLA understands anxiety, calls for calm and kindness

In rebuttal to a previous letter to the editor, Bob D'Eith applauds B.C.'s COVID efforts

  • Apr 26, 2020
Maple Ridge-Mission MLA Bob D’Eith
Marc Dalton (left) is the Conservative MP elected last fall in Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge. He went up against NDP candidate John Mogk (right). (Special to The News)

LETTER: Parallels between Dalton and Donald

Former NDP candidate takes swing at current MPs COVID stance

  • Apr 26, 2020
Marc Dalton (left) is the Conservative MP elected last fall in Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge. He went up against NDP candidate John Mogk (right). (Special to The News)
Kassady Norman, 16. (RCMP handout)

FOUND: Ridge Meadows RCMP searching for teen girl

Kassady Anne Norman, 16, was last seen in Maple Ridge on April 17.

  • Apr 24, 2020
Kassady Norman, 16. (RCMP handout)
Paramedics, from left, Lorie Bailey, Andy Beaubien and Clair Hall, all work in the Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows areas. (Contributed)

Paramedics well prepared for pandemic

Maple Ridge paramedic Clair Hall explains what it is like on the frontlines

Paramedics, from left, Lorie Bailey, Andy Beaubien and Clair Hall, all work in the Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows areas. (Contributed)
A retired Maple Ridge Mountie, Daryl Stone, and his wife, Julie, put up a tribute to slain Nova Scotia RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson. (Special to The News)

Retired Mountie in Maple Ridge creates tribute to fallen officer

Former RCMP officer puts up a tribute to slain Nova Scotia RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson

  • Apr 24, 2020
A retired Maple Ridge Mountie, Daryl Stone, and his wife, Julie, put up a tribute to slain Nova Scotia RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson. (Special to The News)
Staff at Ridge Meadows Hospital are asking people to stay firm on social distancing in an effort to ‘flatten the curve.’ (Special to The News)

‘This is our fight’: Nurses bond

Health-care workers deal with stress and anxiety, but take strength from each other, community

Staff at Ridge Meadows Hospital are asking people to stay firm on social distancing in an effort to ‘flatten the curve.’ (Special to The News)
Police officers are out patrolling local streets in cruisers, on motorcycles – and as weather improves – on bicycles. (Clint Van Blanken/Ridge Meadows RCMP)

Policing about human connections – even in crisis

Crime may be down a bit, but complexity of calls has intensified, says RCMP Supt. Jennifer Hyland

  • Apr 23, 2020
Police officers are out patrolling local streets in cruisers, on motorcycles – and as weather improves – on bicycles. (Clint Van Blanken/Ridge Meadows RCMP)
Ron Antalek

VIDEO: National accolades befall Maple Ridge realtor

Ron Antalek has been lauded by the real estate industry for his philanthropic undertakings

  • Apr 23, 2020
Ron Antalek