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Parking problem at Ridge hospital

I could fill many pages of how difficult it is for many to remain positive in an environment of stifling bureaucracy.

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News Views: Second rate

Maple Ridge, with help from a federal grant, will spend more than half a million dollars to spiffy up the western baseball field in Hammond.

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Crossing Grand Canyon off my list

You can trail ride, gorge on barbecue, or helicopter above mesas, and red pock-marked boulders.

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News Views: Say anything

Former B.C. Premier and ex-MP Ujjal Dosanjh now thinks official apologies are wrong.

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Sidewinder: Cries of change for regional transit

Easily the most outstanding example of a regional function run amok in terms of services provided to outlying municipalities.

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Commentary: Celebrate freedom of press

March 4 was 75th anniversary of the first legal recognition of 'freedom of the press.'

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News Views: Budget in context

The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows school board is facing a budget shortfall of as much as $6 million.

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Volunteers champion our streams

You could sit beside a babbling brook and feel this way without words.

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News Views: Not another day

A day to right wrongs, to admit mistakes and pledge not to repeat them, a day to recognize that while we are different, we are the same.

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Cycling: Just try shopping on your bike

Our reliance on the car for everything we do changed the way we shop.

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Who do you trust, chemist or cow?

The nurses in the ICU here were top-notch and instrumental in getting me ready in short order for transfer to a regular ward to recover.

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News Views: The biggest wall

Pitt residents raised the issue of noise well before the Golden Ears Bridge was constructed.

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A path and footbridge to a plan

There’s still no blossoms on my tree, but community groups in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows aren’t waiting to launch plans for 2013.

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News Views: Broken lives

It has been more than two years, and the girl from the Pitt rave feels like her ordeal may never end.

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Finding you can’t eat money

Maple Ridge farmer passing on knowledge to younger generation

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News Views: Ancient coin

Stores and banks will still accept pennies, but the latter will no longer issue them.

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Growing food could be salvation

TV zombies aren’t really crazed cannibals, but a metaphor we can learn from.

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EDITORIAL: Spreading wealth

Burnaby NewsLeader - Tuesday January 29, 2013

The median income for Canada's top earners is almost 10 times higher than the median income for the remaining 99 per cent.

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News Views: A single system

Most other Lower Mainland municipalities have their own single collection system, including Pitt Meadows.

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Idle, as if there is nothing to do

Native talks with government need a unified voice if they hope to stop projects like Gateway.

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