Seniors in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows getting a special visit from Santa this year

Items needed for donation for Santa for Seniors. (Special to The News)
Santa for Seniors looking for donations until Saturday, Dec. 11

The Supreme Court of Canada is seen in Ottawa, on Thursday, June 17, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

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A worker disassembles a Christmas tree outside Fox News headquarters, in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. Police say a man is facing charges including arson for setting fire to a 50-foot Christmas tree in front of Fox News headquarters in midtown Manhattan. The tree outside of the News Corp. building that houses Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post caught fire shortly after midnight Wednesday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Giant Christmas tree outside Fox News headquarters set on fire
Vernon soil producer takes home national cannabis award

Vernon soil producer takes home national cannabis award
How storytelling in tourism can support truth and reconciliation

How storytelling in tourism can support truth and reconciliation

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue diver is lowered toward the vehicle lodged in the water at the brink of Niagara Falls, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (Derek Gee/Buffalo News via AP)

Chopper lowers diver who pulls body from car resting just above Niagara Falls
City of Penticton is being called out for evicting and selling a vulnerable woman’s home at auction for not paying $10,000 in property taxes. (File photo)

Penticton should repay vulnerable woman after home sold to pay property tax: B.C. Ombudsperson
Through a confidential application process, KidSport provides grants to kids aged 18 and under (from families facing financial barriers) to help cover the cost of registration fees for a season of sport. Visit kidsport.ca to learn more.

Let’s play! Grants help Maple Ridge kids get off the sidelines
    Stephen Gillis coaching youth hockey after receiving life-saving surgery at Vancouver General Hospital. Stephen is now sharing his story as part of VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation’s Angel campaign. Visit vghfoundation.ca/angel-campaign to learn more.

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      Members of the Canadian Forces build a temporary dike with sandbags behind houses on Clayburn Creek in Abbotsford, B.C., on Wednesday, November 24, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

      B.C. flood recovery moves to cleanup of damaged materials

      Beams of light are projected into the air behind a plaque placed in memory of the fourteen women who were murdered on December 6,1989, in an anti-feminist attack, in Montreal, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

      VIDEO: Tributes planned for victims of Ecole Polytechnique shooting on 32nd anniversary

      An Afternoon with Prince Harry & James Corden was one of the top trending YouTube videos in Canada this year. (The Late Late Show with James Corden/YouTube)

      VIDEO: Canadians took to YouTube to learn, connect, laugh during 2021

      Public Safety Minister and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, and Princeton Mayor Spencer Coyne, toured flood areas Friday, Dec. 2. Photo Andrea DeMeer

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      Amir Abdulrahman is shown in this undated police handout photo. He has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Sgt. Andrew Harnett. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Calgary Police

      Passenger pleads guilty to manslaughter in hit-and-run death of Calgary officer

      Teen who was the alleged driver charged with first-degree murder, trial is to begin Jan. 31

      It has been a brutal year for bears in the Elk Valley, with dozens destroyed by Conservation Officers and more killed by traffic and trains. (Scott Tibballs / The Free Press)

      31 bears euthanized in the Elk Valley

      Conservation Officers have been forced to destroy 31 bears in the Elk Valley so far

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      Minnesota Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau watches his team play against the Colorado Avalanche during the first period of an NHL hockey game on February 9, 2020, in St. Paul, Minn. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Hannah Foslien

      Struggling Vancouver Canucks hope Boudreau can kickstart dismal season

      Horvat: ‘It brings us new life. But at the same time, we have to go out there and prove it now’

      Vancouver Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko (35) covers up the puck as Quinn Hughes (43) checks Los Angeles Kings’ Phillip Danault (24) during first period NHL hockey action in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

      Demko records 30-save shutout, Canucks beat Kings 4-0 in Boudreau’s debut

      Victory comes less than 24 hours after Vancouver fired Green, Benning

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      The Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau Fraser Valley Toy Drive – coming up Dec. 11 at 360 Collision Centres in Abbotsford – was organized in response to recent flooding. (Contributed photo)

      Toy drive to help flood-ravaged cities in joint effort by Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau

      Dec. 11 event aimed at ensuring every kid has something under the tree at Christmas

      Three participants of the Writing Home workshops take part in a celebration of summer at Maple Ridge Park. (Special to The News)

      Creative writing workshop for immigrant and refugee women fosters friendship and community

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        Brian Bermann

        Nov 29th, 2021

        John P. Herman

        Nov 25th, 2021

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        Ally, Dani, Melike, Emma J, Micaela, Shelby, Emma M, Elayne, and Violet performing at the Christmas in Pitt Meadows event. (Claire Oliverio/Special to The News)

        VIDEO: Maple Ridge Secondary choir group brings Christmas cheer to the Pitt Meadows celebration

        The nine-singer Caelum Treble Chorus performed on Dec. 3 at Spirit Square

        Vancouver-based alt-rock band Mother Mother at the Commodore Ballroom on Thursday night, Dec. 2. (Photo: Tom Zillich)

        Tour-ready Mother Mother plays first of 5 sold-out concerts at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom

        Local quintet can now claim the title of ‘Canada’s biggest alternative-rockers’

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        The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales activity in the area for the month of October remain below long-term historical averages. A real estate sign is pictured in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, June, 12, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS Jonathan Hayward

        Mortgage rates predicted return to pre-pandemic levels of 3% by late 2022, BCREA says

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        Business holiday parties OK for more than 50, B.C. tourism group says

        Standing, mingling allowed if you’re vaccinated for COVID-19

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        Heir to the Dutch throne Princess Amalia, left, takes an honorary seat at the Council of State, the highest government advisory body in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, as her father King Willem-Alexander, right, looks on, one day after celebrating her eighteenth birthday. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

        ‘No school for becoming queen’: Dutch princess in limelight

        Heir to the throne steps into her future on her 18th birthday

        This combination of 2021 photos shows Philadelphia Eagles’ Jason Kelce,, left, and Billie Eilish in London. The grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and Eagles center have something in common, broadcasters have difficulty pronouncing their names. Both Eilish and Kelce, as well as “omicron” made it onto this year’s list of most mispronounced words as compiled by the U.S. Captioning Company, which captions and subtitles real-time events on TV and in courtrooms. (Tim Tai/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool, Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

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