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Son of Abbotsford deputy police chief killed in car crash - CBC.ca

Monday.Aiden Serr was alone in the vehicle when it flipped after skidding off the road in Maple Ridge.The 19-year-old was rushed to hospital but died a short time later.Dan Ruimy, the MP for Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge, called Serr "an inspiring young man" in a tweet on Tuesday.It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to @aidenserr. He was such an inspiring young man and I am grateful to have called him a friend. He had a passion for politics and for making this country a better place. Rest in peace Aiden.— @DanRuimyMPAbbotsford officer killed last weekSerr's death comes a week after Abbotsford Const. John Davidson was killed while responding to a theft and shots-fired call on Nov. 6.Hundreds attended a candlelight vigil for Davidson Monday night and a full regimental service will be held for the officer on Nov. 19, with representatives from police departments as far away as the United Kingdom expected to attend.In an email, Walker said members of the Abbotsford Police Department remain strong and are supporting each other and the Davidson and Serr families."We are grateful for the outpouring of support from the community,'' Walker wrote.Alberta's Oscar Arfmann, 65, is accused of first-degree murder in Davidson's death and remains in custody.Walker says the Maple Ridge RCMP detachment is investigating the crash that killed Serr.Let's block ads! (Why?)...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/aiden-serr-mike-serr-car-crash-1.4402085

Fall concert reflects the beauty of BC - Maple Ridge News

What’s onThe 20th Fall Piano Concert takes place at 7 p.m. on Nov. 6 at Swan-e-Set Bay Resort and Country Club, 16651 Rannie Road in Pitt Meadows. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 each. Tickets must be pre-ordered in advance through Dan Wardrope as the event has sold out every year.To order tickets, call  604 818 8853 or email djwardrope@gmail.com.Let's block ads! (Why?)...
http://www.mapleridgenews.com/entertainment/399541661.html

Everyone was dead: When Europeans first came to BC, they stepped into the aftermath of a holocaust - National Post

Old Pierre, a member of what is now the Katzie First Nation in Pitt Meadows, B.C.After an emergency meeting, the doomed forebears of the Katzie decided to face the coming catastrophe with as much grace as they could muster: Every adult returned to the home of their parents to wait for the end.“Then the wind carried the smallpox sickness among them. Some crawled away into the woods to die; many died in their homes,” Old Pierre told the anthropologist Diamond Jenness in 1936.The tragedy played out very near to what is now the site of Golden Ears Provincial Park. And it all happened so quickly that when Old Pierre’s great-grandfather returned to the village from the bush, he found nothing but houses stacked with corpses.“Only in one house did there survive a baby boy, who was vainly sucking at its dead mother’s breast,” he told Jenness.The people of the Pacific Northwest had just been hit with the tail end of one of the most devastating plagues in human history.Just as the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, smallpox began sweeping through Patriot strongholds and encampments.An American attempt to invade Quebec broke apart largely because the colonist soldiers were too ridden with smallpox to continue the attack.The epidemic soon broke out of the war-torn coastal areas and began penetrating inland, surging across indigenous trading networks and passing between warring enemies.Before the Revolutionary War was over, its epidemiological offshoot had surged as far as Mexico and was scything its way through the Canadian Prairies.“Boy and Girl arrived from the Swampy River, having left one man behind, these is all that is alive out (of) 10 tents,” reads the journals of Hudson’s Bay Company traders in what is now Cumberland House, Sask.For months, the largely Scottish-born traders were visited by wave after wave of doomed refugees bearing reports of whole villages wiped off the map.The natives “chiefly Die within the third or fourth Night, and those that survive after that time are left to be devoured by the wild beasts,” they wrote.In 1782, smallpox finally surged into the region surrounding what is now Vancouver Island.When the explorer David Thompson travelled overland to the West Coast in the early 19th century, he traversed whole regions ravaged by the 1782 epidemic. He met locals who had seen their villages die around them, and now lived in whatever post-apocalyptic societal structure survivors had been able to cobble together.“Is it true that th...
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/everyone-was-dead-when-europeans-first-came-to-b-c-they-confronted-the-aftermath-of-a-holocaust

Blood drive organized in longtime donor Tom Cameron's name - Vancouver Sun

Tom Cameron, whose slogan was Git-R-Done, has a blood drive in his name coming up. The longtime volunteer died Dec. 17, a day after he guided the Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Christmas Hamper Society through its 2016 campaign to make the holiday happier for hundreds of needy families. — Lorraine Bates filesLorraine Bates / PNGTom Cameron got it done, always.The longtime Maple Ridge volunteer, receiving two blood transfusions a week, held on to make sure every family in need had a little merrier Christmas than they otherwise would have before succumbing to acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, on Dec. 17, one day after the Christmas Hamper Society drive he shepherded ended.And because Cameron always put others ahead of himself, especially children, he felt horribly guilty about getting blood he felt others might need more than he did, his friend, Lorraine Bates, said.So Bates has organized a provincewide blood drive in Cameron’s name.“He had goals, not for himself, but for people to not be unhappy at Christmas,” Bates said. “But he started feeling guilty about taking blood. He asked himself, ‘Should I be taking blood? Am...
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/blood-drive-organized-in-longtime-donor-tom-camerons-name

Fall concert reflects the beauty of B.C. - Maple Ridge News

What’s on The 20th Fall Piano Concert takes place at 7 p.m. on Nov. 6 at Swan-e-Set Bay Resort and Country Club, 16651 Rannie Road in Pitt Meadows. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 each. Tickets must be pre-ordered in advance through Dan Wardrope as the event has sold out every year. To order tickets, call  604 818 8853 or email djwardrope@gmail.com. Let's block ads! (Why?)...
http://www.mapleridgenews.com/entertainment/399541661.html

Becoming a seafarers' chaplain was not exactly his retirement plan - CatholicPhilly.com

Deacon Dileep Athaide, a chaplain from the Archdiocese of Vancouver, British Columbia, who ministers to seafarers aboard cargo ships, poses March 15, 2019. (CNS photo/Agnieszka Ruck, The B.C. Catholic) By Agnieszka Ruck • Catholic News Service • Posted March 27, 2019 DELTA, British Columbia (CNS) — A few years ago, Deacon Dileep Athaide could never have guessed he’d become a frequent visitor on the immense coal and container ships dotting the horizon in Delta and Vancouver. Yet nearly every day, he finds himself donning a hard hat, reflective vest and steel-toed boots, chatting with security guards who recognize his white collar and climbing high ladders into cargo ships as a chaplain to seafarers. “It’s only three years that I’ve been doing this, but it feels like 10 years — in a good way,” Deacon Athaide, 69, told The B.C. Catholic, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Vancouver, while on board a Japanese coal carrier at Westshore Terminals in Delta. The two dozen crew members on this ship are from the...
http://catholicphilly.com/2019/03/news/world-news/becoming-a-seafarers-chaplain-was-not-exactly-his-retirement-plan/

A Bite-Size Square of Canada’s History, Culture and Craving - The New York Times

AdvertisementSupported byA Bite-Size Square of Canada's History, Culture and CravingHow the Nanaimo bar, a three-layer no-bake treat from British Columbia, conquered a nation's palate.ImageThe Nanaimo bar is a distinctively Canadian no-bake treat named for a city on Vancouver Island.CreditCreditCon Poulos for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Christine Albano.By Sara BonisteelMarch 22, 2019The Canadian city of Nanaimo, in British Columbia, has been a scrappy outpost of the Hudson's Bay Company, a coal mining center and a timber town. But its place in history may be forever entwined with its culinary namesake, one of the world's sweetest treats.The Nanaimo bar (pronounced nuh-NYE-mo) is a three-layer no-bake square that for the last seven decades or so has been a steadfast source of comfort to Canadians at weddings and funerals, birthdays and bar mitzvahs. Across the country, you'll find the sugary bars for sale at small-town gas stations and supermarkets, where they compete with a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.presidentschoice.ca/en_CA/products/productlisting/pc-nanaimo-bar-baking-mix.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/dining/nanaimo-bars.html

Two Carnival Legends Lost - VenuesNow

Laura Hibbs shared that Bingo died at the first spot he ever played with his carnival, Port Alberni. But not until after the show closed. Almost 900 people attended his memorial in Langley, British Columbia. Ron Burback, Funtastic Shows was among them. "If you had him for a friend, you were ahead of the game," Burback said. Retired carnival owner Claire Morton from Alaska remembered when son Bobby hired a driver for Bingo because his hands were arthritic and he couldn't handle the big rig. Off they go and when the driver pulls into a truck stop for a cup of coffee, Bingo drove off and left him. Jackie recalled when they met. She was working on a carnival in her parent's candy floss and popcorn wagon. "They didn't want me in the business," she said. But she met Bingo, and the rest is history. In his youth, Bingo was in a hurry to get out of Brandon, Manitoba, where he said there were only three occupations – policeman, and he was too short to be one; crook, and he was too nice to try that; and carnie. He hitched a job on Royal American Shows working the sideshows and then Myerhoff Shows. And then he met Simba, the lion. "The lion was jealous of me," Jackie said. Simba the Lion loving on a young Bingo Hauser. From Simba, Bingo moved on to an alligator, a boa constrictor and a monkey. They all grew up in the Hauser household, some in the kitchen, some in the living room. Once the monkey escaped and hid in a farmer's truck to make his getaway. Hours later, Bingo had to bail the monkey out of jail. They travelled with the menagerie for years, but then the animals grew too big. The time came to switch from fur to iron. Bingo knew he had to "get rid of anything you have to feed all winter." Jackie didn't want Bingo to get into the carnival business, but he did. Like Tony, Bingo was gregarious and bigger than life. Jackie remembered that when he asked her to marry him, she thought, "You and me and how many others?" But he managed to propose and they bought a Merry-Go-Round and West Coast Amusements was born. There was a carousel horse from that Merry-Go-Round at Bingo's funeral Oct. 16 in Langley, B.C., spruced up and set up by his son Bob. West Coast Amusements now includes more than 100 rides and operates three units. The season begins in April and ends in September. The family has the route covered and is working on details of the 2016 season now. On RCS, Bil Lowry has taken over Tony's responsibilities. Life goes on, but the loss of two giants in the industry is felt by many hundreds of people, evidenced in the tributes paid. Let's block ads! (Why?)...
https://www.venuesnow.com/two-carnival-legends-lost/