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Maple Ridge This Month
MID-MARCH 2017
INFORMED: Maple Ridge Scores a Hat Trick
Maple Ridge Wins Bid to Host the 2020 BC Summer Games
On Friday, March 10, Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows MLA Dr. Doug
Bing announced that Maple Ridge won the bid to host the 2020
BC Summer Games. This will mark the third time that Maple
Ridge has hosted in the 40 year history of the Games. The bid
announcement was hosted by former BC Games alumni and
Olympian Karina LeBlanc who, interestingly enough, represented
our community as a basketball player at the BC Summer Games.
Paralympian Silver Medal winner Nathan Stein also spoke at the
event. He represented our community in water polo. Both athletes
talked about how the BC Summer Games were a signi cant
stepping stone in their athletic careers.
In her speech thanking Minister Fassbender and the local MLAs,
Mayor Read acknowledged the great work of the successful bid
committee team consisting of Christa Balatti and Dave Speers
from the City of Maple Ridge, John Hayer from School District 42
and Bryan Hutton, owner of Canadian Tire, Maple Ridge.
Mayor Read noted “The BC Summer Games create a legacy in
each host community. Some of those legacies are in new and
upgraded facilities and some of the most important legacies are
around our citizens – the athletes and volunteers at the centre of
the event. Over the next three years we have a lot of work to do to
get ready for the Games. We will assemble a community leadership
team to ensure
that we can host
between 3,500 and
4,000 athletes in a
wide array of sports.
We will be investing
money to upgrade
existing facilities
and adding some
new ones.”
There are many
volunteers who served as part of the 1998 BC Sumer Games and
the 2009 BC Disability games that were hosted here in Maple
Ridge. They were incredible ambassadors for our community and
ensured that the young people from around BC returned home
with many positive experiences from their time in Maple Ridge.
In the coming months the 2020 BC Summer Games committee
will be formed to ensure we assemble a strong team with skills in
event management, sports, technology, cultural, fundraising and
volunteer recruitment to, for the third time, deliver an incredible
event. We will keep you posted on that work which will culminate in
the Games opening ceremony in July of 2020.
INFORMED: Stay Informed on Construction Projects
Get in the Loop on Your Route
We admit that we might have jinxed the weather by posting
this notice a couple of weeks ago, but our ngers are crossed
that winter has nally ended and temperatures will start to rise.
We need a streak of good weather in order to complete some
projects that require concrete work and paving which cannot be
done in freezing temperatures.
In the coming weeks and months you will see work on 203
Street, both on the southeast corner of Lougheed Highway and
sections north of Dewdney Trunk Road as paving and sidewalk
work continues to move these projects to completion. The
construction teams will be looking for favourable weather in the
forecasts and that work can have an impact on your commute.
In addition to these larger projects there is a long list of work
we will be doing to deal with the impacts of this winter from
street sweeping all the sand
we dropped to improve traction
on the roads to the permanent
repair of potholes. Many of
these projects are weather
dependent, so the call is made
either the day before or rst
thing in the morning.
You can get emailed updates
on any construction projects or have notices sent to your smart
phone by signing up using the ‘Notify Me’ link at mapleridge.
ca. Get in the loop on any work happening on your route! Sign
up today and make sure you look for noti cations on our City
Facebook and Twitter pages.
INFORMED: March 2017
ENGAGED: Community
Facilities Conversation
Thank You For Your Feedback!
The Work Continues
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INFORMED: Honouring a Home Town Hero
New Synthetic Turf Field Named After Karina LeBlanc
As part of the announcement of Maple Ridge’s successful bid to
host the 2020 BC Summer Games Mayor Read noted that there
will be a need to invest in upgrades and new facilities to meet
the demands of our growing community. Council recently moved
forward with a plan
to convert two gravel
all-weather elds to
synthetic turf. Let’s pick
up at this point in the
Mayor’s speech;
“One of those new
synthetic elds is
located at Merkley Park
- right near Karina’s
old high school, Maple Ridge Secondary School. If I’m not
mistaken, Karina actually played some of her early soccer on
that gravel eld. Last year Karina retired from her international
soccer career and began a new journey as a broadcaster,
motivational speaker and UNICEF ambassador. Karina, your
voice as part of the Summer Olympics coverage in Brazil was
simply amazing. Your energy and message of empowerment
and positivity is much needed in our world today.
I want to announce that Council unanimously voted that the
new synthetic eld will be called the “Karina LeBlanc Field at
Merkley Park.”
Karina is an example of how an investment in youth sports can
create a star athlete, but it can also create amazing citizens who
become ambassadors for their City, Province and their nation. In
the fall of 2017 we will invite Karina and her family back for the
grand opening of the eld that will bear her name.
In a few years there will be teams from around BC competing
on that turf eld as part of the BC Summer Games and we
hope they will be inspired to achieve their dreams when they
read the dedication plaque and see Karina’s journey from
Maple Ridge to the world.”
Maple Ridge is proud to honour this amazing Home Town Hero
whose message of dreaming big, empowerment and positivity
is a much needed message around the world. The new eld is
expected to be complete in the fall of 2017 and there will be a
grand opening and dedication ceremony for the community with
Karina at centre stage.
Council Meeting Schedule
Mayor and Council encourage everyone to attend these
important public meetings. It’s your chance to see how public
policy is debated and enacted.
Monday, March 20
10:00 am, Workshop - Blaney Room
1:00 pm, Committee of the Whole - Council Chambers
Tuesday, March 21
7:00 pm, Public Hearing - Council Chambers
Monday, March 27
10:00 am, Workshop - Blaney Room
Tuesday, March 28
7:00 pm, Council Meeting - Council Chambers
Agendas & Minutes
Agendas for these meetings are posted online the Friday before the
meeting date. Go to mapleridge.ca, click the link under Your Council
on the home page.
Workshop at a Glance
Subscribe to the ‘Workshop at a Glance’ eNewsletter that
provides a summary of issues discussed at Council Workshop
meetings. Go to mapleridge.ca, click the link to ‘Notify Me’ and
sign up today.
Council Meeting Videos
If you are unable to attend a Council Meeting, Public
Hearing or Committee of the Whole meeting you can now
watch these meetings on your computer 24/7. The entire
unedited meetings are posted two to three days after the
meeting. The video is indexed to the agenda package so
that you can watch them in their entirety or click through
by agenda item. Go to mapleridge.ca and click on the
video link at the centre of the home page. In addition,
Council meetings are now broadcast on the internet via
live streaming using the same technology used for our live
budget Q&A sessions. For more information about the live
stream go to the ‘Council Meetings’ page at mapleridge.ca.
In December of 2016 The ‘Community Facilities Conversation’ kicked
off with the development of the webpage mapleridge.ca/1676
outlining eight different proposals for future parks, recreation and
cultural facilities that were identi ed in the Parks Master Plan that
was adopted in 2009.
On February 24, 2017 the deadline for the random survey and the
stakeholder survey passed. The goal was to get 380 responses for
the random survey and Maple Ridge residents stepped up big time
with 508 people investing the time to complete the survey. We
also heard from 94 people representing Maple Ridge’s stakeholder
groups (community sports, recreation and cultural organizations).
The general survey open to all citizens closed on March 14 with
just under 400 survey forms completed online or as a result of the
pop-up displays.
What happens now? The consultants will compile the statistical data
and begin drafting a report for Council. In late April the consultants
will facilitate focus groups with stakeholders and pop-up intercept
interviews with the community. The schedule calls for a public open
house in May that will present the results of the consultation and
recommendations that will go forward to Council. Information on
upcoming community events will appear online, as part of this bi-
monthly ad and on City social media sites.
Thank you to all citizens who shared their views to help move the
Community Facilities Conversation forward.
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