Upper Pitt plan off B.C. Hydro’s list

Streams flowing to the Upper Pitt River will run free after B.C. Hydro scratched Run of River Power Inc’.s plans to put small dams and turbines on eight streams in the area north of Pitt Lake. After receiving 68 proposals for clean power, B.C. Hydro this week shortened that list to... more

TransLink's Prendergast offers parting advice

Keep the pressure on to get the kind of transit system the region needs. That's the advice from outgoing TransLink CEO Tom Prendergast, who spoke to civic and business leaders Thursday at the Metro Cities Conference in Vancouver. "If you want to... more

• Pitt Meadows council picks arena design
• Road pricing risky but worth it: Red Ken
• District impounds lost llama  

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Grade 8 Marauders through to semis

The Pitt Meadows secondary Marauders Grade 8 football team got its first shut-out of the season on Monday, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. The Marauders beat the Mission Roadrunners 18-0 on the road at Heritage Park... more

• Shock and awe
• Local BJJ team scores medals at US tourney
• Chiefs lose ground to Rockets

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Royal inquiry about Pitt Meadows business

It’s not often you get a royal inquiry about your business, but on Nov. 7 that’s exactly what Vladimir Roncin received at a Canadian Youth Business Foundation awards event in Vancouver. The Pitt Meadows owner of Vertical Suits spoke with Prince... more

• Mother Earth heats Ridge home
• Cities hope Olympic lure will help land corporate gold
• Chinese builders take to B.C. wood

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Rent, the musical, lures students in

Dressed in high-heeled boots and a short flirty skirt, Liam Keating embodies Angel Schunard. He sashays, struts and looks amorously into his lover’s eyes. The two move closer and embrace, seemingly comfortable in each others arms. “I had to do something to... more

• Kreskin makes one amazing stop
• Bands from both sides of the Fraser
• Band rocking for a good cause

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Fighter’s feet can save a fall

Like many seniors, 93-year-old Dorothy Roberts’ life changed when she started falling. One day she was bending over to pick up a book from underneath her television stand, and when she stood back up again, she lost her balance and... more

• Appreciating docs, nurses
• A little shoebox can hold a lot of love
• Solutions for quieter GE Bridge

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Double hellebores in time for winter

Although many of us consider hellebores as new or trendy perennials, they have actually been in fashion for several millennia now. The ancient Romans cultivated them and Greek soldiers used the plant to poison city water during the 585 BC... more

• Read about what you can do to make a difference
• How to approach the concept of happiness
• Brett Hull, Luc Robitaille and Jesus

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Anna on her own, doing the dishes

Part of Cordova Bay Road, close to where my daughter now lives in Victoria, is lined with pumpkins, Jack O Lanterns placed there following Halloween, like the severed heads of unlucky hitchhikers. Now this had about as much meaning to... more

• News Views: Vaccine challenge
• News Views: See no evil
• Ingrid Rice

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Hiding behind skirts: MLA

Editor, The News: Re: Politicians can’t influence Pitt quarry expansion (The News, Nov. 11). The quarry on Sheridan Hill has expanded rapidly in recent years. The aerial photographs in the package presented to Pitt Meadows council by Pitt River Quarries Ltd. do... more

• User-pay concept for tolling all bridges weak
• Charities gambled on gambling
• Agricultural plan looks forward

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