A much loved festive children’s freecycle event is back in Maple Ridge with the addition of books. Until Friday, Nov. 21, the public are invited to drop off clean, gently used children’s clothing and books at the front foyer of Eric Langton Elementary School for the Community Children’s Clothing Freecycle. The freecycle began in May […]

A B.C. research team that helped pioneer Canada’s first homegrown CAR-T cell therapy for cancer is now taking on one of modern medicine’s toughest frontiers: solid tumours. At the Deeley Research Centre in Victoria, Dr. Julian Smazynski and Nicolette Fonseca are forging new frontiers in immunotherapy, using the body’s own immune system to fight the

Stanley Suddard was born on Oct. 3, 1943. Ten days later, Grant McQuarrie followed. Their mothers were friends, and so were the two boys. Growing up in the small rural community of Whitby, Ont., the two boys were “inseparable.” “Since we started walking, we have been friends,” said McQuarrie. “We ended up in school together,

(Advertising feature) Live Here, Shop Here is a Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows News campaign that spans the holiday season to spotlight the value of shopping local. Most of the trees are decorated at Maple Ridge Florist, as store staff prepare for the upcoming holiday season. Unique ornaments grace the boughs and line the shelves of

Just west of Revelstoke 140 years ago, Sir Donald A. Smith made history at the small settlement of Craigellachie, driving the final spike into the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)’s tracks on Nov. 7, 1885. That moment — after four years of construction, 20,000 kilometres of track and six years ahead of schedule — marked the