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Pregnant mother douses ‘close call’ Garden house attached to pressure washer B y T i m Fi t z g e r a l d tim.fitzgerald@mapleridgenews.com
Danika Adamthwaite’s evening was progressing like any other for a pregnant mother of three young children – putting out fires. At 33 weeks along in her pregnancy, Adamthwaite was juggling bath and reading times for her kids last week, while her husband and her father made a trip to the hardware store to gather more supplies for renovations to their garage. After baths, Adamthwaite made her way towards her kitchen, where she noticed a car parked at the front gate of their property, located in a sparsely populated area along 272nd Street in east Maple Ridge.
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Danika Adamthwaite was able to limit the damage to an ATV and camper trailer.
Second Dalton recall stalls Organizers file harassment complaint By Phil M elnyc h u k pmelnychuk@mapleridgenews.com
The second recall campaign for MLA Marc Dalton has ended the way the first one did – in failure. But organizers are blaming the Liberal party for scuttling their efforts this time, saying that party workers impeded canvassers collecting signatures.
As well, the proponent who launched the recall campaign had to leave the province on a personal issue. B.C. Citizens for Recall wouldn’t say how many names they had collected in an effort to force Dalton to resign his seat and run in Dalton a byelection under the Recall and Initiative Act. In order to force Dalton to resign and call a byelection, they
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had to get 40 per cent of eligible voters (15,410) to sign up within 60 days, or by June 15. Recall spokesperson Jennifer Heighton said a complaint has been filed with Elections B.C. She said the harassment of canvassers started at the Ridge Meadows Home Show, where the B.C. Liberals also had a booth. Heighton said observers would
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interrupt canvassers who were talking to voters. Arguments would start, scaring off any potential signers. Or the observers would stand close to canvassers and voters as if they were part of the conversation. That’s a violation of the recall act, Heighton said. Many wore “Marc Dalton observer” name tags, she added. “It’s more an effect on the canvasser’s ability to do their job in a confident way,” she said.
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