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Pitt teen dies in rollover Second traffic fatality involving youth this month newsroom@mapleridgenews.com
An 18-year-old Pitt Meadows girl died after the car she was driving rolled into a water-filled ditch on Woolridge Road on Tuesday. RCMP were called to the 12700-block of Woolridge Rd. just before 9 p.m. after a Honda Civic rolled off the road and landed upside down in a ditch. Ron Glover was one of the first on hand at the crash site. He lives nearby and along with a handful of neighbours sprang into action to rescue the two teens inside. With the car upside down in the ditch, Glover and others were chest-deep in water, working at freeing the girls. “We got the one girl out through the back window, broke the window,� he said Wednesday. See Crash, 9
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A roadside memorial has been set up along Woolridge Road, where a car flipped into a ditch Tuesday, claiming the life of an 18-year-old Pitt Meadows girl.
Four teams to tackle homelessness Mayor calls for national housing strategy By Phil Melnychuk pmelnychuk@mapleridgenews.com
All the people are in place and now it’s a matter of hitting the streets and putting the mayor’s homelessness solutions task force plan into place. But so far there’s no written manual or document to guide progress. Instead, four teams will tackle the issue from different angles in
an ongoing effort to find housing and help for the poor, the mentally ill and the drug addicted in Maple Ridge. Mayor Nicole Read was to introduce the participants and leaders who will try to see that it all happens at a noon-hour briefing in council chambers Thursday. “It’s just a chance to hear from the people directly involved in the teams now,� Read said Wednesday. But Read is tired of cities being the fall guy for social problems. “There’s a serious misunderstand-
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ing in what the city’s role is on these issues,� she said. “Where are the phone calls to our MLAs and MPs to say why does Maple Ridge not have enough funding to deal with the magnitude of the problem on Cliff Avenue? “The problem is, we need a national housing strategy.� Everyone involved in the issue says that, Read notes. “Until we start valuing that as a nation, I think we’ll probably be struggling.� Read gave an update on the task TEEN*
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force to council last week, then tweaked it for the Thursday meeting, which involved all participants, ranging from Alouette Addictions Services to bylaw enforcement officers to the RCMP. Several goals are identified in Thursday’s powerpoint presentation. For example, the street action team, led by Annika Polegato, with Alouette Addictions Services, will meet regularly with the homeless and service providers, then create an action plan. See Homeless, 5
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