INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / AUGUST 7, 1990

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Myrna Popove, Chair of the Douglas College Board, spoke to
special guests and community members.

 

Thomas Haney Centre "unique"
learning environment

 

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“The interest, dedication and hard work of all those in-
volved is to be commended in developing this valuable com-
munity resource.”

The Thomas Haney Centre, billed as the first institution
of its kind in B.C., will be located on a 38 acre site near Telos-
ky Stadium. Set for completion in September, 1992, the
centre will accommodate up to 1,200 grade 8 to 12 students
and 450 full-time Douglas College students. School District
No. 42 (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows) will pick up the bulk of
the cost.

“The word is ‘unique’,” said Austin Pelton, MLA in the
riding of Dewdney, who was on hand for the ground break-
ing ceremony. “The centre will provide a learning environ-
ment that people have never experienced before.”

Douglas College Board Member Myrna Popove said the
theme of the ceremony, “Pulling together for better educa-
tion in Maple Ridge” was appropriate because of the out-
standing efforts of the people and organizations involved in
the project.

“This is a pulling together of a vision,” said Popove, “a
vision of yesterday, and a vision of tomorrow.”

 

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Maple Ridge
pioneers participate
in sod-turning

aple Ridge is growing up, and the
Thomas Haney Centre is a sign of the
community’s new status.

But without pioneers like Charles
Blishen and William Hampton, there would
be no municipality of Maple Ridge.

The two men drove the horses that
turned the sod for the new centre.

Blishen, who was born and raised in
England, arrived in Maple Ridge in 1937
after a brief stint homesteading in Sas-
katchewan. He was overseas during the

 

 

 

 

 

Maple Ridge pioneers Charles Blishen and Bill
Hampton turn a few more rows of sod for the
crowd.

 

war, and during those days he was known
as ‘Demolition Blishen’ for his skills in the
military.

He returned to B.C. in the 1950’s, and
since then, has farmed and raised animals
on a piece of land that’s now surrounded by
subdivisions. "Canada has been good to me,
but you've got to get up in the morning and
work," says the 75-year-old.

He knows his horses, having raised

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