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Saving the Riverview Lands & ArboretumRHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-61455362862581464022013-04-04T22:33:00.001-07:002013-04-04T22:33:48.382-07:00Status quo on mental health unacceptable<a href="http://www.vancourier.com/health/Status+mental+health+unacceptable/8187467/story.html">Status quo on mental health unacceptable</a>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-43058169177402751702013-03-30T02:45:00.001-07:002013-03-30T02:45:11.573-07:00Riverview's West Lawn Building turns 100<a href="http://www.thenownews.com/travel/Riverview+West+Lawn+Building+turns/8169168/story.html">Riverview's West Lawn Building turns 100</a>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-81924177826872795672013-03-09T15:14:00.001-08:002013-03-09T15:14:37.376-08:00The Tri-City News - COLUMN: Loss of Sue Haberger a blow to the community<a href="http://www.tricitynews.com/opinion/191257031.html#.UTvCWRibmKU.blogger">The Tri-City News - COLUMN: Loss of Sue Haberger a blow to the community</a>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-8545867829150450722013-03-09T15:06:00.001-08:002013-03-09T15:06:45.847-08:00It's time to find a saner way of handling the mentally ill than jail<a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/time+find+saner+handling+mentally+than+jail/8055784/story.html">It's time to find a saner way of handling the mentally ill than jail</a>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-87841949384642951022012-09-18T12:22:00.001-07:002012-09-18T12:22:48.041-07:00For the Most Recent NEWS ARTICLES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-25611486657220741982012-06-20T00:22:00.001-07:002012-06-20T00:22:33.970-07:00What should be done with former psych hospital land? | CTV British Columbia<a href="http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120619/bc_riverview_hospital_future_120619/20120619/?hub=BritishColumbia#.T-F6Mo6QgbY.blogger">What should be done with former psych hospital land? | CTV British Columbia</a>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-73078469996599325442012-05-21T16:09:00.000-07:002012-05-21T16:09:15.461-07:00We Need YOU - http://www.rhcs.org/<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Please attend. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.rhcs.org/" target="_blank">http://www.rhcs.org/</a></span></div>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-26342007705487652842012-02-04T10:39:00.000-08:002012-02-04T10:41:28.057-08:00RHCS newsletter Winter 11/12<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">RHCS newsletter Winter 11/12 - </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; "><a href="http://www.rhcs.org/newsletter.html">http://www.rhcs.org/newsletter.html</a></span>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-6058092386110866782010-11-05T15:14:00.000-07:002010-11-05T15:40:38.261-07:00Letter to Editor- By Sue Haberger, Coquitlam NOW October 22, 2010<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><div class="headline" style="font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.thenownews.com/travel/Riverview+deserves+heritage+designation/3711069/story.html">Riverview deserves heritage designation</a></h1></div><div class="clear" style="font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 1px; clear: both; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; margin-top: -1px; "> </div><div class="subheadline" style="font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></h2></div><div class="clear" style="font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 1px; clear: both; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; margin-top: -1px; "> </div><div class="byline" style="font-family:arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="name"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">By Sue Haberger, Coquitlam NOW</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="timestamp"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">October 22, 2010</span></span></div></span>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-30041604821515085452010-11-03T15:12:00.000-07:002010-11-05T15:39:25.679-07:00Letter to Editor- By Cynthia Van Ginkel, Coquitlam NOW November 3, 2010<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><div class="headline" style="font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.thenownews.com/life/Riverview+facilities+needed/3769466/story.html">Riverview facilities are needed</a></h1></div><div class="clear" style="font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 1px; clear: both; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; margin-top: -1px; "> </div><div class="subheadline" style="font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></h2></div><div class="clear" style="font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 1px; clear: both; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; margin-top: -1px; "> </div><div class="byline" style="font-family:arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="name"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">By Cynthia Van Ginkel, Coquitlam NOW</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="timestamp"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">November 3, 2010</span></span></div></span>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-47033426634044542202010-10-20T15:18:00.000-07:002010-11-05T15:38:12.291-07:00No national historic status for Riverview Oct.20/2010<a href="http://www.thenownews.com/travel/national+historic+status+Riverview/3699501/story.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>No national historic status for Riverview</b></span></a>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-42872140038209714332010-09-24T15:08:00.000-07:002010-11-05T15:35:51.275-07:00Letter to Editor- September 24, 2010<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><h1 style="line-height: 1.13em; letter-spacing: -0.02em; word-spacing: -0.02em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.bclocalnews.com/tri_city_maple_ridge/tricitynews/opinion/letters/103668769.html">Preserve all of Riverview<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">grounds as gift to British Columbians</span></a></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 1.13em; letter-spacing: -0.02em; word-spacing: -0.02em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bclocalnews.com/tri_city_maple_ridge/tricitynews/opinion/letters/103668769.html"></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Anne Holt, Coquitlam Letter to Editor- September 24, 2010 Tricity News</span></span></span></h1></span>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-35896211631421428112008-02-16T01:14:00.000-08:002008-02-17T01:09:12.566-08:00Another Wave of NON NEWS - February 2008Read the 'In the News' links in the sidebar for the latest.<br /><br />For over 15 years the answer to our question about plans for Riverview have been the same; No plans, their working on it. Well in those years THEY have allowed these beautiful heritage buildings to deteriorate. I suspect the buildings are not as bad yet as they want people to believe so are putting off the development idea a little longer?<br />Lets get off this horrible mindset that only NEW is good, lets save some heritage buildings for a change.RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-53666695089068590322008-01-23T23:41:00.000-08:002008-01-23T23:46:25.944-08:00Heritage Status - January 2008<span style="font-family:arial;">Council voted unanimously Monday to endorse the addition of the 244-acre site — its buildings, trees and landscape features — on the city’s heritage register.<br /><a href="http://www.bclocalnews.com/tri_city_maple_ridge/tricitynews/news/14065347.html"><br />Read more! </a><br /></span>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-16524964900139145482007-11-30T09:45:00.000-08:002008-12-09T21:09:46.670-08:00November 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrGl0TIGyKSv2Ky4FY025Ur7eCtESksqzO5gQF06PcQskWXXJXCwcqWu_dGT5YrhsBW_SkNKtaIOGvwAShrqFGeX10dmWvJX6YMUNXGXyPPwYAwgZOHOMj-clTH3qJukv0X8zOJAluIzgP/s1600-r/100_1429.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWTlE5PIWReY8_Ac5hb2H1KDN0ftvGTWJPHxI_LtEsozCMnMC_b14XNpg-pleFCPhLSikUuAa0pUELPyXC_UoG8Er9udNK5qaThGZ_cwjr-7-Swg4whAfuZqL88C7E9sQuanUCuPqRaOh/s200/100_1429.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138695525344263410" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">On Monday November 26th</span> members of RHCS and BMN set off for Victoria, to witness <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Coquitlam/Maillardville MLA, Diane Thorne, and Port Coquitlam MLA, Mike Farnworth, present “almost 11,000” petitions to the <a href="http://www.leg.bc.ca/hansard/38th3rd/H71126p.htm#9469">Legislature</a>.</span> </span>This is the last week of the fall session, and it was deemed necessary to get the petition tabled, before any public debate sessions start to happen in the spring. <span style="font-size:85%;">(They will continue to accept signed petitions until April.)</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Sign the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.petitiononline.com/rview/petition.html">online petition</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> -- Print & sign </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/showpost.php?p=101713&postcount=1">a paper version</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Look out for a schedule of public meetings to discuss the proposal to build up to 10,000 housing units on the Riverview Lands. We have been told that planning for these will start in the new year, but you never know with the vagaries of political life if the timetable could be speeded up. Do try to attend a meeting (or 2), and be prepared to let “them” know how you feel about this.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/showpost.php?p=101713&postcount=1"></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-28560327730095057992007-09-04T23:18:00.000-07:002008-12-09T21:09:46.819-08:00September 2007 - Help Save Riverview:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1YjUzNr78rzuv__9cplpam8jqRc-Z6mzgzsur-TzaJEKwpJ1HgMF0alucYy6IrOvgllCoiMorzOY2azSTpuUFwkuQvxIRzamqwC0rXxxnWvrunn3DJgKxNDSyJHRW8aM30BgsQaG4ogNv/s1600-h/picture-19.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1YjUzNr78rzuv__9cplpam8jqRc-Z6mzgzsur-TzaJEKwpJ1HgMF0alucYy6IrOvgllCoiMorzOY2azSTpuUFwkuQvxIRzamqwC0rXxxnWvrunn3DJgKxNDSyJHRW8aM30BgsQaG4ogNv/s200/picture-19.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106988531608877138" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Sign the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.petitiononline.com/rview/petition.html">online petition</a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Better yet print </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/showpost.php?p=101713&postcount=1">a paper version</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> & have all your friends & family sign (don't forget to mail it to one of the two MLA's)</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Visit </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.facebook.com/login.php">Facebook</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> & Join the forum "Protect the Riverview Lands"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">For More information visit:</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://rhcs.org/">Riverview Horticultural Centre Society</a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://riverviewhospital.blogspot.com/">Save Riverview Hospital Blog</a><br /><br /><br /></span>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-31945665179346998182007-08-07T23:44:00.000-07:002007-09-04T23:47:47.985-07:00August 2007<p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Housing Minister Rich Coleman's plan for a massive real estate development on the Riverview Hospital grounds is short-sighted. When he talks about thousands of housing units it's as if he were talking about bare land. Riverview is the antithesis of bare land. Coleman says he has toured the area. One would think that he could visualize something quite different than high-density housing on this beautiful site, such as those ideas put forth in the 2005 Riverview Task Force Report, which has been ignored. The Tri-City area is already providing housing density in Coquitlam Town Centre, downtown Port Coquitlam and Port Moody's north side.</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">The Riverview Horticultural Centre Society has always, and will always, support the needs of the mentally ill at Riverview, but is strongly opposed to market housing on the site. The grounds contain an exceptional collection of mature trees that have been allowed to grow freely to their natural mature size and form. We need to retain what little green space we have left in the Lower Mainland.</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Riverview should be retained as it was originally planned, a therapeutic space and sanctuary for the mentally ill and the public.</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Donna Crosby,<br />President<br />Riverview Horticultural Centre Society</span></p>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-69422088306712732442007-08-01T23:13:00.000-07:002007-09-04T23:51:51.478-07:00August 2007 - Langley Advance<p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Have the constituents of Hon. [Fort Langley-Aldergrove MLA] Rich Coleman heard of Riverview? Do they have any idea what is really there? Do they know what a loss this site would be to Coquitlam, B.C., Canada, and beyond?<br />This is not a bare piece of land, as Coleman would like to make it sound. This site is not simply green space, but an exceptional collection of mature trees that have been allowed to grow freely to their natural mature size and form, equivalent of a world-class arboretum.</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">On Friday, July 27, the Fort Langley-Aldergrove MLA's surprise announcement felt to us how Fort Langley residents might feel if our MLA planned a high-density development in Derby Reach Regional Park.<br />Coquitlam council and the community have been part of the Riverview Task Force to create a plan for the site since 2003. Coleman's announcement is in total conflict with everything in the "For the Future of Riverview" report.<br />Cabinet minister Coleman has in one statement attempted to destroy 15 years of volunteer efforts to protect the site. The trees will not survive the type of development suggested. The density alone will destroy what makes those trees unique.<br />The unique potential of the site would be lost if market housing were developed. It would be like building high rises in the middle of Stanley Park before people knew what was there. It may be smaller, but it is no less valuable.</span></p>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636342954945283560.post-10427853158534864362007-07-27T23:48:00.000-07:002007-09-04T23:50:17.851-07:00July 27 2007<a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=f5491838-5ad6-4aed-b83a-62526e171395&k=32320">Hon. Rich Coleman</a>RHCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458104807635520476noreply@blogger.com0