the Whonnock Community Association transferred the management of the Centre to the City of Maple Ridge. Whonnock Lake Centre serves in the first place as community hall for Whonnock residents. It is also a well-known location for weddings and other events. Whonnock Community Association The name Whonnock Community Association (WCA) was registered in 1981 but a group of volunteers interested in the wellbeing of the community operated before under different names. The Association sponsors and organizes community events. Ridge Canoe and Kayak Club Ridge Canoe and Kayak Club (RCKC) is a flat-water sprint-paddling club based at Whonnock Lake. It consists of athletes of all levels. Initially begun as an Olympic racing club in 1982, RCKC has expanded to many other areas of paddling sports. RCKC also offers programs for recreational paddlers. Maple Ridge Fire Hall No. 2 Fire Hall No. 2 in Whonnock was built in 1974. The area covered by Hall No. 2 reaches from 256th Street east to the Mission border. Post office Whonnock has had a post office and a postmaster since 1885. Originally the owner of the general store was also postmaster. In 1914, when the postmaster stopped being the shopkeeper, he moved the post office to its present site. The post office is today in a building that dates back to ca. 1932. The Whonnock postmaster is the last in the Lower Mainland bearing that title. Schools Whonnock is served by School District 42 Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows . There has been a school in Whonnock since 1885. Originally the school stood on the shore of the Fraser River, south of the railway tracks, it was moved around 1910 to the northwest corner of 272nd Street and 100th Avenue. In 1998 a new building was opened on 112th Avenue, close to Whonnock Lake. There are 275 children from Kindergarten to Grade 7 at the school. Stores The only retail business in a store building in Whonnock today is the McFli Feed Store in the old Red and White Store building next to the post office. The first general store built ca. 1884, went up in flames in 1918. It was not rebuilt and the location today is under the Lougheed Highway. Other existing local stores took over the business notably Graham's store, that was across from the post office, and Luno's store and later Showler's Red and White Store. They all succumbed after the Second World