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MOTION
MAN IN THE FRIDAY
CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
TRI-CITY NEWS Those student protests
Spring fling
SEE FACE TO FACE, PAGE A11
SEE THINGS-TO-DO GUIDE, PAGE A19
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INSIDE Letters/A12 Tri-City Spotlight/A24 Elaine Golds/A25 Sports/A45
Share needs space
One busy weekend
Move caused by Evergreen work By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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Everg reen Line construction is forcing Share Family and Community Services to search for a new storage facility for its excess toys and food items. The community group that operates a food bank and thrift store, among other things, has used Andres Winery on Vintner Street in Port Moody since 2007 but Martin Wyant, Share’s CEO, said the group must vacate by the end of June.
Martin Wyant, chief executive officer of Share Family and Community Services, said the organization — which runs the Tri-City food bank as well as Christmas food and toy programs — will have to find a new location in the Tri-Cities where it can store its toy and food items by the end of June.
see SPACE S C IS S FOR, O , page g A7 7
Wheel to Heal, see page A3.
Hike for Hospice, see page A14.
Coquitlam continues trash deal Extension OK’d, study underway on automation and other issues By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Fingerling Festival, see page A19. + MAY DAY: PAGE A13
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Trash collection and recycling will stay the same in Coquitlam after council extended Smithrite’s contract.
Coquitlam’s contract for garbage and recycling pick-up, which was due to be reviewed next month, has already been renewed. City council made the
decision behind closed doors last December — a month after the municipal election was held, city staff say. Bill Susak, Coquitlam’s general manager of engineering and public works, told The Tri-City News the city received an “unsolicited offer” from Smithrite Disposal to extend its contract with a price freeze at $5.8 million annually. Under the agreement with Smithrite that
ends June 30, 2012, the city had the option to extend the contract for three years. Susak said council chose to lengthen it for only two years — until June 30, 2014 — as city staff are looking at future garbage collection options, including taking the service inhouse and having it automated as it is in Port Coquitlam and Port Moody. The study is due to be finished by the summer.
The issue of whether to go in-house or contract out garbage/recycling pick-up has been a hot topic for many years in Coquitlam. The city hired Smithrite Disposal in 2009 at a price of $5.1 million for the first year after a number of residents criticized the trash collection of the previous contractor, International Paper Industries. see GARBAGE GARBAGE,, page A6