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With the recent hot and sunny weather in the Lower Mainland, the beach volleyball courts at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park have been a popular spot for setters, spikers and sun worshippers.
Blood: It’s in PoMo teen to give... back By Sarah Payne THE TRI-CITY NEWS
When Linden Terret turns 17 next week, he won’t celebrate with a day at the beach or a party with friends. The Port Moody teen will be donating blood at Canadian Blood Services’ Vancouver headquarters. It’s a donation he has been waiting to make since he was just five years old, the first time his mom became gravely ill. In 1999, Melanie Terret developed aplastic anemia, a condition
LINDEN TERRET in which the bone marrow no longer produces new cells. She needed a transplant to survive but her only sibling, an
older brother, wasn’t a match. Terret was placed on the worldwide bone marrow registry... and waited. For more than a year she got blood transfusions every six days. Linden was just five years old at the time and doesn’t remember much but his mom said he used to call her blood transfusions “filling up her gas tank” because they gave her some much-needed energy for a few days. see ‘IF IF NOBODY NOBODY’,, page 4
An extra Evergreen station on Pinetree Station will be on mall property By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
A third Evergreen Line station for Coquitlam’s City Centre appears to be firmly on track after a $7-million boost this week from the federal government. On Thursday, TriCity MP and Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore announced the cash for
the new Lincoln station — in Coquitlam Centre mall property at Lincoln Avenue and Pinetree Way — as part of a P3 Canada Fund project with Pensionfund Realty Ltd., a privately held real estate company that owns the mall. Pensionfund, Coquitlam’s largest corporate taxpayer at $6.3 million last year, will donate a chunk of its northeast parking lot between Lincoln and Northern avenues for the station. Money is also coming
Will feds kick in cash for sewage work to ease tax burden?: pg. 19 from developers building highrises in the area. To date, the city has less than $1 million in the Density Bonus Fund — City Centre Amenities that was set up last year to pay for the Lincoln station. But density bonuses — a zoning tool that allows developers to build more housing
units, taller buildings or more floor space than normally allowed in exchange for a public benefit — have been committed by Polygon and Onni, for example, for their planned towers at Windsor Gate and Westwood Street to the tune of $1 million each. see $25M WAS, WAS, page 6