THE WEDNESDAY
CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
TRI-CITY NEWS Teens teaching tech
His dance at the PNE
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AUG. 15, 2012 www.tricitynews.com
INSIDE Tom Fletcher/A10 Letters/A11 Community Calendar/A14 Sports/A18
BELOW LEFT: COC PHOTO; ABOVE LEFT: SFU PHOTO; ABOVE & BELOW RIGHT: MARTIN VAN DEN HEMEL/BLACK PRESS
Top of the world Tri-City residents have been excelling on the international stage of late. First, there were our six Olympians, including three medallists. Then, this past weekend, SFU pipe bands competed at the world championships in Scotland and some local musicians marched their way to the ultimate prize. Top left: Rob Menzies of Coquitlam carries the world championship trophy won by the Grade 3 Robert Malcolm Memorial pipe band. Top right: Port Moody rower Krista Guloien, wearing her Olympic silver medal, talks to reporters at YVR on Monday. Above left: Coquitlam’s Brittany Timko (in circle) and the rest of the bronze medal-winning Canadian women’s soccer team. Right: Coquitlam cyclist Jasmine Glaesser with her bronze medal.
Q More on the SFU pipe bands: A13 Q More on Tri-City Olympians: A18
Heritage home burns Monday fire may have been set, says fire chief By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS
A heritage building in Maillardville that developers planned to restore suffered extensive damage after fire ripped through the structure Monday night.
The building was boarded up but Coquitlam Fire Chief Tony Delmonico said it was no secret that homeless and young people had occupied the structure since a similar fire at the same location last year. “With those older buildings, you get transient people, you get kids in there,” he said. “I am not sure the fencing was
THE GREAT OUTDOORS Successful search on Burke Mt. & a drowning in Pitt Lake: see A7 keeping them out.” Because of a warmwe at h e r i nve r s i o n , Delmonico said smoke could be seen as far away as Port Moody. Calls about came in
from across the TriCities, he said, tying up crews who had to check each address for potential fire. see ‘RED RED HOUSE’, HOUSE , page A4
The Downtown PoCo BIA Car Show is set for Sunday and thousands are expected to attend. For more on the summer’s big event, see pages A3 and B1 to B12.