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CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
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Help & homes, bit by bit
Curling, hoops & more
SEE LIFE, PAGE 14
SEE SPORTS, PAGE 23
JAN. 9, 2013 www.tricitynews.com
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Tom Fletcher/10 A Good Read/16 Sign Me Up/17 Arts/19
When Juliana came home from school one day, her father, Coquitlam graphic artist Derrick Hanni, asked her to pose in the kitchen with flour on her face. “Juliana is a great model,” Hanni said of his 11-year-old daughter. “She is always willing to try something new. She’s the expression queen.” Hanni’s year-long photography work, Project 365, which includes (above) “Gently Add The Flour,” Day 312/365, is featured in a new exhibit that opens tomorrow (Thursday) at the Port Moody Arts Centre. For more on the exhibit and other arts, see Arts, page 19.
Break-in? Check. Break-out? Well... By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Two thieves had no trouble breaking into the Esso processing centre at the end of Ioco Road Sunday night — it was leaving that proved challenging. According to Port Moody Police, the men broke into offices in search of laptop computers and tools before attempting three times to flee the scene in stolen trucks. They crashed one, got another stuck in the mud and blew a tire on the third vehicle. see COPS BUST ONE, page 4
Stay clean, stay healthy Norovirus at ERH and in community By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY CITY NEWS
Eagle Ridge Hospital (ERH) in Port Moody is the latest health facility to deal with a new strain of norovirus but officials are warning everyone in the community to take precautions to avoid the nasty stomach flu. On Monday, Fraser
Health reported that one ward at ERH was closed to new patients and a rigorous cleaning was taking place to prevent the spread of norovirus. At least three people were sick in the ward with a stomach flu that lasts 24 to 48 hours, “It’s very contagious,” warned Tasleem Juma, who explained that the Sydney strain of norovirus is a new one and no one is immune to it, which is why it is ram-
pant throughout B.C. To contain norovirus, staff at ERH are using “enhanced cleaning protocols,” which include twice daily surface cleaning with bleach, as well as the usual hand hygiene. For people outside the hospital, Juma encourages everyone to wash their hands frequently because the virus can be picked up from surfaces. see ‘ISOLATE’, page 7
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The norovirus, which has hit one ward at Port Moody’s Eagle Ridge Hospital, is also hitting the wider community and health officials say sneezing is one way it spreads.