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Police seek luring suspects
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BC NDP leader Adrian Dix jokes with a supporter while signing autographs during an appearance at the campaign office of the party’s New Westminster candidate Judy Darcy on Saturday.
Bremner and Darcy relative newcomers The NewsLeader is profiling the six candidates running for MLA in New Westminster in the May 14 provincial election. Reporter Grant Granger begins today with profiles on BC Liberal candidate Hector Bremner and BC NDP candidate Judy Darcy. See Friday’s issue for the other candidates.
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hen his family first moved to the West Coast, all Hector Bremner knew about New Westminster was Downtown. He liked it because it was historical and near the river, kind of like his hometown of Saskatoon.
Then one day he got lost in New Westminster. He made a wrong turn in Queen’s Park, forcing him to drive through the neighbourhood and ending BREMNER up in Uptown. “I realized it was amazing, gorgeous,” says Bremner, the BC Liberal candidate in the riding of New Westminster for the May 14 provincial election.
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hile working as a University of Toronto library clerk during the 1970s, Judy Darcy was upset because the photocopy machine lid wouldn’t shut properly.
The staff, including her sister, were getting blinding headaches from the blaring, flashing light the machine would give off every time it made a copy. She went to her supervisor to complain, but she wouldn’t do anything about it. So Darcy called her union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), and within a week the DaRcy staff had sunglasses. Four decades later and Darcy is still advocating, and the New Democratic Party candidate wants to continue doing it as the MLA for New Westminster.
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JUDY DARCY A strong voice for new westminster early voting may 8-11 | election Day may 14th
Change for the better, one praCtiCal step at a time
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www.judydarcy.ca 604-517-8400 Authorized by Financial Agent Cheryl Greenhalgh, 604-517-8400
A letter was being sent home Monday with students at F.W. Howay elementary on Monday following a report of child luring on the weekend. Three boys, two aged 11 and the other six years old, playing in a lane on scooters and bikes reported two men in a black SUV, possibly a Cadillac Escalade, drove by them before backing up to talk to them. They focused on the youngest boy, asking him if he wanted a new bike because they had one he could have for free but he would have to come with them to get it. The boys refused the offer and immediately went and told their parents. Police were called but without a licence plate patrols in the area were unable to find the vehicle. The boys described the driver as possibly being Latino with black hat and sunglasses while the passenger was a bald Asian man, both in their 20s. New Westminster police said surrounding police departments have been notified to be on the lookout for the vehicle and suspects fitting the descriptions. ggranger@ newwestnewsleader.com