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Choo choo! Two cities’ centennial celebrations are gathering steam
Take a train to the past in PoCo & PoMo By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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Port Moody Station Museum curator Jim Millar, dressed in his conductor’s uniform, is preparing for a heritage train ride from Port Moody to Mission on Sunday, Aug. 18. Tickets cost $30 and are available at the museum on Murray Street (cheque or cash only). Another, shorter trip is planned the same weekend between Moody and Port Coquitlam.
Fresh food and a helping hand, too By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Fresh, nutritious food is a luxury for some fixed-income families and seniors but the expansion of a farmers’ market coupon program could change that. This week, the provincial government announced it would be investing $2 million into an initiative that gives financially struggling households $15 worth of coupons each week to make purchases at their local farmers’ markets. see AIMING TO IMPROVE, page 6
All aboard! That’s sure to be a well-used phrase on the weekend of Aug. 17 and 18 when a CP Rail heritage train rolls in to the Tri-Cities. As part of Port Moody and Port Coquitlam centennial events, the 1950s train will be picking up passengers so they can experience what rail travel was like before airlines and autos became at the major modes of transportation for the masses. “It’s a little bit of nostalgia for folks to know what it was like to ride a passenger train in the 1950s,”said Jim Millar, curator of the Port Moody Station Museum, who is co-ordinating the train ride for his city. see CAR NAMED, page 17
Change for Burquitlam Townhomes, apt. block are planned By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Eighteen homes on the south side of a Burquitlam block are now boarded up. A long fence down the top of the five acres is there for security. One property even has an excavator waiting in the front yard.
The Vancouver-based developer Intracorp has been assembling the land over the past two years and is waiting for the go-ahead from city hall to build 107 three-storey townhomes and a 99-unit, five-storey apartment block at 514-554 Foster Ave. and 636-640 Aspen St. In 2011, when company representatives first came before council with a pre-application
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Boarded-up homes on Foster Avenue in Burquitlam. for 124 townhomes, the city temporarily
halted the bid, saying it was “inconsistent” with
the 2002 Burquitlam Neighbourhood Plan, a visioning document expected to get updated this fall. Like other transitioning communities in Coquitlam — they include Austin Heights, Maillardville and City Centre — Burquitlam will feel the squeeze of significant growth in the coming years. see CHANGES, page 9