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Shelly Reinhart, the president of the Royal City Pride Society, and Ian Gould, the vice president, show their affection for New Westminster’s upcoming Pride Festival.
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“It was time to move and grow,” he says. Where he moved to was New Westminster in 2007. And one of the things he’s grown into is the role of the society’s vice president and main Pride Week organizer. “New Westminster is about inclusion,” says Gould, whose son lives with him, and his 23-year-old daughter is in an apartment a floor below them. “When I moved here seven years ago it was a very comfortable and accepting place.”
An incident at a showing of the fright flick The Conjuring conjured up some horror of its own at the Landmark Cinemas at Plaza 88 last Friday evening. New Westminster police say a witness reported seeing a man with a gun in his waistband on the SkyTrain, and then later spotted the same man in the theatre. The witness told the cinema’s security staff who then called police. All available on-duty NWPD members, the operational support team, the traffic unit and the Lower Mainland district emergency response team were called in and the theatre was evacuated. The suspect was found and searched but police did not find a gun. Rather, police determined that he had been carrying a cellphone in his waistband, and that had been mistaken for a gun by the witness.
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