THE WEDNESDAY
AUG. 21, 2013
CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
TRI-CITY NEWS
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CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
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Party time in PoCo & Port Moody Tens of thousands of people gathered in Port Coquitlam and Port Moody on the weekend to celebrate the cities’ 100th birthdays. PoCo’s big Centennial event was its Homecoming Weekend while Port Moody held a picnic, complete with fireworks. More photos, pages 3 and 14
$515k for Tri-Cities’ candidates By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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The Tri-Cities were rocking on the weekend as Port Coquitlam and Port Moody hosted their big centennial events. PoCo closed out Saturday’s Homecoming Weekend festivities with a performance from Canadian rockers Trooper (top) while PoMo marked its 100th birthday by holding a big picnic and Rocky Point Park that finished with the bangs and flashes of fireworks, and also featured music, including a performance by the Pids, who had Terri Scarfo (above left) and sister Tammy singing along to their version of Cheap Trick’s classic “I Want You To Want Me.”
Money talks for B.C. political parties when it comes to securing — or retaining — Tri-City ridings in the May provincial election. The BC NDP, widely touted to win the election under leader Adrian Dix, and its local constituency associations poured $303,025 into the campaigns for Mike Farnworth and Selina Robinson, who won, and Joe Trasolini and Chris Wilson, who lost. Trasolini, the former Port Moody mayor who won the Port MoodyCoquitlam riding in a 2012 byelection, received the most from the party out of the four NDP candidates. According to financial disclosure papers unveiled this week, Trasolini took $104,198
BC Liberals out-spent NDP by $2M: page 4 in party transfers and spent $102,064 on his reelection bid — including $40,700 on salaries before and during his unsuccessful campaign. Robinson, a former Coquitlam city councillor, gained $83,631 in party transfers to win NDP MLA Diane Thorne’s seat in CoquitlamMaillardville. She received $20,962 in donations and spent $97,291, including $23,558 in wages; her campaign ended with a judicial recount against BC Liberal opponent Steve Kim, who was initially declared the winner. see JUST $20K, page 4