Still searching for Noh Family, friends and volunteer searchers haven’t given up hope that Shin Noh, a 64-year-old grandfather from Coquitlam who went missing Sept. 18, will be found. And many are saying community support and participation in the search for the man is unprecedented in the Tri-Cities. Please see story on page 3
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‘We need to hear from you’ Parents of dead teen issue a plea By Jason Roessle THE TRI-CITY NEWS
The parents of 16-yearold Port Coquitlam girl killed in a hit-and-run last month said Thursday they can forgive the driver but are urging him to come forward and admit what he did. Maggie and Ricky Leung made a tearful plea to the driver in front of a crowd of media Thursday at Coquitlam RCMP headquarters. “You are somebody’s father, son or husband. Your loved ones would feel the same as we do if someone they love was suddenly taken away from them,” Maggie Leung said, reading from a prepared statement. “ Ou r fa m il y was deeply impacted when our daughter, Annie, was taken away from us in the accident. She was so beautiful and she was our only child.” JASON ROESSLE/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Maggie and Ricky Leung speak to reporters Thursday at Coquitlam RCMP headquarters, pleading for the driver who struck and killed their daughter Annie on Sept. 10 to come forward.
BC Housing says it’s serious about Riverview Agency looking to future of the site By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
The grounds at Riverview Hospital are
now being kept up as a goodwill gesture by the provincial government agency tasked to look at the future of the Coquitlam institution. Wednesday, Michael Flanigan, vice-president of development services
and asset strategies at BC Housing, told the city of Coquitlam’s Riverview Lands Advisory Committee his organization has hired crews to cut the grass in an effort to build trust with council and the community.
Two days earlier at council-in-committee, BC Housing was told Riverview has become a site of “demolition by neglect” by the provincial government, which owns the 244-acre property. And last month, an
80-year-old volunteer from the Riverview Horticultural Centre Society had to cut the grass before the annual Treefest celebration on the hospital grounds. Flanigan told the Riverview committee
the “earnest endeavour” of mowing the lawns is a sign BC Housing is “taking this responsibility very, very seriously” to create a road map for Riverview’s future. see VISIONING, page 13
see ‘WE CAN FORGIVE’, page 3
Sater trial
Cory Sater’s friends testify about night of accident: pg. 8