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Teenage girls targeted at SkyTrain station Police unsure whether there are more victims Grant Granger
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New Westminster mayor Wayne Wright, Ryan Beedie, of the Beedie Development Group, Kellie Kopeck, of Damco Distribution, and Tom Corsie, of Port Metro Vancouver, officially open the first phase of the Queensborough Logistics Centre, a 45,000 square foot cross dock facility that will distribute goods for Canadian Tire and Target.
Industrial boost, but truck traffic woes As many as 30,000 shipping containers expected at new Queensborough facility Mario Bartel
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A new logistics centre is bringing more truck traffic to Queensborough. The first phase of the new Queensborough Logistics Centre was officially opened on Thursday. Damco Distribution’s 45,620-square-foot cross dock
facility is expected to handle It’s also a lot of trucks coming 25-30,000 shipping containers into Queensborough, said Laurie a year, which will be unloaded Moore, the vice president of the into the expansive open Queensborough Residents warehouse, and the goods Association. distributed to Target and “We’re certainly seeing Canadian Tire stores across an increase,” said Moore of Canada. the container trucks that “This development is a sometimes line up on Duncan great example of maximizing Street and Derwent Way CORSIE (on our) industrial land as they arrive at the centre. use,” said Tom Corsie, the “There have been a number vice president of real estate for Port of residents who have mentioned to Metro Vancouver. “It’s a perfect me they have a concern about the fit.” traffic.”
Those concerns include the long queues of trucks making the left turn off Derwent onto Boyd to leave Queensborough, said Moore. “There’s a significant effect on getting around,” said Moore. “There’s only a couple of ways to get in and out of Queensborough. The trucks take up a lot space and they can’t all get through the lights. It’s a slow process getting out sometimes.” Please see FACILITY WILL BE ‘A MODEL’, A3
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Two men have been charged with trying to lure troubled teenage girls at the New Westminster SkyTrain station into having sex and making child pornography. Transit Police spokeswoman Anne Drennan said the men preyed on a group of teens from difficult backgrounds that regularly link up at the station by plying them with promises of money, drugs and participating in a movie. “They knew where to go to find vulnerable kids in groups.” Transit Police first twigged onto the men in early September, Drennan said, when officers heard an argument between an 18-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl on the station platform. The girl had said she had sex with a 20-yearold man, and the boy said she shouldn’t have because he wasn’t good enough for her. That started an investigation that also uncovered another 14-year-old victim. Drennan said police are unsure if there are more victims. Please see ‘WE TEND TO RECOGNIZE THEM’, A8