THE WEDNESDAY
CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
TRI-CITY NEWS CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
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SEE LIFE, PAGE A17
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NOV. 13, 2013 www.tricitynews.com
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Flight Sgt. Geoff Stride stands as cenotaph guard during Port Coquitlam’s Remembrance Day ceremony Monday at Veterans Park in front of city hall. A large crowd assembled in downtown PoCo for the event as well as for Remembrance Day ceremonies in Coquitlam and Port Moody. For more photos from the Port Coquitlam event, please see page A3.
What should Coquitlam ‘stop doing’? By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Coquitlam city hall plans to take a new “tough love” approach to how — and why — it offers some of its programs and services. Yesterday, during the start of the 2014 budget presentations, city manager Peter Steblin said council and administrators will look at a more disciplined way to spending taxpayers’ dollars. see NEEDS VERSUS WANTS, page A4
Local Filipinos worry about their homeland By Gary McKenna
OIL & WATER Plans for area pipelines may be an opportunity, says Belcarra Mayor Ralph Drew: see A16
THE TRI-CITY NEWS
On most days, the Masagana Filipino store in Port Coquitlam is a place where shoppers can purchase food products and goods from the Philippines. But since Typhoon Haiyan devastated the nation last week, shop owner Roger Almirol said the business has become
To contribute to the Canadian Red Cross for Philippines relief, visit redcross.ca or call 1-800-418-1111. a rallying point for the TriCities Filipino community, eagerly awaiting news from their home country. “There is a lot of people coming here,” he said. “There have been a few whose families have been one of the victims.” Almirol, who has op-
erated the store for three years, considers himself one of the lucky ones. His family is from Luzon, a town that was largely missed by last week’s storm. He has a donation box at the Kingsway Avenue store and is encouraging
people to donate as much as they can. Malcolm Travena is another Tri-City resident who has been following the news since the storm hit last week. His wife, Megin Alvarez, is from the Philippines and the two run the aid organization Meaningful Volunteer, which funds education programs there. see POVERTY, page A7