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Pleading for pix of dead son By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS
A Port Coquitlam mother is publicly pleading for the thieves who stole a laptop containing the only photographs she has of her dead son to return the computer. It was among several items taken after someone broke into a storage locker at an apartment building in the 1600-block of Grant Avenue in PoCo. Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Jamie Chung told The Tri-City News that some of the victim’s son’s belongings were also taken in the robbery. “The computer may not be worth a lot to the thieves but it means the whole world to the distraught mom,”
MORE ■ Thieves go after elderly women: A7 ■ Cops still investigating stabbing: A6 he said in a press release. “For her, those pictures have a lifetime of happy memories of her son.” Because the storage locker is not located in the apartment unit, it took the victim several days before she realized she had been robbed, he added. see RETURN, page A6
City sets new booze times Coquitlam now has consistent closing times By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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From left, Charlene Giovannetti-King, executive director of the Eagle Ridge Hospital Foundation, and emergency room staff Arden Foley, patient care coordinator, and Dr. Shawn Janes, look forward to improvements to the ERH emergency ward that are aimed at making children and families more comfortable during visits to the ER at the Port Moody hospital. For more, see article on page A3.
New Coquitlam bars, pubs and restaurants wanting to sell booze now have consistent serving times. Under a new policy unanimously adopted on Monday, city council set: • closing times for new bars and pubs at 1 a.m. Sundays to Thursdays, and 2 a.m. for Fridays and Saturdays; • last call for serving alcohol for restaurants
at midnight Sundays to Thursdays, and 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays (restaurants can stay open past those hours, however). The new guidelines also apply to existing liquor- and food-primary establishments that want to change their current liquor licences. But existing bars, pubs and restaurants that have longer hours are exempt from the new rules. The policy also extends to patio hours, with shutdown now designated at 9 p.m. on weekdays and 11 p.m. on weekends. see STUDY OF, page A14