THE WEDNESDAY
FEB. 12, 2014
CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
TRI-CITY NEWS
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CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
Welcoming wildlife
Getting to Carnegie Hall
SEE LIFE, PAGE 14
SEE ARTS, PAGE 17
INSIDE
Tom Fletcher/10 Letters/11 A Good Read/15 Community Calendar/16
Crowdsourcing to house just one homeless person
Silver! A standout performance by Coquitlam athlete Kevin Reynolds in Sochi on the weekend helped boost Canada to a silver medal in the first ever Olympic team figure skating competition. Reynolds is next in action on Thursday.
Mayor looks to online community to change a life By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
See story in Sports, page 22 See video at www.tricitynews.com See a local Russian celebration, page 3 CANADIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE
POCO MAYOR GREG MOORE
Crowdsourcing has brought the world the Pebble “smart” wristwatch, the Form 1 3D printer and a Veronica Mars movie for fans of the spunky, small-screen teen detective.
And while gawker. com’s infamous “crackstarter”campaign failed to secure a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack, a Tri-City mayor is hoping crowdsourcing can help with a charitable campaign of his own. Port Coquitlam’s Greg Moore has started a crowdsourced fundraising campaign to cover the rent costs for a single homeless person. see ‘CHANGE’, page 4
Flash of Fox inspiration By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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Jamie McDonald (left), who ran across Canada spurred on by the inspiration of Terry Fox, poses with Fred Fox and the Terry Fox statue at the Port Coquitlam hometown hero’s namesake secondary school, where he spoke to students last Friday.
erry Fox inspired charity runner Jamie McDonald. So McDonald returned the favour, sharing that inspiration and Terry’s can-do spirit last Friday morning with students at the Port Coquitlam hero’s namesake school. Dressed in a Flash superhero costume, the affable Brit used humour and stories of hardship and endurance to encourage Terry Fox secondary school students to do what they love and not give up, but give back. “If we do that, we’re going to change the world,” McDonald told hundreds of attentive students. With videos of his various exploits punctuating his hour-long presentation, McDonald described how he raised
IN QUOTES
“You show all the characteristics Terry had.” Fred Fox, speaking to Jamie McDonald thousands of dollars for children’s hospitals, including BC Children’s Hospital, during his 5,000-km cross-Canada run, which ended Feb. 4. One of his videos, called Jamie McDonald Run — Who’s the Daddy, about reaching the final summit on the Rocky Mountains, has received nearly 11,000 hits since it was posted Feb. 1. Showing the unstoppable McDonald crowing about his accomplishment, the video ends with him being splashed by slush from a passing vehicle. see SUPERHERO, page 3