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MARCH 21, 2014
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Birds, bees & bearsOPEN – it’s HOUSE spring DAILY 12 - 5 PM
Fridays) Signs of spring are everywhere in the Tri-Cities: Birds are chirping, bees are buzzing, bears are waking from (Except their winter slumber. There’s plenty to enjoy but there are also a variety of reasons for local residents to be careful to keep wildlife away from their homes. You can take steps to make sure raccoons, coyotes and other urban wildlife keep their distance, and to make sure hungry bears don’t see your street as a place for a quick bite. See stories on page A3. You can also take part in a project to count great blue herons in the area. See story on page A14. Finally, The Tri-City News put out a call for pictures of spring. See photos on page A8
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PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT): KEVIN HOOD; PHILIP WARBURTON; JOLENE BONHOMME
There are signs of spring in photos taken by Tri-City News readers. Top left, a photograph of the great blue heron, a species at risk that local environmentalists are keeping an eye on this spring (see page A14). Above right, a shot of a mother bear and cub as bruins are waking from their winter hibernation and looking for food (see page A3). And above left, a bee in a flower, a true sign of spring (see more readers’ photos on page A8).
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Port Moody councillors are not out to “recklessly” destroy the city with a community plan that gives developers carte blanche to do what they want, the city’s mayor told attendees
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at a town hall meeting Wednesday evening. Mike Clay said the OCP, with a focus on Moody Centre, where the new Evergreen Line will have the greatest impact, is a vision to guide development, not a prescription for builders. “An OCP doesn’t en-
title anybody to do any- buildings, Clay said the plan that has taken a thing,”Clay said. Speaking after several year to develop is a comopponents to the plan promise that people can raised issues such as the live with. N “This isn’t a group of future of city property Ave. reckless people out here around Kyle Centre, the Prairie lack of specifics on how who want to wreck the many units a developer city,”Clay said. can build on a site, andLougheed Hwy. protection for heritage see DENSITY, page A15
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By Diane Strandberg
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Coquitlam Mounties have identified several areas that have seen a recent uptick in breakins, according to the detachment’s most recent CompStat alert. The area around Coquitlam Centre has seen several thefts at businesses and police said the incidents appear to be occurring on Mondays and Saturdays between 8 and 10 p.m. — after business hours.
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