Closing in on construction – $150k, please The Mossom Creek Hatchery rebuilding project in Port Moody is proceeding with plans for the first phase of construction (and with a special work of art, at left). For the latest in The Tri-City News’ year-long series of articles in support of the Mossom project, please see page A3
THE WEDNESDAY
MOSSOM CREEK HATCHERY PROJECT
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Storytime at Riverside
Play ball... and more
SEE ARTS, PAGE A14
SEE SPORTS, PAGE A15
The music shop will stop but the music will go on
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Tom Fletcher/A8 Letters/A9 A Good Read/A12 RenoNation/B1
Next set of R’view forums starting Meetings are set for May 24 and 28 By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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Joy Sawyer, owner of Coquitlam Music on Shaughnessy Street, will close her Port Coquitlam shop on Aug. 31 after 43 years in business. But in retirement, the grandmother of 10 and great-grandmother of three will continue to teach accordion — her love for more than half a century. Please see Arts on page A13 for the story.
The focus will be narrowed in the next round of the visioning process for the Riverview Hospital lands in Coquitlam. This week and next, BC Housing will host its second set of open houses, with a focus on the theme “creating goals.” CEO Shayne Ramsay told The Tri-City News on Tuesday that BC Housing will share its feedback from the first open houses held in February and March, when a majority of participants indicated they want to see some of the 244 acres saved for a wellness centre for people with mental illnesses. see MENTAL, page A7
Strike will close Tri-City schools next Wed. Principals will be on duty during one-day strike By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Parents in School District 43 will likely have to wait until the end
of the week to find out how the teachers’ oneday walkout planned for next Wednesday will affect their children. But the chair of the Tri-Cities’ board of education hopes the province and the BC Teachers’ Federation can solve their differences in time to avert what will likely
be school closures locally on May 28. “We are caught in the middle,” Melissa Hyndes told The Tri-City News yesterday in response to the BCTF’s announcement of plans for four days of rotating strikes across the province beginning Monday unless a deal can be reached at
the bargaining table. Hyndes, a Port Moody trustee, said she would wait until discussions with the district’s senior leadership team, and hearing from unionized support workers (CUPE Branch 561) before commenting fully on what the impact of the oneday walk out May 28 in
SD43 will have on students. Hyndes also said she couldn’t comment on what the one-day strike savings will mean to the school district’s strained finances but she noted school administrators will still be on the job that day. see BCTF, page A7
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“We are caught in the middle. We’ll make the best of the situation.” Melissa Hyndes (left)