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PoMo senior killed in MVA Tues. By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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Port Moody residents Gordon Penner, Gary McKinnon and boat owner/skipper Alan Slater on the Bedlam II last week. The trio plus Port Moody’s Devin Jain, Coquitlam’s Kevin Treharne and John Johnstone of Vancouver were to leave today (Friday) for Victoria to take part in the Vic-Maui race. (Returning for the three-week voyage will be Slater and his son, Andrew, of Maple Ridge, Port Moody’s Pete Fisher and Al Vroom of Vancouver.) For more on the Bedlam II crew’s preparation for the race, see article on page 3.
see TRUCK, page 7
Summer school up in the air in SD43
Noh’s son pushes for Silver Alert program By Diane Strandberg
Classes supposed to start on July 7
THE TRI-CITY NEWS
The son of missing Coquitlam senior Shin Noh is encouraged about efforts to get a program in place that would help find people with Alzheimer’s or dementia who go missing.
By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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see ‘COMMON’, page 6
The elderly woman who was struck and killed while riding her scooter in Port Moody Tuesday afternoon has been identified as Betty Pleshko. The 71-year-old was crossing the street at Ungless Way and Ioco Road at around 3:20 p.m. when a southbound flatbed truck struck a car and an SUV that were waiting at the intersection. The large commercial vehicle overturned, hitting Pleshko.
Sam Noh, son of Shin Noh, who went missing last year.
Thousands of students who have signed up for summer school in School District 43 will have to wait until July 3 to learn if their classes will go ahead.
And for high school students waiting for report cards, information will be available after July 4. SD43 superintendent Tom Grant said Thursday that SD43 will wait until a few days before summer classes are scheduled to start on July 7 to decide whether to proceed, in the hopes that a
resolution between the BC Teachers’ Federation and the province’s bargaining arm, BC Public S c h o o l E m p l oye r s ’ Association, strike a deal. “In a day or two, we can have things up and running,” Grant said of summer school if a deal is reached. see 5,479 STUDENTS, page 3
IN QUOTES
“In a day or two, we can have things up and running.” Tom Grant, SD43 superintendent, on summer school