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The hot dog days of summer While humans have, during the recent spell of hot summer weather, headed for swimming pools and air conditioned indoors to keep cool, nine-year-old Saba (photographed by Ewa Jagla), took advantage of the cold, crisp Coquitlam River for a refreshing dip.
Signs, tweets, talk
PoCo’s Fox Run route to include overpass, statues
SD43 chair vows board will stick with its back-toschool campaign
By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
As organizers of the Terry Fox Hometown Run get ready to mark the event’s 35th anniversary next year, a new route will be tested this year. And along the new route in Port Coquitlam, walkers, runners, cyclists and inline skaters will pass over a rail yard and see the two local statues of the man who led the Marathon of Hope in 1980, raising millions of dollars for cancer research before succumbing to the disease a year later. see CHANGES THIS YEAR, page 7
By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO
Thomas Eichendorf, 13 months, was one of the y o u n ges t par t icipant s in last year’s Terr y Fox Hometown Run in PoCo.
School District 43 trustees are staying the course on a public education campaign to urge a resolution to the B.C. public school teachers’ dispute and will post
messages on the district’s Twitter account — and even stand on street corners and wave signs — if a deal isn’t reached soon. The campaign “SD43 putting students first” comes as the Sept. 2 start date for school reopening looms under what appears to be a media blackout for the labour negotiations. Some critics are saying the campaign is not needed and too expensive for a district that
has laid off hundreds of employees to deal with a financial crisis but those criticisms have board chair Melissa Hyndes fuming. “Why shouldn’t it make a difference? Should we wait for other people to take a leadership role?” Hyndes told The TriCity News. “Why not the Coquitlam board of education? We are leaders at the school board. see CHECK, page 3
Melissa Hyndes is chair of the School District 43 board of education and a Port Moody school trustee.