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In the latest summer shot sent in by a Tri-City News reader, Eran Roubini captured this image of a super moon. He snapped this photograph about 9:30 p.m. last Sunday from his home in Coquitlam’s River Springs neighbourhood. You can send your summer photos to newsroom@tricitynews.com.
Weekend promises 2 big events For some, an August weekend is a sleepy time of hot weather and holiday fun. For Tri-Cities residents this weekend, however, there’s plenty of action. First, on Saturday and Sunday, the Coquitlam Jr. Adanacs take on the Six Nations Arrows in the first game of the Minto Cup national lacrosse championship (details in Sports, page 31). Then, on Sunday, the annual PoCo Auto Show will take over the city’s downtown (details in the Things-to-do Guide, page 15).
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Coquitlam Search and Rescue volunteer Bob Hetherington with the group’s mobile command centre, a 20-year-old truck that is proving insufficient for its needs.
SAR needs $$ to save more lives Volunteers need command truck By Sarah Payne THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Wh e n C o q u i t l a m Search and Rescue is called to help locate a missing hiker, the volunteer crew mobilizes at the search site as quickly as possible. Their mobile command centre is another story. Despite the crew’s best efforts, their vehicle is not aging gracefully. It sags
under the weight of the team’s gear — everything from chainsaws to highpowered lighting, generators, tents, medical equipment, maps and loads of communications technology — and, under all that weight, lacks the power to get to remote locations. Coquitlam SAR is now embarking on some serious fundraising for a new, custom-built truck. “This is our 20-yearold bread truck,” joked SAR member Bob Hetherington. see PROVINCE, page 4