Tween girls get some sole & self-esteem Sole Girls is coming to the Tri-Cities with the aim of getting tween girls physically active while teaching them about goal-setting and selfworth. See story on page A18
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RUN RIDE ROLL STROLL
Sunday Sept. 14
FOR DETAILS ON THE TRI-CITIES’ FOUR TERRY FOX RUNS ON SUNDAY, SEE PAGE A3
Working together to outrun cancer
‘Your children go to a great school’ TIME:
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Principal’s email says there’s a toll for underfunding By Diane Strandberg ThE TRi-CiTy NEwS
A School District 43 principal is being hailed as a hero by speaking out about school underfunding in a letter to parents. Kevin Akins, principal of Cedar Drive elementary in Port Coquitlam, wrote an email to parents Monday that his
school’s supply budget has been cut 87% since 2002, with the school having just $23,000 to spend on books and desks compared to $181,000 in 2002, when fewer students attended. “Your children go to a great school,” he wrote in the letter, which was posted Thursday on Twitter and discussed on local radio. “Sometimes the quality of their school experience hides the reality of their teachers trying to do more with less through years of in-
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creasing class sizes and decreasing funding for every facet of the education system.” “The quality of what teachers do is undiminished but I can tell you that the toll of doing it is greater,” wrote Akins, who said classes will be much fuller this year, reaching legislated limits, and said he worries about whether he can afford to replace a desk that was broken. One Twitter user gave Akins’ letter a “Bravo.” see ‘WHEN YOU’, page A3
Noh turning grief into action with silver alert By Diane Strandberg ThE TRi-CiTy NEwS
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Coquitlam’s Maryanna Yoxall has been collecting Terry Fox Run t-shirts since the Marathon of Hope in 1980. Yoxall’s father had cancer and was in the same hospital as Terry. The famous Canadian cancer crusader even signed a couple of her shirts before he succumbed to his illness in 1981. More on Sunday’s Terry Fox Runs in the Tri-Cities on page A3.
A year after Coquitlam grandfather Shin Noh went missing, his son Sam Noh is still stricken with grief and loss over the fact that his dad’s body has not been found. “It’s devastating not to have closure. It’s a human thing, you know?” the Port Moody
business owner says. Reflecting on a year of ups and downs, Noh says the loss of hope is harder to bear than the fear and anxiety he felt when his dad disappeared Sept. 18 because at least then, there were some potential sightings and a possibility Shin could be found alive. see BC SILVER, page A14
SAM NOH