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Rocking out for Minnekhada THE ENVIRONMENT
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Tri-City News Wednesday, January 28, 2015, F1
Cross-border trips dive with the loonie / ICBC blocks 25,000 drivers for toll evasion
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28, 2015 Your community. Your stories
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Craig Orr, standing on a foot bridge over the Coquitlam River in Colony Farm Regional Park, has had a 40-year career that has taken him from coast to coast to coast, with notable works along the way locally, including projects to restore salmon habitat in the Coquitlam. For the past 14 years, he has been executive director of the Watershed Watch Salmon Society but recently retired. Please see article on page A3.
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PoCo mayor pitches hard on need for transportation tax SPRING BREAK CAMPS Diane StranDberg Tri-CiTy News
A terrifying phone call to a Coquitlam man’s mother in another country has Mounties warning the Port Coquitlam Mayor public about a potential new trend in online scams. Greg Moore knows he has On the afternoon of Jan. 7, according to Coquitlam his work cut out for him RCMP, police responded to a report that someone to convince Tri-City vothad been kidnapped and beaten. ers and others in Metro The mother offrom the alleged who lives Kimberly Blackstock Artwork classvictim, of instructor Vancouver to vote in favour in Taiwan, received a phone call from someone of the so-called congestion claiming to have kidnapped her 25-year-old son, a improvement tax to pay for Coquitlam resident, and demanded a ransom. $7.5 billion in transportation work.
March 9 - 20 0.5% TAX: whAT’s iN iT FOr Tri-CiTy?
• Full Day & Half Daydays and evenings, seven days a week, every 15 minutes and expanded service in new neighbourhoods, such as Mountain; • After CampBurke Care • upgrades to the Coquitlam Central and Port
Voters will be asked to decide if they support a 0.5% increase to the provincial sales tax — called the Metro Vancouver Congestion Improvement Tax — to pay for a $7.5-billion transportation plan. The cost to the average household is projected at $125 per year, cheaper than other options, according to the mayors’ council. That’s the big picture. But what’s in it for Tri-City drivers, transit users, walkers and cyclists? • improved bus service in Tri-Cities, including buses
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Coquitlam bus exchanges to handle more buses; • 10 more trains and a locomotive for the West Coast Express;
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