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Casino question set for ballot Jennifer McFee jmcfee@thenownews.com
The City of Port Moody will add a referendum question to November’s civic election ballot to determine if residents would support a casino in the city should the opportunity arise. In April 2004, Port Moody residents voted on the casino question in a referendum held in tandem with a civic byelection. A 63-per-cent majority, or 2,444 people, voted against the idea. Coun. Meghan Lahti recommended posing the same referendum question on the Nov. 19 election ballot to determine if public opinion has changed. “There’s been a lot of input over the last few years about casinos,” Lahti said at Tuesday’s committee of the whole meeting. “I would like to put some clarity around it, get some real clear idea of what the community wants … It’s been almost 10 years since CONT. ON PAGE 4, see REFERENDUM.
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WHY SO BLUE? Australian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos paints cherry trees in front of Port Moody City Hall as part of an international exhibit called The Blue Trees. Dimopoulos will paint 16 trees outside City Hall and one at the Port Moody Arts Centre. The exhibit is designed to draw attention to the esthetic and environmental plight of trees and their importance to the world. The tree trunks and undersides of the branches are being coated with a biologically safe colourant that washes off over time and causes no harm to the trees or the environment, according to the city. Additional installations of The Blue Trees can be seen in Richmond and West Vancouver.
A diaper-changing Guinness World Record? Tri-Cities parents will compete in the Great Cloth Diaper Change on World Earth Day
Jennifer McFee jmcfee@thenownews.com Tri-Cities parents are vying for a Guinness World Record by participating in a global diaper changing challenge. The Great Cloth Diaper Change 2011 is happening on World Earth Day (April 23) in nearly 400 communities across the globe. The goal is to set a world record for the most cloth diapers changed simultaneously.
At 9:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, more than 9,800 international participants will tuck their baby’s tush into a cloth diaper. In the TriCities, a diaper-changing event will take place at Kinder Café in Port Coquitlam. Port Moody mom Angela Salehi hopes many families will take part, since each location needs at least 25 participants to qualify for the record-setting challenge. “It’s a huge, exciting thing to happen. We’re very excited that it’s happening in Port Coquitlam. We’re inviting everyone from the
Tri-Cities to come and join us … We’re all local businesswomen who use cloth diapers and want to promote it,” said Salehi, owner of Ripe Baby Food. “Grandmas, grandpas, brothers, sisters, parents, step-parents — everybody’s involved.” Maggie Chilton, owner of Port Moody-based Toots n’ Tots, said cloth diapers will be available for sale at the event. “They can come in a regular disposable diaper if they want to, as long as they get changed into a 100-per-cent reusable cloth diaper,”
Chilton said. “I’m going to be supplying the biodegradable compostable wipes. It’s World Earth Day, so we’re trying to encourage people to either not bring any because we’ll supply the biodegradable wipes or bring their cloth ones.” To qualify for the challenge, the rules require an official timekeeper and check-in person, as well as a supply of photos, video and signed documentation to verify that all CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, see DIAPER EVENT.