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The Riverview lands, on canvas FUTURE OF RIVERVIEW
Premier’s promise to save R’view greenspace and trees
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INSIDE: Byelection candidate profile: Joan Isaacs [pg. 3] / Sports [pg. 19] WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 2016 Your community. Your stories.
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THE NEED DOESN’T STOP AFTER XMAS
December was a busy month of collecting, assembling and distributing donations — including many from local schools — for share Family Community services, and now, the local social services agency is still in need of food and cash to help those in need in the Tri-Cities. see how you can help on page 6.
Clark speaks during a byelection campaign stop JANIS WARREN
The Tri-CiTy News
B.C.’s premier has vowed to keep the Riverview Hospital lands green and save any trees on the historic Coquitlam site. Christy Clark made the pledge last week while she was campaigning in the riding of Coquitlam-Burke Mountain to promote BC Liberal candidate Joan Isaacs in the Feb. 2 byelection. Clark told The Tri-City News she understands the anxiety in the community as BC Housing, which manages Riverview, starts to firm up the vision for the century-old property after more than two years of consultation. (The public has until Feb. 12 to comment online about the future of the 244 acres that were once the centre for the province’s mental health care.)
PREMIER CHRISTY CLARK
SPEAK UP
To comment on the vision for Riverview by the Feb. 12 deadline, go online to renewingriverview.ca. “Are we going to preserve the green space? There’s a real quick answer to that: Yes, we are,” Clark told The Tri-City News last Friday. “We are committed to preserving that green space... and all the trees on that site. That’s our goal.” see CITY CONCERNED, page 8
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Getting food ready to transfer to food banks run by Share Family and Community Services are (from left): Jake Moir, fund development officer, Roger Leroux, food bank manager and Mike Trelenberg, assistant food bank manager.
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