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INSIDE: Summer school sign-up is coming soon [pg. 3] / TC Sports [pg. 40] WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2016 Your community. Your stories.
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NEWS
A BIG WHEEL BACKS WHEEL TO HEAL
SPRINKLING
water meters getting a look
sprinkling restrictions to start early JEFF NAGEL BlaCk Press
JAY SHAW PHOTO
Alison Johansen (left) bumps fists with Jens Voigt during a special bike ride leading up to the Wheel to Heal fundraiser on April 30. Voigt, a former professional cyclist who twice wore the coveted yellow leader’s jersey in the Tour de France, rode Sunday with a number of W2H top fundraisers. For more, see article on page 14.
DEAD BEARS
Control your trash & save bears DIANE STRANDBERG Tri-CiTy News
B.C. Conservation Officer Service is pleading with TriCity residents near greenbelts
and forests to take extra precautions with their garbage. Insp. Murray Smith made the appeal as he fielded calls about a family of three bears — a sow and two yearlings
that were killed early Thursday morning by conservation officers in the Panorama Drive area of Port Moody. “It’s really important that the public do their part,” said
Smith, noting that this is the time of year bruins start looking for food and will come into neighbourhoods if they can smell human trash. Once the bears get hooked, they tend to
stick around, and last year six were destroyed in the Tri-Cities because they had become habituated to human trash. see BEARS WERE, page 8
Metro Vancouver will begin water use restrictions two weeks earlier than normal next month in an attempt to avoid a repeat of last summer’s shortage, and it will also assess whether more water metering or other strategies would best help conserve the supply over the long term. The regional district will begin standard stage 1 water restrictions on lawn sprinkling on May 15 this year instead of June 1, and they’ll run until Oct. 15 instead of the end of September.
see METERS WOULD, page 17
sound and fury on a Coquitlam street over kids making noise: see pages 9 & 11
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