EXTRAS AT TRICITYNEWS.COM >>
TC COMMUNITY: PAGE 24
Parade and Teddy Bear Picnic pix
TC
Stiffer fines eyed for distracted drivers / Want city hall tour with PoCo’s mayor? WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015 Your community. Your stories.
TRI-CITY
NEWS
WEATHER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Hot, dry weather is foul for fish Diane StranDBerG Tri-CiTy News
While many Tri-City residents are welcoming the unusually hot, sunny June, the fish aren’t so happy. Hundreds of salmon are being rescued in Hyde Creek this week as this spring’s warm conditions have dried up much of the urban creek that runs near Coast Meridian Road in Port Coquitlam, killing some fish while hundreds of others are stranded in shallow pools. “There is no way for them to get out to the ocean,” said Terry Sawchenko, hatchery manager for the Hyde Creek Watershed Society, who, with other volunteers, spent much of the weekend moving fish from driedout parts of the creek bed to a pool near the PoCo hatchery. Part of the problem is the creek’s well, recently dug to enhance Hyde Creek water flows, is also drying up, discharging only a third of what it would normally produce because the aquifer hasn’t been recharged by rain.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
see MID-SUMMER, page 3
Terry Sawchenko, hatchery manager with the Hyde Creek Watershed Society in Port Coquitlam, relocates fish from rapidly drying areas of Hyde Creek to save them.
TC ARTS/ENT.
Time to shine for Anmore musician Greg Drummond: see page 28
COQUITLAM SPENDING
Big bucks at city hall: 17 earned over $150k Gary McKenna The Tri-CiTy News
THRIFTY’S AD HERE
The city of Coquitlam spent $71.8 million on staff salaries and benefits in 2014, close to $600,000 higher than the previous year, according to Statement of Financial
Information reports released Monday. A total of 117 city employees earned more than $100,000 last year while 338 were on the list of those making $75,000 or more. City manager Peter Steblin topped the list, earning more
than $284,000 in pay and racking up $7,193 in expenses, while deputy city manager John Paul Dumont collected $251,342 in salary and $2,403 in expenses. Jim McIntyre, the city’s general manager of planning and development, earned
$215,311 while financial services general manager Sheena MacLeod earned $197,176. Engineering general manager Jozsef Dioszeghy rounded out the top five, earning $196,297 in remuneration. see COUNCIL, page 7
CONTACT ThE TRI-CITY NEWS: newsroom@tricitynews.com / sales@tricitynews.com / delivery@tricitynews.com / 604-472-3040