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FRIDAY, SEPT. 9, 2016 Your community. Your stories.
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2016 TERRY FOX RUN
B.C. GOVERNMENT PHOTO
In the Tri-Cities, we think of Terry Fox as ours, but he belongs to the nation. Learn about the people and efforts behind the bevy of Terry Fox Runs across the country in the first of a three-part series leading up to sept. 18: see page 3
An Evergreen Line test train at Lincoln Station in Coquitlam.
EVERGREEN LINE
Evergreen to open by Christmas Park-and-ride lot to be built across from Coq. city hall JANIS WARREN
The Tri-CiTy News
While there’s still no definitive date, the long-awaited Evergreen Line through Port Moody and Coquitlam “will open sometime before Christmas.” That was the pledge Port Moody-Coquitlam MLA Linda Reimer made yesterday at a press conference at Coquitlam city hall, where the province also announced it would finance a park-and-ride lot across the street. “We see a light at the end of the tunnel,” joked Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart at the press conference, a gathering
that included mostly government employees, city councillors and business advocates. “Thank you for that Christmas present.” The news of the earlierthan-anticipated opening — which is still late, considering the initial planned completion date of 2014 and a second one of summer 2016 — was especially welcomed by representatives of Douglas College, which has a campus near the Lafarge Lake-Douglas station, and of Evergreen Cultural Centre, an arts hub located at the terminus of the line. Hazel Postma, Douglas’ vice-president of external relations, told The Tri-City News the late fall opening of the $1.43-billion rapid transit alignment will allow Douglas students to ride the rails before the winter semester starts. see PARKING, page 6
PHOTO COURTESY OF HEATHER STRONG
A photo taken in April at the Terry Fox Mile 0 monument in St. John’s, N.L. — the place where the Port Coquitlam hero dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean 36 years ago before he launched his historic Marathon of Hope.
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