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Mail service suspended on PoMo hill After 60 years of mail service on Gatensbury, now it’s ‘dangerous’ Sarah Payne
The Tri-CiTy News
It was after her husband of 62 years passed away — a Second World War veteran who died on Remembrance Day — that a Gatensbury Road resident realized something was amiss with her mail. She hadn’t seen any for a while, including the condolence cards that friends and family mentioned they’d sent. But the woman’s daughter, who asked that her mother’s name not be used for security reasons, said it was more than
a week and several phone calls to Canada Post before a neighbour told her that mail delivery on the steep, winding hill had been stopped. “With my dad passing… we’re expecting all these timesensitive materials coming in… We’re waiting for all these forms and cards,” Jeri Weir told The Tri-City News. “They said we had to go to the post office on Industrial Avenue in PoCo to pick it up, but that’s a long way from our house as well, and my mom is not driving anymore.” It took other Gatensbury residents about two weeks to learn what had happened to their mail as well. They discovered Canada Post had stopped delivering the mail because the route was deemed “too dangerous.” see ‘WE SHOULD HAVE’, page 14
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2016 BIKE RACE ROLLS INTO POCO
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A BC Superweek road cycling race — a criterium like the long-running Giro di Burnaby, shown above — will be held in Port Coquitlam starting next year. On July 12, 2016, the first PoCo Grand Prix will be held on a downtown course that will take both professional and amateur cyclists along Shaughnessy and Donald streets, Wilson, McAllister and Elgin Avenues, and Mary Hill Road. For more, see page 3.
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