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Gleneagle secondary has the biggest representation of all tri-City schools in emerging talent 20, an annual exhibit of Grade 12 art that opens sunday at Coquitlam’s evergreen Cultural Centre. the show includes works by Cynthia wang (holding her clay sculpture, titled “secret”), sylvia wang (with “the Passage of time”) and Jessy Gao (with her acrylic on glass piece titled “wilted”). the reception runs from 2 to 5 p.m. in the art gallery at evergreen (1205 Pinetree way), with remarks at 2:30 p.m. and a dance performance from the telus Youth Mentor Project at 4:30 p.m. For details on other weekend events in the tri-Cities, see our things-to-do Guide on page 23.
five years ago this week, Mabel and C.K. Chan received the phone call that would change their life. The Coquitlam couple’s son Leo, a student at the university of victoria, said he had become violently ill, was phoning 911 and heading to the hospital. “That was the last time I talked to my son,” Mabel said. at first, everyone — including doctors — assumed Leo was suffering from a severe flu. He was given painkillers after a trip to the clinic that afternoon but by the time he phoned his parents at 9:30 p.m., his condition had worsened dramatically. see ‘HE WOULD WANT’, page 6
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big plans for longtime waterfront mill site 3,400 residential units part of proposal for current flavelle mill site
sarah Payne The Tri-CiTy News
Plans for a new waterfront community in Port Moody could bring 7,000 people and more than 1,000 jobs to a scal-
lop of land that for more than a century has been home to the flavelle sawmill. Gone will be the piles of cedar logs, the clatter of machinery and the sawdust mountains; in their place
would be a bustling neighbourhood of residents, workers, shoppers and park visitors is envisioned for sometime around 2040. The flavelle oceanfront development proposal fea-
tures a mix of residential and office towers, shops and light industry. of the nearly 3,400 residential units, 96% are expected to be in 11 towers ranging from 16 to 38 storeys, plus one
eight-storey mid-rise building. The remainder would come with 75 live-work units and 62 units in a low-rise rental building. see MILL SITE, page 3
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