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IT’S EMPTY NOW BUT DREAMS ARE MADE THERE
AMANDA TODD
Todd is pleased at Coban sentence SARAH PAYNE
The Tri-CiTy News
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Dian Cross and her son Dylan have opened up The Crossing Studios’ newest location in Coquitlam. The family business is hoping to expand into other parts of the city as more Hollywood productions are looking for studio space in the area. For more on their business — and show business in Metro Vancouver — see article on page 9.
The messages started rolling in at 4 a.m. Tuesday: Carol, wake up. Carol, court is starting, wake up. It’s happening. In a Winnipeg hotel room, Carol Todd rubbed drowsy eyes, turned on her phone and began scrolling through the tweets from friends and reporters inside the Dutch courtroom where Aydin Coban, the Dutchman charged with targeting online nearly three dozen girls and five adult gay men around the world, was about to hear his fate. Her heart sinking, Todd saw that the 38-year-old had been acquitted in four of the five cases involving the adult men.
see ‘IT WAS GOOD’, page 3
PORT COQUITLAM
PoCo sticks with more pricey mgmt. deal JANIS CLEUGH The Tri-CiTy News
A contract to oversee the construction of the new Port Coquitlam recreation complex that jumped by $1 million will
remain in effect. On Tuesday, the city’s finance committee — made up of the mayor and all six city councillors — voted 4-3 to retain Tango Management as the project leaders for the new
— PoCo’s budget committee chair — Glenn Pollock and Laura Dupont, told The Tri-City News the scope and length of the project has changed since the firm was hired in January 2015 at a cost of $343,000.
civic facility, which was to break ground today (Friday), although some work has already begun. Mayor Greg Moore, who was in favour of proceeding with the consulting firm along with councillors Dean Washington
And he said re-tendering the project management contract at this point would have delayed construction by up to two months. see 4-3 VOTE, page 8
$114 average tax increase in PoCo: page 8
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