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Sept. is it for new Cent. school DIANE STRANDBERG The Tri-CiTy News
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Charlene Giovanetti-King of the Eagle Ridge Hospital Foundation and Barry Butler are hoping for sunshine for the ninth annual Wheel 2 Heal fundraising bike ride May 6.
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Ready to ride to help Eagle Ridge Hospital MARIO BARTEL
The Tri-CiTy News
Barry Butler admits he’s way too interested in the longrange weather forecast these days.
wettest, snowiest and gloomiest winter — and early spring — in recent memory, Butler said he has developed an unnatural affection for Gore-Tex and layering. He’s ready to ride in some sunshine.
He’s getting ready to participate in his fourth Wheel 2 Heal bike ride on Saturday, May 6 to raise money for the Eagle Ridge Hospital Foundation. After pedalling his way through the coldest,
Charlene Giovanetti-King shares his hope. Wheel 2 Heal, of which The Tri-City News is a sponsor, is the major annual fundraiser for the ERH Foundation, pulling in more than $100,000.
The money is used to buy equipment and support programs the hospital needs to serve its more than 100,000 patients annually.
see COURSES, page 17
“Better late than never” could be the motto for the new Centennial secondary school, which won’t be open for classes until September — at least two years after it was originally expected to be ready. Staff at the school are being notified this week that they can pack up their classrooms for a move to the new school building, which will take place at the end of the school year, said Ivano Cecchini, School District 43’s assistant secretarytreasurer of facilities and planning services. The school’s technology department, including the automotive program, moved over last year in anticipation of the school’s opening but a number of construction delays, some caused by poor winter weather, held up the project, Cecchini said. see NO COST HIKE, page 7
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