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Drop in Hard Rock Casino revenues hits city’s coffers.
Stitch it, don’t ditch it, at PoCo’s new Repair Café.
Bert Flinn Park right-of-way will remain on PoMo’s books.
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Inquiry into $$ laundering + BC Liberal postcard targets NDP MLA + Coq. works on plan for climate change
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PoCo wife & husband die in float plane crash Elsa Wilk, 37, and Ryan Wilk, 39, both worked in tech Stefan Labbé slabbe@tricitynews.com
A 37-year-old Port Coquitlam resident and her American husband were among six people killed Monday in a midair crash near Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska State Troopers released the names of Elsa Wilk, 37, as a resident of Richmond, and Ryan Wilk, 39, as an American from Utah. But sources close to the couple confirmed the two were residents of Port Coquitlam. The floatplanes were carrying tourists from a cruise ship when they collided more than 3,000 feet in the air. Elsa Wilk was a third-degree black belt in taekwondo who at one point trained at the Pacific Rim Taekwondo
Aniela Guzikowski is worried about cigarettes in creeks, rivers and, eventually, the ocean, where they end up in the stomachs of birds, turtles and other marine life. To combat the problem, the 11-year-old is spearheading the Butt Free BC campaign, hoping cities such as Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody will help raise awareness about the problem and encourage people to dispose of their cigarette butts responsibly. For more on Aniela and her butt-battling campaign, see article on page 19. Diane StranDberg/the tri-City newS
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Institute in Coquitlam and Triumph Taekwondo Club in Port Coquitlam. Until last year, she worked as a marketing director for the CryptoKitties blockchain game but lately had been working as a freelance communications person. “She worked her ass off,” said one acquaintance, who asked not to be identified. “She worked, worked, worked.” Ryan Wilk was an influential name in the crypto-security community, according to one colleague, and became the face of the Vancouverbased security firm NuData, which was purchased in 2017 by MasterCard. “It is with deep shock and sadness that we must share that Ryan Wilk and his wife Elsa have passed away following a tragic plane accident whilst on holiday,” wrote a spokesperson for MasterCard. see
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