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50-plus rec is a concern for city GARY MCKENNA
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An arbourist takes down a tree near Rocky Point Park on Friday. The trees, including a large cedar near the skate park, an ornamental apple tree and three ornamental cherry trees, are being chopped down to allow hydro poles to be moved to accommodate construction of the Murray Street bike lane extension.
Participation rates at Coquitlam’s two seniors’ recreation centres are not keeping pace with those at other civic facilities. And that may be because local seniors are using more than just Dogwood and Glen Pine pavilions, raising the question of whether those facilities for people 50 years of age and up are “meeting the needs of many older adults,” according to a city staff report. Older adults are increasingly turning to the city’s other rec facilities, with the 50-plus crowd making up more than half of all users, the document noted. see NOBODY LIKES, page 4
PROVINCIAL ELECTION AFTERMATH
Isaacs’ lead rises, absentee count to come elections BC turns down a BC NDP call for recount in Coquitlam-Burke Mountain riding
DIANE STRANDBERG The Tri-CiTy News
The election of BC Liberal Joan Isaacs in the tightly contested riding of CoquitlamBurke Mountain will stand for now after Elections BC last
week denied a recount request by the BC NDP. But while all parties await the counting of absentee ballots, the NDP is still seeking an explanation for the denial, according to Glen Sanford, the New Democrats’ deputy pro-
vincial director. “We’re asking them for an explanation. We’re still going back and forth with them,” Sanford told The Tri-City News. “We wanted to be on the record as insisting that every single vote be double-checked,”
he added, noting, “A lot more will be revealed when they count the absentee ballots.” Sanford said he wasn’t concerned that Isaacs’ winning margin increased to 268 votes from 170 counted on election night, noting that it’s not un-
usual for totals to change following the initial count. (The numbers changed because Elections BC noticed a “transposition” error and corrected the mistake). see 1.26% BETWEEN, page 11
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