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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 Your community. Your stories.
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Federal cuts hit Tri-City stream groups DIANE STRANDBERG The Tri-CiTy News
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Mary da Costa, 56, has been volunteering and helping to organize the annual Relay For Life at Percy Perry Stadium in Coquitlam as a way to give back after she survived Stage II cervical cancer 27 years ago. For more on her story and the 2017 edition of the Relay, being held this Saturday, please read article on page 10.
in a life in baseball, Port Moody’s wayne Norton played with and against some of the game’s legends (and scouted great young players). Tougher than any fastball he faced, though, was his ALs diagnosis: see story, page 3
Tri-City streamkeeper groups are crying foul after the federal government announced cuts to B.C. salmon enhancement programs that help volunteers raise fish and educate school children about the salmon life cycle. Hatcheries in the Tri-Cities learned last week they will lose expert advice on restoration work with the phasing out of the Resource Restoration Unit and will no longer get technical support for day-to-day operations because fishery specialists contracts aren’t being renewed. Groups such as Maple Creek Streamkeepers and Burrard Inlet Marine Enhancement Society, which runs the Mossom Creek Hatchery, say the loss of technical support as a result of Fisheries and Oceans Canada cuts will hamper the work they do. “We won’t have the support that we have now,” said Sandy Budd, whose Port Coquitlam streamkeepers group restored a large portion of Maple Creek last year and saw results with more salmon returning to spawn. see CUTS TO FUNDING, page 11
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