Tri-City News June 16 2017

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HIGH SCHOOL GRAD 2017

A small grad class with big dreams MARIO BARTEL

The Tri-CiTy News

The Grade 12 students at Port Coquitlam’s Hope Lutheran Christian school are busy preparing for grad. There are funds to be raised through operating the school’s concession stand, selling pizza coupons, collecting recyclable bottles and doing odd jobs like gardening and fence painting for paying customers. There’s a menu to be planned for the blowout banquet to be held June 28 at Meadow Gardens golf club in Pitt Meadows. And there’s the matter of choosing a valedictorian. It won’t be easy — half the class has applied for the honour. Mind you, the grad class is comprised of only four students. see ‘WE’RE MOSTLY’, page 9

MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

Hope Lutheran Christian School’s 2017 graduating class is all of four students: (from left) Dana Yang, Daniel Bradley, Taylor Audette and Gary Huang. They’re the first to graduate from the Port Coquitlam private school’s new high school and middle school campus in Pitt Meadows. For more photos, please see page 9.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Cut to salmon ed. in schools reversed Environmentalist credits outrage and letters from public for the program’s restoration

DIANE STRANDBERG The Tri-CiTy News

Teachers and environmental advocates are crediting a public outcry for saving educational and technical supports for salmon programs in

Coquitlam MP Ron McKinnon revealed they have been reversed. The Liberal MP told The Tri-City News Thursday that there will be no changes or reductions to the program, which provides salmon education to classrooms and techni-

local schools and hatcheries that were nearly scuttled in a revamp of federal fisheries and coast guard services. Less than two weeks after cuts to the Salmonid Enhancement Program were announced, Coquitlam-Port

cal supports to hatcheries. The programs will continue as the government continues with a $3-billion investment into Fisheries and Oceans Canada operations across the country, including a $75-million, fiveyear Coastal Restoration Fund

to identify and prioritize threats to marine species. “We want to see our salmon survive and thrive, and it’s really important these programs continue,” McKinnon said. see OUTRAGE, LETTERS, page 21

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