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INSIDE: TRI-CITY STUDENTS IN SPOTLIGHT [pg. 20] / TC SPORTS [pg. 28] WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2017 Your community. Your stories.
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Summer too slow at food bank DIANE STRANDBERG The Tri-CiTy News
Raising a daughter with special needs on a disability pension wasn’t always easy. But Valerie says the help she got from the food bank in the form of groceries every two weeks helped get her through the months and years, and now the Tri-City senior is asking the community to give once again.
see WITHOUT MORE, page 6
Roxann MacDonald, director of fund development with Share Family and Community Services, takes a look at the empty shelves at the Port Moody food bank. A summer food drive is underway, with the goal of getting healthy foods for distribution to about 800 households in the Tri-Cities.
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Hoy residents get reprieve to Sept. ’18 Provincial co-op organization gets involved to help Coquitlam tenants
GARY MCKENNA The Tri-CiTy News
Residents at the Hoy Creek Housing Co-op will continue to receive subsidies until September 2018 after an agreement was struck last
week between the board and the Co-op Housing Federation of BC (CHFBC). The decision bypasses the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), which has been pressuring the board to
relinquish control of the Coquitlam property and grant it full receivership powers over the land. CMHC said it would not extend a subsidized housing agreement, which expires in July, unless the co-op complied with its request.
Instead, the provincial organization said it will make up the difference, allowing more time for all parties to come to a long-term agreement regarding Hoy’s future. see A MANDATE, page 4
Housing hope for Coquitlam low-income earners: pg. 5
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