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Actress Gigliotti takes on Garland HURRICANE IRMA
After Irma, she’s ready to help out DIANE STRANDBERG The Tri-CiTy News
A former Port Moody resident who survived a night of terror when Hurricane Irma slammed St. Maarten wants friends and family back in the Tri-Cities to know she’s OK. “Tell them I love them and miss them,” said Catherine Burns, who has a daughter who lives in Port Coquitlam and was the co-ordinator of the Port Moody Station Museum before leaving the area to do her masters and consulting
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work on the divided island. Now, with a third of the buildings on Dutch St. Maarten destroyed, Burns is reviewing her options. She said she could do more to assist people after the hurricane in her newly adopted home. “I can be useful here, I could be more supportive of organizations in the community,” Burns told The Tri-City News. That wasn’t her view when she flashed a message on her Facebook page asking for help getting off the island. see FORMER LOCAL, page 8
SCHOOL DISTRICT 43
Will SD43 have enough TTOC? DIANE STRANDBERG The Tri-CiTy News
With flu season just around the corner, School District 43 is keeping its fingers crossed that it has signed up enough substitute teachers. “We are in really good shape right now, as a good as anyone could hope to be,” said Randy Manhas, SD43’s direc-
tor of human resources. Unlike other school districts that are scrambling for staff, SD43 has hired all of the 181 teachers needed to fulfill the collective agreement and has created a list of teachers teaching on call (TTOC) of up to 250 names for fill-in staff, although that will likely change.
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see FLU SEASON, page 3
Colleen Quilty’s family has been taking part in the Terry Fox Run for 37 years and has the ribbons to prove it. See article, page 3.
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