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FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 2015 Your community. Your stories.
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A LITTLE LIBRARY, A LOT OF SKILL
A sketch of the suspect in a reported attempted child luring on Sept. 11 near Coquitlam’s Westwood Park.
Cops seek man in luring Mounties are hoping to identify a man in connection with an attempted child luring earlier this month in Port Coquitlam. A woman reported to police that a man had tried to offer her 11-year-old granddaughter a ride to school on the morning of Sept. 11. The girl was riding her bike in the 3400-block of Hastings Street at about 8 a.m. when a car stopped near her and the driver rolled down his window to ask if she wanted a ride. She refused and continued on her way to school. The man is described as a Caucasian in his 20s or 30s, clean-shaven, with blond hair and blue eyes, and wearing blue squareframed glasses and a black shirt. The vehicle is described as a small blue or dark blue car or sedan. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 604-945-1550 and quote file number 2015-31003 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 or solvecrime.ca.
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Rotary Club of Port Moody president Trudy Gallant and Walter Peachey, who built the Little Free Library at Old Orchard Park. For more on the library, see story on page 9.
WIND STORM AFTERMATH
Storm cost cities & SD43 big bucks GARY MCKENNA SARAH PAYNE & DIANE STRANDBERG The Tri-CiTy News
The cost of the damage from last month’s windstorm is still being tallied but there are some indications the bad weather could be bad news for municipalities’ bottom lines. The city of Coquitlam estimates the damage at approximately $250,000, with another $80,000 in staff overtime costs.
Kathleen Vincent, the city’s manager of corporate communications, said some of the money will be recovered from the province through its emergency response program. The bulk of the expense came from clearing trees from roads and sidewalks; as well, 16 streetlights and one traffic signal had to be replaced. Staff spent the day monitoring and maintaining fuel levels in generators at several pump stations, and swapping out
batteries at traffic signals until power was restored. They were also busy checking drainage intakes to make sure they were clear. Port Moody has an even higher bill thanks to a broken sewer line caused by a fallen tree over Melrose Creek ravine. That is expected to set taxpayers back $500,000, while another $30,000 was spent clearing roads of damaged trees.
CHAFER BEETLES
Beware, beetles are back in your lawns
GARY MCKENNA
The Tri-CiTy News
It is still early fall but signs that chafer beetles are back — along with the animals that eat them — are already starting to show up on Tri-City lawns.
This summer’s heat wave sent chafer grubs deeper underground. With the cool, moist air returning recently, the insects are starting to move back to the surface again. see BIRDS, page 16
see SEWER BREAK, page 16
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