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FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 2017 Your community. Your stories. Five Convenient Tri-Cities
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PREPARING FOR WINTER
Forget the sun, time to budget for winter More snow plows, more brine tanks for Coquitlam GARY MCKENNA
The Tri-CiTy News
If the Lower Mainland gets walloped with snow storms this winter like it did the last one, Coquitlam wants to be ready. Monday, city council approved a $115,000 order for two small brine tanks ($40,000) and four plows and salters ($75,000) capable of being mounted on city trucks. “Given that severe, persistent winter conditions typically occur at only six- to 10-year intervals in our region, it would be difficult to justify a similar level of investment in snow removal
equipment as in some eastern Canadian communities,” staff said in a report. “However, we are recommending some enhancements to our fleet by equipping four more large pickup trucks with plows and salters at a relatively low cost.” In the event of a major snow storm, the city’s priority is to clear arterial and collector routes. After that, trucks will plow bus routes, hills, and roads next to schools and care facilities before finishing the remaining roads, said a staff report. The document noted that the new plows will increase the city’s snow removal capacity and help clear smaller culde-sacs and narrow lanes that were difficult to reach during last season’s snow storms. see $1.5M WAS BILL, page 11
LIGHT UP FOR MENTAL HEALTH
The colour purple will play role for mental health: see page 3
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Coquitlam Farmers Market manager Tabitha McLaughlin shows off some B.C.-grown produce in the community garden at the Port Moody police station that is run by the market society. The market will be open Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in time for Thanksgiving meal preparations. For more on the market, see article on page 9.
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