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Review Schoenborn decision, PoCo says Simone Blais
sblais@thenownews.com
Allan Schoenborn killed his children in 2008.
The City of Port Coquitlam is urging the province to revisit the B.C. Review Board’s decision to grant child killer Allan Dwayne Schoenborn escorted day trips into the community. Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore has written a letter to Solicitor General
Shirley Bond requesting she do “everything possible” to ensure the board’s decision is reviewed for “reasonableness,” even if that means a court challenge. “As you are aware, the B.C. Review Board decision to allow Mr. Schoenborn ‘some community access,’ has brought about strong public concerns,” Moore wrote in the letter, dated Friday, April 8. “Residents in my community
and the media are very critical of this decision from a public safety perspective.” Moore noted that it is unusual for the courts to interfere in risk assessment judgments, as the Supreme Court of Canada has previously deferred to the review board’s expertise. But there is room for intervention, he writes, when “judgments are clearly unreasonable.”
“Given the limited information available on this case, the credibility of the review board is in question,” he wrote. “In order to restore public confidence in our government processes and institutions, we urge you to act as quickly as possible.” Schoenborn killed his three young children — Kaitlynne, 10, Max, 8, and Cordon, 5
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PoCo Mayor Greg Moore does not want Schoenborn to take escorted day trips.
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Volunteers fill hampers at the SHARE food bank depot in Port Moody in preparation for the 430 or so families that are expected to drop by today to collect one.
Demand still rising at SHARE food bank Jennifer McFee jmcfee@thenownews.com As food prices steadily climb, so does demand at Tri-Cities food banks. SHARE Family & Community Services has seen a small but steady increase in food bank recipients over the past year. SHARE currently provides food relief for 900 to 1,100 local families every two weeks. In March, a total of 2,990 individuals — including
1,154 kids — came to the food bank at least once. Development director Heather Scott said food bank demand rose drastically during Christmas 2009 due to the economic dip. Since then, levels have continued to slowly increase. “It takes a while for families to get back on their feet if they’ve lost their job, as an example. It just takes time to rebuild,” Scott said. “And typically at this time of year, it’s certainly not the same level of donation we would receive during the holiday season. We normally
rely on giving around the holiday period to get us through to May of that year. Then we go into a position at any given time of having only two weeks of food on the shelves.” Scott said SHARE has felt the impact of higher prices when purchasing food for its programs. “Every week, we buy food for our Tiny Bundles program, which is weekly hampers that have additional foods such as milk and eggs and produce to make sure a child under one or a pregnant mom has the nutrition they
need for good development,” she said. “Every week, we’re buying that food so any increase in food prices, we feel it there. While our grocery stores do their best to make it affordable to us, they still need to pass on any increases to us.” SFU marketing professor John Peloza said food donations typically decline any time the economic cycle turns downward. “I think anything that makes people feel more poor leaves them a little bit less generous CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, see FOOD DRIVE.