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N E W S P A P E R THE CHANGING CITY
Old Keg set for Irish fare
WE BUILT THIS CITY:
Savanna Shepherd, 11, gets creative at the Hack Our City event held at New Westminster City Hall on Saturday. Hive City, a New-West based business, helped kids build a city out of cardboard. The two-day Hack Your City event also featured opendata hacking, workshops in stop-motion animation and coding, Lego robotics and a pop-up playground in front of city hall. See more at www.newwest record.ca.
‘We are not a cookie cutter type of an operation,’ says new lessee of heritage building By Theresa McManus
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A touch of the blarney will be coming to downtown New Westminster in the fall. Reg Henry, founder and CEO of Kelly O’Bryan’s Neighbourhood Restaurants and Carlos O’Bryan’s Neighbourhood Pubs, confirmed his company has leased the former Canadian Pacific Railway station, which was the longtime home of the Keg restaurant.The hope is to open a restaurant on the ground floor, and a pub on the upper floor, but a rezoning is required to open the liquor-primary pub. “We are not a cookie cutter type of an operation.We go into a space and make it our own,” Henry told the Record. “There are three other locations at this time that have both the
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EDUCATION
Immigration status doesn’t matter now
NewWestminster school district is first in B.C. to officially adopt a sanctuary schools policy cdobie@newwestrecord.ca
Children, no matter their immigration status, should never be denied an education.
That was a sentiment New Westminster trustees enshrined in policy by unanimously approving the province’s first-ever sanctuary schools policy this week. “It should be natural,”
trustee Casey Cook said of the policy. “The fact that we even had to go through this is, to me, quite surprising.” The New Westminster Sanctuary Schools Policy, approved at a public meet-
ing Tuesday, officially recognizes that students with precarious immigration status or no immigration status at all can access an education in the school district. Its intent is to create a welcoming
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