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Witnesses wanted in bear-spray attack
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Pedestrian was sprayed during altercation with driver on Columbia
School district says school will now open in September 2020 By Cayley Dobie
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Police are looking for witnesses after a man was attacked with bear spray last Thursday. The incident happened shortly before 9 p.m. on Aug. 31. Police say a man was crossing Eighth Street at Columbia Street when a car turning left on to Eighth nearly hit him. “The victim then hit the front of the car with his arm,” New Westminster police spokesperson Staff Sgt. Andrew Perry told the Record. “The victim and the two males in the vehicle then started to get into a verbal altercation with each other.” As the car pulled away, one of the men sprayed the pedestrian with bear spray, Perry said. A bystander called police but, by the time they arrived, the suspect vehicle had driven away.The pedestrian was able to clean off the spray with water and didn’t need any medical attention, according to Perry. “He was able to treat himself at the time with some water,” he added. Investigators are looking into the incident to determine whether or not charges are warranted. Police have very limited information to share right now, he said, adding the only description available of the suspect’s car is that it was a white, four-door car. If you have info call the New Westminster police at 604-5255411.
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The New Westminster Secondary School replacement project has hit another major road block. The school district announced last week it has postponed the opening of the new high school until September 2020 – one year later than anticipated. “That was a very ambitious plan,” New Westminster school district superintendent Pat Duncan said of the initial plan to open the school in September 2019. Funding for the long-awaited replacement of New Westminster Secondary School was announced in June 2016. At the time, the Ministry of Education said the school would be ready for students by December 2019, but that didn’t sit well with Duncan. Instead, he said he pushed for an earlier opening date of September 2019 to avoid a mid-year move for students, but the three firms chosen to come up with design proposals for the school said it just wasn’t feasible. “Based on the feedback from the three proponents it became very, very clear that if we’re to continue with this very ambitious plan, we’d be ending up putting a lot of dollars into building quickly rather than building the very best school,” he said. Now the goal is to have the school ready by May 2020 so the school district can start moving supplies into the building in time for the opening four months later.This means by the time students walk through the doors of the new high school, everything inside will be complete, Duncan said. Continued on page 3
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