Coquitlam
Port Coquitlam
Port Moody
City looks at how it can regulate vaping sales.
Four legal weed businesses get initial OK from the city.
Citizen group wants safer streets for walkers, cyclists.
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T H U R S D AY
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APRIL 18
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2019
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I C E C R E A M E X PA N S I O N O N B R E W E R S R O W
Jamie and Yvette Cuthbert toast their plan to expand production of their Rocky Point Ice Cream at a new 6,000-sq. ft. facility to be built in the old Western Safety warehouse just a few doors down Murray Street in from their concession stand in Rocky Point Park. For more on this Port Moody-born and -bred business story, see page 21. MARIO BARTEL/ THE TRI-CITY NEWS
SCHOOL DISTRICT 43
More help demanded for kids, teachers Unions make requests at School District 43 budget meeting DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
School District 43 employment numbers show the district has hired hundreds of teachers and added hundreds more education assistants since cuts were made after a financial crunch six years ago. But a budget meeting
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Tuesday night revealed there are still shortages in the system as educators grapple with an increase in students with mental health concerns and diagnosed special needs in a system that has been overburdened and stretched for years.
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Waving his pay stub and calling on the SD43 board of education to improve working conditions for education assistants, Shamus Halvorsen said he’s tired of having to work two jobs to make ends meet. “We are burnt out,” Halvorsen told a
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crowd of about 100 people who turned out to comment on the district’s proposed school operating budget for 2019/’20. He was among more than a dozen speakers who called on the district to find ways to relieve staff shortages and help
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schools deal with traumatic issues, from students who have thoughts of suicide to teachers who are being injured on the job dealing with kids who have behavioural issues. SEE
SD43, PAGE 3
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