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Port Moody
City plans to raise DCCs to pay for more parkland.
What will you pay this year for your property taxes?
Previously abandoned plan comes back to council.
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FEBrUary 21
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schoenborn denied again + Investigators looking at mobile home fire + Longtime Coquitlam resident is new chief of transit police
racing into history Almost 30 years ago, Westwood Motorsport Park on Coquitlam’s Westwood Plateau was closed to make way for a golf and country club and high-end homes. Now, one of its racing fixtures, Al Ores, is being honoured for his efforts to boost auto racing. See story in Sports on page 49. (Left: Ores’ Caldwell D-13 Formula Vee racer.) SUBMITTED PHOTO
SOME MORE NOSTALGIA
It sells vinyl and a variety of memorabilia and, now, Port Moody’s Pinball Alley is itself up for sale. Story, page 33
schooL District 43
SD43 wants more student aids District says it won’t stop hiring EAs but union is worried about learning inclusion support workers
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Students with mild to moderate learning challenges in School District 43 could soon get help from a new type of
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support worker, The Tri-City News has learned. But the planned addition of learning inclusion support workers — who would have one year of post-secondary education and be paid less than education assistants —
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has the union representing SD43 support staff concerned about an erosion of standards. “If I was a parent, I would want a fully-qualified EA looking after my child,” said Dave Ginter, president of CUPE Local 561. “They want a fully
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qualified EA, they don’t want a watered-down version.” But diluting the qualifications of EAs is not the goal of the initiative, according to the district’s executive director of human resources. Randy Manhas said SD43
is creating a new post to provide another level of help in the classroom and relieve the pressure on the pool of education assistants, who are in heavy demand. see
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