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Troubles in store for share Diane stranDberg The Tri-CiTy News
Can a thrift store that started in someone’s basement 46 years ago survive in today’s increasingly challenging retail environment? That’s the question Share Family and Community Services is asking as it launches a public awareness campaign to win new customers and overcome the challenges wrought by increasing competition and changing demographics.
see ‘WE NEED’, page 6
Rhona Modugno, who has volunteered at the thrift store run by Share Family and Community Services for four years, sorts clothing.
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7 PoCo employees fired for alleged theft Over 10 years, about $75k was taken, city alleges Janis Cleugh
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Seven city of Port Coquitlam engineering and operations
department employees were fired this week and last week for allegedly stealing copper pipes owned by the municipality, The Tri-City News has learned. The workers, whose length of service ranges from one and a half to 21 years, are accused of taking part in a coordinated theft — an estimated loss to the city of more than $75,000
more were terminated Tuesday for theft “and some for lack of full disclosure and cooperation during the investigation.” “The consequence there is that we’ve lost trust in those folks and, once we’ve lost trust, then it’s difficult to continue the employment relationship,” Leeburn said. He later added: “Nobody came forward to confess.”
over the past 10 years. Each employee is alleged to have received cumulative cash amounts ranging from less than $100 to $10,000. John Leeburn, PoCo’s chief administrative officer, who is leaving the job at the end of this month, told The Tri-City News Wednesday he fired two employees last Friday and five
None of the seven employees will be granted severance as their terminations are considered just cause, he said. The dismissals come two months after a former PoCo facility maintenance co-ordinator was sentenced for stealing about $175,000 from the city over a three-year period. In May, Dean McIntosh received
an 18-month conditional sentence order after he pleaded guilty in March to obtaining money over $5,000 by false pretences; he had used a city credit card and the purchasing system to buy tools and small machines, which were later resold via a third party. see FIRINGS, page 8
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