Coquitlam
Port Coquitlam
Port Moody
Bars, restaurants and maybe even a hotel for City Centre?
PoCo council to send China resolution to UBCM
Jobs plan for Moody Centre gets rough ride, is deferred
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HAPPENING GUIDE Port Moody residents, find our fall recreation guide with this paper. Register for fall rec programs at
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LEANING INTO THE RACE
The fourth annual PoCo Grand Prix (PGP), one of six races in the BC Superweek road bike racing series, drew hundreds of riders — from pros to kids — and thousands of spectators to downtown Port Coquitlam last Friday. Left: Racers in the men’s pro event lean into a corner from McAllister Avenue on to Donald Street. For PGP coverage, please see pages 17 and 43. MARIO BARTEL THE TRI-CITY NEWS
SCHOOL DISTRICT 43
Trip to China just business: SD43 Gartland and Hobson went to China in May DIANE STRANDbERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
Two months after School District 43 trustees put on hold a planned trip to China due to security concerns, district officials — including the superintendent and the chair of the board of education —
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travelled to China on a business trip to promote SD43’s international education program, The Tri-City News has learned. This trip, taken by board chair and Coquitlam Trustee
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Barb Hobson, superintendent Patricia Gartland and the program’s director of marketing, was funded by the international ed. department’s marketing budget, not by the government of China, as has happened in
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past trips taken by trustees. Neither Gartland nor Hobson — SD43’s top staff and elected officials respectively — responded to multiple interview requests since last week. And an SD43
spokesperson told The TriCity News last week, “Both Ms. Gartland and Ms. Hobson are unavailable until mid-tolate August.”
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