Coquitlam
Port Coquitlam
Port Moody
A bear that went into home is caught and euthanized
Council takes developer’s side over driveway concerns
A piece of PoMo heritage goes down after fire
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3 people arrested, 3 bears are killed “I yelled, ‘Don’t shoot the bears. There’s kids around’” Stefan Labbé Grant GranGer
Coquitlam All-Stars coach Cole Bertsch hoists Brady Dorwart into the air as the team celebrates its first B.C. Little League Majors provincial championship Sunday following a 5-3 win over Little Mountain in the title game at Vancouver’s Hillcrest Park. The team is now representing British Columbia at the Canadian national championships in Ancaster, Ont., Aug. 1 to 11. The winner of that tournament will go on to play at the famed Little League World Series in Williamsport, Penn. Aug. 15 to 25. For more on the Coquitlam Little Leaguers, see page 36. LUCIanO SteLLa PhOtO
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Three Coquitlam residents were arrested Tuesday for obstructing conservation officers as they tried to capture a family of bears. The incident happened at around 3 p.m. north of Mundy Park, near Baker and Sumpter drives, as the officers closed in on a family of bears that was “heavily habituated and food-conditioned,” according to the BC Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS). BCCOS said it had received several calls over the last few weeks about a black bear mother and two cubs in the area, according to Insp. Murray Smith, who overseas
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Arts community rallies around in wake of PM fire: see page 32 the Lower Mainland region. Over that time, the bears had lost their fear of humans and had become conditioned to eating non-natural food sources like garbage. Conservation officers arrived Tuesday afternoon as the bears were once again leaving an unsecured garbage can. When officers tried to direct the bears up a tree to tranquilize them, two men and a woman from the neighbourhood started interfering with the officers, Smith said in a media conference call Wednesday. see
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