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Former Red Larry Walker to baseball hall + Class action suit in Iran plane crash + Total rises for dad fighting cancer
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Board chair defends SD43 response to assault case at Citadel Mom, many on social media slam district for lack of action DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
Ray and Susan Stonehouse have been running Great Canadian Sportscard Co. in Port Moody for 31 years, enduring the brief boom and bust of the card collecting industry but still not venturing into the world of social media or online retailing. For more on their store and their story, please see page 19. MARIO BARTEL /THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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The chair of the School District 43 board of education said school administrators did not sit on the sidelines and do nothing after an alleged assault near Citadel middle school earlier this month. Kerri Palmer Isaak told The Tri-City News on Wednesday that a principal called police immediately after the Jan. 10 incident and admins reached out to all families and students involved. “It’s unfortunate that there was a great deal of misinformation,” Palmer Isaak said Wednesday, claiming staff
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were “very much involved.” “The principal and assistant superintendent were involved with the families. That was a number one priority — concerting to work with the families involved.” School District 43 has come under fire in many social media posts for its handling of the incident, which was first reported to the public on Facebook by someone claiming to be the mother of the girl who was allegedly assaulted. (RCMP have arrested a 13-year-old Maple Ridge boy on one count of assault causing bodily harm and another count of uttering threats stemming from the incident. He has been released on a promise to appear in court. For more on this, see story on page 17.) see
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