THE WEDNESDAY
SEPT. 21, 2011
2010 WINNER
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INSIDE Tom Fletcher/A10 Letters/A11 A Good Read/A19 Community Calendar/A28
It was all about Terry on the weekend [see pages A3 & A18]
LEFT: JENNIFER GAUTHIER/THE TRI-CITY NEWS; RIGHT: SARA BORCK PHOTOGRAPHY
The weekend of the 31st annual Terry Fox Runs kicked off on Friday in Vancouver with the unveiling of a memorial — consisting of four statues depicting Terry Fox’s running gait — outside BC Place Stadium. Above right, internationally known author and artist Douglas Coupland and Rolly Fox pose with one of the statues. The weekend got rocking in the Tri-Cities on Sunday, though, when four Terry Fox Runs were held in the area: Coquitlam, Port Moody, Anmore and the Hometown Run in Port Coquitlam, where Rolly Fox (above left) ran with event organizer Dave Teixeira, Premier Christy Clark and super fundraiser Jim Terrion, a deaf man from Prince George who has walked across Canada to raise money and has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Terry Fox Foundation over the years.
Net helps, rain hurts at local Terry Fox Runs
6th bear killed in PoCo City will expand enforcement to south side to keep hungry bears from being shot
By Janis Warren
By Diane Strandberg
THE TRI-CITY NEWS
THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Social media played a big role in this year’s Terry Fox Runs, with organizers seeing higher participation and fundraising levels than last year’s 30th anniversary. Donna White, provincial director for the BC/Yukon Terry Fox Foundation, told The Tri-City Newss yesterday online and smartphone technology to allow direct donations proved to be a boon for the charity, which has raised more than $500 million for cancer research in the PoCo hero’s name over the last three decades. As well, on Sunday — the day 770 communities held Terry Fox Runs across Canada — the foundation’s Facebook page hit the 20,000 “friends” mark; since then, dozens of stories and photos from Run participants have been uploaded.
Port Coquitlam is cracking down on garbage-related infractions on the city’s south side after the sixth bear of the year was recently destroyed. For the first time, enforcement officers are handing out warnings and $150 fines to people living on PoCo’s south side who leave their garbage out as well as the north because of problems with bears eating garbage. “This is huge, we have to react very quickly to this,” said Dan Scoones, the city’s manager of bylaw services. While all of Port Coquitlam is expected to follow bear regulations, areas of particular concern are the Cedar Drive area on the north side and homes near Colony Farm and along the Coquitlam River, where bears have been knocking over garbage cans and getting into garages. Night patrols will be scouring Cedar Drive because people have been setting their garbage out early, Scoones said, and officers will be visiting homes on the south side if garbage
see TWEETS URGED, page A3
MORE INFO ON BEARS The next installment in our series on bears in the TriCities is set for the Sept. 28 edition of The Tri-City News and food scraps are being left outside. All wildlife attractants, including beverage containers and food scraps, must be stored indoors or kept in a cart locked up with a special Critterguard or other city-approved locking device. “We’re telling people everywhere across town it’s time to lock it up,” Scoones said. He said he was alerted to the seriousness of the situation about two weeks ago when a bear cub was treed in a neighbourhood near Westwood Street, south of Lincoln Avenue. Conservation officers informed him that bears were fanning out across the city and getting into garages. Five had been shot, up from the one the city recorded in mid-August, Scoones said, prompting the city to step up enforcement. see SOURCE CONTROL CONTROL,, page A7