LONG TABLE
The Tri-Cities three divas — MLA Selina Robinson, Port Moody Coun. Diana Dilworth and events planner Polly Krier (centre) — hosted about 200 guests for their Long Table Dinner in Belcarra on Wednesday.
AUTISM LINKS
The 9th annual Saccomaniacs Agriculture for Autism golf tournament and trade show, sponsored in part by The Tri-City News, linked in $65,000 for the Pacific Autism Family Network last month at Coquitlam’s Westwood Plateau.
DRUMS, SONGS
The inaugural Kwikwetlem First Nation golf tournament and gala, aimed to raise funds for the band’s new wellness centre, saw Indigenous entertainment and other offerings at the charity event in Pitt Meadows last Thursday, which was sponsored in part by The Tri-City News.
FRIENDSHIP GAME
Tri-City News sales rep Arlene Grant joined the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce CEO Michael Hind and Coquitlam Express president Mark Pettie for the first-ever Links to Friendship Golf Tournament.
HAWTHORNE $
A capital campaign launched earlier this year to raise funds for Port Coquitlam’s Hawthorne Seniors Care Centre is almost two-thirds complete. This month, campaign manager Rita Albano announced $633,072 had been brought in for the cause, which aims to collect $1 million for Growing Our Care. Meanwhile, the cost to name a private resident room has been lowered to $5,000; currently, the campaign team — chaired by PoCo Mayor Greg Moore and includes PoCo MLA (and B.C.’s Solicitor General) Mike Farnworth — has 36 rooms for naming. Visit hawthornecare.com/capital-campaign to donate.
PNE FUN
Radek Chojmacki and his four-year-old daughter Madison Chojmacki of Coquitlam enjoyed the brand new Flutterbye ride at The Fair at the PNE, in Vancouver, which closes Monday, Sept. 4.
BREATHE EASY
A fundraising drive launched by the Sasamat Volunteer Fire Department is now past the $103,000 mark. Crews have about $67,000 left to go to complete the campaign, which will buy new SCBA (Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus) units for firefighters serving Anmore and Belcarra.The latest donations came in from participants of the privately organized Anmore Games tournament as well as Lynne Boardman, Sydney Bellack, Belcarra Mayor Ralph Drew and his wife Carol, and Anmore elementary student Austin Schmidt. To contribute, call 604-839-5315 or visit svfd.ca.
MPS OUT AND ABOUT
Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam Liberal MP Ron McKinnon talked about fish habitats with the Kwikwetlem First Nation this week and provided updates about the federal Fisheries Act. Meanwhile, MP Fin Donnelly (Port Moody-Coquitlam) was on the Fraser River last week for the FraserFest paddle to English Bay.
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