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SPOTLIGHT: Music programs at RCH

Recent achievements by residents, groups and businesses in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody.
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A $20,000 grant from Variety - The Children’s Charity is paying for twice-a-week music therapy sessions in the pediatric unit at Royal Columbian Hospital, which serves the Tri-Cities.

 

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Maura Fitzpatrick, fundraising manager for the Children of the Street Society, received $500 from Joanne Krisko, secretary for the Maple Ridge Fraternal Order of Eagles #2831, Ladies Auxiliary.

 

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Proceeds from the first annual football pool at the Frog and Nightgown Pub in Coquitlam hopped in $1,662 for the Crossroads Hospice Society coffers this month.

 

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Indian dancers celebrated Coquitlam’s 125th year at the inaugural Dish & Dialogues last week at Douglas College. The next meal and cultural gathering is Feb. 16 at Pasta Polo. Visit coquitlam125.ca.

 

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Port Moody Rotarians kicked over $17,457 to the city’s youth leaders this week to fund the Youth Employment Training Project, organized by PoMo and Port Coquitlam youth services staff.

 

Other Spotlight items:

KEEPING WARM

An annual blanket drive by Lower Mainland realtors helped more than 17,000 working poor and homeless people this winter.

The Realtors Care Blanket campaign saw some 100 real estate offices serve as drop-off points for donations between Nov. 16 and 23, 2015.

Volunteers then collected, sorted and delivered the donations to local charities, including to groups in the Tri-Cities, according to a release.

“These donations serve a real need and make a difference in communities across the region,” Darcy McLeod, Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver president, said in a press release.

 

SHARING WEALTH

A union local handed over $1,000 to help Tri-City families in need last month.

Business manager Brian Cochrane and union officers with the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 115 pitched in the cash to the Tri-City-based Share Family and Community Services Society as a result of its call for help around Christmas time.

“While most of us have been fortunate to have a joyous season filled with food, there are many families in need of the basics right here in our communities. A large portion of those people are children,” Cochrane said in a news release.

 

SCHOLARSHIPS

Two Tri-City undergraduates at the University of Alberta are scholarship winners at the Augustana campus they are attending.

Ian Ferguson of Port Coquitlam, a first-year science student, scored $3,500 from the institution while XinTao Long of Coquitlam clinched the same amount.

As well, the Horatio Alger Association of Canada has presented Coquitlam’s Hannah Im with a scholarship for her post-secondary education. Im is one of 85 students to receive the accolade, which is given out to youth who have overcome great adversity and are wanting to further their studies.

 

Please send Spotlight press releases and photos to jwarren@tricitynews.com.