Crossroads Hospice Society netted more than $3,500 from the Port Moody Oldtimers Hockey Association this month — cash collected at the league’s third annual hockey pool and year-end banquet plus donations.
ANTI-FRAUD
A Coquitlam RCMP shred-a-thon last Saturday brought in $1,446 in donations for Share, three times more than what organizers had expected. It also raised 396 pounds of items for the Share food bank.
PET MEALS
A new pet food production plant will open next month in Port Coquitlam. Coquitlam’s Inna Shekhtman, CEO of Red Dog Deli Raw Food, will launch the firm in a newly built, 13,000-sq. ft. facility.
GIRL POWER
Two Tri-City residents were in the House of Commons this month for International Women’s Day. Sarah Wahedi and Aman Kular were in Ottawa for the historic all-female sitting in Parliament. Both are part of Daughters of the Vote, an organization that calls for equal rights. Wahedi is on the city of Coquitlam’s multicultural advisory committee and is the founder of CSPC Vancouver, a preparatory collegium project dedicated to promoting STEM and tech-based tutoring for immigrant and refugee youth in B.C. Kular is pursuing an interdisciplinary double major in Arts and Humanities and Political Science, at Western University.
NATIONAL KUDOS
Three graduates from the Health Information Management program at the Coquitlam campus of Douglas College were applauded for their high scores on their national certification exam. Brenda Malazarte, Vanessa Medland and Cynthia Ma each won honours awards from the Canadian College of Health Information Management for achieving a final overall mark of 85% or higher. “I feel immense pride because having three of our students recognized out of six in the entire country is an incredible achievement,” said college program co-ordinator and instructor Patricia Visosky, in a press release. “Our standards are maintained at an exceptionally high level and this serves to demonstrate that.”
POETRY FINALS
A student at Port Coquitlam’s École des Pionniers de Maillardville was named this month as a national finalist in the Poetry In Voice contest. Gabrielle Nebrida-Pepin is one of 24 students who will compete for the title on April 20 in Vancouver. “We’re inspired by the creativity and talent of our students, whose performances demonstrate the immense power of the spoken word to evoke, connect and move,” said Poetry In Voice director David Smith.
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