HOSPITAL HOOPS
The Phoenix, a community girls’ basketball team, sunk $300 into the BC Children’s Hospital, a donation matched by Horst Siegler (left). “They consider themselves lucky to be healthy,” he said.
CHIME IN
The Coquitlam Celebration Choir gave $1,000 it raised from its concert last month to the Crossroads Hospice Society, which has its centre in Port Moody. Their performance was held at Coquitlam’s St. Laurence Church.
IAFF MEET
Tri-City firefighters this week hosted the IAFF Western Canadian conference in Coquitlam, which heard from Lionel and Joanna Crowther (centre) about dealing with tragedy following from the Gabrielle Roy fire in Winnipeg.
'DISTINCT' WOMAN
Belcarra resident Miranda Andersen was given the title of Young Woman of Distinction by the YWCA. The filmmaker, speaker and blogger on enufsaid.com volunteers with Mossom Creek hatchery.
HAPPY RETIREMENT
A music teacher at Minnekhada middle retires this month after 20 years at the north Port Coquitlam school. Stephanie Olsen wrapped up her last concert at the school on June 7.
TRADE SCHOLARSHIPS
Thirty former students from School District 43 were recognized as Secondary School Youth Work in Trades (YWT) scholarship award winners, at the board of education’s June 5 meeting.
The accolades went to students who completed all four YWT courses through Coquitlam Open Learning, maintained at least a C+ average in their Grade 12 classes and finished 900 workplace hours in an apprenticeship such as cooking, plumbing, hairdressing and metal fabricating.
Doug MacLean (SD43’s trades and transitions co-ordinator) and Brett McLean (SSA teacher) handed out the scholarships to:
• from CABE, Edgar Holden;
• from Centennial, Nick Schaeffers;
• from COL, Isaac Story;
• from Dr. Charles Best, Brandon Bavaro and Tyler McRae;
• from Gleneagle, Jason Gee, Martin Norman, James Tan, Shoma Asano and Ian Bayly;
• from Heritage Woods, Jacob Gagnon and Aidan Harvey;
• from Port Moody, Alexander Moersch and Grace Collins;
• from Riverside, Tiaan Grimbeek, Jaymee Lynn, Brandon Lahm, Kyle Morgan, Sean Pilgrim, Nicole Poson, Tyler Quitzau and Aaron Royer;
• and from Terry Fox secondary, Lucus Craig, Alex Overbury, Nicole Pasqualini, Kyle Pickard, Matthew Poole, Kyle Shish, Toren Varju-Mancini and Matthew Buckshaw.
BEER HIKE
Members of the Coquitlam Craft Crunchers took to the steep northside hill Wednesday night before heading over to Mariner Beer — the city’s first microbrewery — to fundraise for the Ride to Conquer Cancer. On Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m., Mariner also hosts Pints for Puppies to benefit the Coquitlam Animal Shelter; massages and teeth cleaning will be available for dogs in attendance.
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