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More opportunities for outdoor dining eyed as Port Coquitlam pub grapples with changing restaurant market; Pub aims to turn more of its liquor-only seats to dining tables

Despite its civic layoffs last year, the city of Coquitlam remains committed to supporting the community through the pandemic, by offering a number of relief programs to residents, businesses and non-profits.

Coquitlam residents can ask questions about the $16.5-million infrastructure project for Burke Mountain, during a Zoom meeting with city staff in April.

Vancouver Safety Surfacing can fix problem driveways in less than a day

A massive Burke Mountain site, next to Smiling Creek elementary and park, could soon have townhouses and a childcare centre for up to 94 kids.

The first purpose-built office tower will go up in two years in Coquitlam’s City Centre neighbourhood.

Coquitlam residents will get an extra four months — for free — tacked onto their annual parking pass for civic recreation centres.

The after-grad committees at SD43 high schools are fundraising and trying to find creative ways to honour their 2021 graduates during the second year of the pandemic.

The provincial government has renamed the historical property “səmiq̓wəʔelə” to reflect the presence of the Kwikwetlem First Nation and the ties to its ancestral land.

A plant nursery that’s proposing to have pop-up garden centres in Port Moody, Vancouver and the township of Langley is also eyeing a high-profile site in Coquitlam.