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Douglas College offers emergency funding for students during COVID-19

Douglas College offers emergency funding for students during COVID-19

Douglas College is offering emergency funding to students in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The college’s emergency fund, which is there to help students facing financial hardship, now stands at $600,000.
Wear these T-shirts with a message: #stayhome

Wear these T-shirts with a message: #stayhome

T-shirts and hoodies send a message of physical distancing while helping Port Moody’s Eagle Ridge Hospital
If you order some of this beer, it's for a good Coquitlam cause

If you order some of this beer, it's for a good Coquitlam cause

Sales of a Czech pilsner by Mariner Brewing will help Coquitlam Search and Rescue buy a custom 22-foot jet boat for water rescues
Coquitlam tech shop is 3D printing masks for frontline workers

Coquitlam tech shop is 3D printing masks for frontline workers

Coquitlam’s IoT Design Shop is part of a program called the BC COVID-19 Printing Group, where everyone from hobbyists in their basement to commercial enterprises throw dozens of 3D machines at the task of protecting health care workers
Coquitlam man's pandemic invention offers takeout food buffer

Coquitlam man's pandemic invention offers takeout food buffer

Unnamed slider device created by Coquitlam company Unique Fabricated Objects aimed at letting businesses and customers interact safely during pandemic
Know your limit? Know how to buy a lottery ticket?

Know your limit? Know how to buy a lottery ticket?

$70 million is up for grab’s in the Friday, April 3 LottoMax jackpot.
B.C. issues bylaw officer guidelines for targeting re-sellers

B.C. issues bylaw officer guidelines for targeting re-sellers

B.C. has given the province’s municipal bylaw officers guidelines on how to approach the ticketing of the likes of people re-selling essential items during the pandemic.
Tri-City firefighters will now only respond to most serious medical calls

Tri-City firefighters will now only respond to most serious medical calls

‘We are writing history right now,’ says firefighters’ union president Gord Ditchburn of Port Coquitlam

Dozens of red-light cameras activated, including in the Tri-Cities

These cameras don’t take selfies: Two intersection speed cameras have been activated in the Tri-Cities: one in Coquitlam and one in Port Coquitlam
These Tri-City teens are sew committed to helping health care nurses

These Tri-City teens are sew committed to helping health care nurses

The Sewsociety Project is producing scrub cabs nurses and other health care workers can wear while on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic