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Members of the Rotary Club of Port Moody knew they wanted to install a Little Free Library to welcome their new president, a passionate supporter of literacy initiatives, and they also knew just who should build it.

Coquitlam RCMP are hoping to identify a man in connection with an attempted child luring. A woman reported to police that a man had tried to offer her 11-year-old granddaughter a ride to school on the morning of Sept. 11.

More than 1,400 students and teachers at Terry Fox secondary took a break from classes Thursday morning for the annual Terry Fox school run in honour of their Port Coquitlam icon.

Jack Thomas, a Grade 12 student at Terry Fox secondary, sat down at a drum kit in the school's music room last week and played a Blink 182 song he'd thrashed out many times before. This time, however, he was doing it with just one arm.

More than 2,000 people took part in the four Tri-City runs in honour of Port Coquitlam hometown hero Terry Fox.

A month before voters head to the polls, the Conservative party has issued an apology to the family of Port Coquitlam hometown hero Terry Fox for "politicizing" the national icon and the cancer-fighting campaign that bears his name.