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After teaching at Riverside secondary, teacher Jordan Wycherley had a hunch that more girls would be game to take an auto shop class if it was a girls-only setting. The hunch proved true and the new Women's Auto quickly filled up.

It arrived in January and took two months to assemble but, since March, "Alice" the tunnel boring machine has been working its way through the Clarke Road hill to make way for the Evergreen Line.

It was both a good year and a bad year for wild animals in the Tri-Cities.

LOU SEKORA A longtime Tri-City politician will be missing from the Coquitlam council table when city business resumes in the new year. Coun.

Canadian taxpayers and many of the 82 band members with the Kwikwetlem First Nation were aghast when news broke over the summer about last year's "bonus" pay to the chief.

With the next four years on the line, 14 people put their names on the ballot to run for a council seat in Port Moody.

The Coquitlam-based organization kept busy in 2014 on more than rescuing lost hikers in the wilderness. In September, it hosted SARxSouthwest, the first regional conference for search and rescue groups in 14 years.

This year saw the start of a visioning exercise for a 102-year-old property held sacred by many Tri-City residents.

A 31-year-old man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after he was struck in a marked crosswalk on Shaughnessy Street on Dec. 29. He was crossing at Whyte Avenue in Port Coquitlam just before 4 p.m.

This fall, a Port Coquitlam father climbed to Everest base camp and to the summit of neighbouring Imja Tse (Island Mountain) to raise money for BC Children's Hospital.