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The Port Moody Station Museum will be celebrating Canada Day with events honouring Canada Day. The McKnight Trench living history experience is taking place this week and over the weekend through Canada Day on the museum's grounds off Murray Street.

Staffing costs continued to rise last year for the city of Port Coquitlam, which paid close to $27 million in base salaries and benefits, according to the recently released 2013 remuneration report.

A group of St. John Ambulance volunteers will be doing a CPR drill for seven hours straight at Coquitlam Centre this weekend to raise money for more automated external defibrillators in public spaces.

The Mossom Creek hatchery rebuild project moved a step closer to reality after Port Moody council unanimously approved a building permit application and a development permit application Tuesday.

Nominations are now open for the second annual PoCo Best Biz Awards, an event in honour of Port Coquitlam's entrepreneurs. Participants can nominate either their own business or one belonging to someone else by going to www.portcoquitlam.

Port Moody's most recent financial statements show a reorganization at the top.

Thirty-five more employees of the city of Coquitlam earned pay of more than $100,000 last year than in 2012.

There will be no tinkling of the ivories in Port Moody city hall - at least in the near future - after council voted to put off any decisions on budgeting for storage for a baby grand.

More people might be moving to online calendars or scheduling applications on their computers, tablets or smart phones, but Port Moody councillor Zoe Royer says she still prefers pen and paper.

The Coquitlam RCMP are seeking the public's assistance in identifying a man that has been using a stolen credit card.