The Editor,
Re. “The bears are back in town” (The Tri-City News, March 21).
I am a resident of Port Coquitlam and read your article about bears in which a city of Coquitlam representative said people are not securing their garbage.
But here in PoCo, the city hasn’t provided us with locks for our garbage bins. Last year, I asked the city to send me a lock for my garbage cart 360 and its answer was: “We do not have 360 l locks in stock at the present time. I do not have an estimated time we may be receiving these. I have entered your information into our system on the wait list for this lock.”
PoCo still doesn’t have any locks. Its response this year is: “No we do not yet. The order has been placed but I don’t have an estimate yet.”
How can we secure our garbage carts without a lock? And the cities are complaining about residents?
Now, I have to put my garbage cart inside my house to avoid attracting bears.
Patrick Ng, Port Coquitlam
