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Letter: ‘Delighted’ at pop-up PoCo park

The Editor, I was delighted when driving along Shaughnessy Street in Port Coquitlam last week to discover the beautiful pop-up park area where an unattractive empty lot has been for several years.
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Gillian Thomson of Sister Says performs at Port Coquitlam’s new pop-up park in the 2600-block of Shaughnessy Street, which celebrated its official opening last Friday. The temporary park, on a site in the city’s downtown where four buildings burned in, 2015, features benches, picnic tables, umbrellas for shade, planters and a 65-foot-long mural of the Golden Ears Mountains by Laura Bifano.

The Editor,

I was delighted when driving along Shaughnessy Street in Port Coquitlam last week to discover the beautiful pop-up park area where an unattractive empty lot has been for several years.

I hope it will be a permanent fixture for our downtown area. We have many walkers in the area by choice and necessity, and it is a great place to stop to watch people and enjoy the ambience of the area.

Good job to whoever put idea into reality and I sincerely hope it will not disappear.

Eve Teubert, Port Coquitlam