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No money in budget for wage increases for support staff

Cathy Johnstone is disturbed that her 93-year-old neighbour has to walk on the road during her daily outings.

The New Westminster Public Library has recently acquired five software courses of particular interest to job seekers and English learners. They can be used on computers in the reference department.

With the flu season hitting especially hard this winter, Fraser Health has declared the current influenza strain a health hazard under the Public Health Act.

New Westminster city council is interested in ways of making "modest improvements" to Hyack Square. Coun.

Most weather forecasts for Monday morning in New Westminster only warned about sub-zero temperatures. The surprise snowstorm caught many people off-guard, including New Westminster public works employees.

Parents of early French immersion at John Robson Elementary will probably be pleased to learn the program will stay at their school when a newly built school is built on the former Saint Mary's Hospital site.

Birders are aflutter about the presence of a rarely seen bird and are flocking to New Westminster to take a look. A red-flanked bluetail has been spotted in Queen's Park - the first time the bird has been seen in Canada.

A longtime Queensborough grocery store owner has passed away. Benny Jow, who ran Benny's Mart in Queensborough, died on Jan. 10. Jow, 76, came to Vancouver in 1956 from Guangdong, China and in 1961, married wife Mary.