Opinion

NOVEMBER Three-term city councilor Jonathan Cote dethrones four-term mayor Wayne Wright to become New Westminster’s new mayor.

OCTOBER Crowds fill downtown New Westminster to watch the unveiling of the Wait for Me Daddy war memorial in Hyack Square. The monument is based on the photograph taken in the same location by Province newspaper photographer Claude Dettloff on Oct.

SEPTEMBER The New Westminster Chamber of Commerce, the Queen’s Park Residents’ Association and Royal City Youth Soccer come out in support of the pro soccer plan being proposed in New West.

JULY New Westminster signs a memorandum of understanding to work with Vancouver Whitecaps FC toward launching a United Soccer Leagues pro franchise at Queen’s Park Stadium starting in the 2015.

JUNE New Westminster MLA Judy Darcy, the NDP’s health critic, is joined by local youth who are calling for a provincial ban on flavoured tobacco products that come in a variety of fruit, ice cream and candy flavours.

MAY The Ministry of Education approves the school district’s request that a new high school could house up to 1,900 students – a move that’s considered by many to be the first hurdle in getting a replacement built for the aging New Westminster Second

APRIL The New Westminster school district is looking for ideas on how to deal with $2.69 million in unfunded cost pressures for next year.

MARCH The City of New Westminster announces it’s sold the Merchant Square office tower for $36.5 million to Kingswood Capital and Duke Holdings – a company jointly owned by businessmen Joseph Segal and Suki Sekhon.

Someone in our government must think scientific researchers have had it too good for too long.

Many years ago, when the earth was younger than it is today and the naive innocence of Christmas was not yet completely entombed within plasticized bar codes and overshadowed by Black Fridays, there was a little girl whose understanding of her place