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FRIDAY, FEB. 9, 2018 Your community. Your stories. Five Convenient Tri-Cities
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Horror stories heard in case of pimp Drugs, violence & social media are weapons used by pimp against kids Diane StranDberg The Tri-CiTy News
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Linda Weber gets used to the special racquet and ball used in blind tennis while a pair of guide dogs watch from an improvised kennel created by a pair of soccer nets at one of the drop-in sessions put on by the city of Coquitlam and BC Blind Sports and Recreation Association Mondays at Pinetree community centre. See story, page 32.
WEED, DRIVING, THE LAW what do a lawyer, politicians & police have to say about new B.C. pot rules? Story, page 9
Keeping predators off the streets and away from young people is what’s behind the efforts of a Coquitlam group that is monitoring two high-profile sexual exploitation cases currently before the B.C. Supreme Court. The Children of the Street Society — founded in 1995 to prevent at-risk youth from being drawn into the sex trade — has been following cases in which men are accused of luring underage girls and boys into prostitution, and keeping them there through violence, intimidation and drugs. In the first case, Michael William Bannon is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to 22 charges relating to the prostitution of underage victims — kids between 14 and 17 years of age. see ‘EXTREMELY’, page 3
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