Tag: ANGELA ESPINOZA

In the early morning of January 22, a severe fire broke out at Eagle Ridge Square, a strip mall in Coquitlam.

RainCity Housing is introducing a Coquitlam-based homeless shelter located at 3030 Gordon Avenue. The shelter will be the first housing project of its kind in the city.

Douglas College is undergoing its first hashtag campaign, using the tag #IChoseDouglas. Students who use the hashtag on social media sites such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook will have a chance to win $1,500 in tuition credit.

Students often turn to outside sources such as tutoring or other forms of mentorship when struggling with a specific course. Douglas College offers those services at the learning centres located at both the New Westminster and Coquitlam campuses.

Target and Sony Corp store chains announced mass closures throughout Canada last week. The brands join Mexx Canada, Jacob, and Smart Set, among other store chains, in recent closings announced in the past year.

With the start of the semester there are often questions regarding academic advising. Operations supervisor Teryl Spiers Smith explains when the academic advising offices can assist students and where to go when the offices can’t.

Douglas College’s newest president is Kathy Denton, previously vice president of the college. The announcement came on January 5 via press release.

On January 19, therapist Mike Pond will be giving a lecture at Douglas College on addiction and recovery from personal experience called, “Seven Things I Learned on the Way to Rock Bottom… and Back.”

Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston were sentenced to life in prison on December 12, 2014 for the murders of six Surrey residents on October 19, 2007. On January 9, Cody and Johnston requested an appeal to their sentence.