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Wright wins third term

Submitted by Dan Hilborn on November 15, 2008 - 11:12pm.

New Westminster will see only three new faces on city council and school board after mayor Wayne Wright and the majority of incumbents won re-election in the 2008 civic vote.

New school debate

Submitted by Dan Hilborn on November 3, 2008 - 12:04pm.


Plans to spend more than $118 million on three new schools in New Westminster are livening up that city’s Nov.15 election campaign.

An estimated 200 people showed up at a series of public meetings on the weekend to hear about how the district is coping with the discovery of a century-old cemetery on the site, where a new high school and middle schools were originally planned.

New Westminster candidates

Submitted by Mark Yuen on October 28, 2008 - 5:08pm.

Mayor:
Blair Armitage
Wayne Wright

Council:
Brett, Lorraine
Cote, Jonathan X.
Donnelly, Calvin
Fletcher-Gordon, Lynda
Harper, Bill
Laird, Matthew
McClurg, Steve, VOICE New Westminster
McEvoy, Jaimie
McIntosh, Betty, nVOICE New Westminster
Osterman, Bob, VOICE New Westminster
Owen, Terrance
Palmer, Gavin, VOICE New Westminster
Powell, Neil, VOICE New Westminster
Tate, David
Wandell, Susan, VOICE New Westminster

New Westminster Snapshot

Submitted by Mark Yuen on October 27, 2008 - 2:29pm.

The mayor of the self-proclaimed oldest city in western Canada says good long-term planning will help cushion his city from the expected end of the construction boom in Metro Vancouver.

“We’ve got a good handle on things,” two-term New Westminster mayor Wayne Wright said recently. “Even in these tough economic times, what we’re working on is doable.”