‘Thank you, Richard’ Coquitlam mayor departs amid praise from colleagues

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The new Coquitlam council will have a clean slate but they may spot a few tearstains. The last council meeting of the term marked the departures of Couns. Dennis Marsden, Brent Asmundson, Trish Mandewo, and outgoing Mayor Richard Stewart. “I’ve always been shy but now I’m called outgoing,” Stewart quipped. After 18 years in the […]

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