Colourful new street banners honouring six athletes in Port Coquitlam’s sports hall of fame will soon be fluttering in the city’s downtown and on the Coast Meridian overpass.
And staff will look at the cost and logistics of putting them up in parts of Port Coquitlam’s north end, at the corner of Coast Meridian and Prairie along with the Hyde Creek area and around Terry Fox Secondary School.
The athletes on the banners were selected by the PoCo Sports Alliance that administers the annual recognition of Port Coquitlam’s sporting heritage as well as the city’s sports awards for current achievements.
They are:
- Terry Fox
- wrestler Chris Rinke
- football player Dan Payne
- lacrosse player Michelle Bowyer
- long-distance runner Tina Connelly
- softball player Mary-Anne Walz
Staff told Tuesday’s meeting of council in committee the banners will be installed by late March, in conjunction with a new display in the lobby of the Port Coquitlam Community Centre celebrating the city’s athletes past and present. It will also include several banners hanging from the ceiling and along the corridors.
The banners are budgeted to cost $28,500.
Coun. Steve Darling said he’d like to see additional banners extended into Port Coquitlam’s north side as a way to tie it together with the south side.
Walz told the Tri-City News in 2019 the city’s divide by the railroad tracks often created community rivalries between its teams on each side, from the softball and baseball diamonds to the lacrosse boxes and soccer pitches.
Coun. Nancy McCurrach suggested the street in front of the Hyde Creek Community Centre as well as near Terry Fox Secondary School would be appropriate destinations for the street banners as well, as “those are important areas.”
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