Flipping Pancakes

by Wayne Wright on December 10, 2011

Pancakes plus toys equals more than 350 Christmas gifts for New Westminster kids
By Alfie Lau, The Record December 9, 2011

For the fifth year in a row, New Westminster residents have shown how much they care for local kids at the Christmas for Kids toy drive held Wednesday morning at the Paddlewheeler Pub at Westminster Quay.

Flipping pancakes

Mayor Wayne Wright, left, does a ceremonial pancake flip. Photograph by: Jack Murray contributed photo, THE RECORD

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Housing Plan

by Wayne Wright on December 9, 2011

New West on board with housing plan
Mayor Wayne Wright sits as co-chair of national coalition looking at rental housing
By Theresa McManus, The Record December 9, 2011

New Westminster’s mayor is a founding member of a coalition that’s been creating a Canadian Rental Housing Coalition Charter.

A coalition of industry, non-profit and government leaders recently signed a Canadian Rental Housing Coalition Charter, which outlines a nine-point plan to increase the supply of affordable rental housing across the nation.

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City has blazed a trail

December 7, 2011

 City has ‘blazed a trail’ – Mayor cites new pier park and downtown revitalization By Theresa McManus, The Record December 7, 2011 The City of New Westminster has “blazed a trail” and borrowed from others to make progress in the past few years, says Mayor Wayne Wright. In his 2011 inaugural address, Wright said [...]

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More Fourth Term

November 20, 2011

The Province reports: New Westminster Mayor Wayne Wright breezes into fourth term. Wayne Wright swept to a fourth term as mayor of New Westminster with 62 per cent of support from voters. While many perceived there would be a two-way race for mayor between the incumbent and challenger James Crosty, Wright easily won with 6,633 [...]

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Fourth Term

November 20, 2011

The Vancouver Sun reports: Wayne Wright back for fourth term as mayor in New Westminster “New Westminster mayor Wayne Wright, who doubled opponent James Crosty’s votes on Saturday, said voters returned him to his fourth consecutive victory based on his record.” Read the full Vancouver Sun article…

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Word on the Feet

November 19, 2011

Why am I smiling? And what does this have to do with feet? Well, everything. This was the last door I knocked on late yesterday (Dunwood Place). I was campaigning, but my feet were complaining. I am smiling because I have met so many nice, supportive people all day, but also because I could see [...]

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Cycling to the Arctic

November 18, 2011

It’s more than 8,000 kilometres from Sapperton to Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. and back, but New Westminster resident Brek Boughton and his “Surly Big Dummy” bicycle plan to make the trip in three months. Brek will be carrying our City’s flag – he is a great ambassador for us! Read more in the Record…

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New West park divides mayoral candidates

November 18, 2011

”Two mayoral candidates in New Westminster – incumbent Wayne Wright and challenger James Crosty – are at odds over things such as a $34-million waterfront park” Read the full report… The project depends on goverment funding. If it were stopped or delayed at this point, we would lose that funding (approx $16m). For background have [...]

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The Word on the Street

November 18, 2011

One of the more insidious tricks in the arsenal of negative campaigners is to spread rumours. They use phrases like “rumour has it…” or “the word on the street is…”, but of course the source is never given. One such nasty rumour is that if I were re-elected, I would just be a “caretaker mayor”. [...]

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Wayne’s Wharf

November 18, 2011

Right from the start I saw the potential of our waterfront for the enjoyment of our citizens and tourism. I made it my goal to buy back as much of the waterfront for public use as possible. A recent Royal City Record article reports “Wright firmly believes that Westminster Pier Park, which is set to [...]

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