City of PoCo accepting donations for supplies after suspected school arson
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The City of Port Coquitlam is accepting donations of cash and school supplies to help students and teachers impacted by a fire that destroyed an elementary school on the city's south side over the weekend.
The City of Port Coquitlam is accepting donations of cash and school supplies to help students and teachers impacted by a fire that destroyed an elementary school on the city's south side over the weekend.
Hazel Trembath School went up in flames around 3 a.m. Saturday and investigators believe the fire was deliberately set.
"What has happened here is just truly disgraceful. I don't know how that person, or that group of people can look themselves in the mirror," said Mayor Brad West.
Donation bins have been set up at community centres and city hall so people can drop off school supplies.
The School District 43 Foundation is also accepting cash donations through its website.
Eventually students from Hazel Trembath will return to class at Winslow Centre, six kilometres away in Coquitlam.
The former school now serves as a school district administrative facility.
