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Community gives Emily a new start Ashton Caring Team leading way to build accessible home for 12-year-old Steveston girl by Matthew Hoekstra Staff Reporter
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t started small as most things do, but having lunch with the Man in Motion quickly changed that.
As Brian Williams sat across from Rick Hansen—the man who wheeled around the world raising money, awareness and hope for people with spinal cord injuries—he heard the story of Emily de Boer. Emily, a bright, athletic 12-year-old Steveston girl, had recently lost the use of her legs following a surgery that went wrong. On Feb. 14, 2011, an attempt to correct a spine curvature left her a paraplegic. Emily needed a new bathroom—something right up the alley of Williams’ Richmond-based company, Ashton Service Group. But Williams and a growing army of volunteers decided to do one better: build the family an entirely new house.
‘We needed to start over’ During a visit home from the hospital last year, the de Boer family was hit with the understanding their newly-renovated Steveston house wouldn’t be their home for much longer. It wasn’t accessible, and alterations would be too costly. Dad Grant carried Emily upstairs into the living room, where the family cat found a place to rest in a familiar lap. But when the cat darted down the hall the family fell silent. “It was a very sad moment because she couldn’t run after the cat,” said mom Charmis. “That night she said to (us), ‘I don’t think I can live here.’ We needed to start over.” They did, selling the home and buying a fixer-upper nearby. An architect drafted plans for another renovation. Meanwhile, Williams and his wife Julie arranged to have dinner with Emily’s parents to hear the whole story. The next day, Williams knocked on the door of the de Boer family’s “new” house. What he saw
Matthew Hoekstra photo Emily de Boer with mom Charmis de Boer and Brian Williams, president of Ashton Service Group, at the construction site of the de Boer family home.
was an old two-storey dwelling that needed a lot of work. It had a pool—Emily took up swimming again—but it wasn’t heated. And without an elevator, Emily was trapped downstairs.
A caring team Williams, a father to three boys, was moved by Emily’s story, and shared it the next day over breakfast with a supplier, who immediately offered to donate bathroom fixtures. That had Williams thinking.
He approached his friend and contractor Ken Johnson. The pair had previously completed a similar renovation project for a Richmond firefighter paralyzed from a highway accident. Johnson didn’t hesitate to help again. Renovation costs were tallied and the pair
approached the de Boer family a few weeks later with more than just sketches for a bathroom. “I think we should knock it over,” Williams told them. “Go find an apartment or house close-by and give us a year.” Williams and his wife formed the Ashton Caring Team—focused on community involvement, volunteerism and corporate responsibility. The concepts weren’t new to Ashton, but the scale of the project led the company to organize its efforts under one umbrella. See Page 3
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Matthew Hoekstra photo Emily de Boer with mom Charmis de Boer and Brian Williams. The de Boer house on Springhill Crescent—the one the family had originally planned to renovate—was flatted Dec. 15.
‘He’s an angel, he really has no reason to be doing this’ From Page 3 Things started moving quickly. Williams started talking to friends and associates and offers to help began to pour in: lumber, plywood, roofing materials, windows, electrical supplies, kitchen cabinets, labour. So far 30 organizations or individuals are on board to help with what’s now being called “Project Emily.” “The outpouring so far has been amazing,” said Williams. “Someone yesterday sent me a very large cheque. I couldn’t even phone him because I was so blown away by it… There’s a lot of compassion here.”
Wall of Giving The de Boer house on Springhill Crescent—the one the family had originally planned to renovate— was flatted Dec. 15. Planned is a new 3,400-square-foot home with wheelchair accessibility at the top of the architect’s list. Williams said the house is scheduled to be finished by late 2013—and give Emily some of her life back. Light switches will be within reach for Emily, and she’ll be able to open the front door, go upstairs in an elevator, make
How to help •Visit ashtoncaringteam.org to learn more about Project Emily and how to help. Trades and skills are needed, along with financial donations and general volunteers. •For more information about the Richmond Caring Companies Program (third series begins in January) call 604279-7020 or e-mail info@ volunteerrichmond.ca. her own meals, take showers and access a heated, barrier-free pool outside. Williams said his goal is to build the $500,000 house with the least amount of money from the de Boer family. His hope is to have the entire cost covered to help the family cope with future expenses. A four-by-eight-foot sign is scheduled to be installed this week at the construction site to recognize donors. It will be called “Emily’s Wall of Giving.” And as the site is prepared for a new foundation, Project Emily is still seeking help from the community.
Cash donations are needed, as is volunteer labour. A fundraiser is planned for the new year and a website (ashtoncaringteam.org) has been set up to co-ordinate donations. “If everybody just gives a little, we can really model ourselves off the Free the Children motto, ‘From me to we,’ really quick,” said Williams, still amazed at how the project has come together so quickly. “I don’t go to church on Sunday, but I do figure that I’ve been pretty blessed somehow. It’s amazing how fortunate we’ve been.” The de Boer family is now temporarily living in an apartment. Mom Charmis admits to nervous moments, especially seeing the flattened landscape where their house once stood, but said it warms her heart thinking of the support her family has—even from strangers like Brian Williams. “He’s an angel, he really has no reason to be doing this. He just is.”
Making an impact Williams’ company Ashton Service Group is one of the founders of the Caring Companies Program, a joint community initiative with
Volunteer Richmond Information Services and the Richmond Chamber of Commerce. The program brings together like-minded businesses wanting to make an impact in the community, and provides the tools, resources and connections to make it happen. Volunteer Richmond’s executive director Elizabeth Specht said Ashton’s commitment to the community—both the company and employees—is “awe-inspiring.” “It’s just so obvious that Brian through his leadership, and now throughout his staff has created a culture of caring,” she said. “The de Boer project is the ultimate of culture of caring. It’s phenomenal what Brian and others are committed to and are bringing others along to do with them.”
Richmond Cares is a continuing series about Richmond individuals, groups and businesses who are making a difference for people in the community.
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Don Fennell photo Bradley Hughes of the California Wave U16AA keeps close tabs on Prince George Cougar Liam Loring as he attempts to centre the puck from behind the goal line during Tier 2 action Thursday at the Richmond International Midget Hockey Tournament. The Cougars won 4-2. The tournament continues through Monday at the Ice Centre, Minoru Arenas and Olympic Oval.
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We’d lvoe to see shark fin soup get off the menu in 2013.
Editorial: A few wishes for 2013
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s the new year approaches and Richmond residents make resolutions to stay fit and cut out (insert unhealthy snack here), we hope some other local groups are doing the same.
For starters, we’d love it if the Vancouver Airport Fuel Facilities Corporation resolved not to ship jet fuel up the South Arm of the Fraser River to a tank farm by Riverport. There’s plenty of better
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of producing food locally to be quaint, especially when we can all dine on tinned-foods coming from ships at sea. We also hope the Supreme Court of B.C. resolves to throw out the lawsuit put forward by members of the Musqueam Indian Band over the sale of the Garden City Lands. The City of Richmond buys the lands from the Musqueam and feds and then gets sued? Let’s hope this one ends quickly so the city can get planning for the lands’ future.
We hope local restaurants will take shark fin soup off their menus, or at least only stock shark fin that is from proven sustainable sources. And lastly, we hope our provincial government resolves to look at more efficient methods of getting people to their destinations, such as better funding public transit, as opposed to throwing money around on another mega-project, such as replacing the Massey Tunnel with some crazy scheme that will put port traffic first and devour more farmland.
Is gas the enviro-villain of 2013?
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options out there, including building a new deep-water port off of Jericho Beach and sending jet fuel to the airport through a new pipeline under Blenheim Street in Vancouver’s West Side. Sound ludicrous? Well, so is shipping jet fuel along the shallow Fraser and then piping it 15 kilometres under Richmond to Sea Island. We’d love it if Port Metro Vancouver would stop buying up farmland for dreamed-of future expansion. Port boss Robin Silvester seems to think of this whole idea
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hey’re well on the way to stopping the expansion of oil exports to Asia. Now will B.C.’s American branchplant environmental machine turn on natural gas?
A couple of weeks ago I described the dispute between the Haisla Nation and the rest of the Coastal First Nations group over the pioneering of liquefied natural gas development on Haisla territory at Kitimat. Powerful chiefs of the
Heiltsuk, Gitga’at, Haida and others in the so-called Great Bear Rainforest oppose the idea of kicking off a new LNG export industry without extending the hydro grid to support renewable power for the region. LNG is shaping up as B.C.’s largest-ever industrial project, if it gets built. And there are signs the American-directed environmental attack is swinging to our gas boom. Some in the Canadian media insist no such U.S. influence exists, or that it is trivial and benign. They mock federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s description of “foreign radicals,” pretending this applies to everyone opposed to oil pipelines. There weren’t many reporters with me when I covered the negotiations for the Great Bear Rainforest in 2006. To the Vancouver media it was just a big forest deal up in the middle of nowhere. Along with B.C. cabinet minister Pat Bell, Coastal First Nations and forest
companies, the Sierra Club, ForestEthics and Greenpeace muscled their way to the table. How they did so became clear in early 2007. Behind these big three eco-propaganda groups was a $60 million war chest from an obscure outfit called Tides Canada. Another front group, as it turns out. The actual source of the money was the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Wilberforce Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Most made their billions in computers and software in San Francisco or Seattle. They’ve funded scientifically suspect campaigns such as “Yellowstone to Yukon” and “boreal forest” aimed at turning more than a third of Canada into parks. Increasingly, they are partnering with aboriginal people in B.C. and across Canada. Some in B.C.’s major media have since grudgingly
credited independent B.C. researcher Vivian Krause with filling in the blanks. She has shown that starting in 2002, these foundations began formally organizing against Canadian fossil fuel production. When the B.C. and Canadian governments matched the $60 million Great Bear Rainforest fund for “ecosystem-based” forest management, they didn’t realize they were reinforcing a blockade against oil exports. Tides and its backers have continued to fund and create new protest groups, which are quoted as they pop up by credulous B.C. media. Their argument against oil exports centres on the sexy but false premise that Alberta’s “tar sands” somehow uniquely threaten the global climate. Lately, as the size of B.C.’s gas development has become clearer, the protests have started to refocus. Now we hear dire claims about the decades-old technique of “fracking” in gas development, and previously obscure groups
are springing up to protest gas projects. Hollywood is about to gas us with an anti-fracking movie starring Matt Damon. Previews suggest that Promised Land works the usual evil-greedy-capitalist themes, in the Avatar tradition. ForestEthics, Sierra Club and Greenpeace, meanwhile, are campaigning against their original forest preservation deal on B.C.’s Central and North Coast. Sustainable development solutions aren’t good for their business model. If people think a problem is solved, they stop sending money. Meanwhile, the U.S. is surging ahead with its own shale oil and gas boom. Plans are underway for LNG exports from the U.S. to Asia. I think 2013 would be a good year for Canada to start making its own decisions on energy development. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press.
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Tram line to Steveston should be a no-brainer Link LRT each have cars with three articulated sections that are run most of the time as a twin set (two independent cars hitched together). These sets are 58 metres long and can carry 344 passengers in Portland and 400 passengers in Seattle. By comparison the Canada Line uses pairs of permanently joined cars that are 41 metres long and can carry 334 passengers. The SkyTrain Mark II cars (the ones with a rounded nose), that are a permanently joined together pair, are 33.4-metres long and carry up to 290 passengers. SkyTrain now runs Mark II cars
as a double pair, with a possible load of 580 passengers. While the Seattle tram doesn’t needs that capacity yet, it could run with a double set (four cars, 800 passengers). European Alstom tramways most popular model, the Citadis 402, with seven
articulated sections, is 44 metres long and carry 300 passengers. It is seldom twinned but could. Its smaller brother, the 302 (33 metres long) is often twinned in some towns—permanently on Paris tram line T2—carrying 440 passengers. Although historical
traction. Tourists that have never seen a huge modern tram are just as fascinated—if not more—by them as they would by a historical one. As a bonus the modern ones are much more comfortable and are part of course of a city wide tram network.
I was raised in a part of the world where towns have many historical buildings going back to the 17th or 18th centuries, if not the Middle Ages or even earlier. They aren’t museums but places where we live, work and play everyday. Jean-Louis Brussac Coquitlam
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Editor: Re: “Don’t give up on interurban rail corridor,” Letters, Dec. 24. I think it’s preposterous to say that bus service cannot respond to transit demand in the Richmond suburbs. The Broadway corridor has 100,000 boardings a day at headways of less than two minutes. Most of our bus lines still run at half-hour frequencies for much of the day. How much light rail service would we be able to afford? Would it be frequent enough to be useful for most people? These are important questions to consider when we must face the reality that true travel times are affected by frequency much more than the look and feel of rail. If we are to become a city with useful, cost effective transit, we need to develop high frequency services shielded from congestion and delay, whether it is bus or rail. Christopher Yuen Richmond
trams have their place, we have too mediocre a transit system in Metro Vancouver to waste money on a small tram, unless there a lot of them and they are working hard and efficiently, like the small Arakawa trams in Tokyo that cater mostly to residents and shrug off their historical at-
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Garry Point is no place for development signs Editor: Garry Point Park is a public park for all to enjoy the sights and sounds of nature. It is not a place for Onni to be advertising. Putting up a sign to advertise a development project in Steveston is a shameful disgrace. Onni has no right to put up such a sign in a public park. Onni took advantage of an existing notice board that had been installed to describe a sculpture that has since removed from the park. Onni’s development is definitely no sculpture. It is a massive scar of the Steveston waterfront. Dr. Alan Johnson Onni took advantage of an existing notice board that had been installed to deRichmond scribe a sculpture that has since removed from the park.
Government needs to reject jet fuel tank farm Editor: I writing in regards to the Vancouver Airport Fuel Facilities Corporation proposed marine terminal and tank farm 15 km upstream on the banks of the South Arm of the Fraser. I am not opposed to fuel expansion to YVR and that I recognize the economic importance of YVR on the economy. However, with a decision expected soon on this proposal, I want to encourage the rejection of this project as there are viable and responsible alternatives such as taking advantage of the two refineries within 50 kilometers of YVR both of which have marine terminals for emergency deliveries of jet fuel if determined necessary. I want to be proud of my government, I want to be able to tell everyone that my government: •Recognized that unloading and storing one million tons of TNT equivalent energy of flammable and explosive jet fuel 400 meters from a 280-unit residential condo and rental complex and entertainment commercial complex is a serious human safety risk. Especially, with the fact that a hazardous footprint and worst case scenarios have not been studied. •Found that the VAFFC’s proposal would put an unfair tax burden on the municipalities of Richmond and Delta as Richmond Fire Rescue has specified the need to build and staff a new fire hall and fire boat in order to attempt to adequately protect the residents in the area and the pro-
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Richmond’s Tony Shaw one of only five Canadians to be recognized as international table tennis referee by Don Fennell Sports Editor Tony Shaw’s dedication to table tennis is never ending. As a former president of the B.C. Table Tennis Federation and vice-president of the Canadian chapter, the Richmond man has given significant time and energy helping to organize and increase the number of tournaments across the country. In recent years, however, he’s been increasingly focused on officiating and is just back from a whirlwind trip to China and India where he umpired several matches at the grand final of the World Table Tennis Tour in Hangzhou and at the World Junior Table Tennis Championships in Hyderabad. Shaw says it was an honour and privilege to officiate at both events, but he returned home with an even bigger award—he’s now one of just 160 table tennis referees in the world to be qualified to oversee any open international
competition. He’s also only the fifth Canadian to hold such credentials. “I’m very happy to achieve this qualification, it’s been my dream,” said Shaw. At 68 years old, Shaw—despite his boundless energy and youthful appearance—was worried his age might work against him. So he made sure that he was prepared for whatever challenges might be presented at the international referee school he attended just prior to the grand final in Hangzhou. One of only 12 individuals from around the world invited to attend the four days of intensive courses, he was required to pass both a written exam and interview. Prior to leaving home, Shaw spent several early mornings studying the material he imagined would be included in the tests and wound up with the highest mark in the ADVERTISING FEATURE class. “I was a little worried because I knew most of the people attending were quite young, including a few With June, theuniversity gradu- professors,” he says. ation month just
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sports Tournament finals scheduled for Monday By the time Monday rolls around, there will be a host of very exhausted committee members. They’ll have overseen 154 games over the first four days of the annual Richmond International Midget Hockey Tournament. The players will be tired too, but
grateful if they’re fortunate enough to play on New Year’s Eve day. It’s finals day with bronze, silver and gold medals on the line. Games begin at 8:30 a.m. with Tier 2 gold up for grabs at Minoru Arenas, while at the Ice Centre the Tier 3 final begins at 8:45 a.m. The Tier 1 bronze
final also begins at 8:45 a.m. at the Ice Centre, followed by the bronze medal games at Tier 2 and Tier 3 at 9 a.m. The Midget Major bronze medal game begins at 9:15 a.m., with the Tier 1 and Midget Major gold medal finals at 11:15 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Minoru Arenas.
Power lIne tree PrunIng and hazard tree removals rIChmond When: December 14, 2012 to March 31, 2013 Time: 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Trees are a significant cause of power interruptions. Contact between trees and power lines can also create a severe danger. Over the next few months we will be pruning and removing trees in the Richmond area
Don Fennell photo Parker Moskal of the California Wave U16AA wins the opening faceoff from Prince George Cougar Daylon Ouellette Thursday at the Richmond International Midget Hockey Tournament. The teams were tied 2-2 after a period but the Cougars added two more goals in the second and held on for a 4-2 victory in the Tier 2 Division game.
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It is with heartfelt sadness, that we regret to inform you that Elly Collins suddenly passed away on December 19, 2012 at the age of 59. Survived by her mother Joanne, husband Bill, children Dan (Michelle), Terry (Lyle), Richard (Breanna), grandchildren Colton, Avery, Cheyenne, Savannah, Logan, Leah, Brooklyn and Spencer. Elly was the oldest of 5 children, loved her dogs and quilting, she will be greatly missed by many. Meeting her in heaven is her father Rijk, granddaughter Jocelyn, in laws Marjorie & Charles Collins. If so desired, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to BC Children’s hospital or Variety Club in her name. A Celebration of life will be held in the new year.
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS 16 BALBO, Rocco 1948-2012 Sadly Rocco Balbo lost his battle with cancer December 16, 2012. He is survived by his wife of 37 years Bonnie, son Joseph (Elyse) and expectant grandson, sons Peter and Paul; mamma Giuseppina; sister Vincenza (Vincent); brother Carmelo (Lucy); sister-in-law Nettie (George); brother-in-law Peter. Special thanks to Richmond General Hospital, Dr. Chan and Emergency Staff and 3 South, and Dr. Bertholet and the Radiotherapy Team at CCABC, and Dr. G. B. Yuan. Funeral Mass will be celebrated 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 29, 2012 at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, 525 S. Slocan St. Vancouver, BC. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Canadian Cancer Agency of BC in Rocco’s memory would be greatly appreciated.
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Programmer/Developer Black Press Group Ltd., a leading international media company, is seeking a talented programmer and developer to build, integrate and maintain its software and websites. Ideal candidates will have a can-do attitude, passion for technology, extensive programming and web development experience, and the ability to get up to speed quickly. Required Skills PHP4/PHP5 - Candidate should be a top-notch PHP developer, familiar with the latest features; POSTgreSQL/MySQL - Modern database development expertise - familiar with PHPMyAdmin and command line access; HTML 5/CSS 3 - Expert level development in HTML & CSS will be necessary; Javascript/JQuery - Intermediate level Javascript/ JQuery development will be necessary; Server Admin – Complete understanding of Apache Tomcat, FreeBSD and basic server administration; RESTful APIs & SOAP – Demonstrated skills problem-solving with RESTful APIs and SOAP; Self-Starter - Looking for candidates who can jump in quickly. Bonus Skills Experience using AJAX in both PHP and Perl; Java development experience; Experience in Perl and Python; Comfortable in a Macintosh OS X and Linux environments. Other Details Black Press offers a competitive salary and benefits package. You will work at our Surrey corporate offices with a talented group of individuals who have a passion for creating content in print and online. Please email your resume and cover letter to edutton@blackpress.ca (no phone calls please). Deadline is Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 at 5 pm. Only those candidates short-listed will be called for interviews. www.blackpress.ca
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