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Richmond World Festival wins name game Council decide against Lulubaloo, or naming event after traditional Asian dish by Matthew Hoekstra Staff Reporter

Eduardo Fritis with one of his larger radio controlled airplanes: a battery-operated aircraft with a wingspan of 1.4 metres.

Parks bylaw ‘unfair,’ hobbyists say City mulls ‘where, when and how’ hobbies could continue in Richmond by Matthew Hoekstra Staff Reporter

Local hobbyists are calling on city council to rethink a bylaw restricting the flying of model airplanes and power kites in Richmond parks. “In other places like North Vancouver and

Burnaby...they use the parks during certain times of the day,”said Eduardo Fritis, a local real estate agent who has flown radio controlled airplanes for over 30 years. “But here they just want to ban them, and I don’t understand why.” Pending a council ratification vote, the bylaw prohibits all remote or radio controlled aircraft—including unmanned aerial vehicles known as drones—from Richmond parks and school grounds. Also banned are power or traction kites—wheeled contraptions often seen at Garry Point Park. Hobbyists who flout the bylaw face a fine of $150.

City officials say the hobbies pose a safety risk to other park users. But Fritis, 60, who flies his aircraft in the green space around Steveston-London Secondary, said his models haven’t posed a problem to others. “Usually what I do when I go to fly, I go early in the morning before the kids come to play soccer. When they come to play soccer, we take off.” The city does allow model planes at a public field on Rice Mill Road, but Fritis said the small space is only suitable for aircraft flown on a line—not for radio controlled planes. See Page 5

Simple and unambiguous has beaten out spicy and pearly. On Monday elected officials endorsed Richmond World Festival as the name of the city’s new multicultural-themed fair that will take over Minoru Park Sept. 5. They’ve been mulling a name since last fall when city staff unveiled early plans for a daylong party anchored by a major entertainment act and convoy of food trucks. After council thumbed its nose at the name Richmond World Block Party—and later Lulubaloo—staff returned with a winner in Richmond World Festival. “The strength of this name is in its simplicity. It gives prominent recognition to Richmond as the host and speaks to the multicultural nature of the event,” said Bryan Tasaka, manager of major events, in a staff report. Staff had help landing on the name. They hired a communications consultant to convene a meeting of 21 people representing community groups. “The name is easy to remember and will appeal to a broad demographic and diverse cultures,” noted Tasaka, who added the event’s features will elevate the brand in the region. Other ideas in the latest round of the name game had sizzle and flash, but weren’t recommended: the HotPot World Festival, named after the traditional Asian dish; and Pearl in the Park, a nod to Richmond’s geographic reputation as a pearl in a dragon’s mouth. After Monday’s unanimous 7-0 vote, the Richmond World Festival name only awaits a council ratification vote. Still, one councillor still has Lulubaloo on the mind. See Page 5

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Staff Reporter A 37-year-old Richmond man has been charged with second degree murder in the death of his mother-in-law Elaine Leznoff. Following what police describe as an intense five-day investigation, they obtained a murder charged against Surjit Dosanjh, who has been in custody since the fire. On Tuesday, police announced that Dosanjh is facing a second charge in the case, but didn’t disclose what that might be. Integrated Homicide Investigation Team Sgt. Stephanie Ashton noted that there’s a ban on publication in the case. Manoah Steves elementary student Kalvin Dosanjh-Leznoff, 13, remains in hospital and is not expected to survive, Ashton said last week. Dosanjh had been estranged from his family since earlier this month, and was not living there at the fourplex on Cornerbrook Crescent, police said. Elaine Leznoff, 66, was found dead inside the home by investigators following the blaze, which started around 2 a.m. on Monday, April 13.

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Martin van den Hemel photo A fire at a fourplex on Cornerbrook Crescent claimed the life of a 66-year-old woman.

A fundraising website set up for the surviving family members, including Kalvin’s mother Liane, was set up on Tuesday. The site, which has raised $15,724 for the family, says: “We ask at this time that if you or anyone you know has any money to spare to help Liane Leznoff (Kalvin’s mother and Elaine’s daughter) out with food, medical, clothing and misc. expenses it would be greatly appreciated... We ask for prayers for Liane that she finds some sort of peace through this difficult time. Even if you can’t donate, please

take the time to share this with friends and family. Every penny helps.” To make a donation, visit www.gofundme.com/rwpttk A neighbour told The Richmond Review last week police had visited the home four times in the week leading up to the blaze, which affected tenants in four units. Another fundraiser for the Leznoff family has been scheduled for Saturday, April 25 at the M&M Meat Shop at Francis and Gilbert Road.

The Nova House shelter for women and their children escaping domestic violence is a cause near to the hearts of many locals. Supporting that cause became a little more rewarding at the 22nd annual Ethel Tibbits Women of Distinction Awards on Monday, May 4 which features the new EXTRA! EXTRA! Prize Raffle. The raffle features a dozen themed grand prizes, from fashion to food to entertainment and a mystery prize, and CHIMO Community Services supporters can purchase a $25 five-ticket pack and select in which draw to enter their tickets. The raffle prizes range in value from $700 to $2,300, and a limited number of tickets are for sale. Advance tickets will remain on sale until Tuesday, April 28, or when the 4,000 tickets (sold in 800 fiveticket booklets) are sold out. If tickets remain after April 28, they will be offered for sale at the awards luncheon. The names of the winners—who do not need to be present at the luncheon to win—will be published in the May 8 edition of The Richmond Review. Since 1994, the Ethels has raised more than $300,000 for local women’s charities. The Ethels are named after the pioneering editor of The Richmond Review, who was a fearless community activist starting in the 1930s. For more information about the raffle, or to buy tickets, visit tinyurl.com/EXTRAEXTRA2015.

Prospect of teacher job cuts as district hit by cutbacks CUPE president compares government to science fiction movie blob in budget brief by Erin Boe Contributor

A $4-million budget cut plus another two years of declining student enrolment equals bad news for the Richmond Board of Education. Trustees will need to make some tough decision to balance the school district’s budget. Richmond’s Board of Education released a report last week listing the options to deal with the calls from the province to make budget cuts for the 2015/16 school year. Reductions amounting to approximately $4 million will be required to offset the projected deficit. The report also forecasted a drop of almost 500 students from the 2014/15 levels. This is the fourth year of enrollment decline and the report’s analysis of enrollment trends found at least one more year of enrollment decline is to be expected before enrollment begins on the upswing. Budget reductions, for the most part, involves eliminating existing staff positions since it is often the only option available. Usually, it is handled though attrition—staff retirements and departures for other reasons—rather than layoffs. The effect, however, means less staff, less services available, and more work for the remaining staff to take on, according to the report. Options recommended by staff to balance the budget include: • a reduction in enrolling teachers, particu-

larly in the secondary schools. (The report stated almost 800 fewer students are expected to enter Grade 8 than will be leaving the system from Grade 12. This means fewer teachers will be required for the 2015/16 school year. The report said 20 fewer teachers will be required, which should result in cost reductions of approximately $2 million.) • two vice principal positions in smaller elementary schools will be eliminated through attrition, but no schools were specified. Other options not recommended by staff were: • to contract out transportation services (Richmond is one of the few districts in the Lower Mainland that still uses its own staff to provide transportation services. The report stated the district can afford to continue with this service for the time being.) • a reduction in noon hour supervisors. (Since full-day kindergarten was implemented, some schools have had an increase in noon hour supervisors. With the program now mature, it may be possible the previous staffing levels will return. The report stated there is no immediate need for this reduction. CUPE 716 president June Kaiser, who represents support staff, urged Richmond trustees to be involved with more direct action to oppose the cuts. The brief also said “mainstream media has come out opposing the cuts.” Kaiser adds through social media especially, parents, staff and students are “opposing the cuts and tell their stories.” In her brief, Kaiser described the provincial government as a “giant blob from a bad science fiction movie.” Kaiser said the government “swallows everything in its path” and has an insatiable appetite.

Coach houses on No. 1 Road.

More coach house changes coming to Richmond Coach houses are a relatively new housing option in Richmond. But not all established neighbourhoods have welcomed their presence in back lanes. Now city staff are proposing a facelift to rules around coach house construction. The changes build on those introduced in 2013, prompted by concerns about coach house design. Introduced at a council committee meeting Tuesday, the new rules should result in better looking coach houses built on narrow lots along arterial roads.

Greater side yard setbacks and variations in the width of the first and second floor are meant to improve the building’s facade. Landscaping improvements are also part of the changes, made possible by allowing tandem parking on narrow lots. According to staff, another change should reduce shadowing on neighbouring properties by requiring coach houses to be positioned at the south on east-west oriented lots. If council approves, a public hearing would follow. —Matthew Hoekstra

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

City Page Community news covering April 22 to May 5, 2015 driveway crossings. Both motorists and cyclists should watch for each other when turning, crossing or merging at these locations. Crossbikes are crosswalks with dotted lines (or “elephants’ feet”) for people walking and cycling. Cyclists may ride their bicycles through the crossing when the pedestrian “Walk” sign is on and should always yield to people walking. For more information, visit www.richmond.ca/cycling.

22 Public Works &

Transportation Committee Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Anderson Room, City Hall 4:00 p.m.

27 Regular Council Meeting Monday, April 27, 2015 Anderson Room, City Hall 4:00 p.m. (closed meeting)

Council Chambers, City Hall 7:00 p.m. (open meeting)

28 Parks, Recreation

& Cultural Services Committee Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Anderson Room, City Hall 4:00 p.m.

Development Permit Panel Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Council Chambers, City Hall 3:30 p.m.

General Purposes Committee Monday, May 4, 2015 Anderson Room, City Hall 4:00 p.m.

Finance Committee Monday, May 4, 2015 Anderson Room, City Hall Following General Purposes Committee meeting

Planning Committee Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Anderson Room, City Hall 4:00 p.m.

Pavement markings for cyclists What does green mean? In North America, green is the standard colour to identify on-street cycling facilities. Green-painted pavement highlights locations for potential conﬂicts between cyclists and motorists, such as intersections and

Development Permit Panel Meeting Wednesday, April 29, 3:30 p.m. in Council Chambers Agenda Items: 8180 Ash Street - DV 14-658670 - Habitat for Humanity Society of Greater Vancouver - To (1) vary the provisions of Richmond Zoning Bylaw 8500 to (a) vary the minimum lot width from 12 m to 8.3 m for proposed Lot 5; and (b) vary the minimum lot frontage from 6 m to 0. 0.38 .38 m for proposed Lot 4, to 2.7 m for proposed Lot 5 and to 0.60 m for proposed Lot 6; and (2) permit subdivision of 8180 Street Ash St treet into six (6) lots zoned “Single Detached the “Si l D t h d (RS1/B)” ffor th purpose of developing singlefamily dwellings. 1. 8888 Patterson Road and 3340 Sexsmith Road - DP 14-670686 GBL Architects- To (1) permit the construction of the third phase of a ﬁve-phase, high-rise, multifamily residential development at 8888 Patterson Road containing a total of 135 dwellings, including 128 market units and 7 affordable housing units (secured with a Housing Agreement), together with a temporary park and temporary resident parking at 3340 Sexsmith Road, on property zoned “High Rise Apartment and Artist Residential Tenancy Studio Units (ZHR10) – Capstan Village (City Centre);” and (2) vary the provisions of Richmond Zoning Bylaw 8500, along the Hazelbridge Way frontage of the subject site to: (a) reduce the minimum allowable setback from the boundary of statutory right-of-way secured for

road or park purposes from 3.0 m to 1.4 m; and (b) Increase the maximum allowable projections into the required yard for balconies, from 1.0 m to 1.8 m, and for architectural features, from 0.6 m to 2.2 m. Please call 604-276-4395 for further information.

International Dance Day comes to Richmond Sunday, May 3 Richmond’s ﬁrst International Dance Day performance is a collaborative dance show featuring Sudnya Dance Academy, XBa DanceCo and the Zavicaj Serbian Folk Dance Group, with live musical accompaniment by the Naad Foundation. The inaugural performance will be on Sunday, May 3 at the Richmond Cultural Centre from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are available through Gateway Theatre’s Box Ofﬁce (604-270-1812 or www.gatewaytheatre.com). For more information about International Dance Day in Richmond, visit richmondevent.wix.com/ intldancedayrichmond.

Lulu Series: Art in the City Free guest speaker event What role do arts festivals play in expressing and shaping a city’s evolving sense of itself? Find out on when the PuSh Festival’s artistic and executive director, Norman Armour, presents the second of three talks in the 2015 Lulu Series: Art in the City. This presentation takes place on Thursday, April 23 at 7:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, Richmond City Hall. All Lulu Series events are free. Seating is limited so please RSVP at lulu@richmond.ca

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BC Youth Week May 1 to 7 Those who are 13 to 18 years old are in for a lot of fun during this year’s BC Youth Week, May 1 to 7. The City of Richmond and its Community Association partners are presenting a week of free and low cost activities to bring youth together from all over the city. Activities include a kick-off event at Steveston Community Centre on Friday, May 1 with bands, DJs, performances, activities and more. There will be a drop-in swim session for teens only at Watermania on Saturday, May 2. There will also be a fashion show, ﬁtness activities throughout the week and a youth version of the “The Amazing Race” in the city centre. For more information on Youth Week, visit www.richmond.ca/youthweek.

Celebrate International Dance Day with a Grand Plié Wednesday, April 29, 12:15 – 12:45 p.m. Join us on the Minoru Plaza (7700 Minoru Gate) for a free mini ballet barre class in celebration of International Dance Day. Dress in ﬁtted clothing you can move in (e.g. shorts/leggings) and ballet slippers or short socks. Please arrive 15 minutes early to register at the sign-in table on the plaza. Everyone is a dancer on International Dance Day and all levels are welcome. For more information, please call 604-247-8320.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Richmond drivers visit Victoria— and drive off a cliff Speeding suspected as both vehicles, worth a combined $70,000, were written off by Martin van den Hemel Staff Reporter Two Richmond drivers, both 20, and a passenger walked away relatively unscathed after driving two new cars off the end of a cliff in Victoria, crashing on the rocks some 40 feet below. Around 1 a.m. Friday, the men were

rpaterso photo via Flickr.com Scenic Clover Point in Victoria: A reminder to Richmond drivers that the road bends and to observe the speed limit.

driving their 2015 Ford Mustang and 2014 Infinity Q50—and were speeding, according to a witness—towards the

turnaround when they failed to turn or stop in time, and both their vehicles plunged straight off the end, according to Victoria Police. Both vehicles, worth a combined $70,000, were written off. “Officers investigated and ruled out impairment, but do believe speed played a contributing factor in the incident,” Victoria Police said. The pair were issued tickets for driving with undue care and attention. Both vehicles were towed out by the Victoria Fire Department. A small amount of fuel was spilled on the rocks, and Emergency BC was notified of the cleanup efforts, police said.

There’s some love for Lulabaloo

From Page 1 “From a marketing gut point of view I thought the last iteration was much more marketable,” said Coun. Ken Johnston. “It just seems so generic, Richmond World Festival, but I will support it because we got so much feedback.” Meanwhile, staff have already gotten the festival ball rolling. A request for proposals for a producer and production team closed last Friday, and the contract is scheduled to be awarded by month’s end. Of the event’s $170,000 cost, stage talent is budgeted at $80,000—half for the headliner and supporting act, the rest for local cultural performers. Expected to run from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., the festival aims to “celebrate the city’s cultural diversity through music, food, sport and the arts,” according to the bid document. Also planned is a stage for cooking demonstrations, farmers market, cultural pavilions and lesser-known-sport demonstrations, along with activity areas for youth and kids.

what’s so special about May? May is child care month Congratulations to all child care professionals in Richmond for a job well done!

Don McCullough photo via Flickr Drones, such as this one with a camera mounted underneath, will soon be banned from Richmond parks and school sites.

City looks to set standards for hobbyists in parks

From Page 1 He’s asking the city to designate areas and times for hobbyists to continue their craft through an organized group. Power-kiters want the same thing. Jeremy Young, 50, said kiters would be happy to keep to the grassy areas of Garry Point Park—and only use the space when it’s not busy. “It would be unfair to put a complete restriction of responsible traction kite activities, all the time, everywhere in the City of Richmond,” he said. “Particularly in a large spacious area like Garry Point Park, where there is ample room for all park users most of the time.” An online petition has also been started. But safety concerns expressed by citizens prompted the city to act, particularly in the

case of Garry Point. “We had received letters of concern from public about this activity and with the heavy use of that park there was feeling some control of this activity was needed,” said city spokesperson Ted Townsend. The bylaw doesn’t, however, entirely shut the door for hobbyists. According to the regulations, the activities are banned “except in an area specifically designated for such activity.” Townsend said the city is looking at options after meeting with some pilots of radio controlled airplanes. Said Townsend: “Our objective has never been to ban these activities outright, but simply set that as a baseline standard for all parks, than determine where, when and how the activity might take place in way that meets all community interests.”

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For over ten years, Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival has been presenting and animating contemporary works for the stage and public spaces that explore and reﬂect upon civic history and identity. Innovative, trendsetting, provocative, experiential and thought-provoking are words commonly used to describe a “PuSh show.” The festival’s artistic and executive director, Norman Armour, will survey a group of stand-out projects to show how the arts, and in particular festivals, can be a central player in expressing and shaping a city’s evolving sense of itself. This talk will be preceded by a short musical performance by theatre and recording artist, Veda Hille.

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Is TransLink inefficient? By most transit performance measures, TransLink is not grossly worse than other systems, as detractors claim by Jeff Nagel Black Press

Interim CEO Doug Allen says TransLink is ‘an efficient organization.’

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May environmental sustainability workshops Register for free classes These workshops will show you ways to reduce pesticide use and create a more sustainable community. The workshops are part of the City’s Enhanced Pesticide Management Program, Sustainability and Waste Reduction initiatives. These workshops are free, however, registration is required. There are two ways to register: • Online at www.richmond.ca/register • By phoning the registration call centre from Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. at 604-276-4300 (press “2” at the prompt) If you register but cannot attend, please contact the registration call centre to make your space available for other participants to attend. Beautiful Gardens without Pesticides Saturday, May 2 9:30-11:00 a.m. REG # 895309, Free, 13+yrs Thompson Community Centre 5151 Granville Avenue

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Broken video monitors. A giant poodle sculpture. A study for a transit gondola up Burnaby Mountain. The No campaign website lists example after example of spending it says adds up to “extreme waste” at TransLink. Yes advocates argue the money involved is insignificant compared to the cost of transit operations, which consume two thirds of TransLink’s $1.4-billion annual budget. So how does TransLink perform on broad measures of transit service efficiency against other transit systems? Do Metro Vancouver residents get enough for the dollars spent? Comparisons are tricky because transit systems have different characteristics and there are many ways to gauge them. Todd Litman of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute says operating cost per passenger kilometre statistics show TransLink has “relatively good” cost efficiency, ranking about average among big Canadian cities and much better than most U.S. systems. Cost recovery from fares, at around 55 per cent in 2013, was second only to Toronto in this country and much better than its peer U.S. cities, including Seattle and Portland, the latter often seen as a transit mecca for people north of the border. The numbers Litman uses come from the Canadian Urban Transit Association or the American Public Transit Association. “An excellent financial performer” with a low taxpayer subsidy and “good value” is how the International Bus Benchmarking Group described TransLink’s bus division earlier this year. No campaign head Jordan Bateman dismisses all those agencies as industry clubs that do nothing to audit or verify TransLink-submitted data. The only authority he trusts on TransLink performance is the 2012 report by Shirocca Consulting, commissioned as part of an audit by TransLink’s independent commissioner. “They actually dug deep into TransLink’s own numbers,” Bateman said. “According to the Shirocca report, it’s grossly worse than other Canadian transit agencies.” Well, not exactly. “The organization is well run and manages its costs,” the report said in part. The bus system is “well delivered and good quality” but has “generally higher costs and lower cost efficiency and effectiveness than most of its peers.” That’s about as far as Shirocca went in damning TransLink while offering up a list of potential savings — and that report is three years old and based on data from five years ago. And according to Litman, some of the comparisons the report relied on were unfair; for instance, TransLink’s performance in covering 1,800 square kilometres was stacked against just the Toronto Transit Commission, with a footprint one third as large, without including other Greater Toronto services in the suburbs. As the Shirocca review was underway in 2012, as well as a second audit by the provincial government, TransLink had already launched a cost-cutting drive. A major plank of that drive was the bus service optimization initiative, which shuffled service from underused routes to overcrowded ones where more money could be collected by accommodating more passengers. A follow-up progress report issued by Shirocca eight months later in November 2012 found the moves, spearheaded by then-CEO Ian Jarvis, were working. “There have been significant reductions in

operating costs,” it said, citing $33 million in new annual savings already identified and more in the works, with much of the gains coming from tightening up the bus system. Bus service optimization was yielding “significant savings without affecting service to the public,” it said, while flagging costs of the Compass card/faregates system as an area of concern. New TransLink interim CEO Doug Allen says much has changed in the past three years. “This is an efficient organization,” he stated in a report to the board March 30. “We provide more bus service today with fewer staff than five years ago and our cost per passenger boarding has dropped 30 per cent.” TransLink counts $240 million in savings over the last three years and claims it now delivers each kilometre of service more cheaply than Toronto and Montreal, and the Canadian average. Transportation Minister Todd Stone last week noted TransLink is widely recognized as “one of the best” systems in the world. Still, Litman said it’s unsurprising that TransLink’s efficiency may still look bad by certain measures. For instance, wages that are higher than the Canadian average (TransLink’s top rate is $29.78 an hour for bus drivers) are not surprising with housing costs as high as they are in Metro Vancouver, he says. “There are some good reasons why Vancouver’s costs should be higher than other areas,” he said. Buses in other cities don’t generally have to cover the vast distances they do here to cross uninhabited farmland in Richmond or Delta where there are no fare-paying passengers. Another reason is that, unlike more established cities, Metro Vancouver is growing rapidly, particularly in areas such as Surrey, Langley and the Tri-Cities. Adding new bus routes to serve emerging neighbourhoods drives up costs, particularly when there aren’t yet enough residents to support frequent service. And near-empty buses rolling around are a prime target for auditors. But it’s a chicken-and-egg problem because if the service isn’t offered at a deeper public subsidy, a generation of residents in newly developed areas will grow up driving, more cars will be bought and housing developments won’t be designed with transit in mind. As well, a blinkered focus on minimizing costs runs the risk of rolling back service south of the Fraser River instead of increasing it, and fundamentally changing how those areas develop in the future. “I think there is a danger of going too far,” Litman said of the bus route optimizing that auditors championed in 2012. “If you simply ask where can we cut service that has low ridership, one of the first things you would do is eliminate late night service and service to the suburbs.” Ironically, infrequent service is one of the prime reasons many residents south of the Fraser have listed for voting No in the referendum. Bateman, meanwhile, is unpersuaded by the latest efficiency statistics or observations that it was the province that mandated the Compass card/faregates system and funded the empty South Surrey park-and-ride. “If TransLink was running so efficiently and wonderfully, why did they dump their CEO? I’m not sure how they can have it both ways.”

•Referendum Questions is a Black Press series exploring issues related to the Metro Vancouver transit and transportation referendum. Voters must mail in ballots by May 29 on whether they support the addition of a 0.5 per cent sales tax in the region, called the Congestion Improvement Tax, to fund billions of dollars worth of upgrades. Read more in this series at richmondreview.com.

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Invasive species battle gets boost City of Richmond to receive $7,000 grant from provincial government The city’s battle against the spread of invasive plants has received a $7,000 boost from the provincial government. The funding is part of 29 grants, totalling $1,702,000, that are being distributed provincewide to local governments, regional invasive species committees and the Invasive Species Council of B.C. to assist with their activities and support the objectives of the provincial Invasive Plant Program. “These species can cause a great deal of harm to natural resource-based sectors, including forestry, agriculture and aquaculture,” said Richmond Centre MLA Teresa Wat. “This funding will go a long way to help the City of Richmond manage the spread of invasive species.” The funding will go towards activities such as raising public awareness of invasive plants, surveying invasive plant populations and actively treating high-priority sites to control the spread of these plants. Invasive plants are species that are not native to Brit-

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What’s Richmond’s best condo development? Best neighbourhood? Best new restaurant? The Richmond Review is urging readers to participate in the eighth annual Best of Richmond survey before voting ends in 10 days. Best of Richmond 2015 is a readers’ poll of what makes Richmond a great city. Subjects include People and Places, Food and Drink, Shopping and Services, Arts and Entertainment, and Sports and Recreation. The survey includes familiar categories such as Best Hotel, Best Dim Sum and Best Person You Would Like to See in Office, along with new ones including Best Local Tweeter, Best Filipino Restaurant and Best Shopping Centre. All entrants who complete a minimum of 10 categories will be entered into a random draw to win an Apple Watch—a wrist-worn computing device that interacts with Apple smartphones. Vote at richmondreview.com/contests until May 1. —Matthew Hoekstra

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ish Columbia and originate from other areas. They disrupt the region by displacing native vegetation and can cause considerable economic and environmental damage. Some, such as giant hogweed, pose a health risk to people (e.g. skin irritation). Invasive plants can disrupt natural ecosystems, reduce biodiversity, increase soil

erosion, alter soil chemistry and adversely affect commercial crops. The Invasive Plant Program identifies sites where invasive plant species have been found and responds rapidly to contain and eradicate them before they become established and start spreading. This funding is in addition to

the $735,000 already allocated by the Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations for invasive plant control and management in 2015-16. To learn more about the Invasive Plant Program, visit: http:// www.for.gov.bc.ca/hra/plants/ index.htm —Erin Boe

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he B.C. Liberal government’s sale of Crown properties to help balance its election budget was the dominant story in the legislature last week, as the NDP revealed evidence of a “fire sale” that may have left millions on the table. They started with Burke Mountain, the biggest single deal involving 14 view properties in Coquitlam. The buyer was a prominent developer whose array of companies happened to donate nearly $1 million to the B.C. Liberal Party since 2000. The $85 million price tag was similar to the B.C. Assessment Authority value on these forested properties, but an outside appraisal concluded they could have fetched an additional $43 million if they had spent more time on the hot Lower Mainland real estate market. (This sale made headlines last fall for the province’s $8 million buyout of the local First Nation’s undefined territorial claim, when it was revealed the chief of the tiny Kwikwitlem First Nation pocketed an $800,000 commission.) The government’s defence of the sale went from wobbly to weak. Citizens’ Services Minister Amrik Virk was caught

Documents show a wide range of prices was paid by Wesbild for properties sold by the provincial government last year, but purchasing prices were closest to the appraisal for those that were less sloped and relatively close to serviced areas of Coquitlam.

flat-footed and tried to get by on platitudes rather than retreat and find some answers. Premier Christy Clark weighed in, arguing that the budget would have balanced without the property sale, and that some sales closed too late to help the electionyear budget. Finance Minister Mike de Jong stressed that all these asset sales were detailed in three successive budgets. They downplayed the notion of land sales being rushed. Then the NDP produced a string of emails sent between senior officials responsible for selling two big properties across the street from the legislature. “To be part of the sale and development of over eight acres of Victoria’s beautiful inner harbour area is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. An opportunity that normally would warrant years of planning and prepara-

tion,” wrote one citizens’ services bureaucrat. “Unfortunately we don’t have unlimited time – our goal is to have For Sale signs up by Oct. 31 with sales proceeds in the bank by March 31, 2013.” Then came a disclosure about a property in Surrey that had been bought as a potential hospital site. Once the existing hospital was expanded, that property was declared surplus. Indeed, de Jong featured this property to promote the government’s plan to stimulate local economies with private sector investment on unused land. The Surrey deal closed for $20.5 million on March 21, 2014, just days before the end of the fiscal year. NDP leader John Horgan pointed to an outside appraisal of $23.5 million, and an assessment for tax purposes of $27.2 million. The appraiser also recommended that the

But it’s now clear that these and perhaps other sales were done with arbitrary deadlines that had everything to do with the B.C. Liberals’ need to balance the books

“highest and best use” for the Surrey land was to hold it until had been rezoned for commercial, retail or office development. De Jong cited another big health property in Vancouver that sold for more than its appraised and assessed value. It’s only the actual market

that determines worth, he insisted. But it’s now clear that these and perhaps other sales were done with arbitrary deadlines that had everything to do with the B.C. Liberals’ need to balance the books. When elections are a battle of sound bites, perception matters more than reality. It’s also worth recalling that the budget deficits prior to the 2013 election were largely a result of the B.C. government’s costly undoing of the harmonized sales tax, rather than the harsh forces of international finance. Surplus asset sales have a long tradition in B.C., where the government owns more than 90 per cent of all land. But after this round, full disclosure will be demanded. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

City needs to do research on radio controlled plane issue Editor: So Richmond council in its ignorance of what flying radio controlled planes (as a hobby) in public parks and school grounds after school hours have chosen to look at forbidding the practice. Comparing radio controlled planes as dangerous and a threat to security and privacy is ludicrous. The Rice Mill Road flying field is not an alternative as that is a control line model plane facility. Doesn’t anyone on the council know the difference between model

gliders and other radio controlled planes? Obviously not. That is tantamount to saying they are going to close the soccer fields and the players can go to the golf course instead. My husband has been flying model planes for 75 years and our sons and grandsons have followed in his footsteps and fly model planes too. One of our sons is in the avionics business, one grandson is a fully qualified commercial pilot and he and his brother and cousin still fly model planes.

Not one of our three generations have ever injured anyone with their planes nor gone peeping in people’s windows. How about the cheek by jowl high rises being built in this city, where people could be peering into one another’s homes without the use of a pair of binoculars. But I guess that is acceptable! Before passing such a bylaw some research should have been done. Patricia Gannon Richmond

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know him off the field as well, as someone you could have an interesting discussion or crack a few jokes with. He played a big part in shaping the person I am today and keeping him away from the game is only hurting the players of today. Of all the articles I’ve seen regarding Roberto, media has always portrayed him in a negative light. I hope that by showing people all the positives he contributed to my experience as a Richmond soccer player, that perhaps a few opinions may be changed, or that better yet, the charges are overturned. I’d like to be able to walk by Hugh Boyd again and see him out on the field, coaching, where he belongs, not only making the current generation of kids better soccer players, but preparing them for what comes after youth soccer as well. Marcus Ribi Richmond

With the exception of Steveston, Richmond has become a generic community

Editor: Perhaps a part of the reason that the Chinese-signage issue has gained so much attention is that, with the exception of downtown Steveston, Richmond has become such a generic community. It’s a place that is so bereft of unique characteristics and attributes that would differentiate it any way from so many other communities across our country. The signage issue has become one of the few things that is distinct enough to attract our attention. If you drive down No. 3 Road and blank out the Chinese signage, you could be anywhere in North America. The architecture and street layouts and high-rises are so common and familiar that the only thing that really registers in one’s consciousness is the task of looking for the signage that would help us find a particular establishment in an endless chain of otherwise indistinguishable storefronts and office buildings. The centre of Richmond doesn’t even boast an open public square, a place that would function as a focal

point, a peaceful gathering place, a respite from a cityscape dominated by walls of concrete and glass, a place to display artwork and, if well designed, something that would symbolize the character and spirit of a community. In “downtown” Richmond those functions are subsumed by oh-so generic shopping malls and streetscapes that are essentially nothing more than predictable ground-floor components of condo and business high-rises. Steveston is the last remaining place in this community where local merchants and long established “mom-and-pop” businesses can offer us experiences that are distinct from everywhere else in the city, but with every sale of an old building, with every sell-out to dollar-waving off-shore buyers, and with the construction of every new building with their complement of indistinct ground-floor generic businesses, this unique example of Richmond’s heritage will end-up looking and feeling not only like

everywhere else in the city, but like thousands of other places across the country. When we are so focused on the future that we forget to remember the value and importance of the influences of the past, we end-up having little if any deep sense of the nature of the context we live in the present. Everything, the environment and culture in general, becomes skim milk—a pale, characterless substitute for something that once had greater substance and nutrition. Steveston offers us Richmond’s only remaining opportunity to maintain a connection with the through-line that exists between the past, the present, and the future, but with each step that occurs in the deconstruction and reconstruction of the character of the village the closer we get to losing that opportunity forever. But then, if we are content with letting money alone dictate the design and evolution of our community, perhaps we deserve to lose that opportunity. Ray Arnold Richmond

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Students step into Canada’s past at the 13th annual Richmond Regional Heritage Fair

One hundred projects on a variety of themes from Canadian heroes to milestones, events and historic places will be on display at the 13th annual Richmond Regional Heritage Fair on Saturday, May 2. Discover exciting stories from Canada’s past through the eyes of Richmond students at the fair which takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Richmond Cultural Centre. Presented by the Richmond Museum Society, the Richmond Regional Heritage Fair is a two-day annual event. This year’s event begins with a Student Day on Friday, May 1, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Students will present their project displays to a panel of judges and take field trips to Vancouver International Airport and the Richmond Museum’s Artefact Collection Storage Warehouse. Students will also participate in heritage workshops presented by the Richmond Art Gallery and the Richmond Public Library. The library’s workshops will include acclaimed Chinese Canadian author, Paul Yee, who will tell fictional stories about Chinese immigrant experiences in

early B.C. The public is invited to the second fair day on Saturday, May 2, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., where they can view the project displays and engage in a variety of family-friendly activities. Exhibitors include the Richmond Museum Society, First Nations Educator Roberta Price, Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site and the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site. The day concludes with the presentation of special awards to outstanding Heritage Fair projects at the closing ceremony from 2 until 3 p.m. in the Performance Hall of the Richmond Cultural Centre. Following the Regional Heritage Fair, five students will be selected to represent Richmond and present their projects at the BC Provincial Heritage Fair in Victoria, BC, from July 2 to July 6. Richmond schools participating in the Heritage Fair are Byng, Cornerstone Christian Academy, Kingswood, McNeely, Thompson, Westwind, Whiteside and Wowk schools. For more information on the fair, see http://richmond heritagefair.blogspot.ca.

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DJ on musical hunt in Hollywood “Honestly (Queen Latifah) is one of the most genuinely sweet and kind-hearted people, and not just for a celebrity but out of everyone I know, period. She’s incredibly humble, generous, funny and inspiring to be around.” — Hunter Pearson

with... Steveston-raised Hunter Pearson, aka DJ Hunt, talks about Queen Latifah, a carolling Mr. Belding and the Toy Story ride by Matthew Hoekstra Staff Reporter

e’s Hunter Pearson, but for viewers of The Queen Latifah Show he’s better known as DJ Hunt.

The Hugh McRoberts grad served as the syndicated daytime talk show’s DJ and music co-ordinator until production ceased in December and the show’s nearly two-year run ended last month. The TV show gave him an upclose-and-personal view of the people of Hollywood—a Los Angeles community he now calls home. Pearson grew up in Steveston, attending Dixon Elementary and then McRoberts for French immersion. Today, when visiting, he stays with his parents who still live in his childhood home. Pearson is a classically trained pianist and graduate of the Art Institute of Vancouver. His musical mind is keeping him busy in Tinseltown. His interest in the music aspects of TV and film have grown since his experience with The Queen Latifah Show. Pearson is now finishing work on a reality TV show pilot as music supervisor, a job in which he’s responsible for selecting and placing all the music in the show. Hunter also continues to make new music and deejay—anything from nightclub gigs to private parties.

1. How did you get into music? “I started playing piano when I was really young, maybe like five or six years old. It eventually led to playing other instruments, then writing, producing and deejaying.” 2. Instruments you play? “Piano, guitar, drums, turntables and maybe the clarinet I still have from elementary school.” 3. A symphony orchestra puts you behind the piano for a solo. Composer? “Me! I’d love for an orchestra to play a piece I’d written.” 4. How did you get the name? “I think I originally wanted to be

Steveston’s Hunter Pearson is pursuing his musical dreams in Hollywood. The DJ had a chance to rub shoulders with Queen Latifah as DJ for her TV talk show.

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DJ Hype but my friends in high school started calling me DJ Hunt so I went with that instead.” 5. What is Queen Latifah like? “Honestly she’s one of the most genuinely sweet and kindhearted people, and not just for a celebrity but out of everyone I know, period. She’s incredibly humble, generous, funny and inspiring to be around.” 6. Your dad once filled in for you on the show? “Ha ha. No, my parents came down during our final week of tapings and I told my dad to pose for a picture behind my turntables. I love that picture so much!” 7. An interesting celebrity you’ve met? “Well I can think of a pretty random celebrity experience I had which was watching Mr. Belding (Dennis Haskins)

from Saved By The Bell perform Christmas carols in the living room of a house party I was at. That was amazing.” 8. Your favourite Queen Latifah movie? “It’s not one of her movies but I’m gonna say her appearance on The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, because I always remembered that.” 9. Your one must-have piece of DJ equipment? “The ‘real DJ’ answer: Technics 1200 turntable. The ‘today’s DJ’ answer: a laptop.” 10. A memorable show as DJ Hunt? “Deejaying our QL Show wrap party with Queen Latifah next to me rapping her classic ‘U.N.I.T.Y.’ on the mic.” 11. Favourite way to exercise? “Playing basketball, biking at Venice Beach, or hiking Runyon Canyon. I’m so L.A.” 12. Favourite healthy snack? “Fruit smoothie. Delicious.” 13. A favourite thing about L.A.? “The weather and the opportunity.” 14. Any Canucks fans there? “There’s always lots of Canucks jerseys at the games here, it’s almost like a Vancouver home game. But a lot of the fans come to L.A. just for those games, they don’t actually live here.” 15. A fun ride at Disneyland for kids at heart? “My current favourite is the Toy Story ride: you wear 3-D glasses and shoot at targets on the screen. But the teacups are classic.” 16. Someone who’s influenced you? “My parents. The older I get, the more I realize and appreciate everything they’ve instilled in me.” 17. A career highlight? “Working at The Queen Latifah Show was a great experience in so many ways. It was fun, I met a lot of awesome people, and I got to be on TV.” 18. Best place for a vacation? “Anywhere I’ve never been. Or Hawaii.” 19. If you were an Olympian, in what event would you compete? “Snowboarding. Being really good looks like it would be a lot of fun.” 20. Something few people know about you? “I really enjoy acting and performing on stage, and secretly dream of being a stand-up comedian.”

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community Celebrate International Dance Day at the Grand Plié

Dancers of all ages and abilities are invited to celebrate International Dance Day by taking part in the Grand Plié on Wednesday, April 29 from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Everyone is invited to join the celebration and participate in this free class at Minoru Plaza, 7700 Minoru Gate. The Grand Plié mini ballet barre class will be led by the Richmond Arts Centre’s senior dance instructor Miyouki Jego, and will highlight the physical aspects of the art form while promoting the important role the arts play in building healthy communities. Grand Plié participants should arrive 15 minutes early to sign-in at the tent located on

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Minoru Plaza. Fitted clothing with ballet slippers or short socks that can be pulled over the heel are recommended. In the event of bad weather, the class will be moved indoors to the Richmond Arts Centre’s dance studio. In 1982, the International Theatre Institute Dance Committee founded International Dance Day. It takes place every year on April 29 to celebrate the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810), creator of modern ballet. For info on the Grand Plié or dance programs, visit www.richmond.ca/artscentre or contact Melanie Burner at mburner@ richmond.ca or 604-247-8320.

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B.C. cities rank low on Statistics Canada list of happy places Vancouver unhappiest city in Canada: Study by Jeff Nagel Black Press B.C. may be a balmy lotus land where you can theoretically ski, golf and swim in the same day, but that doesn’t seem to make us any happier than the rest of the country. A national survey of life happiness across Canada found Vancouver was dead last among 33 cities surveyed, just behind Toronto. Statistics Canada’s How’s Life in the City report paints a bleak picture of residents in other B.C. cities as well. Kelowna ranked highest at #12, Abbotsford was 24th (behind Winnipeg and Regina), while Victoria, which taunts the rest of the country with its January flower count, was 27th. Respondents were asked to rate how they feel about their life as a whole right now on a satisfaction scale from 0 to 10. The question was asked of 340,000 Canadians between 2009 and 2013 as part of broad social and health surveys, and the results were averaged by census metropolitan area and economic region. Topping the list of happy places were Saguenay and Trois-Rivieres in Quebec, followed by St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Sudbury, Ontario. The gap between the cities ranked is not large. Vancouverites rated their life satisfaction on average at 7.8 out of 10, while Victoria and Abbotsford averaged 7.9, Kelowna was 8.0 and chart-topping Saguenay is just over 8.2. The findings also show 40 to 45 per cent of residents in Sudbury, Thunder Bay and St.

John’s rated their life happiness a 9 or 10 compared to less than 35 per cent in Vancouver, the lowest in the country. It also measured the other end of the scale – the people who were least happy. The cities with the largest numbers of residents rating their life a 6 or lower were Windsor, Toronto, Abbotsford, Peterborough, St. Catherines and Vancouver, while Quebec cities had the fewest number of low scores. Life satisfaction appears to be higher in smaller communities, the report says, noting the top ranked cities have fewer than 250,000 residents, while Toronto and Vancouver are at the bottom. It cited a 2014 study that found “life satisfaction and happiness are lower in denser, more urbanized settings.” The Statistics Canada analysis points to health as a key factor for happiness, along with economic and social factors such as income, employment and marriage status. “Individuals rating their health as ‘excellent’ have life satisfaction scores a full point higher than those rating their health as ‘good’, and almost three points higher than those rating their health as ‘poor’,” it says. Being unemployed is a downer, it adds, while richer households tend to be happier. According to a global measuring stick, the World Happiness Report, income is the most important of six key variables that account for three quarters of the variation in life satisfaction among people in the same country. The study also ranked economic regions. Northern Quebec was the country’s happiest. B.C.’s regions scored an average happiness level of 8.1 in the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and the Kootenays; 8.0 in the Cariboo, Thompson-Okanagan and North CoastNechako; and 7.8, the lowest in the country, in the northeast.

Separate dog poop bins to stay in Metro parks by Jeff Nagel Black Press Metro Vancouver will keep paying contractors to cut open bags of doggie do that are deposited in bins in Metro regional parks so the excrement can be treated as sewage instead of going in the garbage to be landfilled or incinerated. It started as a pilot project more than three years ago but officials now say it will continue on a permanent basis, either as a specific contracted service or as part of a broader future contract for hauling garbage and recyclables. Metro paid New Westminster-based Scooby’s Dog Waste Removal Service $60,000 last year to retrieve 97,000 kilograms from regional parks, cut open every bag, and dump the waste in with the sewage at the Iona sewage treatment plant. The dog waste that piles up is a “very big” environmental issue for regional parks, according to Metro parks operations

manager Gudrun Jensen. It harms vegetation and exposes people and other animals to bacteria and parasites, she said. “We have lots and lots of people that come with their dogs and that generates an enormous amount of dog waste,” Jensen said. Nor does the region want it going in trash bins. “It’s not strictly kosher to put into the solid waste stream because it is a biohazardous material. What we’re trying to do is lessen that load a little bit.” Metro is amending its violation enforcement bylaw to require dog walkers to dispose of bagged feces in the designated dog waste receptacles where available instead of in the garbage or elsewhere. Violators will face a $125 fine. Jensen said too many people aren’t using the red bins, hundreds of which are now in place in regional parks and trails where dogs are often walked. “Our staff still find people leaving neatly tied up bags of dog poo on the side of the trail

or hanging off the trees,”Jensen said. “You can’t just bag it up and leave it at the side of the trail or wing it off into the trees. You have to actually put it into a receptacle.” Metro has estimated the 2.5 million dogs that visit its regional parks generate 500 tonnes of dog waste a year, so the recovery rate so far may be less than 20 per cent. Jensen acknowledged much of it still ends up in the garbage. “I wish more people would just flush it down the toilet,” Jensen added. “It would make life much simpler.” Some local municipalities have considered paying for dog waste removal from their civic parks but none have yet signed on with Scooby’s. Company owner Bill Droeske argues cities should also provide separate bins because the disposal of dog excrement is banned from the landfill. “That poop is going into the landfill,” he said. “Even though it’s against the law, the cities do it.”

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What Nora Knew is Chick Lit Central

Book Club Shelley Civkin

iscovering a new-to-me author is like suddenly finding out that Nabisco makes a cheesecake Oreo. So when I stumbled upon Linda Yellin’s book What Nora Knew, and read it in a few short hours, I knew I’d found a new fave author.

Far from being a high-brow piece of literature, What Nora Knew is nonetheless an extremely funny and enter-

taining read. Full of clever banter and verbal sparring between characters, this novel hits you where you live – in the heart and in the funny bone. If you’re a cynical romantic, this is just the book for you. Main character Molly Hallberg is a cynical 39-yearold divorcee and writer for an online gossip and pop culture magazine called EyeSpy. She’s dating a boring chiropractor named Russell and their relationship is, in Molly’s words, “comfortable”. Her family and friends all know that “comfortable” is an adjective used to describe a pair of old sweatpants, not a boyfriend. But Molly is afraid to take chances. Even though she does that for a living. With weird assignments that require her to dance with the Rockettes, jump out of an airplane, go undercover at a speed-dating event, and try to smuggle sex toys through security gates, she’s pretty much up for anything. Except real love. When she meets atypically handsome Cameron Duncan, a famous writer of romantic mystery novels,

she gets a flutter in her stomach that would signal to any other red-blooded woman that there’s love in the air. Molly just thinks it’s indigestion. Oh Molly, Molly, Molly, when will you learn? Between trying to coax her boss Dierdre into giving her her own column in the magazine, deflecting the not-so-subtle advances of Cameron, and trying to sustain her “comfortable” relationship with Russell, she has her hands full. Yet, she knows deep down that something is missing. Repeat after me, readers: “IT’S LOVE THAT’S MISSING!”

When Molly finally gets an assignment to write about romance in New York City— à la Nora Ephron—she fails to capture the essence of love. She’s spent a lifetime looking for love, but not wanting to risk what it takes to find it. So how is she supposed to be able to write about it? She wouldn’t know love if she tripped over it. In her infinite wisdom, Molly’s mother tells her: “Molly, if love was easy, it wouldn’t feel like magic when you finally got it right.” Oh, the words of a wise mother. What Nora Knew is Chick Lit Central, and everything about this book is delightfully funny. For similar reads try books by Jennifer Weiner, Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin, Sophie Kinsella, Louise Bagshawe, Stacey Ballis, Emily Griffin, Lauren Weisberger, and Marian Keyes. Shelley Civkin is communications officer at Richmond Public Library. For other popular reading suggestions check out Richmond Public Library’s web site at www.yourlibrary. ca/goodbooks/.

Shrek to hit Gateway stage Richmond Christian presents musical by James Wittensleger Youth Reporter

The final touches are being put on Richmond Christian’s biennial school play. The play, which this year is Shrek The Musical, will be playing at Richmond’s Gateway theatre from April 30 through May 2. Shrek The Musical is a musical written by David Lindsay-Abaire and is an adaptation of Dreamworks 2001 film, Shrek. The film is about an ogre who must rescue a princess in order to have the recently dumped fairy tale creatures removed from his swamp. Tickets for Richmond Christian’s Vivian Qiang is one of 40 two hour take on the musical can actors that in Richmond be purchased in person at Gate- Christian’s take on Shrek way for $15 or in groups of 10 for The Musical. the same show at a discounted rate by calling Gateway, or at www.gatewaytheatre.ca. The play will feature 40 actors, 13 singer-dancers and 21 musicians from the secondary school, as well as 22 middleschool dancers. “Like the character of Shrek, this show is larger than life—and more than we expected. Depicting 40 characters, various locations and imaginative sets has pushed our team farther than we expected” said co-director Sharon Johnsey who, among 10 other members of Richmond Christian’s staff, have helped the play materialize.

Kin’s Farm Market committed to the community With 30 locations across B.C., their Ñrst store was opened at Blundell Centre

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Kin’s Farm Market is committed to the community, but not only in the way it provides fresh fruits and vegetables to local residents.

Back in 1987, after experiencing success at Granville Island, brothers Kin Wah Leung and Kin Hung Leung opened their Ðrst retail

outlet at Blundell Centre, at No. 2 Road and Blundell. Today, there are 30 locations across the province, delivering freshness, unique customer service and promoting healthy lifestyles. Last year, Kin’s Farm Market donated $10,000 toward the construction of a new barn at The Sharing Farm, for the processing and storage of fruits and vegetables destined for local families in need through the Richmond Food Bank and local community meals. Kin’s quickly brings fresh produce to its stores from local farmers, who select the best from their crop for Kin’s customers and then

transport the fruits and vegetables to the stores bright and early every day at 7 a.m. Blundell store manager Andrew Yu said what’s unique about the Kin’s shopping experience is their sales associates, who talk to customers about their products and give away free samples for customers to try. With a commitment to providing eco-fresh produce, and sharing their product knowledge with their customers, Kin’s is doing something right, Yu said. About 80 per cent of its customers are loyal to the store, and keep returning for all their fresh produce needs.

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Safety at root of athlete screening study Sport Cardiology BC’s mission is for you to be aware of your health risks before you exercise by Don Fennell Sports Editor Is there such a thing as too much exercise? It’s a question a University of B.C. grad student is exploring with the assistance of renowned sports doctors Jack Taunton and Saul Isserow. Taunton, a former Richmond resident, is supervising the study by Barb Morrison, research and project coordinator at the new Sports Cardiology BC Clinic which Taunton and Isserow co-founded. The goal—through an extensive cardiac questionnaire—is to study 2,000 high-performance and recreational masters-aged (40 and over) athletes to determine if there are any abnormalities that can predict the risk for sudden death. Certainly no one is questioning the many benefits of physical activity. But there are dangers, including a small increased risk of a heart attack during robust exercise. The aim of the Sport Cardiology

Clinic of BC is to assist athletes to stay active while also ensuring their continued safety by being aware of the risks. One of the founding fathers of sport medicine in Canada, Taunton was himself a keen competitive athlete who participated in more than 60 marathons. But as a masters athlete, he unexpectedly required quadruple bypass surgery following a heart attack in 2000. He has since seen many of those he trained with, including some top-level athletes, suddenly face similar needs. They only served to raise his curiosity as to why. “Although I had a family history, they didn’t have any apparent risk factor,” Taunton said. “Their weight was low or there was no indication of high blood pressure. So we began to wonder whether exercise could be a factor.” In the past few weeks, since receiving ethical approval for the study, more than 40 elite, national, international and

Dr. Jack Taunton is overseeing a study of athletes to determine if there are any abnormalities that can predict the risk for sudden death.

Olympic-level athletes have been consulted. All of them had very real cardiac concerns, with two elite athletes showing a “malignant” course of an aberrant coronary artery, said

Larry Thompson, senior funeral director at Richmond Funeral Home will celebrate 25 years with Arbor Memorial Inc. on April 25. Born in Belleville, Ont., Thompson was raised in a family who owned a variety of funeral homes, and today he has a brother and a nephew who are also funeral directors, as are his parents. "We are truly blessed to work with someone so professional, so caring, so wonderful," said funeral home manager Sandra Melin. "Larry is a pillar in the community and here at Richmond Funeral Home. We look forward to working with you for many years to come Larry." While the title of funeral director may sounds like a dark, morbid job, if that were really the case he wouldn't have continued to be in the industry for more than 30 years, he said. The part he enjoys most, and takes the greatest pride in, is helping people to navigate through what's commonly referred to as the most difficult time in their lives. Thompson companions the bereaved and creates a meaningful end of life event reflective of an individual. It's a responsibility that fills him with a sense of honor and purpose. As an ordained minister, his talent in life is serving people. His supportive Spouse has attributed to his success, said the proud father of one and grandfather of three. Thompson has seen many changes in the profession over 30 years. Through personal growth and commitment to lifelong learning, he is an expert and leader in his vocation. He has mentored many successful funeral directors and served innumerable families.

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Isserow, who as well as being a director at the Sport Cardiology BC Clinic is the medical director at the Vancouver General Hospital Centre for Cardiovascular Health. “All of this re-emphasizes how important and timely our quest to continue to develop Sport Cardiology BC is,” added Isserow, who himself has a renowned background as a marathon runner. “Our clinical impression agrees with the apparent increased incidence in atrial fib, and my concern about a number of my patients that are, or were elite endurance athletes having premature coronary artery disease requiring bypass surgery like myself,” Taunton said. The screening of masters athletes comes on the heels of an extensive similar study of young athletes. Some 800 elite junior athletes under the age of 35 were evaluated in the initial study. Taunton said among those studied in both groups are many runners and triathletes. Among mastersaged athletes, they have shown a higher risk of sudden death. Oldtimers hockey players also appear to be at a high risk, he said, along with weekend warriors with a family history. Taunton said periods of inactivity followed by high anaerobic exercise along with a past history of smoking, hypertension and high lipids also appear to heighten the risks. He said the high number of tragic deaths during one season a few years ago, in an Ottawa oldtimers’ hockey league, triggered a move to ensure defibrillators are available in every ice rink in Canada. He added defibrillators should be standard equipment at every major triathlon, not to

mention other sports venues, as well. Taunton said one theory being reviewed is the harder an athlete works, the more oxygen they use. One of the end products is that it can lead to damage of the coronary arteries. He said a recent European study concluded that 23 per cent of endurance athletes compared to 12.5 per cent of non-athletes experienced atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat). Also known as arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation affects about 350,000 Canadians and generally the risk of developing it increases with age and other risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure and underlying heart disease. “It’s still rare among endurance athletes, but we are seeing more cases of it,” said Taunton. By looking for risk factors, the detailed studies now being carried out at Sport Cardiology BC may help save athlete’s lives. And that’s the goal, says Taunton. “Electrocardiograms for instance help us look for signs of underlying heart disease. If we see that, then we do a stress test on the heart,” he said. “What we want to be is two steps ahead. Before someone actually experiences a cardiac event, we want to be able to identify the potential of that happening much earlier.” Such an extensive study has never been done before in Canada, or for that matter in much of the world. An extensive study by cardiologists of athletes in Italy, however, found a much higher degree or risk factors and episodes of sudden deaths than anyone had seen before, Taunton said. Their findings led to a decree that everyone who wants to

participate in sport in Italy must first complete a questionnaire and have an electrocardiogram. The same applies to any athlete from outside the country participating in a competition in Italy, he said. “The International Olympic Committee is now looking at this, and it’s a topic that has headlined every sports medicine conference in the last six months,” said Taunton. “And based on what we’ve seen from our study so far, and what we’re going to be seeing, Canada should follow the Italian policy.” Taunton said it’s even more pressing to implement such guidelines today because of the number of weekend warriors that have boosted participation in sport over the last 10 to 20 years. He said these individuals need to be aware of the potential risks, particularly those that may be unique to themselves, before they venture into the arena of field of play. “For young athletes, particularly in the competitive stream, the risks are low but if they have any congenital defects they could have symptoms of fainting or shortness of breath and never think anything of it and tragically collapse,” said Taunton. “And for those older athletes, with so many people reaching 40 and concluding they had better get into a fitness program, the recommendation is to see their physician and have a cardiac questionnaire done along with an exercise stress test.” Sport Cardiology BC is planning a screening day this Thursday, April 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. Those interested can sign up at sportcardiologybc.org.

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Hibs look to extend Provincial Cup run in rubber match versus Burnaby side Kickoff 2 p.m. Saturday at Minoru Park by Don Fennell Sports Editor Hard work has been the Richmond Hibernians’ calling card for some time now. But this Saturday the intensity will be ratcheted up yet another notch when the local men’s soccer team hosts EDC Burnaby in a playoff match at Minoru Park. Kickoff is 2 p.m. The tilt has all the makings of a classic. “It’s going to be a tough game,” says Hibernians’ captain Mike Revell of what amounts to a rubber match between the Richmond and Burnaby sides. Hibernians scored a 3-1 vic-

tory in the opening match of the season at Burnaby, but the latter got the upper hand in a 1-0 decision midway through the campaign back in Richmond. The contrast in styles (Richmond has a big team but relies on everyone playing their roles, while Burnaby serves up a fancier brand of soccer) only adds to the match’s allure. The Hibs, as they’re affectionately known by their loyal followers, also boast one of the game’s top young goalkeepers in Jason Roberts. Still just 18, he redshirted this past season at the University of B.C. “He’s getting more and more confidence,” says Revell, who is impressed by the youngster’s skillset and poise in the net. The entire 2014-15 campaign has a been a character and confidence builder for the Hibernians. After being

relegated on penalty kicks in a 2013 playoff game, the Richmond side proceeded to win the First Division and earn a promotion back to the Vancouver Mainland Soccer League’s Premier Division this season. They qualified for the provincials by a point on the final day. Then this past Friday, the Hibernians rose to the challenge once more by upsetting the Premier league and Imperial Cup champion West Vancouver United 1-0 on the North Shore to move on to the Provincial Cup quarterfinals. Defeating the top seeded team in B.C. earned the Hibernaians this weekend’s home game versus Burnaby. “No one gave us a shot at making provincials, let alone beating the top team in B.C.,” says Hibernians’ player Rory Gattens, one of 14 players that have come through the Richmond Youth Soccer

Association and continue to play for their hometown club. “Everyone is still excited by that win,” adds Revell. “The guys are still pumped and excited to get another chance to play.”

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Cloverdale takes bow after gambling on port shot Fraser Valley teams dominate, as Chilliwack adds men’s title at Pacific International Cup bonspiel in Richmond by Don Fennell Sports Editor

It was the shot no one in the crowd saw coming. Even Cloverdale skip Leanne Andrews and third Jennifer Gay weren’t sold on it. But after discussing their options, including a considerably more conservative takeout on the edge of the eight foot line, they opted for big risk but big reward. “We thought a lot about it and decided what the heck, let’s go for it,” Gay said of their final shot, a tricky takeout through a narrow port, in the sixth end that left Cloverdale sitting three. The heroic shot forced Washington skip Claire Bonin to come up with magic of her own, but she came up light on her final draw shot and the teams shook hands as Cloverdale scored a 9-5 victory Sunday in the women’s final at the 16th annual Pacific International Cup at the Richmond Curling Centre. Earlier in the day, Andrews’ Cloverdale team (also featuring Kim McIandress and Phillippa Johnston) secured a berth in the Travelers Canadian Curling Club Championship in Ottawa this November with an 8-2 upset of previously-undefeated Campbell River (Island North) in the B.C. women’s final. Chilliwack matched Cloverdale’s feat in the men’s division, winning both the B.C. and PIC championships. Kevin Britz’s Fraser Valley rink went undefeated in all nine of its games, sweeping though the round-robin en route to a 7-5 win over Chilliwack in the provincial final and then topping Illinois 5-4 in extra ends in the PIC final. Though perhaps not quite as dramatic as the women’s final, the battle for PIC supremacy among the men was no less intense. Britz’s Chilliwack rink (which also featured James Crawford, Darren Jarvis and Ken Britz) was actually fortunate to pull out the win after a peel

attempt raised one of its own stones into the ring. It ended up counting when Illnois came up light on an attempted freeze with their final stone. Skipped by Greg Wilson and featuring Michael Rane, Colin Rittgers and Lloyd Yanis, the Illinois rink from suburban Chicago proved to be formidable at this year’s PIC, winning the international men’s pool with a 6-3 victory over Yukon which was paced by an early fourender. Claire Bonin’s Washington team (which also featured Kris Ikegami, Jill Lamberts, Lisa Rugen and Jiyoung Lee) won the international women’s pool with an 8-3 win over California’s Sarah Walsh (also featuring Kim Chapin, Emily Schermerhorn and Emily Kimmel) San Francisco rink. Three-enders in the second and fourth end were the difference makers. •With their victory in the Mainland Club Challenge a week ago, Richmond’s Norm Richard rink gave the host club a team in the Pacific International Cup. However, Richard’s team (which also featured Wayne Hogaboam, Brian McInnis and Ralph Einarson) came up short of their goal as a 3-4 roundrobin record left them just shy of a playoff berth.

Don Fennell photos A big gamble in the sixth end enabled Cloverdale to score three and secure an early 9-5 win over Washington in the women’s final of the Pacific International Cup Sunday at the Richmond Curling Centre.

Richmond, which Hogaboam described prior to the competition as “a pretty consistent team” started impressively with three straight victories. While a host team is always at least perceived to have a home-ice advantage, Hogaboam said it depends greatly on how the ice is playing. “It can be just as hard for us to read as any team that never’s played on the rink before,” he said. Despite not advancing further, Hogaboam said the PIC is a great event. “It’s nice to have this type of bonspiel for curlers, to give them a chance to feel what it’s like to play in big games,” he said. “It’s quite enjoyable.”

The women’s team representing Washington sweeps away in the PIC final Sunday.

Chilliwack’s Kevin Britz (above left) and Illinois’ Greg Wilson skipped their teams to success in the men’s pool at the Pacific International Cup bonspiel which wrapped up Sunday at the Richmond Curling Centre.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

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8060 No. 1 Road (corner of No. 1 & Blundell) 604.277.5377 www.gilmoreparkunited.ca Rev. Maggie Watts-Hammond, Min. of Word, Sacrament & Pastoral Care Rev. Yoko Kihara – Min. of Christian Development & Outreach Worship and Children’s Program Sundays 10:30 am

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welcomes you to Sunday Worship Services • English Services: 9:00 & 10:45 a.m. • Mandarin Service: 9:00 a.m. • Minnanese Service: 10:45 a.m. 12200 Blundell Road, Richmond, B.C., V6W 1B3 Phone 604-273-2757 • www.fujianevangelical.org

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

ReaDY Summit at High Boyd Secondary School

Katie Lawrence photos Janice Wong and Janelle Ho are two of the leading members of the Green Ambassadors and were co-emcees for the morning.

Jeremy (in blue), Jenna, and Patrick Baier all create their homemade game of Tower of Hanoi at the repurposing workshop.

Vancouver School Board Sustainability Conference public outreach co-ordinator and Grade 11 student Alice Xu gives a keynote speech on how she discovered her love of the environment.

At the repurposing seminar, Lyrra Guelos made a toy spinner out of a button and some yarn.

David Suzuki Foundation member Lindsay Coulter demonstrates how to make DIY toothpaste. Her recipes can be found at queenofgreen.ca.

Kim Kamstra of Raptors Ridge Birds of Prey holds Tangles, a female red-tailed hawk and one of Raptors Ridge’s successful rescues.

REaDY Summit goes for grassroots approach having a youth-led event which focused on helping youth and adults alike make sustainable choices. The Green Ambassadors, a group of high school students from Richmond, had been planning the event for months with support from sponsor teachers, the City of Richmond, and the Richmond School District, as well as the David Suzuki Foundation. City of Richmond manager of environmental sustainability Lesley Douglas was thrilled with the efforts of the green ambassadors and their planning of the conference. “I think they’ve done

Around Town Katie Lawrence

he fourth-annual Richmond Earth Day Youth (REaDY) Summit went grassroots this year, getting back to

phenomenal. Last year, we had Dr. (David) Suzuki, so it was quite a different event and this year’s is a different tone. It’s got a really youth grassroots feel to it, and I think it’s just lovely.” The workshops at the conference were based around the theme of “Planning for the Future: Ready, Set, Go!” Examples include making paper out a seeds, a homemade deodorant and toothpaste tutorial, and different ways to eat sustainably. Children of all ages were invited to attend, adding to the youth initiative. Two of the senior students on the Green Ambassadors, Janelle Ho and Janice Wong,

were happy with how the event was received. “This turned out to be such a rewarding experience,” said Ho. “Putting in all these efforts as green ambassadors and team leaders in our schools, it’s really heartwarming.” “We put a lot of hard work into this as green ambassadors, months and months of planning and it’s nice to see everyone show up, work together, and see everything work out and flow smoothly,” added Wong. Katie Lawrence covers the social scene. She may be reached at kt.lawrence10@ gmail.com.

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