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Ideas aplenty at Lands event Suggestions range from hospital to playing field, to leave it alone BY PHILIP RAPHAEL
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Volunteers at the Garden City Lands Ideas Fair decorate a tree with origami birds.
They came. They saw. Many took a deep breath, and then relaxed. It’s something Jim Wright, president of the Garden City Conservation Society took great delight in seeing Saturday as the city welcomed the public to the 136-acre Garden City Lands site for what was billed as an Ideas Fair, focusing on possible future uses for the property. “It is so typical with the Garden City Lands,” Wright said, “that somehow people get out there, and they are not very far from the city, but still say they have this wonderful feeling that their pulse is slowing down.” Wright said the serene surroundings can have such a calming effect, the city should seriously factor that into their approach on what should become of the property Richmond
Dad thanks ‘angels’ for saving daughter’s life ing sound of something going badly wrong. “I didn’t see it happen, but I heard As he crouched over her stricken the crash and I raced over to see what body, a terrified Marc Lincoln enterhappened,” recalled Lincoln of the tained his worst nightmare of losing incident last Sunday afternoon. his 13-year-old daughter. “She had hit one of those barriers Convulsing due to a seizure and to stop cars getting onto the dyke and her eyes rolling back, Kayla had just she was lying flat on the ground, no crashed off her bike after hitting a bar- screams or cries, nothing. rier on a slipway off the “She went into a dike near the Olympic seizure right there. oval. It was the darkest Moments earlier, moment of my life, Lincoln and his daughter as I had no idea what — Marc Lincoln had been enjoying their was happening. regular bike ride along “I thought somethe dike, a route he takes every day, thing terrible was happening to her cycling to work from their Terra Nova brain. Her eyes were rolling back and home to Vancouver. she seemed to be slipping in and out In a split second, Kayla decided to of consciousness. There was a moment take a slightly alternate route from her I thought she was dying, I really did.” father. It was then he heard the sickensee Helmet page 5 BY ALAN CAMPBELL
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purchased in March 2010 for $59.17 million from the Canada Lands Company (CLC) Ltd. and Musqueam Indian Band. “The Garden City Lands almost have a feeling of wellness. We just have to recognize what is there and do the minimal amounts that don’t mess up what’s there,” Wright said. “It’s an amazing, tranquil place. And it’s really unique. I can’t find anything else like it in the JOHN CORREA/SPECIAL TO THE NEWS world where you can be in Rich Kenny talks about the an inland, city centre and wide diversity of plants growhave literally unbroken, ing on the Garden City Lands. natural viewscapes.” Tranquility aside, the Garden City Lands, which is classified as a peat bog, is an important environmental resource to the Lower Mainland and should ultimately be left untouched, said Eliza Olson, president of the Burns Bog Conservation Society. Over the years, the land was used as a rifle range for military training during the First World War. And then, from 1949 until 1994, it served as the federal Ministry of Transport’s home for maritime radio transmitters. & sa y H see Bog page 4 i in e Nav
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