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Richmond Walmart deal hits buffer, again Shopping centre proposal likely to go before full sitting of council

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Plans for the $100 million Walmart-anchored shopping centre in West Cambie have once again hit a roadblock after city council’s planning committee refused to approve the project.

With only two of the five councillors on committee in support — Evelina Halsey-Brandt and Linda Barnes were in favour — the proposal was shunted back to city staff at the For video and to end of an occacomment online sionally heated two-and-halfhour meeting Tuesday.

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Bill McNulty’s demand to know just how many people are expected to flock to the 14-acre shopping centre between Alderbridge Way and Alexandra Road, near Garden City Road.

It’s a factor that McNulty, whose motion to send the proposal back to staff, believes is critical to be aware of before he can consider sending the proposal to a public hearing.

“I’m in no rush to push this forward,” said McNulty of the now 10year-old plans.

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The fate of a 14-acre shopping centre, including a Walmart, was the subject of much debate during Tuesday’s planning committee meeting. patrons are going to be going there, and I’m surprised we don’t have that information from the developer.”

The plans will now come back to the same planning committee next month. And, with or without the committee’s approval, it’s likely the proposal will then go before the next full sitting of council for it to decide if the project sees the light of a pub-

lic hearing.

City staff had recommended sending the project to the public hearing stage, after the proponent, Smartcentres, had agreed to fullyfund an $11 million connector road on the west side of the site and give the city up to $3.45 million to buy out two properties, deemed vital for the connector road to go ahead.

The new road to the west of the site would not be needed until up to 10 years after the shopping centre opened, according to city staff.

But that wasn’t nearly enough to shift councillors Harold Steves or Chak Au, with the former in no mood to give the green light to a project he says Richmond has always see City page 4

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City: Could expropriate land to make road happen Continued from page 3 “This is about land use and this will open said it wouldn’t entertain near the city centre. up that area,” she said.

“It’s time to move this forward to a public “This would be a regional shopping centre hearing and let the public decide.” that will be drawing people in from all over,” Local resident, environmentalist and said Steves. “(The developer) is trying to former provincial Green Party candidate hide it with parkscapes and things like that Michael Wolfe lambasted the developer for and (city) staff did a good job of hiding the fact this is a big box store that doesn’t belong riding roughshod over the 1.5 acres of ESAdesignated land on the site. here. We’ve been saying this for decades.” “(The developer’s consultant) says the Au, meanwhile, was concerned with the ESA land has reduced in environmental value net loss of environmentally sensitive area because of invasive species,” said Wolfe.

(ESA) land within the site, adding that the “There’s invasive species there because of ESA designation is there for a reason. the neglect of the property owner; they’re the “We have a responsibility to preserve, proones who’ve diminished the value of the land. tect and restore (the land) and this sends out “There are 176 trees there right now. the wrong message that, if you allow the land to deteriorate, then you will get permission to You’re never going to get trees that big again on sandy, compact soil.” develop the land,” Au said of the accusation The plans were last before councillors in that Smartcentres has deliberately decayed December, 2012. the site over the years they’ve owned it.

At that time, Questions were also Smartcentres’ offered to asked of the assertion pay just 59 per cent of the by city staff that the two cost to build the connector Garden City Road hold-out road.

Now, the developer property owners on the is agreeing to pay the full connector road path would cost — estimated at $11 sell to the city when they’ve million — but not build it refused the developer.

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The developer has “I still think the conagreed to give the city more nector road needs to be built before the than twice the current appraised value of the development opens up,” said McNulty of city properties. However, ultimately, the commitstaff forecasts that the road — a realignment tee was told that, if a deal couldn’t be struck, of an Alexandra and Leslie connector road the city could wield the expropriation axe to — doesn’t need to be built for 10 years. make the road happen.

As well as paying the city the full “I’ve had land expropriated and there’s no way I will support that,” said Steves. “Yes, we construction cost for the connector road, Smartcentres would make a number of major have the money (to buy the properties) but and minor intersection improvements in the we are now threatening expropriation.” area if the plan goes ahead.

Referring to the city’s West Cambie Area A new north-south “High Street” would Plan (WCAP), which was set up seven years also run down the middle of the development, ago by the council of the day to guide devellinking Alexandra and Alderbridge. opment in the area, Halsey-Brandt said it’s During its presentation to council last high time the matter proceeded to a public December, SmartCentres cited the “sighearing. nificant amount of economic impact” and “We’re encouraging people to come live “improved amenities” for the West Cambie in this area and we have to give them somearea from the development, such as: 975 thing,” said Halsey-Brandt. “This deserves employees; $2.5 million per year in property for the people of Richmond to have their say. taxes; $7.2 million in one-time development When we do these area plans, we do make cost charges. adjustments to what comes forward.

The plans involve a 36,000-squaremetre “I trust our city staff when they tell me development split into an east and west porall the technical aspects of this project have been met. I’m not a Walmart fan but there are tion, partly on the West Cambie Natural Park.

As well as a 15,000-square-metre, threelots of people out there who are, and lots of storey Walmart anchoring the eastern secpeople on low income who might be helped tion, the likes of London Drugs, Bed Bath & by the jobs created.”

Beyond, Marshalls and The Keg are penciled Barnes, also admitting not to be a fan of in for what would be called “Central at Walmart, said this kind of development runs Garden City.” pretty close to the intentions of the WCAP.

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It’s there, on the first few floors of the building housing Progressive Construction’s headquarters, where leading scientists in Canada are attempting to form a beachhead against the disease which currently affects 4.6 million Canadians aged 15 Scan for a video and over.

That’s a staggering one in six people who suffer with swollen, painful joints. And one that is in sharp focus in September, which is Arthritis Awareness Month in Canada.

But it’s the prediction of where the debilitating disease is heading in the future that is even more alarming.

According to the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, within a generation (by 2040), an estimated 10 million Canadians will be afflicted — a whopping one in four are expected to develop either osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, the two

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And that is anticipated to put even more strain on the already overburdened healthcare system.

So, will arthritis be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back?

Not if Dr. John Esdaile, the centre’s scientific director, and other researchers like him, can help it.

From the new surroundings in central Richmond, scientists are mapping out ways to battle the disease, hopefully turn the tide and take away its grip on the title as the most common cause of disability in the country.

A start in that direction is early diagnosis. Esdaile said a recent agreement with pharmacists at the Shoppers Drug Mart chain will allow initial screening for the disease to be done right in the store.

Plus, a smart phone and tablet-based app has also been developed that allows users to screen themselves for arthritis symptoms.

“Almost all the Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacies across the country are going to have available a pharmacist who will help the person through the app and review their medications for pain,” Esdaile said. see Cure page 8

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Continued from page 6 “It could be a better chair or an appropriate height for their computer,” Esdaile “And eventually, within six weeks we said. “You can teach people things that will have the pharmacists actually being can actually prevent them losing their able to tell people if they have arthritis.”

If caught early, as with many ailments, jobs.”

So, what is the prognosis for arthritis the chances of treating arthritis improves cases in the future? Can it be beaten, or greatly. at least is it likely there will be a signifiAnd Esdaile said the centre has concant drop in cases? vinced arthritis doctors to see patients “I don’t want to lie. I more readily — bringing just don’t know,” Esdaile down the wait from eight said. “But yes, if we months to three weeks. succeed we will defiBut it’s not just nitely see those numbers drug therapy the cenaffected. I don’t know tre is focusing on. In if we are going to prefact, Esdaile said the vent rheumatoid arthriRichmond facility is not tis from developing. a basic science lab at all.

Obviously, we’d like to.

“We’re not developing But let’s not pretend. new drugs in test tubes.

“What we can do is It’s all very controlled eliminate the impact of and focused on people.” the disease, so that we Part of that means can have people who are working on aspects such functioning normally as improved ergonomics — Dr. John Esdaile keep their jobs, and have to allow arthritis suffera high quality of life. ers to operate better.

And there’s no doubt we “What the focus has are doing that.” been for the last 30 to 40 With more than 100 types of arthritis, years has been waiting until people lose their job because their arthritis is so bad,” Esdaile said, there is no “magic bullet” that will vanquish the disease.

Esdaile said.

What is more likely is a future where One of the trials for back pain showed research into new drugs, therapies and the most effective intervention was a simple improvement in ergonomics in the ways of diagnosing the condition earlier that will result in limiting the impact the workplace, such as raising the platform disease has on people. they were standing on.

“What we can do is eliminate the impact of the disease, so that we can have people who are functioning normally keep their jobs and have a high quality of life.’

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t is a sad state of affairs when scientists across Canada take to the streets to bemoan their interaction with the government. Monday’s demonstrations would have been a typical, small foreign news story had it taken place in China, Iran or other countries judged to be “undemocratic” in Western eyes.

That a day of 17 such demonstrations across Canada was seen as necessary at all would be shameful to most Western governments — but apparently not to Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.

In May, the federal government made clear that Canadian science should work in the name of industry and profit. The National Research Council would now focus on large-scale, industry related projects. Pure science and, worse, science education would no longer be a priority.

Of course, the release at the time had a different spin, but it’s hard not to see it any other way when the popular Centre of the Universe in Victoria was closed in August for the sake of $250,000 a year, ending a constant lineup of kids on Saturdays to marvel at the beauty of space through its powerful telescope.

This, after the Conservatives closed the Experimental Lakes Area in northern Ontario and reduced the reach of environmental protection legislation as part of a budget omnibus bill.

Monday, the NDP’s Kennedy Stewart formally called on Parliament to reduce the restrictions placed on federal researchers speaking with the public — a matter currently being investigated by Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault.

Government statisticians could probably devise a formula for the probability of that motion succeeding — but they wouldn’t be allowed to tell us.

CHOICE WORDS

Gilbert no good for cycling The Editor, Re: “Bikes still lagging behind,” News, Sept. 13.

I have been an avid cyclist (to and from work) for more than 10 years. I commuted to two different jobs each day. I enjoyed year-round cycling until recently.

I rode from Gilbert and Granville, south on Gilbert and up to Williams and down the Williams Road path to No. 5 Road, and I enjoyed it very much. Then just about two years ago, I was terribly frightened cycling south on Gilbert (one too many close calls with cars) and re-routed my trip.

Well, the new route also became a nightmare of sorts as most people did not seem to realize that the painted bike on the road gave us permission to cycle alongside the cars.

Then my job changed, and I just gave up because most areas I needed to travel involved Gilbert Road.

In summary, I need the City of Richmond to know it is great to have a path on Railway, Granville and part of No. 3 Road, But we need the main north/south arteries to be covered.

What good does it do to cycle the dyke or some of the safer routes if you cannot reconnect to your home on a secondary path. Let’s cut back on the cars, put a bike lane down Gilbert and No. 2 Road, and even No. 1 Road. This will force the three-car families to take up cycling and return our community to a greener environment. After all Richmond is flat and an ideal place to cycle, all year round.

Anne Macdonald Richmond

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Throw-away designs need tossing Every year, local governments in Canada spend 2.6 billion tax dollars managing 34 million tonnes of garbage.

For decades, our emphasis has been on waste “management” — we accept the problem as unavoidable and do our best to reduce its negative impacts.

Through activities like recycling, composting and waste-to-energy, we extract the maximum value from materials, but these methods don’t address the root causes of waste.

So, why do we have waste in the first place?

In a word: design. The things we buy and use daily are designed to be thrown away.

We call this “Cradleto-Grave” design because products are born, used for a while, and finally discarded to be buried or burned.

But there is a new paradigm on the horizon, “Cradle-to-Cradle,” where manufacturers consciously design their products and packaging to be easily disassembled, repaired, reused and recycled.

Cradle-to-Cradle represents a shift from a “take, make and throw away” model to a “Circular Economy,” where endof-life materials become inputs for new products, just like in nature.

Picture a forest floor:

Malcolm Brodie G U E S T S H OT

billions of years of collective evolution have created a system where nutrients and materials flow effortlessly and reciprocally, without any waste whatsoever. That is the kind of economic system we should aspire to, and nature may be our greatest teacher.

According to Cradle-toCradle visionaries William McDonough and Michael Braungart, we can “eliminate the concept of waste — not reduce, minimize, or avoid it, but eliminate the very concept,” through mindful design.

We’re all in this together, and there are many opportunities for positive action. Governments can enact laws to support the emergence of a circular economy, while creating a level playing field that fosters innovation.

Businesses can empower their creative designers and engineers to make products whose materials remain useful at the end, while using reclaimed materials in new products.

Businesses can also encourage innovative, sus-

tainable packaging with end-of-life solutions.

And municipalities, NGOs and other sustainability advocates can work collaboratively to educate consumers, while promoting zero waste habits.

That’s what Canada’s new National Zero Waste Council is all about — government, business and NGO leaders joining forces to advocate for sustainable design, to influence consumer behavior and to lobby senior governments for better laws, all toward transforming our relationship with waste.

We need to re-think waste on all levels, and by working together, we will do it.

Join us at Metro Vancouver’s third annual Zero Waste Conference on Oct. 16, where we will officially launch Canada’s National Zero Waste Council.

Malcolm Brodie is the chair of the National Zero Waste Council. He is also the chair of Metro Vancouver’s Zero Waste Committee and the mayor of the City of Richmond.

Zero Waste Conference 2013: Rethinking Waste will be held at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre East.

Cost: $75.00 (includes coffee breaks, lunch and networking reception). To register, visit www.metrovancouver.org/zwc/.

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Richmond doesn’t need Walmart The Editor, Re: “Walmart will ruin cityscape,” Letters, Sept. 13.

I agree 100 per cent with Mary Phillips’ open letter to mayor and councillors in the Richmond News.

We do not need Walmart in Richmond just as we do not need any more high-rise buildings.

Onni’s ugly buildings on the Steveston waterfront is an insult to residents who bought there after being told they would have river views.

The City of Richmond was also given land many years ago by Woodwards east of Lansdowne Centre for a community park.

Cyclists dangerous? Really?

The Editor, Re: “Cyclists dangerous too,” Letters, Sept. 13.

“These cyclists need to be educated, they are as dangerous as people who drive and text.”

Really? Being hit by a bicycle is the same as being hit by a car or truck? Really?

Brad Kilburn Steveston

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Does anybody see a park there? No. This city council has taken family neighbourhoods and changed them into high-density occupancy, thereby collecting more and more taxes, but not spending a penny on improving badly needed facilities for promises made.

Children entering kindergarten this year will not know what a tree looks like by the time they graduate as every time a new development is built, trees are lost needlessly.

Lee Haudin Richmond

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Big thank-you, city, for Terry Fox Run success The Editor, I had a terrible feeling the Terry Fox Run at Garry Point scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 15 was going to be rained out with just a very few brave souls in attendance.

It was my first year being the Terry Fox Run organizer, although I have been with the Terry Fox Committee Richmond Chapter as media coordinator for the last three years.

I prayed so hard for it not to rain on Sunday morning and, yes indeed, my prayers were heard — the Sunday morning weather was misty and cloudy, but there was a huge crowd of Richmonites who turned out in droves at about 9:30 a.m. It was wonderful to see.

This year, on the 33rd anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope, the Terry Fox Run Richmond raised approximately $ 24,000 or more for cancer research from more than 800 participants and volunteers.

Something new this year at the event was the silent auction, which brought a lot of attention from the participants and spectators. The proceeds of the silent auction is still being accounted at this point and the final numbers have not been given to me.

Mayor Malcolm Brodie also proclaimed Sept. 15 as Terry Fox Day in Richmond.

The Terry Fox Richmond Committee must be congratulated for its dedicated work: George Agnew, John Hopkins, Sarb Sandhu, Jim Munk, Kay Francis, Laura Yue, Jeanette Johnson, Maria Medic, David Partridge, Dana Iannone, Shelly Nizar, Mercedes Bautista, Robbie Young and Tami Young.

A special thank you must be made to the major volunteer groups and services that provided support and entertainment for our event: Save-On Foods, Safeway, Nature’s Path, Steveston Pure Water, Pajo’s Fish and Chips, Royal Canadian Sea Cadets, Richmond Amateur Radio, Janet Betteridge, Lynn Walters, Coast Capital Savings, McMath Leadership Class, Jim WishLove, St. John First Aid and the Tetsu Taiko Drummers.

A million thank yous to Mayor Brodie, for your continued and endless support to the Annual Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research and for the attendance of MP Alice Wong and MLA John Yap. Thank you so much Richmond for making the annual Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research a great success.

Susan Bernardino Terry Fox Run organizer Richmond

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News reporter Alan Campbell almost loses it in a crawl space while on a Fire Ops 101 ‘rescue’ mission

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rammed into a suffocating crawl space, three feet by three feet, heart pounding, nervous sweat streaming from every pore and having little concept of up or down, I was ready to call it quits.

I was blind, weighted down by full firefighter’s uniform, 30 pounds of breathing apparatus and hampered by trailing wires in this tight passage from hell.

The walls, in my mind, were closing in.

I couldn’t go back, I was too far in.

Besides, as part of RIT (rapid intervention team), there was a stricken fellow firefighter at the end of the hose who needed my help.

But, having already clambered, sightless, on hands and knees, following a hose for 50 feet, I was running close to empty.

The air tank may have been full, but the wells of energy, resolve and composure — which I had previously thought to be in good standing — were now flashing red.

It wasn’t quite pitch black. My vision, however, and every sense in my body, were confined to the two-inch world between face and mask.

I turned, shimmied and squirmed — nothing, no movement.

In fact, the limited space around me felt tighter with every motion as I tried to negotiate the 90-degree angle in the crawl.

It was likely less than five minutes. It felt like 50.

I think, I’m not certain, I told our firefighter wrangler, Dan McLelland, to get me

CHUNG CHOW/SPECIAL TO THE NEWS

News reporter Alan Campbell, right, and Coun. Chak Au emerge from the ‘burning’ building. Above, Coun. Linda McPhail, left, gets a post-fire de-briefing from wrangler firefighter Dan McLelland, centre.

out. I was good to go.

I assume he didn’t hear me.

Someone whispered there was only a few feet to go.

And with one last lung-bursting push, I was free. Or so I thought.

Another 20 feet of crawling on hands and knees, making sure I was still following the hose line, and I was back in another confined space.

Taller than the first hellhole, the challenge this time was to extricate myself, with zero energy, from an 18-inch wide slot.

Again, there were white-flag moments before I somehow emerged, relatively unscathed, but physically and mentally exhausted.

I dare say I shed a few pounds in there.

But I gained a new appreciation for our firefighters.

CHUNG CHOW/SPECIAL TO THE NEWS

News reporter Alan Campbell fights his way through the tight crawl space, above, while acting out an RIT scenario. Left and below, right, Campbell sets off, blindfolded, on the course. Below, left, our reporter finds the going tough, trying to squeeze out of a tight exit. Bottom, an exhausted Campbell regains his senses.

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very two years, the British Columbia Professional Firefighters Association hosts, during the UBCM conference in Vancouver, the Fire Ops 101 program.

The plan is to give municipal politicians, city top brass and media a first-hand experience of what a firefighter battles on a daily basis.

I’m pretty sure I can speak for Richmond councillors Linda McPhail and Chak Au, who were part of our team invited by the Richmond Firefighters Association, that the plan works just fine — and then some.

In the briefing room, prior to tackling six emergency scenarios, the 40 assembled city leaders and media were told they would sweat today.

They got that right.

We were also told that, in real life, firefighters have less than three minutes to make a call and take action.

It took me three minutes to adjust the size of my helmet.

Outside, all suited and booted, our wrangler (guide), McLelland, a firefighter of 28 years, articulated with passion the vital need to maintain a human presence on the ground, as opposed to relying on the latest gadget or life-saving tool.

“You need real people out here to make split-second decisions and get around what-

ever obstacle is thrown in your path, things change very quickly out there,” insisted McLelland.

“Manpower is so important to what we do, and I hope that’s never lost.”

After trying to haul a water-laden hose up a flight of stairs of a “burning” building, with zero visibility in near 500-degree heat, I can’t disagree with McLelland.

And after trying to pry the door off a car with the jaws of life, in a bid to save a would-be crash victim and then sampling the aforementioned crawl space from hell, I can attest, even a little, to the extreme physical and mental stamina required to pull the job off at any given minute of every shift.

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s volcanic red flames and thick black smoke billowed out of the first-floor window, it was time for us, the first team, to go in.

The mission: put out the fire and check for any signs of life. Easy.

With Coun. Au leading the hose, off we trumped up the stairs, more Keystone Cops than Chicago Fire, as we struggled to pull the hose and move forward at the same time.

I couldn’t see more than a foot ahead.

I couldn’t hear what anyone, let alone our wrangler, was saying. And, above all, it was see Jaws of life page 13

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Jaws of life: Needs muscle Continued from page 12 bloody hot in there — nearly 500 degrees Celsius, supposedly.

Confusion reigned. Was the fire out? Do we go back, forward or what?

A chink of light pierced through the thick curtain of smoke and we shuffled to convene on a balcony.

A body, we were told by McLelland, was back inside and we had to find it.

Leading the hose this time was me, but as I tried to venture further into the near pitch-black tower, the hose jammed and was not about to budge. Abandon rescue, was the call.

Outside, as we peeled off our masks and regained our slightly stunned senses, McLelland explained that, if that was a real emergency, you only go where your hose can go.

“You get out of there fast and send in another team with another hose,” he said.

“We don’t take unnecessary risks, your hose is your lifeline in there.”

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car had crashed and a screaming backseat passenger was trapped and bleeding profusely from multiple wounds.

We needed to break the glass and get the door open as quickly and safely as possible before it was too late.

After hollering “breaking glass” and smashing the window in a strategic spot, I waded in with the “jaws of life,” and its 10,500 pounds worth of pressure to pry open the door.

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well it wasn’t for real.

News reporter Alan Campbell, above, uses the ‘jaws of life’ to relieve a car of its door during the ‘rescue’ of a crash ‘victim.’ Right, Coun. Chak Au leads the hose into the ‘burning’ building.

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irefighters are often the butt of jokes, especially when it comes to emergency service personnel bantering amongst themselves.

And they’re even occasionally on the receiving end of snide comments from the public about how they spend the quieter hours on shift, waiting for a life-saving scenario to emerge.

Indeed, on many occasions, I’ve sat in the soccer change room, having a post-game beer with firefighter teammates, and poked fun about their barbecues, card games and movie nights while “working.”

Never again.

With the clock ticking and the “victim’s” wails getting louder, I realized that, if I didn’t get the jaws into the correct spot and have the muscle density to keep them wedged in there, the door panel merely shreds.

With the help of an actual firefighter, the sweaty and breathless amateur hero — me — finally managed to free the door. Coun. McPhail then stepped in to cut the door clean off with the jaws and finish the job.

The victim, a teenage girl, was free to be treated. Just as

New breed has more than fires to fight do with firefighter safety,” said McMillan.

“Our job is inherently dangerous, we get that. But we always try to put safety first.

“When I started, we didn’t have high-angle or hazmat capabilities.

Now we can do both and have state-of-the-art equipment to tackle both.”

BY ALAN CAMPBELL

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Gone are the days of smokers in the firehall and water rescue capability being a herring skip.

Richmond Fire Rescue, and firefighting across the board, has changed dramatically in the last 15 to 20 years.

Capt. Rich McMillan has borne witness to that transformation, having been a Richmond firefighter for 23 years.

In that time, McMillan has seen the department’s water rescue training improve out of sight — a welcome addition given his experience back in 1996, when he plucked a student to safety from the waters off Shady Island. Two of the boy’s friends were not so lucky.

Their equipment is more

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Pub gets crafty with brews, hosts first beer fest

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Craft beer enthusiasts rejoice — on Oct. 5 from 7 to 9:30 p.m., O’Hare’s GastroPub will host the first annual Steveston Beer Fest at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery, with net proceeds going towards the Richmond Christmas Fund.

Grant Bryan, event organizer and operator at O’Hare’s, said residents in Steveston have been talking about starting something up for years — and for a couple of good reasons.

“One, we wanted to arrange a fun event in the village for people with a passion for craft beer,” said Bryan.

The other factor was that their establishment recently joined the Christmas Fund Roundtable, a group of 50 community and business members working to drum up support for the cause.

Family-owned and run for 26 years, O’Hare’s has slightly shifted its attention towards offering the latest and greatest craft beers from around the world.

“In the last five years, we have seen an increasing focus on craft beer. The craft beer market in B.C. has been growing exponentially, and we’ve been driving that agenda for the last few years.”

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O’Hare’s operator Grant Bryan holds up a couple of craft beers inside the liquor store beer cooler.

Pop into almost any liquor store in Richmond and you will find the usual beer staples, such as Molson Canadian and Coors Light. But thanks to the explosion of smaller brewing operations all over the province and beyond, there is a good chance that there will also be interestingly-named offerings lining

the shelves like the Epic Hop Zombie, an IPA from New Zealand, and Fat Tire Amber Ale from Belgium.

Visitors to the sold-out festival held at the cannery will be able to sample brands like the above and many more from the 30 beer vendors, 10 of which will be local. There

will also be food booths set up by Steveston businesses such as the Blue Canoe Waterfront Restaurant, Mandalay Lounge & Steakhouse and Pajo’s Fish and Chips.

“This is designed to engage beer aficionados, and people already in the craft beer circuit,” said Bryan.

“But it is also designed to engage noncraft beer drinkers and Stevestonites who will be exposed to so many different beers in one room. When you taste beer side-by-side you get a feel for which ones you like and which you don’t.”

Upon entering the historic site, participants will be given a brochure and souvenir tasting glass, and they can wander from table to table throughout the main room.

Each booth will have three to five types of beer to try, and Bryan said the people pouring the drinks will be very knowledgeable and can answer any questions that may arise.

“There will also be a pumpkin beer competition, which will be determined by taster’s choice. Tokens are available and anyone can vote on their favorite one between nine or 10 different kinds.”

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Last year, the pilot group visited the Buck, Gudrun Tasting Room, Shady Island Seafood Bar and Grill, Blue Canoe Waterfront Restaurant, Mandalay Lounge & Steakhouse and ended the night at the Army & Navy Lounge Bar on No. 1 Road.

“It’s just a good way to mingle. This way you could come with your partner, it would be good for Steveston. I find often here once you get married it’s all over, why is that?

You should be going to the pub with your husband or whoever and meet the couple next door, and the couple down the street.”

Entwistle said she is also toying with some other ideas such as adding a theme or games like a scavenger hunt.

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In the U.K., a neighbourhood pub is often where you will find community members of all ages and backgrounds gathered, having a pint and discussing the finer points of daily life.

This phenomenon is what England-born Lenny Entwistle, owner of Lenny’s Beauty Parlour and Lenny’s Vintage Vault, is trying to bring to Steveston by organizing a regular tour of the local taverns.

Tentatively dubbed the Steveston Pub Crawl, the test run actually took place last winter when Entwistle gathered a group of friends and customers from her salon and walked to six establishments in one night.

She said frequenting bars in Europe doesn’t have the same stigma attached to it as it does in North America.

“Every weekend it’s a huge social thing to go to the pub in England. They’re packed, everybody’s there and there’s always lots of stuff going on,” said Entwistle, who has lived in Canada since 1979, but travels back to her homeland once a year. “Your uncle’s in one corner, granddad’s in the other corner. They see you at six o’clock at the pub, it’s not like here where people don’t go out until 9:30. In England, last call is at 10:30, so the soldiers don’t get drunk.”

The idea for the Steveston version is that people meet at 6 p.m. at the Buck & Ear for drinks, and food for those who’re hungry. There will be 30 minutes allotted at each pub for people to sample the menu before moving on.

Everyone looks after their own bill and transportation to and from the event.

The new route is still to be determined — there is talk of adding the Hog Shack Cook House, that eschews conventional beers in favour of craft offerings, to the list.

Ale aficionado John Lim Hing owns the popular eatery on Bayview Street and said he only serves craft because “you can get the big brands everywhere else.”

“We would be happy to participate in the pub crawl and showcase our stuff. Some of the beers we have, we’re the only ones in Richmond that carry it.”

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Although the festival is sold out, Bryan said customers can find more than 350 different kinds of beer in their store, and 17 varieties on tap in the pub. They open a keg of something “new and interesting” every Friday, with a recent favourite being the Hilliard’s Chrome Satan California Common beer from Seattle. He also welcomes new members to join the O’Hare’s Beer Club that, in addition to discounts and invites to exclusive tasting nights, includes a box of beer every second month containing 10 different types.

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As fall approaches and the weather turns chillier, there’s nothing better than having a nice full-bodied merlot cabernet sauvignon to warm you up with dinner.

Making that a habit could get pricey, unless you’re buying from Steveston WineMakers where the most expensive bottle is less than $8. The caveat? You have to make it yourself, and buy 30 bottles at a time.

Located right inside the village at 3851 Moncton St., the store doesn’t draw a lot of attention to itself despite being open for the last 13

years. Walking inside, however, you are greeted with a space that is part retail and part science lab.

Most days you will find owner Sandi Wosk hovering near the front surrounded by vino paraphernalia like racks, books and wine-making kits, or in the back where there are huge jars filled with colourful liquids as far as the eye can see. She runs what is referred to as a U-Vin, the wine equivalent of a U-Brew, and says she gets the entire gamut of patrons.

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“They prefer to have wine made. As I was saying, they start at $3.33 a bottle and the most expensive is $7.99.”

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They open the box and start the process right in the store. And while Wosk and her staff of six can provide assistance, their U-Vin licence stipulates that the customer must do a portion of the work themselves.

The initial process is quite simple and only takes a few minutes. Kits include juice, grapes and a fining agent called bentonite that is emptied into a container and mixed, along with bits of oak for flavour if it is a fancier kit. Then, the magic ingredient that makes it all happen is added last.

“They must put, by law, the package of yeast into the primary fermenter — that’s a food-grade bucket.

Depending on the quality of the kit they use, it can be four weeks, five weeks, six

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The team at Steveston WineMakers includes owner Sandi Wosk (from left), store manager Paul Dykeman and winemakers Rudy Corpuz and Joshua Wosk.

weeks or eight weeks. We take over from there and do all the processing. It’s a lot of work,” said Wosk.

After the fermentation has taken place, usually lasting around 11 to 12 days, the wine is then racked. That means liquid is siphoned from the large bucket into big clear glass containers — called carbois — that separates the wine from leftover leaves and chunks of yeast that have settled down to the bottom.

The final components are mixed in and then when everything is ready, a call

is made to the customer to come in and package their product. Bottles are not included and are about 90 cents each for first timers, whereas seasoned veterans can bring in used bottles for sterilization and reuse. After filling, they are put through a corking machine, labelled and are ready to go.

Working in the industry since 1997 and married to a commercial wine store owner, Wosk said she has seen a different attitude develop in the way people view U-Vins.

“Thirteen years ago it

was a way to get cheap wine, but that’s not the case anymore. Our customers are absolutely educated.

They know what a viognier is, which is a grape that was never know before the U-Vin industry brought it in.”

Wosk added the large foodie population in Steveston has certainly helped the cause.

For more information on Steveston WineMakers and the different kits they offer, visit their website at www. stevestonwinemakers.com or call 604-275-WINE (9463).

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Businesses, big and small, from Richmond and Delta will be showing their wares next Wednesday (Sept. 25) at the River Rock Theatre in a joint trade show.

This is the first time since 2006 the Richmond Chamber of Commerce has staged the event. And since that time, the city has experienced plenty of in-fill of businesses, especially in the city centre area. And that, along with a selection of exhibitors from across the other side of the Fraser River, is expected to make the event one not to miss for the business community and beyond.

In Richmond, specifically, business has been categorized as being grown on very fertile ground. Proof of that came this spring when fDi Magazine named Richmond among the top 10 “American Cities of the Future” for the second time in a row. Part of that distinction was attributed to the city placing well in three of eight categories in the evaluation of more than 400 cities.

Richmond placed third among small cities in the Americas — a category representing a combination of foreign direct investment criteria. Best Business Friendliness and Best FDI Promotion Strategy were the other two individual categories in which Richmond placed in the top 10.

At the trade show, a total of 50 vendors have taken all of the available spots and will be displaying everything from business coaches to high-tech operations that call the Richmond or Delta home.

One long-time Richmond business looking forward to attending the event is AA Advertising Ltd. Company president and owner, George Montgomery, said the benefits of being a local chamber member and among the list of vendors at the show are numerous.

“Being a chamber member gives us lots of opportunities to meet other members at different functions. And it gets the word out about who we are,” Montgomery said, adding that is especially important since he is in the business of promoting other people’s businesses with all manner of promotional items, from pens and mugs, to key rings and clothing.

“We’ve done many trade shows, but this one is an opportunity for us to meet people who maybe are not familiar with our company. And, hopefully, we can forge some bonds to do some business together.”

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Next weekend, cities across the country celebrate the arts with the fourth annual Culture Days from Friday, Sept. 27 to Sept. 29.

And the City of Richmond is no exception.

Swelling from 33 events two years ago, to 66 last year, Culture Days in Richmond now includes well over 80 performances, workshops, open houses and studio tours.

“Richmond is definitely in the top 10 cities across Canada now when it comes to Culture Days celebrations,” said Liesl Jauk, City of Richmond cultural development manager.

“It really creates some momentum and celebrates homegrown Richmond artists. People want to par-

“I think this event is great for all of Canada,” she said.

“It’s a big push for the general public to be aware of the art around them.”

For the first time, the Youth Art Mart will display young artists.

On Saturday, the city will also host the third PechaKucha Night at the Performance Hall of the Richmond Cultural Centre.

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One such artist, prominent in the Richmond culture scene, is Jeanette Jarville who has been opening her studio to the public for the

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“I open the studio twice a year, for this and Doors Open. It’s a lot more fun to do it in conjunction with these city-wide events,” said Jarville, whose home studio is located at 13211 Steveston Hwy. This year, Jarville said

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explore the theme of New Worlds, presenting 20 pictures for 20 seconds each, while briefly speaking about each photo.

“The Richmond Museum keeps artifacts they can’t use in a secret storage type space, so the public will have a chance to get a tour of that place, as well,” said Jauk.

“There’ll be a lot of interesting things there.”

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Beets, carrots off beaten path Sprouting from the top of The carrot is another a beetroot are many leaves on vegetable pushing out of the red stalks. When I first bought ground right now. Culinary bunches of fresh beets, I’d use of the carrot has a very always stir-fry the stalks and long history, though at first leaves. Then I started growing it was the leaves and seeds beets myself. I ended up with that were consumed, not the IN OTHER WORDS armfuls of stalks and leaves. roots. Originally a native of Eventually panic struck – I the Near East, the root carrot couldn’t face another stir-fry. Guiltily, I’d was brought to Spain by the Moors in the feed stalks and leaves to the compost bin, 8th century, and from Spain it spread to the until uneasiness joined guilt, propelling me rest of Europe. By the 14th century it was to find a solution to my beet-top problem cultivated in China, today the world’s largest – read on. carrot producer (accounting for 45.5 per cent But first, a detour. With beets on my in 2011.) mind I naturally delved into the beet’s hisEvery carrot-loving country has its spetory. It was known to the ancient Romans cial way of preparing a carrot dish. I’ve tast– “beta” is the Latin word. The medieval ed many, but only one has left an indelible Italian taccuinum sanitatis (health handbook) impression in the gastronomic zone of my claimed beet juice eliminates dandruff – but mind. I ate it in a former Benedictine abbey, do you drink it, or rub it into your scalp? in Le Marche in Italy. Fresh from the garThomas Hill, in his gardening book of 1577, den outside, cooked until they were slightly maintained beets also make hair grow. chewy, the carrots were tossed with olive oil, And now to my beet-top solution. a few leaves of fresh thyme, salt and finelyBeetroots and leaves can be eaten raw – so, chopped hard-boiled eggs.

I thought, why not also the stalks? I trimmed The other day, when I was given a bag of off the leaves and roughly cut up the stalks. carrots to which the soil still clung, I decided Adding garlic, parsley and a few capers to recreate the dish I’d eaten years ago in (careful, they’re salty), I chopped everything the Oasi di San Benedetto. The thinly-sliced in the food processor. The mix tasted unusu- carrots had the desired chewy texture in five al, but delicious! I let the flavours intensify minutes. I drained the water, drizzled some at room temperature for a few hours and olive oil over them, and tossed them with then stirred in Greek yogurt. Sour cream or salt, eggs, and a little thyme (two-inch sprig) mayonnaise would work as well. For variety, from my garden. The taste was sublime. I add hard-boiled eggs, apples, cucumbers. was transported.

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Following this, the City Opera Vancouver, one of the most acclaimed companies in the region, returns to the chapel on Wednesday, Nov. 6 to delight opera lovers with their PUCCINI! program devoted to the works of Giacome Puccini.

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The Greater Vancouver Canadians came up just short in winning their first-ever B.C. Major Midget Hockey League championship last season but the 2012-13 squad has made an impression at the major junior level.

When the Western Hockey League season gets underway tonight, a whopping eight former Canadians will be suiting up for WHL teams.

The group includes Seafair Minor Hockey graduates Glenn Gawdin (Swift Current), Shaun Dosanjh (Vancouver) and Austin Adamson (Saskatoon). A fourth local product — Alex Whitwham — was among the final cuts of the Spokane Chiefs and was re-assigned to the B.C. Junior Hockey League.

Rounding out the Canadians in the WHL are: Adam Musil (Red Deer), Ty Schultz (Medicine Hat), Mitch Walter (Edmonton) and goalies Nathan Alalouf (Saskatoon) and Taz Burman (Red Deer).

Training camp was only a few days old when the Blades were already arranging a billet family and school for Alalouf. The 17-year-old then earned second star honours last week thanks to a 35-save performance in a 4-3 pre-season loss to Regina.

“I felt a lot more comfortable during this game than during my first start,” said Alalouf. “Overall I just felt really good out there and I thought it showed in the results at the end of the game.”

He already has seen progress in his play just from the quality of play in practice and working with Blades goalie coach and former Detroit Red Wing Tim Cheveldae.

“Both things definitely help a lot. You can get used to the shots at this level through practice every day. It’s really nice having Tim out there, too. He knows a lot and can see things that I can’t.”

Walter’s road to the Edmonton Oil Kings line-up took a detour midway through last season when he left Major Midget team to join the Delta Ice Hawks. It was a move to help him prepare for his role of be a third our fourth liner who will provide some grit and be an agitator.

“It was a tough league. There was a lot of fighting, really gritty from first line to fourth line kind of thing,” explained Walter. “It was a tough league to play in, and I thought it prepared me well. I just want to be an agitator out there and step up when you need to step up. It’s just a role I’ve always played growing up. I love being hated on the ice, and I just fit into that role perfectly.”

He has always been high on the club’s radar screen after being selected in the second round of the WHL Bantam Draft two years ago.

“He goes out and stirs it up, plays hard, plays physical,” said Oil Kings coach Derek Laxdal. “For him, he’s just got to get up to speed with the speed of the Western Hockey League, and that’s going to come with the conditioning and the experience of the game. “(With these 17-year-olds) there’s going to be a growth with them, a steep learning curve as the season goes along.

We’ve just got to make sure that we’re patient with them.”

The current edition of the Canadians travels to Victoria this weekend to open the regular season and hosts the Cariboo Cougars (Prince George) next Sunday at the Oval at 11:45 a.m.

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Simon Fraser offensive lineman Mattias Goosen has been ranked 15th for the 2014 CFL Draft. He is in his senior season with the Clan.

Richmond lineman ranked 15th for 2014 CFL Collegiate Draft Richmond native Matthias Goosen has been ranked 15th by the Canadian Football League Scouting Bureau for the 2014 CFL Draft.

The 6-foot-4 294-pound senior is a key member of the offensive line for Simon Fraser University. The Vancouver College product was first team all-conference selection last season and helped the Clan open

the the 2013 campaign with a 41-27 victory over Humboldt State. Thanks to excellent work up front, SFU produced 587 yards in total offence.

Linebacker Casey Chin was ranked 12th. SFU returns to action Saturday when they travel to Ellensburg, WA to face the defending conference champions, the Central Washington Wildcats.

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The Connaught Skating Club was well-represented at last month’s 2013 Glacier Falls Summer Classic in Anaheim, CA. The event marked the beginning of the new competitive season with a busy fall schedule on the horizon.

The results included: Juvenile Men — Beres Clements (4th); Juvenile Ladies QR — Phoebe Yan (7th); Intermediate Ladies QR A— Megan Kan (11th), Danica Vangsgaard (12th), Claudia Makhanko-Tang (13th), Bianca Duca (14th); Intermediate Ladies QR B — Amanda Feltham (12th); Intermediate Ladies QR C — Elive Carroll (11th); Intermediate Men — 7th; Junior Ladies QR B — Larkyn Austman (4th); Junior Ladies Final — Larkyn Austman (11th); Junior Men — Shawn Cuevas (9th); Senior Men — Benjamin Guthrie (11th), Garrett Gosselin (12th).

Meanwhile, the club has addded Matt MacMurdo to its coaching staff to work under Director of Programs Keegan Murphy.

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Lingyen Mountain Temple The Lingyen Mountain Temple recently celebrated its 14th anniversary and would like to thank the community for their continued support.

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Mall ..........................................................................................

Neighbourhood Shopping Centre ..........................................................................................

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