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NEWS ‘Bodyguard’ leaves loaded pistol in restaurant 10 NEWS Group protests edible cannabis distribution 14 PINK SHIRT DAY Seven-page special for anti-bullying day 22 FEATURE Steveston woman used medically assisted death; her family says it was peaceful and sacred 27 SPORTS It was a big night for Ace Adano and his Richmond Colts in the city senior boys final

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Bullying: Don’t look other way Alan Campbell ACAMPBELL@RICHMOND-NEWS.COM

It was only when it was pointed out to me by another player on the team that my eyes were opened.

After 12 years as a youth soccer coach, I believed I was alert to the signals of an actual or potential bullying situation.

I’m aware of the signs to look for in identifying a problem and the processes to follow when an issue arises.

And I’m confident I know the difference between “banter” between players and the line that’s crossed before the “B” word can be used.

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For some reason, I’d missed this one. Once it was on my radar, it was glaringly obvious — subtle enough to evade the casual observer, but clear as day when I took a step back.

There it was. Targeted and sustained; two very important words when distinguishing between banter and bullying.

It wasn’t “in your face” bullying.

It was the singling out and being made fun of over on-thefield errors, when best buds got away with the same mistakes; it was the persistent refusal to pass the ball to a certain player despite them being wide open; it was the exclusion off the field when it came to warming up in groups and chatting.

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Initially, my instinct, in full view of his teammates, was to turn the spotlight back on the bully from a coaching perspective, given that the bully was making just as many, if not more, mistakes than the victim.

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But realizing I’d be no better than the bully, I resisted, choosing instead over the next few weeks to empower the victim with more one-on-one coaching to reduce the mistakes which kicked off the bullying.

Off the field, I used statistics from games to illustrate who was making the most mistakes (yes, the bully was at the very top of the chart).

And I told the players they have my permission to retort to anyone indulging in any ridiculing by pointing out their errors on the field.

Soon after, on a trip to a tournament in the U.S., I made the two players in question roommates in the hotel, with two other teammates.

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I hoped the bully would see the target of their “banter” for what they are: another teenager, perhaps with the same insecurities as them.

I wouldn’t say they became fast friends. But the bullying stopped overnight.

Unfortunately, bullying is not confined to a sports field full of teenagers. It’s all around us, at school and in our places of work.

It’s unlikely it will ever be eradicated and we can argue all day about what makes a bully and why someone becomes a target. We’re not all psychologists.

With Pink Shirt Day around the corner, however, it’s important to keep our eyes wide open and be willing to step into uncomfortable situations — especially when it’s easier to look the other way.

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What’s the best way to combat bullying?

Alex Rushowic HAVING LUNCH

I think raising awareness, in general, is probably the best way to combat it. I think if everyone’s more aware of the topic, then people think about it on a daily basis.

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I think my school is very good. My teacher is very kind.

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I think it needs to start with the parents side. They need to educate their kids early.

The best way to combat bullying, in my opinion, is don’t give the bullies a thing where they think that you’re vulnerable. Treat them as if you don’t care. But if they continue bullying you, you might want to ask the teachers or the principal to help.

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Not fun Rolling stop not Piled snow blocks disabled driving worth a ticket parking spots in the city rassed and bullied. The young officer was not well trained to ensure the facts added up before pulling people over. I wonder how many people he has pulled over like that.

Dear Editor,

I would urge you to conduct an investigation into Richmond RCMP’s highly aggressive ticketing practices.

Dear Editor,

I am full time in a wheelchair, and have a wheelchair adapted van.

There is a huge concern with misuse of power and aggressive ticketing in Richmond to meet RCMP “quotas.” Is there a practice to meet a certain number of tickets a day by officers? If so, that would be a violation of civil rights.

I was travelling on River Road and stopped at the Terra Nova junction after turning left. The RCMP officer was sitting at a 90-degree angle looking over the airport dike.

It was snowing hard and visibility was poor. He was about 100 metres from me. There was virtually no traffic on the road except an SUV ahead of me that stopped and turned. I also stopped and turned.

This was at, maybe, under 10 km/h due to heavy snow.

Following the snow last week, I found that a couple of malls that I went to in Richmond had plowed the snow into only the disabled parking spots.

I have heard from others since that many other lots (public and private) in Richmond did the same.

An investigation needs to be conducted. This practice of pulling over people and handing them tickets for no reason is not just a huge waste of time; it proves that the Richmond RCMP is more concerned with revenue collection than public safety.

I was given a $186 ticket for a “rolling” stop. When I started videotaping the officer, his story started changing. He had not considered all the facts and was not behind me to know for certain if I had stopped.

He said there was traffic on the road at 6 p.m. on a hard, snowy day when there was none.

And it was clearly a matter of choice. They could just as easily have chosen to pile the snow on one of the scores, even hundreds, of other spots rather than in the very limited number of disabled spots.

Even if I had made a rolling stop, it’s a minor thing. He could have let me off with a warning, but he was very anxious to write me up!!

Watch out folks, you may get a ticket for starting your car next if it’s up to the Richmond RCMP.

John Kurian

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And the barrier continues beyond just the days of actual snowfall.

The piled snow can take days, or longer, to melt, continuing to block the disabled spots long after the snow is gone elsewhere.

Having designated disabled spots is just a charade if they are actually made to be non-accessible.

Are those parking lot owners or managers stupid, insensitive or just hoping that the disabled will stay away?

Hopefully this letter can be a wakeup call!

Ian MacLeod RICHMOND

Dear Editor, Re: Mixed feelings about running yellow lights in Richmond, Letters, Feb. 14 I agree with recent letters regarding driving in Richmond.

It’s simply not fun at all and often dangerous.

I have no idea what the solution is, perhaps reduction in speed limit or just stricter enforcement of current.

And a proper traffic control light is required at the Lansdowne Road corner of Kwantlen Road.

This is a heavy pedestrian crossing area and a difficult area for motorists as well.

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Airbnbs thriving in Richmond Dear Editor, Despite our city bylaws which prohibit short-term rentals such as Airbnbs, hundreds of illegal rentals are still being run all across our city.

Not only are these “hosts” not paying taxes on the income they are making, but they are also bringing traffic and strangers into quiet residential neighbourhoods.

could not be easier to identify the home owners violating these laws and hand out heavy fines.

Enforcement officers just need to do a search on the Airbnb website and, boom! A list of offenders! It’s not rocket science. There is no excuse for turning a blind eye.

What I don’t fully understand is why the city, in particular, Malcolm Brodie and other longserving councillors, aren’t fighting to crackdown on this illegal behaviour.

The city has the means to take an aggressive proactive approach like this to target illegal rentals. I know I speak for many when I say enough is enough with this city’s indifference to preserving our neighbourhoods.

This is something that the city CAN control. It

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Just There are anti-SOGI voices ask for from inside the city a good old cheque Dear Editor,

Re: Pro-SOGI trustee candidates dominate Richmond school board, Oct. 21, 2018

Dear Editor, The City of Richmond should follow Vancouvers example, immediately stop accepting cash for property taxes.

What’s wrong with a good old cheque drawn on a Canadian bank? Be proactive and stop money laundering.

If the name on the cheque does not represent the owner of the property, do not accept payment and notify FINTRAC.

Ruston Dubash RICHMOND

As Mr. Hamaguchi has stated, that “a lot of support of anti-SOGI movement came from outside of Richmond,” I am wondering what data and what information he has to verify this? Who were those people “doing the circuit?”

My husband and I are from Richmond and we were actively protesting against having the SOGI curriculum being imposed upon our family. So, yes, I was “loud,” but from inside of Richmond.

Yes, my position wasn’t “translated into” an actual vote, but for another reason not as stated.

And this is offensive to me and I am sure to other concerned parents, who I have met during that time, who were doing the same thing as us. These were residents of Richmond and all of them had children attending public schools in our city.

I didn’t vote in October be-

cause I had not become a citizen yet, I was a PR. As simple as that. We could think of other possible reasons people were not able to vote at that time, and all of us were reading your conclusion about us: “It’s (antiSOGI movement) people basically doing circuit.” Right! Like I have nothing else to do than just jumping from one corner of Metro Vancouver to another just to make some noise.

Could Mr. Hamaguchi be more specific: how much was exactly “a lot?” “A lot” – this is what I see: 12,266 votes for Richard Lee; 10,958 votes for Alice S. Wong; 8,244 votes for Ivan Pak; 7,834 votes for Charvine ADL. These are “a lot” of numbers for me that were translated into actually votes for “Parents’ Slate.”

And it would be more useful to hear from the new board the words of confirmation to all of these voters, and personally to me, that trustees still will be caring about our concerns, that our “diversity” will be equally includ-

ed and the values of our families will not be undermined, respected regardless if they align with the trustee’s personal views or not, instead of reading about their regrets that one candidate didn’t win a seat this time.

What I do care about is what will happen to my children in the public school system, what will happen to the freedom of my family, will I still be left with the parental choice to opt out my children from the topics which are controversial to our family beliefs.

I would like to thank Richard Lee for his humble and fair promise to serve all people of Richmond, regardless of his personal views. That makes me feel that my voice would be validated.

Remember, you are not “the lone anti-SOGI voice” here in Richmond, but 12,266 voices behind you, voices of people who trusted you with the well-being of their children.

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‘Bodyguard’ jailed for leaving loaded gun in restaurant Sepehr Motevalli forgot about handgun in local Boston Pizza preme Court Justice George Macintosh said that it was “unclear as to what Mr. Motevalli was doing there with the loaded gun.

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A 32-year-old man has been jailed for 30 months after he forgot about his loaded handgun in a Boston Pizza in Richmond.

Sepehr Motevalli was found guilty last October of possessing a loaded Ruger 9 -mm handgun at the restaurant in August, 2015.

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Court documents published earlier last week reveal how Motevalli may have been acting as a bodyguard for someone connected to Richmond’s money-laundering scandal.

Motevalli walked into the restaurant — it’s not clear which of the two Richmond Boston Pizzas (No. 3 and Ackroyd roads or Steveston Highway and No. 5 Road) — with a satchel containing the firearm.

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According to the sentencing documents, Motevalli was in the company of a woman and her mother, as well as some young children, at the time.

Upon leaving the restaurant, however, Motevalli mistakenly left behind the bag — which only contained the gun, loaded with 10 rounds of ammunition — on the arm of a chair.

Evidence during the trial indicated that one of the people Motevalli was with was related to a man being investigated by the RCMP as part of the ongoing moneylaundering scandal.

In his sentencing, however, B.C. Su-

“Part of the identification evidence against Mr. Motevalli at his trial was extensive surveillance evidence showing Mr. Motevalli.

“That evidence was obtained as part of the RCMP’s investigation of that other man for money laundering.

“Mr. Motevalli did not testify at his trial, or in the sentencing hearing, and did not share with the probation officer who prepared the pre-sentence report any circumstances about how or why he obtained the gun, or why he had it with him, fully loaded, on August 21, 2015.

“The defence invited me to conclude he was acting as a body guard on August 21, 2015, although that was not established by any evidence beyond what is set out above.”

Motevalli’s lawyer said during proceedings that his client had possession of the firearm “for the purpose of self-defence.”

However, the judge concluded that “the possession of a loaded weapon in these circumstances can only be to threaten or inflict harm or death.”

Motevalli, who was born in Iran and came to Vancouver with his family in 1998, had no prior criminal record.

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It appears that a City of Richmond fine and warning hasn’t stopped a “hotel” in west Richmond from opening its doors for business, illegally.

The Richmond News reported last August on a house at 7508 Railway Ave. that had been operating as a hotel without a license. It later received a $2,000 fine from the city and was ordered to close.

However, the house, now named “Richmond 6 or 1 Bedroom House,” has been back on the travel website Booking.com, since January. It appears to be very active — it is fully booked from now until Saturday, Feb. 23 and is rated as, “one of our best sellers in Richmond,” by the website.

“I accidentally found it on Booking.com...I’m here to tell you that it is more active and more professional now,” wrote a concerned resident to the News.

Ted Townsend, spokesperson for the City of Richmond, responded saying the case with this house “is an ongoing file for us.”

“We have a court date in March with the individual accused of running the short-term rental. In the interim, we are continuing to monitor and our investigation is ongoing,” said Townsend.

Earlier this week, in the Gwinnett Daily Post, a publication in the state of Georgia, an article was published telling seniors about recent technology, that may assist them. For example, one woman who stopped going to her local community center to play bridge, because her Arthritis prevented her from holding her cards, was told of a $5 device that could hold cards, and she has returned to playing. Another device helps persons with Parkinson’s Disease eat their food. Another device is placed on a chair, and helps the person stand up from the sitting position. How can you find such items? They come on the market constantly. Apparently you can search online (sites such as Amazon, perhaps Shopper’s Drug Mart here in B.C., etc.), you can check out stores around the city, and find literature at Community Centers and Seniors Centers. As more devices are invented, Seniors may find it easier to remain at home, or otherwise may find it easier to do their daily routines.

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“Generally, investigations and ticketing work to bring most offenders in line,” he said.

“As with any underground industry, it would be virtually impossible to eradicate completely, but we believe our bylaws and ongoing enforcement have led to a significant overall reduction in this type of activity.”

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Given the limited resources municipal governments have to go after violators, Rohana Rezel, a Vancouver housing advocate, has been vocal about having governments work with platforms such as Airbnb, and hold them accountable to make sure that all listed rentals comply with the city’s bylaws.

Townsend said the city is in talks with Airbnb and other operators “how they can support us,” but he would have to talk to the staff to “find out more on this topic.”

“Why is the city unable to stop them?” asked the resident.

Complaints can be sent to BylawRequest@ Richmond.ca or call 604-276-4345.

In line with our commitment to sustainability, YVR is relocating earthworks materials from construction projects at the terminal to an unused parcel of land on Russ Baker Way.

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Townsend noted that, the advertisement on Booking.com alone does not constitute an offence, and the city asks residents to help them gather more evidence, “particularly if they have information about more than two people staying at this location.”

The house is offered as one house with five bedrooms and 10 beds, and accommodates a maximum of 17 guests per night. The price ranges from $270 to $388 per night depending on the number of guests. Despite the house not being licensed by the city, it charges 25 per cent “taxes and charges” on top of the room rates.

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MMR vaccinations urged New pool delayed Alan Campbell ACAMPBELL@RICHMOND-NEWS.COM

In the midst of a measles outbreak at a Vancouver school, three Richmond schools appear to have below-average vaccination rates for the region.

According to Vancouver Coastal Health, BC Muslim School, Pacific Rim Montessori and Richmond Jewish Day School are all lower than the regional average of 83.1 per cent of student coverage for MMR vaccinations — needed to prevent measles, mumps and rubella.

Nine measles cases have now been confirmed in Vancouver and 33 students and staff at two French-language schools have been ordered to stay home after failing to show proof of vaccination.

Dr. Meena Dawar, VCH medical health officer for Richmond, explained that vaccination records began to be released years ago due to public interest.

However, Dawar added, just because a vaccination record is below VCH’s average, doesn’t mean it’s because children aren’t immunized. For example, if a parent had their child vaccinated by a family doctor and did not inform public health authorities, that could affect VCH’s records.

“Parents can choose another immunizer, besides public health,” she explained.

“There are a different number of pieces that are going into the reported rate.”

For kindergarten age, at the end of the 2017/18 school year, most schools in Richmond were in the 90 to 100 per cent MMR coverage range. In fact, Richmond has higher reported vaccination rates than Vancouver with 93 per cent of kindergarten-aged students immunized against measles specifically, as opposed to Vancouver’s 82 per cent.

Richmond below the VCH average were: BC Muslim School, 12300 Blundell Rd. at 78.9 per cent; Pacific Rim Montessori, which has two Steveston campuses, at 66.7 per cent; Richmond Jewish Day School, near No. 5 and Blundell roads, at 54.5 per cent.

Measles is a highly infectious disease that spreads through the air. Symptoms of measles include fever, cough, runny nose and red eyes, followed a few days later by a rash that starts on the face and spreads to the chest. Complications from measles can include pneumonia, inflammation of the brain (encephalitis), convulsions, deafness, brain damage and death.

For more information on measles, visit the VCH website at VCH.ca.

— With files from Alyse Kotyk

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Leakage has caused a concrete base in one of the six pools at the Minoru Centre for Active Living to shift, further delaying the opening of the new aquatics and fitness centre.

The seniors centre and events centre will open on March 11 as previously scheduled, but an assessment is currently underway on the pool to determine the scope of the repairs needed and the timeline.

The shift was discovered when the pool was being filled and emptied in preparation for the opening, explained city spokesperson Ted Townsend. Refunds will be given to anyone who registered in anticipation of the programs being offered in the new facility.

In the meantime, the Minoru Aquatic Centre will remain open for swimming.

Council recently decided, in a tight 5-4 vote, to keep the Minoru Aquatic Centre building and repurpose it for other uses, after the new aquatics centre opens.

Minoru Centre’s new aquatics centre won’t open on March 11. City of Richmond photo While some councillors argued for keeping it, others felt the cost of fixing it up and the limited activities that could take place didn’t make it worthwhile saving.

Council decided last year to spend $3.4 million to demolish the building when the new centre opened.

Coun. Carol Day said it makes more sense to spend $300,000 on refurbishing the building than $3.4 million on demolishing it.

“We were told the building has 10 years of life left in it,” Day said. “So why not spend a small amount of money to repurpose that building.”

Coun. Linda McPhail said

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she heard from people that they wanted the space converted back to park, and she didn’t support the motion of keeping the building.

“I believe Minoru Park is the green heart of Richmond and our duty is to put that space back into park,” McPhail said.

Mayor Malcolm Brodie said the old pool was “inefficient in every single way.”

With the densification happening in the city centre, Brodie said there’s a need for greenspace, something he says is as important as the agricultural land the city works to protect.

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Plastics ban Familiar face leads schools considered Scott Robinson will take over as superintendent

Richmond city council is looking at banning single-use plastic items including plastic bags and drinking straws.

Coun. Chak Au brought up the motion at Tuesday’s general purposes committee meeting, asking staff to “study the merits and practicability of banning single-use plastic items” in Richmond and coming back to council within 60 days with recommendations.

In his motion, Au pointed out that plastic bags are used on average for 20 minutes and yet take 400 years to break down. A motion was passed at Union Of BC Municipalities in September calling for a provincial ban on plastic bags.

Mayor Malcom Brodie suggested staff look at what Vancouver is doing and the studies they did, which took a long time, and use that information to inform Richmond how they can proceed.

The motion passed unanimously.

— Maria Rantanen at Richmond News

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The Richmond school district will have a new superintendent in April: Scott Robinson, the current deputy superintendent will replace Sherry Elwood who is retiring at the end of March.

Robinson worked as an assistant superintendent in Richmond and Vancouver and then worked as superintendent in Vancouver during a controversial time before going on medical leave in late 2016. He was appointed deputy superintendent in Richmond a year ago.

Robinson was Vancouver’s superintendent when that city’s board of education refused to pass a balanced budget, and there was an investigation into allegations of bullying by trustees of school board staff, which was set in motion by Elwood, then the president of

the B.C. School Superintendents’ Association.

strike.”

Shortly thereafter, the minister of education fired the board of education and replaced the elected trustees with an appointed trustee.

Leaving in that way showed “a real failure for someone in a CEO role of a large school district,” according to Bacchus.

It was concluded by the independent investigator, Roslyn Goldner, that there was a “toxic work environment” stemming from some “systemic factors,” namely, the “partisan composition of the board,” the district’s governance model and a “lack of consistent role definition amongst trustees.”

Regardless, Bacchus called Robinson an “outstanding educational leader” with excellent inter-personal skills, but the political nature of being superintendent of a school district requires a “high level of political savvy.”

Patti Bacchus, who was on the Vancouver board when Robinson left abruptly, said it was a “shock” when he left without informing the board and seemingly without a plan in place. The secretary-treasurer had left on medical leave the day before.

On the news that Robinson was appointed superintendent in Richmond, Bacchus said she wished him well.

Robinson’s departure was followed by four other senior team members going on medical leave and the board scrambling to appoint an interim superintendent and secretary-treasurer. Bacchus said it felt like a “management

“I didn’t get the sense Scott was comfortable in that arena,” she added.

“I hope the difficult lessons learned in Vancouver serve him well in Richmond,” she said.

Robinson didn’t respond to queries from the Richmond News about his departure from Vancouver, rather he said in an email, “I am very pleased to be taking over as superintendent in Richmond. I enjoyed my time at the VSB.”

Pro-D day needed for ‘change fatigue’ Maria Rantanen MRANTANEN@RICHMOND-NEWS.COM

Teachers in Richmond are experiencing “change fatigue,” according to the Richmond Teachers’ Association (RTA), and are looking for more support from the board of education as it prepares next year’s budget.

RTA set out a list of requests including two professional development days dedicated to helping teachers with changes taking place — the estimated cost put forward by the RTA was about $1.3 million.

“What we’re hoping is some of the ideas we have align with some of the guiding principles and some of the things that the dis-

trict would certainly like to be working on,” Liz Baverstock, president of the RTA, told the Richmond board of education last week while presenting a budget brief to them.

Over the past few years, teachers have been hit with changes in several areas, including curriculum and assessment, Baverstock explained to the News. There have also been changes in technology and teachers are expected to learn new systems “off the side of their desk,” while their primary focus is the classroom and students, she added.

Other requests include two days of training for 187 English Language Learner (ELL) teachers, which the RTA hopes will expand to all teachers in the future, as well as training in inclusive ELL teaching practices. The two initiatives would cost $140,000.

The RTA is also asking for $34,700 to allow Pro-D chairs more time for planning. ProD chairs are teachers who administer funds and plan professional development days.

The brief stated that planning Pro-D days is a “complex and time-consuming task.”

district, according to the RTA’s calculations, $225,000. Until 2016, teachers were receiving top-ups for the first 17 weeks of their maternity leave even if it fell in the summer months — the summer-month top-up was removed in 2017.

Included in the budget brief was a request for two speech and language pathologists and an occupational therapist for a total of $316,000. Occupational therapists in the school system currently are provided by Vancouver Coastal Health and there is a wait list of one to two years.

The RTA budget brief pointed out that the BCTF Supreme Court win in 2016 has added $35 million to the Richmond budget, translating to 310 more full-time teachers.

The RTA is also asking for library computers, iPads and furniture for libraries.

The budget brief was distributed at the board meeting and was referred to a future committee meeting. Trustees didn’t comment on it at the meeting.

There is also a request for summer maternity leave top-up, which would be retroactive to July 2017 and would cost the school

The Richmond school district’s budget is largely bound by contracts but their discretionary budget is about $6 million.

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Seismic upgrades cause ‘shuffling’ Maria Rantanen MRANTANEN@RICHMOND-NEWS.COM

As the Richmond school district plans upcoming seismic upgrades, the Ministry of Education will not fund any more portables and has asked the school district to use surplus space during construction.

School trustee Debbie Tablotney, who is the chair of the facilities and building committee, said how accommodations are done will be decided on a schoolby-school basis as the school district prepares for construction projects.

“We could fund (portables), but that’s a pretty costly endeavour,” she said.

Seven seismic upgrades to Richmond schools will be launched over the next year and one is already under way.

“We’re really appreciative we’re moving forward on this because we ultimately want our school safe and functioning at top efficiency,” she said.

This is Tablotney’s fifth term as a trustee, and she said she’s seen a “tremendous shift” in the past year in how these projects are being moved forward.

The budget for seismic upgrades at Hugh Boyd secondary is set at $10.7 million and the school district is currently waiting for the building permit.

Tait and Ferris elementary schools are just undergoing design work and construction is expected to start at Tait in May and at Ferris in July. Ferris elementary will have four portables to accommodate the construction. Upgrades to Tait will cost $7.6 million and upgrades to Ferris will be $8.5 million.

Richmond school seismic upgrades timeline:

Currently Cook elementary is being seismically upgraded to the tune of $13.9 million, and several more construction projects are expected to start this spring and summer.

Construction for Steves elementary is targeted to start in November whereby the wing of the building built in 1964 will be replaced and the rest will be seismically upgraded.

The school district has submitted a project definition report to the Ministry of Education for Tomsett elementary with a recommendation for seismic upgrading asking for a six-classroom addition in its capital plan submission.

The sections of Mitchell elementary built in 1975 and 1992 will be seismically upgraded but the pre-1975 section of the school will be replaced. The administrative block at Steves elementary will be replaced and the school will be seismically upgraded. Construction is planned to start in November.

In June, the school district submitted the names of 11 elementary schools to the Ministry of Education to be considered for a feasibility study and the response from the ministry is expected at the end of this month.

“There will be some growing pains and some shuffling, but the goal is safe facilities,” Tablotney said.

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Tyler Lewis and Mia Sugihara are two “Blair Guardians,” leadership students who spend time on the playground at Blair elementary looking for acts of kindness and supporting other students.

We live in a society in which being different is wrong. We live in a society in which people are constantly being judged and judge others. The standards that society has set are impossible to reach. Young girls and women are told and taught that they need to have big breasts, big butts, a tiny waist, a thigh gap, no acne, perfect eyebrows and that they must always be perfect. They can never be too thin or too fat.

When they see someone doing something kind, they will write it on a pink heart and post it in the main foyer of the school — they like to catch students in the act of kindness.

“If we do something very kind, we’ll inspire others to be kind,” said Mia. But students shouldn’t be doing acts of kindness just for a heart, Tyler said.

“If people are always mean and not doing something to help others, people won’t want to work with them,” he said.

Mia and Tyler said they usually see good behaviour, but if they see some bad behaviour, they see what’s wrong, if they can help and seek out an adult.

The idea of Blair Guardians came from a group on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver called the Guardian Angels, explained Andrei Sala, the school’s vice-principal.

When bullying occurs, he added, there

Tyler Lewis and Mia Sugihara are Blair Guardians.

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are usually three actors: the bully, the victim and the bystander, and at Blair, there has been a lot of education about not being the bystander, the one who stands by and doesn’t intervene in a bullying situation.

We are taught that being different is wrong and by being taught that, we are taught that being ourselves is wrong and that the only thing that matters is skin deep.

“What we find with Blair Guardians, it helps to delete the bystander role,” he said.

No one has a perfect body, and no one ever will. Every living thing has flaws but it’s our flaws that make us distinct. Society is so keen on making sure no one has flaws that we punish ourselves for having them.

While Pink Shirt Day will be celebrated next week at Blair, anti-bullying is the focus for the entire month. But, Sala said, the conversation about bullying should never stop.

We are told to hide our flaws by pretending.

The word “makeup” itself means “made up.”

People tell us to be ourselves but the second we do, we get judged in a negative way.

No one has everything, but everyone has something. This obsession on physical impressions has got to stop. Bulimia, self-harming, anorexia, depression and suicide are symptoms of the problem.

One nasty comment breaks into the world we’ve grown to love, and with such a disruption, it becomes impossible to see clearly. A cruel dagger of words cuts into a heart. Bullying can be a death by a single cut. A tease or a jest runs in circles through our minds until it becomes our own obsession.

Like many, I was bullied in school. It was a daily act of cruelty against my values. Each day the bullying got worse until I no longer noticed the bullies outside. My worst enemy became myself. I stood out. I was different. I felt I deserved every cruel word I got.

We must find in ourselves the resilience to love ourselves, to care for ourselves. Rather than obsess over what others think. Let go of the noise and negativity, and get a massage, read a book. The only approval we need is our own.

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“Awareness cannot only be one day like Earth Day or pyjama day. It’s just not meaningful. It has to be reinforced every day, to be kind.”

MDEVLIN@RICHMOND-NEWS.COM A Richmond family is speaking out after they say their sons’ tormenter showed up to their elementary school wearing a pink shirt on Pink Shirt Day.

David Sadler, spokesperson for the Richmond School District, couldn’t speak to specifics of the family’s case, but said the district has dedicated staff on an area counselling team whose job it is to address bullying.

Christian Higgs Torres, now 13, and Patrick Higgs Torres, now 12, were both being picked on three years ago by a boy in Grade 6 while they were in Grade 4 and Grade 3 at a Richmond elementary school, their mother Erendira Torres Piña told the Richmond News.

They allege the older boy bullied the brothers verbally and physically, and once in the schoolyard took a tree branch that Christian was playing with and hit him with it. In another incident, they allege the older boy told Christian he would poke Christian’s eyes out with his glasses.

“We had so many nights without sleeping,” Torres Piña said. “The environment was very hostile.”

Then, when Pink Shirt Day rolled around, the family was shocked by the bully’s choice of attire at the school’s annual anti-bullying assembly.

“He showed up to school wearing a pink shirt that day,” Torres Piña said.

Christian, the boy’s primary target, was struck by the irony.

They provide lessons to teachers on peaceful problem solving and what students should do if they’re receiving unwanted attention.

Sadler said they can also implement Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in schools. According to its website, PBIS is “a proactive approach to establishing the behavioral supports and social culture needed for all students in a school to achieve.”

Christian Higgs Torres (right) and Patrick Higgs Torres (left) were shocked when their bully turned up at school wearing a pink shirt. Their mother, Erendira Torres Piña, says Pink Shirt Day is meaningless. Megan Devlin photo “I was pretty mad about it,” Christian said.

“He’s not protesting against bullying—he is a bully.”

Torres Piña and her husband, Ian Higgs, met with Christian’s teacher and principal multiple times that year to address the bullying issues, they said. But they weren’t convinced the school was doing enough to resolve the issue, and told the News they felt the bully

student was not facing repercussions for his alleged actions.

Dissatisfied with the school’s response, Torres Piña approached the Richmond School District superintendent at the time and started an online petition asking then-premier Christy Clark to abolish Pink Shirt Day. “I think the pink shirt campaign becomes meaningless when people are not account-

Plus, he added teachers have access to even provincial resources through the Expect Respect and a Safe Education (ERASE) website.

After the bullying issue in Grade 4, Christian’s family decided to homeschool him beginning in Grade 5. Torres Piña said his anxiety is much better, and he’s more confident.

Patrick switched to another school, where he’s also doing well.

Christian has some advice for other kids who may be being bullied: “Don’t worry, there’s always the light,” he said. “If the darkness keeps coming, look for the light.”

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When Grade 11 Richmond student Kelsha Wong submitted a design for the ERASE Bullying poster contest, she wanted to highlight just how far bullying can reach.

With her gender and race-neutral design, Wong’s work (right) was chosen as this year’s winner of the annual poster contest.

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“I really just wanted to make a poster that showcased bullying in terms of how it affects anyone,” said Wong. “I chose not to add any gender or any race to any of my characters in it because I wanted to really focus on the fact that bullying does affect anyone.”

Each year, Richmond students aged five to 18 are called upon to show their creative side while spreading awareness of how to eliminate bullying in an annual poster contest. This year’s theme is “create connection.”

As the winner, the R.C. Palmer student’s design will be reproduced and launched throughout the community, online and on social media to promote Pink Shirt Day on Feb. 28. This year’s focus of the nation-wide antibullying campaign is cyberbullying, which Wong says is an important issue to address.

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“The Troop 17 Scholarship is one of the initiatives the RCMP has implemented to help promote inclusion and diversity and fight harassment,” said RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki.

“We’re proud to help young Canadians reach their academic goals while encouraging them to make positive change in their communities.”

This scholarship will award up to five $1,000 scholarships annually to college or university students across Canada.

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The high-end treatment — costing $280 for a 45-minute session — is coming next week to RAPS’ (Regional Animal Protection Society) hospital at the Richmond Auto Mall.

In December, three donors gave RAPS $200,000 to cover the cost of installing the 1,500-pound hyperbaric chamber, which delivers 100 per cent oxygen for anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial and tissue-healing benefits, all to accelerate the healing process.

Although used at about 50 veterinary practices in the U.S. — and widely used for decades on humans — the treatment is still relatively new and not available for animals anywhere else in Canada. “...hyperbaric treatment can be an alternative to surgery, which can be invasive and, sometimes, quite expensive in the long run,” explained RAPS’ spokesman Pat Johnson.

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Reclaiming end-of-life sacredness surrounded by family, friends Steveston’s Devine Elden, 80, used medically assisted death in peaceful ceremony Scorgie said he never really left.

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He went away to college, but would stay with Elden in Steveston every summer.

Eventually Scorgie married Wendy Porteous and his career took them overseas to Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Elden would often visit.

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On Devine Elden’s last day of life, she did what she’s always done: welcomed her family and closest friends into her Steveston home.

When Scorgie was 55, Elden legally adopted him.

They gathered Dec. 30, 2018 for quality time and a ceremony before her medically assisted death. She went for one last walk with her son to Garry Point Park, wrote some farewell letters and changed into pyjamas and a robe before lying on the couch.

“She thought I was in the hospital. She just went, ‘Oh my god, I’ve got to make this official,’” he said.

She welcomed Scorgie and others into her own home, while making sure other young adults had a shot at stability through her donations to SOS Children’s Village in Surrey.

She looked out to her garden, adorned with hundreds of white lights for the occasion. Inside, the house was decorated with her favourite white roses, candles and her trademark angels. There was a fire in the hearth.

She was instrumental in starting the Canadian chapter of the European-founded charity, which houses kids in government care. A group of foster families live in adjacent houses, and staff on-site in the village provide therapy and other types of support to kids.

The group of eight sat around Elden to say prayers and chant a familiar meditation mantra.

Each village home also has a transition suite for kids on the cusp of adulthood. A donation from Elden enabled one to be renovated and furnished.

Then, around 5:30 p.m., a doctor and an assistant arrived to administer a series of injections that first put her to sleep and then stopped her breathing. And so Elden went, holding a rose to her chest.

Unofficial mayor of Steveston The 80-year-old was best known among her wide circle of friends for starting Jet Lag Travel Fashion Boutique and her prolific charity work benefitting youth in foster care. She often organized charitable events and was affectionately known among some as the unofficial mayor of Steveston.

“Her main concern was helping people,” said Jim Scorgie, her adopted son. “She helped a lot of kids through her life. She had all these little sayings, like ‘you’ve got to have an attitude of gratitude.’ Her house was the house of the open door.”

Elden chose medical assistance in dying, a practice legalized in Canada in 2016 for those with grievous and irremediable medical conditions who are in an advanced state of decline, because she wanted to leave on her own terms.

She had cancer in her spine. It was extremely painful and impacted her independence.

“Not many people are angry when a baby is born,” she said while still alive.

“We need to change the atmosphere of people’s thinking about dying. Dying is the other side of birth.”

Preparing for her last day She prepared for her last day with care, by thanking people in the community and saying goodbye. She also educated others about accessing medical assistance in death, in a talk she called “Flight 000: Heaven Bound.”

“Everyone is going,” she once said to seniors in Delta. “However, very few are packed or ready.”

Devine Elden was affectionately known by some as the unofficial mayor of Steveston. She started Jet Lag Travel Fashion Boutique, and married her love of fashion with causes dear to her heart by raising money through charity fashion shows. Photo submitted Her friends and family, all heartbroken to see her go, nonetheless admired her courage.

“I was very sad for myself. But so happy for her that she left in the way she wanted.

So beautifully, so gracefully and strong,” said Gary Ludlow, a friend.

bye to.”

Elden gave back to many Elden touched many lives, and was passionate about helping young people who didn’t have a lot of family support. No one knows that better than Scorgie.

Penny Allport, a friend for more than 30 years who considered Elden family, helped guide the ceremony.

Allport is a lifecycle celebrant, who specializes in creating appropriate environments for major life events such as weddings, funerals and, more recently, deaths that people have planned for.

“My care is in reclaiming end of life as a sacred family and community event,” she said, adding the event should ideally be healing for those involved.

She felt a “deep soul connection” with Elden, and admired her desire to meet death with care and consciousness.

“[Devine’s] caring went bone deep,” said Rose Hamilton, spokesperson for SOS Children’s Village B.C. “She created community wherever she went … I’m so glad I knew her.”

One can imagine Elden smiling earlier this week when the provincial government announced increased funding for foster parents, a move lauded by SOS Children’s Villages BC executive director Douglas Dunn.

Elden’s loved ones remember her eclectic and fresh sense of style, and the welcoming attitude she gave all customers who came through the door.

The store specializes in travel clothing, and Elden was known to slip a small cut-out angel into a customer’s purchase with a note saying it would watch over them and bring them home safe.

Also familiar were her oftenrepeated sayings like “each one, teach one.”

Devine Elden poses for a photo as SOS Children’s Village in Surrey in 2017. The organization provides resources and support for children in foster care, and Elden was passionate about their work. Photo submitted

“It’s not easy to leave this earth,” Allport said. “She knew what she had to say good-

Scorgie first came to Elden’s house as a teenager after a track meet. He was friends with Elden’s stepson, the son of her husband at the time. After that first afternoon,

pay the rent.”

Another, when closing her store, was “thank you for those who came and went, especially the ones who helped to

Elden’s wisdom, bravery and generosity will be remembered by her many friends and surviving family.

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The ladies sold around 120 tickets, at $20 each, for the event so quickly that they had to stop publicizing the event to keep it manageable.

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Donald and Julia Leung, founders of Richmond-based Donald Fine Foods, made a donation of $1.5 million to BC Cancer Foundation on Feb. 11 for lung cancer research.

The donation will propel lung cancer research with new equipment, as well as a chemo prevention program under Dr. Stephen Lam, whose research focuses on the early detection, chemoprevention and endoscopic therapy of lung cancer.

“We hope this gift will inspire others in the community to do their part to give back no matter how large or small the gift is. It all makes a difference,” said Donald in a BC Cancer Foundation report.

“I always said to my family, we should always try to help others and

The couple moved to Canada in the 1970s from Hong Kong and worked various labourer jobs, before starting a hog processing and meat wholesale business 25 years ago.

The company now provides meat products to more than 25 countries and has 800 employees across Canada.

According to the association, the Leung family, who “are no stranger to the disease,” know first-hand how important research is in advancing treatment and care, and have set their sights on improving cancer outcomes through philanthropy.

Donald turned down the Richmond News’ interview request to “keep a low profile” about this donation.

According to a Sing Tao story, the Leung family also gifted $1 million to VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation last week to support its surgical research.

A group of ladies raised funds by selling handbags, purses and scarves.

Alan Campbell ACAMPBELL@RICHMOND-NEWS.COM Armed with 360 handbags and purses and around 200 women’s scarves, a group of Richmond ladies went to bat for the girls last week.

And in the process, they raised an estimated $8,000 to go towards girls’ participation in sport, via non-profit KidSport.

Their inaugural event, held at Richmond Curling Club, was called “Power of the Purse” and

“The energy in the room was electrifying... women coming together to help support girls’ participation in sports in Richmond,” said Kathy Ganeff, who organized Power of the Purse, along with Elaine Campbell, Barb Maguire and Lorene Yonemura.

“We had amazing support from all of our volunteers and donors, we couldn’t have done it without them. We had so many people say that, now they know what this is all about, they will tell all their friends for the next one.”

The ladies were selling bags and purses, some Kate Spade and Coach, for $5, $10 and $20, while the scarves were $10 or 3/$25. There was a silent and live auction, as well as three door prizes to help boost the fundraising effort.

“We all used to fundraise for various events, including Nite of Hope, and we wanted to do something again for the community,” added Ganeff, explaining that it’s known, through KidSport, that girls in big families, where money might be tight, don’t always get to play sport.

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Roasters, brewers concoct for festival Coquitlam’s Taylight brewing to create a delicious coffee-beer hybrid for Hopwired.

Megan Devlin MDEVLIN@RICHMOND-NEWS.COM Local breweries and coffee roasters are teaming up to create coffee-beer hybrids for the Hopwired Festival in Vancouver, and one Richmond brewery hopes to defend their winning title.

Richmond’s Fuggles & Warlock won the first place craft beer award at last year’s Hopwired for their collaboration with Delta’s Notch coffee.

They combined their Bean Me Up espresso milk stout with a special batch of concentrated cold brew that Notch aged in a red wine barrel.

“It gave really unique wine flavours to the coffee, which we added to our beer,” said Fuggles and Warlock brewmaster Dan Colyer.

Also participating this year is Richmond coffee roaster Mogiana Coffee. Named after the Mogiana Valley in Brazil, founder Cristina Dias imports the beans from her family’s fourth-generation farm.

They roast their beans here in Richmond and sell locally to hotels in the city and grocery stores Choices and Whole Foods. Dias carries a book full of pictures from the family farm, including a school built on its grounds for children in the community, so customers can see who their money benefits.

This year, Mogiana is partnering with Port

Dias wanted to keep the concoction a surprise, but hinted they’re using a beer that’s not typically infused with coffee.

“These are great for the micro-roasters to kind of get a chance to have direct contact with the consumer and educate,” Dias said.

“This is what excites us. We’re very passionate about coffee.”

Colyer said dark beers (like his stout) pair easily with coffee.

But what he liked about last year’s festival was seeing more creative combinations, like sour beers that played well with the tartness of coffee.

“It’s nice to see the fun creations that people come up with,” he said of the festival.

Richmond’s Canterbury Coffee is also trying their hand at an atypical concoction with Coal Harbour Brewing.

Above: The Fuggles and Warlock team at the 2017 Hopwiered Festival.

Below, left: Freshly-brewed Mogiana coffee. Below, right: Cristina Dias of Richmond’s Mogiana Coffee. Photos submitted

They’re using an Ethiopian natural process coffee, that lets the cherry surrounding the coffee bean naturally fall off in the sun instead of being washed off.

That will hopefully imbue the drink with a rich, fruity flavour said brand manager Leah Bowman. “[Hopwired] sounds really fun. Even among food and drink events, which are always fun,” she said.

The festival happens on Saturday, Feb. 23 in Vancouver.

Richmond eateries vying for Chinese awards Dozens of Richmond’s Chinese restaurants have been nominated for honours in the 11th annual Chinese Restaurant Awards.

These restaurants are up against others from across the Lower Mainland to take home prizes in 23 categories.

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Colts gallop to boys city title

Wildcats & Ravens Ace Adano leads Richmond High to big win over MacNeill Ravens qualify for provincials Mark Booth

Podium finishes have earned McMath Wildcats and MacNeill Ravens berths into the 2019 Junior Boys Provincial Basketball Invitational Tournament that starts Saturday at the Langley Events Centre.

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What a difference a couple of months can make for the Richmond Colts, especially Ace Adano.

It was back on Dec. 3 when the Colts opened their Richmond Senior Boys League Basketball schedule with a 14-point loss to the MacNeill Ravens and Adano’s frustrating night ended when he fouled out.

The top 10 ranked Wildcats and Ravens were second and third respectively at the Vancouver and District Championships that concluded on Friday at Burnaby South Secondary.

Last Friday, it was redemption time for the Colts and him in a big way.

The Grade 12 guard poured in 27 points and set up his teammates for a number of easy baskets too as Richmond High rolled to the city title with dominating 82-50 victory in front of a capacity crowd at Steveston-London Secondary.

The Richmond champion Wildcats fell 71-57 to the host and No. 1 ranked Rebels in the title game. Leading 23-19 after one quarter, Burnaby South went on a 21-2 run to take a 46-25 lead into halftime.

“I was unlucky and just not feeling it that night I guess,” recalled Adano. “I did think about it actually. We have been hungry for these guys the whole season and waiting for them in the finals.

When your shots start falling like that your confidence goes through the roof and when they play up on me tight that’s when I can attack too. What an experience.”

McMath closed to within 10 points in the late going before the Rebels sealed the win.Travis Hamberger led the Wildcats with 25 points.

Rio Hutchful chipped in with 10.

The first team city all-star was on fire in the opening quarter, scoring 15 points, including four baskets behind the arc, as the Colts raced out to a 27-8 lead. The Ravens’ offensive struggles continued in the second and the margin ballooned to 29 points before they scored their first bucket midway through the second.

The road to the championship game included a 74-49 victory over Saint Thomas Aquinas (STA) in the semifinals. Michael Kitka had a team-high 25.

The game was essentially over and so was the No. 5 provincial ranked Ravens’ perfect season against Richmond opponents at 12 games. The stage was perhaps a little too large for a young team that didn’t even qualify for the playoffs a year ago.

Richmond Colts Ace Adano drives to the basket against MacNeill’s Hudson Swaim in the Richmond Senior Boys Championship game. Photo by Mark Booth

“This (big game environment) is a new experience for them,” said MacNeill head coach Steward Siy. “Going into it, we told them they have to enjoy it but until you are there, you really don’t how they will respond.

Brandon Harbour. “Lot of our guys have been in big game situations going to provincials last year. The Grade 12s also won the championship in Grade 10 so they have kind of been in these kind of games before. I think that helped us.”

the game honours.

Here are the individual award winners who were honoured during the post-game ceremony based on regular season play:

“It’s going to help us for the Lower Mainlands and hopefully the provincials too. But give credit to them as well. They were intense and really brought it tonight. We just couldn’t match their intensity.”

Harbour added Adano’s early heroics was not part of the game plan but also knows what his sharpshooter is capable of when he is in a rhythm.

First Team All-Stars: Anton Poburko (Richmond High), Ethan Wight (Steveston-London), Nicholas Berda (Hugh Boyd), Sky Tan (MacNeill), Ace Adano (Richmond High).

The Colts were on a mission since opening night of the championships. Their three wins en route to the title were by an average of 36 points after earlier games against Cambie (81-33) and McMath (92-64).

“The guys have been just fired up all week and almost on a mission it felt like,” said head coach

Most Valuable Player: Usman Tung (MacNeill)

“Before the game I told them let’s get some easy ones to start, go to the rim and don’t put up any threes. Ace catches it and shoots right away,” laughed Harbour. When he’s on he is going to hit those all night.”

Second Team Al-Stars: Baltej Nahal (Cambie), Apaar Sahota (McNair), Jackson Thackwray (MacNeill), Marco Wong (Steveston-London), Natrone Gonzales (McMath).

The Colts also got a big outing from Talhah Farooqi who finished with a triple-double (14 points, 13 rebounds and 10 blocks) and caused havoc in the paint – earning defensive player of

Third Team All-Stars: Umer Shahzad (Steveston-London), Ydai Takahashi (McMath), Talhah Farooqi (Richmond High), Jackie Nguyen (Cambie), Evan Brusse (Richmond High).

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The Wildcats opened with a 64-43 victory against Burnaby Central. Hamberger had 24 points and six rebounds as his team pulled away in the final quarter.

The Ravens clinched their place at the LEC with a 52-34 win over STA. They enjoyed an outstanding second half, outscoring the North Shore school 28-10.

Tanner Devlin led the way with 27 points.

MacNeill also hung tough with the Rebels in the semifinals, trailing 25-21 at the half before a big third quarter for Burnaby South resulted in a 62-52 win. Everett Swaim had 17 points.

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Wildcats 2nd in Crehan Cup’s final chapter Mark Booth RICHMOND NEWS

The Crehan Cup’s curtain call provided three games-in-one and a valuable lesson for a young McMath Wildcats team headed to BC girls basketball’s biggest stage next week.

The Argyle Pipers 3-peated as Lower Mainland champions with an 88-67 win over the Wildcats at Lord Byng Secondary on Saturday night. The tournament is over after 51 years with B.C. School Sports’ new zones coming into play next season. Richmond teams will be part of the South Fraser Zone and will compete against Surrey and Delta schools for provincial qualifying.

The Wildcats were looking to become just the second Richmond team to hoist the Crehan Cup in 18 years but their North Vancouver opponent had different ideas.

Some red-hot shooting in the opening half resulted in a 50-33 Argyle lead at the break. McMath came storming back with a terrific

third quarter to cut the deficit to 6462. The Pipers then swung the momentum back for good by outscoring the Richmond champions 22-5 over the final 10 minutes.

a hand on your back every time.”

The huge run came after a pair of 3-point attempts rimmed out that would have given the Wildcats their first lead of the night.

They are expected to be among the lower seeded entries thanks the Fraser Valley featuring eight of the top 10 teams in the province.

Kelowna and Okanagan Mission are the others.

The Wildcats should see plenty more of it as they prepare for next week’s BC AAA Championships at the Langley Events Centre.

“We just couldn’t quite get over (the hump). I felt if we could have just got that one more hoop it would have given us what we needed,” said co-coach Chris Kennedy. “I don’t remember remember a team shooting that well (in the opening half). Give Argyle full credit. They did a really good job on defence too.”

The Pipers had obviously done their homework on what had McMath riding a 20-game win streak coming into the final.

They made life miserable for Grade 8 standouts Marina Radocaj and Caitlin Kippan with a smothering zone defence — every time they touched the ball. They also had the size to match-up with the 6-footers, never mind years of experience too.

“We are not going to be getting away with Grade 8s getting that much space so it was good for us to see. That’s the challenge of being in Richmond where we don’t get a lot of battles (before regionals),” Kennedy added. I’m glad we battled and didn’t pack it in and halftime.

McMath’s Liz Kennedy takes the ball up floor against Argyle in the Crehan Cup championship game.

“They recognized they had a lot of Grade 11s and 12s and we have a lot of Grade 8s and 10s,” continued Kennedy. “They were getting physical with us which was

really smart.

“Our older girls had a little bit better time of it but it’s really hard for a 13 year-old to go up against an 18-year-old who is out there to put

Among the young players to shine Saturday was Grade 10 guard Abby Bodden who had her best game of the season with 17 points to lead her team’s comeback bid. Liz Kennedy added 16 and joined the remarkable Radocaj on the tournament all-star team.

Jayna Wilson chipped in with 10 and Morgan Flynn also provided a spark off the bench with eight.

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Sockeyes looking for better luck at Minoru game three yet Grandview found a way to win.

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“They are an opportunistic team.

You let them hang around and don’t capitalize on your scoring chances it can bite you,” said Sockeyes head coach Brett Reusch.

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Stay the course.

That’s about all the Richmond Sockeyes coaching staff can suggest after watching their team outplay the Grandview Steelers Monday night yet still find themselves trailing in the quarter-final playoff series.

“We just got to keep sticking to the game plan. We are just trying get pucks deep and using our speed to force some turnovers. It’s tough to really change much when you outshoot them by a 2-to-1 margin. We need to bear down and get some secondary scoring.”

Captain Mateo Coltellaro’s overtime goal off a weird bounce lifted the Steelers to a 3-2 game three win at Minoru Arenas. It gives Grandview a 2-1 lead in the Pacific Junior Hockey League best-of-seven. Game four was slated for last night at the Burnaby Winter Club and the teams return to Minoru for game five tonight (7 p.m.).

The Sockeyes dominated the final 40 minutes of regulation — outshooting the visitors by a 29-12 margin — but could only manage a second period equalizer from standout rookie Craig Schouten.

They generated several glorious chances in the third as Grandview goaltender Cale Dolan came up

The Sockeyes impressive rookie trio of Marcus Pantazis, Brady Sprague and Schouten was the best line on the ice.

Schouten also netted his team’s opening goal and there easily could have been two or three more.

The teams are in the midst of playing four games in five nights.

Craig Schouten scored a pair of goals and nearly had another here in the Sockeyes 3-2 overtime loss to Grandview.. Mark Booth photo with some key saves and got some luck with the goalpost too, setting the stage for Coltellaro’s heroics.

Dolan is the son of former Canadian national team soccer goalkeeper and Whitecaps analyst Paul

Dolan.

It was the Steelers’ second straight overtime triumph at Minoru after ruining a Richmond comeback effort in the series opener with a 5-4 win.

The Sockeyes then stormed back on

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The Shangri-La Hotel 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm Due Diligence + Valuation when Buying a Business The saying goes: The devil is in the details—and for good reason when you’re buying a business. That stage of applying due diligence to the transaction can make the difference between a good deal, a bad deal, or no deal at all. But what are the ingredients for success? Our expert panel will lead you through the steps to guide your decision-making.

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cent has already achieved senior status. With the help of leading experts, the BIV Retirement Ready panel discussion will investigate how and when to retire and how to embrace what should be the triumphant years of a longer life.

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20th Annual

Influential Women

MARCH 8, 2019 The Fairmont Waterfront 11:30am-2:00pm

In Business Awards

Deadline: March 4, 2019 Business in Vancouver and the Chartered Professional Accountants of BC have once again partnered to recognize and celebrate the top CFOs in British Columbia. Winning CFOs will be profiled in Business in Vancouver on May 8th and honoured at a gala dinner in June where each winner will share their leadership lessons to an audience of Vancouver’s business community.

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As you ponder how you’ll stop working, you have to ask yourself: Are you retirement ready? It’s a particularly crucial question in British Columbia, where one-third of the population is nearing 50 and 17 per

Business in Vancouver is once again recognizing BC’s most outstanding business women in private or public sector companies. Honourees have risen through the ranks to become senior executives or entrepreneurs. Through corporate board placements they help influence and shape policy at some of Canada’s largest companies. Winners will be profiled in the February 12th issue of Business in Vancouver.

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A MASTER-PLANNED COMMUNITY BY The developer reserves the right to make modifications to floorplans, project design, materials and specifications to maintain the standards of this development. Rendering is an artist’s interpretation. Prices are subject to change without notice. This is not an offering for sale. E&OE.