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Skateboard show does the trick munity centre volunteer Timothy Rubenfeld, who was amazed at the progress of some of the skateboarders, aged 12 to 25, from last year. “It shows that the new skate park is being used and it’s great to see so many parents out supporting the event as well,” said Rubenfeld. “And it’s great to see so many kids’ skills improving from what was on show last year.” For next year, Rubenfeld hopes the event gets even bigger and is looking at attracting some professional skateboarders out for a demo and perhaps pull in some more sponsors for even more prizes for the kids.
BY ALAN CAMPBELL
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PHOTO SUBMITTED BY MATHIAS FAST
A young skateboarder pulls off a trick during the second annual Show Off skate event at Thompson Community Centre skate park on the weekend.
A grass-roots skateboarding event is catching big air after only two years on the ground. The second annual Show Off youth skate night rolled into the skate park at Thompson Community Centre on the weekend with more than double the amount of participants from its inaugural year. As well as prizes for the skateboarding, the parents came out in force as well to enjoy a barbecue, DJ and a live graffiti exhibition. The event is the brainchild of local skateboarder and com-
CUPE workers picket school board office School support staff stage one-day protest over stall in contract talks BY PHILIP RAPHAEL
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As the school year comes to an end this week, some of Richmond’s educational assistants and non-teaching staff ramped up their contract bargaining efforts with a one-day, information picket. Armed with placards and leaflets, a relatively — June small group representing CUPE Local 716 paced up and down the sidewalks outside the Richmond School
District offices Tuesday to bring attencould be a sign of things to come when tion to a stall in talks with the governclasses start up again in September. ment. Kaiser said CUPE is looking About a dozen members to broker a two-year deal with belonging to the union’s strike their employer and is pushing for committee took part, while otha raise that would be in line with ers were asked to For a video inflation and what other public either join the job service unions have received. action before or after “We didn’t even get to that point in work. The action was negotiations because we were told there specifically designed was no money on the table,” Kaiser said. not to disrupt classes. Visiting the picketers was Richmond Kaiser June Kaiser, presischool trustee Eric Yung who said the dent of Local 716, said district’s hands are tied since they only the inaction at the bargaining table is receive funding from the government. see Yung page 3 a big concern and Monday’s job action
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