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Jerseys reach Jamaica Richmond Girls Soccer strips were among donated items handed over to children and youth in Kingston by a local charity.

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Peace lady calls it a career Alan Campbell

Staff Reporter acampbell@richmond-news.com

For more than 30 years, Freda Walker, with her benevolent eyes and warm smile, has been the close friend someone needed in their darkest days.

In all those decades, Walker, in her dedicated role as a Richmond Hospice Association and Rotary Hospice House volunteer, forged many tight bonds with terminally ill people and their families, right until the end of their lives.

She said she’s been humbled by the dignity, bravery and grace from patients in their final hours — many of whom sought to resolve long-standing rifts before it’s too late and some who kept a tight grip on the last throws of life until relatives flew in from around the world.

Despite looking on as friend after friend inevitably, given the environment, slipped away, Walker was candid in explaining how she dealt with each loss.

“That was the part that was the hardest; but they all move on, right?” said Walker, one of the founding You get so close to members of the them; sometimes Richmond Hospice spending a year Association.

“You get so close with them and their to them; sometimes family. spending a year with them and their family.

“But it’s been a wonderful experience.”

Last week, however, Steveston resident Walker — one of the first to volunteer at the Rotary Hospice House, the free-standing facility on No. 4 Road when it opened in 2005 — retired at the age of 88, citing the need to spend more time with her family, who’ve moved away.

A social worker for most of her career, Walker knew when she retired that she really wanted to work with the elderly.

“This is what I really wanted to do,” she said.

“There were only two volunteers at the beginning at the hospice and with my background and experience, I wanted to help them live their last precious years as best they could.”

So many people have so many frightening things happening in their lives near the end, said Walker, and she was “well equipped to help them get through that.

“It’s been very humbling for me, learning every day how people deal with (death) in very different ways and how different cultures take care of it differently, as well.”

Walker said the most rewarding times during her 30-plus years were guiding people towards a peaceful ending.

“For most of them, it was very peaceful and it’s good to know they’re at peace and I helped a little with that.”

As for growing older herself, Walker quipped, “Ageing is for sissies. I’m 88 now and my family has all moved away, and I have a great grandchild in Ontario; I might move there.”

Richmond Hospice Association and Rotary Hospice House thanked Walker for her dedication and wished her a wonderful retirement.

Freda Walker, 88, has decided to retire after more than 30 years serving as a volunteer at the Richmond Hospice Association and Rotary Hospice House, where she’s helped countless people find peace in the final days and weeks of their lives. Photo by Alan Campbell/Richmond News

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Safeway workers win $500,000 A group of 13 workers at a Richmond Safeway are very excited after Terry Lynn Nichols purchased a Lotto 6/49 ticket for the group and said ‘Yes’ to the Extra – leading to a $500,000 win!

Nichols, who represents the group of 13 co-workers in trust, purchased the ticket at the convenience store at Blundell and Garden City roads for the Dec. 12 draw. Nichols went to the same store she always purchases at and bought $65 worth of Quick Pick Lotto 6/49 tickets.

When Nichols, who runs the lottery group with a good friend, validated the ticket she “started freaking out.”

“I was pacing around the store and turned to the person beside me to ask if

Terry Lynn Nichols, left, with the cheque for her and her coworkers.

I was really seeing $500,000.” Nichols said.

Nichols promptly called everyone in the group, who are all very excited.

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Some immigrants are receiving less financial support in Richmond as a result of federal government changes to settlement services.

The problem is more pronounced in a city with a high ratio of newcomers.

This year, the federal government took control of funding for settlement services.

The new funding formula is based on intake of immigrants and refugees by each province.

As a whole, B.C. saw a dip in intake last year, so the federal government reduced funding accordingly, by seven per cent.

Another funding reduction of 11 per cent is expected in 2015, as well.

Another problem, cited in a City of Richmond report to city council by head social planner Lesley Sherlock, is that funding is allocated on a year-to-year basis.

Presenting even more problems for nonprofit, community service groups is how the federal government has withdrawn funding for certain immigrants.

Sherlock’s report notes funding is no longer available for temporary foreign workers, study permit holders, refugee claimants and Canadian citizens.

Only immigrants with permanent resident status and government-assisted refugees are eligible.

“The successful settlement and integration of immigrants and refugees is vital to the social and economic health of our society,” concludes Sherlock, who asked city council

to advocate for provincial funding of the aforementioned ineligible newcomers.

“Many will now have to wait to complete the immigration process before receiving services,” noted Sherlock.

A perceived problem is the fact that while immigrants will be declared landed in one province, they can always move to another, thus skewing the funding formula. More problematic is that immigrants can cluster in certain cities, as is the case in Richmond.

According to city data, an estimated 18,600 immigrants settled in Richmond between 2006 and 2011. Chinese people accounted for 56 per cent of those immigrants while Filipinos accounted for 18 per cent. All in all, 60 per cent of the city’s population was born outside of Canada.

Program funding changes have had a direct impact on the Richmond School District as 2.8 full-time settlement worker positions have been cut as 25 per cent of clients have been deemed ineligible.

As an example of the cuts, international students will no longer receive English as a Second Language courses.

The Richmond News has reported on at least two examples of cuts: The community service group CHIMO lost settlement funding. CHIMO helps women in crisis. Settlement funding supported helping vulnerable female immigrants.

Meanwhile, the Richmond in 3D troupe lost funding for its self-empowerment theatre workshop — the Welcoming and Inclusive Communities and Workplaces Program — aimed at engaging immigrant children.

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Price to pay for safety Graeme Wood

Staff Reporter gwood@richmond-news.com

As a result of Richmond’s low crime rate, the city’s taxpayers pay more to the RCMP than the actual policing value they receive.

Integrated RCMP squads service many municipalities in B.C. and policing costs are shared amongst them. However some municipalities have higher crime rates.

According to a report to the city’s safety committee last week from Anne Stevens, the city’s manager of community safety policy and programs, Richmond paid $372,455 more for policing than was necessary last year. Over the past three years the city has paid an extra $182,000 per year for multijurisdictional policing.

The bills are a result of integrated police units such as the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) and the Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service (ICARS).

With few murders in Richmond, IHIT accounts for most of Richmond’s overcharges, while the city receives slightly more value for ICARS. The funding formula is based on 25 per cent population and 75 per cent of criminal offences committed within each

municipality. So, Richmond residents de facto subsidize murder investigations in Surrey.

Last year, the city spent $3.3 million on integrated RCMP services. By 2020, those costs are expected to reach $4.7 million per year, according to RCMP data in the report.

This month, Richmond RCMP unveiled its strategic plan for the next two years, citing goals such as increased community engagement and property crime reduction.

The plan noted that over the past decade calls for service to the detachment have been reduced from about 50,000 in 2004 to about 37,500 in 2013.

Property crime, violent crime and traffic fatalities are also on the decline.

However, the plan notes while crime is down, the “complexity” of policing has increased by 52 per cent over the past three years.

More time and effort must be spent on pursuing criminals with computer technology and calls for service related to mental health and social disorders have escalated.

This year Richmond RCMP introduced an online crime reporting website for lost, damaged or stolen property valued at under $5,000. ❚ See full report at Richmond-News.com.

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Kids went crazy for new playground Richmond charity unveiled park; Jamaican teenagers now sporting donated local girls’ soccer jerseys Alan Campbell

Turnbull.

“It’s very painful and the only medication available is Tylenol down there After months of anticipation and and there is money to be made from it. watching their dream being built in front That’s what was stolen during the breakof them, the kids’ eyes opened wide and in. they went wild when their new playground “I emailed Jamaican customs before was unveiled. heading down, to say what we were The children of the impoverished bringing, but they never replied.

Riverton community in Kingston, “We had donations from Richmond Jamaica finally got to play on the brand, doctors and from a local company called spanking new adventure equipment at Organika, which gave us 1,000 tubs of their community school — all thanks to children’s and adults’ multi-vitamins.” the hard work and dedication of Richmond There was talk of the government just resident Ayako Turnbull and her team from keeping the supplies, said Turnbull, before Fundamentals for Change Society (FFC). common sense prevailed.

Turnbull and FFC had been working on As well as the medical donations from the playground project — raising funds the doctors, Richmond Girls Soccer locally and employing Jamaicans for its Association (RGSA) handed FFC a ton of construction — for the last year or so, up jerseys, shorts and soccer balls, all now until the unveiling a proudly sported few weeks ago. by members of the “The kids There is a chikungunya virus Riverton Youth watched it being Leadership Club epidemic down there right built for several — which helps months and were around the homes now, which produces not allowed to play of the elderly, with zombie-like symptoms. in it, so they were their meals and - Ayako Turnbull very excited,” said programs, with no McMath secondary funding at all. grad Turnbull, who FFC also gave traveled to Jamaica to open the playground the leadership club members a bunch of and to deliver medical supplies along disposable cameras when they were down with FFC’s Jeff Kuzik, of Richmond, and there, tasking them to go off into their Meaghan Kyte, of Ladner. community and take photos of everyday “In fact, they went wild when we life. officially opened it. They were all over it “They brought back some amazing and loved it. images, vivid, taken in places we would “Before, it was two old swings for about never have been able to get to; inside 150 students.” people’s homes and in the dump (Riverton It wasn’t all plain sailing though for sits adjacent to the city dump),” said Turnbull who spent a fair chunk of her Turnbull. three-week stint in Jamaica in and out of “We will show the best of these photos the government ministry offices trying in a gallery of some sort; we will have to get them to release $4,000 worth of ticket sales and liquor sales, we’re going to donated medical supplies — confiscated make it a black-tie event, with funds going on arrival — to re-stock the Riverton back to the leadership club, along with medical centre, which was broken into prizes for them.” recently.

Turnbull is the cofounder of non-profit “There is a chikungunya virus epidemic FFC, which promotes “positive change in down there right now, which produced inner-city Jamaican communities through zombie-like symptoms,” explained locally driven projects.”

Staff Reporter acampbell@richmond-news.com

Richmondbased Fundamentals for Change co-founder Ayako Turnbull, right, hands over some medical supplies donated by Richmond company Organika.

Two members of the Riverton Youth Leadership Club in Kingston, Jamaica, get their first look at some jerseys donated by Richmond Girls Soccer Association.

Below, left, the Riverton kids get stuck into their new playground.

Below, right, the Fundamentals for Change team at the community’s early education centre.

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EDITORIAL OPINION

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ritish Columbia’s energy minister Bill Bennett took to the airwaves the morning after his government announced it will build the Site C dam on the Peace River near Fort. St. John.

It is a sizable public investment, at close to $9 billion.

At capacity, it will generate enough power to provide electricity for 450,000 homes per year, which will be needed as B.C.’s population grows by another million people, Bennett told the CBC. That’s pretty tantalizing when you think about that same energy

coming from coal or nuclear plants, which bring costly, and perhaps deadly, longterm environmental impacts.

However, there is a more pressing need and that is the massive amount of energy needed to convert natural gas into a liquid form for export.

But whether it’s for charging smartphones or supporting the province’s adventures in LNG, we have our doubts about how soon, or even if, this project will proceed. It has cleared the regulatory hurdles, but local First Nations and residents are only just gearing up to fight.

Bennett told the CBC that the lawsuits pending by three local First Nations are “just something you’re going to have to work through,” when dealing with any large project.

That could be costly optimism in the wake of the landmark Tsilhqot’in Nations vs. British Columbia ruling in the Supreme Court this summer, which affirmed First Nations have title to their traditional lands.

Bennett claimed construction should begin sometime in the summer of 2015.

Thank you, Bill. We appreciated the laugh.

Plan B absent in Taxpayers Federation diatribe

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custodian of cash, calling it he Canadian “a stunningly bad record of Taxpayers Federation PainfulTruth waste.” is a strange beast.

I have no argument with It exists to bash any and all Matthew the fact that TransLink is attempts to raise taxes, and Claxton badly managed — their to call attention to wasteful CEO is vastly overpaid for government spending. And the job he is doing — or sometimes that sends it that it is badly governed. In fact, let’s take a down weird rabbit holes of stupidity. moment to remember some of TransLink’s Take the recent case of TransLink’s greatest hits! proposed 0.5 per cent hike of the PST. Broken down SkyTrains! Blaming We’re going to get to vote on this sometime trapped riders for making the problem next spring, in a region-wide referendum. worse instead of actually fixing the The provincial government will be staying trains! Overpaid executives! A system neutral, but business groups and unions are of governance so needlessly complex it forming a Yes lobby already. On the No side are a lot of people who hate TransLink would make the court eunuchs of ancient on principle, and the Taxpayers Federation. Byzantium weep! Some of the highest paid police in the country! And in the big tent, TransLink wants the money to expand transit service, of course. More buses, more the Compass Card system massively over budget, behind schedule, hopelessly mired light rail in Surrey and out to Langley, in technological bugs! A big hand, folks, money for bike lanes and pedestrian it’s TransLink’s biggest blunder to date! improvements.

But… But the Taxpayers Federation reminds us The Taxpayers Federation’s position has that TransLink hasn’t always been the best

two, closely related parts: 1) TransLink is wasteful and generally messed up (true) so 2) we should not give them any more money.

“Instead of finding efficiencies, TransLink Mayors want your family to pay $258 more in sales tax every year,” says the Taxpayers Federation’s call to action.

The problem is the word “efficiencies.”

They’re implying that we can find enough money to expand transit if we dig into the couch cushions and maybe fire some executive vice-presidents of made up donothing jobs.

You know what? I’m all for house cleaning. Hell, I’ll even put some of the Taxpayers Fed guys on a task force! Let ’em loose with a dozen meat-fed forensic accountants hungry for blood. Drag Victoria’s legislators kicking and screaming down here to clean up their mess. Let’s do it now!

And from that we’ll save how much?

Maybe $5 million a year? If we’re very, very lucky, maybe we could find $10 or

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even $20 million in efficiencies? Nothing to sneeze at, but it’s not enough.

We need enough to buy a whole lot of buses, to pay an expanded roster of bus drivers, mechanics, cleaners, and maintenance workers. We need serious capital cash to start building more rail lines.

Seriously, what’s the alternative?

We are drowning in fast-growing new communities, especially South of the Fraser in Surrey and Langley. We planned for transit, and transit never came. The Port Mann expansion has helped, but we’re choking on local gridlock, and students, the elderly, and the poor have little to no mobility across vast stretches of the Lower Mainland.

It’s good to have a critical voice when TransLink is wasting money. But the Taxpayers Federation needs to offer its own plan. Because right now, it looks like it simply doesn’t care how, or if, we ever get better transit service at all.

Matthew Claxton is a reporter with the Langley Advance.

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Preserve health, game will follow The Editor, Re: “Don’t play head games,” News, Dec. 12.

Cody Kusch, the Seafair Board of Directors, Dr. Virji-Babul and indeed the Richmond News should be commended for their innovative program and the informative feature respectively on concussion detection, diagnosis and treatment.

Cody and Seafair are providing precisely the kind of leadership in working to reduce the public health crisis in traumatic brain injury among youth that one might otherwise expect from Hockey Canada or BC Hockey.

It is not always easy to go against the traditions and culture of hockey and they deserve credit, and our thanks as parents, for their courage and hard work in doing so when it was necessary.

Additionally, many parents don’t know that research from the University of Calgary revealed that in body checking leagues injury rates are three times higher than those in non body-checking leagues.

The likelihood of getting a concussion in

a league that permits body checking is about one in four per season.

By contrast, the odds of playing at least one game in the NHL are about one in 3,000.

Removing body-checking from peewee (age 11-12) leagues now avoids more than 13,000 injuries to youth in Canada per year, including hundreds of catastrophic head, neck and back injuries.

If similar rule changes are adopted in bantam and midget rep hockey leagues, the injuries avoided nationally could reach 30,000-40,000 in total.

It’s compelling evidence for change without even considering the millions of dollars saved in health care costs that come with it.

Registration in boys hockey begins to decline after age 10. Concussions and other serious injuries are a factor in kids deciding to leave our game prematurely.

Programs like Seafair’s need to be adopted widely to preserve not only our kid’s health but our game as well.

Bill Barrable Richmond

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We can do this by following through on the pledge Canada made in June 2014, to contribute a minimum of $120 million to the Global Partnership for Education.

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In honour of the Pakistani students who have died, the Nigerian students who were kidnapped, and all children unable to go to school, let’s do something to change this.

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Dear Editor, Education of children and adults in the developing world is a very important issue for me.

This week in Richmond, children are going to school with visions of holiday festivities running through their heads.

Not for a minute will they worry that their school might be taken over by a violent militia, that they might be kidnapped, or that their whole school might be obliterated in a bloody massacre.

Yet in a number of countries, this is the reality that children face as they fight for their right to

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Keep hangin’ out Dear Editor, I am writing today to advise you that the Richmond Firefighters are hanging around their halls with nothing to do.

The BCAS paramedics are in the same boat, lounging around their stations.

While the rest of us are enjoying time with family and visiting friends, these people are “hanging out” in their halls and stations.

Editor, I have good information that they will be doing the same thing on Christmas Day while we open gifts with our kids and enjoy our Christmas dinner.

Honestly, I am glad they are.

When granddad has a heart attack, or a house catches on fire, or a child is trapped in a car crash, I am glad these folks have

Letter writer Scott Stewart is thankful guys like the ones pictured above from Richmond Fire-Rescue will likely be hanging around their firehalls during Christmas and New Year. nothing better to do than wait for our call for help.

It is easy to poke fun at folks in uniform, but take time to think of what that uniform and duty takes from them and their families.

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Dear Editor, During Homelessness Action Week in October the community of Richmond came together to support the annual Richmond Homeless Connect — a day for people experiencing homelessness in Richmond to gather and access many services in one location.

This year approximately 70 people attended St. Alban Anglican Church and received a pancake breakfast, hot lunch and snack to go, winter clothing, medical screening services from local emergency doctors and medical students, flu shots from public health nurses, housing information from CHIMO volunteers, as well as information on other services available to them in the community.

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Street names tell a city’s history

Sweet Avenue named after 19th century municipal clerk who earned $175 a year Reporter Graeme Wood

B

y now Richmond’s road network is pretty much set. Few new roads are created these days — four in 2014 to be precise — as development is confined by protected farmland and the Fraser River, of course.

But road names provide a glimpse into the city’s young, but interesting, history. It’s a history most Richmond students don’t learn about in schools, unless a teacher takes a proactive approach.

Gilbert, Blundell and Williams roads are all named after Richmond “pioneers.”

Road names may often be an extension of a neighbourhood’s geography or a distinct feature. The recently paved River Parkway and Oval Way get their names from being close to the river and Olympic Oval, respectively.

For newbies to the city, you may not know that Railway Avenue used to have a railway line running alongside it.

Pretty simple stuff, although probably not as simple as naming roads by numbers.

Side note: It’s time to rename the No. 2 Road Bridge.

Anyway, the more interesting road names are those named after pioneers and historical figures.

The new Sweet Avenue (near Aberdeen Centre) was named in June after Orison Davis Sweet, a municipal clerk from 1884-1891 who was one of many to sign the petition to incorporate Richmond in 1879.

Apparently, he earned $175 per year, one of a few facts Bill Purver, the Richmond archives manager, was able to dig up.

Purver is a valuable source for Richmond’s history.

He’s also part of a secret operation conducted along with city councillors to name roads. No joking, the city keeps about a dozen prospective names under wraps (protected by the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act) in order to protect people’s privacy.

I tried asking for the list, but was denied.

We can all come up with our own lists. Halsey-Brandt Way? Brodie Avenue?

What about the new Harold Steves Bridge? (I don’t think that would fly with Coun. Steves.)

Those are recent politicians. Some of the names on the city’s sidewalks we know little about. Were they truly good people? Or were they Richmond’s version of robber barons? Were they kind? Greedy? Racist?

We know Sweet was a founding member of the Methodist Church in Richmond, now Minoru Chapel.

The city named the new Mannini Way near Ikea because Mannini was one of the first Scandinavian

This is the family home of Orison Davis Sweet, back in 1888, when he worked as a municipal clerk. Sweet helped incorporate Richmond and for that has had a street named after him. Photo by City of Richmond Archives settlers (see Finn Road on Finn Slough). Although, oddly enough, Mannini was Finnish, not Swedish, and that’s all we know of him. I’d say Finns are good people, for the most part.

Sometimes naming streets

has been controversial. The River Rock Casino and Resort paid for adjacent roadways so the city named one of them Great Canadian Way, which is actually just an extension of Garden City Road, named for

Richmond’s reputation as, well, a city of gardens.

Sweden Way highlights its proximity to Ikea, another corporation.

The point is, I find it interesting we have proper names for roads and not

just numbered streets and avenues like Surrey and Vancouver.

As such, we can learn about and celebrate the city’s history — something worth exploring for young students.

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Following doc’s orders Generosity abounds

W

hen I was in medical school, physicians used a now archaic term to describe patients who didn’t follow doctors’ orders: noncompliant. I laugh when I think about what the old time doctors meant. The patients didn’t bend to their will?

In our society, the authoritarian physician is an icon of the past. Doctors’ orders are more likely what they’re having for dinner at White Spot than what they’ve instructed their patients to do.

The patient-doctor relationship has evolved into collaboration. Though the physician may be an expert on matters medical, patients are experts on their own lives and the most appropriate decisionmakers.

A little better is the term now in vogue for patients following through on agreed plans: adherence. But calling patients nonadherent

HealthWise Davidicus Wong

suggests that they didn’t stick to the plan as if they broke a contract. This implies a judgment and a belief that deviance from the goal is solely the patient’s fault.

I have a better word for patients who are successfully achieving their goals: engaged. If a patient returns for a follow-up visit not having achieved a goal to eat healthier meals, quit smoking or begin an exercise program, that patient isn’t noncompliant or nonadherent. The patient is not engaged.

The patient may have become disengaged from their goals by unexpected road blocks — an injury while exercising, a family emergency or other obstacles, some

unpredictable but others that may have been anticipated.

They may also become disengaged when they are not adequately prepared and supported.

They may never have been engaged in the first place if they did not choose their own goals.

The keys to successful self-care and selfimprovement are personally chosen goals that matter to you, the anticipation of potential obstacles, and collaborative planning and support.

Recognizing that much of the medical information in the media (in print, online, on television and radio) is commercialized, sensationalized, biased and incomplete, the Family Doctors of Burnaby have launched a public health education program to raise health literacy.

Dr. Davidicus Wong is physician lead of the Burnaby Division of Family Practice.

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or the third year in a row, Canadians have been more philanthropic than the year previous. According to the most recent BMO Charitable Giving Poll, 84 per cent of Canadians made a charitable donation in the past 12 months with the average gift being $624 — an increase of 8 per cent from 2013.

And, Canadians want this generosity to continue its upward trend. When asked about their 2015 plans, 90 per cent expect to make donations totaling $720. Interestingly, many also use their philanthropy as a teaching tool.

Another 2014 survey, commissioned by Imagine Canada, examined both generosity and attitudes about charitable donations.

It found that one-third of donors wanted to set an example for their children or others about the importance of giving back.

While these data all bode

Finance Kim Inglis

well for the less fortunate, giving can also help the charitable organizations and donors. Cash donations are still the most popular way of giving, but both charity and donor can benefit from more tax efficient ways of achieving their philanthropic goals.

Gifting publicly listed securities, such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds to registered charities is one way. A donor who sells the shares of appreciated securities, and donates the cash, is taxed on capital gains. However, if the shares are donated directly, the charity issues a tax receipt based on the fair market value of the securities. The charity gets the full value of the shares and the donor gets a full

value tax credit without the imposition of capital gains taxes.

Efficient philanthropy is also achievable with RSPs, where the donor names a charity as beneficiary of their registered plan. On death, the balance of the plan transfers directly to the charity, and the estate receives a tax credit for the value on disposition. This can offset taxes on final income and effectively bypass probate fees.

Similarly, insurance can be used with a charity named as beneficiary.

When the donor passes, the charity receives the policy’s cash surrender value plus any net accumulated dividends and interest. The resulting tax credit can be applied to a final tax return.

Kim Inglis is an investment advisor and portfolio manager with Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management. The views in this column are solely those of the author.

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Angela Gauld catches a beautiful sunset Sunday, Dec 14 on the Dyke at No. 3 Road. If you have recently taken a photo that shows off Richmond’s people and/or places, send it into the Richmond News and we will run it in our Photo of the Week spot. Email your submission to editor@richmond-news.com. Put ‘Photo of the Week’ in the subject line.

Tips to enjoy a healthy holiday mind Share the load As much as possible, organize and delegate. Rather than one person cooking the family meal, invite guests to bring a dish. Kids can help with gift-wrapping, decorating, baking, or addressing cards.

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Twenty six students from Steveston London secondary school exhibited their artwork at the Minoru Art Centre in the Rondo Gallery on the second floor. The school gets an annual spot on the much-sought after gallery walls each December until midJanuary. Photos supplied

Santa made a quick stop at one of Richmond’s newest grocery stores last week when he visited for free photos with customers at T&T Supermarket — ORA Store near the Richmond Olympic Oval.

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The Eagles from Anderson elementary proved they form a community of caring students, parents and staff after making a significant donation to Richmond’s Severe Weather Shelter at St. Alban’s Church). The Grade 5 and 6 students of Divisions 3 and 16 teamed up to collect donations of waterproof coats, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes and other hygiene items. Photo supplied

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Where Yves Saint Laurent found inspiration Artist’s studio now houses African crafts museum Peter Neville-Hadley

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MARRAKECH—Marrakech taxis are Their distinctive hanbel—woven rugs in greenhouses on wheels and stepping out the deep blues and burnt oranges Majorelle of one at the gate of the Jardin Majorelle himself admired — are still produced in the into blinding sunshine brings little relief.

High Atlas Mountains, and widely available But beyond the gate of one of the city’s in Marrakech’s labyrinthine souks. But here most celebrated gardens the light becomes dappled, the air becomes cool and moist, and are the smaller-scale, everyday objects made precious by craftsmanship: ornately carved the temperature seems to drop ten degrees. boxes for keeping kohl, curved daggers It’s an inner-city oasis. covered in geometric designs and fabulously The garden was founded by the French intricate woven baskets. painter Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) who Itinerant silversmiths acquired the first parcel created jewellery of land in 1924 and The garden became abuzz with detail from expanded it with further neglected ... doomed to multiple techniques: purchases until the cost chiselling, filigree of its maintenance forced redevelopment as a work, enamelling, him to open it to the hotel complex, but was engraving and setting public in 1947. saved at the last minute with constellations He planted hundreds of contrasting semiof rare varieties of cacti, by (the) fashion precious stones. palms, willows and much superstar.

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