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36 Flashback FridayThe family-owned corner storehas become a thing of the past,but Coun. Derek Dangremembers them well.

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About these all-candidate meetings.…I can already hear the groan.

If you read this space last week, you’ll knowsome in this office have had enough electiontalk. And judging by the response we got fromreporter Alan Campbell’s column, he’s notalone. But before you flip the page, let me saythis isn’t about who brought up what issues.Rather, it’s more of a verbal head scratchabout why we even have them (and I’m notsaying we shouldn’t).

In the past nine days, six all-candidatemeetings have been held in Richmond. Eachhad it’s own flavour, but there were also somecommon threads. So, what worked, whatdidn’t, and how we can make them better?

What works is simply face-to-face engage-ment. It’s not like we don’t know the partyplatforms, who the leaders are and some ofthe key issues. What’s missing, often, is asense of connection, a sense that this processimpacts me personally and, moreover, there’ssomething I can do about it. I was truly im-pressed with the people who came out, theirthoughtful questions, their genuine concern,and sense of democratic responsibility. Thesetypes of events encourage that.

That said, there’s plenty of room for im-provement. I moderated three of the meet-ings and am well aware that some excellentquestions from the audience didn’t get asked;some candidates sounded no different thanthe ad I heard on the radio on the way over;some candidates didn’t get their fair share ofairtime; some candidates don’t show up andothers weren’t invited; still, others got awaywith saying things quite at odds with theirpast records.

So, here’s my two cents worth.! Prioritize questions from the floor. Organiz-ers certainly have the right to prepare someof the questions, but I don’t think it was anycoincidence that the room was decidedlymore energized when the questions camefrom the floor.! Offer more chances for candidates toactually debate as opposed to recite theirparty’s line. It happened a few times, but notenough. Many comments went unchallenged.! Let audience members ask some of theirquestions directly. The practice of lining upat a mic seems to have gone out of favour asorganizers want to vet and control. Granted,someone may ask something inappropriate,but that’s where a moderator comes in.

Frankly, I’d rather take the chance of thingsgoing a little haywire than sapping energyfrom the room. We shouldn’t be trying tocreate a spectacle, but apathy and boredomare our biggest nemeses. And people becomebored and apathetic when they don’t have avoice. Finally, kudos to these candidates. Yes,there was reciting of party lines, but there wasalso a lot of passion and genuine purpose.

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Dear Editor,I went to an all-candidates meeting last

night where all candidates from Richmond’stwo ridings were invited to attend.

There are four parties running in each rid-ing, but guess what? The Conservatives werea no-show.

So, we had two representatives from eachof the NDP, Liberals, and the Green party.But there were two vacant seats where theConservative candidates (Alice Wong andKenny Chiu) should have been sitting.

The organizers put signs on the emptyseats with their names on them.

One of the organizers told me they triedseveral times to invite these two people andeven went to their constituency offices toinvite them in person. But to no avail.

I was told Wong did not even do the cour-tesy of answering them (either through emailor in person).

What sort of legitimate candidate runningfor a seat in our federal government wouldbe so blatantly disrespectful towards thevoters and towards the democratic processin general?

I find this behaviour despicable. Whatare they afraid of? Of course I know theywere told by their party brass not to attendcandidates meetings. It has been happeningall across the country (see The Star Aug. 26,2015; VictoriaTimes Colonist Sept. 1, 2015;Huffington Post Aug. 27, 2015; Metro NewsHalifax Aug. 31, 2015, and many more).

But why can’t they have a bit of integ-rity and say, “this is important,” and comeanyway?

There were lots of good questions at theall-candidates meeting and lots of good,thoughtful answers that did not always followa script.

How refreshing.Surprise questions are hard to answer, as

well, but they did their best. It is a good wayfor us the voters to judge how well a candi-date might represent us.

I do NOT want to be represented by some-one who cannot show up to an “all” candi-dates meeting with members of their ownconstituency.

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Dear Editor,This year’s theme of

World Breastfeeding Week,“Getting It Right from theStart,” was celebrated bya breastfeeding celebra-tion held simultaneously atRichmond Public Health,(8100 Granville Ave.) and atthe Birth Centre and NICUin Richmond Hospital onOct. 3.

At Richmond PublicHealth, moms, dads,grandmas and babies from18 days of age and up,came together to celebrateand share their stories.

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mote, support and protectbreastfeeding.

At the hospital, 14 momscelebrated breastfeedingand their babies’ arrivalwith cake, prizes and giftbags.

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This year’s theme empha-sized the need for good,ongoing support from part-ners, families and healthcare professionals to helpwomen be successful when

choosing to breastfeedtheir babies. In the comingmonths, Richmond HealthServices will be workingtowards becoming the firstcommunity in VancouverCoastal Health to earn theWorld Health Organizationdesignation of being “BabyFriendly.”

This is an important stepthat will consolidate excel-lent support for mothers asthey work toward optimalfeeding for their babies.

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Celebrating a good start

Let’s celebrate! At last month’s publichearing into the size of new homes, the

people’s win was only partial, but their spiritwas magnificent.

Most residents at the meeting wantedgreater restrictions on home sizes. Therewas success in getting a consistent househeight limit but not so much in keepinghouse bulk under control.

The outcomes have additional importancebecause they affect the current issue ofland use contracts (LUCs), which apply tothousands of house lots.

LUCs supersede local zoning bylaws,meaning homes built on those lots don’thave to comply with city height and sizerestrictions.

Earlier this week, city staff presented aproposal to council’s planning committeethat would end LUCs. The proposal will bepresented to city council Oct. 13, and apublic hearing will be held on Nov. 24.

Back to the celebration. For my part, I’veread all 112 letters to the last public hearingand created a synopsis chart on my blog,with links to the letters. (Google “naturallegacies versus waste.”) Many of the letterswill inspire you.

All but two of the letters support the needto prioritize neighbourhood over buildingmegahomes. Some support a consistentnew-house height limit of nine metres and/or double-counting of floor area for roomsmore than 3.7 metres high, as in Vancouver,

Surrey and Burnaby.Only two of the letters take a developer

stance and advocate for fewer restrictions.One of those seeks common ground, assome of us did at the public hearing meet-ing.

Although I spent six attentive hours at thepublic hearing, I also listened to the audiorecording to be sure of details before writingthis.

If you would like to listen also, just arrangewith the Richmond Archives at the CulturalCentre. Like me, you may rejoice in theexchange of ideas and the many informeddefenders of a livable city.

Along with the impressive citizen actionwhich saw 200 people at the meeting andmany speakers, the city’s advisory designpanel was also in agreement with the major-ity of residents, as was staff.

Councillors Carol Day and Harold Stevesheeded the appeal of so many. Coun. Steveschallenged the mayor’s attempt to block hismotion on the 3.7-metres matter, which hasa big effect on house bulk.

The city clerk ruled to allow the motion.However, council eventually voted it down7–2. In other words, seven councillorsignored their own advisory design panel,staff and the pleas of so many participantsto stop killing their neighbourhoods.

It shouldn’t take courage to heed thecommunity, but I sensed from councillors’tones it did. Chak Au boldly moved to closea house-height loophole, which was done.

But council could and should have gonefurther.

Jim Wight is president of the Garden CityConservation Society

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About Joe:

• Member of Parliament, Richmond (2000 - 2004)

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• Resident & advocate for Richmond & Steveston for 16 years

• Owner of a Richmond-based law firm

• Appreciates his family life, his pets, jogging and reading

• Former Director, Legal & Corporate Affairs for a multi-nationalcorporation

• A volunteer, a fundraiser and a pro-bono legal advisor forvarious non-profit community groups & foundations

As your effective and experienced voice to Ottawa, Joe will:

• Support significant new investments in infrastructure that are crucialto ensure sustainable economic growth, job creation and prosperity

• Create the Canada Child Benefit (CCB): one fair, tax-free monthly childbenefit that puts more money into the pockets of working moms and dads

• Increase Federal funding for: elderly care, mental health, PharmaCareand Canada Pension Plan (CPP) enhancement

• Advocate for better benefits for Canada’s veterans and their families

• Oppose current jet fuel pipeline plan and push for a safer alternative

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Members of the public are being asked tokeep an eye out for a biker and his pas-

senger after a brazen, daytime theft from achildren’s hospice donation bin.

At first, Stefany Leisz and her colleagues atSteveston Veterinary Hospital weren’t certainwhat they’d witnessed, such was the shame-less manner of the theft at the corner of Gil-bert and Francis roads on Tuesday afternoon.

According to Leisz, another man must havealso clocked on to what was happening, as heapparently challenged the pair verbally beforethey took off on their motorcycle laden withfour or five bags of items intended for CanuckPlace Children’s Hospice.

The couple may have been watching andwaiting for donations, as a car had droppedoff some bags moments before they pounced.

“We were quite upset by it,” said Leisz, not-ing that many of the animal hospital’s clientsdonate into the bin.

“We thought, at first, they were picking stuffup for the charity but then realized, no, theywere stealing the bags that had just beendropped off by two cars just moments before.

“Someone spotted what was going on andwas yelling at them and words were ex-changed, I think.”

Unfortunately, because the incident hap-pened so fast, no one managed to grab thebike’s licence plate and, as a result, theydidn’t think it was worth notifying the police.

They did, however, get a description ofsorts, including that the pair rode in and outon a “black, newer style motorcycle.”

“I think they were maybe in their 60s. Thewoman had blonde hair and the man had agrey beard. Both were on the heavier side,”added Leisz.

Initially, not wanting to assume the worst,the veterinary staff phoned Canuck Place andinquired about their pick-up protocol.

They were told a marked truck does thepick-ups and don’t use anyone riding amotorcycle.

“Canuck Place accepts donations from thepublic...to raise money to help sick childrenand their families in B.C.,” said Leisz.

“We find it absolutely disgusting and ap-palling that someone would...steal from acompany that helps sick children.

“We sincerely hope that karma comesknocking on these two individual’s doors. Wetake pride living in Richmond and being partof a community that promotes togethernessand basic morals.”

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1. RICHMOND ZONING BYLAW 8500,AMENDMENT BYLAW 9213 (RZ 13-643655)

Location/s: 10491 No. 1 Road

Applicant/s: Yin P. Mui

Purpose: To rezone the subject property from“Single Detached (RS1/E)” to “Coach Houses(RCH1)”, to permit the property to be subdividedto create two (2) lots, each with a principalsingle detached dwelling and an accessory coachhouse above a detached garage, with vehicleaccess from the rear lane.

City Contact: Cynthia Lussier,604-276-4108, Planning andDevelopment Division

Bylaw 9213


Location/s: 3260/3280 Blundell Road

Applicant/s: Steve Dhanda

Purpose: To rezone the subject property from“Two-Unit Dwellings (RD1)” to “Single Detached(RS2/C)”, to permit development of two (2)single-family lots, each with vehicle access fromBlundell Road.

City Contact: Edwin Lee, 604-276-4121,Planning and DevelopmentDivision

Bylaw 9225

3. RICHMOND ZONING BYLAW 8500,AMENDMENT BYLAW 9269 (ZT 15-700276)

Location/s: 8888 Patterson Road and3340 Sexsmith Road

Applicant/s: GBL Architects Inc.

Purpose: To amend the “High Rise Apartmentand Artist Residential Tenancy Studio Units(ZHR10) – Capstan Village (City Centre)” zone, asite-specific zone applicable only to the subject

property, to revise the required studio ceilingheights of the Artist Residential Tenancy Studiounits and permit community amenity space forthe purpose of constructing four (4) affordable,work-only, art studios.

City Contact: Suzanne Carter-Huffman,604-276-4228, Planning andDevelopment Division

Bylaw 9269


Location/s: 8571 No. 4 Road

Applicant/s: Sumaiyya Hasan

Purpose: To rezone the subject property from“Single Detached (RS1/E)” to “Coach Houses(RCH1)”, to permit the property to be subdividedto create two (2) lots, each with a principalsingle-detached dwelling and an accessory coachhouse above a detached garage, with vehicleaccess to/from the rear lane.

City Contact: Cynthia Lussier,604-276-4108, Planningand Development Division

Bylaw 9290

5. RICHMOND ZONING BYLAW 8500,AMENDMENT BYLAW 9295 (ZT 15-705936)

Location/s: 11220 Horseshoe Way

Applicant/s: Fuggles & WarlockCraftworks Ltd.

Purpose: To amend the “Industrial Business(IB1)” zone to allow a microbrewery at11220 Horseshoe Way.

City Contact: Mark McMullen,604-276-4173, Planning andDevelopment Division

Bylaw 9295

How to obtain further information:

• By Phone: If you have questions or concerns,please call the CITY CONTACT shown above.

• On the City Website: Public Hearing Agendas,including staff reports and the proposed bylaws,are available on the City Website at http://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/council/agendas/hearings/2015.htm

• At City Hall: Copies of the proposed bylaw,supporting staff and Committee reports andother background material, are also availablefor inspection at the Planning and DevelopmentDivision at City Hall, between the hours of 8:15am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday, exceptstatutory holidays, commencing October 9,2015 and ending October 19, 2015, or upon theconclusion of the hearing.

• By Fax or Mail: Staff reports and the proposedbylaws may also be obtained by FAX or bystandard mail, by calling 604-276-4007 betweenthe hours of 8:15 am and 5 pm, Monday throughFriday, except statutory holidays, commencingOctober 9, 2015 and ending October 19, 2015.

Participating in the Public Hearing process:• The Public Hearing is open to all members of

the public. If you believe that you are affectedby the proposed bylaw, you may make apresentation or submit written comments at thePublic Hearing. If you are unable to attend, youmay send your written comments to the CityClerk’s Office by 4 pm on the date of the PublicHearing as follows:

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• All submissions will form part of the recordof the hearing. Once the Public Hearinghas concluded, no further information orsubmissions can be considered by Council. Itshould be noted that the rezoned property maybe used for any or all of the uses permitted inthe “new” zone.

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was scheduled to lose part ofits tree cover this week.

A total of five trees, includ-ing a mature oak that isroughly 70-feet tall, were tobe chopped down for re-de-velopment of the site besidethe Steveston Post Office andMoncton Street boardwalk fora Japanese-themed garden.

The area, called StevestonTown Square Park, wasdeveloped in 1989 as partof a Steveston DowntownRevitalization Project.

The News reported back inearly July that city council ap-proved a $250,000 conceptplan that features a JapaneseTorii gate and Suikinkutsusounding bell.

The features are to compli-ment the newly renovatedJapanese Fishermen’s Be-nevolent Society Buildingwhich is adjacent to the site.

The initial report on theproject made no mentionof losing trees to accommo-date the garden, althoughit did say the park, “was ina deteriorating state, whichincluded the five trees,”said city spokesman TedTownsend in an email.

Townsend added con-ceptual plans, such as theone released this summer,are generally followed up bymore detailed ones, oncecouncil approval is granted.

“We don’t want to spendthe dollars and time to docomprehensive planningprior to approval becausethat money would be wasted

if council rejects or asksfor changes to the plan,”Townsend said. “Once wehave approval we do morecomprehensive planning andwe get a fuller picture of thework required to completethe project, which, in thiscase, included determiningthat the five trees needed tobe removed.”

The recommendation wasmade following an examina-tion by a city arborist who de-termined the tall oak tree hada high potential to fail andcause significant damage tothe post office building.

Also identified was soilcracking around the tree’sbase, indicating possibleexcessive movement duringrecent windstorms.

A pair of apple trees anda cherry tree were deemedto be in poor condition dueto suppressed growth. Plus,the cherry tree had very thincanopy foliage and was sus-ceptible to cherry bark tortrixbeetle.

One maple tree locatedin the northwest corner ofpark was observed to bein fair condition, but alongwith other trees slated forremoval it would be affectedby proposed grade changesfor park upgrades.

Townsend added the park’sredesign will retain six exist-ing trees and size-appropriatereplacement trees will beplanted on site to replace thestand of trees that are beingremoved.

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In accordance with Section 26 of the Community Charter, the City ofRichmond (the “City”) hereby gives notice that the City intends to enter into alease with Turning Point Recovery Society (“Turning Point”) for a term of five(5) years, commencing October 1, 2015, at a rental rate of $1,100 per month($13,200 per annum).

Pursuant to Section 24 of the Community Charter, the City hereby givesnotice that the City intends to provide assistance to Turning Point forthe provision of support services. The assistance provided equates toapproximately $13,200 per year based on forgone land rent ($66,000 for thefive (5) year term).

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Two ongoing civil claims against lawyerand Liberal candidate for Steveston-

Richmond East Joe Peschisolido weremade aware to the party’s selection com-mittee.

“Absolutely. …They didn’t have any con-cerns because law firms are law firms andthere’s litigation that goes regarding them,”said Peschisolido.

The former Richmond Member of Parlia-ment (2000-2004) said he would not com-ment on matters before the court.

“I have a law firm and it’s part of doingbusiness,” said Peschisolido.

In both cases, plaintiffs charge that Pe-

schisolido failed to meet his fiduciary dutiesas a lawyer.

One case involves his former employee,lawyer Sandy Sihota, who worked withPeschisolido on a high-profile case in thecommunity last year involving a pair ofRottweiler dogs the City of Richmond hadplanned to euthanize following a bitingincident.

Sihota, who had articled for Peschisolidoin 2012, helped his law firm, PeschisolidoLaw Corporation, de-fend the dogs, ownedby Navdeep Nijjer, who,according to Sihota’sclaim, is a “long termfriend” and past client ofPeschisolido.

Sihota claims the lawfirm did not pay for herarticling or for her workon the Nijjer’s case.

“On or around March2014, the claimantstarted preparing for atrial. …The outstandingamount now accumulatedover $20,000 and thishad been unpaid.”

Sihota said, according to the civil claim,at one point she expressed to Peschisolidoher “mistrust” in Nijjer’s intentions to payher for her work.

Sihota claims the law firm has made noefforts to recover the payments from Nijjer.

After seven months of unpaid work,Sihota left the firm in June, 2014.

Sihota’s lawyers, from Nordel Law Group,claim Peschisolido “did not act in her bestinterests.”

Sihota is asking for payment and dam-ages totaling $25,176. The case is set to beheard next summer.

In another case, lawyers for Vancouverresidents Wei Chen and Junping Zhangclaim Peschisolido was not acting as theirfiduciary after he was hired to perform apower of attorney for them.

In 2011, the pair hadinvested $1 million in aproposed farm operationin Abbotsford with PaulOei Group, which wasalso being represented byPeschisolido’s law firm.

Chen and Zhang nowclaim the money wasn’tinvested properly andPeschisolido should haveknown this and told them.

Peschisolido’s law firmclaims, in its response,that he nor the firm had“no knowledge of anysuch breach of trust.”

Peschisolido was chosen over oustednominee Wendy Yuan, who misrepresentedher resume by stating she obtained auniversity degree when she was technicallyone credit shy, due to a filing error.

The Liberals claim its vetting process wasmore stringent this election as opposedto 2011, when Yuan was a candidate inVancouver.

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The driver got out to try and flag down help.It may be likely that the traffic on the highwayat that time and in that place was light. Whena southbound pickup truck hauling a coveredutility trailer showed up, she attempted tostop it. At this point reports of what happenedexactly are silent. But the results werehorrendous: the pickup truck struck and killedher.

Cochrane RCMP responded to the calls forhelp. Paramedics declared the woman dead atthe scene. Her passenger, who had remainedin the minivan, was “taken to hospital withmedical concerns unrelated to the incident.”The pickup truck driver and his passengerwere uninjured, and it was determined that thedriver was not impaired.

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Vehicles break down on bridges, in tunnels,in HOV lanes, on arterial road shoulders, inparking lots. If possible, moving your vehicle asfar to the roadside as possible, activating youremergency flashers, phoning for help on 911,exiting your vehicle, if safe to do so only fromthe right side and staying off the roadway—all of these actions need to be considered at atime when clear-headedness and steadiness ofpurpose will be difficult.

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As the rain battered off the faces of themen operating the beating machines,

it was a pinch to think of the thousands ofsauceboats filled with cranberries from thisvery field in a few days.

Yet there they were, a team of 13 mountedon their beaters in the Richberry field offWestminster Highway and No. 9 Road thatwas flooded less than 24 hours previously.

Although appearing to be in single file,beating down on the low-trailing cranberryvine that flowers every fall out of the region’snutrient-rich peat bogs, the team is actuallyin concertina, staggered, if you will, to makesure each patch gets at least an extra 50 percent treatment.

A few hundred metres away, a harvestingsquad is busy wading through the crimsonsea with a floating boom, convincing tens ofthousands of pounds of crop to corral into thenortheast corner of a different field.

It’s there that the cranberry meets its fate,sucked up via a huge hose, fed through acleaning/separating machine and then intoa container truck — en route to its ultimatedestination of your juice box, granola bar orThanksgiving dinner table.

“It only takes 30 minutes to fill the entirecontainer truck with 60,000 pounds...froma 20-acre field,” explained the RichberryGroup’s executive vice president of opera-tions, Lynn Kemper, during a personal tour forthe News.

“We used to get 400 barrels an acre (ataround 100 pounds of berries per barrel)back in the day.

“Then it’s into the container and thendriven to the receiving station here, where it’scleaned again and processed (for shipping).”

Kemper, who’s been in the business formore than 25 years, said the record-breaking

summer just past has not had a negativeeffect on the crop, unlike the scramble toharvest it created for the city’s strawberry andblueberry farmers.

“It’s a very hard berry and doesn’t go soft,”said Kemper, explaining that the companybrought in 350 hives of bumble bees (usuallyhoney bees) in early June to pollinate thecrop.

“We were able to start (harvesting) early thisyear as the colour was there and we will goright through into November this year.

“We had to start early, though, because thecrop was ready and we have such a largearea to cover here.”

One of five Richberry Group farms in theLower Mainland, Richmond was the first farmto start harvesting cranberries this season.

The harvest season usually peaks, saidKemper, around Thanksgiving.

Although the long, hot summer has pro-duced a decent crop, the longer range

cranberry picture isn’t so clear, said Kemper.A consistent decline in harvest on the peat

bogs over the last 10 years or so has com-pelled Richberry to enlist the expert help of anumber of soil scientists from local universi-ties and from a facility in New Jersey.

“This should have been the perfect seasonbut there has been a decline over the lastdecade or so,” said Kemper.

“We’ve been trying to rejuvenate the vinesbut we are not at all sure why it’s producingless berries and some are dying off.

“It’s been getting worse each year; it couldbe the degradation of the peat, we’re notsure. We have soil scientists working on it withinfrared imagery and they’ve been taking coresamples.”

Unless the experts figure out what’s causingthe downward turn, it’s going to continue todecline, lamented Kemper.

“Some of the fields have dropped by asmuch as 50 per cent.”" Full story at Richmond-News.com

It’s more than eight times his body weight and his wife has noproblem with him “obsessing” over it.Suffice to say, David Chan’s passion for pumpkins has grown

beyond a hobby and into a giant-sized daily routine.From the moment Chan plants his seedlings in little pots

all around the kitchen of his home on Fedoruk Road in eastRichmond in April, his life changes markedly.

Every single day, between then and hauling his giant pump-kins out of the ground in October, Chan nurtures and cares forhis creations for at least one hour a day, sometimes six.

“It starts from a seed in April in the kitchen and then goesinto the ground in May,” enthused Chan, who’s been growingthe Atlantic giant variety for seven years on his 2,000 square-foot plot.

“Mine went into the ground May 3 and came out Oct. 1. Itwas fed weak fertilizer every day for constant growth, a little bitof water and then pruning every other day.

“It takes a lot of care and is a true hobby. But you have toadjust your levels of care depending on what you see growing.

“I will spend at least an hour every day, some days it couldbe six or seven if there’s lots of pruning to be done and thenthere’s the setting up of the irrigation system and then mixingthe fertilizers.”

Chan’s prize pumpkin this season weighed in last week ata whopping 1,339 pounds at a competition in Langley — butcould only finish second, to a 1,411-pound beast.

“I went there to get weighed for a world-wide competition,”

explained Chan, who has a smaller, second giant pumpkin,weighing around 1,000 pounds, that he’s taking to a com-petition near Seattle on Saturday, where cash prizes reach$1,000.

“The guy that won in Langley said he has another biggerthan the one he just won with!” laughed Chan.

“So I’m going down purely for the competition and maybegrab a top-10 finish.”

Chan said growers are only allowed to weigh-in the pump-kin at one competition, to avoid the same monster sweepingevery event during the season.

He did, however, win a local event two years ago with a1,043-pound entry and could only muster a 1,040-poundgourd last year.

And he’s helped neighbouring farmer Jim Savage getinto the giant pumpkin pastime, with Savage growing a900-pound effort — good enough for a fifth-place ribbon —from a Chan seedling this season.

But with the world record standing at 2,323 pounds, Chanknows he’s got a lot of work to do to attract global fame.

“There’s a lot of plant science and soil science combined.You must do your homework for it to work,” said Chan,who uses a store brew of fertilizer before adding his ownmicronutrients.

“And you need a fair bit of land as well. You need 600to 1,000 square feet for one of these guys. I have 2,000square feet for three of the giant variety.

“I only got two this year; one cracked, I think becauseit was growing too fast. Nobody really knows, maybe notenough water, maybe too much?”

As for how his wife really feels about his passion for allthings pumpkin, Chan said she’s totally fine with it.

“It’s a little bit obsessive; but anybody who isn’t, won’t dowell,” said Chan, while wearing a pumpkin-coloured golfshirt as his wife laughed knowingly in the background.

“She’s very supportive. She lets me occupy the kitchen forthe whole of April, as I’m often growing seedlings for otherpeople.”

" Growers of the Atlantic giant pumpkin David Chan, foreground,and Jim Savage show off their season’s best at 1,339 pounds andaround 900 pounds, respectively. Photo by Alan Campbell

ALANCAMPBELLStaff ReporterACAMPBELLRICHMONDNEWS.COM

You have to be obsessive to do well: Giant pumpkin grower

Giving thanks for Richmond’s cranberryFRIDAYFeature

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" Richberry’s executive vice president of operations, Lynn Kemper, inspects this season’s cranberrycrop out at the east Richmond farm. Below, left, one of the team of 13 beaters rides his gas-poweredmachine over the flooded cranberry bog. Below, right, two workers urge the coralled berries into ahose which sucks the crop into a cleaning mechanism. Photos by Alan Campbell/Richmond News

In 2010 the mandatory long-form censuswas scrapped by the ruling Conservative

Party. The decision was not well received byan abundance of business-related organiza-tions, economists and academics.

The Conservatives cited privacy concernsand personal liberty to scrap the census forthe voluntary National Household Survey(NHS.) Meanwhile, the Greens, Liberals andNew Democrats have all called for its return.

In Richmond, a city coping with immensedemographic changes such as aging, immi-gration and wealth migration, accurate dataprovides for a more balanced communityand local economy, according to Universityof B.C. urban geographer Dr. David Ley.

“It’s important to every city,” said Ley.“And I don’t want to understate its impor-

tance to business,” he added.The problem with the voluntary NHS, said

Ley, is that its response rate was only 68per cent and non-responders tended to beeither low-income or high-income residents.

“If there was a random non-response,then the data would be okay,” said Ley.

The last time there was a mandatory long-form census was in 2006.

The Conservatives claim the mandatorycensus infringed on privacy and it was not

fair to be jailed for not filling it out.At the time of the decision, the Prime Min-

ister’s Office stated, “The government madethis decision because we do not believeCanadians should be forced, under threatof fines, jail, or both, to disclose extensiveprivate and personal information.”

However, as Ley said, “analysis (from thePrivacy Commissioner) showed there hadbeen a miniscule amount of complaints tojustify the cancellation. It really is a mysterybecause it’s hard to see it as a vote winner;so many people got so annoyed by it andcontinue to be inconvenienced by it.”

Furthermore, no one had ever been jailedover the census.

On the business side, the CanadianChamber of Commerce is among a litanyof non-government organizations andeconomists that want the long-form censusreturned.

Ley noted businesses use demographicand income data to determine where toopen a bank, a restaurant or a factory, forinstance.

Ley said many city planning departmentsregard the 2011 NHS as misleading, largely

due to potential inaccuracies on a neigh-bourhood level.

For instance, if there is a baby boom,school districts will need to know whereto plan infrastructure. Or, if elderly peoplemigrate to a particular area, there will behealthcare considerations (doctor’s offices,community amenities, transit considerationsetc.).

Terry Crowe, the City of Richmond’s man-ager of planning policy, concurred data fromthe NHS is less reliable.

He said overall data for the city is not somuch of a problem as compared to thedetailed area data coming from the NHS.

“I can’t imagine a municipality not want-ing better information,” said Crowe.

Richmond’s social planner John Fosterraised similar concerns, when asked aboutthe NHS.

“With the NHS, it’s a totally different meth-odology. You’re starting from scratch so it’sdifficult to get a sense of the trends,” saidFoster.

“Definitely some of the variables for im-migration and language are important forRichmond,” he added.

With proposals to build an expanded LNGfacility in Delta, a coal terminal in Sur-

rey, and a jet fuel terminal in Richmond, thesouth arm of the Fraser River alone could seean estimated 460 Panamax-sized tanker runsper year in the near future.

The environment, particularly as it pertainsto the Fraser River, is an election issue thathas largely pitted the power-holding Conser-vatives against all three opposition parties inRichmond.

Budget cuts to the Department of Fisheriesand Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard,in addition to amended federal environmentalassessment laws have stirred controversy.

A lightning rod for environ-mental concerns in Rich-mond has been the plannedjet fuel terminal, which sawno exclusively federal envi-ronmental assessment due torecent legislative changes.

Meanwhile, the rulingConservative government hastouted the aforementionedprojects as job creators andbeneficial for the economy.

But concerns run deepabout the approval processwith Eoin Madden, a spokes-person for the Wilderness Committee, whocalls the projects a “juggernaut of fossil fueldevelopment.”

In June, 2012, an omnibus piece of leg-islation, Bill C-38 — the Jobs, Growth andLong-term Prosperity Economic Action Plan2012 — was passed.

Despite the name, much of the bill actuallyamended the Canadian Environmental As-

sessment Act of 1992 (CEAA).Bill C-38 means the federal government no

longer requires a review from the CanadianEnvironmental Assessment Agency for allprojects on federal land.

Critics, such as the NDP and the Liberals,have charged this has limited the numberand scope of reviews the Canadian govern-ment conducts — case in point is the jetfuel terminal, as a federal assessment wasn’tdeemed necessary.

With many projects, Ottawa has passed onthat responsibility to the provinces and/or theNational Energy Board.

While Conservative candidate Kenny Chiuhas stated a federal review of the jet fuelproject is unnecessary and ConservativeMP Alice Wong claims the new bill avoidsduplication, Liberal candidate Joe Peschiso-lido has called the changes an “abdication of

responsibility” on the part ofOttawa.

NDP candidate ScottStewart has called for anindependent review.

Under the new laws, evenfederal, independent reviewsare less stringent, as out-lined by the Alberta-basedEnvironmental Law Centre.

The non-profit environ-mental think tank notes, BillC-38 resulted in the follow-ing: federal assessmentsno longer need to consider

the need for the project, nor the alternatives;legislated timelines for independent reviews;a reduction of the number of federal depart-ments looking at a given project; publicparticipation limited to “interested parties.”

Simon Fraser University political scienceprofessor Marjorie Cohen said, “the voicesof communities have been absolutely lost”under the new laws.

In addition to the new CEAA, changes tothe Fisheries Act resulted in less protectionfor fish and habitat, according to Cohen.

“Any kind of control they (the Departmentof Fisheries and Oceans) have had over habi-tat has been gutted. Mostly, (Prime Minister)Stephen Harper has done this by attrition offunding,” said Cohen (starting this year, theDFO budget will be cut by $100 million overthree years).

The scope of reviews has also been calledinto question.

Cohen noted with the Kinder Morgan pipe-line review, conducted by the National EnergyBoard, “certain issues could not be broughtup so the cumulative effect of ecologicaldamage could not be put forth.”

With the jet fuel project there is no require-ment to study the impact of shipping onwhale habitat, for example.

Port Metro Vancouver is now tasked to con-duct many environmental projects (studyingsonar impacts on whales, habitat reconstruc-tion).

Local environmental group VAPOR has

stated there is a fundamental conflict of inter-est with the port being in charge of protect-ing the environment.

Coincidently, Cohen notes the NationalEnergy Board is the only entity in charge ofreviewing many pipeline projects (includingthe jet fuel pipeline).

With Harper having appointed the head ofthe NEB, decisions have become politicized,said Cohen.

“This is very problematic because it makesthis less of an environmental review andmore of a rubber stamp,” said Cohen.

Madden said there appears to be no plan— environmental, economic or otherwise —for the Fraser.

“We found that there was no land-use planthat would govern whether any of these ter-minals should be built, including the aviationimport terminal,” he said.

The Richmond Chamber of Commercereported a similar finding last year, callingon the government to provide a more holisticframework for industry and the environmenton the Fraser.

" Richmond’s changing demographics andpopulation growth mean data collection, thatwould ordinarily be contained in the long-formcensus, is more important than ever for City ofRichmond planners. File photo

A river runs throughelection debate

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" Eoin Madden, left, of the Wilderness Committee, and Ben West, of Tanker Free BC, attended a rallyin Steveston in the summer to draw attention to proposed fossil fuel shipments up the Fraser River.They’re calling for a land-use plan for the river. File photo by Graeme Wood/Richmond News

Traffic on Fraser’s south arm has been hot topic

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The Richmond Centrefor Disability organized themeeting, which was sparselyattended, and many ques-tions focused on seniors anddisability issues.

This was the last meetingof its kind before the Oct. 19election.

Richmond Centre MP AliceWong started the meeting offby noting as Minister of Statefor seniors she has promotedpolicies and laws againstseniors abuse and elderisolation.

Wong’s Liberal candidatecounterpart Lawrence Woowas quick to point out theConservatives have raised theminimum age requirementfor seniors benefits from 65to 67.

“The Minister sat there andsaid nothing. She did notfight for our senior citizens,”said Woo, adding the changecould cost some seniors asmuch as $30,000.

Conservative candidate for

Steveston-Richmond East,Kenny Chiu, contended fiscalresponsibility is a priority.

“I believe we should livewithin our means and shouldnot be burdening our nextgeneration with irresponsiblespending,” said Kenny Chiu.

Green candidate for Ste-veston-Richmond East, LauraLeah-Shaw, replied thatConservative cuts have comewith a cost, noting supportfor co-operative housing isexpiring and Veterans’ Affairsfunding has been slashed.

“Canada Post, the CBC.They’ve all been gutted toproduce a balanced budget,”said Shaw.

Candidates were askedabout a national drug pur-

chasing plan.Wong said Ottawa is assist-

ing provinces to bring downcosts, although she maintainsany sort of implementation ofa plan is a provincial issue.

NDP candidate for Rich-mond Centre, Jack Trovato,said the federal govern-ment needs to play a moreinvolved role and implementa universal program via bulkbuying.

Woo said universalitydoesn’t make sense in a sys-tem of “limited resources.”

“I don’t believe we shouldsubsidize those who don’tneed subsidies,” said Woo,who wants a scaled, nationalsubsidized program basedon income needs.

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So, we’re now stooping tostealing from donation

bins designed to help sickand dying children. Really?

Is this what it has cometo? If you read our story onpage 8, apparently it has.

Are people really thatdesperate that they have topounce with a motorbike,bankjob-style, to “getaway”with four or five bags of, let’sface it, what is most prob-ably second-hand clothesthat have seen better days.

In retrospect, let’s hopethe people who droppedthose soon-to-be-stolenbags off were of the selfish/stupid nature and did —instead of properly recyclingor disposing of their un-wanted items (which wouldhave zero resale value forCanuck Place Children’sHospice) — just dumpthem at the over-flowing binout of pure laziness.

With that in mind, youhave to wonder how muchbenefit the charities inquestion get out of thesebins?

You can just imagine,despite seeing with almostregular monotony said binsbusting at their seams with“donations,” that thesegiant drop-off boxes arechock full of utter garbage.

Sure, there will be a fewbags of gems in a mountainof junk, the likes of whichyou usually find at thriftstores and garage sales.

But there’s usually a goodreason for it being in thatbag or in the garage in thefirst place...it’s junk/served

its purpose/doesn’t work.I guess it’s a cost-effective

way for the charities to earnsome much-needed funds,as opposed to scouring thecity for a philanthropic land-lord, who’ll cut you slack onrent on your thrift store andpitch in for hydro.

Perhaps it’s time to re-think this particular dona-tion model, especially inincreasingly crammed citiessuch as Richmond where,only a few weeks ago, theNews reported how theCity of Richmond has hadto take steps to curb theunregulated proliferation ofthe bins, many of which aremagnets for illegal dumping.

Hell, the day after wepublished that story, brokenpushchairs and suitcaseswere discarded at the dona-tion bin in our office parkinglot! Clearly, the dumperswere not News readers, ormaybe we just gave themthe idea?

Whatever the case, evi-dently it’s not working.

Not for the businesseswho either have to cleanup the mess created by thewould-be benefactors orhave to stare at it from theiroffice or store windows allday long.

And not for the charities,who must spend countlesshours wading through pairsof Sunday jeans (holey),which are trendy again bythe way, giveaway promo-tion beer hats and left shoes(rights missing) in the vainhope of finding somethingthat someone else might

want to pay $2 for.So, if you see this week-

end around Richmond apair of middle-aged bikersriding into the church park-ing lot wearing old jeans, aBudweiser cap and only leftboots, give them a wave andlet’s hope they don’t fall offwhile waving back. Not.

Alan Campbell is a report-er with the Richmond News.Reach him at [email protected]

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We are very excited by this opportunity tobring information about Richmond Society forCommunity Living into homes and businessesacross the city. Our heartfelt thanks goes out tothe Richmond News for making this happen –particularly given that October is CommunityLiving Month across the country. During thismonth (and truly throughout the year), RSCLhosts several special events that help promoteour message of inclusion…seeing beyonddisability to ability.

In the past we have produced this newsletterinternally, with distribution to the more than1000 individuals and families that we support,our community partners, our funders anddonors. It is at this time of year that my reportwould reflect on our previous year as we preparefor our AGM on Thursday, October 14th. I inviteyou to attend that event to learn more aboutRSCL, our programs and services, and our role inyour community.

The past year has been a year of growthand reflection. The RSCL Board of Directorsparticipated in an extensive process to revaluatethe our Mission Statement which allowed us toreflect on the purpose and core values of RSCL.

It is possible to forget the importance andvalue of a mission statement in the day to daywork of an organization. A clear and relevantmission statement is not only valuable when anorganization is newly formed but it is also criticalas an organization grows and changes over time.It should guide decision making and help chartthe course for the future.

RSCL’s NewMission StatementRichmond Society for Community Living (RSCL)provides innovative services that respond tothe changing needs of individuals living with adevelopmental disability, and their families, overthe course of their lives. We celebrate the uniquegifts of the people we serve and support theirinclusion as valued members in the community.We are leaders, partners and advocates withreach beyond Richmond.

One of our greatest challenges over the lastnumber of years has been to ensure that ourresources meet the growing demand for services.Therefore, I want to acknowledge and thank ourprimary funding agencies including the Ministry

of Child and Family Development, CommunityLiving BC and BC Housing. In addition, I wantto acknowledge the foundations, governmentagencies and companies that have generouslysupported RSCL this year. Without thecontributions from the Vancouver Coastal Health,the City of Richmond, Direct Access CommunityGaming Grant, many of our new and innovativeprojects would never have come to fruition. Inaddition, this year significant contributions weremade by the River Rock Casino and the Drivefor Ability third party fundraiser which providedmuch needed funds for children’s service.

I want to sincerely thank all of the individualsand businesses that have generously donatedfunds, gifts in kind and/or their time to theorganization during the last year. Each donationtruly lasts a lifetime, making a difference in thelives of the individuals and families we serve.

In addition to the support from our funders anddonors, I want to acknowledge the agency’shard working and committed managementteam. Without these leaders, the agency couldnot have accomplished what it has in this lastyear. I also want to thank the staff throughoutthe agency for their ongoing commitmentand dedication to the people they serve. Andlastly, I want to applaud and thank the Boardof Directors for their vision, commitment andunwavering support of the agency.

Janice BarrExecutive Director

It is my privilege to introduce the readership of the Richmond Newsto Richmond Society for Community Living. We joined the RSCLfamilymore than 30 years agowhenmy son, then 10 years old, beganreceiving support. It has been a privilege to be part of the RSCL Boardfor the past 6 years. The RSCL Board is a governing Board. The Boardconsists of professionals, parents or family members of individualsand one self-advocate.

I have learned so much from the expertise and wisdom of the RSCLstaff and my fellow board members. We have had some wonderfuldiscussions and have made some very important decisions. Wealways manage laughter.

This wonderful organization works with volunteers as well as paidstaff. There are somany ways of volunteering with RSCL. I would liketo encourage you to become involved. You may want to volunteeron the Board or for fundraising and other events.

I have found that volunteering is a great way to make new friendsand connections. Youmay be a parent or familymember of someonewho has a disability. Often the stress of looking after your ownfamily member does not leave time for developing relationships. Byvolunteering, you make new connections and friendships grow outof that. You stretch and expand the gifts that you have and your self-worth blossoms because of it.

Also, in many cases you are volunteering with others which buildsteam. Within that team you develop a deep appreciation for othersand the organization. If you don’t have the time to volunteer thenthere is the opportunity to give a donation to RSCL. This can be a onetime gift or a scheduledmonthly donation. RSCL relies on donationsfrom individuals and business community to cover funding shortfallsin order to ensure that our programs respond to the unique needs ofthose who receive support, and their families.

Tanis ReimerPresident, RSCL Board of Directors

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT: President Report

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October is Community Living Month across Canada andRSCL looks forward each year to hosting a series of events tospread awareness and promote our vision of seeing beyonddisability to ability. We are very grateful to our communitypartners who come back each year to help us promote ourmessage of community inclusion:

Planning is well underway for our 7th AnnualBenefit of Possibilities…A Community

Affair, RSCL’s signature fundraising event. The2015 Benefit of Possibilities will be held on

Tuesday, November 10th at the Pacific GatewayHotel. The event will feature a gourmet dinner,live entertainment and the opportunity to bidon silent and live auction items. Our auction

will offer attendees the possibility to experiencenew opportunities including dining out,

spa treatments, fitness memberships, hotelaccommodations, and much more!

In addition to the auction items donated fromthe business community, RSCL welcomes

contributions for auction, raffle prizes or guestgift bags (anticipated attendance 150). If youwork for or are connected to a business that

might be interested in contributing to thesuccess of our event, please contact Lisa Cowell,Manager of Fund and Community Development

at 604-279-7111 or [email protected].

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Value Village Donation Bin Program

This summer, Richmond Firefighters’ Society made a significant and timely donation to RSCLto allow us to purchase new, specialized three wheel bikes for Youth Connections program,following the theft of our bikes in June. The theft hit us very hard as it happened just weeksbefore YC began offering full day programming for the summer and left the programscrambling for funds to cover the cost of replacement. The Richmond Firefighters’ Societyresponded promptly, allowing us to purchase specialized bikes which provide improvedstability for participants who have mobility challenges and allows them to fully participatein our programming.

Youth Connections is an innovative out-of-school program designed exclusively for youngpeople with disabilities aged thirteen to nineteen. Operating after school weekdaysduring the school year and for full days during the summer, spring, and winter breaks, theprogram offers school-aged youth the opportunity for social interaction and recreation.Therapeutic recreation offered through Youth Connections allows participants to expandtheir independence skills and improves overall quality of life. With a focus on adventure,excitement, friendship, and fun, Youth Connections is living proof that some of life’s greatest lessons are taught in arecreational setting.

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On Sunday, June 28th Pardeep and Surjeet Dhinjal hosted the3rd annual Drive for Ability, raising more than $20,000. Thefunds will be used for RSCL Children’s Services which hasn’treceived a funding increase from government in more than adecade.

The Dhinjal family has been part of RSCL since their daughterMya was four months old. Mya was born with Downsyndrome and received support through the RSCL InfantDevelopment Program and Supported Child DevelopmentProgram. She attended preschool at Treehouse earlyLearning Centre until she started kindergarten.

The Drive for Ability was planned with the intent to giveback to RSCL for the support the Dhinjal family receivedduring Mya’s early life. Their goal in the first year was $5,000which they easily exceeded. After three years, thanks to the

generosity of their friends and family, the Dhinjals have raised nearly $50,000 for RSCLChildren’s Services. These funds have been used to purchase new equipment and adaptive toys, andfor temporary administrative help in the Supported Child Development program in an effort to relievefunding constraints which has resulted in a wait-list in that program.

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In Full Swing – Hand In and HelpRSCL’s three Donation Drop Boxes in the Richmond Community have been a growing source ofrevenue for RSCL programs as well as a great opportunity for paid employment for RichmondHandyCrew Co-operative members. The three locations, Vancity at Blundell Centre, TapestryChurch at 9280 No. 2 Road and Thompson Community Centre, have kept the crew busyand provided a much needed service to Richmond residents who have clothing and smallhousehold items they want donate.

Using our drop boxes is a great idea for those who are mindful of their environmental footprintand also want a chance to give back to the community. 100% of proceeds stay in Richmondand benefit the individuals RSCL serves!

Please contact HandyCrew directly at 604.241.4113 or at [email protected] if you would likeus to pick up items from your home or business. In addition to shoes and clothing, the programaccepts books, toys and small household items.

Make the Connection is a 9-week parent and child interaction program which aims to improve a child’sdevelopment by promoting a strong attachment to their parents. The program is rooted in the belief that astrong parent-child bond is the foundation for success for a child’s later development.

In each session parents learn and practice songs and rhymes with their child, how to play and interact with theirchild, and have the opportunity to discuss child and parenting topics with other parents facilitated by trainedfacilitators. They also have the opportunity to meet other parents and create new friendships.

In June, Make the Connection was offered to families who speak Cantonese as a first language, reaching a groupof parents who might not otherwise have access to this type of program. The program was for parents withnewborns to age 1. By the end of the program, all families demonstrated an improved confidence in buildinga loving relationship with their baby, helping their baby understand and communicate, and helping their babyexplore and learn.

Make the Connection is funded by the UnitedWay Lower Mainland (Success by 6 program) and is offered by theRSCL Infant Development Program in partnership with Richmond Family Place and Richmond Public Library.

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Those are the products ofdomestic violence, whichaccounts for about 25 percent of all violent events inCanada and approximately$7 billion in costs to healthand criminal justice services.

Last year, in B.C. alone, theprovincial coroner recorded14 cases of spousal ho-micide and that does notinclude deaths of children,the suicide that often followsa spouse’s killing, or thehundreds of victims whosuffer mental and physicalinjury.

Concerned citizens canfind out how they can helpprevent this damage at atown hall meeting in Rich-mond featuring the foundingco-chair of Prevention ofViolence Canada, ShannonTurner.

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Kotelko was born in 1919 in Vonda,Saskatchewan, and was the seventh of11 children, born to Ukrainian immigrantfarmers. She became a teacher and movedto the Vancouver area with her two youngchildren after her mar-riage broke down.

She retired fromteaching in 1984 and,being full of energy,decided to take up soft-ball, the only sport sheplayed in her childhood.

After playing for 12years competitively, shetook the leap to trackand field and when shehit 90, she became theworld’s oldest long jumpcompetitor.

In the process of writ-ing the book, Griersonfound that while genet-ics plays a part in howa person ages, envi-ronment and personallifestyle choices play an even larger role.

“The rule of thumb is about 25 to 30 percent is genes and 70 to 75 per cent is en-vironment,” Grierson said. “It’s much morein the way we live our lives than the geneswe inherit.”

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The rule of thumb (onlongevity) is about 25 to30 per cent is genes and 70to 75 per cent is environ-ment,” Grierson said. “It’smuch more in the way welive our lives than the geneswe inherit.– B G

Genes:Onepart of aging

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Mahatma Gandhi said,“Happiness is when whatyou think, what you say, andwhat you do are in har-mony.”

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Joseph Campbell alsosaid, “You must give up thelife you planned in order tohave the life that is waitingfor you.”

Each day, there are op-portunities to follow-throughon the impulse to performan act of kindness or to givea word of encouragement, athank you or a helping handto someone in need. Thereis a positive potential to berealized in each day. Wemust see, feel and act." Your positivepotential for health

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The program, which is in highdemand among Israeli high schoolgraduates, selects a few young Israeliswho volunteer for a year of communitywork abroad with a school, synagogue,community centre and/or youth environ-ment. Their role is to infuse studentswith a deeper connection to and love forthe State of Israel.

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Swissa, Tetro and another teen aresplitting their time between Richmondand Vancouver, where they are vol-unteering at King David High School,Vancouver Talmud Torah, TempleSholom Hebrew School, Beth IsraelHebrew School and at the Jewish Com-munity Centre of Greater Vancouver. Atall these organizations the Shinshinimstudents will support and enrich Jewish

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Abba Brodt, head ofRJDS, said he is thrilled tohave Swissa’s energy, enthu-siasm and dedication in theclassrooms.

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into Israeli society and culture,” hesaid. “She helps the kids understandday-to-day life in Israel better, as well asbeing a role model for them. She wasvery much a leader in her communityback in Israel and that is something wehope our students emulate. She will behelping out in the classrooms as well asdeveloping school-wide programs thatteach our students about life in Israel.”

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Considering your family relationships,you could ask, “What are my greatestgoals and what is my ideal vision for myfamily?” We have to move beyond whatis wrong to what can be great.

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Dr. Davidicus Wong is a familyphysician and his Healthwise columnsappear regularly in this paper. For moreon achieving your positive potential inhealth, see his website at davidicus-wong.wordpress.com.

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Student emissaryprovides connections

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Who doesn’t like the almost-instant grati-fication they experience when shopping

online?Search. Click. And your package arrives

right on your doorstep, almost magically,about a day or so later.

Well, the world’s second-largest onlineretailer, Newegg.com, “hatched” its planTuesday to help provide just that for custom-ers across Western Canada when it officiallyopened a brand new warehouse in eastRichmond.

James Merk, Newegg.com’s director ofbrand marketing, told the Richmond Newsa day before the facility’s ribbon-cutting thatcustomers in the region will now be ableto shop from the e-tailer’s catalogue of 18million or so products and expect to getpretty much whatever they ordered on theirdoorstep as early as the next day.

Previously, the wait for Canadian customersof the Los Angeles-based company was fourto five days, as orders for the market north ofthe border were processed out of a ware-house in another “Richmond” — RichmondHill, Ontario.

The new facility here will serve customersas far east as Saskatchewan and northwardsinto the Yukon and North West Territories,said Jay Yong, Newegg.com’s country man-ager.

“If you order before 10 a.m., you canexpect delivery by the next day,” Yong said,adding orders after 3 p.m. will fall into thetwo-day delivery window.

Merk said the move to open the64,000-square-foot facility in Richmondwas a customer-focused initiative in an ultracompetitive online shopping marketplacethat is led by the likes of Seattle-headquar-tered Amazon.com which already has a200,000-square-foot warehouse on AnnacisIsland in Delta that serves western Canada.

“Being able to give our customers a deliverytime of one or two days is really exciting,”said Merk, who laughed when asked ifNewegg.com will be following Amazon.com’sventure into fast delivery using drones.

“No, we’re not going there just yet,” hesaid.

But to help speed up conventional delivery— which will be handled by Purolator andCanada Post — Newegg.com specificallychose Richmond for its close proximity toVancouver International Airport to send ship-ments via air. Plus, since Richmond is alsoclose to sea port facilities, incoming productsfrom China are readily accessible.

The move to put down roots here is alsodesigned to boost Newegg.com’s profile forconsumers who may have not heard of itbefore in this area.

“Our name will now start popping up inother places, especially on social media,”Merk said, adding marketing efforts will beramped up as Newegg.comlooks to increase its pres-ence and market share.

Newegg.com was foundedin 2001, initially as an onlinestore for computer parts.That quickly grew to thepoint where shoppers cannow choose from electronicsand apparel to fragrancesand sports equipment, andjust about everything else inbetween.

In 2014, Newegg.comreported revenue of $2.7billion.

In comparison, the online king of sales,Amazon.com, had revenue of close to $89billion for the same time period

Last year, Forbes Magazine listed Newegg.com, which has 2,600 employees, as the178th largest private company in the U.S.based on those with at least $2 billion inrevenue.

At the moment, Newegg.com’s activity at

the new Richmond warehouse will employ10 full-time workers. Currently, it is process-ing about 2,000 orders a day, using about

two thirds of the facilitywhere staff ride speciallydesigned man-lifts thatcarry them to rows ofshelving stretching upseveral storeys to pickout items from bins ofproducts.

From there, orders arechecked, packed, andweighed to ensure theyhave the right collectionof products, then sent ontheir way.

Merk said the Rich-mond system, while automated, is notthe highest level of technology Newegg.com employs at some of its bigger ware-houses. The largest, in Indianapolis, covers500,000-square-feet and processes 50,000orders a day.

Capacity in Richmond is pegged at around5,000 orders a day. Other satellite warehous-es are located in New Jersey, Tennessee, andToronto.

BUSINESSin FocusOnlinegiant rampsupdelivery

" Helping provide next delivery of goods ordered online through the world’s second-largest e-tailer,Newegg.com using its new east Richmond warehouse are Claude Lachance, operations centre man-ager (left) and Jay Yong, Newegg.com’s country manager. Photo by Philip Raphael/Richmond News

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Being able to give ourcustomers a delivery timeof one or two days is reallyexciting.– J M

Experts stillbullishonAsia

Abundant opportunities exist for Cana-dian small and mid-sized businesses inAsian markets, despite slowing growth inthe Chinese economy, according to a pairof leading international business expertsspeaking at the City of Richmond’s 4thannual Business and Partner Appreciationevent Sept. 30 at the UBC Boathouse.

“We remain bullish on China” said GeoffChutter, president and CEO of Whitewa-ter West Industries, the east Richmondheadquartered business which is theworld’s leading supplier of waterparks andattractions. “We do not see our sales drop-ping at all.”

Scotiabank chief economist Warren Jes-tin echoed Chutter’s optimism, noting eco-nomic growth in China still remains goodat six to seven per cent annually, even asit has slowed from the typical 10 per centannual growth rate of recent years.

”China is a huge opportunity for Ca-nadian businesses,” said Jestin, notingit is still the largest market in the world,with lots of opportunities for smaller andmid-sized companies selling high valueconsumer products and services.

Conveniently on the corner of Blundell & No. 2

43 Stores forEverything.

For decades, a long narrow buildingon No. 3 Road drew a steady stream

of sweet-toothed children and cigarette-seeking adults. Until its recent closure,Hugh’s Market was one of Richmond’s lastindependent corner stores from anothertime.

“Hugh’s was my corner store,” saidLori Foster, who grew up not far from themarket at No.3 and Blundell roads. “It wasa candy store for me.”

Throughout her years at Ferris elemen-tary school in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s,

Foster would frequent Hugh’s for its bulkcandy, Lik-m-aid Fun Dip, gumballs andtween magazines chockablock with DavidCassidy photos. Sometimes, she’d pick upgrocery items for her family.

Chain stores have since cornered muchof the market. Gas stations and theirattached convenience stores have alsomoved in on corner store turf, as havesupermarkets with near round-the-clockhours.

Richmond still has corner stores — anew flower-focused one is moving into theHugh’s building — but fast disappearingare the original family-run markets thatfound fortune in kids’ allowances. Therewas Ed, Fung and King. K Y Market, too.Hanging on today is Gene’s Food Marketon No. 2 Road and Danny’s on FrancisRoad, although its original owners havesince moved on.

Beyond candy and smokes, the ordi-nary-looking stores served as neighbour-hood gathering places. Parking lots wereplaces where hockey card packs wereunwrapped, lottery tickets checked, Eng-lish toffee chewed and pop slurped withlicorice straws.

Derek Dang remembers working athis family’s corner store, Blundell RoadGrocery, which the Garden City Roadneighbourhood knew simply as Tony’s.Dang, now serving his seventh term on citycouncil, said his parents Tony and Mamiebought the store in 1963. The family livedon site and operated the store until 1992.

He remembers when a Popsicle used tocost five cents. A bag of chips could behad for a dime. Bread, milk, pop and icecream were also popular at Tony’s—so toowas bulk candy.

“I never actually liked penny candy

myself. That’s probably because I saw somuch of it as a kid,” said Dang.

The family became part of the neigh-bourhood — connected in a way that Dangdidn’t know until he firstentered politics.

“A ton of people remem-bered me from the store,”he said. “The impact ofthe family store was muchgreater than I ever real-ized.”

Dang and his siblingsput in long hours at thestore. They don’t miss thework, but they do miss thepeople.

“We used to get somereal characters coming in.They knew us, we knewthem. It would be like go-ing into your favourite bar.We knew what cigarettespeople would smoke or what they wouldcome in for. We would almost have it readyfor them when they walked in.”

In the old days if a corner store was openSunday — when grocery stores weren’t —business was good. Dang’s parents put inlong hours, and they made a decent living.

But as the years wenton, competition grewfor the conveniencedollar and taxes becameprohibitive. And as withother corner store fami-lies, the next generationwasn’t interested incarrying on.

Said Dang: “Therewas a time when itwas worthwhile, andthat time had actuallypassed. That’s what yousee today.”

Some new indepen-dent markets are nowoperating in Richmond,although many offer a

more diverse range of products, such asfast food and flowers. Penny candy? Thatappears to be gone for good.

I never actually liked pennycandy myself. That’s proba-bly because I saw too muchof it as a kid.– D D

Rise and fall of the corner storeFLASHBACKFriday

" Anyone recognize this fresh-faced teenager working in his parents’ corner store? It’s Coun. DerekDang, of course, who used to work at the Blundell Road Grocery, which the Garden City Roadneighbourhood knew simply as Tony’s.

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On that note, if you needa practical family sedan thathas amazing styling, the KiaOptima deserves a thoroughexamination.

The Kia Optima has thestyling that turn heads, butit has more than just goodlooks. It boasts a lineupof efficient and powerfulengines, a comfortable andpremium-looking interior allfor a non-premium price.

To be fair, there are manyworthy competitors in themidsize sedan segment. Tohighlight a few, rivals includethe Ford Fusion, ToyotaCamry and Honda Accord.

Significantly refreshedlast year, the 2015 Optimareceives subtle interior up-dates and upgraded tech.

" DesignThe Kia Optima shares

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The Optima’s cross-hatchfront grille and long swept-back headlights give it theimpression of a movingveicle even when it’s not. Astrong shoulder line flowssmoothly into the wrap-around taillamps and tie thelook of the whole vehicle to-gether. The blacked out roofworks well with all colourcombinations and hides theavailable panoramic sunroof.

A similar approach wastaken inside the cabin as itis very driver focused andcleanly laid out. While someof the materials in the basemodel are not up to thesame quality as its rivals,it does come with somepremium standard featureslike heated side mirrors andBluetooth phone connectiv-ity." Performance

Most Optima models willhave a 2.4-litre, four-cylinderunder the hood. This motor

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Those seeking moreperformance can opt for a2.0-litre twin-scroll tur-bocharged four-cylinder.Producing 274 horsepowerand 269 lb.-ft of torque, thisengine is capable of deliver-ing a thrilling 0-100 km run,yet still return admirable fueleconomy.

Aiding the turbo’s surpris-ing economy is the factthat Kia only recommendsregular unleaded gasoline,saving the cost of highoctane fuel. One drawbackis that there is some notice-able turbo lag under hardacceleration.

A separate Optima Hybridis also available. This usesa 2.4-litre Atkinson-cyclefour-cylinder creating 159horsepower. That is boosted46 by an electric motor toimprove both efficiency andoff-the-line acceleration.

Mated to both the baseand hybrid motors is asix-speed automatic withSportmatic clutchlessmanual shifting. The turbostill uses a six-speed auto,but the gear ratios are closerand it adds steering wheel

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The suspension is cali-brated more for comfort andhighway cruising than hardcornering.

The steering is light anddoesn’t give enough feed-back for a spirited drive.

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OMORI, AikoJanuary 29, 1921 − October 4, 2015

It is with deep sadness that we announce thepassing of Aiko Omori with her family at her side.Predeceased by her husband Hiroshi and sonTakashi. She will be missed by her sisters Chiz(Yosh), Teri, and brother Andy (Muzzy). Aiko issurvived by her children Sharon (Don) and Bea(Ken), grandchildren Janine (Paul), Bryan (Joanna),Rod, Tara (Shane), Scott (Nicole) and great−grandchildren Maddison, Jacob, Alex, Theo, Siena,Jayda, and Amaya. A private memorial service willbe held in Richmond, B.C. In lieu of flowers andkoden, donations may be made in her name toAlzheimer Society of BC. Special thanks to the staffat Lions Manor for their love and support.

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SEVER, Carol Christine (nee Walker)December 17th, 1949 - October 4, 2015

Carol passed away peacefully with family and longtime friends by her side. She will be dearly missedby all. Celebration of Life to be held TuesdayOctober 13, 2015. 6pm to 8pm at the RichmondFuneral Home. 8420 Cambie Road, Richmond,British Columbia. In lieu of flowers, a donation toCancer Research in Carol’s name is appreciated.

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