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Fish were flying off the boats at Fisherman’s Wharf in Steveston where people waited in line for hours tocatch a deal on salmon Monday. Fraser River sockeye was going for $15 a fish or $50 for four.

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Richmond RCMP arelooking for a hit-and-rundriver whom they say sentanother driver to hospital atthe beginning of July. Andthey may have gotten lucky.

Police have been ableto identify a possible sus-pect who just happened tobe caught on surveillancevideo buying strawberriesat a local strawberry farm.

RCMP have releasedsurveillance footage in thehope someone can identifyone of the suspects.

The accident occurredJuly 1 around 1 p.m. onWestminster Highway nearNo. 8 Road. Police say ablack Acura MDX waswestbound on WestminsterHighway when a car —believed to be a grey ToyotaCamry — backed out of astrawberry farm just west ofNo. 8 Road.

The driver of the Acuraswerved to avoid the car,lost control of the car,

It’s a feeding frenzy on the dock

A cheer went up Monday after-noon as the Madrone, a local gill-net boat, pulled up to the publicdocks in Steveston, heavily ladenwith sockeye salmon.

Claudia Vallance of WhiteRock was near the front of a verylong line of people waiting to buyFraser River sockeye at $15 a fish,or four for $50.

“It doesn’t get fresher thanthis,” said Vallance, who had beenstanding in line for about twohours for a chance to buy sockeyeat about half the price they typi-cally sell for.

The Madrone had just returnedfrom the Fraser after a fifth com-mercial opening Monday, some-thing local gillnetters haven’t seenfor years.

The lineups had started earlierin the day.

“There were about 400 peoplewaiting at one o’clock,” said JohnMauriks, a northern troller whosells fish from his boat at the pub-lic docks. “They (the fish boats)sold out quickly.”

This is the first time local gill-netters have been able to fish forsockeye for four years.

The returns this year havestunned everyone. This year’sreturn is now predicted to come inat around 30 million — more thandouble the best estimates.

The public docks were just asbusy on the weekend, with thepublic lugging away several fishper customer.

Agnes Jackman of NewWestminster came away with sev-eral seven-pounders at $20 perfish.

“It’s less than three bucks perpound — that’s pretty darned goodfor salmon,” she said.

Mauriks doesn’t have an Area Egillnet licence, so the only salmonhe had to sell — springs and cohocaught in the Queen Charlottes inJuly and August — sold quickly.

There has been a spillover, hesaid, with consumers also buyinghis frozen tuna.

“Our tuna business has justgone through the roof,” he said.

Mauriks thinks public attitudestowards conservation has a lot todo with how brisk fish sales havebeen.

When returns are low, manyconsumers are reluctant to buyfish that they fear may be threat-

ened. So with an estimated 30 mil-lion sockeye returning, he thinksconsumers feel good about buyingand eating fresh fish — even fishother than sockeye.

“It’s a situation where there’sa big surplus. People feel goodabout eating salmon now,”Mauriks said.

While he’s happy to see com-mercial fisherman having agood year for once, Ernie Crey,fisheries advisor for the Sto:lo First Nation, worries that theDepartment of Fisheries andOceans is allowing the commer-cial sector to catch too much fishtoo fast.

“There’s been too much fish-ing too quickly and the catch has

exceeded the ability of industryto handle it,” he said. “I’m sayingthey (DFO) are being too gener-ous with these openings.”

Fishermen have been havinga hard time finding ice and totes,and processors are now turningsome fishermen away, saying theyhave no more cold storage.

“The big trouble is a lot ofthese companies have had dif-ficulty getting employees,” saysJohn Cummins, (MP for Delta-Richmond East).

Crey advocates for allowingmore fish to escape up river tospawn.

Recently, Carl Walters, a fisher-ies biologist at the University of

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Hit-and-run victim praises justice systemBusinessman Jagjit Gill loses appeal against 30-month jail term

Arriving back from a well-earned New York vacationMonday morning, Stacy Hamiltonwas hoping for the best, yet fear-ing the worst.

Hamilton anticipated a mes-sage being left for her regardingthe outcome of an appeal againstthe sentence of the man who lefther for dead by the roadside onChristmas Day, 2005.

Hamilton, 35, who almost fiveyears later is still gluing togetherthe shattered pieces of her life,was warned by the Crown thatthere was a distinct possibility ofJagjit Gill’s appeal against his 30-month jail term being upheld.

By Monday afternoon, theRichmond woman was comingto terms with the news that 52-year-old Gill will soon be backbehind bars after the B.C. Courtof Appeal dismissed his argument.

“Everyone had anticipatedthat it was going to go to housearrest,” a surprised Hamilton toldthe News.

“I was told (by the Crown) thatin cases like this it’s common for(the appeal) to be upheld. Butwhen I came back to the housethis morning and got the message,I was dumbfounded.”

Gill, a Surrey businessman,almost killed Hamilton afterhis dangerous driving led to hisDodge Ram truck swerving overthree lanes on No. 4 Road andhitting her Asuna Sunrunner headon.

Gill and passenger friendRoger Dhaliwal, who had bothjust left a nearby house party,were uninjured in the crash,yet neither of them used theircell phones to call 911 to helpthe stricken and unconscious

Hamilton.Instead, they called family

members from the party to comeget them and in the weeks andmonths following, Gill either liedto his wife or colluded with her toreport his truck stolen and failedto own up to the police about hisinvolvement.

Meanwhile, Hamilton, a happy-go-lucky teacher’s assistant at thetime, spent a month in hospitalundergoing countless reconstruc-tive surgeries and had to copewith the loss of taste and smell.

Indeed, years after the crash,she is still awaiting more surgery,this time to correct her doublevision.

Gill only changed his plea toguilty after DNA samples on hisairbag proved it was him drivingthe truck that night.

Three years after his reck-less actions tore Hamilton’s lifeapart, he finally apologized, voice

cracking, to her in court beforesentencing.

In June, 2009, he was sen-tenced to 12 months for dangerousdriving and another 18 months forleaving the scene of an accident.

But his words of sorrow ranghollow for Hamilton when a fewweeks after being jailed, Gilllodged an appeal against bothconviction and sentence.

His appeal against convictionwas dropped earlier this year,before he proceeded with hissentencing appeal, citing severalaspects he felt the judge had nottaken into account, including hisgood character, absence of a priordriving record and his remorse.

At least one of Gill’s mitigatorswas blown out of the water by theCrown, which subsequently dis-covered a previous similar drivingoffence in 2009.

“I guess I’ve moved on some-what and I’ve been OK with it for

the most part,” Hamilton said.“It was tough, at the appeal,

having to hear how unfair thesentence has been on him. But itseems that, for once, the justicesystem has done something right.”

Gill still has one more toss ofthe coin left, with an appeal to theSupreme Court available.

Hamilton, who’s now settled acompensation claim with ICBC,hopes, however, that this horrificchapter in her life will finallydraw to a close.

“I’m told he’ll have one moreshot ... but I think it’s a very slimshot,” she said.

“At the end of the day, it’s hismoney and if he wants to do it, heshould go ahead. But I feel likeI’ve made some progress in thelast year and I’ve just had to workhard at moving on and I’ve had toput (Gill) in his place in my ownway.

“I still have chronic pain,which I’m managing on a dailybasis, and I’m trying to stayhealthy and trying to stay posi-tive.”

BY ALAN [email protected]

The BC Lottery Corporationand Rogers Video are joiningwhat appears to be something ofan exodus of head offices fromRichmond.

Last week, the News reportedMicrosoft is relocating itsRichmond office to Vancouver,adding to a growing vacancy ratefor office space here.

The News has since learned

the head office for Rogers Plusis also closing its head officehere. BCLC’s head office is alsorelocating from Richmond toVancouver.

But unlike the Microsoft andBCLC relocations, the movefrom Richmond by Rogersappears to be more of a divisionclosure than a relocation, accord-ing to city hall.

“They’re really just wind-ing down their operation here,”said city hall spokesman Ted

Townsend.Repeated calls to Rogers Plus

were not returned. Not even thecity’s economic developmentoffice has been able to reachRogers executives for an expla-nation for the closure, which isstill in the works, but has learnedthat Rogers appears to be clos-ing, or at least shrinking, itsvideo retail operations.

If so, it is part of a NorthAmerican trend, as video ondemand, streaming and DVD-by-

mail knocks the traditional videostore right off the home enter-tainment map.

Earlier this summer, the lastBlockbuster store in Richmondclosed, leaving Rogers as theonly player in Richmond.

The office at 10991Shellbridge Way is the head-quarters for Rogers Plus, whichcoordinates the video retail andrental division of the Canadiancommunications giant.

Head offices are heading out of town


Stacy Hamilton outside Richmond’s courthouse after one of lastyear’s sentencing hearings. Hamilton was left for dead by Jagjit Gill in

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Jagjit Gill tries to evade theNews’ photographer outside ofcourt last year.


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British Columbia, has criticized DFO’sharvest targets of 30 per cent, saying itcould be a lot higher, which would meanallowing commercial fishermen to catcheven more fish.

Crey doesn’t buy the theory that lakesand streams can be overloaded with toomany spawners.

He said fish that find a spawningground overcrowded simply move on tosome other stream bed and lay their eggs.

What’s more, he said there is a widerecological benefit when there is an abun-dance of spawning, dying salmon.

Bears and eagles, in particular, thriveon spawning salmon.

“Fish find a place to spawn,” Creysaid.

“What’s more, those fish meet theneeds of other critters besides humanbeings.”

While most fishermen have contractsto sell their fish to processors and sea-food companies, many also like to sellsome of their fish right off their boat orout of the backs of trucks, because theyget a better price.

Crey fears the market will soon be sosaturated that some fishermen may resortto dumping fish they can’t sell.

There are already signs of market satu-ration, with the price of fish sold to pro-cessors dropping from $1.75 to 80 centsper pound, according to Cummins.

But he doubts any fisher would bothergoing out to catch more fish if he knowshe will have a hard time getting rid of it.

Crey: Fishermen mayresort to dumping stocksContinued from page 1

which caromed into a ditch, flipped andhit a pole.

The driver was rushed to RoyalColumbia Hospital suffering from headtrauma and abdominal injuries.

RCMP say the driver of the Camry andhis female passenger stopped briefly afterthe accident but then left the scene.

Police do not have a licence platenumber, although they do have a good

description and photo of the man believedto have been driving the Camry.

He is described as being in his 60s,Caucasian, with a slight build. He wearsglasses.

The female passenger in the car withhim is described as being in her late 50sand heavy set.

She also wears glasses. The couple arefrequent customers at the strawberry farmon No. 8 Road.

Continued from page 1

Suspects: Are regulars atlocal strawberry farm


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Two Richmond army cadets havereturned from their Western Canadasummer camps with flying colours.

Cadet Franco Ng was awarded theArmy, Navy and Air Force Veterans(ANAVETS) Cadet Medal of Meritas the outstanding cadet in the cadetleader instructor drill and ceremonialcourse during six weeks of trainingat the Vernon Army Cadet SummerTraining Centre.

The centre attracts more than 1,000cadets from across Western Canadaevery year.

The award recognizes the top cadetduring their summer training and con-sideration is given to overall achieve-ment, leadership qualities, instruc-tional abilities, dress and deportment,motivation and cooperation withothers.

Ng, a member of 2947 RoyalCanadian Army Cadet Corps inRichmond, enrolled in the course notonly to perfect his individual drill, butalso to learn to teach younger cadetsat their home corps.

During the summer he helped formquarter guards to welcome dignitariesto the centre and provided flag partiesfor all parades.

Cadet Jarrick Pang was anotherRichmondite receiving top honours,this time as the leading cadet in thesix-week rifle coach course.

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Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corpsin Richmond, spent most of his sixweeks perfecting his shooting skillswith the air rifle and the C7 rifle anddeveloping proper instructional tech-niques to take back to his home corps.

The cadets also spent three dayson a field training exercise in the hillsabove Okanagan Lake.

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The City of Richmond is preparingto launch a series of “study circles”with the public to enhance local socialplanning strategies.

Volunteers from all sections of thecommunity are invited to engage instudy circles, which are being orga-nized in partnership with RichmondCivic Engagement Network.

The public’s participation in thecircles is envisaged to help shape anddecide what social programs and ser-vices the city should be supporting overthe next 10 years, including childcare,support for immigrants and social hous-

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“Rogers is definitely getting out of that business

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The closure of the Rogers Plus’ headquarters willleave another 30,000 square feet of vacant officespace in Richmond. The relocation of BCLC’s headoffice from Richmond to Vancouver — somethingthat has been planned for some time — will leaveanother 70,000 square foot gap.

A recent market report by CB Richard Ellis esti-mates Richmond’s office vacancy rate will soon hit26 per cent.

“It is quite high,” Lilova admits. “Richmond hasalways been high on the office vacancy scale com-pared to other communities, in good times and in badtimes.”

A lot of what Richmond is now seeing is restruc-turing and downsizing decisions made months agoduring the 2008-2009 recession.

“While these businesses have left, we have added73,000 square feet of office leases this year,” Lilovasaid, adding the industrial sector in Richmond is quitestrong.

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Have you ever been atthe park with your childrenand seen a dog off-leashin Richmond that wasn’tallowed to be there? Whathappened then?

Did an animal controlofficer come over and ticketthe individual?

Or worse, did the dogsee you at a distance, comerunning across the field andengage you or your child?

Most likely, the animalcontrol officer on dutycouldn’t attend the scenebecause he was investigatingtwo or three animal cru-elty or abandonment casesinstead, and there is only everone animal control officeron duty.

This has been my experi-ence in Richmond.

Not every city is like this.The City of Calgary hadrampant dog bite incidentswith over 1,000 bites peryear in the ’80s and ’90s.

However, Bill Bruce,director of animal andbylaw service for the Cityof Calgary, found a way toreduce dog bites, fund ani-mal control and enforce thebylaws while making a profitfor the city.

In a nutshell, Bruce’sstrategy was to increaseanimal control enforcementwith more staff and moreequipment, which in turnincreased fines and incometo the city by a staggeringamount — enough to fund anew animal shelter.

Furthermore, dangerousdog bylaws were overhauledto discard legislation thatsimply focused on the breedof the dog (called BreedSpecific Legislation or BSL)to determine if a dog is dan-gerous. Instead, the City ofCalgary implemented theincreasing popular notion oflegislating the “other end ofthe leash” — the dog own-ers, not the dog itself, anddeveloped a comprehensivepublic education programthat reduced dog bites to .14per cent per 100,000 dogs,the lowest in Canada.

Here in Richmond, wehave breed specific legisla-tion against bull breeds (suchas American Pit Bull terriers,

Staffordshire Terriers, anddogs that look like pit bulls— even cross breeds accord-ing to Richmond AnimalControl Bylaw 7932.)

However, according tothe Canadian VeterinarianJournal (2008 June; 49(6):577–581), German shep-herds, sled dogs and huskiesand many ‘other’ breedswere implicated in more fataldogs attacks in Canada thanbull-breed dogs. Yet we don’tconsider these breeds to beinherently dangerous.

The cities of Delta,Vancouver, Port Coquitlam,and North Vancouver havealready removed their BSLin favour of bylaws based onhighly responsible dog own-ership.

It doesn’t do any goodif we restrict the actions ofbull-breeds when an off-leash standard poodle comesrunning toward your childat the park. In addition, theBCSPCA adamantly opposesBSL, saying it gives commu-nities a false sense of securi-ty when dog safety educationis needed instead.

Ignoring the need toenforce animal control lawshas long lasting conse-quences. For example, lastyear the City of Richmondseized two mastiff dogs whowere accused of attacking aperson. The owner made noattempt to get the dogs backor defend their actions, andthe dogs were quickly eutha-nized by the city.

In most cases like this,the owner is at fault for nottraining the dog, not walkingthe dog, putting the dog ina fearful situation or, in somany cases, not even feedingthe dog enough food.

The person may be finedfor the dog’s behaviour andlack of adherence to thebylaws (if they are caught),but problematic owners arenot prevented from own-ing an animal in the future.

Hence, regardless of breed,any dog in that owner’s caremay end up aggressive aswell. And that’s exactly whathappens.

Non-compliant ownersget new dogs, and the cyclestarts over again causingfuture victims pain andinjury and costing tax payersmore money.

Richmond, it’s timeto trade Breed SpecificLegislation for animalcontrol enforcement andeducation that works. TheHugabull Advocacy andRescue Society is host-ing Bill Bruce to speak inVancouver on Calgary’sbylaw transformation onSept. 9. See http://hugabull.com/services/billbruce fordetails.

Please write to Richmondcity council and urge them toattend this important meet-ing on how to create a safer,more animal control bylawcompliant community. Formore information see http://hugabull.com/resources/cal-gary.

Christie Lagally is a vol-unteer pet columnist. Viewher blog at christielagally.wordpress.com.

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Sometimes we struggle to come up with subjects to editori-alize about. This week, we have a surfeit of topics: the remark-able return of Fraser River sockeye, Onni’s two-towers proposalfor Steveston, and an apparent exodus of companies likeRogers, Microsoft and BCLC from Richmond.

On our letters pages, our readers write about business signsin Chinese only, bike helmet laws and the hazards of being apedestrian in Richmond. We really couldn’t have said it any bet-ter ourselves, so this week we’ll just use this space to encouragereaders to ponder the topics raised by their fellow readers.

Please read Otto Langer’s and Ryan Lake’s letters on fishand fishing. Langer (see below) injects some welcome levityto this complex and controversial topic. Lake — always liter-ate, rarely brief — pays us a backhanded compliment, upbraidsus for not fully explaining what’s wrong with the planet Earth,then proceeds to do so himself.

K.A. Hogarth-Davis sums up public sentiment about Onni’splans to build 10- and 12-storey towers on the Steveston water-front. Onni doesn’t need to convince the city’s planning com-mittee of the merits of its proposal, it needs to convince peoplelike Hogarth-Davis. For every well-penned letter, editors andpoliticians know there are about 100 people who think the sameway, but don’t bother to write. Onni has one tough row to hoe,we think.

Our own cycling columnist, Brad Kilburn, has prompteda debate over the efficacy of bike helmets, and Lee Jensenwrites about Richmond’s bad drivers (is it a myth, we wonder?)Finally, Andrew Hinton breaches the touchy topic of whetherwe need a bylaw requiring English on business signs. This is allgood healthy debate. Please keep it coming.

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The following scenario ispurely imaginary.

After a months-long seacrossing in a leaky con-verted freighter, more than400 people from a nationwracked by terrorism andcivil war land on Canada’sshores.

They immediately claimrefugee status. They comefrom a country that has seena long and violent conflict.They are essentially on thelosing side. They worryabout further violence ifthey return home.

While many of those onboard are women and chil-dren, some may be mem-bers of a foreign terroristorganization.

What does our govern-ment do?

That depends. Myimaginary boat comesfrom Northern Ireland,circa 1985. But it may havecalled to mind a boat thatjust arrived on our shoresfrom Sri Lanka.

I’m having a hardtime imagining a boat ofEnglish-speaking whiteIrish Catholics getting thesame vicious reception thatthe Tamils have receivedsince they arrived.

The level of racism inthe debate over the Tamils ishard to measure. It’s veiledbehind rhetoric about refu-gees “jumping the queue”and talk about them becom-ing freeloaders on Canada’swelfare system.

The terrorism charge isthe one the government hasjumped on with both feet.Apparently, to have everbeen a member of or soldierfor the Liberation Tigers ofTamil Eelam is to be a ter-

rorist.Of course, the Tamil

Tigers committed a greatmany terrorist crimes,including pioneering the useof suicide bombing. (That’swhere the PalestinianIntifada got the idea.)

They also committedpolitical assassinations,both in Sri Lanka and inIndia. The Tigers also forc-ibly conscripted children,attacked religious targets,and engaged in piracy andarms smuggling.

But they ran a goodportion of northeasternSri Lanka as a de factoindependent country fordecades.

So, the Tamil Tigersorganization containsvicious monsters, and it alsocontains people who workedfor the monsters and lookedthe other way so they andtheir families could survive.That the Sri Lankan govern-ment might not make finedistinctions between the twotypes of Tigers is a legiti-mate concern.

So there may be terror-ists on board the boat, andthey should be found anddeported to face justice fortheir crimes.

But like determiningwho in Northern Irelandis an IRA bomber, who anIRA supporter, and who anaccomplice out of fear, it

will not be easy.The odd notion that the

Tamil migrants are trying tojump the queue should alsobe discarded.

As Stephen Hume point-ed out in a recent VancouverSun column, there are tworoutes to becoming a refu-gee in Canada: you can getthere from a refugee camp,or you can show up and sayyou would suffer persecu-tion if returned home.

The Sri Lankan govern-ment has been dismantlingrefugee camps since the warended; it’s an open questionwhether persecution hasceased, and one that willlikely determine the refu-gees’ fate.

Finally, the notion offreeloading is also interest-ing.

A lot of fury has sur-rounded the idea thatthese are only “economicmigrants,” that they justwant a better life, withthings like clean water,good jobs, and nice homes.

Well, how dare they!Those things are clearlyfor those of us who werealready here and inheritedthem without doing a lick ofwork settling this country.

But of course, perhapsI’m biased. Aside fromthe recent arrivals fromAmerica, none of my fam-ily members ever appliedfor permission to come toCanada.

I don’t think they everasked the Sto:lo, Algonquin,Six Nations, or Cree peoplefor immigration forms.

Matthew Claxton is areporter with the News’sister paper, the LangleyAdvance.

The Editor,Here is a cute story of observations on the river recently.Last week I took a ‘tourist trip’ of the fishery along the north

side of the Main Arm between No. 4 Road and Garry Point toobserve and enjoy a river full of fish and fishing boats catchinga lot of fish and many recreational fishermen doing their best tocatch a sockeye from along the shoreline.

Many seemed to be trying to catch their first salmon everin the Fraser River. All this fishery activity was a rare sight inRichmond over the past several years.

After watching dozens of recreational fishermen for almosttwo hours, I did not see a single one catch a sockeye — with oneexception!

One recreational fisher had caught a commercial fishermen’snet and the commercial fisherman did everything to come nearthe shore to untangle the fellow’s line. I would have normallyexpected a commercial boat operator to just cut the line. The rec-reational fisher then shouted “throw me a sockeye.”

The boat operator hollered that they were eight pounds andhe could not throw that far. The sports guy then said you havemy line and lure so just put a fish on my line.

The commercial fisherman did exactly that. Really, a weirdstory — from sports fisherman/commercial fisherman conflictto a near blissful fishery story in just under five minutes!

Amazing how grizzly bears and fishermen can be so easy toget along with as long as there is an excess of fish.

Otto LangerRichmond

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The Editor,Re: “Onni seeks Steveston rezon-

ing,” News, Aug. 27.The Onni group of companies

wants to create a lasting legacy onthe waterfront in Steveston, on thesite of the former BC Packers land.

Yes, the very same parcel of landinvolved in numerous public hear-ings, debates, and protests more than12 years ago.

The same parcel of land forwhich it was concluded that the bestpossible deal was to have this indus-trial land rezoned to allow six build-ings up to three (revised to four)stories with a total of 52 residentialunits atop 61,496 square feet ofmaritime mixed use business.

In return the residents ofRichmond received the concessionof a maritime zone, and a waterfrontpark, which in the later words of onecity councillor amounted to “land-scape for the development.”

So what are we to receive nowunder the revised Onni proposal?An increase in density to 200 units,

and an eliminated maritime zone inreturn for a widened strip of land-scaping, or “waterfront park” in theshade shadow of 12- and 10-storyhigh-rises, and a $500,000 donationto a community centre whose prox-imity and amenities are a huge sell-ing feature to the Onni complex.

The village of Steveston is ripefor development. What makes Onniso special that it is the only develop-er to be allowed to build a 12-storyhigh-rise in the Steveston area?

Soon we will be faced with aplethora of developers crying “metoo,” and waving their communitycentre donation cheques and prom-ising pocket landscaping, roof-topgardens, ground-level daycares andthree social housing units in returnfor high density development.

The Steveston VillageConservation Strategy already callsfor the owners of heritage designatedbuildings to be allowed to developthe rest of their land to a higher den-sity as compensation for having tomaintain the heritage.

Highest use development bringsrapidly escalating property valuesand taxation which will soon resultin preserved facades back endedwith more 12-story towers. Again,Onni will set the precedent.

So you have to ask yourself, isthis the lasting legacy for Stevestonthat you want? Where all that isleft are a dozen historical facadessurrounded by high density con-dominium development? Think itcannot happen, in a city where zon-ing bylaws, and planning seems tochange with the tide?

Don’t let developers continue totake end runs around existing zon-ing by promising park space thatis really pathways and landscapingthat first and foremost enhances thesales value of their development andwill be predominantly used by theincreased residential density.

Please say no to 10- and 12-storyhigh-rises in the Steveston area andon the waterfront.

K. A. Hogarth-DavisRichmond

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The Editor,Re: “Onni seeks Steveston rezoning,”

News, Aug. 27.There are strong pros and cons to the

latest Onni development proposal for theirremaining undeveloped land parcel alongsidethe Steveston dyke path between No. 1 Roadand Phoenix Pond.

The main pro is that they have offered todonate over half the site to the city as a park.The main con is that they want permissionto build two high rise condo buildings of 10-and 12-stories on the other half of the site, farhigher than any other building in StevestonVillage.

I believe that most people in Stevestonwould be willing to make compromises to geta large park on the property, but a 12-storybuilding right on the water destroys the con-cept of a village and would drastically changethe view that people come to Steveston toenjoy in the first place.

Go out on the dyke at No. 1 Road andlook down toward the Phoenix Net Loft.

Now imagine a 12-story tower in themiddle of that view. Not a good idea. You cansee some very tall trees beside Phoenix Pondat the far end of the proposed building site.

The tops of those trees should remain vis-ible over the roofs of whatever buildings areput there so that nature dominates the land-scape, not concrete towers.

I don’t know how many stories thatallows, but it should be the limit beyondwhich we will not go no matter how large theincentive offered by Onni.

Perhaps Onni puts up three buildingsinstead of two. Perhaps the city trades somesuitable land elsewhere in Richmond for thelost residential units on the site. Perhaps theland sits vacant for a while longer until Onnicomes up with a better plan.

We don’t have to worry about them build-ing mixed maritime structures on the entiresite as currently allowed. If that were profit-able, they would have done it by now.

John RostonSteveston

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The Editor,Re: “Collapse? What

collapse? Fraser RiverSockeye flooding back, butis it just a blip?” News, Aug.25.

The above story provokedfirst agitation, then frustra-tion, then anger, and finally,sadness. It was like a newsreport on the bumper carsat the P.N.E. extended tospeculate on the future ofour ambulance service.

Don’t get me wrong,Nelson Bennett is a finereporter; his article was not

in error; and I’m glad thatthe salmon resource is get-ting media attention.

However, if News read-ers think they are any wiserabout the threat of extinctionwhich salmon are facingfrom reading this article,then they are dangerouslydeluded.

First, sockeye are onlyone species of wild, sea runsalmonids which includechinook (spring), coho,chum (dog), pink (hump-back), and steelhead (sea runrainbow).

Also, judging by thephoto, there are probablytwo or more separate racesof sockeye being caught.

Some are most probablyAdams River fish, the great,great, great, great, grand-children of the four-year-peak-cycle fish I seined in1986, my best salmon seasonin almost two decades ofcommercial fishing. I’m stilldriving the car they paid for.

That touches on anothermissing piece of the bigpicture.

The Fraser River gillnetfishery is only one part ofthe fishery. It is newsworthybecause it is visible to Metromedia and urban residents.

Not to diminish its impor-tance, but if that is all youknow about the fisheriescomplex (sports, commercialsports, native food and cer-emonial, native commercial,and the three gear types,gillnet, troll, and seine, inthe commercial fishery) thenall you know is bumper cars.

Worse, if readers are leftwith the impression thatfishing is the major threat tosalmonid survival, they areleft in ignorance.

The cumulative threatof urbanization, domesticeffluent, industrial pollution,hydro projects, gravel opera-tions, road building, mining,agriculture, marine degrada-tion, logging, mills, oceannetpen salmon farming, rail-roads, oil spills, and globalwarning outgun fishing inall its varied forms.

Scores of salmon-bearingstreams in the Metro area arenow storm drains or indus-trial ditches.

We could stop fishingentirely and not only wouldsalmon still face extinction,it would happen faster, with-out fishers to advocate forthem. Salmon are only theproverbial canary in the coalmine.

Worst of all, there isnothing we can do to stop ituntil we recognize that weare the problem.

There are too many ofus, and we can’t put thebrakes on human populationgrowth and all its associatedindustrial evils as long aswe allow profit-and-growthcorporate philosophy todominate our governmentsand governmental agencies,like D.F.O.

Want to save the salmon?Find out, if you can, whereyour political representativesand their parties get theirfinancial clout, because justas too many spawners upthe creek will reduce runsize for salmon, uncheckedhuman growth, the cancer-ous corporate model, willultimately just yield morecorpses.

If that isn’t the legacyyou want your children toinherit, then get dogmaticabout democracy and dosomething about it.

And may the salmon godsbe with you. Dogmatic aboutdemocracy, I remain.

Ryan LakeGnarly Old Dudes of

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Corporate clout, not fishers, threaten fish

The Editor,I think that Richmond should have a

bylaw akin to the language laws that wereimplemented in Quebec.

It annoys me that there are so many busi-nesses in this city that put up signage solelyin what is fast becoming the unofficial lan-guage of Richmond: Chinese.

I’m no racist. I understand that Canada isa desirable location for Chinese immigrantsfor a variety of reasons and I have no prob-lem with them coming to this great land.

I work as an ESL teacher and I love toextol the virtues of this great country to mystudents. I love it even more when my stu-dents — some newly permanent residents orfreshly minted citizens, some curious visitorsfor a month or two — express their fondnessfor Canada.

I also understand all too well the bar-rier of language, and it makes sense to methat when a business that caters particularlyto the city’s Chinese population (many ofwhom see learning English as unnecessarygiven their ability to conduct the vast major-ity of their daily affairs with people whospeak Chinese) puts up signage, it would bein Chinese characters. However, the officiallanguage of this province — and thereforethe language of business conducted in thisprovince — is English.

This means that all businesses, regard-less of their clientele, should post signage inEnglish.

It can be posted next to signage in the

language of the business’s target clientele,but it should still be posted.

I believe that this should be enforced bya language bylaw. It should apply to all busi-nesses and include everything from signageposted on buildings occupied by a businessto delivery trucks used by a business.

What would happen if I saw a deliverytruck, labelled with nothing but Chinesecharacters, driving erratically? How would Ibe able to notify the company of my concernregarding the driver’s recklessness if I had noknowledge of its English name.

What if the driver of the same truck com-mitted a hit and run on a car or a pedestrianand I was only able to get a couple of lettersoff the license plate?

It would help the police immensely intracking the driver down if I was able to givethe English name of the company whichowned the truck. This is a scary scenario thatcould easily be addressed if the companywas required to post its name in English.

Simply put, I think that it would bebest for harmonious relations in Richmondbetween current English-speaking resi-dents and future residents (with the sundrylanguages that they bring) if we introducea bylaw that would require English to beincluded in all business signage alongsidethe language of each business’s target clien-tele.

Andrew HintonRichmond

Chinese-only signs divide

Editor’s Note: In 2004, the city’sIntercultural Advisory Committee recom-mended the city adopt policies requiring at

least some English on business signs in theCity of Richmond. City council did not acton the recommendation.

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District needs toclose loophole

The Editor,Re: “Public education

not free for all,” News,Aug. 25

Well boo hoo for AmySi.

As a taxpayer inRichmond, with all ourfinancial burdens such asthe oval, salary increases,school teacher lay offs andschool closures, it is abouttime that we cover all ourmonetary shortfalls.

It is not about you andyour belief that your childshould get a free ride fromour education system.

It is about rules thatapply to all and therebeing no special favours tothose that don’t meet thoserequirements.

The rules are clear andif you feel that stronglythen pay back the $12,400you got in education costsfrom the last school yearand when you do meet therequirements I am sureyou will be welcomedback with open arms.

Neil BruceRichmond

The Editor,Re: “Public education not free for all,” News, Aug.

25Your front page story exposed one the “loopholes”

in the education system.If there is grey area, the school district’s legal

department has to clarify and the school board has toput it into policy.

In this case, if the school district staff mishandledthe case (because of not checking thoroughly the valid-ity of the working permit), it is time to correct it andnegotiate an amount. Otherwise, the case can go tocourt for clarification.

For, then it will be the discretion of the parentwhether to put the kid in a public or a private schoolif he or she knows there is a prerequisite to enjoy thebenefit of “free” education.

Indeed, it is not fair for public education to be takenadvantage of by people who do not qualify, knowinglyor unknowingly.

On the other hand, it is just like fare evasion orshortchange of fare on the Canada Line. Eventually, thetaxpayers and honest commuters suffer.

Maybe there are some unscrupulous consultants andadvisors telling prospective immigrants they can enjoybenefits preemptively. If that is the case, then that mayjeopardize the future status of the person, if there isproof of fraud or dishonesty which Canadian people sohate.

Yuen MingRichmond

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The Editor,Re: “Worried mom fought for helmets,” News, Aug.

27.I’d like to thank the News for the thoughtful article on

bicycle helmets by Brad Kilburn.The stifling of cycling due to our helmet laws has

long been obvious to parents and to bicycle commuters,but only recently has information been available demon-strating that bicycle helmets are actually unhealthy andeven dangerous.*

More to the point, bicycle accident analysts havedemonstrated that helmets not only increase brain inju-ries to cyclists but the long-term effect of helmet laws isto reduce the number of cyclists dramatically. **

Instead of being simple, low-energy transport forpeople of modest means, bicycles have become exoticaerobic exercise machines for the elite because of ourhelmet laws.

Keep up the good work. Maybe we can get rid of ourunhealthy bicycle helmet laws once and for all.

RJ BurkeRichmond

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The Editor,I wonder if anyone else has this problem?The yellow blinking lights at street crossings drive me

crazy.Someone pushes the button and nobody stops. These are

a death trap and should be red.In the last two years I have seen the same scenario four

times.I’m waiting in line in the right lane behind two cars

stopped for the crossing. I see a car in my mirror comingdown the centre lane at about 90 kilometres per hour withno intention of stopping.

The pedestrian is about to step into the centre lane. I’mhanging out the window screaming and yelling and leaningon the horn.

All the other drivers are preparing to commit me to amental institution.

The car finally grinds to a halt and a life is spared. I fol-lowed this lady, during which she ran a red light.

During this process, I was run into a curb by anotherlady making a right turn from the centre lane without look-ing.

I finally pulled up to the woman who almost killed thepedestrian. I said you almost killed that lady. She looked atme disgustedly, rolled up the window and pulled through ared light. Wow, another day of driving in Richmond.

Do you think they still sell driver’s licences?Lee JensenRichmond

Councillors laughingall way to the bank

The Editor,Re: “Where are the dead bodies,” Letters, Aug. 27.This is a classic example of the stupid histrionics we

have grown to expect from city hall.Of course there was absolutely no way councillors

McNulty and Steves were going to deliver up their corpsesfor internment, especially when there was a very importantvote on the horizon at about the time of the Canada Lineconstruction.

I refer to the vote when the mayor and all of the coun-cillors unanimously voted themselves a 25 per cent salaryincrease.

Right at the height of probably the highest recessionsince the Depression, a time when countless hundreds ofRichmond taxpayers were losing their jobs.

So not only are councillors McNulty and Steves aliveand kicking, but they are having a great time laughing allthe way to the bank with their new increases — all at tax-payers’ expense, of course.

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The Editor,Re: “Get facts straight about South

Arm Park,” Letters, Aug. 20.Among other proposed “improve-

ments” at South Arm Park, constructionof a lighted, two-court basketball facilityis currently underway.

I was approached while walkingin South Arm Park by Eve Rollet deDarantes — who is heading up the peti-tion to stop the proposed changes in thepark. I was pleased to sign on.

The “New Vision” for South Arm Parkis to include additional lighting, morejogging and walking tracks, outdoor exer-cise areas, and potentially, at a later date,artificial turf and outdoor concerts.

The project is a stark example of urbanplanning gone terribly wrong.

My husband and I have lived nearbySouth Arm Park for more than 30 yearsand use the park on a daily basis.

Both area residents and the park’s mostfrequent users are adamantly opposed tochanging the character of the park.

I strongly urge your readers to contactRichmond planning staff to voice theirconcerns over the transformation of oneof the few remaining natural green spacesleft in our community into an outdoorsports and entertainment center.

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I am, of course, notspeaking of those littlewhite lies everyone tellsat some time or another intheir life.

I am speaking of theones we create becausewe’re too afraid to tell thetruth.

In this moment, canyou bring awareness tospecific situations in yourlife where you decided notto tell the truth with someregularity?

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inquire whyyou told a liein the firstplace, youmight discov-er there wassome form offear attachedto it.

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Recall times in your lifewhen you didn’t tell thetruth or someone was nottelling you the truth andyou might see there wassome form of sufferinginvolved.

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Best friends help deliver gold for Team B.C.Host province captures Canadian Bantam Girls Baseball Championships with 5-4 win over Ontario in final

Forget about camping or goingto the beach. Best friends LexieBrenneis and Paige Harbord hungout together this summer on TeamB.C. winning a national champion-ship.

The teens culminated a memo-rable month journey on Sundaynight at Brighouse Park as B.C.captured the Canadian BantamGirls Baseball Championships witha 5-4 win over Ontario. The resultcompleted an unbeaten run forB.C. and marked the second timein three years it has finished on topof the podium.

At 14, Brenneis and Harbordwere the youngest girls on the teamand still have two more years ofeligibility at this level. They arealready thinking about repeating in2011 when the tournament is heldin Nova Scotia.

“We have been best friendsfor a long time and to be on thisteam has been an amazing experi-ence,” smiled Brenneis. “When wefirst started practice as a team, wedidn’t know anybody’s name andwe were really kind of nervous.

Then we end up right here (win-

ning a championship). All thesegirls are just amazing.”

Brenneis and Harbord havegrown up playing among boysin the Ladner Minor BaseballAssociation. This season, they wereteammates in the LMBA’s BantamHouse League.

Harbord won silver two yearsago as a member of Team B.C.at the Canadian Pee Wee GirlsChampionships. Brenneis wasplaying for the Ladner all-star pro-gram at the time.

They both attended Team B.C.tryouts last month and earned

spots on the 14-player roster, thatfeatures six players from Surrey.Nothing against their Ladnerteammates, but the intensity andcaliber of play at the Nationals wasunmatched.

“Everyone was just way morefocused and together as a team,”

said Harbord. “It was definitely abetter experience than playing boyshouse ball.”

Harbord also played rep fast-pitch and will continue to do bothin the future. Brenneis has playednothing but baseball.


Team B.C. member Hailee Renkers dives safely back into second base during action against Saskatchewan at the Bantam Nationals.

BY MARK [email protected]

see Nationals page 19

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SQUIRT A / B Sunday, Sept. 19 3-5 pmBORN 1999 AND 2000 Monday, Sept. 20 5-7 pmPEEWEE A Saturday, Sept. 11 noon-2 pmBORN 1997 AND 1998 Saturday, Sept. 18 noon-2 pmBANTAM A Tuesday, Sept. 7 6-8 pmBORN 1996 Thursday, Sept. 9 6-8 pmBORN 1995 Tuesday, Sept. 7 8-10 pm

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“I’m thinking aboutswitching but I haven’tmade up my mind,” shesaid. “I am very set onbaseball. It’s basically myentire life.”

Based on her role withTeam B.C., there will beplenty of more highlightstoo.

Despite her age and lackof experience at the nationallevel, Brenneis proved to beone of B.C.’s workhorses.

She pitched in a 7-2

semi-final win over Quebecthen got the start againstOntario, working nearlythree innings before depart-ing when her pitched countfor the day (95) had reachedthe maximum.

She also saw regularduty in right field and hitthe ball hard in each of herfour plate appearances. Shesingled in the seventh thatled to a pair of valuableinsurance runs.

After cruising throughround-robin play with

little resistance, B.C. hadits hands full in the medalround. It pulled away frombronze medalist Quebec inthe late going to earn thesemi-final win and trailedOntario 1-0 after threeinnings before erupting forfive unanswered runs.

Ontario still made thingsinteresting by scoring threetimes in the bottom of theseventh off player-of-the-game and winning pitcherFaith Lau.

The contest featured

a number of outstandingdefensive plays — much tothe delight of a large crowdat Brighouse.

B.C. head coach AlForman says the bar forgirls baseball in Canada justkeeps getting higher.

“Girls can play base-ball,” said Forman, who hasbeen involved with the girlsprovincial team programsince its inception.

“We saw some playstonight that would do boysproud.”

Extra innings ...Coaches and players had

rained praise on RichmondCity Baseball for its efforthosting the Nationals. Even

more impressive was thenumber of volunteers givingup so much of their time inan event that did not featureone local player.

Continued from page 18

MARK BOOTH/RICHMOND NEWS

A large crowd cheered on Team B.C. to victory at the Canadian Bantam Girls Baseball Championships.

Nationals: Calibre of girls baseball keeps improving each year


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Seedless Red Grapes

Lee Kum Kee DoubleDeluxe Soy Sauce 500ml

1449ea

Local FreshCauliflower

Ocean’s New ZealandGreenshell Mussels

3 For $6.88

248ea

Frozen Yellow Pompano

Light Fowl Chicken Fresh Pork Chops(Boneless)

299lb

Beef Rib Finger

Long Green Bean

99¢lb

399ea

Superior Soydrink (3.95l)(Sweetened & Unsweetened)

( )

199ea

Superior SavoryPressed Tofu

Australia Sweet OrangesSize 72’s

69¢lb

Sunrise Tofu (Smooth)700g

159ea

Thailand FairBrand White

Fragrant ScentedRice 20lbs

149ea

Frozen Basa Fillets

169lb 279

lb

2 FOR

500 299lb

日昇鮮裝滑滑豆腐皇

129lb

129ea

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