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Pageant contestant among those charged in riotSophie LaBoissonniere, 20, is charged with break and enter and participating in a riot

by Martin van den HemelStaff Reporter

A beauty pageant contestant has gone from elated to embar-rassed after being charged Wednesday in connection with last June’s Stanley Cup riot in Downtown Vancouver.

Sophie LaBoissonniere, 20, of Richmond was among 25 mostly Lower Mainland residents charged by Vancouver police.

It was just three months prior to the June 15 riot that LaBoisson-niere wrote about her Miss World Canada aspirations in her blog.

“The word I’m looking for is ELATED!! Why am I feeling this way you ask? Maybe because I found a sponsor that is willing to pay the majority of my entry fee for Miss World Canada,” she wrote on March 29. But she later withdrew from the contest.

And last January, she wrote in another blog about being crowned Miss Congeniality at the Miss Coastal Vancouver pageant, just her third pageant.

LaBoissonniere is scheduled to make her fi rst appearance in Vancouver provincial court on Dec. 14 after charges were sworn against her this week.

LaBoissonniere did not respond to interview requests left via her YouTube and Facebook accounts.

“We are very encouraged by the approval of these 61 charges and we will continue to work closely with the special prosecution team as even more charges are expected in the coming days and weeks,” Vancouver police Insp. Les Yeo said in a press release.

According to Yeo, each report on each suspected rioter is more than 500 pages in length.

And he said investigators are in the midst of fi nalizing the next batch of charges to be forwarded to the Crown for charge approval in the coming weeks.

“We are now another step closer to holding suspected rioters accountable for their actions on June 15,” he said.

Crown counsel approved 61 charges against a total of 25 sus-pected rioters. Nine are from Surrey, two from Burnaby, two from Maple Ridge, eight from Vancouver, one each from Richmond, North Vancouver, Delta and Seattle.

Kyle Benning photoSophie LaBoissonniere, 20, of Richmond was among 25 mostly Lower Mainland residents charged by Vancouver police.

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Drunken antics forced plane to be diverted to YVR

Two Ontario men whose drunken escapade aboard a Beijing-bound plane on Monday led to their arrest at Vancouver Inter-national Airport, will have to pay a $71,757 fi ne.

George Campbell, 45, from Conestogo, Ont., and Paul Al-exander Wilson, of Kitchener, Ont. were arrested Monday by Richmond Mounties and charged with mischief after “consuming too much alcohol” and “disobeying the directions of the fl ight crew” on an Air Canada fl ight from Toronto to Beijing, Richmond RCMP Cpl. Sherrdean Turley said.

The plane had to be diverted to Vancouver International Airport after the pair had to be restrained by the airline crew.

Richmond RCMP boarded the fl ight and escorted the pair off the plane.

Both received suspended sentences and a one-year term of probation.

— by Martin van den Hemel

Order of the Rising Sun for his work in judo

by Matthew HoekstraStaff Reporter

It was 1953, and Jim Kojima had an order from his parents—to join the new Steveston Judo Club.

“In the olden days, if your par-ents said to you, ‘You go to judo,’ you just went. That was it, and 80 Japanese kids went to judo,” re-membered Kojima, who was 15 at the time.

So drawn to the sport, he never gave up on it. And next Friday, Dec. 9, the consult general of Japan in Vancouver, Hideki Ito, will award the longtime Steveston resident with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.

The award recognizes Kojima’s contribution to the promotion of sports exchange and mutual un-derstanding between Japan and Canada through judo.

Kojima is the former president of Judo Canada, and is still involved in the provincial body and national body, including chairing a group that awards black belts.

Kojima said the recognition is a “huge honour,” but it’s not why he’s contributed so much to the de-velopment of the sport in Canada. He often refl ects on the words of a former judo teacher, who encour-aged him to do things for the bet-terment of the community—not for personal good.

“I never forgot what he said... I try not to ever think about why I do it, because I think it’s the right thing to do.”

The Steveston Judo Club is still going strong, now approaching its 60th anniversary.

This year, Kojima has been focus-ing much of his volunteer time on helping the people of Japan recover from an earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country.

Kojima, vice-president of the Richmond Sister City Committee, returned from Japan Wednesday

after helping deliver 700 lifejackets to school children in the village of Onagawa, a small fi shing vil-lage adopted by Steveston. The equipment is being paid for by over $120,000 in Steveston community

donations.During the presentation, Kojima

gave an emotional address to a crowd of students and community members.

“It’s just the devastation. The kids. It’s just so sad,” he said.

Cleanup efforts continue in the area, with mounds of rubble dot-ting the landscape. The rebuild-ing of the community’s spirit also continues.

Said Kojima: “The adults are pret-ty strong. The kids, look strong on the surface, but I don’t know what’s happening really, especially when they’ve lost a parent or two.”

Council to be sworn in MondayLinda McPhail and Chak Kwong Au will become Richmond’s

newest city councillors Monday, when the former school trustees will be sworn in at city hall.

The inaugural council meeting for the 2011-2014 term begins at 7 p.m. with Mayor Malcolm Brodie and eight councillors taking the oath of office.

Brodie will then deliver his inaugural address at the public meeting, followed by the announcement of council committee appointments.

All in attendance are welcome to a small reception following the meeting, which is expected to wrap up before 8 p.m.

McPhail and Au are both longtime school trustees who suc-cessfully challenged for a council seat in the Nov. 19 civic elec-tion.

Incumbents Bill McNulty, Derek Dang, Evelina Halsey-Brandt, Linda Barnes, Harold Steves and Ken Johnston were re-elected, as was Mayor Brodie.

—by Matthew Hoekstra

fi le photoThe consult general of Japan in Vancouver will award Jim Kojima (above) with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.

Years of neglect prompting loss of vessel in Britannia’s deteriorating fleet

by Matthew HoekstraStaff Reporter

A historic fi shing vessel built over 80 years ago now moored at Bri-tannia Heritage Shipyard is being scrapped.

The Shuchona IV is one of six large boats at Britannia. But after a team of consultants noted the vessel had extensive deterioration, the Britannia Heritage Shipyard Society has decided to have it hauled away for scrap.

“It was in rough shape when the so-ciety acquired it,” said Harold Steves, chair of city council’s parks commit-tee. “Unfortunately unless you put a lot of money into it right away, dry rot doesn’t slow down.”

Built by T. Atagi Boat Works in Ste-veston in 1927, the 53-foot Shuchona IV was donated to Britannia in 1997 by B.C. Packers. But besides an over-haul of the hull in 2003, little of the needed restoration work has been completed.

An inspection determined much of the fi shing boat had deteriorated and preserving it would require almost a complete rebuild. It isn’t a practical project for the society to undertake, marine surveyor Philip Oldham con-cluded.

“For a group of volunteers to be re-storing that many boats, and boats that big, they just couldn’t do it,” said Steves.

In recent months society volunteers have been salvaging pieces from the vessel, including the wheel, radar and compass, preparing for the vessel’s breakup.

Other Britannia boats include: the 1968 gillnetter Silver Ann, owned by the city, restored and relaunched in 2009; the Iona, a 1928 fi sh packing boat that’s largely restored; and the Merrilee II, a pleasure craft set to un-dergo repainting and general cosmetic upgrades.

But other vessels owned by the

society aren’t in as good of shape. According to a report from Britannia supervisor Bryan Klassen, the society “has been challenged to keep up even minimal maintenance” of its boats.

“With a decline in the society mem-bership and fi nances in recent years, the vessels have been neglected,” he said in his report.

The Starliner, a 1940s seiner, was found to be in “poor” condition due greatly because it sat unprotected and unmaintained for many years.

But the biggest project the society could face is the Fleetwood, a former rum-runner built in 1930 also found to be in poor condition. The Fleetwood has been in dry dock for an estimated 20 years, causing the hull to dry out. The surveyor’s report suggests little needs to be done in the short term to maintain the vessel as a display, but making it seaworthy would be “very costly and time consuming.”

Steves believes more needs to be invested in Britannia’s boats, noting the city hasn’t sunk any money into them over the years. If it did, he said, the Shuchona IV could have been saved.

“The society just didn’t have the money to do it, the city didn’t put any money into boats at all, and yet Britan-nia is there for the boats.”

Steves’ committee has asked staff to provide cost estimates for the res-toration projects, and to work with the society to help with fundraising for materials.

Shuchona IV•1927: T. Atagi Boat Works in

Steveston builds the 52-feet (16-metre) purse seine fishing vessel

•1987: Converted to a fish packing vessel

•1997: B.C. Packers donates the vessel to Britannia Heritage Shipyard Society

•1998: Volunteers haul vessel out of the water and begin resto-ration work on cabin, hull, decks

•2003: Film company antes up $15,000 so hull could be com-pleted and the ship removed from yard and launched

•2011: Boat surveyed and deci-sion made to scrap it after exten-sive deterioration found

Steveston’s Jim Kojima to be honoured by Japan

Historic fi shing boat to be scrapped

“I try not to ever think about why I do it, because I think it’s the right thing to do.”

- Jim Kojima

Matthew Hoekstra photoLinda Barnes and Chak Au are among the council-lors-elect to be sworn in Monday.


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Fire alarms, pepper spray interrupt meeting

by Sheila Reynolds Black Press

Interim directors will be appointed and a new elec-tion called in the new year after Kwantlen Polytechnic University students voted to oust the current Kwantlen Student Association at a special meeting Wednesday afternoon.

Scheduled to begin at 2 p.m., the meeting at the Surrey campus was delayed for more than an hour after someone pulled the fi re alarm and a hallway full of people was pepper sprayed.

The meeting fi nally resumed, and after the fi re alarm was pulled a second time, the vote fi nally proceeded.

More than 350 students – well above the minimum quorum of 250 – voted for the removal of fi ve execu-tives and eight voting council members (one of whom has already resigned).

The special general meeting was called after a 277-name petition was presented earlier in November, demanding the removal of the fi ve executives and

eight other voting council members from offi ce, plac-ing them in bad standing so they may never run for the KSA again, and to install a new set of bylaws.

Prior to the meeting, student Arzo Ansary said a “bunch” of students were disheartened by what they saw going on and didn’t feel they were getting any answers.

“They felt this is the only avenue they had left,” Ansary said, adding there are fears the controversy is harming Kwantlen’s reputation.

Much of the opposition began after it was discovered the association had put a lawsuit involving former director Aaron Takhar and others on hold. At the time, it was revealed at least two of the newly elected direc-tors are related to Takhar – his sister Justine Franson and cousin Nina Kaur. Franson has since resigned. The longstanding lawsuit, which involved the alleged mismanagement of more than $1 million in students fees, was subsequently dismissed without costs.

There are also allegations the current executives raised their pay by 40 per cent, spent $100,000 on a concert and spent thousands of dollars on legal fees.

Prior to the special general meeting, the KSA’s direc-tor of fi nance Nina Kaur said the meeting was invalid for several reasons, but, in respect to the students who showed up, hoped to have an open forum to hear their concerns.

Kaur said she and other elected directors spent Tuesday handing out pamphlets and speaking to students on campuses.

“A lot of our membership has been provided with false information that’s led students to believe the KSA is acting in a ridiculous manner, spending reck-lessly,” she said.

Kaur said she’s unsure why she and other KSA mem-bers have been targeted, but suspects it’s politically motivated. Many longtime directors were unseated in the April student election, which saw a huge turnover and large margin of victory for those now in power, she said.

Kaur noted Deloitte & Touche has been hired to do a full governance review so the KSA can move forward and ensure its practices are in order.

There was no answer at the KSA offi ce Wednesday afternoon.

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Arrest warrant issued for Kendall Goheen


A man convicted of try-ing to buy 150 kilograms of cocaine has now been charged with stabbing a dog and two cats to death on Oct. 7.

An arrest warrant was issued on Nov. 23 for Kendall Goheen, who was living in Richmond at the time local Mounties were called to his Garden City Road home by his ex-wife Latia Del Riviero.

Goheen was charged last week with nine ani-mal-cruelty-related charg-es, six under the Criminal Code of Canada, and three under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.

Described as “one of the most disturbing cases they have encoun-tered in recent memory” by B.C. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals general manager Lorie Chortyk, she’s hope-ful there’s justice for the three pets.

“It is truly horrible to think of the terror and pain that these animals suffered,” she said. “We can’t bring the animals back, but we can ensure that we do everything in our power to seek justice for them and to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.”

The Richmond Review was fi rst contacted by Del Riviero—who co-owned the pets—a short time after the killings.

She made the horrify-ing discovery, fi nding her still breathing but blood-ied 70-pound boxer Maza stuffed into a freezer. Maza later died.

“She raised her head...her eyes were complete-ly red...she was bleed-ing from her eyes,” she said.

Del Riviero explained that a couple of days prior to the incident, her ex-husband lost his job at a Richmond cabinet mak-ing fi rm.

He’d been frustrated that he couldn’t fi nd someone to care for their pets, as he was planning to leave town to pursue another job opportunity.

So when Del Riviero called him that night, and then went to his home, she said he told her: “It’s too late. They’re all in heaven.” He then pointed to the freezer.

Goheen tossed the bod-

ies of his dog and two cats, Pepper and Liston, into a plastic storage container, and refused to speak with investigators.

According to Del Riviero, Goheen had been bat-tling depression since his multi-year stint inside a U.S. federal prison, where he served a sentence fol-lowing a cocaine traffi ck-ing conviction involving $450,000 in cash and 150 kilograms of cocaine.

Goheen was arrested in March of 2004 during a sting by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administra-tion while he and another man tried to purchase the cocaine using cash that had been sprawled out on a bed in a Colorado hotel.

According to investi-gators, Goheen served as the muscle, and was sentenced to three years in prison, while his co-accused was imprisoned for nine years.

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Various groups will be selling fair trade items at the fair, including Ten Thousand Villages. Crafts from Guatemala, Nepal, Jamaica, the Philippines and Haiti will be available.

Other organizations represented at the fair include Oxfam, Amnesty International, Canadian Food Grains and Rich-mond Food Bank.

The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 3 at St. Alban’s Church (7260 St. Albans Rd.).

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A Richmond plumbing services fi rm is stepping up in support of the Richmond Christmas Fund and is challenging other local business-es to follow suit.

Ashton Service Group has do-nated $5,000 to the fund, which helps more than 2,000 low-income local families by supplying Christ-mas gifts and grocery vouchers at this time of year.

“Community involvement has al-ways been an important part of my personal philosophy,” said Ashton president Brian Williams. “My wife and I are from Richmond and we have made a choice to make a dif-ference here...Times are still tough for many people...This money will go a long way in buying food for families. We are challenging other companies to make a contribution of $500 to help families in need.”

For local businesses that can’t manage $500, Williams urged them to help in any way they can, perhaps by sponsoring one family and then personally delivering the gift basket.

Ashton Service Group recently donated a Community Cruiser to the Richmond Christmas Fund.

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Troy Daniel Tabolotney, 21, also handed probation


Troy Daniel Tabolotney was handed a suspended sentence and a one-year term of probation after pleading guilty to assault with a weapon.

The 21-year-old son of Debbie Tablot-ney, a Richmond Board of Education trustee, was involved in a Nov. 21,

2010 altercation at a home that was hosting a party.

Troy Tabolotney had attended the house party on the 3600 block of Springthorne Crescent when he was asked to leave and told he was no longer welcome.

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The B.C. Supreme Court ruling this week that found the toughest of

B.C.’s new impaired-driving penalties infringe on the constitutional right to a fair trial cannot be surprising to many.

When the provincial govern-ment created the law that, in effect, gave police the power to be officer, jury and judge, more than a few people cried foul.

At issue is the law that permits police to impose 90-day driving bans, impound vehicles for 30 days and levy significant fines that can climb into the thou-sands.

Those penalties are issued to drivers who have a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 or higher

The problem with this tough new penalty, Justice Jon Sigurd-son found, is that it offers drivers no recourse to go to court and challenge the charges.

Sigurdson’s finding is dead-on and follows in much criticism when the B.C. Liberals intro-duced the new penalties that have indeed infringed on Charter rights.

While Sigurdson found permis-sible the tougher penalties con-nected to blood-alcohol content in the “warn” range of 0.05 and 0.08, the confusion and fear the

new penalties invoked in British Columbians cry out for the B.C. Liberals to cut to the chase and make a bold decision.

It is either legal to drink or drive or it isn’t.

Forcing the public to engage in a dangerous and potentially costly guessing game while out having dinner is ridiculous.

If the B.C. Liberals are adamant that drinking and driving do not mix in any quantity, then let’s have a zero-tolerance law and dispense with the confusion now associated with what can only be interpreted as conflicting mes-sages on drinking and driving.

If that is not the B.C. Liberals’ intent, if they believe there is

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‘Mom... are you OK?” My eldest

is staring at me with wide eyes and a look of apprehension and fear.

“I think so,” I reply. “I’ve just had a really bad day.”

Earlier in the morning, I had woken up at 6 a.m. to try and get downtown for a breakfast meeting. As habit would dictate, I switched on my lap-top to check messages before I left. This time, something went wrong. Horribly wrong.

Instead of the quiet whir of motors and the screen lighting up, there was a horrible click-ing noise and a blank screen. I tried not to panic. Really I did. For most people, a computer crashing is a big annoy-ance. For me, it’s a bit like my office burning down.

I have always enjoyed being mobile. “Have laptop, will travel,” I’d say to myself. I could set up my office anywhere—in a coffee shop, at the library, or on my din-ing room table. I was footloose and fancy-free. Obviously, mobility has a price.

Weeks earlier, when my husband suggested I try this newfangled method of storing information called iCloud, I balked. Why would I want all my information floating out there? It just seemed so unsafe. Now, I take it all back.

I have come to real-ize that when you put all your eggs into one

basket, i.e. one laptop computer, you run some pretty big risks. Apart from losing all my files the thing I was panick-ing about the most was losing my calendar. I had all my meetings and the whole family’s activities, colour-coded even, and mapped out till January. Aside from my breakfast meeting that day, I had no idea where I was sup-posed to go!

Luckily, I had synced my calendar on my phone, along with some of my contacts. Hal-leluja! Important files like letterhead and work plans had been sent to Erika, our admin assi-tant. Photos had been backed up on our exter-nal drive. PowerPoint presentations were on a flash drive. I had luck-ily squirreled away files here and there. iCloud wasn’t looking so bad now.

It still didn’t abate the panic I felt as I heard the words “hard drive crash” at the Apple store. I

called my husband, freaking out. Somehow, he got word to my kids so when they walked in the door after school, they quietly tip-toed around me and did their best not to fight or argue the whole evening. I’m sure they could smell the tension in the air.

Yes, having a hard drive crash can feel like your whole world is wiped out. I could have kept on anguishing about losing all the e-mails in my inbox and all the pass-words to every website I ever registered with, but misery will only get you so far.

Instead, I came over to my kids, who had some-how fed themselves din-ner, and we snuggled on the sofa and watched TV together. Life goes on. Besides, I had no e-mails to reply to anyway.

Arzeena Hamir is co-or-dinator of the Richmond Food Security Society. Reach her at arzeena [email protected].

Life after the crash—the computer crashInstead of the quiet whir of motors and the screen lighting up, there was a horrible clicking noise and a blank screen. For me, it’s a bit like my office burning down.

Shades of GreenArzeena Hamir



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Editor:Jim Wright has once again put his

pen to paper, this time to accuse me of being deceitful and a liar because I refuse to be bullied into agreeing with him.

I did not and do not advocate for dense development on the Garden City lands as Jim Wright untruthfully claims in his letter and on his Garden City Lands website and blog. I fi nd Mr. Wright’s clever use of excerpts taken out of context from a general purposes committee meeting manip-ulative and offensive. He distorts and misrepresents my explanation of how the assessment authority determines the value of property into something that it is not. In my opinion he loses all credibility when he does things like that.

Let me be absolutely clear what my position on the Garden City lands has been from the beginning to now.

I supported the purchase of all of the Garden City lands from the Gov-ernment of Canada when the lands became surplus to the government’s needs.

The Government of Canada trans-ferred the lands to the Canada Lands Corporation as they were required to by legislation.

Canada Lands entered into a joint venture agreement with the Musqueam and held 50 per cent of the property in trust for them.

When the city was offered the opportunity to acquire half of the lands through a purchase and sales

agreement based on a memorandum of understanding with Canada Lands Corporation and the Musqueam, the owners of the property, I and seven other members of Council supported the acquisition.

I supported community uses only on the city’s portion of the property that would have been acquired under the purchase-and-sales agreement.

Our agreement with Canada Lands and the Musqueam ended in a man-ner that I did not support and is now the subject of a lawsuit. I am not able to discuss anything about that which leaves me at a disadvantage when misleading statements are made by those who are not aware of all the facts.

When council offered to purchase all of the property from Canada Lands and the Musqueam I supported the purchase. I did not support the price that was offered and which was ac-cepted without a counter offer.

I would like the lands utilized for community uses. Those community uses will be decided by all the resi-dents of Richmond after an extensive public consultation process and not just by Mr. Wright and the Garden City Lands Coalition. Their input will be considered along with everyone else’s, but they do not have the fi nal say.

I look forward to hearing from all the residents of Richmond on what they want to see on their Garden City Lands.

Evelina Halsey-BrandtRichmond

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Editor:On Blundell

Avenue (near No. 5 Road) there is an intersection at Shell Road Trail, where many people cross either on foot, on bikes or walking their dogs.

I have nearly struck people many times there and seen other motor-ists come close. The walkway needs a flashing light to indicate to motor-ists that someone is crossing. There are trees nearby as well, which impedes a driver’s vision.

There will be a serious incident there if the City of Richmond does not act soon.

George PearsonRichmond

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Editor:What I found from a couple of hours reviewing

the evidence on smart meters led me to come to the same conclusion as that of Dr. James Lu, Richmond’s medical health officer, and Dr. Perry Kendall, the provincial health officer: smart meters are unlikely to constitute a threat to the health of the public.

Radio frequency emission in smart meters is more like a radio wave (~900 mHz). It is non-ionizing because it has less than 0.001 per cent as much as energy as radiation from a light bulb. Because radio frequency emission is non-ionizing, the only exposure limit is how warm it can warm things up. This thermal limit is set as 0.6 microwatts per squared centimetre (mW/cm2) in Canada, the United States and most western European countries.

It is 50 times lower than the level seen with any potential hazard in animals.

Some countries, such as Russia, former East-ern bloc countries and China, have lower limit based on non-specific criteria. Switzerland and Italy artificially lower their limits “just in case” (called precautionary principles).

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control recorded undetectable exposure level when measuring from 20 centimetres from the meter (less than 0.02 mW/cm2, or about 1,500 times lower than the known hazard level).

Similarly, the independent consultant hired by BC Hydro found the exposure to be about 1,200 times (single meter) to 1,000 times (10 meters) lower than the hazard level. In fact, about 90 per cent of the detected level already exists from the everyday environment (“background noise”).

The exposure level drops off exponentially as you move away from the meter. Double the distance and the level drops to 25 per cent. Triple the distance and it drops to 10 per cent. So at less than two feet away from the meter, the exposure would be about 15,000 times less than the hazard level.

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Editor: My husband and I moved our

young family from a small town in Ontario last year to start a new chapter in our lives with a new job here in B.C. and we chose to call Richmond our home.

We were walking across West-minster Highway at Shell, coming out of the trail heading home with three kids—two on bikes one being carried by my husband using the crosswalk. We were not jaywalking or running a red light, and not one but three different cars (one being a work white van) proceeded to almost hit us—one right after the other. Seriously, no joke. Our hands in the air with shouts did not seem to be noticed.

Is this how the city of Richmond treats walkers and bikers and

children? Enraged doesn’t cut it. Yes I could excuse one car—might give a dirty look for their careless-ness especially when I am with all my children (that’s three kids under the age of 5), but three cars back-to-back not slowing down or even attempting to accommodate us!

I guess if you drive a big SUV or some expensive car you can do what you want regardless of others who have the right-of-way and are trying to teach their young sons the rules of the road, not even to men-tion courtesy or kindness for others.

I am just grateful that we all made it home alive, but sad that my chil-dren learned the lesson that rules are just mere suggestions at least in the city of Richmond.

Joanne DiGiovanni-LakinRichmond

Time to show who is running city hallEditor:

Who’s running city hall? Mayor and council? Or is it staff? Richmond’s child poverty rate is too high and the Richmond Potters Club is in dire straits.

Our mayor and some of our councillors have called former mayor Greg Halsey-Brandt’s statement that city hall is being run by senior staff and not by mayor and council misplaced. Mayor Brodie pronounced that his offi ce and his council make all the decisions, never staff.

Well, I hope there is no disagreement that the B.C. child poverty rate at 16.4 per cent (2009) comparing to our national rate at 12 per cent is a legitimate citizens’ concern. And that when Richmond’s child poverty rate ranks amongst the highest in B.C., it should be a concern for our mayor and council. If this mayor and council is calling the shots at city hall, let’s see this mayor and council take action to address this concern.

Again, the Richmond Potters Club has made a case for citizens to be concerned about, when our city raised their rent by 300 per cent in 2010, then raised it by another 15 per cent in 2011 (with roll back of contract concessions on top). These actions have put the club in a grave fi nancial position, and demise of the club is imminent. Meetings with city staff have brought no solutions in sight.

Well, if this mayor and council is running things at city hall, and not staff, let them take action to address this. I hope, better yet, I trust, our mayor the magnanimous winner of the recent mayoral race (it was hardly a race really) will not harbour any ill feelings against our pot-ters club for endorsing this mayor’s opponent during the election, that this mayor will take charge of things at city hall and save the day for our potters club.

Richard LeeRichmond

Editor:The Richmond Potters Club is happy to report the

success of our sale this past weekend. We are thank-ful to the staff at the Richmond Review and all of our customers for their support of this event.

The Richmond Potters Club has had many challenges in 2011 with a 300-per-cent rental increase and other concessions now being demanded by city staff. We will continue to negotiate these issues but it is gratifying that so many of our customers offered their support, shared our concerns and are hoping we are successful.

We wish to continue to volunteer at community events, provide adult classes, and provide a place to learn and enjoy the skills of pottery.

Arlene Skelton, PresidentRichmond Potters Club

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We know that increas-ing and maintaining adequate muscle mass is one of the best ways to keep body fat at bay and to improve overall fi tness, particularly as we age. We also know that weightlifting is the best way to build muscle mass.

Still, the number of women who actu-ally participate in any formal or consistent weight training work-out is still extremely low.

Most women who exercise are spend-ing most of their gym time on cardiovascular exercise. Whatever your reasons are for avoiding

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•You will be physi-cally stronger. Increas-ing your strength will make you far less dependent upon others for assistance in daily living. Chores will be easier, lifting kids, groceries and laundry will no longer push you to the max. If your maximum strength is increased, daily tasks and routine exercise will be far less likely to cause injury. Research studies conclude that even moderate weight training can increase a woman’s strength by 30 to 50 per cent.

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From Page 13•You will lose body fat. Studies

found that the average woman who strength trains two to three times a week for two months will gain nearly two pounds of muscle and will lose 3.5 pounds of fat. As your lean muscle increases so does your resting metabo-lism, and you burn more calories throughout the day. Gener-ally speaking, for each pound of muscle you gain, you burn 35 to 50 more calories each day. That can really add up.

•You will gain strength without bulk. Researchers also found that unlike men, women typically don’t gain size from strength training, because compared to men, women have 10 to 30 times less of the hor-mones that cause muscle hyper-

trophy. You will, however, develop muscle tone and defi nition. This is a bonus.

•You decrease your risk of osteoporosis. Research has found that weight training can increase spinal bone mineral density. This, coupled with an adequate amount of dietary calcium, can be a women’s best defense against osteoporosis.

•You will improve your ath-letic performance. Over and over research concludes that strength training improves athletic ability. Golfers can signifi cantly increase their driving power. Cyclists are able to continue for longer periods of time with less fatigue. Skiers improve technique and reduce injury. Whatever sport you play, strength training has been shown

to improve overall performance as well as decrease the risk of injury.

•You will reduce your risk of injury, back pain and arthritis. Strength training not only builds stronger muscles, but also builds stronger connective tissues and increases joint stability. This acts as reinforcement for the joints and helps prevent injury. A recent 12-year study showed that strength-ening the low-back muscles had an 80 percent success rate in eliminating or alleviating low-back pain. Other studies have indicated that weight training can ease the pain of osteoarthritis strengthen joints.

•You will reduce your risk of heart disease. Weight train-ing can improve cardiovascular health in several ways, including

lowering LDL (“bad”) choles-terol, increasing HDL (“good”) cholesterol and lowering blood pressure. When cardiovascular exercise is added, these benefi ts are maximized.

•You will reduce your risk of diabetes. Weight training may im-prove the way the body processes sugar, which may reduce the risk of diabetes. Adult-onset diabetes is a growing problem for women and men. Research indicates that weight training can increase glu-cose utilization in the body by 23 percent in four months.

•It is never too late to ben-efi t. Women in their 70s and 80s have built up signifi cant strength through weight training and stud-ies show that strength improve-ments are possible at any age.

Note, however, that a strength training professional should al-ways supervise older participants.

•You will improve your attitude and fi ght depression. Women who strength train commonly report feeling more confi dent and ca-pable as a result of their program, all important factors in fi ghting depression.

Note: Proper form is essential to benefi t from weight training. Do not start a weightlifting program without the help of a certifi ed weight training instructor.

Nadyne Rousseau is a BCRPA certifi ed personal trainer, weight trainer, group fi tness leader, prenatal and postnatal fi tness specialist and owner of Fit 4 Two-Richmond.

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When I fi rst saw the book A Cluttered Life by Pesi Dinnerstein, I thought – “Great, now someone can teach me how to get organized!”

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Much of her story is about self-care and the need to value ourselves as much as we value ev-eryone and everything around us. While Din-nerstein set out to write about her relationship with clutter, her journey was really about “a God who delivers to us the experiences—pleasant and not so pleasant—that can bring us closer to Him.”

By the end, she realiz-es that she’s used clut-ter all her life to hide

from uncomfortable feelings, including her troubled relationship with God. She realizes that clutter is some-thing internal not exter-nal. Her self-imposed distractions have kept her tied to the mundane and prevented her from reaching a higher spiri-tual plane. She says: “I’m so confl icted about wanting to be close to God that I make sure to keep myself in a state of perpetual chaos.”

To pronounce this book uplifting and insightful would be sell-ing it short. It moved me deeply and touched a personal chord that isn’t particularly comfortable, but one that demands examination nonethe-less. The book contains a great quote by Henry David Thoreau that may just become my new motto: “Simplify, sim-plify…We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.” Do yourself a favour and read this book.

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However, it is the coconut macaroons and the chocolate brioche that had the fi rst customers drooling and coming back for more. The team, pastry chef Kirsten Degenhardt and chef Keiran Flaherty, left their positions at the Opus Hotel to pursue their own dreams. And we are glad they did. Be sure you pay a visit for holiday entertaining and to reward yourself after all the planning and shopping.

The Sweet Spot Bakery, 12000 First Ave, Steveston; 604 271 8865; closed Mon/Tues.

•Le Chocolatier also celebrates their fi rst anniversary. Located inside the Izumiya Japanese Marketplace on Alderbridge Way between No. 3 Road and Minoru Blvd, Japa-nese chocolatiers Taka and his wife Kayoko specialize in ganache chocolate. Both of them worked in research and development at a chocolate factory in Japan before moving to Canada, which they fell in love with on their honeymoon.

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•Speaking of choco-late, Bernard Callebaut is on my to-do-list: ’tis the season for their organically grown BC cherries which have been aged in kirsch for fi ve months and hand-dipped in semi-sweet chocolate. A box contains eight to 12 of these liqueur-fi lled, seasonal treat. And they still contain the pit, so careful when taking that fi rst bite.

Bernard Callebaut, Blundell Centre (No. 2 Road and Blundell); 604 275 1244

•Also celebrating an anniversary is Gudrun Tasting Room in Ste-veston. Three years ago Patrick Tubajon took over the gallery space set back from Moncton Street (beside Dave’s Fish & Chips) and of-fered a style of food that was only found in Gastown. Charcuterie and cheese plates, above-ground salads or below-ground salads, soups, cheese fondue, and an award-winning selection of wine and beer.

Working without a fully-equipped kitchen, Chef Alison produces the best bacon and chocolate waffl es for weekend brunch. Gudrun has long been a favourite of those working in Steveston’s food industry and now it seems that everyone else is fully appreciat-ing this social, artsy, and hidden gem.

Gudrun Tasting Room, 3500 Moncton St.; 604-272-1991; gudrun.ca; closed Mondays.

•Working towards their fi rst anniversary is Casa Pinoy, a Filipino restaurant that opened in February of this year. Rene Hipolito and his wife Malu offer not only Filipino food (including Halo Halo), but also a Canadian menu that in-cludes omelets, pasta, fi sh & chips, burgers, corned beef hash, and poutine.

Friend Lucy sug-gested we meet at the Bridgeport & No. 5 Road location for lunch. She eats there often, because the service is friendly, the prices reasonable, the room clean and bright, and “it’s different from the day-to-day Asian food in Richmond”.

I ordered spring rolls (Filipino friend Cirila used to make these for me and I had to see if they were as good as hers). I also ordered the Sisig, a sizzling dish of pork belly and Chicken Inasal with basmati rice.

Casa Pinoy is famous for their pork hock and crispy pata. They don’t have all the Filipino foods, but they do have a good selection of favourites, with many dishes from the south-ern Philipines. There’s milkfi sh, beef tongue, grilled stuffed squid, and a list of break-fast items that reads like poetry: tapsilog, daingsilgo, lumpiasilog – served with two eggs, all day. No MSG here, just Himalayan salt.

Their success has come from word of mouth.

“All Richmond coun-cilors eat here,” says Rene, who employs seven staff, many of who come in to eat with friends on their day off. “This is a place where you feel at home and get the good food you deserve.” And it is like a bit of home cooking.

Casa Pinoy 11911 Bridgeport Road; 604 276 0201; 10am to 7pm every day.

Arlene Kroeker writes about food every weej in The Richmond Review. She may be reached at [email protected].

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Food for ThoughtArlene Kroeker

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Martin van den Hemel photoRobert Poburko, commodore of Richmond Yacht Club, presents a cheque to Richmond Christmas Fund’s Elizabeth Specht (centre) and Coun. Greg Halsey-Brandt. The Richmond Christmas Fund is accepting doantions from the community, For more information, call 604-279-7026 or e-mail [email protected].

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by Carla JordanSpecial to Black Press

The countdown to the holidays is on, bringing with it the challenge of how to serve a large gathering fast and easy. Fear not! There’s a simple solution. Forego the traditional, full-ser-vice, sit-down meal and opt instead for a buffet-style serving. Follow these three steps and yours will be a gather-ing remembered with fondness by both your guests and you.

1. Divide and Conquer: No more waiting in lines as Uncle Fred peruses the spread so slowly other guests nearly faint from hunger! “Set up multiple food stations. This idea will save your sanity,” says Chef Jeff Gillis, www.CelebratingHome.com. “A few days before your gathering, clear most items off your kitchen countertops, table, island and dining room buffet and move contents to the laundry room or garage. Convert each area into a serving station where foods will be grouped by category. Label each area with a sticky note so that when the big day ar-rives, the stations can quickly assembled.”

At each serving sta-tion, stack plates so diners needn’t traipse off to the table for one. Pre-fi ll glasses with ice and beverages for quick pick-up. Remember, it’s hard to carry more than a plate and glass so preset the table with napkins and fl atware.

2. Control the Crowd: “Don’t think twice

about placing tables

in multiple rooms,” adds Chef Gillis. “That’s better than crowding everyone together or asking guests to balance plates on laps while sitting on your sofa.” To seat people quickly (and without a fuss), use place cards.

3. Keep It Simple:

Flowers in a vase are

so last year. Instead, style up the buffet with an eye-catching “Gratitude Tree,” a sculptural bronze metal tabletop tree festooned with ribboned tree tags. Guests write what they’re thankful for on tags and after dinner’s done, take turns read-

ing. This is a unique

way to remind guests about the true meaning of the day and, because the tree arrives ready for display, it’s a real timesaver.

Remember -- every minute saved adds up to extra time you can spending enjoying the day with your guests.

Three tips for the perfect holiday buffet

Buffet-style meals are the key to serving a crowd, especially in a small space.

Prepare for the feast•Plan ahead. The key to minimizing holiday-in-

duced anxiety is to plan in advance. Take inventory now to make sure you have the essentials you will need to serve your holiday meal —both basics and serving pieces.

•Save time and space. Use serving pieces with warming trays to free up essential cooking space on your stove. To create additional space in your oven, use a three-tier oven rack on one side that leaves the other side open for more bulky food al-lowing you to cook more than one dish at a time.


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Industry stewards to start collecting all packaging materials by 2014

by Jeff NagelBlack Press

New concerns are being raised that the planned handover of the existing blue box collection system to private industry may undermine recycling in Metro Vancouver.

The provincial government earlier this year ordered industry stewards to start collecting all packaging materials by 2014—a move ex-pected to supplant existing blue box pickup and expand the materials collected.

It’s the latest in a series of extended producer responsibility initiatives in B.C. that already cover everything from beverage containers to electronics.

And while industry stewards would have to collect the paper, cardboard and plastic packaging under the new program, critics warn there’s no guarantee they will actually recycle it.

Metro Vancouver deputy solid waste manager Dennis Ranahan said the packaging collected could, in theory, be shipped outside the re-gion to be dumped, incinerated or exported overseas.

“We want to ensure the highest and best use,” he said. “That isn’t refl ected by any fi rm targets in the regulation.”

Rather than separate and sell low-value plastic at break-even or a loss—which some city-run recycling programs do—the industry stewards may decide it’s more profi table to sell it as fuel to be burned in incinerators or in industrial plants.

“We do not want to see low-grade plastics that are now source-separated just go to a refuse-derived fuel (RDF) application when we could be promoting recycling,” Ranahan said.

Metro’s solid waste plan allows incineration of waste as an energy recovery option preferred over landfi lling, but only for garbage that can’t be recycled.

“If you hand that over to the private sector, do they have the same motivations?” Ranahan asked.

He noted it sometimes takes time for markets and technologies to develop to make use of lower-margin recyclables, an incubation process that may be thwarted by a move to simply sell the material as fuel.

While Metro has its own waste-to-energy plant and plans to build more, there’s also plenty of demand for RDF in B.C. from ce-ment kilns, pulp mills or else industries across the border in the U.S.

A stewardship group that includes retail-ers, grocers, the newspaper industry and others is consulting with cities and other stakeholders before drawing up a draft plan of how it wants to proceed.

The Regional Engineers Advisory Com-mittee, representing senior engineers from cities across the region, has lodged its concerns, calling on the province to ban the dumping or incineration of collected packaging.

They also want to know whether the shift will mean breaking existing contracts with unionized or administrative staff at city-run recycling programs.

Since the change may effectively take cities out of the blue box recycling busi-ness, cities also want to know what would happen to their investments in buildings, trucks and equipment.

Ranahan predicts lengthy negotiations with industry to address those issues.

Surrey’s director of engineering Vince La-Londe suggests the stewards may simply partner with cities’ existing recycling opera-tions rather than start their own.

The program is to cover all cardboard/plastic packaging that comes from stores,

restaurant take-out containers, disposable cups and frequently discarded items like candy wrappers and cigarette packages.

It may also cover beverage containers like pop cans and bottles that already have high recovery rates thanks to the deposit-refund system.

It’s not yet clear whether that refund sys-tem will continue and some cities worry litter will increase if it’s abandoned.

The stewardship plan must be submitted to the province by November 2012.

Ranahan said Metro Vancouver and local cities support the intent of the initiative—making businesses bear the costs of their packaging so they have more incentive to design their products for the environ-ment.

Putting the costs back on industry instead

of taxpayers should ultimately mean an overpackaged product will cost more than its greener competitor.

Cities initially feared stewards might scrimp on recycling pickup, but Ranahan said the province has signaled it wants collection service levels maintained and curbside pickup continued.

The regional engineers also say the re-cycling program must ensure packaging is collected from local businesses, industries and institutions—not just homes.

Metro Vancouver is committed to increase its recycling rate from 55 per cent now to 70 per cent by 2015 and 80 per cent by 2020.

“Local government will be losing control over the prime mechanism for achieving 70 per cent or higher diversion,” the REAC report cautions.

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Cities question package recycling plan

The provincial government earlier this year ordered industry stewards to start collecting all packaging materials by 2014—a move expected to supplant existing blue box pickup and ex-pand the materials collected.

TransLink adds buses on busy routes

TransLink will boost rush-hour bus service on selected routes starting Monday.

Spokesman Drew Snider said the decision by area mayors and the province to increase the gas tax two cents a litre next April 1 al-lowed TransLink to add ex-tra service now rather than waiting until next spring.

“We know we’ve got that funding coming through next year,” he said.

“We were able to ad-vance some of that from our reserves and push ahead with areas that sorely need it – some U-Pass routes and some of the routes in the South-of-Fraser area.”

More morning trips will be added for the #410 22nd Street Station/Rail-way route, which connects Richmond, New Westmin-ster and Surrey and has seen a large increase in ridership.

See www.translink.ca for details.

—by Jeff Nagel

“Rudy” is the centre of attention wherever he goes and this was certainly the case this past weekend. The Operation Red Nose mascot was spotted at various Richmond and Delta pubs and restaurants and several Christmas parties rais-ing awareness about this designated driver service celebrating its 10th year in Delta/Rich-mond and its 27th year in British Columbia.

This past weekend 60 Delta/Richmond volun-teers drove more than 200 people home safely from their Christmas festivities. They trav-elled more than 2,500 kilometres to pick up and deliver party-goers throughout Delta and Richmond.

“These last two years we have seen a large spike in the number of people using the service. We are pleased that people are acting more responsibly by choosing Operation Red Nose,” said Carlene Lewall, coordinator of Operation Red Nose Delta-Richmond. “This also means that we need more volunteers. We are very short on volunteers especially this Saturday (Dec. 3) and New Years Eve,” Lewall added.

Operation Red Nose is a convenient and unique service. It is available between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. on Dec. 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 and New Year’s Eve.

Clients can call Opera-tion Red Nose at 604-943-0460 to arrange a ride. The call takers ask for a pick up location, the destination, and a few other details, includ-ing a cellphone number.

The Operation Red Nose designated driver, accompanied by a navigator, will drive the client(s) in the client’s vehicle while an Opera-tion Red Nose escort vehicle follows behind.

Navigators and escort drivers must be 19 years old or older, and designated drivers must be 21 or older.

Clients are advised to call 30 to 45 minutes in advance of their desired pick-up time, and 60 minutes in advance after midnight. People must have a vehicle to use Operation Red Nose. Donations from Operation Red Nose clients are greatly appreciated, but not re-

quired. All proceeds will help to buy equipment to equip the Delta Sport Development Center.

The service continues to increase in popu-larity. Last year, 650 rides were provided. Operation Red Nose drivers covered 21,509 kilometres of pavement

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If you are interested in becoming part of the Operation Red Nose team, volunteer ap-plication forms can be downloaded from www.operationrednosedelta.com or you can contact 604-943-0460.


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Why Teenagers Cause More AccidentsA recent study by State

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The conventional wisdom has been that excessive speed is usually the problem. The State Farm Study reviewed over 800 accident reports involving teenage drivers. The conclusion was that about 21% of the accidents resulted from excessive speed, and this is just one of the three main reasons for accidents caused by teenage drivers.

The second specifi c cause, 20% or so, was a driver’s focus on what was immediately ahead without regard to the big picture. With experience a broader perspective develops, but new drivers typically have not fully developed an ability to anticipate dangers some distance down the road.

Not surprisingly, distraction was identifi ed as a third major cause – about 20% – for accidents caused by teenage drivers. Phones, radios, and social interaction inside and outside the vehicle, all tend to take the focus off the road.

What should be done? The study seems to point to the need for “time behind the wheel”. Driving is an acquired skill. No one is born with a clear instinct regarding how fast a specifi c vehicle can be driven into a specifi c type of curve in the road. Any teenage driver going into a curve at excessive speed is not planning to leave the roadway or roll the vehicle. All of this is a matter of judgment based on experience.

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Two ‘frightening’ scenarios in future outlook

by Jeff NagelBlack Press

Port Metro Vancouver now recognizes it might face low-growth scenarios where the massive infrastructure upgrades underway to move goods through the region may not pay off, but it so far continues to bet on stronger trade growth.

The authority unveiled its new Port 2050 vi-sion last Friday, predicting what may lay ahead over the next 20 to 40 years.

It includes two low-growth scenarios that president and CEO Robin Silvester calls “fright-ening.”

One dubbed “Local Fortress” details how local residents’ choice to become a “lifestyle region” throttles Metro Vancouver’s potential as a global hub, compounding the damage of a slow global economy.

That scenario ends with a region attractive to tourists, retirees and the affl uent, the report says, but one that pushes away industry and jobs at a cost to the region’s character, vibrancy and diversity.

A second scenario is dubbed “Missed the Boat”, where supply chain problems and lack of community support for the port leaves Metro Vancouver unable to fully tap growth in emerg-ing markets. Industry then opts to use other ports.

More likely, according to Silvester, is a third “Rising Tide” scenario of continued growth but one that is more volatile because of the increasing challenge of climate change and “resource wars” over commodities.

It anticipates a one-metre rise in sea level by 2040 and temperatures four degrees warmer, as the impacts of climate change arrive de-cades sooner than expected.

He said “Rising Tide” may be just a precur-sor on the way to a fourth outlook called “The Great Transition” – a rapid shift to a post-industrial, post-carbon world.

It anticipates a global carbon tax and triple-bottom line accounting to refl ect the economy

and social needs. And it still anticipates a relevant port because rising oil prices make shipping and rail more competitive than truck-ing.

Gateway critics have long argued port expan-sion harms the region’s residents, its environ-ment and food security.

They accuse the port of driving the Lower Mainland’s freeway and bridge building binge and buying up farmland for new terminals and warehousing.

The port authority projects container traffi c through B.C.’s West Coast will double over the next 10 to 15 years and nearly triple by 2030.

It has proposed a second three-berth con-

tainer terminal at Deltaport to handle the ex-pected growth.

Silvester, in a Nov. 25 speech to the Van-couver Board of Trade, gave no indication the Port 2050 fi ndings will alter the port’s present course.

But he warned the fi nancial crisis in Europe means some of the changes and volatility the port expects in the decades ahead may come sooner than predicted.

He stressed the importance of the 129,000 port-related jobs in the Lower Mainland in weathering any economic storm and said poli-cies and programs may need to be revised to preserve and expand those jobs.

It may be time for a single West Coast port authority, he said, that takes in both Port Metro Vancouver and the Port of Prince Rupert to ensure the two compete with U.S. ports but not against each other.

He also repeated the port’s concern about confl ict over land use and the declining supply of industrial land in the region.

“Perhaps it’s not just an Agricultural Land Reserve that’s needed in British Columbia, but a Jobs Land Reserve,” Silvester said. “A reserve where land that is critical to the jobs we have, and the new jobs that we will require over the next 30 to 40 years, allows them to grow and fl ourish.”

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Port Metro Vancouver photoContainer ship docking at Deltaport.

New Transit Police chief chosen

A senior Edmonton police offi cer is the new chief of Metro Vancouver’s Transit Police.

Neil Dubord, 49, is deputy chief of Edmon-ton’s community policing bureau and will be sworn in here Feb. 1.

TransLink’s 167-offi cer force had been with-out a permanent chief offi cer for more than a year after the police board terminated former chief Ward Clapham in September of 2010, citing a desire to change the force’s manage-ment style.

TransLink chief operating offi cer Doug Kelsey cited Dubord’s exemplary career, awards and academic achievements.

“Neil has covered a lot of ground in the 25 years since he began policing downtown Ed-monton as a rookie offi cer,” he said.

Transit Police board chair Mark Reder said the force was seeking a candidate with on-the-ground police experience and strong manage-ment skills who knows the value of being close to the community.

Dubord has a master’s degree in leadership and training from Royal Roads University and a doctorate in business management from Arizona’s Northcentral University. He has also

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Vancouver mayors back legalized pot

Four former Vancouver mayors are demand-ing an end to marijuana prohibition, calling it a failed policy that has fueled gang crime.

Sam Sullivan, Mike Harcourt, Larry Camp-bell and Philip Owen signed a letter urging all other elected leaders in B.C. to join the push to regulate and tax pot.

“This massive illegal market drives violence in communities throughout the province,” their letter said, adding it’s time for “out of step” elected offi cials to join the debate and deliver new proposals before more damage is done.

The four mayors – of differing political stripes – cited Fraser Institute estimates that B.C.’s illegal pot trade is worth $7 billion a year.

“We believe a legally regulated market for adult cannabis use has the potential to reduce rates of cannabis use while at the same time directly addressing organized crime concerns by starving them of this cash cow,” the letter said.

“A regulated market would enable govern-ments to improve community health and safety while at the same time raising millions in tax revenue.”

The mayors endorsed the Stop the Violence BC coalition of criminologists, economists, lawyers, police and public health experts ad-vocating for legalized marijuana.

Raw milk advocates in court

Operators of a dairy co-op in Chilliwack ac-cused of continuing to illegally supply unpasteur-ized raw milk to Lower Mainland residents face a contempt of court hearing Dec. 6.

Michael Schmidt, an Ontario raw milk crusader, and Gordon Watson, a Burnaby resident and partner in the Our Cows cow-share operation, are to appear in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster.

Fraser Health alleges an inspection in August shows they kept distributing raw milk in con-travention of a March, 2010 injunction banning anyone at the dairy from packaging or distrib-uting raw milk or related products for human consumption.

Health offi cials maintain drinking raw milk is a serious public health risk because it is often

contaminated with bacteria.The cow share had sought to skirt the B.C. law

that bans the selling of raw milk but allows farm-ers to drink it by arguing its members consume their own cows’ milk.

They have also tried labeling milk “not for hu-man consumption” and recently claimed to be distributing cosmetics, not food.

Schmidt and Watson hope their court fi ght ends in the legalization of raw milk sales here.

Schmidt is also being prosecuted for raw milk sales in Ontario, where the top court rejected his arguments.

Supporters who claim raw milk has health benefi ts staged a rally for “food freedom” Nov. 23 in Vancouver.

Vancouver weighs viaduct future

Drivers may not like it, but the City of Van-couver is mulling the potential removal of its Dunsmuir and Georgia Street viaducts that access downtown to open the way for rede-velopment of False Creek fl ats.

Concepts being fl oated include turning the viaducts into elevated parks within a new urban forest or creating Venice-like canals from False Creek to make new waterfront property.


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2011-12 Richmond Secondary Schools’ Senior Basketball Preview

Griffi ns riding the wave of successby Don FennellSports Editor

The high school basket-ball season always elicits plenty of interest and the

2011-12 campaign promises to be no exception.

Though all the starters from last year’s provincial AAA senior boys’ championship team have graduated, the R.C. Palmer Griffi ns will look to Grade 11 forward Jamie Madewan to help them challenge for supremacy once again. And at the senior girls’ level, the Steveston-London Sharks will rely heavily on their ace Grade 11 point guard Anmol Mattu to help lead them into uncharted waters.

But one of the unique things about sport is its unpredictability. So pull up a seat and cheer on your favourite Richmond team.

BOYS:R.C. Palmer Griffins

One of the greatest challenges in sport is trying to repeat, but Palmer coach Paul Eberhardt genuinely believes the Griffi ns can do it.

Their hopes rest squarely on the shoulders of six-foot-fi ve Grade 11 forward Jamie Madewan.

Regarded by many as one of the top high schoolers in the province, he was one of only three B.C. players to try out for the national Cadet team and was the leading scorer for the provincial under-16 team. He’s also coming off a great 2010-11 season in which he averaged 10 points per game off the bench including four straight three-pointers in the cham-pionship game against Vancouver College.

While Madewan is a natural guard,

Eberhardt plans to play him at all positions.

“Jamie is a very polished offensive player as he can hit the three-pointer and also get to the hoop with great effi ciency,” said Eberhardt. “He has a very long athletic body which also helps rebound, and he can use his quickness to beat bigger players. I think he has the ability to truly be one of the all-time greats that I have ever coached.”

Grade 12s will make up the re-mainder of the starting lineup. Tyler Debeer, a six-foot-three forward, is a physically strong athlete who Eberhardt predicts will be among the team leaders in rebounding and inside scoring. He has also worked to improve his outside shooting and is adapt at guarding bigger players inside the paint, understanding how to effectively use his strength and positioning.

“I expect him to be close to averag-ing a double-double this season,” said Eberhardt.

Ben Samy is an explosive guard who should thrive in the Griffi ns’ up-tempo style. He has a solid pull-up jumper and has extended his range to become a good three-point shooter.

J.P. Javier learned the point guard job from two of the best last season in Billy Cheng and Vijay Dhillon and is now ready to take on the starting role. He’s a creative ball-handler and passer is good at pushing the ball up the fl oor.

With a great outside shot, Chris Randing will line up as a shooting guard and should be among the team leaders from three-point range. He has also improved his passing and defensive abilities and should provide consistent minutes for the Griffi ns.

Palmer is currently riding a 65- game unbeaten streak against Rich-mond teams.

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Palmer confidently looking to defend its provincial AAA boys’ championship

John Gordon photoVijay Dhillon, who led the Palmer Griffi ns to the B.C. AAA high school senior boys’ basketball championship last season, has taken his game to the University of Victoria. But despite losing all the starting fi ve to grad-uation, Griffi ns’ coach Paul Eberhardt believes his team can again challenge for provincial supremacy.


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J.N. Burnett Breakers

Jason Leslie and Novell Thomas have teamed up to coach a young and small senior boys’ team at Bur-nett that has plenty of promise.

“They will play hard and learn a lot, and we expect them to be very competitive,” said Leslie.

The starting fi ve will feature Brandon Beavis at point guard, Alban Shala at shooting guard, Kabir Sandhu in the post and Tyler Samuels at power forward. Daniel Liu, the lone Grade 12, rounds things out.

Leslie said the bench is also quite strong and is counting on all 11 play-ers on the roster to make “signifi cant contributions.”

“As Kabir gets used the physical style at senior we expect him to really grow,” said Leslie. “And Daniel will also improve greatly as he gets used to organized basketball, since we did not have a senior team last year.”

The Breakers will have to play fast, but controlled, to take advantage of their speed and reduce the size disadvantage we’ll have,” he said. “We expect a very competitive league and plan on being in the mix. Hav-ing (former Canadian national team player) Novell work with the team, and bring his wealth of experience and knowledge of the game, will be huge for these players.”

R.A. McMath Wildcats

Co-coaches Jason Belonio and Ben Scarr expect the Wildcats to be more than competitive this season. And with good reason. Their returning Grade 12s were part of a team that fi nished second in the Richmond league last season, during which their only loss was to Palmer. And McMath’s Grade 11s fi nished fourth at the B.C. junior boys’ championships.

Already, Belonio says there appears to be good chemistry on the fl oor.

Leading the way is third-year start-ing point guard Josh Parkes, who as a fi rst team all-star last season. Belonio says he’s underrated because not many coaches outside of Richmond know how good a shooter he is.

Andrew McCaskill is a Grade 11 point guard who was an all-star at least year’s provincial junior tourna-ment. He’s good at creating shots for both himself and teammates.

Senior Jordan Gilles is a solid

defender who will be assigned the job of guarding the best opposing perimeter player each game, while Garth Anderson and Shannon Faleiro are expected be contribute to the Wildcats’ inside scoring. Grade 11 Matt Perry just may be the team’s best rebounder and post defender.

McMath’s success will depend on its ability to play an up-tempo game by creating turnovers through its pressure defence.

Hugh McRoberts Strikers

Coach Brian Meier is having diffi culty containing his excitement regarding the 2011-12 season. With good reason.

“I believe there are several teams that can all be competitive, so it should be a lot of fun,” he said.

The Strikers expect to be one of those teams, with Meier proud of the solid work ethic his players show at every practice and in every game.

“We expect to be the hardest working, toughest team on the fl oor each night,” he said. “For us to be successful, we need to want it more than the other team.”

Meier said the Strikers will be known for their strength of play as a unit. He preaches the concept of team, he said, because he fundamentally believes in it.

That being said, it is hard not to get excited about the prospects of Grade 9 point guard Arnold Jr. Macalipay, a fi rst team all-star at the 2011 Western Canada Summer Games. Tremendously athletic, he possesses skills that you cannot teach—you simply have them or you don’t.

“He has me shaking my head in amaze-ment at least a couple times every game; and I see him play every day,” said Meier. “Arnold was a fi rst team all-star at the Western Canada Summer Games this past summer as a U14 player on a U15 team.

Another player to note is Grade 11 guard Terry Lok who is unquestionably the leader of this group as his tough, athletic style of play sets the tone for the rest of the team. There may not be a harder working basketball player in the city and his skill might catch people off guard, said Meier.

Because of his size, six-foot-three, Grade 10 guard John Tseng could be a factor as the season rolls on. He also possesses a wide variety of skills and simply needs more experience.

“The more he plays against older, stronger competition the better he will become,” predicted Meier.

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Richmond ColtsWith eight returning players, the Colts will have

plenty of experience to draw on this season. How well they use it, however, will determine how suc-cessful the team is.

“They worked hard over the summer so I’m hope-ful their games will continue to improve and they’ll challenge each other every day,” said coach Les Brown. “If they do, we will be OK.”

Leslie Tsang has improved each of the last two seasons and appears poised to take on an ever big-ger role with the Colts this season. Ami Roshanra-van has also improved and should be a consistent presence on the fl oor, while Steve Kao will be relied upon for his leadership and experience.

David Yap made the team as a Grade 10 and has fi t in with the up-tempo style Brown wants the Colts to play.

“We don’t have the luxury to set up a half-court game, but we should be pretty quick,” he said.

Steveston-London Sharks

Coach Mike Stoneburgh has high expectations of the Sharks this season.

“We expect to be very competitive and chal-lenge for top spot in the Richmond league,” he said.

The Sharks will count heavily on Grade 11 Kings-ton Chung, who returns for his second season as the starting point guard. He had a statistically strong campaign a year ago during which he aver-aged 8.1 points and 4.6 assists per game.

Grade 12 forward Andrew Huang is being count-ed on to contribute in the paint, while improving on his 8.6 points and 7.6 rebound average per game last season.

A knee injury cut short Malcolm Lee’s junior sea-son a year ago, but the talented Grade 11 appears

to have made a strong recovery and is poised to be another strong contributor to the Shark attack.

“He’s a great two-way player and doesn’t have to score to be noticed,” said Stoneburgh. “He will be a leader in steals and rebounds.”

Bowen Bakken is a Grade 10 student who is coming off a great summer playing for a Basket-ball BC regional team. He has great offensive side, and isn’t afraid of contact.

The Sharks don’t have a lot of size, but are blessed with good depth, plenty of quickness and strong shooting skills.

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Don Fennell photoSteveston-London coach Mike Stoneburgh (left) has high expectations of the Sharks this season.

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The Sharks aren’t big, but they cer-tainly have plenty of bite—perhaps even enough to challenge some of the better teams in B.C. for provincial supremacy.

Veteran coach Les Hamaguchi has as-sembled a talented team of 10 players; fi ve returnees and fi ve newcomers he believes have the skills and make up to be among the elite.

Leading the way is Grade 11 guard Anmol Mattu, who has been a Sharks starter since Grade 8.

League MVP a year ago, Mattu contin-ues to grow and mature. The experience she gained playing for Canada’s under-16 women’s team at the 2011 FIBA Americas Championships in June in Mexico has made her that much more of a dynamic player.

“It’s tough to improve on some of her skills, but subtly she has,” Hamaguchi said. “That experience with Canada, and her naturally maturing, has helped. The main thing is her confi dence level is higher and that translates into some bet-ter decisions.”

A league all-star a season ago, Grade 12 forward Lindsay O’Loughlin also appears to have taken signifi cant steps.

“Lindsay is a very good rebounder and outlets the ball well, but she’s also a very versatile, athletic big (six-footer) kid who wants to improve which is always a posi-tive,” said Hamaguchi.

Forward Alyssa Critchley and guards Jes-sica Lang and Lauren Kim Sing round out the returnees.

The newcomers are all talented athletes, who play several sports at a high level. They include versatile Alyssa Graeme, who can play guard or forward, Shayla Kaplen, Nadia Drissi El-Bouzaidi and Aliya Prasad.

“It’s early, but very promising,” said Hamaguchi. “Overall, we seems to be faster as a team and what I like so far from this group are their instincts. They’re very athletic and their thought process is good. Technically we still have a ways to go, but they don’t seem shy about mixing it up.”

R.C. Palmer GriffinsA guard-heavy team, the Griffi ns will be

led offensively by Richmond regional play-ers Allyssa Alano and Connie Chan. They bring experience and solid wing-play. Anh Hoang, a forward/guard brings strong on-court leadership and intensity, while Olivia Liao offers an effective and consis-tent sense of defensive awareness.

Palmer also has three Grade 10 play-ers in Jasmine Lehal, Vivian Tsang and

Maegan Cu who are also expected to log a signifi cant number of minutes.

“Hopefully they will soon be strong role players, and possibly starters for this team,” said coach Paul Teodosio, who wants the Griffi ns to play a high-tempo style both on offence and defence.

“Speed is defi nitely a strength, and it shows,” he says. “We need to work on our team play but that will develop fast as the season goes along.”

Hugh Boyd TrojansThe Trojans head into the 2011-12

campaign sporting one of the most senior-laden lineups in the Richmond league. Six returning seniors—Jerizza Beltran, Olivia Ciccozzi, Hillary Strelau, Alexis Khoshaba, Alix Ruttan and Mariah Hay—have played together since they were Grade 8s and bring plenty of experience and dedication with them.

Newcomers Sarah Olson, Cassie Goh, Salome Dede and Rachel Ang bring ath-leticism and energy to the team.

“Overall, the season will be a process,” said coach Stu Ruttan. “We have lots to learn but also lots of opportunity to play. I expect they’ll work hard and we will see where the chips fall. If they can dedicate themselves to the process they will see rewards.”

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Don Fennell photoStill only in Grade 11, Steveston-London guard Anmol Mattu (left) is one of the elite players in high school girls’ basketball in the province. A member of the Sharks since Grade 8, she played for Canada at the FIBA Americas under-16 tournament last June.




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Homes start at $250,000. For more information visit www.mosaichomes.com/foster or call 604-936-9300.

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The Richmond Inter-national Midget Hockey Tournament has become a holiday staple. But as the annual event ap-proaches its 31st anniver-sary, Dec. 26-31, the need for volunteers is greater than ever.

“With 58 teams partici-pating, we’d appreciate any help,” said Wendy Steadman, who along with Irene Pacey is co-chair of the tournament. “There are all kinds of roles we need to fi ll, from scorekeeping, timekeep-ing and greeting to deliv-eries and selling 50/50 tickets.”

Now into its fourth de-cade, the tournament not only draws teams from throughout North America and, on occasion even further afi eld, but is a strong contributor to the local economy.

“Our tournament is held over six days and with the majority of the teams from out of town it’s a big boost to hotels, res-taurants and shopping,”

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It’s also an important fundraiser for Richmond Minor Hockey, which oversees the tournament. Monies assist Richmond’s Midget players in cover-ing their post-secondary education expenses, which are continually rising.

Held in high esteem by the hockey fraternity, the tournament also elicits plenty of interest from scouts at a variety of lev-els. It’s where the Surrey Eagles discovered future NHLer and current Mon-treal Canadiens forward Scott Gomez representing his native Alaska. Current NHLers Brandon Dubinsky (New York Rangers) and Evander Kane (Winnipeg Jets) were also scouted at the tournament while playing for Alaska and the Greater Vancouver Cana-dians respectively.

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Don Fennell photoA team from the Yukon Territories (battling host Richmond above) will return for the annual Richmond International Midget Hockey Tournament. The 31st edition of the holiday classic begins Dec. 26.


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From Page 28The league will be tough

this year, Ruttan pre-dicted. But, he added, it’s nice to see the level of basketball rising again in Richmond.

“I just hope it can be sustained,” he said.

Ruttan is also look-ing forward to coach-ing against one of his own former coaches. Steveston-London mentor Les Hamaguchi was just getting his start in coach-ing during Ruttan’s junior high playing days. Ruttan is also looking forward to participating in the Bob Carkner Classic, which is hosted annually in Janu-ary by Steveston-London.

Ruttan and Mike Carkner (Bob’s son) played on Hugh Boyd’s junior boys’ team which Hamaguchi coached.

“Now, both (Carkner’s) and my daughter are in their last year, so that will be a special event for sure,” Ruttan said.

Hugh McRoberts Strikers

This year’s version of the Strikers will be small in numbers, but coach Fernando deGuzman says not in talent.

“Although we’re lacking

in experience, we expect the players to use their athleticism to compete at this high level,” he said.

Because of other com-mitments, so far the only returning players are Grade 11s Simran Hothi and Joeven Dhari. The rest of the team will be made up of last year’s Richmond Juvenile league champi-ons.

The starting five will consist of Grade 10s Leah Lum, Elana Hong-Sponage, Natalie Fitzpatrick and Marie-eve Beaulieu, and Grade 11 Simran Hothi.

Former Strikers Catterina Rios and Sherma Libatique will be assistant coaches this season.

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Ravens win prestigious Kamlooops invitationalThe Richmond Ravens

capped an outstanding weekend by capturing the Kamloops Female Pee wee AA Tournament with a convincing 8-0 final-game win over the Prince George Cougars.

Richmond started the tournament slowly, coming off the bus and on to un-familiar Olympic-sized ice, where they lost a heart-

breaking opening game 4-3 to the host Kamloops Mystix Blazers. Kamloops scored off a deflection with 34 seconds left to secure the win. It would be the last goal scored against the Ravens in the tourna-ment.

The Ravens rebounded the next day to defeat Tri Cities Predators 7-0, which set up a must-win round

robin game against the undefeated Cougars. The Ravens came out on top with a 9-0 victory. The Ra-vens and Cougars tied for first in the Round Robin, setting up a rematch in the final.

“Our girls kept getting stronger as the tourna-ment progressed,” stated Ravens co-head coach Tony Lindsay. “The games were

60 minutes and we were absolutely relentless. We flat out wore teams out, outscoring the opposition 16-1 in the third periods. I am very proud that it was a complete team effort. All the girls contributed.”

Goaltenders Jenna Ehling and Lauren Dagenais each posted shutouts in the tournament and were sup-ported by a stout defence

of Eliane McJunkin, Hannah Green, Kate Reilly and Meg Randall. The line of Nicole White, Lauren Howlett, and Karina Lannard was the highest scoring line in the tournament. Hannah Shihundu, Nicole Wong, and Sidney Parker contrib-uted with timely goals and great forechecking. The line of Sierra Shikaze, Kyra Kuramoto, and Cameron

Sihoe was dominant every shift and Elena Lindsay supported well.

The tournament was a great step as the Ravens continue climbing the mountain in preparation for hosting the provincial championships in March.

The Ravens are now returning their focus to league play, where they are currently undefeated.

The Richmond Ravens Peewee AA team celebrates its victory over Prince George in the fi nal of the prestigious Kamloops invitational tournament last weekend.

Richmond Ravens know how to have fun and are throwing a party for their fellow play-ers on Sunday (Dec. 4) from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Richmond Ice Centre (Coliseum).

The second annual Tyke jamboree will see approximately 80 players from female hockey associations around Metro Vancouver come together to compete in a fun tournament to help raise the profi le of female hockey.

“We want to raise awareness of what age we start our players, how much development opportunity they get and create an interest in

female hockey in all communities,” says Patti Martin, president of the Richmond Ravens.

The jamboree will divide the players onto mixed teams, giving the young players a chance to meet future opponents in a friend-ly, get-to-know-you style atmosphere.

Reps from BC Hockey and the female com-mittee director for the PCAHA will be in at-tendance to hand out medals and goodie bags, and help bring attention to what the grassroots level of girls’ hockey is doing.

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On Nov. 22 more than 140 volunteers, including this group from the Delta Van-couver Airport Hotel, participated in the eighth annual Windows of Hope fund-raiser. For the event, which is presented by the Richmond Auto Mall and The Richmond Review, volunteers paint holiday-themed pictures on the windows of car dealerships. In return, the dealerships make a donation to the Richmond Christmas Fund. The fi nished windows are a sight to be behold, and will be on display at the Auto Mall until Jan. 2.

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