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Martin van den Hemel photo Four men were gunned down around 9 p.m. Wednesday during a birthday party celebration and union celebration for new members of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union at the Riverside Banquet Hall, at 14500 River Rd., a half kilometre east of No. 6 Road.
Gunfire erupts at union birthday party Four men shot by lone gunman in targeted attack, police say by Martin van den Hemel Staff Reporter Four men were shot Wednesday night when a lone gunman opened fire at a function held by members of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union at the Riverside Banquet Hall. Union president Mark Gordienko said the private function was jointly organized by union members and non-members, partly as a birthday party, and partly to celebrate 10 newlyannointed members of the union from a Vancouver union meeting that ended around the same time as the shooting. Neither Gordienko nor any of his union executive were at the function, as they were still wrapping up their meeting. He said one of the victims wasn’t a union member, but three others were casual workers who worked out the union’s dispatch hall. See Page 4
Matthew Hoekstra photo At city hall Thursday morning, Ray Galawan protests the dumping of broken pavement on a Finn Road farm.
Farmers take protest to city hall Protestors blockade farm with tractors, then drive them to city hall by Matthew Hoekstra Staff Reporter Farmers and neighbours upset over asphalt dumping on a Finn Road farm property took their frustration to city hall Thursday—with their tractors. Protesters drove two tractors—one towing a trailer carrying broken pavement and rebar—up No. 3 Road and
parked on city hall grounds following a day-long blockade of the farm. “Will this grow food? Absolutely not,” said protest leader Ray Galawan, holding up a piece of asphalt. “The oil out of here will be leach into the soil and that’s the end of our Class 1 farmland.” The group is urging lawmakers to help stop the dumping of asphalt and other demolition materials on the farm, at 9360 Finn Rd., and remove what’s already been trucked in. Trucks began dumping material on the former pumpkin farm late December. The farm’s new leaseholders are using it to build an access road for a new farm
operation—potentially a tree nursery. Neighbours have been watching loads come in, and Galawan, a retired farmer, said he had to do something after watching a load of “highly toxic” asphalt dumped on fertile soil. So on Wednesday he and farmer Bob Featherstone blocked the property’s driveway with tractors while neighbours hoisted signs that read “Food not fill” and “Save our soil.” “Enough’s enough,” said Galawan. “Nobody else is stopping it. I’ve tried every avenue I can think of. We’re getting no help, no answers, so I thought we have to do this to stop it ourselves.” See Page 4
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