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Richmond grad rates well above B.C. average

Homeowner stabbed in heart during violent home invasion Jonathan Leblanc, 30, arrested after crime spree included robbery and carjacking

Aboriginal student grad rates are trending upward

by Martin van den Hemel

by Martin van den Hemel

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The owner of a Deerfield Crescent home was stabbed in the heart during a violent home invasion involving a carjacker near the start of his multi-city crime spree Sunday night.

A resident of the two-storey house told The Richmond Review Monday morning he first heard a commotion around 6:45 p.m.

Sunday, with screaming and yelling coming from the front of the house.

He later learned the owner of the house had answered the door, and was overpowered by the man standing outside, who forced his way into the house and demanded keys to the vehicle.

The wife of the homeowner screamed, and her son was kept at bay by the suspect, who held a screw driver to the homeowner’s neck, and repeatedly stabbed him in the upper chest until someone handed over the keys to a Honda Accord parked outside.

The homeowner was rushed to hospital for life-saving surgery, with multiple stab wounds in the upper chest, including one that pierced his heart.

The resident said as he heard the ruckus in the entryway to the

When it comes to graduation rates, the Richmond School District stacks up well against the provincial average.

And according to a report presented to the Board of Education at Monday’s board meeting, while male and female student grad rates in Richmond have remained relatively steady over the past five years, Aboriginal grad rates have risen significantly in that period from 62.8 per cent in 2008/09 to 73.8 per cent in 2012/13.

“It’s definitely something to celebrate,” board chair Donna Sargent said Tuesday.

The district signed an Aboriginal enhancement agreement three years ago, she said, and the district added staff members to deal with grad rates among the Aboriginal community.

Using an integrated approach, and working with Aboriginal leaders in the community, Sargent said: “I think we made progress and it shows in those numbers. But we still have a long way to go.”

Overall, 90.3 per cent of all students in Richmond graduated last year.

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Martin van den Hemel photo A carjacker forced his way into this two-storey house on Deerfield Crescent Sunday night, and stabbed the homeowner in the heart before fleeing with the family’s Honda Accord.

house, he called out if help was needed even as he was dialing 911.

He heard someone reply “No”, but believes it was the suspect who answered.

A pitbull that lives in the backyard happened to be locked up at the time of the home invasion, the resident said.

The resident, who was downstairs, finally got into the house, and saw the injured homeowner lying on the floor. He and his wife applied first-aid, putting pressure on his wounds until the ambulance arrived.

“He had open heart surgery at VGH last night. From all intents and purposes, everybody thinks he’s going to pull through and be fine but he’s definitely stabbed up.”

The resident said that the homeowner’s son tried to intervene.

“Every time his son went to try to stop him, he stabbed the dad again until he finally got some keys because he just wanted a car. He wanted to get out of here.”

According to Vancouver Police Sgt. Randy Fincham, Richmond Mounties responded to a crash on Highway 99, near the backyard to

the Deerfield Crescent home.

The driver of one of the vehicles in that collision had to climb over a fence to get to the Deerfield Crescent house, which backs directly onto Highway 99.

After stealing the Honda Accord, the carjacker allegedly attacked a man as he was withdrawing money from an ATM machine at the TD Canada Trust at Kingsway and Victoria Drive.

Fincham said the victim was stabbed several times, and had his money taken.

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City wants dogs destroyed after bite incident Victim, who has no scar from thigh injury, agrees dogs shouldn’t be euthanized

by Martin van den Hemel Staff Reporter The owners of two Rottweilers are appealing for City of Richmond officials to do the right thing, and cease efforts to destroy both of their beloved pets for a minor October biting incident that only involved one of them.

Prabjot Nijjer and her son Nav have hired a lawyer in an attempt to fight the destruction order after Axle and his smaller sister Paris escaped their Alberta Road home’s backyard on Oct. 25, 2013.

The dogs wandered onto a townhouse construction site directly across the street from their home around 8 a.m. that Friday, where Dustin Wang was working.

Startled by the dogs’ appearance as they came around a corner, Wang said he got up from his crouching position when one of the dogs turned toward him and began to approach.

Wang quickly retreated through the townhouse’s front door.

Wang immediately phoned his site supervisor, and only after explaining the situation, did Wang notice a slight pain coming from his upper thigh, just below his left buttock.

The larger of the two dogs had apparently nipped him on the leg, causing an injury that didn’t tear his jeans or draw blood, but left a dime-sized contusion on his skin.

Wang told The Richmond Review this week that the injury has completely healed, and didn’t even leave a scar.

When his colleagues told him the city wants to destroy both dogs, he was shocked.

“I don’t really want them to do that,” Wang said. “It’s not the dog’s fault, it was the owner’s fault.”

Wang’s worksite colleagues agreed.

“Those two dogs are very nice. I don’t understand why they want to put them down,” said Alder Vista

Dustin Wang photo Two Rottweilers escaped a nearby backyard and wandered onto a townhouse construction site in late October, and one bit a construction worker.

Martin van den Hemel photo Though construction worker Dustin Wang suffered a minor injury when he was nipped by a Rottweiler on Oct. 25 at a townhouse construction site across from Henry Anderson Elementary School (at right), he doesn’t believe the two escaped dogs involved in the incident should be destroyed by the City of Richmond.

site supervisor William Dong.

Construction worker Geoff Kalsbeek, who owns a Rottweiler, managed to help coax the dogs into an animal control vehicle with a sandwich. Worried about the students who might be in harm’s way as they walked to Henry Anderson Elementary School, which is just across the street, the gate to the fenced-in construction site was quickly closed to prevent the dogs from escaping.

Kalsbeek said the bigger of the two dogs, which he estimated weighed about 130 pounds, barked at him as he approached, a reaction he considered normal.

“I would definitely not want the dogs destroyed,” he said.

The City of Richmond declined to comment on the case, because it is currently before the courts.

Prabjot Nijjer said that since the incident more than two months ago, she hasn’t even been permitted to see her dogs, which are currently being cared for by the Rich-

mond Animal Protection Society.

And her family has received no assurances from the city that Paris, who had surgery on its right hind leg in August, has been receiving the required medical attention— including regular injections every few weeks—for its six-to-sevenmonth recovery period.

“I love my dogs so much. I’m concerned about them,” Nijjer said from the office of Joe Peschisolido, whose law firm has been hired by the Nijjers. A trial to determine the dogs’ fate will be held in April.

Nijjer said she was horrified to learn that her dogs had bitten somebody.

The family was initially told there was a serious biting incident, and at that point they were willing to concede that the guilty dog be put

“I would definitely not want the dogs destroyed.”

— Geoff Kalsbeek

down.

But it was only afterward, when they learned the biting incident was extremely minor, that they hired a lawyer to try to save their pets.

Nijjer said her dogs have a good temperament, and friends and family regularly come over, including young children, with no prior serious problems.

The Nijjer family can’t understand why the city wants both dogs destroyed, considering only one did the biting. Had the biting incident resulted in a serious or severe injury, and the two dogs were acting in concert, that would be an entirely different matter.

Immediately after the October incident, the Nijjers had a two-metre high chain-link fence installed around their backyard.

They also presented a plan in December to the City of Richmond, detailing steps the family would take to ensure the Rottweilers aren’t involved in an incident like

Fees proposed for city hall tours Basic tours would cost $500, but non-profit groups exempt from fees

by Matthew Hoekstra Staff Reporter Groups visiting Richmond City Hall could soon face fees of over $2,000 to allow budget-balancing bureaucrats to recover staff and facility costs.

Proposed Monday, the new fee schedule would only apply to corporate and other for-profit groups—tours for nonprofit groups such as school groups, government and sister city delegations would remain free.

Drafting a formal fee-filled policy “is

not seeking to expand this program but rather to manage these requests more efficiently and to allow for some cost recovery of staff and facility expenses associated with providing these services,” noted Amarjeet Rattan, director of the city’s intergovernmental relations unit, in a report to a council committee.

In 2013, Richmond entertained 23 formal requests for city hall visits. In 2012, 39 groups made requests.

Today, for-profit groups are only charged for room rentals, plus $50 per hour for each staff presenter.

Under the new proposal, basic city hall tours—which include a presentation in council chambers—would cost $500, plus room rental fees. For more timeintensive delegations and study tours— such as corporations seeking information on best practices—fees are higher:

Richmond City Hall visitors in 2013 •9 tours for Richmond school groups •1 tour for Japan school group •4 tours for other non-profit groups •7 non-profit delegations •2 for-profit delegations

$500 for up to two hours, $1,000 for up to four hours and $2,000 for longer periods.

The change could result in modest revenue for the city—$5,000 annually, according to Rattan.

Those rates are, however, expected to drop. On Monday council directed staff to reduce some of the fees before the new policy goes to a final vote Jan. 13.

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They’ve agreed to have the dogs trained by a professional animal behaviourist and trainer, keep them muzzled in steel muzzles at all times, and keep them in a professionally-built kennel enclosure.

The Nijjers would write a letter of apology to Dustin Wang, agree to pay a $3,000 fine if they breach any of the conditions, and consent to the destruction of the dogs if they bite a person during their lifetime But the offer was rejected by the City of Richmond, and plans are going ahead for a trial.

The Nijjers said there has only been one minor incident involving their dogs, which they’ve owned since they were eight-week-old puppies seven years ago.

A few years ago, the dogs somehow got loose and went into the nearby elementary school area.

The family was alerted by someone, and the animals were brought back.

As a family member retrieved the dogs, a small dog on a leash that was being walked got nipped by Axle, but it was not a serious injury, and the victimized dog’s owner never followed up with the family to complain or seek damages for veterinarian costs.

“They don’t deserve to die,” Peschisolido said.

BC Hydro rate hike will be costly for school district BC Hydro rates are going up, and that will impact more than just local residents.

The Richmond School District anticipates that the increase will result in an additional cost of $30,000 for the period of April to June of 2014, and for the next fiscal year, an impact of between $120,000 to $150,000.

Though that figure might sound like a lot, things could have been a whole lot worse, according to minutes from the December meeting of the Richmond Board of Education.

Secretary treasurer Mark De Mello noted that the “district had invested time, effort and money over the past eight to 10 years in various energy initiatives and advised that this is the reason why the hydro cost increases are not as dramatic as they could have been.”

In November, B.C. Energy minister Bill Bennett and BC Hydro CEO Charles Reid announced a 28-percent electricity rate hike over five years, including a nine-per-cent increase starting this April.

—Martin van den Hemel

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City Page Community news covering January 8 to January 21, 2014 2. 6511 Buswell Street - DP 13-634111 - Integra Architecture Inc. - To (1) permit the construction of a 15-storey mixed use (residential/commercial) tower on a site zoned “Downtown Commercial (CDT1)”; and (2) vary the provisions of Richmond Zoning Bylaw 8500 to reduce the residential parking rate from the standard City-wide parking rate to the City Centre Zone 1 parking rate.

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15 Development Permit Panel Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Council Chambers, City Hall 3:30 p.m.

Purposes 20 General Committee Monday, January 20, 2014 Anderson Room, City Hall 4:00 p.m.

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Development Permit Panel Meeting Wednesday, January 15, 3:30 p.m. in Council Chambers Agenda Items: 1. 6511 No. 2 Road (formerly 6471, 6491 and 6511 No. 2 Road) - DP 12-617455 - Matthew Cheng Architect Inc. - To permit the construction of 15 townhouses on a site zoned “Low Density Townhouses (RTL4)”.

3. 10820 No. 5 Road - DP 13-641796 - Townline Gardens Inc. - To (1) permit the construction of a 5-storey, mixed-use commercial and residential building (Building D – ‘The Camellia’) on a site zoned “Commercial Mixed Use (ZMU18) – The Gardens (Shellmont)”; and (2) vary the provisions of the Richmond Zoning Bylaw 8500 to reduce the parking rate for rental housing units from 1.7 spaces per residential unit (1.5 spaces for residents plus 0.2 spaces for visitors) to 1.2 spaces per residential unit (1.0 spaces for residents plus 0.2 spaces for visitors).

4. 8888 Patterson Road - DP 13642725 - Amela Brudar - GBL Architects - To (1) permit the construction of the second phase of a five-phase, residential development on a site zoned “High Rise Apartment and Artist Residential Tenancy Studio Units (ZHR10) – Capstan Village (City Centre)” for a high-rise building containing 246 market dwellings and 17 affordable housing units (to be secured via a Housing Agreement), together with publiclyaccessible open space and park; and (2) vary the provisions of Richmond Zoning Bylaw 8500 to: (i) reduce the minimum allowable setback from a lot line abutting Garden City Road for portions of the building having a height greater than 28.0 m, for the purpose of permitting a cantilevered roof and balconies, from 50.0 m to 48.6 m; and (ii) increase the maximum allowable building height for portions of the building located less than 50.0 m from a lot line abutting Garden City Road, for the purpose of permitting enclosed stair staffs, an elevator penthouse, and an indoor residential amenity space, from 28.0 m to 33.4 m.

Please call the Planning Department at 604-276-4395 for further information.

Celebrate Lunar New Year in Richmond 2014 Year of the Horse From flower markets to lion dancers to live musical entertainment, experience a variety of local and exciting events that honour the rich traditions and customs of the lunar new year. Find a listing of celebrations and details at www.richmond.ca/lunarnewyear.

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Wanted: Videos of Richmond’s sporting history Get your footage in the Richmond Olympic Experience Do you have a video footage of elite sporting heroes that represents Richmond’s sporting history?

The public’s help is needed as the Richmond Olympic Oval is gathering audio visual materials to help tell the story of the “History of Sport in Richmond.”

Audio visual footage could focus on Richmond’s elite sporting heroes celebrating their achievement in sport, stories of city leagues, community race tracks and more.

Contact Jennifer Luce at 778-296-1422 or email jluce@richmondoval.ca before Friday, February 21, 2014.

Curatorial Staff will be in touch with you to schedule a meeting and review your media.

For more details about the upcoming Richmond Olympic Experience, sneak peek images, and frequently asked questions please visit www.richmondolympicexperience.ca.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

More female students graduate than males From Page 1 That’s a higher figure than in three of the past four years, topped only by the 90.5 per cent in 2008/09, according to the report written by Kathleen Champion, director of instruction and learning services.

In a trend that has remained consistent, more female students graduate than males, though the gap has narrowed from a high of 9.6 per cent during the 2010/2011 school year (when 94.8 per cent of girls graduated to just 85.2 per cent of boys) down to five per cent in the 2012/13 year (when 92.9 per cent of girls and 87.9 per cent of boys graduated).

Meanwhile, the provincial grade rate for all students has risen from 79.2 per cent in 2008/09 to 83.6 per cent in 2012/13.

Between 82.1 per cent of female B.C. students and 85.4 per cent graduate with a Dogwood Diploma, granted to students who meet the province’s secondary school grad requirements. The graduation rate in B.C. for males ranged from 76.5 per cent in 2008/09 to 81.9 per cent last year.

Notably, Richmond graduation rates for Aboriginal and Special Needs students far exceeded the provincial average.

Last year, 59.4 per cent of B.C. Aboriginal student graduated, compared to the 73.8 per cent in Richmond.

And among special needs students, 58.7 per cent from B.C. graduated last year, compared to the 67.6 per cent in Richmond.

Sargent said the district has long had a sharp focus on putting extra money toward children with special needs.

But at Monday night’s board meeting, trustees also noted that some 10 per cent of students aren’t graduating each year.

“We want to get even better.”

Sargent said considering that 62 per cent of students speak a language other than English as their native tongue, Richmond’s English Language Learners graduating rate is also something work celebrating, with the figure at 93.5 per cent this past school year, well above the provincial average of 86.1 per cent.

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Couple with kids in car attacked From Page 1 Later, a car travelling south on Victoria Drive was involved in a head-on collision involving the car stolen from Richmond.

The driver of the stolen Honda Accord tried to steal another car that had stopped to help.

Both the driver and front passenger in that car, a husband and wife, received slash wounds as the suspect hacked at them through an open driver’s window, while their two children, ages 7 and 10, were in the back seat.

The victims were able to drive away, and the couple was treated in hospital.

The carjacker then went to a nearby gas station, and used force to take a

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He was eventually arrested around 11 p.m. in Surrey, after police there located the stolen Honda.

After a lengthy search involving police dogs, police were able to track down the man in a heavily-wooded raving.

The suspect, 30-year-old Delta resident Jonathan Leblanc, is facing numerous criminal charges, and is known to police.

He made his first appearance in Vancouver provincial court on Tuesday morning, and is charged with robbery and assault with a weapon in connection with the robbery that took place at the TD Bank on Victoria Drive in Vancouver.

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EDITORIAL: Postal protest is past due Residents across the country have been exercised recently by the fact that Canada Post intends to phase out door-to-door delivery of mail to urban addresses in favour of mailboxes—already a fact of life for many, particularly those who live in apartment and townhouse complexes.

Unfortunately for all those of us who would prefer time to stand still on such issues, the writing has been on the wall—if not on our personalized stationery—for years.

The fact is, the convenience and prevalence of email (including ebills, ebanking and ecommerce) effectively spelled the end of “snail mail”—as the major mode of communication – many years ago. No, it’s not gone entirely, and it likely never will be. There will still be those who prefer hard-copy mail, both for esthetic and, for some transactions, practical reasons. And it seems that new media never completely edge out old formats – which sometimes survive (like the vinyl record) to become trendy again.

And handling of parcels, of course, is still going to be a stock-intrade for Canada Post, until someone figures out a safe and reliable way of teleporting goods. But it can’t come as a surprise that the loss of significant mail volumes to digital communication would have an inevitable impact on Canada Post’s bottom line.

Though we may argue about the corporation’s management decisions and strategies, that bottom line is also our bottom line, as taxpayers.

Present-day critics may wish to ponder that the time to protest the shift toward mail boxes—and raise quite legitimate concerns about their security, and inaccessibility for those facing physical challenges—was years ago, when they became the norm for rural and suburban routes. It’s sad that those unaffected at that time could not envision that someone else’s problem would eventually become their own—but how many times has that happened in human history?

Like it or not, that battle has been lost, as have the working positions Canada Post means to eliminate through attrition. If there was a time to save or transition those jobs, the strategies also needed to be launched by union leaders long ago.

If we feel there is something that still needs to be protested, try the new $1 individual stamp (85 cents if bought in a pack) that Canada Post will introduce come March 31. That’s a new wrinkle—and one we could legitimately contest, as a hardship to the country’s already besieged and inconvenienced taxpayers.

Black Press photo —Black Press Community mailboxes have been the standard for new housing development for decades.

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he new year lurched to life with a round of shouting about the environment, as our post-industrial, post-literate urban society grapples with conflicting claims of impending doom.

The release of a group of Greenpeace protesters from a Russian prison was welcomed by TV news networks desperate to fill the holiday dead zone. Our intrepid Canadian pair got to describe over and over their bid to hang a strongly worded banner from a Rus-

sian offshore oil platform, and their horror when security forces boarded their vessel from helicopters and seized it.

In all the fawning interviews, I kept waiting for two questions to be asked. What did they think Vladimir Putin’s regime would do? And what was the point? How is disrupting one oil platform for an hour going to save the planet?

The Greenpeace “activists” claimed this was the first oil platform to operate above the Arctic Circle. So it was a line in the snow, which I’m sure impressed Putin as he ramps up his territorial claim to include the North Pole.

Meanwhile at the South Pole, TV anchors remained carefully sombre as they reported numerous bids to rescue a scientific vessel trapped in thick ice. No quips about the predictive abilities of climate scientists please!

In fact this ill-fated voyage was a re-enactment of Sir Douglas Mawson’s 1913 expedition, with pro-global warming news outlets BBC

and The Guardian aboard to capture the melting wrought by a century of industrial expansion.

The rescue efforts (from a Russian ship by Chinese helicopters) also disrupted an Australian icebreaker’s supply trip for one of the real scientific expeditions working in Antarctica.

Skeptics had great fun with the Antarctic debacle, as they did earlier with the resurgence of Arctic ice that trapped climate tourists.

As is normal in the Internet age, the climate debate has split into two fanatical factions, each of which promotes the most extreme examples it can find to prop up its version of truth. They call each other “warmists” and “deniers” among other pithy names.

Greenpeace is now known in B.C. as part of our Team America anti-tar sands brigade. They got off to a good start in 2014 by selectively seizing on reports of a new study of mercury contamination in northern Alberta.

A “bullseye” of this dreaded neurotoxin has been

Skeptics had great fun with the Antarctic debacle, as they did earlier with the resurgence of Arctic ice that trapped climate tourists.

drawn around oilsands operations by measuring traces in snow. The study

by Environment Canada scientists isn’t published yet, but Postmedia News reported on a presentation in November by the researchers.

“The federal scientists stress the mercury loadings around the oilsands are low compared to the contamination seen in many parts of North America including southern Ontario and southern Quebec,” the news report states.

This is like the study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) pollu-

tion in northern Alberta lakes that was twisted into propaganda and fed to the news media last year.

This is another group of neurotoxins that are far more concentrated in urban areas than around remote industry.

Consumption, rather than production of coal, diesel and other fuels produces the vast majority of these emissions. I look forward to the study of their effects around Lost Lagoon and Burnaby Lake.

Of course safe levels of these materials have been set by Health Canada.

You’re more likely to get significant exposure to mercury from a broken fluorescent lamp or the mercury amalgam in your old tooth fillings than you are from feeding ducks at the lake, although you might get a whiff of PAH when you gas up the car or board the bus.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalNews.com Twitter:@ tomfletcherbc E-mail: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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letters Farewell to Alexandra Road Editor: We have had the privilege to live on Alexandra Road between Garden City and No. 4 Road for almost seven years.

Our former landlord sold our rental property to Polygon and we were able to continue renting from Polygon. But we have now gotten notice and need to move by the end of January.

Thus it is with mixed feelings we are preparing to leave this unique street in Richmond.

We and our next door neighbours (whose house is also being torn down) have had the privilege of having the most amazing “backyard.” From our kitchen windows it was hard to believe we live in the city, with the nothing between us and Odlin except the old pasture that we were told our former landlord used to have cattle on and the most amazing strand of trees where eagles, hawks and occasionally owls would roost.

It was like living in the country in the middle of the city.

Then there was the actual narrow street with all the trees and wild growth, so that when you walk down the street you feel like you left the city for a brief time.

As I walked down the street, I got to know all my neighbours and we all got know each other, even the homeless who squatted in the empty properties. A real sense of community developed as we all watched the gradual erosion of all that made this street so unique. One by one, we have watched neighbours leaving and their houses being torn down, while those of us left have gotten closer together and this informal community is an integral part of helping each other out.

With all the controversy re the Walmart development, we watched with, I’m sad to say, cynicism because we have seen what development has already done to this street. I think we knew that development would always triumph over a few strand of trees and that it would be a losing battle. The irony of this is that before the development begins the city marks trees which must be saved.

Then a company spends

From our kitchen windows it was hard to believe we live in the city, with the nothing between us and Odlin except the old pasture that we were told our former landlord used to have cattle on ... several days fencing the trees. What a farce, for example, where all the new townhouses were built by No. 4 Road, all the trees that were fenced are gone. They saved only one tree in the complex; it reminds me of a museum where future generations will be able to come and see what an old growth tree looked like in Richmond. The wonderful strand of trees in our backyard and a tree in our front yard is now all fenced but if I would be a betting person, I would bet that in sixmonths they will no longer exist, so why put all this effort into a losing cause?

The sad result of all the development is that all the good parts of living on this street as mentioned above will be gone and only the negative parts will remain. The cargo planes that roar over the house at night, the constant traffic noise, which is somewhat muffled now by the trees and but will only intensify with the high density development of the apartments and the Walmart shopping center, the air pollution from the planes and cars will also increase with no trees to absorb it.

And the sad part is another community in Richmond that will not

know their neighbours.

So we are looking for another place to rent, which is daunting given the cost of renting in Richmond, (if you know an affordable place, please let us know).

But we are not the only ones who are looking for a new home; I wonder where the barn swallows that have a nest on our porch and have raised a family there for the past four years will go when they return this year.

It was a privilege to be allowed to be part of watching them at such a close range, from the egg laying to the feeding of the young, to the first tentative flights from the nest and when they finally all leave we feel blessed to have watched this little microcosm of nature unfold so close to us.

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by Matthew Hoekstra Staff Reporter In the annual wintertime birder battle that splits north and south Richmond, the south has won again—but it wasn’t able to fend off another longtime rival.

Avian enthusiasts participating in the Ladner Christmas bird count, which includes South Richmond, counted 140 species during the recent day-long count.

The Vancouver count, which includes north Richmond, recorded 128 species.

But longtime rival Victoria won the species count race. Eagleeyed birders there counted 144 different birds, according to information posted on the B.C. Field Ornithologists’ website.

Hundreds of bird counts take place across North America every year from Dec. 14 to Jan 5.

Data collected by birders helps scientists track winter bird populations and identify species in need of conservation.

In recent years the Ladner count has claimed top spot in

Viveka Ohman photo Christmas Bird Count participants scan a field during a local Dec. 22 count.

the country, including last year when its 146 species handily beat Victoria’s 136. (Vancouver finished with 133 that year.)

The 100 participants in this season’s Ladner count, held Dec. 22, faced fog, showers, snow-covered ground and optics-blurring drizzle all day.

Despite the weather, organizer Jude Grass said the count was a success.

“Although counting white swans or snow geese standing in a snowy field surrounded by fog did make counting birds some-

what more difficult,” she noted.

Birders nonetheless spotted a few rare or otherwise interesting species: Pacific goldenplover, red-naped sapsucker, house wren, mountain bluebird, Harris’s sparrow, swamp sparrow and a white-throated sparrow.

The Vancouver count, held a week earlier on Dec. 15, also recorded a number of notable species. Spotted from the Iona Island and Terra Nova areas: Brandt’s cormorant, horned lark, bohemian waxwing and a swamp sparrow.

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news Big year for building in Richmond High-rises fueled rapid pace of development

by Matthew Hoekstra Staff Reporter Richmond City Hall issued $697 million in building permits in 2013, a year second only to the record-setting Olympic year.

City officials granted developers 1,732 permits worth $696,757,922 last year, according to data compiled by The Richmond Review. That’s far more than the previous year’s total of $463 million, and near the stratosphere of 2010 when permit values totalled $813 million.

Entering the fall, the city was on pace for an average year. But developers pushed the city’s total into much higher territory in the final two months, which combined for 41 per cent of building permit values for the year.

Leading the way were residential towers planned in the master planned neighbourhood of Capstan Village, along with high-rises in the Minoru Park and Richmond Olympic Oval neighbourhoods.

In November Pinnacle received permits for its first two buildings in Capstan Village—at 8633 and 8677 Capstan Way—worth $35 million. Concord Pacific also moved ahead with two towers in the area, worth a total of $60 million.

Elsewhere that month, in City Centre, Royal Grand Plaza Development Inc. secured a permit for a $17.5-million 14-storey residential tower at 6333 Cooney Rd. In December, activity on a long vacant site along Minoru Boulevard and across from Richmond Centre finally moved ahead.

Building permits worth $42 million were issued for two towers for the new addresses of 7333 and 7399 Murdoch Ave. Dubbed Park Residences at Minoru, the project comes from Hong Kong-based developer Yue Hwa. Another major highrise project on the same block also took root— Polygon’s Carrera. Polygon is redeveloping the Kiwanis Court lands, building new towers for seniors, along with market housing. Its permits

totalled $55 million in December.

Nearby, in the Oval Village, the city issued a permit worth $13.5 million for River Park Place at River Road and Hollybridge Way, a development from Intracorp Projects Ltd. and Mo Yeung International Enterprise Ltd. Other major permits included one worth $19.6 million for Townline’s 16-storey Harmony project at 8288 Granville Ave., and a $9.2 million permit for Oris Consulting to construct another building at Parc Riviera on the North Arm, at 10155 River Dr. Although building permit values jumped 50 per cent in Richmond year over year, the same can’t be said for the region. Total values for the first 10 months of 2013—$5.9 billion—are 10 per cent lower the same period the previous year.

Those figures prompted the Vancouver Regional Construction Association last month to project a “modest decline� in permits led by fewer residential and

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Matthew Hoekstra photo Residential towers planned by Concord Pacific for the Capstan Village neighbourhood helped propel building permit values to near record territory in 2013.

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Cheng said 2013 was an excellent year for Kees, which has now been in business for a year, and has seen its business steadily grow and gain in reputation, with people regularly dropping in to take a look.

A recently-minted sixth degree black belt, Cheng holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and specializes in working with children as young as three.

Classes for three-to-12 year olds are held between 4 and 6:30 p.m., right after school is out for the day.

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On March 31, the Wills, Estates and Succession Act (WESA) will come into effect. Designed to modernize the very old law in this area, the Act will change most aspects of the legal environment around Estate planning, Will making, and handling of Estates. The Act will not invalidate existing Wills, but the new law will apply to them.

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Terms The Act uses more plain English. The Testator is replaced by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Will maker,â&#x20AC;? and the Executor is now the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Personal Representative.â&#x20AC;? A separate person can be appointed to handle a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s digital assets, such as a Facebook account.

The term â&#x20AC;&#x153;Descendantâ&#x20AC;? replaces the old term â&#x20AC;&#x153;Issueâ&#x20AC;? (referring to someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children and other lineal descendants born after her/him). This term will be significant in distributing intestate Estates, where there is no Will.

The term â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spouseâ&#x20AC;? is also important. It will now be defined as two people who were married, or in a marriage-like relationship for two or more years. They cease to be Spouses if they live separately and apart for two years, with at least one of them intending the separation to be permanent. In a marriage-like situation, one of them simply ends the relationship.

Wills WESA defines a Will as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a Will, Codicil, Testamentâ&#x20AC;? or other document deemed by a Court Order to be effective as a Will. This definition is very broad, much more so than under the old law.

If a guardian of minor children is appointed in a Will, the Family Law Act, including any relevant Court Orders, must be taken into account.

The mandatory five-day survivorship rule (Sec. 10) is a radical change. If a couple (married or married-like) jointly own an asset and die within five days of each other, the asset is deemed to be owned half by each person, severing the joint tenancy.

Each member of the couple is deemed to survive the other, and their half-interest in the asset will be distributed under their Will. This new rule may cause the couple to reconsider transferring an asset from one of them to both, as sometimes happens in a subsequent relationship. And of course, both Wills need to be probated.

Reproductive technology If a person has donated or stored reproductive material, posthumous children may be born. Under WESA (Sec. 8.1), such a child inherits as if born conventionally. There are, however, conditions that may delay the distribution of the deceasedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Estate.

Intestacy The distribution rules for intestate Estates have dramatically changed. The system will now be â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parentelic,â&#x20AC;? and based on Consanguinity.

This shift will be noticeable when a person is not survived by a spouse or children. They will inherit if they do survive, but the spouse, instead of receiving the first $65,000 of the Estate, will now get the first $300,000. If there are children from the deceasedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous relationship, they will receive $150,000. The remainder of the Estate will be divided half to the spouse and half to the children.

It is possible for a person to be survived by two â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spouses.â&#x20AC;? Here, if the Spouses cannot agree on a division, a Court hearing will be set.

The spousal home is also treated differently. A surviving Spouse no longer has a life interest in the home. Instead, the Spouse has the opportunity to buy the house, and must make that decision within 180 days of a grant of Probate.

If the surviving Spouse and the Personal Representative cannot agree on a valuation, a Court hearing will be set.

If a Spouse is unable to buy the house, but wants to live in it (especially where there are children), the Spouse can apply to Court. The Court can order that the interests of the inheriting people be a charge on title to the property, while the Spouse lives in it.

Summary WESA will apply to deaths occurring after March 31, 2014. Since so many things will change, you should (without panic!) review your Will, and perhaps your Estate plan. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t assume that your Will automatically has to change, but assume that it might.

More important, if you have not yet made a Will, you should if you have a Spouse and/or assets (unless you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind the new distribution rules).

In my opinion, anyone in a subsequent relationship, particularly homeowners, should make a Will. Generally, everyone should take time to learn a little about this new legislation.

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Focus on flexibility From Page 12 •Take more time to warm up. As the body ages, its response time to exercise increases. This means the body needs more time to prepare itself for cardiovascular and strength training exercises. Increase your warmup time as you age, gradually increasing the intensity of your warmup exercises until your body feels ready for more strenuous exercise.

•Focus on flexibility. The more flexible you are, the more capable the body is of absorbing shock, including the shock that results from repetitive activities. But as the body ages, it becomes less flexible, which makes it less capable of successfully handling the repetitive movements common to exercise. Aging athletes should focus on their flexibility, stretching their muscles before and after a workout. In addition, activities such as yoga can work wonders on improving flexibility for young and aging athletes alike.

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Aging athletes need not associate aging with ceasing their athletic pursuits. But recognizing your limitations and the changes your body is going through is an important element of staying healthy as your approach older adulthood.

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A Dog’s Journey will appeal to dog lovers and others alike choice did I have?

This book is the sequel to A Dog’s Purpose, but can be read on its own.

Written from the dog’s perspective and subtitled “Another novel for humans”, this charming little book focuses on the many lives and incarnations of a dog whose ultimate purpose is to love humans, and in particular, Clarity, or CJ as she prefers to be called. It’s about the dog’s journey through his/her lives and the different roles he/she is destined by fate to play.

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Running Room’s annual Brita Resolution Run

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lose to 100 people, determined to start 2014 off right, gathered together outside of the Running Room at Ironwood and ran five-kilometers for the Running Room’s annual Brita Resolution Run, last Thursday.

George and Danielle Berry, Janet and Scott Phelps, Megan Berry and Sadie and Logan Phelps.

“It is a good way to start 2014,” said Tara Ichiiwa, manager of the Ironwood Running Room location.

The run is held each year “to promote health and fitness,” she said.

It was attended by people of all ages and skill levels. The morning started off with a quick warm up, followed by a five-kilometer run down No. 5 Road, along the dike and then back to the Running Room.

The run was designed to simply be for fun and to encourage people to get moving.There was no winner and no times were given out.

As such, it was perfect for families who wanted to start the New Year running together.

“It’s really for promoting great health and community,” said Ichiiwa.

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Richmond grad rates well above B.C. average

Homeowner stabbed in heart during violent home invasion Jonathan Leblanc, 30, arrested after crime spree included robbery and carjacking

Aboriginal student grad rates are trending upward

by Martin van den Hemel

by Martin van den Hemel

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The owner of a Deerfield Crescent home was stabbed in the heart during a violent home invasion involving a carjacker near the start of his multi-city crime spree Sunday night.

A resident of the two-storey house told The Richmond Review Monday morning he first heard a commotion around 6:45 p.m.

Sunday, with screaming and yelling coming from the front of the house.

He later learned the owner of the house had answered the door, and was overpowered by the man standing outside, who forced his way into the house and demanded keys to the vehicle.

The wife of the homeowner screamed, and her son was kept at bay by the suspect, who held a screw driver to the homeowner’s neck, and repeatedly stabbed him in the upper chest until someone handed over the keys to a Honda Accord parked outside.

The homeowner was rushed to hospital for life-saving surgery, with multiple stab wounds in the upper chest, including one that pierced his heart.

The resident said as he heard the ruckus in the entryway to the

When it comes to graduation rates, the Richmond School District stacks up well against the provincial average.

And according to a report presented to the Board of Education at Monday’s board meeting, while male and female student grad rates in Richmond have remained relatively steady over the past five years, Aboriginal grad rates have risen significantly in that period from 62.8 per cent in 2008/09 to 73.8 per cent in 2012/13.

“It’s definitely something to celebrate,” board chair Donna Sargent said Tuesday.

The district signed an Aboriginal enhancement agreement three years ago, she said, and the district added staff members to deal with grad rates among the Aboriginal community.

Using an integrated approach, and working with Aboriginal leaders in the community, Sargent said: “I think we made progress and it shows in those numbers. But we still have a long way to go.”

Overall, 90.3 per cent of all students in Richmond graduated last year.

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Martin van den Hemel photo A carjacker forced his way into this two-storey house on Deerfield Crescent Sunday night, and stabbed the homeowner in the heart before fleeing with the family’s Honda Accord.

house, he called out if help was needed even as he was dialing 911.

He heard someone reply “No”, but believes it was the suspect who answered.

A pitbull that lives in the backyard happened to be locked up at the time of the home invasion, the resident said.

The resident, who was downstairs, finally got into the house, and saw the injured homeowner lying on the floor. He and his wife applied first-aid, putting pressure on his wounds until the ambulance arrived.

“He had open heart surgery at VGH last night. From all intents and purposes, everybody thinks he’s going to pull through and be fine but he’s definitely stabbed up.”

The resident said that the homeowner’s son tried to intervene.

“Every time his son went to try to stop him, he stabbed the dad again until he finally got some keys because he just wanted a car. He wanted to get out of here.”

According to Vancouver Police Sgt. Randy Fincham, Richmond Mounties responded to a crash on Highway 99, near the backyard to

the Deerfield Crescent home.

The driver of one of the vehicles in that collision had to climb over a fence to get to the Deerfield Crescent house, which backs directly onto Highway 99.

After stealing the Honda Accord, the carjacker allegedly attacked a man as he was withdrawing money from an ATM machine at the TD Canada Trust at Kingsway and Victoria Drive.

Fincham said the victim was stabbed several times, and had his money taken.

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