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Artist Ruth Beer hears the history of a people through a can of salmon. Her exhibit Catch + Release is currently on display at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery.
One of Bobby Singh’s final duties as a member of the BC Lions will be overseeing his own football camp on Saturday at Minoru Park.
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The City of Richmond’s bid to give a public health bylaw more teeth could have far-reaching consequences for businesses in close proximity to houses. The city is spending $17,000 to hire a noise expert to help it redraft the public health protection bylaw in order to address advances in sound technology and assess noise conflict boundaries. A report placed before city council on Monday stated that noise-related issues are becoming more frequent due to Richmond’s “urbanization.”
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Staff cited the recent case of True World Foods, which relocated last year to an area zoned “commercial, light-industrial” on No. 2 Road, immediately north of the River Wind residential complex. Low-frequency noise from the firm’s rooftop compressors sparked a flurry of complaints from residents and a lengthy investigation into the issue. Residents from the Bridgeport Road area have also complained about a constant lowlevel booming from the nearby Shark Club at night.
Councillors agreed action needed to be taken to deal with the spiraling number of complaints, and it was noted that the issue is growing arms and legs by the week. “I think this is a bigger problem than True World and the Shark Club,” Mayor Brodie said. “It’s no one’s fault, but we’ve grown up as a city and we need to deal with this.” Coun. Harold Steves warned that there is going to be more and more issues in the very near future. see Noise page 6
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The trial of Umut Ari, who is charged with stabbing Charles Dalde, 24, to death on April 14, 2008, began Monday and is scheduled for just four days. Ari has elected to be tried by judge alone. He has confessed to the stabbing. The main issue to be decided by Justice Myers is whether Ari was in his right mind. Ari’s lawyer will argue that Ari is not criminally responsible for Dalde’s death due to a mental disorder. After his arrest, Ari was at first declared unfit to stand trial, and was later diagnosed with schizophrenia. He has since received treatment for the disorder. The Turkish immigrant was arrested two days after Dalde’s death, thanks to Ari’s twin brother, who turned him in. When first interviewed by a homicide investigator, Charles Dalde Ari at first denied killing Dalde. The interview, played in court Monday, shows Ari to be rambling and sometimes incoherent. Later in the interview, Ari admits to stabbing Dalde. “I killed him,” he muttered. When asked to explain what happened, Ari gave a backstory in which he believed his life was in danger, that someone wanted to hurt him. On the day of Dalde’s death, he came home from work and went out for a walk. He took a knife with him, however, because he was scared. Dalde had just returned to Richmond after visiting with his girlfriend in Surrey when the two young men, who did not know each other, encountered each other near the complex near Lansdowne Centre where Dalde was found. “I saw this kid — he was talking on the phone,” Ari told police. As he walked by, Ari said he heard Dalde say something. “He said, ‘I like your ass,’” Ari told the homicide investigator. “But he didn’t say it to my face.” He later speculated: “Maybe he was talking to his girlfriend.”
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The City of Richmond is poised spend almost $65,000 visiting sister cities this year — but it could easily have topped the $100,000 mark. Richmond’s Sister City Committee (SCC) put forward its 2010 plan this week, with a doubleheader of trips to Wakayama, Japan and then onto Qingdao, Xiamen and Shanghai in China on the itinerary. It was proposed that a 10-strong delegation — made up of the mayor, three councillors, SCC members, city staff and a translator — make the trips to further sow the seeds of friendship and business with the Asian cities. But it was the SCC’s suggestion to spend up to another $30,000 hosting a lavish reception at the Shanghai Expo that had city staff wincing and Mayor Malcolm Brodie and some city councillors asking questions.
Mayor and co. off to Japan, China to foster friendship, business “$30,000 for a reception?” Brodie said to the city’s customer service manager Richard Toda. Toda explained that, if the city was to host such a reception, it would be expected to stump up entrance fees to the Expo for all of their guests. He added that if the city was to be represented in Shanghai, it would require a “presence” as Vancouver is already doing it’s “own thing” in its own pavilion. City staff recommended that the SCC 2010 plan be approved, with the exception of the trip to and hosting at the Shanghai Expo. They assessed the potential for the Expo for the city, but concluded that there was not sufficient economic benefit to the city to warrant participation. However, SCC chair Sylvia Gwozd told city council on Monday
that SCC members would be willing to pay the majority of the travel costs associated with attending the Shanghai Expo element of the trip. “We can make this a worthwhile opportunity,” Gwozd said, noting that Canada still does not enjoy China’s “approved destination status.” Mayor Brodie said that the city could still be represented at the Expo, as long as the plans didn’t smash through the $80,000 annual budget for sister city activities. It was agreed that the SCC’s 2010 plan be “approved in principle” with more work to be carried out with city staff on the finer details of the trip. The proposed trip is broken down as follows: Wakayama (10 delegates): ❚ Travel: $12,000 ❚ Four nights hotel and meals:
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Kembo’s a fraud artist and liar, not a killer — lawyer BY NELSON BENNETT
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Charles Kembo may have been an admitted fraud artist and liar, but that doesn’t make him a murderer, says Don Morrison, Kembo’s lawyer. “This is not a referendum on what kind of man Mr. Kembo is,” Morrison told a nineman, three-woman jury Monday in his final summations. Kembo is charged with first degree murder in the deaths of Arden Samuel, Rita Yeung, Sui Yin Ma, and the disappearance of Margaret Kembo. A refugee from Malawi, Kembo was in Canada only a few years before starting his criminal career. He was an admitted drug addict who was sentenced to jail and ordered departed -- something that never happened. But Kembo said he quit drugs, turned his life around and became a businessman who ran several companies. Some of those companies were shady, at best, and included money-laundering and fraud. “Any person of sensibility will condemn the way he led his life,” Morrison told the jury. But all the evidence heard in his trial proves only that he was a fraudster and philanderer who involved his loved ones in his various schemes, not that he killed anyone, Morrison said. “The Crown has relied on speculation, ele-
ments of fraud and alleged Kembo killed anyone — lies by Mr. Kembo in a that is agreed,” he said. somewhat tortured analyHowever, he said a sis,” Morrison said. finding of guilt can still be “There is no physical made, if there is significant evidence at all linking Mr. circumstantial evidence, Kembo to these victims.” and in the case of Rita After he was interviewed Yeung, that evidence is by police, Kembo was considerable. It includes caught in several extravawiretaps of conversagant lies and omissions of tions he had with Yeung fact. just before she died, and For example, he at first a planted GPS tracking FILE PHOTO told police he did not know system that put his Land Charles Kembo one of his alleged victims Rover close to where — Sui Yin Ma — despite having had sex Yeung was found buried on Grauer Road in with her and having set up a business for her. Richmond. And on the night Rita Yeung, his step“There is so much evidence tying him to daughter, was believed murdered, Kembo this murder, it is almost an embarrassment of claimed that they had been having a sexual riches,” Reiner said. liaison and she was kidnapped — something But Morrison questioned the thoroughness he neglected to tell police after his arrest for of the police investigation. Certain witnesses her murder a few days later. were not interviewed by police, he said. And “If you find that Mr. Kembo lied about though they found the DNA of several people certain things, that doesn’t make him a muron a hockey bag used to bury Ma’s body derer,” Morrison said. none of it belonging to Kembo - police never Crown prosecutor Hank Reiner agreed. bothered to do DNA tests on other suspects “Just because he lies — and he lies a lot to rule them out. — doesn’t mean he is guilty,” he told the jury “Why wouldn’t one just take their DNA in his summations. for elimination purposes,” he wondered. He also agreed with Morrison that the eviReiner said a DNA test on the hockey dence against Kembo is strictly circumstanbag would have proven little, as there were tial. There are no witnesses, and in the case many people who might have touched the bag of Margaret Kembo, there isn’t even a body. — from the manufacturer to salespersons to “There is no direct evidence that Mr. other customers. Morrison said there is evidence to support Kembo’s claim that Margaret Kembo is not dead, but living in a Buddhist monastery in China. That evidence includes a letter written to Rita Yeung in Cantonese. Toyotomi is the only If Yeung ever suspected her mother was restaurant serving a not in China, she never raised any concern
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with anyone, he said. Reiner dismissed the letter, which has not been recovered, as a fraud. Committing fraud was an essential part of Kembo’s money laundering business. It’s the Crown’s theory that he killed his four victims to assume their identities to commit fraud. Margaret Kembo had two children, including a son who was fathered by Charles Kembo. Reiner said Margaret Kembo was “a good, in fact over protective, mother” who would never have simply picked up and left her children, never to return. She disappeared Jan. 1, 2003. The only possession of hers that went missing was her passport. Kembo had access to all other personal information, which he used to “liquidate” her assets and to commit fraud. “He became Margaret Kembo,” Riener said, adding the only way that could have been done was if she were dead. Kembo testified in his own defence and proved to be a combative, uncooperative witness. He was arrested just days after Yeung was murdered. He was interviewed by police on July 29, 30 and 31, 2005, and in the third interview, Reiner said Kembo made a confession of sorts. Kembo admitted to feeling shame, and when asked by police if there were any “others,” Kembo said there was no more than four. “In the Crown’s submission, he confessed,” Reiner said. But on the witness stand, Kembo later explained that what he was referring to was the sexual relationship he had been having with Yeung — his step-daughter. Reiner’s final summations are expected to last the week.
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Richmond school trustees approved an extended spring break 4-2 Monday, and in doing so may have broken its own rules, according to one parent. And it did so with only eight per cent of parents in Richmond giving their consent. Starting next fall, students and teachers in Richmond will spend an extra eight minutes a day in class, and will get two weeks off for spring break instead of one. Dr. Norm Goldstein said the school board approved the extended break without following its own policies, which require that any proposed amendment to a school calendar be voted on by secret ballot. “The proposal and a ballot will be sent to parents by the principal through the mail,” the school district’s policies on calendar changes state. It goes on to say a proposed amendment will be considered strongly supported if at least 85 per cent of the ballots are returned and if at least 70 per cent of those are in favour of the change. “I’m quite certain the numbers are nowhere near that and we cannot consider it strongly supported on the part of the parents,” Goldstein told trustees Monday. While the school district did conduct an online survey, Goldstein said it’s not the same as a secret ballot, and said it certainly did not come anywhere near
the threshold for approval. “No ballots were mailed out to parents,” he said. “Instead, there was an online questionnaire, but there’s no way of knowing who accesses that questionnaire and fills it out.” There were a total of 4,196 responses to the online survey, only 1,882 of which were from parents. Seventy-eight per cent favoured the change. (The 1,023 teachers who responded approved the extended break by 97 per cent.) But given there are more than 20,000 parents in Richmond, Goldstein calculated that the results of the survey means only eight per cent of parents in Richmond have actually supported the change - a fraction of the 70 per cent consent required by the school’s own policies. “The policy was designed for schoolbased calendar changes,” explained school superintendent Monica Pamer. “It’s made for individual schools. This was a different process because getting community consensus is far more complex.” In other words, the requirements to consult parents are less stringent for a district-wide calendar change than it is for an individual school. Trustees Donna Sargent and Linda McPhail voted against the change. Sargent agreed the process is complex, and therefore felt the process was flawed because it was rushed. It was first voted on April 6, which meant the consultation period has only been about a month long.
“I think when you make decisions in haste, you make mistakes,” Sargent said. “I think it will affect students. I think there are concerns with student achievement.” “We could have consulted longer and still come up with the same number of responses,” said trustee Debbie Tablotney, who supported the change. But McPhail agreed with Sargent, saying there has not been sufficient time to consult. She said other school boards have moved to a two-week break simply to save money. It was initially suggested the move would save the Richmond school district $185,000 a year, something trustees no longer think will happen, because many schools may have to stay open anyway in order to provide daycare services and other programs for kids who can’t take a two-week vacation. “I’m not really sure that we’re going to save money,” McPhail said. She also expressed concern that the decision was being made without any consideration of the possible impact on students’ education. “Where is the learner in this discussion?” she wondered. Grace Tsang sided with teachers, however, saying they need the extra time off. “Staff are overworked and under stress,” she said. Goldstein expressed dismay that such a significant change could be made with only an eight per cent approval rate. The new extended break will be reviewed on a yearly basis.
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They sent out a call to arms — or needles — and the public responded in droves. So much so, that the Village Knitters — a group of women (and one brave man) who knit, chat and drink coffee — ran out of yarn in their bid to make and send woolen helmet liners to Canadian troops on the front line. After the News published a plea for help at the end of March, the lineup of knitters eager to wield their needles snaked around and out of the group’s Waves coffee house base in Steveston. And the phone of chief Village Knitter Edith Petersen was so red hot from people wanting to help, that she had to empty her burgeoning voicemail box every day to keep up. “(The phone) was ringing off the hook, the message box was full for about two weeks after the article came out,” Petersen said. “And the first Tuesday after the article there was a huge lineup at the coffee shop. We were not prepared for that reaction. It was incredible.” Petersen estimated that more than 150 people had responded to their plea for help. But it wasn’t just the number of knitters wanting to pitch in that surprised Petersen and her knitting circle, it was the diversity of volunteers. “There were women in their 20s right through to 80s and they came from
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If not HST, then what? It may be time to start asking a brand new question about the HST: What can the provincial government do instead to fill in the huge financial hole it has been digging over the past couple of years? The Fight HST petitioners announced Monday that they already had a half million signatures — or 15 per cent of all of B.C.’s eligible voters — calling for the government to axe the tax. They only need 10 per cent to succeed, but that’s a minimum of 10 per cent in each of the province’s 85 electoral ridings. They have that minimum, provided all of the signatures they have are valid, in 72 ridings. But the petitioners, aware that not all the signatures they collect may for a variety of reasons be invalid, are aiming for an insurance goal of 15 per cent in each riding — which they’ve also reached in 52 ridings. And they still have more than half of their allotted time to gather names. It seems they’ve thought of everything. Well, almost everything. Nobody on either side of the HST debate has talked a great deal about what might happen if the HST is killed. Where will the money be found to pay for recent extravagances like the Olympics, if the extra tax money the HST would bring in doesn’t materialize (and despite protestations to the contrary, it’s clear that the HST would constitute a tax increase)? How will B.C.’s business-friendly reputation be affected by the demise of a business-friendly HST (its business-friendliness has been a prime selling point)? The HST is being widely recognized as a poorly designed tax – but given the current state of the anti-HST drive, somebody better start thinking about alternatives. Such alternatives are out there. We need to start listening to them. — Langley Advance editorial
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Yap’s assumptions way off mark The Editor, Re: “HST is the right thing to do,” Letters, May 12. Mr. Yap has given us another example of why respect for politicians generally is so low. His facts are incorrect, he misrepresents others and he totally misses the point. I suspect that when he points out my past association with the NDP he is trying to tarnish what I have to say. I may be naive in thinking that most people are more open-minded and put more weight on what is being said, over who is saying it. Bill Vander Zalm, a very unpopular premier by the end of his tenure, is heading up this anti-HST petition and garnering support from all political quarters because he makes a very good case, not because he was the SOCRED premier of the province. By the way, Mr. Yap may wish to update his profile of me, as I am no longer active in the NDP and not currently a member, although I am proud that I ran as a candidate. Misrepresenting me as a supporter of the HST shows that Mr. Yap either misunderstood my letter or is being deceitful. Being deceitful would be in-keeping with the process of HST implementation. Not on the Liberal radar before the election? I think not. It is debatable whether my reference of “wasteful rebate systems” when talking generally about the regressive nature of sales taxes, would count as a mention of the HST rebate system. But, that the HST legislation includes a rebate program for low-income families (happy now Mr Yap?) is irrelevant to the reason why many people are signing the petition. Let me repeat. (Mr. Yap is fond of doing so with his numbers.) It is not about the HST, it is the deceit that bothers many. If Mr. Yap is unable to recognize that support for harmonizing sales taxes in general is not the same as support for the B.C. version of HST, then he should really question whether he is up to the task of MLA and Minister for Climate Action. Neil Smith Richmond
Hansen’s non-denial denial stinks of BS Two things are apparent from a letter I just received from B.C. Minister of Finance Colin Hansen: 1) The provincial Liberals are finally as scared as they should be about the mistakes they made in implementing the HST; and 2) I doubt that Hansen has ever in his life looked up the word “sincerely” in an English-language dictionary. And both are about honesty. I suspect that the only place in B.C. where you’ll find more bull than on the government side of the Legislature these days is at the artificial insemination barns in Milner. Strike that. Even Westgen doesn’t have to deal with as much of that by-product as we’ve been force-fed from Victoria in the past few years. Here, to judge for yourself, is the “Honourable” Mr. Hansen’s letter: Dear Editor: One of the issues in the HST debate that needs clarification is regarding what was or was not said about the HST during the election campaign. The question is: Did the BC Liberals promise during the election that there would be no HST? The answer is no. What did happen? During elections, political parties receive dozens of surveys from organizations. These surveys are answered on behalf of candidates by individuals working out of
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the party headquarters. In response to two surveys asking about the HST, the answer was sent out, quite correctly, that the HST “is not something that is contemplated in the BC Liberal platform.” Other than those surveys, the subject of the HST was never raised during the election by the media, by the NDP or in any of the debates. After the election, Finance Ministry staff brought forward new information regarding the HST that led the government to decide in July to eliminate the PST and harmonize the provincial 7% share with the federal GST. Sincerely, Colin Hansen, Minister of Finance. In truly inspiring fashion, Hansen carefully distinguishes between lying and not telling the truth. He’s right that the media didn’t ask him or his Liberal colleagues directly about the HST. Nobody from the media asked him if he thought a giant whale would swallow Victoria, either. Why would they? When you get down to it, his letter is pure art. I particularly love the carefully sculpted survey responses: “is not something that is
contemplated in the BC Liberal platform.” Beauty. Of course it wasn’t, because if it were “contemplated in the BC Liberal platform,” they would have got those questions from the media that they now claim — truthfully, if not honestly — they weren’t asked. The platform wasn’t a lie, it just wasn’t the truth — a significant distinction to a politician, and the HST debate makes it clear why. Take the ministry staff that “brought forward new information” after the election — only hours, perhaps minutes, after the election. We don’t know how much “new information” Hansen’s staff dredged up so quickly, but surely, to maintain the minister’s concept of “sincerely,” something “new” was found. Amazingly, a government that can take months to deal with the simplest legislative initiatives — it took them a year to bring in legislation in response to the death of a homeless person — needed only two days, fresh off the campaign trail, to scrutinize all that “new” information and come up with a plan to revamp the entire provincial taxation system. I believe it. Of course, I’m known as a bit gullible. But I do believe it. I do. Sincerely. Bob Groeneveld is the editor of the News’ sister paper, the Langley Advance. Read his blog, Editor’s Notes, at www.langleyadvance.com.
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The Editor, The staff being assembled by Justice Cohen suggests an inquiry without credibility that has lost its way. It is certainly not the inquiry that fishermen sought. Comments made by Brian Riddell, a member of the Cohen Inquiry’s Scientific Advisory Panel, to the effect that he did not believe an inquiry was needed and the collapse of Fraser River stocks was merely a “science issue,” indicate that Justice Cohen has yet to put together a credible staff. Riddell is retired from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO). The scientific advisory panel also includes Paul LeBlond, who Brian Tobin had appointed to chair an inquiry into missing Fraser sockeye in 1994. Under severe public criticism for the appointment, Tobin replaced LeBlond
with the Hon. John Fraser. The Inquiry’s head of research is David Levy, the author of a 2006 report for the Sierra Club that is supportive of DFO policies developed to address the series of disastrous returns which have plagued the fishery since DFO assumed management: policies which should be the focus of the inquiry. The Levy report supports DFO’s “development of commercial inland fisheries” or terminal fisheries which will harvest poor quality Fraser sockeye only fit for canning. Commissioner Cohen seems intent on replicating DFO science. If he wanted to seriously challenge DFO’s management practices, he would not staff his inquiry with former DFO personnel and their advisors. A more prudent commissioner would avoid engaging current or previous employees or con-
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to what I want in the long term. Until then, I’ll continue doing what I love. A part of that dream and that drive is reading other writers’ work. I like to boldly ask writers if I can read their “works in progress.” This has led me down some very interesting paths and some very, let’s say, disturbing paths. I still attend a writers group and like to read the manuscripts of an incredible woman who also attends. Her pieces read like Rolling Stones magazine articles. She has incredible stories and every one of them has a cameo from a celebrity. It was then that I decided to edit my dad’s unpublished manuscript. My dad had a novel published when I was 10, which I wasn’t allowed to read. With Paul Auster’s words in my mind and a zeal for scribbling my notes over other people’s masterpieces, I instructed Dad to send a copy of his work my way. At no point did he give me a full disclaimer for what I was about to read. Dad’s description of life
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For five days, Therese Danis floated, paddled and hyperventilated her way down the remote and sometimes placid but mostly churning Magpie River in northern Quebec. She was an experienced kayaker and canoeist, but this wasn’t the type of trip she could do solo — there are no roads to the headwaters of the river, located about 200 kilometres northeast of her home in Sept Iles on the lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence, and the Magpie is too dangerous for all but the most experienced kayakers to attempt on their own. So she joined a rafting excursion, grabbed a float plane ride to the river’s source, and for several blissful days didn’t see another human being other than her nine fellow rafters and their four guides, gliding through the boreal forest wilderness in silence, save for the roar of rushing water. “I like the outdoors,” said Danis, a 53-year-old social worker. “But you have to get way out there to get really close to nature, to be in direct contact. Out there you have the impression of being the first person to have ever visited, that you had access to a little bit of paradise.” For voyageurs like Danis who want a change from beach vacations or touring cities but aren’t ready to ask a bush pilot to plunk them in the middle of nowhere, there are a multitude of tours offering up close and personal interaction with Canada’s wild. It’s a wilderness Canadians love to vaunt, but that is far removed from the urban realities of most, and one that can be intimidating, or foolhardy, to tackle on one’s own. From whitewater rafting through remote Quebec, to kayaking with killer whales and watching grizzlies hunt salmon, to navigating the Northwest Passage with lecturers the likes of Margaret Atwood and visiting far-flung Inuit communities, there are tours for all tastes that can introduce travellers to our
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vast and beautiful hinterlands. Some are as short as a day and cost less than $100, while others can be two weeks long or can range as high as $7,000 a week. But, oh, what a week. “It’s for people who enjoy the outdoors but haven’t necessarily done much rafting,” said Danny Peled, founder and director of the Boreal River rafting company that organizes tours on the Magpie River and the more challenging and remote West Magpie River. “There are others who have paddled lots of rivers and done hiking on their own, but now want a little more support. Or who are looking for something really out there that nobody’s ever done before.” While travellers on the Magpie partake of what Peled refers to as “cozy camping” - tents of their own with fat inflatable mattresses and gourmet cooking over an open-fire complete with wine - there are more luxurious and less taxing
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It all started with a book. Ruth Beer was reading Cod: A Biography of The Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky and it spawned her interest in the “social history of our fishing industry.” “The author uses the fish to explain our world today,” said Beer, whose exhibit, Catch + Release: Mapping Stories of Geographical and Cultural Transitions opened last week at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery. She went on to say that the author speaks about how the cod helped inspire the discovery and exploration of North America. “This fish had a huge impact on the economic development of Eastern Canada,” said Beer. “Today, as we know, overfishing is a constant threat, but more than that the book speaks about how commercial fishing was the glue for coastal cities across the country.” As an associate professor and assistant dean of visual art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Beer is used to teaching her students to think outside the box. As an artist, the subject matter was so fascinating to her, Beer became a student. Last year, Beer was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant, in collaboration with Kit Grauer and Jim Budd, to research and create works of art that spoke to the history and marine conditions of Steveston’s fishing industry. “It took one year to plan, refine and add to it,” added Beer. As she moved around her installation in the Gulf of Georgia Cannery, Beer’s excitement on the subject matter was palpable. In one corner, Beer fashioned dozens of tin cans to a pole. Fairly rudimentary one might think. However, when Beer places her ear to one of the cans, she urged the News photographer to do the same. “Can you hear the sounds of water, wind and the rain?” she asked. “I call this the Sound Post … like s shell in years gone by, it’s a metaphor for how we communicate.” Beer explains that her exhibit is so much more than just about the salmon fishing industry; it’s a social commentary on the community of Steveston, as well as coastal communities across Canada. “Much of the growth in this region can be traced back to the fishing industry,” she
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added. sees are live streams of ever-changing patClose by, Beer uses a large projection terns of small white dots, while hearing minscreen to tell today’s stories of salmon using ute-by-minute sounds and echoes. As the dots diverse voices and perspectives. She spent are every changing, each viewer will interpret months interviewing and videotaping nine the shapes and patterns in their own way. people — such as a chef, scientist, sport and “Do you see how it looks like waves commercial fishermen and Jim Hart, a Haida crashing against the rocks?” she asked. First Nations Beer went on artist — and put to say: “What all of it together you have is real into collage time recordexcerpts. The ings of scienend result is a tific data from cross section NEPTUNE, of snippets of which is our her interviews, country’s undertelling unique water ocean points of view observatory in about what the Strait of salmon means Georgia and to each person. the Pacific On an even Ocean (west CHUNG CHOW/RICHMOND NEWS larger screen, A series of geologically inspired rock sculptures or of Vancouver Beer captures meteorite oil slicks is a thought-provoking addition to the Island, which the sights and historically sounds deep was a abundant below the sea and projects it back using white with salmon),” said Beer. “It registers changpixels on a black screen. What the viewer es below the sea and you can hear the sounds
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Sometimes, living in a community with lots of immigrants may defer one’s integration to the mainstream Canadian society. Take Richmond, you can do pretty much everything without the need to speak a word of English. To name just a few, you can see Chinese doctors, learn how to drive from Chinese instructors, eat at Chinese restaurants, shop in Chinese shopping malls, etc. I’m currently taking badminton lessons with the City of Richmond. One of my friends asked me if I was taking the lessons with a certain Chinese association. I said “no,” but the instructor is Chinese. I was surprised that she asked. Just because I am Chinese doesn’t mean I have to do everything with a Chinese organization. However, that’s
what some people would do. Another friend of mine just finished school and she’s looking for some volunteer work to build up her portfolio. She looked through some volunteer job postings on the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. website and some of positions require a cover letter and a resume to apply. She didn’t want to go through all the trouble for a volunteer position and felt intimidated. There’re lots of good resources for volunteer opportunities. Volunteer Richmond is one. The Volunteer Richmond website contains lots of useful information about volunteer job openings in Richmond. Some positions have more requirements and some are less demanding. Although there’s nothing wrong with volunteering for your ethnic community, immigrants can sometimes benefit more from volunteering for nonimmigrant organizations because they can interact with the locals and learn local practices. But who
wants to spend time and money on public transportation for a volunteer job? I do, for one. I’ve helped people file their income taxes at an aboriginal community centre in the Downtown Eastside because I wanted to know more about the native people. One of the program coordinators wondered why I didn’t volunteer in Richmond where similar opportunities were also available. The truth is I didn’t bother looking for one. I’ve been with three other organizations in Richmond and I kind of wanted to get out of Richmond. Besides, I want to get the most out of the multicultural environment Vancouver provides. Most people immigrate to Canada to strive for a better life. I’m no exception, but I also look for the experience of living in a multicultural society. Melanie immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong 2.5 years ago. She can be reached at melanie.mc.ho@ gmail.com.
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Singh turns his attention to being a football builder Now retired, former B.C. Lion now looking forward to growing his annual camp and Raider community ball BY MARK BOOTH
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Bobby Singh has already moved on with life after football even though the B.C. Lions’ roster suggests otherwise. The Richmond native, who is hosting his second annual Down Set Hut Football Camp on Saturday at Minoru Park, remains on the Lions depth chart despite signing his retirement papers to officially end his nine-year career in the CFL. In what initially looks to be an oversight, has more to do with Singh being front and centre in the Lions Pride off-season program that sees players visit schools throughout the province to stress the importance of making the right decisions in life. “A few people have noticed I’m still on the roster but it’s a smart move on their part with my involvement in the school programs,” said the 34-year-old Singh. “Mentally, I feel I could play another five to 10 years but my (right) knee is shot. It’s been five surgeries (to repair meniscus tears) and now it’s basically boneon-bone and I’m also dealing with a bit of arthritis.” Singh’s health problems date back to the 2006 season when he missed five regular season games. As a high-priced aging lineman coming off an injury, the Lions released him and he signed with Calgary for his second go around in a Stampeders uniform. His ail-
ing knee resulted in him failing his physical on the eve of training camp in 2008. He signed with Winnipeg later that year and it looked to be his final season as a pro until the Lions welcomed him back last June for added depth.
“It was nothing more than a back-up role in case something happened but it allowed me to (retire as a Lion), said Singh who had earlier stops with the NFL’s St Louis Rams and the now defunct XFL before heading north.
Football will remain a big part of his life. The former Richmond Colt standout has increased his involvement in Richmond Minor Football by now serving as vice-president. His plan is to get the organization
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Bobby Singh has San Francisco 49ers Strength and Conditioning Coach Mark Uyeyama (left) returning for his second annual Down Set Hut Football Camp on Saturday at Minoru Park.
back to the level it enjoyed during his days of community ball when Richmond teams contended for provincial championship at virtually every level. The first step is getting more kids exposed to football in Richmond and beyond. This is where his camp fits in and why it’s open to children with no football background and equipment isn’t required. “I could have done a contact camp for the serious player but we wanted to make it appealing for all kids and maybe they come away from this wanting to sign-up for football,” he said. “Our goal is to make this a community event rather than just another football camp and we’re very happy how the first year went and where this is going.” Singh has once again put together an impressive list of guest coaches including B.C. Lions stars Geroy Simon and Casey Printers, along with Richmond’s own Angus Reid. Steveston grad Mark Uyeyama, now a Strength and Conditioning Coach for the San Francisco 49ers, is back in his hometown to lead the camp participants through a warm-up. Pre-registration cost for the camp is $125 or $135 on the day of. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Richmond Minor Football and the Zajac Ranch for Children. Visit www.downsethutfootball.com for more information.
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McRoberts Strikers rolled to a 31-17 victory over the Sentinel Spartans in Lower Mainland “AA” semi-final high school rugby playoff action last week. The win secured yet another berth into the upcoming provincial championships. The third ranked Strikers also face top ranked Rockridge this afternoon at Brockton Oval for the Lower Mainland title.
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A pair of players from the Hugh Boyd Trojans have been invited to the final selection camp for the B.C. U18 team that will be competing at the 2010 Football Canada Cup to be held at Acadia University in Wolfville, NS. Defensive back Jordan Jacobs and offensive lineman Kris Briggs are among 97 invitees who will by vying for spots on the 40-man roster. The final selection camp will take place this weekend at SFU. Over 200 players took part in one of
four identification camps held around the province during the month of April. “On behalf of all the coaches, I would like to say it was indeed a pleasure to have worked with all the athletes who came out to demonstrate their athletic skills,” said Team B.C. head coach Tom Kudaba. “I would also like to say that all the coaches were impressed with the overall talent level of the players and this is a tribute to the players and the coaches of the programs they play with.”
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Sports UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL
Former Colt standout now head coach at Brandon A former Richmond the University of Brandon. Colt standout is taking his Cheung has spent the past coaching career to the unitwo seasons overseeing the versity team he once starred men’s program at Douglas for. College. Gil Cheung, “I am lookwho was a first ing forward to team all-star the opportunity when he helped to coach at my the Colts win alma mater and their last provinexcited to have cial championthis opportunity,” ship in 1998, has said Cheung, accepted the head who was a CIS Gil Cheung coach position at All-Academic
for the Bobcats in 2001-02. “Brandon University has a wonderful basketball tradition, and I look forward to coaching a team that has success on the court, in the classroom and in the great community of Brandon.” During his time at Douglas, Cheung had begun to rejuvenate a program that saw many changes in both player personnel and administration. In both his years as bench boss for the
Royals, his teams qualified for the BCCAA Provincial Tournament. “I want to thank Douglas
College for giving me the opportunity to be a head coach in the BCCAA,” Cheung added. “I will
genuinely miss the special group of players that I’ve coached these past two years.”
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Condos/ Townhouses
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6010
Duplexes - Sale
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Lots & Acreage
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6520
Farms/Acreage
BEAUTIFUL 3 bdrm on acreage, Fam room & den, approx 1500sf w/d, d/w, lg sundeck, workshop, pets ok. Lots of pkg. Lease, June 1, $1600. East of Mission. 604-726-1939
6540
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9125
Domestic
2003 CHEVY Cavalier. silver, auto only 47K, orig. owner, immac in & out, $5900, 604-929-8489
9129
Luxury Cars
1999 BMW 740IL, auto, black, 149000km, halo xenon, perfect condition, $8888. 778-322-3598
Richmond
STEVESTON, nr all amens, furn room, new home, $495 incl utils/ room/board avail. 778-235-4330
9145
Scrap Car Removal
6602
Suites/Partial Houses
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9145
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3 Times
Sports & Imports
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Motorhomes/RVs
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2003 BWM X5 3.0 V6 AWD, grey / grey leather, loaded, navigation system, heated power/telescopic steering, heated front & rear seats $17,000. 150 K. 604-657-4451
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8080
Electrical
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8125
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8130
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8160
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8055
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Sports & Imports
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HOME SERVICES 8035
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8185
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8195
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8195
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8205
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8225
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8240
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8335
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8250
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A28 May 19, 2010 The Richmond News
HOURS: 9AM-7:30PM Thailand Fair Brand White Fragrant Scented Rice 20lbs
15 ea
49
Frozen Yellow Pompano
05199171
8108 PARK ROAD TEL. 604.278.8309 Lee Kum Kee Panda Brand Oyster Sauce 412ml
Mazola Corn Oil 2.84L
6 ea
1 ea
99
99
Frozen Squid (1KG)
Frozen White Shrimp 51-60 (deveined) 1lb (Searay)
6399
99
2 for
ea
3 ea
Sunrise Tofu (Smooth) 700 g
Superior Soydrink (3.95l) (Sweetened & Unsweetened)
Superior Fresh Medium Firm Tofu 700g
1 ea
3 ea
2 lb
79
日昇鮮裝滑滑豆腐皇
59
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99
99
1 ea
49
Seedless Red Grapes
Fresh Lychee (Air Flight)
1 lb
3 lb
99 lb
1 lb
1 lb
49
Light Fowl Chicken
599
2 for
2
00 ea
99
Fresh Pork Picnic
88
THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL: MAY 19-23, 2010. WHILE QUANTITIES LAST
Fresh Gai Lan
¢
Fresh Pork Long Feet
49