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The call of the ocean
Singh swan song
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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Suspect pleads mental illness Ari admitted to stabbing BY NELSON BENNETT
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Quiet suburb no longer BY A LAN CAMPBELL
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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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Roller Derby queens rocked Minoru Arena Saturday night when Bad Reputation (in blue) collided with the Loganettes.
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.”