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The City of Richmond is proposing a 2.94 per cent tax increase. But some councillors believe the smaller than expected rise is false.

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Canada Line workers to strike if necessary Vote sends ‘strong message,’ says rep

BY ALAN CAMPBELL

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Six-year-old Charlie Tweedy (left) was part of the Minor Hockey Food Drive at Richmond Ice Centre, along with Eric Surette, 10, Ashton Combs, 8, Bryson Lok, 10 and Sophia Obermann. All three minor hockey associations joined forces this past weekend to collect money and food for the food bank.

Workers on the Canada Line seeking their first collective agreement have voted 95 per cent in favour of a strike, if necessary.

The members of the B.C. Government and Service Workers Union voted Tuesday and Wednesday, said union spokesman Brian Gardiner.

“The results of the vote sends a strong message to the employer that the workers at the Canada Line not only support their bargaining committee but they’re serious about getting a first collective agreement,” said Gardiner.

He said no job action is planned at this time and that the union has already applied for mediation.

The 180 workers involved work as attendants, in maintenance and operations.

They were certified in August 2009 and have been seeking a deal ever since with Protrans B.C., the company contracted by Canada Line builder InTransitBC to operate and maintain the publicprivate partnership project.

The rest of TransLink’s services have their own collective agreements.

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City pulls out of Tall Ships for factors it ‘can’t control’ Richmond’s Tall Ships 2011 Festival has hauled anchor and set sail for the year 2014.

In its place this summer — and honing into view over the horizon to save the day — is a Steveston “short ships festival,” as dubbed this week by one city councillor.

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They said that Richmond can no longer afford to risk staging the event this year due to a catalogue of factors they claim the “city cannot control.”

Staff and council agreed Monday, instead, to try again in 2014 and put the wheels in motion to host a much smaller summer-long event, which will see some of the smaller vessels — originally booked for the Tall Ships — sail into Steveston in June, culminating in a “maritime festival” in August.

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A tall ship had been secured for the Tall Ships Festival and that anticipated corporate sponsorship and government grants had either dried up or were unconfirmed, rendering the event at risk of flopping and incurring a huge $816,000 deficit.

Coun. Greg Halsey-Brandt — the sole opposition on council last year when it approved hosting the Tall Ships — said all along that he felt the city was taking too big a risk.

“I thought (the risk) was too big and now it seems that was true,” said HalseyBrandt, who was unable to attend Monday’s

meeting, but spoke to the News on Tuesday.

“I certainly don’t mind the smaller maritime festival, I’m all for that.

“But why we had to spend so much money on this in the first place is beyond me. We were trying to stage a regional event with all the risk being assumed by the Richmond taxpayer.”

The risk/reward for the city was too great, according to Halsey-Brandt, who suspected from the get-go that it might be too short notice to book up some of the world’s top 200-foot plus tall ships. see Halsey-Brandt page 4

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Lt.-Gov. Steven Point pins a medal on Jack Beestra for his 20year-long service at the Richmond Fire-Rescue Recognition and Long Service Awards. The ceremony took place Saturday, Jan. 15, when more than 50 members were recognized by Mayor Malcolm Brodie, fire chief John McGowan as well as the lieutenant-governor of B.C. for their contribution to public safety. Go online, at richmond-news.com for more photos.

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2.94 per cent hike is ‘artificially low’

BY ALAN CAMPBELL

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Richmond homeowners look set to cough up three per cent more in property taxes this year, less than Vancouver and Burnaby.

But many councillors believe the increase is being kept artificially low by using some of last year’s surplus and by keeping crucial items out of the 2011 budget.

City of Richmond staff presented a 2.94 per cent tax hike to councillors on Monday, in order to cope with an operating budget net expenditure increase of $4.55 million.

They have implemented several measures — including using more than half of last year’s surplus — to keep the increase down, but it’s still not enough for some councillors who want to see the Richmond taxpayer catching a break.

“We’re looking at a major tax increase here,” said Coun. Bill McNulty.

“Is this a good way to use the surplus to solve a problem for one year? Is this being fiscally prudent?

“Next year this might hit us again. I’m a little concerned about appropriating any surplus into a budget and I think it’s critical that when utilities are going up, the taxpayer doesn’t seem to be getting a break.”

Although also mindful of the fact taxpayers need a break, Coun. Ken Johnston said he didn’t want the city to get into the financial mess it experienced in the ’90s when it tried to avoid a property tax increase.

“We got hammered that time before for using the surplus in the budget,” he said.

“I would have liked to have seen a more organic budget.”

Coun. Harold Steves recalls the budget in question from the ’90s, saying it took the city years to build the reserves back up after dipping into them to offset a tax increase.

“I don’t want to see the city in that position again,” Steves said.

However, in response to queries from council, the city’s general manager of business and finance, Andrew Nazareth, told how the city’s accumulated surpluses are around the $17 million mark with another $123 million in reserves.

McNulty, however, suggested that, perhaps, it was time to start using those reserves to help the taxpayer at a time when they’re getting hit from all sides.

“Maybe we should use (the reserves). I’m for giving the taxpayer a break,” he said.

“This $17 million is the taxpayers’ money, it’s not our money.”

Nazareth said that using some of last year’s surplus to offset this year’s tax increase is a “one time thing.”

“We’re seeing an increase in (building) permits, but it takes time for that to roll out,” he added, referring to expected spikes in revenue from last year’s rapid recovery in the construction industry.

City council’s general purposes committee approved the 2011 operating budget and the appropriation of last year’s surplus, with a request for more information on a list of prioritized items not contained in the budget and for a more accurate figure for current accumulated surpluses and reserves.

Should the budget be approved later this month by city council, an average home assessed this year at $607,000 will have to pay $38.82 more for property taxes.

The money drawn from the 2010 surplus will go toward covering half of the city’s obligated $3 million contribution to the Olympic oval, $1.2 million towards increased costs attached to the RCMP contract and a $1 million transfer to reserves.

The report, written by the city’s director of finance, Jerry Chong, compares Richmond’s proposed see City staff page 4

Zellers is a Target

The retail world is abuzz in Richmond with Ikea expanding, Walmart looking to open, Aberdeen changing its storefronts and Target buying Zellers.

Last week it was announced that Target, the No. 2 discount chain in the U.S., has spent $1.85 billion to acquire most leases of Canadian Zellers.

It’s expected that Target will convert 100 to 150 of those into Target stores in 2013-2014.

It is yet to be confirmed that the Zellers in Lansdowne Centre will be converted.

“Richmond certainly is well known for being a retail centre,” said Ted Townsend, City of Richmond spokesman.

“Most of the major national brands are represented in the community, and we’re seeing more of the American brands looking to expand. Having that diversity of brand contributes to making us a retail destination.”

The fear is that another big discount store could undermine local, independent businesses.

However, Townsend points to Bridgeport Road, where large furniture stores have set up, only to have smaller, independent furniture stores and suppliers sprout up around them.

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Ramos was incredulous nobody had yet devised a portable puke sack.

“Everyone has stories about having to use your hand or a potted plant and I just thought this is ridiculous. So I decided to come up with something practical and cute.”

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“(The smaller maritime festival) can still be successful and we can still have the gun battle that everyone remembers from 2002.”

Staff told council that 20 ships had agreed to come to Richmond in June for the Tall Ships Festival, adding that at least five of them still plan to come at that time if the city goes ahead with the smaller event.

Council was also told that the contracts have already been signed and building materials ordered for the $1.6 million construction of new floats at Garry Point Park, which were intended to service the tall ships this summer.

And they added that around half of the $500,000 approved for marketing the tall ships event has already been spent.

However, it was pointed out that the floats can be used for the smaller maritime festival and for harbouring larger vessels in Steveston and that the marketing tools in place can also be used for promoting this year’s maritime festival.

McNulty said that the city has a serious facesaving exercise on its hands now with the ships that were committed to coming in June for the big event.

It was only a few weeks ago that the city expressed confidence in hosting the massive event, despite Victoria pulling out.

City of Richmond staff blamed post-Olympic sponsor fatigue and the economy for being almost half a million dollars short.

Continued from page 1 “The numbers just didn’t add up for me,” he said.

Indeed, councillors Harold Steves and Bill McNulty — who had been courting the Mexican and Japanese Navies respectively for their tall ships — told on Monday how they discovered late last year such vessels are booked up two and sometimes three years in advance.

“When Harold and Bill came back from that, it should have been apparent that we were not going to get the ships we wanted,” Halsey-Brandt said.

In December, when Victoria pulled out of the Tall Ships Pacific Coast Challenge as a host port — citing lack of sponsorship — it left Richmond high and dry as the only port north of San Francisco still on the route.

That should have set alarm bells ringing loud in Richmond, Halsey-Brandt said. “(The big ships) were never going to come all the way up here for one event unless we were giving them a whole lot of money,” he said.

“But some members of council seemed intent on driving this through.”

Steves said on Monday that he “breathed a sigh of relief ” when he found out the city planned to cancel the 2011 event.

“I feel this is the prudent thing to do and it will give us more time to attract the class A ships,” he said.

City staff: Will be under more pressure Continued from page 3 increase to neighbouring cities, such as: Vancouver (4.2); Burnaby (3.95) and Surrey (2.9).

Chong states that the projected net increase to spending of just over $9 million can be mitigated to a certain extent by reductions via the $3.7 million 01199566

A Richmond “momtrepreneur” has Hollywood in the bag with a new must-have designer item for moms-to-be: the Morning Chicness Bag. Tara Ramos introduced her “disposable sick bags designed for chic expectant mothers” at a pre-Golden Globes celebrity gifting event at Los Angeles’ Boom Boom Room last Friday and Saturday.

Everyone from Nicole Sullivan to Tiffany Amber Thiessen were hurling the bags, made of biodegradable paper with a thin polyethylene lining, in their gift totes.

Proving inspiration for innovation can flow from the strangest sources, Ramos explained that while pregnant, she suffered from a form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum.

“I had it for seven months and it was awful, vomiting up to a dozen times a day,” says Ramos.

“It’s sad to say, but I really became an expert in vomiting over that time.”

She discovered that finding places in public to heave-ho is very difficult and can cause some serious anxiety.

The best product she found to contain the problem was airline airsickness bags. She requested all friends flying to grab her a few, but there were never enough on hand.

Others suggested Ziplock bags, but clear bags aren’t so discreet.

Halsey-Brandt: Sums didn’t add up

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Coun. Sue Halsey-Brandt questioned whether city staff morale would be affected in light of a likely increased workload due to a hiring freeze.

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Richmond’s farmland may face threat, says councillor

BY ALAN CAMPBELL

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Coun. Harold Steves was the only director who spoke out against strategy.

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BY EVE EDMONDS

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Choices for movie and video buffs has just been reduced in Richmond.

Two of Rogers Video’s three stores in the city are closing as is the Cineplex Theatre in Richmond Centre.

Last year, Richmond’s only Blockbuster also closed.

“It is very unfortunate for the video stores and the theatre, but there is definitely a change in consumer habits when it comes to viewing videos and movies today,” said Joanne Saunders director of marketing and communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

“With the availability of PVR, digital recording, online videos, gaming devices, etc., consumers are able to access videos in the comfort of their own home,

without having to go to the video store or the movie theatre.

“I also believe that for the Richmond market, there is an ethnic component to this issue.

“As there is such a large number of Asians in Richmond, the need for English videos and movie theatres may not be as prominent as in other local communities.”

Pat Marshall, VP of communications for Cineplex said no announcement has been made regarding the theatre, which currently holds a short-term lease.

However, Leslie Matheson, marketing director at Richmond Centre, said Cineplex’s lease had come due and a new lease couldn’t be negotiated.

In either case, Richmond Centre is now in negotiations with the city for a building permit to move the food court upstairs where

the cinema is and put more retail shops on the main floor.

Richmond Centre has also recently announced that Forever 21 will be moving into a space near Sears.

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Federal Conservative House leader John Baird attends a gathering hosted by Richmond MP Alice Wong at the Four Point by Sheraton Vancouver Airport Thursday.

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formed in 1972.

“Only an extremely small percentage of agricultural land has been changed over in the intervening period,” he said.

It took three years and 46 public meetings for the Regional Growth Strategy to win final approval from the full Metro board.

Metro chair Lois Jackson said planning committee chairman Derek Corrigan was to be congratulated for the committee’s efforts to reach compromises on difficult issues.

“The consensus is outstanding. It is quite extraordinary,” she said.

The next step is for municipalities to indicate their support by submitting individual regional context statements that reflect land designations presented in the plan.

Municipalities have two years to submit their statements. Municipalities are not bound by the Regional Growth Strategy.

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Agriculture will be under increasing threat from developers after Metro Vancouver approved its 30-year land-use plan for the region.

Richmond’s Coun. Harold Steves was the sole dissenting voice among Metro’s directors who waved through the plan on Friday.

Steves asserts that the new strategy plays into the hands of “relentless” developers who will now have their eye on precious farmland across the region.

The document, called the Regional Growth Strategy, builds on principles of sustainability and protecting green spaces, with emphasis on regional town centres where people work, live and play.

Steves, whose family has been farming for generations, came out strongly against the plan, but he was the only one of almost three dozen who felt that way.

“The big threat in this plan is against agriculture. We are allowing it to be threatened” Steves said, noting there are “food riots” in the world as a result of shortages.

Steves said the inclusion of seven “special study” areas in Metro’s plan, in places such as Langley Township and Pitt Meadows, gives tacit acceptance to municipalities’ efforts to actively try to convert farmland into non-farm uses.

“It increases land speculation and the hopes of developers,” he said. “Speculators never give up. They are relentless.”

Speaking in rebuttal, Metro director Don MacLean, who is Pitt Meadows’ mayor, said preserving farmland has worked pretty well since the Agricultural Land Commission was

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Melissa Laing and Gary Housty grew up in vastly different cultures.

Laing grew up in Richmond; graduating from McRoberts in 1998. Housty grew up in Bella Bella — a small First Nations community of 1,500 residents on B.C.’s coastal passage. Their shared love of nursing brought the two together.

Today, the young engaged couple are one of 10 finalists vying for an all-expenses paid wedding for 12 in the Global TV’s Dream Wedding Contest.

Laing and Housty met nine years ago while working on the trauma unit at Vancouver General Hospital.

“When we first met, we were so focused on our work, we didn’t have time to even consider dating,” said the 30-year-old Laing.

“It was a busy trauma unit and we always hung out together, but somehow we never got together as a couple.”

Their first real date, quipped Housty, was planned by Laing.

“Melissa called me up to go for Mexican food and at the end of dinner she grabbed my hand and said ‘If you are paying for dinner, then this must be our first date,’” said the 32-year-old, who added he was too shy and intimidated to ask her out.

Laing piped in that she was heading on holidays and didn’t want another woman to catch his fancy.

Their first adventure together was spending the winter in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, working in an outpost nursing station. “That was quite an adventure because we were on call 24/7 and there were no doctors on call,” said Laing. “We then spent the next two years in Gary’s hometown of Bella Bella. I

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Engaged for two years, this busy couple has been so dedicated to their careers that they haven’t had time to plan their wedding.

They are hoping they will win this dream wedding so that they can take both sets of parents and their siblings on a trip they will never forget.

“Gary’s family has never travelled where they needed a passport, so we want to make it really special for them,’ added Laing.

Today, Laing works as a nurse practitioner at the BC Cancer Agency and Housty is working as an RN in the emergency department at St. Paul’s Hospital. Should they win, the betrothed couple will walk away with a wedding package worth $26,500.

If you would like to vote for Laing and Housty, go online until Jan. 30 by logging on to www.globaltvbc.com/contests/weddingsaway/vote.html.

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s part of his bid for re-election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vowed to dismantle what may be the most progressive, democratic campaign finance laws in the

world.

Harper made the pledge Thursday, saying he would make the elimination of taxpayer subsidies to federal political parties a priority. On its surface, it doesn’t sound like a bad plan. Who wants their tax dollars to help politicians advertise?

In reality, it’s a terrible idea. Canada’s election finance rules exist to protect Canadians. Candidates and parties have strict limits on how much they can spend; individuals have low caps on what they can give (slightly more than $1,000) and unions and corporations can’t donate at all. The largest single source of funding for candidates is the subsidy, defined as about $1.75 per year for each vote their party won in the previous election.

The effect is that candidates are served better by pleasing voters than by pleasing private interests. Taking $1.75 out of each voter’s tax bill to ensure the balance is spent for our benefit is, on the whole, a pretty good deal.

Harper wants to undo this, and it’s obvious why. Reverting to a reliance on private donors is clearly most helpful to parties who serve the interests of wealthy individuals and organizations.

The Tories certainly fit that description. Harper’s plan has nothing to do with fairness to taxpayers and everything to do with giving his party an edge. It should be rejected.

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The Editor: On Friday, Jan. 14, Metro Vancouver gave near-final approval to the new version of its basic bylaw, the Regional Growth Strategy. At the insistence of the City of Richmond, it designates a large area of our agricultural land reserve (ALR) as “general urban.”

The area should instead be designated “agricultural.”

Those terms are new. There were no agricultural and general urban (or urban) zones or designations in the 1996 strategy that Metro is replacing. There was just a first stab at curbing sprawl, the Green Zone, which is no more.

The city’s action defied the Agricultural Land Commission. The ALC is an administrative tribunal, somewhat like a court, but with specific expertise.

The ALR area at stake includes the Garden City lands.

Unlike most ALR properties, it has recently had its agricultural status confirmed. That happened in 2006 and 2009 when the commission rejected applications to remove it from the ALR. In a letter dated Oct. 20, 2010, ALC executive director Brian Underhill reminded Metro that local governments must keep their bylaws consistent with the Agricultural Land Commission Act, and Metro is a local government. In effect, he said to correct the faulty general urban designation. He was ignored.

Then, in a letter dated Nov. 23, 2010, ALC chair Richard Bullock reiterated the message. He was ignored.

Despite director Harold Steves’ stirring defence of agricultural land, the bylaw passed. Now Metro staff are saying, in effect, “Richmond made me do it.” Mr. Bullock will not be as easy to push around. Until he restores order, the future of the ALR — and our food security — is bleak.

Jim Wright President, Garden City Lands Coalition Society

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I’ll take dinos over politics

In the past couple of weeks, all the news around here seems to have been about assassinations, politics, violent crime, more politics, and housing construction statistics.

Normally, I would grab one of those topics and tease out some strange thread or historical fact, then build a column around that. Right now, though, it just all seems too grim. So to heck with the news, let’s talk about dinosaurs!

One of the great joys of life is reading a paleontologist’s word-portrait of life in bygone ages. The Mesozoic era, in which the dinosaurs dominated, was quite different from our own. Prairies were covered in ferns instead of grass, flowering plants only evolved towards the tail end. The continents were in different places, the seas were warmer and full of giant swimming reptiles with big gnashy teeth. Even the days were shorter. It’s true: the Earth spun faster in the past. The moon’s slow tug-of-war with our planet is gradually slowing down its rotation.

Across this landscape walked, ran and flew not just an ever-changing cast of dinosaurs, but of insects and mammals, pterosaurs, crocodiles, turtles and lizards.

The miracle is that this picture of a vanished world was assembled piece by painstaking piece. Watch a movie like Jurassic Park

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and you get the theme-park version of paleontology: scientists casually brush a layer of sand off a perfectly articulated fossilized skeleton, complete from teeth to tailbone.

In reality, fossils are often broken, almost invariably incomplete, sometimes squashed and deformed in weird ways by geological forces, and found in harsh, unforgiving terrain. It’s as if you took the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, smashed it into fingernail-sized fragments, and buried them in a garbage dump. Paleontologists painstakingly dig up piece after piece, and have managed to learn about bits of the painting — a cherub here, an arm there.

But most of the marvellous masterpiece of time and evolution remains to be discovered. Just in the past year, there have been several new species named, including the distantlyrelated-to-Triceratops dino called Kosmoceratops, which had 10 horns sprouting from the frill around its face. It looks like a floral bouquet formed from bone and horn. Then there was Tianyulong, a plant-eating dinosaur which may have had feathers! Well, proto-feathers. Or maybe

just “integumentary structures,” i.e. bits of skin. Or possibly just plants that were fossilized next to the bones. But hey, we’ll be arguing about it for years!

Oh yeah, the arguments.

It’s not a matter of just digging up a bone, giving it the once-over, and deciding it’s a new species. There are all kinds of fun fights about which fossils belong to new dinos, and which ones don’t. If a million years from now, aliens dig up fossil skeletons of, say, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Wallace Shawn, will they recognize them as members of the same species? Hence papers that say there are actually a dozen different species lumped under the name Iguanodon, or that three kinds of dome-headed dinos are actually just adults, teens, and kids of the same breed.

I know that very little of this matters, in the larger sense. Discovering new dinos won’t cure cancer, it won’t erase the federal deficit, and it won’t prevent another season of American Idol. But it gives me a comforting sense that our world is vast, and that it not only contains wonders, it has been making them for ages beyond our comprehension.

Certainly, that’s something that news of shootings, political scandals, drugs, gangs and poverty has yet to do.

Matthew Claxton is a reporter for a News’ sister paper, the Langley Advance.

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Thanks, cops, for everything The Editor, Re: “Thanks cops, for nothing,” Letters, Dec. 17.

This week I was happy to come across a letter which appeared in your paper. In his letter, Scott Stewart echoed the sentiments I feel for both my brother, who is in fact a Richmond RCMP, and my father who has retired from the force.

I am thankful that someone has stood up and publicly supported the majority of wonderful, well-meaning officers who put their lives on the line every day they show up for work.

My family, which includes my two young sons, celebrated Christmas this year, without our son, our brother, our uncle.

The reason we missed out on that special time with him is because he was busy working, an entire country away.

Whilst we enjoyed our Christmas Eve church service and dinner as a family, my Mountie brother was appearing at several urgent calls throughout the city.

While we happily opened our gifts around our tree in Ottawa, my brother was coming off a night shift full of domestic disputes.

I’d like to re-iterate Mr. Stewart’s words and say thank you.

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The response of the people of Richmond to the needs of those experiencing homelessness on their streets is generous and amazing.

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On behalf of Larry McIntyre (shelter manager) and co-chairs Sister Cecilia Hudec and Victor Farmer, I thank the community of Richmond for the outpouring of compassion and care demonstrated — including practical gifts and support.

I also want to thank the volunteers and guests of the Inn from the Cold Emergency Weather Shelter for the privilege of being part of their lives.

I have learned from them all and been deeply moved by our experience together.

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The Editor, Jan. 15 was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday.

He was, of course, a powerful advocate for people living in poverty.

Dr. King’s voice was everything. It brought a nation to attention and a people to some understanding.

His voice spoke powerful truth. He spoke straight from the truth of his own heart to the goodness in our hearts — which he believed in.

He never excluded anyone. The world tries hard to remember him, but our voices are not his voice. We are not as convincing.

We continue to live in a city of almost 200,000 people and do not have a shelter (other than the beds available during extreme weather — six beds at the Salvation Army’s Richmond House and 16 beds available at St. Alban’s).

Dr. King’s message, 43 years after his death, continues to be urgent and of deep relevance.

In Richmond, the number of women, children and men living in poverty grows yearly.

Increasing numbers of people use the food bank and church community meal programs.

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Don’t let Joe fool you, Iggy

The Editor, Open letter to Michael Ignatieff: Nice of you to have visited our little city five times, Mr. Ignatieff, but may I suggest that you could honour us a dozen times and Liberal candidate Joe Peschisolido still won’t win a seat in Richmond — he can’t be trusted.

He is classified as opportunistic by too many people in Richmond — Conservative and Liberal.

In 1993, Peschisolido joined the Reform Party of Canada (later the Canadian Alliance).

“Jumpin’ Joe” was born in Toronto and ran twice in Etobicoke, Ont. He also ran as a Reform candidate in the 1997 general election in Mississauga South. Lost all three elections. Furthermore, in 2000, he was considering running for the Canadian Alliance leadership, but ultimately decided not to throw his hat in the ring.

He was elected as Member of Parliament for Richmond in the 2000 general election, defeating Liberal incumbent, Raymond Chan.

He was elected because he was supposed to be a Canadian Alliance MP — no one ever heard of Joe Peschisolido before that.

In 2002, Peschisolido left the Canadian Alliance and crossed the floor to the Liberal Party without consulting his constituents.

In the run-up to the 2004 general election, Peschisolido battled Chan for the Liberal Party’s nomination, which Chan won after a fiercely-contested race.

His defeat was due to the belief of a number of Richmond Liberals that he was not a real Liberal. Joe wasn’t trusted as a Liberal and he wasn’t trusted anymore as a Canadian Alliance/Conservative either.

Peschisolido was a chair of Jean Chretien’s youth campaign in 1990. He also met with Chretien before he betrayed his constituents of Richmond and crossed the floor to the Liberals. Seems he could consult with Mr. Chretien, but couldn’t be bothered to notify the people who elected him.

When he wanted to be our Canadian Alliance MP — “The new party seemed a vehicle to make important changes in Canada,” Peschisolido said, at a time when the country needed to move in a more conservative direction, particularly on fiscal matters.

The Liberals have since adopted many of the Reform, and later, Alliance policies, making his former party irrelevant, he said.

In other words, Joe, the party you believed had important changes for Canada, you now say you don’t believe in anymore.

From Peschisolido’s biography on the Liberal Party website: “Peschisolido is known for his vision, dedication and his ability to connect personally with each and every level of the community. He is also a listener, he enjoys listening to the stories of his consitituents about their lives, hopes, and dream ... .”

Okay then.

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Students collect for Haiti McRoberts students raised $1,500 last week for aid to Haiti, but more importantly they raised awareness about that country’s poverty, political instability and high unemployment, said the school’s student council’s vice president.

“A lot of these problems were in Haiti before the earthquake,” explained Som Ghosh, one of the organizers of the Heart for Haiti campaign held at McRoberts.

Had they got more help before the earthquake, they might have been in a much better position to deal with it, he added.

It’s been a year since the devastating earthquake shook that small country to its core on Jan. 12. Billions of dollars in aid has since been raised, but the situation remains desper-

ate, with thousands of people living in squalid tent cities.

Because the issues run so deep and so beyond a single natural disaster, it is more important to understand the root causes of Haiti’s woes, explained Ghosh, Grade 11.

Hence the campaign was not necessarily focused on the fundraising aspect, but rather on raising awareness and educating people about the realities of the current problems the country is still encountering.

At the same time, money matters.

And $1,500 raised through Toonie Tuesdays (every Tuesday students are asked to donate a toonie) wristband sales, band concerts and red T-shirt days is nothing to sneeze at. The students want to ensure their money goes to the right places, so are earmarking at least part of it specifically to help rebuild the country’s sewer systems. see Change page 12

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Continued from page 11 “Clean water is a huge issue there.”

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But while the issues in Haiti are bleak, Ghosh is

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There was a lot of fanfare, pomp and ceremony on Saturday night as the 15th Field Regiment of Artillery, the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery hosted its fourth annual Robbie Burns Supper.

The men were decked out in their finest tartan kilts, proudly displaying their families’ crest and colour.

Not to be undone, many women at the sold out soiree donned their Scottish pride in red, green, black, yellow and blue.

More than 230 people attended the event, which was held at the BCIT Aerospace Technology Centre. The head table would have made any Scotsman from the early 18th century proud; dressed as it was to replicate the era. Some local dignitaries included Mayor Malcolm Brodie, MLA Linda Reid and Capt. Tung Chan, honourary captain of the Maritime Forces Pacific.

All evening, the 15th Field Regiment of Artillery, the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery pipe band, as well as The Pipes

and Drums of The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, serenaded the guests.

The Clarion Dancers also took to the stage.

Funnyman Jim Gallagher, who hails from Glasgow, was the MC. He often had the crowd in stitches.

“The bands were spectacular … everyone seemed to have a good time,” said Col. Grant Smith, honourary colonel, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.

“Everyone always gets a kick out of Jim and the ode to the haggis.”

As is the tradition, members of the 78th Fraser Highlanders paraded in the haggis. With a strong Scottish rogue, Captain Gordon Burnett gave an address to the haggis. After the haggis was duly honoured, a group of select members toasted the haggis with a shot of whisky.

Just over $20,000 was raised, making this year’s fundraiser the best ever. (Last year, $12,000 was raised.)

“The money will be disbursed to support military families, especially the families of those serving overseas,” said Smith.

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Macy Gray on life, music and lessons learned Sultry singer discusses her newest album and more ahead of her concert at the River Rock Show Theatre Macy Gray answers the phone from her Los Angeles home and yawns — not once but a few times. She quickly apologizes but a few minutes into the interview, one senses the R&B chanteuse with the sultry, unique voice would rather be on stage than on the phone.

The two-time Grammy-award winning Gray exploded onto the scene in 1999 with her first album, On How Life Is. It soon went triple platinum in the U.S. and Canada, quadruple platinum in the U.K. and won her the 2000 Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. It was also nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year for I Try. What followed was a dismal album in 2007 called Big. Even though big hitters such as Justin Timberlake, Fergie and Natalie Cole sang backup vocals on the album’s first track, her fans weren’t buying it.

“I thought I’d do a dance and pop record, but it didn’t work out,” she said. I didn’t enjoy it, I didn’t like my voice on it and it wasn’t fun. I was partying too much back then and I wasn’t paying attention to my music and I let others dictate the direction I was going.”

Gray took a hiatus from recording to regroup. The songbird was determined that her next album would be done her way.

Gray wanted to go back to her roots; to belt out music that catapulted her onto the scene with On How Life Is. This time, Gray was not going to allow her management to steer her career. She fired her label, paid for her own studio time and her musicians and independently recorded The Sellout. “We recorded it in six months,” said Gray. “It’s a collection of songs that reflect where I was in my career and my love life at the time.”

Gray says all she has wanted to do from the beginning was to be true to herself and write great music.

The Sellout, her third CD, shows off the soul singer’s amazing chops. Gray is coming to Richmond this Saturday to perform songs off The Sellout and her other two CD’s.

“I’m really proud of The Sellout,” she said.

“My kids, 13, 15 and 16-years-old are my inspiration and they have changed everything for me musically. When I worked on Sellout, I did it all myself, paid for it myself and it was so liberating.”

Although Gray said she loves all the songs on the new album, she’s especially proud of Let You Win. “The song relates back to a love lost, and how, if you could close your eyes and had a chance to do it over again different you might,” she said, adding she went through a period of failed relationships that left her feeling vulnerable. “Although I’m more sure of myself, I’m still a little insecure and rather than fight it, I build on my insecurity to write songs.”

Gray pushed herself to come up with new material and as the songs took shape, she knew she was on the right track.

The 12-track CD has those classic Gray sounds her fans crave and there are others that show off a new, older, wiser side of Gray.

“I just poured my heart out,” she said. “I didn’t set out to have a theme, but when I put it together it was a picture of my life.”

Meanwhile, Gray plans on giving the audience a night of “wild fun, with lots of dancing … I hope it’s a liberating night for everyone.”

Gray said prior to any concert, she warms up her voice and she and her band pray together. “I’m really close to my band and we love to hang out together,” she added.

Meanwhile, Gray is working on a live album, which she hopes to release later this year.

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Ease guilt feelings with small, gentle gestures Many of us in the middle generation have reached a time when we are reviewing our situations while attempting to make some sense out of our lives and our parents’ needs.

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Edna’s story is very typical and some of it may ring true for you. It is compassionate to give your loved one some affection – even though you didn’t receive any. Of course you don’t have to, but starting small, like a caring touch or a double hand shake may start to shift a loveless relationship and begin some special healing of your relationship.

What have you got to lose? If you can, muster up a sincere gesture and see how it feels.

A little bit of your guilt may just fade away.

There’s a lot more to this message of guilt than this column can cover. So stay tuned for the next article for some helpful information.

In the meantime, you might want to think about how you use Webster’s words and if they are helping you or hindering you.

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Edna visited her mother regularly. Her account of her feelings is a common story.

“I never did get along very well with my mother. I got along much better with my father, but my mother brought me up, took care of the food and shelter, my clothes etc., but I never got any affection from her. She was too busy trying to keep everything together. My father, on the other hand, I loved very much, but seldom did he contribute to my upbringing. My mother never allowed us to have the radio on, or leave paper around, so it was actually a loveless upbringing which has left scars on me and my brother.

I visit because it’s my duty. I don’t feel I love her a great deal but I do have compassion toward her and I guess I feel guilty because she brought me up and I don’t love her as much as my father.” And then Edna’s final thought: “I don’t know if this is valid or not, perhaps I would feel less guilty if I could hug her more. This

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My journal continues with the joys of being a dad when my children were small and the whole world was full of newness and adventure.

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The tragedy in life is that we rarely devote our attention to what matters most and that people die not knowing how much they were loved. The comedy in life is that we squander so much time and anxiety over a house of cards, arguing about matters that won’t make a difference at the end of life, and collecting and hoarding things we can’t take with us.

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It was a special weekend on and off the floor for Riverside Rapids’ member Natalie Carkner who earned MVP honours in a tournament named after her grandfather. Left, Natalie in a post-game conversation with her grandmother Nanette Carkner. Right, in action during an opening round win over McMath.

Hollywood ending to Carkner Memorial Classic Granddaughter earns MVP award as second ranked Riverside rallies to get past Elgin Park in championship game

The conclusion couldn’t have been scripted any better for the second annual Bob Carkner Memorial Basketball Classic.

The Steveston-London secondary tournament, which was renamed after the longtime school administrator who was instrumental in the development of basketball in the city, saw two of his family members taste victory.

The second ranked Riverside Rapids feature Carkner’s son Mike on their coaching staff and his daughter Natalie was in the starting five. Not only did the Port Coquitlam school take the top prize with a hard-fought 57-54 win over 10th ranked Elgin Park, Natalie was named the tournament’s MVP. “I think I played better in this tournament than I have all year,” smiled the Grade 11 point guard, who was cheered on by her grandmother Nanette. “I just wanted to play hard because you feel like you are playing for somebody.

“It is really special (being

here). I got to watch my sister play in it and now I got to. It’s pretty motivational.”

Mike Carkner coached his older daughter Samantha at Fraser Valley Christian for the inaugural Carkner Classic. The Surrey school didn’t reach the championship game but also didn’t have the same billing as the Rapids.

Riverside took a pass on the high-profile Top 10 Tournament at Centennial secondary and cruised to the final as expected, However, Elgin Park did its best to spoil the family affair — building up an 18-point lead by the midway point of the third quarter. That’s when the Rapids came to life after a miserable night of shooting. They finally took the lead in the dying minutes then needed a defensive stop to avoid overtime.

“It was one of those nights for us and give Elgin a lot of credit,” said Mike Carkner. “The last couple of weeks we have been a bit tired and not concentrating well. Our shooting has been up and down, and when you are a small team, you have to shoot the ball well.”

Carkner had no trouble convincing Rapids head coach Paul Langford to take a pass on the Top 10 tourney. Langford was a good friend of Bob Carkner and a bit of a break from their competitive schedule was welcomed.

There’s a good bet Riverside will

be back again next season to defend their title “Paul knew my dad well and he was pretty excited about taking this opportunity in kind of a lower key but meaningful tournament,” explained Mike, who is a Steveston grad himself.

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“Last year, I came here coaching Sam’s team and I wanted to get Natalie here. The Top 10 is also at a time during our season where our kids are a bit tired and there are two (hard) games a day.

This was perfect.”

Carkner also had high praise for tournament organizer and long-time Richmond high school basketball coach Les Hamaguchi who spearheaded the name change in tribute to Bob Carkner’s contributions to the sport.

“Les has been unbelievable and just great to our family,” he added. “It’s nice to be part of it and just coming back to Richmond.”

Riverside opened the tournament with wins over McMath (72-34) and Van Tech (82-76).

Katie Woo and Hilary Young were named all-stars.

Steveston-London took third place with a 50-43 win against Van Tech. The hosts Sharks slipped past Terry Fox (54-49) in their opening game, then fell 7341 to Elgin Park. Anmol Mattu and Lindsay O’Loughlin earned all-star honours.

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The province’s 10th ranked “AA” senior boys basketball team captured the Steveston-London tournament for the sixth time in seven years with a convincing 7146 victory over the host Sharks in front of a near capacity crowd on Saturday night.

The Trojans saw their reign as champions end with an opening round loss a year ago. This time, they rolled past Moscrop (55-35) in their first game, then outlasted the McMath Wildcats 66-58 in the semifinals. The championship game saw the Sharks within eight points at the half but Boyd dominated the final two quarters.

Tyler Nett earned tournament MVP honours. Teammates Devon Lung and Aidan Docherty were named all-stars.

Steveston-London’s road to the final began with an 82-56 victory over John Oliver. The Sharks then got past Valleyview of Kamloops, 86-69.

Andrew Huang, Bix Deng and Darryl Won were tournament all-stars.

McMath rebounded from its loss to Boyd to finish third with a 64-49 win over Valleyview. Max Pecarsky and Josh Parkes were named all-stars.

Defending champions Richmond Colts took fourth place after defeating Windermere 86-71. Steve Keo earned allstar recognition.

RICHMOND GIRL’S SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION HAS ISLANDER PRIDE! RGSA is bursting with pride. Kylie Rubens-Auguston, Taylor Nomura, Amanda Odorico and Jessica Drew all members of the Islanders Bantam-95A team have been chosen to the 2011 Western Canadian Softball Team.

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We look forward to seeing them in action and cheering them on in Kamloops later this year. These young ladies are wonderful role models for our younger players.

Softball’s Learn to Play program differs from other sports. This is an extra program offered by the association where the children are broken down into small groups where they have the opportunity to develop softball skills through fun drills and games. It is amazing to watch their sense of accomplishment develop which increases their self confidence.

Softball is a great sport for any child. It is never too soon to teach children the importance of fitness for life, especially in a society worrying over child obesity and softball offers daily fun fitness. Kids can develop a love for athletics and especially softball while increasing their skills. Softball is the type of game where players can develop at an individual rate as well as contribute to team development. By working in a team environment social skills are developed.

RGSA is very fortunate to that these young ladies represent the association. In addition to players being selected to prestigious teams including our Canadian Olympic Team, we are fortunate to have former Olympians Lesley Monk and Deb Smallwood as coaches in our association. Additionally we have a dedicated group of coaches in the house and rep programs who have committed many years to the sport, having worked with the T-ball age groups right through to the Midget, Junior and Senior divisions. We have had players go through the program and earn scholarships at universities and colleges in Canada and the US. A noted alum of the RGSA program Sara Hopwood recently won Softball BC Senior Athlete of the Year. We look forward to adding more and more players to these honor rolls.

Our softball complexes will be full of exciting ball and the sounds of teams cheering from the first of April when the season starts through to the end of July, including both house and invitational tournaments. RGSA has been selected to host the BC provincial Bantam-A and PeeWee-B championships.

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Richmond Sockeyes Jake Roder and Rudi Thorsteinson close in on Delta Ice Hawks Anthony Brito during last Thursday’s PIJHL game at Minoru Arena.

The Sockeyes fell 3-1 to their cross-river rivals.

Our bilingual Chinese New Year Special features will run January 28th and February 2nd. They will include info on the events and activities in Richmond plus your yearly horoscope in English and Chinese.

Wilson nets first goal as a Sockeye

Newcomer Connor Wilson notched a third period insurance goal as the Richmond Sockeyes reclaimed the best record in the Pacific International Junior Hockey League with a 4-1 road victory over the Mission Icebreakers on Sunday afternoon.

The 17-year-old forward from Surrey was promptly signed by the Sockeyes after being released by the Grandview Steelers last week.

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Investment

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Richmond

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6008-30

Surrey

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6040

Okanagen/ Interior

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6505

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6508

Apt/Condos

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5505

Legal/Public Notices

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6515

Duplexes - Rent

3 br sundeck, $1175 in 4 plex, +utils, reno’d, own wd, good tenants, well managed, big yard, Williams & Gilbert, avail Jan. 15 or Feb 1, 604-250-9598

6522

Furnished Accommodation

NEWLY FURNISHED room in large house. Female student N/S preferred. Tv, Internet, Hydro incl $500/month, Williams near Dyke.

Avail Feb.1 604-518-2505.

6540

Houses - Rent

5 BDRM. 2 level house for rent in quiet subdivision. 5 appliances, alarm, intercom $2500/mth. Avail Jan 15. Refs required. Call 604-880-7894.

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

9129

Luxury Cars

IMPERIAL VILLAGE rancher, 2000 sf, western view, Tsaw golf course, large master suite, 2 gas f/p, 2 bath, dbl garage, all appls, suit prof couple/retiree, ns, np, lease $2,150+utils. Lawn maint incl. 604-943-4931

SHELL/WILLIAMS, 3 BR, Upper, 1300sf, 5 appls, f/p, lrg storage, sundeck, lrg fenced b/yard, lots of prkg. Avail Feb 15. $1400 + 2/3 utls. Close to school, transit, mall.

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6595

2 BR bsmt, E Richmond, custom built home, now, ns, np, $850, 604-522-3658. 778-323-3658

2 BR Suits Single. grnd lvl @ 4th & Granville, np, ns, no ldry, refs, priv ent, $850 incl heat/ hydro. couples rent neg. 604-244-7862 3 BR ste, Ladner, upper lvl, new deck, fence, stairs. $1100 + 50% util, n/p, avail now. 604-946-0926 RICHMOND, #4 & Francis, 3 BR, nr schls & buses, new paint & carpets, share w/d, ns/np, $1300 + hydro, Feb 1. 604-992-8877

6605

Townhouses Rent

1995 ROLLS Royce, SP3, top model, as new, royal blue, 65K, local, $35,900, 604-271-1969

9135

Parts & Accessories

4 AUDI RIMS. Spec size is 235/45R17. Will fit 225/45R17 or 255/45R17. FIT FOLLOWING VEHICLES: All A3, A5, A6, A8 or TT models. All S4 models to 2008. S6 models 2007-2009. S8 models 2007-2009. A4 - ONLY 2WD. 4 Alloy Rims & 20 Stainless Lug Nuts = $2867 retail.

Mint condition $795 OBO 604-220-2269

9145

Scrap Car Removal

2 BR, #5 Rd & Kingsbridge.

Newly reno’d, pool, wd, np, ns, Feb 1st. $1250. 778-549-5781

Cash for junk cars! $100 to $1000 Ask about our $500 Credit!

Visit our website @ www.surreyscrap.com Free tow, no wheels, no papers no problem! Hassle free friendly service. 2 hr service in most areas.

9105

Auto Miscellaneous

$0 DOWN & we make your 1st payment at auto credit fast. Need a vehicle? Good or Bad credit call Stephanie 1-877-792-0599. www.autocreditfast.ca. DLN 30309.

WANT A VEHICLE BUT STRESSED ABOUT YOUR CREDIT? Last week 12 out of 15 applications approved! We fund your future not your past. Any Credit. $500 christmas cash extended. www.coastlineautocredit.com or 1-888-208-3205.

9125

Domestic

1998 EAGLE TALON ESI, 170k, 2.0 L, excellent condition, 5 spd, no accidents, silver exterior, grey interior. $3500. 604-763-3223

Richmond

QUIET, CLEAN, large furn’d rm, prkg, np suit mature working male $500 incl utils/net, 604-277-6002

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Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

1999 FORD Taurus SE Station Wagon, red, 75000 km, V6, 3.0L, auto, 4dr, p/w, p/l, p/b, A/C, VG cond., $3500 obo, 604-926-6654 1994 CHEV 3/4Ton with dump box, auto, exc working cond.

320K, $6200, 604-270-3933

2002 OLDS Alero V6 146kms sedan, Auto, White grey int, exc cond, s/r, p/l, p/w, ABS, fold down back seats. $4,500 604-329-7946

2001 JAGUAR S-Type 3.0 V6, Auto, Black on white, 139km, $6998 obo. Tel: 778-322-3598

9173

Vans

97 GRAND Voyager LE 3.8L AWD Leather n/s Alloy 221K $3999 obo 604-939-3316

9522

RV’s/Trailers

WANT to trade 1988 Chevy Elite

23’ motor home for smaller motorhome. 604-946-0864 Lve mess

9160

Sports & Imports

2005 LEXUS ES330, 4 dr Sedan, grey, auto, fully loaded, 6cyl. 44K, $22,500 obo, 604-616-3296

8105

8055

Cleaning

EUROPEAN DETAILED Service cleaning. www.pumacleaning.ca Sophia 604-805-3376

8060

Concrete

L & L CONCRETE. All types: Stamped, Repairs, Pressure Wash, Seal Larry 778-882-0098

8075

Drywall

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8080

Electrical

#1167 LIC Bonded. BBB, lrg & sm jobs, expert trouble shooter, WCB, low rates, 24/7. 617-1774.

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402. Fast same day service guaranteed. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

8087

Excavating

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Flooring/ Refinishing

Century Hardwood Floors ★Hardwood flr refinishing ★Repairs ★ Staining ★ Free Estimate. Contact 604-376-7224

8130

Handyperson

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

8255

Rubbish Removal

★ BATHROOM SPECIALIST★ Tiles, tub, vanity, plumbing, paint framing. From start to finish. Over 20 yrs exp. Peter 604-715-0030

8250

Roofing

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8160

CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES

9155

Shared Accommodation

6595-55

Sports & Imports

1 BDRM Steveston-G/L, sep entry, f/p, shared w/d. Walk to bus. N/S, pets OK. $875+util.

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9771 #2. 6BR, 3.5 bath, new paint 2850sf, lease, np, ns, now, $2900 Eric 604-723-7368 Prop.Mngt.

9160

Lawn & Garden

PLANTSMAN LANDSCAPING Winter clean-up, pruning, hedge trimming. Professional, insured.

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8185

Moving & Storage

Abe Moving & Delivery & Rubbish Removal. Available 24 hours. Call Abe at: 604-999-6020 AAA ADVANCE MOVING Experts in all kinds of Moving, Storage & Packing. Different from the Rest. 604-861-8885 AJK MOVING Ltd. Delivery, storage. No job too small or big.

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8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

MILANO Painting 604-551-6510 Int/Ext. Good Prices. Free Est. Written Guar. Prof & Insured.

8205

Paving/Seal Coating

ALLEN Asphalt, concrete, brick, drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187

8220

Plumbing

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8250

Abe Moving & Delivery & Rubbish Removal. Available 24 hours. Call Abe at: 604-999-6020 A.J.K. MOVING Ltd. Special truck for clean-ups. Any size job Lic#32839 604-875-9072 CHEAP JUNK Removal & Bin Rentals Starting at $39.99. Large 20cu yard trucks. 778-882-5865

8300

Stucco/Siding/ Exterior

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