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To mark the Man in Motion tour’s 25th anniversary, Rick Hansen will join 7,000 volunteers in a cross-Canada relay to spread his message of hope.
Steveston-London held off a valiant effort by the host team to capture the senior girls division of the McMath Wildcat Classic in thrilling fashion.
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Sam Lau, right, owner and chef of the celebrated Richmond restaurant Zen Fine Cuisine, is joined by his business partner Gordon Jeeves for a glass of wine. Zen has been named one of the top Chinese restaurants in the world outside of Hong Kong by USA Today and the food critic of the New York Times.
There’s a small restaurant tucked away in Steveston that is garnering international rave. New York Times food critic Jennifer 8 Lee, who wrote The Fortune Cookie Chronicles — A Guide to the Best Chinese Restaurants, proclaimed Zen Fine Cuisine as “the best Chinese restaurant in the world outside of Hong Kong.” USA Today recently dubbed it “one of the 10 great places to savor Chinese food.” The News decided to check it out. We made a point to go after the lunch hour rush, but at 2 p.m. the eatery was still packed with people on working lunches, as well as tables of moms and one large table of women celebrating a birthday. At the helm of this intimate, modern chic bistro is the 52-year-old Sam Lau. It took awhile before Lau, a self-taught executive chef, could come and sit down. As he dabbed a little sweat off his face, Lau apologized for taking so long. Lau begins by saying he immigrated to Canada in 1979. He said he only came into the food industry out of necessity; not because he had a passion for food. “I moved here when I was 19, with no real work experience and little English speaking skills, so I had very little choice of work,” said Lau. “I could either work in a laundry mat or in a restaurant … I chose the restaurant.” see Lau page 4
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Convicted sex offender seeks bail amid protests Man connected to two teens found dead last year is arrested in recent police sweep of violent, predatory drug dealers
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more would follow. While Tremblay was not mentioned, Const. Lindsey Houghton said details of his arrest on drug charges will be forthcoming. Families of Tremblay’s alleged victims and women’s groups from the Downtown Eastside, meantime, staged an emotional protest Friday outside the Vancouver courthouse, concerned that Tremblay could get bail. One protester was a 17-year-old girl who spoke about her alleged experience with Martin.
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“It scares me,” the girl said when asked about the possibility of Tremblay getting out. “(I want the courts) to keep him in jail and keep him away.” It was two years ago, she says, that Martin Tremblay walked into her life, a man described as a charmer who liked to flash his cash and who the other girls referred to as their street dad. It’s the term her close friend, Kayla Lalonde, used when introducing her to Tremblay that first night the three of them
shared sips from a bottle of hard liquor. Tremblay kept the bottles coming and soon they went to another house, where she blacked out. She says she woke up the next morning in a car park, half-dressed with no shoes on, but has never reported the incident to police. Lalonde, she says, woke up at a downtown bus stop with no clothes on. A year later, on March 2, 2010, Lalonde was dead, her 16-year-old body dumped on the side of the road in Burnaby. see Bail hearing page 4
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A convicted sex offender, who was also linked to two teenage girls who died within hours of each other, was in court again on Friday for a bail hearing. The arrest of Martin Tremblay, 45, this month was related to Project Rescue, one of two major Vancouver police investigations unveiled last week targeting the city’s most violent and predatory drug-dealers. Vancouver police announced Thursday that they’d made eight arrests connected to projects Tyrant and Rescue and promised