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Meet Mira, the Miracle Girl

Told to arrange their daughter’s funeral before her first birthday, Mira’s parents are now preparing her for Kindergarten Graeme Wood

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M

ira wasn’t even oneyear-old and had developed a tumour in her head the size of a tennis ball.

Now, aged five, she’s enrolled in kindergarten this fall.

“She’s a girly girl. All she wants to do is sing and dance and she’s very social and loves to draw and play with girlfriends.

She’s a typical five-year-old,” said Ragne Reid of her daughter.

This is a story that serves to remind people to never give up.

Born in June 2009, Mira was just eight-months-old when she came down with flu-like symptoms and couldn’t stay upright while on vacation.

“She was listless and vomiting,” said her mom.

She, and Mira’s father, Matt Reid, took their daughter to the emergency room on the Sunshine Coast, but were sent home under the advice Mira had the flu.

The family immediately went

home to Richmond and, after visiting their family doctor the next day, they soon found themselves at B.C. Children’s Hospital.

“You know something’s not right with your child when you go straight in,” said Ragne.

“We saw the MRI. It was just absolutely mind-boggling. She had four tumours on her brain and one on her spine.”

After a couple months the prognosis was grim; she had medulloblastoma and Ragne and Matt were told to make arrangements for Mira’s eventual death, while simultaneously planning the birth of their soonto-be-born son, Jax. “I was just thinking, this is not going to be how it ends,” said Ragne, adding she had begun looking at care alternatives in the U.S. But then a call came from the hospital; a neurosurgeon, willing to try an incredibly invasive surgery, followed by such a high dose of chemotherapy that it

A happy Zajac Ranch camper shows affection for a horse, all thanks to Pirate Pak Day at White Spot restaurants.

Mira Reid, 5, left, celebrated her fifth birthday recently. Above, the Reid family, from left, Jax, Ragne, Matt and Mira will all be supporting Miracle Treat Day at Dairy Queen in aid of B.C Children’s Hospital. Photo left submitted. Photo above by Graeme Wood/Richmond News would render Mira incapable of eating for a year.

Physicians (too many for Ragne to count) worked around the clock on Mira’s brain. She lost her entire body’s worth of blood, five times over.

But the plan worked; Mira’s one tough cookie. “(Health practitioners) have never seen an outcome with a patient with such a positive cancer diagnosis,” noted Ragne,

who still can’t believe her infant child was initially sent home, considering the condition she was in.

“I was blown away we could be dealing with doctors in an ER that could be so dramatically wrong.”

But she applauds the efforts of the staff at Children’s Hospital.

“You’re not getting better care than that and more cutting edge physicians,” she said.

And now, there’s a newfound

appreciation for the hospital.

“I don’t know if I understood it before,” she said.

The family volunteered their story with the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation to help shed light on an important upcoming fundraiser supported by Dairy Queen.

On Thursday, Aug. 14, proceeds from the sale of Blizzards on Miracle Treat Day will go to the hospital.

Help the kids, grab an adult Pirate Pak On Wednesday, Aug. 13, adults can feel like kids again when they enjoy an Adult Pirate Pak at one of Richmond’s three White Spot locations.

The seventh annual fundraiser gives $2 from the sale of every Pirate Pak to Zajac Ranch for Children, a B.C. charity

that provides kids and young adults with life-threatening illnesses and chronic disabilities a memorable summer camp experience.

Last year, a total of 1,617 Pirate Paks were sold on Pirate Pak Day in Richmond, raising $3,234 for the charity — an annual

increase of more than 30 per cent.

Pirate Pak Day has already raised a total of $268,386 and sent more than 100 children to camp. White Spot Week at Zajac Ranch runs from Aug. 18 to 22 and includes activities ranging from horseback riding and kayaking.

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A short section of River Road, east of the Richmond Oval, will be permanently closed to traffic in midAugust.

It’s being replaced by a new road, skirting construction of the River Green Village development and expansion of the city’s waterfront park system.

The area being closed runs from Hollybridge Way to Gilbert Road.

The change supports the city’s development of the Middle Arm Waterfront Park and is expected to improve traffic flow along River Road by introducing new traffic signals and eliminating a three-way

Richmond’s homeless population is likely more than the 38 officially counted recently, according to Diane Woodhouse, a warden at St.Alban’s Anglican Church.

“We’re probably over about 100 homeless here,” said Woodhouse.

Furthermore, a lack of affordable housing drives low-income people out of the city.

Last week, the Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness released its official 2014 homeless count survey, which indicated the city had just 38 homeless, representing just one per cent of the 2,777 homeless.

Woodhouse said while Richmond has excellent

health and social services, housing is the biggest concern for the homeless.

Woodhouse said in the past year, the church’s emergency extreme-weather shelter has been at or over capacity.

“It shows you there has been quite an increase in these folks reaching out for help,” noted Woodhouse.

She said the city needs more affordable housing and shelter space, noting that government social housing officers attending the drop-in centre have had to move people from Richmond to surrounding municipalities.

“Build them and they will come,” she said.

She said it’s important that people who want to stay in Richmond can have that option.

“The last place they want to be is the Downtown

Eastside (of Vancouver).”

She said lots of people couch-surf with family and relatives to avoid being “outed” as homeless.

“There’s no housing in Richmond. Literally no housing,” she said, noting even a 129-unit social housing complex to be built by 2016 is already largely accounted for by existing agencies.

She noted welfare payments (if a person even receives them) are effectively prohibitive in finding housing at market rates.

“I think the city is doing quite a bit, but not nearly enough,” she said.

Woodhouse added that the solution is complicated.

She would never want to see models in Richmond like Vancouver’s singleroom occupancy (SRO) apartments.

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When seven-year-old Cici Qin saw a piano placed outside the Richmond Cultural Centre, she didn’t hesitate to tinkle its ivories.

“It’s nice,” Quin said, who started playing only eight months ago. “I like the sound.”

Three pianos are being placed outside in Richmond by the Piano Teachers Federation (PTF), part of their Pianos on the Street program.

As well as the cultural centre, pianos are being placed at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard and the Olympic Oval.

The purpose is to make music available to all members of the public, explained PTF spokesperson Laura Shortt.

“We are hoping with this project to build bridges across communities and activate community spaces through these pianos,” Shortt said, explaining pianos are being placed in iconic locations in Metro Vancouver such as Grouse Mountain and Westminster Quay.

“We are also engaging with community groups to paint those pianos, which will be in those places throughout the entire summer.”

The pianos are all owned by Sean Pacey,

Cici Qin, 7, with mom, Lisa Wang, at the outdoor piano outside the Richmond Cultural Centre. Photo by Christopher Sun/ Special to the News founder of the PTF and a piano storeowner.

The program is similar to the City of Vancouver’s Keys to the Streets, which started last year.

The piano outside the library will be painted on Friday, in time for its official launch on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Vandalism is an obvious concern, as the pianos are left out overnight — but that hasn’t stopped the music.

Sports leader pans Oval discount Philip Raphael

centres and the Watermania pool complex in Richmond, the Oval’s regular drop-in fee is about three times as expensive.

According to the city’s website, one-day, A 45 per cent off deal is usually considered drop-in passes for community fitness centres to be a pretty good buy. is $5.30 for adults, while youths and those But a recent offer from online coupon over 55 pay $3.40. broker Groupon with that healthy discount There’s a price break if you purchase a 10for a one-day pass to the Richmond Olympic Oval — $9 instead of the regular $16.50 — is visit card at $42 and $27 respectively, while monthly passes are $45 and $32. not getting one community sports leader too Further discounts are available for three, six excited.

Jim Lamond, chair of the Richmond Sports and 12-month passes, with year-long access dropping the price down to $282 for adults Council, said he’d prefer to see the Oval run and $206 for youths and those over 55. All more like a less costly, community centre fees include tax. and not as what he termed is a private club, Whereas, the Oval’s Groupon deal grants opening it up more to the community, with access to: the fitness centre; courts for seniors being one group that would benefit. basketball; badminton; baseball; golf; and “I always thought they should open the the climbing wall for certified climbers. Most Oval up to seniors more, offer a $2 drop-in group fitness classes are also included.But rate when it’s not as busy — say between 9 there may be additional fees for equipment a.m. and noon — and they’d fill the place,” rental.

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EDITORIAL OPINION

To end all wars

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t’s been 100 years since the guns began firing in the First World War. When Germany invaded Belgium on Aug. 4, 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany.

By virtue of our legal status as a British dominion, their war was our war and, in the five years that followed, Canada gave dearly.

With more than 620,000 men and women serving as soldiers, nurses and chaplains, Canada contributed a higher percentage of its population to the effort than any of its allies.

Roughly half of those who

served were casualties; 250,000 Canadians were wounded and 67,000 were killed.

The memorial unveiled in North Vancouver’s Cates Park with the blessing of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation this past weekend is a welcome reminder of the sacrifice paid.

Remembrance in Jade is a fitting monument and Cates Park is a fine place to reflect.

The longer these awful battles drift into the past, the greater the risk they will be forgotten.

As a culture today, we busy ourselves with our careers and what to do on the weekend.

We need to be reminded of

the sacrifices that resulted in the peace and freedom we enjoy.

Other generations have not been so lucky. And other nations today aren’t so lucky.

Though it was called “the war to end all wars,” the deafening bellow of gunfire has scarcely taken a break since.

Those who challenge the rationale for going to war are sometimes ostracized or even accused of treason.

Patriotism and nationalism rear their heads — precisely what led to the Great War. But perhaps the best memorial we can offer to those who died in war is to preserve peace.

COLUMN

B.C.’s teachers don’t deserve to go 20 weeks without pay

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ow many people the provincial government reading this column to suddenly fork over almost InTheHouse could go 20 weeks a quarter of a billion dollars, Keith Baldrey which is what the BCTF without a paycheque, without Columnist seriously depleting your is seeking to address class savings account or cashing in a composition. significant amount of RRSP funds?

I’m not the only observer to point out that in I suspect not many people could, but that this poker game, the government holds all the bleak scenario is precisely the one facing many cards. Not just the best cards, but all of them. teachers in B.C. as the summer progresses.

The government’s ability to legislate an end The teachers were last paid in mid-June, or to the dispute and to impose a new contract gives it the whip hand. The BCTF may well thereabouts. They may not see another pay challenge such a move in court, but that will cheque until mid-October, unless their union take some time to play out if the union chooses moves significantly off its bargaining position to go down that route. in contract talks.

The BCTF may eventually also ultimately And yes, I say “union” quite deliberately. win that ongoing court case about contract That’s because there is no way to pressure or language governing class size (it has won in force the government to accede to what the the B.C. Supreme Court, but the government is B.C. Teachers Federation is demanding at the appealing and a potential further appeal to the negotiating table.

Supreme Court of Canada may mean this won’t This is not to say that what the BCTF is be resolved for perhaps two more years). asking for is not warranted, in some respects.

So, unless the BCTF leadership crawls back But for all the validity of some of the BCTF’s from the edge of the cliff it has been sitting on arguments (these don’t include the ones for months now, the only question becomes involving their demand for a greater benefits package) there is no reason at all to expect one of timing. As in: when will the government

impose that contract?

In past disputes, the government has moved relatively quickly to end a strike by teachers, using the legislature to do so.

Not this time.

The government now realizes it has the BCTF just where it wants it. For the first time ever, the union’s membership are paying a huge personal financial price for staging a strike.

And the teachers are paying that price at the worst possible time. The fact the twomonth summer break has landed smack in the middle of the strike exacerbates the cash flow problems that can arise from going potentially more than four months without an income.

Government House Leader Mike de Jong is adamant he won’t call the legislature back earlier than its Oct. 6 scheduled start, just to impose a contract. His surprise announcement of a $40-per-lost-school-day-perstudent rebate for parents would seem to buttress that point.

If he sticks to his guns, the earliest date for an imposed contract to take effect would be Oct. 9 (it takes a minimum of three days to pass a bill into law). If teachers went back to work that day, presumably they wouldn’t be paid for two

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more weeks.

It all adds up to about 20 weeks without a teacher being paid. The unfortunate thing for teachers is that it’s more than likely the imposed contract will contain pretty much what’s on the table now from the government, which means teachers will have given up thousands of dollars for nothing.

I still think a negotiated deal is possible: the two sides are close on wage proposals, and if the BCTF staggered its argument for funding for class composition over several years (instead of all at once), dropped most of its benefits demands and agreed to put off any grievances until that court case is ultimately settled one way or another, a deal might be in sight.

It might not be totally fair, and it may not give the teachers and their classrooms everything they deserve.

But not many labour disputes end up giving everyone what they deserve, and in this case no one deserves to go without an income for 20 weeks.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC

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TEACHERS’ STRIKE

More than babysitters The Editor, Well, the numbers are finally in. The Christy Clark government figures if it costs $12 million a day to pay for B.C. teachers, they will pay $12 million a day to B.C. parents for child care and tutoring.

This offer says a lot about what the government values in the work teachers do, and what carrot they can dangle to get parents on their side.

But wait a minute, parents are thinking, “what do you mean just childcare and tutoring, and only up to age 13?”

What do teachers actually provide for that $12 million per day?

Well, it’s definitely more than providing

childcare. They teach multiple literacy skills, language, math and sciences, critical thinking, provide counseling, coaching, tutoring, behaviour modeling, etc. etc.

Besides that, they teach our kids all the way up to age 18. Now that the figures are in the open, it looks to me like we taxpayers are getting exceptionally good value for our money.

I’m glad the government has made it clear what the “childcare” portion of teachers’ work is worth.

Let’s see them get back to the bargaining table and seriously tackle all the rest.

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CULTURE/RACE

Spot the difference The Editor, Can we please, once and for all, bring some clarity to the following issue: People’s values and modes of behaviour are not determined by their races, but by their cultures.

For example, my circle of friends includes a wide diversity of ethno-racial heritages, but because we have all been born and raised in Canada, we generally share the same values and behave in the same ways. Such is the case in every society.

Arrogant aggressiveness, disregard for the comfort, welfare, and even safety, of one’s fellow human beings; rudeness and incivility, misogyny, and ethnocentricity are learned attitudes and traits and they are assimilated from immediate family, a sub-culture, and/or a culture at large.

Therefore, just as I have the right to disrespect and be intolerant of such behaviours on the part of individuals, I also maintain the right to show equal disrespect to cultures that foster and propagate them in their populations.

This point-of-view has literally nothing at all to do with racial prejudice, but rather the process of discriminating between that which one considers to be humane, appropriate, and

respectful behaviour, and that which isn’t.

So, whenever I see someone playing the race card as a means of either avoiding or defeating reactions to certain attitudes and behaviours, I do not run and hide or use political correctness or cultural relativism as a convenient excuse for not drawing attention to disrespectful attitudes and behaviours, as so many other Canadians are inclined to do.

Instead, I outline the case I’ve stated above and do everything I can to both override the reasoning that would label such reactions as racially-based and blunt attempts to use the race card as a weapon to silence others.

Prejudice against other races? Nope, nada, zero, zip, no way, nothing there, get real, wake up, never happen!

Prejudice against some attitudes and behaviours entrenched in some other cultures?

You bet — and as examples let’s refer to the kinds of subjugation and brutality that is inflicted on women that is deemed justifiable in some other cultures, or the fact that childindentured labour and exploitation of the poor are accepted practices in some societies.

See what I mean?

Ray Arnold Richmond

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Run, salmon, run

Local fishermen excited about setting lines as early as Monday

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But preparing for the salmon run is hard work and also requires financial investments that would make any sound-minded investor wary, considering how unstable the salmon fishing industry is.

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he lines have been mended, the hulls painted, the diesel tanks capped, the engines oiled, the ice packed and the sandwiches sliced.

The grizzled Taggart, a fisherman of more than three decades, said he just sunk $65,000 into his boat for a new engine, exhaust system and fish tanks, among other things to keep it tip-top.

About 280 independent gillnetters moored at the Steveston Harbour Authority docks are ready to set their lines for a rare commercial salmon opening on the Fraser River — a window that appears to be an exceptional run of sockeye salmon.

“You can’t have a breakdown on the Fraser. You lose a day, you could lose 500-600 sockeye, maybe more. The last time we had this run we had some big days,” said the 55-year-old veteran netter.

These fish are predominately the offspring of the Adams River-led 30 million salmon run that returned to the Fraser in 2010, in what has otherwise been a dying fishery for the past two decades.

On board the 35-foot Trendsetter II, semi-retired fisherman Ken Yoshikawa is hoping to cash in on a big catch.

“This year there’s a lot of hype as it’s the same cycle year of the big Adams run. But even DFO (the Department of Fisheries and Oceans) can’t get a handle of it. They’re saying it will be anywhere from seven to 73 million. But it’s sounding like there’s a lot of fish coming now.”

The Fraser River Panel and DFO will meet today to set an opening on the river after all indications from commercial test fisheries indicate an abundance of sockeye.

And the word around the docks is getting gillnetters excited; they’re expecting to be on the waters this Monday, for an opening anywhere from 12 to 18 hours long. Meanwhile, First Nations fisheries opened Thursday.

“We’re going to catch some fish here; I’m quite confident we will,” said Kit Taggart, owner and skipper of the 35-foot Rumours I vessel.

Sockeye boon expected On a hot, sunny Tuesday afternoon in early August, the harbour’s property was buzzing, just as it had been for weeks leading up to this weekend.

And you can chalk up another $10,000 on nets, said Taggart, showing off his war chest of equipment in an old wooden building within the harbour’s property.

Ken Yoshikawa, above, poses inside his vessel, Trendsetter II, which recently got an overhaul. Below, a fisherman untangles his nets from the drum after a trip to the Strait of Georgia. Photos by Graeme Wood/Richmond News

“Three weeks ago this place was just full, packed; everyone was busy; the welder’s were going crazy,” said Yoshikawa.

The harbour’s manager, Robert Baziuk, said the following weeks will be some of the busiest he’s experienced in the past four years.

“Majorly. There will be people crawling.”

He’s expecting big returns, judging from the information he’s gleaned from the catches up north.

“All indications from the test settings are that there’s a bonanza of fish out there. The public will see a bonanza of public fish sales,” said Baziuk.

“You’ve got to buy your web, attach lead line, the weed line, and cork line,” noted Taggart.

The cork line is in reference to the small, typically white, bulbs that float on top of the water, indicating where the lines are set in the river.

Then there are other essentials fishermen need to prepare, like fuel and ice, although these are the “cheap” items, relative to everything else, but ultimately equally important.

Taggart will fill his tanks with about four tonnes of crushed ice, costing him a pittance of $160.

On Monday, he said he’ll likely burn through about 200 litres of diesel fuel, costing about $280.

On the waters, being fuel efficient is being penny wise and pound foolish; if you’re not in the right spot you need to gas the engines and get out of Dodge to find the salmon highway.

On another dock, Terry Taylor and his son Travis prepared their line drum, spooling a 600-foot net from the dock to the boat. The net snagged on a nail hanging out of a log boom, forcing curses out of both of their mouths. The hole may let a few fortunate salmon escape the holding tanks of Taylor’s impressively outfitted Just Travlin Too vessel. see FISHERMEN › page 11

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Fishermen: Red tape tangles productivity ‹ from page 10

His boat will be loaded with eight bins that can each hold 250 fish.

Anticipating a big catch, he moved his drum to the back of the boat to accommodate the bins and make room for his deckhands. Everything comes down to a practical science.

Not only do the fishermen have to prepare material aspects of their boats, they have to prepare mentally.

Taylor and Yoshikawa will work as a team with four other boats, collectively known as a “pool.”

They will talk with one another to determine the best places for fishing, as every moment counts when the DFO shotgun sounds.

“You want everyone to do well but you want to be top dog,” chuckled Taylor.

Fraser says has become a trend over the past five to 10 years.

The 53 year-old pulls no punches at the federal government and DFO, claiming the bureaucratic red tape is ultimately designed to be prohibitive and force independent gillnetters off their boats.

Take, for instance, the VHF radio licence.

“Twenty-five years ago I took this course and the government said it was good for life. The only reason why they made us take it again is because they put a little red button on the radio (to automatically call the Canadian Coast Guard) instead of calling (channel) 16. So now you gotta take a new course to push the little red button and there’s another $180 and two days of (expletive) hell,” said Fraser

Every fisherman requires the following papers: boat registration, a commercial and sport fishing Netters also need to assess tides before going out and read patterns as to where others are catching, licence, an operating licence, a boat safety certificate, a logbook, a First or not catching, fish.

Aid certificate, insurance Exactly how much fish will papers, moorage documents be caught will depend on Fishin’ lingo: and validation numbers for DFO counts through August the packing boat. and into September. ! Corking: Setting lines in front of If there is an abundance another boat; New to this year, the latter of fish it could drive prices ! Plugged: Filling up your storage is something Fraser says is down. tanks with fish; one of the straws that broke ! Skunked: Not catching any fish; the camel’s back, for him; “The thing is with a big run ! Sounder: A fish-tracking device fishermen must now call everyone gets plugged with Ottawa while unloading their salmon and the price falls,” fish at a packing boat, in noted Taylor. order to obtain a number to report to the boat.

A lot of the fishermen think the salmon purchasing “Wouldn’t you love to run a business where monopolization of tycoon Jim Pattison’s Canadian nobody had to walk into their store; all they had to Fishing Company (Canfisco), which buys the do is go online and they give you their money. You salmon for processing, is unfair, noted Taggart. never had to talk to them, help them do a single “How many fish do you have to catch at a dollar a thing for them? …Isn’t it good to be king?” scoffed pound? 10,000 sockeye at six pounds on average at a dollar a pound. That’s just $60,000 for working Fraser in reference to the closure of DFO offices in Vancouver. your tail off,” said Taggart.

Presently, fish being sold near Campbell River, where there was a commercial opening this week, was selling for $1.75 per pound.

A sockeye salmon is typically five to 10 pounds.

“When the fish prices go down, it infuriates me because for us to go out and catch the fish, it’s expensive,” added Taggart.

At any rate, the fishermen say it’s a buyers’ market at Steveston’s Fisherman’s Wharf.

“It’s a good time for the public to buy fish at a reasonable price, probably $20 a fish.

These fish are still full of oil, it’s a beautiful fish,” said Taggart.

Red fish, red tape Selling the fish requires a licence, one of many pieces of paperwork needed to fish. Growing paperwork is something that fisherman Randy

Travis Taylor, left, helps unload a fish box for his father, Terry Taylor, on board the Just Travlin Too. See a video of harbour preparations at Richmond-News.com one month every four years,” added Yoshikawa.

Moonlighting on the Fraser Longtime Steveston resident Yoshikawa has moved on from decades of fishing in his family business to working full-time as a homebuilder.

“I saw the writing on the wall,” he said, noting the fleet of about 280 was once counted in the thousands.

“Any young kid couldn’t afford it, let alone make a living out of it. You’ve gotta buy your boat, your gear, your papers,” he said.

he’s taken some flack from some people since the farms are known to breed viruses, a leading theory as to why fish stocks have been declining.

Most fishermen the Richmond News spoke to are semi-retired and reaching their senior years, if they’re not there already.

For instance, Fraser said he’s independently wealthy and otherwise retired and Taylor’s son Travis is a realtor while his other son, who fishes crab, is a chartered accountant.

“You gotta do everything you can to make a living,” said Taylor.

At the Rumours I vessel, Taggart said he has had to take on work with a fish farm up north.

Baziuk said despite poor salmon returns, the fishing industry on the whole is doing well, with catches such as herring, crab and halibut giving fishermen opportunities to run their boats nearly year-round.

“I’m kinda of on both sides of the fence. A guy has to do what a guy has to do. I’ve always been on the water, it’s all I know,” said Taggart who says

But what lies in store for salmon gillnetter’s is anyone’s guess. Will the salmon populations rebound?

All the paperwork requires time the fishermen don’t have in an extremely time-sensitive environment.

“I was thinking about hiring a secretary,” chuckled one fisherman, named Walter.

Another preparation for skippers is finding suitable deckhands, who also require more and more paperwork, said Fraser.

This month Yoshikawa will take on five employees, two of whom are greenhorns.

“Based on this run you may only get 30 days to make up for what we’ve spent and invested in. So I’ll go out and, also, I’ve got to hire five guys and two of them are green,” said Yoshikawa.

“I’ve had some pretty good deckhands but they’ve all moved on, working for BC Ferries or something.

You can’t expect a guy to make a living working

A Steveston Harbour Authority employee attaches straps for the boat lift. See a video of harbour preparations at Richmond-News.com. Photos by Graeme Wood/Richmond News

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Nikkei tales to be told in Steveston

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A series of short films chronicling Steveston’s Japanese history is in the works after the City of Richmond kicked in $75,000 in funding.

Richmond City Council approved the funding last month for “Nikkei Stories,” to be completed early next year by Vancouverbased filmmaker Gordon McLennan, which will be displayed inside the old Japanese Benevolent Society house.

The house, located behind the Steveston Museum and Post Office, is currently under restoration and is expected to open in spring 2015.

“It’s going to be a 10part series of short films ranging from two to four minutes long,” explained McLennan, who’s been, for 25 years, a writer, director and producer of feature films and documentaries.

“It’s a look at the people, events and places that are important in the culture, economics and historic life, Japanese life, in Stevenson.”

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to the Black Strathcona project McLennan produced for Vancouver, which was six decades of black history in that historic eastside neighbourhood, told through 10 distinct short films.

Permanent street signage, with QR codes for cell phones, were also installed at each location filming took place to increase public awareness and make the project interactive.

McLennan was due to meet with Steveston Historic Society chair Loren Slye to start planning what stories will be told; which will be difficult to narrow down, as the amount of stories and ideas will be vast.

“We’re going to be going through hundreds of still photographs, going through the archives and going to individual families,” McLennan said. “It’s a huge amount of research.”

The filmmaker is also seeking more financial partners as he also plans to create an educational component, which could be used in schools. He feels projects like this are important because of how

Two Japanese workers sharing a laugh at BC Packers Imperial Plant in Steveston, circa 1960. Photo courtesy of Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society

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“The whole Lower Mainland and Vancouver and Steveston have developed so quickly and it’s important to conserve and remember,” McLennan explained.

“Especially a community that has contributed so much to Steveston and still does.”

Slye has seen McLennan’s previous work and is excited about this project.

“It ties right in with Japanese house being reconstructed,” Slye said.

“It will tell the history of the Japanese community here from 1800 and beyond.”

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Shakespeare, with a secret weapon Bard on the Beach continues to surprise audiences

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Oh, there are the plays, of course, but everyone’s got a summer Shakespeare festival, it seems.

Many, like Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach, have very nice locations: in parks, next to lakes, rivers or in repurposed old buildings.

Bard’s nice location is in tents on the grass at Vanier Park, a lovely point of land at the head of False Creek, a waterway popular with sailboats, yachts and kayaks that leads to English Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

It’s magnificent in summer at dusk, when the sun sets behind the Coast Mountains.

Great place for a festival, too, and Bard on the Beach, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in the park in 2014, knows it.

Location isn’t everything, though. There was another Shakespeare festival in a tent here before Bard, in the early 1980s, but it only lasted two seasons.

It made two mistakes. One, a common error, was expanding too quickly. Partway through season two it went broke.

The second was not having the stroke of genius that Bard co-founder and artistic

director Christopher Gaze did: from the first performance in 1990 he opened the tent at the back of the stage and let west-coast nature provide most of the scenery.

“I think that was a game changer,” says Gaze, himself a veteran actor who trained with Bristol’s Old Vic in England before coming to Vancouver in the 1980s.

He had performed at the earlier Shakespeare festival and so knew what an untapped asset the Vanier Park location offered. “We have this backdrop here that is extraordinary. It is sensationally beautiful.”

It is also often another character in the play, or at least a mood deepener.

For Macbeth, as the plot grows darker so does the night sky. For The Tempest, the heavens’ changing colours become part of the spells being cast. For Romeo and Juliet the chill of the evening air creeps into the tent like the dankness of the lovers’ tomb.

The inspired backdrop helped Bard survive its fledgling years and grow, slowly.

Today, the season runs from early June through late September, with four plays in two tents: the 742-seat main stage and a 240-seat space for Shakespeare’s less-popular efforts plus non-Will works.

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Titania, Bottom and the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream share the stage with westcoast nature at Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival.

Photo by John Masters/ Meridian Writers Group The budget has grown from $35,000 to $5.5 million, making it Canada’s second-largest Shakespeare festival after Ontario’s Stratford Festival, which has 10 times Bard’s budget and is North America’s largest.

Occasionally, letting nature frame the action can have extreme results. Gaze remembers a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that had to be stopped when a violent storm rolled in from the ocean, drowning out the actors and nearly submerging the audience.

When the show was halted, the actor playing Oberon ran to the back of the stage and leapt, most theatrically, into space.

(Unseen mattresses broke his fall.) Just at the moment he became airborne, a huge, jagged bolt flashed in the sky—and silhouetted him.

“It’s an image I’ll never forget,” says Gaze.

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McCallum & Dekker lead way at provincials Led by impressive showing from men’s team, Richmond Rapids place 2nd at B.C. Long Course Championships For the second straight year, the Richmond Rapids finished second overall at Swim B.C.’s Provincial Long Course Championships.

The men’s team was again first, a trend that has lasted for several consecutive seasons.

The journey started two weeks prior with the B.C. AA meet in Victoria, where eight Rapids competed.

This was the first championship event for 10year-olds Sarah Crawford and Vivian Liang, who had the opportunity to learn how to race over three full days. Liang walked away with a bronze in the 100 back, and two AAAqualifying swims. Other medals included Catherine Liao’s bronze in the 100 fly, and another third for the girls 12 & under 4x50 medley relay.

For AAA Provincial Championships, the Rapids brought 44 fully qualified athletes, one of their largest provincial teams ever. Over the four days of competition, they produced 18 gold medals, seven silver, and eight bronze medals.

Seven of those medals, including six gold, belonged to Amanda McCallum, who was dominant throughout the weekend in a wide range of events. She set club records in the 100 and 200 meter freestyle,

100 backstroke, and 400 IM, while simultaneously raising her number of Age Group National standards to nine.

John Chiam also set a club record in his opening leg of the boys 12 & under 4x50 free relay, leading the entire team (Jeremy Fung, Matthew Crawford, Dimitri Volchkov) on to a gold medal and club relay record.

After also getting an individual bronze in the 50 free, Chiam would be a part of two other gold medal and team record-setting relays in the 200 and 400 meter medley. Crawford, Volchkov, and Tiger Chen were also on the top of the podium in the 200, while Crawford, Chen, and Josh Quon were the winners of the 400 — completing the Rapids sweep of the Boys 12 & under relays.

Also in the relays, the Boys 13-14 teams produced four medals out of three events, with the Boys A team winning the 4x50 Free and both squads together earning silver and bronze in the 4x100 medley event.

Rounding out the relay club records was the girls Open 4x100 Medley, consisting of Jaylene Berry, Serena Xue, Cathy Ye, and Morgan Mark, coming fourth overall.

Xue walked away with a pair of club records

Fresh off a dominating performance at the provincial long course championships, Richmond Rapids Nicolaas Dekker will be representing Canada at the upcoming Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Maui. herself in both breaststroke distances — the 100 being enough for the 16-year-old to break the Open class record as well. This was only the cherry, though, as Xue won the 200 and bronzed the 100.

Also in the breaststroke, Kevin Ye dominated both the 100 and 200 events again, setting another club record in the 200. Jerry Liu

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finished the meet with a pair of club records in the 200 and 400 meter freestyle.

He also won gold for his performance in the 200 IM. In her first time competing as a paraathlete at a championship event, Emily De Boer placed fourth in the 100 backstroke and breaststroke. She will be a part of Canada’s

paraswimming team at Can-Ams later this year.

Nicolaas Dekker, on his way to Junior Pan Pacific Championships, swam what was likely to be his last provincial championships as a Rapid before leaving for university.

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Over the weekend, the Rapids produced several more Age Group National qualifiers — Dini McIver, Adrian Hsing, Rich Rakchtis, Ethan Chan, Austin Berry, Max Schaffler, and Michael Ge all qualified for Age Group Nationals. McIver, Hsing, Rakchtis, Berry, Ge, and Chan all did it for the first time.

A huge amount of this success is due to the unyielding support of the Rapids volunteer chaperones, lead by Wendy Berry.

Though regularly treated with less-than-ideal circumstances, the team of chaperones provided full, health-conscious, highquality catering all day long for the entire Rapids team and staff.

The results would surely have been diminished had it not been for their exceptional effort.

Registration for the Rapids’ 2014-15 season will be open to the public starting on Aug. 24 at Watermania. More information will be made available at richmondrapids. com.

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McRoberts grads playing for B.C. teams in Calgary McRoberts rugby grads Bryan Tyrer and Nate Mantle will be in the B.C. Bears line-up Saturday when they kickoff the 2014 Canadian Rugby Championship series against the Prairie Wolf Pack in Calgary.

Fresh off their historic 21-20 victory over the Uruguayan National team, the Bears will be looking to raise their first MacTier Cup since winning the CRC in 2009.

In celebration of the BC Rugby Union’s 125th Anniversary, the Bears recently toured South America. The squad fell 38-7 to the Buenos Aires provincial team, before rebounding with an impressive victory over Uruguay three days later in Montevideo.

“The tour provided us with a good platform to build off heading into the

upcoming season,” said Bears Director of Rugby Jim Dixon. “The experience of playing and training under intense circumstances was invaluable. It allowed us to gel as a squad and the players have been brought together through an amazing experience, touring in different cities and experiencing another culture.”

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MSRP $32,310

MSRP $34,850

MSRP $34,890

Dueck price

Dueck price

29,799

$

Bi-weekly $162

#4CK3423

NO ACCIDENTS, LEATHER, CONVERTIBLE, XM RADIO, STEERING WHEEL CONTROLS, A/C, SIRIUS, CD PLAYER

KM - 53,072

#73623A

GREY $24,980

Bi-weekly $178

#4CA5609

AFTERMARKET EXHAUST, SUNROOF, LEATHER, HEATED SEATS, PWR GRP, 6L V8, RARE

KM - 58,682

REAR CAMERA, XM RADIO, LEATHER, DVD,

#73604A

BLACK $24,980

XM RADIO, STEERING WHEEL CONTROLS

HEATED SEATS, LEATHER, XM RADIO

#73620A

36,980

6.8L HEMI

SILVER

2010 CADILLAC ESCALADE EXT

LUXURY PKG, REAR CAMERA,

SILVER

SRT8, SUNROOF,

2013 CADILLAC ATS

$

3

to ch0o0 fromose

2007 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE SRT8

NO ACCIDENTS, CONVERTIBLE,

KM - 38,050

Dueck price

32,495

$

Bi-weekly $164

2009 PONTIAC G8 GT

CHEVROLET CAMARO LT

$

Bi-weekly $140

5.3L V8 Flex fuel, A/C, rear locking differential, 4.2” colour screen, Power door locks, All season tired, USB port

2010 FORD MUSTANG

#73551B

25,495

NEW 2014 CHEVROLET CAMARO

BIGGEST SELECTION OF PRE-OWNED 2009 JEEP UNLIMITED X

Dueck price

$

NEW 2014 GMC SIERRA CREW CAB

29,495

$

29 Lef t

6 speed auto, A/C, engine block heater, rearview back-up camera, fog lights, Bluetooth, Executive demo

20,995

#4TX3253

NEW 2014 BUICK ENCORE

t

Lef

Dueck price

$

6 speed auto, A/C, Bluetooth, Cruise, remote keyless entry, 6 airbags, tire pressure monitor, USB port

$

35

MSRP $23,095

Bi-weekly $79

And a Trip for Two to Vegas!

25,995

6 Speed auto, A/C, Climate control, remote keyless entry, power windows, traction control, 6 airbags, USB Port, Bluetooth

14,490

NEW 2014 CHEVROLET EQUINOX

$

Bi-weekly $142

Dueck price

$

#4CR7093

Dueck price

KM - 20,923

BLUE

#73570A

43,980

$

ALL WHEEL DRIVE, 6.2L V8, LEATHER, POWER SUNROOF, POWER RUNNING BOARD, NAV

GREY

Taxes and $549 documentation fees excluded.

All prices are net of Dueck and GM discounts, loyalties and rebates. Prices reflect owners of discontinued brands such as Hummer, cobalt, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn. See dealer for detail. Chevrolet corvette and All Cadillac Models are excluded from 0% for 84 months.

Sales ends August 31st 2014.