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Helping out the garbage dump kids Alan Campbell

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hen the teacher suggested to treat the kids in the garbage dump community school to a day out at the “amusement park,” Ayako Turnbull imagined rollercoasters, pirate swings and maybe a carousel or two.

They rented a bus, packed snacks and drinks for the young students, aged four to six, and set off for the big road trip across Kingston, Jamaica from their scant, bare bones Riverton Meadows Early Education Centre, which is partly funded by parents who scrape by on dayto-day labouring jobs and selling scraps recycled from the dump they call home.

As the bus rolled up to the “park,” the kids’ eyes popped, eliciting excited screams of joy at the sight of what Turnbull could only describe as a “regular Canadian school playground.”

“They had actually never seen a playground before,” said Turnbull, cofounder of non-profit Fundamentals for Change Society (FFC), which promotes “positive change in inner-city Jamaican communities through locally driven projects.”

“At one point, one of them was about to come down a slide backwards; they

supplies to take with them to Jamaica had no idea how to come down a slide!” or financial donations to go towards the Astonished by what she saw, Turnbull, school’s lunch program. a McMath secondary grad who now As well as teaching early education splits a part-time job as bar manager at to more than 120 students every day, the Milltown Bar and Grill on Richmond school also feeds them a hot lunch and Island with running FFC, helped raise has created an adjacent health clinic, around $2,800 so that Riverton could drop-off nursery and homework centre. have its own “amusement park.”

Next month’s trip is nothing new, “We’re going to use local materials and however, for Turnbull, who’s been local people to build the playground,” making the journey for added Turnbull.

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Turnbull and two They had no idea Even as a young girl, other FFC members, aged seven or eight, Richmond’s Jeff Kuzik how to come she had the urge to and Ladner’s Meaghan down a slide. help children in need, Kyte, who co-founded wondering to herself the charity with Turnbull, - Ayako Turnbull why she was so fortunate are set to travel at their while millions of children own expense this Nov. around the world suffer 17 to help the Riverton in poverty. community, one of Kingston’s poorest “I always felt the need to bridge the neighborhoods, where around 5,000 gap,” said Turnbull. residents live in makeshift homes along the edges of the city landfill.

When she hit 16, she went online to For a few weeks, the three will use search for opportunities that would fulfill their skills to teach the school’s staff that desire to help. She found a retired how to use a computer for the students’ teacher from Toronto, who was taking a benefit, as well as showing them the work bunch of students to help in Jamaica.

FFC, based in Turnbull’s home, is doing “When we went down, the people there back in Richmond. were incredible, so welcoming and The three are asking the public to donate medical, dental and school see DONATIONS › page 6

Learning how to come down a slide was a new experience for kids living in the garbage dump community of Riverton in Kingston, Jamaica. A Richmond-based charity aims to make life better for the children.

Science teacher picks up PM award Graeme Wood

Staff Reporter gwood@richmond-news.com

Glyn Davies meets Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who presented the Anderson elementary teacher with his award for Excellence in Teaching.

An elementary school science teacher received a national teaching award this week, in Ottawa, which was presented by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

“It’s one of the greatest highlights of my career, to get to go to Ottawa and represent teachers and meet the prime minister,” said Anderson elementary’s Glyn Davies.

Davies was honoured with a Prime Minister Award for Excellence in Teaching for bringing science to life and engaging

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his students with subject matters that relate to the children’s personal interests.

For instance, Davies’ Grade 7 class put on a marine science exhibition at Aberdeen Centre last February for the Richmond School District’s Education Week.

Students chose the marine animals they were most interested in and created a walk-through coral reef, replete with papier mache animal models, for the general public. The hands-on education experience saw students present facts on each of their animals to curious visitors.

Davies also incorporated social media and community outreach into the project.

He said his projects are always based on the curriculum guidelines.

This year he’s embarking on a mystery game project that incorporates deductive reasoning, problem solving skills and writing.

Davies has been honoured several times before for his teaching method, but he credits those around him for the honour.

“It’s not my skill or talent it’s the team; the teachers, district, children and parents,” said Davies.

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from Iraq as a refugee in 1994 when he was age 16. He graduated from the public education system along with six siblings.

Estepho, now 36, said he recognizes Moushtak Estepho has joined Matt different opinions and Richmond’s diversity Pitcairn and Jonathan Ho as the three is important to him.

Richmond Community “Basically I want to bring up Coalition school trustee candidates for the Nov. 15 different viewpoints into public education. What I felt — and it election.

Estepho announced his wasn’t like one side was wrong or candidacy at Minoru Park the other — it was just a common and noted in a news release understanding of where everyone he will be mindful of special stands, so the basic philosophies: needs students as well as trying to put yourself in the other person’s shoes to understand an “innovative and relevant learning environment” for future Moushtak Estepho where they’re coming from to students, including his threecome to a solution that’s agreeable month-old daughter. to everybody,” said Estepho, during his Estepho is a Christian who emigrated brief announcement.

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Sunny Ho, echoed Lee’s thoughts.

“I want less tax. I will make sure even a penny is not wasted. I will fight for less property tax, of course, better business and more jobs,” said Ho, who recently donated $20,000 to the Richmond Hospital Foundation via his business, Kam Do Bakery.

Ho and Lee believe bringing higher paying jobs to the city can be a mechanism to help solve housing affordability issues.

Kenneth Ho (no relation to Sunny) said he wants to introduce “character training” for students, that will develop responsibility, dependency and hospitality.

“Our school system has done a good job on the academic side. But we don’t need to sacrifice character training,” said Ho. Ho said his two adult children graduated from Richmond Christian Secondary, but chose to leave the public system on their own volition. He also wants to promote more communication between PACs and teachers.

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Mayoral candidate and party leader Richard Lee introduced Richmond City Council candidate Sunny Ho and Richmond Board of Education trustee candidate Kenneth Ho. For Lee, forming a new slate is a marked difference from 2011, when he garnered just 30 per cent of the popular vote in the mayor’s race as an independent.

This time around, his press conference was replete with big posters, a master of ceremony and about 50 supporters clad in Canada-red Richmond Reform vests.

“Three years ago I ran and lost badly. I was embarrassed. This time, from July on, I started seriously considering the idea.”

To begin his campaign, supporters sang Oh Canada, albeit many read from a song sheet.

Richmond Reform (no relation to other political parties) represents Richmond’s first slate of only Chinese-Canadian candidates.

However, Lee professed Richmond Reform was not a “Chinese party,” but rather a Canadian one that values the free market, democracy and the rule of law.

“This is why we live here, to be Canadian,” said Lee. The slate has no website, to date, and only briefed media on a few issues, namely a pledge to find efficiencies at city hall in order to lower property taxes; Lee said he wouldn’t

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Richmond’s mayoral race now has three candidates: incumbent mayor Malcolm Brodie, an independent; 2011 challenger Richard Lee, of Reform Richmond, and now, Cliff Wei, also an independent, who filed his candidate papers on Tuesday.

Wei ran for city council in 2011, finishing 15th in the 17-candidate race. He also ran as an independent in the 2013 provincial election in the Richmond East riding, where he garnered just 125 votes, or 0.64 per cent of the popular vote.

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Jun Wuyan, Garry Yuill and Kristian von Schalburg recently filed their candidate papers at Richmond City Hall. None sent the Richmond News information on their platform. Other independents include Henry Yao, Alexa Loo, Jerome Dickey and Dave Semple.

Meanwhile, 18 other candidates have announced their council intentions with six political slates, bringing the total number of candidates to 25, as of Thursday.

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grateful; that stuck with me and I’ve been going down ever since,” said Turnbull.

Turnbull also has a long-term sustainable strategy. “Education is key to giving these children a chance to be a competitor in the Jamaican workforce,” she said.

“However, unemployment rates in Jamaica are so high — and amplified in poor communities like Riverton — so creating jobs for this marginalized part of the population is crucial.”

Turnbull is developing a social enterprise in which Riverton residents will be given jobs to make “up-cycled” jewellery.

Using reclaimed objects and paper; fashionable pieces of one-of-a-kind art will be made to sell in the Lower Mainland. Profits will be reinvested into the projects of FFC in Riverton.

FFC is looking to take down donations of non-prescription medical and dental supplies, school and art supplies, old cell phones, which use SIM cards, and monetary donations.

Contact FFC at info@fundamentalsforchange. org or go to www.fundamentalsforchange.org for further information.

Donations can be dropped off at Milltown Bar & Grill (in Marpole) at 9191 Bentley St., Richmond.

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EDITORIAL OPINION

Issue, what issue?

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f you’re wondering if Chinese-only signage is an election issue, check out the Richmond News’ Facebook page.

In last Wednesday’s paper, we ran an “Election Issues” page on the debate.

As a result, comments on our Facebook page have been vociferous, reaching thousands of users in mere hours. It’s one of the most-reached stories in recent memory. The issue is also regularly picked up by regional, and sometimes national, media.

The general sentiment is that there should be at least some English on all signs, be they private business displays or development placards.

But regardless of where one comes down on this debate, it’s clear Richmond residents have strong opinions and want councillors to stop sitting on their hands.

It’s time to deal with Chineseonly signs, one way or another.

Is this a vocal minority? Or is this a strong majority? While we suspect the latter, city staff couldn’t tell us, since they’ve never been directed to study the issue. And that is council’s failure in a nutshell.

There are few circumstances that bring people to their feet and lead a march to city hall, as was the case with this sign issue last spring.

The fact public concerns were ignored (taken as “information”), and that some councillors still think it’s not an issue and/or refuse to take a stand, is symptomatic of this current council’s perceived inability to stray from its own agenda and listen to others.

Perhaps it’s not surprising a near-record number of people are lining up at the doors of city hall to run for council, with most calling for more engagement and transparency, something the News will address next week. The Chinese signs issue needs to be addressed.

Richmond residents are getting lost, in more ways than one.

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he darkest holiday of gigantic troll things that liked the year is almost upon to eat children. I was scared of PainfulTruth the dark in general. Like a lot us. of kids, I was freaked out by No, not Thanksgiving, Matthew Claxton certain movies. Apparently The not unless you plan to battle Wizard of Oz sent me to hide zombie turkeys over a pit of under a chair, although whether flesh-eating cranberry sauce.

Halloween, Dia de los Muertos, All Souls it was the witch or the flying monkeys that Day, and Samhain are all part of a collection did it I can’t remember. of festivals that acknowledged a turning of I stayed scared of the dark longer than I the year, and of the mingling of the worlds stayed scared of movies. of the living and the dead. There are a few In the past few years, horror – and signs that the season is nigh – pumpkins especially horror movies – seems to have turn full and orange, frost covers the divided into two main streams. stubbled fields, and Netflix adds a whack of The first is the one often derided as crappy slasher movies. “torture porn.” I’m not saying that movies This season gets me thinking about what with really graphic scenes of sustained actually scares me. violence can’t be good – I’m sure there are What leaves me quaking in terror is very movies that use violence to make a point different now than when I was a little kid. or tell a good story. But I’m not interested When I was very young, footie-pajamas in wading through the rest of the schlocky young, I remember being convinced that exploitation movies covering the same there were monsters living in my closet. ground to find a couple of good ones. It’s None of those cute Pixar critters, but just not my thing.

The second trend is to lean on mysterious supernatural forces, with demons and ghosts the most popular. Re-makes of Japanese and Korean horror movies, found-footage films, and tons of novels of slow, creeping dread have been mining this vein in recent years.

This actually works pretty well at scaring me. And I’m curious as to why it works so much better than gore.

Technically, shouldn’t I be more worried about a semi-realistic madman in a hockey mask than about a dark room with a creepy doll? Why do I reach for the popcorn and wonder how many people Jason is going to off for the former, but I can get genuinely engaged in the latter?

Remember all those TV specials and books that used to explain how “movie magic” works? Those were widespread when I was a kid, and I learned all about fake blood and latex skin by the time I was 10. After you’ve absorbed a few of those, it’s hard to be alarmed by buckets of gore.

When I watch a movie like Friday the 13th,

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mostly what I’m thinking is “Wow, how much of the budget did they spend on red corn syrup?”

The stuff that still scares me is the unknown. Scary movies, or books, or tales told around the campfire work best when we don’t know exactly what’s out there.

What’s in the dark hallway lined with dust-coated mirrors? What made that noise in the basement, in the corner where the light from the faint bulb doesn’t quite reach? Didn’t you put all the knives away yesterday, and why is one missing from the rack right now?

I don’t know why we celebrate fear, unless it’s to make us feel a bit more alive. So as the skeletal shadows of the leafless trees clutch at you, let yourself shiver a little.

Then go inside, turn on the lights, and make yourself something hot to drink.

Nestle into your bed, and don’t worry – I’m sure nothing’s waiting quietly in the closet.

Matthew Claxton is a reporter with the Langley Advance.

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Beware working women in their undies The Editor, Get ready Richmond. Soon, about a day after the Sears store closes, you’ll be treated to, or horrified by, a slew of 45-plus-year-old women in their undies who have no place to buy clothes anymore.

I never thought I’d be in favour of a Walmart (still wish it wasn’t overtaking the Garden City Lands), but some affordable stores need to show up in this city, don’t cha think?

Take a walk in our two big malls. Can Johnny Paycheque-to-Paycheque afford the designer label shops replacing the middleclass haunts of old? Nope.

Richmond is supposed to be family friendly. So why do I, and many other families, make the choice to jump on that elevated tuna can and skytrain our way into Vancouver to buy our duds?

Baby Girl is not a size two. That’s all you find in Richmond’s store offerings.

The mall managers need to give

their heads a shake and allow more diverse vendors in — vendors of all demographics.

Hey Kmart, Walmart, come on up.

Stock some t-shirts, jeans etc. that don’t require a kidney as a deposit and you’ll have a customer for life.

Do a survey. I’m not the only one who’s shopping out of town or online.

Our city has become elitist.

Sheila Rathburn, Richmond.

Branscombe shows imprudence The Editor; Re: “Branscombe House seeks artsy occupant,” News, Oct. 1 Your report on the money pit Branscombe House certainly got me out of my chair.

Now the finishing touches have been applied to the building, the city intends to find out what they are going to do with it. A prudent approach would have been to establish a need before breaking ground. Aside from a few rusty screws

and a few doorknobs, it appears to have been a 100 per cent rebuild. I wonder if anyone knows the true cost of that project? It seems like it was the default place municipal workers went if there was nothing else to do.

Municipal taxes have risen at a rate well above inflation and at a rate above the increase of wages and pensions in most sectors. Each year, city council congratulates itself for keeping municipal costs in check. If they were in a non

government role, I submit they would have been out of business years ago.

Property owners who pay for all of this need to think carefully as the election approaches. One question for those seeking election or re election would be: What concrete thing are you going to do to keep property tax increase below inflation? Tax payers should ask questions and chose very carefully.

Eric Sykes Richmond

Think safety before re-election The Editor, I am sick and tired of Steveston Highway being driven like a Formula 1 track.

This afternoon I was adhering to the speed limit, and was constantly passed on either side by cars travelling at 70-80-90 kms/hour.

Close to No. 4 Road, a car flew by me, probably at around 90 km, and wouldn’t you know there was a police car right there, off to the side.

Forty-five minutes later, on my return, it was still in the same spot. Is this what is

referred to as our tax dollars at work?

Also, I do not understand why it is that so many expensive cars appear to be lacking the basic technology for signalling lane changes or turns. Come to think of it, well over 90 per cent of cars in Richmond apparently have lost that capability.

Is it really our responsibility to anticipate when other drivers cross lanes without any prior indication?

It is also time to heavily fine all the cyclists on the

sidewalks, breaking the law — mostly without helmets and lacking any consideration for others.

Thinking $250 for first offence and up from there.

The officer sitting around earlier could have earned his living by paying attention.

Further, I invite the mayor, the RCMP and transportation manager to spend half an hour with me, on the bench by the Constable Gate/Steveston bus-stop to see how bad the situation is.

Maybe we can then get round-abouts or bumps put in place — I’m thinking 50 or so along Steveston Hwy. between No. 1 Road and No. 5 Road would be about right.

Regrettably this is not the only road in Richmond with these issues.

Safety before more density!

I think they should add safety to their vision statement. Time for city council to get on with it, and worry less about re-election.

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I wasn’t scared to die: Gang enforcer

Former ‘debt collector’ one of many using Amir Javid’s offramp from gangster highway

and butter of what we did.”

Joe was vague about what acts he committed.

“Put it this way, at the end of things, people always ended up paying, one way or another. Use your imagination,” he said, adding he had a unique way of justifying the brutality he meted out.

“I had this thing instilled in my mind that what I was doing was right. Most of the time the collections we did — $100,000, $200,000 — it was someone coming to us who was owed money legitimately,” he said. “So, in my mind it was justified. It was OK. It was good. I was like Robin Hood.”

Philip Raphael

Staff Reporter praphael@richmond-news.com

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I felt powerful and not at all scared to die.”

Judging from Joe’s appearance — the well-toned and capable physique of a prize fighter, a sleeve-length of tattoos on his right arm depicting a voyage from heaven to hell, and an angular, rigid jawline — it backs up his frank comment about a former life as a gang enforcer and debt collector.

“I also wanted to be feared and respected,” he added.

Joe, a name he adopted for this story, managed to attain all that and more during his time “living the life.”

“I was dominant, very secure and pretty much untouchable,” he said. “For me, this is really what I wanted.”

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ut he wasn’t stealing from the rich and giving it to the poor. He was collecting on business deals gone sour or drug debts. And it added

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oday, just over a year on from serving jail time for his activities, the Richmondite, now 26, is following a much different path.

He’s traded in the thrill of being an effective intimidator for his “crew,” the money, women, fast cars, penthouse suites and mansion parties for regular, weeknight gatherings in a local gym with a group of young boys intent on learning from him lessons of athletic and mental discipline.

The about-face from violent deal closer to youth role model has not been an easy transition since the roadmap for such an odyssey varies for those seeking a return to mainstream life.

Thankfully for Joe, and others like him, there is a guide, someone who knows intimately the path he has travelled.

Amir Javid was a gang member. Also from Richmond, he ran with a bad crowd in his youth, graduating through the ranks to be a trusted member.

Photos of his old life tell part of the tale — brazenly clutching a handgun while embracing his twin brother, Abbas, who narrowly avoided being tried as an adult for attempted murder following a vicious stabbing at a house party.

Today, Javid uses the images as an example of how far he’s come, and where he attempts to take others enrolled in his StreetSmarts program, offered through Richmond’s Touchstone Family

“Joe” gets some advice from former gang member Amir Javid, right, who provides a way out of a life of organized crime. Photo by Philip Raphael/Richmond News Association.

StreetSmarts has been developing gang exit strategies since 2011, and is the only program in B.C. to do so.

“Redemption is a long road,” Javid said. “I like to call it the journey back to innocence.”

Much has to be overcome, starting with the void many youngsters experience in their lives.

For Joe, it was the isolation and anger he felt at 16 when his parents divorced.

“I thought that maybe they didn’t care about me anymore,” Joe said.

He knows now that wasn’t the case, but as a young teen it stirred up emotions within him that eventually led to seeking ways of unleashing them.

At first, it was “small stuff”— getting in trouble at school, skipping classes, getting in fights.

An aspiring karate champion, he turned his skill from provincial competitions to the streets.

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“At that point, I kinda decided what I wanted in life. And one of the things I wanted most was to be respected and feared by people,” Joe said.

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nce he left school and turned 19, Joe found himself recruited by a gang that offered him the sense of brotherhood, belonging and respect he craved so much in his adolescence.

“You’d lay down your life for one another, that’s a big deal. And as a young kid it was something I was always seeking.

“That camaraderie, that closeness, it really brought it home for me,” he said.

It satisfied the emptiness inside.

Then came the surly manifestation of “the lifestyle.”

“It was mostly extortion. I was a debt collector.

That was my gig,” Joe said. “We were never really into drugs. It was there, but it wasn’t the bread

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“I’ve probably counted, through my own hands from the collections I made, about $1 million, easily.”

Helping fuel Joe’s activities was a steady diet of steroids.

“I had a lot of insecurities and thought the bigger I could be the more people would be intimidated by me,” Joe said.

With an inner rage still burning inside him, adding steroids was like pouring gasoline on a fire.

“The heavy doses made me really emotional — raging, extremely depressed. Just every type of extreme emotion — I had it all the time.”

The mixture of violence, money and a belief he was working above the law had him heading in the wrong direction — fast.

“Take all of that money, and put it in the hands of a young man who is insecure, never had any structure, never felt any sense of worth,” Avid said, “then add steroids. What would that do to you?”

It led to jail time — something Joe said he did almost willingly because he refused to roll over on his associates, even though they abandoned him when the law locked him away.

“Being in there was easier than being on the outside. Jail has its own system, and if you’re a tough guy you can manage,” Joe explained. “So I thought, what was the worst case scenario, go to jail. That was fine. No big deal.”

But as time wore one, an unexpected consequence of his incarceration started to point his life in a different direction.

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ltimately, it took tears to turn things around.

Not his own, but his mother’s.

“It was when she came to visit me in jail.

She was sitting on the other side of that glass (partition) crying when I finally realized what I was see STREETSMARTS › page 11

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StreetSmarts: Helps put the past in its place

Former gang member “Joe” has rediscovered his faith since entering Amir Javid’s StreetsSmarts program.

He now focuses on a nine-to-five career and gains respect from sources other than fear.

Photo by Philip Raphael/ Richmond News

‹ from page 10 putting her through. “At that time she was the only one coming to visit me. All my other friends — people I thought who were my brothers — left.”

It ended up that those “friends” had also put a contract out on Joe’s life before he finished serving his time.

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nce out of jail, Joe started piecing his life back together, trying to reconcile relationships with his parents and younger sibling.

Some of that baggage still remains.

“That’s something I can’t change. But I’ve tried to repair as much as possible,” Joe said.

Feeling the need to go further, he sought out Javid and what StreetSmarts could offer him.

Joe dropped all the contacts from his gang life, quit the steroids and retreated to the one positive constant in his life — fitness training.

He got certification as a personal trainer, which he employs in the StreetSmarts program to help encourage youth to seek a better path.

At the root of StreetSmarts is an almost organic approach to remediation, Jaivid said, rather than a clinical one.

“The gang life is all about money, power and respect. I give them truth, wisdom and power,” Javid said, explaining that it’s his turn to fill the void for those wanting to quit the gang life.

“I offer them camaraderie, money and food. And that means a safe place they can come to make a connection with other people, $5 in their pocket, and a meal,” he said.

As they move through the process, there’s also mentorship.

“I am essentially selling them on me,” Javid said.

“I have a family of my own now — a wife and four kids. And I want these young guys to see that and want that for themselves. How they get there is the challenge.

“What they also see is someone advocating for them. That’s big.”

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ne of the steps along the way are opportunities such as the gym sessions Joe runs — sessions he believes are cathartic.

“It’s humbling that someone would look up to me,” said Joe. “I feel grateful to be in a position to do that,” he said. “I am no longer motivated by fear, money or other distractions. I am living an authentic life where I am my own man.

“My family makes me the happiest now when I see a smile on their faces every day when they see how far I’ve come and what I’ve done,” Joe said.

There are still times, though, when he feels insecure.

“But, just for a split second, I think back to where I was not that long ago, and it kills that right away.”

He credits the development of a strong allegiance to his Christian faith for helping him stay the course.

That’s been enhanced by the fact Javid, an ordained minister, was the one who recently baptized Joe.

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t’s a long way from the days when the two were contemporaries in the gang scene — when Joe’s crew carried out a drive-by shooting on Javid’s family home in retaliation for the house party stabbing.

“We came from extreme opposite sides. He was associating with

people who made an attempt on me and the lives of my family.

But that’s the beautiful thing — there is this reconciliation, this opportunity where people can make amends and still find a way out,” Javid said.

Joe now focuses on his new career — a nine to five existence.

“Here I am, abiding by the rules and taking crap from people who I wouldn’t have hesitated knocking their teeth down their throat,” he said. “It’s been a huge change and struggle for me. It’s taken time.

I’m still not perfect. I have made mistakes.

“But I am finding that respect goes a lot further than being feared.”

For every Joe that finds a degree of success, there are plenty of others who fall by the wayside. Some drift back to their gangs.

Others end up dead.

Javid knows he can’t provide positive change for all of them, and he takes the failures to heart. But he continues offering his leadership as a guide to a better place he believes can exist, given the support of the community.

“I’ve got guys knocking at my door saying, ‘I’m out, now give me something.’ But what can I offer? They have no job experience to even get a minimum wage job, and that wouldn’t even feed anybody in this city,” Javid said. “It’s an invitation back into community which we don’t have right now. That’s our biggest gap.”

Gang activity alive and well in Richmond Philip Raphael

Scenes like this, a suspected gangland shooting in Richmond in April of this year, are not confined to Vancouver and Surrey, according to the police’s Combined Forces Enforcement Unit spokesman Sgt. Lindsey Houghton. File Photo

Staff Reporter praphael@richmond-news.com

The provincial body count may be at an all-time low so far this year.

But don’t be fooled, gang activity and its violent outcomes are alive and well in many B.C. communities, including Richmond.

That’s the view of the Combined Forces Enforcement Unit — the province’s dedicated antigang organization.

“What’s happening in Richmond, and has been for a while now, is things are not very overt,” said Sgt. Lindsey Houghton, CFEU’s spokesman. “Gangsters do business in Richmond all the time. Gangsters live in Richmond.”

However, Richmond has, to date, avoided some of the open air violence seen taking place in communities such as Surrey and Vancouver.

Currently, none of the four homicides being investigated in Richmond so far this year are officially linked to gangs — but that’s just

officially.

“There has to be some motivation related to gang activity in order for us to classify it as such,” Houghton said, adding killings of gang members can often occur over unrelated issues.

Yet, Amir Javid, who runs Touchstone Family Association’s StreetSmart program that provides

an exit strategy for current gang members, is familiar with most of the names that have cropped up in the headlines locally.

Javid said he understands the way CFEU is required to categorize incidents.

“We just view these occurrences through a different lens,” Javid said.

As for the low number of gang-related deaths in 2014, Houghton said it’s a result of a combination of factors, one being a general downward trend in violent crime in B.C. Secondly, certain gang members, who had a propensity for violence, or being victimized, have been killed, Houghton said bluntly.

Other gang members have also moved, are serving jail time, or have changed their behaviour.

“They are the ones who say to themselves, ‘I am tired of looking over my shoulder, I’m tired of getting shot at and having the police looking for me all the time. I want out,’” Houghton said.

But despite there being a lull, Houghton said now is the time when gang recruitment efforts seem to be ramping up.

“Anytime a void is created, people will scramble to fill it,” he said.

“And it doesn’t matter if you are not around anymore, or are in jail, people want what you have.

“So, there’s always jockeying and positioning. It’s a highly competitive, chaotic world.”

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The city is hoping to draw a “prominent headline performer to close out the main stage on Saturday” of the Labour Day long weekend at City Centre.

The party could feature a farmers market, artisans, food trucks and performers catering to families and children, stated the report.

The city expects to spend $170,000 (on par with Ships to Shore and Maritime Festival budgets) and draw 80,000 people.

The report was endorsed by the committee and should pass through council next week.

Honoured Local sports idols and heroes will soon have a

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The Richmond Sports Wall of Fame will be built within the planned Richmond Olympic Experience museum at the Richmond Olympic Oval, slated to open next year.

The sports council will appoint a nomination committee — made up of its own members and one council member — to select nominees in the categories of athlete, builder and team.

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CCCC to open next summer The City of Richmond says the City Centre Community Centre will be open by summer 2015.

Located within the Quintet development on Minoru Boulevard, just north of Granville Avenue, and connected to the new Trinity Western University, the centre will span two storeys and cover 30,000 square feet. The centre’s construction is a publicprivate partnership and will cost the city $7.2 million with savings made by

enveloping the centre in the private development.

The city will only pay the developer rent on onethird of the centre’s space, at a rate of about $250,000 annually, to start, according to a staff report.

The City Centre Community Association will oversee the centre’s programs with a yearly budget close to $1 million.

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Where did the time go? The Richmond Public Market celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Lion Dance to mark the event. The free festivities run from 3 - 5 p.m. at the market (1880 - 8260 Westminster Hwy.). For more information, call 604-8211888, or email: rpmlms1590@gmail.com.

Fall is cranberry time and the Richmond Nature Park is celebrating the season with a sale of the fresh, red fruit that goes perfectly with turkey from 10 a.m to 3 p.m. So, stock up. Proceeds support educational and public programs in the park. Richmond Nature Park is located at 11851 Westminster Hwy. For more info, call 604-718-6188, or email: nature@richmond.ca.

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Making money out of memories Three brothers and a sister, aged nine to 14, started up their own business during the teachers’ strike Alan Campbell

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ost kids rely on paper routes, babysitting, household chores, lemonade stands or a generous allowance from parents to feel some cash on their palms.

Not content with any of the above are the entrepreneurial Joseph children, all four of them, who run their own for-profit business from their family home in southeast Richmond.

While many kids were kicking up their heels and glued to video games during the pre- and post-summer teachers’ strike, the Joseph team — Marley, 14, John, 13, Chris, 10 and Michael, nine — was fine-tuning its business senses and marketing strategies.

And after some early guidance from their software developer dad, Jeff, the Jospeh kids this summer launched Little Red Dot — which provides a retro videotape conversion service for just $10 per tape.

After handing over your dusty, old family movies, the Little Red Dot team will convert the tape into a movie file and then either publish it on your own Youtube channel or, for an extra fee, save it onto an external drive.

Named, unsurprisingly, after the red dot that shows up when someone There are times presses record on a when I could camera, the kids’ business has taken off since its have been outside launch, with a net bank playing, but I’m balance about to hit the happy to do this. $1,000 mark.

“I put the tape in the - Chris Joseph, 10 camera, get the correct cords, go onto the computer and use the program to render it (into a movie file),” explained Chris, 10, who makes it all sound so easy, and also juggles his tech role in the business with soccer four days a week and, of course, homework.

“There are times when I could have been outside playing, but I’m happy to do this.”

Chris is ably assisted in Little Red Dot’s tech department by his younger brother Michael.

Their older siblings, Marley and John, are the ones who turn their hard work into profit, dealing directly with their clients, chasing leads and payments and coming up with marketing campaigns that will generate interest and sales.

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t all started in June, when their dad, Jeff, blew the dust off some of the family’s old videotapes and, realizing they were slowly eroding, challenged the kids to convert them into a modern format at $10 a pop.

“I taught them how to digitalize and, after that, the kids did most of the work,” said Jeff.

At first, $5 from each conversion went to the kid who did the work, with $5 going into a business plan.

When the kids, all of whom play multiple sports on top of school schedules — John plays Premier League soccer for Fusion FC — cottoned on that there was money to be made, it was decided that a proper business should be formed. Their dad created a website for them and off they went.

The Joseph family, from left, John, 13, Marley, 14 (sitting), Chris, 10, and Michael, nine, all have jobs in their own company, Little Red Dot. Chris and Michael are the tech guys, while their older siblings, Marley and John take care of the clients and generate new business. Photo by Alan Campbell/Richmond News Now $5 from each sale goes to wages, $4 goes back into the company and $1 goes to the charity of the customer’s choice.

Their profit margin right now is a very healthy 38.75 per cent, but they’re aiming for 40 per cent by the end of the year.

“They’ve converted about 500 tapes already,” said Jeff.

“It’s important for them to learn the ins and outs of business and that they get paid.”

Their mom, Tricia, who is in sales, said it’s “great to see their entrepreneurial spirit coming through as making money isn’t easy.

“I’m impressed by the way they’re all taking the initiative and I love to see them giving back as well.”

As for what they choose to do with their hard-earned money, some of them are more disciplined than others.

“Chris saves and saves and saves,” said his brothers and sister. While “Mikey,” apparently, is a “spender, who loses his wallet all the time.”

It’s too early for any of them to know exactly what lies ahead in their lives, but it could be interesting, in 20 or so years’ time, to revisit the Joseph family and see who’s running their own business.

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Three things you shouldn’t upgrade F all is a tempting time for technology enthusiasts and normal people alike.

With the holiday shopping period approaching, a lot of new devices and products will be thrown at us and we’ll be tempted to upgrade our devices.

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Apple is coming out with new models this month and., yes, they will be very nice.

But if you bought an iPad in the past few years, you won’t need a new one. In terms of function, the iPad is much the same beast as it was since it first debuted. It’s become more powerful, thinner and with a better screen, but for most normal people, these upgrades are incremental and the essentials remain the same. You hold it in your hand, you touch the screen, you read or watch that screen.

What to ignore: Any marketing involving the buzz words revolutionary, amazing, astounding, thinner, lighter, more powerful or Retina. Any commercials involving artists, kids, families, musicians and people firing off model rockets.

What to consider: Pay attention if the new iPad has something truly astounding, like making you coffee in the morning or rubbing your sore feet when you come home from work. Nothing less will do.

Exception: a rumoured larger sized iPad of 12 inches would be interesting for productivity jockeys, especially combined with an iPad version for Office. It’s a whole new device category.

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Your television If you bought a television in the past five years, it should be good to go for another five years. Not much of substance has changed for the TV since flat screens became the norm. It’s a big flat screen that shows moving pictures.

What to ignore: Any branding involving the buzz words “smart,” 3D or 4K. “Smart” means it can connect to the Internet and has apps for things like YouTube and Netflix. You may or may not want that. 3D is boring. 4K means more detailed screens.

It also means more expensive and an ongoing paucity of content for those more detailed screens.

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remain. It’s a cold place to store food. That’s why you should be wary of combining your fridge (or your oven, toaster, coffee maker, lawn mower, or sprinkler system) with something called the Internet of Things.

Essentially it’s the latest attempt by geeks to hook up your fridge (or your oven, toaster, coffee maker or sprinkler system) to the Internet because … well, because.

To be fair, some interesting strides have been taken with household thermostats and lighting. Devices like the Nest thermostat, sold by Google, is said to reduce heating costs by allowing you to automate settings for heat during particular times of day. You can even change the settings on your thermostat away from home by using your smartphone because… well, because.

What to ignore: Everything in this area. I’d love to come home and have the lights magically come on and the heating automatically adjusted to just the right temperature. But products in this category remain expensive and more often than not devices from different companies won’t work together.

Security and privacy concerns are paramount. The Nest is made by Google, the company that wants to know everything about you. What to consider: The future. With heavy hitters such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung jumping into this area, this category could get interesting.

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Barry Link is the editor of the Vancouver Courier. twitter.com/trueblinkit

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f you want to know why the caged bird sings in this part of the world, all you need to do is wander the narrow streets of Kowloon’s Mong Kok district until you come upon the Yuen Po Street Bird Garden.

Here, on any pleasant afternoon, certain Hong Kongers like to convene, transporting their feathered friends in small cages, and everyone present gets to enjoy an avian sing-along.

The Yuen Po Street Bird Garden opened in 1997 after relentless urban redevelopment in Mong Kok demolished the bird stalls in nearby Hong Lok Street, traditionally known as Bird Street.

Such was the outcry by local bird fanciers and tourists that the city responded with this purpose-built facility, a series of raised courtyards shaded by grand indigenous trees, many of them conveniently labelled for keen arborists, and a high pagoda-style roofline, where countless free pigeons stare down in what must be the pigeon version of wonderment. Flocks of sparrows hop around the courtyards, pecking at birdseed.

That’s because, this being Hong Kong, the garden is primarily a commercial market where some 70 merchants occupy stalls selling an array of birds (song birds, love birds, budgies, fighting birds, parrots and more) as well as every imaginable size and shape of ornate cage (teak, bamboo, plastic and, for large-beaked birds that might muscle up to the bars and go voom, metal).

There are vendors of cage ornaments, birdseed, live insects and grubs, everything an owner might need.

Small cages containing birds for sale are stacked everywhere, while large parrots and other exotic birds stand alone on perches and pose for photographs behind signs warning not to touch. (Notice the beautiful plumage!)

Without exception, on the various days I visited, the customers were exclusively men, and that’s typical, says Liu Wai-ling, a Hong Kong businesswoman who used to live in Mong Kok and whose father would capture songbirds attracted by the fruit trees in his garden near Temple Street.

“In the very old days, only men went to restaurants,” she says. “They would bring their birds along and let them sing. It became very competitive: which one looks better, which one sings better? It’s still a man’s game.”

Most men bring their birds to the Yuen Po Street Garden in bamboo cages, Liu says, “because they are light and easy to carry.”

Occasionally they’ll reward their pets with crickets, fed with chopsticks through the cage bars.

With the profusion of live birds, it would be easy to overlook some of the garden’s other charming features. The glazed bamboo-shaped ceramic tiles along the roof’s edge play constant games with the passing sunlight, and the garden’s perimeter walls are adorned with 200 marble screens and tiled murals of myriad bird species.

As well, the location overlooks the eastern end of Flower Market Street, where more than 40 vendors display extraordinary blossoms and plants.

Both the bird and flower markets are free to enter, although the hope is always that you will be seduced into buying something.

It is difficult to resist.

ACCESS Yuen Po Street Bird Garden is a 10minute walk east of the Prince Edward MTR station.

For information on Hong Kong visit the Hong Kong Tourism Board website at www. discoverhongkong.com. ! More stories at www.culturelocker.com

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I wasn’t ready Fortunately, neither with questions they were able to could reach as the call came call neighbours who helped the phone. unexpectedly, so be prepared. get Joe out of You can the basket and pay annually Maisie from or monthly. If you are on under the chair. a tight budget ask for a They had come close to being stuck, perhaps for monthly payment. Mine was annual, but I didn’t know as hours, so they decided that I didn’t ask. it was time to get a Medical I ordered the unit and a Alert unit. week later it was plugged They found one, and with into the phone and ready to an extra wristband, they use. I wear the wristband in were soon wearing them all preference to the pendant. day. This really happened It is beside my bed at only three weeks ago! night, ready to pick up for Now, I am becoming a bore to friends who say “I nocturnal wanderings. never fall.”

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perfect because it he way never is or when you look at it seems to be, it your life at HealthWise doesn’t stay that this moment can Davidicus Wong way. In an imperfect determine your future world, we can still be health and happiness. happy.

How you habitually We say that pessimists see the cup think has great bearing on your as half empty and optimists see it half performance at school or work, your full. With the perspective of wanting, physical health, your emotions and we see what we don’t have and we your relationships. get what we expect – more of less and If you see yourself as a powerless more wanting. Happiness is not in the victim of life, you lose your cards with the half empty attitude. confidence and sense of control. This Pessimists may think that optimists leads to anxiety. are deluded. The cup is really not If all you focus on what is wrong in half full, and in a sense they may be your life, you will no longer see what right. Water is not static just as neither is good. This leads to depression. our selves nor anything in life is An attitude more conducive to your unchanging. wellbeing is gratitude.

People come in and out of our lives, Contrary to popular opinion, love comes in many forms and the thankfulness is not a function of what gifts we are given are gifts in trust; you have or a luxury when life is good. Lasting and authentic happiness we hold them for a moment and pass them on. Everything is fleeting, doesn’t come when everything is

flowing and in flux.

Gratitude allows us to appreciate what we have been given in the past – the good that we have experienced, the way we were loved and the lessons we have learned. It allows us to see and appreciate ourselves, others and our world just as they are at this moment. It can allow us to see and create a positive future, the realization of potential.

When you turn your problems into goals – reframing the negative into positive, you begin to create a more positive future. You are no longer a victim of chance. You empower yourself. You see golden opportunities and you seize them. You plant seeds for future happiness.

Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician. His Healthwise column appears regularly in this paper.

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Richmond city councillors and Richmond East MLA Linda Reid cut the ribbon at the opening of the new Cranberry Children’s Centre in Hamilton.

Help Lester with his passion to become a commercial pilot Lester Wong’s story is one of strength, determination and the importance of having a goal. In 2009, he suffered devastating burns to 33% of his body as the result of a car accident. After months in the hospital, he finished his BCIT studies as an aircraft engineer, got his private pilot’s licence and was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award. His sister has started a crowdfunding campaign to fund his next goal: becoming a commercial pilot. Help his dream take flight at FundAid.ca.

The finger paints, chalk and story books are out at the new Cranberry Children’s Centre in Hamilton.

The centre, which provides 34 spaces of licensed childcare for infants, toddlers and children up to six-years-old, had its official opening Saturday.

“The city is proud this new important facility will provide quality child care in the Hamilton community,” said Mayor Malcolm Brodie.

Operated by the Society of Richmond Children’s Centres, the facility at 23591 Westminster Hwy. has 3,400 sq. ft. of indoor space and 21,232 sq. ft. of outdoor space, which includes the surface parking lot.

A public art piece called Cranberry Critters is incorporated into sections of the facility’s wooden perimeter fence.

Created by artists Ron Hart and Michael Fugeta, a selection of vertical pickets were replaced by colourful steel pickets topped

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The figures are designed to help populate the playground by offering a variety of forms and shadows to “promote learning, imagination and play.”

Cranberry Children’s Centre is the sixth City of Richmond-owned, purpose-built childcare facility in Richmond.

Related to a rezoning process, TransLink provided a community amenity contribution of a 2.43-acre site and $1.77 million to assist with construction costs. Western Financial Group also provided a $5,000 infrastructure grant.

Four more childcare facilities and one early childhood development hub have been secured through rezoning processes at: Parc Riviera; Cadence; River Green; The Gardens and Pinnacle Living at Capstan Village.

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NEW 2015 CHEVROLET TAHOE XTS 5.3L V8, remote start, sunroof, rear lockin differential, heated seats, XMRadio, fog lamps MSRP $75,560 Dueck/GM Discount $2,000 Vehicle Owner Loyalty $750

Dueck Price

Dueck Price

35,944

$

24,795

$

Dueck Price

Dueck Cash Price

NEW 2014 45 S !

CADILLAC ATS

Exe c Demutive o

10!

MSRP $20,295 Dueck/GM Discount $300 Discontinued Brand Loyalty $1,500

Dueck Price

#5MA0102

63!

Traction control, 6 airbags, power windows and doors, remote keyless entry

MSRP $26,790 Dueck/GM Discount $6,895 Discontinued Brand Loyalty $1500

Dueck Price

#4SO9647

NEW 2014 CHEVROLET TRAX

Dueck Price

#5TA4385

72,810

$

Taxes and $549 documentation fee excluded.

All prices are net of Dueck and GM rebates and loyalties. Employee pricing available on all Chevrolet (excluding corvette), Buick and GMC Models. Offer ends October 31, 2014