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Traffic woes blamed on immigration

been accepted annually since 1990.

“Since that time, Ottawa has never provided a single iota of justification for bringing in 250,000 people,” he said.

“Our current immigration intake is an Members of the group Immigration abnormality in Canada’s immigration Watch Canada took to the Blundell Road overpass above Highway 99 early Wednesday history. It’s causing all kinds of problems, one of which is traffic gridlock.” morning to protest Canada’s immigration Disagreeing with policy, blaming it in that stance was part for the Lower Balwant Sanghera, Mainland’s traffic Our current immigration director of Richmond woes. intake is an abnormality in Multicultural The gathering Community Services, of five people Canada’s immigration who said Canada unfurled a large, history. It’s causing all has long been built yellow and blackkinds of problems, one of by an immigrant lettered sign stating population and “Fight gridlock: which is traffic gridlock. should not be cut immigration” - Dan Murray targeted for traffic for northbound problems as a means commuters to see. of coercing Ottawa to Dan Murray, re-think its immigration policy. spokesman for the group, said the “I think the government does its studies current level of immigration in Canada and set the number (immigration intake) is unwarranted and wants the federal every year,” Sanghera said. “It’s an arbitrary government to reduce the numbers, which number, but it’s flexible. Around 200,000 he believes would help lessen the impact on to 250,000 immigrants a year, I don’t think city streets. that’s too much. It’s not out of the ordinary “More people, more cars,” said Murray. and seems like a reasonable number.”

“Every two people who come in as Sanghera said he felt it was unfortunate immigrants bring another car onto the road.

Immigration Watch Canada was blaming That’s how it works.”

Murray argued that Canada’s immigration immigration numbers for clogged city policy is outmoded and should be cut down streets and doesn’t realize immigrants are a vital part of Canadian society. from the 250,000 or so people he said have Philip Raphael

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Members of Immigration Watch Canada display their banner from atop the Blundell Road overpass Wednesday morning to voice their opinion that Canada’s immigration intake policy is a contributing factor to traffic congestion in the Lower Mainland. Photo supplied “They (immigrants) have contributed a lot to the country,” he said. “We should be welcoming immigrants and encouraging them to integrate into the mainstream,” Sanghera said. “That should be the main focus.”

Immigration Watch Canada’s Murray said the notion that immigration can act as an economic stimulus is false.

“Don’t look to immigration, because in the years from Confederation, up until about 1990, immigration did not provide any,” he said, basing his comment on a study

done by the Economic Council of Canada which was disbanded in 1992.

“At the moment, lots of people in Richmond, where you’ve got a population that is mostly immigrant right now, has forced a lot of long-term residents to move out.”

Murray added that, while some who have left may have benefitted in the short-term by cashing in on rising property values, the longer view is not positive for communities across the Lower Mainland. see POLICY › page 4

Buds’ vow 404 days of water Alan Campbell

Staff Reporter acampbell@richmond-news.com

Mike Deane (left) and Kyle Allesia are embarking on a 404day challenge that limits their fluid intake to water. Photo submitted

It’s a time in one’s life that people often search for greater meaning and, sometimes, make crazy decisions.

When buddies Kyle Allesia, of Richmond, and Mike Deane, of Surrey, hit their 30th year in October and November respectively, they wanted to do something everyone would remember and help a good

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For 404 days and nights — the number of days between Allesia’s 30th and Deane’s 31st birthdays and also the error code people might recognize from computers — the pair of 30year-olds have made a pact to drink only water and raise funds for Water Aid Canada.

A list of “official rules” accompany the lads’ 404waternotfound challenge: ! No coffee, no pop, no juice, no alcohol;

! Cooking: When cooking, the use of any liquids is OK (ie. milk in Mac ‘n’ Cheese); ! Count Chocula Rule: Milk shall be allowed to be poured over cereal, however the excess milk at the end of the bowl shall NOT be consumed; ! Chunky rule: Soup is an acceptable liquid for consuming as long as there are solids in it. Tomato soup is strictly forbidden; see RULES › page 4

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The segment most hurt is made up of those trying to enter the real estate market but finding themselves shut out by rising prices, said Brad Salzberg, another one of the IWC protestors.

“Unaffordability is a huge factor. All of those younger people coming up, graduating from university, they want to buy a home, but they have to move to

Rules: Smoothies allowed ‹ from page 3

! Smoothie rule: Smoothies are allowed as long as every ingredient that went into it started as a solid. (ie. no milk, no juice, only water).

A penalty of $50 awaits any violation, policed vigilantly, according to Allesia, by their respective partners.

“I wanted to do something good for the world,” said Allesia, a grocery analyst for Overwaitee Foods, who lives on Moffat Road in City Centre.

“Almost one billion people around the world still don’t have access to clean water and we really should have sorted this out by now.

“We’re doing pretty good so far, but it is only six weeks or so in. It’s kind of an honour system, but people are keeping an eye on us anyway.”

The pair’s goal is to raise $50,000 over

the 404 days by hosting events once a month until Deane’s 31st birthday on Nov. 11 next year.

They had a chili cook-off last week, bumping their total thus far to $1,500, and they’re working on their next event.

Allesia, who’s also a drummer in a band called RedFinn, said he didn’t notice any positive health effects until about four weeks into the challenge.

“All of a sudden, I’ve started to feel more alert, hydrated and energetic,” said Allesia.

“I’m not a coffee drinker and I don’t drink too much booze, it’s pop that I drink, about 10 or 12 cans a week.

“It was a bit difficult at a recent wedding. I didn’t really know anyone there and everyone was getting drunk. That was a little bit hard.”

If you would like to help Allesia and Deane, log onto 404water.org to donate.

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Shelley Smith urges people to check college’s disciplinary registry Alan Campbell

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A Richmond dog owner is suing a local veterinarian after he botched a surgery on her German shepherd pup Magnum.

Shelley Smith is seeking the return of almost $14,000 through the small claims court after her dog was treated

by Dr. Varinder Dabri, of the Dear Animal Hospital at Blundell Centre about two years ago.

Smith, who runs her own dogtraining business, took 14-week-old Magnum to Dabri after the dog ate some rocks in her driveway and kept throwing up.

Dabri performed surgery on the pup and, after an overnight stay at the clinic, Magnum went home with Smith.

Less than two days later, however, Smith said her pet had “explosive diarrhea,” couldn’t keep any food down and was walking around in

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circles. Beside herself with worry for Magnum, and having lost faith in Dabri, she took the dog to the Vancouver Animal Hospital, where she was told her dog was “dying,” and subsequently to Canada West, a Vancouver-based critical care veterinary specialist.

A surgeon at Canada West operated immediately on Magnum and saved his life, but, inevitably, it came at a cost of thousands of more dollars for the surgery and after-care.

Smith claims Dabri called her, first to pass Magnum’s condition off as “complications,” before offering to help pay for the sky-rocketing costs of keeping the dog healthy. It’s an offer that Dabri told the News was never made.

“After I got the bill for the second surgery at Canada West, I called (Dabri) but I was continually told by his receptionist that he was busy or wasn’t there,” said Smith.

“I even pretended to be someone else to test those excuses and, low

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Dr. Varinder Dabri, of the Dear Animal Hospital, operated on 14week-old German shepherd Magnum.

Dabri later agreed he failed to do the surgery competently. and behold, he was there. He ran away when I turned up to ask for the payment.”

Shortly afterward, Smith filed a complaint with the College of Veterinarians of British Columbia (CVBC) about the work carried out by Dabri.

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communications back and forth with the CVBC, Smith received a letter from the governing body, detailing admissions made

by Dabri to its investigation committee and the action being taken against him.

According to the CVBC’s letter, Dabri agreed to submissions that: ! He failed to manage a case of rock digestion in a puppy in a competent manner; ! he failed to perform intestinal surgery in a competent manner; ! the medical records are incomplete and inadequate; ! the radiographs were not properly labeled; ! he failed to refer the case when the owner requested and in a timely and appropriate manner.

The CVBC’s letter continued that Dabri must “refer non-elective abdominal surgery until remedial continuing education is completed…take continuing education that the (investigation committee) feels provide him with skills and knowledge, pay a fine and pay 50 per cent of the costs of the investigation.”

According to the CVBC, that continuing education includes six hours of classroom education and a hands-on course of core surgery procedures.

When contacted by the News, Dabri said one of the courses he might have to undertake is in Las Vegas.

Dabri, however, referred to the medical issues suffered by Magnum after he performed surgery as “complications” that can happen any time.

He added that Smith was negligent herself in “letting” her dog eat rocks and that if the News was to “do a story” on him, then it should “do a story” on all the other veterinarians in the city who have made similar “mistakes.”

Dabri added that his insurance company is currently looking into Smith’s small claims court suit.

A search on the CVBC’s disciplinary registrar notes that Dabri has agreed to refer non-elective abdominal surgery until remedial continuing education is completed. However, the site doesn’t explain why.

A person speaking on behalf of CVBC told the News that such brief information on errant vets is fairly standard for professional bodies.

The continuing education agreed to by many veterinarians who come before the investigation committee “fills a gap they may have” in their skills, according to the CVBC. Apparently, there are fewer than two complaints per week, on average, lodged with the CVBC, out of 1,500 practising veterinarians in the province.

Despite the scant information on disciplined veterinarians on the CVBC site, Smith urged anyone with concerns about using a particular clinic to check out the website.

Shelley Smith with a now fairly healthy, two-year-old Magnum outside Dr. Dabri’s Dear Animal Hospital at Blundell Centre. Smith is almost $14,000 out of pocket and now can’t get any insurance for her dog. Photo by Alan Campbell/Richmond News Magnum, said Smith, is still on the road to recovery, almost two years on from the initial surgery.

“He’s doing OK, but I’ve had to put an insane amount of time into him,” she said.

“He’s still very skittish, underweight and is

actually a different colour from his siblings.”

Smith has been told that Magnum may still suffer complications in the future and has been told to expect more expensive vet bills.

“I can’t get insurance now because of what happened.”

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Rough ride for referendum

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n Tuesday, TransLink announced it will adopt a host of recommendations about how to fix a buggy SkyTrain system that trapped hundreds of passengers last summer.

Twice. In less than a week.

Ask about almost any other level of government or agency in B.C., from your local council to the provincial Parliament to the Agricultural Land Commission, and you’ll find some people who hate them, some who think they’re doing okay.

It’s hard to find anyone with something nice to say about TransLink. And yet, sometime next year, we’ll be asked to

vote in a referendum on more money for the transit agency.

TransLink has been chronically short of funds for years. Its job is not only to run transit service, but to maintain a great many major roads. It has had to do this with several different unwieldy governance structures and little support from the province, which has never been interested in taking any blame for TransLink’s failures, only credit for its successes.

As development and density ramped up around the edges of Metro Vancouver, as communities began growing and densifying and demanding better – or any – bus service,

TransLink completely dropped the ball. Every new route was years too late and was quickly swamped by pent-up demand.

TransLink now has an ambitious plan. More buses.

More service. It will cost money, and that spending has to be approved by voters.

Specifically, by voters who have come to hold TransLink in contempt. It’s one thing to be asked to support something you mostly like, but being asked to pony up more money for TransLink, the scapegoat for our decade-long failure to adequately address our problems? Our prediction is that the referendum isn’t going to be much fun.

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hat was an interesting top-two runner-ups from Wood’sWord election, no doubt, 2011 who ran again. In other although, in the words, the best prediction of Graeme Wood end, there weren’t many this election was the last one.

Reporter surprises. Here are some ! While all the incumbents observations from the past were voted back in they month: proved to be less popular than ! Energetic, independent Henry Yao set in 2011, as they all lost significant ground the pace on social media as he was the in the popular vote. Although 9,145 more ballots were cast, councillors Linda McPhail first to use sponsored posts on Facebook and Ken Johnston got fewer votes this and host an Ask Me Anything on Reddit. time around and everyone saw a dip in the Unfortunately for Yao, the largest voting popular vote. demographic are the least online — seniors. ! Independent Janos Bergman is a linguistics ! Coun. Bill McNulty did gain 1,457 of those new votes and broke a record for total ninja, speaking five languages in his day job as an interpreter. At meetings he often votes for a city councillor with 17,417. employed his native Hungarian to make ! Lee Gildemeester got 1,258 votes and a point about the need to communicate in didn’t campaign — at all.

English in public. Bergman’s penchant for ! Rob Howard of the Richmond Community Canadian pins and badges on his suits wins Coalition took credit on behalf of the slate for the city’s higher voter turnout. The him top prize for flair. group’s formation probably did help create ! All six incumbents won and the two new a buzz, but the high number of candidates councillors who were voted in were the

in general, be they RCC, independent or on another slate also contributed. ! It’s only natural to go after the perceived strongest link in a political campaign. Is that why Richmond First attacked Chak Au on his alleged tax flip (when there were 25 other platforms it could have criticized)?

If that theory holds, Au proved them right, gaining 2,376 votes and, as an incumbent, nearly maintaining his relative popularity amongst the electorate. ! More than 1,100 people downloaded the city’s election app and it was used greatly at election night parties. Next election, I highly recommend using it especially if they add an Angry Candidate Birds game to it. ! A tip of the hat to the City of Richmond for quickly posting candidate profiles and documents online; a wag of the finger to candidates who provided little substance in those profiles. ! Bowtie-clad Jack Trovato was the only teacher to run for school board. Despite a

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Strange that he fared so poorly, considering teachers are a relatively politicized bunch.

One would have thought they would want a voice on Richmond’s Board of Education. ! It came down to the last poll and Alice S. Wong defeated Matt Pitcairn in the school trustee race by 101 votes. Despite the ‘S’ initial, how many people voted for an MP? ! All four women who ran for school trustee were elected. ! Richard Lee was criticized for never attending a council meeting. But I can tell you, he at least reads the local newspapers front to back, which is more than I can say about some others. In fact, one candidate told me, “they should make that big piece of land into a park,” referring to the Garden City Lands. Some candidates were extremely well versed in local issues; others had done astonishingly little homework.

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Grateful for support The Editor, A big thank you to the many schools, businesses, organizations, and individuals who held food and cash donation drives through Thanksgiving and Halloween.

Thanksgiving came early this year with the BC Thanksgiving Food Drive on Sept. 20.

Volunteers and our community came together to collect and donate more than 14,000 lbs. of food.

Special thanks to the Church of the Latter Day Saints for their hard work organizing the drive and allowing their centre to be a depot for donations.

The giving season

continued into November as schools held Halloween Trick or Eat food drives.

Many individuals and organizations also helped by collecting food at Halloween parties or displays. The 3,500 lbs. of food that was donated gave immediate help to our neighbours in need.

Thank you to everyone who generously gave to one of these initiatives and to all who give at other times of the year. As you may or may not know, 100 per cent of the Richmond Food Bank’s funding is through food and cash donations from our public and corporate donors.

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Taxing times The Editor, I heard of the Rick Mercer Rant about the change in the Department of Veterans Affairs programs for our vets and the online and phone app availability, and applaud him for drawing this to the attention of the masses.

I spoke with a DVA representative over a year ago, asking if they were prepared to train our veterans (average age 88) on how to use this technology and also if they would be funding the computers and Internet access required in order for the veterans to access this new improved technology.

Needless to say, the response was that they never really thought of that. Go figure?

Can we also shed some light pressure on municipal government to give the veterans organizations some relief from property taxes.

Veterans’ organizations don’t enjoy the same tax breaks other charities get from municipal governments.

And because the buildings are often old and on prime real estate, the property tax bills can be quite substantial.

Legions and ANAFs are closing their doors in record numbers, unable to meet the property tax burden. Tax

bills get paid out of lounge operations and membership fees. These veteran organizations are not pubs, they are not commercial operations, they are not like any other organization in Canada.

Their mandates are to serve veterans and their dependents in their time of need. What other organization do you know has this as their primary mission statement?

The veteran’s clubs are not-for-profit and do charitable work Thousands of dollars are donated annually from the proceeds of their fundraising efforts.

In the wake of the Nov. 11 poppy campaign, it should be noted that proceeds are not used for payment of club expenses and are solely directed for the purposes they were raised; namely to provide assistance to our veterans and their dependents.

The question remains, who will be there to assist the veterans if local municipalities tax the veterans’ organizations into bankruptcy?

Sharon E. Boyce Secretary of the ANAF Steveston Unit clubhouse

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Acknowledging the rehearsals have been an “exhausting” and “challenging” process, it was the reasons that enticed Gaelan to audition for the show. “The challenge of the dancing, and of the tap dancing specifically, was something I wanted to tackle on stage,” he adds. “This show is a ton of fun to work on and the performances are going to be even more so,” Gaelan says with a huge smile on his face.

Praising his leading lady and co-performer, Gaelan admits Someone to Watch Over Me, performed by Kate Blackburn who plays Polly Baker, is his favorite song in the show, “It makes me cry, it’s impeccable and from the heart, it goes straight through mine whenever she sings it.”

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Revelling in serenity and socialness Birdwatchers of all feathers are drawn to the Fraser River estuary

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irder Peter Nielsen is a shooter, not a lister.

The IT professional, who works for Dueck Auto Group, looks forward to the fall birding season on the Fraser River estuary as the shift in weather brings with it hundreds of unique bird species from as far away as Russia.

“I don’t keep a list, I try to get the best photographs I can,” says Nielsen while walking along one of the many paths of the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary on Westham Island in Ladner, just a home run across the river from Richmond’s south dyke.

Birders such as Nielsen rely on the sanctuary as a central hub for bird watching in the Lower Mainland. But even for the most casual wildlife observer, a first-time walk through the sanctuary provides an enlightening experience.

On the path, Nielsen bumps into always-busy sanctuary manager, Kathleen Fry. “What have you found Peter?” she asks.

Nielsen notes there’s a northern saw-whet owl just ahead and despite her decades working as a biologist in the estuary, it brings a jump to Fry. “Ooo, I’ll have to go get my binoculars!”

After fetching them, Fry leads the Richmond News to a pine tree and her naked eyes point out the small, brown owl nestled on a branch, sleeping.

It’s one of 79 species that has been counted at Reifel over the past week (every week, a new list appears as birds come and go).

“All the little birdies, they don’t want him in the neighbourhood,” chuckles Fry. “They like to bug them and make them move on,” she says.

“Here, we’ll leave a little reward for the chickadees,” says Fry, sprinkling some of her seeds from the $1 bag available at reception.

Meanwhile, a brown creeper, the size of a baby’s hand, scurries up a tree at lightning speed.

“He’s got a curved beak to poke into the bark,”

A great horned owl was one of the many fascinating species spotted by serious birders, such as IT specialist Peter Nielsen, above. Photos

by Graeme Wood/Richmond News ! Photo gallery at Richmond-News.com says Fry. As the songbird disappears a big, fat squirrel — aka owl food — scurries across the path and Fry is off to look for the next big attraction, a great horned owl.

With ease she spots it sleeping in a tree with one eye open.

“Hello big owl!” she says.

hurt us. It’s easy to watch them without thinking anything’s going to happen to you,” she says.

“I’m an IT manager so it’s nice to get outdoors.

It’s always a challenge to find something new so there’s competition with photographers and others,” says Nielsen, a former professional photographer.

Fry’s enthusiasm to protect birds is matched by her small, committed army of staff and volunteers who, last year, ushered a record 77,000 visitors to the increasingly popular sanctuary. Fry is expecting to best that number in 2014.

“As soon as fall weather sets in we get thousands of ducks who have been nesting anywhere from Alberta to the high Arctic and the snow geese are coming in from Russia and everyone’s piling in. But we also get the birds of prey, you get the hawks and eagles, and you kind of get a thrill watching a peregrine falcon (dive into) a group of ducks and watch it come away with one,” says Fry. She and Nielsen note there are elements of serenity, safety, socialness and natural wonder from bird watching.

“People are always inspired by birds because there are very few birds that are actually going to

To the casual observer, peak birding season at the sanctuary as well as across the estuary, including Richmond, is highlighted by one big ticket item — the aforementioned, migrating lesser snow geese, which come from the eastern reaches of Siberia to seek warmer weather and fatten up for the spring by eating the rich bounty of the marshes.

The 50,000 or so white geese set up shop on Iona Island, Terra Nova, Garry Point and at Reifel, all of which are small but equally critical components of the Pacific Flyway, a highway of migrating birds from Patagonia to Alaska.

But there’s more to bird season than geese; hundreds of rare species make the estuary their home.

And it’s those species — such as the two owls spotted by Nielsen — that attracts another unique species: bird watching hobbyists, known

as birders. Fry points out that birders have evolved over the past few decades and some of the biggest changes are the photography equipment and the growth of the online birding community.

Some birders have big bucks to spend on large, zoom lenses and impressive state-of-the-art digital SLR cameras, all of which is used to capture that perfect shot of, say, a raptor swooping down to the ground and capturing a mouse with its talons.

“It used to be a serious birder would have just a small camera, but the binoculars would be the big tool. Nowadays, if you see something, you want to record it as well, so you quite often have the hybrids; those who have both. So they’re birders but they have big cameras,” explains Fry. She said some birders are just in it for the photos (shooters) while others (perhaps the purists or the most hardcore) still stick to a pen and paper or, nowadays, a mobile tracking app (listers).

Social media has afforded birders the opportunity to connect with one another on a daily basis. A website titled ebird.org tracks and documents bird sightings on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis for each particular area in the estuary. see CONVOY › page 11

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Convoy: Shows up if bird of a lifetime appears ‹ from page 10

near Terra Nova Rural Park, which used to be a much bigger marsh habitat for birds until condos and mansions were built on it.

With less land to graze on throughout the estuary, more birds flock to Reifel, thus bringing more birders.

The Alaksen National Wildlife Area envelops the sanctuary. Because of the increased popularity and demand for such areas, the federal government announced funding on Nov. 12 to improve public access to the site.

Online forums and Twitter are used to give hourly updates if a particularly rare bird — known as a “lifer” because it’s on someone’s lifetime list — is spotted.

If a lifer is spotted at Reifel, Fry expects a small convoy to show up at reception within hours.

The toque and vest clad birders pile out of cars with thousands of dollars of photography equipment. Some have lenses so large that they require special heavy-duty tripods, themselves costing upwards of a thousand dollars each.

“Some of them show up with baby strollers. ‘Oh, I see you brought your baby, oh no, it’s just your camera’ I say to them,” Fry chuckles.

“My wife would kill me if I had a $9,000 lens,” says Nielsen, who’s packing a modest set of equipment worth about $2,500.

He and Fry chuckle about all the photos they have; Nielsen just bought an eight terabyte hard drive.

“I do what my wife says and keep the best of every bird and get rid of the rest,” chuckles Nielsen.

Sometimes it can get pretty intense. On rare occasions, Fry has had to play peacekeeper amongst birders who fight for the best shot.

“We almost had a fight between two photographers because they disagreed with how close you could get to a bird,” says Fry. Some birders will build devices, such as fake mice on fishing line, to lure birds for the perfect shot.

Traditionalists prefer to observe bird behaviour without intervening and wait for the perfect moment, say, two birds kissing one another as they share a seed.

“There’s a lot of mentoring in bird watching,” says Fry. Nielsen notes how some photographers have broken tree branches with nests on them to get at certain shots.

While he considers himself a photographer first and foremost he and Fry say a small minority of birders need to show more respect.

One of the problems may be the fact Reifel is slowly becoming a true last sanctuary for birds in the region, given all the man-made development.

“I remember back in the 1970s when I was doing bird surveys a lot of Richmond wasn’t nearly as developed than it was now,” says Fry, who previously worked with Ducks Unlimited Canada.

That organization has partnered with the City of Richmond to preserve parts of the Grauer Lands,

Putting competition between shooters and listers aside, Reifel provides a wheelchair-accessible and family-friendly environment for young children.

While there are birding opportunities in Richmond at the sites mentioned previously and the drive out to Ladner may provide some difficulties traffic wise, a beautiful backdrop of farms is provided on the journey, which includes crossing a 100-yearold one-lane wooden trestle bridge to Westham Island.

At the sanctuary, one will be welcomed by several flocks of ducks and as you walk out to the foreshore it’s common to spot a wood duck, which Fry says is possibly the most ornamental duck in the region.

The sanctuary’s paths all lead to a three-storey tower that looks out over the Salish Sea. On a clear day, you can see from the San Juan Islands to Howe Sound.

Bird sanctuary manager Kathleen Fry holds seeds for a pair of little chickadees. Below, a pair of bald eagles and, bottom, a pair of birders keep an eye out from an observation platform. Photos by Graeme Wood/Richmond News ! Photo gallery at Richmond-News.com

Impressive are the sandhill cranes, some of which nest in golf courses in Richmond but live mostly on Westham. Right now, a “gang” of five or so teenage sandhills are perusing around the reception area like their stuff doesn’t stink. If you’re brave enough to engage their pointed beaks, the dollar seed bags can provide for some good feeding entertainment.

According to Fry they’ve been receiving some tough love of late.

“There was the beginnings of a nest this year between two of them until our resident pair came along — the male is 23 years-old and he came and said ‘Ooo what are you doing trying to nest in my territory?’ And he chased all five of them out and they weren’t seen in the sanctuary for 10 days.”

Anyone interested in learning more about the birds of the northern Pacific Flyway, leave the dog at home and visit the sanctuary weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $3-5. School groups are welcome.

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he business of investment banking is not just about making the numbers work for clients, it’s also about developing relationships, said Gary Wu.

Wu, the Richmond branch manager at National Bank Financial, said that is paramount, especially since the majority of his clients are newcomers to Canada, an experience he shares with them.

“I am a landed immigrant myself,” said Wu, who packed up his young family — a wife and two children — and brought them to Canada in 1986 after he had established a successful banking career in Taiwan.

“My family was very surprised, to say the least, when I told them about the move,” said Wu, adding he yearned for a change in focus.

“I was the regional treasurer for Standard Bank in Taipei,” he said, explaining it involved foreign exchange trading and Treasury management.

Wu found it was a very high-pressure and responsible position dealing with large sums of money, but it lacked a personal element.

So, he decided to find a new challenge within the field of finance on another continent.

And Wu found it here, in a country he had never even visited or had any business or family connections. Here, he provides worry free investment solutions, when managing portfolios, for investors who find Canada all new to them, both in terms of culture and business dealings.

“I know all the challenges they are facing in a new country,” said Wu, who earned a Masters Degree in Business Economics at the University of California. “And the most important challenge is how they go about supporting themselves financially in their new surroundings. And many are not familiar with the North American financial markets.”

Much of that unfamiliarity deals with the highly regulated nature of markets here compared to those in Asia where there are frequent promises of high returns and guaranteed principal retention.

Often, those too good to be true investments are not fulfilled.

“I tell my clients here that in a free, competitive market, manage their wealth in accordance to their investment objectives and leverage the resources from National Bank Financial. Working together, we strive to deliver above-average returns. ” he said.

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At NBF, Wu helps develop financial plans to provide a sustainable cash flow for clients. He also advises them on the best approach within the Canadian tax environment, which is much more onerous than in Asia.

For example, most tax structures there do not have a capital gains tax.

“We help find them a tax efficient investment solution in Canada,” Wu said.

“This business is all about trust” – Gary Wu Richmond Branch Manager National Bank Financial

But away from the balance sheets, Wu, who speaks English, Mandarin and Taiwanese, serves as a welcome and trusted face in a new country.

“This business is all about trust,” he said. “And many of my clients become good friends. I get to know their families, their kids. So, when they come to make a decision on a major life event, many of them will come and ask for my opinion.

And that’s a great compliment to our operation here.”

An example of that trust is the status NBF’s portfolio manager possess for discretionary managed accounts.

“Not many advisors have that qualification,” Wu said, “to independently manage an account according to a certain criteria.

“It reinforces the fact that this is very much a people business.”

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Students from Richmond Jewish Day School and Az-Zahraa Islamic Academy distribute food to residents on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

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They huddled together to warm up on a frosty morning in November, but the 50 Grade 6 and 7 kids from Richmond Jewish Day School and Az-Zahraa Islamic Academy didn’t let the cold dampen their spirits. Their goal was to hand out warm clothing, blankets and 1,000 brown bag lunches to the homeless in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, and with a long line of eager recipients, their job was done in less than an hour.

The food, provided by Save-On Foods Ironwood location, included sandwiches made a day earlier by volunteers, juice boxes and yogurt. George Clarke, store manager, said he was glad to supply the $4,000 worth of lunches.

“I learned there are a number of homeless people here,” said Askari Mehdi, a Grade 7 student at AzZahraa. “We’re just a small band of kids, but it’s nice to know we can make a difference.”

The principal at AzZahraa, Anthony Skopa, was also thrilled to have the children participate.

“The kids know now that there’s a need in our greater community. It’s their mission in life to help others, and this teaches them to be grateful for the blessings in their own life,” said Skopa.

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Have you ever had “Scrooge-ful” thoughts when it comes to the annual chore of putting up and decorating your Christmas tree?

Magdalen Leung and her host of volunteers never have — and neither have those who make a donation to be part of the Richmond Rotary Sunset Club’s annual Winter Wonderland event that features a veritable forest of 30, uniquely decorated trees displayed in the galleria at Richmond City Hall during the holidays.

“Right now we are putting up and fluffing out the trees, getting them ready,” said Leung, who has been organizing the event for the past 14 years. “It’s a big job.”

Part of that includes getting hoisted — with the assistance of the city’s fire rescue service — high up

Rotary’s Magdalen Leung helps put the finishing touches on a 25-foot-tall Christmas tree in the Winter Wonderland display at city hall. Photo by Philip Raphael/Richmond News into the air to decorate a 25foot-tall tree, which is the centrepiece to the city hall display.

“I get to do that every year,” Leung said. “Luckily, I am not afraid of heights.”

Thankfully, most of the decorating efforts of the smaller trees — which are scheduled to be completed Nov. 29 — fall to those businesses or individuals who sponsor a tree for

$1,500. The money goes towards the Rotary club’s array of activities which include scholarships for local high school and Kwantlen Polytechnic University students.

On average, the Winter Wonderland event has raised $50,000 annually.

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it: one syllable, two meanings. On one hand you’ve got a connotation indicating a good heart rate, a lack of love handles, and a BMI that doesn’t make your family doc furrow her brow while flicking through your chart. On the other hand, it also means being the right size.

As a moniker to slap on the back of a subcompact, a company could hardly do better, and with previous Fits, you could say much the same thing about Honda. Particularly in the first generation to arrive in North America, the Fit was quick, cute, capable, and fun to fling around. It was the most Honda-ish car in Honda’s lineup.

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I quite like it. It’s very Japaneselooking, full of angular creases and a scrunched-up profile, but the new Fit manages to look fresh without overdoing it. The rear non-functional bumper-vents are a bit much, but other than that, it’s a sharp-looking little pod. Hey little Honda, do you work out?

Base cars come with a 15” steelwheel and the top-level EX-L trim comes with a 16” alloy. For those who are buying a subcompact to keep the costs down, that means

The Fit’s clever interior has been around long enough that you have to wonder why more manufacturers don’t copy it.

Whatever the case, the Fit is fabulous on the inside.

The easiest way to demonstrate how great the Fit is at packing stuff in is to unload another car into it, as I did. The supplies for a week-long road trip (including toddler, and accompanying accessories) were ferried from a packed-to-the-gills Subaru Impreza hatchback into the Fit, and when the transfer was completed, the Honda still had space aplenty. The seats fold flat, the loading height is low, you can flip the rear seat bottoms up for more clearance, or the whole thing turns into a sort of couch when

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Vancity’s newest branch in Richmond didn’t waste any time in getting involved with the community.

At the opening on Saturday of the credit union’s Blundell Centre location (No. 2 Road and Blundell), staff presented a cheque for $12,500 to Emily Carr University which is spear-heading a project, called the Bath Slough Pollinator Project, which is designed to transform a barren, BC Hydro rightof-way in the Bridgeport industrial area into a beefriendly meadow.

The assistance follows Vancity’s philosophy of being connected to its members and their communities, said Andy Broderick, the credit union’s vice president of community investment.

Broderick said Vancity annually distributes between

Cameron Cartiere (second from left), associate professor at Emily Carr University, accepts a cheque for $12,500 from (left to right) Vancity’s Peter Reale, regional director, Nina Zhao, assistant branch manager, and Sanjeet Rana, branch manager for the Bath Slough Pollinator Project.

Photo submitted $8 and $9 million in grant money to groups in the regions it serves.

“Vancity is a very unique organization,” Broderick said. “Our vision is that our members’ financial wellbeing can only be assured by the strength of their communities being strong also.

“We don’t see those things being separated, at all.”

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Speed skating returned to the Richmond Olympic Oval last weekend, at least the short track version, for the second annual Western Canadian Single Distance Championships. More than 50 of Western Canada’s best speed skaters aged 14 - 23 participated at this year’s event, including some of Team BC’s speed skaters scheduled to compete at the upcoming 2015 Canada Winter Games. Photo by Gord Goble

Chris Kaji has been recognized for his rapid progress as an elite gymnast.

The Richmond Gymnastics Association member has won B.C. Gymnastics’ Bill Mackie High Performance Athlete of the Year, based on his showing throughout the 2014 season.

It was only about five or six years ago when the 14-yearold joined the Richmond club and began working with competitive men’s head coach Frank Szabo Jr. “As every athlete, Chris had to start from the bottom, climbing the ladder to success, day-by-day, month-aftermonth and year-after-year putting in countless hours of hard work and effort,” said Szabo Jr. “Even though he is so young, he has already gotten a glimpse of what it feels like to be successful in the difficult sport of gymnastics.”

By the time he was 11, Kaji had already earned a spot on the Age Group National Team. He has been there ever since, showing that he indeed has potential that he can build on.

After winning some medals at the Elite Canada meet and the most recent Canadian Championships, Kaji was invited to a series of training camps where he was appointed to travel to Germany with the Canadian Junior National Team to attend international training camp.

The 10-day camp concluded with Canada finishing ahead of Germany and Belgium in a friendly competition.

It was the day after he returned home from the European camp, Kaji was recognized by Gymnastics B.C. at a special awards ceremony.

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Rapids building early season momentum Richmond club enjoying short course success with its own FastSwim invitational meet at Watermania on the horizon The Richmond Rapids age group program is off to a strong start during the early stages of the 2014-15 season.

After only two meets, swimmers have already broken eight team records, and placed highly against other Lower Mainland Regional teams.

Last month’s VPSC Invitational was an aggregate competition. All swimmers were entered in the same nine events and then ranked according to their total time. The results put 16 Rapids swimmers in the top ten, with three category wins.

Newcomer Eric Tong came in first overall in the 11-yearold boys age group, setting six meet records and two club records in the process. Brian Yu won the 13-year old boys category, while teammate Ethan Chan placed seventh. Dini

McIver was third for 12-year-old girls and re-wrote her own club record in the 50 breast. Cecilia Soroco was fifth overall in the 11-year-old category and Arvin Chua finished ninth in the 15-and-over boys division.

Jammy Zhou was at the top of the list for the 14-year-olds, just edging out his teammate Lionel Han by 1.55 seconds.

Ben Zhuo (seventh), Ryan Murray (eighth) and Jason Lee (ninth) all managed to crack the top 10 in the same category.

Rapids swimmers also dominated the 12-year-old boys rankings. Top finishers included John Chiam (second), Dimitri Volchkov (fourth), Samuel Pei (fifth), Darren Ge (sixth), and Joshua Quon (ninth). Chiam also broke the club record in the 50 butterfly.

At the UBC Odlum Brown Colleges’ Cup, Kevin Ye, Jerry

Liu, Serena Xue, and Wendy Yang competed as a part of a Lower Mainland Regional All-Star Team.

Pitted against college athletes, all four Rapids were able to qualify for multiple finals. Yang broke four club records, replacing two of her own from just weeks prior.

In addition, 15 Rapids swimmers were recently selected to attend the LMR Regional Camp, hosted by Swim BC. Athletes were selected based on regionally high-ranking 200 IM performances the previous year. Rapids athletes represent a third of the invitees to the camp, out of the seven teams attending.

With the Rapids’ own FastSwim just over a month away, the short course season is off to a fantastic start for the Watermania based club.

Bantam A2 Blues work overtime to win Coquitlam tourney Richmond Bantam A2 Blues captured the Coquitlam Bantam “A” Remembrance Day Challenge thanks to a thrilling 2-1 overtime win over the North Shore Winter Club Winterhawks in the championship game.

The Blues took a 1-0 lead into the late stages of the third period when they were awarded a penalty shot. Kyle Gounder made a great move to his left but the puck unfortunately bounced and he was unable to take advantage. After the ensuing face-off, the Winterhawks scored on a breakaway.

Richmond’s Josh Freeland came out of the penalty box 22 seconds into the extra session to put his team on the power

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play. Soon after, Andrey Krasniperov set up a beautiful onetimer to Freeland for the victory .

The Blues’ road to the final included earlier wins over North Shore Winter Club (3-0), Cloverdale (5-3) and Juan De Fuca (5-0), while battling Sunshine Coast to a 1-1 draw.

The team also includes: Markus Angelas, Owen Coelho, Sean Eagles, Jacob Ferrigno, Christopher Harcourt, Caleb Hohlweg, Austin Kobayashi, Kyle Kwok, Jake Lancaster, Chad Lore, Vik Randhawa, Tanner Roberts, Brendan Sadhra, and Jarred Wong. The coaches are: Mike Ikeda, Brian Busenius, Richard Wong, Steve Eagles and Steve Freeland.

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