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Send story ideas or photo submissions to Richmond News editor Eve Edmonds at editor@richmond-news.com

Selfies get photo studio setting Philip Raphael

Staff Reporter praphael@richmond-news.com

Tired of cramming you and three, maybe four of your friends into an oldschool photo booth and having it dispense an overexposed or washed out colour strip of photos?

Or do you find yourself wishing for much longer arms so your smartphone can capture absolutely everyone in your group?

And are you put off by high-priced “sitting” fees professional photographers charge?

Those are some of the questions Carbo Ngai asked herself when she was devising a business plan after seeing a crop of 20 or so selfie photo studios during a trip to Hong Kong last year.

What she immediately took notice of was the traffic they drew and the excitement they generated as customers set up their shots — many draped in all manner of costumes, sporting outlandish props and positioned in front of studio quality backdrops.

“I thought it was a great idea that I had to bring back home,” said Ngai who is co-owner of The Selfie Room which is tucked away in a portion of Trapped Vancouver, an interactive, room escape game business located in a strip mall on Alexandra Rd. Ngai said the service offers customers a 50-minute session in a small studio space where professional lighting and a camera fixed with a wide angle (40mm) lens takes images using a remote control which allows everyone to be in the photo.

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on a flat screen monitor in the room so decisions on what to keep or delete can be made.

There’s no limit on how many pictures can be taken during the session, and all are downloaded to a USB device customers bring themselves or purchase at the studio.

“Then, they can take those photo files to somewhere else where they can get prints made, or we can help them download them to their phones or post on social media sites,” Ngai said.

Cost of a session depends on how many people, or even pets, are being photographed. For a couple it’s $23 per person. For eight or more, the fee drops to $15 per person.

Since the doors were opened at the beginning of January there has been a steady stream of clients spanning ages and ethnic backgrounds.

MLA Reid cleared of any wrongdoing Rob Shaw

Vancouver Sun

An expanded police probe into Speaker and Richmond East MLA Linda Reid’s expenses has concluded without any evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

The RCMP’s federal criminal operations branch said Tuesday it had completed additional investigative work into Reid’s constituency office renovations after receiving advice on the case from the Ontario Provincial Police.

“The RCMP investigation has been concluded having found no evidence to suggest a criminal act was committed,” RCMP Sgt. Laurie White said in a

statement. “Input from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) independent review was received and expanded a portion of the investigation without resulting in the discovery of LInda Reid any additional evidence.”

The investigation had centered upon $79,000 in security upgrades to Reid’s constituency office at Garden City Shopping Centre in 2013, including alarms, cameras, and a bench bolted to the ground to prevent against vehicle attacks.

Police did not require the upgrades, and internal RCMP documents show Mounties

were worried at the time they might be blamed for the taxpayer-paid work, which also included expensive renovations to the kitchen and bathroom.

The RCMP said it conducted an investigation into the expenses last June and then sent the case to Ontario Provincial Police for an independent review, which was finished late last year. No information was provided on what the OPP recommended and how that resulted in an expanded probe into Reid’s spending.

The case is now closed, the RCMP said.

Carbo Ngai is giving selfies a professional look with a new studio called The Selfie Room. Photo by Philip Raphael/Richmond News

Forever 21 accused of copying designs Bethany Lindsay

Vancouver Sun

The navy-and-white cardigan is adorned with red spouting whales and sells for $47.90 at Forever 21. And according to a Richmond-based clothing company, it’s also a flagrant ripoff.

Brian Hirano of Granted Clothing, a family owned business on Voyageur Way, recently discovered the familiar-looking sweater while browsing through photos on Instagram.

“I said, ‘Oh that’s weird, it looks exactly like our design,’” he said.

He turned to the Forever 21 website and discovered the discount, American retailer was selling a second sweater that looked nearly identical to a Granted Clothing product.

“I was quite disappointed, to be honest with you. I’ve calmed down quite a bit since then, but it’s definitely not

An Instagram image from Granted Clothing shows alleged copies (on left) of their sweater designs. Photo submitted professional in any industry,” Hirano said.

Unlike the hand-knitted, wool sweaters produced at Granted’s shop, the Forever 21 versions are imported and made of an acrylic-wool blend and sell for a fraction of Granted’s $385 price tag.

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Garcia is five-foot five-inches (165 cm) tall, and weighs 145 lbs. (66 kg) with a medium build. She has long, wavy black hair,

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FROM Members of Thor at their previous reunion show in January 2013 which sold out quickly. Photo file elementary school friends Jimmy Coletsis (guitar) and Martin Tanaka (drums), reunited with Johnny Fatiaki (guitar), Korianna Tylor (keyboards) and Steve Braithwaite (vocals) — to play for a sold out audience.

Since then, there’s been calls for an encore.

“Pretty much as we were leaving the stage, and about every day since that show, I’ve been asked when we were going to get together again,” Kilburn said.

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Arm Hall — also figures prominently since it was where Thor played many of their shows back in the day.

“That’s where we used to hang out when we we’re kids. We’d play the Sardine Queen event in the tennis courts near the hall.”

Wristbands for the allages show are $20. Sales at the Pumphouse Pub (6031 Blundell Road) will run both days from 7-9 p.m.

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ransLink is an organization everyone loves to hate.

This week, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation highlighted yet another reason why when it pointed out that bus drivers pressed a “fare not paid” button 2.7 million times in 2013.

It went on to question why honest folk should be asked to pay more transit tax dollars while TransLink ignores those who are grabbing a “free ride” from the system.

Admittedly, TransLink has done a less than stellar job

on how to make fares fair.

Introduction of the Compass card system — meant to simplify payment — has been badly botched. The cards haven’t worked the way they should. The project is over budget and behind schedule.

The issue of fare evasion is more complicated. Pressing the “fare not paid” button saves drivers having to be a collection agency/mental health worker/cop at the same time.

People who don’t pay may be dishonest, or desperate, or both and we can all agree

drivers are too often the target for assaults and abuse.

And while fare-paying riders may not like freeloaders, see how much they like an extra 2.7-million delays in their commute.

How fare evaders’ actions relate to the upcoming TransLink tax referendum is anything but clear.

Yes, there are many problems with TransLink.

But voting no to a tax increase isn’t likely to make the operational issues any easier. If anything, it’s likely to make existing problems worse.

A look ahead at the stories making news in 2015

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which have a direct impact f you’re like me, you are on the lives of most British probably tired of reading InTheHouse Columbians. Get ready to or watching all those lists Keith Baldrey read and hear a lot about of the Top 10 news stories Columnist these in 2015: from the past year.

The Transit Plebiscite Yes, yes, I know: the By the time you get your teachers’ labour dispute was mail-in plebiscite ballot, you won’t be able a big story, but do we need to be told that to look at so much as a transit bus without again and again? thinking about expensive transportation Instead of looking back, let’s look projects and how they should be paid forward and try to figure out which stories for. That’s because you are about to be we’re all going to be talking about so much inundated with all kinds of information in the coming year. (from stories in newspapers, radio and There will be unpredictable events, of television, to pamphlets and advertising) course, that will garner a lot of headline expressing support for both sides of the coverage: major crimes, political plebiscite question. controversies, spectacular accidents, cute Those advocating the “yes” answer to animals that go missing (really) and the whether the sales tax should be boosted a like.

But some big events in the political arena half point will be just as aggressive — and loud, and non-stop — as those pushing the are predictable and are sitting right there “no” response to the proposed tax hike. on the horizon, just waiting to take over the You won’t be able to turn on a television water cooler conversation. newscast, radio or open a newspaper I can think of several separate, distinct without running smack into people like Port events or issues that will get a lot of news Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore (an ardent coverage in the coming year and all of

“yes” advocate) and Jordan Bateman of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, making their pitches, over and over again.

The Federal Election: The federal vote may not be until the fall, but the campaign is now starting in earnest. The Conservatives have begun running new ads featuring Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and will continue to run ads that attack and mock federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau (and the federal government will continue to air ads praising its economic policies, with taxpayers footing the bill for them for much of the year).

All parties are well into their riding nomination processes and candidates should start filling those positions in increasingly large numbers in the weeks ahead.

The three main party leaders will step up their travel schedules — look for all three to make more and more swings through B.C., which has six extra seats up for grabs this time around — as their pace will become frenetic.

Pipeline Protests: You didn’t seriously think these were over because the one on

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Burnaby Mountain ended? Come on, we’re just getting started here folks.

A great divide is beginning to take hold in this country and it’s going to play out in B.C. like nowhere else in the country. That divide is over energy policies, as a vocal minority wants to end all oil shipments from Alberta’s vast oil sands project.

Site C Dam Construction: B.C. Hydro says it is aiming to begin construction in July. But that seems optimistic at best, given how many legal challenges against the dam have been filed, with more on the way.

All four of these issues are linked by the fact that all of them contain some element of political protesting, which is fitting, given that protesting is almost a British Columbian’s birthright.

And you’re going to see a lot of it this year, whether it’s targeted at a transit tax hike, an oil pipeline or a federal political party or a hydroelectric dam.

Welcome to 2015!

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC. You can email him at Keith.

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Actually, fat not as bad as feared Dear Editor, Re: “You are what you eat,” Column, Jan. 7.

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multi-cultural society.

But I do predict that if anything will change over the next decade it will be Steveston being slowly overwhelmed by the kind of generic development that characterizes the rest of the city. Lot by lot, building by building, this last vestige of Richmond’s early heritage will be subsumed by the kinds of structures and businesses that are typical of all strip-mall and main street developments across North America. The philosophy of

development that dictates community planning in Richmond demands that money, not educated, enlightened planning dictate the design of the community, and we only need to step back and objectively assess what the city looks like in general to understand the extent to which our lives have already been affected by this ethos.

Perhaps the only positive outcome of the evolution of a new Steveston will be that local residents will find

more parking spaces to use because fewer tourists will be interested in visiting the place.

It seems only those in power get to define the concept of ‘progress,” but their definition is not the same as mine.

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Absent homeowners, overdevelopment and skyrocketing land value has reached a boiling point Graeme Wood

suggested she “cash out” and move elsewhere.

“You can flight or fight. I choose to fight,” says Starchuk.

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ifelong resident Kerry Starchuk isn’t exactly thrilled she made $90,000 in 2014 for doing absolutely nothing.

Her 55 year-old family home was recently appraised at $32,000. It’s a nice split-level home, recently painted with double-glazed windows. It helped raise five boys and could probably raise five more from a new family.

But, in all likelihood (and take this bet to Las Vegas) no one other than the Starchuks will occupy that home in the future.

While the home is worth less than a mid-priced SUV, it is the land beneath it, valued at $1.2 million, which is a magnet for bulldozers that will pave the way as part of a resurgence of megahome development in Gordon Price Richmond.

Starchuk stirred national headlines for wanting foreign languages eliminated from business and real estate signs.

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Facebook campaign Now, her latest cause celebre is a Facebook page campaign — Richmond’s Changing Neighbourhoods — where she and others are documenting what they call a “bizarre,” “unprecedented” and “out of control” real estate market that is eroding the fabric of Richmond’s neighbourhoods.

“Near my house I’ve had an illegal hotel, an empty lot, a house that’s five-years-old that’s always been empty, a gated home with mail bursting from the mailbox,” says Starchuk pointing all around her Blundell neighbourhood.

“I don’t think it’s fair to compete for empty homes and I don’t think it’s fair for the next generation to be priced out of the market,” says Starchuk.

She says some, including one local politician have

On Spires Road, one of the last bastions of “Old Richmond” is about to get a major makeover; Yamamoto Architecture Inc. has applied to develop seven market rental homes into 60 townhomes for purchase.

The densification of the City Centre neighbourhood (one quarter of a major city block) is planned under the city’s Official Community Plan.

But with a rental crunch in Richmond, renter Don Watters, who has lived on Spires for 25 years, doesn’t see the justification.

“Where can we go and it be affordable?”

Watters says the landlords of the seven homes have left the place to rot. Last May he got his notice that he would need to leave the home this June.

Watters’ friend, Roland Hoegler, 56, who grew up on Spires and whose father, 88, still lives next door to Watters, describes what Richmond is losing: “You walked to school, kids played on the street, it was a beautiful place to grow up,” says Hoegler of the ditch-lined street, one of Richmond’s last.

“The question is, who is benefitting from this change?” asks Hoegler.

His answer? The developers and real estate agents, who have incessantly harassed his “holdout” father to sell his home.

“Seven down, 60 up, you do the math,” he says.

“Who’s benefitting? It’s not the people like Don.”

Plans for 2041 Richmond’s OCP states that between 2011 and 2041 about 80,000 more people will move here.

“That number comes from an expectation of what portion of the projected growth of the region will go to Richmond,” notes Peter Hall, associate professor of urban studies at Simon Fraser University.

The decision is inherently political, notes Hall, but Richmond has taken on about seven per cent of the 1.2 million more people projected by regional planners to live here. Over the last 10 years, roughly nine out of 10 new residents (326,000) of

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Richmond plans to accommodate about 55,000 of its newcomers in the City Centre and preserve single-family neighbourhoods by building townhouses along arterial roads.

According to Gordon Price, director of the SFU City Program, densifying the City Centre is a “relief mechanism” for single-family neighbourhoods; by building up housing stock, it gives the market more options.

On Williams Road (an arterial), across from South Arm Community Centre, Starchuk has photographed a 20 year-old megahome, a typical pink stucco mansion.

The home is now flanked by townhouses and slated for demolition despite an assessed building value of $320,000.

Price says when the home was built in 1994, the land wasn’t rezoned for townhouses, so the large home in question was built. Now, despite being a relatively new home, Price says the value of the land is so great that developers can make money

by tearing it down now that the OCP allows for densification.

Speculation Price and Hall say land speculation and demand are raising the value of land in Metro Vancouver.

So, essentially, it becomes a waiting game between the speculators/developers and the homeowner.

“One way or another that land is going to be redeveloped to reflect the value of it,” says Hall.

Hall notes the slumlord mentality on Spires is a result of “planning blight.”

“When land is not rezoned for how desirable it is, what sometimes happens is the landlord will say, “I’ll wait out the municipal government and I’m not going to fix up this house. I’ll let the municipality get so upset and frustrated until they allow me to rezone it,” says Hall.

Starchuk notes many old homes are abandoned.

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Megahomes: The sequel

A second wave of megahomes has hit non-City Centre neighbourhoods following the 1990s rush.

Near the old Steveston High school Starchuk has pointed out several three-storey megahomes being built next to existing older homes.

The older homes are assessed and sell for about $1 million while the new homes sell in the range of $2.5 million, on average.

Betty Deane owns and lives in a one-storey home on Goldsmith Drive and is now flanked by threestorey megahomes.

Her house is now shaded, resulting in higher heating bills, her garden is falling to pieces and she’s lived with incessant noise for the past few years.

“I hate it. If I could move I would, but where can you go?” asks the retiree.

When asked how her concerns were addressed at city hall, she replied: “They weren’t. City Hall doesn’t want to hear. I tried going,” says Deane.

Starchuk and others say they no longer feel the desire to maintain their homes, considering they’ll just be torn down.

The new homes on Goldsmith are some of an estimated 650 new residential house permits that have been approved in the city over the past two years, the vast majority believed to be for rebuilds.

Community eroding The problem, Starchuk sees, is that not only is the land being heavily speculated on, many of the homes sit empty, resulting in the erosion of community.

There is no data to back up her assertions, however Price and Hall support the theory that foreign homeownership is a big part of it.

“There is no doubt huge amounts of land and apartment complexes are turning into safe deposit boxes,” says Price.

Like so many other problems in Richmond, Starchuk says a discussion on restricting foreign homeownership — an idea floated in recent civic elections and common in other G8 countries— has never taken place.

Retired trucker Bob Caramamoff, left, is heading back to his hometown in Michigan. He’s been renting a house in Richmond, which is now dwarfed by its megahome neighbour. Roland Hoegler and his friend Don Watters, right, say the city has removed rental property so a 60-unit townhome complex can be built.

Their Spires Road neighbourhood, above right, is slated to be densified to accomodate housing demand. Photos by Graeme Wood/Richmond News That discussion should include provincial and federal politicians, who form immigration laws and affordable housing strategies.

However, Price challenges the likes of Starchuk and Hoegler by asking: “Are these people willing to have their land values plummet if the governments intervene?

Starchuk says she would welcome an adjustment to the market.

“Money is not the whole answer and I think we’re putting greed before need,” says Starchuk.

Price also notes that the preservation of singlefamily neighbourhoods is “classist.”

He says it’s the lower income families who are relegated to the townhouses on the main arterials, buffering the elitists residing behind them from noise and air pollution.

Preserving single-family homes is “defensible code (for classism). It’s the place to raise kids, the Canadian dream. It’s what every society wants.”

What can council do?

Coun. Bill McNulty has consistently pledged to maintain single-family home neighbourhoods outside of the City Centre.

McNulty disagrees with Price’s “classist” arguement, but he acknowledges there are problems with housing in the city. He says provincial height restrictions via land-use contracts have allowed builders to build higher than what the city normally allows. He hopes to fix that.

When asked if the city could postpone development in areas like Spires, where market rental units still exist, he said it’s possible, even with the OCP. Coun. Carol Day was recently elected on a platform of slowing the rate of development in the city, often criticizing McNulty and his partners’ record over the past 20 years.

Day has proposed to work with developers to make

rebuilds smaller (floor size) and perhaps allow for lots to be subdivided to discourage megahomes.

“Just because we have done this, doesn’t mean we have to keep on doing it,” Day said at a recent planning committee meeting where she’s already become a lone voice of opposition to applications.

But as Price noted, “Restrict the square footage and that would result in a drop in land value. Ask (homeowners) how they would feel about that.”

Retired trucker Bob Caramamoff is Deane’s neighbor two doors down, and he’s moving back to his hometown in Michigan after renting an older home from a foreign homeowner.

Caramamoff jokingly fears the next tenant won’t be able to have a fire in the fireplace because the house’s chimney is two feet away from the megahome’s window. And he voices concern for the community he will soon leave.

“I love the people I know (here), but …boy do you know what I could get for $1 million in Michigan!”

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Richmond Youth Soccer product Caleb Clarke has resigned with the Vancouver Whitecaps.

The 20-year-old striker had been playing overseas with German Bundesliga club FC Augsburg II on a year-long loan, before returning to Vancouver last May to repair a ruptured quadriceps muscle. Clarke scored eight goals in 26 matches last season before suffering the injury in training.

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Prices excluded $549 documentation fee and taxes. 0% for 84 months OAC is not applicable on cash prices no not valid with cash back or no payments for 6 months . $750 Loyalty based on ownership of any vehicle. No payments for 6 months are deferred payments and OAC. Customer is still responsible for interest for first 6 months. See Dealer for details. Sale ends Jan 11th, 2015.

A16

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2015

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• BREAKFAST EVERY DAY AT 9AM • DJ’S & DANCING EVERY FRIDAY & SATURDAY NIGHT • $3.50 HIGHBALLS SATURDAY NIGHTS FROM 9PM - CLOSE • COMPLIMENTARY SHUTTLE SERVICE • DINE OUT VANCOUVER JAN. 16 - FEB. 1

604-273-0278

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