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o, a second flyer that blames “the Chinese” for various ills hit the streets this week. Not exactly a proud time for us Richmondites.

Actually, I take that back.

While it’s disturbing to see blatant attacks on one ethnic group, there is much to be proud of in the response. I can’t remember when we’ve had such a thoughtful and eloquent batch of letters to the editor — in stark contrast to the negative, simple-mindedness of the flyers.

In Wednesday’s paper, Dongping Gu, who emigrated from China 15 years ago, describes his distress at having to live next to monster homes owned by people who don’t participate in Halloween or even chat to their neighbours.

After Gu’s letter appeared, Gary Lui, a community organizer in Burnaby asked the News if he could reprint it on his Facebook page because it so well articulates how he, and many of Chinese ethnicity, feel.

In other words, when we read flyers referring to “the Chinese,” their monster homes and unwillingness to participate in the community, let’s think about Gu and Lui. Granted, the majority of Richmond’s monster homes and empty condos are probably owned by Chinese investors, but that doesn’t mean the majority of Chinese own monster homes or empty condos. And clearly, many Chinese are just as frustrated by people’s unwillingness to integrate as anyone else.

But about communication, there is a problem — not with “the Chinese” but with the folks who operate solely in their own enclave. When the Richmond News first went to this format of having a two-page feature in Friday’s paper, our first feature looked at the issue of Chinese-only signs. Until then, the debate had been between activists calling for a bylaw to ensure English on signs on one side, and the city advocating for an “educate” approach on the other. Until our feature, we hadn’t heard from business owners who chose not to include English. They had some valid reasons. I might not agree with them, but from a business perspective it made perfect sense.

I have a feeling such would be the same if we talked to some of these non-integrating mega-home owners. I also think many of us, regardless of ethnicity, would make the same decisions if in the same financial position.

In any case, we need to talk, we need to avoid “us” and “them” thinking and lumping people into groups based on ethnicity. We need to heed the advice of one Richmond News Facebook post: “Can everyone in Richmond go out of their way to talk to people they don’t know just to prove how idiotic this person (circulating the flyers) is? I loved hearing the conversation between an older Caucasian guy and a younger Chinese guy at a store the other day...so friendly and jovial.”

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Hear, hear to newcomer's letter about integration Dear Editor, Re: “Let’s not shy away from tough talk,” Letters, Nov. 30.

Dongping Gu’s articulate and useful letter is a clear example of the kind of conversation we should be having about how the lack of involvement in our society on the part of some members of the Chinese community is negatively affecting the general culture of our city.

His statements are made even more effective because he is a Chinese immigrant who seems to be as disappointed as many long-time residents of Richmond are by the lack of interest shown by some of our Chinese neighbours in even exchanging the most basic greetings and courtesies with those they live next door to or pass on the street.

In a world that seems to be rapidly devolving into conditions of greater rather than lesser levels of isolationism and devisiveness, we must, individually and collectively, decide whether we want to be part of the problem and act in ways that serve to increase such conditions.

Or we need to be part of the solution and at the very least engage in the kinds of problem-defining and problem-solving conversations that Mr. Gu is attempting to promote — the kind that engender greater understanding, respect, and collaboration between people.

It really is a basic binary choice.

The problem, as it always has been, is that too many people in the world prefer to focus on the things that differentiate us from each other rather than the things that we all share in common.

We, therefore, continue to suffer all the ills associated with distance, misunderstanding, and distrust. It’s a simple lesson that many people seem unable and/or unwilling to learn.

To make things even more unfortunate than they already are, our political and civic leaders don’t seem particularly concerned about finding ways of leading us towards effective solutions. Where are the initiatives, the conversations, the analyses, the proposals?

Richmond has been given a unique opportunity to build a model of what a respectful, inclusive multi-cultural society should look like, but if Mr. Gu is correct in his assessment of how we are doing in that regard (and I for one will bow to the efficacy of his particular perspective of the situation), then we have a very long way to go before we can legitimately claim that we are close to achieving that goal.

And perhaps we have a long way yet to go before we can claim that we are even concerned about achieving such an objective. Such is our obsession with focusing on our differences.

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LETTERSto the Editor

Nationalists see Why are we surprised by fertile ground racist flyers?

Dear Editor, We should not be surprised by the racist flyers turning up in Steveston. Richmond has been highlighted in the racist website Council of European Canadians before, discussing how the “white and truly harmonious” Richmond is now filled with “ugly Chinese commercial signs” populated by a diversity of “Chinese, Muslims, Africans or Mestizos.”

We got their attention thanks to the so-called “community activists” who have been raging about changes in Richmond for years, usually blamed on ethnic Chinese immigration.

The Council of European Canadians is listed on the racist alt-right poster appearing in Toronto neighbourhoods.

It believes that the “cultural Marxists” (whatever that means) who have been controlling our country since 1971 are bent on destroying our European heritage, even though 95 per cent of Canadians self-identified as of European heritage in the 2006 census.

If you need convincing to be vigilante, try to watch the film Guess who’s back — the U.S. election is simply life imitating art.

Mark Lee Richmond

Dear Editor, I have been reading the letters to the editor in the Richmond News regarding the recent flyers from Alt-Right being delivered in Richmond. People such as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump and European nationalists such as Nigel Farage in the UK, Marine Le Pen in France, Adolf Hitler in Germany and now the Alt-Right here in Richmond believe they have a sympathetic audience because the politicians, who have the power to address problems in society, choose to ignore their constituents.

It’s no accident that the Alt-Right chose Richmond to plant their seeds of hate and fear because Mayor Malcom Brodie is probably one of the deafest mayors in the Lower Mainland. The Alt-Right must have thought there was no point in targeting Vancouver because Gregor Robertson is imposing a vacancy tax.

Even the provincial government is doing too little too late with their ill-thought out 15 per cent foreign owner tax. But not Richmond.

Mayor Brodie continues to ignore and play deaf to all the complaining that has been going on for years and, as a result, along comes a group like Alt-Right, who have seen the successes of Brexit and the U.S. presidential election, due to people being ignored, and have decided Richmond is the place to start.

As various letters to the editor have stated, these are not Canadian values — to be racist and divisive. I hope Mayor Brodie will start listening so the people who are so frustrated with being ignored do not become an easy target for the likes of the Donald Trumps, Nigel Farages, and proponents of the AltRight, who pretend to be listening to their frustrations.

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n Two racist flyers have been circulating through Richmond during the past two weeks.

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Racial tension brewing Dear Editor, Re: “Anti-Chinese sentiment partly governments’ fault: Steves,” News, Nov. 23; “Richmond residents hold silent protest in support of all cultures,” News Nov. 28.

Despite House Speaker Linda Reid’s adamant stance that the people responsible for the flyers wouldn’t find fertile ground in Canada, anyone who is involved in the Richmond community will have a different opinion.

Racial tension has been brewing in Richmond and it has been brewing for a long time. As a Canadian with Chinese heritage, I am often subjected to racist and insensitive comments. From signage issues to housing prices, the Chinese-Canadian community has become the collateral damage of the government’s lack of courage to address issues. Councillor

Harold Steves is correct in noting that, if the governments were truly committed to the promotion of inclusion and multiculturalism, the rise of the Alt-Right would have little fuel to work with.

Richmond needs politicians who are interested in more than just photo ops. The community needs courageous politicians who dare to acknowledge the existence and growth of controversial issues that are threatening Richmond and to push for policies that will address the issues. The government must foster real harmony and multiculturalism by pushing for policies to encourage understanding, appreciation, inclusiveness, and fairness.

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Cut libraries, cut literacy Cyclists should pay insurance Dear Editor, Re: “New chapter in library budget talks,” News, Nov. 16.

I was shocked to read about Mayor Brodie’s attitude towards our library system.

A library is the cornerstone of literacy; it offers all the residents of Richmond materials in the form of books, audiobooks, e-books, magazines (digital and print) and kits. Lowering the limit of items a patron may borrow at one time could lead to the lowering of Richmond’s level of literacy.

Holding a book in your hands and sharing it with a baby, toddler or emerging reader not only communicates that you care about this person, but opens a lifelong path to discovery and wonder.

Giving a new immigrant access to literacy kits, “step readers” or high interest, low vocabulary books for adults and teens helps to speed their integration into our community. If you limit the number of items people can take out at

one time, you are increasing their financial demands by increasing transit costs by forcing them to visit the library more frequently.

The City of Richmond supports the Richmond Oval by waiving their taxes and rent to the city ($1.6 million last year). The oval also received upwards of $6.3 million of additional external monetary support while recording a $1.1 million operating deficit in 2015. It has accumulated losses of about $2.2 million even with approximately $16 million of support from the city during that time.

I am not sure if the above figures include subsidies to the Olympic Museum.

If not, the numbers would be even higher.

How can you deny $200,000 for the library, which all residents use for free, while subsidizing the Richmond Oval, which only a small percentage of the residents seem to use?

Cathie Thorneycroft Richmond

Dear Editor, Re: “Cyclists and motorists need to co-exist,” Letters, Nov. 16.

As mentioned by George Muenz, we need to share the road among cyclists and motorists. As he pointed out, there are many aggressive and careless motorists. The same point could be made for cyclists…there are a handful of cyclists not stop-

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ping at stop signs, riding on sidewalk/crosswalks, running red lights, not riding in a single file, not using lights/ reflectors when riding after sunset, the list goes on.

A local TV station even had a segment showing cyclists refusing to move over for motorists on the same stretch of River Road.

First, we need a better system...both educational and enforcement. Cyclists should be required to purchase insurance like any other vehicle owner who uses the

public road.

Part of the insurance cost pays for infrastructure.

Motorists get tested before being granted the privilege to drive on the road. So, cyclists need to be educated and licensed for the privilege of riding on public roads, as well.

If all cyclists are held to the same standard as other road users and follow rules, the mutual respect could be established.

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n Around 180 unionized workers at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel on Westminster Highway held a 12-hour protest from 7 a.m. Thursday to highlight what they claim are ‘low-end’ pay and conditions. Photo by Alan Campbell/Richmond News

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A small, but very noisy, group of disgruntled hotel workers carried out a “Wake-up” demonstration with pots, pans, whistles and horns at 7 a.m. to highlight what they claim are “low-end” wages for an increased workload, in comparison to neighbouring hotels.

The unexpected early-morning alarm call was to be followed by a 12-hour protest — by all 180 unionized housekeepers, front desk staff, bellhops and cooks — including a choir performance at lunchtime and a rally at 5 p.m.

The union, UNITE Here Local 40, is calling for a fair wage adjustment and wants the hotel owner — Larco Hospitality — to improve standards and workload safety at the hotel and bargain directly with the union, as opposed to a collective bargaining system involving 40 other properties.

Little progress has been made in several months of negotiations so far. Contact talks are scheduled to resume on Friday.

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39-year-old Richmond driver is facing impaired driving charges after being involved in a two-car crash on Highway 91 on Sunday morning.

The car being driven by the man, who has yet to be charged so cannot be named, was involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle around 1 a.m. near the Highway 99 off-ramp.

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Community update on compost odour issues The City of Richmond has and continues to take decisive actions to ensure Harvest Power eliminates odours from their facility. In an effort to deliver relief for citizens in the short term, a number of actions

by City are taking place that include: • Effective January 1, 2017, the City will divert multi-family waste sent to Harvest Power to an alternative licensed facility. Council authorized staff to execute an agreement and approved the annual cost of $18,880 for this service.

• The City has also requested that Harvest Power take steps to remedy odours from the facility within 90 days, per its Service Agreement with the company. City Council has approved $150,000 to fund additional compliance monitoring and independent research in this area.

• The City has urged Metro Vancouver to require that Harvest Power follow best management practises to control odours and other nuisance matters relating to their operation, including regular progress reports, in relation to Harvest Power’s service agreement with Metro Vancouver.

These recent actions are supported by the extensive work the City has already taken to address this issue.

Other key actions include: • Senior City staff met with senior staff from the Ministry of Environment and the Mayor met with the Minister to request their involvement and support for Metro Vancouver to enforce and address the issue.

• At the City’s urging, Metro Vancouver has dedicated a team of three officers to respond to noncompliances and carry out inspections. As a result, Metro Vancouver has delivered two Notices of Violation to Harvest Power since the new permit was issued on September 30.

• The City and Vancouver Coastal Health staff visited the site on November 15 to investigate for rodent issues. The site has approximately 200 traps set around the area; which are serviced twice a week.

Harvest Power also employs a fulltime falconer to manage birds. There were no non-compliances of City bylaws found.

• Richmond Fire Rescue (RFR) responded to six fire incidents since August related to a storage pile of combustible materials. There are no imminent fire and life safety hazards on the property. In response to recent fires, RFR issued a Notice of Violation. Recently, RFR issued an Order to Comply for noncompliance items with the City’s Fire Protection Life Safety Bylaw and BC Fire Code. RFR is working with Harvest Power on their response to the Order.

• At the City’s urging Harvest Power held a public meeting on November 9 to hear from the community.

Over 40 residents attended. A new meeting is scheduled on December 8 at 7 p.m. at the Hilton Airport Vancouver, 5911 Minoru Boulevard where the company’s Chief Executive Officer will provide an update on their actions.

• The City has been urging Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) to respond to health concerns related to odours expressed by citizens. On November 25, VCH provided a written response stating that “while Harvest Power is generating extremely unpleasant odorous compounds, the air emissions for the operation are unlikely to cause health effects in addition to ones triggered by the offensive smell.” The City still has questions regarding health concerns and for this reason, the City is asking VCH to attend a future public meeting to provide further explanation.

The City believes these actions work towards a long term solution to the odour issues while bringing short term relief. City Council and staff remain focussed on results and will continue to update the community with new information through media and at the City’s dedicated website.

For more information on this issue and the City’s actions visit our website at www.richmond.ca. www.richmond.ca t

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fficials at a smelly east Richmond compost facility are “disappointed” that the city plans to divert some of its organic waste to another composter.

“While we understand what the city has done and why they’ve done it, we’re a bit disappointed with it,” said Stephen Bruyneel, spokesman for Harvest Power.

“At the same time we understand why they did it and we’re looking forward to working with them over the weeks to come.”

The composting and biofuel facility that Harvest Power runs on York Road receives most of Metro Vancouver’s green waste — 225,000 tonnes a year — and has been the subject of more than 1,200 odour complaints over the past year.

On Monday, the City of Richmond announced that on Jan. 1 it will divert all organic waste from its multi-family program to another facility.

City spokesman Ted Townsend was unable, due to contractual reasons, to say how many tonnes of waste that will represent.

Townsend was also unable to say where the waste will be taken because a new agreement has not yet been signed. The move will cost the city $18,880 annually.

Mayor Malcolm Brodie told Postmedia on Tuesday that the diversion will provide “short-term relief” from the odour issue.

Metro Vancouver, which manages waste disposal for the region and also regulates air quality, has already diverted 40,000 tonnes of organic waste from Harvest

Power to Enviro-Smart Organics in Delta.

The waste is coming from the North Shore transfer station (16,000 tonnes) and the City of Vancouver (24,000 tonnes).

“Metro Vancouver’s actions have definitely been in response to the challenges at Harvest Power,” said Paul Henderson, Metro’s solid waste services manager.

Metro Vancouver has been in discussions with Harvest for weeks about diverting the material to help reduce the odour, and the change occurred over the past two weeks.

Henderson said the diversion is temporary.

“The rationale being we want to work with Harvest to provide them the opportunity to effectively process material at that site,” said Henderson.

“Our expectation is once the challenges at Harvest have been resolved, the materials will be moved back into the Harvest system.”

Bruyneel said Harvest just received the details about Richmond’s decision on Tuesday night and will need time to determine how the waste diversion by the city and Metro Vancouver will affect its business.

Metro Vancouver is also initiating a composting best practices study, and plans to write to Harvest to advise that if facility operations are not improved to control odour within 90 days, the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District will consider Harvest in default of its organics processing contract and request that organics accepted by the facility be limited to regional sources.

Richmond has made a similar request to remedy odours within 90 days, per its service agreement.

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Ghost cities built on speculation Realtor finds 46% of condos sold as vacant

investors pump trillions of dollars into real estate to shelter their money.

“Never has there been more evidence stacking up and showing the impacts of foreign capital coming in and distorting the real estate market. Richmond is the prime example,” noted Saretsky.

Prior to a 15 per cent tax being implemented on residential homes sales to foreigners, about one in four Richmond homes (between June 10 and Aug. 1) were being sold to foreigners. That’s more than any other city in B.C. and still doesn’t include foreign capital entering the market via permanent residents and Canadians. It doesn’t surprise Saretsky to see that Richmond house prices have gone up about 80 per cent in the past three years — also more than any other city in the province.

“There’s got to be a little correlation right there,” he said.

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ealtor Steve Saretsky, 25, recalls, not long ago,w growing up in Steveston and attending McMath secondary school. In the short time since graduating and entering the lively real estate profession in Vancouver, he’s observed a lot of changes in Richmond when he comes back to visit the few friends and family members who remain.

He describes Steveston as “a tight-knit fishing village in Richmond, where everyone knows each other.” It “remains close to my heart. But it seems those days are nearing an end,” stated Saretsky.

“A lot of people — friends and family — are moving out. They’re moving to Ladner, places that are more affordable,” said Sartesky, who has hurled himself into the great Vancouver real estate debate with an active presence on social media and his website, VanCityCondoGuide.com.

So, if everyone’s moving out, who’s moving in?

Among the many observations Saretsky has made, one in particular warranted further investigation using his professional acumen — that of seemingly empty condos and houses.

Driving into Richmond, it appeared to Saretsky as though many of the units in the new 12-or-so-storey apartment towers were unoccupied.

This month, Saretsky researched condo sales on multiple listing services (MLS).

n Brighouse home to dark condos

He narrowed his focus to the Brighouse neighbourhood in Richmond’s City Centre area, where many of the new blacked-out condos appear. Between January and October of this year he found that 46 per cent of condo sales were sold as vacant.

Saretsky accounted for new construction by searching units that were at least one year old.

He also acknowledges the number of vacant listings should be higher than actuality, as sellers are more likely to vacate their homes for sale purposes or out of practicality.

“Many times it can make a sale easier.

But still, 46 per cent?” exclaimed Saretsky, who has dubbed Richmond the “Ghost City.”

By comparison, the rate of Vancouver condo sales sold as vacant was 25 per cent and current listings, at the time of his research, showed vacant listings in Vancouver sat at 27 per cent, the same number of vacant listings in Richmond, excluding Brighouse, noted Saretsky.

Less data and more anecdotes abound outside the City Centre, in Richmond’s single-family home neighbourhoods. The Monds, as they are known to many in West Richmond, is a dyke-side neighbourhood

n Mayor no fan of empty home tax

n Realtor Steve Saretsky notes that the number of homes sold as vacant is higher than the number of empty homes. But even taking that into consideration, he says Richmond is at risk of becoming a ghost city with the low occupancy rate in the City Centre. Photo by Graeme Wood/Richmond News

enclosed by Francis, Williams and No.1 teacher and he’s an IT guy, so that’s OK; roads. this is sold, and this one here sold a couple Theeps Theeparajah, vice-president of of times, so I guess someone’s living there; West Richmond Community Association, these guys are here, probably since 1983; recently sold his home of 37 years, after this one sold, nobody here; this one almost raising children near original owner . . . These Dixon elementary school, two houses are original a school that is in danger people; this house here of closing, partly due to is a question mark . . .

Never has there been more a declining number of This is Steve, a firefighter children within the school from the airport. He evidence stacking up and district catchment. won’t move because he showing the impacts of for- has kids; over here this is Theeparajah toured the neighbourhood in a car a trainer from Thompson; eign capital coming in and with the Richmond News this one here, it just sold, distorting the real estate in August. no one knows what will Speaking about each happen; these people are market. Richmond is the house as he slowly drove Chinese people, they are prime example. by, Theeparajah pointed very nice . . . This is Dan, to few houses occupied by he will stay because they – Steve Saretsky families, most occupied bought it recently.” by aging empty-nesters Saretsky considers the and many that appeared prevalence of foreign unoccupied. investors and speculators “Empty forever; empty forever; this one is in Richmond is likely the key contributor to my friend for a long time; this one, no one the empty-home phenomenon — one that has taken hold in numerous “global” cities knows what’s going on; this is some seniors around the world, as well as China itself as over here so, this one’s OK; here, she’s a

Mayor Malcolm Brodie told the News he has observed and heard complaints about empty homes.

“It’s fair to say there are a significant number of [unoccupied] premises in Richmond,” said Brodie.

“Certainly in some neighbourhoods, it’s more prevalent,” he added.

He acknowledges it is more likely that a non-resident would leave a house or condo vacant.

Brodie said he would prefer to have homes occupied, but what to do about the issue is another matter. Brodie said he doesn’t have a solution to the problem and is taking a wait-and-see approach to Vancouver’s newly implemented empty home tax.

“I don’t favour the approach. The problem is, how do you define a vacant home and how do you enforce the measures?” asked Brodie.

Vancouver’s tax is targeted at owners of an estimated 20,000 Vancouver homes that are either left empty year-round or under-occupied. At issue is an alarming rental vacancy rate of 0.8 per cent, which contributes to rising housing costs.

In Vancouver, non-principal residences unoccupied for six months of the year or more will be subject to the annual one per cent tax based on the property’s assessed value.

There is a long list of exemptions, including homes with long-term tenants, homeowners who vacation for long periods of time in the winter, owners conducting major renovations, university professors on sabbaticals and owners undergoing medical or supportive care.

Property owners will be required to selfdeclare whether their homes are empty much in the same way owners declare a homeowner’s grant online. Random audits to ensure owners are not lying and avoiding the tax will be conducted. A false declaration could result in fines of up to $10,000 per day of the continuing offence.

City of Richmond staff claim to be monitoring the Vancouver tax and say anyone concerned about vacant homes can provide input, which can be considered for an upcoming affordable housing review. Council has not asked staff to consider such a tax, which would require approval by the provincial government, as was the case in Vancouver.

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FRONTFeature n Paul Dylla says the rights of individual home owners need to be balanced with the good of the community.

Things such as walls, fences and palm trees do nothing to help the city reach its overall objective of building an inclusive and environmentally sustainable city.

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Bylaw proposals

Walls, fences don't make neighbourly neighbourhoods Graeme Wood

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n Gibbons Drive, near Terra Nova, resident Paul Dylla figures about six to eight newly built homes sit unoccupied. But Dylla is equally concerned about the form of housing taking shape in his neighbourhood.

Dylla contends large, gated homes are gobbling up green space and deteriorating neighbourly interactions, two matters that run contrary to livablity goals set forth by the City of Richmond.

Next month, city council will embark on a public consultation for a set of building bylaw amendments that will pit property rights against broader community values, such as tree preservation and communal space. While last year city council dealt with the structural size of mega homes, this round of proposals deals with their footprint, in an effort to bring about better conformity between new and old homes.

The stakes are high for homeowners, neighbours and developers as Richmond is in a building boom. To date, 481 homes were demolished this year. A record 512 homes were taken down in 2015.

City planners are proposing a set of amendments that could increase green space, put restrictions on three-car garages, expand the space (setbacks) required between homes and decrease a home’s footprint — in effect reducing the maximum allowable size of new homes. The proposals may be altered, depending on public feedback from homeowners, home builders and developers.

One of the proposals includes placing further restrictions on gates and front-yard fencing and walls.

“The city’s vision is to make this the most livable community. They use the word community. Community implies people have

relationships with their neighbours and so on. inspired landscaping.

The moment you start building walls around Much like last year, when city council your property you’re sending a message that enacted changes to limit the bulkiness of you’re not welcome,” said Dylla. homes and put an end to three-storey homes, When asked why a homeowner shouldn’t be homebuilders will be a pivotal stakeholder in able to build a wall around their home, Dylla the consultation process.

Realtor and developer/builder Raman Kooner says broader community values need to be spoke to council Monday to express concerns factored in. from the development community, as well as “We talk about the good old times, when many homeowners who are his clients. people knew one another . . . We had a sense Kooner said he believes the proposals, if of people watching out for their kids and acted upon fully, would lead to a devaluation their property. We’ve become a society that of residential properties. congregates in places other “When you revert to a than our neighbourhood. We lower density, it will have an build restaurants, we have They use the word commuimpact on the value of the community centres. And so property,” said Kooner. a home is becoming more nity. Community implies He asked councillors to of a commodity we buy and people have relationships expand consultation come sell.

January. He said it may be “Since the big houses with their neighbours and imperative to hold converhave come in, we’ve seen a so on. The moment you sations on a neighboursignificant loss of pedestrian level. Whereas one traffic,” said Dylla. start building walls around hood neighbourhood may want to A proposal by planners shrink new home footprints, indicates gates may not be your property, you’re sendothers may not (suggesting prohibited by law. However, ing a message that you’re smaller homes may not fit they may be set back further well in a neighbourhood from the property line to not welcome. with big homes, such as prevent cars from stalling on – Paul Dylla Broadmoor). roads as they wait for gates “I think it’s imperative to open. the city delve deep into this Other bylaw proposals scenario and look at the include increases to green pockets in Richmond.” space and tree planting.

Also at issue is equality, according to builder Dylla takes issue with the lack of green Gursher Randhawa, who said last year’s prospace surrounding new homes. cess left builders dejected.

“The present landscaping doesn’t help with “These are people who are just as important sustainability goals of the city. You’d hope the as the residents who are complaining about city would want to plant deciduous or coniferthis kind of stuff . . . Builders’ opinions have ous trees, but here we see palm trees. They taken a back seat to residents,” said Randhado little to clean the air and provide birds a place to nest,” said Dylla, standing in front wa, noting house construction is often delayed of a $5.4 million gated home with Californiadue to complaints by neighbours.

Here are some of the changes being proposed to Richmond homes. The examples are the most extreme measures being proposed.

Proposals may change following public consultation.

Maximum length of house Instead of allowing for a six-metre setback from the front and back property lines, establish a limit to the maximum length of a house to 50 per cent of the total lot length.

Rear- and side-yard setbacks The city is proposing a variable rear-yard setback.

Smaller lots will have a six-metre setback whereas larger lots will have up to a 10.7-metre setback. The city is also proposing to eliminate projections toward the side property line.

Decks Second storey decks would be pushed 1.5 metres back from the minimum rear-yard setback, to improve privacy amongst neighbours.

Lot coverage As it stands, a new house can cover 45 per cent of a property. This could be reduced to 40 per cent.

Green space The city presently requires a minimum of 20/25/30 per cent of green space on a new home build, depending on the property. This could change to 30/35/40 per cent.

Front-yard landscaping Planners propose requiring up to 50 per cent of the front yard setback be green space.

This could impact a builder’s ability to pave expansive driveways.

Tree planting Presently, there are no tree planting requirements when a home is demolished and rebuilt (only when properties are rezoned). A proposal by planners would see tree planting required as part of the building permit process.

Gates The city states it cannot ban front entrance gates and fences. It can and does restrict the height to 1.2 metres (although no permit is required to build these structures and it’s on an honour system). The city is proposing to set the gates back six metres from the property line, citing traffic concerns.

Garages The most extreme proposal would see garages that project outward effectively limited to a two-car capacity by allowing for a maximum 6.6-metre projection.

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Christmas in Steveston: Saturday, Dec. 3: Christmas celebrations get rolling through Steveston Village on Dec. 4 starting with the 4th Annual Christmas Classic Car Cruise, presented by the Steveston Merchants Association.

From 12:15 - 12:30pm, approximately 75 classic cars will drive through the streets of Steveston. They’ll then remain on display until 2:30 p.m., next to the Gulf of Georgia Cannery and Steveston Hotel. At 1 p.m., Santa will arrive by boat at the Steveston Public Wharf, then pose for photos inside the Gulf of Georgia Cannery from 2 – 4 p.m. The event will also feature carolers, horse-drawn carriage rides, and a Festival of Trees. For more info on the Classic Car Cruise and Christmas in Steveston Village, visit online at ExploreSteveston.com.

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ROX 1st anniversary: Dec. 4: Sunday is the first anniversary of the Olympic Experience at the Richmond Olympic Oval (ROX) and to mark the

n Around 75 classic cars will cruise through the streets of Steveston on Dec. 4 from 12:15 - 12:30 p.m. during Christmas in Steveston Village. Photo submitted

date there will be a number of events at the facility, including an autograph session with local Olympians Evan Dunfee (race walking) from 10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. and Shallon Olsen (gymnastics) from 3 – 5 p.m. Family admission — for up to four people — will be reduced to $17 for the day. There will also be some Olympic experience contests that include the chance to win a bobsleigh ride with Canadian bobsleigh pilot Chris Spring at the Whistler Sliding Centre.

Just post the best race time on either the bobsleigh or race car simulators during Community ROX Days to win.

You can also win a gymnastics lesson, for those aged three to 13, with Olsen at the Omega Gymnastics Club in Coquitlam by posting the

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High-flying teen wins Duke's silver award Chris Gillies, 17, has a taste for adventure

n McMath secondary student Chris Gillies accepts his Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award from B.C.’s Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Judith Guichon, at Government House in Victoria.

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t’s probably fair to say that 17-yearold Chris Gillies is a high-flying kind of teenager.

Not only did the McMath secondary student win the Silver Level Duke of Edinburgh Award, his dad, Bill, flew him over to the Victoria ceremony on a floatplane and flew them back via helicopter.

It may not come as a surprise to learn that Chris’ dad is a pilot to trade, a path the already accomplished teen is considering treading in the future.

Talking of his Duke of Edinburgh Award — presented to 28 youth from across B.C. who exhibit exceptional achievement and leadership — Chris said he had to complete numerous hours of community service and take part in “adventurous journeys” before being considered for the accolade.

“The adventure part came partly with the air cadets; it was a field training exercise, a survival weekend where myself and my partner were in the country (in Chilliwack) and had to build our own shelter, build our own campfire, create

an SOS signal fire and had no food for 24 hours,” said Chris, who also took part in air rifle marksmanship exercises and competitions as part of his Air Cadets 828 Hurricane Squadron, based out of Tsawwassen, where he went for three years.

Looking ahead, Chris said he plans to go for the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award

next spring by completing more community service hours and planning even more adventures.

After that, he plans to work part-time as a landscaper to save money to go travelling in Southeast Asia and potentially Europe.

“My mom is German; I’ve already

been there and South East Asia is much cheaper, so it’s more likely I’ll go there,” said Chris, of Steveston, who also plays house hockey in the midget league for Richmond Minor.

“I’m maybe going to help build an orphanage in Vietnam; my dad’s friend trains air force pilots out there, so he’s involved with this.”

The Lieutenant Governor of B.C., the Honourable Judith Guichon, presented Chris and 27 other recipients with their awards two weeks ago.

“Youth who achieve the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award demonstrate a commitment to leadership and self-discovery,” said the award’s executive director of the BC & Yukon Division, Sushil Saini, in a press release.

“Participating youth don’t work towards a cash prize, but rather the intrinsic value of challenging themselves by setting goals and then achieving them.”

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f you were given three sheets of cardboard, an Exacto knife and duct tape, what could you make in three hours?

Well, a group of Grade 8, 9 and 10 students from MacNeill secondary are tasked — every year for the last decade or so — with designing and building a three-person boat that doesn’t sink and can be raced, with paddles, the length of a swimming pool.

The “Boat Races,” as it’s called, being held next Wednesday at Watermania, is all part of the school’s Incentive Outdoor Academy program and is, according to one of the teachers involved, conducted in the “spirit of the new curriculum.”

“They learn about math and science, teamwork, communication and problemsolving,” said Claire Gilchrist, who also teaches French at the school near No. 4 Road and Granville Avenue.

“They just have two classes on this, so they can discuss their plans and think about their designs.

“They then bring their own designs in

on the day of the race and choose which design, within their teams of three, is going to work best.

“A lot of it is done on the fly and they often find out at the last minute that the cardboard isn’t bending the way they want it.”

Each of the 24 teams, explained Gilchrist, consists of one student from each of the three participating grades.

“It’s been going for more than a decade; the program itself has been running for almost 30 years,” she added.

“Within the older curriculum, each subject is distinct; with the new one, it’s very much cross-curricular, with a big emphasis on group work, fulfilling real world problems.”

The teachers also get involved, said Gilchrist, and design their own boat.

“We often lose, but everyone has a lot of fun watching. We usually make it through without sinking, even though there are three adults in our boat,” she said.

There’s also a little fundraising element to the Boat Races, with students gathering donations from friends and family and proceeds — breaching the $10,000 mark over the last decade — going to BC Children’s Hospital.

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ized that while I wanted to finish my schooling, food was going to be my career.

Originally, I wanted to be an architect,” he said, adding that after graduating from UBC hen chef Angus An started down his he went off to New York City to learn about own culinary path, he knew that while it French cooking at the French Culinary Instiwould mean travelling far and wide to learn as tute, where he ended up top of his class. much as he could, one day he’d be back to “I wanted to get more serious when it came share his knowledge with diners in Vancouto fine dining,” he said, adding he realized ver. his formal training in local restaurants started An — who runs Maenam restaurant in Kitsia little later than those of his counterparts. “I lano, grew up in Maple Ridge and graduated was used to producing more casual food and from fine arts at UBC — said he was always wanted to get exposure in New York to all the attracted to the “magic” that happened in the great restaurants and wonderful melting pot kitchen, starting out as for food.” a youngster helping his Possessing a Green mother and grandCard made accessing mother whose food was the U.S. easier, as well. always at the centre of The From the Kitchen to the Boardroom 2.0 But he also got family gatherings. event on Jan. 12, 2017 at the River Rock Casino encouragement from And even through Resort is a unique, dining experience and forum, local, prominent chef high school he found centred on food, business and entrepreneurship John Bishop to pursue in the food industry in Metro Vancouver. himself in part-time his ambition south of jobs where he gravithe border. tated to the kitchen.

An, who was a big fan of Bishop’s — he “I started off as a busboy and then delivery celebrated his 19th birthday at Bishop’s driving when I was 16,” said An, who is one restaurant and even enrolled in some of his of Vancouver’s four leading chefs headlining cooking classes — didn’t hesitate in recomthe From the Kitchen to the Boardroom 2.0 mending the venture to the Big Apple. event hosted by the Richmond Chamber of “Even as an ambassador of food in VancouCommerce and Richmond News on Jan. 12 ver, he told me that if I had a chance to go to at the River Rock Casino Resort. “But I actuNew York, I should just go,” An said. ally found myself always helping the cooks After studying in New York, An wanted to more. gather more experience on the east coast and “When I was a busboy I would rather prep went to Montreal for a couple of years and salads than clean tables.” then ventured to Europe.

And when he was in university, part-time Among the places he stopped off at was jobs put him in pubs and other eateries.

The Fat Duck, a three Michelin star restau“I’m not sure when things turned, but I realrant located in Berkshire, west of London, Staff Reporter praphael@richmond-news.com

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run by now celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal and famed for its 14-course tasting menu.

“I think I was there when it was named the best restaurant in the world,” An said.

However, the major influence he had while in the UK came from working with Australian chef David Thompson, who in 2001 opened Nahm, a Thai restaurant in The Halkin hotel in London, which was the first Thai restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star.

“When I first realized n Chef Angus An, of Maenam restaurant in Kitsilano, travelled abroad I wanted to be a cook, I to learn his trade, with the long-term intention to return to Vancouver looked at other local chefs and set up his own establishment. Photo submitted like John Bishop and Rob Feeney, who was just startyou are used to cooking in Montreal, London ing out at the time, use local ingredients to or New York and expect people to just get it create a unique west coast cuisine. And I’ve here. always envisioned coming back home and “Vancouverites are very particular diners; being a part of that. they are very health conscious and lifestyle “While I was travelling on the east coast oriented. And you have to be able to work then in Europe, it was always about wanting with that if you want to succeed in this marto learn something different and bring it back ket.” to Vancouver,” An said.

In addition to An, From the Kitchen to the And during the time he was away cultivatBoardroom 2.0 will feature David Hawking his talents, the Vancouver dining scene sworth of Hawksworth restaurant, Nightingale had time to grow and develop. and Bel Café; Lucais Syme from Cinara, and “I think in 2010 the Olympics helped a lot.

Franck Point, of Faubourg. Tickets are $250 There was a lot of world attention and the plus GST, or $225 for chamber members, city matured a lot for a dining standpoint,” and includes a five-course meal. For tickets, he said. “But you have to work with your clivisit online at RichmondChamber.ca or call entele, as well. You can’t just serve food that 604-278-2822.

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pices. You could say that they’re the spice of life.

With so many cultures represented in our community, we have a huge variety of flavours available in even our average grocery stores.

There are so many that we don’t even really think much about them.

I’ve got dozens in my pantry at home and I don’t even know which ones they are.

Although they are easy to come by these days, in the not-too-distant past people died for them.

European exploration of the Americas was almost entirely based on searching for routes to Asia to find quicker routes to spices and the riches that came with them.

Entire ecologies have changed to more easily grow things such as cinnamon and nutmeg.

The Book of Spices: From Anise to Zedoary

by John O’Connell tells all these stories. It’s not a cookbook.

This is more of an encyclopedia of spices, charting the history of many of the more well-known ones and more than a few of the unusual, as well as traditional uses, origins, and sometimes the impact that they had on

communities, cultures and even the whole world. At some point in this book you do start to wonder how many different spices there are and if they could really possibly be that different.

In fact, a lot of the time this is addressed.

There are frequent mentions of substitutions and alternatives.

Sometimes this is required: some of the spices covered are extinct, or are replacements for ones that we bred and cultivated into something completely different than they started as in the wild.

I liked this book, but like any spice you have to be careful not to overdo it.

It’s not easy to read in sequence. Sorted as an encyclopedia it’s not a book you can just read front to back.

Pick your favourites, savour them and try something new another time.

There are occasions where I feel like more information could be given, but there are many other books available on these topics.

O’Connell offers a thorough bibliography and plenty of reading recommendations throughout the text.

Anyone who loves to eat should take a look.

You might discover flavours you’ve never even heard of.

Steven McCreedy is a library technician at the Cambie branch.

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New homeless shelter sought Philip Raphael Staff Reporter

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f things go to schedule, Richmond could have a new, much larger homeless shelter for both men and women by next September.

That’s the hope of the Richmond Salvation Army’s Maj. Kathie Chiu, who is heading the search to purchase a new property to replace the 10bed, men-only facility whose lease expires in around 10 months. The current property on Shell Road was sold last spring and the new owner, a developer, has given the shelter operator notice they will need to move before next Labour Day. Chiu said she, the city, other agencies and community groups have been in discussions since before the sale and have been told by BC Housing that it will fund a new shelter for the city’s homeless.

“We have been given the green light to go out and find a suitable property,” she told the News, adding no set budget has been laid out.

“We just have to go out and find a property that would work for us.”

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Given the high cost of real estate in Richmond — the current average price for a single family home here is listed at around $1.68 million, according to the Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board — Chiu said she will be looking for a property in a hopefully, less expensive, light industrial area of the city that can accommodate 35 beds, a portion of which would be segregated for women.

Richmond does not currently have a women’s shelter.

“I am very excited about the opportunity to find a new home for the shelter and for having room for women,” she said. “We are turning men away from the current shelter

pretty much every single day and it’s heart-breaking.

“We have a waiting list most of the time.”

Making matters worse is the fact the shelter acts as an overflow when the city’s extreme weather shelter is full.

A new shelter site would, ideally, have enough room for accommodation, or enough property surrounding it to erect portable-type buildings to provide the needed space, Chiu said.

While the deadline to find a new home is nine months away, Chiu said a contingency plan may see the shelter operated out of a temporary site if a new, permanent one is not found in time.

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WE’VE GOT OUR FINGERS ON IT WINTER WONDERLAND COMES TO CITY HALL n Mayor Malcolm Brodie (left) tickled the ivories Saturday during the opening of the 16th annual Winter Wonderland display presented by the Rotary Club of Richmond Sunset at Richmond City Hall’s galleria. In addition to the virtual forest of Christmas trees, city hall will play host to matinee performances each Saturday by local music groups. For a schedule, visit online at Richmond.ca and type winter wonderland 2016 into the search bar.

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Lighting the way to the future

New air link with Hong Kong Hong Kong Airlines announced this week its North American debut with the launch of new non-stop daily service between Hong Kong and YVR next summer. Kicking off on June 30, 2017, the year-round service between Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) and YVR will initially be operated using an Airbus 330200 with room for 283 passengers. The airline operates one of the youngest fleets in the world, with an average aircraft age of just 4.1 years. “Hong Kong Airlines is a well-known, family-friendly airline based in a world class city, and we are thrilled to be able to offer the public even more options to travel between Vancouver and Hong Kong,” said Craig Richmond, YVR’s president and CEO. The new daily service is estimated to generate 431 jobs in B.C., both at the airport and tourism industries.

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n With a thickness of about 10 to 12 sheets of paper, Cooledge Lighting’s light tiles provide a flexible solution for architects who can now provide illumination in a myraid of different ways. Photo submitted

be cut to fit, you have the opportunity to turn a surface that is already in the room into the point of light itself — the source of illumination.”

That’s a facet the design community, Cooledge’s primary customer segment, had been wanting to attain for many years, making a ready market for the company’s products. And that has been responsible for tremendous revenue growth, which earned Cooledge second place in this year’s Technology Fast 50 companies list compiled by Deloitte, which selects firms that have demonstrated innovation, leadership and rapid revenue growth over their last four years of operations.

Deloitte pegged Cooledge’s growth at 16,966 per cent between 2012 and 2015. Exactly what that means in actual dollar terms is information the company was not willing to divulge.

“They (architects and designers) felt encumbered by the necessity of utilizing points of light for illumination. Our technology completely changes that game,” Sims said.

“You can now have ceilings and walls that are providing the illumination for the space that allows a complete re-imagining of what interiors can look like.”

But don’t expect to be able to visit your local n The Blu20 cocktail lounge at Los Angeles International Airport DIY supply store any time uses lighting from Cooledge Lighting. Photo submitted soon to pick up a sheet of

Cooledge’s lights — which are manufactured in both their Richmond plant that employs around 70, and another one in Mexico — in the near future.

Sims said sales are currently limited to the architectural/commercial sectors.

“We don’t anticipate at this point that it will be available to consumers in the next few years, but we do think it has the opportunity to become ubiquitous.

There are many installers around the globe,” Sims said.

With more than 70 patents for their technology, Sims said the company n William Sims is well protected against challenges from imitators.

“But most importantly, we have what we believe is the most prominent brand name in this space as it relates to this whole notion of surface illumination.”

As for the recognition from Deloitte, Sims said that was a major boost.

“It’s a big deal for us,” he said. “We’ve gone from basically nothing to where we are today quite rapidly, which is something to be excited about. But more than that is our growth trajectory in raw dollar amounts. That’s going to be much more aggressive. So, our future looks very bright, no pun intended.

“We’re very bullish about where this company can be in the next handful of years.”

Dealers double up on Porsche

The Dilawri Group of Companies and OpenRoad Auto Group are getting behind the wheel to to build and operate a flagship Porsche Centre in the Richmond Auto Mall. Construction of the new state-of-the-art dealership is set to start in 2018, with plans for completion in 2019. While this joint venture is new, it will be the second Porsche dealership for each company. OpenRoad opened Porsche Centre Langley in the Langley Auto Collection in 2015, while Dilawri acquired Porsche Centre Vancouver in 2010 and opened its present day location in 2013. The multi-million dollar project will be one of Canada’s largest Porsche dealerships and will feature Porsche’s infamous curved building design, in addition to the latest in customer amenities and the most advanced sales and service technology. The building design will also accommodate a full range of new electric vehicles that Porsche plans to roll out over the next several years. The new dealership will staff approximately 40 employees in the areas of sales, service, management and administration.

n Porsche will be coming to the Richmond Automall by 2019 after Dilawri Group of Companies and OpenRoad Auto Group joined forces to open a new dealership.

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Cooledge Lighting Inc. has developed a way of manufacturing LED lights into a sheet about as thick as a dozen or so pieces of paper. And that has opened up a wealth of ideas for designers and architects who can now look at lighting as a material rather than a standalone source.

The company was formed seven years ago when another local high-tech firm, TIR Systems, was being incorporated into Dutch electronics giant Phillips, leaving a number of its employees without a job.

“It turned out there were some very good people who knew about LED lighting who were available,” said William Sims, Cooledge’s interim CEO. “And the next thing you know, a company called Cooledge was born.”

Initially, the focus was on LED development. But as advances in the global market brought their cost down significantly, the decision was to exit that category.

“It was clear that being in the device business wasn’t the way of the future,” Sims said. “But the company had the unique idea to create these flexible light sheet products that provided a source of light that was very different from the traditional fixtures that people are used to.”

“Materializing light”is the term Cooledge has given to their product philosophy.

“The way the world has thought about illuminating spaces in the past has always come from points of light,” Sims said. “The notion we have is that by having our very thin and flat lighting panels that are so flexible you can wrap them around a pole, snap together and can

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Love affair with IKEA still burns brightly in Canada, says CEO Philip Raphael

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anadian shoppers’ love of IKEA home furnishings seems to be stronger than ever, even after 40 years in the local marketplace, which started with the first Canadian store in Richmond on No. 3 Road near Cambie Road back in 1976.

That was the message Tuesday morning from the Swedish furniture giant’s acting president of Canadian operations, David McCabe, who was at the new Richmond store on Jacombs Road for a breakfast meeting hosted by the Richmond Chamber of Com-

merce.

“Canada’s been a great market for IKEA. We’re actually one of the highest-growing markets in the IKEA world,” McCabe told the News following the event. “And we’re delighted to have a second year of doubledigit sales growth in 2016.”

Forty years ago, IKEA took the bold step of putting down roots here when the company was in few countries outside of Sweden.

“I think that’s one thing that not a lot of people are aware of,” McCabe said. “And IKEA in Canada was early in the company’s history, in general, and Vancouver, the Richmond area, was felt to be the ideal location to start that journey.

all the details on how we can expand and hopefully double the number of stores we have.”

Closer to home, McCabe was asked how the labour disruption at the unionized Richmond store, which lasted 17 months, had affected the local operation.

“It’s actually something that we’re very pleased and proud about how well the store, together with the union and co-workers have moved on since the dispute,” he said.

“The store goes from strength to strength.

And I think everyone has come through that process much stronger, actually.

“It’s turned into an extremely positive scenario.”

“It was always with the mindset that there’d be expansion across the country and there was a feeling this area would be a natural starting point.”

A similarity with other European markets drove the Canadian operations n David McCabe to now where IKEA has 12 stores across the country, with two more set to open in Halifax (N.S.) and Quebec City in 2017.

“We have an ambition to be more accessible to many more Canadians, coast to coast,” McCabe said. “And we’re looking at

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Kajaks’ Bradley on the fast track to success Mark Booth

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dd another name to the list of up-and-coming athletes who were influenced by Lee Hunter’s volunteer coaching work and passion for track and field.

It was during Carson Bradley’s time as a student at Dixon Elementary school when the longtime teacher piqued his interest.

“I was trying to find a sport that was the right fit me. I tried soccer and hockey. Mr. Hunter recommended I do track and I liked it,” recalled Bradley, now a Grade 10 student at RA McMath.

It was Hunter who also encouraged Camryn Rogers to give track and field a try. She recently signed her National Letter of Intent to attend the University of California Berkeley on a full-ride scholarship.

Now, Bradley is busy establishing himself as one of the young names to watch in the province.

The Richmond Kajaks member is coming off an impressive 2016 season that saw him win three gold medals at the B.C. Summer Games — the 200 and 300 metres, along with the 4x400 relay.

He also posted the fastest times in B.C. for his age group in the 100, 200 and 300 metre events.

The latter ranks second all-time.

At the Canadian Championships, he was fourth in the 300 metre event and a member of B.C.’s bronze medal relay teams. He also teamed up with his McMath classmates to win the junior boys 4x100 event at the B.C. High School Championships.

“I was doing well that first year but didn’t win a lot of races, until I got to the (B.C. Elementary Schools Track and Field Championships),” recalled Bradley of his Grade 6 season. “My first gold medal came in the 100 metres and it was totally unexpected. The school had an assembly and it was a great feeling. It was really motivating.”

By the following year, Bradley was a member of the Kajaks’ high school training group and he was winning on a regular basis. The highlight was the 300 metres race at provincials. He broke the B.C. record and realized the sprint endurance race, that would eventually evolve to 400 metres, was his speciality.

“I still remember my first (300)

race at UBC. I realized near the end of it I still could go faster and ended up winning it. My 100 metre times are still impressive but not like the 300.”

Bradley’s passion and drive to get better has him training six days a week during the season, including four on track sessions. He works with longtime Kajaks coach Byron Jack and Surrey-based Robert Esmie, a member of Canada’s 1996 gold medal 4x100 relay team.

He has set some ambitious goals already for the 2017 season. They include representing Canada at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Kenya and the Youth Commonwealth Games in the Bahamas.

A top five in the 400 metres at nationals could land him a spot on the relay teams.

Bradley also has his eye on winning three gold at the high school provincials, including the 400 and 200 metre events.

The long term objective is to follow Rogers and take his career to a university program. That’s why school remains his top priority.

“Track is enjoyable but school always goes before it,” Bradley added. “Where ever track takes me, I’m willing to go.

■ Coming off an impressive 2016 season, Richmond Kajaks member Carson Bradley, 15, has even bigger goals for 2017. Photo by Mark Booth

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For the second straight year, the Richmond Christian Eagles have finished second at the B.C. Junior Boys Championships, held last weekend in Kelowna.

Making this accomplishment even more impressive is the tournament features schools of all sizes. Organizers considered this year’s event one of the deepest ever field of contenders.

That was reflected in the sixth-ranked Eagles’ road to the final. Remarkably, they were pushed to deciding third sets in every single match. This was a new challenge for a team that dropped only one set during their entire regular season and playoffs en route to winning both the Richmond and Vancouver and Districts Championships.

The boys showed their grit and determination to come out on top in every one of those matches.

Their path to the silver medal included

round-robin wins over Mt. Boucherie (24-26, 25-23, 15-7), St. George’s (25-20, 20-25, 15-12) and Kelly Road (25-20, 20-25, 15-9).

They opened the championship round by rallying to beat Duchess Park (19-25, 25-18, 15-9), then got past Abbotsford Christian,

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In a highly entertaining and competitive best-of-five championship match, they ultimately fell to the fourth-ranked George Elliot Secondary School from Lake Country 3-1 (24-26, 19-25, 29-27, 25-17).

Anthony Dy Ning, team captain Elijah Kim, and Martin Prinsloo were tournament all-star team selections. The team also features: Joel Ketler, Patrick Creighton, Jason Zhai, Andrew Combs, Caleb James, Dru Jao, Alvin Kam, Eli Krause, Jackson Campbell Enoch Chew and Romain Tourvielle. The boys were coached by Karen Prinsloo and assistant Rick Suderman.

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he legacy of the one-time powerful boys program within the Richmond Field

Hockey Club (RFHC) is evident on Canada’s junior men’s national team headed to the World Cup in Lucknow, India this week.

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■ Richmond Field Hockey Club alumni Indy Sehmbi is guiding the national junior men’s team that left Thursday for the World Cup in Lucknow, India. Photo by Field Hockey Canada

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Today, Sehmbi is coach of the junior national team, while Pereira and Childs’ sons Brandon and Rowan are on the 18-player roster. It’s only fitting former UBC and McRoberts standout Alicia Carey is also team manager. It was her father Lance Carey who coached all three men during their days growing up in Richmond.

“The Careys are basically my second family,” laughed Sehmbi. “They introduced my entire family to field hockey and I played for the club from the age of six to 18. It certainly made a big impact on me.

“Richmond had a really strong boys program basically up to the early 1990s.

The main reason it died off is there was no astro turf field. That’s the surface you had to play on regularly if you wanted to be a top player.”

Sehmbi also developed a passion for coaching but his career actually began in basketball, guiding the senior boys team at Charles London for two seasons. It was during that time then teacher Nancy Carey convinced him to coach field hockey as well.

He has never looked back.

The 36-year-old former national junior team player was soon coaching provincial teams.

His stint with the national program includ-

ed five years as an assistant with the U21s before overseeing the U18 team that won silver at the 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. He was appointed head coach of the U21s a little over a year ago and the Junior World Cup berth was secured with a second place finish at last spring’s Junior Pan American Championships in Toronto.

The Canadian team has been training separately with western and eastern based sessions, leading up to the departure for India on Thursday. Canada opens play Dec. 8 against the host country.

So has Sehmbi been busy this week packing his bags and making final preparations for the big trip? Hardly.

The UBC graduate now teaches at Eric Hamber Secondary and is front and centre with the Vancouver school’s athletic program. His senior boys basketball team opened its season on Monday night with an exhibition game against Hugh Boyd.

He has also been occupied earning his coaching master’s degree. “(Eric Hamber) is a fantastic school. I absolultey love it here,” added Sehmbi. “(Longtime Richmond teacher and volunteer coach) Rory Brown is one of the big reasons I got into teaching. He was a very inspiring person in my life.”

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