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‘Crazy Asians’ not all rich

NEWS Local activists challenge China’s human rights record NEWS Village elder turns 40 BUSINESS Huge crowds line up for T&T opening ARTS Award-winning Fresh Groove at World Fest SPORTS It’s been a busy summer in the sand for volleyball standout Elijah Kim

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When I heard that a new movie called Crazy Rich Asians was being released, I rolled my eyes and dismissed it as yet another film that plays on the stereotype of “rich Asians.” Not long after I had forgotten about it, the film re-entered my sights as a smash hit Hollywood blockbuster – the first in 25 years to feature an all-Asian cast. I had totally underestimated its potential popularity.

Of course, I can’t say whether it was the title that drew a crowd — perhaps some were already fans of the novel from which the film is adapted. But romantic Cinderella stories like this are not rare, and Asian films are played all the time in the city, yet this one stood out. I watched the film at SilverCity at Riverport. It was a smoky Monday night and the theatre was so packed with people (from all ethnicities, I might add) I had to sit in the third row and crane my neck the entire time. I admit, I enjoyed it.

Crazy is a light-hearted comedy with a Chinese musical score, scenes of Asian street food, which dearly I miss, grand houses where people wearing gorgeous dresses and jewelry throw luxurious parties. What I’m not so comfortable with is the word “Asians” in the title – for a story that’s only about the top one per cent of Chinese-Singaporean families – it’s too sweeping and simplistic. I don’t blame the filmmaker; it’s probably a marketing strategy, and it worked. But many people make the same mistakes in real life when they generalize about a certain group or make judgements based on certain stereotypes. I can’t remember how many times I have heard, “Chinese people are rich” or seen people connecting Chinese or Asians to money laundering, house flipping or bad driving. Someone even asked on my personal Facebook page why I don’t launder money or flip houses “like other Chinese.” Granted, there are a large number of wealthy Asian people here – not everyone can afford to come to Canada in the first place. But there are also many Asians, like myself, who paid for their school themselves and are working hard but can’t afford to buy a home. It’s also true that some Chinese investors have made headlines due to illegal schemes, but there are also Chinese millionaire immigrants here, some of whom I have interviewed, who don’t own property for investment purposes. Watching a film is fun, but perpetuating stereotypes about certain groups won’t do anything to counter one-sided views or ignorance. Blaming “Asians” for all our problems is even more laughable.

Regardless, I do appreciate the fact that the ﬁlm has introduced different schools of thought and values from the other side of the planet to a wider audience here – I’ve watched many more realistic Asian ﬁlms here with less than 10 people in the audience. Ironically, sometimes a catchy title based on a stereotype is what’s needed to improve cross-cultural understanding.

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I thought it was really good because I’m from the South Asian community, we found familiarity on the parents and how they act. It does reinforce the stereotypes, but it also gives perspectives to those crazy rich Asians that do live here. It opens up your head to the Asian community here.

Sandy Lun

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I loved it. It’s a wonderful love story. I think in some ways it’s poking fun at the whole idea of rich Asians. It’s a good thing, making it lighter. I mean there are lots of rich people in the world, not just Asians.

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This movie was really phenomenal. Yes, in many ways it does perpetuate a stereotype of rich Asians, but in order for Asians to be able to hit Hollywood — something that’s so big — we need to perpetuate a stereotype for people to actually watch a movie, to be actually further understood.

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I thought it was really well-made. It really does show values that a lot of Asian families do have to this day. I don’t think it has anything to do with showing how we are rich. It shows how the new culture clashes with the old culture, and they portrayed it very well.

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Planet is what we eat Dear Editor,

Re: “Earth, we have a problem,” Richmond News, Aug. 16. I’d like to commend the News for covering the international PlaceBased Food Systems conference held in Richmond and posing the question “how do we, in Richmond, go from thinking sustainably, to living sustainably?” Exploring ideas on growing our own gardens, limiting housing sizes, eating locally sourced foods and promoting community garden plots and urban agriculture are all actions we can take to lower our ecological footprint. But, in reading these articles, what felt lacking in this coverage was a missed opportunity to address sustainability as it relates to food choice – something we all have control over. When considering climate change, are people aware that what we eat has a profound impact? That our dietary preferences, speciﬁcally the consumption of meat and dairy products, contribute substantially to global warming? The fact is that animal agriculture accounts for 18 per cent of all global warming gases (and that’s conserva-

tive – World Bank scientists estimate the number closer to 51 per cent).

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It’s responsible for one-third of all fresh water consumption in the world today. To produce one hamburger uses 3,000 litres of water – the equivalent of showering for two months. We’re using one-third of Earth’s land for livestock or its feed. Instead of funneling crops through animals, the land we’re using to grow crops could be used to feed people directly.

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It’s time! I can’t continue to sit by while the ﬁlth ﬂows freely down the streets of Steveston Village!

William Rees was the keynote speaker at KPU’s Place-Based Food Systems conference. File photo

As Professor Rees points out, humans are “liquidating the natural capital” of the planet and “dumping wastes into the ecosphere faster than natural systems can assimilate and reprocess them.” Sadly, animal agriculture is at the heart of almost every environmental issue we face – species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution and habitat destruction.

making incremental shifts towards eating less meat and dairy and more plants can mean a different future for us all. We have the choice of what to put in our mouths and there is an abundance of accessible information and recipes available, more than ever before. If we look to a rainbow spectrum of plant-based foods – vegetables, fruit, beans, lentils, whole grains, quinoa, tofu, nuts – we will not only help our planet, the animals but our health and the economy too.

If we continue on this trajectory, our future or our children’s future is grim, to say the least. Yet, here we are – warning signs in ﬂashing (incandescent) lights. If the goal is to promote practices that reduce environmental impact and greenhouse gas emissions, eating a plant-based diet or

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China’s rights record panned Transit commuters get dose of Chinese politics from human rights group Daisy Xiong RICHMOND NEWS

Tieying Yang, left, and ouis Huang, members of Vancouver Chinese Human Rights Watch Group, have a bus ad campaign against China’s authoritarian regime. Daisy Xiong photo

A bus stop billboard at No.3 and Blundell roads is turning heads, not because of any product it’s selling but because of the politics it’s advocating. The billboard reads “Freedom Democracy for China, End One-Party Dictatorship” in both English and Chinese, with the picture of a flying eagle. These advertisements were put up by Vancouver Chinese Human Rights Watch Group, an advocacy group with 20 or so members, mostly comprising immigrants from mainland China, many living in Richmond. “We want to make our small contribution to promoting democracy and freedom in China and show our support for people fighting for it inside China,” said Louis Huang, co-founder of the group, who moved to Richmond in 2002. “We also hope the ads will encourage more Chinese-Canadians to step up and give their own voices on these issues because right now many are too afraid to do so.” Huang said he and other members, who paid for the ad themselves, are very concerned about human rights and freedom of speech in China, especially after President Xi Jinping came to power. “I think it has become worse in recent years. Rights lawyers have been detained, there’s increased oppression in Tibet and Xinjiang where people are sent to ‘re-education camps,’ there’s the lifelong tenure of Xi’s presidency, all show that,” said Huang. Formed five years ago, the group has hosted multiple events to raise awareness about democracy in China, such as an annual memorial of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989; it has also held protests in front of the Chinese consulate in Vancouver for Liu Xiaobo, a human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who died in jail in 2017.

This is the ﬁrst billboard Huang’s group has bought, and they plan to run more ad campaigns promoting human rights in China at locations where there is a large Chinese population.

What also concerns the group is Chinese ofﬁcials’ inﬂuence on local Chinese organizations, which is at “a level that should be brought to the attention of Canadian politicians,” said Huang.

“We have received a lot of phone calls from people showing their support,” said Huang.

He said last year, a planned event in Richmond to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a campaign to purge alleged right-wing people from within the Communist Party of China and abroad, was disrupted by the Chinese consulate in Vancouver.

“Many Chinese people are aware of the wrongdoings of the Chinese government, but they are too afraid to criticise it, even when they live overseas. “Because they, more or less, still have connections in China; some have businesses there, or some have families, who can be at risk if they criticize China from abroad.” Tieying Yang, a member of the group and a Richmond resident who moved here in 2015, said his wife and child, who are still living in China, received warnings from ofﬁcials in China after he participated in a human rights protest in Vancouver. “My family asked me to be more careful. I’m worried about them, but I also don’t want to stop pursuing and working for what I believe in. But many people would just step back,” said Yang.

“The event organizer booked the venue of a local Chinese-Canadian organization, but the organization cancelled it at the last minute because of the Chinese consulate’s intervention. This is one example of how the Chinese government is inﬂuencing overseas Chinese groups,” said Huang. “We moved to Canada for its democracy and freedom, but some organizations or group leaders here are not following those values for their own interests. We are trying our best to ﬁght against this type of behaviour, for the good of China and Canada.” The Chinese consulate in Vancouver didn’t respond to the Richmond News’ interview request.

Car theft leads to drug bust Multiple charges have been approved against a Richmond man in relation to a vehicle theft that led Surrey Mounties to a significant drug and weapon seizure. Robert Leo Jones, 37, has been charged with possession of stolen property over $5,000, driving while disqualified and breaching court imposed conditions. Surrey RCMP confirmed with the Richmond News that those charges were in relation to a stolen 2018 Audi Q7. According to Mounties, that same vehicle was tracked to a residence on 137a Street near 105a Avenue in Surrey last Wednesday. On Thursday, RCMP searched that residence and found two loaded sawed-off shotguns, two sawed-off rifles, two handguns, four stolen motorcycles, one crossbow, firearm ammunition, body armour, swords and knives. They also found nearly 3,000 doses of a variety of suspected drugs including cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana and heroin. No charges except the ones against Jones have been laid. The investigation is still ongoing.

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Secrecy cuts conﬁdence Shell Trail ﬁre quickly Graeme Wood RICHMOND NEWS

A homebuilder who ordered the cutting of a large sequoia tree on public property on Gibbons Drive agreed, last year, to an outof-court settlement with the City of Richmond. But the non-disclosure agreement, following a short police investigation, isn’t sitting well with at least one area resident, who tried to defend the tree at the time of cutting. “I’m not happy with that,” said Paul Dylla, who lives down the road from the tree, which now stands as half of its past glory. “For a couple reason,” Dylla continued. “First of all, it doesn’t provide any deterrent to other builders because they don’t know how much they can get ﬁned for something like this. Some will look at this as a cost of doing business.” In 2016, the city claimed the owner of 6691 Gibbons Drive repeatedly hired a pruner to cut down a tree, in front of the property but on municipal property, valued at between $75,000 and $100,000. At the time of the cutting, property records obtained by the Richmond News showed the property was owned by Jasvir Cheema, who has built a number of homes in Richmond.

Cheema could not be reached for comment then or now, via phone numbers linked to him on city permit applications.

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“I can advise that the settlement was with the property owner who owned the property at the time of the incident. The settlement was concluded in early 2017,” said Townsend.

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Dylla said he had spoken to city officials last year about what came about from the incident, which had upset neighbours. He said it was his understanding that the city could settle for an amount higher than the prescribed maximum bylaw fine of $10,000 for illegally cutting down a tree. Townsend confirmed that was the case. Dylla said he’d prefer it be public knowledge that developers are being fined for illegally cutting down trees, even if it means the city going to court. “By the city being mum on this, they’re saying they’re not being tough on enforcement. How will other owners know that the city takes this seriously?” he asked. “If it concludes in court, that becomes public info and we’d all know what happened. And it would be public record.”

call, rotating through duties for approximately seven hours. “Crews were able to get the ﬁre under control quickly, keeping it from spreading further and had knocked it down with a couple of hours of initial response,” Townsend said it an emailed statement.

A ﬁre that broke out along Richmond’s Shell Road Trail Tuesday afternoon has been extinguished. The City of Richmond posted to Twitter Tuesday evening, saying “crews quickly extinguished” the ﬁre and “efforts will be maintained overnight to reduce the potential for further ignition due to embers.”

17 Fire-Rescue members responded to trail blaze. Photo submitted by Ofra Sixto

City of Richmond spokesperson, Ted Townsend, told the Richmond News the “wild land ﬁre” was burning along the trail between Blundell and Francis roads and that crews were able to access the area from Altona Place and King Road. The ﬁre grew to approximately 300 square metres and 17 Richmond FireRescue crew members responded to the

Now, Fire-Rescue has established two water cannons in the area and are keeping water ﬂowing to reduce possible ignition. The source of the ignition is still under investigation.

Ofra Sixto drove by the ﬁre on her way home from work on Tuesday. She described the scene as a “bog with lots of smoke coming out.” “You can see lots of ashes falling,” she told the News while parked nearby. “My car is full of ashes, partly because I left the window open.” She said the thick smoke made her eyes burn.

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“Climate change is here, and we know that the impacts of it are going to be increasingly evident because we haven’t engaged in mitigation until now,” he said. “How we farm has a signiﬁcant impact in contributing greenhouse gases…we absolutely need farmers to be sequestering carbon.” To qualify for funding under the Farm Adaptation Innovator Program, the projects must be useable at the farm-level, by an individual farm operator and fall under the categories of soil and crop management, livestock and pasture management, water management or whole farm and business management. For example, a former research project that received funding was one that looked at the increase in pests that thrive in hotter, drier climates, how these affect potato crops and how they can be managed as average temperatures rise. Packages to apply for funding under the new program will be available this fall. “The B.C. government is committed to helping British Columbia farmers adapt to climate change through sustainable operations while expanding production,” said provincial agriculture minister, Lana Popham in a statement.

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Sockeye sales brisk at wharf from test ﬁsheries is presented to the Fraser River Panel and Department of Fisheries to determine ﬁsheries openings.

Graeme Wood RICHMOND NEWS

In total, all four groups have accounted for 4.78 million ﬁsh either being caught (2.6 million) or passing the counting station to spawn.

Fresh Fraser River sockeye salmon is being sold at Fisherman’s Wharf in Steveston for as low as $5 per pound, as estimates of a large, dominant spawning run hold up.

Of those Fraser River sockeye caught to date, Canadian commercial ﬁshers have taken about 1.4 million, while First Nations have taken about 426,000. Meanwhile, U.S. ﬁshers have taken about 725,000.

“The observer at Hells Gate has reported very good sockeye migration over the past week,” noted the Paciﬁc Salmon Commission in its weekly report Friday.

Da Costa said ﬁshers are generally pleased with the past two commercial openings since Aug. 6. A third opening occurred Tuesday and another is rumoured later in the week as the summer run ramps up.

Jaime Da Costa, manager of Steveston Harbour Authority, says the wharf is bustling with fishers and consumers. “There’s a tonne of activity after the first opening. The fishers are extremely happy to have a shot at fishing. The stocks are high and they’re catching a lot of fish. It’s very busy at our ice plant,” said Da Costa, who hypothesized prices could come down as more fish are caught.

“Currently, First Nations food, social and ceremonial (FSC) Sockeye ﬁsheries are underway in marine areas and the Fraser River. In addition several First Nation Economic Opportunity ﬁsheries are being planned in the lower Fraser River,” noted a statement Friday by DFO.

The commission is maintaining its pre-season forecast of about 14 million fish this year, stemming from four “management groups.” Currently, the river is in the midst of welcoming the summer group of sockeye, estimated to be 4.3 million fish. The late summer group (the last group of sockeye to arrive) is estimated at 7.4 million. Only one of the four groups – the early Stuart run – has been completed. Prior to migration, the commission estimated 84,000 sockeye fish from this group, the smallest of the four. In fact, it found 125,000 came through Hells Gate, north of Hope.

A ﬁsher presents his salmon bounty this month at Fisherman’s Wharf. Boaz Joseph photo Assessments for the summer group are ongoing, said the commission, and data collected to date indicates the 4.3 million estimate is holding steady. Meanwhile, groups of late summer sockeye are now increasing in open ocean areas near Vancouver Island and a few of them have already migrated past Mission, noted the commission, an intergovernmental American-Canadian agency that assesses salmon populations; data it collects

Despite the healthy run size to date, the commission continues to express concern about water conditions worsening. River discharge at Hope is about 17 per cent below average and the temperature near Yale last Thursday was 19.2 C, or 1.2 degrees higher than normal. “Sustained water temperatures in this range can cause severe stress to migrating sockeye and may lead to signiﬁcant en-route mortality,” noted the commission, which increased escapement targets by 20 per cent for the early summer runs “to compensate for pre-season expectations of en route loss.”

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City of Richmond

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 7 p.m. Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Richmond City Hall 6911 No. 3 Rd. Richmond BC V6Y 2C1 | Tel: 604-276-4000 Fax: 604-278-5139

TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the City of Richmond will hold a Public Hearing as noted above, on the following items: 1.

RICHMOND ZONING BYLAW 8500, AMENDMENT BYLAW 9834 (RZ 16-754158) Location/s: 10760, 10780 Bridgeport Road and 3033, 3091, 3111 Shell Road Applicant/s:

1082009 BC Ltd.

RICHMOND ZONING BYLAW 8500, AMENDMENT BYLAW 9871 Location/s: All Riparian Management Area properties Applicant/s:

Purpose: To rezone the subject property from “Single Detached (RS1/F)” to “Medium Density Townhouses (RTM3)”, to permit development of 19 two-storey and three-storey townhouse units with vehicle access from Shell Road.

Bylaw 9834

Related: Watercourse Protection and Crossing Bylaw No. 8441, Amendment Bylaw No. 9882; Consolidated Fees Bylaw No. 8636, Amendment Bylaw No. 9883; Municipal Ticket Information Authorization Bylaw No. 7321, Amendment Bylaw No. 9884; Notice of Bylaw Violation Dispute Adjudication Bylaw No. 8122, Amendment Bylaw No. 9885; and Boulevard Maintenance Regulation Bylaw No. 7174, Amendment Bylaw No. 9881.

City Contact: Chad Paulin, 604-247-4672, Engineering and Public Works Division

RICHMOND ZONING BYLAW 8500, AMENDMENT BYLAW 9860 (RZ 17-779262) Location/s:

5591, 5631, 5651 and 5671 No. 3 Road

Applicant/s:

Townline Ventures Inc.

Purpose: 1. To create the “High Density Mixed Use (ZMU38) - Lansdowne Village (City Centre)” zone; and 2. To rezone 5591, 5631, 5651 and 5671 No. 3 Road from “Office Commercial (ZC8)”, “Office Commercial (ZC9)” and “Auto-Oriented Commercial (CA)” to “High Density Mixed Use (ZMU38) - Lansdowne Village (City Centre),’’ in order to permit the development of a high-density commercial, office and residential use development with one office tower and three residential towers including: % 5$$!&6;45<#7' 1/- !#>;.#2<;57 :2;<>* 52. % () 5""&!.537# =&:>;2? :2;<>+

RICHMOND ZONING BYLAW 8500, AMENDMENT BYLAW 9880 (RZ 16-754046) Location/s:

9091 and 9111 No. 2 Road

Applicant/s:

Bismark Consulting Ltd.

Purpose: To rezone the subject properties from “Single Detached (RS1/E)” to “Low Density Townhouses (RTL4)”, to permit the development of 8 townhouse units with vehicle access from No. 2 Road. City Contact: Jordan Rockerbie, 604-276-4092, Planning and Development Division

Bylaws 9880

City Contact: Janet Digby, 604-247-4620, Planning and Development Division

Bylaw 9860

RICHMOND OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN BYLAW 9000, AMENDMENT BYLAW 9901 Location/s: City-wide Applicant/s:

City of Richmond

Purpose: To remove reference to a new interchange at Highway 99 and Blundell Road and the extension of Blundell Road west of Savage Road.

RICHMOND ZONING BYLAW 8500, AMENDMENT BYLAW 9902 Location/s: City-wide Applicant/s:

City of Richmond

Purpose: To incorporate the 2006 Riparian Response Strategy, which (i) protects and enhances Riparian Management Areas (RMA), (ii) provides lower costs for single-family development proposals on sites with RMA, (iii) introduces enforcement tools to address non-compliance on development sites with RMA, and (iv) defines Riparian Management Area setbacks and permitted activity to fulfill provincial requirements under the Riparian Areas Protection Act.

City Contact: Edwin Lee, 604-276-4121, Planning and Development Division

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Purpose: To incorporate revised accessible parking requirements within Section 7, Parking and Loading. City Contact: Donna Chan, 604-276-4126, Planning and Development Division 7.

RICHMOND OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN BYLAW 9000, AMENDMENT BYLAW 9879, RICHMOND OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN BYLAW 7100, AMENDMENT BYLAW 9889, AND RICHMOND ZONING BYLAW 8500, AMENDMENT BYLAW 9886 Location/s: City-wide Applicant/s:

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Purpose of OCP Bylaw 9000, Amendment Bylaw 9879: To incorporate a Market Rental Housing Policy and a companion policy to ensure family-friendly units are provided in all multi-family developments. Purpose of OCP Bylaw 7100, Amendment Bylaw 9889: To incorporate a Market Rental Housing Policy provision into the West Cambie Area Plan that would allow market rental housing units to be exempt from specific public amenity contributions in West Cambie. Purpose of Zoning Amendment Bylaw 9886: To introduce new parking rates for market rental housing and other regulations related to secondary suites in townhouses. City Contact: Jeanette Elmore, 604-247-4660, Planning and Development Division How to obtain further information: # -% *?$3"' If you have questions or concerns, please call the CITY CONTACT shown above. # +3 >?" ,=>% 2"4@=>"' Public Hearing Agendas, including staff reports and the proposed bylaws, are available on the City Website at http://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/council/ agendas/hearings/2018.htm # /> ,=>% 9688' Copies of the proposed bylaw, supporting staff and Committee reports and other background material, are also available for inspection at the Planning and Development Division at City Hall, between the hours of 8:15 am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday, except statutory holidays, commencing August 24, 2018 and ending September 4, 2018, or upon the conclusion of the hearing. # -% &67 $! .6=8' Staff reports and the proposed bylaws may also be obtained by FAX or by standard mail, by calling 604-276-4007 between the hours of 8:15 am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday, except statutory holidays, commencing August 24, 2018 and ending September 4, 2018.

City Contact: Donna Chan, 604-276-4126, Planning and Development Division Notice of Public Hearing continued on next page.

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No claim to Chinese vote: Au residents in Richmond as people whose “voice is ignored” and whose “rights are obliterated.”

Daisy Xiong RICHMOND NEWS

The only Chinese-speaking councillor at Richmond City Hall says no one person can claim to represent the Chinese community. Coun. Chak Au was speaking to the Richmond News in the wake of a slew of municipal and school board candidates for the October election saying the Chinese community needs a voice at city hall. Some candidates have expressed their intention to “represent the Chinese population” in Richmond, such as school board trustee candidate Ivan Pak who hopes to “give Chinese parents a voice.” And mayoral candidate Hong Guo’s campaign video describes Chinese

Guo has since distanced herself from the video, saying she was not involved in its production. However, in March, Guo gave a speech asking people in the Chinese community “to vote for Chinese candidates to speak on our behalf.” However, Au said it’s important to have politicians with a diversity of backgrounds to reﬂect the community’s many voices, but nobody can say he or she represents one ethnicity as a whole. “There is no single group of Chinese people and we have more than one voice in the Chinese community,” said Au. “I think what we can do is bring some different voices from the Chi-

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Notice of Public Hearing continued Participating in the Public Hearing process: % 8=# ,:37;0 9#5!;2? ;> &$#2 <& 577 4#43#!> &" <=# $:37;0+ If you believe that you are affected by the proposed bylaw, you may make a presentation or submit written comments at the Public Hearing. If you are unable to attend, you may send your written comments to the City Clerk’s Office by 4 pm on the date of the Public Hearing as follows: # -% ()56=8' using the on-line form at

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% All submissions will form part of the record of the hearing. Once the Public Hearing has concluded, no further information or submissions can be considered by Council. It should be noted that the rezoned property may be used for any or all of the uses permitted in the “new” zone. David Weber Director, City Clerk’s Office

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Dave’s Fish and Chips is a mainstay on Moncton Graeme Wood RICHMOND NEWS

As far as merchants go, Dave Scott, of his eponymous ﬁsh and chips joint, may well be Steveston Village’s elder.

Nomination documents and candidate information packages for the ofﬁces of Mayor, Councillor, and School Trustee are now available at richmond.ca/ elections, and at the Richmond Elections Ofﬁce.

Dave’s Fish and Chips, on Moncton Street, rivals few other pre-1980 establishments in the village. Budget Appliances, Marine Garage and the Steveston Hotel come to mind as some of the few left standing, following the recent departure of many longstanding businesses, such as Steveston Marine and Hardware and Mary’s British Home.

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Scott, 71, opened Dave’s on Canada Day in 1978 on a wing and a prayer – something you don’t see much of from modern-day merchants, he says.

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“There’s a different kind of merchant now. They’re more professional, I think, than we were. A lot of us were doing things as we did it, you know, learning as we went,” said Scott. This summer marks his 40th anniversary and with his son taking over the day-to-day operations, he’s had time to reflect on an epic journey, as far as Richmond businesses go. Scott grew up in Victoria and came to Richmond around 1970. He married soon thereafter. But when the battery company he was working for closed, the hunt for new employment began. However, that hunt ended quickly when his mother-in-law mentioned that Steveston didn’t have a fish and chips shop. “The next day, instead of putting out resumes, I came down to Steveston, walked around and found this shop, or building, over on Chatham. And I went home with a lease,” said Scott. Then 31, Scott had never cooked fish and chips before. Neither had he run a business. So he got help from his neighbour who was an accountant, and they crafted a business plan and took it to the bank. Scott planned to open during the Steveston Salmon Festival. “We opened around 11 (a.m.) and by that time we had a lineup down the street,” he recalled. “That was it; we kept going,” he said. The joint moved from Chatham to its present-day location on Moncton in 1984. In 1990, Scott expanded to a second location on Bayview Street, where Sockeye City restaurant now operates. “I was afraid of competition,” he explained. But in 2002, his rent was doubled at the Bayview restaurant, so he sold. This allowed him to abate back into his homely Moncton Street restaurant, which still keeps an old-timer’s charm, with porthole window doors and a novelty ship wheel at the host station near the front entrance.

Dave Scott, founder of Dave’s Fish and Chips restaurant. Graeme Wood photo There’s only one person he keeps in mind while on the job, he says — the customer. “Without my customers, we would be nowhere. They’re the ones I need to thank ﬁrst and foremost.” It’s clear Scott values customer loyalty and tradition.

Without my customers, we would be nowhere. They’re the ones I need to thank ﬁrst and foremost. DAVE SCOTT

The key to a good fried ﬁsh and chips, said Scott, is consistency. He maintains that a simple menu and mushy peas and abundant tartar sauce upon request are a staple.

Steveston, he says, is changing and losing its “quaintness.” “I’m not happy with the direction of Steveston,” he says, sitting on his sidewalk bench, looking across the street at a four-storey structure soon to house a Save-on Foods and which seems to have maximized every square foot of space to the sidewalk. In the 1980s, Scott was part of a revitalization plan that aimed to keep Steveston’s ostensible charm. “There was a plan. You’d stay low along the water and go up from there,” he said, of future developments. But inﬂuential developers have since built taller buildings along the water and Scott rues the day the City of Richmond developed the BC Packers site into Imperial Landing. “It’s not quaint anymore. It’s really busy. They really destroyed the BC Packers land; there was a good opportunity for a park. Anyway, that’s my personal opinion,” he said.

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Steveston merchant Chris Carr is closing her revered antique shop of 35 years and calling it a career. What started as a consignment store with Carr’s mother June Lamond, Steveston General Store, on First Avenue, has fascinated curious minds, as Carr has spent countless hours buying and selling anything from furniture to all sorts of trinkets. “Buying customers ended up being selling customers,” said Carr. “It was nice for people to get a bit of money either downsizing or just changing décor,” she added.

“They’d see something that would remind them of their mother or grandmother or take them to another place. To me that mattered; that they enjoyed the store. It didn’t matter to me if they bought anything.” Despite the pleasures of connecting people to memories (or vice versa when someone sold a treasured item), the store required yeoman’s work from Carr and her staff. Items purchased by Carr would typically need repolishing or a quick hammer.

Having accepted her last delivery of goods, a big sale will run from now until the end of September.

“A lot of stuff needs a coat or stain, a repair, bagging, packaging. The amount of work that happens in the backroom – not everything comes in and goes on the shelf as is. I was quite particular,” explained Carr.

“It will be a time for me to thank the community for their support over these years,” said Carr.

But, “sometimes you put something on a counter and the girls don’t have time to put it away.”

The store became a mainstay for many regulars and survived the revolution of online buy and sell classiﬁeds.

One of her favourite memories was discovering, in 2015, an old suitcase belonging to her mom, who last remembered seeing it in New York in the 1940s.

“A lot of people still like to come in and

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Neither mother nor daughter could hypothesize as to where the piece of luggage — about 70x30x20 centimetres in dimension — had been all this time, and nor could the selling customer recall where it came from. What was known is that the luggage carried Lamond’s articles to the now historic Taft Hotel building, just north of Times Square in

Manhattan. And It still had the Taft Hotel decal plastered onto the top left corner, making identiﬁcation easier for Lamond. Carr said she will miss her customers and helping community-based charities. “I’m just going to enjoy the freedom. It’s been a wonderful run. It is the customers and the people who are the hardest thing to leave.”

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In spite of Richmond’s smoky skies, paddlers from around North America will ﬂock to Steveston’s Imperial Landing for the seventh annual Dragon Boat Festival this Saturday. This year, a record-breaking 78 teams are registered to race in 250-metre and 500-metre courses and an estimated 15,000 spectators are expected to line the Fraser River to watch the races. “Team registration sold out in April and we have the maximum number of teams this year, proving how popular this event is on the North American dragon boat racing circuit,” said Ann Phelps, Dragon Boat BC’s executive director in a press release. Even though wildﬁre smoke has settled over the Lower Mainland over the past few

Steveston Dragon Boat races will go ahead despite an air quality advisory. File photo days prompting an air quality advisory, Phelps says this won’t stop the race. “Of course it’s concerning. But what we decided is that, regardless of where the participants are in British Columbia at this point, it’s smoky everywhere,” Phelps told the Richmond News, adding that ﬁrst aid will be on site if anyone has difﬁculties. “So we’re going to go ahead.” Between races, the festival

will also host free concerts with a Latin theme, an arts and crafts tent, a variety of food trucks and the Red Truck Patio serving craft beer, wine and non-alcoholic drinks. The festival will also have three heritage dragon boats on display. The boats, given to the City of Vancouver from Hong Kong during Expo ’86, have been fully restored. Events run from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Festival-goers are encouraged to take transit as Steveston parking is limited.

One of the most challenging aspects of moving to a new country is overcoming the language barriers. A country’s language can be the gateway into its culture and its people’s way of life; when newcomers struggle to grasp the language, they have an even harder time connecting with others. With such a vital piece of Canadian culture on the line, the Richmond School District designed a program to address such barriers. The Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program is a multi-faceted, educational initiative that has successfully been running for close to three decades. Federally funded, the program is also tuition free for permanent residents. Though its main function is to

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Hoop helps students with dyslexia Research supports how there may be a link between dyslexia and a propensity for creative thinking.

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Under the vaulted ceiling and twinkling lights of the Richmond Oval’s basketball courts, more than 60 high school students fought for points in a charity basketball tournament Tuesday. It was called Hoop to Learn, organized by two university students to help high schoolers with learning challenges like dyslexia and ADHD successfully transition to post-secondary. Through the tournament and outreach, they’re hoping to raise funds for services to help those students. “I’m dyslexic, and I felt that not enough light has been shined on this issue,” said Michael Jakac-Sinclair, who’s from Richmond and attends Carleton University. He doesn’t want to go as far as to say the neurological condition he was diagnosed with in Grade 4 defined his entire education, since he was also a competitive swimmer. But it definitely had an impact. He remembers being terrified of making a mistake while participating in Model United Nations in high school. “You feel if you slip up on a word when you’re reading out loud … there’s a pack of wolves ready to pounce on you,” he said. “You have that anxiety built up.” Dyslexia affects reading comprehension. Kids with the condition often struggle answering questions about a passage they’ve read but have no trouble when a passage is read aloud to them. “There’s a gap between someone’s intellectual ability and what we would call their basic school performance … their ability to read, write and do arithmetic,” said Erin Kline, who works with dyslexic kids at the Fraser Academy, a private school in Vancouver. That gap, though, doesn’t mean a student is any less intelligent than one of their peers. “Your brain isn’t underdeveloped,” JakacSinclair said. “Your brain is just working in a different way.”

“Dyslexic students are so bright,” Kline said. “They are innovative thinkers and able to see the world in a slightly different way. They have the brains needed to solve the world’s current problems.” Learning how to learn Jakac-Sinclair feels fortunate that his family had the resources to send him to a private school to receive Orton-Gillingham tutoring. It’s one of several methods that help dyslexic kids ﬁnd a different way to learn by exploring tactile, auditory and visual approaches. He chose to partner with his old school for the inaugural basketball tournament. Going forward, though, he imagines he’ll partner with a variety of Lower Mainland organizations that beneﬁt kids with learning challenges. Jakac-Sinclair is now studying political science at Carleton. He thinks his transition was fairly smooth because he was well prepared. But he knows some of his peers weren’t so lucky. That’s why he teamed up with Open Doors Education Initiative and Mahtab Singh Gill, a UBC student, to organize the basketball tournament for high school kids. Games were three-on-three with each team allowed one sub. In between the games, they listened to speakers like Mark Starkey of Vancouver Basketball share how they overcame their own challenges. “A lot of well-known athletes have learning disabilities,” Singh Gill said. “But it’s not well-known because there’s a stigma factor.” The registration fees collected from athletes were divided in half between the winner’s purse and the Fraser Academy’s new outreach centre. The $1,500 donation will go towards afterschool tutoring for students whose families may not be able to afford tutoring or full-time attendence at a specialized school. Even getting tested for the conditions can be costly, he says, and students need a diagnosis in order to access support services at most universities. 25

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Transition to university is tough The transition from high school to post-secondary can be jarring for any student. For those with learning challenges, there’s an added layer of responsibility because they need to reach out to administrators to sort out paperwork for accommodations at every step of the way.

UBC, for example, offers accommodations like private exam rooms and voice-to-text software. But they require the student reach out and ask for them well in advance. “We want to level the playing field so that the disability is not a barrier to them in demonstrating their academic competence,” said Ruth Warick, UBC’s senior accessibility advisor. “We want them to feel welcome in the university environment.” But even if a student reaches out for these modifications, university classrooms can still be less than inviting for a dyslexic student, “A lot of university, especially in the first two years, is far more lecture-bound. It necessitates a lot of reading from slides and tends to be a lot less hands-on and less visual,” Kline said. “It doesn’t necessarily lend itself well to being a positive learning environment for dyslexic students.” Another part of the problem, Jakac-Sinclair thinks, is the stigma surrounding learning disabilities. While no student should feel ashamed to ask for the help they need, he thinks some do.

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“We realized that the intersectional traits of this issue are deeper. It goes into mental health, cost of living, one’s social life,” he said. He’s also organized town halls so kids can learn more about their challenge and meet peers facing similar issues. He thinks feeling accepted can go a long way toward success in school.

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With fears of Richmond introducing a similar plastic straw ban in line with Vancouver, The Bubble Tea Shop has launched reusable stainless steel straws for their customers. In May, the City of Vancouver voted to ban the distribution of plastic straws as a part of the city’s Zero Waste 2040 Strategy. The ban, which will be introduced on June 1, 2019, is problematic for the bubble tea business, as it depends heavily on its wide, colourful plastic straws. Bubble tea drinkers have found biodegradable paper straws are not the best alternative as they often become soft and mushy and difﬁcult for users to drink the tapioca balls in bubble tea. “This (reusable straw) was always something in the back of our minds, we eventually had to do it,” said Ivanna Chan, owner of The Shop, underneath Canadian Superstore on No. 3 Road. Plastic straws are still being used in-store but customers have the option to purchase the new straws and reuse them for future bubble tea purchases.

Retailing at $3.50 for the largest size — which is used for traditional bubble tea — and $3 for the smaller one, each straw also comes with a cleaning brush. “I’m surprised not more stores are on it,” said Chan. “The bubble tea business is very hard, now that there are so many stores in Richmond, but we try to be innovative and come up with new things.” Since posting their new straws online only a few days ago, The Shop has gained a lot of positive attention on social media amongst their environmentally-conscious fans. Although the Shop may be the ﬁrst ones to introduce stainless steel straws, many restaurants in Steveston have already switched to using compostable ones after eight-yearold Shay Soo gave heartfelt presentations to businesses about the harmful damage plastic straws are causing to the environment. The Shop is also planning to open a new location in Olympic Village, Vancouver in the coming weeks.

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“In the end, you’re just trying to help the environment,” added Chan.

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EVERY THURSDAY! FEATURING T&T Supermarket at Lansdowne Centre opened Aug. 16 with much fanfare, including a dragon sushi display. Graeme Wood photo

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T&T Supermarket opened its third Richmond location on Aug. 16 to much fanfare and pandemonium. About 1,000 people lined up in the morning to enter the new store at Lansdowne Centre – the former site of Woodwards, Eatons, Zellers and Target – that features Asian groceries and cuisine. At 70,000 square feet, this is the largest of the 26 T&T Supermarkets in Canada (B.C., Alberta and Ontario). “We opened our ﬁrst T&T Supermarkets store in B.C. 25 years ago, and it was important for us to launch our biggest location to date, back where it all started,” said CEO of T&T Supermarkets Tina Lee, who opened the store with Richmond Centre MP Alice Wong and Mayor Malcolm Brodie. “From quality fresh food, grocery items,

beauty products and ready to eat meals, we are thrilled to bring the best in Asian cuisine to Richmond, the centre of the Chinese community in the Lower Mainland,” said Lee, via an online statement. Speciﬁc features include: the Seafood Bar where employees will cook seafood on the spot for a fee; a sit-down Asian cafeteria; a pharmacy; and a Starbucks. The store has 14 self-serve checkouts in addition to nine cashiers. According to T&T: “The store also boasts over 30 Asian Street Food dishes from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. There is Popcorn Chicken, a famous snack from Taiwan’s night market, Lamb Soup and Sesame Crispy Cake, a nostalgic Northern Chinese breakfast item, and Steamed Rice Rolls, which are a classic representation of Hong Kong culinary delights.” Lansdowne Centre will be redeveloped in phases over the next decade, so it is unclear how long this store will last in the existing building, which opens into the mall.

Contest lets News readers explore workings of an airline Beijing Capital Airlines has partnered with Richmond News and YVR to give aviation lovers an inside look of how an airline and airport operate. Readers can enter for a chance to win a ticket to “Your Dreams to Fly,” which is a one-day camp in which participants are taken on a journey from tickets to takeoff. The participants begin their day at Capital Airlines’ counter at YVR and make their way through airport security, and on board an Airbus A330-300. The camp includes a tour of above-thewing and below-the-wing operations, and even a sneak peek into the cockpit and interactions with the pilots. “This experience gave me a whole new understanding of how an airport operates,”

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A New Sex Pill Takes the Spotlight as the Viagra Patent is About to Expire A patented pill costing less than $1 a dose stands to help millions of men with failing sex lives; no prescription will be required By Ray Wilson Associated Press Health NewsHealth Correspondent TORONTO− A new sex pill is set to take the spotlight with the Viagra patent about to expire. But unlike the former, it won’t require a prescription and is priced just under a $1 a dose. The new pill called Vesele is part of a new class of performance enhancers for men, which work instantaneously on the body and mind triggering arousal and firmer, harder erections. Formulated with a special compound known as an “accelerator”, Vesele can transport its active ingredients faster and more efficiently into the blood stream, where it begins to work its magic. The patented ingredient blend initiates a process known as vasodilation, which causes arteries and vessels throughout the body to expand. This allows blood to flow directly to penis and genitals, resulting in harder erections which last longer. Cialis and Viagra are based around a simlilar concept. But what makes Vesele so remarkable, and what these other sex pills can’t do, is that also directs a small portion of this blood flow to the brain, which creates feelings of intense arousal. In laymen’s terms, users become incredibly excited and turned on. This is why the makers of Vesele say their pill has worked so effectively in clinical trials. It stimulates the two most important organs for great sex, the penis and the brain.

The Brain Erection Connection Until now, medical researchers did not fully understand the brain-erection connection. It has now been made clear with Vesele. When both are supplied with a constant blood flow, men are harder and firmer for longer...and have unbelievable sex drives. “Most of the research and treatment methods for men’s sexual failures have focused on physiological factors and have neglected the emotional ones. For the leading sex drugs to work, like Cialis and Viagra, you need visual stimulation” explains Dr. Henry Esber, the creator of Vesele. “And although they work for some men, the majority experience absolutely no fulfillment during sex. According to research published by the National Institute of Health, 50% of men taking these drugs stop responding or can’t tolerate their side effects...and on top of that they spend $50 per pill and it doesn’t even work half the time. This is what makes Vesele so different and effective. It floods the blood stream with key ingredients which cause arteries all over the body to expand. The patented accelerator speeds up this process even more.

The result is a rush of blood ﬂow to the penis and brain, helping to create an impressive erection and a surging desire for sex. Often, this is all men need to get going. And when taken regularly, many men say they are energized and aroused all day.”

Great Sex At Any Age With the conclusion of their latest human clinical use survey trial, Dr. Esber and his team are now offering Vesele in Canada. And regardless of the market, its sales are exploding. Men across the country are eager to get their hands on the new pill and according to the research, they should be. In the trial above, as compared to baseline, men taking Vesele saw a staggering 85% improvement in erection hardness over a fourmonth period. Their erections also lasted twice as long. These same men also experienced an astounding 82% increase in the desire for sex (libido/ sex drive) and an even greater improvement in overall satisfaction and ability to satisfy their partners. Many men taking Vesele described feeling horny and aroused through the day. The anticipation before sex was amazing. They were also easily turned on. Their moods were more upbeat and positive, too.

Faster Absorption into the Blood Stream Vesele is made up of three specialized ingredients: two clinical strength vasodilators and a patented absorption enhancer often called an accelerator. According to an enormous amount of clinical data, each is very safe. Research shows that with age, many men lose their desire and interest in sex. They also struggle to produce an erection firm enough for penetration. And although there are many theories as to why this happens (including a loss in testosterone) one thing is certain, inadequate blood flow is virtually always to blame. That’s why sex drug manufacturers focus on blood flow, it makes your erection hard. But what’s more surprising, and what these manufacturers have failed to consider, is that lack of blood flow can also kill your sex drive. That’s because blood supplies energy for the brain. This energy is required for creating brainwaves that cause excitability and arousal. Studies show the Vesele stimulates the entire cardiovascular system, including the arteries that lead to both the brain and penis. The extreme concentration of the ingredients combined with the accelerator ensures that this process starts quickly.

Expiring Patent Opens the Door to a New Sex Pill: Vesele is a new pill that cost just $1 a dose does not require a prescription. It works on both body and mind to increase arousal and erection hardness.

The sexual beneﬁts of Vesele are also multiplied as its ingredients build up in the system over time. This is why many men take it every single day.

Recent Studies Show Positive Effects on Women In the same study referenced throughout, Vesele was also shown to have an amazing (and somewhat surprising) effect on women too. That’s because the same arteries and vessels that carry blood and oxygen to the brain and genitals are the same in men and women. “In our most recent study, women taking Vesele saw a stunning 52% improvement in arousal and sex drive. Perhaps more impressive, they also experienced a 57% improvement in lubrication. You can imagine why some couples are taking Vesele together. Everything feels better. Everything works better. Everyone performs better. It’s truly amazing.”

A New Frontier of Non-Prescription Sex Pills With daily use, Vesele is helping men (and women) restore failing sex lives and overcome sexual lets downs without side effect or expense. Through a patented absorption enhancer, the Vesele formula hits the bloodstream quickly, resulting in phenomenal improvements in erection ﬁrmness and hardness. By boosting blood ﬂow to the brain, users also experience sexual urges and arousal they often haven’t felt in years.

How to Get Vesele in Canada This is the ofﬁcial release of Vesele in Canada. As such, the company is offering a special discounted supply to anyone who calls within the next 48 hours. A special hotline number and discounted pricing has been created for all Canada residents. Discounts will be available starting today at 6:00AM and will automatically be applied to all callers. Your Toll-Free Hotline number is 1-800-886-6207 and will only be open for the next 48 hours. Only a limited discounted supply of Vesele is currently available in your region.

Vesele is approved by Health Canada as a Natural Health Product for the following indications; L-Arginine supports production of nitric oxide, a molecule involved in vasodilation.

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Artist Phoebe Huang,left, won the B.C. regional art championship at the BMO 1st ART! competition, for her abstract dream home project. Daisy Xiong photos

What makes a dream home, or a dream neighbourhood? Does the location, feature or history of a place reflect who you are? Richmond artist Phoebe Huang explores these questions in her latest work The Dream Home, which won her the B.C. regional championship at this year’s BMO 1st ART! competition. As a visual arts student at SFU, Huang made use of green floors and architectural backdrops, alongside simple props such as a stool, a framed green airplane and wooden cut-outs, to create a fabricated “home.” The “home” doesn’t look special, but instead plays on the idea of her mom’s ideal home; a place that reminds her of who she is – a woman growing up under the influence of military in China. “I’m originally from Edmonton. My family lives in a neighbourhood there that used to be a military base, which was redeveloped into a residential and commercial neighbourhood,” Huang told the Richmond News.

When Huang asked her mom why she chose this place as her home after coming to Canada, her mom said “it had to do with nostalgia.” “When she was growing up in communist China, the military played a big part in her life, in how she lived, worked and went to school,” said Huang. “Then coming here to Canada, she wanted to ﬁnd refuge in something that’s similar, in a place that she could kind of feel like she belonged to. “And she found that having something

military in her neighbourhood was an ideal element in what she wanted to be a part of.” Huang uses her art to explore her family story and what factors contribute towards people seeing a place as a perfect place to live – for example the houses, the people and community who live there or the history of the place. The image shown in the background of her artwork is a shot of a real estate advertisement – including a rendering – of her neighbourhood in Edmonton that used to be a military base. “I was interested in how the development company used the history of that place

as a way of attracting people into buying homes here, and how the history plays a part in people’s decision,” explained Huang. “I extracted some of the military elements and made my own dissected image of the idea – the idea of a dream home.” Huang said it’s “pretty amazing” to have won the award and is excited to represent B.C. and showcase her work at the University of Toronto from Nov. 15 to Dec. 8. The BMO 1st ART! competition recognizes 13 art students who are in their ﬁnal year of study across the country every year. Each award winner receives between $7,500 and $15,000.

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Local conductor Jonathan Der feels music bridges many gaps across the globe. Along with musical director Stephen Robb, Der, professional violinist and associate conductor of the Richmond Delta Youth Orchestra (RDYO), will conduct 53 youth musicians at the Richmond World Festival, running Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. Der, who is also on the Richmond Art Strategy Task Group, stresses the importance of musical education and says that “kids who have been in an orchestra actually perform better in school due to the discipline they receive.” The task group, which consists of 30 community members involved in the Richmond art scene, was established to ﬁnd out what the city can do in terms of art education and accessibility. This is RDYO’s ﬁrst time being invited by the city to perform at such a grand event and, to prepare for their 30-minute performance, the musicians will be going through a three-day intensive rehearsal session.

All the musicians performing at the World Festival volunteered their summer vacation when they heard about the invitation from the city. RDYO currently has 160 members, ranging from ages six to 20; most of them are from Richmond with a few from Surrey, North Vancouver and Delta. “Our biggest concern is finding the right venue to rehearse regularly.” RDYO consists of junior, intermediate and senior winds and strings sections and a symphony orchestra division. Each division has weekly rehearsals at the Brighouse United Church and the performance hall at the Richmond Cultural Centre. But the faculty is still trying to find a rehearsal space that will fit all the divisions at once, so musicians have a chance to mingle and socialize during breaks. RDYO will be bringing both classical and contemporary music to the main stage at the World Festival at 12 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 1. Young musicians who are interested in joining RDYO can audition for their 2018-2019 season in September. For audition details, visit rdyo.ca/joindyo.

Conductor Jonathan Der of the Richmond Delta Youth Orchestra, above, will take 53 youth musicians to the stage at the Richmond World Festival Sept. 1.

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Passion turns into profession The full album is set to be released in January of 2019 and will include 10 to 12 tracks of spokenword poetry that are infused with elements of rap, hip hop and clowning and each accompanied by video and soundtrack.

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From passion to profession, Richmond’s Angelica Poversky is turning her love for poetry into more than just a pleasurable pastime.

“This is a new thing for me, all of my past slam poetry performances have been without music, so it’s exciting to create,” added Poversky.

This year, Poversky has, among other notable achievements, laid down the ﬁrst tracks on her soon-to-be-released album and toured Canada with her poetry trio.

Three other artists behind the album are producer Moses Clyde Caliboso and artistic director Rhé, who are both from Richmond, and ﬁlm maker Merissa Victor.

Poversky is not an unfamiliar name in Richmond —she was a former member of a local improv troop called “Richmond in 3D,” participated in the Diversity talent show at the Gateway Theatre, a winner of the 2015 Richmond Arts Award and has been featured in the Richmond News numerous times.

Entropy of Forgiveness, the title of one of the tracks, is about self-acceptance and overcoming internal doubts.

Her budding interest for spoken-word poetry began when she joined the poetry club at McMath secondary; she then attended the Hullabaloo youth poetry festival and started going to poetry slams (a competition in which poets perform spoken word poetry). But Poversky soon realized that slam poetry was “too restricting with its rules and time limits” and wanted to “work outside of that and explore other options.” Her most recent artistic accomplishment is releasing the initial tracks on her new, original spokenword album. “The working title for the album is ‘Living Memorials’ and its theme is about bringing the past into the present and carrying the present into the future,” explained Poversky.

Spoken-word poet and improv artist Angelica Poversky will soon release an album. Photo submitted.

The music video for this track was released in January and was chosen as a winner for the Inspire Mental Wellness challenge hosted by Adobe 1324 and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation. Poversky is also a part a poetry trio named the Tiny Tricycle Poets; along with Andrew Warner and Emma Field, the three are devoted to bridging the gap between spoken word and play and has toured across 25 Canadian cities in the summer of 2018. When asked about the spoken-word poetry community in Richmond, Poversky said that “there are a lot of people in Richmond who write poetry, but there are no consistent poetry events here, so it’s hard to have that community. “It’s important to understand one’s worth as an artist. Although it’s nice that I’m no longer being paid in Starbucks gift cards. I performed for free for a long time and a lot of artists are still expected to donate their craft.”

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Freshh 2.0 will dance its ﬁnal performance of the year at the Richmond World Festival on Sept. 1. The Richmond dance team has been celebrating all month after recently claiming a bronze medal at the World Hip Hop Dance Championships in Phoenix, Arizona.

Freshh 2.0, from Richmond’s Fresh Groove Productions, competed against teams from 50 countries between Aug. 5 and 11. The nine Lower Mainland dancers, aged 10-12, had practised their routine all summer – sometimes for six hours a day. For one parent, the work certainly paid off. “(The dancers) are so young so I’m not sure how they’re reacting to it…the parents are probably more

excited because they understand the amount of time that was spent,” said Marcos Hui, whose 10-year-old son Juno is on the Freshh 2.0 team. “We’ve been celebrating…since we got back, we’ve been having house parties, we’ve just been going at it. We won’t stop until school starts.” Hui said the team has been “a year in the making,” and ﬁrst had to compete in Edmonton to qualify for the

world championships. “It was very rigorous,” Hui said. “It was great to see these kids progress so quickly.” For Hui, the competition was an exciting learning opportunity for his son. “It was really cool because we’re doing it with all these different languages and different people who all came together to celebrate dance,” he said. “I think (Juno) grew as a child.”

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Kids’ book reviews Jamie Ford delves into a Sino-American tale Summer Reading Club at Richmond Public Library is in full swing, with over 3,900 kids participating so far. The Summer Reading Finale is Sept. 8. Title: Tuesday

meets a creature that could drive all unicorns to extinction. I like this book because it sparks your imagination. I also like this book because it involves many mythical creatures such as the Red Bull, Harpy, Satyr, Dragon and much more! I give this book 5/5 stars.

Author: David Wiesner Reviewed by Samuel, age 6 This book is about frogs flying around because every Tuesday animals fly around. I like this book because it’s funny that frogs fly around everywhere. It uses a lot of imagination. I give this book 3/5 stars. Title: The Last Unicorn Author: Peter S. Beagle Reviewed by: Anya L., age 10 This book is about a unicorn’s adventures, a magician and a circus. In this book the unicorn

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Ernest is that 12-year-old boy who comes to live at the Tenderloin, a high class brothel, when the ﬂamboyant owner buys out the rafﬂe to ensure she wins. Brought to the Tenderloin as the house boy, Ernest’s new home is a welcome change since arriving in America from China on a boat at the age of 5. He quickly befriends two young girls living at the house, Maisie, the daughter of the brothel’s madam, and Fahn, a maid. Ernest settles in and develops a sense of family and home through their friendship. However, things begin to fall apart when the house madam increasingly suffers an illness that jeopardizes the well-being of the

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Kim’s summer in the sand on Team BC Air Attack and Richmond Christian Eagles volleyball standout with provincial U18 program

Now it’s onto the high school season where Kim will have a leading roll with defending city champion Richmond Christian.

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His outstanding play at setter resulted in Lower Mainland MVP honours and a Second Team All-Star selection at provincials as the Eagles capped one of their best seasons ever with a ﬁfth place ﬁnish at the B.C. “AA” Championships.

It was a busy summer in the sand for Elijah Kim. Already a standout player on the ﬂoor, the soon-to-be Grade 12 student at Richmond Christian was a member of the U18 Team B.C. beach volleyball program.

Now with less depth, Kim will be counted on as one of the team’s top hitters.

Kim partnered up with Burnaby’s Ted Graveson and competed in a number of events — highlighted by a second place ﬁnish at the Seaside Tournament earlier this month on the Oregon Coast.

“I will be swinging this year as oppose to setting. We’re going to be a little short on hitters and probably won’t be as strong as last year but I’m just looking to have a lot of fun with this being my last year with the boys,” said Kim.

“It was a fun experience,” said Kim, of his trip down south. “We played some good volleyball, including beating another B.C. team in the quarter-ﬁnals. In the ﬁnals we lost to a really good team from California and they were great guys too.”

He intends on continuing his career at the post-secondary level and there already is plenty of interest including Capilano University where U18 Team B.C. beach volleyball coach Dave Dooley happens to be in charge. Kim will also be training this fall at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo and has been offered a roster spot at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick.

It was Kim’s ﬁrst summer of competitive beach since teaming up with Martin Prinsloo to win the U14 Nationals back in 2015 in Parksville. He and Graveson were winding down their U17 club season with Air Attack when they agreed to partner up for some local beach tournaments. A couple of podium ﬁnishes were enough to convince them to enter the Team B.C. Selection Tournament where their strong play continued — placing in the top two. “After couple years of a bit of a

Air Attack and Richmond Christian standout Elijah Kim took his game to the sand this summer as a member of the provincial U18 program, highlighted by a second place ﬁnish in Oregon. Photo by Mark Booth

break, I decided to get back into it and Ted is one of my best friends on Air Attack,” Kim explained. “Beach is so much more of a mental game.

First of all, you have to know your partner really well. But at this age, everyone is physically so strong and can hit so hard. It’s basically who

can outsmart their opponent. That’s what I really like about it.” Kim and Graveson have already agreed to team up again next year.

Regardless of his ﬁnal destination, Kim knows another summer on the beach will only enhance his indoor career. “I think it really helps with my composure playing indoors,” Kim added. “Beach is such a game of patience.”

Sockeyes continue pre-season with Grandview at Minoru tonight

The Richmond Sockeyes continue their preseason schedule Thursday night when the Grandview Steelers visit Minoru Arenas at 7 p.m.

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Reusch is expected to all but ﬁnalize his roster prior to the teams meeting again on Thursday, Aug. 31 at Minoru to close out exhibition play.

Richmond will then prepare for its Paciﬁc Junior Hockey League regular season opener

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For the second straight year Ryan Reid will be representing Canada against the top amateur bowlers in the world.

“I wouldn’t have been disappointed not winning because of what happened last year and all the changes in my life since but I still went there with the goal of winning.”

The Richmond resident and manager of Lucky 9 Lanes in Riverport is heading to Las Vegas in November for the QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup. The 54th annual event showcases the top amateur 10-pin bowlers with national champions from as many as 90 countries. Reid broke through a year ago at the Canadian ﬁnals in Winnipeg to qualify for the prestigious event. This time he took advantage of his defending champion status to bypass regional and provincial qualifying and repeat last month in Edmonton.

He does admit it will be a more intense approach now leading up to his second World Cup appearance. He was 10th a year ago in Mexico and the goal is to be in the top eight.

Ryan Reid will be representing Canada for the second straight year at the 54th annual Bowling World Cup in Las Vegas. Photo by Mark Booth

He overcome a slow start on Saturday to qualify third for Sunday’s “stepladder” playoffs. He defeated Manitoba’s Sobotkiewicz (227-191) then took a pair of games from Alberta champion and hometown favourite Matt Dammann by scores of 245-190 and 234-226. The World Cup qualiﬁer took place at Gateway Lanes.

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“I was sitting somewhere between 150 to 200 pins behind the leaders after Saturday.

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I knew it could go either way but also how the different pattern (from the past) would be more favourable to myself on Sunday as well.” A year ago, Reid poured plenty of preparation into an event he had never won. This time it was a much different scenario thanks

Reid says the trip to Vegas will feel more like home in a city he has competed in before while a large contingency of family and friends is planning on making the trip south for the week-long event. It will take place at Sam’s Town — a 56-lane centre that is located about 10 minutes off Vegas Strip. “I was more nervous than I thought I would be a year ago. My goal is to still be in the top eight and then re-evaluate from there. It would give be a chance of being in the top four which is shown on national tv,” he added. Reid’s preparation for worlds will include a Pro-Am event in Montreal early next month.