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A drummer sets the stroke rate for paddlers to plow through the waters off Imperial Landing Saturday during the Steveston Dragon Boat Festival. For more photos of the event, turn to the Pulse section on page 16. Photo by Gord Goble/Special to the News

EDUCATION

Lockout looms for September start

Both sides within one per cent on wages; sticking point remains class size and composition Graeme Wood

Staff Reporter gwood@richmond-news.com

Teachers were back on picket lines Monday as the countdown to the new school year is now days away.

The BC Public School Employers’ Association has locked out teachers since late June, and even if a bargaining miracle were to happen, it’s likely Richmond schools will not be prepared to jump right into curriculum during the first week, according to Al Klassen, president of the

Richmond Teachers’ Association.

“There’s lots of stuff that happens in the last week before school starts and that’s not happening. There will need to be sufficient time for the schools to get prepared,” said Klassen, noting many teachers use the last week of summer to prepare classrooms and counselors are already at work, preparing course schedules.

On Monday Richmond’s school superintendent Monica Pamer echoed those concerns in a letter to parents.

Should there be a settlement, Pamer said

a Tuesday opening “may not be as smooth as our typical one, due to the need to organize for classes.”

She noted if picket lines remain up, schools will be closed and parents will be asked to make other arrangements for the care of their children.

Despite being relatively close on the issue of wages, Education Minister Peter Fassbender and B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker have both recently made comments to media alluding to each side being far apart in negotiations.

Klassen noted teachers have lowered their demands for wages to nominal increases over six years and both sides are within one per cent.

“In six years’ time, we will be among the lowest paid teachers in the country with one of the highest costs of living,” said Klassen.

He said the sticks in the mud remain class size and composition; teachers are asking the government to lower the amount of children in each class and provide more

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Volunteers lead safety blitz on river

Canadian Lifeboat Institution now has two vessels patrolling waters during busy boating season Graeme Wood

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It’s just past 11 a.m. on a Tuesday morning and John Horton is at the helm of the 52-foot Steveston lifeboat in the midst of this season’s second commercial sockeye salmon opening on the Fraser River.

Directly ahead of him, near the No. 3 Road pier, are countless gillnet fishing vessels; further down the river are two tugboats, one heading east with a shipment of coking coal bound for the Lafarge cement plant, the other heading west with a double load of wood chip products destined for Crofton on Vancouver Island.

The tugboats, with limited maneouverability, will not only need to pass one another safely, they’ll also need to dodge fishing lines on this day.

If we stop an accident from happening, we’re ahead of the game.

- John Horton All of a sudden, Horton’s VHS radio blares out a series of directives: ‘This is Victoria Traffic…’

It’s the Marine Communications and Traffic Services, operated by the Canadian Coast Guard, sending information to vessels on the water as to where the barges are heading.

“It’s important we know where the traffic is. We have to plan where we’re going to be safe. We have to think ahead,” said Horton, who is also taking information from his crew above deck, via a shiny, copper, Seconld World War-era talking pipe.

Horton blasts a round of horns at a number of fishing vessels soaking their nets in the shipping channel.

“This is trouble if they don’t move,” exclaims Horton.

As one of the captains for the volunteer-run Canadian Lifeboat Institution (CLI), Horton, provides safety patrols along the river, as well as in the Strait of Georgia.

With about 30 volunteers, CLI provides preventative safety recourse for vessels in the absence of an official, government funded agency; Port Metro Vancouver looks after shipping regulations, the Coast Guard and its auxiliary only provides

CLI volunteer John Horton captains the Steveston lifeboat on a busy day of commercial fishing on the Fraser River. CLI has responded to more than 4,000 incidents in Canada, according to its website. Photo by Graeme Wood/Richmond News search and rescue services, and local police and fire rescue don’t have boats of their own.

When a rare commercial fishery opening happens on the Fraser, the service provided by the Steveson lifeboat and the recent, newly fitted Fraser lifeboat become more apparent.

“If we stop an accident from happening, we’re ahead of the game,” said Horton.

As he lets the coal barge pass, he turns around and heads down river, clearing the way for the two wood chip barges.

It’s not long until the crew spots a danger — stalled is the 35-foot gillnetter North Star that’s lost its ability to steer.

After the fishers frantically pull in the line, full of salmon, the lifeboat crew tosses a line to the stranded boat and pulls it to the shore for repair. A potentially dangerous situation is averted as the Seaspan barges pass a mere 100 feet away.

Two volunteers look ahead for fishing vessels that have set lines in the main shipping channel of the Fraser River. Tangled lines can disable boats, leading to safety concerns. Photo by Graeme Wood/Richmond News

With all the help CLI boats offer, the question begs: Why is the Fraser River dependent on a growing volunteer organization in the wake of two major decisions that will only serve to put more (potentially dangerous) traffic on the river (jet fuel and coal)?

Horton says agencies are strapped for cash.

“We’ve got people like the RCMP who I feel should be out there more often. There’s DFO, Port Metro and the Coast Guard. It always comes down to funding. When I talk to these people, they won’t give them overtime and what not. They say the funding isn’t there,” said Horton.

That said, the long-time volunteer mariner says for most of the time there isn’t a pressing need for constant, vigilant patrols throughout the year.

“In a way, we created our own animal. We took this on as an accident-prevention service; no one did it. It’s not like we took on something someone else was doing,” said Horton, noting the Coast Guard does not do routine patrols and only responds to emergencies. “I don’t see professional agencies taking over what we’re doing unless there’s a major change in the way things operate … or a greater need is seen,” said Horton, adding there is less of a need for lifeboat services the further one drifts from urban areas.

CLI’s structure is largely based on Britian’s 444-boat strong volunteer-driven Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Horton said he’s always looking for more volunteers, many of whom have rescue and/or marine-related work experience, such as with a fire department or with the Royal Canadian Navy (however, neither is necessary).

One of the most recent volunteers is Chad Freeborn, 28, who recently took on sailing as a hobby.

“It gives me an opportunity to educate myself and be involved,” said Freeborn, whose job this day was to log incidents.

Horton said CLI operates on donations and his two lifeboats, docked at the south end of No. 1 Road, require about $25,000 worth of maintenance a year. Visit www. canadianlifeboatinstitution.org for more information.

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Teacher to face hearing — 40 years later Tracy Sherlock Vancouver Sun

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A former Richmond teacher accused of sexual misconduct nearly 40 years ago will now face a disciplinary hearing, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled Thursday.

Robert John Robertson, age 62 in 2013, was accused of having inappropriate sexual relationships with three secondary school students in 1976. The Richmond School Board launched an investigation and suspended Robertson, who then resigned his position in Richmond and applied for a position in Vancouver, where he was hired as a substitute. The court documents allege that he did not disclose to the Vancouver board that he was under investigation when he resigned from Richmond.

Robertson’s lawyer told him at the time that the outcome could range from the loss of his teaching certificate to no disciplinary action, court documents show.

The allegations of sexual misconduct were reported in 1976 to the body that then had the authority to cancel a teacher’s certificate of qualification, however, the complaint was not followed through on, court documents show.

When a year had passed, Robertson assumed it meant there would be no disciplinary action against him. He taught in Vancouver until 2006, where there were no other complaints against him and his performance reviews were positive. He married in 1984 and has since raised three children.

In 2005, one of the students who accused Robertson saw his photograph with a newspaper article about a teachers’ strike.

She thought he had been dismissed in 1976 and wrote to the school district to indicate her shock. In December 2006, Robertson resigned his position with the VSB and now teaches at a high school in China.

The College of Teachers began an investigation in 2007, but didn’t issue a report until 2010. Court documents say Robertson admitted to having a “boyfriend/girlfriend” relationship with one of the students, which continued after he started teaching in Vancouver. He also admitted to a sexual relationship with one other student, but said it did not include intercourse, court documents show. None of the allegations has been proven in court.

In November 2011, the college issued a citation that a disciplinary hearing would be held regarding two allegations: the inappropriate sexual relationships and that Robertson misrepresented himself when hired by the VSB. Robertson responded with his own complaint, claiming abuse of process by delay. A disciplinary panel initially denied his application, but last fall the B.C. Supreme Court overturned their decision.

On Thursday, the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld the disciplinary panel’s initial decision, saying that despite the 35-year delay, allowing Robertson “to avoid facing a disciplinary hearing in these circumstances would carry with it a serious risk of bringing the regulatory process into disrepute.”

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Mustang Shirley (and Jim) not slowin’ down Former Richmond residents to be among 400 or so Mustang owners at Lansdowne Centre car show Philip Raphael

young man when he worked on his modified, 1931 Ford hot rod in his parents’ garage in east Vancouver where friends would come and hang out to watch Jim’s progress on the project.

Not long afterwards, he met and married Shirley, now 83.

“I knew he was a car guy from early on,” she says with a big smile and recalls trips in the hot rod when rain water would shoot up through tiny gaps in the floorboards and soak the

driver.

But the 1965 Mustang was, back then, also used on a regular basis and the subject of some Jim and Shirley Greenlees comprehensive, downare certainly good at to-bare-metal restoration maintaining relationships. work Jim undertook after Not only has the former he retired from the printing Richmond couple been business. married for 57 years, “I guess with printing I their love affair with Ford was always good with my Mustangs has been ongoing hands — I used to work with since getting the keys to the old movable type — and their classic pony car 39 pretty much taught myself years ago. how to repair and restore On Saturday, they will things,” he says. be among “family” as The relationship Lansdowne Centre’s with the Mustang grew parking lot will be There’s something about and Jim helped found packed with more the Greater Vancouver than 400 Mustangs of them that just looks right.

Mustang Association varying vintages for - Jim Greenlees which is the group the 35th International organizing Saturday’s Mustang Meet that event which is is part of the classic drawing cars from as car’s 50th anniversary deep into the U.S. as celebrations.

California, and as far east in floor mats. “That was fun.”

“I just love the look of Canada as Saskatchewan.

Jim would often take the them,” says Jim, 85, who On Saturday the couple bought the 1965 Wimbledon hot rod to Abbotsford to drag will be full of pride as they White Mustang from the race. get into their ’65 Mustang, Jim Pattison dealership on “It was a two-hour drive which has a mere 175,000 Vancouver’s Main Street out there back then. There original miles on the back in 1975. was no highway,” Jim says. odometer, and drive from It cost him $2,000.

“I’d take the seats out, their Ladner home of the “There’s just something except for the driver’s and past 17 years to Richmond to about them that just looks go race.” be part of the scene sure to right.”

While Jim recalls the fun, delight all car lovers.

Jim is a dedicated Ford Shirley remembers the odd “It will be quite amazing fan and the 1965 Mustang’s tow back to Vancouver third owner — the original to see so many cars from all But when it came time owner took delivery of it in over the place. And they’ll to settle down, move to Bellevue, Washington in late Richmond and start a family all be Fords,” Jim says with December 1965, making it a smile. in the Broadmoor area, one of the early models to The 35th International where they lived for 37 roll off the production line in years, the hot rod was gone Mustang Meet runs from 11 Los Angeles. a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lansdowne and a series of Fords graced “They are just great cars their driveway, including the Centre (5300 No. 3 Road) and have been for 50 years,” 1965 Mustang. and is free to the public. says Jim, who started his “It’s going to be a great Today, they also have a love affair with cars as a gathering,” Jim says.

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funding for special needs students.

“We want more money in the system so teaching and learning in those areas happen,” he said.

Muddying these issues is an ongoing second appeal by the government against a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that found the government unconstitutionally nullified contracts in 2002.

Klassen said while he didn’t foresee the lockout lasting until September, he is not surprised it has come to this.

“The belief has been that government

— because of economic or ideological reasons, whatever they may be — wants to have education pared down,” he said.

Klassen noted unionized teachers are not allowed to engage in any side work related to education.

“Teachers will be advised not to engage in tutoring services or work for tutoring services,” he said.

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Opening yields good catch, better to come Late summer run expected to be best yet Graeme Wood

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Gillnetters hauled in hundreds of sockeye salmon each, after being privy to the first 24-hour commercial salmon opening in four years on Monday.

“If you hauled in over 1,600 pieces you’re a real highliner,” said fisher Randy Fraser, who reported he caught about 1,200 fish and estimated the average was about 450 per boat.

Fisher Kit Taggart wouldn’t say exactly how many fish he caught, although he noted “it was a good opening for us” and “most guys are happy.

“Fishermen are liars, except you and me,” quipped Taggart.

He and Fraser noted many fishers ran into problems while setting nets in the middle of the night. Fraser said he ran over an abandoned line, causing him to lose out on precious time and potentially hundreds more fish.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans declared the brief open season on the fish as preparations loom for a large run of late summer salmon coming down the coast.

According to DFO spokesperson Jennifer Nener, the agency opened up the fishery for 24 hours because it’s believed the much more susceptible early summer run sockeye have all passed through the mouth of the Fraser River.

Fish stocks are managed in four groups: early Stuart, early summer, summer and late summer runs.

The first two runs have, for the most part, entered the river, with about 225,000 early Stuart sockeye and one million early summer sockeye estimated past Mission as of last Friday.

DFO is estimating about seven million summer run sockeye, with 1.8 million having already entered the river.

The majority of the salmon run is expected to come from the late summer run (offspring of the 30 million run in 2010).

DFO has not estimated how many fish the late run consists of, although by all accounts, they’re coming in from north Vancouver Island through Johnstone Strait.

“It’s too early to have an in-season estimate. We’re just starting to see them come through in significant numbers,” said Nener.

She said despite low river levels and high temperatures, the fish passing through Mission are “in good shape for the most part.”

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“Adams River fish will swim back and forth until the water temperature is right for them. And right now the water is warm so they’ll wait for a rain and, boom, they go in,” said Gus Jacobson, a semi-retired fisher who sent his two boats out with his sons.

Fishermen’s Wharf in Steveston was busy with fish sales following a 24-hour opening for sockeye salmon fishing.

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EDITORIAL OPINION

Caveat emptor

W

e bid farewell to Canada’s top general next month.

Lt.-Gen. Stuart Beare, after spending nearly a lifetime in uniform and three years as point man on every Canadian military operation, is leaving on an interesting note.

He’s not calling for more bullets, bombs or planes. He’s calling for diplomacy.

That tactic of averting war has fallen into disrepute lately, just as Canada has gone from emphasizing peacekeeping to creating a warrior nation mythology.

There may be times when war

is necessary. However, no matter what our elected officials sell us, we should be mindful of what we’re buying.

We may be told airstrikes will be precise, the conflict will be short, or that a limited force will be expedient in neutralizing a narrow threat.

But that type of language — besides being intentionally bewildering and bloodless — cloaks a lie.

War is long, and the wounds inflicted fester long after the cessation of hostilities.

The United States-led Operation Desert Storm in Iraq lasted six weeks.

The response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait seemed swift and tactical at the time. That was 23 years and four presidents ago.

Last week, U.S. planes dropped bombs in Iraq following the seizure of Mosul by militants.

Violence is expected to intensify. Weapons will be lost on the battlefield, waiting for future generations, simply because we never pick up after ourselves.

Earlier this month, approximately 4,000 Germans were evacuated from Dusseldorf so technicians could defuse a bomb.

It was a U.S. aircraft bomb, and it was dropped 70 years ago.

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Party leaders target B.C. in a big way

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hile our provincial Recent opinion polls politicians slumber suggest Trudeau and his InTheHouse (with several federal Liberals are tops Keith Baldrey in popularity across the notable exceptions) on the Columnist summer barbecue circuit, our country, with the NDP federal party leaders have been running slightly ahead of the busy in this province. ruling Conservatives. But, The past couple of weeks have seen as everyone in this province is well aware, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, NDP leader polls don’t have a spotless track record in Thomas Mulcair and Liberal party leader predicting election outcomes.

Justin Trudeau all visit B.C., an indication And in this province, it would take a perhaps that all three see winning certain significant shift in voting patterns to deny seats here as critical to forming government the Conservatives a majority of B.C. seats in come the next election. the 2015 election. The party currently holds Of course, conventional wisdom is that 21 of 36 seats, and the additional ridings southern Ontario and Quebec hold the keys coupled with the redrawing of electoral to winning a federal election, but in a close boundaries favors that party more than the race a number of B.C. ridings could spell others (in fact, transposing the votes from the difference between forming a majority the last election over the new ridings would government and a minority one. give the Conservatives 28 of 42 seats).

This province will have six additional And most of the Conservative-held ridings (giving us 42 in all) come the next seats were won by large margins. Those election, which makes B.C. even more transposed results show the party has coveted by federal political parties. support of more than 50 per cent of the

voters in 17 ridings.

But if the polls are correct and the Conservatives are indeed losing support, the party could be vulnerable in four of the new ridings and perhaps a couple of others.

The party most likely to benefit from any Conservative slippage is the NDP, as it finished well ahead of the Liberals in the ridings that may become competitive in 2015. This will explain why Mulcair may spend a disproportionate amount of time in this province in the run-up to the next campaign.

The federal NDP has some challenges in other provinces, notably Quebec, where it unexpectedly won most of the seats in the last election. One of its Quebec MPs has quite the caucus over Mulcair’s position on Israel, and polls suggest the Liberals have surged to even strength with the NDP in that province.

Mulcair’s problems over his Mideast policy threaten to expand beyond losing a Quebec MP. Many left-wing ideologues

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In fact, the further left side of the party is uncomfortable with Mulcair’s push for more pragmatic and centrist policies designed to expand the party’s appeal. They point to the party’s dismal results in recent byelections in Ontario and the recent provincial election as proof that such an approach doesn’t work.

But for all his troubles in Quebec and Ontario, Mulcair would seem to be on firmer ground in B.C. and his party has a reasonable chance of building on the 12 seats it currently holds.

As for the federal Liberals, it will take a complete re-enactment of Trudeau-mania for the party to find much success in this province. Justin Trudeau may visit this province many times in the next year or so, but his party’s dismal support among B.C. voters has got to be discouraging for him.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC

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LETTERS RICHMOND DRIVERS

Pet peeve: Drivers who block parking lots The Editor, Re: “Are we really as bad as all that?”

News, Aug. 22.

It was interesting to read about drivers in Richmond. I’m sure I’ve experienced as many crazy antics as most Richmond drivers, but some of the scariest include putting on the right turn signal and then turning left (right in front of me!), lane-hopping and racing through red lights in rush hour traffic.

Moving with, rather than against, traffic just makes so much more sense to me, I guess.

My main peeve, though, is with drivers who

stop to wait for a parking spot so that other drivers can’t get by, especially when there are lots of parking spots a two-minute walk away from where these drivers apparently insist on parking.

To drive safely in Richmond, I’ve learned to plan my route to avoid the busiest roads and nastiest intersections and, when possible, do errands in the a.m. when there is less traffic.

I’m a big fan of left-turn signals, too!

Janet Oakes Richmond

Pedestrians walk on the wild side The Editor, Re: “Are we really as bad as all that?”

News, Aug. 22.

Indeed you are!

Perhaps Cst. Hwang would care to step out of his vehicle and become a pedestrian for a few days and personally discover what it’s like to be ignored or viewed as an impediment by both motorists and bicyclists.

During a half hour walk it is not unusual to observe a half dozen or more infractions within the scope of where we are walking.

The problem is that motorists and bicyclists know they can get away with it because the police continue to be conspicuous by their absence.

J. H. Penner Richmond

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Trustees anxious for resolution Open letter to the community and parents of children attending school in SD38, The Richmond Board of Education understands that our entire learning community feels strongly that schools need to begin on Sept. 2 as planned.

The Board of School Trustees also understands the impact that the current labour dispute between the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) and the British Columbia Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA) is having on our entire community, but most importantly our children.

We are actively advocating for a negotiated resolution to the dispute in time for school start-up.

As an active member of the British Columbia School Trustees’ Association (BCSTA), our Board strongly supports its Back To School Action Plan which calls on BCPSEA and the BCTF to reach a settlement by August 31, 2014.

The BCSTA’s entire plan can be found on their website at bcsta.org To date we have consistently advocated for public education in a variety of different ways.

During the current labour unrest

we have specifically advocated for a negotiated settlement through the following strategies: ! June 23/14, Ministry conference call; ! June 25/14, Letter to President of BCTF and Minister of Education; ! July 11/14, RTA meeting with Trustees; ! July 11/14, Letter to the Minister of Education; ! July 14/14, Information Sharing meeting; ! July 16/14, Meeting with MLA, Reid; ! July 18/14, Letter to the President of the BCSTA requesting a meeting with the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Education; ! July 18/14, Letter to the Minister of Finance requesting a meeting; ! July 24/14, Meeting with MLA, Yap; ! July 29/14, BCSTA conference call; ! Aug 18/14, In-Camera Meeting with Trustees; ! Aug 19/14, BCPSEA conference call; The Richmond Board of Education supports sustainable education funding that will serve the needs of all our students.

We are advocating for stability in

the public education system so that we may accomplish the goal of public education to create educated citizens.

We are hopeful that BCPSEA and the BCTF resume negotiations and begin mediation to reach a negotiated settlement prior to the beginning of the school year.

Our students deserve a stable and sustainable public education system that places the needs of all students first.

The Richmond School District will continue to communicate with parents and our community regarding any changes or developments in the job action status through school and district websites, as well as through the use of social media such as SD38’s Twitter and Facebook.

We invite you to advocate directly with your local provincial representatives and the BCTF for a resolution.

We continue to be your grassroots representatives, so feel free to contact us with any questions or thoughts that you may have.

Donna Sargent, Chairperson On behalf of the Richmond Board of Education

Stability, what stability?

The Editor, So here we are, less than a week before 560,000 children, 41,000 teachers, and 35,000 support staff are expected to return to school.

The Minister of Education’s talking points call for “breaking the cycle” by negotiating a settlement, rather than having the “big, bad, government” legislate one. The Minister’s refrain sidesteps the fact that government created the cycle. So, here we are again, stuck at an impasse, led by a government that promised education stability, yet has delivered labour unrest in three out of four school years (including the coming year) since 2011.

In the fall of 2013, a government bureaucrat testified that in 2011, government sought to provoke teachers into striking in order to gain public support so that they could pass legislation, legislation which they were subsequently found guilty of having imposed.

The government now has the strike it wanted. Its only response is to send the Minister of Education on a media blitz, using well-worn phrases like “optimistic,” “24/7 bargaining,” and “breaking the paradigm,” and to promote a government website that reduces education to $40/day for babysitting, safety courses for the teens, and games for the younger set.

In the last election, the government campaigned on the promise of “education stability.” If having three out of the last four school years marked by labour unrest is the government’s definition of stability, I shudder to think what instability looks like.

Sharon Hales Richmond

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1. Newly arriving students or students moving within Richmond and changing schools, should register as soon as possible Online at www.sd38.bc.ca/schools/RegDocs/Register or at the Central Registration office at the Richmond School District Board Office 7811 Granville Avenue, Richmond, B.C. V6Y 3E3 at 9am-3pm (Monday-Friday). If schools are closed, please use online registration option.

2. A parent or legal guardian must personally attend along with their child, when registering for school.

The following original documents are required to register your child: a. Child’s Original Birth Certificate - plus an English translation done by a Certified Translator if the original document is not in English b. Student’s and parents’ Original Proof of Status in Canada - bring one of the following: 1. Permanent Resident Card (Maple Card) or Passport with Record of Landing (if applicable) 2. Canadian Passport or Citizenship Card or 3. If you have a work or study permit, you must obtain a Letter of Acceptance from the Superintendent’s office prior to registering. a. Proof or Residency* - bring one of the following: 1. Current property tax notice or assessment 2. Formal Rental or Lease Agreement 3. Signed Contract of Purchase and Sale with possession date and subjects removed And 1. a bank confirmation letter or customer snapshot showing name and current address, or 2. a current utility bill *We reserve the right to request additional proof of residency if required a. Other documents required for each student 1. Last school report card or school transcript of marks 2. Immunization (health record), if available 3. Any reports needed to request extra classroom support 4. Any special custody documents 1. An ELL assessment appointment will be scheduled, if necessary, once registration is complete.

The student placement process is as follows: 1. Place student at the catchment (neighbourhood) school 2. If there is no space at the catchment school, the District Administrator for student placement will place the student at a nearby school.

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COMMUNITYForMATTERS the good of our community Jason Ko President, CEO and Founder Viva Pharmaceutical

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etting and staying healthy is at the heart of the business of Viva Pharmaceutical.

As a Richmond-based manufacturer of custommade pharmaceutical and natural health food products, Viva Pharmaceutical has built a worldwide reputation for producing vital products to help improve health.

Over the years, health has also been at the heart of its philanthropic giving. As a donor to Richmond Hospital Foundation, Viva Pharmaceutical has been an active champion to improve local health care for the community in Richmond.

“What is a community? It’s people living together,” says Jason Ko, President and CEO and the founder of Viva Pharmaceutical. “Our society

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is like a big family. You can help others. They can help you. It’s a mutual interaction.”

Jason, a pharmacist, graduated from Pharmaceutical Sciences in Taiwan and moved with his wife, Emily, and his sons to Canada in 1993. Drawn to the beauty of the region and sensing economic opportunities, he founded the company in Richmond with 10 employees. “The environment is so beautiful here, and Richmond is a great place for business. It’s ideally located with excellent services and convenient transportation.”

Growing the business and acquiring state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, Viva has today become the biggest pharmaceutical and natural health food products

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manufacturer in British Columbia, occupying three buildings with a total area of over 100,000 sq. ft. in Richmond and employing 150 people, supplying high quality products that prevent or treat disease for customers worldwide.

A clever entrepreneurial business leader, Jason Ko is also a inspirational advocate for others to join in his vision to give to Richmond Hospital to improve local health care. “It’s important to join in the community and support others,” he says. “We need to go beyond the attitudes we often have as consumers. We need to open minds that it’s important to help other people as well. That makes for a healthier community and a better society.”

How can I donate to Richmond’s health care?

We all need to play a role to ensure local health care is here for us. There are many ways to make a donation including cash, gifts of securities, even a legacy gift in your will or a gift of life insurance.

Richmond Hospital Foundation would be pleased to answer any questions you or your company may have. To learn more, please contact us today at 604.244.5252.

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The young actor is a founding member of a relatively new theatrical company, Alchemy Theatre (facebook.com/ alchemytheatreensemble), which just finished wrapping up their production of Twelfth Night at Bernie Legge Theatre in New Westminster over the weekend.

Bilic comments on the undertaking as simply something that is “going well.”

He adds the only thing he wishes for is to move up in the theatre world.

Productions like those staged by Bard on the Beach, he says, is a shining example of the level of work he aspires to.

Bilic still has a final year of secondary school studies that beckons. Though, he says, Steveston-London manages to provide quality teaching in the performing arts and this is in large part due to drama teacher Jean Kosar.

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Bilic, a soft-spoken Richmond teen and Grade 12 Steveston-London Secondary school student, glows about his budding theatre career saying it all began in the summer of 2008.

A performing arts program offered at Richmond’s Gateway Theatre Academy sparked the teenage actor’s initial interest.

His parents, Bill and Jesenka Bilic, say they let Boris try almost everything, from ice skating, hockey and soccer to swimming, baseball and volleyball. But nothing really felt right for the Richmond performer.

Well, at least not as right as performing on stage.

“Acting beat everything,” Bilic says, “(and) the academy exposed me to a lot of different stuff. It gave me the fundamental knowledge.”

Bilic is currently pursuing theatrical endeavours outside the Academy. He received one of the leading roles in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) which was a play performed at the provincewide Theatre BC Festival in May, hosted at the Metro Theatre.

According to Bilic’s father, even as the youngest actor in the competition, the 17-year-old won an honourable mention (runner-up) for Best Supporting Actor. It is something the teenager is hesitant to throw too much attention on.

Bilic then moved from that achievement onto a more enterprising journey.

It is dedicated to teaching the ‘how’ of acting, which means the approach is more process-focused than product focused, allowing students to get fully immersed in a theatre production from the ground-up.

Even more, the academy presents young actors, from age six to 18, with professionals currently working in the industry.

“There’s just a different sensibility, a different breath, training with professionals in a professional theatre,” she says.

The academy, now entering its 23rd season, also offers playwriting and singing classes as part of its overall curriculum; the former being a relatively new program that started last year.

Even the City of Richmond offers a full suite of performing arts activities and programs for citizens of all ages.

Richmond Arts Centre coordinator, Camyar Chaichian, says overall enrolment, when considering all arts programming, has increased by about four per cent per year.

One of the main attractions, on top of creative movement and musical theatre, is ballet, says Chaichian. There’s classes for all levels and ages, extending as far as tap and jazz for senior citizens to enjoy.

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‘Age friendly’ plans revisited City to renew strategy to make Richmond more accessible and welcoming to seniors’ population Brandon Kostinuk Special to the News

Richmond is aiming to be an “age friendly” destination and expects to have updated plans to achieve this by the end of the year.

The time frame of the original Old Age Service Plan (OASP) expired in 2012, says Kim Decker, spokesperson for the City of Richmond. So it was time to revisit the strategy.

The initiative was then further prompted by a $20,000 grant awarded to the city this year by the BC Ministry of Health, in partnership with the Union of BC Municipalities, in order to prepare an AgeFriendly Assessment and Action Plan.

With seniors now consisting of the fastest growing age group across the country, B.C. no less, Decker says council sought to assess the adequacy of its services for that demographic.

In Richmond’s case, based on 2011 Population Age Distribution data, 17 per cent of the city’s population was aged 65 and over. That number has grown and is projected to balloon to 28 per cent by 2036.

Decker says the action plan will identify important initiatives, programs and infrastructure already in place in Richmond and will then specify actions and identify outcomes to promote and enhance Richmond’s age-friendliness.

The city has drawn from the guidelines set out by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2006 as part of the organization’s Age-Friendly Cities initiative.

Two cornerstone documents developed by the WHO, Global Age-friendly Cities: A Guide and Checklist of Essential Features of Age-friendly Cities, are being used by the city as the general roadmap (and are easily

With the percentage of seniors in the local population expected to rise, the city is looking at ways to serve that demographic. Photo supplied found online at: http://www.phac-aspc. gc.ca/seniors-aines/afc-caa-eng.php) for the local initiative.

An age-friendly community would promote pleasant, safe and accessible outdoor areas and public buildings for seniors to access.

In addition, there would be access to affordable and safe housing, specifically designed for seniors. Roads and walkways would be kept in good shape and accessible.

Neighbourhoods would be safe, relevant

information easy to find and programs available to seniors so they can remain socially active.

Richmond is by no means bereft of infrastructure dedicated to its aging population, adds Decker.

“Richmond has a vibrant and engaged older adult population. It also has many plans, policies, partnerships, services and structures in place to support older adults.”

The OASP, Minoru Place Activity Centre and the Seniors Advisory Committee

— which were not available for comment — are just a few examples that Decker noted.

But the situation could be improved.

Eighty-year-old Richmond resident, Dorothy McKeil, says public transportation and access to certain amenities in her area is a prime concern.

“I live in Burkeville and I find it hard to get to St. Paul’s Hospital,” says McKeil.

The travel time is about an hour each way and if she misses a bus, the wait time is about 30 minutes until the next one arrives.

In addition, McKeil says there are no nearby grocery stores in the Burkeville area.

“I’m certainly thinking of moving,” she says.

However, McKeil says she’s more than pleased with some of the senior activities she’s able to participate in. McKeil is part of a seniors tap and ballet class coordinated by the Richmond Arts Centre.

“It gives me confidence that I can remain active and healthy,” says McKeil, “and I enjoy it very much . . . otherwise I’d be a couch potato.”

The city is currently conducting focus groups with Richmond’s senior citizens and caregivers to openly discuss improvements and areas of concern such as necessary community support and health services, affordable housing, transportation, civic participation and more. Readers can view WHO documents mentioned above for a more complete list of the key areas of assessment. If you would like to participate in a focus group, you can call 604-276-4300 or visit any Richmond Community Centre in person.

In addition, web-surfing seniors can log online to complete a short survey at http:// letstalkrichmond.ca/seniors. The survey period is set to end by Sept. 18.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; more is better You may have heard the verses is much older than the phrase, “A little learning is a 18th century. It’s possible that dangerous thing.” It’s found it goes back a few thousand InOtherWords in Alexander Pope’s poem An years.

Sabine Eiche Essay on Criticism, composed As happens so often, in 1709. Pope wrote “A little etymology can shed some learning is a dangerous thing; light on the matter. The drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: focus here is on our English word learn, there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, which developed from the Anglo-Saxon and drinking largely sobers us again.” “leornian,” meaning to learn or to study.

What does it mean? In effect, Pope is It’s akin to “lernen,” the Old High German saying that a little learning or knowledge (8th-11th centuries) and modern German (the “shallow draughts”) will only befuddle word for learn, and, going further back, to the Gothic (roughly 4th-8th centuries) (“intoxicate the brain”), misleading us into “lais,” which translates as “I know.” The thinking we know more than in fact we do.

Remedy for this problem lies in continuing base sense of “lais” is to follow or find the track. Ultimate source of the word is in the to learn (“drinking largely” at the “Pierian Proto-Indo-European language – “leis,” spring,” the spring sacred to the Muses meaning track or furrow. Related to this and the source of the knowledge of art and are, for instance, the German word “Gleis,” science). But the idea expressed in those

meaning track or rails, the Russian “lekha,” signifying garden bed (where there are furrows), and the modern English last, in the sense of a shoemaker’s foot model, which is derived from the Old English word “last,” footprint (a kind of track).

“Lira,” the Latin for furrow, track, comes from the same stem and is thus related to our word learn. The process of learning is like following a track. Interestingly, the Italian verb for studying or taking a course (at university) is “seguire,” which means to follow. The Latin “delirare,” literally to go out of the furrow in ploughing, was soon transferred to persons and meant to become insane. Our words delirium and delirious are based on “delirare.”

When we use the expression to go off the rails, in other words to behave irrationally, we are formulating the same concept

expressed by the Latin “delirare.”

To stop following the furrow, to deviate, to go off the rails, will “intoxicate the brain,” in Pope’s choice phrase. Getting back on, that is getting back to learning, is the solution to sober, or clear up, the intoxicated brain.

Inevitably, when you follow the furrow, you become aware that it continues to the horizon, and you know the horizon is always beyond reach.

The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle summed it up neatly when he noted “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” But he wasn’t the first. A couple of centuries earlier, the Chinese philosopher Confucius had observed, “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”

Sabine Eiche is a writer and art historian

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RICHMOND DRIVERS COMPETING IN MISSION Richmond’s Todd Schiewe will be racing his Chevy Corvette Z06 (124) at the Sports Car Club of B.C.’s 20th Anniversary Celebration this weekend at Mission Raceway. The event wiill feature over 125 racers from B.C., Washington and Oregon in both open wheel (formula cars) and closed wheel (sports cars and sedans).

Three will be six races all three days, starting on Saturday, running from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Another local driver — Shane Bourel — is scheduled to compete in his Diasio D962. For more information visit www.sccbc.net

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Sandhu shortlisted for B.C. U16 team Seafair Minor Hockey product Jordan Sandhu is among 27 players who have been shortlisted to play for Team B.C. at the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George next February.

The announcement came following the U16 provincial camp which took place in Nanaimo and featured on and off-ice activities — introducing the high performance athletes to the most up to date information and concepts as they relate to both national and international levels of hockey.

The players will be evaluated by the Team B.C. coaching staff over the course of the hockey season, and the final roster will be announced in November.

The Canada Winter Games take place every four years.

In 2011, Team BC captured the gold medal with a 7-4 victory over Team Quebec in Halifax, Nova Scotia. B.C. was coached by Richmond’s own Russ Weber.

Sandhu just wrapped up rookie camp with the Kelowna Rockets. The 15-year-old forward was selected 88th overall in last spring’s Western Hockey League Bantam Draft after an outstanding campaign with Seafair’s Bantam A1 team.

He has committed to play this coming season with the Greater Vancouver Canadians of the B.C. Major Midget Hockey League which play out of the Richmond Olympic Oval.

He is hoping to follow the footsteps of his older brother Tyler who also came through Seafair and now plays for the Everett Silvertips. Tyler was part of B.C.’s Hockey’s High Performance Program and played for Team Pacific at the 2013 World Under 17 Hockey Challenge.

Icing…

• Greater Vancouver Canadians alumni Adam Musil is now in the Red Deer Rebels’ training camp after helping Canada capture the U18 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in the Czech Republic.

Canada finished with a perfect 5-0 in the tournament, outscoring its opposition 32-10 — including a 6-2 win over the host country in the gold medal game. Canada has won the annual summer under-18 tournament seven consecutive years – winning 31 of 33 games over that span.

Musil finished the tournament with a goal and two assists.

The 6-foot-2 190-pound forward is coming off a 29 point rookie season with the Rebels, including 11 goals.

He is the son of former NHL defenceman Frank Musil.

• Meanwhile, Canadians goalie Tyler Shugrue was invited to the Vancouver Giants main training camp afrer a strong showing at the club’s two-day rookie camp last weekend at Sungod Arena. Shugrue had an impressive rookie campaign with Greater Vancouver last season and is one of 13 players signed for the upcoming season.

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Big bounce for gymnast Tiana Hesmert wins silver at trampoline competition in South Africa Dan Olson

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Tiana Hesmert won a silver medal representing Canada at last month’s Indo Pacific trampoline championships in South Africa. The 22-year-old trains out of Club Aviva in Coquitlam.

For her first big international foray, Tiana Hesmert picked a great time to deliver.

Against a formidable field of international competitors, the 22-year-old Richmond gymnast hit her marks and collected silver on the double-mini at the Indo-Pacific trampoline championships in South Africa last month.

A long-time member of the Coquitlam-based Club Aviva, Hesmert shook off any jitters she had and proceeded to collect one of Canada’s five medals at the Sun City competition.

“I really didn’t know what to expect, as this was my first big international meet,” said Hesmert.

“I did some of my personal bests and was doing some harder passes and the scores were higher than usual.”

Wearing the red-and-white on foreign soil was a new experience for veteran. But she didn’t let that distract her from the task at hand, posting a final score of 130.800 in

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the senior women’s 17 and older division. She trailed gold medalist Braids Thomas of Australia by just .200.

“I was a little bit surprised how calm it went, because I’ve struggled with mental blocks over my career,” she said.

However, considerable training exercises and consulting with a sports psychologist have given her a stronger footing when it comes to putting her best performance forward.

“My confidence kind of fluctuates and just at some times I found I couldn’t do certain skills… Seeing a sports psychologist has really helped get over those mental blocks.”

Hesmert has been in the gym for much of her life, beginning in the sport at the age of four on the artistic side.

The past 10 years she’s put her energy into the trampoline events, with strong results. At the Canadian nationals in May, Hesmert scored a bronze in senior women’s doublemini, improving on her debut in the senior level a year earlier by one position. At the Canada Cup she

finished fourth overall.

Her placing now assures her a chance to don the Canadian uniform again at the Senior Pan American championships in Toronto this week. She will also be among those trying to represent Canada at the World championships in London.

“We’re really thrilled at Tiana’s results to this point , she’s a very determined girl,” said Aviva coach Nancy Beyer. “She’s one of our older athletes and all our younger girls look up to her.

“The medal at the Indo-Pacific was icing on the cake.”

For Hesmert, the achievement in South Africa was less a breakthrough than an opening.

She has added to a foundation that remains a work in progress, but with each bold step the journey becomes that much richer. Being among her nation’s best has a satisfying feeling, she said.

“It felt really good wearing the Canadian colours,” she noted.

“Reaching that just means all my hard work and dedication is paying off.”

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