WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
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STRIKE
Feeding the line
Parents launch teachers’ food drive Alan Campbell
Staff Reporter acampbell@richmond-news.com
Woodward elementary parent Maria Robinson hands out home-made muffins to teachers on the picket line at her kids’ school on Tuesday. Robinson, and other local parents, is accepting food donations for teachers struggling financially during the labour dispute and will hold a drive-thru donation and pick-up Sunday. Photo by Alan Campbell/Richmond News
She hasn’t seen it with her own eyes, but Maria Robinson isn’t blind to the fact that she’d struggle to put food on the table if she had to go without an income for two months. In fact, the mom of two elementary school-aged children is acutely aware of how financially desperate things must be getting for some of the teachers during the current strike. So much so, that Robinson has been taking morning muffins, coffee and pizza lunches to the teachers on the picket line at Woodward elementary, which is just four doors from her family home. And now, with the bitter dispute looking likely to stretch into the fall, she and other parents have started a temporary food bank — called Richmond Families Supporting Richmond Families — and a drive-thru donation day for teachers. The parents are asking for community and commercial support. see STUDENTS › page 5
One dead after car flips into Fraser Passing cyclist, residents jumped into river in bid to save two men Alan Campbell
Staff Reporter acampbell@richmond-news.com
A driver has died after his vehicle flipped over on River Road in northeast Richmond and landed upside down in the Fraser River. Emergency services responded to a report around 9:30 p.m. Sunday that a
car was lying upside down in the river in the 22100 block of River Road. Nearby residents, who heard the crash, and a passing cylist tried to rescue the driver and his passenger, who were trapped inside. Shortly afterwards, Richmond firefighters used a long ladder to get to the car, which came to rest partially
submerged down a rocky embankment. Firefighters, and then paramedics, performed CPR on one person before he was taken to hospital. A second man was recovered from the water and was also taken to hospital. However, the man believed to be the driver later died. see CARS› page 5
Emergency personnel prepare to haul a man from the wreckage of a partially submerged car in the Fraser River’s north arm. Jeff Lee/Vancouver Sun
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