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Sean Norman kicks back and soaks in the natural beauty of the Northern Lights near Yellowknife, NWT. The Richmond photographer loves the aurora borealis so much, he’s moving his life to the far North while he’s using crowd funding to set up his own photographic tour business in Yellowknife.

Photo by Sean Norman

Working the crowd to chase the Lights

Palmer grad using crowd funding to help make dream of photographing aurora borealis a full-time reality Alan Campbell

Staff Reporter acampbell@richmond-news.com

Sean Norman has lived in a square kilometre of Richmond for most of his life.

Now, with the help of crowd-funding, the self-employed photographer is moving lock, stock and barrel 1,570 km northnorth east to share his love of the Aurora Borealis with tourists.

Speaking from his rented studio apartment on Granville Avenue, 28-yearold Norman told how his family has helped with a down payment on a new home he’ll turn into a guesthouse in remote Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories.

And, thanks to a fundraising drive on website Kickstarter, he’s closing in on

raising the $17,000 he needs to launch a Northern Lights photography tour business.

“I grew up on Citation Drive, just around the corner from here, with my parents and went to Sean Norman Palmer secondary, also close by,” said Norman, who juggles running his own wedding and lifestyle photography business with trips to the far North to photograph the famous dancing lights phenomenon.

“I’m a winter person, I love the cold and the snow, and I loved the small, community feel (in Yellowknife) and it has a great arts

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scene going for it as well, there are tons of artists and I’m a winter photographers. person. I love the “And as cold as it snow and cold. is, people love to be outside up there and that’s another reason I fell in love with it.”

Norman first witnessed the Northern Lights in the winter of 2007 while in Norway and he was hooked.

“I had to keep going back again and again to see them until my dad said, ‘hey, you know you can see them in Canada, right?’

“I think I just liked the novelty of going overseas to see them.”

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And four years ago, Norman snagged a ground crew job with a small airline flying out of YVR to Yellowknife, which just happened to offer staff discounted flights to NWT. “Almost two years ago, I was building a home up there with my then girlfriend from Richmond,” explained Norman.

“But (the relationship) didn’t work out and it wasn’t until the fall of last year that an opportunity came up with the same building company to buy a house that was already built.

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Steves re-spawns chum plan end of the park to stop water from flowing in during moments of high river levels.

Furthermore, the city would have to create a gradient in the slough for flowing water, also essential for fish eggs.

An ambitious plan to bring spawning The problems are not lost on local, retired salmon to the Terra Nova slough is being fish biologist Otto Langer. tabled by Coun. Harold Steves, who says “If the eggs do not doing so would fulfill get a free flow of a long-held promise from the city.

“Why are we destroying what water around them, they cannot get the “Let’s get the nature has built for us, then we oxygen they need salmon back to the try and recreate it at great and will suffocate. slough, just as we Also, the water flow initially planned,” expense where it probably will is needed to remove said Steves, who has metabolic wastes asked staff to explore not work?” such as ammonia and what it will take to - Otto Langer carbon dioxide.” bring chum salmon Langer said if that were to happen, pumps to the area. might still be required to flush out the Vancouver and Burnaby have spent outgoing channel into Sturgeon Bank. millions on various successful projects to Better water flow means cleaner gravel uncover once buried salmon creeks.

Steves told the News he doesn’t know the and less muddy water, thus allowing for better potential spawning. With muddier exact cost of such a plan at Terra Nova, but water, Langer said the slough could still pegged it at under $1 million. become a good habitat for salmon fry.

Steves said there are educational and Steves said better flow would mitigate the historical benefits to the project, noting need down the road to clean out the slough his father told him stories of chum salmon spawning in Richmond sloughs, where First of duck excrement; something the city is Nations people once made their home at the spending $1 million on at Minoru ponds.

That said, Langer questioned whether it turn of the 20th century. was good use of taxpayers’ money in light There appear to be pros and cons to such of the fact the provincial government has a fish habitat project at Terra Nova.

For instance, while the slough has already allowed for mass expropriation of gravel (salmon spawning habitat) from the Fraser been uncovered and gravel, essential for River upstream, in Chilliwack. chum spawning, has been laid, the city would have to build a sea gate at the north “Why are we destroying what nature has Graeme Wood

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Coun. Harold Steves said filling the Terra Nova slough with spawning chum salmon would fulfil an age-old city council promise. However, retired fish biologist Otto Langer said the plan will face it challenges. Photo by Graeme Wood/Richmond News built for us then we try and recreate it at great expense where it probably will not work?” he asked.

Steves agreed that it would take a significant investment.

“We built a million-dollar playground that doesn’t belong there, so we ought to be able to spend some money to get on with this

overdue project,” said Steves, who added he now regrets voting for the play area, as it was constructed.

“We were told it would be kids climbing trees and playing on logs like Richmond used to be. Then we ended up with that,” he said, adding the proposition will be tabled to city council on April 13.

Norman: Offering rewards for donations to dream ‹ from page 1

Then, with his mind turning to how to turn his dream of running photography tours into reality, a friend suggested crowdfunding.

“The more I looked into it, the more sense it made,” said Norman.

“But it ended up being just as much about connecting with people interested in the Northern Lights as it was about raising

money for the business.”

Needing start-up cash of around $17,000 for items such as clothes (parkas) for the guests and tripods for photography, Norman’s site is sitting at just more than $13,000, with 10 days still to go.

There are all kinds of rewards for donors, depending on how much they donate; from prints of his Northern Lights photos to an all-expenses paid trip to Yellowknife for the

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“I did have my doubts (about crowdfunding) and I’d no idea I’d be able to raise this much,” added Norman.

“I’m just going to wing it with the guest house thing. I just have one bedroom for the guests, it’s one half of a duplex and I’ll maybe purchase the other half if things go well.”

Norman plans to up sticks and move within the first two weeks of May, before

taking possession of his new home May 28.

“I’ll get to work in the summer and hopefully open up at the end of August,” he said.

“There’s too much daylight to see the Lights before then anyway.”

If you’d like to donate to Norman’s fundraising campaign, go to www. kickstarter.com/projects/1958838671/seansnorthern-light-photography-tours.

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In its first attempt to respond to widespread complaints within the city over large, new homes — colloquially known as mega or monster homes — the City of Richmond is proposing a bylaw amendment that will tighten height restrictions to eliminate flatroofed, three-storey homes.

The new, proposed bylaw — presented by city planners to city council Monday — will reduce the height of flat-roofed homes from nine metres to 7.5 metres, thus eliminating a homebuilder’s ability to build overt three-story homes.

Such homebuilders will still be allowed to construct three-storey homes at a height of nine metres, but the third storey must be somewhat hidden within the pitched roof of the home.

Furthermore, no balconies will be allowed above a second floor of a home and roof and window setbacks will be amended to improve privacy concerns.

The changes were welcomed with cautious optimism from real estate agent Lynda Terborg, who spoke to council before it approved the bylaw, which is now set for a public hearing on April 20.

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Coun. Bill McNulty took credit for the changes.

“There are groups that are on our side on this,” he said.

Coun. Harold Steves was also pleased with the amendment.

“Now, the bylaw is making it very clear we don’t accept three-storey buildings in a two-and-a half-storey zone,” said Steves.

The bylaw, if approved following the public hearing at Richmond City Hall, will be reviewed in one year’s time.

City planners have told council they continue to work on amending roughly 4,000 land-use contracts, which don’t fall under city zoning bylaws.

Homes on land-use contracts, which once fell under provincial jurisdiction, can be built with three storeys, up to 11.5 metres, and can maximize floor area beyond city regulations.

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However, Terborg noted the changes still don’t fully address the largess of the homes relative to their older counterparts.

“How is it we’re sitting here with puffed up houses on steroids?” she asked, noting home builders are still maximizing regulations related to such things as floor area and ceiling heights.

A city report to council stated the new homes were being built in such a manner as to reflect “current market land and construction prices.”

The bylaw allowing for such large homes was last amended in 2008, when the city stipulated “two-and-a-half” storey homes were permitted.

“The increasing use of flat roof designs was not envisioned when the definition was amended,” noted the report.

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Keeping her kids free from stressladen schedules on the weekend is the first thing on Traci Costa’s list.

After all, the mom-of-two and founder of Richmond’s missionbased children’s playwear retailer, Peakaboo Beans, knows that stress equates to anxiety, making high quality, unstructured “freeplay,” as Costa calls it, difficult to achieve.

And with a fifth of Canadian children diagnosed with anxietybased issues, Costa and her team are hosting a “Making Sense of Anxiety” workshop for parents next week, when the guest speaker will be Deborah MacNamara, PhD, RCC, educator and clinical counselor at the Vancouver-based Neufeld Institute Faculty.

“We have ‘Play-ducation’ events every month with speakers on different topics related to children and parenting,” explained Costa, who makes sure her 11- and six-year-old children’s programs, such as dance and choir, are done through the week, leaving Friday, Saturday and Sunday completely

Peakaboo Beans founder Traci Costa, above, believes in keeping weekends free of schedules, so her kids can play freely. free to play.

“This one will deal with anxiety in children and how that affects their ability to play and socialize. It will provide tools and resources for parents.

“And it will hopefully help make sense of a number of situations we find ourselves in as parents.”

MacNamara said the workshop is going to look at the roots of anxiety and seek to recognize children’s “alarms.”

“We will be coming from the perspective of relationships and human vulnerability and highlighting the importance of relationships,” she added.

“One of the most important factors of freeplay is to be free of anxiety and be ‘at rest.’

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MacNamara said the strategies for dealing with the anxiety are “surprising in their simplicity” and are all “natural and all within the parents’ realm of influence.

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A former Richmond Mountie involved in the tragic death of Robert Dziekanski at YVR has been convicted for lying at a public inquiry into the incident.

Benjamin “Monty” Robinson was charged along with three other officers following their testimony at hearings into the events leading to Dziekanski being stunned with a Taser and later dying at Vancouver Benjamin Robinson Airport in October 2007.

Robinson is the second of the officers to be convicted of perjury. One of them was acquitted, while another is still waiting on a verdict.

Robinson, who is in his mid-40s, left the RCMP in 2012.

Const. Bill Bentley was acquitted of the perjury charge in 2013, though the Crown is appealing the verdict.

Const. Kwesi Millington was convicted last month and is awaiting a sentencing hearing.

Const. Gerry Rundel’s trial has finished and he is waiting for a verdict.

Robinson left the RCMP voluntarily in 2012, while near the end of a trial in which he was convicted of obstruction of justice for his actions following a fatal collision with a motorcyclist in Tsawwassen.

Robinson was the officer in charge when Polish immigrant Dziekanski died on Oct. 14, 2007, after RCMP officers repeatedly shot him with a Taser at YVR, in an incident that garnered international attention when it was captured on video by another traveller.

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ast week, researchers at the University of Texas published a study that found that warming ocean water was reaching Antarctica’s Totten Glacier.

This is troubling because the glacier’s ice alone is sufficient to raise global sea level by at least 11 feet.

The next day, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Todd Stone revealed the province’s 10-year transportation plan.

There’s money for bike lanes and $312 million for transit funding elsewhere in the province but the gist of

the plan is $2.5 billion to be spent on widening highways and rehabilitating roads and bridges.

The plan and its timing have no doubt been a poke in the eye for the Lower Mainland’s mayors who have been handed the staggering task of winning a plebiscite on funding expansion of our own transit system.

Just under one-third of North America’s greenhouse gases comes from our transportation sector — much of that from the tailpipes of people commuting long distances.

Our urban landscape was largely planned when fossil fuels were in seemingly endless and cheap supply, there was plenty of elbow room on our roads and tax dollars to build more when they filled up, and climate change was something debated by science nerds.

Now we know better. Or at least we should.

Contending with the costly and damaging effects of climate change is going to be the defining challenge of our time and it’s certainly going to be a legacy future generations judge us by.

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September the provincial government is going Don’t worry — I’ll post this online so you can to bump it up, a whopping raise of . . . 20 read it while avoiding face-to-face interaction cents per hour! Time to start house shopping! with your family.

And for those of you who were lucky Speaking of old people, you can read this enough to make it through university without too, older adults, but please save your tskselling both kidneys, how’s that student debt tsking for Facebook where no one under the feeling right now? Kind of heavy, isn’t it. age of 30 will ever see it.

You better not slack on the payments, Anyway, here’s your call-to-action, you though — Christy Clark’s government is wrinkle-free young wonders: you need to proposing new legislation that would allow vote Yes in that transit plebiscite your poli ICBC to withhold your driver’s licence if you sci professor keeps yakking about, and you have missed student loan payments. That’s need to convince everyone you know to do super thoughtful — what better way to help the same. someone get back on the path to success than Why? Well, let’s take a look at some of the to take away their transportation? awesome perks young people have been given Well, at least you can shoosh your recently in British Columbia. blues away doing your favourite thing,

snowboarding on the North Shore’s beautiful mountains. Oh, right . . . those are a little rocky too this season.

In fact, this winter was the warmest in terms of global average temperature ever recorded. And globally, according to NASA, 2014 was the warmest year measured in the modern record. And nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern record have occurred since 2000. But those warm temperatures are probably just a coincidence and have nothing to do with climate change stemming from all the awesome things the leaders of today are pumping into the atmosphere. Right?

Serious quick rant: do you ever feel like the frog in the proverbial pot of boiling water? Do you, like me, have that nagging feeling that we’re all going to be underwater, burnt to a crisp, or living in suddenly balmy Tuktoyaktuk in 30 years? That’s one more present to you, young people.

Anyway, if only there was something you could do that would actually, in a small but very real way, contribute to the reversal of some of these buzz-killing trends. Oh look, here comes a regional plebiscite — albeit a

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vague, weirdly worded and potentially nonbinding one — that is asking us whether we want to add half a cent to the sales tax to fund a whole host of transportation upgrades.

Transportation upgrades help everyone — fewer cars means less traffic jams, obvi — but in particular young folks who can’t afford or just don’t want to own a car. And look at all these great infrastructures in the proposal — finally, something going our way.

Or is it? Polls leading up to the plebiscite, which is being conducted through mail-outs from now until May, show that the No side has a big lead.

Find your ballot and vote Yes. Find any old person you know who wants to vote No and ask them why they want to — in the wonderful parlance of our time — throw so much shade at us young people just trying to get by in a world we can’t afford.

Tell them not to be such a h8tr. Then give them a wink, a knowing smile, and tell them you know they’ll do the right thing to help the future of this beautiful chunk of land we love.

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Bill C-51 an example of not learning from history The Editor, The old adage “if you do not learn from history you are bound to repeat it” seems to hold true even in cases of very near and very recent history.

The Patriot Act, which was signed into law after the 9/11 attacks, and is, by most experts’ estimation, a major threat to the very rights and dignity of innocent Americans, is about to be adopted by our government.

For reasons beyond my understanding, our government has decided not to learn from the U.S.’s mistake but, rather, to repeat it. It is with a heavy heart that I write today to express my strong opposition to the proposed legislation Bill C-51.

Let me just highlight three major repercussions this bill, if passed, will have on the inherent rights

Driving joke has its roots Dear Editor Re: “Chinese driver signs give a red light,” News March 20.

Your article about the Chinese driver decal has raised an issue I think has to be talked about. First of all, you sought out members of the Chinese community to make comments and obviously they are going to say they are offended by the stereotyping. Doing that suppresses any honest discussion which causes people to harbour their resentments that ultimately allows “racism” to flourish.

Have you forgotten the big scandal about Chinese buying their drivers licences from a corrupt opportunist? Or about drivers licences from China being valid, even though the driver has not taken a Canadian road test.

How many of these violations of our code of conduct are we suppose to take without becoming jaded and angry. Also, these decals have blatantly used the ICBC logo. This is very concerning.

Zara Macleod Richmond

of every Canadian citizen.

First, each and every one of us will have our privacy compromised. Not only will we no longer be protected from the government monitoring our communications, we also risk having our words, thoughts, and sentiments

held against us if perceived to be problematic or questionable by government agencies.

Second, this bill will allow unprecedented power to our government officials. It will effectively award to them the legal grounds necessary to target

individuals or groups simply on the basis of a “perceived” terrorist threat.

Finally, racial, ethnic, and religious profiling will increase, significantly, and we will be compromising the dignity and privacy of our most vulnerable citizens.

This bill has too many

dire consequences directly associated with it to go unchallenged.

To add insult to injury, there are no proposed oversights specific to this bill.

In short, the government could – and history has shown that governments will

— use the passing of this bill as a means of profiling and prosecuting innocent people.

It is time we spoke up and fought back against our government’s nefarious attempts to pass Bill C-51.

Jack Trovato Richmond, B.C.

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Canada Berries set to capitalize on China’s growing taste for blueberry wines Philip Raphael

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“They are wowed mainly on the taste side. The health It’s not every day that a aspects, that tends to come business projects doubling its later. And China mainly relies sales. on importing the fruit, fresh or But the thirst for Canadianfrozen, from countries such as made wine products in Asia is Canada and Chile. driving one Richmond winery to “That’s why they (Chinese) ramp up its bottling lines. see our wines as a very highTommy Yuan, founder and end, luxury item,” he added. director of Canada Berries According to provincial Enterprises Ltd. — formerly government figures, although 80 known as Sanduz Estate Winery per cent of B.C.’s wine exports in the heart of east Richmond’s in 2011 were shipped to China, blueberry growing fields — is a mere one per cent of China’s confident his 10-acre, blueberry total wine imports were from growing and wine bottling Canada, ranking it 12th behind operation will countries like be building France and They are wowed on the 50,000 Australia. bottles it Yuan said mainly on the exported in his operation, taste side. The 2014. and others health aspects, While like his in targeting that tends to come the Canadian the growing industry, are later.

Chinese working hard market is not on closing - Tommy Yuan a new story, ground on the capturing export market more of the leaders. And non-grape in his case, wine market is Yuan said a developing trend. he is hoping to leverage the unique nature of Richmond as a Both Agriculture Canada popular destination for Chinese and the B.C. Wine Institute immigrants to help open more have both owed to the growth doors to Asian markets. of middle class consumers “A lot of our promotion is who have a taste for premium products, including wine. happening by word of mouth “Improving health is part of through the community here,” the attraction. And the second Yuan said, adding he is also thing is that many customers tapping into the Canada in China view blueberries as a Asia Business Network, an rare fruit,” said Yuan, explaining organization he created in 2007, the demand for the line of which currently has more than antioxidant-rich blueberry wines 1,000 members on its books.

Canada Berries produces from “That’s part of my current fruit grown in Richmond and focus, helping promote

BIZ BRIEFS Water slide firm heads out to sea Richmond’s Whitewater West Industries has been chosen to build an aqua park for one of MSC Cruises next generation, 4100-passenger, “Seaside” ships that is set to sail yearround from Miami to the Caribbean starting in 2017. The aqua park will have five water slides and attractions for all ages, including the industry’s first Slideboarding facility — a unique waterslide and interactive video game all in one. Guests race down a twostorey, 367-foot slide on a sleekly designed raft that includes an embedded game controller with colored buttons.

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Tommy Yuan of Canada Berries in east Richmond is planing to double its wine exports this year, most of it heading to China where their blueberry products are highly sought after.

Photo by Philip Raphael/Richmond News Canadian business to the Chinese market,” said Yuan, who came to Canada in 1996 after studying computer science in Florida. “We are helping businesses here take their products, raise some capital and essentially do some business matchmaking.

“We are focused on three sectors: natural resources, innovations, and environmental products.”

And wine exports, it could be argued, fit into those categories quite nicely.

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in China that could benefit this company,” Yuan said.

“Our goals are a bit aggressive and ambitious. But we have a very good team that’s working hard to get us into those markets.”

Part of the efforts on the ground here in Richmond to raise brand awareness about Canada Berries included some recent Chinese New Year celebrations at the Blundell Road location that invited the public to come and see what the business is all about.

Lulu owner up for immigrant award John Chang, president of Lulu Island Winery, has been nominated for the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Awards of 2015. Chang, and other finalists, can be supported in an online vote until May 11 at www. canadianimmigrant.ca/rbctop25.

Winners will receive $500 toward a Canadian charity of their choice.

Chang, who is originally from Taiwan, came to Canada in 1995 and started up his 15-acre facility on Westminster Highway.

In 2013, Lulu Island Winery’s ice wine production constituted roughly 50 per cent of B.C.’s ice wine production, of which 70 per cent is exported to China, Japan and Taiwan. In 2013, China, Japan and Taiwan represented approximately 50 per cent of total Canadian ice wine exports.

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The City of Richmond is asking the federal government to reform Port Metro Vancouver and force the sale of Gilmore Farm, so it can be farmed in perpetuity.

The port (PMV) has yet to determine what to do with the 239-acre east Richmond farm situated in the Agricultural Land Reserve, however, the land falls under a “special study area,” according to the port’s land-use plan.

The city contends the port may develop the farm 10-plus years into the future.

According to the port, its current inventory of industrial land is sufficient to meet demand for the next 10 years. To meet long-term needs the port has told the city it requires 2,300 acres across Metro Vancouver.

Because the port is a quasi-federal agency, it may be able to supersede the authority of the provincial Agricultural Land Commission and thus develop farmland, unless otherwise challenged in court.

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Rattan also addressed city councillors last Monday at a general committee meeting.

“Their growth strategy needs to be put into question. The port has a mantra of growth at any cost,” said Rattan.

The city is also calling on the federal government — via John Baird, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities — to prohibit the port from purchasing more farmland.

Further to that, a third request is for the federal government to establish a “meaningful consultation process and a formal dispute resolution process to address municipalport issues arising from its operations and activities.”

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The Richmond Public Library is hosting a free workshop called “Living with Liver Disease: Myths and Facts about Hepatitis C” on March 25 from 7– 8 p.m. at the Brighouse (Main) Branch.

Learn how to keep your liver healthy with Dr. Edward Tam and RN Carolyn Klassen. The workshop is sponsored by the Canadian Liver Foundation. For info visit yourlibrary.ca/events.

Richmond Public Art Program in partnership with Kwantlen Polytechnic University presents “Feed the Soul,” the ninth volume of PechaKucha Night Richmond. A free event, this PechaKucha will feature 10 speakers who will be covering a wide variety of highly interesting and entertaining subjects while presenting 20 images for 20 seconds in an informal setting.

Find great deals on children’s clothes, toys and equipment at the Kids Only Swap Meet March 28 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Thompson Community Centre (5151 Granville Ave.) To book a table to sell items, call 604-2388422. Table rental is $12 for a six-foot table or $16 for a 10-foot table.

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on March 28 with an organized walk from 10 - 11 a.m. With a panoramic view of the Fraser River, this walk along Dyke Road and back, passes by the historic community. Meeting spot: Woodwards Landing Parking Lot (11551 Dyke Rd.) — one block west of No. 5 Rd. off Dyke Rd. For More information, call the Richmond Fitness and Wellness Association at 604-238-8004, or email walking@richmond.ca.

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There is also a stamp with the manufacturer’s date on the tire. Tires should last 6 - 8 years depending on weather conditions.

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Avoid common mistakes on home reno projects Homeowners going it alone may find things do not always go as planned. In fact, a Harris Interactive study found that 85 per cent of homeowners say remodeling is a more stressful undertaking than buying a home.

But homeowners about to embark on home improvement projects can make the process go more smoothly by avoiding these common pitfalls. ! Failing to understand the scope of the project Some homeowners don’t realize just how big a commitment they have made until they get their hands dirty. But understanding the scope of the project, including how much demolition and reconstruction is involved and how much time a project will take can help homeowners avoid some of the stress that comes with renovation projects. For example, a bathroom renovation may require the removal of

may want to postpone the project and save more money so you can eventually afford to do it right.

Without a budget in place, it is easy to overspend, and that can put you in financial peril down the line.

Worrying about coming up with money to pay for materials and labour also can induce stress. Avoid the anxiety by setting a firm budget. ! Making trendy or overpersonal improvements Homeowners who plan to stay in their homes for the long run have more free reign when it

Home renovations do not have to be stress-filled if you adequately plan for them in terms of your expectations and the impact on your finances.

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drywall, reinforcement of flooring to accommodate a new bathtub or shower enclosure and the installation of new plumbing and wiring behind walls. So such a renovation is far more detailed than simply replacing faucets.

! Not establishing a budget Homeowners must develop a project budget to ensure their projects do not drain their finances. If your budget is so inflexible that you can’t afford the materials you prefer, you

comes to renovating their homes.

Such homeowners can create a billiards room or paint a room hot pink if they so prefer. However, if the goal is to make improvements in order to sell a property, overly personal touches may make a property less appealing to prospective buyers. Trends come and go, and improvements can be expensive. If your ultimate goal is to sell your home, opt for renovations that will look beautiful through the ages and avoid bold choices that may only appeal to a select few buyers. ! Forgetting to properly vet all workers It is important to vet your contractor, but don’t forget to vet potential subcontractors, as well.

Failing to do so can prove a costly mistake. Contractors often look to subcontractors and it is the responsibility of homeowners to vet these workers.

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Alin Vasilas (left) was helping celebrate International Day of Happiness Friday at Richmond Centre where the public was invited to post goodwill messages on a special wall.

International Day of Happiness was established by the United Nations General Assembly on 28 June 2012, and this year’s event locally was sponsored by Live Happy Magazine.

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KUDOS The Sahara Sisters Group donated $3,000 to Richmond Hospital Foundation to help improve local health care for patients and families at Richmond Hospital.

Accepting the cheque from Sahara Sisters members Rashpal Bal (left) and Ranjit Kooner (right) was the foundation’s Carleen Pauliuk, director of donor relations and events. Photo submitted

Public relations students at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in Richmond raised more than $18,000 to support the Eversafe Ranch Outreach Society – enough to help purchase a 22-seat passenger van to transport clients in need to afterschool programs. Photo submitted

SPECIAL MEDAL WINNERS Special Olympics-Richmond recently celebrated athletes at the Special Olympics B.C. Winter Provincial Games in Kamloops (from left to right). In curling were Ian deVries and Graeme Johnston, who managed to sweep their way to a silver medal win.

Figure skater Matthew Lai captured a bronze medal; Nicky Chow, Richmond’s most decorated athlete, captured four medals at the games for his dominating performance in speed skating and floor hockey enthusiasts Ryan Stewart and Sandra Malku helped their teammates to a gold medal finish.

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Ravens capture pair of B.C. titles Midget and Bantam girls teams are victorious in Penticton and Castlegar

Richmond Ravens capped a tremendous season by capturing the Bantam A provincial girls hockey championship with a 6-0 win over Surrey in the final.

Richmond Ravens solidified themselves as one of the top girls hockey programs in the province by capturing a pair of B.C. banners last week.

The Ravens’ Midget A1 and Bantam A1 teams both capped tremendous seasons with championship victories at their respective tournaments. The Midget A1s rolled to five straight wins in Penticton, while the Bantams won five of six games in Castlegar.

The Midget Ravens avenged last season’ heartbreaking 4-3 gold medal game loss to the North Island Impact to deliver veteran coach AJ Sander his third B.C. title in four years.

The game was scoreless after two periods when Richmond’s Yvonne Mikulcik converted a feed from Marisa Chau to open the scoring just seven seconds into the final frame. Mikulcik struck again five minutes later, this time on a set-up from Natalie Lester, to give the Ravens some breathing room.

Chau added an empty netter in the final minute.

Richmond had secured a spot in

the championship game with a hardfought 1-0 victory over eventual bronze medalist Williams Lake. Chau’s first period goal stood up as the winner.

The Ravens opened the tournament with a 3-0 win over Cranbrook, highlighted by a pair of goals from Briana Trottier. The girls then defeated Terrace 3-1.

Richmond also cruised to a 5-1 win over the host team from Penticton.

The Ravens’ outstanding discipline and sportsmanship were reflected in also taking home the Fair Play Award.

In Castlegar, the Bantam Ravens defeated their arch-rival for the second time this month with a banner on the line to take home provincial gold.

After finishing just a single point behind the Surrey Falcons in the regular season standings, Tony Lindsay’s squad produced a narrow 1-0 home ice triumph to capture the Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey playoff title. They earned two more wins over their rival at provincials, including a dominating 6-0 victory in the championship game.

The Ravens took a 1-0 lead into the second period, then took full control with three more goals in the middle frame. Darci Johal led the way with a pair of goals. Kate Reilly, Kristen Abo Maddie Warren and Karina Lannard had the others.

The earlier round-robin match-up saw Richmond pull out a 4-3 thriller, netting the tying goal with less than two minutes remaining and its goalie on the bench. The game winner came with just 30 seconds left. Myah Bowal led the way with a hat trick. Lannard also scored.

Richmond opened the tournament with a 6-1 win over Kelowna, led by another three goal effort from Bowal.

Hannah Green was also among the scorers.

The Ravens then dropped a 3-2 decision to the South Island Royals, despite two goals from Jenna Velji. The girls rebounded later that night with a 4-0 triumph over the hosts. Bowal and Velji each netted a pair.

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“Three Years No-Charge Oil and Filter” is not included with any European models, any V8 Engine, 370Z, Titan or Nissan GTR. No-Charge All Wheel Drive is offered only on 2015 Juke, 2015 Rogue and 4x4 models. No-Charge All Wheel drive is only for cash transactions and cannot be combined with any special subvented finance or leases. Vehicle may not be in stock and subject to a dealer locate. All prices are plus a $549 processing fee and all taxes. 2015 Armada price is plus $2,000 government levy. *To qualify, participants must have purchased a new or used vehicle at Pan Pacific Nissan Richmond between January 20th to March 31st, 2015. Draw date: April 1st, 2015. ▲Lease payments of $64/$92/$61 on the must be made on a semi-monthly basis and cannot be made weekly. 2015 Altima (T4LG15-AA00) 120 equal payments of $128 plus taxes per month, 2015 Verse Note (B5RG55-AA00) 120 equal payments of $84 plus taxes per month, 2015 Sentra (C4LG55-AA00) 120 equal payments of $89 plus taxes per month. Weekly lease payments are for advertising purposes only. †Offer is administered by Nissan Canada Extended Services Inc. (NCESI) and applies to any new 2015 Rogue (each, an “Eligible Model”) leased and registered through Nissan Canada Financial Services Inc., on approved credit, between March 3 – March 31, 2015 from an authorized Nissan retailer in Canada. Eligible only on leases through NCF with subvented rates. Offer recipient will be entitled to receive a maximum of six (6) service visits (each, a “Service Visit”) for the Eligible Vehicle – where each Service Visit consists of one (1) oil change (using conventional 5W30 motor oil) and one (1) tire rotation service (each, an “Eligible Service”). All Eligible Services will be conducted in strict accordance with the Oil Change and Tire Rotation Plan outline in the Agreement Booklet for the Eligible Vehicle. The service period (“Service Period”) will commence on the lease transaction date (“Transaction Date”) and will expire on the earlier of: (i) the date on which the maximum number of Service Visits has been reached; (ii) 36 months from the Transaction Date; or (iii) when the Eligible Vehicle has reached 48,000 kilometers. All Eligible Services must be completed during the Service Period, otherwise they will be forfeited. The Offer may be upgraded to use premium oil at the recipient’s expense.

The Eligible Services are not designed to meet all requirements and specifications necessary to maintain the Eligible Vehicle. To see the complete list of maintenance necessary, please refer to the Service Maintenance Guide. Any additional services required are not covered by the Offer and are the sole responsibility and cost of the recipient. Offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain offers NCESI reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. Additional conditions and limitations apply. Ask your retailer for details. ´Representative semi-monthly lease offer based on any new 2015 Rogue S FWD CVT (Y6RG15 AA00)lease APR for a 60month term equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $138 with $0 down payment, and $0 security deposit. First semi-montthly payment, down payment and $0 security deposit are due at lease inception. Prices and payments include freight and fees. Lease based on a maximum of 20,000 km/year with excess charged at $0.10/km. This offer is only valid from March 3 - 31, 2015. ▲Models shown $45,248 Selling Price for a new 2015 Rogue SL AWD Premium (Y6DG15 BK00) AWD. *◆±#◆Freight and PDE charges.Offers have no cash alternative value. See your participating Nissan retailer for complete details. ©1998-2015 Nissan Canada Inc. and Nissan Financial Services Inc. a division of Nissan Canada Inc. Auto Show Bonus applies to only Nissan contract, does not qualify for cash purchase.

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