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Early into the new year,Richmond is facing its first homi-cide investigation.

Police have not said it was atargeted attack, but did say theybelieve the incident was not unpro-voked or random.

Police were called to a homeat 8431 Steveston Highway —between No. 3 Road and RoselandGate — at around 4:30 p.m. onMonday where they discovereda seriously injured man on theproperty. Paramedics were calledin and tried to revive the man tono avail, according to RichmondRCMP spokesperson Cpl. StephanieAshton.

Immediately thereafter, theRCMP’s Integrated HomicideInvestigation Team (IHIT) was

called to the scene.IHIT has remained tight-lipped

about the nature of the victim’sinjuries, as well as a motive andwhether or not there are suspects.

“The injuries observed wereconsistent with the male havingbeen the victim of a homicide,”stated an IHIT press release.

IHIT spokesperson Cpl.Dominic Duchesneau said Tuesdaythat police don’t believe the inci-dent was unprovoked or a randomattack but noted it’s too early toconfirm.

“We don’t think it’s a randomattack. Could it change tomorrow?Potentially,” said Duchesneau.

The name of the victim has notbeen released and police are stilltrying to make a connection to thehouse.

The incident caused the closureof Steveston Highway for most of

the night and westbound rush hourtraffic was rerouted along RosehillDrive.

Cheryl Kuchta, who livesdirectly behind the home underinvestigation, said she didn’t see orhear anything on Monday, but thenews of a suspected homicide in herneighbourhood is unsettling.

“It could be a scary thing if itwas a gang murder or random,” saidKuchta.

On Tuesday, police kept twolanes of Steveston Highway closedas white IHIT vans parked curbside. Prior to a tent being erected onthe driveway, a CTV news helicop-ter captured video of tarps laid outon the ground.

IHIT is asking anyone withinformation to call the IHIT tiplineat 1-877-551-4448 or, to remainanonymous, Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

BY GRAEME WOODSpecial to the News

Police find seriously injured man outside home on Steveston Highway; incident not believed to be random

“It’s definitelynot from around

here,”— Jason Roberts

GRAEME WOOD/RICHMOND NEWS

Police vans are stationed in front of a home on Steveston Highwayeast of No. 3 road, where a man died Monday afternoon.

‘Death sentence’ denouncedThe family of two Rottweilersprotest the city’s order to havethe dogs euthanized after oneof them bit a constructionworker. 3

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Editorial 8

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Richmond marks first homicide of the year

Python slithers its way into cellphone store

BY PHILIP [email protected]

see Snake page 5

A cellphone store atLansdowne Centre shut its doorsa little early Monday eveningas a local reptile rescue sheltermember retrieved a snake fromthe premises.

According to Jason Roberts,the mall’s general manager, thefour-foot-long long, two-inchdiameter critter — a young ball

python — was located and safelytucked into a boxthen taken away to alocal reptile shelteraround closing time.

“It’s reallyweird,” Roberts said.“Nothing like thishas ever happenedin the mall before.”

Mall staff were busy Tuesdaymorning trying to figure out ifthe snake somehow managed to

make its way into the shoppingcentre by itself,was a pet of oneof the adjacentstore owners thatescaped, or wasdropped off at theWind Mobile storeas a practical joke.

When the Newscalled the store, staff declined tocomment on the matter.

There are no pet stores at the

mall, leaving Roberts to believethe snake — which was docileenough to be retrieved by hand— may have been placed there.

“It’s definitely not fromaround here,” Roberts said.

Since the snake’s discoverywas close to closing time, theincident did not affect otherbusinesses at the mall.

Lansdowne Centre officials puzzled by reptile’s appearance around microwave oven

Staff found python wrappedaround a microwave oven.

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Save Axle and Paris frombeing executed.

The message was plainand simple Monday morn-ing outside Richmond CityHall as a small gatheringof animal rights activists,dog owners and dog loversprotested for the repeal ofan order to euthanize a pairof eight-year-old Rotweilersinvolved in a biting incidentof a construction workerlast October.

While supporters held upplacards saying Do Not KillOur Pets, Rehab Works, andSave Axle and Paris, own-ers Prabjot and Raj Nijjerexpressed their grief in thedeath sentence hanging overtheir dogs.

“I am here to support mytwo lovely dogs,” Prabjottold a group of news media,her voice quivering. “Iwant them free and to comehome very quickly.”

Since the incident thedogs, Paris and Axle,have been in the care ofthe Richmond AnimalProtection Society, buttheir owners have not beenallowed to see them despitehaving to pay for their $25 aday care at the shelter.

Last October, the pairmanaged to get out of theNijjer’s yard and ended upapproaching a construc-tion worker employed at anearby development.

According to Prabjot,Axle’s encounter with theworker did not result in any

serious injury. But the cityis viewing the incident dif-ferently and considers thetwo to be a threat to publicsafety, said spokesman TedTownsend.

“It’s not something wetake lightly,” Townsend said.“But if we believe publicsafety is at risk, then this isan action (euthanasia) that isopen to us. Ultimately, thejudge will decide if that’s theappropriate action.”

A court date has been setfor April, one the Nijjer’slawyer, Joe Peschisolido,

hopes can be moved up andthe city’s order to put themdown overturned.

In the meantime,Peschisolido, a former localpolitician, wants the dogsreturned to their ownerswho have installed a six-foot fence on their propertyto ensure the dogs do notescape again. They havealso vowed to have themeuthanized should anotherincident occur.

Peschilsolido added thecity’s current order to eutha-nize is unwarranted.

“I don’t believe that isfair,” Peschilsolido said,adding the Nijjer’s areunderstandably upset atbeing separated from theirpets they have cared forsince they were young pup-pies and consider them tobe like their children.

Ordering both dogs tobe killed when only one,Axle, was directly involvedin the incident is unusual,Peschisolido added.

“We don’t know whythey are asking to killboth dogs or any of them,”Peschisolido said.

Protest organizer CarolynQuirt said she feels the cityis taking a “bullying stance”on the issue and believes thematter should be resolvedbefore it goes to court.

“It seems really unfairand I don’t like the waythe city is dealing with thesituation,” Quirt said, add-ing when she learned aboutthe story felt outraged andthought something shouldbe done to save the animals.

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Prabjot Nijjer,the owner of twoRottweilers, talksto assembledmedia, while herpets remain in‘custody’ at thecity’s animal wel-fare centre.

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When Compass Card beta tester PatrickRault was issued the new TransLink farecard last fall, he dutifully tried to use it totap in and tap out of each bus he took.

But on more than one occasion, he sim-ply couldn’t: The driver shut off the enginebefore he could exit and the card readersshut down.

“It has some flaws,” Rault said frankly.And, he added, card reader “reaction time ispretty slow. When you unload a full bus, itwill take longer for people to unload, espe-cially in rush hour.”

Those are just two of the glitchesrevealed by Compass Card testing.

Others include hard-to-see card readerscreens, poor operationof reader sensors in lowlight, and fare gate beepingnoises that are either tooloud or too quiet.

Now, the clock is tick-ing to eliminate flaws withjust a few months to gobefore public adoption ofthe system this summer.

Chief among other concerns, Raultsaid, was that infrequent riders without aCompass Card will have to pay cash to ridea bus (where there is no card vending), thenpay again for a card at a SkyTrain station, asthey can’t pass fare gates with a bus transfer.

“Occasional users will pay more,” saidRault, vice-president of the transit advocacygroup Transport Action B.C. “They will becharged twice; that is not really fair. Thatwill not encourage people to take transit forspontaneous trips.”

Rick Jelfs, a Vancouver bus rider andmember of Transport Action B.C., pointedout that consumers will also lose discounts.

FareSaver booklets will be scrappedthis summer, so a one-zone trip will risefrom $2.10 with a FareSaver to $2.35 withCompass Card’s “stored value” discount.

“It’s kind of a de-facto fare increase,”Jelfs said.

The Compass system works by debitingthe maximum fare upon tap-in and credit-ing for the correct number of zones upontap-out.

There are concerns that riders could cheatby tapping out at one zone, then stayingaboard a bus for two zones on the estimated50 routes that cross boundaries.

And if passengers forget to tap out whenthey get off in one zone and the route con-

tinues into a second zone, they would becharged for both zones. A fifth of the 10,000beta testers made that error.

Adequate public education is alsoat issue: There are concerns that theAskCompass.ca website may not reachseniors.

Despite these challenges, Trans-Linkis forging ahead. By the end of January,about 80,000 people - including TransLinkstaff, B.C. Bus Pass holders and CNIB passholders - should be using the new cards.TransLink hopes to convert another 800,000passengers by summer.

The $194-million system is expectedto capture $7 million in additional revenueby limiting fare evasion. Last November,TransLink announced the wider rollout,which was to have begun with West Coast

Express riders, had beenpushed back because betatesting revealed technol-ogy glitches. It was alsorevealed that the budgetexceeded its $171-mil-lion estimate. TransLink’sMike Madill said thetransit authority chose the

phase-in model to “pinpoint issues and workto remedy them.”

He explained in an email that TransLinkwould “make additional hardware and soft-ware changes to the system over the nextfew months, to incorporate feedback fromboth daily customer usage and ongoing test-ing.”

“We’re taking the time to get the sys-tem right and we’re confident that whenCompass rolls out to the majority of ourcustomers later this year, it’s an easy transi-tion for everyone,” said Madill, vice-presi-dent of enterprise initiatives.

Madill countered earlier media reportsthat seniors who often prefer to use thecloser front exit were being required to exitbuses from the back to tap out, as a matterof policy. On the contrary, he said, all pas-sengers can tap out or exit the bus “throughthe most convenient (rear or front) doors.”

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Few people who have their phonesstolen expect to ever see them again —especially if you’re using the iPhone 5.

But that’s exactly what happened toa Richmond youth, who had his cell-phone stolen during gym class late lastyear.

And the unexpected return of hisiPhone is all due to a website called the“Blacklist” and the good nature of theperson who bought it from the thief onCraigslist.

After buying the phone for $300from a seller on Craigslist, the newowner — a 17-year-old Surrey uni-versity student — discovered thedevice wouldn’t work. He then con-tacted his network provider, who theninformed him the iPhone was on theCanadian Wireless TelecommunicationsAssociation’s National Stolen DeviceBlacklist.

And, after reporting it to the police,the university student voluntarily droveinto Richmond and hand-delivered thephone to the school principal of theRichmond student.

“Thanks to the conscientiousnessand kindness of the Surrey universitystudent, who has asked not to be identi-fied, we were able to return the phoneto its rightful owner,” said Const. GregReimer, of Richmond RCMP.

“But better yet; we were also ableto identify a suspect in the theft of thephone.

“We are now taking steps to holdthat person accountable for their

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list their lost or stolenphones via the blacklist,which several Canadianwireless carriers havesigned up with in order torender the devices inoper-able.

“It’s really a matter ofbuyer beware, when buy-ing items from strangersover the Internet,” addedReimer.

“The blacklist can be a valuable toolin helping the consumer protect them-selves from being victimized.”

Last fall, several Canadian cellularphone providers began utilizing theblacklist.

“We are extremely pleased that thestolen phone blacklist is making a dif-ference,” said Ashlee Smith, of theCanadian Wireless TelecommunicationsAssociation.

“We encourage all cell phone usersto visit www.protectyourdata.ca to findout more about keeping your wire-less device safe and tips for personalsafety.”

Blacklist reunites teen with stolen iPhone

Val Lofvendahl, who has run theRichmond-based Reptile Rescue,Adoption & Education Society(reptilerescuerichmond.org) for thepast 11 years and was the one whoretrieved the snake, figures it wasdropped off at the mall.

“I doubt he’d have been ableto make it there by himself. Thenearby residences are just too faraway, and the weather is too cold.He would not have survived a longjourney,” she said.

When Lofvendahl arrived at thecellphone store, staff were anxious-ly waiting on a bench outside.

“They looked terrified,” shesaid, adding she was told thepython was in the back storageroom.

“They said he was discoveredwrapped around the microwave,probably seeking some warmth,”Lofvendahlsaid. “When Igot to him, he

was sitting on top of a box.”The species can grow up to

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“He looks pretty well fed, buta bit dehydrated. He has a bit ofscale rot, which means he likelywasn’t kept in an appropriate cage.But overall, he’s in pretty goodshape,” she said.

Lofvendahl has since named thepython Wind, after the store, andwill keep him at the shelter for thenext month or so to ensure he iseating well and is healthy enoughto be put up for adoption.

“He is a really nice snake, verydocile,” said Lofvendahl, estimat-ing she performs about half adozen snake rescues a year locally,each adding to the 50 or so reptilesshe has on hand at the shelter.

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An iPhone like this one was stolenfrom a teenager at school. A GoodSamaritan delivered the phone backto the student after realizing it waslisted as stolen on a new website.

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Val Lofvendahl, who runs theRichmond-based Reptile Rescue, Adoption& Education Society, handles the ballpython she retrieved from the WindMobile store at Lansdowne Centre onMonday evening.

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City commends Lulu’s bestAWARDS

The 2013 RichmondLulu Awards were handedout Monday evening atRichmond City Hall as threedevelopments took homehonours for their superiorurban designs within the city.

In the public and insti-tutional building category,Steveston Fire Hall, designedby Hughes Condon MarlerArchitects and Space2spaceDesign Inc., took home thehonours for its LEED goldstandard project.

Among its special fea-tures are a green roof, visualopenness and a diagonalfootprint to accommodateeasier access for fire trucksfrom both sides.

“It’s wonderful to be rec-ognized for this project. Thecity had high expectations,so it’s very gratifying to berecognized,” said architectDarryl Condon, who notedthe use of wood and floorto ceiling windows were hisfavourite components of thefire hall.

Developer OrisConsulting Ltd. and archi-tectural firms Van Der Zalmand Associates Inc. andHearth Architectural Inc.won the award in the resi-dential townhouse categoryfor the Currents at LondonLanding development, whichwas lauded for its design andseamless incorporation intothe neighbourhood.

River Green, the glassand concrete marvel thatwelcomes people at thesouth end of the No.2 Road

Bridge, took the award in theresidential and mixed-usehighrise category.

The multi-building com-plex, developed by AspacDevelopments Inc., featuresterraced residential apart-ments and was praised forits public art installation andopenness to the public.

With its location next tothe oval, overlooking themouth of the Fraser River’smiddle arm, River Green issome of Richmond’s priciestproperty.

Richmond Mounties are hoping thissketch of a break-in suspect — whopepper-sprayed the homeowner — willstrike a chord with a member of thepublic.

The incident happened last Mayand the RCMP, having exhausted allavenues of investigation, are hopingsomeone recognizes the man.

On the day in question, around 4 p.m., theowner returned home at around to find thefront door of his residence kicked in.

He then came face to face with a suspect,

who deployed some type of pepperspray chemical in his face before flee-ing the scene.

The suspect is described as aCaucasian male, five foot, six inchestall, with short blonde hair.

Anyone with information cancontact Richmond RCMP by email atrichmond_tips.richmond.ediv_lmd@

rcmp-grc.gc.ca or if you wish to remainanonymous, call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

— Alan Campbell/Richmond News

John Ryan (from left), vice-president of AspacDevelopments Inc., Dana Westermark, president of OrisConsulting Ltd. and Darryl Condon, managing principalof Hughes Condon Marler Architects, received 2013 LuluAwards at Richmond City Hall on Monday.

Firehall, River Green creators grab design accolades

BY GRAEME WOODSpecial to the News

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Bad credit? No credit? No problem! At least, no problem forToronto Dominion and other major banks which have recentlybeen driving full speed into the dubious practice of high-interestsubprime car loans.

According to recent reports, the practice targets people whooften can’t get regular credit yet still need a car to get around.

The marks blunder in to car dealerships and — lacking alter-natives — agree to car financing provided by the banks at inter-est rates that would make a loanshark blush.

Victims are promised they can renegotiate the loan in a year.Only many people have found out they can’t.

People who bought cars through the subprime schemes havebeen left with sky high interest rates.

When a CBC story garnered national attention, the reactionwas instructive. Many blasted the borrowers, noting the idiocythat eroded their credit was also evident in the decisions to signthose deals.

Others rightly attacked the banks for exploiting the mostfinancially vulnerable in such a predatory manner.

Both sides have a point. But if the buyers were stupid, theywere stupid to trust a bank, whose practices are regulated byOttawa.

The VSA is currently investigating complaints. We hope theirreview is thorough.

In the meantime, car buyers without much to spend would bewell advised to do their homework before signing on the dottedline.

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s the PM

Risky business

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Prime Minister StephenHarper was in Langley lastweek, being his usual com-municative self.

We got the call a fewhours before his 4 p.m.appearance that we wouldbe allowed to send a pho-tographer — no reportersallowed — to capture imag-es of the great man.

No questions to beasked, at all. No communi-cation with the PM.

At the appointed time,I dutifully went down withmy photographer hat onand was pointed to a rail-ing, behind which I couldstand and photograph thePM from the safe distanceof about 20 feet. Apparentlythis is close enough to baskin the presence of the PM,but not so close that heactually has to acknowledgeyour existence.

Harper’s attempts tomanage his public imagehave become farcical overthe last few years.

It’s not that we begrudgehim his lack of charisma— far from it! Please, letus have more boring lead-ers, as it forces us to thinkabout their policies, ratherthan their hairstyles andbroad white grins.

Let’s have Justin Trudeauwear only dull, rumpledgrey suits and a bag on hishead from now on.

The NDP’s ThomasMulcair is only marginallymore approachable thanHarper, and often seems asprickly as a hedgehog.

The problem withHarper isn’t that he’s bor-ing, it’s that he thinks we’reall boring. Too boring tospeak to, at any rate.

Ever since he was firstelected, Harper has steadilyreduced his exposure toanyone who might want toask him a question, in pub-lic, in front of a hot mic.

Instead, we get heav-ily stage-managed eventslike this one. The theme isCanada’s upcoming 150thbirthday (just three yearsaway!) so let’s have him inFort Langley, with someHBC trade goods and blan-kets in the background.When he does answer ques-tions, they’re often softballqueries tossed by reliableallies.

It was at an event likethat in Vancouver that acouple of protestors man-aged to get close to Harper.Of course, in the grandCanadian tradition, all theydid was hold up signs tobring attention to globalwarming. They didn’t eventry to pie him.

Most of these appearanc-es could be simulated fromOttawa with a greenscreenand a copy of Photoshop.

This would also save onthe travel costs for the fed-eral government, and whowould mind that?

Harper can expect a lotmore attempts to disrupt hisschedule if he maintains hispresent course.

There’s simply no betterway to get some attention

for your cause than by get-ting it in front of the PM.And if the PM won’t talkor engage with Canadiansoutside of scripted andcontrolled moments, youdisrupt the script, you makethe moment a little lesscontrolled.

I know there are a lot ofareas where I don’t agreewith Harper, but I’d respecthim more if he’d explainhimself honestly and taketough questions now andagain. Heck, “I don’t know”and “That’s a tough one”are legitimate answers, andones we should hear moreoften from our politicians(of all parties) rather thanpat answers that dodge thequestions.

There are reasons forHarper to change his waysof dealing with the pressand public beyond the factthat it’s the right thing todo.

He’s on the campaigntrail for 2015 in a low-keyway already. He’ll be try-ing to either defend hisfirst majority government,or shore it up for his suc-cessor. And he’ll be tryingto do that under the loom-ing shadow of the Senateexpenses scandal.

What he needs rightnow is practise at talkingto actual Canadians, anddebating people who holddifferent values and ideas.

Because come the realcampaign, he’s going tohave to do a bit of that.

And if he’s rusty, thingswon’t go well for him.

Matthew Claxton is areporter at the LangleyAdvance.

The Editor,Re: “Toll every bridge, tunnel,” Letters, Jan. 10.It appears that this person is out of touch with the regu-

lar working folks.I cannot afford to live in Richmond, so I commute into

work.With the high cost of living and housing, tolling already

struggling families is, to say the least, short sighted.We pay high income taxes, and a fair amount on prop-

erty taxes. The whole idea of taxes originally was to payfor things like bridges and roads.

So I ask you, where is this money?The government (no matter who is in charge) should

have accountability for where tax money ends up.That is not the case now. So I say “HELL NO” to any

toll.A restructuring of tax dollars should go back to the

original plan for paying for roads, transportation and thecommon good in general.

It is a true disgrace to the government to have its citi-zens pay such high tolls to use a bridge that our tax dollarsshould have taken care of.

Mary HayfieldSurrey

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The Editor,Re: Most Richmondites work in

home city,” Letters, Jan. 10.Here we receive yet another

National Household Survey that givesus more conflicting statistical informa-tion, this time about the commutinghabits of Richmondites.

The National Household Surveystates that 55 per cent of Richmondresidents do not leave the city boundar-ies to go to work and yet on anothersurvey, Richmond has the highest

rate of office vacancy in the LowerMainland.

The same survey group claimedRichmond is the poorest city in theLower Mainland, based on householdincome levels, with a few areas of townbeing comparable to the DowntownEastside.

Oddly enough, the city has some ofthe most expensive real estate in thecountry and leads North America inhaving the most luxury car sales percapita.

Richmond is also known for lead-ing the country with high rates of childpoverty, and yet our students are oftenranked among the best and brightest inthe province.

Perhaps we should just concede thatstatistical information is completelyirrelevant when it comes to Richmondbecause there is too much missing datato take any tangible information from.

Ken MoffattRichmond.

Our city is one big contradictionSTATISTICS

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The Editor,We have lived next to South Arm

Park for many years and frequent thearea on a regular basis.

We always enjoy watching the dogowners exercising their animals.

However, in the last few months, itseems many dog owners are treating thepark as an off leash area.

Many of the animals are wellbehaved and there are many more thatare totally out of control.

I have a little trouble understandingwhy these people think they are abovethe law?

Brink NielsenRichmond

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The very first Europeans toplant grapes for the purposeof making wine in British

Columbia were missionaries whosettled in the Kelowna area around1860, but really, not much happeneduntil after the First World War.

By 1930, there were a few areasaround B.C. producing wines fromboth grapes and fruit.

The Okanagan region was in itsinfancy and fruit wine productionhad begun on the Saanich Peninsulaon Vancouver Island.

From there, the industry con-tinued to grow quite slowly and,frankly, had a pretty poor trackrecord from a perspective of qualityand consistency.

In fact, until 1988 when the B.C.government started paying grow-ers to replant vineyards with theinternational grape varieties like theChardonnay, Riesling, Merlot andthe Cabernets we see today, nothingof the current thriving industry reallyeven existed.

Today, there are 254 wineries infive major wine producing regionswith dozens of emerging sub-regions.

The Okanagan has long been thedarling of the industry and produces90 per cent percent of B.C. wine. Butin the last decade, the SimilkameenValley, Fraser Valley, Gulf Islandsand Vancouver Island have all dis-played their potential, producingwines of high quality with distinctregional identities. As consistencyand quality continues to improve in

these regions increases, I see a brightfuture, as there are now dynamicyoung producers who are eager toshare their wares setting up shop allover southern B.C.

I spoke with Patrick Murphy, pro-prietor and winemaker at Vista D’oroin Langely, about the emergence ofwhat he and some of the other indus-try leaders here in southwest B.C. arecalling “Coastal Wine.”

For the pioneers in any new wineregion, there is always going to be aperiod of trial, and possibly error aswinemakers unearth the potential ofboth their individual vineyard sitesand the surrounding region.

Understanding what grows best intheir vineyards and why, will, in turn,help to determine what wines will beof the highest quality.

Some grapes like Foch for exam-ple, that proved to be disappointingin the Okanagan are performing welldown here on the coast and islands.

Those, along with some of themore familiar grapes like Pinot Noir,Riesling, Pinot Gris have begun tomake a name for themselves. Mostof us have had the opportunity tosample the terrific wines comingout of the Okanagan Valley, which

is definitely the heart of B.C.’s wineproduction. But what about some ofthose aforementioned up and comingareas, what’s happening there?

For this edition I have sourcedwines from some of those otherregions and provided some recom-mendations as well.

The majority of the wines weresourced from the VQA store, SipWines at Ironwood Plaza.

For those of you who mightbe unfamiliar with the VQA storemodel, it is a special retail licencefor the sale of B.C. wines.

And because they specialize inour local wines they can often pro-vide expert advice!

So the next time you head out tothe Fraser Valley or take holiday onVancouver or the Gulf Islands, stopin and see what’s happening in coast-al vineyards. And for further read-ing, try John Schreiner’s BC CoastalWine Tour Guide.

Vancouver Island: Averill CreekVineyards (Duncan) — Pinot Noir2009, $26 Cellar Door at SuttonPlace Wine Merchants or EdibleCanada Restaurant.

Gulf Islands: Saturna IslandFamily Estate Winery (SaturnaIsland) — Riesling Wild Ferment2009, $18 at Sip Wines.

Fraser Valley: Vista D’ Oro Farms& Winery (Langley) — Douro 2007,port style wine, $36 at Sip Wines.

Similkameen Valley: Orofino(Cawston) — Red Bridge Merlot2011, $24 at Sip Wines.

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TuesdayRichmond HospiceAssociation Library isopen Tuesdays from 2 to 5p.m. at The Caring Place,Suite 310, 7000 MinoruBlvd. Come and meetthe librarian and see theresources for bereavementsupport. Call Janice at 604-279-7140.

WednesdayA support group forthe visually impairedmeets on the secondWednesday of everymonth at the JapaneseCultural Centre from 10a.m. to 12 p.m. The groupmeets with others whohave similar sight problems— it could include thosewho have overcome andare able to give some sim-ple assistance. Periodically,

there are speakers fromCNIB, Handidart, city hall,etc. It’s an informativegroup with loads of laughs,too. Coffee and cook-ies provided. Call EdithPetersen at 604-276-0059.

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“Family is the first community we belong to.”- Michael McCoy

Executive Directoramily is first andforemost an experiencein human relationsthat teaches all ofits members how to

be at home and at home in theworld at large. It is an experienceand environment created arounddaily rituals, significant life events,and life spent together. Everyfamily experiences joy and faceschallenges, some easily overcome,and some that require support andguidance. We strongly believe thatevery family should have accessto that support and guidance attimes and that they are provided inthe areas of education and health.

Our goal is to enrich and supportfamily life, encourage healthyneighbourhoods and, that, in turnwill create stronger, caring andresponsive communities.

Touchstone Family Associationis a non-profit society, providingservices to children and theirfamilies in Richmond since 1983and continues to try and meetthe needs of families here inRichmond. Our primary focus is onpreserving and enhancing familyrelationships. Over 400 childrenand their families benefit from ourservices on an annual basis. Ourintent is to offer innovative ways to

bring neighbours and communitytogether by providing accessibleservices, counsel and informationto families, youth and children.

If you would be interested inhelping us to support a family wewould be delighted to hear fromyou. Information is available on ourwebsite www.touchfam.ca or call604-279-5599.

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Arts&Culture

January 2014 Arts EventsPrepared by the Richmond ArtsCoalition

On now until January26On the Move: Richmond’sTransportation LegacyAt the Richmond Museum7700 Minoru Gate, RichmondThis exhibit explores, through pho-tographs and artefacts from themuseum’s collection and on loan fromthe community, how changing modes

of transportation have shaped this city.Themes include transportation relatedto sea, land and air, and contemporaryissues such as city planning. For moreinformation call 604.247.8300 or visitwww.richmond.ca/museum

January 1 to Febru-ary 24Dancing in the New Year: Art ShowLocation: Rocanini Coffee, RoastersSteveston Cafe’, open daily 8 a.m.- 6 p.m., 115-3900 Moncton Street,

South/West corner of No.1 Road andMoncton Street. Featuring contempo-rary paintings, by artists Therese LydiaJoseph and Marilynn Tebbit.

January 19FIRST-CLASS HONOURS RECITAL

WITH MEDAL PRESENTATIONPlace: St. Alban’s Anglican Church,7260 St. Albans Road, Richmond.Tickets are $2/person or $5/family atthe door. The Richmond branch ofthe BC Registered Music TeachersAssociation will hold a special recitalon Sunday Jan. 19, 2014 at 1:30pm at St. Alban’s Anglican Church.Students achieving high marks in theAug. 2013 RCM exams will performand medals will be presented.For more information please call604.268.9559, visit www.bcrmta.comor email [email protected].

What’s on at theGateway Theatre:Ongoing:Gateway Academy for thePerforming ArtsDrama, voice and musical the-atre Programs taught by TheatreProfessionals.Call 604.247.4975 for inquiries about

on–going enrolment.Gateway Theatre, 6500 Gilbert Road.Box office, phone 604-270-1812 fortickets and information. Box officehours Monday to Friday, noon to 6p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. www.gatewaytheatre.com

January 26Family SundayRichmond Art Gallery7700 Minoru Gate. Family Sunday isa free drop-in art program that offersfamilies the occasion to explore the

gallery exhibitions together throughvarious art activities. Family Sunday ison the fourth Sunday of every monthfrom 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. For more infor-mation, phone 604-247-8313 or [email protected].

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Overcoming obstacles; one fairy tale at a time

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Throwbacks to the days of the railroad in Steveston are all part of thetransportation exhibition at Richmond Museum.

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Uniforms from days gone by are on display in the transportation exhi-bition at the Richmond Museum.

Teenage girls’ insecurities leads to artist’s series of fantasy illustrationsBY YVONNE ROBERTSONSpecial to the News

It started with the idea of positive rein-forcement.

As a counsellor and mother of twodaughters, Gabrielle Lightfoot listened tostories of teenage insecurities and strug-gles from the young girls who visited her.

“I found it was always girls who saidthey can’t do something,” she said.

“I’ve worked with a diversity of cul-tures and it’s the same across the board.It’s hard to hear their stories sometimes.”

It sparked a creative fuse that ledLightfoot to do a series of illustra-tions about female empowerment calledFantasy Fairy Tales.

Always drawn to the visual arts,Lightfoot used her counselling experiencein her artistic practice.

Her small and simple drawings usecolour and movement to depict optimismas the series follows fantastical fairyadventures. Character expression alsoplays an important role in conveying themood of the piece.

“The figures always look positive andcontent, as if they’ve overcome some-thing,” said the Richmond resident.

“Oftentimes, there’s movement depict-ed in the imagery to show that the fairy isgoing forward in life. They tell the storyabout how people move forward fromtheir past story.”

Lightfoot’s love of fairy tales began asa young child. She would eagerly devourany story from the Brothers Grimm to

Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty.But within the fantasy, reality inter-

twines. Not only are some of the land-scapes derived from real experiences,such as a swamp she visited during a trip

to Oregon, so are some of the emotionalchallenges faced by the characters.

Lightfoot was born with a hip disloca-tion that caused her to be in and out ofhospitals since the age of one and a half.

“I remember being pulled out ofschool a lot and feeling singled out,” shesaid.

“My health has caused a lot of set-backs. But we all have issues, so my workis about overcoming obstacles, no matterwhat they are. I used my own experienceas a vehicle to look at how we overcomethese issues.”

Lightfoot has spoken at local schoolsin the past and now wants to revisit themwith her new series.

“I can draw and I can talk, so Ithought, how can I encourage a positiveattitude?” she said.

“I don’t want to be preachy. I wantto use the illustrations as a jumping offpoint.”

In the meantime, she’s been visitingSeafair Montessori Rainbow House witha similar series about empowerment forpre-school aged children.

Rather than drawings, she hand-makessoft dolls and uses them to tell stories tothe classes.

In one story, her main character,Junior, has a physical disability, butdoesn’t realize it.

“The characters are very funny andalso challenged in different ways, butthey have a fantastic attitude,” she said.

“Kids love the stories and love hug-ging the dolls afterwards. It provides anemotional connection for them.”

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Gabrielle Lightfoot’s small and simple drawings use colour and movement to depictoptimism as the series follows fantastical fairy adventures.

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Ah, it’s a new year.A lot of people arestarting fresh and set-

ting goals for creating a newbody, a new relationship, ora whole new lifestyle.

Sadly, we all know thegyms and yoga studios anddiet group meetings willonly be packed for the monthof January before tricklingback to the regular coregroup of members. It hap-pens every year.

Resolutions are oftengood intentions backed upwith maybe a month ortwo of genuine effort. Whybother?

Sometimes it can be theincentive that motivatessomeone into action andchange. More likely, peoplewill change when they areready. The question to askyourself is, are you ready?

Maybe you made a reso-lution to be a better spouse.That’s nice, but are youreally ready to improve your

relationship?Do you knowhow hard youhave to work?

Are youprepared tolearn howto become abetter com-municator? Can you shiftaway from competitivenesswith your spouse into coop-eration? How willing are youto become less selfish?

How about resolutionsto spend more quality timewith your friends and fam-ily? Sweet, but intending tospend more time with themdoesn’t do any good if younever get around to it.

Are you ready to listenmore, care more, give uncon-ditionally more, complimentgenuinely more, and criticizeless?

Hosting more dinners andattending more parties is notall there is to spending morequality time with your loved

ones. Do youknow whatthey need andwant, or doyou assumeit’s the sameas what youneed andwant?

Did anybody resolve tobe a better parent? Beinga parent is a very difficultcareer and the job descrip-tion is constantly changing.

Are you willing to giveyourself a break since thehours are grueling, it’smessy, there is no compen-sation other than a job welldone, you can’t quit, thereare no promotions, and allof the training is on the jobwithout a supervisor?

Can you accept that youare human and sometimesyou can’t do it perfectly andthat’s okay?

Let’s say you are readyfor the resolutions you made,do you have time in your

hectic schedule to do all thethings that you have estab-lished as important?

If you were taught thatbusy is the opposite of lazyand having a lot to do is asign of success, can you shiftyour values so that beingbusy watching a butterflyland on a blade of grass,listening to your child tell astory, or doing nothing otherthan listening to your innervoice is as important as sign-ing 20 contracts at work?

Whether you like to makeresolutions as a way to lighta fire under the seat of yourpants or you think resolu-tions are empty promisesthat lead to ultimate failureand self loathing, the bottomline is that we could all standto grow and improve overthe upcoming year.

The key is to know exact-ly what we want to change,what we need in order tomake that change, and togive ourselves the time and

space necessary to do it.We will all have different

goals and different thingswill motivate us to worktoward those goals. Are youready and prepared to takeaction?

Happy New Year.Danielle Aldcorn BSW,

MA is a registered clini-cal counsellor at the SatoriIntegrative Health Centre.

Are you ready to achieve your goals in 2014?

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It’s filthy, stinking, lucky and richIn times of yore, when

people told stories, theyoften gave the leading

roles to animals, transform-ing them into the embodi-ment of certain human traits– the bee is busy, the foxcunning, the hare fast, thetortoise slow, and so on.

The pig is one of thefew animals associated withqualities ranging from theworst to the best. Right now,around New Year’s, somecountries hail the pig as acelebrity, considering it abringer of luck (more on thatbelow).

Look in a thesaurus underpig and you will find a seriesof words, each of whichhas a specific meaning. Pig(from the Middle English“pigge”) refers, strictlyspeaking, to the young ani-mal.

The name for the adultanimal is swine, deriv-ing from the Old English“swin.” It’s close to theGerman “Schwein” and alsorelated to the Latin adjective“suinus.” Boar is the adult

male, sow thefemale.

The wordhog (perhapsof Celtic ori-gin) signifiesa castratedmale swine.Pork, the termwe generally use for themeat, comes from the Latin“porcus,” swine. By the 17thcentury, porker was the wordfor a pig raised for food.

In various languages, pig,swine, sow and hog can alsobe employed figuratively torefer to people in a deroga-tory sense, alluding to theirgluttony, greed, coarseness ordirtiness.

As a matter of fact, suchan application of the wordswas known already to theancient Romans. For the poetHorace, “porcus” became aterm of reproach against aglutton. “Majalis,” castratedboar in Latin (and root of theItalian “maiale,” the wordfor pork meat), was used in adisparaging sense by Ciceroin his oration against Lucius

CalpurniusPiso.

At somepoint, theGerman“Schwein”acquired a fig-urative mean-ing that is at

the other end of the spectrumfrom gluttony and filth.

It meant, and still means,luck, as in the phrase“Schwein haben” – to belucky.

The proper Germanword for luck is “Glück”(the English and Germanboth derive from the MiddleHigh German “gelücke”).Sometimes “Schwein” isused in German as an inten-sifier. “Schweineglück,” forinstance, means great luck.

Likewise, the word“Schweinegeld” (“Geld” ismoney in German) meansa lot of money. Whenyou say something costs“Schweinegeld,” you’re say-ing it’s very expensive. Stinkplays a similar figurative rolein both German and English.

We say stinking rich(or filthy rich), meaningextremely rich – the Germanexpression is “stinkreich.”

In German-speakingcountries, the luck-bringingpig (“Glücksschwein”) is astar performer around NewYear’s Eve.

It’s especially popularon greeting cards and asconfectionery. When I wasa child, I’d see the old yearout in the company of a pinkmarzipan pig. A version ofthe “Glücksschwein” madeit to America — the famouspink peppermint pig, bornin Saratoga Springs, N.Y.,in the 1880s and still goingstrong.

Winston Churchill, wholoved animals, once said, “Ilike pigs. Dogs look up to us.Cats look down on us. Pigstreat us as equals.”

Now ask yourself, whywould that be? Something tomuse over as the new yearbegins.

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The Merv Taylor coached squadgot off to a tough start but got stron-ger with every game en route to thetitle. After opening round-robin playwith a loss and a tie, Seafair was in amust-win situation against VancouverMinor A1 just to be part of the play-off equation.

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What the Richmond Sockeyesare accomplishing this season hasto be of great concern to everyteam in the Pacific InternationalJunior Hockey League.

After a dream 2012-13 cam-paign that culminated withthe junior “B” hockey trifecta— league, provincial and WesternCanadian championships — theSockeyes seemed destined to takea step back. Their roster was deci-mated by players graduating ormoving onto the next level.

Head coach Judd Lambert, whowas returning behind the benchafter a one year hiatus, had little towork with. At least so it seemed.

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The Sockeyes will be riding a13-game win streak into tomorrownight’s 7 p.m. home tilt againstthe Delta Ice Hawks and have aleague best 24-2-3 record.

Four of their top six scorersare rookies, including 16-year-oldJohn Wesley leading the way with41 points in 33 games.

What’s even more impressiveis nobody in the freshman class

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“We just picked these guysright out of training camp (inAugust),” said Lambert. “(Generalmanager) Richard (Petrowsky)did a really good job of collectingnames for the camp but no onewas signed before it. The last timeI coached, virtually half our rook-ies were signed in May.”

Besides Wesley, scouts havetaken notice of 17-year-old AydenMcDonald. The 6-foot-4, 195-pound winger has gone from along shot just to make the team toscoring 20 goals, the best amongall rookies in the league.

Ontario native MacColasimone, who arrived on theSockeyes doorstep, through theadvice of a parent from last year’steam, is also a major contributorwith 31 points.

Homegrown product JacobWozney is enjoying a productivecampaign, while Cole Plotnikoff,the club’s other 16-year-old, isamong a whopping 11 playerswith 17 points or more.

“They are going to be one anddone players,” continued Lambert.“I think kids want to play juniorand they love to have the oppor-tunity to play. We were fortunate

enough to get some pretty goodplayers at our camp who haveturned out to be effective playersin the league too. It’s encouragingto see so many of young guys upthere (in league scoring).”

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