Richmond Review, December 31, 2014

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Clockwise from top left: Val Lofvendahl and Wind the snake, Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie and wife Christine Brodie, picketing IKEA workers, a Chinese-only ad, and a city hall protest. More inside.

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year in reviewThe months of 2014 gave us plenty to ponder. There was a civic election that saw the mayor’s popularity only rise, two long labour disputes solved with the help of mediator Vince Ready, a road fatality that opened a new discussion on pedestrian and cyclist safety, more Chinese-only signs and city growth—or in the case of Onni’s Steveston property—another rezoning attempt thwarted. The Richmond Review shares some of the year’s top stories in photographs.

Matthew Hoekstra photoCarol Day was sworn in as a new city councillor following the fall election, along with incumbent councillor Linda McPhail. Besides Day, Alexa Loo also won a council seat for the first time. Malcolm Brodie, meanwhile, eas-ily held on to his job as mayor of Richmond, winning 70 per cent of the vote. Brodie, 66, captured his sixth term in the top political seat at Richmond City Hall with 27,149 votes—his highest vote total ever—easily defeating his two challengers. Also in the election voters brought change to school board, electing three incumbents and four first-time trustees.

Michael Weeks photoAfter a year-and-a-half on the picket line, unionized IKEA workers began to head back to work this fall, as the union and company agreed to a new deal. The two entrenched sides were brought together by mediator Vince Ready.

Martin van den Hemel photoA cyclist passes near a roadside memorial marking the spot where cyclist Christy Mahy was killed in July after being hit by an SUV. Road safety came into focus in 2014, as a number of pedestrians were also killed on Richmond streets.

Rob Newell photoThe late Mary Gazetas was remembered for her great dedication to the community with a Pioneer Award at the 2014 Ethel Tibbits Women of Distinction Awards. Her twin sister Phoebe (left) and brothers John and Tim along with nieces and sister-in-law accepted the award.

Martin van den Hemel photoPrabjot Nijjer and supporters protested outside Richmond City Hall in January, de-manding freedom for two Rottweilers, Axel and Paris, that were involved in a dog biting incident. The city sought to have the animals destroyed. Ultimately the dogs were spared, as the owner pled guilty to failing to keep dangerous dogs confined, and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.

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Matthew Hoekstra photosThe debate over foreign-language-only signs boiled over in Richmond in 2014. Fuelling the fire was a bus shel-ter advertisement from a government-funded charity that exclusively targeted Chinese-language speakers. SUCCESS ended up pulling the ad, and Richmond city council ended up acting on a motion from outgoing coun-cillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt to explore the issue further. The city sought a legal opinion on the matter, and is now proceeding with public consultation.

Zac Prokop, 3, and broth-er Joe Prokop, 6, arrive at the bottom of a slide from a new eight-metre-tall tree house at Terra Nova Rural Park. The mil-lion-dollar playground opened to rave reviews this year.

Ted Lorenz, whose ex-tensive community work helped transform Ste-veston, passed away February. The former Richmond fire chief and longtime volunteer is re-membered as an iconic figure in the community.

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Transit, trash, truckers among region’s top storiesThe Richmond Review’s regional reporter Jeff Nagel looks

back on the top news events of 2014 that had Metro Vancouver talking. Rising to the top was the question on funding public transit improvements. A transit tax referendum is now in the cards for 2015.

Truckers strike - MarchA 28-day strike by container truckers ended with back-

to-work legislation and promises of government action to end rampant rate undercutting within the industry. The port, provincial and federal governments late in the year unveil a reformed system for truck licensing that’s expected to shrink the number of operators.

Medical marijuana - MarchLicensed home growing of medical marijuana is sup-

posed to end April 1 in favour of a new commercial dis-tribution system. But the federal government’s strategy is disrupted when medical pot users get a court injunction, pending a constitutional challenge expected in 2015. The shifting marijuana rules divide doctors on whether to prescribe pot, while cities worry about how to handle a rush of would-be commercial pot producers. Mari-juana reform advocates, coming off the failure of their signature campaign to trigger a referendum in 2013, were more upbeat in 2014 after legal pot shops opened in Washington State and ‘Prince of Pot’ Marc Emery was released from a U.S. prison.

Health shakeup - AprilThe province terminates Fraser Health board chair David

Mitchell amid a probe into budget overruns at the health authority and by June CEO Nigel Murray also resigns. The findings of the review launched in 2013 are released in July, recommending a new strategy to reduce overuse of hospital ERs and expand primary and community care.

TransLink troubles - JulyTwo major shutdowns of SkyTrain force an apologetic

TransLink to make transit free on B.C. Day and launch a formal review of what went wrong. The findings prompt the agency to commit to $71 million in upgrades to make the system more resistant to similar failures and faster to recover when they do happen.

Meanwhile, TransLink again delays the full roll-out of its long-promised Compass Card payment system due to bus reader problems.

Coal controversy - AugustPort Metro Vancouver approves a planned coal export

terminal at Fraser Surrey Docks despite intense opposition from environmentalists, residents, municipalities and public health officers. The $15-million project is expected to open in the fall of 2015. Climate change activists had hoped to block the flow of U.S. coal through B.C.

Metro waste - OctoberEnvironment Minister Mary Polak refuses to approve Metro

Vancouver’s new bylaw banning waste shipments out of the region. The move delights opponents of the regional district’s plan to build a new waste incinerator, which may be thwarted as a result. Metro leaders say the region’s recycling system is threatened because garbage firms that haul waste out of the region will avoid paying regional tipping fees or complying with bans on the dumping of recyclables.

Kinder Morgan - NovemberMore than 120 people were arrested attempting to block

survey work by Kinder Morgan on Burnaby Mountain. Anti-pipeline activists won a victory when a court threw out most charges against protesters and refused to extend an injunction, prompting the company to pull out early. The civil disobedience followed a series of legal challenges led by Burnaby.

Transit tax referendum - DecemberMetro Vancouver mayors decide to go to referendum on a

0.5 per cent sales tax increase within the region to finance an ambitious expansion of rapid transit and bus service. The ref-erendum, expected to take place in April of 2015, is a provin-cial condition for new taxes for TransLink. Mayors unveiled their plan for proposed upgrades in June. The choice of a PST increase was a switch from their original preference—a share of the provincial carbon tax.

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Sophie Manfredi photoParticipants in a fitness class utilize space around Onni’s vacant Imperial Landing development for re-sistance training in the spring. Onni made attempts to bolster its rezoning bid of its newly-constructed Steveston buildings, but didn’t convince city council rezoning is warranted. The buildings sat empty for the year—and continue to do so.

Martin van den Hemel photoVal Lofvendahl of Reptile Rescue, Adoption and Edu-cation Society, gets a kiss from a one-metre ball py-thon found inside Lansdowne Centre. Lofvendahl cornered the snake in the back room of a Wind Mobile store. She nicknamed the docile snake Wind. The ori-gin of the snake isn’t known, but Lofvendahl reasoned it was probably a dumped pet.

Maria Encarnacion of Matthew McNair sings “All of Me” at RichC-ity Idol, an annual sing-ing competition for Richmond high school students. Encarnacion placed first, and R.C. Palmer’s Suani Rincon was the runner-up. Ste-veston-London Second-ary’s Carlos Vidanes fin-ished third.

BC Teachers’ Federa-tion president Jim Iker joined teachers picket-ing outside Matthew Mc-Nair Secondary during a long-lasting dispute that stretched into the 2014-15 school year. Classes were cancelled for a few weeks before a deal was finally reached.

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Metro cracks down on diesel machinesby Jeff NagelBlack Press

Metro Vancouver is in-creasing fees charged to run older soot-spewing diesel machines such as excavators, forklifts and generators as part of an ongoing effort to cut lo-cal air pollution.

The most heavily pol-luting “Tier 0” engines —typically built before 2000—will cost their owners more to oper-ate in 2015 and any that aren’t yet registered with Metro by Jan. 1 will be banned from ever oper-ating in the region again, punishable by fines of up to $200,000.

Fees to run the worst off-road diesel equip-ment were introduced two years ago and Metro is stepping them up each year, while offering re-bates to retire or upgrade those engines to cleaner models.

An old 120-horsepow-er excavator that was charged $480 when the program started faces an annual fee of $1,200 in 2015, doubling again to $2,400 by 2017, although the fee can be greatly re-duced if a filter is added to cut particulate emis-sions.

The strategy of using a combination of carrots and sticks to get heavy equipment powered by cleaner engines is work-ing, said Ray Robb, Met-ro’s environmental regu-lation and enforcement division manager.

Several thousand diesel machines that were sub-ject to fees have been retired or upgraded, he said.

But 2,600 are still reg-istered in the region and subject to fees.

Particulate from diesel exhaust is considered to be one of the most dangerous air contami-nants to human health, accounting for an esti-mated two-thirds of the lifetime cancer risk of Metro residents.

Off-road heavy equip-ment has generally not been upgraded as quickly as on-road die-sel engines for trucks, and they often work in construction sites near homes and schools.

“We’ve had good com-pliance,” Metro environ-ment committee chair Heather Deal said.

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opinion

It’s time to look beyond the pro-tests and political

battles around cli-mate change that dominated 2014, and look at the year and the decade ahead.

From the California drought to shifting for-est patterns across B.C., there is evidence that our climate is changing more rapidly. Public debate consists mainly of squab-bling about the signifi-cance of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, rather than what can be done to prepare.

A draft discussion paper from the B.C. forests min-istry on wildfire control was released in December after an access to infor-mation request. “Climate Change Adaptation and Action Plan For Wildfire Management, 2014-2024” describes the progress made in the province’s community forest fire pre-vention plan, and its goal to create “wildfire resilient

ecosystems and wildfire adapted communities” over the next 10 years.

The final discussion paper is to be released early in 2015, but the key research is in. It estimates that by 2017 there will be 788 million cubic metres of dead pine in B.C. forests. Fires in these areas spread 2.6 times faster than in healthy green stands, up to 66 metres per minute.

The report calls for fuel management beyond community boundaries to stop “mega-fires” by creating landscape-level fuel breaks, with targeted harvesting, prescribed burning and new silvicul-ture practices.

It notes that bark beetle infestations and bigger, hotter fires are being seen across North America, with costs rising along with urban development. For example, the 2011 Slave Lake fire in northern Alberta generated the second largest insurance charge in Canadian his-tory.

The costs of preparing are huge. The costs of not preparing could be cata-strophic.

Also in 2014, the B.C. government appointed an advisory committee to prepare for the renewal of the Columbia River Treaty with the United States.

While this 1964 treaty has no end date, its flood control mandate expires in 2024. I spoke with Deborah Harford and Jon O’Riordan, members of

the Simon Fraser Univer-sity Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT), who, along with ACT senior policy author Robert Sandford, have written a provocative book on the treaty. They hope it will help lead to a renewed agreement that will be a model for a changing world.

“If you’re looking ahead 60 years from 2024, there’s a lot of climate change projected in that period, for British Columbia and the U.S.,” Harford said. “For the B.C. side, we’re looking at heavy precipitation and potential increase in snowmelt runoff, while in the States, you’re getting the opposite, much less snow.

“There will probably be no snowpack left down there, and they’re looking at the prospect of quite drastically lower flows in the summer.”

The treaty, sparked by devastating floods in 1948, led to construction of three dams on the B.C. side and one at Libby, Washington that backed up Kookanusa Lake into B.C. Between that reser-voir and the Arrow Lakes, 110,000 hectares of B.C. land was flooded, includ-ing orchards, dairy farms and the homes of 2,000 people.

Those dams hold back spring flood water and provide for irrigation that has allowed Washington to expand its agriculture

to a $5-billion-a-year industry. The treaty shares the value of hydroelec-tric power generated by the many downstream U.S. dams such as the Grand Coulee, but it pays B.C. nothing for agricul-tural benefits that were achieved at the cost of B.C. farms and aboriginal territories.

O’Riordan notes that climate shifts create a strategic benefit for B.C. The U.S. has no more dam capacity to exploit, and needs us more than ever, for flood protection and water supply.

Tom Fletcher is legisla-tive reporter and columnist for Black Press. [email protected]

2015: the year of climate adaptation

B.C. ViewsTom Fletcher

Province of B.C. photoBy 2017 there will be 788 million cubic metres of dead pine in B.C. forests. Fires in these ar-eas spread 2.6 times faster than in healthy green stands, up to 66 metres per minute.

lettersDriver had it wrongEditor:

Re: “Driver had a very good reason to be parking in a handicap spot,” Letters, Dec. 26. I read this letter to the editor and was appalled. The handicapped parking spots are intended to make it easier for a person with a disability to visit the retailer (in this case the electron-ics store). It is not intended to be used by an able-bodied person to use the spot when the person with the disability is going to stay in the vehicle.

If C. Chow did not intend to visit the retailer and planned to stay in the car, her daughter should have parked in a parking spot not des-ignated for a handicap permit. Her actions may have caused a person with a disability to have to park in a non-handicap permit spot and traverse the additional distance in discomfort.

Glenn KamideRichmond

Editor: The lady that corrected the letter-writer’s

parking was correct. It appears the driver was using parking spot out of purpose.

I am 83 years of age, and from injuries use a

walker. Too many times I have to make my way through a lot with walker and see designated spots filled up with people abusing the system. Please read the parking instructions that come with the permit. Why would a handicapped person need a handicapped spot if they were not getting out of vehicle?

Thomas D. BehmRichmond

Editor:The whole situation would have been less trau-

matic all around had the lady calmly explained the rules, instead of yelling.

The rules do state, which makes sense, to park in a handicap spot, the person with a disability has to get out of the car. The daughter is fine, well and able to walk. Another thing you see is motorists who drive with their sign hanging from the mirror. It says right on the back, and in the brochure, to please remove the sign before driving. It can obstruct your view.

D.M. NorthRichmond

Editor:Handicap decals are not an invitation to abuse

the system by people who are perfectly capable of walking from regular parking stalls and exclaim-ing, “I am only going to be a minute.”

How would the letter-writer feel if she arrived in the parking lot and wanted to use the handicap parking and walk into the store but all the spots were taken by lazy shoppers?

More people need to be pro-active when they see abuse such as this so that those who genu-inely need these special parking spots can.

Alan HallidayRichmond

Readers take issue with a disabled letter-writer who said she wasn’t abusing the system by park-ing and waiting in a designated handicap space while her able-bodied daughter shopped.


year in review

Memorable arts moments of 2014by Matthew HoekstraStaff Reporter

It was the year of the six-hour guitar show, the public art plinth and—on a much smaller scale—the podplay.

It was also the year when opera took a firm foothold and Chinese theatre took over the MainStage at Gateway Theatre. Richmond’s offerings in arts and enter-tainment this year ranged from splashy to simple. Here’s a few that stood out.

Figaro! Figaro! The costumes, voices, personalities and all the

stuff that makes opera an art form that’s—dare we say—trending upward—took a firm foothold here in 2014.

At Minoru Chapel, audiences again were treat-ed to a city-organized opera series showcasing opera talents of local professional companies bringing classical favourites to life. The spring season brought us Burnaby Lyric Opera and highlights from Puccini’s La Bohème. Singers from Vancouver Opera and Vancouver’s Opera di Concertisti also appeared. Then there’s Opera Mariposa, a company formed by Richmond’s Robin Eder-Warren and Jacqueline Ko that has mounted numerous shows in Richmond and Marpole. This dynamic pair has unabashedly pushed young talent to the foreground, giving audiences a musical and theatrical treat each show.

Vancouver Opera also made a statement in Richmond this year, presenting a show at Gate-way Theatre and bringing their performance to a young audience at Steveston-London Second-ary School. In the new year even Richmond Orchestra and Chorus Association will get in on the action, presenting Operatic Gems June 6 at Fraserview Church.

It even smells like 2010There was something special in the air during the

2010 Winter Olympics, and the City of Richmond gave fans of the Games a chance to experience it once again.

Early this year, on the eve of the 2014 Sochi Games, the city put up for sale authentic 2010 street banners at a hot price—just $10 a pair. Many of them actually flapped in the wind around the Richmond Olympic Oval and O Zone celebration site, while others were surplus inventory.

Various 2010 Games designs were offered: from bold blue-and-green banners to more subtle varia-tions, along with Paralympic Games models. We’d like to think these banners have now found good homes—that fair citizens have proudly displayed them in living rooms across Richmond. If not, we hope they‘ve been given new gold medal lives as table clothes or bathrobes.

Are you sure this is the way?We’re willing to bet few theatre-goers take the

Canada Line to a show at Gateway Theatre, but this year Gateway offered brave pedestrians a little treat. Richmond’s only theatre introduced an audio play guiding guests walking from Richmond-Brig-house Station to Minoru Park.

Etienne: a PodPlay is a 28-minute audio produc-tion hosted on the theatre’s website. Once at the station, listeners can access the audio file with an Internet-ready smartphone. As listeners walk to the theatre, they are transported through sound and music into Janine’s tempestuous relationship with Etienne, a foodie with more than dinner on his mind. Along the way, listeners hear directions to the theatre. The script generally keeps theatre-hungry pedestrians on the sidewalk, leaving open the prospect of a daring sequel. Think dodging Richmond Centre shoppers, jumping over Minoru Arenas’ snow banks, stopping to pet the park bun-nies. That sort of thing.

Cluster, a public art work by Carlyn Yandle, located at the end of the Canada Line.

Jacqueline Ko and Robin Eder-Warren of Opera Mari-posa, a company that mounted several shows in Rich-mond and Marpole this past year.

Public art plinth piquing Engaging and imaginative? A waste of public funds? What’s for certain is pub-

lic art jumpstarts debate. And what Cluster has done at the end of the Canada Line guideway on No. 3 Road is show us all that imagination is the only limit of public art.

Installed at the end of summer, Carlyn Yandle’s artwork resembles brightly painted exhaust pipes, tightly grouped and jutting out of the abruptly-ending concrete guideway. Creative types at city hall saw just enough concrete at this end to call it a “plinth.” Cluster’s social media hashtag never took off—aside from comments pertaining instead to headaches, jewelry and unfortunate circumstances—but we’d like to think it’s still the talk of No. 3 Road.

The work is temporary. Next year, SkyDam is scheduled to be installed—a public art piece of painted driftwood arranged to resemble a beaver dam. Bea-vers sculpted from rigid foam are included in the design. Debate is included.

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Anyone have the time?Perhaps the only thing more amazing than an audience

sticking out an instrumental guitar show for six—or more—hours is that the nimble-fingered performers who complet-ed the feat on consecutive nights. The first-ever Guitar Gods tour rolled into Richmond in June. Iconic axeman Yngwie Malmsteen led the show, which also featured Gary Hoey and Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal. Guitar-crazed fans were undoubtedly also looking forward to seeing former Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth, but unfortunately he bailed on the tour at the last minute “due to unforeseen circumstances.”

Their epic-celebration-of-the-guitar tour included 19 concerts, all over North America, in a single month. We’re not sure if the show actually stretched to the promised six hours. Audience members likely lost track of time somewhere between Malmsteen soloing with his foot heroically planted on sound equipment and Malmsteen hoisting his hallowed instrument high above his head in some sort of musical ceremony only guitarists would understand.

Am I saying this right?There’s no shame in standing in front of a mirror and try-

ing to say it. We find it helps to start with a coochy-coo or Ashton Kutcher before advancing to the more complicated PechaKucha. Alas, even the global authority on the art form—pechakutcha.org—offers varied pronunciations: peh-chalk-cha, pe-CHA-ku-CHA and pe-chak-cha.

Nonetheless, Richmond was treated to a few PechaKucha Nights this past year. The event draws its name from the Japanese term for the sound of chit chat. They’re meant to be fun and thought-provoking evenings. It’s a presenta-tion format where speakers present 20 images and tell their stories as the photos advance every 20 seconds. Local topics have been varied, from Secrets of the Fraser to What’s Your Story. The evenings connect speakers and audiences in a dif-ferent way than ordinary open mic events.

Something you don’t see every dayChange can be difficult to accept, especially in a city chang-

ing so fast. But the immediate beauty of it can be seen in art. Richmond is being treated to a cornucopia of visual and performance art from around the world, and it’s exciting when our long-standing institutions put it on display.

One example came from the Richmond Art Gallery, which took a chance on recent immigrant Xiao Ming Xu. The gallery gave the artist exhibition space at city hall to show his large paintings depicting structures and transportation themes. Xu creates works of art in a style unlike anything else. His exhibi-tion, Vestige, was a treat.

Another example came alive at Gateway Theatre, which took an even bigger chance on launching a new theatre festival. The Gateway Pacific Theatre Festival arrived in the summer, presenting a trio of Chinese plays. It took place in the sum-mer. Audiences may have been taken aback. The summer is an unusual time for live theatre, after all. But equally unusual was seeing a 30-year institution present a festival of Cantonese theatre for the first time. We hope to see more in 2015.

Maria Nayef photo via FlickrIconic guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen.

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Matthew Hoekstra file photoRichmond artist Xiao Ming Xu.

Rising StarsMany of Richmond’s budding musical talents performed at the recent Richmond Music Festival 2014, including William Lu (top) and Siyu Zhu. Adjudicators crowned winners in various disciplines in the annual event. Some highlights: William Lu, Most Promis-ing Pianist trophy; Olivia Cho (cello), Most Promis-ing Strings Player trophy; Sarah Stephenson, Most Promising Junior Vocalist (also winner of a gala concert award); Davy Lau, Most Promising Senior Pianist scholar-ship and Tom Lee Music Trophy for Best Overall Performer; Athena Deng, Major Gala Concert Award; and Siyu Zhu, Most Promising Pianist for ages 12 and under (also winner of a gala concert award). A num-ber of festival standouts will join musicians from the Richmond Orchestra and Chorus Association on stage Feb. 21 for the orchestra’s annual Rising Stars concert. Olivia Cho (cello), Eric Xi Xing Liang (piano), Athena Deng (pi-ano) and Maria Orlenko (piano) will perform.

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S ince taking the reins as executive director of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce in the summer of 2005, Craig Jones has earned the

respect of those around him with his strong leadership skills, clear vision and advocacy work for the local business community.

With Jones about to retire when the calendar turns to 2015, those who have worked closely with him spoke about his contributions to the community.

When the chamber began the hunt for a new leader back in 2003, Ed Gavsie served as the chair of the chamber’s board.

“Craig had been an active member of the Richmond community for many years,” Gavsie said. “He had impeccable business credentials, strong coaching skills...and deep roots in Richmond.”

He added: “Respect must be earned and cannot be demanded. Everyone I know respects Craig here in Richmond, throughout other chambers in B.C. and Canada and in the wider business community.”

Barbara Tinson described Jones as a “master salesman” and said that under his leadership, the chamber returned to a positive bottom line.

“I would like to commend Craig for his excellent work in making policy advocacy a priority for the chamber. (Richmond Chamber of Commerce) sponsored a number of resolutions that were passed by the B.C. Chamber and the Canadian Chamber, thus providing the Richmond business community with real impact on government policy.”

Tinson added: “Craig will be tough to replace and I wish him a long and healthy retirement.”

Lisa Wong, who served as chair of the chamber’s board in 2011 and 2012, said Jones led the discussions in a meeting with Minister Ida Chong about the importance of introducing a “broadly-based inter-municipal business licence to make it easier for businesses to conduct business.”

That program is currently being piloted in the Lower Mainland.

“And it was three years ago, the Richmond Chamber put forth three resolutions to the B.C. Chamber for approval that ood and navigation management of the Fraser River is vital to the economic prosperity of this nation, and attracting global talent is key to Canada’s economic future,” Wong said. “All three resolutions were adopted, with Craig then presenting at the 2012 Canadian Chamber (annual general meeting).”

Jones served the business community in many capacities over the years, including as chair of the Lower Mainland Chamber Transportation Committee, and as a member of the City of Richmond Parking Advisory Committee, the City of Richmond Economic Council, Gateway Council, B.C. Government Air Access Committee, Tourism Richmond and Volunteer Richmond, with both the Caring Companies initiative and the Richmond Christmas Fund.

He’s also hosted nine business excellence awards, eight golf tournaments and 911 Awards, nine Christmas luncheons, eight provincial post-budget events, eight pre-budget consultations with local MPs, regular meetings with Richmond’s three MLAs, as well as countless meetings with delegations from around the world, including the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Belgium, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Nigeria and Thailand.

During his more than nine years of leadership, he oversaw the introduction of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce’s rst e-newsletter, in 2006, and he met

with the City of Richmond to discuss the development of the Olympic Zone for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

In 2009, the Gateway Council focused on developing improved transportation corridors for the Lower Mainland. He was also closely involved with the Richmond Olympic Committee in organizing Olympics related activities, including bringing the Holland Heineken House to Richmond at the O-Zone.

In 2010, he met with the London 2012 Olympic delegation, as well as the United Kingdom Trade and Investment delegation regarding the establishment of stronger relationships between the province and the United Kingdom.

In 2012, he accompanied a City of Richmond delegation to Xiamen, China, for the of cial signing of the sister city agreement between the two cities.

Carol Young, manager of administration and events at the chamber, said Jones has left an indelible mark on the chamber’s community pro le.

“You have worked tirelessly and given

so much to the Chamber for almost 10 years and I will miss your expertise, your support and friendship that you have so generously given both professionally and personally,” she said.

Terry Mok, who has worked alongside Jones since he joined the chamber, said: “He has become more than my boss in many ways—he has been my mentor. Always inspiring, and motivating his staff with constant support, Craig’s leadership has made a permanent mark on our of ce,”

Shaena Furlong, co-ordinator of member services, likened the Richmond Chamber of Commerce to a growing tree: “Our staff and board are strong boughs, supporting the many leaves of membership as they green and reach for the sun; Craig has been our sturdy trunk, connecting us to the roots of the chamber movement and providing the support and structure essential to our success for these past 10 years.

Matt Pitcairn, manager of communications and policy, said Jones will be missed in many ways.

“I consider Craig not only my boss, but my friend, and his energy and passion will be missed at the of ce.”

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UpcomingEventsCraig Jones’ decade of leadership will be missedExecutive director of Richmond Chamber of Commerce retiring effective January of 2015

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Implementation ScheduleThe Organics Disposal Ban will be phased in

throughout 2015 to 2017.Commencing on January 1, 2015, loads of

waste brought to a transfer station with over 25 per cent food will be identified, and the hauler of that load reminded of the ban and provided with information. All businesses and residential buildings are encouraged to plan and introduce food scraps recycling programs during this time frame. No penalties will be charged during this phase.

On July 1, 2015 financial enforcement will begin. Waste loads with more than 25 per cent visible food will be penalized an additional 50 per cent of the cost of disposal. (e.g. a $100 load will be charged $150). In general, this type of load is generated by a grocery or large restaurant that does not have an effective food scraps recycling program. Again, all businesses and residential buildings are encouraged to introduce and improve food scraps recycling programs during this time frame.

On January 1st, 2016, full Implementation of the Organics Disposal Ban will begin. At this point the amount of food scraps allowed in the garbage will be lowered to 10 per cent and then 5 per cent as with other disposal bans. It is expected that by

2017, most places should have food scraps recycling programs in place.

Information and ResourcesMetro Vancouver and member municipalities

have and continue to work with residents and businesses to initiate and encourage organics recycling. As part the ongoing regional education campaign, resources and tools about organics recycling are available on Metro Vancouver’s website, including an introductory video available in five languages.

There is also a short information brochure translated into five languages, available for download or printing by Metro Vancouver, and a popular restaurant guide to recycling called Closing the Loop.

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Tickets for this event are expected to sell out. At only $40 plus GST for chamber members, and $50 plus GST for non-members, this is an event most Richmond business

people would be wise not to miss.

As chief economist, Craig leads a team of economists providing economic, xed income and foreign exchange research to RBC clients. Craig is a regular contributor to a number of RBC publications and is a key player in delivering economic analysis to clients and the media

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A graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Toronto, Craig was appointed Chief Economist in 2001 having joined RBC 1994 after working at another nancial institution

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The Top 10 semi-finalists for the 12th Annual Small Business BC Awards have now been selected, and two very special companies are from Richmond. These semi-finalists include: Arcadia Trading Inc. for Best International Trade, and 505-Junk for Best Online Marketer. The Best International Trade Award recognizes the top company with an exciting and viable trade business that is contributing to the BC economy. The Best Online Marketer Award is for the most innovative and impactful online marketing campaign executed by a BC small business.

The Richmond Hospital Foundation presents a Chinese New Year Benefit Concert March 1st. The cast of “Come on, Cousin” and singers including Tommy Wong (Wong Kwong Leung), Ram Tseung (Tseung Chi Kwong), Li Lai Ha will come to Vancouver to celebrate Chinese Year with you on Sunday March 1, 2015 at River Rock Show Theater in Richmond. Visit richmondhospitalfoundation.com for more information.

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year in review

Four seasons of sports highlightsby Don FennellSports Editor

Winter, spring, summer and fall. Every season produced its share of highlights

and memories in local athletics in 2014—from seven Richmond Rapids kicking off the competitive swim season in January by combing for 15 club records at a junior interna-tional meet in Oregon to Quilchena junior golfer Alisha Lau, 15, being named to the 2015 Canadian wom-en’s development team.

It was also a year in which diminutive Noemie Thomas, named Athlete of the Year at the annual Richmond Sports Awards (presented in May by The Richmond Review, Richmond Sports Council and the City of Richmond), continued to shine in the inter-national pool, and Toshi Uchiage remained Canada’s kata king.

Thomas stands tallOne of the youngest swimmers at the 2013

senior world championships in Barcelona, Spain, where she emerged from an elite group with a seventh-place finish in the women’s 100-metre butterfly, Thomas—cur-rently in her freshman year at the University of California-Berkeley—earned two silver medals in five days on the Mare Nostrum tour in June. The medals were in the women’s 50-metre butterfly and 200-metre butterfly events.

Thomas is unique in a sport where tall is more often than not the norm. But she doesn’t give it a second thought.

“Honestly, it’s not something I ever think about because it’s not something I can change,” she says. “I’ve swam most of my swimming career as someone on the shorter end, so I don’t have anything to compare it to. I just focus on what I have and what I can control, and get better the way I know how. I focus on comparing myself to myself, not someone who is six-foot-three because that’s just not realistic.”

Kata perfectionA perfect score earned Toshi Uchiage

his 12th national title, and sixth in a row, in January at the Canadian National Ka-rate Championships held at the Richmond Olympic Oval. Uchiage had plenty of familiar company on the podium as his sisters Sumi and Hidemi met in the ladies’ final for the third time in the last four years, with Sumi winning gold by a 3-2 count.

Comeback kidEarly November provided one of the most

inspiring stories of the year, authored by lo-cal teen Claudia Makhanko-Tang.

A back injury, later diagnosed as spon-dylitis (an inflammation of the vertebrae) kept her off the ice all summer. And when she finally got the green light to return to training in mid-September, she contracted mononucleosis. That left her with literally only four training days to prepare for a competition featuring the elite age-group athletes in the province. But Makhanko-Tang still managed to carve out a fifth-place finish in the Pre-Novice Ladies under-16 division at the B.C./Yukon Section Championships in

Prince George.“I love to skate, and I really wanted to com-

pete because I finally had my double axel. Last year that was a struggle for me,” said the shy 14-year-old.

“I think it surprised me a little bit, but I wanted to show myself, and others, that you can overcome injuries and come back strong.”

It was a successful year in general for Connaught skaters, with five of the club’s athletes qualifying for the 2015 Canadian championships next month in Kingston, Ont. Leading the way was Mitchell Gordon, who placed second to Canadian champion Nam Nguyen in the senior men’s division at a qualifying meet earlier this month in Pier-refonds, Que.

Special honoursTwo members of the Richmond chapter of

B.C. Special Olympics were also recognized for the efforts—one an athlete and the other a longtime volunteer. Magnus Batara was selected the 2014 Special Olympics BC Athlete of the Year, recognizing not only his Paralympic world and Pan-American records in the pool (50- and 200-metre breaststroke) but also his skills in soccer, floor hockey, track and field and basketball. Also lauded were his ongoing show of sportsmanship and support of fellow competitors.

As a coach and organizer, Glen Ellison’s contributions to Special Olympics in Richmond are legendary. Over three-plus decades, Ellison has continually made a positive difference in the lives of many while promoting goodwill and sportsmanship.

See Page 17

Noemie Thomas won two silver medals on the Mare Nostrum swimming tour in June.

Toshi Uchiage’s perfect score earned him his 12th national title in men’s kata at the Cana-dian National Karate Championships at the Richmond Olympic Oval last January.

Evan Dunfee set a new Canadian record over 20 kilometres in the men’s racewalk in May.

Claudia Makhanko-Tang overcome a back in-jury and mononucleosis to skate at the B.C. Yu-kon Section Championships, where she placed fifth.

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“He is truly amazing,” said Lisa Jamieson, local co-ordinator for Special Olympics-Rich-mond. “He knows everyone and everyone knows Glen, and his coaching talents and care for athletes are unprecedented.”

Hockey heroesTwo longtime members of the local hockey

fraternity were also bestowed with major honours, as Hockey Canada in conjunction with Canadian Tire’s Heroes of Play program recognized Jeff Lightfoot and Tony Lindsay. Lightfoot, who is just as likely to be found sorting cans during the Richmond Minor Hockey Association’s annual food bank drive as helping new players get ready for their first Try Hockey event, and Lindsay, a former Richmond Minor Hockey coach who today is development co-ordinator for the Richmond Ravens girls’ hockey association as well as coach of its Bantam AAA team, were both recognized at a ceremony during Hockey Canada’s 100-year crosscountry caravan tour stop in November.

Montreal Canadiens’ goaltender Carey Price, one of the stars of the gold medal-winning Canadian men’s hockey team at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, made a stop in Richmond during the sum-mer as part of a Breakaway hockey event. Meanwhile, a current and former Vancouver Canuck joined others in the hockey commu-nity by joining friends and family to “Re-member Noah” at a special fundraiser in Au-gust at the Richmond Olympic Oval. Former Sockeye Jason Garrison, now of the Tampa Bay Lightning, and Canuck forward Chris Higgins took to the ice for the 10th annual Noah Yelizarov Memorial Hockey Tourna-ment, and afterwards helped raise $20,000 for various charities in memory of the former Richmond minor hockey goaltender who tragically died at age 18 of an accident while vacationing in Thailand in 2004. Garrison has been participating in the event for several years now, since first learning of it through longtime friend and former Richmond Sock-eyes’ teammate Ray Sawada.

Fleet afootOn the track, Evan Dunfee set a new Cana-

dian men’s racewalking record at 20 kilo-

metres of one hour, 20.13 minutes during a World Cup race in Taicang, China in May. He came close to duplicating the mark at the 2014 Canadian Track and Fied Champion-ships in June, winning the event in 1:21.57. For good measure, he showed his versatility on the track by winning the men’s 5,000-me-tre running race in 15:44.18 at the provincial championships.

Draft dayAn anxious energy filled the air as Matthias

Goossen sat with his fiancé and parents await-ing the start of the CFL Draft last May. But they didn’t have to wait long to hear his name called, as Winnipeg Blue Bombers scooped up the offensive lineman from Richmond second overall.

“Everyone was screaming. I could hear our neighbours cheering. It was crazy,” he said.

College’s best Brody Greig capped an amazing season on

the hardwood in March when he and his Lan-

gara College teammates celebrated the Cana-dian men’s basketball championship with a thrilling 88-86 win over Red Deer in Squamish. The All-Canadian was then bestowed with an even more prestigious individual honour—being named the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association’s Athlete of the Year.

Greig averaged a “triple-double” at the tour-nament, with 22 points, 10 rebounds, and 12 assists per game. The win secured the Falcons’ first national basketball title in 15 years, and Greig was named MVP of the tournament.

Soccer rebrandingRichmond Soccer became Richmond FC in

March.With an eye to the future, Richmond Foot-

ball Club (soccer is most commonly known as football around the world) marks a new direc-tion while continuing to celebrate the past. The revamp also includes an updated vision, mission and values developed with input from parents and players.

“It’s a big, but exciting change for the club,” said Dan Brodie, director of marketing for Richmond FC. “And so far it’s been overwhelm-ingly positive. In fact I haven’t heard anything negative at this point.”

Brodie said the name change is intended to help easily identify Richmond teams and make it easier to brand, hopefully helping to encourage more youth to take up soccer and continue playing it for life.

Moxin makes markHugh Boyd Trojans’ on-field success this past

season earned three players on the Richmond high school football team provincial honours.

Grade 11 quarterback Tyler Moxin was se-lected the offensive player of the year at the AA level, while Grade 12 Max Grenzberg—the Southern Conference player of the year—got the nod as an all-star on the defensive line and Grade 11 Gabe Saklofski earned all-star recog-nition as a running back.

Hugh Boyd coach Bill Haddow said Moxin’s award in particular is “a real coup for our pro-gram.”

Haddow said Moxin, a good student, has all the tools needed to make it to the next level. And he is a natural leader to boot. The only thing Haddow would like to see is for Moxin to add more a bit more strength.

One of the stars of Canada’s gold medal-winning Canadian men’s hockey teams at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, Montreal Canadiens’ goaltender Carey Price was a popular figure during his stopover last summer at a ball hockey tournament in Richmond.

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Steveston Santa Parade in Steveston Village

Anticipation filled the air as people crowded along

the streets of Steveston on Christmas Eve to see Santa make his final tour of Richmond in 2014 during the Santa Claus Parade.

The parade, which first took place in 1973, was an annual tradition in Steveston up until last year. The Richmond Firefighters Society stepped up as the sponsor this year to revive the event.

This year’s parade featured a police escort, a fire truck and wagon decorated with Christmas lights, elves, pres-ents, a variety of cartoon characters, and the big man himself, Santa, along with Mrs. Claus.

Longtime parade volun-teer Hans Havas was happy to see the event return to Steveston this holiday sea-son.

“I think this means a lot to the community. It means a lot to me, as I’ve been doing this for the past 20 years with one of the original groups,” he said. “This brings

out a community like you wouldn’t believe. You look around here, it’s absolutely fantastic.”

Adding to the sense of community was the amount of people who were eager to donate non-perishable food items and money to the Richmond Food Bank, which firefighters and volunteers were collecting during the procession.

“Going out here on Christmas Eve, seeing all these people, all these kids, that’s what Christmas is all about.” said Havas.

Katie Lawrence covers the social scene for The Richmond Review. She may be reached at [email protected].

Santa makes splash on Steveston streets

Around TownKatie Lawrence

Abby and Anna Abraham were very excited to see Santa and Mrs. Claus on Christmas Eve.

Katie Lawrence photosWith Christmas carols playing on their float, Santa and Mrs. Claus rode around Steveston in a decked-out sled.

One of the local RCMP officers shows where the naughty and nice people get to sit.

Alexis got to ride in the back of the pickup truck pulling the Christmas wagon while dad walked alongside collecting food bank donations.

Elves, presents, and characters of all sorts came out to join the parade and hand out candy canes to the kids.

Friends and neighbours gathered around the campfire outside of the Tinkley household to keep warm while waiting for Santa.

Frosty the Snowman and a Christmas tree were happy to pose for a photo.

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Richmond Review, December 31, 2014