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Three-storey Williams Road home, built in 1922, served as Ukrainian Catholic Church

by Matthew HoekstraStaff Reporter

Walking up the chipped concrete steps, Pat Oleksiew walks across the wooden front porch of a historic Richmond house whose end is near.

Years ago the porch was surrounded by glass. Oleksiew recalls watching a humming-bird fl ying near the windows, accidentally wedging itself in the glass. Her dad managed to grab the tiny bird and place it on her lap. She petted it a few times, then it fl ew off .

“I was just six or seven,” said the 58-year-old. “I still remember that.”

The three-storey Yarmish House, at 6711 Wil-liams Rd., looms large in the Blundell neigh-bourhood. It was built around 1923 by the fi rst Ukrainian settlers on Lulu Island, and served as the local Ukrainian Catholic Church until a

church was built.But the house is now vacant, and Interface

Architecture is planning to build 14 townhous-es on the property, along with two adjoining lots. Demolition is imminent.

The house is listed in the City of Richmond’s heritage inventory, but is not a protected heritage site. City offi cials and the architect explored options to save the building—or at least parts of it—but non proved feasible. No one spoke at a public hearing on the project last year, and city council granted rezoning.

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Matthew Hoekstra photoPat Oleksiew at the Yarmish House on Williams Road Monday afternoon. Built in 1922 by the fi rst Ukrainian settlers in Richmond, it’s now slated for demolition.

Richmond offi ce vacancy lowest since 2008: report

Dramatic rebound from vacancy rate that hovered near 25%


Richmond’s office market con-tinues to recover since peaking in 2010 when one in every four offices were empty.

Avison Young’s year-end Metro Vancouver Office Market Report for 2013 shows Richmond no lon-ger boasts the worst vacancy rate in Metro Vancouver.

At year’s end, Richmond’s rate sat at 15.4 per cent—nearly dou-ble the Metro Vancouver average of 7.8 per cent, but better than Surrey’s high of 17.3 per cent.

Richmond’s rate is now at its lowest point since mid-2008, ac-cording to the real estate firm. It reached a peak of 24.6 per cent in the 2010 Olympic year.

“While leasing activity remained limited, vacancy continued to de-cline in all classes as tenants oc-cupied existing properties,” says the report.

Class A properties—the most desirable—still have the highest vacancy rate of 19 per cent. The rate for the lesser Class B rests at 7.9 per cent, while Class C proper-ties boast the lowest rate: 5.7 per cent.

Avison Young predicts Rich-mond’s recovery will slow in 2014, and rental rates will remain stable.

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Rottweilers Axel and Paris facing destruction orderby Martin van den HemelStaff Reporter

A petition aimed at convincing members of Rich-mond council to rethink their eff orts to have two Rottweilers destroyed, has now gathered more than 9,300 supporters.

When Cynda Lee heard about the plight of Axel and Paris, currently being held by the Richmond Animal Protection Society over a minor biting in-cident, she said she had to do something about it.

So she started an online petition (tinyurl.com/SaveAxelParis), hoping to sign up at least 1,000 people. But as of Thursday afternoon, the petition had gathered 9,348 names, and counting.

Lee said she regularly visits the society’s shelter on No. 5 Road, bringing snacks and treats for the animals.

She recalls the fi rst time she saw the two Rottwei-lers, which were anything but fi erce.

“He just melts when you talk to him,” Lee said of

Axel. “He just wants to be scratched.”Meanwhile, lawyer Joe Peschisolido is hopeful a

decision about Axel and Paris will be made as soon as next week, long before the expensive court pro-cess begins with a scheduled hearing on the City of Richmond’s destruction order in April. His law fi rm was hired by Prabjot and Nav Nijjer, who have owned the dogs since they were puppies eight years ago. The report written by animal behaviour expert Dr. Rebecca Ledger has now been completed, and it’s very complimentary of both Axel and Paris, Pe-schisolido said.

Once the city sees the report, Peschisolido is hope-ful both sides will be able to hammer out an agree-ment acceptable to the courts.

Paris and Axel escaped their owners’ backyard on Alberta Road on Oct. 25, and ran onto a townhouse construction site, where Axel bit worker Dustin Wang on the upper thigh. The dime-sized injury neither tore his jeans or broke his skin, leaving a contusion akin to a bruise that completely healed within a few weeks.

The dogs were deemed dangerous after a previous incident where they escaped their yard, attacked a dog and scared some children at a nearby school.

More office space proposed for Richmond

From Page 1“Many class A business parks in Richmond are

not ideally positioned to public transit hubs and that may hinder the overall market’s revitaliza-tion and raise questions around the value of re-developing such sites,” according to the report.

Several proposals to develop new offi ce space in Richmond are still on hold. One such prop-erty taxiing on the runway is Vancouver Airport Authority’s proposed Sea Island Business Park, a project that includes 800,000 square feet of offi ce space and a hotel.

Ampar Ventures is also planning a multi-phase development near the Oak Street Bridge that will include a 12-storey offi ce tower and two hotels.

Other proposals that could bring new offi ce space here include a $150-million project at Sea Island Way and No. 3 Road called Global Edu-cation City. That project includes a nine-storey offi ce and campus building, a 15-storey dormi-tory building for foreign students and a six-level parkade and amenity building.

Across the street is a proposal for the Interna-tional Trade Centre, which calls for a hotel and offi ce development with three high-rise towers.

Jingon International Development Group is also proposing a massive phased develop-ment on nearby Duck Island.

From Page 3“Richmond is losing a piece of history,” said

Oleksiew, who grew up in the house. “I feel quite badly about it, but I never had enough power to do anything about it.”

The Yarmish family arrived in Canada from Ukraine in 1907, settling in Manitoba before moving to Richmond. Ivan (John) Yarmish built the craftsman-style home on a 2.4-hectare (six-acre) property, which boasted an orchard and vegetable garden. Together with wife Maria, the couple became the fi rst of many Ukrainians to settle in Richmond.

The house was a gathering point for the local Ukrainian community. Masses were held inside un-til a church was built on Railway Avenue in the ‘50s.

“Anybody from the community who knows the house will tell you that it was always open to everybody. It was always welcoming,” said Oleksiew, a granddaughter of Yarmish. “It wasn’t a house. It was a home to everybody who en-tered it.”

It was built in a style her grandfather was familiar with. It has a basement—which regularly

fl ooded—and a rock-solid three-storey chimney that makes the house nearly impossible to move. Intricate carvings along the roofl ine can still be seen today, but a once-prominent star in the peak has since been lost.

“I always loved that star,” said Oleksiew, unsure of its greater signifi cance. “I don’t know. It protected the family? I had no idea what my grandfather had thought.”

Her grandparents died before she was born—Ivan at age 60 in 1930 and Maria in 1954—but the house stayed in the family for some time. She spent her fi rst 17 years there, but eventually the house was sold, the property subdivided and her family moved into a new home next door.

Time has taken its toll on the near century-old Yarmish House, but two original cherry trees still stand tall in the front yard. So does a concrete wall. Although cracking, there’s talk of incorpo-rating its ornate columns into the new town-house development.

In a report to council, city planner Edwin Lee noted relocating the house on-site and re-using it as part of the townhouse project wouldn’t

work because of a poor structure. And given its size and age, moving the house off -site is nearly impossible.

“The structure would likely not survive a long relocation to a diff erent property in Richmond, and costs to take down hydro and telephone service lines would be prohibitive,” noted Lee.

Coun. Derek Dang, council’s liaison to the heritage commission, said buildings of histori-cal value are documented and catalogued, but added “you can’t save everything,” particularly given the condition of aging structures.

“We generally make sure we do have something on record, otherwise once it’s gone, it’s gone.”

Dang noted the family name does live on in the neighbourhood—in the form of city streets Yarmish Drive and Yarmish Gate.

And a piece of the home’s heart is being given new life elsewhere in Richmond. Oleksiew and her husband Cliff were able to salvage the home’s stained glass windows. They’re now des-tined for an addition to their current home.

Said Oleksiew: “Now I have to fi gure out how to make those energy effi cient.”

January house sales jumped

House and townhome sales picked up in January compared to a month earlier, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.

In statistics revealed Tues-day, 114 houses changed hands in January at a median price of $988,000. While the number of houses sold was up 28 per cent, the median price was down 15 per cent.

Meanwhile, the number of condos sold dropped nearly 20 per cent during that same span, though the median sell-ing price was up 5.8 per cent.

Year over year, January of 2014 was a much better one than in 2013.

House sales were up 80 per cent this year, and prices shot up nearly 14 per cent.

Townhouse and condo sales were also up, 41.9 per cent and 50.8 per cent respec-tively.

January home listings were nearly 18 per cent higher than the region’s 10-year av-erage.

The benchmark price for all residential properties in Metro Vancouver reached $606,800, up 3.2 per cent compared to January 2013.

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Olympic oval seeks retailer

Colouring books, Olym-pic stress balls, yoga mats, sunscreen and mini replica torches could all soon be for sale at the Richmond Olympic Oval later this year.

The City of Richmond is seeking an operator of a planned retail space inside the River Road facility. Of-ficials are aiming for an Oc-tober opening.

According to a new re-quest for expressions of interest, the oval recorded 704,000 visitors in 2013—including visits from its 5,000-plus members, drop-in visitors, spectators, event participants and tour groups—and oval officials believe a retail store would be viable.

The retailer would be per-mitted to sell branded mer-chandise from the oval and its future Richmond Olym-pic Experience museum, along with official Interna-tional Olympic Committee items. Sports and fitness apparel and equipment—brands of which must be approved by oval brass—would also be fair game for the retailer.

Suggestions of merchan-dise are wide-ranging for the proposed 2,500-square-foot space, which would be located inside the oval building.

Potential operators have until Feb. 18 to submit pro-posals, including an idea on how to split revenue.

Matthew Hoekstra

Ukrainian immigrants in front of Yarmish home.

‘Richmond is losing a piece of history’

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Notice of Public HearingMonday, February 17, 2014 – 7 p.m.

Council Chambers, Richmond City Hall

TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the City of Richmond will hold a Public Hearing as noted above, on the following items:

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1. Richmond Zoning Bylaw 8500, Amendment Bylaw 9091 and Richmond Zoning Bylaw 8500, Amendment Bylaw 9092 (RZ 13-645068)

Location/s: 8555 Sea Island Way and 3031 No. 3 Road

Applicant/s: JAK Group, DBA and DKJK Investments Ltd.

Purpose of Richmond Zoning Bylaw 8500, Amendment Bylaw 9091:

To amend the “Auto-Oriented Commercial (CA)” zone to permit a type 2 retail liquor store located at 8555 Sea Island Way (Unit 135 & 140 of 8555 Sea Island Way).

Purpose of Richmond Zoning Bylaw 8500, Amendment Bylaw 9092:

To amend the “Hotel Commercial (ZC16) - Capstan Village (City Centre)” zone to remove type 1 retail liquor store as a secondary use at 3031 No. 3 Road.

City Contact: Sara Badyal 604-276-4282 Planning and Development Department

BYLAW 9091 & 9092

2. Richmond Zoning Bylaw 8500, Amendment Bylaw 9094 (RZ 12-602748)

Location/s: 13040 No. 2 Road Applicant/s: Kirk Yuen of Cape

Construction (2001) Ltd. Purpose: To create a new site specifi c

“Commercial Mixed Use (ZMU24) – London Landing (Steveston)” zone and to rezone the subject location from the “Light Industrial (IL)” zone to the “Commercial Mixed Use (ZMU24) – London Landing (Steveston)” zone, in order to permit development of a four-storey building with approximately 55 residential units and 348.5 m2 (3,750 ft2) commercial space.

City Contact: Sara Badyal 604-276-4282 Planning and Development Department

BYLAW 9094


Location/s: 11320/11340 Kingsgrove Avenue Applicant/s: Samuel Yau Purpose: To rezone the subject

property from “Two-Unit Dwellings (RD1)” to “Single Detached (RS2/K)”, to permit the property to be subdivided to create two (2) lots fronting Kingsgrove Avenue.

City Contact: Cynthia Lussier 604-276-4108 Planning and Development Department

BYLAWS 9095


Location/s: 5771/5791 Langtree Avenue Applicant/s: Raman Kooner and Robbie

Sharda Purpose: To rezone the subject

property from “Single Detached (RS1/E)” to “Single Detached (RS2/B)”, to permit the property to be subdivided to create two (2) lots fronting Langtree Avenue.

City Contact: Cynthia Lussier 604-276-4108 Planning and Development Department

BYLAW 9096

How to obtain further information:• By Phone: If you have questions or concerns, please call the CITY CONTACT shown above.• On the City Website: Public Hearing Agendas, including staff reports and the proposed bylaws, are available on the City Website at http://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/council/agendas/hearings/2014.htm• At City Hall: Copies of the proposed bylaw, supporting staff and Committee reports and other background material, are also available for inspection at the Planning & Development Department at City Hall, between the hours of 8:15 am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday, except statutory holidays, commencing February 7, 2014 and ending February 17, 2014, or upon the conclusion of the hearing• By Fax or Mail: Staff reports and the proposed bylaws may also be obtained by FAX or by standard mail, by calling 604.276.4007 between the hours of 8:15 am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday, except statutory holidays, commencing February 7, 2014 and ending February 17, 2014.Participating in the Public Hearing process:• The Public Hearing is open to all members of the public. If you believe that you are affected by the proposed bylaw, you may make a presentation or submit written comments at the Public Hearing. If you are unable to attend, you may send your written comments to the City Clerk’s Offi ce by 4 pm on the date of the Public Hearing as follows:• By E-mail: using the on-line form at http://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/council/hearings/about.htm• By Standard Mail: 6911 No. 3 Road, Richmond, BC, V6Y 2C1, Attention: Director, City Clerk’s Offi ce• By Fax: 604.278.5139, Attention: Director, City Clerk’s Offi ce• Public Hearing Rules: For information on public hearing rules and procedures, please consult the City website at http://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/council/hearings/about.htm or call the City Clerk’s Offi ce at 604.276.4007.• All submissions will form part of the record of the hearing. Once the Public Hearing has concluded, no further information or submissions can be considered by Council. It should be noted that the rezoned property may be used for any or all of the uses permitted in the “new” zone.David WeberDirector, City Clerk’s Offi ce


When selecting a season of shows for Gateway Theatre, Artistic Director

Jovanni Sy always picks plays he believes the audience will love. But sometimes he hires a talented director, first, and chooses a script that suits their skills. This is the case with ‘Art’ director Stephen Drover. When Jovanni saw Stephen’s direction of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, he said “It was one of the best shows I had seen in years …. After that transformative evening of theatre, I knew Stephen was an artist I wanted to bring to the Gateway.” After Jovanni hired Stephen to direct in the 2013–2014 season, they had lengthy discussions about the plays they both love, (“there are many!”) and Jovanni finally selected ‘Art’ for the February slot. So what is it about Stephen’s direction that Jovanni finds so moving? “In The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and [most recently, his production of] Penelope, I was impressed with his ability to draw out great performances from his cast. In both plays, the actors were handling extremely complex scripts that explored large philosophical questions. Stephen excels at pursuing big ideas within the context of small, intimate moments between characters. It’s like discovering the universe in a grain of sand.” Since ‘Art’ focuses on the intricacies of male friendship and how fragile relationships can be, Jovanni knew that in Stephen’s hands, the play would really resonate with audiences. To see Stephen’s take on ‘Art’, book your tickets now: tickets.gatewaytheatre.com

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City AppointmentRichmond Aquatic and Older Adults Centre Replacement Advisory CommitteeRichmond City Council is seeking applications for three representatives from the general public for the Richmond Aquatic and Older Adults Centre Replacement Advisory Committee.

Overview:Richmond City Council recently approved the formation of the Richmond Aquatic and Older Adults Centre Replacement Advisory Committee. The role of the Committee is to provide advice, input and feedback at key milestones during the planning and development of the new facility approved by Council in November 2013.

Qualifications:• Richmond residency

• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: o Recreation o Sports o Gerontology o Social Services o Facility Operations o Customer service

Commitment:Attendance at approximately four committee meetings per year is expected by all committee members. In addition, sub-committees may be established to discuss specific issues as requested by the City.

The term of the Advisory Committee will be for the duration of the project, anticipated to be complete by July 2017.

Applications and Process:To be considered for this opportunity, please submit your resume, along with a cover letter specifying how you meet the identified qualifications and how you will contribute to the success of this project. Applications should be submitted to [email protected] no later than February 21, 2014.

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Changes at Chimo as charity loses grant, directorby Matthew HoekstraStaff Reporter

A longtime local charity has parted ways with its executive director and is now bracing for a major cut to its budget.

Chimo Crisis Services, a registered Richmond char-ity since 1974, is losing a third of its government funding, after the fed-eral government decided against renewing a grant for Chimo’s settlement and integration program.

Funding of $600,000 will dry up at the end of March, eff ectively shuttering a program that could im-pact up to six staff at the Minoru Boulevard charity.

The charity, which also operates an emergency shelter for women and children and provides in-dividual and family crisis counselling, is facing an additional challenge after the departure last week of executive director Lisa Westermark, who was hired in July 2012.

“The board has decided that we want to go in another direction as we move forward. It’s a transi-tion time for us,” said Brian Edwards, the president of Chimo’s board of direc-tors. “We wish Lisa (Wes-termark) all the best.”

The board is now plan-ning a process to fi nd a new candidate.

Chimo began off ering its settlement program two years ago, according to Edwards. After admin-istration shifted from the province to the federal government, bigger play-ers were chosen to off er the service and Chimo was left out of the mix.

Edwards called it a “signifi cant loss,” but em-phasized the change will not impact Chimo’s core programs, including Nova Transition House. Los-ing the grant allows the charity to refocus on the services Chimo has long provided, he added.

“It allows us to refocus on our core model,. We do have some ideas … that we hopefully can imple-ment as we move forward in a new direction.”

Last June Citizenship and Immigration Canada issued a call for proposals to deliver settlement ser-vices in B.C. New contracts start in April, when the fed-eral government resumes management of the fed-erally-funded settlement programs in B.C.

Chris Dyck photoPeach the Hamster is making use of a mini green cart from the City of Richmond. Peach is apparently quite pleased to be in close quarters with food scraps.

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opinion

When I was in Norway visiting fam-

ily, it was a unique opportunity to talk with people about what it is like living in a country where the social security net is very strong but the income tax levels are also quite high.

Surprisingly, people in

Norway were happy with taxation, it was viewed as good for everyone. I actually met one young woman who expressed that she would pay more taxes if it led to better supports.

Contrasting this with the Canadian attitude towards taxation was eye-opening. Most Canadians do not like paying taxes, especially if taxes are seen as unfair or fail to deliver better (or any) services that are needed (e.g. education, healthcare, cleaner environment, sup-porting people in need). Perhaps this is the real diff erence between Canada and Norway, our tax system benefi ts large corporations even as corporate profi ts hit record highs. Taxation is one way that our society determines the sectors that government thinks are important.

Recently, the Navajo Na-tion Council passed a tax on junk food while simul-taneously eliminating a tax on fresh, healthy foods. This comes in the wake of unprecedented high rates of diet-related diseases im-

pacting Aboriginal commu-nities across North America. These communities as well as those that are low-in-come, youth at risk, seniors, and new immigrants, are disproportionately im-pacted by the consumption of high calorie, high fat, high salt foods. The cost of addressing obesity within our healthcare systems amounted to $4.3 billion dollars in 2005.

Changing food tax policy has been proposed for over a decade as a potential way to improve both food choices and population health. While the evidence is limited, this kind of policy has been used in other areas as an eff ective tool (for example, cigarettes and alcohol). This can be done in two ways; one method raises the price of unhealthy foods (e.g. high sugar, car-bonated drinks, high in satu-rated fat), the other method lowers taxes (or subsidizes) the price on healthy foods (e.g. fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains).

While increasing taxes on unhealthy products is

one approach, many crit-ics point to an inability to identify what constitutes ‘healthy’ versus ‘unhealthy’ foods. However, a number of studies indicate that the best approach is to make healthy food more aff ord-able. By lowering the price of healthful foods in schools and workplaces has been shown to increase con-sumption upwards of 50 per cent. Vending machines in schools that provide a 50 per cent reduction in low-fat snack prices increased the purchasing by students by over 120 per cent.

The main premise to ad-

dress is that it is inappropri-ate to blame individuals and families for being unable to eat better and exercise more.

Most community mem-bers that are overweight are also struggling to make ends meet, working multiple low-wage jobs. These jobs don’t provide enough income to allow families to adequately buy and consume fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains and engage in regular exercise. We need to provide real solutions to better healthy food access to all people in our community. As a fi rst step, this can be accomplished by subsidiz-ing healthy foods in the workplace and in schools.

Colin Dring is executive director of the Richmond Food Security Society, which works to ensure that all people in the community have access to safe, nutritious, cultur-ally appropriate foods that strengthen our environment and society. See www.richmondfoodsecurity.org.

The level of finger-pointing, recrimination

and just plain politics in the debate over a proposed transpor-tation referendum makes many people furious.

They have every right to be, as the level of leader-ship from the premier, minister of transportation and most Metro Vancou-ver mayors has been de-plorable. Few are ready to take any risks and come up with some kind of plan – not only for transporta-tion improvements, but also for means to fund those improvements.

The idea of a referen-dum came up during last year’s provincial election campaign.

People outside Metro Vancouver, who are even more sick of the endless TransLink debate than those who live here, were generally delighted that Christy Clark suggested taxpayers be involved in selecting funding options.

Whether it was a major factor in the outcome of the election or not is debatable, but the B.C. Liberals did very well in ridings outside Metro Vancouver, with the excep-tion of Vancouver Island. The referendum promise

certainly didn’t hurt.Clark has to follow

through with it, if for no other reason than the damage it will cause her if she doesn’t. She is well aware of the taxpayer re-volt over the HST and has no plans to ignore taxpay-ers if big tax increases are on the horizon.

However, her govern-ment has made no seri-ous effort to craft a ques-tion or set out a series of options for transporta-tion. At the same time, Metro Vancouver mayors, who were supposed to be involved in the process, have been ignored.

They have been increas-ingly vocal, as they fear they will be punished if the referendum is held at the same time as munici-pal elections, and they are tarred with TransLink tax increases. Yet they should be held accountable for TransLink spending deci-sions, as they ultimately approve the TransLink budget, now put together by a private board.

Mayors don’t want voters making decision on TransLink spending, nor associating them with TransLink taxes. The premier doesn’t want to break an election prom-ise.

Two mayors have shown at least some modest leadership. Delta Mayor

Lois Jackson has supported the idea of a referendum, rightly pointing out that taxpayers are the ones paying any extra taxes to fund TransLink and they deserve a say.

Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts, unlike all her other colleagues, has at least put forward a funding suggestion. She has said TransLink could get ad-ditional funds through a combination of tolling all bridges at a lower level

than current Port Mann tolls; boosting property tax by no more than three peer cent a year and reducing the gas tax.

While this would cer-tainly play well in Surrey, where unfair tolling policy hits the hardest, Watts at least hasn’t shied away from actually raising taxes. There is no question that additional taxes are needed in order to fund additional transit services – particularly rapid transit

in Surrey and Vancouver. Watts at least is not shut-ting her eyes to this fact.

Most of her fellow mayors want access to the prov-ince’s carbon tax, but few are actually ready to put their necks on the line and suggest new taxes which would aff ect their residents directly.

Leadership is sorely lack-ing in this discussion. It’s long overdue.

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China will still do business with us as long as it is to their advantageEditor:

I refer to James Hsieh’s letter in your January 31st issue regarding apolo-gies for historical wrongs, and would disagree on a couple of points he makes.

In the penultimate paragraph of his letter Mr Hsieh say he feels an apology at this time may make a rising China look more kindly on us.

Reading between the lines, I understand this statement to mean that Canada will be ‘punished’ if it does not kowtow before the Emperor in Bejing and beg forgive-ness. After living among them for 60 years I fi rmly believe the Chinese are a pragmatic race and that China will do business with us as long as it is to their advantage, and for the time being they are as thirsty for our oil and minerals as we are for their iPads.

Likewise, the many repressed citizens of the People’s Republic of China, who are eager to enjoy the freedom and protection of Canadian citizenship, are not going to be poring over Cana-dian history in their rush to come to this less than perfect country.

In their lifetimes they have endured treatment from their own one party government ten thou-sand times more harmful than head tax and loss of voting rights, and are probably rather amused Canadians are getting their knickers in such a twist over such a trivial matter, just as am I.

N.J.WilsonRichmond

letters

Editor:Last week, The Review reported on

the comments made by Kerry-Lynne Findlay, MP Delta - Richmond East on Justin Trudeau’s action to remove Liberal Senators from the Liberal cau-cus. “It's all for show,” Findlay said.

What?! A politician doing some-thing for show. How unusual. And in this case doing something that was doable and right. Doable: it took less than 24 hours to become eff ec-tive. Right: because it may help the Senate to re-gain one of it's initial purposes —that of “a house of sober second thought”

The elected Members of Parliament meet regularly in private with their respective party members (caucus) to plan for their stand on legislation that will be coming up in the legisla-tive chamber. If Bills pass, then the Bill goes to the Senate for their ap-proval or ammendment. The second thought. The Senate may delay a Bill but it can not kill the Bill. After Sen-ate consideration the Bill returns to Parliament to be passed.

Up until Trudeau's bold move, Senators were to give a “sober

second thought” to legislation that they had already participated in while attending their Party's caucus meetings. A sort of confi ct of interest - judging legislation that they have participated in formulating.

The liberal Senators are no longer permitted to attend Liberal caucus meetings. They may remain Liberals but are no longer tied to the Liberal caucus position on legislative mat-ters. A signifi cant change! The other political parties should do the same.

MP Findlay suggests, “If the Senate cannot be reformed in a meaning-ful way, we (I assume she means the Conservatives ) believe it should be abolished.” Strong words but mean-ingless, as she must know of the extreme diffi culty in doing it. If not, I refer her to the Constitution Act, 1982, sections 38, 40 - 45.

I ask her, or the Conservatives, to outline their plan to bring about Sen-ate changes or abolishing within the next fi ve years.

Trudeau did something, what are the Conservatives prepared to do?

Doug SymonsRichmond

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Chan, 16, was one of the win-ners of the Crescendo Interna-tional Piano Competition, held Dec. 2, 2013 at Tom Lee Music in Vancouver.

She has now been invited to perform at the intimate Weill Re-cital Hall in Carnegie Hall in New York City on Feb. 17.

Chan, a Grade 10 student at A.R. MacNeill Secondary, is a music student of Nicholas Rada and a member of the Donna Fishwick Piano Ensemble. In her young music career, she has already garnered major prizes from local, national and international music festivals.

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Gateway’s ‘The King and I’ nets two Ovation Awards

Artists involved in mounting The King and I for Gateway Theatre have netted two Ova-tion Awards, celebrat-ing the best musicals of last year.

The Richmond theatre staged its production of the popular Rodgers and Hammerstein musi-cal in December 2013.

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Trio stages concert of jazz and Latin music

Richmond’s World of Music and Arts school is hosting a concert Sunday blending jazz and Latin fusion music.

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Rising Stars on stage with Richmond Orchestra

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Artist’s flights of fancy travel across multi mediaby Katya SlepianContributor

Between sculptures, drawings and fi lms, the Theatre of the Exploding Sun exhibition is bursting with art in all its diff erent forms. But every artist has to start some-where and for Vancouver artist Keith Langergraber, drawing came fi rst.

“I always drew, I just started out doodling,” he says, “I think it started from science fi ction, watching Star Wars and then drawing spaceships.”

He continues to be fascinated by science fi ction and combines it with his love of the Canadian wilderness.

“Primarily my practice follows along the Canadian tradition of the landscape but I started thinking about Hollywood North and how these companies are com-ing up and reorienting [this area].”

The Theatre of the Exploding Sun opens on Saturday, Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. and runs until April 6 at the Richmond Art Gallery. The exhibition, focuses on Langergraber’s three-part fi lm, Time Traveller Trilogy, and also includes seven sculptures and two suites of drawings.

According to Langergraber, “it’s almost like this parallel universe, where Richmond can be turned into anything. A lot of sci fi has been fi lmed in Richmond, like Battlestar Galactica.”

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“I wanted to play on the idea of fanfi ction and fan fi lms,” he says, “I fi nd it very interested… how these subcultures interact with the landscape.”

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Piano showdownOnly one will go on to provincials, with a chance

at nationals. Next Saturday the Richmond branch of the B.C. Registered Music Teachers’ Association will host a piano competition to choose a representative for the BCRMTA Provincial Piano Competition.

Linda Ruan, Roger Wang, Arthur Wang and Angeni Wang—who range in age from 13 to 17—will each have 45 minutes to dazzle the audience.

Adjudicator Jane Hayes of Kwantlen Polytechnic University will decide the winner.

The B.C. Registered Music Teachers’ Association is a professional organization of music teachers who aim to further the art of music through pro-grams that support teaching and performance.

Each local branch is allowed to enter one student in the provincial competition, which takes place in September. The winner also becomes B.C.’s represen-tative at a national competition in July 2015.

The Feb. 15 contest starts at 7 p.m. at Broadmoor Baptist Church, 8140 Saunders Rd. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students. They’re available at the door or by calling 604-274-1980.

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Katya Slepian photoRichmond Art Gallery is hosting a major exhibition by Keith Langergraber.


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one day of the year to fully engage your sweet tooth. And what child doesn't enjoy sampling plenty of sweet treats? Create a sundae station after dinner, complete with diff erent fl avors of ice cream and vari-ous toppings. Include mix-ins, like brownie bits or small chunks of pound cake. Everyone can create their own sundae, topped off with whipped cream and a cherry.

This is also a time to experiment with dif-ferent dessert recipes. Encourage kids to come into the kitchen and dabble in pastry arts. Bake and decorate heart-shaped cakes and cookies. Whip up healthy, pink-tinged strawberry-banana smoothies. Create edible candy-and-choc-olate bouquets to use as the centerpiece on a dining table. The op-

portunities for fun with sweets are endless.

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this Valentine's Day as a chance turn off their electronic devices and have fun with crafts and hobbies. While heart-shaped paper crafts are requisite for the day, that doesn't mean you need to be limited to all frilly creations. Boys can construct their own Cupid bows from twigs and some yarn. Everyone can whip up a batch of fi zzing, scented bath salts. Homemade craft dough also makes for a fun project, and the dough can be turned into all diff erent shapes, including hearts and bows.

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in semi-formal clothing and enjoy a candle-lit meal on fi ne china. The meal need not be fancy, as long as everyone enjoys what they are eating. Plan for dessert afterward.

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quently accompanied by bouquets of roses and other fl owers. Begin a new family tradition of planting fl ower seeds on February 14. Use small pots that can be kept indoors in a bright window for a few weeks until the arrival of spring. Then transplant outdoors and continue to enjoy full-grown fl owering plants for months to come.

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that everyone enjoys together. Spend a day sledding down a wintry slope or skat-ing at a nearby ice rink. Hike through a town park and witness the landscape during a cold-weather season. Visit a zoo, museum or aquarium and take in all the sights and sounds.

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9. Which Roman god-dess was known as the goddess of love?

a. Vestab. Junoc. Venusd. Diana

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Richmond School District offers 16 apprenticeship-based programs

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The Richmond School Dis-trict offers 16

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The ACE IT program enables Grade 11 and Grade 12 students to learn about skilled trades in technical classroom training, all while earning high school and post-sec-ondary credit.

With a total of four levels, it can take up to four years to earn a Red Seal. Between each level, students are required to earn work hours which can sometimes take a year.

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Legay began the ACE IT program in his second semester of his Grade 12 year, at-tending BCIT full-time.

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portunity to advance my education and be-come a certified Red Seal builder...and also the school pays for the tuition,” he said.

RView: What kind of carpentry do you do?

Bryan Legay: Fram-ing.

RView: Have you al-ways been interested in trades?

BL: Yeah, I took a course in Grade 8 where you got to do woodworking, and that was pretty fun so I always wanted to go into trades.

RView: Which school did you attend and what other trades/ap-prenticeship programs did the Richmond School District offer?

BL: I went to Ste-veston-London and ACE IT had other options like plumbing and masonry. I was interested in ma-sonry and carpentry, but I decided to go with carpentry.

RView: Which ACE IT trades programs did you take?

BL: I took the fram-ing foundations program.

RView: How quickly do you see yourself advancing to the next level of certification?

BL: Well I have to work for a year and a half, as required by the course, but after that I plan to go back to school right away.

RView: Did anyone ever discourage you

from pursuing trades in high school? Why?

BL: A couple of my friends ques-tioned me as to why (I was) not just enjoying my last semester at high school, and that’s about it. The reason I went was because I saw this as an op-portunity to advance my education and become a certified Red Seal builder.

RView: What were the highlights of the program and would you recommend it to other high school students who are interested?

BL: It made me realize certain things about high school like how high school is actually a lot easier than I thought it was at the time and also some courses were unnecessary to take. I would highly recom-mend it because it’s a great experience and you get to learn a lot of things and right out of high school. I’m getting paid $18 an hour off the start, and then will earn $20 by December. It’s great pay, compared to what my friends are getting.

RView: In your ACE IT program, were there many women? How about now, when you’re working?

BL: At the job site I’m working at, there are no women, but in my course, there was a woman in the other class and they do have a class which is all women.

RView: How do you get jobs?

BL: I think with construction, you have to know people. You can also apply on Craigslist or Kijiji or those job places, but it really helps a lot if you ask family friends who know people in the industry. It’s a lot easier to get a job, like any job if you know someone. That’s how I got my job; one of my friends is working at the company.

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Like most of my other teenage compatriots, I am guilty of an inescapable sin:

procrastination.Often I fi nd myself browsing the web

despite knowing full well that home-work that will take me at least an hour to fi nish has been abandoned on my desk, and the deadline for that scholar-ship that my mom keeps pushing for me to apply for, is creeping up on me

We all have our own sinful indul-gences when on the Internet and for me gossip websites are a weakness.

There is something so shamefully satisfying about typing in the fi rst few letters of the URL and watching the browsing bar automatically suggest the website, one slip of the hand, one press of the key, and I am ensnared.

My weekly arrivals of The Econo-mist and TIME are tossed to the side.

As I scroll through the thumbnails at the side, I click on familiar faces, and when the page loads I breathe a sigh of satisfaction as if a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. It is not the article that interests me though. I scan with an air of professionalism through the pictures then I go straight to the comment section. It is there that I fi nd my amusement.

This is the game I play: in the ap-proximate 10 seconds that I scroll through the pictures catching a few of the words from the article I attempt to guess what the nature of the com-ments will entail this time.

Usually I am successful. Well-liked celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence are sure to get comments compli-menting them not only on their physical perfection but also their genuine personality and how ‘real’ they are. The disliked or the infamous

are slandered and accused of being fake and disgusting, a favourite example of mine being: “Why would anyone even bother to read this.”

As aforementioned, being ‘real’ is be-coming a trend. This phenomenon ap-plies not only to one’s personality but to their physical appearance as well. When the slender and the thin have pictures posted of them in articles, the comment section reeks of negativity, discrediting the woman in question because of the size of her hips or the number of bones that appear to be jutting out. The subject is accused of anorexia, bulemia, and other eating disorders; a popular theme for the commenters to grind about appears to be “she looks like a prepubescent boy.”

On the contrary when the subject of the photo has an average to a larger-than-average body size, the comments are bursting with praise. “That’s a real woman!” and the like, appear and dominate the comments.

So here’s the question I have. Last I learned in biology class about the human body, a woman is not defi ned by the weight or lack thereof that sits on her hips.

I realize and acknowledge the fact that the media often portrays a less than attainable standard for women in society, but does that give us the right to beat down other women when they do not live up to the standard of being ‘real’ enough?

The reason why the human spe-cies is so successful is because of our diversity, our diff erences, and these diff erences include our body sizes.

That is why I see this rising phenom-enon and I disagree with it. If a woman is to be celebrated regardless of her size, should not all women be included in this equation?

Mom, you were wrong about pro-crastination not being productive.

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A new street vendor set up shop in down-town Richmond Thurs-day, and will be offer-ing roasted chestnuts from 12:30 to 6 p.m. daily.

City of Richmond spokesperson Ted Townsend said Yang Roasted Chestnuts will be open for business at No. 3 Road and West-minster Highway.

“They are still not fully set up, but are there beginning to-day,” Townsend said Thursday.

Yang Roasted Chest-nuts joins Japadog, known for its terimayo dog, which contains teriyaki sauce, mayo and seaweed and was approved last year.

Also approved were Falso Philly Cheese Steak—which never opened up because their cart wouldn’t fit on the sidewalk, Townsend said—and the Richmond Hospice Association, the latter which sold fresh flow-ers from a sidewalk cart.

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Three locals were re-cently named to the Canadian National fencing team, one of whom became the first ever athlete to make four different national teams.

Dynamo Fencing Club ‘s Igor Gantsevich told The Richmond Re-view that Richmond’s Dylan French is a real medal threat at the 2014 world champion-ships.

French again made Team Canada, the fourth time he’s made the squad.

French joins fellow Richmond athletes Shaul Gordon and So-nya Romashina on the team.

For French, it was an especially good week last week, as he was also named a final-ist for the Sport BC Awards, as a nominee for B.C. Junior Male Athlete of the Year.

Gantsevich’s father, Victor, is a finalist for B.C. Male Coach of the Year, while Dynamo Fencing Club’s Emma von Dadelszen, from Vancouver, is up for BC Junior Female Athlete of the Year.

Joining French (Ca-det Men’s Epee, Cadet Men’s Foil and Junior Men’s Epee and Foil), Gordon (Junior Men’s Sabre) and Romashina (Cadet Women’s Foil) are von Dadelszen, White Rock’s William Wang and Ladner’s Sam Kaardal.

Gantsevich said The Fencing Grand Prix is returning to the Rich-mond Olympic Oval this March, with com-

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Avid Ratings Canada has honoured Wayne Houghton of Portrait Homes with a 2014 Avid Service Award for Best Customer Service Associates in Canada.

“The Avid Service Award is the first award to honour exceptional employees located throughout Canada,” says Tim Bailey, Division President of Avid Ratings Canada.” We are proud to recognize these special individuals, professionals who

commit themselves every day to delivering exceptional homes and ensuring every home owners is thoroughly delighted with the major investment they’ve made.”

The award is given to employees who scored about the top fifth percentile in customer satisfaction according to the Avid Ratings Canada GoSurvey program. Adera Development Corp.’s Karen Hansen is another local recipient of the award. The awards are given to employees who deliver outstanding service to customers.

Portrait Homes has always prided itself on its approach to customer service, and has been the recipient of many Avid Awards in the past, including an Avid Gold Award in 2013 and an Avid Diamond Award in 2012, both for Best Customer Service Experience in Canada, and this customer service award for Houghton continues building that reputation. Portrait also took home five Georgie Awards on Feb. 1, including Single Family Production Home Builder of the Year and Residential Community of the Year for Hampstead in Maple Ridge.

Adera also took home two Georgie Awards on Feb. 1, for Multi-Family Home Builder of the Year and Best Mult-Family Low Rise Development for Sail at the University of British Columbia.

The Georgie Awards are presented by the Canadian Home Builders’ Association of B.C., and recognize excellence in the residential home construction industry.

“The excellent work from the winners – and indeed all the finalists – demonstrates that B.C. is truly the leader when it comes to innovative design and quality construction,” says Rob Capar, President of CHBA B.C.

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By Kerry Vital

The University of British Columbia will soon welcome an extremely intelligent addition to the area: Adera’s Prodigy, a condominium development that is already meeting some pretty high expectations.

“Prodigy will be the best building we’ve ever built,” says Eric Andreasen, vice-president of marketing and sales for Adera.

“We’ve taken what we learned from our past projects at UBC and put it all into Prodigy.”

Prodigy will be Adera’s 11th and 12th buildings in the area, and will be built just west of one of the company’s most popular projects, Sail.

Sail was Adera’s first six-storey wood-frame building at UBC, and Prodigy will follow in its footsteps. With two buildings, 188 homes and an increase in the number of three-bedroom homes offered, Prodigy is offering spacious open floorplans and some truly gorgeous features, inspired by Adera’s famous West Coast Modern architectural style.

Overlooking UBC’s Mundell Park, Prodigy will have an emphasis on outdoor, natural living, with extensive green space and natural

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“We are planning a massive water feature in the courtyard of Prodigy,” says Andreasen. “It’s going to go right up to the ground floor patios. We’ve really accentuated the water aspect at Prodigy.”

The exterior will be built with many elements of West Coast design, including strong coloured brick, natural cedar, painted wall panels with metal reveals and glass and metal railings.

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optional “Ultimate Gourmet Kitchen”, which is an Adera upgrade option. This time, Prodigy will also include gas cooktops, which Andreasen notes have been requested by other Adera homeowners as well. There will also be Toto fixtures in the bathrooms and huge windows to let the natural light pour in and take advantage of the beautiful views. Most homeowners will have expansive views from their patios or balconies, including many overlooking the water feature and over to Mundell Park. Residents on the top floor will have their own private roof deck, which Andreasen calls the West Coast Lanai, another signature Adera option.

“These will be the largest rooftop decks we’ve ever done,” he says. “We are also extending the soffiting over a significant part of the decks to provide protected space so you can get outside even when the weather is difficult.”

Homeowners will have access to the i.D. By Me program, which allows you to customize your home with upgrades. Some of options you can choose include your colour scheme, upgrading your appliances, changing your flooring or custom millwork.

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Thomas Kidd built this home in 1912 for his eldest daughter as a wedding gift. This spectacular well kept home sits on a picturesque 11,936 sq.ft. property surrounded by gardens and farmland. The imposing farmhouse has a bell-cast hipped roof and dormer, two brick chimneys, 23’ x 8’ front porch with a party size two tier sun deck in back. 3 bdrms & over 3,500 sq.ft. of living space. Many updates over the years include kitchens and baths, new roof & siding, gas hot water heating w/new boiler & H/W tank. Recently installed central vacuum system. Just painted exterior Sept. 2013. Impressively restored interior keeping its charm with wood fl oors, windows & doors. Located at quiet south end of No. 4 Road 11620.

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Only 4 units like this in Popular Stornoway, Rarely available is this 1629 SF 1 level living in this well managed adult 19+complex. 3 bdrms + den, top fl oor unit with lots of updates throughout, generous room sizes. Crown mouldings, new wood fl rs, electric fi replace, Sunny south exposure large balcony overlooking courtyard Maint includes water & sewer bill, beat, hot water, caretaker, club house, outdoor pool, sauna, 2 prking spots, 2 storage units. Asking $419,800.

2 BUILDING LOTSin Sunny

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PEBBLE HILL AREA Rare chance to design and build your dream home on Georgia Wynd, popular subdivision on the Canada / US border.

Lot (a) asking $648,800, 7457 sq.ft. Cleared and level building lot. Allows a 3200 sq.ft. home plus full height basement.

Lot (b) asking $778,800, 11,624 sq.ft. Allows up to 4,250 sq.ft. home plus full height basement. No neighbors to the rear — just a green belt and Point Roberts Golf Course.

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#14 - 5651 LACKNER CRES. | $623,800Don’t miss an opportunity to own one of the larger end-unit townhomes in Richmond! This beautiful unit boasts a lovely open floor plan for entertaining. All of the key upgrades have already been done for you, including; kitchen, windows, roof, furnace, hot water tank, washer and dryer! This beautifully cared for home can be ready for you to move in to when you need it. Whether you are downsizing or expanding, this townhome offers a location for all your needs, being close to shopping, transit and schools! The elegant décor makes this home a pleasure to show.

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The Peace Arch News, a twice-weekly award-winning newspaper has an outstanding opportunity for a full-time experienced sales person.

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We offer a great working environment with a competitive base salary and commission plan coupled with a strong benefi t package.

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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

7 OBITUARIES

Miss Marie N Quilter1924 - 2013

Dear Friend! Brilliant Teacher! Grand Lady! Miss Quilter was a teacher for many years in the Richmond School District. One of the foundling members of the Richmond Nature Park Commitee, an early proponent of environmental stewardship. Her passion for life children animals, education, outdoors, travel. Fondly missed but not forgotten, touched many lives, in so many ways. We are blessed to have had you in our lives.

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

020 CRAFT FAIRS

Community Sale at South Arm United Church

Sat Feb 8th 10:30 – 3:30Clear the clutter! Sell your crafts!

Shop n swap!Tables: $20 for one, $30 for 2.

Call Chris at 604-277-4020Everyone welcome!

21 COMING EVENTS

UPCOMING SALES

Craft SaleSaturday, February 8th

9:30am-4:00pm

Toy SaleSaturday, February 15th

9:30am-4:00pm

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1521- 56 Street, Tsawwassen

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114 DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING

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125 FOSTER/SOCIAL CARE


130 HELP WANTED

Experienced Gardener Richmond

Work in a large residential com-plex in Richmond. To cut grass, trim/prune shrubs, edge lawn and other gardening or landscaping work.Job Duties: digging, lifting 50lbs+, pruning, installing, using hand and gas powered tools Qualifi cations: Experience with gas powered tools: trimmers, hedge pruners, mowers, blowers and edger. Plant knowledge would be an asset. Previous landscape work is an asset. Be able to work independantly. Re-tired or semi-retired is ok.Hours: 3 days/week and fl exible.

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LIGHT DUTY CLEANERSFive Star Building Maintenance has F/T and P/T openings for reliable Light Duty Cleaners in Metro Vancouver. Day shifts only (weekdays/weekends).

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151 PROFESSIONALS/MANAGEMENT

WOODWIND Canada Immigration Ltd Salary: $34-36/hour , Full time Job: Promotions Manager-Public Relations in Richmond, BC Employ-ment requirements: -University de-gree in communications, public rela-tions, marketing, journalism or in related fi eld -5 years of experience in advertising, public relations, com-munications, media, or promotions Duties: Plan, supervise promotional trips & seminars conducted at cer-tain partnering offi ces & outbound seminars Evaluate the promotional activities & trips taken on an annual basis, results, seminar costs versus rate and number of clients signed as a ROI Conduct business semi-nars related to the business-PNP programs Manage Woodwind sales marketing managers and conduct evaluations on their performance Monitor and suggest improvements to Promotional channels such as weibo, facebook, forums-southern china, and other social media expo-sure Interested Parties please email to [email protected], 604-282-1783 Company Website: www.woodwindcanada.com


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109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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160 TRADES, TECHNICAL

FINE Choice Foods Ltd. is currently looking for a Maintenance Techni-cian to join our team. We offer a competitive compensation & bene-fi ts package. Successful candidates will have a Trade Certifi cation (Red Seal); Minimum Five years of expe-rience in an industrial manufactur-ing environment with Electrical re-pair knowledge preferably in a food production facility. Please forward your resume to jobs@fi nechoice-foods.com by Feb 10, 2014, only those selected for interview will be contacted.

Heavy DutyDiesel Truck

MechanicMega Cranes Ltd. an industry leader is seeking an energetic, aggressive self starter for a full time position. Req. immediately.

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MECHANICRequired F/T for Vancouver Outboard. Primary duties will include maintenance troubleshooting and repair of diesel & gas marine engines. Knowledgeable in vessel electrical systems is an asset. Must have own tools and a valid drivers license. Exc. Compensation Based

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PERSONAL SERVICES

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• New ConstructionSpecializing in • Concrete

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320 MOVING & STORAGE

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329 PAINTING & DECORATING

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374 TREE SERVICES

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PETS

477 PETS

ADORABLE PUPPIES -sm. breed & X’s. Vet Check, Deworm, Shots. $350+ Ready To Go (778)545-0311

CANE CORSO MASTIFF pure bred pups, shots, dewormed, vet $1000 Call 604-826-7634.

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FEMALE PEKINGESE top of the line pup, reg’d. Email for more info. Video avail. $795. 604-353-8750.

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477 PETS

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MALE POMERANIAN registered, micro-chipped, all health records, video avail. $795. 604-353-8750

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NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604-856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

523 UNDER $100

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533 FERTILIZERS

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551 GARAGE SALES

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625 FOR SALE BY OWNER

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RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

BDRM & Den Colonial Dr. $900/month. No Pets. Avail. Any-time. Carol 604-241-7019 or 604-202-2189

736 HOMES FOR RENT

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750 SUITES, LOWER

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OCEAN VIEWWHITE ROCK avail March 1. 2 bdrm sunny, lower suite w/own driveway, level entry & walkout patio area. Ocean view, only 2 min to White Rock pier & 5 min to uptown shops & restaurants. Quiet, no-through traffi c street. 1 bath, in-suite lndry & gas f/p. All utils & heat incl. $1250/mo NP/NS. Refs req please. Anytime after 6pm 604-535-5899.

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RICHMOND. Sparkling priv. 2 bdrm F/P, 4 appls, lndry, carport, fnced, N/P. $1095. Feb 1. 604-833-2103

RICHMOND West 1 Bdr gr/lvl semi-furn priv ent, new appls, cov’d pkng. ns/np.$850 incl laundry,utils/cbl/net. Now. 604-272-3588, 778-297-9418.

751 SUITES, UPPER

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752 TOWNHOUSES

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TRANSPORTATION

810 AUTO FINANCING

Auto Financing 1.800.910.6402

838 RECREATIONAL/SALE

1991 VW Westfalia Camper. 2.1L engine, manual transmission. One owner. No accidents. 200,000 KM. $17,500 obo. 604-270-8552

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851 TRUCKS & VANS

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Richmond Chinese Community Society hosted the annual RCCS TD Lunar New Year Celebration at Lansdowne Centre last Sunday. This year’s celebration also included a variety of multicultural performances ranging from the lion dance, Chinese opera, ballroom dance, magic, hip hop dance, folk dance, Japanese Okinawa drumming, kung fu, and taekwondo along with booths for Chinese calligraphies and craft sales. Many diff erent community organizations also hosted exhibition booths at the event. This year, RCCS will again donate all its fundraising proceeds to Richmond Food Bank.

Mark Mansfi eld (left) of the Canadian Liver Foundation, Paul Cheung of the Rich-mond Mandarin Lions Club, Paul Chiu of the foundation’s board and the foundation’s business development director Monica Chui at an event Tuesday announcing the club’s 2014 edition of the Chopsticks for Charity event. The third annual Chopsticks for Charity will take place on Saturday, March 15 at Continental Seafood Restaurant, 150–11700 Cambie Rd. Call 604-707-6430 or 778-663-9200 for tickets.

The Friends of the Richmond Public Library recently donated $20,000 to the li-brary from the proceeds of their book sales. The money will be used for several special items on the library’s “wish list.” Left to right: Friends of the Richmond Pub-lic Library’a Moreah Sinclaire, Benoit Yuen, Alison Cormack (Friends chair), Diane Hartley and Peter Kafka (library board chair).

Management and staff at White Spot Richmond Centre present their gift to Richmond Hospital Foundation following their 12th annual Christmas Luncheon, which raised more than $10,000. Since 2001, staff tips and net proceeds from the event have totaled more than $90,000 to help improve patient care at Richmond Hospital. Left to right (foreground) are: Doug Johnson, chair, Richmond Hospital Foundation, Veena Ganatra, owner, White Spot Richmond Centre, Charlie Tsang, manager, White Spot Richmond Centre joined by restaurant staff .


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Three-storey Williams Road home, built in 1922, served as Ukrainian Catholic Church


Walking up the chipped concrete steps, Pat Oleksiew walks across the wooden front porch of a historic Richmond house whose end is near.

Years ago the porch was surrounded by glass. Oleksiew recalls watching a humming-bird fl ying near the windows, accidentally wedging itself in the glass. Her dad managed to grab the tiny bird and place it on her lap. She petted it a few times, then it fl ew off .

“I was just six or seven,” said the 58-year-old. “I still remember that.”

The three-storey Yarmish House, at 6711 Wil-liams Rd., looms large in the Blundell neigh-bourhood. It was built around 1923 by the fi rst Ukrainian settlers on Lulu Island, and served as the local Ukrainian Catholic Church until a

church was built.But the house is now vacant, and Interface

Architecture is planning to build 14 townhous-es on the property, along with two adjoining lots. Demolition is imminent.

The house is listed in the City of Richmond’s heritage inventory, but is not a protected heritage site. City offi cials and the architect explored options to save the building—or at least parts of it—but non proved feasible. No one spoke at a public hearing on the project last year, and city council granted rezoning.

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Matthew Hoekstra photoPat Oleksiew at the Yarmish House on Williams Road Monday afternoon. Built in 1922 by the fi rst Ukrainian settlers in Richmond, it’s now slated for demolition.

Richmond offi ce vacancy lowest since 2008: report

Dramatic rebound from vacancy rate that hovered near 25%


Richmond’s office market con-tinues to recover since peaking in 2010 when one in every four offices were empty.

Avison Young’s year-end Metro Vancouver Office Market Report for 2013 shows Richmond no lon-ger boasts the worst vacancy rate in Metro Vancouver.

At year’s end, Richmond’s rate sat at 15.4 per cent—nearly dou-ble the Metro Vancouver average of 7.8 per cent, but better than Surrey’s high of 17.3 per cent.

Richmond’s rate is now at its lowest point since mid-2008, ac-cording to the real estate firm. It reached a peak of 24.6 per cent in the 2010 Olympic year.

“While leasing activity remained limited, vacancy continued to de-cline in all classes as tenants oc-cupied existing properties,” says the report.

Class A properties—the most desirable—still have the highest vacancy rate of 19 per cent. The rate for the lesser Class B rests at 7.9 per cent, while Class C proper-ties boast the lowest rate: 5.7 per cent.

Avison Young predicts Rich-mond’s recovery will slow in 2014, and rental rates will remain stable.

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Historic house to be flattened

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Richmond Review, February 07, 2014