Richmond Review, November 28, 2014

Response to medical calls could drop for firefightersFire department could be left out of one-third of all medical calls

by Matthew HoekstraStaff Reporter

Richmond Fire-Rescue’s emergency response to medical calls could drop by one-third if proposed province-wide changes take effect.

In a report to city council Monday, the fire depart-ment updated council on the impacts of recent dis-patch protocol changes in B.C.—and the potential for further changes.

So far the changes have improved ambulance re-sponse time in the most critical of cases, but has also resulted in a “significant slowing of the lower acuity calls,” according to deputy fire chief Tim Wilkinson.

If all changes are introduced, the fire department would no longer be dispatched to 33 per cent of all medical calls firefighters currently respond to.

Coun. Linda McPhail said that would result in a re-duced level of service in Richmond—highlighting the need for council to advocate to the B.C. Emergency Health Services that no further changes be made with-out Richmond having a say.

“I know that the community would want us to strong-ly advocate for maintaining Richmond Fire-Rescue’s current levels of service, and the importance of their attendance at medical events.”

Reducing the number of calls for firefighters wouldn’t mean cuts to fire hall staff. Wilkinson noted the depart-ment is staffed to meet its primary mandate of fire coverage and “there would be no reduction in staff expected.”

Changes would, however, lead to some savings in fuel and fire vehicle maintenance, as well as freeing up staff to conduct more fire prevention and education work.

Changes to emergency response ensure “we provide the right care, to the right patient, at the right time,” ac-cording to a letter from William Dick, vice-president of medical programs for B.C. Emergency Health Services, which oversees the B.C. Ambulance Service.

More than $10,000 in cash raised, along with hundreds of toys/gifts

by Martin van den HemelStaff Reporter

Richmond Christmas Fund community chair Wayne Duzita had already labelled Thursday morning’s drive-thru event at Lansdowne Centre another major success even before a new Richmond RCMP mega-van rolled up to the drop-off station, so big that it couldn’t fit under the tent.

He stole a line from Santa when the rear door to the van opened, revealing the ve-hicle was filled from front to back, eliciting a “Ho, ho, ho, ho” from Duzita, who was all smiles.

“We were a little concerned that the weather would keep people away,” said Duzita.

“But that wasn’t the case at all. The com-munity came out in huge numbers to show their support for the Christmas Fund. I think nearly twice as many toys were donated this year compared to last. It’s just a won-derful event to be a part of.”

The fourth-annual fundraiser raised $9,000 in cash from the Lansdowne loca-tion, and another $1,175 from the new

River Rock drop-off point, added this year to bring greater convenience to the many locals who use the Canada Line to get to and from work each day.

“Our sponsors, the volunteers, the do-nors—this event is successful because of them,” said Volunteer Richmond executive director Elizabeth Specht. “The drive-thru event is an outlet for their incredible gen-erosity, and we can’t thank them enough for their support. The spirit of giving on display today is what the Christmas Fund is all about.”

Those who donated cash or toys for the Richmond Christmas Fund were thanked for their generosity, receiving a hot cup of coffee and a muffin.

Martin van den Hemel photoSanta accepts a donation at the annual Richmond Christmas Fund drive-thru event at Lansdowne Centre’s parking lot next to the Lansdowne Station of the Canada Line. See more photos on page 3.

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Electronic devices intruding, but parenting coach says ‘who cares?’


Most Richmond teenagers are getting less than eight hours sleep and are still online during sleeping hours, according to a new study. But a parenting coach says it isn’t a big deal.

Vancouver-based McCreary Centre Soci-ety released a report Tuesday with Rich-mond results from the organization’s latest B.C. Adolescent Health Survey. It found 46 per cent of students in grades 7 to 12 slept eight hours or more the night before tak-ing the survey.

Six per cent slept four hours or less.“We see direct links between the number

of hours of sleep students got and their mental health,” said Annie Smith, execu-tive director of McCreary, a not-for-profit organization that works to improve the health of youth in B.C. “The fact that less than half of Richmond students got eight

hours sleep is concerning to me, as is the number who were online or on their phone after their parents thought they were asleep.”

According to HealthLink B.C., teenagers need about 10 hours of sleep each night. But just five per cent of survey respon-dents reported sleeping that long.

The provincial government-funded study, which surveyed almost 30,000 stu-dents in B.C. last year, found 87 per cent of females and 80 per cent of males were online or on their phone when they should have been sleeping.

It’s not just electronic devices keeping teenagers awake in Richmond. Sixty per cent of females and 48 per cent of males reported doing homework during late night hours.

The report’s authors found the more hours of sleep students got, the more

likely they were to rate their mental health as good or excellent.

But Lisa Bunnage, a parenting coach with Bratbusters, said the fact teens aren’t get-ting eight hours of sleep each night isn’t a big deal.

“Who cares? They probably sleep harder in six hours than we did in 12 hours.”

Bunnage said she’s seen no correlation between sleep depravation and bad be-haviour, adding teenagers are good at banking sleep.

“They sleep when they need it,” she said. “Teens can go like fire for days on end, and then they can sleep for 24 hours solid. They seem to be able to bank it.”

Use of cellphones and other electronic communication devices is widespread among local teens. Ninety-four per cent of females and 87 per cent of males owned one, according to the McCreary report.

Teenagers using them late at night shouldn’t be unexpected, said Bunnage. But how can parents interrupt such be-haviour?

“You don’t. You get realistic about it, and then you become really strong leaders for them to follow. It’s that simple,” she said. “Teenagers get this, parents struggle with it.”

Richmond Christmas Fund Drive-Thru

Martin van den Hemel photosLEFT: Santa joined Christine Brodie and Wayne Duzita at the annual Richmond Christmas Fund drive-thru event at Lansdowne Centre’s parking lot next to the Lansdowne Station of the Can-ada Line. ABOVE: Volunteers from Richmond Fire-Rescue were on hand to receive donations of cash or toys to the Richmond Christmas Fund at Lansdowne Centre Thursday morning.

Man gets court driving ban, then drives home

A Richmond man had his vehicle impounded and was arrested by Mounties after driving home from the courthouse where a justice of the peace had just banned him from driving for six months.

The 25-year-old man, whose name was not re-leased by police, is facing a charge of driving while prohibited and is scheduled to appear in Richmond provincial court on March 12, 2015.

Richmond RCMP Sgt. Annie Linteau said the man pled guilty on Nov. 20 to nine counts under the Motor Vehicle Act, including excessive speed, slow driving, failing to stop for police, changing lanes without signalling, unsafe lane changing, failing to obey a stop sign, failing to display his new driver sign, failing to signal at a turn, and failing to wear his seatbelt. The charges stem from an April 2013 incident where he was observed to be speeding excessively through a local residential neighbour-hood, ignoring posted signs and not signalling.

After hearing his plea, a local Justice of the Peace heard a description of the events from his initial arrest, and imposed a six-month driving ban that became effective immediately.

But the man was then seen leaving the courtroom holding a set of keys, which led police to suspect he was driving home.

Sure enough, he was later seen driving up to his residence in his car.

—Martin van den Hemel

Teens are getting little sleep, according to report

“Who cares? They probably sleep harder in six hours than

we did in 12 hours.”— Lisa Bunnage

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The Richmond Cham-ber of Commerce and the City of Richmond held its Business Excel-lence Awards last night at River Rock.

Winners included:•Innovation of the Year:

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•Young Entrepreneur of the Year: 505 Junk

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•Workplace of the Year Ideon Packaging LLP

•Association of the Year: Pathways Clubhouse

•Inductee Hall of Fame of the Year: Cohen Bu-chan Edwards LLP

•Inductee Newsmaker of the Year: Vancouver Airport Authority

See Wednesday’s Review for a full report.

Craig Jones to retire from chamber

Richmond Chamber of Commerce executive director Craig Jones will be retiring from his role as of January 1, 2015.

“It has been a pleasure to work at the Rich-mond Chamber of Com-merce, with the Board, various committees, di-verse membership, and the thousands of excit-ing businesses who call Richmond home,” said Jones, who has been on the job for nine years.

“I am proud of what the chamber has ac-complished in the last decade and I wish my successor all the best moving forward.”

“Craig leaves a legacy of outstanding achieve-ment” said Richmond Chamber of Commerce board chair Gerard Ed-wards.

The chamber will ap-point Carol Young as acting executive direc-tor as of January 1, 2015 as it begins its search for a new executive di-rector.


A one-day conference organized by Chimo Community Services for next week that’s intended to raise community awareness about vio-lence against women and girls, will feature an independent officer of the B.C. legislature—tasked with supporting young people and families—as the guest speaker.

Melanie Mark has worked as a child and youth advocate since 2007 and is currently responsible for the Representative for Children and Youth’s advocacy mandate.

In May of 2006, B.C. passed the Representative for Children and Youth Act, which established the Legislative Assembly’s authority to appoint a new officer of the leg-islature as the Representative for Children and Youth.

The representative is tasked with dealing with the provincial child and youth welfare system, and provides oversight to the system and makes recommendations to improve it. Mary Ellen Turpel-La-fond was appointed as B.C.’s first Representative for Children and Youth, and she’s currently in the midst of her second five-year ap-

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resentative responsible for advo-cacy and Aboriginal and commu-nity relations. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Simon Fraser University and a criminology di-ploma from Douglas College.

The one-day conference begins at 9 a.m. with registration/net-working and coffee. It takes place at the Executive Airport Plaza Ho-tel and Conference Centre (7311 Westminster Hwy.).

Guests will then be welcomed at 9:15 a.m., with a keynote address.

Other speakers for the day will

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Tickets for the Wednesday, Dec. 3 event, which runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., are $35 and are available at tinyurl.com/ChimoConference. Coffee and lunch will be served, and parking is free, although tak-ing transit and carpooling is en-couraged.

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Birds believed to have fallen into fish oil in East Richmond, but no source found


Ten seagulls are recov-ering at a wildlife rescue centre after being found in East Richmond with oil-soaked feathers.

On Wednesday rescu-ers began the day-long operation of cleaning the gulls, two days after they were found in the 2400-block of Viscount Way.

On Monday Richmond Animal Protection So-ciety was called to the East Richmond site, where they found nine seagulls in distress. The birds were brought to the Wildlife Rescue Care Centre in Burnaby.

A tenth bird was later found and brought to the centre the next day.

According to wildlife

centre staff, the birds could have fallen into an open container at a fish processing plant in the area. The gulls were en-crusted with fish scales and drenched in fish oil—causing matted feathers and eye infec-tions.

“The birds are com-pletely covered in the oil and it is debilitating for

them,” said Linda Bakker of the wildlife centre. “Birds need dry, clean feathers to survive and will die of hypothermia if their feathers remain soiled. The oil will also go rancid and that can put them at risk of infection.”

The rescue centre al-ways gives oiled animals a day or two to settle in a warm environment be-

fore the stressful clean-ing procedure is carried out.

City staff inspected the Viscount Way area this week and found no source of the oil, accord-ing to city spokesperson Kim Decker. Open water-courses also appeared to be free from sheen or other signs of spills, she added.

Rhino horn smuggler pleads guilty


A Richmond man pled guilty Tuesday in Man-hattan federal court to attempting to smuggle rhinoceros horns from New York to Canada.

Xiao Ju (Tony) Guan, an antiques dealer who operates a store in Rich-mond, was arrested in March as part of Opera-tion Crash, an American crackdown on the illegal trafficking of rhinoceros horns.

Guan, who will be sen-tenced on March 13, 2015 and faces a maxi-mum 10-year sentence, pled guilty for his role in smuggling and attempt-ing to smuggle the horns as well as items carved from elephant ivory and coral, from auction hous-es throughout the U.S. to Canada.

According to informa-tion from Guan’s plea agreement, the 39-year-old was arrested after flying from Vancouver to New York and buy-ing two endangered black rhinoceros horns from undercover special agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at a storage facility in the Bronx.

Oil-soaked seagulls on the mend

Staff at the Wildlife Rescue Care Centre painstakingly clean a small flock of oil-soaked seagulls Wednesday. The birds were found in Richmond this week.

Aluminum (or aluminium) is a chemical element—a metal—with the symbol AL and atomic number 13. It is the

third most abundant element and the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust. Of the Earth’s solid surface, 8% by weight is aluminum but its chemical reactivity tends to combine it with over 270 diff erent minerals.

Th e smelting of the ore, bauxite is one of the most common methods of producing ‘primary’ aluminum. Canada is the third largest aluminum producer in the world after Russia and China—second and fi rst—by a wide margin—respectively.

Recently, the automobile media focus has been all about aluminum because of the landmark moment that occurred on November 11th at the Ford Rouge Center in Dearborn, Michigan when assembly workers gathered to celebrate the launch of the ‘all-new’ 2015 F-150 truck.

Aluminum is the ‘all-new’ feature of this historically successful iconic pickup truck. Now, with a reported 700 pound reduction in weight, Ford claims this ‘all new’ body for the best-selling truck in the USA for the last 37 years will be more durable than steel and as Ford ‘tough’ as it has always been. Although an exact measure of the expected gain in fuel effi ciency is still unknown, predictions are for at least a 20% improvement.

Th ere are other unknowns. Aaron Bragman, Detroit bureau chief for Cars.com summarizes these as follows: “How the truck is used by customers, how the truck is recycled at the end

of its life, how it’s repaired, how it’s insured, will it cost more to actually have it repaired? ...Th ere’s still a lot of questions that we haven’t quite gotten the answers to, that we’re not going to know until the truck really starts to get in consumers’ hands.”

Making motor vehicles out of aluminum is not a new development. Land Rover started production in 1948 with an aluminum bodied four wheel drive vehicle. Ducker Worldwide, a global business-to-business market research fi rm summarizes the more recent use of aluminum in light vehicles as follows: “—in parts, doors, and closures—[aluminum usage] in light vehicles has risen from an average of about 45 kilograms a vehicle in 1977 to 159 kg in 2013 …[and will] rise to 179 kg in 2015 or about three billion in total.” Ducker is predicting “an explosive period of growth” and a rise in aluminum usage in light vehicles over the next decade of another 40%.

‘Why now’? Th e answer is a twofold mix of regulatory mandate and technological innovation. A new US government regulation requires all auto manufacturers to produce fl eets with an average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Th ere is no doubt: a wholly aluminum body for the best selling pickup truck (and most profi table Ford product) will be more fuel effi cient.

What has made this possible is innovation in the world of aluminum bonding technology, an aluminum pretreatment process that its inventor, Alcoa, the world’s third largest producer of aluminum says “results in enhanced adhesive bonding durability and overcomes previous challenges with joining aluminum to itself or other materials.”

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Gateway Theatre welcomes new face Kate Blackburn to the MainStage this

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The twenty-two year old actress joins the 2014 cast playing leading lady Polly Baker. Kate is a recent graduate from the highly renowned musical theatre program at Capilano University in North Vancouver. “I was really drawn to the show, but particularly the part of Polly,” Kate tells us. “I felt it would be a really great, challenging part for me to play, and I’m glad I have the chance to play her.”

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Former RCMP Insp. Amrik Virk, who is

now a Surrey MLA and the minister of advanced education, simply can’t shake his pursuers.

Opposition critics have dogged him for months over his actions while a member of the Kwantlen Polytechnic University board of directors. Those actions centred around extra payments to try and entice top people to come to work for the university.

Word is now coming out that Virk was directly involved in the discussions by the Kwantlen board in 2011 as to how to get around the provincial salary guidelines.

An email exchange involving Virk was revealed by the NDP on Monday.

He and other members of the board were trying to get around guidelines set by the province, to try

and keep salary spending at post-secondary institutions in check.

An earlier internal investigation by assistant deputy minister Rob Mingay determined board members were not involved in decisions to pay executives more than provincial rules allowed.

The email seems to contradict that finding. Virk said he had forgotten about the email.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong has now asked Mingay to reopen the investigation.

Given the fact that Virk is now the minister in charge of advanced education, and ultimately the enforcer of salary guidelines, his hold on his portfolio is shaky at best.

Perhaps the best option for Premier Christy Clark, who is the ultimate decider, would be to move Virk to another portfolio. He still has a lot to offer to cabinet.

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Is there a place for acts of conscience in our soci-ety?

Protesters on Burnaby Mountain have proven they feel strongly enough about stopping a pro-posed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline that they are willing to be arrested.

No doubt there are many who will dismiss their protests as fool-ish and misguided. Others will not envy the hassles that inevi-tably attend being arrested and charged.

But there are those, too, who will view their actions as heroic and principled, and will privately wish that they had the courage to take a stand against something they feel, on a very deep and funda-mental level, is wrong.

To those arrested, it is all the price of making a statement. It is not a price they wish to pay. It is one, they say, they feel compelled to endure.

Their actions force us to assess where we stand on the issue – or indeed any issue that disturbs us. They pose questions that are not easy to answer, that call for consid-erable soul-searching. How many of us would be willing to put our comfort and name on the line, to back our word – easily given – with unequivocal action? And what would be the tipping point that would compel each of us to similar protest?

Although Kinder Morgan presi-dent Ian Anderson says the com-

pany wants to respect the “right of peaceful protest,” the fact is that our society gives scant respect to protest, peaceful or not.

Many of us leap to label protest-ers ‘wing-nuts’ and bandy the term ‘professional protester’ as though the existence of such a thing would nullify all right to protest.

Dissent is not popular in our society. The conventional wisdom is that governments always have

good and just reasons to act as they do, that lies are never told to voters and that business interests always act for the good of humani-ty. Anyone who believes otherwise is swiftly dismissed as a ‘conspiracy theorist.’

Yet we have discovered time and time again that governments can be wrong, and that conspiracies – sometimes on a grand scale – do exist. If the past 100 years of world

history has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that.

Protests may be discomfiting. Protests may be foolish. There may be better ways to argue the rights and wrongs without chaining ourselves to railings and trees.

But without the right to dissent, without the right to protest, we have no business pretending we live in a democracy.

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Mario Bartel photoGrand Chief Stewart Phillip, the president of the B.C. Union of Indian Chiefs, is escorted away by RCMP after he crossed into the injunction area around Kinder Morgan’s remaining active borehole on Burnaby Mountain Thursday.

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Editor:Last year this publication printed

my “Fantasy wishes for Christmas” (Dec. 11/13). This year I have decid-ed to send an early wish list to Santa in order to give him more time to work on putting together some gifts that I believe each and every one of us would be overjoyed to receive.

The list is a challenging one but having just one of the following come true would make for a merrier Christmas or a happier New Year for one and all:

a) Please, a slate of candidates for public office, Mayor, Premier, or Prime Minister that has at least one politician who is truly motivated by the principle of altruism and a concern for our welfare rather than by self-interest, cronyism, and/or a lust for power.

b) A pill or drink that will cause all those whose narcissism and hubris makes them believe that their drama is the most important one on the face of the earth to sud-denly realize that not only is their story probably very mundane and inconsequential, but also entirely irrelevant to the larger scheme of human destiny.

c) A large, inaccessible box in which those self-centered, incon-siderate, aggressive drivers who enrage and endanger others will have to lock away their arrogant at-titudes so they will no longer have a

negative effect on our lives.d) ‘Detox’ centres where those ad-

dicted to the Internet, social media, incessant texting, and digital games can go to be re-introduced to the fact that the real world is infinitely more real and meaningful than the ‘virtual’ binary-code one that they have surrendered their lives to.

e) Another pill that will cause those who believe that the accumu-lation of wealth and conspicuous consumption are the only values worth living for to suddenly realize, as did Ebenezer, how very, very misguided they are.

f ) And a new set of social values that would force the media and en-tertainment industries to cease and desist in their campaigns to drown our children in a sea of violent im-ages and stories and desensitize them to the real-life consequences of such attitudes and behaviours. This wish would also include yet another pill that would alter the perceptions of those parents who, for whatever irrational reason, er-roneously believe that exposure to such representations of violence has no effect on the socialization of their children or their attitudes and behaviours.

* I will save wishes related to school trustees actually knowing something about education, and a pill that would miraculously cure stupidity for next year’s list.

Thank you Santa. I know I am probably asking for the impossible, but it is quite clear that we are incapable of making these wishes

come true ourselves, so please try your best.

Ray Arnold,Richmond

Steveston needs a gas stationEditor:

My parents are frustrated in that in all of Steveston there is no gas station. Also Steveston is a tourist area and the nearest gas station is at Francis and No. 1 Road.

My father is a car-penter and he drives all over Richmond and Vancouver. When he comes home after work his car is nearly out of gas, for him driving to Francis and No. 1 may well have two possibilities running out of gas midway or possibly making it to the gas station.

Steveston is a highly attracted touristic area and by opening a gas station their well be plenty of business. People from Vancouver or farther places will have an easy and joy-ful drive to Steveston also drivers well be less anxious about run-ning low on gas.

Parents driving in Steveston are busy and have things to do such as dropping their kids off at the community center, family dinner at a restaurant or having to buy some grocer-ies at the store. What happens once that low gas light turns on and that car is running on fumes and the closet gas station is all the way in Francis and No. 1?

This is the exact reason their should be a gas station in Steveston—if it seems that people already liv-ing in Steveston don’t need a gas station because most people tend to walk to the area than what about other people they won’t walk all the way from Burnaby, Delta or North Vancouver.

I have family and friends that live in Van-couver, Kelowna and Langley, when they come to visit my par-ents and I; they them-selves say that there should be some gas stations in Steveston especially sense it is a high tourist area.

I don’t know why such easily fixable issue can cause a big problem to some people and yet it still has not been solved.

Alex Navarrete Richmond

Penning another wish list for Christmas

I shop locallyMy life is completely centred around Steveston village, as a co-owner of Pieces with my husband David, as a writer

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Th e fastest-graying cities in AmericaAccording to a recent article in Forbes magazine, the overall U.S. population growth has been 12% since 2000, but the growth of its senior (over age 65) population has been 29%. Roughly 14% of Americans are now above age 65, a rate comparable to that in Canada.

Th e main factors behind this rise in the proportion of seniors have been, fi rst, the baby boomers reaching age 65 and, second, the plunging U.S. fertility rate. Th e statistics in Canada are similar.

Forbes checked 52 U.S. cities with populations of 1 million or more, and found that the ones “going gray” the fastest are Atlanta, Georgia (with a 73.5% increase in seniors in 2000-2013), Raleigh, North Carolina (96% increase) and Austin, Texas (91.7% increase).

Th e impacts are signifi cant. In the U.S., households over age 65 have a net worth of 2.5 times the national average. Th is can have marked eff ects on a city’s economy, the types of jobs available over time, the quality of medical care and so on.

I expect that, in Canada, the “fastest-graying” cities include Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. “Younger” cities may include Calgary and Edmonton, given the climate and the likely ages of people drawn to Alberta’s oil-based economy.

Windows of Hope fundraiser benefits the Richmond Christmas Fund


It’s amazing what a few coats of paint can do to spruce up a place.

On Tuesday, the Rich-mond Auto Mall re-ceived a festive trans-formation courtesy local volunteers who rolled up their sleeves for the Windows of Hope fundraising ef-fort.

Groups of volunteers, from schools, sports teams and businesses (including The Rich-mond Review) were each assigned a win-dow at a car dealership

adorned with Christ-mas season scenes, from Santa to Frosty to Rudolph.

In return for the dec-orative help, the car dealerships make a donation to the Rich-

mond Christmas Fund, with last year’s efforts raising $27,000.

Gail Terry, general manager of the Rich-mond Auto Mall Asso-ciation, said the Christ-mas spirit really comes

alive at this time of year during that effort.

“It was another amaz-ing year. We had close to 250 volunteers,” she said.

There were 23 teams who split up to deco-rate the windows of dealerships, and a cou-ple dozen who cleaned the windows and drew the imagery in advance of the painting effort on Tuesday.

“The air was full of Christmas spirit and it was really, really, just lovely to see everybody so committed again,” Terry said.

It’s looking very posi-tive that this year’s event will top last year’s record donation, she said.

“The Richmond Christ-mas Fund owes a lot to the Richmond Auto Mall Association. Thus far it’s a debt we’ve repaid in an endless stream of thank yous,” accord-ing to Volunteer Rich-mond. “Because really, how can a simple thank you—even hundreds of them—ever be enough when, year after year, the auto mall hosts the Christmas Fund’s big-gest fundraising event.”


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Martin van den Hemel photoRichmond Review publisher and Volunteer Richmond president Mary Kemmis joined Review staff and other volunteers in painting windows at the Richmond Auto Mall this week.

Richmond Auto Mall gets into the Christmas spirit

“The air was full of Christmas spirit and it was really, really, just lovely to see everybody so committed again.”

— Gail Terry


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Getting your kicks on Route 66Riding the highway west along Route 66 for around 4,000 kilometres is on many people’s bucket lists.After completing the epic journey from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, I must say there were times during the 56 hours, 36 minutes of driving that I figured it might be the last item on my list!On the Nissan Altimate Rogue Trip we saw the spectacular in spades. And when the dozen journalist participants pulled up at the end of the road by the Santa Monica Pier, we shared a great sense of achievement. We all knew each other from new vehicle launch-es around the world, but this was different. This hardened, cynical bunch developed a greater camaraderie along the way and some even hugged as we gazed at the lapping waters of the Pacific.We climbed aboard the 2015 model Nissan Rogue crossovers and Altima sedans one very chilly Chicago Sunday and set out to retrace the route of this historic highway, which was decom-missioned in 1985, and replaced by the I-40 freeway. Actually, routes – plural – would be more accurate as the road, which carried hundreds of thousands seeking prosperity out west, has followed a number of paths since the late 1920s. The Mother road, as it is known, carried us through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and finally California. For most of us, it was an adventure musically inspired by many versions of the song “Get your kicks on Route 66”.

I recall watching the TV show Route 66 in the 1960s but today tens of thousands are drawn each year to the highway by the 2006 animated movie Cars. The movie action takes place on the route, many of the fictitious locations are based on actual places, and real people inspired some of the characters.Space limitations permit just a sampling here of what we saw and did along the way. However, you can find a complete report of the journey, gallery of photographs, vid-eo links and how the vehicles fared as long-distance transportation at drivewaybc.ca. Our first contemporary culture reference came on the first day in Joliet, Illinois, where we were treated to action figures of the Blues Brothers dancing above a building close to where some of the movie action took place at the local penitentiary. The Bluesmobile was also on view, sitting atop a pole. The early part of the

route features many giant-sized statues of historic figures, such as Abe Lincoln, and not so historic figures promoting various products.Local communities have funded the restoration of many old service stations and many have a classic

car parked on the forecourt. I thought we would have the first crash of the trip when the first Rogue Altima, or maybe Altimate Rogue (referring to the

drivers, of course), screeched to a halt at the curb in Galena, Kansas. There at the front of the service station was the ‘real’ Tow Tater truck, on which the Cars’ character Tow Mater was based.On the way to Amarillo, Texas, we pulled into the U-Drop Inn – a building that is the exact replica of Ramone’s Body Art Shop in the movie. I guess that could be the other

way round.The next day, some of the group spray-painted messages (that’s the tradition) on the Cadillac Ranch art installation of ten Cadillacs, sunk nose first into the red dirt. Seen from a distance they bore an

uncanny resemblance to the Cadillac Mountain Range from, you guessed it, Cars.The semi-desert from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Williams, Arizona offered stunning vistas and yet another movie reference. The rooms

of the Wigwam Motel in Holbrook are concrete teepees. (Cozy Cone Motel in Cars.). Side trips to the Petrified Forest and Grand Canyon National Parks left us all in awe and stunning views soon filled our camera memory sticks. The gold rush town of Oatman gave us an excellent send off for our last day though the Mojave Desert and down into Los Angeles.

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In 2003, Porsche Cars North America shipped a number of its shiny, new, Porsche Cay-enne SUVs from head office in Atlanta to drive the Sea to Sky highway here in B.C.

The day started with a long explanation as to why the famed sports car maker was getting into the SUV game. History often repeats and here again in 2014, Porsche shipped roughly 50 new Cayenne S and SE Hybrids to the same scenic highway. This time around there was no explanation as to why this second-generation model exists: the Cayenne currently

accounts for roughly fifty pres-ent of all Porsche sales.Looks

When the second gen-eration Cayenne came out in 2011 it was a departure from the previous model. As head of design for the current Cayenne, Ingo Scheinhuette, told me: “Even though the new model was larger than the original, many people thought it looked smaller.” In an effort to make the new 2015 facelift look more masculine, the goal was to make the Cayenne look more planted and wider. To do this, the entire front end, including the front bumper, grille, head-lights, and front fenders have

a more polished look. The daytime running lights have four LED marker lights that are also mimicked in the tail lamps, plus bi-xenon lamps are now standard. The front air intakes are wider and the hood looks more integrated into the design. Around the back, the rear window spoiler, hatch, bumper and exhaust tips are all new. The lights are more sculpted, the bumper has been raised and widened and the exhaust tips now pop through the lower valance. If the goal was to make the Cayenne more masculine, mission accomplished. Inside

What hasn’t changed,

thankfully, is the interior. Three minor changes include a three-point sports steering wheel as standard equipment across the entire Cayenne line that includes paddle shifters and heat. The other changes include standard navigation and a slightly more sculpted rear seat. The rest of the interior is pure automotive perfection. The level of fit and finish has yet to be surpassed in this class and the logical multi-button layout looks intimidating at first but is easy to master after a few days. What Porsche has done in the industry is move the needle on what is expected in premium products. In many

ways, the competition looks frumpy and rather dated, even after four years on the market, the Cayenne is still fresh. Drive

With pressure on automak-ers to improve fuel economy and lower their carbon footprint, this latest 2015

Cayenne receives two new S models. The base S used to be fitted with a V8 engine, now a smaller 3.6L V6 with two turbocharges helps to produce an extra 20hp but saves fuel. This is the same engine that is used in the smaller Porsche Macan Turbo. Accelerating up through the mountains was a snap but the sound from the engine and interior vibration isn’t as smooth as the old V8. The second new drive system is the plug-in SE-Hybrid that can run on pure electric power up to 30kms before the supercharged Audi-derived 3.0L gasoline V6 kicks in. This model can run on the 95hp electric motor alone, for greatest efficiency, or the electric motor can be used for additional punch for spirited moves. The combined output is 416hp and 435 lb.-ft. of torque. This is the very first

plug-in hybrid in this class of vehicle. Last year the Porsche Panamera sedan came equipped with this system and accounted for roughly 11 per cent of overall sales but that was a rear wheel drive only car, this Cayenne is all wheel drive, which should appeal to more buyers. Verdict

The greatest challenge for the SE-Hybrid is the already practical and thrifty diesel Cayenne that delivers nearly as much torque and fantastic economy. Nothing can compete with pure electric driving for carbon reduction but it comes at a cost. The SE-Hybrid starts at $86,800 and the Diesel starts at $71,330, which leaves a ton of extra cash left over for those costly Porsche options. The new turbo V6 equipped Cayenne S now starts at $83,700, which poses a problem for buyers of the $82,200 Macan Turbo. Both start at roughly the same price but the Cayenne comes with boatloads more interior space, 20 more horsepower and the same Porsche crest on the hood. The smart money is on the Cayenne over the rather cramped Macan, there is actually room for the family dog in the back.

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Musical with a notable Gershwin soundtrack comes alive


Monday is supposed to be Gaelan Beatty’s day off. You know, like a holiday, something Ox-ford neatly defines as a period of rest from work. But Beatty, lead actor in the Gateway Theatre musical production Crazy For You, is likely to be found in a studio rehearsing his dances.

“I knew when I took the part it was going to be very challenging, and that’s what I was hoping for—something that would really challenge me,” the actor told The Richmond Review. “It’s proving to be absolutely that. As much as I can I’m doing my best to really step up to that challenge.”

Staging a musical in December is a three-decades-old tradition at Gateway Theatre, and artistic director Jovanni Sy picked this Gershwin goody to headline the Minoru Park playhouse’s 30th season.

Set in 1930, the story follows Bobby Child, who unhappily toils away at a bank owned by his mother. What he really wants to do is sing and dance, but nobody takes him seriously because he’s a banker. Then again, the bank doesn’t take him seriously either.

Bobby’s mother soon sends him to nowheres-ville Nevada to get his mind off dancing and foreclose on a property for the bank. The prop-erty happens to be a theatre. Bobby becomes determined to save it while also trying to win the affection of the owner’s daughter.

The character of Bobby is one Beatty has been living in the lead-up to opening night. Even outside the rehearsal room, Beatty is finding it hard to set Bobby aside.

“You’d think that there would be times you could leave it alone. There are times I think I am leaving it, and then I’ll realize that I’m actually going through a scene and thinking about a relationship. I come into rehearsal

later on in the day and go: I was thinking about this earlier while I was eating my breakfast… It’s omnipresent.”

Director Barbara Tomasic has put in extra time to help Beatty nail his scenes, particularly an emotionally-charged one with Kate Black-burn, a recent Capilano University grad appear-ing in her first major production as Bobby’s love interest Polly Baker.

“It’s rare to meet a director that speaks my language so thoroughly and is as generous in the room as Barb has been,” said Beatty, a Vanderhoof, B.C. native and Studio 58 grad making his fifth appear-ance at Gateway.

Crazy For You is au-thored by Ken Ludwig and was first produced

on Broadway in 1992. It’s based on Ira and George Gershwin’s 1930s musi-cal Girl Crazy, but also includes songs from other productions. And while the musical may not immediately ring familiar, its music might.

Beatty said the show boasts the Gershwins’ best of the best. As Bobby, he performs fa-vourites like “They Can’t Take That Away From

Me,” “Slap That Bass” and “I Got Rhythm.”

“It’s a highlight real show is what it is. It’s like watching SportsCentre, but for musical theatre,” he said.

There’s other toe-tapping tunes: “I Can’t Be Bothered Now,” “Bidin’ My Time,” “Naughty Baby,” “But Not for Me,” “Nice Work if You Can Get It” and “Embraceable You.”

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David Cooper photoKate Blackburn and Gaelan Beatty star in the musical Crazy For You at Gateway Theatre.

Gateway ready to go Crazy For YouCrazy For You•Dec. 4 to 31 at Gate-way Theatre•Music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin; Book by Ken Ludwig•Starring Gaelan Beatty, Jonathan Holmes, William Ford Hopkins, Robin Sukoroff, Britt MacLeod, Wendy Bollard, Theo Budd, Kate Blackburn; Bar-bara Tomasic directs•Tickets, $20 to $48, at gatewaytheatre.com or 604-270-1812

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Crazy For You features cast of 24 From Page 15

Aside from all the music, it’s the dancing that really hooked Beatty.

Choreographer Julie Tomaino, a former Radio City Rockette in New York, has been tasked with staging dance routines for a cast of 24. She has experience with the show—as a performer on its U.S. tour.

Said Beatty: “I have to dance in the show quite a bit. It’s a joy, it’s a pleasure. Dancing isn’t my strongest suit, but I’m having a great time with it. When I watch (Tomaino) choreographing the chorus girls, their feet…actually blur they’re moving so fast.”

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The Richmond Singers is a 55-voice choir that’s been performing in Richmond since 1971.

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Leading the discussion will be Brenda Crabtree, aboriginal program manager at Emily Carr University. On the panel: artists Xwalacktun (Rick Harry) and Cody Lecoy; guest curator Connie Watts; and Museum of Anthropology curator emeritus Bill McLennan.

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Ravens come together for the communityGirls’ hockey teams collect for food bank as coaches entertain in exhibition gameby Don FennellSports Editor

Three years ago, Adam Carmichael came to the Richmond Ravens’ board with an idea—to hold a coaches game as the backdrop to a fundraiser for the local food bank. Receiving overwhelming sup-port, the event has become an annual tradition for the Richmond girls’ ice hockey association, and this Sunday’s spectacle promises to be the most suc-cessful yet.

While it’s the coaches who will don the blades, it’s the girls themselves who are collecting food and money to be donated to the food bank at the start of the holiday season. Team by team, they’ll bring their donations to Minoru Arenas Sunday af-ternoon prior to the 5:45 p.m. faceoff, after which they’ll be picked up by volunteers from the food bank.

“It’s an incredible fundraiser for us, raising a ton of money and food,” said Alex Nixon, outreach co-ordinator at the Richmond Food Bank. “I can actu-ally say last year they collected a metric tonne of food. We’re really grateful for their support.”

Nixon said events such as this, and the continued support of the community throughout the year, are “so crucial to being able to help more than 1,400 people in a typical week.”

“Being a year-round food bank we see a very steady need throughout the year and we’re really grateful that so many in our community come to-gether to help a lot of people,” said Nixon, adding stock is at its lowest at this time of the year.

While monetary donations are particularly benefi-cial because the food bank can stretch each dollar to six dollars worth of food or goods, any product donations are appreciated. Canned foods and other non-perishable items are particularly welcomed, as is baby formula and diapers.

Head coach of the Bantam C1 team, Carmichael said the fundraiser is a great way to further teach the girls about responsibility and the importance of contributing to the greater community.

“It’s hard to believe so many people depend on the food bank on a weekly basis. It’s something we need to keep in mind all year long,” he said. “I think this helps teach the girls that even the smallest bit makes a difference. It may not be huge on a global scale, but if you start to make a difference locally it helps the community in so many ways. And when you instill this mindset in the girls at a young age, you get a few of those ideas rolling in their minds—almost grooming them to be better people.”

To the younger girls, especially, hockey is just a game, a sport, he said. They don’t realize what they’re learning.

“But I know what it did for me learning to handle different situations,” said Carmichael, a Richmond RCMP youth officer. “By hopefully setting a good example, these are the life lessons we are trying to instill.”

“To the younger girls, especially, hockey is just a game, a sport,” he said. “They don’t realize what they’re learning. But I know what it did for me learning to handle different situations.”

While the girls are busy collecting donations for the food bank, another team—many of their par-ents—have been busy gathering an assortment of prizes for the girls and their teams, as well as putting the final pieces together for Sunday’s ex-hibition game. The team includes Crisanta, Allison, Kim, Mona and Bal. Joelle, Lisa, Patricia and Jane. And Paige, Monica, Lisa, Maraha and Glen to name but a few.

“This is going to be a great event, and once again a huge thank you to you all,” said Carmichael.

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Derek Popke always wanted to play in the ultimate pond hockey game. Last week he lived the dream.

And words, he says, can barely begin to describe the experience.

“It doesn’t get more Canadian than a game of pond hockey high up in the beautiful B.C. mountains on a fro-zen glacier lake,” says the longtime Seafair Minor Hockey instructor, who is also a renowned NHL skating consultant and founder of the Vancouver Hockey School. “All play-ers have great stories of growing up playing on backyard rinks and frozen ponds. This was truly another level. It was surreal. I speak for all the players involved when I say it is something we will truly never forget.”

With a narrow window of opportunity, everything had to come together for the game to be held at all. Most im-portant was the weather.

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From Page 21“The biggest challenge

by far was timing. We had a one-day window to complete the project based on weather,” says Popke. “It had to be cold enough that the glacier-fed lake was frozen but there couldn’t be any snow. Monday was cold enough to freeze the lake over six inches. Tuesday we played and Wednesday it snowed. It was spur of the moment and the pieces just fell into place.”

The game was played about a 15-minute flight northeast of Pitt Lake in the Squamish mountain range, on a glacier lake so remote it is unnamed. Lo-cal helicopter pilot Bradley Friesen, whose efforts were instrumental, scouted lakes the day before and found the location. Friesen has a passion for flying and taking on projects that are unique and was the creator of the Paul Bissonette ALS ice bucket challenge video that has 10 million hits on YouTube. After seeing the interest in that video, Fri-esen and Popke started thinking of holding the ul-timate pond hockey game with the only access being by helicopter.

Participants—10 play-ers and two goalies—in-cluded Vancouver Hockey School instructors, retired pro players, previous NHL draft picks, and junior players who have been involved with the school as students or instructors over the years. The game, played 5,300 feet above sea level, was traditional

pond hockey—four play-ers aside with no rules, just lots of laughs and a bunch of guys having fun.

We played for two hours, although a majority of the time was spent taking pictures on our iPhones,” laughs Popke. “Three he-licopters transported the players, hockey gear, and nets to the remote loca-tion. The idea was to play the game and ignore the helicopters circling over-head filming the action. This was easier said then done. A lot of times we would stop playing and just take a moment to re-flect on what was actually happening.”

A total of 12 Go Pro cameras were attached to each helicopter catching video footage of the game, which should be ready soon. Meanwhile, you can see teaser footage online at richmondreview.com.

Asked if there are any plans for an encore perfor-mance, Popke says it is so dependant on weather.

“Once it snows, which it has, it gets tough to clear areas to play,” he says.

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heavily on the work of original “slangmeister”, Dr. Stephen Bergman, author of the 1970’s novel The House of God.

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Th at time of year is upon us; when tempera-tures drop, the snow falls and presents are bought to put beneath the Christmas tree. For many however, now begins the time of worry – how will I keep my family warm this winter? Or, how I can I make the holidays special for my children? For 19 years, the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association (GVHBA) in support of the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau has been helping families in need answer those questions and feel the warmth of not only a coat, but the love of the community. Th e Coats for Kids campaign allows GVHBA members to volunteer the use of their store front locations so that their employees and the public can donate gently used winter coats and mittens for kids and teenagers. 45 member companies at 61 locations in 13 mu-nicipalities will serve as coat drop-off sites from November 24 to December 4.CEO with GVHBA, Bob de Wit says that the number of donations has soared off the charts from several dozen in the early years to several thousand last year. “It’s amazing to see the impact - families literally are transformed, not just by the warm apparel but by the spirit of giving that these donations embody,” he says. “Th e fi rst time I visited the Lower Mainland Christ-mas Bureau’s warehouse, I thought I had stumbled into Santa’s workshop! Th e scale of the eff ort and the buzz of energy there really hit it home for me about the deep need we’re fi lling in the Metro Vancouver region.”He recalls a year when a young family had just moved to Canada from a tropical coun-try. Th ey were severely unprepared for their fi rst Canadian winter, armed with only light jackets for the plummeting temperatures. GVHBA asked if TQ Construction could somehow assist this family, to which TQ’s president and owner, Helene Belisle, imme-diately accepted. Warm winter jackets were quickly supplied for the whole family, and TQ’s Offi ce Manager, Kim Boer, even added

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Every year, since 1999, the Richmond Sports Awards has celebrated ex-cellence in local athletics. And the nomination period is now underway for the 17th awards banquet to be held in the new year.

Presented annually by The Richmond Review, Richmond Sports Council and the City of Richmond, nominations are now be-ing held to honour excep-tional accomplishments during the 2014 calendar year.

The “Sporties” are dedi-cated to Robert A. McMath, the former city councillor after whom a West Rich-mond school is named. A visionary who was very much ahead of his time, he was an ardent sportsman and community coach who successfully promoted the concept of building parks and schools close together. The leadership class at Mc-Math plays an important role in contributing to the organizing of the annual awards.

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sports


The last time a torch relay weaved its way through Richmond was five years ago, helping to build the excitement for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games which the commu-nity helped to stage as host of long track speed skating at the Richmond Olympic Oval. Next summer, the eu-phoria will return to Lulu Island as one of only five cities outside of On-tario selected to participate in the torch relay leading up to the Toronto 2015 Pan American and Parapan Am Games.

“We are tremendously honoured to host the torch relay for the Pan Am Games,” said Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie. “Tens of thou-sands of our residents came out to see the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay pass through Richmond and this will rekindle those memories and celebrate our national pride as we welcome the Pan Am Games back to Canada.”

Richmond residents are invited to apply at toronto2015.org to be-come one of 3,000 torchbearers nationwide who will proudly carry the flame and share its welcoming spirit on its 41-day journey toward the lighting of the cauldron July 10 to officially open the Games. Dead-line is Dec. 1.

Brodie said part of the reason Rich-mond has been selected to partici-pate in the Pan Am Games relay “has to be attributed to Richmond being one of the host cities for the Olym-pic Games.”

“I think Richmond has done very well in terms of a legacy from those Games, with the Canada Line and the Richmond Olympic Oval and its many programs. And next year we’ll be opening the Richmond Ex-perience, highlighting the legacies from the Olympic Games.”

Brodie encouraged Richmond residents to apply to become torch-bearers, saying “it’s a way of getting our residents involved and interest-ed in the Pan Am Games and sports

in general, and a way to inspire our youth.”

“It’s also a way we can highlight the local athletes who may be in-volved in the Games,” he said.

Brodie noted the Pan Am Games torch relay is being fully funded through Heritage Canada.

The highly-anticipated relay be-gins next May with a traditional

Aztec lighting ceremony at the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico. The Canadian journey for the flame starts with its arrival in Toronto on May 30.

Richmond will host Pan-Am torch relayResidents urged to apply to become torchbearers; deadline is Monday, Dec. 1

File photoRichmond’s Rick Hansen carried the torch on its final leg before lighting the cauldron at the Richmond O Zone at Mi-noru Park during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games torch relay.

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

6 IN MEMORIAM GIFTS

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

21 COMING EVENTSFRASERVIEW INTERMEDIATE CARE LODGE ANNUAL BAKE, CRAFT, AND GIFT FAIR. All our proceeds provide worthwhile ac-tivities for our elderly residents. Come and support us on Saturday, Nov. 29th, 11am to 4pm. at 9580 Williams Road, Richmond

33 INFORMATION

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42 LOST AND FOUNDLOST: Gold Rolex Watch in London Drugs area. REWARD. 604-771-8225

LOST KEYS - vicinity of boardwalk in Steveston, # 1 Ave or Moncton St. on Sunday Nov. 23rd. Pls call Doug or Claire (604)241-4542

TRANSPORTREFRIGERATION MECHANIC

CDS TRANSPORT SERVICES Ltd. in Richmond is hiring 1 F/T perma-nent Transport Refrigeration Me-chanic. Job Duties: install, maintain and repair equipment/components in refrigerated trucks; measure and cut piping, and connect piping using welding & brazing equipment, start up system and test for leaks using testing devices; recharge system with refrigerant, check & test regu-lators, calibrate system and perform routine maintenance etc; keep ac-curate logs of repairs and costs.Education: High school grad with di-ploma or some training in refrigera-tion is required. English language and 5 years experience is required in similar capacity. Salary is $29/hr with 40 hrs/week. Essential Skills: problem solving, working under pressure, job task planning and or-ganizing, and working with mini-mum supervision. Criminal record check req’d. Work Location: 18351- Mccartney Way Richmond BC V6W 0A1. Contact number: 604-279-0960. Interested applicants please email resume to [email protected] mail resume at work location.

EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

108 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

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BUSINESS SERVICES ................... 203-387

PETS & LIVESTOCK ...................... 453-483

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131 HOME CARE/SUPPORTLIVE-IN caregiver for a senior. full-time Salary: $10.50/hr Location: 4160 danforth drive richmond bc skills requirements: Education: sec-ondary school or equivalent. Experi-ence:minimum of 1 year private ac-commodation will be provided; amount charged for the room is $300. Contact sandeep s dadwal [email protected]



134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES

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Present resume in person.

138 LABOURERS

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139 MEDICAL/DENTAL

ACUPUNCTURISTSalary: $17.00 - 18.00/hr.

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As an acupuncturist, your duty is to treat our patients with the method of acupuncture while being able to explain their symptoms to them. Need to have graduated from a Chinese medical institution in BC and obtained a diploma, no previous work experience needed. (This position requires a B.C Regis-tered Acupuncturist Licence.)

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110 CAREER SERVICES/JOB SEARCH


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By reason of your whereabouts being unknown, the Court has the 27th day of October, 2014 ordered that you may be served alternatively by two publications of this Notice on any day. You may inspect the Petition at the Offi ce of the Registrar at The Supreme Court of British Columbia, Law Courts, 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver, B.C., V6E 3B4. If you wish to defend the action, you must give notice of your intention by fi ling a Response in the above Registry within 21 days of the last publication of this Notice. In default of Response, you will not be entitled to notice of any further proceedings. A copy of the Petition and supporting material will be mailed to you upon receipt of a written request to the above)named Registrar.

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160 TRADES, TECHNICAL

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Van-Kam Freightways Ltd. re-quires two (2) full-time Commer-cial Trailer Journeyman Mechan-ics to work out of our Surrey Terminal located at 10155 Grace Road.

Applicants should have an in-spectors ticket, a minimum of 2 years of related experience, a positive attitude and able to work in a team environment. Experi-ence in a freight fl eet environ-ment would be preferred as this is a busy facility providing service to a large fl eet of Company Owned Trucks and Trailers.

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182 FINANCIAL SERVICES

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242 CONCRETE & PLACING

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260 ELECTRICAL

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281 GARDENING

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283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

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Allison (Miss Junior Teen B.C.) and Emily Carver (Cana-da’s Teen Miss National Canadian Girl) attend the first annual Joey Awards Nov. 16 in New Westminster. They were on hand to assist at the red carpet event that hon-ours Canadian Youth (9 to 19 years old) in TV and Film.

Roya Sarwary with the Richmond Review’s tree at Winter Wonderland. Featuring Christmas trees deco-rated by local groups and businesses, the Rotary Club of Richmond Sunset’s 14th annual display of Christ-mas trees officially opens this Saturday at Richmond City Hall.

Martin van den Hemel photoRichmond Review staff decorate the windows of Signature Mazda in the Richmond Auto Mall for Windows of Hope.

A group from Richmond FC United 2000 U15 boys’ Met-ro soccer team spent last Sunday afternoon volunteer-ing at the new Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver. The boys collected the leaves on the grounds around the building and prepared an area with the leaves that will be used as a vegetable garden next summer. The new Ronald McDonald House is located adjacent to Children’s Hospital and can accommodate up to 70 families whose children are undergoing treatment.

Paul Lermitte (left), of Assante Wealth Management, presents the Richmond Christmas Fund’s Elizabeth Specht and Wayne Duzita with a cheque for $1,000. Lermitte is one of over 80 community and business leaders on the Christmas Fund Roundtable, a group that, over the past three years, has helped raise nearly $500,000 – and counting – for the Christmas Fund.

Anna du Bois, development manager at Hope Air, ac-cepts a donation from Stuart Suls, president and CEO of Mr. Lube at the company’s head office in Richmond.The donation helps Hope Air arrange free flights for B.C. residents who need to access medical care far from their home communities.

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Richmond Review, November 28, 2014