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Critics allege union busting, but IKEA wants protection for workers who’ve crossed picket line

by Matthew HoekstraStaff Reporter

Unionized workers at Richmond IKEA will mark one year on the picket line at a rally Saturday, as a long-running labour dispute shows no sign of resolution.

Approximately 325 workers rep-resented by Teamsters Local 213 have been out of work since May 13, 2013, when pickets went up around the Swedish furniture giant’s local store.

Both sides are entrenched on at least one issue—what to do with as many as 35 workers who crossed the picket line and returned to work. The union expelled the workers, but the company insists they have the right to continue working if a settle-ment is reached.

The Jacombs Road store has re-mained open during the dispute with reduced hours and services. At a rally last week, union members marched with banners “IKEA HURTS FAMILIES” and “DO NOT SHOP AT IKEA” while shoppers continued to enter the store’s parking lot.

Teamsters representative Anita Dawson faced cameras recording the scene for IKEA, saying she had one message for the company: “Go back to the bargaining table. End of story.”

In an interview Tuesday, Dawson, a former IKEA employee, said she’s never been part of such a long dis-pute. She acknowledged it’s been hard on union members.

“Some of them have tried to locate second jobs and tighten the belt, so to speak, in what they’re spending their money on. It’s defi nitely been a diffi cult year, but…we’re trying to maintain what we’ve got,” she said. “This is a big company that has ex-tremely deep pockets, and they’re trying to break us. That’s their bot-tom line.”

So far bargaining, mediation and litigation appears to have done little to lessen the divide.

There have been four votes on three off ers, according to Dawson, who said members unanimously rejected the last formal off er in July. Now the union has asked the B.C. Labour Board to step in to restart bargaining.

IKEA says the Teamsters are ask-ing for the expelled workers to be fi red—a charge the union rejects. Dawson said union is only seeking to have the workers relocated, hav-ing violated union principles.

Meanwhile IKEA says it off ered to put unionized members back to work under the terms of the expired contract while the parties resume negotiations, but the union denies a formal off er was ever made.

“IKEA has made every eff ort throughout the dispute to reach a fair collective agreement; including off ering several diff erent proposals which addressed the union’s leading concerns,” according to a statement provided by spokesperson Mad-eleine Löwenborg-Frick. “However, terminating employees for legally

returning to perform their own job is unacceptable to IKEA and is le-gally unprecedented.”

Few such labour disputes have lasted this long in recent B.C. his-tory. One that stretched longer—nearly 15 months—involved Rocky Mountaineer. Another came close: the North Shore Winter Club dispute lasted seven months.

“In all these cases they have some things in common, which is they’re all lockouts. They were all created

by the employer,” said Jim Sinclair, president of the B.C. Federation of Labour.

Also rare are labour disputes in-volving workers crossing picket lines to return to work—something IKEA workers were encouraged to do, said Sinclair.

“Most employers do not do this, because it creates such a hurdle to get over to get their employees back to work again. It really is an at-tempt to break the union.”

At last week’s rally, NDP caucus chair Shane Simpson said his party supports the picketing workers. He called on IKEA to get back to bar-gaining a fair deal.

“It’s pretty clear this company wants to bust this union. That can’t be allowed to happen. It really is critical workers have rights, that in-clude the right to organize, the right to fair collective bargaining and the right to be treated with respect in your workplace,” he said.

City to launch new public art initiative that would place creative designs underfoot


They dot roads and sidewalks across the city, known for a plain grid pattern only peg solitaire players would appreciate.

Now Richmond is planning to turn some of those manhole cov-ers into art.

“They’re all over the place, we see them all the time. They’re not exactly the prettiest look-ing things,” said Coun. Evelina Halsey-Brandt. “They’re neces-sary, but you can bring a little bit of beauty into that also.”

Richmond has an estimated 50,000 manhole covers, and each year 150 are replaced. City council has now approved a modest project to make those replacement covers a tad more

interesting.Plans are afoot at city hall to

issue a call to Metro Vancouver artists to submit their designs. The contest is not limited to pro-fessionals. Two designs will be selected—one for storm water covers, one for sewer covers.

Entries from children 12 and under will also be welcomed. Two young winners will be rec-ognized for their designs, but only the adult artists’ designs will be cast.

Fabricator Westview Sales Ltd. will provide the moulds for the new de-signs at no extra cost. The project carries a budget of $16,000, which includes two $2,000 prizes for win-ning designs.

The new designs are ex-pected to eventually make their way to the streets of City Centre and other neighbour-hood centres, with the exception of Steveston. Manhole covers unique to the fi shing village are part of a planned future project.

The program mirrors public art programs elsewhere, including

Vancouver, which already boasts some artistic utility covers.

In a report, Richmond city en-gineer Lloyd Bie and arts plan-ner Eric Fiss called the project a way of “integrating the arts into everyday life and making art ac-cessible to the public.”

The competition will continue through to October 2014. A panel will recommend winners to council early next year.

by Martin van den HemelStaff Reporter

A 41-year-old Richmond man was charged with second degree murder after his wife was found dead in the apartment they shared at Panorama Place, 7040 Granville Ave.

Jian Hua (James) Wu made his fi rst appearance in Richmond provincial court on Monday in con-nection with the Sunday afternoon incident.

Wu is the husband of the woman who was dis-covered dead by police after they responded to a call for assistance around 2 p.m., according to a press release by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.

Neither alcohol or drugs were a factor in the ho-micide, which police de-scribed Sunday as a do-mestic incident.

Police records show no history of violence, police

said.Residents of the high

rise, at the corner of Gran-ville Avenue and Gilbert, and across from Minoru Park, said they were shocked to learn of the violence in their building.

“It is shocking,” said one resident, who didn’t see or hear anything unusual in the building. He described the building as “very quiet,” and fi lled mostly with se-niors and immigrants.

Police sealed off the fl oor where the crime occurred.

To avoid contaminat-

ing the crime scene, two residents from a condo on the same fl oor as the murder, were taken from their unit via a fi re truck’s ladder, RCMP Cpl. Dominic Duchesnau said.

The name of the victim is not yet being released, po-lice said, because the next of kin live abroad and still need to be located.

Anyone with informa-tion about the incident is asked to call the IHIT tip line at 1-877-551-4448 or e-mail [email protected].

StacieBee photo via FlickrA manhole cover in Vancouver designed in 2004 by mother-daughter artist team Susan A. Point and Kelly Cannell. Rich-mond is preparing a call for art-ists to create similarly artistic de-signs on Lulu Island streets.

Picket line still surrounds IKEA one year later

Michael Weeks photoUnionized IKEA workers and supporters picket outside the Richmond store at a recent rally, as the now year-old la-bour dispute continues.

City’s manhole covers cast opportunity for ‘beauty’

Police investigate a murder at 7040 Granville Ave.

Husband charged with wife’s murder


Development Permit Panel MeetingWednesday, May 143:30 p.m. in Council Chambers

Agenda Item:1. 1001 Hudson Avenue (formerly part of 3600

Lysander Lane) - DP 13-645579 - NSDA Architects on behalf of the Pacifi c Autism Family Centre Foundation - To (1) permit the construction of a 5,553 m2 building for treatment of, and education about, Autism Spectrum Disorder at 1001 Hudson Avenue on a site zoned “Auto-Oriented Commercial (ZC10) - Airport and Aberdeen Village”; and (2) vary the provisions of Richmond Zoning Bylaw 8500 to reduce the minimum commercial parking spaces setback (Zoning Bylaws 7.5.17) from 1.5 metres to 0 metres along the northern lot line.

Please call 604-276-4395 for further information.

Spring into action during Move for Health WeekFree or low-cost activities from May 5 to 10

Get your friends and family moving during Move for Health Week with over

50 free or low-cost activities being offered in Richmond from May 5 to 10.

On Saturday, May 10, head down to the Move for Health Festival from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Minoru Park. The festival will feature lots of entertainment, interactive activities, community booths and the annual Walk with the Mayor. Find out more at www.richmond.ca/moveforhealth.

Minoru Chapel Opera is tonightOpera di Concertisti presents Mozart to Strauss

You are invited to hear classic opera music performed in the intimate

and historic Minoru Chapel.

Wednesday, May 72:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.Minoru Chapel, 6540 Gilbert Road

Richard Strauss (whose 150th birthday is this year) said that Mozart was his greatest infl uence. This concert will celebrate many facets of the human condition explored by both composers.

Admission is $20 adults, $18 students/seniors (+GST). Doors open 30 minutes prior to show. Limited seating. Purchase tickets at the door (cash only) or in advance at 604-276-4300 (Press 2) Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Quote course #541108 for 2:00 p.m. concert, #541109 for 7:00 p.m. concert. Credit card only. Sorry, no refunds.

Details at www.richmond.ca/minoruchapel.

Asphalt paving advisoryApril 1 to May 31

The City of Richmond has contracted Columbia

Bitulithic to grind and pave the following locations in Richmond from April 1 to May 31:

• 8000 block Westminster Highway• Intersection of Bridgeport Road

and No. 5 Road• 6000 block Steveston Highway• 8000 block Steveston Highway• Knight Street North and South

450m from Westminster Highway• 5000 block Jacombs Road• Westminster Highway – 400 m

west of Jacombs Road

Work hours are 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays and weekends. Night time work hours are typically from 7:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.

Traffi c will be reduced to single-lane and there may be temporary lane closures. Delays may occur. The use of an alternate route is strongly encouraged.

This work is weather dependent and dates are subject to change without notice.

Questions may be directed to Wasim Memon, Supervisor, Engineering Inspections, at 604-276-4189, or visit the City’s paving program webpage at www.richmond.ca (City Services > Roads, Dykes, Water & Sewers > Construction Projects > 2014 Paving > Program).

Clothes washer rebate programReplace your old clothes washer with a new, high-effi ciency ENERGY STAR™ model and receive a rebate

Clothes washers use approximately 21% of indoor household water.

Switching to a high-effi ciency clothes washer can save you 62,000 litres of water and 240 kWh of electricity per year.

The rebate is available to Richmond residents for pre-qualifi ed clothes washer purchases and installations done from May 1 to 31, 2014.

The City of Richmond is matching BC Hydro’s rebate to provide a total reimbursement of $100 or $200. In order to qualify, Richmond residents must provide BC Hydro with specifi c items within 60 days of washer purchase and installation.

Before purchasing your new clothes washer, please view full eligibility and rebate submission details at www.richmond.ca/savewater.

Get to know your H2O!Drinking Water Week is May 4-10

Enjoy Richmond’s clean and refreshing tap water and celebrate this exciting

week by taking time to learn more about your water and how you can protect and conserve it.

Richmond is proud to be a supporter of this BC Water and Wastewater (BCWWA) campaign. To take the challenge or for more information, visit: www.drinkingwaterweek.org/

Lulu Series: Art in the CityFree guest speaker event

Meet the award winning author of Happy City:

Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, on May 15 when award-winning journalist and writer, Charles Montgomery presents the fi nal talk in the 2014 Lulu Series: Art in the City.

This presentation takes place:Thursday, May 15 at 7:00 p.m.Richmond City Hall, Council Chambers6911 No. 3 Road

This talk will be preceded by a short performance by the Indigenous vocal ensemble, M’Girl.

This is the last of three events in the 2014 Lulu Series. Details at www.richmond.ca/luluseries.

All Lulu Series events are free. Seating is limited so please RSVP at [email protected]

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Onni is off ering the city a new riverside space for Rich-mond Public Library’s Steveston branch that would triple its size and welcome bookworms for at least 20 years.

The developer has been given a rough ride at city hall in a quest to rezone its fi nal Imperial Landing property. Undeterred by failed attempts to loosen rules restrict-ing ground-fl oor commercial space to maritime-related businesses, Onni built six buildings on Bayview Street anyway.

It now hopes the promise of a public library will con-vince council to approve rezoning.

Onni has made three off ers of library space to the city. Staff say just one is viable—a 12,929-square-foot ground-fl oor space in a Bayview building that straddles English and Ewen avenues. The city would get it at a “reasonable market rate” of $25 a square foot for the fi rst 10 years, ac-cording to a report from planner Sara Badyal. Onni would give the city a break on rent for the fi rst fi ve years—one-third of the space would be rent-free—and later increase the price to $30 a square foot at year 20.

“(The so-called) Building 5 would provide a 20-year so-lution for library services in Steveston that would meet community needs and relieve pressure on the Brighouse branch,” noted Badyal.

Turning the space into a library would cost the city $3,655,460, in addition to new annual operating costs of $426,315. But Onni has also upped its cash off ering for a so-called “Steveston community amenity”—to be spent at council’s discretion—by $500,000 to a total of $2 million. City council’s planning committee was set to consider the proposal late yesterday.

The current Steveston library branch is a 3,919-square-foot space inside the Steveston Community Centre.

Council’s planning committee chairperson, Coun. Bill McNulty, has championed the idea of a new library, which would allow the current branch to vacate the

community centre and potentially free up room for a fi tness facility expansion. McNulty said he’s encouraged by Onni increasing its cash contribution, adding he likes the library proposal, but believes there’s still room for negotiation.

“We need to examine it more because we have to do this right...We’ve got to try to get the very best deal for the community of Steveston,” he said.

Richmond Public Library’s facilities plan lists an ex-panded Steveston branch as a top priority. It has woes similar to the 4,712-square-foot Cambie branch. Neither have room for quiet study spaces, meeting rooms and computer learning centres.

“Steveston is a very busy branch and its limited size doesn’t allow for the full range of services that we would like to be off ering the community,” chief librarian Greg Buss told The Richmond Review. “An expanded library would be able to off er more seating, a silent study area, better programming space, especially for the very popu-lar story times, a computer centre and of course more books and media.”

The Onni lease proposal is similar to one already in place in Ironwood—only pricier. The city pays just $20 per square foot for one-third of Ironwood’s 12,500-square-foot space. Taxpayers enjoy the remaining area rent-free. A similar deal in Steveston doesn’t appear to be in the cards.

“Staff negotiated with the applicant to develop more favourable lease terms in keeping with the Ironwood branch provisions, but the applicant advised the off er provided is the best they are willing to provide,” noted Badyal in her Tuesday report.

The city has already been off ered a good deal, accord-ing to Onni consultant Danny Leung. In a letter to the city, he noted the current market rental rate at Imperial Land-ing is $32 to $35. Contingent upon the deal is the city allowing Onni the freedom to lease and operate the re-maining ground-level spaces as it wishes. Onni is eyeing leases with a Nesters grocery store, a dentist and a bank.

Onni site a ‘solution’ for cramped Steveston library


by Marilyn BakerContributor

Last year, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu, in a desperate move, went public to announce that we are having a crisis of mentally ill people.

This was partly triggered because someone tried to kill an innocent man sitting in a coff ee shop. The someone had just been released from St. Paul's hospital for the nth time after telling the psychiatrist that he felt like stabbing someone.

It is also partly because mentally ill people are wandering around the streets of downtown Vancouver bothering people.

I don't mean "bothering" in the sense they are annoying or bugging people, although some probably do that too. I mean "bothering" in the sense that any caring person would be disturbed to see someone, obvi-ously very sick, talking to a fence or a car or a telephone pole. Or looking jerkily or nervously at you, and then quickly away, if you look at them a second too long. Or ranting or raving or sleeping under a fi lthy blanket. Or crawling along Granville Street before being shot dead by police.

More than one per cent of the population has a serious debilitating mental illness that precludes them

from working at gainful employ-ment. This is the main reason why people with mental illness often fi nd themselves homeless. They have no money and no way of getting any.

I say one per cent because that is incidence of schizophrenia across the world and right here at home. So in greater Vancouver, popula-tion 2.5 million, there are about 25,000 people living and suff ering with schizophrenia. Bipolar disorder would probably add at least another one per cent to that number. That's another 25,000. Both of those ill-nesses, if not treated, cause people to believe things that are not true, hear voices that no one else can hear, and become confused about what is real and what is only in their brain. Major depressive disorder might also add another two or three per cent, maybe more, to the total. The black dogs of depression cause people to have no hope, no joy, deep despair, and no motivation to go on living.

These people are suff ering from serious brain disease, but the world does not believe them because there are no broken bones or bleeding wounds. They often cannot speak for themselves or seek treatment, so they go without medical aid.

Some are sheltered at home until their household bursts apart under the daily stress of living with some-

one who is not in their right mind.Some have no family and become a

homeless statistic.Many die a premature death due to

the horrid conditions they are forced to live in due to the benign neglect and lack of resources. They have no money and no advocates to carry their case forward to "the authorities."

Some commit suicide because they cannot bear to live another minute with their illness.

Some, due to the grace of God or sheer luck, get hospitalized for a time. In hospital they get food, clean beds, regular medicine, baths, a warm and dry place. They get social activities such as watching TV with other people. They listen to music. There are programs which teach cooking and computer skills. They get to go for walks. People care about them.

Until we closed it, Riverview had all this, plus a great place called Penn Hall with a tuck shop, and billiard tables and even some computers. They even had dancing contests. Riv-erview patients didn't sleep on urine-soaked mattresses, take untested street drugs, dumpster dive for food. They saw doctors and got treated.

Today, people go around hug-ging themselves and saying "Isn't it wonderful that we don't ‘warehouse’ people like we did in the bad old 20th century. Insane asylums were

horrible. The enlightened ‘commu-nity’ will take care of these affl icted human beings." Except that it doesn't.

Someone close to me spent nine months in Riverview. He was sud-denly and miraculously released into the “community” two weeks before the hospital was closed forever. He went from 24/7 care, including food, shelter and medicine supervision to ... nothing. He waited nine days before he got a follow-up appoint-ment with “the community team.” He deteriorated rapidly and was soon re-hospitalized. The “community” failed him miserably.

I am not necessarily saying “re-open Riverview” as some have advocated. In fact, of all the hospital psychiatric wards I have visited, our own Rich-mond Hospital is far and away the best I have seen. Sometimes commu-nity hospitals are better for treating patients simply because visits from family and friends are a vital part of the on-going recovery from serious brain disease.

But, for goodness sake, we need to do something. Until the “com-munity” comes up with a better solution, we need to acknowledge that “warehouses,” aka hospitals, have warm beds, meds, food, friendship and caring nurses and doctors. City streets don’t.

•Marilyn Baker is a Richmond resident.

The B.C. govern-ment has rolled out its ambitious

overhaul of the public education system, from kindergarten to gradu-ate school, much to the horror of its left-wing establishment.

The formal title is B.C.’s Skills For Jobs Blueprint: Re-engineering Education and Training. It’s designed to dovetail with the Harper regime’s Canada Job Grant that requires employers to co-sponsor training spaces so they will hire the students at the end.

Elementary and middle school curriculum is being revised to increase emphasis on hands-on experience. High school and post-secondary skilled trades programs are getting more money, but it’s going to be

shifted from under-perform-ing programs that don’t lead to jobs.

Premier Christy Clark took another swipe at the bias of B.C.’s system before head-ing to Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong on another liquefi ed natural gas sales trip. She noted that 20% of B.C. students, and nearly half of aboriginal students, don’t fi nish high school.

“Not only are there kids who don’t graduate, there are kids who graduate, go out and get one or two cre-dentials before they fi nally fi nd their way into a skills training program,” said Clark, who had her own wander through university campuses before going into politics.

A couple of weeks ago, Simon Fraser University president Andrew Petter downplayed the “relatively small” skilled trades short-age for B.C. industry. “We should not be engaged in a zero-sum kind of battle for dollars,” Petter protested. That’s exactly what he and other university executives are looking at, and it will be based on the latest gradu-ate employment data and labour demand forecasts.

One of the key architects of this sweeping plan is Jessica McDonald, who shook up the public service while serv-ing as Gordon Campbell’s deputy minister.

Her report on trades train-ing confi rms what Camp-

bell’s critics in the labour movement have long said: the government’s 10-year experiment with the Industry Training Authority is a rud-derless mess.

“Certain partners, particu-larly organized labour, feel marginalized,” McDonald wrote. “Others, particularly employers and employers’ associations, do not feel heard within the system. Over the recent past, several new directions have been introduced such as de-regu-lation of trades and modular

training that have caused strain because they were not fully inclusive during development, were seen to benefi t single interests, and they impacted the whole system.”

The ITA board is being replaced, with union repre-sentation restored, and advi-sory councils from industrial employers will update their hiring needs.

The B.C. Federation of Labour and the construc-tion unions have all but abandoned the NDP after

Adrian Dix’s disastrous pitch for urban anti-industry votes last year. B.C. Fed president Jim Sinclair was an early advocate for rescuing skilled trades from the second-class status they received in a culture fi xated on university for two generations.

That culture has created glaring problems. There are too many institutions off ering the same courses. As with health care, block fund-ing is handed out without any serious eff ort to measure the results. For many stu-dents, university has become an extension of adolescence, fi nding one’s self through philosophy or fi lm studies.

Employers get their share of blame from McDonald. Not only did they chop up trades training to make it cheaper to obtain, their preferred source of skilled workers has been to poach from other employers who paid to train them.

Skills-based employment data will be made public for students to make career choices. Finally, students coming out of high school will have a way to assess what they can expect after $50,000 or more is spent on higher education.

It’s about time.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tom-fl etcherbc Email: tfl [email protected]

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Minoru Park, 7191 Granville Ave11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.Celebrate Move for Health Day on May 10 at Minoru Park and discover some of the many opportunities for your family to be active in Richmond!

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Asphalt paving advisoryApril 1st to May 31st, 2014The City of Richmond has contracted Columbia Bitulithic to grind and pave the following location in Richmond from April 1st to May 31st :

• 8000 Block Westminster Highway• Intersection of Bridgeport Road and No.5 Road• 6000 Block Steveston Highway• 8000 Block Steveston Highway• Knight Street North and South 450m from Westminster Highway

Work hours will be 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays, and 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekends. Night time work hours will be from 7:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. (typically).

Traffic will be reduced to single-lane and there may be temporary lane closures. Delays may occur. The use of an alternate route is strongly encouraged.


Questions may be directed to Wasim Memon, Supervisor, Engineering Inspections, at 604-276-4189, or visit the City’s paving program webpage at www.richmond.ca(City Services > Roads, Dykes, Water & Sewers > Construction Projects > 2013 Paving).

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Asphalt paving advisoryApril 1st to May 31st, 2014The City of Richmond has contracted Columbia Bitulithic to grind and pave the following location in Richmond from April 1st to May 31st :

• 5000 Block Jacombs Road• Westminster Highway – 400 meters west of Jacombs Road

Work hours will be 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays, and 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekends. Night time work hours will be from 7:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. (typically).

Traffic will be reduced to single-lane and there may be temporary lane closures. Delays may occur. The use of an alternate route is strongly encouraged.


Questions may be directed to Wasim Memon, Supervisor, Engineering Inspections, at 604-276-4189, or visit the City’s paving program webpage at www.richmond.ca (City Services > Roads, Dykes, Water & Sewers > Construction Projects > 2013 Paving).

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Editor:Re: “Bill 24 opens up

‘major development’ in ALR,” April 30.

Bill 24, the bill to kill the ALR, is vile beyond the dwindled protection of our province’s scarce farmland. As the alarm gets louder, let’s grow more aware of the human harm.

I’ve earlier described how the chair of the Ag-ricultural Land Commis-sion and his team have streamlined the ALC to meet today’s needs. Chair Richard Bullock’s factual updates on the ALC web-site show their systematic steps and impact. Instead of thanks, they got Bill 24 in return, a kick in the teeth.

There’s wider human harm for entry-level farmers. Attacks on the ALC spur speculators to buy ALR farmland at prices farmers can’t aff ord. While some speculators let farmers lease their land, many leave it vacant and run-down so they can claim it’s only useful for development.

For all of us, Bill 24 harms food security. With the decline of the Central

Valley of California as a food source, we need more local food, not less. With rising prices, the poor will lose out the most. In eff ect, Bill 24 would take food from the plates of hungry children.

At his media event to unveil his brainchild Bill

24, Minister Bill Bennett brought in a supporter from East Kootenay to show the need. She wanted her children to be able to build a prison or motel on ALR land to supplement their farming income. So I admit the bill could please some

people.But does that off set the

harm to the ALC team and young farmers and people struggling to get by? What’s more, the harm to the commis-sion—and hence to all of us—would be hard to reverse. I suggest we let

Richard Bullock and the ALC team do their jobs.

As for Bill 24, replace it. Return to a plan that helps farmers and food security. Former minister Pat Bell came up with it

six years ago.The news release said

“B.C. Agriculture Plan goes local for global benefi t,” and the plan went beyond that. It was so practical and vision-

ary that I joined the B.C. Liberal Party, and it’s even better for today.

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residents can recycle. Starting the week of May 19th, more types of plastic containers, milk cartons,

paper and plastic drink cups, flower pots and spiral-bound tins like frozen concentrate containers

can be recycled. This expanded program will help residents divert more materials from the garbage

and contribute toward 70% waste diversion by 2015.

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The Richmond Night Market runs from May 16 – October 13. Hours of operation will be:

• Fridays and Saturdays - 7:00 p.m. to midnight (open until 1:00 a.m. on Saturdays in July and August)

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Notice of Intention to Dispose of an Interest in Land and Provide AssistanceThe City of Richmond (the “City”) intends to grant a lease to the Society of Richmond Children’s Centres at 23591 Westminster Highway for a ten (10) year term, plus two (2), five (5) year renewal options. The lease is expected to commence July 7, 2014, with a license from June 16 to July 7, 2014 for the purpose of installing tenant improvements.

The City also hereby gives notice that the City intends to provide assistance to the Society of Richmond Children’s Centre, pursuant to Section 24 of the Community Charter. The assistance is in the form of basic rent of $10.00 per annum for the license and lease of the lands and premises located at 23591 Westminster Highway, for the purposes of a licensed not for profit child care centre and other ancillary uses that are directly related to early childhood development. The assistance provided is equal to approximately $117,000 per year.

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communityHeritage Fair gets vice-regal visitLieut.-Gov. Judith Guichon received a thank-you gift from Michael Strusievici (a student at Pebble Hill Elementary in Delta) and Vedanshi Vala (a Grade 7 student from McNeely El-ementary) at the 12th annual Richmond-Delta Regional Heritage Fair. Michael and Vedanshi were two out of fi ve students who received the B.C. Heritage Fair Society Stellar Achievement Award for demonstrating exceptional enthu-siasm for their topic. One hundred creative projects on a variety of themes from Canada’s history and heritage were on display at the fair, held at Richmond Cultural Centre.

Delta Hotel to get new name, upgrades

A Richmond landmark will be getting a new name for the fi rst time in decades.

The Delta Vancouver Airport, on Sea Island, has since 1972 been a familiar piece of Richmond.

It even hosted Cuban president Fidel Castro dur-ing a stopover in 2003.

Now, it’s getting a new name. Starting Nov. 1, it will be known as the Pacifi c Gateway Hotel at Vancouver Airport, accord-ing to a press release from Van-Air Holdings Ltd.

The hotel will continue to remain the property of Van-Air, a local fam-ily company, and current management and staff of the hotel will remain un-changed.

Under the new fl ag, the hotel will be affi liated with Preferred Hotel Group, a collection of more than 650 independent hotels in 85 countries.

To go along with the new name, the hotel will undergo an extensive re-furbishment program that already began with the addition of a new marina with additional moorage space, signifi cant changes to restaurants, upgrades to meeting and conference spaces, and a new look to the lobby. The 414-room hotel overlooks the Fraser River and will continue to be managed by Delta Ho-tels Ltd. through Oct. 31.—Martin van den Hemel


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Richmond will be on the move this Saturday.

Adopting the interna-tional Move for Health campaign—which

recommends adults get at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise fi ve times a week and kids at least an hour daily—

the city will host the second annual Move for Health Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Minoru Park.

The wrap-up to a week of activities geared towards encouraging locals to be physi-cally active, the event will provide all ages a chance to try out a variety of sports includ-ing fi eld hockey and football. Introduction to dance and wellness activities will also be off ered at the festival, which will be held rain or shine.

Besides Discover Your Sport, with 10 local sport organiza-tions from Richmond Sports Council on hand, participants in Move for Health are invited to take Jack’s Active Chal-lenge in the Community Zone, which introduces kids of all ages to funda-mental movement skills.

Others may be inspired to move to the beats provided throughout the day by DJ Zasz or watch high energy stage performers such as the Richmond Youth Dance Company, Show Stop-pers and the Testu Taiko Drummers.

And don’t forget to join Mayor Malcolm Brodie and energetic mascot Active Jack in the annual Walk with the Mayor starting at noon.

For those who get the hunger pangs, fear not. Three food trucks will be on site to serve up some healthy treats.

For more details on all aspects of Rich-mond’s Move for Health Week events, please visit www.richmond.ca/moveforhealth.

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Don Fennell photoPopular dance fi tness in-structor Gustavo Ferman warmed up the crowd in last year’s festival.

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It’s a song that’s hard to forget for TV fans of the ‘70s and ‘80s. For

a decade The Love Boat brought viewers along on romantic and comic tales aboard the Pacific Princess cruise ship—and each show opened with a theme song so smoothly sung by Jack Jones.

“The Love Boat” was just one of Jones’ many hits in his long and successful career. The silver-haired crooner, now 76, will per-form at Richmond’s River Rock Show Theatre this Friday.

Born in Hollywood, Jones’ first break came in 1959 when his demo found its way to Capitol Records, which picked up the budding artist. He released his first album with the single “This Could Be the Start Of Some-thing Big.”

His career took off , and his com-mitment to the art earned him

two Grammys in the early ‘60s. Fans will remember the songs: “Lollipops and Roses” (1962), “Wives and Lovers” (1963), “Dear Heart” (1964), “The Race Is On” (1965), “The Impossible Dream” (1966) and “What I Did For Love” (1975).

In all, Jones has over 50 re-corded albums to his credit.

Jones has also found numerous acting roles in his career—his most recent was a minor part in the fi lm American Hustle as a lounge singer—but he’s perhaps most known for his live shows.

He’s performed around the world, and lands in Richmond May 9 for an 8 p.m. concert. Tickets, starting at $29.50, at tick-etmaster.ca and 1-855-985-5000.

1. First venue you performed at? “At the Thunderbird Hotel in 1957 in my father Alan Jones’s act.”

2. How much do fans want to hear the “Love Boat”? “I have raised millions of dollars over the years, for charity, by threatening to sing that song. Charlie Fox and Paul Williams (co-writers of the song), dear friends of mine, would not be laughing at that. The truth is the fans look forward to hearing that part of the Jack Jones experience they’ve come to revisit.”

3. What did you think of The Love Boat show? “It was in-nocent and light entertainment. Much diff erent than the norm of today, which is one murder after another. I actually wrote one of the stories that was on the one of their Christmas presentations.”

4. How do you maintain your voice? “Gargle with formalde-

hyde. Seriously, I don’t smoke and I keep singing. Singing is the greatest therapy one could ask for and I feel for those who can’t carry a tune. It’s a wonderful gift from God.”

5. Favourite way to exercise? “Riding my bicycle.”

6. What has been a memo-rable performance? “Jack Jones with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. It was a wonderful production…and is available now, I see, on YouTube.”

7. Any concert superstitions? “No.”

8. What’s your favourite song to sing? “We’ll Be Together Again.”

9. What’s the state of pop music today? “The songs are getting more repetitious.”

10. Appeal of Las Vegas? “For the older people, it’s the thrill of gambling and keeping arthritis out of your right arm. For the younger people it’s the ecstasy of dancing to DJs.”

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Jack Jones is still singing the hits

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Jack Jones performs at River Rock Show Theatre Friday, May 9.


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A news headline earlier this week on CNBC.com reads that India’s seniors are driving a new wave of business. India has the world’s second-largest population of people over age 60. Meanwhile, life expectancy is rising, and it appears many seniors are prepared to spend money (that they saved over their working years) on products that will meet their needs. Th e country’s young entrepreneurs are responding. One company looking to meet those needs is Epoch Eldercare, which provides services in larger centres, including Delhi and Mumbai.Th e company employs eldercare specialists, who typically have Master’s degrees in psychology or occupational therapy. Th ey provide elderly clients with “intellectual companionship.”A company focused on shopping, called Senior Shelf, targets adult children of elderly people. Th e children tend to be computer-savvy, and can shop for their parents. Th ey now have about 1,400 products to choose from, including talking clocks and utensils for the arthritic. One of the aims of this young company is to provide a selection of care facilities for the elderly.Th e company Luxury Roots off ers tour packages for the elderly, which in-clude on-call doctors and rest time between sightseeing activities. “Senior” business makes up 60% of the company’s overall business.Th e owner of Age Ventures India, Arun Gupta, says that today’s 65-year-olds in India are diff erent from the 65-year-olds of fi ft een years ago. “Th ey know what a good life is,” he says. His company manages retirement homes and consults to retirement-home developers. Th e seven million seniors in India who are middle- and upper-mid-dle-class are targets for several of those developers. Th ey off er high-end condominiums with special facilities for the elderly.One company that does this is Silverglades, in New Delhi. Its director, Mr. Anubhav Jain, off ers “a complete lifestyle, not just a retirement home.” Units (for people aged 55 and higher) have emergency control systems in the bathroom, bedroom and living rooms. Th ere is also one-call medical help, housekeeping and canteen services.Ms. Chandrika Rastogi, founder of Luxury Roots, is pleased to be dealing with seniors. She says “they shower you with love and blessings” (not to mention a willingness to spend money!).On the other side of the fence (so to speak) is an article from last weekend’s Marietta Daily Journal in Marietta, Georgia. Th e columnist Mr. Charlie Sewell, Police Chief of nearby Powder Springs, discusses some of the problems with unlicensed care facilities not only in his state, but also across the U.S. He says that because of abusive family members, unlicensed care facilities thrive. While some are good, Mr. Sewell (perhaps surprisingly) compares others to Nazi concentration camps. As these unlicensed facilities have no oversight, and cost less than licensed facilities, they provide a very low quality of care.Unlicensed facilities skirt the law by apparently off ering varying services while using “varying” names. Th ey sleep up to ten elderly people in one room (some on the fl oor). One facility in Florida apparently fed residents frozen dinners costing 88 cents each. Another tied a resident to a chair to avoid a fall, as the resident had recently had hip surgery.In Michigan, a fi re in a 1,500-square-foot house that turned out to be an unlicensed care facility killed four seniors in their beds, and another who had been sleeping in her regular place, under the kitchen table. No sprinklers or smoke alarms were found in the house.In Marietta, the Police Department recently discovered an unlicensed care facility that they called a “House of Horrors,” where the patients were abused physically and had no beds, working toilets or baths. Insects were found in the refrigerator.Mr. Sewell describes the problem as growing in the U.S.In British Columbia, we are fortunate by comparison. We don’t have the “extremes.” We have several private facilities across the Province that are excellent. Th ere are also many excellent facilities funded by the Provincial health authorities. I would not suggest that there are no incidents in care facilities here. Th ere are some every year, but I suggest they are not widespread.Perhaps the main problem we have is a lack of space. As in India, life ex-pectancy is rising and the demographics are shift ing. As the years go by, there are more of us above age 70, and more likely to need care facilities. Th is problem will not be solved quickly, and in the meantime, families sometimes struggle to cope.

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Back in the early 1970s, ParticipAC-TION began to promote the im-portance of fitness by comparing

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The 15-second public service announcement showed the Swede (at the time Sweden was at the top of the world’s fi tness rankings and Canada well down the list) jogging eff ortlessly alongside the Canadian who was puffi ng like an old locomotive.

Embarrassed, it sparked a revolution among Canadians to improve their fi tness level.

Decades later, the message still resonates—par-ticularly with the over-55 set, who for much of their adult years were inundated by it.

Steveston Community Centre fi tness co-ordinator Donna Bishop is pleased that many of their mature members are so keen to work out they show up like clockwork.

“I know people in their 20s who are not that committed,” said Bishop, who also teaches fi tness classes.

Among the unique programs at Steveston Com-munity Centre is something called Balance and Falls Prevention.

“Basically, the main thing seniors have to worry about is falling (particularly if they have arthritis or osteoporosis),” said Bishop. “It can (represent) the end of their active life. This is not an osteoporosis fi tness class, but the classes are geared to strength-ening muscles, joints and ligaments so people can be strong enough and have the balance to walk over a little bump without tripping or reach up to get a cup out of the highest cupboard.”

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“It’s not a fl ash in the pan, it’s here to stay,” said Bishop. “It’s not as easy as some people think but it’s a (good) combination of things. It’s spiritual for some, even though we don’t practice that. Flexibility is so key when you’re older and yoga is really good for that.”

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“We’re committed to making sure our school is a safe and welcoming environment,” Jung said. “We make sure that everybody is respectful and welcoming to new people, and we make sure that everyone is comfortable and working at a level they feel comfortable with and are happy with.”

Tong Moo Do Martial Arts School offers classes for both children and adults. The classes are great for “anyone who wants to improve themselves,” Jung said. The school works with students of all levels, and beginners are always welcome as it is assumed “that people coming in have no martial arts training,” he said.

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sportsDragicevic joins Richmond Minor as director of hockey developmentby Don FennellSports Editor

They already work closely as chief instruc-tors at the Pacific Elite Hockey School and now Milan Dragicevic and Glenn Wheeler are teaming up again.

Dragicevic this week was hired as director of hockey development for the Richmond Minor Hockey Association, at which Wheeler is direc-tor of player and coach development. Under the new arrangement, Dragicevic will focus

on working with the coaches leaving Wheel-er more time for player development.

“It is all about de-velopment on and off the ice to enhance the brand of Richmond Minor and Richmond a desired place for coaches and players,” said Dragicevic, who brings a wealth of hockey experience to the job.

Until this March when he was let go, the 43-year-old Richmond resident was head coach of the University

of B.C. Thunderbirds men’s program. He first became bench boss in 2002, after serving in the same capacity for the Vancouver Giants during their first two seasons in the Western Hockey League. He be-gan his coaching career in 1995 as an assistant for the Tri-City Ameri-cans and between 1986 and 1990 played defence for five WHL teams including Tri-City, New Westminster, Regina, Spokane and Victoria. He holds a de-gree in management from Acadia Univer-sity which, as a player, he helped win the na-tional university title in 1993.

Dragicevic was also head coach of Team Canada for the World University Games in 2009 in Harbin, China.

“Our coach and player development just got enhanced 100 per cent,” said an elated Rich-mond Minor president Ron Thorpe. “We tried to go with one person (Wheeler) overseeing the development but we stretched him re-ally thin. It was unfor-tunate for Milan to lose his position at UBC but fabulous timing for us. We now have two guys who already work

well together and this will mean even more concentrated develop-ment for our coaches and players.”

Thorpe said although player and coach de-velopment is the sec-ond biggest expense behind ice rentals, reg-istration fees will not increase as a result of Dragicevic’s hiring. He also stressed that ev-ery player and coach will be able to benefit.

“Our mandate is to help every player be-come better,” Thorpe said. “Right now every player has a maximum one development ses-sion per week, and we’re aiming now to get the coaching to a higher level so they can pass down what they are learning to the players.”

Thorpe wouldn’t speculate on how Dragicevic’s presence might impact registra-tion, but hoped num-bers would increase as a result. Last season, there were about 530 players registered in the Richmond Minor Hockey Association.

“We’re not doing this with the hope of in-creasing our numbers, we’re doing it to further develop our players,” he said.

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Dunfee sets all-time Canadian race walking record

Jordan Sandhu will be kept busy this summer.

On Thursday, the Seafair Minor Hock-ey Association Bantam A1 player was selected in the fourth round of the 2014 Western Hockey League Bantam Draft by Kelowna Rockets. On Monday, BC Hockey announced he’s been selected

to Team Penguins which will join Team Bruins at the provincial U16 high per-formance camp July 8 to 13 in Nanaimo. From the two teams, a provincial squad of 20 players will be assembled to rep-resent B.C. at the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George.

—Don Fennell

by Don FennellSports Editor

Evan Dunfee is king of the Canadian race walkers.

For all time.But he’s still having a

hard time believing it.“It’s pretty ridiculous,”

said the 23-year-old from Richmond, who bettered his previous personal best by more than two-and-half minutes Sunday at the 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Taicang, China.

Dunfee fi nished 11th overall in one hour, 20 minutes, 13 seconds—just ahead of longtime teammate and friend Ina-ki Gomez who was 12th in 1:20.18 and Benjamin Thorne who was 13th in 1:20.19. The three Cana-dians were all below the

previous Canadian record in the men’s 20-kilometre race.

Dunfee told The Rich-mond Review that he knew it was going to be a fast race just four kilome-tres in, and a personal best was likely. But he never imagined just how fast.

“We couldn’t have asked

for better conditions for a fast race,” Dunfee told Athletics Canada. “It feels great to have my fi rst se-nior Canadian record; this is the result of the amaz-ing hard work the team put in. I have no doubt that the three of us will be swapping the record back and forth for years to

come.”Dunfee also took time

to thank his longtime personal and team head coach Gerry Dragomir for all his guidance and encouragement over the last decade.

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Fearing for the welfare of their pets, afterlearning they hadn’t been walked in months and had ballooned in weight, owner NavNijjer and his mother Prabjot Nijjer soughtto have the court intervene and release the dogs prior to the court hearing.

But it wasn’t all bad news for the Nijjer family, who have seen a significant improve-ment in the health of their pets, Axel and Paris.

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The Richmond Review revealed two weeks ago that volunteers and staff at the RichmondffAnimal Protection Society were barred from walking the seized dogs, which have been labelled as dangerous by the city. A society policy had prohibited anyone from walkingdangerous dogs, which under normal circum-stances would have been seized for a maxi-mum of 21 days.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Creditors and others, having claims against the Estate of ADRIAN MI-HAI RADU, formerly of 1614-6631 Minoru Blvd., Richmond, BC, V6Y 1Z1, Deceased, are hereby re-quired to send the particulars there-of to the undersigned Executor, c/o IULIAN RADU, 203-6611 South-Oaks Cr., Burnaby, BC, V5E 4L5, on or before July 1, 2014, after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims of which the Executor then has notice. Iulian Radu, Ex-ecutor.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS under Section 38 of the Trustee Act ESTATE LATE ELIZABETH DOROTHY KUPKA, also known as Beth Kupka, formerly of 7160 Railway Avenue, Richmond, BC, died on Novem-ber 21, 2013. Creditors and others having claims against the estate must send particulars of their claims to the executors by June 16, 2014. After that date, the executors will distribute the estate among the persons enti-tled to it and of whom the execu-tors have notice. Send your claims to Veronica Armstrong Law Corporation and Margaret Dolan (executors), c/o Veroni-ca Armstrong Law Corporation, 312 – 8860 No. 1 Road, Rich-mond BC, V7C 4C2.

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Asian Heritage Fair at Lansdowne Centre

A taste of Asia and all it has to off er

was experienced by many at the Richmond Chinese Community Soci-ety’s Asian Heritage Fair at Lansdowne Centre last Saturday.

“We (were) happy to see so many people turn out,” said Henry Beh, the executive director of Richmond Chinese Community Society.

The event marked the beginning of May, which is Asian Heritage Month across Canada.

Hosting the fair helped Richmond Chinese Community Society pursue its main goal of “promoting community harmony,” Beh said.

Also, “we can get our Asian heritage out to the community.”

A packed audience enjoyed dance, kung fu and taekwondo per-formances along with many other multicul-tural acts throughout the day.

There were also com-munity booths set up, a calligraphy display and a Korean pottery dem-onstration.

Among the groups who set up booths was the Chinese Stamp and Numismatic Society of Canada, which had an impressive collection of stamps and coins on display.

The fair represented many countries across Asia from Japan and China to Indonesia and Korea.

“Asia covers so many different countries,” Beh said.

The event aimed to help open peoples’ eyes to just how big Asia is and to educate the public about different Asian cultures, he said.

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

Around TownAmanda Oye

Fair launches Asian Heritage Month

Melanie and Marcus Wong.

Amanda Oye photosStanley, Brian and Natalie Lee picked up some Korean pottery.

A Korean pottery dem-onstration was among the displays.

Dancers Maxine Soo, Taryn-Jessica Tseng, Ariel Aeng, Stephanie Hai, Caleigh Quan and Tianna Lyall.

Richmond Chinese Community Society youth volunteers, who helped run the Asian Heritage Fair this year, and Henry Beh, the executive director of the society.

Coun. Bill McNulty and Anabel Ho.Performers Patsy Kwong and Jennifer Cheng from the Richmond Chinese Community Society opera class.


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