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Homeowner assaulted during violent home invasion by Martin van den Hemel Staff Reporter
Martin van den Hemel photo International supermodel Coco Rocha returned to her alma mater Friday, taking the time to chat with students at Hugh McRoberts Secondary School. A member of the grad class of 2006, this was her first visit to Richmond in two years.
Supermodel returns to McRoberts Coco Rocha adds recently completed book Study of Pose to school’s library by Martin van den Hemel Staff Reporter International supermodel Coco Rocha returned to her alma mater Friday, spending some time to chat and take selfies with excited students from Hugh McRoberts Secondary, and even Skyped
with the school’s girls volleyball team which was out of town. “She’s so tall,” one fan exclaimed before Rocha was ushered into the school’s library in the nick of time, seconds before the bell rang and the hallways swelled with students. And then she added her own book, Study of Pose, to the school’s library. Friday was Rocha’s first visit to Richmond in two years, according to her husband, James Conran. Rocha’s mother now lives in Toronto, and she no longer has family here, though she has plenty of friends and former classmates from her 2006 graduation year.
Her book, in which she’s photographed over a three-day period in 1,000 different poses, took two years to make, and she authored the introduction. “It’s a little tongue-in-cheek reference guide for models, photographers, illustrators and artists,” Conran said. The 2,032-page book retails for $60 at Barnes & Noble and Holt Renfrew, though Amazon is offering it for $40. A digital version is also available, which shows a three-dimensional rendering of each pose. Rocha grew up in Richmond, and left the city at the age of 15 to pursue her modelling career.
A violent Saturday morning home invasion near Cambie Secondary School sent one man to hospital after he confronted four intruders. According to Richmond RCMP, they were called around 3 a.m. by a homeowner who whispered into her phone during a 911 call that four men were in her house on Jack Bell Drive, west of Jacombs Road and south of Cambie. Her husband then confronted the men and he suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to hospital. The couple’s pre-school aged son was in the house at the time of the incident, but reportedly remained asleep despite the commotion. The victims were unable to furnish investigators with a description of the suspects or the vehicle they fled in. “Police are asking anyone who may have been in the area at the time of the incident and witnessed something unusual in the Cambie and 5 road area, to email Richmond RCMP at Richmond_Tips@rcmp-grc.gc.ca or to remain anonymous call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222TIPS (8477),” Richmond RCMP Cpl. Stephanie Ashton said.
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