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Linda Reid to join leadership race? MLA grist for pundits’ rumour mill BY EVE EDMONDS
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Harlem Crowns’ Herbie Scaife, Jr. got big laughs from the crowd as he tried to conceal the ball from officials by tucking it under his jersey and hiding in the audience during Wednesday night’s game against the Palmer Griffins at RC Palmer secondary. The Harlem Crowns are a comedy basketball troupe, similar to the Harlem Globe Trotters. For an amusing photo gallery of the night’s entertainment, click on www.richmond-news.com.
Richmond MLAs Rob Howard and John Yap have thrown their support behind Liberal leadership frontrunner Kevin Falcon. Richmond East MLA Linda Reid has yet to publicly declare her support for any of the current candidates. That may be because she’s thinking of running herself, according to political commentator Keith Baldrey, speaking about a rumour on BCTV’s Noon News Wednesday. If Reid did throw her hat into the leadership ring, it would not be the first time. Reid ran for the Liberal leadership back in 1992. Reid was not available for comment yesterday, and Howard and Yap said they were not aware of the rumour. About Falcon, however, Richmond-Steveston MLA Yap said he’s happy to support “a new generation of leader. “He’s young and dynamic, yet has a great breadth of experience having been minister of two large and complex ministries: health and transportation,” said Yap. “I remember well, prior to my personal decision to enter public life, a very young and energetic transportation minister, Kevin Falcon, working hard to promote the Canada Line, which we all now enjoy.” see MLA page 6
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Olive branch reaches across temple battle line ‘If we don’t get some kind of dialogue going, this could turn into a nightmare,’ expansion opponent They may already be limbering up for a fight after firing a 500-page binder, armed with 415 letters of opposition, at the City of Richmond. But one side of the Lingyen $
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Buddhist Temple expansion battle on No. 5 Road has offered an olive branch. After forming an organized protest group, some residents living near the temple at the south end of No. 5 Road — who feel the proposal is out of scale with the neighbourhood, sets a dan-
gerous precedent and will cause traffic and parking chaos — have landed a weighty opposition dossier on the desk of the city’s planning department. But CALE (Community Against Lingyen Expansion) this week wrote the temple to ask for a meeting to bang heads together.
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“We have formerly requested a meeting,” said Carol Day, a local school trustee, who lives in the area and has fought against the temple expansion since its original rezoning plans were submitted in 2005. “We want the same kind of respect we got from Townline
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Homes (developers of the nearby former Fantasy Gardens). “If we don’t get some kind of dialogue going, this could turn into a nightmare. We don’t want that. We want to work with them and hopefully find some common ground and compromise.” see Cheng page 4 07283111
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