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Galleria paint palette gets splash of green Artist store given financial reprieve BY ALAN CAMPBELL
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South Arm United Church celebrates its 51st country fair with tractor rides, live performances, a flea market and fine home cooking. Check out more photos online at www.richmond-news.com
A doomed art gallery has been saved from the axe at the eleventh hour. The Artisans’ Galleria on Moncton Street in Steveston had already closed its doors, citing the cuts in provincial art funding as the main reason for its demise. However, as staff and volunteers were busy selling off or packing up the remaining fixtures and fittings, they received a surprising phone call. On the other end was a businesswoman who had read about the Galleria’s plight in the News and offered to take the matter to her philanthropic employers, Gary and Terry McPhail, who are owners of real estate management company, The McPhail Group. “We were feeling very sad and dejected when we received a surprising call,” said Margaret Stephens, treasurer for the Community Arts Council of Richmond (CACR). “It seems that a creative and energetic businesswoman, who was able to think ‘outside the box’ saw two articles in the media about the upcoming closure … and decided to take the problem to her employers. In a show of support for the community and the arts, Gary and Terry McPhail have come forward to support us. We are so appreciative of their assistance and excited to share this wonderful news that, rather than having to close, we will now be moving!” see Galleria page 7
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Trial into stabbing death of young father begins Benjamin Warland lay motionless in a pool of his own blood, his eyes wide open and glazed over as he took his dying breaths, a court heard this week. Warland’s desperately fading condition was described Monday at the BC Supreme Court by Const. Claudio Maurizio — the first police officer on the scene of the alleged stabbing death of the young father in Richmond in the early hours of Feb. 1, 2009. $
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“I could see he had suffered some kind of head trauma as there was a large pool of blood next to his head,” Maurizio told the court. “The victim had his eyes open and I could see they were glazed and he was gasping for air. “I’ve seen people die in front of me before, and I could see that his gasps for air were not getting anywhere.” The officer told how Warland, 23, was also unresponsive to his
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shouting and he immediately called in emergency medical support. Warland was taken to hospital, but never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead. Crown counsel Michelle Booker, in her opening statement to the jury, told how a pathologist will give evidence during the trial that Warland was killed by deep stab wounds to his left temple, which penetrated his skull. Joshua David Berner, 26, of
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