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Adolescence can be a tough time. Parents need to give their kids enough freedom to find themselves while still providing structure, says psychologist.
Artists exhibit aviationinspired art at Seair Seaplanes Hangar. Works include paintings of planes, as well as a table made from plane propellers.
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Skip’s curling career in limbo after guilty plea BY ALAN CAMPBELL
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Forum aims at Building Hope for homes BY NELSON BENNETT
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Building affordable housing in Richmond is a bit like growing palm trees here: Not impossible, but not easy. Just ask Richmond developer Dana Westermark about his Remy project. The 259unit housing development on Cambie Street between Garden City and No. 4 Road will include 81 affordable rental units for seniors. Originally, he proposed to build just 22 units of affordable housing under the city’s $
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City, developers and advocates ‘not working as a team’ Affordable Housing Strategy. Working with the federal government, BC Housing, the city and SUCCESS, Westermark managed to quadruple the affordable housing component to 81. But it wasn’t easy. “It is an unbelievably complicated issue,” said Westermark, who will be one of the speakers at an affordable housing forum Friday and Saturday at city hall. The Building Hope forum is sponsored by the Richmond
Poverty Response Committee. Committee co-chair David Reay said anyone interested in housing issues is invited to attend. The forum kicks off Friday at 7 p.m. with a talk by keynote speaker Tim Wake, an affordable housing consultant, who sees a city that wants to build affordable housing but which is stalled by an inability to get all oars in the water. “In a nutshell, there’s been quite a bit of planning done but there hasn’t been a lot of imple-
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mentation,” Wake told the News. He referred to the fact the City of Richmond has an affordable housing strategy — one that Westermark calls the most “forward-thinking” in the Lower Mainland — but which is tough to implement without all partners working in concert. “You can’t really blame any one of those groups,” Wake said. “The simple answer is that they’re not working as a team.” see Wake page 3
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Get ready to scream! Once again, East Richmond Community Association cracks its doors open from Oct. 27 to 31 for its haunted house attraction, Terror Hall. There are seven new rooms, including the Doors of Danger and the Empty Forest, to spook you and make your heart skip a beat. This frightful production, which also features special effects and actors, runs from 6 to 9:30 p.m. in the community hall, 12360 Cambie Rd. Proceeds benefit the BC Breast Cancer Awareness. Admission is $2 and includes a free hotdog. Recommended for ages 13 and over.
It is still uncertain whether Jim Armstrong, the Richmond skip of Canada’s gold-winning Paralympic curling team, will be allowed to play for Canada again, now that he has a criminal record. “I have spoken a couple of times (to the Canadian Curling Association) but no decision has been made yet,” said Armstrong, who still awaits sentencing. Armstrong, 59, has pleaded guilty to selling and dispensing counterfeit drugs. His trial was due to begin on Monday, but he made the surprise plea in a Seattle courtroom on Thurdsay, along with his 28-year-old son, Gregory, who admitted to the same reduced charge. They had both been previously charged with the more serious offence of drug trafficking. It seems likely that Gregory Armstrong will PHOTO SUBMITTED spend at least a year Jim Armstrong behind bars, as is being recommended by U.S. prosecutors. But with the sentencing not due until January, his father faces a three-month sweat to see if he will suffer a similar fate. Earlier this year, American Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in Los Angeles intercepted a package that had been sent from China containing 2,544 counterfeit pills of Viagra and 260 pills of Cialis, both erectile dysfunction drugs. The package was addressed to a mail box in Blaine, Washington, which was used by both Jim, also a retired dentist, and Gregory Armstrong. The operators of the mailbox store provided investigators with a long list of boxes that had arrived at the store for the Armstrongs. see Son page 4