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After believing its 40year life had ended, the Community Arts Council of Richmond will relaunch its Artisans’ Galleria this weekend.
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Teacher wins GG for teen lit Fishtailing scores top award BY MICHELLE HOPKINS
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Charlotte Diamond was at Lansdowne Centre Saturday to help welcome Santa and his elves. Go online to www.richmond-news.com for more pictures of the performance and its enthusiastic audience members.
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Geothermal energy could power Cambie City aims to built super green mini power station to reduce greenhouse gases BY A LAN CAMPBELL
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The City of Richmond has hatched a plan to build its own super green mini geothermal power station in the city centre. It is hoped the new “energy centre” — which, if built, would draw heat from under the ground via pipes and pumps — will initially provide enough energy to heat homes and water in the soon-to-be-built Remy and Alexandra Gate’s 453 units in west Cambie.
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If successful, the city and its partners then envisage branching out and providing geothermal heat energy from the sustainable underground source to the entire Alexandra neighbourhood. The $4-million proposal, which went before city council’s general purposes committee on Monday, calls for “underground well and piping infrastructure” to be located under park land between Odlin and Cambie roads, with the energy centre located on park land just to the south. The move is part of the city’s
goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. City engineers estimate that providing geothermal energy to the Remy and Alexandra Gate development alone will cut between 200 to 600 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year. “This is a landmark step for us,” said Coun. Bill McNulty. John Irving, the city’s engineering director, told council that the energy centre building could initially be around 2,500 square feet in size, with potential
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to grow if providing power to a larger area. Irving added that the building would be built with the surrounding environment in mind, but could also be designed to show off its working parts to the public. Both councillors Greg HalseyBrandt and McNulty expressed concerns that the majority of the city’s taxpayers would be subsidizing the project, which would only initially benefit the Remy and Alexandra development. see Geothermal page 4
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Richmond’s Wendy Phillips has won the coveted Governor General Literacy Award for her inaugural children’s book, Fishtailing. Phillips was interviewed by the News last week after she had just heard that her book about teenage angst snagged her the Governor General nomination. At the time Phillips said, “I’m so astounded and extremely thrilled. I’m honoured to be in the company of top children literary writers.” Over at MacNeill secondary, where Phillips is a teacher/ librarian, her colWendy Phillips leagues are ecstatic, said principal CarolLyn Sakata. “We have someone famous in our midst,” she quipped. “We are elated and thrilled to have Wendy recognized like that. She is a fabulous teacher and librarian, who really connects with her students in a very personal way.” Phillips’ close relationship with her students comes across in Fishtailing, Sakata added. “You can see the connection she has with her students in the lines in her powerful book,” said Sakata. “Wendy is a fabulous role model for her students.” Besides the great accolade, Phillips receives a $25,000 cash prize. Phillips, along with the other 13 winners — authors, illustrators and translators — will receive her award from Governor General David Johnston on Thursday, Nov. 25, during a ceremony at Rideau Hall, Ottawa. For a full list of all the winners, visit www.canadacouncil.ca.