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Three ships (or more) still sailing in Richmond Tall Ships Festival on course while Victoria’s sinks Plans for the Tall Ships 2011 Maritime Festival in Richmond are sailing on — despite the collapse of Victoria as one of the host ports on the Pacific coast tour. Victoria — which was to welcome some of the world’s most magnificent sailing ships on June 10, a week after Richmond — announced last week it has been forced to pull out due to lack of sponsorship $
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funds. The non-profit society, which was organizing Victoria’s leg of the tour, said it was going to be at least $250,000 short of the $1.2 million needed to host the event, citing much poorer corporate sponsorship than expected. Port Alberni also originally planned to be on the tour, before pulling out earlier this year, leaving Richmond as the only venue north of San Francisco still standing. Richmond, which is already spending $1.6 million on infra-
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response from sponsors and we’ve already had people that were involved in Victoria now wanting to come here. “The Victoria event was being run by a non-profit society and they were not able to support the event in the way that perhaps the City of Richmond can.” Townsend added that the city has been able to secure a lot of sponsors due to strong relationships forged during the Olympics. see Halsey-Brandt page 4
Charged have been stayed against three people who worked at the Bethany Child Care Centre in Richmond. The workers were charged after a parent was told that her 18-month-old child fell and injured her face at the daycare centre. It was alleged that the child was picked up and dropped. Other allegations at the Hamilton facility arose during the subsequent police investigation. The charges were originally approved by Crown Counsel in June based on the available evidence at that time. On further review of the complete investigative report, the Criminal Justice Branch concluded last week that it could not be proven that there had been an intentional application of force that would constitute an assault in any of the alleged incidents, branch spokesman Neil MacKenzie said Monday. The review resulted in charges being dropped against child care worker Christine Moyles, 30, Michele Stamatiou, 45, and the centre’s manager, Charlotte Rafter, 71. The charges stemmed from an alleged incident in October 2009, when a parent was told her 18-month-old baby received minor injuries to her face as a result of a fall while at the daycare, located in the Bethany Baptist Church in Hamilton at 22680 Westminster Hwy. It wasn’t until April that the parent learned the injuries may not have been accidental. On May 11, Richmond RCMP’s Serious Crimes Section arrested Moyles and charged her with three counts of assault. The investigation revealed there may have been more injuries involving other young children, leading RCMP to lay additional charges on June 22. Stamatiou was charged with one count of assault, and Rafter was also charged. The daycare is licensed by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. — Postmedia News Service
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