In the Community

It’s not unknown to hear encouragement emanating from parents in the bleachers at an elementary school track meet.

The Richmond Regional Heritage Fair is open to the public on Saturday, May 11 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

It has been going for 18 years and is still going strong. The Positive Ticket for Youth program is being launched again this spring, with young people continuing to get caught and rewarded for doing something good.

Athletes in a popular running group that connects people new to Canada from China have started organizing community cleanup runs, picking up several bags of garbage from Metro Vancouver parks.

TransLink released their annual ridership numbers last week, and bus boardings grew by 8.8 per cent in Richmond and South Delta from 2017 to 2018. This week, the News asked Richmondites how often they take city buses.

Attend the opening of Richmond Art Gallery’s latest exhibit Saturday, May 4 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Karen Tam is a Montreal-based artist who’s re-imagined Lee Nam’s painting studio in Victoria in her latest exhibit “With Wings Like Clouds Hung from the Sky.

When you see Richmond’s Station 10 team racing out of their Steveston Harbour berth, that’s about the only part of their rescue mission that’s remotely government-funded.

With lion dances, drummers, highland dancing and more, the annual Pull of the Net: A Multicultural Celebration is back again for its third year this Saturday in Richmond.

The pregnancy experts are hosting an open house May 5.

A Richmond elementary student has won a Canada-wide poster contest connected to Remembrance Day. Yelena Domingo – a Grade 7 student at Westwind in Steveston – won the junior category of the Royal Canadian Legion competition.