In the Community

Donors, sponsors, volunteers and community leaders at the annual Richmond Hospital Foundation Starlight Gala united together Saturday to help raise a net $738,000 to bolster a “community of care” in Richmond.

As a company with a deep presence in the Richmond community, T&T Supermarkets has led many shoppers into their stores. This time, they are leading in a different way.

From top left, clockwise: Nicky Phillips Retired Yes, because I think fire safety is a major issue. We have an increased population, and I think it’s important that we be able to serve the population as it increases.

If you’ve lived in the Lower Mainland long enough, you’ll have grown used to media reports of “drive-by shootings.

David Chan’s giant pumpkin may just have missed out on being B.C.’s biggest this year. But at Halloween, Chan sure knows how to bring smiles to the faces of little girls in his Fedoruk Road neighbourhood in east Richmond.

Take this crash course on wild mushrooms before the Vancouver Mycological Society's fall mushroom show this weekend.

A partnership struck between Simon Fraser University and Richmond Public Library is bringing a new slate of roundtable discussions to Richmond.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University is hosting a Halloween-themed blood drive at their Richmond campus Oct. 31, inviting people to help save a life before going out trick-or-treating.

Richmond Olympic Park Run organizers will be celebrating the event’s second birthday this Saturday morning with their annual Halloween Run. Costumes are encouraged for the free, weekly 5K run along the Middle Arm Dyke Trail that sets off at 9 a.m.

More than 80 people in need of help showed up at the 10 th annual Richmond Community Connect event on Sunday at St. Alban’s Church.