In the Community

Described recently by the South China Morning Post, and subsequently the BBC, as a “freakshow,” Vancouver’s real estate market has lost touch with local incomes and reality.

Kimi Hendess is a converted Richmondite, who moved here five years ago after growing up in North Delta. She lives in beautiful West Richmond and runs Sweet Digz Farm with her partner, Kareno Hawbolt, on leased land where they grow organic vegetables.

This was the easiest “best” for the News to come up with and we didn’t have to travel too far to get the picture, either – about six feet to be precise.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane. It’s … Well, it’s a plane. And luckily for aviation enthusiasts, there plenty of them to see going in and out of Vancouver International Airport each year.

I guess this depends on who you rate higher, yourself of your dog? If it’s the former, then you can’t do much worse than the off-leash park at the foot of No. 3 Road on the south arm dyke.

Known to many in the online Richmond community as “Alex DC” for his wildly popular (and often raucous) Facebook chat forum Richmond Rants, Raves and Rapport, Alex delaCuesta is a raised-in-Richmond 48-year-old father-of-two living in West Cambie.

Leah Thom, aka Richmond’s “Queen of Nostalgia,” is the founder of Richmond’s most popular social media page, ‘You grew up in Richmond, BC if you remember…’ Having grown up in Richmond, Thom can still be found in and around her Seafair neighbourhood a

The mightiest sockeye ever to navigate the Fraser River, Sammy the Salmon measures up as the biggest salmon on record: From the top of his cap to the tip of his tail, Sammy is a whopping 7’2” long! You can see Sammy on July 1 atop the Spirit of Steve

Richmond’s wide open spaces with ample farmland and plenty of room for homes is what drew Henry Beh, executive director of Richmond Chinese Community Society (RCCS), to put down roots here after leaving Malaysia back in 1974.

If Richmond was in the dictionary, it’s a good bet that the “lived-in” features of veteran city councillor and Steveston farmer Harold Steves would be prominent.