In the Community

The Richmond Centre for Disability (RCD) will be hosting its 2nd Annual Invisible Illness Awareness Event on Saturday Sept. 14 at Lansdowne Centre. From noon to 5 p.m.

$40,000 worth of new defibrillators donated to strategic city locations

Last of our 10-part series Few of us remember being toddlers, but many of us sure remember raising them! "Johnny, put that down! Mary, stay inside the yard and Tommy, stop chasing Mary! For goodness sake kids, could you all please settle down!" Sorry

The City of Richmond has approved what it calls a "groundbreaking" new Social Development Strategy, created to guide community social programs and policy for the next decade. Nine specific "directions" have been formed as part of the strategy: 1.

Two Richmond youth, Adriel Tam (age 22) and Jessica Han (age 18), were crowned Boy Champion and Girl Champion at Fairchild Radio's annual pageant/talent search for Chinese-speaking teens, Sunshine Nation 2013.

One of the great benefits of consumer tech is that no piece of data is too small to be recorded. One of the big annoyances of consumer tech is that no piece of data is too small to be recorded.

The Parkinson Superwalk - Canada's largest fundraising event for the incurable degenerative disease - will come to Richmond on Sep.

Labour Day, which typically heralds the (unofficial) end of summer, was early this year. That means even sooner than usual, we made the annual transition from laid-back, lowpressure August to nose-to-the-grindstone September.

South dyke nominated for Great Public Space

Discussions about public transit in Metro Vancouver always seem to boil down to one thing: funding. The need for transit will only increase with the region's population over the next 30 years - projected at one million, 80,000 in Richmond.