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Child poverty remains high in Richmond, but nobody knows why.

Man, 31, crossed highway wearing dark clothes

Where city council saw only two new faces this election Chak Au and Linda McPhail almost half of the Richmond school board looks different today than it did a week ago.

Richmond's Thompson Community Association received a $10,000 grant from BC Rehab Foundation. The money helps fund a year of the association's Adapted Fitness program at the Thompson Community centre.

By Tuesday afternoon, 4,877 customers were without power in Richmond in an area south of Granville Avenue. On northern Vancouver Island there were 18 outages affecting 4,753 customers.

The last word Richmond businessman Kelly Jablonski shouted before a deadly Richmond plane crash almost four weeks ago was "F---!" "I was one of the loudest screamers. I kind of said the F-word," Jablonski, 38, admitted Wednesday.

Six years ago, Gregory Ould was leaving a movie theatre when he noticed a man sitting in an alcove. It was a cold October evening and something compelled Ould to go talk to the man.

Richmond has elected a new council and school board. At 8: 44 p.m., all 42 polls were counted and former school board chair Linda McPhail of the Richmond First slate, and former school trustee Chak Au, of RITE, became the new faces on city council.

If you've seen a lot more facial hair around lately that's because it's Movemeber, that time of year when people grow, or don, mustaches to help raise money and awareness for prostate cancer.

Monday night's strong winds and heavy rain knocked out power to more than 1,200 homes between No. 4 and No. 5 roads, north of Steveston Highway. As well, the City of Richmond sent out a two-man crew to deal with six downed trees.