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Column: Flicks and reads for your weekend down time

Column: Flicks and reads for your weekend down time

For those weekends when you have no plans and just want to laze around the house in your jammies watching movies, consider this: Subtitles Won’t Kill You. I was never a foreign film fan until I started watching Israeli movies with subtitles.
Column: A cure for the late summertime thirsts

Column: A cure for the late summertime thirsts

Assuming that summer will soon return after the recent wind and rain we’ve endured, here’s a trio of New Zealand wines to quench your September thirst. Kiwi wines are much like B.C. wines.
Letter: No road user in Richmond has God-given right

Letter: No road user in Richmond has God-given right

Dear Editor, Re: “Richmond drivers need to mind their manners,” Letters, Aug. 26. I do agree with some of the points that Janet Oakes raised in her letter. And, yes, we have in our midst many “dangerous and inconsiderate drivers.
Letter: ALR scam gets my goat

Letter: ALR scam gets my goat

Dear Editor, The ALR: Pygmy goats, metro ports and everything in between. It’s time to expose the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) as the fraud it was designed to be.
Column: Make your voice heard at public hearing, earn that miracle

Column: Make your voice heard at public hearing, earn that miracle

Could the public be heeded at the next public hearing? Yes, miracles can happen if we earn them. On Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m., council will hear the public on a new-house massing bylaw. The venue is the council chambers at Richmond City Hall.
Letter: Allergy to stopping more prolific than signalling aversion

Letter: Allergy to stopping more prolific than signalling aversion

Dear Editor, Re: “Cultures united by signal allergy,” Column, Aug. 23. While signaling is definitively a lost art in Richmond, what even fewer people seem to know about is the “right of way.
Letter: Annual seniors lunch in Richmond fed the 500 very well

Letter: Annual seniors lunch in Richmond fed the 500 very well

Dear Editor, The Richmond Chinese Community Society 13th Annual Seniors’ Lunch Celebration was held at the Continental Seafood Restaurant in Richmond on Saturday, Aug. 15. This luncheon was attended by approximately 500 seniors.
Letter: Foundation clarifies award recipients

Letter: Foundation clarifies award recipients

Dear Editor, Re: “Society founder denies allegations,” News, Aug. 21. I would like to draw attention to an error I noticed in the above noted article.
Letter: Exclusion not part of the plan

Letter: Exclusion not part of the plan

Dear Editor, Re: “Tories snub English media outlets,” News, Aug. 26.
Letter: There are honest people out there

Letter: There are honest people out there

Dear Editor, Our grandson came to visit from Regina and was long boarding in the No. 3 Road area and lost his wallet containing all his ID and credit cards, etc. We searched everywhere, called the RCMP, and prayed.