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Someone needs to step up to save Richmond Terry Fox Run under threat

Someone needs to step up to save Richmond Terry Fox Run under threat

The Editor, It would be a shame if Richmond lost the annual Terry Fox Run at Garry Point Park. At this time, we have not been able to find a new Volunteer Run Organizer for this popular Richmond event and will have to cancel the September, 2014 Run.
Trustees set minister straight

Trustees set minister straight

Open letter to Minister Fassbender: On behalf of the Richmond Board of Education, I am writing this open letter to you to express our extreme dismay at the recent directive that school districts across the province will be required to share up to 50
Teen sisters sparked age of spirits

Teen sisters sparked age of spirits

The world is a web of strange connections. Like the connection between two bored 19th century adolescents and one of the greatest comedies of the last few decades.
Entitled attitude

Entitled attitude

The Senate was designed to be a house of sober second thought, which is why it's disquieting to find senators who seem inebriated with entitlement.
School district chair warns Education Ministry to keep hands off $26 million

School district chair warns Education Ministry to keep hands off $26 million

Open letter from Richmond School District chair Donna Sargent to Education Minister Peter Fassbender
End the clawbacks

End the clawbacks

Richmond - The Editor, Re: "Low-income families feel province's uncompassionate pinch," Column, April 18.
Lingyen members deserve praise

Lingyen members deserve praise

Richmond - The Editor, My family came to this great nation from Scotland in 1883 and settled in the Richmond area known as Lulu Island. We have been here for four generations.
Whale-watching - from a tanker

Whale-watching - from a tanker

North Pacific humpbacks whales are no longer members of a threatened species... according to the federal government, which last weekend announced the Species at Risk Act would be amended to reclassify the whales as a "species of special concern.
B.C. Liberals look beyond Lower Mainland for direction

B.C. Liberals look beyond Lower Mainland for direction

With the legislature not in session this past week, Premier Christy Clark paid a visit to the political epicenter of her government. No, not her hometown of Vancouver, but Kelowna, B.C.'s "City of Premiers.
Councillor sorry for roping religion into debate

Councillor sorry for roping religion into debate

Comments were made at a planning committee meeting