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No Wi-Fi? Cold pizza? Home Internet not working? Then don’t call 911 page 3
He shoots, he scores!
Andrew Loat of the Seafair Bantam A2 Islanders rfiles
a shot high over the left shoulder of Phoenix Firebirds’
goaltender Cody Brewer dur-ing action at the Richmond
International Bantam-Midget Hockey Tournament Sunday at
the Richmond Olympic Oval. The teams played to a 2-2 tie.
More photos, page 12.Don Fennell photo
Truck owner confronted two cyclists, leading to a fall that smashed one rider’s hip
by Matthew HoekstraStaff Reporter
An 80-year-old cyclist has been awarded more than $100,000 after sustaining injuries in a road rage incident in Richmond, accord-ing to a B.C. Supreme Court judgment.
Following a nine-day trial Vancouver, Justice Susan Griffin sided with plaintiff Jim Davies while placing blame on the
owner of a Ford F350 pickup truck that confronted the cyclist on Railway Avenue three years ago.
On Oct. 25, 2011, Burnaby’s Jim Davies, then aged 77, was cycling on Railway—one of his regular routes—with his son Gary. Da-vies is an avid cyclist, logging over 10,000 kilometres on his bike annually, with a his-tory in cycling competition.
Cycling in the bike lane around 11:30 a.m., Gary spotted a parked pickup with a side mirror jutting into the bike lane and made a loud comment.
The truck’s owner, Kevin Elston, was in his front yard. He heard Davies and got into his truck and chased after the cyclists. Elston caught up to the them and, according to the Dec. 23 judgment, words were exchanged.
Elston drove his truck close enough to the
cyclists that Davies put his hand on the win-dow frame. After a brief exchange, the truck drove away and Davies fell, smashing his hip into the curb.
Davies sustained serious injuries to his right hip and pelvis, leaving him with last-ing effects, the court heard in the Septem-ber trial.
Although there wasn’t a collision, Da-vies blamed his fall on Elston, who in turn blamed Davies, saying they were riding two abreast in the bike lane and it was Davies who put his hand on the truck.
But Justice Griffin noted Davies was an ex-perienced cyclist who wouldn’t have fallen off his bike on a flat stretch of road he’s rid-den hundreds of times before unless his bal-ance was disturbed.
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Cyclist awarded $100,000 in Railway Avenue crash
Mario Bartel photoJim Davies, 80, is back on his bike despite serious injuries he suf-fered in a road rage incident three years ago. BC Supreme Court recently awarded him more than $100,000 in damages.
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E-Comm operators get a lot of ‘head-scratcher’ calls.
Trudy Morse photoA bald eagle leaves its perch high in a tree along the South Dyke, just west of Gilbert Road, around noon on Sunday. The bird flew towards Shady Island, a safe nesting, overwintering habitat.
Paul Cipywnyk photoA great blue heron flies over Garry Point Park in Steveston under sunny skies Monday. Photog-rapher Paul Cipywnyk (cipywnyk.com/blog) captured the wading bird with a zoom lens near the northwest corner of the park’s loop trail.
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E-Comm releases Top 10 list of non-emergency nuisance calls
by Jeff NagelBlack Press
Do not call 911 because your slice of pizza is stale.
Nor is it an emergency if Wi-Fi at the cof-fee shop isn’t working or you’ve lost your glasses.
Those are some of the most bizarrely inappropriate 911 calls made by Lower Mainland residents in 2014, according to a top 10 list released by E-Comm, southwest B.C.’s emergency communications centre.
Besides complaining about the quality of take-out food, many bozo 911 callers ap-pear to think emergency dispatchers can double as an information service, wanting to know everything from whether it’s a stat holiday to the phone numbers for taxis or travel agents.
E-Comm spokesperson Jody Robertson said people who make “nuisance calls” to 911 tie up valuable resources for people with real life-and-death emergencies, po-tentially putting lives at risk.
“These kinds of calls come in every day pretty much all day long,” she said.
There isn’t an accurate count of how many there are, but Robertson said it’s “way too many.”
Nor can E-Comm staff instantly discon-nect those calls—they have to be alert to
the possibility that a caller feels threatened by someone nearby and is concocting a cover story so it doesn’t seem like they’ve dialed 911.
“We have to make sure the caller can speak freely and there’s not something else going on,” Robertson said.
The same sorts of scenarios—is the caller silent because of a nearby assailant or be-cause they’ve had a heart attack—are on the minds of E-Comm staff when they get a pocket-dialed call or an accidental call where the caller hangs up.
Call-takers must phone back to make sure the person is OK, and if the call came from a landline and they can’t be reached, police are dispatched.
“Those kinds of calls can chew up a lot of resources unnecessarily.”
The number of pocket-dialed 911 calls is running at about 70,000 a year, while an-other 30,000 are accidental calls where the caller hangs up without explaining to staff.
Those numbers have improved slightly, Robertson said, but still amount to more than 10 per cent of the 860,000 calls to 911 each year in the Lower Mainland.
She said the most frequent “head-scratch-er” calls are ones seeking basic information, adding calls to report or seek information about power outages are a major recurring problem.
True emergencies are police, fire or medi-cal situations that require immediate action because someone’s health, safety or prop-erty is in jeopardy or a crime is in progress.
Discovering your car broken into or van-dalized should be a call to your local police
non-emergency number, not 911.“We’re here to help people with real
emergencies,” added 911 call taker Warner Yang, who fielded the year’s most unwor-thy 911 call – that Wi-Fi at the local cof-fee shop wasn’t working. “If someone calls 911 about internet problems that means I’m not available to help someone who re-ally needs it.”
Classic idiot calls from past years include callers who reported a large spider in their living room, that their TV was broken or that their son wouldn’t hand over the re-mote control.
Other requests have included callers seeking permission to drive in the HOV lanes because of congestion or wanting to rent a fire truck to block off a street for a party.
Stale pizza, no Wi-Fi among bone-headed 911 calls
Top 10 reasons to not call 9111. Wi-Fi at a local coffee shop isn’t working2. “What’s the fine for jay walking?”3. Pizza not fresh; wants a replacement slice4. “What’s the number for my travel agency?”5. Caller phoned 9-1-1 to ask for a taxi referral6. “Is today a stat holiday?”7. Food they ordered is cold8. Wants help finding lost glasses9. Home Internet is not working10. “What’s the date today?”
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Investigators have recovered vehicle of Richmond man murdered in October
by Matthew HoekstraStaff Reporter
Police have renewed a call for in-formation on a murder of a Rich-mond man found shot to death near Talmey Elementary School.
On Monday the Integrated Ho-micide Investigation Team re-leased a photo of a vehicle driven by Theoren Poitras before he was shot to death on Oct. 2.
Police recovered a maroon co-loured 2007 Suzuki Grand Vitara in Pitt Meadows in November. The vehicle had been taken from the crime scene.
Shortly after midnight on Oct. 2, witnesses heard shots in the Cam-bie neighbourhood near Talmey school. Police found the victim outside next to a line of trees.
Poitras was a resident of Rich-mond and was known to police in Alberta for involvement in gang activity, according to IHIT. A mo-tive has not been confirmed, but police believe Poitras was target-
ed, and those responsible immedi-ately fled the crime scene follow-ing the shooting.
“IHIT is looking to speak with anyone who may have informa-tion about this homicide or any-one who may have information about the friends and associates of Mr. Poitras,” said Staff Sergeant Jennifer Pound in a news release.
Anyone with information is asked to call the homicide team’s tip line at 1-877-551-4448, or, to remain anonymous, CrimeStop-pers at 1-800-222-8477.
RCMP photoPolice recovered this Suzuki Grand Vitara in Pitt Meadows, a vehicle tak-en from the scene of a Richmond murder.
Police seek tips in targeted murder case in Richmond
Theoren Poitras was murdered in Richmond on Oct. 2.
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Driver found at fault in cyclist’s crashFrom Page 1
“I have no difficulty in conclud-ing that what disturbed his balance and led to his fall was Mr. Elston’s dangerous conduct in pulling up and driving a large truck next to him within an arm’s length, while yelling at him angrily,” wrote Justice Griffin.
The judge found Elston “fell below the standard of care of a reason-able and prudent driver” by driving alongside the cyclists so closely it was intimidating, threatening and unsafe—and then pulling away quickly and without warning.
“In a moment of temper, Mr. Elston decided to get in his truck and confront Jim Davies who was cycling in a bike lane just an arm’s length away, while both were trav-elling down the road at approxi-
mately 25 km/h. Mr. Elston’s con-duct caused Jim Davies to crash his bike and suffer significant injuries.”
Davies has recovered and is today back on his bike, but Griffin noted the retiree has been robbed of the strength and vigour he otherwise would have enjoyed in his senior years.
“He took steps his whole life to be an active healthy senior, and these admirable efforts have been thwarted to a significant extent by the accident.”
Davies was awarded damages of $100,162.69, plus damages for cost of future care.
Davies was a member of Cana-da’s national track cycling team at the 1954 British Empire Games in Vancouver. He also represented Canada at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956.
Fraud workshop set for businesses
Richmond City Hall will host a free workshop next week focusing on the problem of counter-feit currency.
The Bank of Canada is organizing the Jan. 8 workshop, which in-cludes a presentation by a senior analyst on how to tackle the problems of fake bills and fraud. The bank aims to educate business owners and employees.
Police estimate there are over $3 million in counterfeit bills around the Lower Mainland.
The workshop takes place inside council chambers at city hall, 6911 No. 3 Rd., from 7 to 8:30 p.m. To register, contact Richmond RCMP Const. Hanson Ma at [email protected].
—Matthew Hoekstra
Salsa for Socks clothing drive begins Saturday
South Arm Community Centre’s annual Salsa for Socks clothing drive kicks off tomorrow (Saturday), and this year comes with a stretch.
A series of salsa fitness classes—and this year stretching classes too—are being offered Jan. 3 to Jan. 7, admission to which is by donation of new, warm socks and or gently used winter cloth-ing.
On Jan. 3, Salsa for Socks goes from 9 to 10 a.m., and Stretch for Socks is from 8:15 to 8:45 p.m. On Jan. 5 and 7 Salsa for Socks is from 7:30 to 8:15 p.m. and Stretch for Socks is from 8:15 to 8:45 p.m.
South Arm Community Centre is located at 8880 Williams Rd. For more in-formation call 604-238-8488.
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by Bob NilesContributor
“The only way I’m going to back up looking straight ahead into a TV screen is if Walter Cronkite himself is right there on that TV wav-ing me to the right or left, to guide me in reverse.”
Words spoken by my Dad when asked why he still backs the car up looking out the back window.
There is no way he would ever trust a camera to do what he can do by just turning his head around. He still believes TV is full of communists left over from the McCarthy era! He thinks a rear view camera as a sinister plot to get us looking only ahead, then when we’re all comfortable
they can sneak up from behind and take over the country.
And besides, my Dad takes great pride in how he can drive in reverse and parallel park. And for the auto makers to take away acquired skills that he was the best at (self proclaimed) it is just another step down that slippery slope to Commu-nism. ‘Everybody will back up the same. No looking to the left or right comrade, just straight ahead.’
Even now in his later years, when turning the ol’ noggin hurts, he still man-ages to parallel park and back up expertly. Partly due in fact to his ability, es-pecially when younger, to turn his head around like a
Barn Owl. I swear he could just about see the drivers outside side mirror turning his head to the right (if you you drive on the other side of the road from North America it’s to he left).
In his younger years he was THE authority on how to park in a linear fashion and would teach others his skills. Whether they wanted it or not!
“Come on ya clown, you could park an 18 wheeler in that spot! Crank the wheel harder! Straighten out! Yer too far from the curb! You call that paral-lel?” Facts, directions and questions all voiced by my Dad to teach and direct others the fine art of paral-lel parking. All hollered out the drivers side window
from as many as ten cars back. Lord help the guy that might hold him up in traffic to parallel park.
As kids growing up in the sixties we had free run of the back and front seat of the car (if mom stayed home). It was the sixties there were only two seats, even if the car held eight. Parent discipline and Dad backing up both started out the same way. The car would stop and then his huge right arm came back over the back of the front seat. Every time the car stopped my three brothers and I hit the floor. We’d be on the floor looking up at his huge hairy knuckles while his head turned past center of the back of his neck. It was like some hor-
ror show! Ahhhhh! Dad’s backing up!
I think if we’d of had back up cameras back then, and if Dad would of used them, we would arrived to Sunday School looking a lot neater for sure.
Dad figures he’ll make use of the screen used for the back up camera in his new car and hook it to TV channels. But after some thought he decided against it figuring all the TV that that screen would get would be behind the scenes coverage.
“But Dad!” we pointed out, “It would be behind the scene coverage of what the communists are up to.”
Bob Niles is a Richmond writer.
I’m only trusting Walter Cronkite
EDITORIAL: Targeting Harper’s secrecy
Justin Trudeau has come up with a campaign idea that may help him seal the deal with enough voters
to win power in next October’s federal election.
He has taken direct aim at the prime minis-ter’s secrecy, the muzzling of cabinet ministers, MPs and bureaucrats and what he calls “mes-sage control.”
Many people who otherwise have few issues with the Conservative government are not happy with the manufactured flow of informa-
tion. Other than government ads which feature “the Harper government,” actual information from MPs and civil servants is often sparse. While some MPs are quite open and accessible with citizens and local media, many more are not.
Many cabinet ministers rarely hold press con-ferences. Harper himself is almost permanently unavailable to the media. He makes a few ap-pearances, such as a recent year-end interview on CBC, but he never answers questions in an impromptu fashion.
When he appeared at a fundraiser in Langley
in the summer, he did not say one word to any media person, national, regional or local. Sup-porters who wished to talk to him had to stand in a lengthy lineup.
Prime ministers don’t have to be your friends. But they do have to be accountable, and that includes saying something that isn’t scripted, at least once in a while.
Like Bard the bowman in The Hobbit, Trudeau has taken aim at this weak spot in the dragon’s scales, and it may score enough votes for him to at least win a minority government.
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“The only way I’m going to back up looking straight ahead into a TV screen is if Walter Cronkite himself is right there on that TV waving me to the right or left, to guide me in reverse.”
Friday, January 2, 2015 Richmond Review · Page 7Friday, January 2, 2015 Richmond Review · Page 7
Editor:Your newspaper’s
reports concerning the Canadian Lifeboat Institution and the Ste-veston Lifeboat’s collision with the seawall near Steveston require some clarification.
Search and rescue operations in our waters are dispatched by the Joint Rescue Coordina-tion Centre in Victoria which is operated by the Canadian Coast Guard and the Royal Cana-dian Air Force. Canadian Coast Guard resources, as per their website, include the Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary (Royal Cana-dian Marine Search and Rescue, RCM-SAR). These are the on-duty and on-call resources that are tasked with respond-ing to search and rescue incidents (emergencies, maydays…) like the collision involving the Steveston Lifeboat.
The Canadian Lifeboat Institution is a registered charity and is associ-ated to two local vessels which are both decades old. According to the Transport Canada Vessel Registration Query Sys-tem, the Steveston Life-boat, which hit the rocks, was built in 1944 and is owned by John Malcolm Horton, of Delta. While the Steveston Lifeboat is not a search and rescue vessel, it may be a vessel of opportunity just like a tug, a fishing boat or other vessels. For exam-ple, we’ve seen B.C. Fer-ries respond to incidents when they were close by and able to assist. Vessels of opportunity are very important. It’s a matter of being in the right place at the right time and being able to render assistance.
Canadian Lifeboat Institution volunteers bring valuable experi-ence that promotes boating safety and assists the public and organizers at local maritime events. By working in concert with other stakeholders, the Canadian Lifeboat Institution makes a posi-tive contribution to the community; however, the description of the Steveston Lifeboat as a search and rescue vessel is inaccurate. Both of the Canadian Lifeboat Institution’s vessels are fascinating boats with historical significance and fundraising to
support these vessels is worthwhile. However, it should be clear what the fundraising is for and in the case of the Canadian Lifeboat Institution and the Steveston Lifeboat, it is not for search and rescue purposes per se.
Whether SAR vol-unteers go into the dark mountains or out on stormy seas, they depend on modern and effective equipment acquired with dona-tions from the public. Maritime search and rescue operations are an integral part of public safety and dedicated full-time Coast Guard members, supplement-ed by on-call RCM-SAR volunteers respond 24/7. Public support of volunteer search and rescue organizations is vital and appreciated.
Andy HobbsRichmond
lettersThe difference between search and rescue and vessels of opportunity
photoAboard the Steveston Lifeboat, which was pulled from the Fraser River last month after it collided with some rocks.
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by Tom FletcherBlack Press
Ontario has become notorious for bad energy policy decisions, from leaky nuclear plants and brownouts, to a costly green energy subsidy deal with Samsung, to a pair of hastily cancelled gas-fired power plants that helped push former pre-
mier Dalton McGuinty from office.So it was no surprise to weary Ontario electric-
ity ratepayers when Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk wrapped up 2014 with a report condemning the province’s wireless smart meter program for a $1 billion cost overrun and failure to reach the pro-gram’s goal of reducing power consumption.
Unlike BC Hydro’s wireless meter program, Ontario used the smart grid’s real-time consumption data to offer discounts for off-peak power consumption, hoping to ease the load on its outdated power grid while giving customers some relief from soaring rates. But few embraced the incentive to run their clothes dryers late at night to save money.
Diehard smart meter opponents in B.C. jumped at the bad news from Ontario. Their theories of sudden billing surges, vague health concerns and even smart meter surveillance have all been debunked, but here they had a credible voice saying they are a waste of money.
Alas for them, Lysyk held up B.C.’s smart meter pro-gram as the model Ontario should have followed.
The Ontario government “did not complete any cost-benefit analysis or business case prior to mak-ing the decision to mandate the installation of smart meters,” the auditor wrote. “This is in contrast to other jurisdictions, including British Columbia, Germany, Britain and Australia, all of which assessed the cost-effectiveness and feasibility of their smart metering programs.”
Lysyk’s report also noted BC Hydro developed its business case in 2006, updated it in 2010 as meter technology evolved, and implemented it in 2011 with a plan to recover costs over 20 years. BC Hydro’s savings come mainly from reduced electricity theft, faster location of power outages and more accurate load management.
B.C. also responded to the anti-smart meter holdouts with an optional fee to cover manual meter readings for those who insisted the cell-phone-like data transmissions are a threat to their health.
Black Press filesAnti-smart meter protester Sharon Noble greets delegates at B.C.’s 2012 municipal convention in down-town Vancouver. Wireless meters have been blamed for bee deaths, human illness and even an alleged plot to spy on citizens.
Motorists in B.C. will be required to slow down and switch lanes to give more room to any vehicle they en-counter with flashing red, blue or yel-low lights under a regulation change that took effect Jan. 1.
The Slow Down Move Over rule previ-ously only applied to “official vehicles” like emergency responders, tow trucks, park rangers and conservation officers.
The simplified rule will also apply to all other vehicles with those flashing lights – including those operated by
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Cleaner cars cited as emissions testing ends
by Jeff NagelBlack Press
It’s the end of an era for drivers of older vehicles in the Lower Mainland.
AirCare stations will shut down for good on New Year’s Eve and come 2015 motorists will no longer line up to pay for mandatory emissions testing.
The requirement in or-der to get vehicle insur-ance in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley was widely seen by drivers as a costly nuisance, partic-ularly as cars got clean-er and most vehicles passed without being forced to get a tune-up.
But defenders argue the provincial govern-ment was wrong to scrap the TransLink-operated program.
“We know air qual-ity from vehicles has improved over the last 10 or 15 years because we’ve been monitoring vehicles,” said Vancou-ver Coun. Heather Deal, chair of Metro Vancou-ver’s environment and parks committee.
“It was a mistake to dis-continue this program. It will endanger the incred-ibly positive impacts it’s had over the years.”
The province’s envi-ronment ministry cited “great progress” in re-ducing air pollution from light duty vehicles as emissions technology improved and noted the AirCare failure rate has fallen from 14 per cent in 2007 to less than eight per cent.
No new program has been announced to re-place AirCare, but the province is expected to release a discussion pa-per in the spring on pos-sible options to cut pol-lution from heavy trucks.
Deal said she’s hopeful something new comes to tackle diesel trucks because Metro test-ing on roads has found alarming emissions from some “gross emitters.”
Dave Gourley, gen-eral manager of AirCare, said he “absolutely” be-lieves Lower Mainland residents have breathed easier because AirCare enforced pollution limits for 22 years.
He notes nearly one million vehicles failed AirCare tests at some point since the program began in 1992. Most were repaired and re-turned to the road clean-er, while some others got early retirement.
So far this year more than 34,000 vehicles have failed AirCare, al-though that’s down from a peak of around 120,000 vehicles a year in the mid-1990s.
“The technology changed and the cars can more or less diag-nose themselves,” Gour-ley said, making AirCare less relevant in recent years, at least in its cur-rent form.
“It’s hard to make an argument in favour of it,” he said. “I can’t honestly
say anybody is going to die or the sky is going to turn brown.”
He said it’s too soon to say if enough drivers will now ignore check engine lights to signifi-cantly worsen vehicle pollution and air quality.
AirCare’s end here leaves just urban Ontar-io’s DriveClean program in Canada, although there are more than 30 similar emission control programs in the U.S., with some new ones still being added.
The program is reve-nue-neutral, with fees only used to cover the program expenses – $16 million in 2014.
Newer vehicles are ex-empt from testing and fees have been reduced this year.
Motorists whose insur-ance expires in the dying days of 2014 have a cou-ple of options to avoid a final AirCare test.
One way is to not re-new the policy until 2015 and perhaps take transit or find other ways to get around for a couple of days.
Gourley says drivers can also get short-term or temporary insurance from ICBC to bridge them over to early 2015.
For those who stick to tradition, AirCare staff will be on duty until 5 p.m. Wednesday.
“The doors will roll down around that time and that will be the end of an era.”
But even with AirCare gone and gasoline pric-es down, motorists face
other rising expenses in 2015.
An ICBC rate hike means the average mo-torist will pay $40 more in 2015 for basic insur-ance, if regulators ap-prove the increase.
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most congested city in North America—more congested than Los Angeles, Toronto, and New York, ranked respectively at 2nd, 7th and 9th on TomTom’s ‘top ten’ list. Few commuters stuck in the various well-known choke points in Vancouver —on ramps to the various bridges, for example, or on downtown arteries in rush hour —would dispute this. But, at the same time, those who have also driven in the other above-mentioned cities might still question this distinction. TomTom says congestion is getting worse in Vancouver, but, on balance, it doesn’t feel like it. Over the last decade the road and public transit infrastructure improvements made throughout the lower mainland, the BC interior, and the Vancouver to Whistler corridor have made a diff erence. And they indicate awareness on the part of our legislators, transportation policy experts and planners that infrastructure matters, needs attention and requires ongoing funding. Agreement on securing this funding and allocating it to the various projects is an ongoing challenge and big part of the transportation debate.
South of the border transportation experts are also aware … and worried. Writing in the latest Eno Centre for Transportation newsletter, Roger Dow, the President and CEO of the US Travel Association forecasts that:
“Without signifi cant investments to improve the performance of the National
Highway System or provide alternative modes of transportation like high-speed rail, American highways will be as congested on a typical day as they are on Labor Day. For example, Labor Day congestion will be the reality on I-95 between Palm Beach and Melbourne, Fla., as soon as 2020, and between New York and Washington, DC, as soon as 2024.
For the country that built the transcontinental railroad, federal highway system and once boasted an aviation system that was the envy for the world, this is simply unacceptable.
As recently as 10 years ago, Republicans and Democrats worked together to invest in America’s transportation infrastructure. Congressional leaders made high-performing infrastructure a priority to meet demand and grow our economy.
But times have changed. Referring to transportation funding, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, (D-W.Va.), said it best earlier this year: ‘We in Congress have simply not done our jobs when it comes to investing for the future.’”
Mr. Dow goes on to say that the situation has now “grown so dire,” and the problem of solving it so complex, that it is too expansive for any one state to resolve on its own, too expensive for any one company to fund and too important for any elected representative to relinquish their role. He says the time has come to consider user fees as part of the solution, a reversal of the traditional position taken by the transportation industry. He concludes by exhorting the federal government to “get back in the game and jump-start investments in transportation solutions.”
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When I started reading
The Secret Language of Doctors: Cracking the Code of Hospital Slang by Dr. Brian Goldman, I wasn’t sure what to expect.
Goldman is the host of CBC Radio’s White Coat, Black Art show, and he’s also an emergency room physician in To-ronto. His book derives not only from research speaking to doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in Canada and the United States, but also draws heavily on the work of original “slangmeister”, Dr. Stephen Bergman, author of the 1970’s novel The House of God.
Let me start by saying that if you’re old, obese, demented, incontinent, have psychiatric prob-lems, addicted, frail, in police custody, or if you go to the emergency room too often, accord-
ing to Goldman, “we’re not keen on having you as a patient.”
As someone who’s been on the receiving end of hospital care for serious health prob-lems, I can tell you that every patient has the right to be treated with respect, dignity and courtesy. Unfortunately, Goldman blows that theory out of the water. Justifying hospital slang as offering “therapeutic value to those on the front lines of medicine”, he spares no breath air-ing the dirty laundry of his colleagues and their hospital slang.
Referring to dying patients as “circling the drain” or “in the departure lounge” is just one such example. Here are a few more gems: “harpooning the whale” refers to the task of inserting an epidural catheter into an obese pregnant woman; “slow code” (also called “light blue” or “Hollywood code”) means “pretend-ing to try and pull the patient back from the brink” when you know they’re going to die any-way. “Closing the sale” refers to the success of a doctor who can get a DNR (Do Not Resus-citate form) signed by the patient or family quickly. For definitions of “Code Brown”, “pink purse”, and “horrendo-mas” you’ll have to read the book.
While some of the slang is funny, most of it is downright rude,
disrespectful, insensi-tive and derogatory. I kept wondering if it’s a way for overworked medical professionals to let off steam, or is it just plain inappropri-ate? I’m going with door No. 2. Goldman thinks that it reflects doctors’ frustration with the health care system, but as a reader it seems to reflect their dislike and frus-tration with certain challenging patients. Even though Goldman himself calls a lot of this slang unaccept-able, that doesn’t seem to stop him from sharing it. Medical professionalism has a long way to go if slang like this is not only widespread, but acceptable.
It’s when Goldman describes the sudden death of a 30-year-old man and his distraught mother that his human-ity and compassion shine. And this is what readers connect to, the unbearable devasta-tion of unexpected loss. Unfortunately there were not enough stories like this in the book. Goldman is also the author of The Night Shift: Real Life in the Heart of the E.R.
Shelley Civkin is with Richmond Public Library. For other popular reading suggestions check out Richmond Public Library’s web site at www.yourlibrary.ca/goodbooks/.
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Ni’s on-ice story earns high marksby Don FennellSports Editor
During the B.C./Yukon sectional
skating champi-onships in Prince George last No-vember, Emily Ni emerged as one to watch by capturing her first provincial medal—a silver—for a performance her coach Keegan Murphy called “in-credible.”
Skating to Cusco’s Inca Dance, perhaps better known as the end music on the popular Coast to Coast AM radio program, Ni loves to express her love for adventure on the ice.
“I love the speed and the jumps, the feeling of being in the air as if I were flying,” says the precocious 11-year-old, a Grade 6 student at Tomekichi Homma El-ementary School.
“I think I’m a little bit of a risk-taker. I’m not afraid to try new things, but I know my limits. For sectionals, I tried to de-fine what I was doing by
being as expressive as I could to tell a story.”
Ni, who hopes to skate at the world champion-ships one day, began skating with Richmond’s Connaught Skating Club when she barely five years old. Her mom en-rolled her in the learn-to-skate program.
“I’ve loved skating ever since,” says Ni, whose strongest asset—aside from strong artistry—is an ability to balance the highs and lows by seeing the bigger picture.
Ni also seeks adventure off the ice—but in books. An avid reader, her fa-vourite author is Lauren Kate. The internation-ally best-selling author of young adult fiction is known for her stories of science fiction, mystery and intrigue.
“Her books are always really very suspenseful action,” says Ni. “You’re never bored and always anxious to turn to the next page.”
Ni’s artistic nature is also expressed through music. She used to play the piano and just this year learned to play clari-net in the school band.
“It’s a very versatile instrument that sounds so beautiful,” she says.
Don Fennell photoEmily Ni won silver at the recent B.C./Yukon sectionals.
Enthusiastic reader of adventure loves thrill of performing
Don Fennell photoEmily Ni demonstrates the art of jumping during a re-cent practice session at Minoru Arenas.
Select soccer grads show skills in holiday matchPlayer Grad Year School/Professional Team Michael Branion-Calles 2008 University of VictoriaGavin Barrett 2008 University of VictoriaWes Barrett 2008 University of VictoriaChase Wickham 2009 University Alabama Birmingham/ Charlotte Eagles USLRory Gattens 2009 University of British ColumbiaConnor Radil 2009 University of British ColumbiaAJ Grewal 2009 Northwestern College in Orange City, IowaCameron Stokes 2010 University of VictoriaCaleb Clarke 2011 Vancouver Whitecaps/ German Bundesliga club FC AugsburgJason James 2011 GNK Dinamo Zagreg Croatia ProfessionalDeclan Rodriguez 2011 University of MilwaukeeAlex Orasa 2011 University of British ColumbiaLuke O’Shea 2011 University of British ColumbiaBryan Fong 2012 University of British ColumbiaAlexander Escobar 2012 Kwantlen Polytechnic University Colin Jaques 2012 Simon Fraser University/ Croatia ProfessionalAnte Boskovic 2012 University of British ColumbiaJacob Quail 2012 University of British ColumbiaFarid (Armando) Matuk 2012 Teca UTN Mexican Premiere Second DivisionJordan Giles 2012 Langara College Kyle Kemp 2012 Langara CollegeTaj Sangara 2012 Croatia Professional/ Langara CollegeNicholas Chen 2012 Langara College Wassem Baluch 2012 Langara College Rylan Sangha 2012 Kwantlen Polytechnic University Theo Lorenz 2013 Quest UniversityConnor O’Loughlin 2013 McGill University
by Don FennellSports Editor
They’ve graduated from the program, some as long as five years ago, but every year during the Christmas holidays they long for the good old days.
They are graduates of Richmond FC, for-merly the Richmond Youth Soccer Associa-tion. Specifically, they are graduates of the metro select program who’ve gone on to bigger challenges in the beautiful game, but who, while home during the festive season, take time out to participate in what has become an annual tradition—a game against the current under-18 metro
team.For longtime Richmond coach John Gat-
tens, the event is an emotion-filled after-noon of fun and reminiscing.
Gattens recently came up with a lengthy list of grads who have gone on to play at the post-secondary level, several with scholarships in hand. He suggests many would be surprised at the extent that the Richmond select program has contributed to the advancement, and in some cases placement, of Richmond soccer players in colleges and universities. Still others, while not playing on school teams, continue to enjoy soccer at the recreational level, he notes.
Richmond’s Cameron Stokes is now playing soccer for University of Victoria.
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sportsHoliday hockey
Don Fennell photosRichmond Blues’ forward Adam Gilker goes one-on-one against Alaska Wolves’ goaltender Matthew Purvis during the Blues’ inaugural game at the Richmond International Bantam-Midget Hockey Tournament Saturday at Minoru Arenas. Richmond won 2-1.
Seafair Bantam A2 Islanders Evan Brusse (14) and Andrew Loat cel-ebrate a goal.
A Richmond player continues to battle for the puck while being checked into the boards.
A Cloverdale Colt dashes up the ice during Midget Division play Sunday at the Olympic Oval.
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sports
We want to hear from you, sport
by Don FennellSports Editor
Know of a Richmond athlete, team, coach or administrator who
deserves some kudos? Then let us know.
Every year, since 1999, the Richmond Sports Awards has celebrated excellence in local athletics. And the nomination period is now underway for the 17th awards banquet to be held in the new year.
Presented annually by The Richmond Review, Richmond
Sports Council and the City of Richmond, nominations are now being held to honour excep-tional accomplishments during the 2014 calendar year.
Excellence, however, is mea-sured in many different ways. Just as significant as scoring points is preventing them. So a so-called checker may be just as valuable as an individual who consistently puts points on the board.
Then there are the individuals who aren’t actually on the field of play, but whose efforts on the sidelines make all the differ-ence. These include coaches and administrators, whose endless efforts frequently go unnoticed but who are vital to each and every game.
And, of course, there are the officials whose roles are to ensure the games are played within a prescribed set of rules.
The “Sporties” are dedicated to Robert A. McMath, the former city councillor after whom
a West Richmond school is named. A visionary who was very much ahead of his time, he was an ardent sportsman and community coach who success-fully promoted the concept of building parks and schools close together. The leadership class at McMath plays an important role in contributing to the organiz-ing of the annual awards.
Proceeds from the awards are donated the Richmond chapter of KidSport, to assist those chil-dren who might not otherwise be able to afford to participate in sport.
Nomination categories include:
•High School Female
•High School Male
•Junior Female(Under 21 as of Dec. 31)
•Junior Male(Under 21 as of Dec. 31)•Post Secondary Female
•Post Secondary Male
•Adult Female(21 to 54 years of age)
•Adult Male(21 to 54 years of age)
•Senior Female(55 and over)•Senior Male(55 and over)
•Special Olympian
•Athlete with a Disability
•Female Youth Team(Under 19)
•Male Youth Team(Under 19)
•Adult Team
•Coach•Official
•Administrator
Nominees will be judged for their performance(s) and contribution(s) that set them apart during the calendar year of 2014.
Nominators are urged to describe the accomplishments of the nominees and to supply current and relevant detailed information relating to this as well as note any other honours the nominee has received.
A high quality jpeg photo of the nominee MUST be included with the nomination, ideally both a headshot and action photo.
Additionally, one or two refer-ence letters, a maximum of three, would be helpful.
Nominations will be accepted through e-mail at: [email protected].
Verbal submissions will not be accepted.
The nomination deadline has been extended to Jan. 9, 2015, so please hurry to get your sub-mission in.
Call for nominations for annual Richmond Sports Awards has been extended to Jan. 9
Proceeds from awards banquet will go to support Richmond KidSport
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kud
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Kudos is a weekly feature
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achievements and good deeds
happening around town.
E-mail submissions to
news@richmond review.com
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Members of the Pacific Gateway Hotel Cares team presents the Richmond Christ-mas Fund’s Wayne Duzita with a cheque for $858. These long-time supporters of the Christmas Fund spend each month of December fundraising to support Rich-mond’s low-income families.
The team at SmartCentres presented the Richmond Christmas Fund’s Elizabeth Specht and Wayne Duzita with a cheque for $2,500. This marks the second year in a row that the company has supported the Christmas Fund, having donated $2,500 in 2013 as well.
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