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Two young local men are in police custody following a purse-snatching in the parking lot outside Save-On-Foods supermarket on Saturday night.
A woman, 33, was robbed of her purse while waiting outside the store around 8:10 p.m. Alerted by the victim's screams for help, some passers-by grabbed and held the suspect and his alleged get-away driver until Richmond RCMP arrived.
Charged with robbery are Jonee Janolino, 23, and Jonelle Janolino, 25.
The old Seafair Arena site at the west dike may turn into a new townhouse development site.
The 2.96 hectare (7.3 acre) prime real estate site at the end of Francis Road next to the dike used to be the site of Richmond Estates Seafair Arena and pub.
Shato Holdings and Pioneer Designs wants to turn the site into 91 townhomes. If approved, Shato Holdings will contribute $100,000 to the dike maintenance program. One unresolved issue is whether the tonwhouse site should include a public area or lane to access the dike.
Residents around the area had already objected to a park on the northeast sector of the site, fearing it would create vandalism and mischief problems at night.
The application will proceed to a future public hearing.
Richmond may get another civic theatre.
Gateway theatre located in Minoru Park is so popular with its large-scale productions that theatre officials can't host other smaller events.
That has theatre brass dreaming of building a smaller 200 to 250-seat venue for smaller, local productions, music venues, and special events, for schools, Gateway's chair Robert Turnbull and theatre general manager Ken Neufeld told city council Monday.
The idea is only in the preliminary stages, Neufeld and Turnbull told council. Any new theatre would likely only be built as a result of a joint public/private sector project, they said.
Mayor Greg Halsey-Brandt didn't bother complaining this time.
Over the past couple years, the mayor had protested that he should be appointed by council to be a director of the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
Each year council as a whole picks two members to be paid directors on the GVRD.
But when the matter came up Monday night to pick new directors, as council does each year, Coun. Malcolm Brodie suggested keeping Coun. Kiichi Kumagai and Corisande Percival-Smith as Richmond's GVRD members.
The motion passed without debate.
Halsey-Brandt had stated in earlier quarrels with his Richmond Non-Partisan Association opponents that it was embarrassing for the mayor of Richmond not to be a part of the GVRD board. Most other municipalities had their mayors appointed, he has said.
The Workers' Compensation Board will hold free information sessions detailing how changes to the "occupational health and safety standards" will affect businesses.
The sessions will address why the changes were needed, changes to regulations, what is expected of employers and how the WCB can assist employers to comply with regulations. Those changes took effect April 15 of this year.
The new regulations apply to most worksites around the province and primarily reflect changes in industry, technology and work practices.
The Richmond meeting will include three information sessions. They are: on Tuesday, Dec. 1 the first session will concern the construction industry from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., then from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. the session will deal with general business standards, and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., the final session will focus on the hospitality industry.
Registration information for the sessions can be obtained by calling 207-1472 or 1-888-621-7233, local 1472.
A man wearing a balaclava allegedly tried to grab a nine-year-old girl near the 8300 block of Saunders Road Wednesday afternoon.
The girl was attacked shortly after 3 p.m., and fled toward some other people. That's when the suspect disappeared. The victim was uninjured.
The suspect is described as a white male with short hair, a moustache, five feet six inches tall and was last seen wearing a black, white and yellow Adidas winter coat.
Anyone with information about the suspect or the attack is asked to call the Richmond RCMP at 278-1212.
A 49-year-old grandmother was sentenced to four months in jail in Vancouver provincial court following a marijuana grow operation bust on No. 7 Road in March 1997.
Sharon Louise Thompson was sentenced to four months for cultivating a narcotic. She was also sentenced to three months for possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking, and another three months for possession of a narcotic.
Police discovered nearly 600 marijuana plants in the home after executing a search warrant.
Ryan Thomas Cole was sentenced to 15 months in jail and received a one-year term of probation in connection with the heist of a Loomis truck at Aberdeen Centre on July 2, 1997.
During the heist, five suspects made off with more than $100,000 after holding up two guards.
The guards were servicing a CIBC bank machine when they were accosted by three Caucasian men brandishing a pair of semi-automatic pistols and a machine gun.
Cole was the driver of a Volkswagen Scirocco which was used as the getaway vehicle in the heist and subsequently dumped at the nearby Yaohan Centre.
He is also prohibited from possessing a firearm for the next 10 years.
Air Canada has opened the first arrivals lounge in Canada at the Vancouver International Airport.
The lounge is intended to allow business class passengers a chance to "freshen up" after a long flight from Asia and Europe, with showers, a dining area, washrooms, and valet services for clothes pressing and shoe cleaning. The dining area will include a continental breakfast. A Xerox business centre features a telephone, copier, fax machines and internet links.
The airline opened its only other arrivals lounge at London's Heathrow Airport last May.
The new lounge will be open every day from 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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