The City of Richmond recently opened the first scramble intersection in the province. A scramble intersection will allow pedestrians to cross the road in any direction, including diagonally. The $600,000 crossing can be found at No. 1 Road and Moncton Street. I go to Steveston frequently and never really understand what this intersection was until [...]

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With all of the commercialism of this “festive holiday”, the true meaning of Christmas seems to be ignored by many people. Christmas isn’t about spending money on gifts, or taking a vacation from work, its all about Jesus. Linus, in a Charlie Brown Christmas, reveals the true meaning of Christmas: Linus was quoting from Luke [...]

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Water is essential to life. Unfortunately, most of the water we drink is treated heavily with chemicals and transported long distances in decaying pipes. Water filters are common in household to eliminate the dangerous elements that flow through our taps. Another problem with water filters is that they remove minerals which we need for optimal [...]

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As surprising at it may seem for someone who grew up in Canada, I’ve never been to a pumpkin patch until last week. I’m originally from Czechoslovakia and eastern Europeans don’t recognize the British traditions related to Halloween which include picking and carving pumpkins. Richmond Country Farms hosts a pumpkin patch each year around this [...]

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I recently upgraded a web site for a printing company from static HTML pages to a content management system (CMS) using Joomla. They originally built their web site with hand-coded HTML back in 1994, and eventually hired a web designer who redesigned the site in Dreamweaver. While hiring an outside designer allowed them to free [...]

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