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Richmond Community Coalition announced council and school board candidates.
Coalition names council and school board slates
Richmond Community Coalition Association
announced its fifth candidate for Richmond city council and its first three
school trustee candidates at Riverside Banquet Halls on June 22.
“These willing and trusted servants will be
an important part of the RCCA team who will begin to reshape our city and bring
harmony and balance back to Richmond,” RCCA president Rob Howard says.
Jonathan Ho, who currently serves as a
trustee on the Richmond Board of Education, will join new candidates Melissa
Zhang and Parm Bains on the coalition’s slate that also comprises sitting city
councillors Ken Johnston and Chak Au.
Running for positions on the board of school
trustees are RCCA members Rahim Othman, local realtor Keith Liedtke and former
school trustee Rod Belleza.
At the dinner, Howard said: “We decided four
years ago Richmond needed a new group. It takes a team to work with the mayor.
We think we have a team that can do that.”
Howard, a Richmond native who grew up on the
soccer fields at South Arm, remarked that affordability is definitely an issue.
He spoke of the dropping school enrolments, the loss of Hugh Boyd’s football
team, “and we lost Richmond High’s a few years back.”
“We are working on an agenda for a density plan,”
he said.
Also in the audience at the dinner was
mayoralty candidate Hong Guo and her campaign manager who spoke privately of
the former Doug Ford campaign manager she has persuaded to join Guo’s campaign.
But Howard made it clear that Guo and her
campaign manager were not in any way affiliated with the Richmond Community
Coalition, and had chosen to attend the fundraising dinner that was dubbed the
Harmony Banquet.
Howard reiterated strongly the coalition’s
call to action of bringing harmony and balance to civic politics.
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