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The holiday season is coming—a time of celebrat-ing and a time of giving. In this issue, we debut a new feature called Front Row where we look at

some of the upcoming entertainment highlights on Lulu Island. With such a diverse arts community, there’s no need to cross a bridge for entertainment.‘Tis the season for thinking of others. We also look at ways for readers to help the less fortunate in the community. There are many ways to give. We also feature volunteers at one of Richmond’s great success stories, The Sharing Farm.Here’s to a happy holiday season.

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Crazy For You - Dec. 4 to 31, Gateway Theatre

This year’s Christmas musical, as the Decem-ber MainStage show is known, is the modern-era Gershwin musical Crazy For You. Written by Ken Ludwig and first produced on Broadway in 1992, the show is based on Ira and George Gershwin’s 1930s musical Girl Crazy, but also includes songs from other productions. The story is about bach-elor Bobby Child. After his mother forces him to foreclose on a theatre, Bobby puts on a play to pay the mortgage.Barbara Tomasic, who starred with Sy in last De-cember’s musical The King and I, will direct the show, scheduled for Dec. 4 to 31. Tomasic said she’s been listening to the show’s music since she was a kid: “It’s been playing in our car since I was a child. I love the music. I absolutely love Gershwin, and I love the treatment of the music in this show. It has so much energy, and you hear the story in the music.”In choosing the play, Sy said he loved how smart and funny the script is. “It feels like it was written in the ‘30s even though it was written by Ken Lud-wig, who did Lend Me a Tenor. It’s got all the kind of zany mad-cap kind of writing that you’d get back in the ‘30s.” Tickets, $20 to $48, at gatewaytheatre.com or 604-270-1812. Gateway Theatre: 6500 Gil-bert Rd.

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Bright Stars Shining - Nov. 29 to 30, Broadmoor Baptist Church

Boasting a roster of 55 singers, artistic director Natasha Neufeld’s roll call before each practice—assuming she’s keen on checking at-tendance—would be long. And imagine the anticipation Z choir members must feel.This talented group has indeed been practising ahead of two per-formances of their annual Christmas concert this month. The all-women choir is presenting a seasonal show set to live music, with special guest Ingrid Stitt on saxophone.The choir has a long history in Richmond, having performed here since 1971. Neufeld, who teaches singing and piano and is the mu-sic and worship director at Trinity Church in Point Roberts, has now been at the helm for a decade.Tickets, $18 to $20, at door or from choir members. Broadmoor Baptist Church: 8140 Saunders Rd.

Bright Stars Shining - Nov. 29 to 30, Broadmoor Baptist Church

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The Irish Tenors - Dec. 19, River Rock Show Theatre

Richmond will be treat-ed to a night of sham-rocks, leprechauns and dark beer in December. Well, perhaps not, but our fair city’s casino will at least be bring-ing us an Irish musical mainstay. The Irish Tenors, a touring trio since 1998, lays claim to performing sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall, Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl and major concert halls throughout the world. The voices of Finbar Wright, Anthony Kearns and Ronan Tynan are known to breathe new life into traditional songs. They’ve also proven themselves gifted interpreters of a wide range of materi-al with such songs as “My Heart Will Go On,” “Fairytale of New York” and even Jimmy Kennedy’s “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way).” These songs sit in their repertoire alongside “Dan-ny Boy,” “Whiskey in the Jar” and “Fields of Athenry.”All classically trained singers, Wright, Kearns and Tynan combine to produce a sound and concert experience that promises to touch hearts and stir emotions. Their Richmond show will feature their greatest hits, along with holiday classics. Tickets, $44.50 to $54.50 (plus charges), at ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000. River Rock: 8811 River Rd.

New Year’s Eve Party - Dec. 31, River Rock Show Theatre

What happens when you put the Northern Pikes, the Grapes of Wrath and the Odds together in the same room? A party happens. It might be a Saskatoon-saluting, litigation-loving, power-pop performing kind of party, but it’s a party nonetheless.The three Canadian bands will all perform on the River Rock stage to help ring in 2015. (Doesn’t Y2K seem like yesterday?) The Northern Pikes formed three decades ago, finding fans with their album Big Blue Sky. The record featured the hit singles “Teen-land,” “Things I Do For Money” and “Dancing In A Dance Club.” The Grapes of Wrath earned success around the same time the Pikes were born. Their first album was September Bowl of Green. A few years later, in 1989, they released their most commercially successful album Now and Again, which featured the hit single “All The Things I Wasn’t.” Odds, a band that refuses to use a definite article in their name, were also born in the ‘80s, but took until 1991 to debut with sin-gles “Love is the Subject” and “King of the Heap.” Their follow-up album, Bedbugs, featured the hits “Heterosexual Man” and “It Falls Apart.” Tickets, $39.50 to $49.50, at ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000. R I C H M O N D R E V I E W T H E G O O D L I F E « N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 4 5

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Forget about the reindeer, the sled and those cumbersome reins. Santa will be arriving by boat in Steveston to help usher in the Christ-

mas season. The longtime tradition continues on Dec. 7 at Fisherman’s Wharf. Making the fishing village even more festive this year is the return of the Steveston Santa Parade—just one of many seasonal events taking place in Richmond this December.After a year’s absence, the popular parade will again wind its way through the streets of Steveston on Dec. 24 from 6 to 10 p.m. Starting at Regent Street and Sixth Avenue, the parade will wind through the village, ending outside Pajo’s at Moncton Street and Seventh Avenue.Here are some other holiday events not to be missed.

Christmas at London Heritage Farm - WeekendsRichmond’s own historic farmhouse is alive with the Christ-mas spirit this holiday season. The farmhouse, tea room and gift shop are all decorated for the season, making a visit to the tea room and heritage site a must. Shoppers will find an array of gifts inside the gift shop, including traditional pres-ents and popular London Heritage Farm specialties like the London Lady Tea, honey, jam, jelly and scone mix.The site is open from noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sun-days, and also two Fridays in December—Dec. 5 and 12. Advanced booking for Christmas tea is recommended. Bookings for Christmas tea parties are also welcome. Visit the site’s website or call 604-271-5220 for more information.London Heritage Farm: 6511 Dyke Rd.

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Steveston Christmas Craft Fair - Nov. 29Holiday shoppers can get an early start at the Steveston Commu-nity Centre’s Christmas craft fair. The day-long sale runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. inside the net shed and features over 160 tables of crafts, baked and canned goods, carvings, jewelry, textiles and toys. Admission is by cash donation in support of the Steveston play-ground improvement project, or a non-perishable food donation in support of Richmond Food Bank. There will also be a conces-sion with proceeds benefiting the Older Adults Program at the community centre.Admission by donation. Steveston Community Centre: 4111 Moncton St.

Christmas at the Cannery: Festival of Trees - Nov. 30 to Dec. 23Santa, snowmen, reindeer and elves are some of the most recognizable symbols of the holiday season. But standing above them all is the Christmas tree. You know the holidays have arrived when you start seeing trees around town, deco-rated with ornaments and lights and tinsel.The cannery’s fifth annual Festival of Trees is presented by the Steveston Merchants Association, the Gulf of Georgia Can-nery Society and the Steveston Farmers and Artisans Market.The event will feature approximately 20 trees decorated by local businesses and community groups. This year 20 per cent of each paid admission will be donated to the Richmond Christmas Fund.

Visitors are also able to vote for their favourite tree with a to-ken. In addition, visitors to the cannery’s free indoor farmers market can get a token with a donation.Admission is $3.90 to $7.80 (free for children under six). Gulf of Georgia Cannery: 12138 Fourth Ave.

Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir - Dec. 14The strong voices of this 90-voice choir will perform three Christmas concerts, including one in Richmond at Fraserview MB Church.Making Spirits Bright: A Good Noise Gospel Christmas is a 3 p.m. concert backed by a powerhouse rhythm section and featuring special guest artist Daniel Lapp on fiddle and trum-pet. Led by founding artistic director Gail Suderman, the choir promises to deliver a heartwarming collection of yuletide car-ols infused with jazz, soulful gospel and rhythm and blues.The first half of the concert will feature familiar seasonal tunes. Think “Joy to the World,” “Angels We Have Heard On High” and “O Come All Ye Faithful.” There will also be a gospel-ized version of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” and a smooth jazz version of “The Little Drummer Boy,” featuring Ingrid Stitt on soprano saxophone. Act 2 will feature Canadian folk icon Daniel Lapp singing and play-ing trumpet on “I Pray On Christmas.” The concert concludes with a revamped version of the popular calypso song “Mary’s Boy Child.”Tickets, $10 to $25, at brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006. Fraserview MB Church: 11295 Mellis Dr.


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For Annaliese Frauendorf, volunteering at The Sharing Farm has meant so much,

it’s hard to put into words.Aside from helping to provide nourishing food to those local fam-ilies in need, and meeting so many like-minded people that she feels at ease with, and the beautiful stress-free natural surroundings, it’s also helped her to heal.It was 21 years ago that her son, Martin, was murdered at the Uni-versity of B.C.“I have met a lot of great people out here,” Frauendorf said Mon-day, as she prepared a bed of soil inside a greenhouse at the farm in west Richmond. “Doing something that is really worthwhile, that gives me great pleasure and I’m really happy doing it. And to know there are people who have no money for food, that hurts me.”A former long-time employee of Ebco Industries where she worked for 36 years, Frauendorf has been volunteering at the farm in Terra Nova since 2001.“There’s always something to do.”The smells and the work they do there bring her back to her child-hood days of growing up in Ger-many.

Her son’s tragic murder is some-thing she thinks about every day, but immersing herself in the work at the farm helps to shift her thoughts to something else.“When I’m here, I’m so distracted, and I’m doing something so won-derful that I forget about it. It’s very

healing for me. It’s been 20 years, but it’s still with me every day. It never goes away when you lose a child.”Doing the volunteer work at the farm is something that’s good for her heart and for her soul, she said.

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Anneliese Frauendorf prepares a bed of soil inside the greenhouse at The Sharing Farm, where she’s been volunteering since 2001. New volunteers Marilou Richter and Jacinta Chan (background) are harvesting the green and red lettuce. Martin van den Hemel photo

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Frauendorf was introduced to the Sharing Farm through co-founder Mary Gazetas, who she knew from the local tennis club.“She was so enthusiastic about life and everything,” she said. “We’re just living her vision.”Marilou Richter and Jacinta Chan are recent addi-tions to the Sharing Farm volunteer family, and said they both enjoy the relaxing atmosphere where they get to garden.Glenna McNaught has been volunteering at the farm since she retired in 2011.Linda Jones volunteers all year round.“It makes you feel good, knowing where the food goes,” she said, adding that she’s been a volunteer since 2009.A faithful reader of The Richmond Review, she was introduced to the farm through the weekly column Mary Gazetas wrote in The Review.Alex Nixon, outreach coordinator at the Richmond Food Bank, said the fresh produce from the Sharing Farm is highly sought after by the food bank’s 1,400 weekly clients.“I know that their donations have been one of the reasons why we don’t have to purchase as much fresh produce as we would have otherwise,” Nixon said.

With many of the food bank’s clients being im-poverished beacause of health conditions, either physical or mental, that makes it “really important we give them the healthiest, nutritious food to the people we serve,” he said. “If we want people to be healthy and to eventually perhaps not need the food bank quite as much, we want them to get access to food that’s as healthy as possible.”The food bank provides each person four days worth of food, which means these people need to figure out how to get enough food for the remaining three days per week.With the Sharing Farm also providing produce for local community meals, that also helps to fill in that gap.Some 200 people regularly volunteer at the food bank.“We’re grateful for all their support,” she said. “I know it’s a great place to volunteer and we’re ob-viously delighted with our partnership with them.”There’s been a significant increase in demand on the food bank from as recently as six years ago, when just 700 or 750 people were accessing their services.“We’re incredibly blessed to live in a generous com-munity. We’re always excited to work with people who want to do work for people in need,” he said.

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Glenna McNaught has been volunteering at the farm since 2011. Martin van den Hemel photo

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With literally a plethora of recreation opportunities you’re never too old to get in the game—even when winter forces

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Among the most popular individual and team sports are badminton, table tennis and drop-in basketball. There’s even an indoor tennis pro-gram—featuring larger tennis balls—at the Mi-noru Place Activity Centre every Thursday af-ternoon through Dec. 4.The basketball drop-in program, hosted Tues-day and Friday afternoons at South Arm Com-munity Centre, is led by a group of six individ-uals—mostly women—who enjoy sharing their passion for the roundball game. It’s not surpris-ing to see such an affinity for basketball among the older crowd, especially since the game is deeply rooted in the Richmond community and the local public and private education systems both feature an abundance of teams at the ele-mentary and high school levels.A racquet sport first played in the 17th century, badminton’s roots can be traced to British India, where it was created by British military officers stationed there. In more recent years, China has become the greatest force in both men’s and women’s competition.Besides drop-in programs at the various com-munity centres and at the Oval, Richmond is also home to RichmondPro Badminton Cen-tre which is the largest private facility in North America. Every Monday, RichmondPro is liter-ally bursting at the seams as adults 50-plus fill the courts during a special $2.50 drop-in ses-sions from 1 to 6 p.m.Perhaps surprisingly, the most popular recre-ation game among those 50 or better just might be table tennis. Seven days a week players con-gregate at the 16 tables at the Richmond Olym-pic Oval. With the majority of the players also being Oval members, many also enjoy the facili-ties’ other amenities including the fitness equip-ment, badminton and even ice skating.“By 10 o’clock (each weekday morning) all the tables are full,” says longtime player and well-known table tennis advocate Tony Shaw. “And I’d guess three quarters of the participants are over 50.”

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Shaw is also pleased that at least 35 per cent of the partic-ipants are female.“We’re typical-ly there for two or three hours every day,” says Shaw, adding there are al-ways new faces in the crowd.For those looking for perhaps a more introspective sport, a masters martial arts class led by a black belt master might fit the bill. Designed with safety in mind, the lower impact moves are taken from karate, tae kwon do, aikido and arnis. All fitness and ability levels are welcome. Class-es are held Monday and Wednesday afternoons through Dec. 10 at Minoru Place Activity Centre.Basic movements form the basis of a beginner’s tai chi class in another popular Minoru Place activity. Sessions are held Tuesdays and Saturdays through Dec. 13.West Richmond Community Centre has set up an entire seniors’ fitness circuit for those 55 and older. Designed to provide a workout to improve flexibility, balance, strength and endurance, this convenient and free outdoor circuit is the first of its kind in the city featuring 14 exercise stations.Call 604-238-8400 to learn more.

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Home is where the heart is, and for Jean Hawbolt that’s among family and friends.Most mornings, she enjoys a cup of coffee with friends

at the Richmond Centre food court across from the Minoru Residences she has called home since the 1970s. It’s a growing legion of friends that make the trek to the mall to share some time with the ever-engaging 104 year old. Living by yourself can be very lonely, and the days long, she says.“I have to get out of my place to see others.”Celebrating her birthday recently at the food court, she recited to the group: “A little bit of heaven entered my heart today. You sat around the table and talked to me, and you helped make my day, like a ray of sunshine on a summer’s day.”

A widow for half a century now, since her husband—who was the Canadian Pacific Railway’s chief horticulturalist died in his early 50s of a heart attack while aboard a train—Hawbolt ded-icated her life to brightening the lives of others.But her friends would be quick to tell you that it’s Hawbolt who helps illuminate theirs.Horace Excell, 93, calls her “a fine lady.”“It is an important part of my day to visit with Jean. As a single senior, it is very meaningful to see others and to have them as your friend.”Don Taylor, who retired two years following a lengthy career as a teacher and principal in Richmond, met Hawbolt while visiting his longtime friend Excell.“Jean has a smile as she speaks to everyone, and she pours out expressions of love and goodness. No wonder she is so popular with so many,” says Taylor. “I would bring my 90-year-old dad by to sit with her, and she would hold his hand and kiss his hand. It’s not a typical thing for my dad’s generation, so I found his reaction amusing and quite lovely to see. Then Jean would say: I bet you love your wife and she loves you. Love is what keeps us all going.”Taylor says she once turned to him and said “I don’t know why I’m here. Everyone else (her old friends) is gone.”“You’re here because you have so many wonderful messages for people to hear,” he replied.“I think you feel drawn to people who get to that age,” Taylor says. “You’re captivated by their longevity as we try to make sense of our own lives, how quickly it’s moving, and the fragile nature of it.”Hawbolt’s son Bruce is awed not just by his mother’s longevity but her life.“She’s amazing really, and at this age to still have the capacity she has (including cooking her own meals),” says the Rich-mond man, a retired engineer who also taught for 34 years at University of B.C., sharing a passion for education with his wife Roberta (Black), a popular retired school teacher whose father founded Black and Lee formal wear.“You build a life around your friends, but because all her old friends are gone she’s found new ones,” says Bruce, who was a key organizer of a recent reunion of Richmond High grads. “She enjoys going over to the mall. That’s her socializing.”

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Bruce says his mom has always been a very determined person, evident even long before his dad passed away. Growing up one of seven children of Scottish immigrants from Edinburgh, Jean com-pleted Grade 6 but was then tasked with helping take care of her two youngest siblings.“Her dad was a stonemason, and all the boys worked as masons,” adds Bruce, who notes his grandparents both lived into their 80s.The Walker family settled in Burnaby, where they built a majestic home on Eton Street just seven blocks from the Pacific National Exhibition grounds. Jean and the PNE both share 1910 as their birth year, and the former has fond memories of going to the an-nual fair as a child. Her older brothers would dig a secret tunnel under a fence to sneak in and avoid paying the nickel entrance fee. Meanwhile, their dad would give each child a dime for the day so the siblings “wouldn’t want to have just five cents left.”A resident of Richmond since 1951, Jean Hawbolt sees a much dif-ferent community today than when she first arrived here 60-plus years ago. But, says Bruce, she’s most bewildered at how the price of everything has changed.“She can’t believe it’s so expensive,” he says.Reflecting further on his mom’s life, Bruce says in a different world she probably would have become a caregiver, like a nurse.“I think that is a strong point,” he says. “Even after she stopped looking after people (which she did to earn income after her hus-band’s passing), she still demonstrated that caregiver’s attitude.”

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Jean Hawbolt celebrated her 104th birthday recently with friends at the Richmond Centre food court. From left, Leah McSween. Milka Sapic, Gladys Os-mond, Kata Sapic, Dorothy Gordon, Kimi Hendess, her granddaugh-ter Kareno Hawbolt, and Horace Excell.Don Taylor photo

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Winter Wonderland is a Christmas-themed fundraiser held at Richmond City Hall every year. Martin van den Hemel photo

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Richmond Christmas Fund Drive-Thru - Nov. 27In its first year, when it was held at the Delta Vancouver Airport Ho-tel, the Richmond Christmas Fund Drive-Thru Event was an experi-ment. It’s now a tradition.Volunteers will be out at Lansdowne Centre, next to the Canada Line sta-tion, collection donations of toys or cash, and handing out McDonald’s muffins and Van Houtte coffees. QM/FM will be on location for the event, running 6 to 10:30 a.m., and so will Santa. New this year is a second drop-off location at River Rock Ca-sino Resort, where casino employees will accept donations at Bridgeport Station, and handing out McDon-ald’s coupons for coffee and muffins.The Richmond Christmas Fund helps make holiday wishes come true for nearly 2,000 low-income Richmond residents each year.Lansdowne Centre: 5300 No. 3 Rd. River Rock: 8811 River Rd. More ways to give back on page 18

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Winter Wonderland - Nov. 29 - Jan. 2Nearly three dozen creatively decorated Christmas trees will line Rich-mond City Hall’s galleria for the 14th annual Winter Wonderland.The event is organized by the Rotary Club of Richmond Sunset, which raises funds for local and international community programs. Trees are free to view all month long, and admirers are encouraged to vote for their favourite decorated tree.It begins Saturday, Nov. 29 with a tree lighting ceremony at 12:30 p.m., followed by performances from the Richmond Music School, the Star Captains and performers from Hugh Boyd Secondary. A series of Sat-urday matinee musical performances continue through December, at which donations of cash and non-perishable food for the Richmond Food Bank are welcome. Free admission. 6911 No. 3 Rd.

Sharing Farm’s FriendsInterested in rolling up your sleeves and working the soil for a good cause? Want to learn a little bit about gardening, or do you already have a bit of a green thumb? Friends of the Greenhouse meet every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Call Susan at 604-227-6210 (or e-mail her at [email protected]) if you’re looking for a volunteer opportunity.Volunteers regularly work at the greenhouse on Mondays and Thursdays. If you’ve got a specific skillset that you’d like to offer—mechanical engineers to handymen to anything in between—give them a call ahead of time.

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Gilmore Park United Church Community MealEvery week, from January through November, 48 weeks per year, Gilmore Park United Church offers a community meal.At 5:30 p.m. each Thursday, the meal serves dozens of local people, and the program wouldn’t operate if it wasn’t for the assistance from local volunteers.While people with kitchen skills are especially sought after, community meals chef Karen Dar Woon said in many cases young people eyeing a career unrelated to food still come out to volunteer.Youth volunteers in the high school or university level who are aiming for a career in healthcare, often step up to assist

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A recent study suggests more than 40 per cent of B.C. seniors have been financially abused, usually by someone they know and trust.

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It’s less often outright theft or scams and more often pressure tactics that re-sult in scenarios that benefit the abuser.The survey found 19 per cent of south-west B.C. seniors had lost money to someone who never repaid a loan, or who borrowed money without telling the senior at all.Another 18 per cent said they’d been pressured into giving money.Common scenarios include younger family members campaigning for an early bequest.“A lot of older adults are being pres-sured by their now grown-up children to give them their inheritance early so they don’t have to wait until you die,” said Lorraine Logan, president of the Council of Senior Citizens of B.C.Sometimes the aim is to avoid loss of family wealth to capital gains tax, she said.Logan said high home prices in Metro Vancouver are often a reason seniors are urged to contribute to a down pay-ment so children or grandchildren can get into the real estate market.Such transfers can be completely legit-imate, or highly questionable if the se-nior feels forced to consent or if doubts arise about their ability to legally con-sent.The Vancity report says other financial abuse scenarios include:-A family member or caregiver who shops or pays bills for a senior but spends for themselves as well using the senior’s cash, debit or credit card.-Redirecting incoming benefits

cheques for deposit to the abuser’s ac-count instead of the senior’s.-Predatory marriage to a senior to gain access to their assets.Logan said seniors and legal advisers should be on high alert for trouble whenever signing legal agreements that put financial control into someone else’s hands.“I’ve heard a young person say ‘I’m going to get power of attorney for my dad and then I’m going to go out and buy him a new car so I can drive him around.’”Few seniors ever blow the whistle on family, Logan said.“It’s so sensitive,” she said. “If you’re the victim of your son and daughter raping your bank account you probably not going to want to tell anybody.”Any senior can be at risk, the Vancity report said, but many are even more vulnerable if they lack financial under-standing, are isolated without a strong social circle, a newcomer to Canada

facing language or cultural barriers, unsure of the value of their home or other assets, or are impaired by medi-cation, stress or exhaustion from med-ical problems.The report recommends financial insti-tutions train frontline staff to recognize seniors financial abuse and to help se-niors identify abusive scenarios.

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The enemy of long-term investment success is short-term thinking. Short-term thinking is caused, almost always, by the arrival of a

downturn in the market. Concern, particularly with an inexperienced investor, can all too often turn to worry, even panic. A hasty decision often follows. Investors sell-off part of their portfolio at a loss, hide on the sidelines, wait out the storm until the market seems to be returning to normal, and only start in-vesting again when the coast is clear.But market reversals are nothing new. And even quite dramatic falls are hardly rare, startling though they may seem. Markets, like life, have their ups and downs. The key is to keep calm, think hard, check out historical market information, and seek the help of a professional investment advi-sor.Anyone who studies market ups and downs will quickly discov-er certain underlying factors and trends. Inflation is one. Large-scale political and economic events are another. All, to a great-er or lesser extent, influence mar-ket movement and impact the rise and fall in the value of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and other in-vestments. Although market ups and downs can create fear among investors, a long-term view shows their im-pact on most kinds of investments is less dramat-ic than frequently expected. Historically, rises have typically followed quite quickly after even steep falls in the market and, accordingly, investments have tended to recover. Some investors turn to what is known as dol-lar-cost-averaging as a solution to market uncertain-ty, an investment strategy where you make prede-termined periodic investment purchases of a fixed amount on a bi-weekly or monthly basis. The strat-egy protects your portfolio by encouraging you to invest consistently, allowing you to buy more shares when the market is falling and fewer shares when

the market is rising. In the end (assuming markets increase over time), your cost per share is lower than the average price per share.The true value of dollar-cost-averaging is often re-alized during a down market. At this point, many investors stop investing for fear that it will fall fur-ther and wait for it to rebound. In most cases, this is exactly the opposite of what should be done. In fact, many investors view lower market prices as an opportunity to buy more stock/funds. A dol-lar-cost-averaging strategy forces you to put aside your “gut reactions” and continue investing. It is generally agreed that investors who maintain a long-term outlook for their investments have an

advantage over those who do not. Successful long-term investors understand that while the market will always experience periods of decline, history has shown that they tend to recover in the long run. Talk to an investment advisor if you have any other questions or concerns about your investments.This article was prepared by TD Wealth Private Investment Advice for Shaun Rickerby who is an In-vestment Advisor with TD Wealth Private Investment Advice and is for informational purposes only. It is not an offer or solicitation with

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