​​​Happy Sunday, Richmond!
In case you missed it, customers flooded Richmond's Parker Place food court to visit a 30-year-old bubble waffle cafe one last time before it closed this past week.
Meanwhile, Richmond columnist Tracy Sherlock shares her love for movies ahead of today's Oscars.
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Today's weather...
Showers are in the forecast for Sunday with cloudy skies and a 60 per cent chance of showers in the evening.
Temperatures are expected to hit a high of 9C and a low of 6C in Richmond City Centre, according to Weatherhood.
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Photo of the day...
For today's feature photo, GMR regular Dorothy Singleton captured a Cooper's hawk perched on a wire near the West Dyke.
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Fun fact about Richmond...
Do you know how deep YVR's south runway is?
Not only are the runways at Vancouver International Airport long and wide, they are deep.
In fact, the south runway is seven feet – two metres – deep, made up of concrete, cement-stabilized based (CSB), a granular base, and preloaded sand.
There are four runways at YVR, three land-based ones, and one on the river.
The north and south runways are both about three kilometres long (3,030 metres and 3,505 metres, respectively) and the crosswinds runway is 2,226 metres long.
These three land-based runways are 60 metres wide.
The Fraser River is considered a runway as well where float planes land and take off from.
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