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TUESDAY April 15, 2014 • www.langleytimes.com
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NEWS A Letter to the Tooth Fairy
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ARTS & LIFE Players Are Light Sensitive
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SPORTS Kodiaks Fall in Cup Final
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Check your ticket – BCLC LOTTERY CORPORATION SAYS WINNING 50 MILLION TICKET STILL UNCLAIMED DAN FERGUSON Times Reporter
JAMES INGLIS Langley Times
Aerial hoop acrobat Alexandra Susheski, a Grade 10 student and part-time gymnastics coach, performs her act during the fourth annual Langley Has Talent competition finals, held Saturday at Christian Life Assembly. The annual contest is hosted by Langley’s four Rotary clubs and is intended to draw attention to the need for a dedicated performing arts centre in Langley. Full story and more photos on page 30.
A $50 million lottery ticket sold in Langley was still unclaimed as of Monday, April 14, exactly one month after it was drawn. The lottery corporation marked the date by issuing a public appeal for players to check their tickets. Winners have one year from the draw date printed on the ticket to claim their prize but “with each passing day the winner has been losing potential [bank] interest” on their winnings, the written statement said. “Our conservative estimate shows the winner could be accruing $2,500 per day [in interest] had they already come forward to claim their prize, said Kevin Gass, vice-president of lottery gaming at the B.C. Lottery Corporation. The winning ticket
holder for the March 14 draw has not contacted BCLC nor validated the ticket at a lottery retailer, Gass said. The March 14, 2014 LOTTO MAX jackpot win ties the largest prize ever won in B.C. There are a couple of other major prizes that remain unclaimed in B.C. A winning ticket for $333,333.40 sold in Port Alberni on the same March 14 draw and a $1 million prize on a ticket sold in Aldergrove on the Dec. 13 LOTTO MAX draw also remain unclaimed. No top lottery prize won in B.C. has ever gone unclaimed, the corporation said. The largest single prize ever won in Canada was a $54 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot in Alberta in October 2005. Winning numbers can be found online at bclc. com.
Tree-cutting ban to take effect Tuesday TOWNSHIP COUNCIL TO HOLD SPECIAL MEETING TO PASS PROHIBITION FOR BROOKSWOOD DAN FERGUSON Times Reporter
A temporary ban on clear-cutting trees in Brookswood could be in place as soon as Tuesday (today). The “Interim Tree Preservation Bylaw” sets fines of $500 to $10,000 for cutting down more than three trees per acre per year. COME PLAY
The bylaw was expected to get preliminary approval at the regular Monday Langley Township council meeting, with a special 6 p.m. Tuesday meeting scheduled for the “sole purpose of providing final reading,” the council agenda states. It is a 75-day ban, to allow time to develop a more comprehensive tree protection bylaw.
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The move to bring in the interim prohibition comes one week after Brookswood residents crowded into council chambers to complain that wholesale tree-cutting has denuded many acres of the semi-rural neighbourhood. Some suggested the tree-cutting was being carried out by developers who expected council would approve a re-
vised community plan that would allow multi-family housing in Brookswood, a neighbourhood that is 99.7 per cent single-family homes. Even though the controversial plan was voted down, the cutting is continuing, residents said. One assessment found 82 per cent of the Continued Page 5
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