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A Valentine’s gift from the heart By KURT LANGMANN Aldergrove Star
Amie MacNeil is working on a big gift from her heart to the Canadian Blood Service this Valentine’s Day weekend. She is on a drive to recruit 129 blood donors to “pay forward” as a way of giving thanks for the 129 units of blood she received in emergency surgery at Royal Columbian Hospital on December 7, 2009. Amie, a young wife and mother of two boys in Aldergrove, survived a near-death experience while delivering her son Jacob that day just over six years ago. Jacob was delivered alive and healthy by C-section. However, immediately after delivering Jacob, Amie began hemorrhaging. The RCH medical team went into action to staunch the bleeding with medications, procedures and transfusions but Amie’s condition kept worsening, resulting in her having three cardiac arrests on the operating table. An emergency hysterectomy finally stopped the bleeding and physicians were able to stabilize her condition. She was put into an induced coma and spent the next 12 days unconscious in the intensive care unit. After she awoke she spent another 12 days in the hospital in recovery and came home on December 30. “I had to learn to walk again,” said Amie. “But I am so lucky to be alive.” During those critical five hours in
the operating room Amie received 129 units of blood, an amount that still surprises her to this day. “I thought maybe 40 units, but the hospital told me it was 129 units, give or take a couple of units.” This is her inspiration for her personal pledge to the Canadian Blood Service to recruit 129 blood donors. To this end she started a Facebook page called “Amie MacNeil’s Blood Drive - 129 reasons to give” which currently stands at 320 members (see: https://www.facebook.com/ groups/194445937567800/). The Facebook page has generated a lot of interest and commitments from at least 26 persons to donate a unit of blood each at this Saturday’s blood donor clinic in Aldergrove. “The Aldergrove clinic is almost filled with appointments, but I’m also campaigning for clinics in Langley and Abbotsford this month and have pledges for those too,” said Amie. “And I’ve noticed that a lot of the donors are first time donors; I consider it a real victory that I’m raising awareness of the importance of donating blood.” Amie is practicing what she preaches too. She, along with her husband Todd and mother Darlene, kickstarted the drive in December by donating a unit of blood each. Amie will also be at this Saturday’s clinic, set for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Feb. 13 at Aldergrove Secondary school, where she will donate another unit of blood and will stay to be on hand to greet her recruits during the day.
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Aldergrove mother Amie MacNeil is recruiting 129 blood donors to “pay back” the Canadian Blood Service for the 129 units she received in a life-saving operation in 2009. The clinic visits Aldergrove every two months, with the next one set for April 9, but Amie notes that clinics are more frequent in the bigger centres of Langley and Abbotsford. Blood donors who wish to sup-
port her campaign should contact Amie via Facebook (or email to 129reasonstogive@gmail.com) and she will help register their appointments at the blood donor clinics of their choice.
“It’s such a big number, 129 people, it’s daunting,” said Amie. “But if I can convince people how easy it is — it takes under an hour — and how important it is in helping to save lives, it’s worth it.”
U.S. border guards allowed mother to abduct her children By DAN FERGUSON Aldergrove Star
A Langley woman managed to take her four children across the border into the U.S. at the Aldergrove crossing despite a B.C. court order banning her from taking them out of the province. A just-released Abbotsford Provincial Court written judgment shows the woman was allowed to cross the line in September, 2014 even though she told the U.S. author-
ities at the border about the nonremoval order, and even though the father of the children discovered the attempted removal and went to the border crossing. “He was able to see them (the children) across a counter, but was not allowed to speak to them,” Judge Kenneth Skilnick wrote. “He watched them leave with the (mother).” Because the woman was an American citizen and her Canadianborn children have dual citizenship,
the United States Homeland Security officers “came to the conclusion that they had no grounds to prevent (them) from entering into the United States.” After the mother and children got past the border, they spent several weeks on the road, staying in hotels and homeless shelters, before arriving at a relative’s home in North Carolina, the decision said. When the father learned where they were staying and tried to follow
them more than a month later, he was detained by U.S. Homeland Security officers and almost missed his flight to North Carolina, the judge noted. However, the father managed to get a court order from an American judge to return his children, and “with the assistance of local police officers,” took them home to Canada. The details of the story were recounted during a five-day hearing when the mother applied for an order that would give her custody of
the children and allow them to live in Washington state. Judge Skilnick denied the application, noting the mother “has demonstrated an unwillingness to follow (court) orders” and “an unwillingness to accept the conclusions of police, doctors, social workers, close friends and family, where those views do not accord with her own.” The judgment was posted on the Provincial Court website, with names of the parents and children removed.
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Between 20 and 25 refugee families from Syria are expected to arrive in Abbotsford by the end of the month. The refugees will be sponsored by the federal government, and there is “tremendous energy” from locals laying the groundwork for their arrival, according to Manpreet Grewal, Abbotsford Community Services’ director of multicultural and immigrant integration services. The refugees – whose number could exceed 100 – are set to arrive here on Feb. 22 and will be housed in the shortterm in a local hotel while homes in the city are found. While organizers don’t yet have specific information about many of those who will be arriving, they will all be Syrians currently housed in camps in Jordan,
Turkey and Lebanon. Only a few are expected to speak English, and most will be children under the age of 17. “This will become their community,” said Grewal. A variety of agencies have spent the last several months preparing to welcome the refugees, but she said much remains to be done – including finding permanent housing – and the community’s help will be needed to help the families integrate into Abbotsford, she said. Preparation began several months ago, with service workers first consulting with clients from the Middle East about the services and assistance the families might need once they arrive. That was followed by a meeting with stakeholders, which saw, among other services offered, doctors step up to provide help. And in late January, the
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Syrian refugees in a makeshift camp in Jordan. gees will be greeted by organization held a comteams that will work on munity forum, where finding housing and helpmany stepped forward to ing the refugees feel at offer assistance. home in Abbotsford. “We got a lot of help Grewal says finding from people saying ‘I housing will be the bigwant to volunteer,’” she gest challenge, and the said. “There’s a lot of group is hoping apartgoodwill in this comment building owners munity. It’s just a matter come forward with availof how we channel that able accommodations. energy.” Anyone who can Upon arrival, the refu-
provide housing is asked to call 778-809-4411, while those interested in volunteering can call 604217-3055. While Abbotsford Community Services is leading the local effort, the arrival of the refugees in British Columbia is being co-ordinated by the Immigrant Services Society of B.C. In January, the organization had to pause ongoing arrival of refugees because of a lack of housing in the Vancouver area. The refugees won’t be the first to arrive in Abbotsford from Syria, though. Last Friday, a family sponsored through the blended visa-office referral initiative (BVOR) by the Interfaith Refugee Project arrived in the city. Other groups are also raising money to sponsor families through the BVOR, which provides for some government funding.
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education at its Feb. 23 meeting. The proposal is driven by both educational and enrolment concerns, according to superintendent Kevin Godden. Students in the two highest grades at the six schools do not receive the full benefit of middle schools, attending only in Grade 8. Godden said middle schools help to prepare students more fully for secondary school, and a three-year transition period is far better than one year. But the plan has met substantial opposition from parents, who say the Grade 6 and 7 students contribute substantially to school life and help
younger siblings. Bradner parents have voiced concern that the move would pose a threat to the annual May Day celebrations, which are organized by parents and prominently feature Grade 6 and 7 students. The proposal would also alter middle school catchment areas, which has also triggered concern among some parents. A Facebook group dedicated to fighting the changes, Save our K-7 Schools, currently has more than 400 members. Godden said the district is striving to maximize the use of all its schools. One of the six schools is currently over capacity, one is well under,
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From flight school to prime farmland In December I wrote about the history of Abbotsford Airport and its genesis as an active air force training centre from its construction in 1943 through to the end of WWII in 1945. There is, however, an addendum to that story. There was a second air force airport in our community, long gone now, but in its day in the mid-1940s it was as active as the main field we now know as YXX. That main field was used as a bomber training centre, with large fourengined Liberators occupying the large triangular runways. The second airport, known then as 24 EFTS (Elementary Flight Training School), was the domain of the singleengine two-seat Fairchild Cornell. In those, pilots learned to fly, presumably to later transition to the Liberators and perhaps other aircraft in the RCAF. Abbotsford, by the way, was a coveted location by pilots for its mild weather and dramatic scenery. This, however, is not so much a story about the aircraft and pilot training as it is about the location of 24 EFTS and its unique history tied to Sumas Prairie. I recall seeing private aircraft, and possibly crop dusters, flying in and out of the airstrip in the late 1960s and 1970s when the land it sat on was owned by Buckerfields Farms. By then, the pavement that gave smooth take-offs and landings for the Cornells was gone, removed when the RCAF decommissioned the site in 1945. But while I remember seeing planes on the prairie, it was a friend of one
of my sons who, last July, others purchased the reminded me of the air- Buckerfields farmland field’s existence. Lorence under the corporate name Peters said he recalled as a of Sumas Estates, and prochild his father taking him posed a 150-acre course on to the strip to watch model the parcel now owned by airplanes being flown there Reus. on Sunday afternoons. The course proposal He even sent me a was, fortunately for the Google Earth link that land’s ability to grow crops, showed long ditches or stillborn. lines running However, from northdelving into east to southhow 24 west across EFTS came Sumas Prairie into being, farmland from I reached east of Marion out to histoRoad down to rian Michael Campbell. DesMazes, Those no who better longer exist. Faces, Places and Traces than anyone Current landknows the by Mark Rushton owner Peter complete Reus spent considerable history of the RCAF in time and dollars reclaim- Abbotsford and throughing the farmland, digging out British Columbia. up lengthy cedar drain tiles Michael comes by his as well as removing truck- interest in history honloads of gravel drain rock estly – he was raised in that was above those tiles Trethewey House, his installed to create 24 EFTS grandfather having purin 1943. chased it and its surroundInterestingly, the air- ing lands on Mill Lake in field almost became a 1935. golf course in 1989 when Its ownership remained friend Peter Linley and in the family until 1978,
when it was bought by the Trethewey family and donated to the community as a museum and heritage home. Aside from providing me with a vast amount of information that is far too lengthy to include here, Michael shared with me the only known photograph, taken by Bud Nugent sometime between October 1943 and July 1944, of 24 EFTS as an active pilot training centre. Of course, I have to note here that had the Sumas Prairie flight centre been contemplated a mere 20 years prior, the air force would have needed flying boats since the vast Sumas Lake wasn’t fully drained until about 1924. Not only that, but the biting hordes of mosquitoes would have made life intolerable for any flight trainees. Now some 70 years later, the land that was beneath the lake, and on which was located 24 EFTS, is some of the best crop and farmland in Canada, if not the world.
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Cornell aircraft await pilot trainees in the only known photograph of the active military airfield, taken from another Cornell taking off sometime in 1943/44.
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Editor: “Township tax increase set at nearly four percent?” Is this council out of their collective minds? The Canadian and B.C. economy is in a shambles and these totally-out-oftouch-with-reality elected airheads have the unmitigated gall to raise our property taxes by well over three times the cost of living increases we got on our Provincial and Federal pensions — 1.2 per cent. Maybe they missed the B.C. Assessment average increase for Langley Township of around 8 per cent? Or maybe they are so out of touch with their constituents that they think we won’t object? It is time to let these elitists know enough is enough! Win Bromley, a Langley Township resident for 40 years,
Name a volunteer Editor: I was very pleased to see the letter in The Aldergrove Star seeking nominations for this year’s Flowerdew and Arnason Awards. As a previous nominee, I know what an honour it is to be nominated for such a prestigious award. As an active volunteer in our community, I also know first hand the number of volunteers required to make any event successful. In Langley, our volunteer base is incredible and I’ve had the privilege of working with many of them. I also know, there are a lot of people whose names could be brought forward to be recognized for their volunteerism in the Township of Langley. I sincerely encourage everyone to take some time out of their busy schedules to put together a nomination package to recognize the dedicated volunteer or volunteer duo they know for one of these two awards. Deadline is Friday, February 12 and the nomination application is on line on the Township of Langley website. Michael Jackstien, Langley
A few words about bullying
Editor: A poem on the subject of bullying. “Skipping School” by Wendy Welk Long lonely days spent With pen in hand Days spent Cowering Hoping for hope The boys with rocks Lurking Violence in their hearts And eyes Cruel teachers tower In condemnation With clenched jaws No help to be found ‘Survival of the fittest’ Take a hint and die! Hide Hide Hide away Until a better day As God above weeps with you He weeps for you. Wendy Welk, Aldergrove
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Shadow flipping of homes to be probed By JEFF NAGEL Aldergrove Star
An investigation has been ordered into allegations some Vancouver-area real estate agents and allied speculators engage in shadow flipping where they insert themselves as middlemen in property deals to exploit local sellers and offshore buyers. B.C. Superintendent of Real Estate Carolyn Rogers is to work with an advisory committee of the Real Estate Council of B.C. to tackle the issue. Contract assignments are legally allowed where the supposed home buyer doesn’t actually close the deal but sells the contract on to someone else. Standard assignment clauses can be invoked when a buyer is unable to close but finds another buyer rather than break the deal. But realtors who are aware of or party to a scheme to resell contracts without the knowledge of the seller and ultimate buyer may be in violation of their duty to act in their clients’ best interest. “We are deeply concerned,” the Real Estate Council of B.C. said in a statement that described its response as “an urgent matter.” It said the committee will probe whether assignment clauses are being used appropriately, and make recommendations within 60 days on ways to boost enforcement and oversight of licensees that fail to disclose their investment in properties. The real estate council is also urging anyone affected by the
practice to come forward so it proxies using assignments to can investigate and discipline any profit from the gap between typiagents found in breach of their cal local selling prices and what can be extracted from Chinese legislated duties. Finance Minister Mike de buyers unfamiliar with the marJong said it was “troubling” that ket was reported on the weekend realtors are alleged to have not by the Globe and Mail newspaacted in the best interests of the per. The middlemen can quickly sellers to get the best possible profit – to the tune price. of $500,000 in one “If there is evidence of a trend example – without developing where that paying property is not taking place, transfer tax because where realtors are not that’s only due from disclosing for example the final buyer when their personal intertitle actually transfers. est in a transaction, Realtors stand that is fundamentally to make additional wrong,” de Jong said. commissions when Finance Minister NDP housing a home is shadow Mike de Jong critic David Eby has flipped – sometimes called for a more formal inde- multiple times during a long clospendent inquiry, adding the real ing period – between the seller estate council declined to inves- and final buyer. tigate after he sent two letters in Critics say the activity adds January outlining his concerns more fuel to an already overaround contract assignments. heated real estate market in Eby said the practices of some Vancouver and some suburbs. realtors appear to involve fraud, Vancouver Mayor Gregor insider trading, tax avoidance and Robertson said the existing tools the dodging of federal disclosure to control property speculation rules to control international are “woefully inadequate” and money laundering. reiterated his calls for action from De Jong said he will await the the province. findings of the real estate coun“We cannot have housing cil, as the professional governing treated as just a commodity.” body, but added the government The province is expected to could take further action if it’s take further steps to address real unsatisfied with the outcome. estate market concerns when it “Realtors are privileged to be hands down the budget later this part of a self-regulating profes- month. sion, and that is a privilege.” Tsur Sommerville, profesThe practice of realtors or sor at UBC’s Sauder School of
Business, said he doubts assignment flipping is a major force propelling the hot market, but more a symptom of it. Speculative flipping of assignments was common in the presale condo market several years ago when condo prices were rising fast. “The primary cause is prices are going up really quickly and sellers don’t know what their property is worth,” Sommerville said of the emergence of assignment resales in the detached house market. It’s unclear how much shadow flipping is happening, he said, but added the losers include the original sellers who could have got more, the ultimate buyer who overpays, governments who may lose out on taxes, and society in general if trust is lost in the system. “I think it’s important to take action on this,” Sommerville said. “It’s imperative that the real estate industry address issues that raise concerns about the ethical behaviour of their agents. A feeling that the property market is rigged I don’t think is a healthy thing.” He said potential reforms could include requirements to register assignments, to charge property transfer tax when they’re traded and to also charge the transfer tax on companies that hold property but currently can be traded without incurring the tax. – with files from Tom Fletcher
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Authors, poets and playwrights have been trying to capture love in words for thousands of years. Their work speaks to the enduring power of love across the ages of human history. Check out this collection of quotes about love from some of the world’s most famous romantics, from Shakespeare, who wrote 154 sonnets dealing with love, time, beauty and mortality, to famed Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. - Leo Tolstoy
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. - Dorothy Parker
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. - Henry Ward Beecher Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Anais Nin
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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Kodiaks topple Knights By KURT LANGMANN Aldergrove Star
The Aldergrove Kodiaks skated to a 9-3 victory over the Langley Knights, Feb. 4 at George Preston Arena. The result puts the Kodiaks solidly in third place in the Harold Brittain conference with 47 points in 42 games (22-171-2). The Kodiaks are destined to meet arch-rivals, Abbotsford Pilots, in the first round of playoffs this month, while the top team Mission Outlaws will meet the Ridge Meadows Flames. The Langley Knights are eliminated from playoffs action this season. The Kodiaks opened the scoring late in the first period with a power play goal by Davin Padgham, assisted by Eric Callegari and Cameron Davitt. The Knights responded a minute later to tie it at 1-1 in the first period. Davitt scored early in the second, unassisted, and the Knights responded less than a minute later to even it up. However, the Kodiaks scored four more that period to take a 6-2 lead in the second. Scoring that period for the Kodiaks were Callegari (from Brandon Dolby and Spencer Unger), Davitt (from Nathan
Washington and Derian White), Unger (from Padgham and Callegari) and Ivan Vilcauskus (from Lucas Stratford and Elijah Vilio). The Kodiaks scored three more in a row in the third before the Knights scored their last goal, for the 9-3 outcome. Scoring for Aldergrove were Matt Oliver (from Kyle Bosko), Davitt (from Padgham) and White (from Davitt and Washington). The Kodiaks outshot the Knights 61-31 and first and third stars were Kodiaks Davitt and Callegari. HAWKS DOWN KODIAKS, 9-3 The Aldergrove Kodiaks started out strong against the visiting Delta Ice Hawks on Feb. 3, and had a late rally in the third period. However, a disappointing performance by the Kodiaks in the second period and a last-minute empty-netter by the Hawks sealed a 4-6 loss for the Kodiaks. The Kodiaks outshot the Hawks by a wide margin, 44-27, and outshot the Hawks in every period but just couldn’t find the back of the Hawks’ net on 40 of those shots. Aldergrove lead 2-0 within the first two minutes of the game, with goals from
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Lucas Stratford and Brandon Dolby, assisted by Davin Padgham and Kyle Bosko, and Spencer Unger and Padgham, respectively. The Hawks scored a pair in the last half of the first period, which sandwiched Stratford’s second goal, assisted by Eric Callegari. However, the Kodiaks 3-2 lead was eaten up by three unanswered goals for the Hawks in the second period, giving the Hawks a 5-3 lead. The Kodiaks finally mounted an allout offensive late in the third and were rewarded with a goal by Unger, from Callegari, to put them a mere goal away from taking the game into overtime. However, with a man-advantage by pulling keeper Dawson Rodin, the Kodiaks lost control of the puck and the Hawks struck with an empty-netter in the dying minute to take the 6-4 win. The Kodiaks were unable to score on any of their six power plays while the Hawks scored on one of four. Kodiaks’ Stratford was named the game’s third star. The Kodiaks final regular season games are Tuesday, Feb. 9 at Delta Ice Hawks and home on Wednesday, Feb. 10 versus the Richmond Sockeyes.
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Kodiaks Lucas Stratford fends off a check by Hawks Nolan Gallagher, Feb. 3 at Aldergrove Arena. Stratford enjoyed a pair of goals in the 4-6 loss to the Hawks.
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For the first time this season, the Langley Events Centre really was ‘their house.’ After a pair of disastrous home games, the Vancouver Stealth finally gave their fans reason to cheer with a convincing 15-7 victory over the Colorado Mammoth on Saturday night. The win improved Vancouver to 2-3 while Colorado fell to 4-2. In their previous two home contests, the Stealth managed a combined 12 goals. But Saturday night saw the team strike for seasonhigh goals.
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The Old Friends Tour - Byrd Dawg and the Vintage Electric Band in the ultimate tribute to two iconic duos, The Everly Brothers and Simon and Garfunkel at Chief Sepass Theatre, Fort Langley, March 5, 7:30 p.m.; Clarke Theatre, Mission, April 8, 7:30 p.m.; Blue Frog Studios, White Rock, April 15-16. Tickets online at ontourtickets.com or phone 1-855-411-7500. Playtime, 30835 Peardonville Road. Charitable event for ages 19-up. Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Live Band, 50/50 Draws, Silent Auction, $5 Free Slot Play Encore Members, Twoonie Toss, Door Prizes. Tickets $25. Proceeds to B.C. Heart and Stroke Foundation. To order tickets call 604856-1558. Luisa Marshall as Tina Turner - tribute to the queen of rock n’ roll Thursday, Feb. 25 at the Cascades Casino Summit Theatre, Langley. Tickets $42.50 (plus facility fee and service charges) at Casino Guest Services (604530-2211, www.ticketweb.ca). Port Kells Art Club Classes -
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Entries invited for first-ever Fraser Valley Music Awards Aldergrove Star
Submissions are now open for CIVL-FM’s first-ever Fraser Valley Music Awards. Artists of all genres and ages are encouraged to submit their music to the FVMA jury by completing the submission form at civl.ca/fvma by March 31. Winners will be announced at the
inaugural FVMA gala in July. Winners – and in some cases, nominees – will receive a variety of free products and services, including recording studio time, media coverage, placement in summer music festivals, consultations with music industry experts and live show recordings. Events leading up to the main event include a Battle of the Bands
and music industry education workshops, in addition to the launch of a compilation album of Fraser Valley music. “In addition to superstars like Hedley or Carly Rae and various Juno and Polaris Prize nominees, a host of incredibly well-regarded Canadian musicians hail from the Valley,” said CIVL station manager Aaron Levy.
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“We want to both celebrate their work and help build the next generation of success stories by providing them with the tools to reach beyond the Valley.” In the past two years, CIVL Radio has organized similar events, including a Battle of the Bands whose winners have gone on to the Peak Performance Project (Derrival) and
public open house Williams Neighbourhood Plan The Township of Langley is holding an open house for the Williams Neighbourhood Plan to present background information, a summary of community input received to date, and a draft vision, goals, and neighbourhood design principles for public review and feedback. Residents, property and business owners, and other stakeholders in the community are all encouraged to attend the open house and provide input.
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The Pete Swensson Outstanding Community Youth Award is awarded annually to a Langley student in Grade 11 or 12 who is nominated by his or her school to recognize athletic achievements, scholastic effort, community involvement, and personal qualities. If you know an outstanding youth who should be considered for nomination, contact the school’s principal.
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2016 Community Grants Date: Monday, February 22 Time: 4 - 8pm Place: Langley Events Centre, Banquet Hall Address: 7888 - 200 Street Background material on the Williams Neighbourhood Plan is available on the Township’s website at tol.ca/Williams. Community Development Division 604.533.6034 WilliamsNP@tol.ca
public notice Heritage Building Incentive Program The Heritage Building Incentive Program is designed to assist with the costs of restoring, repairing, and maintaining eligible heritage buildings within the Township of Langley. Grants are available to property owners of heritage buildings included in the Township of Langley’s Inventory of Heritage Resources. The next deadline for the grant program is Friday, March 4, 2016 at 4:30pm. For an application form, visit the Township of Langley website at tol.ca/hbip. Elaine Horricks Heritage Planner 604.533.6176
The Township of Langley annually awards grants to non-profit groups and organizations serving the Township and its residents. Application forms for the 2016 Community Grants and Capital Improvement Grants are now available: 1 On the Township’s website at tol.ca/grants 2 At the Township of Langley Civic Facility, Customer Service counter, 2nd Floor We’ve gone green! Applications can now be completed and submitted online. Visit tol.ca/grants to submit your paperless application today. Hard copy forms are available at the Township of Langley Civic Facility, Customer Service, 2nd Floor, and can be returned to: Recreation, Culture, and Parks Division Township of Langley 20338 - 65 Avenue Langley, BC V2Y 3J1 Or submitted via email to: Community Grants: communitygrants@tol.ca Capital Improvement Grants: capitalgrants@tol.ca Deadline: Monday, February 29, 2016. Recreation, Culture, and Parks 604.533.6086
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Seasonal Farm Labourers Required at berry farm for harvesting, pruning, planting and other farm labour. Experience an asset. Must be prepared to work in all types of weather, be able to perform repetitive motions and be in good physical conditions. Long hours, six days per week, February to October. Wages $10.59 per hour. South Alder Holdings, 2052 272nd St., Aldergrove. Fax resume 604-856-8337 info@southalderfarms.com
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Prefer with experience in Indian/Tandoori cuisine Wage starting at $15/hour. Benefits up to 3 months of medical insurance if required.
RMJ Holdings Ltd, dba Cors 2 for 1 Pizza, #103 - 27256 Fraser Highway, Aldergrove BC. Applicants must have: *3-5 Years experience as a cook *Must be able to work in a fast paced environment *Must maintain food safety standards. *Oversee kitchen operations *Prepare & cook complete meals or individual dishes and foods *Schedule & supervise kitchen helpers *Maintain inventory & records of foods, supplies & equipment Punjabi/Hindi speaking an asset.
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Inside Sales Consultant The Langley Times has an opportunity for an Inside Sales Consultant.
Meat Cutter A&B Holdings Inc. dba A & S Meat & Poultry located at 12827 76 Ave #105, Surrey, BC V3W 2V3 seeks to hire 2 full time meat cutters. Job duties include: Cut, trim, fillet, grind and prepare standard cuts of meat, Ensure food storage conditions are adequate and maintain proper temperature , Observe and maintain company sanitation and food safety standards. One year meat cutting experience, High school education & workable spoken English is required. This job is full time permanent. Wage is $23.00 per hr. Email your resume to asmp7345@gmail.com
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CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866 NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com
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VECTOR RENO’S Interior & Exterior. Additions, Repairs & Strata Improvements. Also fences, decks, sheds, garages & wood planters. 604-690-3327
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2 DAY Online auction Feb. 16 and Feb 17. 1000 plus lots incl $350K ins. claim of food equip (some in orig. pkg), 7 bailiff seizures of restaurants/grocery stores, high end sausage making equip, 3x350 gallon steam kettles w-agitators, ice cream equip and complete cappuccino bar equip. Visit www.activeauctionmart.com to view, register and bid. Onsite viewing opens Feb 9. Call 604-371-1190 or email: buyit@activeauctionmart.com for more info.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Re: The Estate of Winona Maxine Hutt, deceased (November 9th, 2011), formerly of 2595 Lefeuvre Road, Abbotsford, BC. Notice is hereby given that creditors and others having claims against the estate of the above deceased are required to send particulars by February 28, 2016 to the Executor: J.W. Campbell PO Box 307 Aldergrove, Aldergrove BC V4W 2T8
New SRI Manufactured homes Singles $74,900. Doubles $94,900. PARK SPACES AVAILABLE REPOSSESSIONS 1974-2010 www.glenbrookhomes.net Chuck 604-830-1960 Trades. Financing. Permits.
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Great opportunity to own! Fantastic 2 bedroom, 2 bath unit in Parkside Place. Cozy living room with gas heatilator fireplace with sliding doors to balcony and adjoining white kitchen. Large master bedroom with his & her closets and updated ensuite. Newer high efficiency washer and dryer. Park across the street & close to shopping, restaurants, transit, etc. Call today!
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Cloverdale High Performance paint. NO PAYMENT until Job is completed. Ask us about our Laminate Flooring. . Need Cash? Own a vehicle? Borrow up to $25,000. SnapCarCash. 604-777-5046
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If you are looking for a farm in the Otter area of Langley call today. I have a great one available, a 45 acre former dairy with 2 great homes, barns and lots of other outbuildings. Need a place for a winery or room for a new home site? Includes 2 road frontages. This is the ideal location.
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You will be innovative and have an entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy working independently.
Our environment is fast-paced and you can adapt quickly to change and work in a deadline driven environment. You may have a marketing degree or experience but your personality and enthusiasm will sell your application. Knowledge and familiarity with Mac based office programs is required.
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ABBA MOVERS & DEL Res/comm 1-5 ton truck, 2men fr $45. SENIOR DISCOUNT. Honest, bsmt clean up 25yrs Exp. 24hrs/7days 604-506-7576
Candidates for this position will possess the ability to create strong marketing programs and nurture existing clients for our print and online publications.
Special features will be an important part of your job description along with developing and prospecting new business. Your career is built on relationships with customers and you understand the importance on consulting with clients about their objectives and developing marketing solutions that help them achieve their goals.
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Have unwanted or inherited firearms in your possession? Don’t know how to dispose of them safely and legally? Contact Wanstalls and we will come and pick them up and pay you fair value for them. Wanstalls has been proudly serving the Lower Mainland firearms community since 1973. We are a government licensed firearms business with fully certified verifiers, armorers and appraisers.
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Apply within between 4pm-8pm or email: smgrewal@hotmail.ca or Phone 604-300-1312
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REFORESTATION NURSERY SEEDLINGS of hardy trees, shrubs, & berries for shelterbelts or landscaping. Spruce & Pine from $0.99/tree. Free Shipping. Replacement guarantee. 1-866-873-3846 or www.treetime.ca SAWMILLS from only $4,397 MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT. STEEL BUILDING SALE... “REALLY BIG SALE-EXTRA WINTER DISCOUNT ON NOW!!” 21X22 $5,190 25X24 $5,988 27X28 $7,498 30X32 $8,646 35X34 $11,844 42X54 $16,386. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800668-5422 www.pioneersteel.ca
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26791 FRASER HWY
READY TO GO
$399,900
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This subdivision has had 3rd reading and is ready to be subdivided so if you are looking for two affordable lots to buy check this one out. Or rezone duplex or a large single family lot as it is over 10,000 sq ft.(1/4 acre). Make your offer!
27285-29A AVE
$ 469,900
#348-27358-32 AVE
$ 149,900
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1/4 ACRE
26675-32ND AVE
$500,000
NEW LISTING
SOLD
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1200 sq ft rancher on a 10000 sq ft lot (1/4 acre) Home needs repair but in a great area that is going to make you money down the road with large lot. Tenant already in place here just buy and hold.
Looking for affordability, then here it is. This is one of the nicest 1-bedroom unites around today with very open plan and the morning sun in your unit, and shade late in the day. Very clean and private deck too, located in building #4 of Willowcreek development. Looking for a nice place to call your own and have your own space then this is it.
Very clean fully finished bsmt home on a 9000 sq ft lot with 1530 sq ft on the main floor could be 4 bedrooms up this is worth a second look. Gas fireplace and open plan with room for the whole family to grow has covered deck for the BBQ in the rain Neat and clean put this on the must see list.
Call Dan Flokstra 604-857-1100 Call Dan Flokstra 604-857-1100 Call Dan Flokstra 604-857-1100 Call Dan Flokstra 604-857-1100 $210,000 3089-272 STREET
UPDATED KITCHEN
SOLD
$ 550,000.00
BUILDING 272
Have a look here, you can be in before school starts on this one. All updated with new flooring and new paint and updated kitchen, so all the work that you did not want to do when you bought your next home is already completed. 3 or 4 bedrooms, you can choose, this is worth a look.
Now for sale at a reduced price, this is worth a look. Over 3,000 sq ft of space and a 5660 sq ft lot in a redevelopment area of Aldergrove. Got a small business or thinking of starting one? Check this out today.
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26927-28B AVE $ 549,900
Langley airport T Hangers. Individual bays available to purchase Get your plane inside and have your own hanger bay…Safety and security. Only 10 available. Hanger # 22 west side of airport call for more info.
Completely updated bsmt home that is ready for your family to come home to. New kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, concrete floor downstairs, new furnace, new hot water tank - new everything! Bsmt unfinished at this point but could easily be suited if you need to. Don’t pass this one up call today.
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