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‘Unbelievable’ interference
Pastor isn’t the only imposter!
Former mayor of Ferndale tells of havoc wreaked by radio towers in Washington
while you’d see someone going, ‘Is that you God?’ It was not God.” The coalition is fighting a plan The former mayor of Ferndale to install radio towers in Point painted a disconcerting picture of living in the shadow of radio tow- Roberts near the Tsawwassen border for fear the blanketing interers during a visit to Tsawwassen ference will wreak havoc with Tuesday evening. household electronics here. BBC “It was unbelievable what Broadcasting Inc. wants to erect we had to put up with, with the five 45-metre interference from steel towers the radio towon an undeers,” said Yvonne veloped lot Goldsmith, who on McKenzie addressed a town Way to broadhall meeting hostcast a South ed by the Cross Asian station Border Coalition to a Lower to Stop the Radio Mainland audiTowers. ence. Goldsmith said PHOTO BY DAVE WILLIS The staher husband has a home-based busi- Yvonne Goldsmith speaks at a town tion had been hall forum Tuesday in Tsawwassen. broadcasting ness and while from towers in talking on the Ferndale but Goldsmith said they phone people would ask him to rarely hear interference anymore turn down the radio. and there’s nothing going on in “He’d say, ‘It’s not the radio, it’s the interference from the radio that area. Coalition member Arthur station here.’ It would interfere Reber, who provided the crowd with the fax machine, the phone with an update on the legal fight, lines. We had eight telephones in said the radio station is still on the our home. And they all picked up air but nobody knows where it’s the signal.” broadcasting from. Goldsmith, who is now a planIt’s not coming from Ferndale, ning commissioner in Ferndale, he said. said she was at the meeting at “We visited. The studio is Tsawwassen United Church as a empty.” private citizen and wasn’t repreWhatcom County’s hearing senting the Washington state city. examiner rejected the application She said interference from the to erect the towers last fall, rultowers was everywhere, including ing they exceeded height limits at the church about three or four in the American peninsula. That blocks from her home. decision was upheld by Whatcom “In the middle of singing, or County council in January and is the pastor’s sermon, it would now being challenged in court. come across. Every once in a BY
DAVE WILLIS
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GORD GOBLE
The crew of the new TV Land comedy series Impastor transformed a stretch of 48th Avenue in Ladner Village this week to look like the ficticious town of Ladner, Oregon. Impastor stars Smallville’s Michael Rosenbaum as a gambling addict who steals the identity of a gay pastor in a small town in an effort to evade a loan shark. Impastor, which is set to premiere this summer, also filmed scenes in Lions Park.
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