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Natasha Mayhew and her mom Brenda got matching blackberry designs at the face painting station. They along with many others were at the Blackberry Bakeoff in the LEPS Demonstration Garden Aug. 21. The annual festival involved a sampling of blackberry dishes (about two dozen this year), kids activities, games such as a test of people’s knowledge about the invasive blackberry, entertainment, and a barbecue to raise money for the Nicomekl Enhancement Society. (Lower left) A few small but potentially unpleasant guests also stopped by. (Lower centre) Keeping people fed were Steve Lougheed, Ernie Hayes and Bob Knudson. (Lower right) Phoebe Georgeson made a flower from found objects like a toilet paper roll.
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Vipers found in South Langley Two snakes that can inject lethal amounts of venom were found in rural Langley. by Matthew Claxton
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A pair of venomous vipers were euthanized after they were found living as pets in a South Langley home on Monday. The discovery of the snakes was apparently sparked by some form of landlord-tenant issue in the home around 248th Street and 24th Avenue. The home had two families living in separate areas of the same house. The SPCA was called in first, and they alerted the BC Conservation Officers Service, which deals with exotic and wild animals. With a tentative identification of the snakes as ones with potent
venom, the officers secured the take these snakes,” he said. home and, with a vet, verified The snakes were euthanized. that they had found a Nieuwied’s Dealing with venomous snakes lance head viper, from South like this can pose a risk for wildAmerica, and a Mexican cantil life officers, said Doyle, but in viper, said Insp. Chris Doyle of this case everything went safely the Conservation and no one was Officers. bitten. “They’re venomThe investiga“They’re venomous ous enough that if tion into the enough that if they they were to bite a owner of the were to bite a person, snakes will conperson, they could cause significant tinue, and the they could cause injury or death,” Conservation significant injury or said Doyle. Officers want to death.” The officers know, among believed there other things, Insp. Chris Doyle was a risk that where the snakes the snakes could came from and escape or be abanhow they were doned, which made them a threat shipped within or into Canada. to the public. There may be charges laid In British Columbia, there is under the Controlled Alien only one reptile shelter with the Species regulations of the Wildlife permits to take such snakes, said Act, said Doyle. Many snakes Doyle. and reptiles are illegal to possess “They were not in a position to under the recent legislation.
The investigators will give their recommendations to Crown prosecutors once they’ve wrapped up their investigation. Earlier this week, Conservation Officers seized almost 50 pythons from a Mission home, out of a total collection of about 100. There were 46 reticulated pythons, with six of those quite large, including one just over 14 feet long. Approximately another 50 snakes in the home were not prohibited but were restricted under the Wildlife Act. The snakes were discovered by the property owner and apparently belonged to a tennant. Also this month, police found 40 snakes in a hotel room in Brantford, Ont. At the beginning of August, two young boys were apparently killed by a rock python that escaped from a pet store in Campbellton, N.B.