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By the late summer, letters to the editor were flooding in, many of them opposed to the project. The Langley Heritage Society The story that gripped a neighbourhood like came out against the plan, and hundreds of people packed an October meeting organized no other this year came from Langley’s oldby the Fort Langley Community Association est neighbourhood, and concerned its newest to talk about the project. planned building. In November, the project The Coulter Berry project, a went to the Langley Township planned three-storey building on one council, as Statewood had of the most prominent corners in Fort applied for a heritage alteraLangley, has roots that go back years. tion permit. The permit was Though no one could have seen it needed because the proposed at the time, the story begins with the building was both taller and fire in January 2011 that destroyed covered more land area than the IGA on the corner of Mavis Langley Advance files allowed under the heritage Avenue and Glover Road. Barb Hinde, Fred Pepin, and Margo McKenzie collected guidelines for building in the The grocery store’s owners, the Lee Fort’s downtown. family, decided to build their new handprints to show support for preserving Fort Langley. Over two nights, residents grocery farther back on the site. They building overshadowing the other one- and were sharply divided, with proposed a new two-storey office and two-storey structures on the corner. more opposed. Opponents commercial complex for the portion Langley Advance files Township council voted seven to one in also dropped off a petition of the property that fronts Glover Andy Schildhorn presented favour of the heritage alteration permit and with hundreds of names. Road. a stack of petitions the size allowed the building to proceed. Few minced words. The two-storey design included of a phone book against While the matter seemed settled as of the “We need a three storey retail and office buildings, and an the Coulter Berry building. late fall of 2012, the war of words over the building in our community open plaza at ground level. It drew building continued in the letters column of like we need a cholera outmild interest from the community. the Langley Advance. Statewood Properties break,” said longtime resident Paul St. Pierre. However, when Frontier Hardware on the broke ground on the proWhile some projects in the past next lot to the southwest closed, the new ject, which was planned have seen the village divided developer, Eric Woodward’s Statewood “It can and should be to be LEED Gold, use geoProperties, combined the two sites. In June of largely between its merchants and developed within the thermal heating, and have its residents and heritage advo2012, they proposed a new, three-storey plan a green wall of plants on cates, this development saw the for the larger site. heritage bylaws.” one side. merchants split as well. Diane Morrison In July, a new group, Several store owners said they the Society of Fort Langley wanted to see the Coulter Berry Residents for Sustainable Development, took building go ahead, bringing in more residents to the courts to change things. The organizaand business, while others objected. tion launched a lawsuit against the Township, “It can and should be developed within the alleging that the heritage alteration permit heritage bylaws,” said Diane Morrison, one shouldn’t have been issued. While the new of the founders of the Fort Langley Business foundations were dug for the proposed buildImprovement Association. ing, lawyers argued in B.C. Supreme Court Many, like Fred Pepin of the Langley Heritage Society, spoke out against the design that the project should be stopped. An amendment to Fort Langley’s Official and how it modified the guidelines for heritCommunity Plan was needed as well as the age construction. Langley Advance files Many said it would damage the character of heritage permit, according to documents filed The Langley Township council chambers were standing room with the court. the village. continued on page A14… only as Fort residents packed in to give their yeas and nays. Others worried about parking, about the

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The charity efforts of a local group led by Jackie Maclean was another resounding success. The group handed out 811 sandwiches, 200 survival blankets, and roughly 500 bottles of water to residents in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on Sunday. • More online

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Trinity Western University received federal and provincial go-ahead for its law school. The school requires students to sign a community covenant. That document has been labelled anti-gay for requiring students to agree not to have sex outside of marriage which is between a man and a woman. • More online

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Aldergrove teen runs to help others

Aldergrove Community Secondary is a place to learn a multitude of lessons, but sometimes its best classes aren’t the ones that offer field trips or even issue final grades. And sometimes, if you’re willing to veer off the beaten path of the core curriculum, like Mehala Breederland elected to do this past September, the end result is an experience no textbook is capable of providing. “I had a mix-up with my schedule and I didn’t want to take a spare,” the Grade 11 student-athlete at Aldergrove Community Secondary said. “But now I am so thankful.” That’s because when it was explained to her that one of the school’s visually impaired students, ninth grader Harjinder Kaur Saran, needed assistance in the pursuit of her phys-ed credit, Breederland knew immediately that she was answering a calling. “With all of the time we

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Mehala Breederland guides Harjinder Kaur Saran as they run at school. spend together, and just getting to know her so much better, I can at least start to understand what it is like to be blind,” says Breederland, who this past fall played for the Totems senior varsity volleyball team, and will play for its soccer team in the

spring. “But also, you begin to understand a lot more in the social sense as well. I might notice that she is not hanging around with anyone at lunch, so we’ll have lunch together. I am even starting to learn braille, but it’s

pretty difficult.” Yet if you ask Breederland, she’ll tell you that the act of volunteering always has its way of giving back, and in ways that go beyond anything tangible. And at her school, she’s made some pretty big fans. “She’s one of the most giving students I have ever met,” said teacher Stuart Crowley. “She is incredibly selfless.” Since the age of 11, Breederland has been a mainstay at her church, helping with a kids program, and with its 11 a.m. Sunday pancake breakfasts. “We serve anyone who walks through the front door,” she said. And it doesn’t stop there. She’s a Big Sister to an area third-grader, and she just finished a seven-week group mentoring program for Grade 6 girls. “We really focused on a healthy lifestyle and body-image stuff,” she said. There is still one more year of high school remaining for her, but after that, she thinks, a post-secondary career geared toward becoming an occupational therapist is likely in the cards. Whatever she winds up doing, she knows she will be helping. That’s something she can’t help but do.

– Howard Tsumara is a Province reporter.

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Shoe gathering girl is an old soul at 17 Adversity nurtured compassion in a Langley teen. by Howard Tsumara

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Hannah Beaton remembers life on a shoestring budget. “When I was younger, my mom was a single mom with three girls,” the Langley Fundamental Secondary senior remembers. “A lot of times there were charities that stepped into our lives and helped us out. It had a huge impact on me.” They say that adversity reveals true character, and in the case of

Beaton, it affirmed a level of compassion so strong that it has made her who she is today at the age of 17: An old soul with a big-world perspective and plenty of old soles. For the past three years, in-between classes, homework and the rigorous demands of a training program that had made her one of the most accomplished track and field athletes in her provincial age group, Beaton has collected, cleaned and donated all manner of shoes to the needy. She calls it Walk In Someone Else’s Shoes, and it’s an act of re-purposing with a purpose, of helping as many people as possible do the walk

of life with dignity. “My mom was working in a school in Surrey about three years ago and she saw a boy with ripped up shoes and he wore them every day, all winter, back and forth through the snow,” related Beaton. “When I heard that, it tugged on my heart. So we went out and provided him with a pair of shoes. After that day, I realized how many people in my own community were in need of footwear.” Her own family’s situation has since improved but there are still plenty of others in need. And from the first day she collected shoes in her community, set them

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Langley Fundamental’s Hannah Beaton collects shoes for the needy. up on a series of tables at a Langley elementary school, and watched as children were invited to pick the ones they wanted, the desire to help has

just gotten stronger. “I just remember they were running around, trying to find their size,” relates Beaton. “They were so excited about one small pair of shoes. They would put them on right there, and they would leave the old ones behind. They would just run out the door dancing in their snow boots. This is my way of giving back, of hoping that I can be somebody that can step up and help in someone else’s life. The main one helping us was the food bank. They helped us out a lot, and that is an example of the people that stepped into our lives and helped us.”

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Year in Review

Schools’ bills paid in full

Langley School District paid off the last of its $13.75-million deficit, but money is still tight.

e y b d o o G 2013…

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Back in January, the Langley School District was looking at calendars. The district was looking at moving away from the school calendar that was based on a historical agricultural model to one that had students attending more during the summer and having bigger breaks at other times of the year. Despite district efforts, many people were not aware the changes were being discussed. In the end, the district opted not to make changes. The district was able to pay off the last of the $13.75 million it overspent, a couple of years earlier than the schedule it had negotiated with the Ministry of Education. School districts can’t run deficits so the district had worked with the provincial government on a plan to pay off the deficit by 2014. That doesn’t mean there will be extra money in the budget though. Impacting budgets and future district spending are added costs such as BC Hydro hikes, MSP premium increases, increased staff costs, and increased teacher pension costs. The district has to scrounge to find an extra $7 million for pay raises agreed to by the provincial government but not funded by the province. Early in 2013 the district took on a new venture, having summer school for primary students for the first time. Secondary students have had summer school for years. The district was able to access provincial funding

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Heavy rains greeted staff, students, and dignitaries for the opening of Richard Bulpitt Elementary in September.

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for it, and students filled the spots. More than 3,000 students, with about half in primary grades, signed up for summer school. Because it was so successful, the district plans for more next year. Meanwhile Langley City was balking at the school district plan to double school site acquisition fees. Coun. Gayle Martin pointed out that over 10 years, the district is projecting 370 new student spaces will be created in Langley City, while in the Township, it will be 8,098. Councillors questioned whether the fees were fair given that the Township is experiencing a much higher rate of growth than the City. The year started with the school district celebrating the grand opening of the Lynn Fripps Elementary in a big ceremony that brought together the school community with the Fripps family. Lynn was an active community volunteer. The elementary school under construction in the Willoughby slope was named for Richard Bulpitt, a longtime Langley educator. It opened to students in September. In late 2013, the district announced that the middle school being built in the same area would be

The Langley Advance’s front page photos of the first-ever Fort Langley Zombie Walk generated a lot of responses from the community – many letter writers were upset by the photos, and others said they didn’t want to see the event come back to Fort Langley. However, organizers at the Fort Langley Studio were pleased with a turnout that was larger than they had expected.

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Monday, January 13 | 7 - 11pm Regular Council Meeting Civic Facility Fraser River Presentation Theatre

Township Lands For Sale

Christmas Tree Chipping Events

Recycle your Christmas tree by donation at the following events: Trees must be bare, with no decorations or tinsel.

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Thursday, January 9 | 7 - 9pm Community Participation, Infrastructure, and Environment Advisory Committee Civic Facility Salmon River Committee Room

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Notice is hereby given of the intention of the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Langley, pursuant to Sections 26 and 94 of the Community Charter S.B.C. 2003, c. 26, to dispose of Township owned land, the particulars of which are as follows:

268 ST.

Wednesday, January 8 | 7 - 9pm Economic Development Advisory Committee Civic Facility Salmon River Committee Room

disposition of lands

HWY. 13 (264 ST.)

Tuesday, January 7 | 7:30 - 9:30pm Heritage Advisory Committee Civic Facility Salmon River Committee Room

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Sat Jan 11 8:00pm vs. Minnesota Storm Home Opener Fri Jan 17 8:00pm vs. Colorado Mammoth

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Legal Descriptions: PID: 013-331-311 North Half of the North Half of the South East Quarter Section 7 Township 13 New Westminster District Description of Lands: The property is a vacant unserviced lot, approximately 39 acres in size. The property is zoned P-5. Nature of Disposition: Fee Simple Contact Scott Thompson for information regarding the process by which the land may be acquired. Scott Thompson Manager, Property Management Department 604.533.6138

public open house Griffith Neighbourhood Plan Open House

The Township of Langley is beginning the Griffith Neighbourhood Plan and holding an open house to present preliminary and conceptual information developed during an initial design charrette.

Jan 10 vs. Mt. Royal University 6pm Women’s 8pm Men’s Sat Jan 11 vs. Mt. Royal University 5pm Women’s 7pm Men’s

The Langley Events Centre is located at 7888 - 200 Street For ticket information, contact Langley Events Centre 604.882.8800 • langleyeventscentre.com

10th Langley Scouts (two locations) Dates: Time: Location: Time: Location:

January 4 and 5 9:00am to 5:00pm Safeway parking lot, 20871 Fraser Highway 9:00am to 3:00pm Langley School Board Office 4875 - 222 Street, north parking lot Tree pick up available for a $20 donation. Call 604.514.0306 or email 10thlangleypanthers@gmail.com Engineering Division 604.532.7300

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Sat Jan 4‡ 7:15pm vs. Surrey Eagles Sun Jan 5* 2:00pm vs. Cowichan Valley Capitals Fri Jan 10 7:15pm vs. Chilliwack Chiefs ‡ Guns and Hoses Night: Police vs Firefighters in a charity game benefiting Cops for Cancer. Entry by donation, then stay for the Rivermen game at no additional charge! * Skate with the Rivermen following Sunday’s game

Dates: January 4 and 5 Time: 9:00am to 3:00pm Location: 4914 - 221 Street, just west of W.C. Blair Donations accepted for BC Cancer Foundation

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Date: January 4 Time: 9:30am to 4:30pm Location: Willoughby Elementary School, 20766 - 80 Avenue Tree pick up available for a $10 minimum donation. Call Kathy at 604.329.7052 Dates: January 4 and 5 Time: 9:00am to 4:00pm Location: Brookswood Secondary School, 20902 - 37A Avenue

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Coming Events

Dates: January 4 and 11 Time: 9:30am to 4:30pm Location: Walnut Grove Secondary School, 8919 Walnut Grove Drive

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6:30 to 8:30pm Fernridge Hall 2389 - 200 Street Community Development Division 604.533.6034 griffith@tol.ca

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New Directions ESL school played host to B.C. Lt. Gov. Judith Guichon in October. Students such as Qinli Wu performed a folk dance in a program showing the students’ diverse talents. Heather Colpitts Langley Advance files

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Dante Arias took flight during the Langley Has Talent semifinals held April 20 at Christian Life Assembly (CLA). The nine-year-old dancer from Aldergrove performed to the John Mayar song Waiting on the World to Change.

Refocusing on Langley

Advance reporters captured the year that was

Aldergrove Community Secondary vice principal Mike Carlyle was relieved of some of his leg hair by Joanna Pue of Salima’s Day Spa on June 7, in a benefit event for the Cops for Cancer bike ride.

Cancer survivors in yellow T-shirts took the first lap with their families and supporters during the 12-hour Relay for Life fundraiser at McLeod Athletic Park June 21-22. Jack Shields, six, was hoisted onto his father Jody’s shoulders for the survivor lap. Jack is being treated for leukemia.

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“Kids, stay in school!” screamed magican Wes Barker as he extricated himself from a straight jacket in less than two-and-a-half minutes. Barker was one of several dozen entertainers who took part in the annual Arts Alive festival Aug. 17 in downtown Langley City.

Lexie Painter dug right in on pumpkin decorating during the Wall-OLanterns in late October in Aldergrove’s Philip Jackman Park. More than 700 pumpkins were put on display and proceeds from the event were donated to the Langley School District Foundation. Heather Colpitts/Langley Advance files

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Emma Derusha, three, couldn’t believe her eyes when she had an upclose encounter with the Easter Bunny March 19 at Willowbrook Shopping Centre. Sitting on the bunny’s lap was 10-month-old Jameson King. Partial proceeds from visits with the Easter Bunny benefited the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada.

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public notice Storm Response Hotline

During severe weather events such as heavy snow storms, wind storms or floods, Township residents can call the Storm Response Information Hotline for recorded updates on response service levels in our community. Updates are recorded regularly and include estimated time of the next update.

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Online Schedule of 2014 Township of Langley Council Meetings

According to the Community Charter Section 127 (1) a Council must: (a) make available to the public a schedule of the date, time, and place of regular Council meetings, and (b) give notice of the availability of the schedule in accordance with section 94 (public notice) at least once a year.

Visit tol.ca/stormresponse for information about our snow and ice control policy. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for storm response updates. Engineering Division 604.532.7300 opsinfo@tol.ca

Regular Evening Council meetings are held at 7pm at the Civic Facility, Fraser River Presentation Theatre, 4th Floor, 20338 - 65 Avenue, unless otherwise noted. For a complete schedule of 2014 Council meetings or to view Council meeting agendas, visit our website at tol.ca. Susan Palmer Deputy Township Clerk 604.533.6032

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2014 Budget: Views Sought Online

Township of Langley Council would like to hear from the public and take citizens’ views into consideration as it deliberates the 2014 Budget and 2014 - 2018 Financial Plan. Residents are encouraged to visit the Township’s website to complete budget questionnaires and try the new Online Budget Simulator at tol.ca/budget. Budget input will be accepted until January 6, 2014. Your feedback is important. Finance Division tolbudget2014@tol.ca

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Coulter Berry joins choices

It’s become an end-of-the-year tradition at the Langley Advance for the newsroom to take a moment to ponder the events of the past year and identify the person, place, or event that we feel generated the most news that was most significant to the community. Over the past decade and a half that distinction has been borne by several politicians. Our first Newsmaker of the Year, in 1997, was then-Langley Township Mayor John Scholtens, and City Mayor Marlene Grinnell (2005) and Township Mayor Rick Green (2011) also received that distinction, both for very different reasons. In the tradition of the Langley Advance’s outlook on community news – that all news is important, but we prefer good news to outweigh the bad – the 2010 BC Summer Games edged out the deadly gang violence on Langley’s streets. The Golden Ears Bridge took the 2009 title for mostly positive reasons, and the 200th Street interchange in 2002… not quite so positive. Some years, the choice was easy. For instance, local MLA and cabinet minister Rich Coleman took it hands-down in 2003 (and has been in close contention several times since – including this year for his part in the provincial election results that surprised many people). While it’s not ever our intention to “make” the news, some years the choices weren’t so easy, and occasionally our decision became controversial in itself, as was the case with Hazina the Hippo in 2006. Perhaps what marked the Fort Langley Coulter Berry controversy most definitively in 2013 has been the certainty with which the opposing sides both believe they represent a “silent majority” and the overall good of the community while the “other guys” have a personal, self-serving agenda. Whether or not you agree with our choice of Langley’s 2013 Newsmaker of the Year is less important than whether we have given you pause for thought, to reflect on the importance of the events of 2013. – B.G.

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say, incorrectly, as the stones knock them off their fixed-gear bicycles. • May: Nothing much happens except for the takeover of much of Eastern Europe by an army of intelligent genetically engineered Matthew Claxton chickens. mclaxton@langleyadvance.com • June: Rob Ford says the 7,943rd outrageous thing since his election as mayor of Toronto. Late night talk show hosts just shrug. It’s that time of the year again, the time “I don’t know,” says Jimmy Kimmel. “Are when reporters look back on the 2013 that there any jokes left to make here? Are we was, and try to make predictions about the dehumanizing ourselves by mocking a man’s 2014 that’s yet to show its true nature. We do public self-destruction? What does this mean this not because we are prone to introspection for the state of western democracy?” Kimmel and seek to take stock of our place in the uniwalks off the stage mid-show and never verse, but because nothing much else is going returns; he is found months later meditating on at this time of the year. Seriously, would at a Buddhist retreat in the Tien it kill the politicians in Ottawa to Shan mountains. arrange one more scandal between The chickens • July: Workers at Christmas and New Year’s? McDonald’s, Wal-Mart and a seize Germany, In that spirit, I bring you my prehost of other low-wage employdictions for the coming year, broFrance, and ers win sizeable pay raises and ken down by month. northern Italy. decent benefits packages after a • January: NASA will send a series of strikes. It will turn out team of cloned Chris Hadfields into that paying people a living wage space to perform a jam-band veris actually good for the economy. Wal-Mart’s sion of Rocket Man, in an attempt to recapture CEO will attend a press conference, hands the magic of Hadfield version 1.0’s cover of tucked in pockets, and stare at his feet. “Well, Space Oddity. It’ll do okay on the charts, but I suppose I was wrong all those years,” he’ll will be bumped from the top 10 by the sound say. of Justin Bieber falling down a flight of stairs. • August: Nothing much. The chickens seize • February: It’ll be cold, except when Germany, France, and northern Italy. it’s unseasonably warm. People will greet • September: Television executives announce Valentine’s Day in the traditional manner: by their newest fall reality show, Rednecks Punch complaining that it’s a cheap, commercialized, Each Other While Bidding on Storage Lockers artificial holiday, and that no one got them on a Desert Island. “The originality of the conanything. cept is why we picked it up,” says a studio • March: Mike Duffy will escape Ottawa in exec, openly rolling his eyes. “Shut up, you a giant helium balloon in the shape of Mike know you’re going to PVR it.” Duffy. The month will come in like a lion, • October: Justin Trudeau will be revealed as which will then eat the lamb, which will in a large and elaborate marionette operated by turn give the lion a severe case of stomach cramps that requires a visit to the large animal intelligent mice. People will still find it more charismatic than Stephen Harper. veterinarian. • November: The chickens get bored and • April: The Tea Party will reveal that the preceding five years of political obstructionism head into space to the join the Hadfield clones. • December: The end of the year brings a was a colossal April Fool’s Day prank started new crop of retrospective columns, not nearly by a group of hipsters from Portland. They enough of which will mention the chicken will be stoned to death by Republicans and thing. Democrats alike. “This is ironic,” they will

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Coulter Berry

Just trying for a compromise

after months of work trying to fix a wrong Dear Editor, and finding a way around this mess. We are I applaud this public debate and it’s great still hard at it, trying to salvage the developwe can air our views in this public forum, ment and find a compromise. but there are a few misconceptions. The judge made it clear that the Township We supporters for a two-storey Coulter cannot approve a heritage alteration perBerry building are not just a small group. mit that alters density under the LGA. The Yes, there are eight of us who stood up Township needs to uphold it or to put our money where our mouths are, but there are a lot of other Fort Letters change it. The proposed Coulter Berry Langley residents who feel the same to the development is going from 60 per way as we do and are behind us 100 cent lot coverage to 67 per cent. per cent. That looks like an increase to densThe goal is not to block this if you ask me. “amazing LEEDS building.” We are Editor ity,While we’re talking Township, very much for the development, but look at that Wall Property mess and we want the bylaws and heritage the Township’s fight with the GVRD. guidelines adhered to. That is what we fought against: the TOL Over the years, there has been a lot of and its belief it can circumvent any law it time and energy put into drawing them up, wants, whenever it wants. for a good reason, and they should not be We are not a political group; this was not just shoved aside. We feel we have somea cheap political stunt. thing very special here in Fort Langley, and Yes, a couple of our directors are interthe heritage guidelines were put there to ested in Live Langley, but so what? Our colprotect that. lective interest is not with that at all. I’m sure we all agree that our Fort is speWhy even bring that up anyway? We are cial. Isn’t this why some have businesses very much interested in what we feel is best here even though they may not reside in for Fort Langley. Does anyone’s interest The Fort? Our “small group” is only trying in Coulter Berry have anything to do with to protect our very special village. We have what church they belong to or what politno other motives, political or otherwise. The bylaw and heritage guidelines weren’t ical party they voted for? Why is it that having an opinion of how drawn up to kill off businesses or progress, we see the Fort’s future always seems to be they were put in place to protect the special met with personal attacks and slanders? atmosphere that is Fort Langley. I appreciate the fact that all of us will We do not have a lot of money for lawnever have the same opinion, but instead of yers. We all have mortgages and bills to pay, and believe me, it wasn’t easy scraping bashing each other, why don’t we just try to find a positive side and come to a comtogether the money to fight City Hall. promise to get this job done? That’s right: City Hall, not the developer. Going to court was the very last straw Mike Fraser, Fort Langley

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GMO discussions not reassuring

Dear Editor, I recently attended a scientific lecture about GMOs in order to better understand farmers’ concerns. It was at the Langley Municipal Hall on Nov. 22, and featured Dr. Shiva Chopra, formerly from Health Canada, for 35 years in the federal government.

Also speaking was Dr. Thierry Vrain (retired), a geneticist with Agriculture Canada for 30 years. This was a day after your editorial appeared [Genetics base of civilization, Nov. 21 Opinion, Langley Advance], in which you noted, “GMOs need national controls – not blind fear.”

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Kids need to get out more

Dear Editor, The newspapers and television news have all contained the sad story of present-day children being both weaker and physically slower than their parents’ generation. In conjunction with this, there are ads admonishing mothers and fathers of children to let them play. In these ads they mention tag, hide-and-go-seek, and any physical exertion that will strengthen the body. The reasons our kids are weakening and wasting are many, but primarily, I believe, it is because of the car and the persuasive fear of sexual exploitation by monstrous characters who, the parents seem to think, are lusting for young flesh behind every second bush or shady lane. This I very much doubt, and even if true, what would any decent adult do if he or she saw a child being forcibly dragged away? Surely to goodness, you would intervene, wouldn’t you? I would, and I’m closer to 90 than prime, but can still throw a good punch when necessary. Why can’t a parent volunteer to spend some time keeping an eye on a group that is outside playing? Ten kids, ten parents, no trouble. But women work these days, unlike the past, when this was confined to the home. Still, there should be enough who have the time to act as sentry to ensure the children’s safety… and strength and physical development so they don’t turn into a bunch of weaklings. Mike Harvey, Langley

I learned front-line companies are not being forthright about the shortcomings of their GMO technologies. And furthermore, the federal government is secretive about their research data – not reassuring! The insertion of foreign genes, traces of Roundup herbicides, and antibiotics have made crops mostly weed- and bug-free. But both are becoming resistant to herbicides and pesticides after 12 years of GMOs, and the weeds and pests are bigger and stronger than ever. Now what? And what of soil and water contamination? The end products are consumed by children who are showing symptoms of autism, celiac, and gluten allergies. What food is safe, and are the drug companies and the government worried about their world reputation for exporting food products? At present, apparently 80 per cent of all antibiotics are used up in agriculture. Farmers’ concerns fall on deaf ears, as patents on new GMOs are supported through the legal system. The public is becoming informed about the lack of national controls of which you speak. Renee Spakowsky, Maple Ridge

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Ye olde new year Heritage Holidays at the Fort lets people see what Christmas was like in eras long past. Heritage Holidays wraps up Jan. 5 at the Fort Langley National Historic Site. (Clockwise from top left) Hazel Gludo of the Kwantlen First Nation showed young visitors how to braid rope from cedar bark. Twin sisters Kaylee (left) and Daycie Legault, 10, practiced making crafts after some instruction from Gludo. Travis Legault, above, was one of several adults who tried to start fire with flint, steel, and tinder at the Fort Langley blacksmith’s forge. Heather Giles, right, sang along with Christmas carols sung by Fort reenactor Nette Plant, who played a vintagestyle mandolin. Christa Hanson, left, showed one of the iron brands that the fort used, spelling out HBC. The brands were mostly used on barrels of goods, not on cattle.

TV commercials

Langley lads finalists in Super Bowl contest

A Langley video team makes the cut in the annual Doritos commercial-making contest. by Nelson Bennett Special to the Langley Advance

spiring filmmaker Nelson Talbot says he wouldn’t normally even think about mounting a pretty young woman above a fireplace like a trophy fish in a TV commercial. But this is the Super Bowl, where commercials target a large male demographic and often move the goalposts of social decorum and taste. So when Talbot and his twin brother, Graham, entered a TV commercial contest sponsored by Doritos – with the winner eli-

gible for $1 million and an airing of their commercial at the Super Bowl – the Langley filmmakers decided to push the boundaries. Their 30-second entry – one of only three Canadian commercials to make a semi-finalist list from thousands of submissions from around the world – shows two fishermen in a boat, one of whom sprinkles Doritos chips in the water as bait. It was shot at a Maple Ridge Lake. After a beautiful mermaid pops up, it cuts to a living room, where the mermaid is now mounted like a trophy fish. “Nice catch,” says one of the fishermen. “We knew we could get flak for being a little misogynistic

or something like that, but the way we thought of it was, if there was one time to be more risqué, it would be during the Super Bowl because that’s where you see the commercials with the most spunk,” Talbot said. Chips Before Chicks, by Vancouver’s Bradley Friesen, is the only other B.C.-made commercial to make it onto a list of 24 semi-finalists, which will be shortlisted again to five in January. This is the eighth year Doritos has run the Crash the Super Bowl contest but the first year the company has opened it to submissions from outside the U.S. Submissions have come from as far away as South Africa.

The contest’s grand prize is $1 million and a chance for the winners to work with Marvel Studios on the set of The Avengers: Age of Ultron film. Second prize is $50,000. Both first- and second-prizewinning commercials will air during the Super Bowl Feb. 2, 2014. “Incredible content can come from anywhere, and that’s really why we decided to open it up,” said Susan Irving, director of marketing for PepsiCo Canada. While opening the competition outside of the U.S. extends the Doritos brand reach, it also benefits aspiring filmmakers by giving their work a global showcase. Irving pointed out that the winner’s ad will be in both U.S. and Canada Super Bowl broadcasts.

“The Super Bowl in Canada is the highest viewership, followed by the Oscars. It’s close to seven million in terms of viewership in Canada.” Talbot, who studied film at Simon Fraser University, is hoping that participating in the contest will help further his ambitions to make a living in film. Friesen has no such career aspirations and cites “jackass” as his only credentials for making his TV ad. Friesen is a helicopter pilot, as are several of his friends. Three helicopters were used in shooting the commercial in October, and Friesen enlisted Vancouver’s House of Smooch to bring in six models wearing the boutique’s bikinis. – Nelson Bennett is a reporter with Glacier Media’s Business in Vancouver magazine.

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for a few weeks to see if they like it. Info: langleyconcertband@gmail.com. Drop by to check it out before joining. The spring session starts Jan. 6. • Opus One Women’s Ensemble: No experience is necessary, only a love of singing. The group performs all kinds of music and accepts new members throughout the year. Rehearsals are Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. in the R.E. Mountain Secondary choir room, 7755 202A St. The spring session starts Jan. 8. Info: opusonewomenschoir@gmail.com.

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charityworks • Guns ’n Hoses: The public is invited to a charity hockey game on Jan. 4 between the police and firefighters. The game is admission by donation and starts at 4 p.m. in the Langley Events Centre Those who pay for the game can stay for the Langley Rivermen vs. the Surrey Eagles game at 7 p.m. The event benefits Cops for Cancer.

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Programs are free and pre-registration is required unless noted otherwise. • City of Langley Library 20399 Douglas Cres. 604-514-2855 Art Critiques the last Monday of each month. Are you developing your talent as an artist? Bring a piece of art to be discussed and interpreted by fellow participants, as well as by an experienced art facilitator. Pre-registration required. Call ahead to confirm. 7 p.m.

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• L’histoire du Tango: The Langley Community Music School Players (Joel Stobbe, cello, Marcel Bergmann, piano, and Paolo Bortolussi, flute) perform music of Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos and a new tango by Marcel Bergmann at the Concerts Cafe Classico show on Jan. 12 starting at 3 p.m. (concert at 4 p.m.). Tickets: $15 adults, $13 seniors, $10 students. At the music school, 4899 207 St. • Open mic and performer showcase: Head to the Langley Arts Council building, 20550 Fraser Hwy. for an evening of entertainment on the second Tuesday of the month. Organizers invite singers, dancers, poets, storytellers, artists, anyone with a talent to share and anyone who wants to watch the show. Admission is free and there’s refreshments available by donation.

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A number of Trinity Western University’s art and design students are currently exhibiting their works south of the 49th Parallel, at the relatively new Jansen Art Center, in Lynden, Wash. The show, In Fieri, continues remains on display until the end of the month, with a special reception planned for Jan. 11.

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TWU students opens exhibition Stateside University students’ work reflects on transition and metamorphosis.

narratives being explored by the artists – both intelligently and openly, from Emily Garrison’s metaphorical abstract painting of her fellow tree planters to Olivia rt students from Langley’s own deFleuriot de la Coliniére’s investigative Trinity Western University are portrait built of layers of oil paint. displaying their work in the “We are inviting viewers to engage United States of America. with a dialogue on time and identity,” In a show called In Fieri, the TWU stusaid student Mikaela Fuqua, a fourth-year dents are being given art and design major their second chance in whose photographs on less than a year to disdisplay include Through play in a large group A Glass, Darkly and Life Event: TWU student art exhibit show, but this time their Underwater. Date: through to Jan. 31 work is being exhibited The artists ask in their Place: Jansen Art Centre at the relatively new statement, “What shall 321 Front St., Lynden, Wash. Jansen Art Center, just we do with this moment across the border in we are in?” Lynden, Wash. They say each of the works on display “We’re thrilled to have this opportunity is an exploration of this honest question, to feature such promising student artists reflecting on processes of transition and from Trinity Western University,” said metamorphosis. Courtney Jensen, arts director for the There will be a “special” public recepJansen Art Center. tion at the centre on Jan. 11. “Our facility is an exciting new space Engaging the community is an essenhere in Lynden, and people are just tial part of the art centre’s mandate, said amazed when they walk in. With the curJensen, who is confident that will be rent exhibition from SAMC, we have an achieved with the TWU show. impressive complement to our other arts “Through this exhibition, we’re building programming,” Jensen added. bridges with our close neighbours across The exhibition features the work of the border,” Jensen said. “Working with upper-level art and design students from these students feels like we’re removing TWU’s School of the Arts, Media & that border altogether! It’s a perfect fit.” Culture (SAMC). For more information, visit www.janIn Fieri presents personal and external senartcenter.org or www.twu.ca/samc.

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RCH nurses turn memories into a new book

A Langley woman helps recapture stories from the old Royal Columbian Hospital School of Nursing.

Jim and Marie Bensley, Betty Archer, Helen Shore, Pauline Dunn, Elaine Olson and Langley’s Myrna Bloch attended the recent book launch for A Call To Nurse.

by Cayley Dobie

Glacier Media

or five years Elaine Olson carried with her an that transcends time. idea – an idea she “Young people starting patiently waited until 2005 a new career, a new way to share with her fellow of life, naturally have the Royal Columbian nursing same fears today as they school alumni – including did then,” said Bensley. Langley’s Myrna Bloch. A Call to Nurse tells It had been almost the tale of about 2,500 30 years since Royal students who travelled Columbian Hospital from all around the Lower shut down its School of Mainland and Canada to Nursing, and Olson, a long- study at RCH’s School of time Agassiz resident, was Nursing. looking for a way to collect Many of the stories are memories of the students similar to the experiences who attended the school. of the women who wrote “We were anxious to the book, which makes it preserve the history as even more special, said none of us were getting Pauline Dunn. any younger and we were “It was so interesting losing some of our memthat many of the stories bers,” said Betty Archer, rung a bell with everyone,” one of the alumni commitDunn said. “I was (a stutee members who helped dent in the) late 1960s and turn Olson’s idea into a things were very similarly reality. run in the hospital “It was really and in the school “You Elaine’s idea. She of nursing as they don’t have carried the idea were in the ’30s.” from 2001 and While none of nursing we didn’t act on the stories in the schools like book are attribit until 2007.” In 2007, two that any uted to specific years after students, Bloch more.” Olson presented – who did much Myrna Bloch her idea to of the typing and the School of photo research Nursing alumnae com– knows her story is mittee – Bloch, as well as included, as are a handful Marie Bensley from North from other Langley nurses. Vancouver, and Pauline “You don’t have nursDunn from Surrey, joined ing schools like that any Olson and Archer – and more,” said the 64-year-old the official book committee Fort Langley woman. was born. The emphasis was on For the next six years, learning by doing and the women met on a regumany of the alumni on the lar basis to discuss their committee recall working research and the book’s in the hospital in their first progress. few days of school. “As we got going, “You came in, got a because none of us had uniform, and they sent written before… it took us you on the floor to wash two years to gather all the the shelves and clean up. classes’ (information),” Gradually, you caught on Bensley explained. what you were supposed But as they went about to do and people showed interviewing alumni, what you as you went along,” seemed like an enormous Dunn added. undertaking became an In the early years of exciting journey down nursing schools in Canada, memory lane. the women who enrolled “It was great fun. We were part of an apprenticegot people talking to each ship-style program that other who hadn’t been in trained and educated them touch,” Bensley said. in exchange for labour. A Call to Nurse was The students would work released two months ago. long hours in the hospital The book features a difin order to gain the experiferent chapter for each ence and expertise required decade the school was to graduate and get a job. open and includes stories, Olson and Bloch enrolled pictures, and tokens from in the RCH’s School of the old nursing school. Nursing in 1967 for the While the book was mainly cost of $200, which includcreated to catalogue the ed textbooks, uniforms, memories of alumni, it also and room and board for all explores themes about life three years of the program.

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tuition, students were expected to work hard. The committee said the school was very militaristic

“You were totally looked after,” Olson said. But in exchange for the relatively inexpensive

in the way it was run. Head nurses would scour the hospital, checking to make sure the students had arranged the rooms exactly right. Dust or illfolded sheets were causes for punishment back in the day, Bloch recounted. But as the prologue states, “besides learning to nurse, they established lifelong friendships” that Bloch said have been enriched by the experience of writing this book. Bloch graduated from nursing school in 1970

and went on to work at Langley Memorial Hospital for just a few years before taking a 14-year hiatus to raise her two children and work with her husband. She returned to nursing again in 1996, and retired in 2005, and described this experience of writing the book as “incredibly rewarding.” For more information on the book, visit www. fraserhealth.ca or email acalltonurse@shaw.ca to place an order.

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On Aug. 2, Township lawyers filed an application asking the judge to dismiss the society’s legal action, and award legal costs to the Township. The legal action went ahead, and the judge sided with the opponents of Coulter Berry. Justice Joel Groves gave a verbal ruling in late October and put a stop to all construction. While the Township announced it would appeal, the site has sat empty ever since, surrounded by wooden boards. While work stopped, there was little detail about Groves’ ruling. He had given it orally, with only minimal detail about his legal reasons for the decision. It wasn’t until December that he released his full decision – and it seemed to offer a way to re-start construction. Groves found that the Heritage Alteration Permit wasn’t enough to allow the project to go forward with increased density, but council had other powers to increase density. “It is certainly open to Langley council to amend the zoning bylaw in the usual way, and that would not be an affront to the relevant sections of the LGA [Local Government Act] as I found it to be in this case,” Groves wrote. Mayor Jack Froese said in a statement released following the ruling that the

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council might look into that avenue. “This is an option council will take under serious consideration as it makes every effort to resolve this issue,” Froese wrote. Developer Eric Woodward ended the year saying it was unfortunate that the lawsuit hadn’t stopped things before they got started. He said there were significant contractual obligations for Statewood once construction had begun. “It definitely places financial stress on the project,” he said. Woodward said he would wait for the appeal or a rezoning, though he found neither prospect appealing. A rezoning might be more acceptable to the courts, but anything could happen until the final reading of the bylaw, he said. “I certainly didn’t expect somebody opposing the building within the court system.” While he said it seems likely the Coulter Berry building would still be built eventually, by the time the Christmas holidays were approaching, nothing had yet been set in motion. The year ended with opponents of the three-storey plan still calling for a return to two storeys, and proponents left with a giant hole on a prominent corner.

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Refugee seeking sanctuary A Salvadoran refugee began living in a church to avoid being deported away from his family. by Matthew Claxton

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A longtime Langley resident spent the last three months of the year claiming sanctuary in a Walnut Grove church. Jose Figueroa is originally from El Salvador, but moved to Canada 15 years ago as a refugee. His membership in the FMLN, a Salvadoran coalition that fought against the right-wing military government in the 1980s, was what was blocking his claim from being recognized. However, Figueroa said it was unjust. The FMLN started as a military organization, but after the end of the war in 1992 become a political party, and has contested numerous elections. It’s not on Canada’s list of recognized terrorist organizations. “I am not a terrorist,” Figueroa told the Langley Advance in October. “I never

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15, in what police said was a targeted attack. One of Langley’s most serious violent incidents of the year, the attack started on a Saturday at about 4 a.m. when two young men in a car were pulled over near the Tall Timbers Golf Course.

A man on foot approached the car, raised a long-barrelled firearm, and opened fire, said Langley RCMP. The two men in their early 20s drove to Langley Memorial Hospital, and police were called. Both men were known to police.

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Jose Figueroa watched a rally in support of keeping him in Canada from the doorway of the church where he has claimed sanctuary. considered the FLMN a terrorist organization.” Nevertheless, a deportation order was issued. To avoid being separated from his wife and children, he moved into the Walnut Grove Lutheran Church, and has remained there ever since. He won a minor victory in late October, when a judge ordered a stay of the deportation order until after a judicial review, to be held in the new year. However, he is remaining in the church until his case has been decided. Figueroa said he has spotted Canada Border Services Agency members keeping an eye out for him throughout December. Technically, claiming sanctuary in a church is not a legal way to avoid arrest, but for deportations and other non-violent issues, authorities have proved reluctant to make arrests on church property. Figueroa has drawn support from several Langley politicians as well as friends, fellow church members, and the general public.

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e Good-by Speedway gambit stalls 2013… There would be no return

A $2.5-million donation was made in the name of the late Thomas Blaauw. His wife Ann, left, and daughter Janet, were at the ribbon cutting.

of NASCAR to Langley as the Speedway was not reopened.

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Forest saved by big donation Groups dedicated to preserve Glen Valley forests found 2013 a pretty good year. by Matthew Claxton mclaxton@langleyadvance.com

The 2012 newsmaker of the year was the struggle over the fate of the McLellan and Grey Pit lands. In 2013, those battles ended in ways that broadly pleased the residents who wanted to preserve the forested lands from sale. At the end of October, Township council announced that McLellan Forest was an official municipal park, after decades of the Glen Valley lands being considered an unofficial park by neighbours. The 25.75 acre site on 84th Avenue and 252nd Street will now stay a park, rather than being sold as the council originally planned. Township council had already backed off on a plan to sell the western lands

after intense opposition, which included students, seniors, and even painter Robert Bateman. The lobbying also extended to the lands known as Grey Pit, just to the east along 84th Avenue. Those lands were still sold, but not to housebuilders. Instead, they were bought by Trinity Western University, with the $2.5 million purchase price supplied by the family of the late Thomas Blaauw. The Blaauw family wanted a way to commemorate the passing of the longtime Langley farmer, and he had always liked that piece of land. The Grey Pit lands will be used for conservation, environmental research, and education. The McLellan and Grey Pit lands had originally been owned by farmers or other settlers, but starting in the 1930s, they were acquired by the Township for non-payment of property taxes. Most of the lands sat empty for decades, barring some gravel extraction at Grey Pit. Over the years, the lands were discovered by dog walkers, cyclists, hikers, and environmentalists.

For a group of auto racing enthusiasts, 2013 was the year to launch an attempt to revive the long-closed Langley Speedway track. To the despair of racing fans, and the relief of many other park users, Metro Vancouver nixed the plan in July. The Langley Speedway Historical Society brought forward the plan when Metro Vancouver Parks asked for ideas to generate revenue.

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KPU dealing with law

One local university is in the midst of a lawsuit over how an employee was allegedly treated. by Heather Colpitts

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The business of learning at Kwantlen Polytechnic University carried on as the school continued its recent trend of shifting more amenities and leadership to the Langley campus. But 2013 was a time when the focus was more on legal matters. Sandra Kuzyk, 52, is suing the school for wrongful dismissal.

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The society’s Murray Jones brought 1,100 letters of support for the plan, and suggested up to 14 days of racing per year could be hosted at the track. The 3/8ths of a mile track was built in the 1960s and operated into the early 1980s, several years after the land had been bought for use as Campbell Valley Regional Park. After the track at the foot of 208th Street was closed, it was allowed to quietly decay, the asphalt covered with leaves and the old stands and stairs covered with blackberry bushes and shrubs. Volunteers from the Speedway Society cleared away much of the invasive vegetation starting several years ago, and the track has played host to a number of minor car-related events in recent years, including an electric vehicle test for BCIT students. The plan to bring back racing, however, riled a number of park users, including equestrians who like to unload their horses just up the road from the track entrance. The Metro Environment and Parks Committee at first gave an answer of “maybe” to the plan and took a couple of months to consider the idea. In July, however, the board voted to reject the notion, with Langley Township representative Bob Long siding with the majority. While he said he would love to see racing return to Langley, the challenges for the Campbell Valley site were insurmountable. Road access down the narrow stretch of 208th south of 16th Avenue was a particular worry. “How are you going to get them in and out of that narrow street?” he said, pointing out that about 5,000 people regularly came out for races in the track’s heyday.

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NLL’s Stealth representing all of B.C. The Vancouver Stealth has a championship pedigree, according to its head coach. by Troy Landreville

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new sporting era in Langley gets underway in just two days time. That’s when the Vancouver Stealth, who relocated from Everett, Wash., to Langley during the summer, opens its National Lacrosse League season in Colorado against the Mammoth. The Stealth’s season opener on Saturday, Jan. 4 will be broadcast on TSN2 at 6 p.m. PST. The following Saturday, Jan. 11, fans from Langley, across B.C., and Washington State will have their first opportunity to see the professional squad play live when the Stealth hosts the Minnesota Swarm at the Langley Events Centre. Head coach Chris Hall said he’s excited to get started, and what initially seemed like a long off-season has quickly crept up on him. “It always seems like training camp is interminable,” he told the Langley Advance during a Dec. 27 phone interview. “It seems so

long ago, now. Now it’s almost like we’re running out of time. Our first game is in Denver next weekend.” He added, “you’re always anxious for the season to get started once you’ve endured training camp. You play sports to play the games.” The long wait for pro lacrosse to return to B.C. is over. Now it’s up to the fans to come out to games, something Hall hopes won’t be a problem. “It’s been a long wait for fans and players in the Lower Mainland to have a team come back,” he said. “We’re really excited to unveil the new franchise and get going.” Hall said the facilities at the LEC and the way the Township has taken the team “under its wing” has impressed him. “We are more than thrilled with the facilities we have to work with, and we love the rink, so we’re anxious to get started,” he added. However, other sports teams have been surrounded by swaths of blue seats disguised as fans during past games inside the LEC’s arena bowl. Asked if he believes fans will come out to Stealth games, Hall answered, “I hope so.”

Langley Jr. Thunder’s Sean Lundstrom put his all behind his shot against the New Westminster Salmonbellies during B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League playoff action at the Langley Events Centre in July. Lundstrom made the National Lacrosse League’s Vancouver Stealth, which will be playing its home games at the LEC. Langley Advance files

Vancouver Stealth players Kyle Sorensen and Mike Grimes sported the National Lacrosse League team’s new jerseys. The Stealth, who relocated from Everett, Wash. to Langley during the summer, plays its home opener next Saturday, Jan. 11 at the Langley Events Centre. He noted that, even for fans who live as far away as North Vancouver, the Langley Events Centre is a relatively short hop for them, travel-wise. “With the new highway [design], it’s pretty easy to get around the Lower Mainland,” he said. “There’s no reason why we won’t draw fans from Richmond, Coquitlam, Maple Ridge... everywhere.” he local squad will once again look to challenge for the Champion’s Cup this year. On May 11, 2013, at the LEC, the Stealth lost 11-10 to the defending titleholder Rochester Knighthawks in the NLL championship game. Referring to the Champion’s Cup, Hall said the mission is the same for everyone in the league, but he’s not a huge advocate of goal-setting. “I’m more of a ‘preparer’,” he said. “If we’re well prepared in every facet, and motivated, then performance is a natural result.” The Stealth hopes to once again vie for the NLL title this spring, and the team has a number of veterans and an infusion of youthful talent to hopefully get it there. Emerging from the 40-player training camp was the Stealth’s

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top draft choice, 6’ 185 pound offensive weapons starting with forward Cody Bremner from the team’s top scorer from last Victoria. season, Rhys Duch. Bremner was the club’s first Now with a fifth NLL season round pick (eighth overall) in under his belt, Duch has 440 the 2013 NLL Entry Draft and regular season points (188 goals, is coming off an impressive 252 assists) and sits second on Western Lacrosse Association the Stealth’s all-time points list. season in which he lead the Asked if he feels added presNanaimo Timbermen in points sure as the Stealth’s offensive with 54, on 28 goals and 26 leader, Duch, who led the league assists. in goals last season with 45, said Bremner is joined by fellow he doesn’t “feel any more presdraft pick Tyler Digby (20th sure than anyone else on the overall), a 6’3” 230 pound forteam.” ward from New Westminster, “Do I want to be one of the who really go-to guys? Yes,” caught the coachhe added. “Do I want to be one ing staff’s attenDuch will be tion at camp, joined up front of the go-to guys? “Digby was by two returnYes.” impressive, he’s ing players: Cliff Rhys Duch a big body with Smith who is great soft hands coming off a and he really career season confirmed our expectations,” with 15 goals and 30 assists in Hall said. the regular season and Lewis Also adding to the list of newRatcliff, who is sixth on the comers were free agent forwards NLL’s all-time goals list with Sean Lundstrom (a Langley 411. native who played for the In just four seasons with the Langley Jr. Thunder of the B.C. team, Ratcliff sits fourth on the Junior A Lacrosse League) and Stealth’s all-time goals list and Alex Gajic (from Burnaby). earned himself a Champion’s The four new forwards will Cup MVP in 2010, as he led the add to an already potent offense Stealth to its first NLL title. continued on page A17… which returns a number of big

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Port Perry, Ont., native Mitch McMichael. atcliff knows the LEC well, having One of the team’s standout rookies played there in 2012 as a member from last year, Tim Henderson (Tully, of the Mann Cup finalist Langley NY), will remain on the holdout list for Thunder of the WLA. the season, as he’s currently serving in “Obviously I’m excited to be able to the United States military. play in front of familiar fans,” he said. “It Meanwhile, Hall said his team will play should be a cool atmosphere.” an up tempo, aggressive style. Looking ahead to this season, Ratcliff “I like players that have size and athsaid the Stealth is coming to Langley as leticism, who like to run and like to play an established franchise. an up tempo style of lacrosse,” he said. “I’m excited to get started,” he said. “We’ll run out of the back end a lot and Balancing out the forwards on the actplay a very quick transition game with a ive roster for the Stealth this season is lot of ball movement. We have some big Brett Hickey, who spent all of last season boys on team, too, and I like our size.” on the team’s practice roster. angley is already home to a pair of n defence, Burnaby’s Ilija Gajic, high level lacrosse teams in the form who was acquired in an off seaof the BCJALL’s Jr. Thunder and son trade, adds to an already solid WLA’s Thunder. defensive core. Hall is very familiar with the WLA, havThe returning group of defencemen ing played nine seasons as a member of includes captain Kyle Sorensen, assistant the Victoria Shamrocks, before taking on captain Mike Grimes, nine-year veterans head coaching duties in B.C.’s capital. Curtis Hodgson and Jeff Moleski, Chris Hall led the ’Rocks to a Mann Cup vicO’Dougerty, Justin Salt, Matt Beers, Bill tory in 1983, his rookie year as the team’s Hostrawser, and the club’s top pick (11th head coach. overall) from last year’s draft, Tyler With all due respect to senior A Garrison. lacrosse, Hall said there is a huge differn goal the Stealth have Tyler Richards ence between the two leagues. and 12-year veteran Matt Roik to “It’s two totally different entertainment round out their back end. packages,” Hall said. “In the NLL, rules Richards was one of are more conducive to a the league’s top goaltendmore fast-paced, spectatorers last season, posting a Vancouver Stealth friendly game.” 10.92 goals against averHe added that the NLL is home opener age. He also sits second more than a game – it’s an What: National Lacrosse on the Stealth’s all-time entire entertainment packLeague saves list with 2,089 age. Who: Vancouver Stealth vs. stops. “It’s more of an NBAMinnesota Swarm. “Our defence is intact style production than anyWhere: Langley Events from last year,” Hall said. thing else,” he said. Centre, 7888 200th St. “We’ve added one guy, Enhancing the league is and he’s a pretty good the players, who are the When: Saturday, Jan. 11. guy in Ilija Gajic. So best in the world at what Game time is 7 p.m. we’ve got one addition they do. Tickets: Single game tickets from last year. We have “They’re also incredstart at $27 each and are a solid defence, a good, ible athletes,” Hall added. available online at www. solid mix of experience “These guys are in phestealthlax.com or at the LEC and youth. It’s also nice nomenal condition. You box office. to know our goaltending can’t not be in peak physis good with Richards and ical condition and survive Roik.” in this league, it’s way too high of a pace, s fast and offensively orientated way too quick. The sheer physical condia league as the NLL is, games are tion of these athletes are equal to the best still won by great goaltending and of the best professionals [athletes in other rock solid defence, Hall stressed. sports].” “With championship teams, their Duch said, “This is an opportunity to backbone is great goaltending and good, see lacrosse at its highest level.” aggressive defence. I think we have that.” FINAL BUZZER: Following the Jan. The team’s roster will also include two 11 home debut, the Stealth returns to players on the injured reserve roster in the LEC on Friday, Jan. 17 to take on Brett Bucktooth from Nedrow, NY, and Colorado. Game time is 8 p.m. …continued from page A16

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Express rolls past ’Men The Rivermen lost their last two games of 2013. by Troy Landreville sports@langleyadvance.com

The bad news for the Langley Rivermen is, they lost 3-2 to the Coquitlam Express Sunday afternoon at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Centre. The good news is, this was only the second regulation loss that the Rivermen have suffered in all of December, and they sit on top of the B.C. Hockey League’s Mainland Division with a 22-121-4 record. The night before at the Langley Events Centre, the Rivermen narrowly escaped a regulation loss to the visiting Express. The Express led 5-2 heading into the third period, but three unanswered goals from Rivermen defenceman Tony Bretzmen, forward Matt Ustaski, and blueliner Zach Urban during the final frame tied the game at 5-5 and sent it into overtime.

The tie guaranteed the Rivermen a consolation point but nothing else, because Coquitlam’s Marc Biega scored during the four-on-four first overtime period to give the Express a 6-5 win. Gage Torrel and Darien Craighead scored the other Rivermen goals. On Sunday, the Express took a 2-0 first period lead on a pair of powerplay goals (including one with a two-man advantage) and held on for the victory. Langley rallied in the second period with two goals from newcomer Tyson Witala sandwiched between a marker from Biega, his second of the day. The third period was scoreless. The Rivermen play again this weekend, with three games in three days. Tomorrow night (Friday, Jan. 3), they visit Chilliwack’s Prospera Centre to take on the Chiefs. After that, they play back-to-back games at the LEC. On Saturday, they face the Surrey Eagles starting at 7:15 p.m., followed by a matinee tilt Sunday against the Cowichan Valley Capitals, with an opening puck drop of 2 p.m.

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