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Police have arrested a Langley man charged with a number of violent sexual assaults here and in Surrey.

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Volunteer at 102 She passed 100 a couple of years ago, but Dorscie Paterson has no plan to ease up on her volunteer activities yet.

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Drug busters reach Langley A North Vancouver man was arrested in Langley in a region-wide drug bust targeting the province’s fentanyl supply lines last month.

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Police, firefighters, BC Ambulance crews, and numerous tow trucks were needed to deal with a multi-vehicle crash on 16th Avenue Tuesday.

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Semi crashes traffic line Nine vehicles were squeezed together like an accordion on 16th Avenue.

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Amazingly, a nine-car pileup on 16th Avenue resulted in no serious injuries Tuesday afternoon in South Langley.

The crash was the second incident in the 22100 block of 16th Avenue that afternoon.

Earlier in the day, a backhoe got stuck in a ditch on the south side of the busy twolane road, said Langley Township assistant

More charges for child porn suspect A Langley man has been charged again with child porn possession.

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A Langley man has been charged with possession of child pornography.

Sean David McIntyre, 27, was charged after an investigation by the B.C. Integrated

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out after the first collision rushed back, sirens blaring, along with Langley RCMP and ambulance crews.

The second crash resulted in a total closure of 16th Avenue between 224th Street and 216th Street during the busy evening rush hour. Cars and trucks were diverted as far south as Zero Avenue.

Ferguson said the work of firefighters was complete by 6 p.m. and they headed back to their halls, but the road was still closed off by police for some time after that.

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A heavy-duty tow truck was at the site by 4 p.m. and was hauling the backhoe out.

While it worked, traffic eastbound was temporarily stopped.

A line of seven cars formed, and at the back of the line, a semi-trailer truck waited.

The ninth vehicle, another semi-trailer truck hauling frozen food, apparently failed to stop and plowed into the first truck, said Ferguson.

That truck was driven forward and all the other cars collided, domino-style.

“There was no serious injuries,” said Ferguson.

Firefighters had already been on the scene, helping with the first issue with the backhoe. Other crews that had been called-

Child Exploitation Unit and the Integrated Sexual Predator Observation Team, said RCMP Staff Sgt. Tyler Svendson.

Svendson, with the Child Exploitation Unit, said McIntyre has also been charged with breach of recognizance, and that the suspect is known to police.

He said this arrest was not part of a wider investigation.

Following a Feb. 19 bail hearing, McIntyre has been ordered held in custody until his trial.

“The Integrated Child Exploitation Unit remains committed to catching people who

possess child pornography,” said Svendson.

“Each time those illegal images are viewed a child is re-victimized.”

McIntyre was already before the courts on a number of other charges of child porn related charges. Online B.C. court records show a number of charges including accessing, importing or distributing, and possessing child pornography, with suspected offences taking place from December 2012 to January 2013.

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DNA breaks sex cases Events are all about women

Police arrested a man suspected in a string of attacks on women.

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A Langley man has been charged in multiple violent sexual assaults here and in Surrey, RCMP say.

Kevin Adelmo Sharp, 22, has been charged with break and enter, two counts of sexual assault with a weapon, car theft, and assault causing bodily harm.

He is in custody awaiting his first trial, set for June 8 in Surrey Provincial Court.

Police used DNA evidence to link Sharp to multiple incidents, said Langley RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Holly Marks.

Langley police began investigating last October, when two similar attacks took place just four days apart.

On Oct. 3 at 11:30 p.m., a woman flagged down an RCMP officer and said she had just been attacked. The woman, a sex trade worker, had been picked up and driven to a park in the 19800 block of 53rd Ave., said Marks.

When they arrived, she asked for cash up front. The man said he would pay later, and when she refused to have sex with him, he sexually assaulted her, shoved her out of his car, and fled, nearly

hitting her with the vehicle.

On Oct. 7, a Langley woman was attacked in Surrey under similar circumstances, said Marks. In that case, the woman was able to escape. Her attacker rifled through her purse and took some items before fleeing in a vehicle.

Police used traditional investigative methods to identify a suspect, but also collected DNA evidence from the attacks.

Those two investigations allowed police to link their suspect to an incident that took place last May. On May 1, a woman living in the 20500 block of 24th Avenue go up in the middle of the night to let her cat in through a sliding glass door. A man grabbed her by the neck and forced his way into her bedroom. She was both physically and sexually assaulted before the suspect stole some personal items and fled.

The victim was given a sexual assault examination at the hospital, and last fall, the Forensic Assessment Centre linked DNA found on the May 1 victim to the suspect in the October attacks.

“These charges are a direct result of the advancements in police forensic evidence gathering and analysis along with the ability to work seamlessly across municipal borders,” said Supt. Murray Power, head of the Langley RCMP detachment.

“Connecting allegations such as these to one person is a constant policing concern and was often difficult to do in years past.”

International Women’s Day is Sunday and events are in the offing.

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There are an estimated 1,200 murdered and missing aboriginal women and girls in Canada. Loved ones and other Canadians have been pushing for a federal inquiry.

These murdered and missing women (MMIW) are the focus of an International Women’s Day event on Friday, March 6.

The Social Justice and Aboriginal Education Committees of the Langley Teachers’ Association are sponsoring the event which takes place 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Kwantlen First Nations Cultural Centre, 23907 Gabriel Lane.

The speakers include registered social worker Melissa Hyland, who is a domestic sex trafficking educator, Lorelei Williams who founded the group Butterflies and Spirit, and former Langley School Board trustee Cecelia Reekie.

Williams’ cousin Tanya Holyk went missing in 1996 and her DNA was found on the Pickton farm. She also has

an aunt missing. She founded the group Butterflies & Spirit which uses dance and music to raise awareness about the MMIW. People planning to attend are asked to sign up in advance by contacting the LTA at mail@langleyteachers.com, 604533-1618 or the LTA Facebook page.

They can then pay at the door by cash or cheque.

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International Women’s Day is March 8 and various groups have planned events. Women’s accomplishments will be celebrated at the Muriel Arnason Library in an all-ages event that includes activities, refreshments and a display of women in a variety of fields. This free event runs 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Rotary

The Rotary Club of Langley Central is planning an event to honour women.

The event was originally scheduled for March 7 but was changed to March 28 due to a scheduling issue with speaker Dianne Watts, the former Surrey mayor.

The luncheon is 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 28 at the Newlands Golf and Country Club. Tickets are $35 per person and available online at www.internationalwomensday.ca.

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More than a century and still going strong Dorscie Paterson came to Langley 30 years ago, and embraced the community and the idea of a hospice.

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She may live on the LangleySurrey border, but Langley definitely claims Dorscie Paterson as one of its own.

At 102 years old, Paterson is the picture of an active senior: living independently, volunteering, and even driving.

Some might expect Paterson to slow down and take it easy, at this point in her life, but she would likely refer to that kind of thinking as nonsense.

“You never can tell the future,” Paterson said recently in a chat with the Langley Advance.

“Just do it. If something comes along, just do it. Don’t spend time nattering about it.”

Clearly Paterson is a doer. She and her now deceased husband David moved to Langley about 30 years ago and built the home she still lives in, with her daughter and son-in-law occupying another floor.

When asked if building a home and changing communities was daunting for a pair of 70-

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At 102 years old, Dorscie Paterson continues to be a valued volunteer with the Langley Hospice Society, where she works with Shannon Todd Booth. odd-year-olds, she replied, “No, why should it be?”

Paterson continues to approach life in this same active way, regardless of what she’s up to.

She still volunteers with the Langley Hospice Society – an organization she helped create – where she works with the society’s communications and funds development manager, Shannon Todd Booth.

Todd Booth describes Paterson as “one in a million.”

“Her energy and quick wit would put people half her age

to shame,” Todd Booth said.

“She is passionate about her role with the Langley Hospice Society and puts her heart and soul into everything she does.”

Hospice began at a kitchen table not long after Paterson became part of the community.

“We sat at [Jeannine McCarthy’s] kitchen table,” Paterson said. “It’d be 30 years ago. She [McCarthy] was the one who had the idea.”

Paterson does palliative support at the hospice residence and even spent time with the late Sylver McLaren, who was a

reporter for The Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows TIMES, sister paper to the Advance.

“We were great friends from [the first meeting] on,” Paterson said of McLaren. “I’ve put in 31 years of palliative care. It’s fascinating.”

When asked why the hospice continues to be so important to her, Paterson replied simply, “Well, I built my life around it.

Some people can do it, some can’t.”

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“You look at their face and their eyes and their body movements,” she said.

“It doesn’t care,” she said of disease and death and how it chooses where to set up. “It’s like the corn on my foot. It doesn’t care.”

Corn or not, Paterson still continues to exercise regularly. She noted she does deep knee bends while waiting for something in the microwave, or will do leg lifts while the TV is on.

“I exercise all the time,” she added.

This busy lady has functions noted on nearly every day of her calendar. She’s active with Beta Sigma Phi Langley, the local chapter of the international women’s friendship network and continues to go to church every Sunday.

All this positivity comes naturally to Paterson. Her mother was incredibly progressive and ran her own business in North Vancouver. She was also one of the first two women on the chamber of commerce in that community.

Periodically Paterson will pick up her art materials and create something.

“Every once in a while I get the itch for it,” she said.

It’s easy for Langley to be thankful that Paterson and her husband chose the community for their retirement.

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Dry grads better way to real world

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e are approaching that time of year when many young people’s thoughts are turning towards graduation, and their entry into the “real world” after high school.

Plans are underway for continuing education into universities, technical schools, and trade schools. Some will choose apprenticeships or entry-level jobs with prospects for career enhancement.

Some will float for a bit. They may not have a clear idea yet of what they want to do with the rest of their lives, and in an increasingly rapidly changing world, it’s not hard to sympathize with their indecision. Many of these young people will opt for a transition period, with perhaps some travel or other form of intermission – a few decades ago, it was commonly referring to as “going off to find yourself.”

Whatever plans may or may not be formulating in those young minds as they approach the milestone, between then and now, most of them will celebrate.

Not many years ago, that celebration was almost certain to include consumption of alcohol – immodest quantities of alcohol, in fact – as if that were some sort of proof of coming of age.

Grad parties – “grad drunks,” they were often called – were held in a back corner of a woodsy park, or in an abandoned gravel pit, or at a lakeside retreat, or in any secluded location with limited accessibility… because the organizers and participants all knew that the gatherings were illegal, irresponsible, and downright dangerous.

Grad drunks are still organized, some with complicity of some of the parents of kids involved… and they’re still illegal, irresponsible, and dangerous.

But in recent decades, most such illicit gatherings have been replaced with alcohol-free celebrations: “dry grads.” It’s a way for young men and women to “bust out” at the end of their secondary school years without endangering their own or others’ lives.

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Distant lands and winding back roads

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am not a world traveller.

I’ve never been outside of North America; my passport has the stamp for entry to America and nothing else. I’ve never been to Mexico or Australia, Jakarta or Samarkand. I may or may not ever see any of those places.

I’ve been thinking of travel because spring is here, whether officially or not.

When the trees burst into bloom and I can venture outside without multiple layers for warmth and waterproofing, I start to get itchy feet. I start to read Wikipedia articles about distant places, and wonder why I know so little about Indonesia, or Tunisia, or Estonia. You could make a pretty good travel itinerary just by listing all the countries that end in “ia.”

I am unlikely to simply buy a plane ticket, demand my vacation time, and head off. Like pretty much everyone else, I have responsibilities and a bank account that demands to be filled up frequently.

Yet I have family members who have travelled, even lived abroad, and friends who have done the same. South America, Europe, Asia – I know people who have studied, worked, and lived in all three. And of course I know many people who came here from other countries and have made their new home here, nestled between the ocean and the mountains.

Inadvertently, I have become the opposite of a widely travelled person. I have become not a hermit, but a kind of expert on the local.

I grew up in Langley and don’t remember living anywhere else. If you had to find the geographic centre of the Langleys, the point where it would balance if uprooted and placed on MATTHEW a giant spike, it would be close to my family’s home.

From there, my world moved outward, by family car trips, bicycle, and eventually my own cars. In my teens I had jobs mowing lawns and painting houses that took me into neighbourhoods from one end of town to the other. I learned the simple grid of streets, and then some of the more complex nooks and crannies.

I know of back entrances to parks, cut-throughs that allow a cyclist to slice across BC Hydro right-of-ways and into quiet cul-de-sacs. I know the walking paths that wind through ravines, where cool air drifts up from creeks in the summer and the air smells of cedar.

I know where heritage homes and markers are tucked away, where the old sawmills stood, and where spillways controlled the flow of water in now-wild creeks.

I know the feel of the roads – smooth highways, the bump of asphalt forced up by cottonwood roots, and the rough rural roads, not paved or patched in a generation.

The cost of this local knowledge – of almost two decades working in Langley – is that I can get quickly lost if too far over CLAXTON municipal boundaries. Toss me into the wilds of Port Coquitlam or White Rock, and I’m liable to find myself stuck in a cul-de-sac, poking at my phone for a map.

If given a few hundred thousand dollars and a ride to the airport, I’d happily expand my horizons. I would gladly visit any continent – I know enough to know how little I know and how much I have to learn.

But I’m not sure I would make a trade of my local knowledge for that of a world traveller.

The way I gained my knowledge of my home town wasn’t exactly work – it grew around me, like roots around a stone.

I’m bound up by strands of memories and experiences shaped by my home.

And I still have more to learn, even in the place I know best.

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Letters to the editor Integrity missing from debate Dear Editor, Recent comments claiming people are fighting mad at TransLink, are dead wrong.

TransLink is the messenger, not the target.

The Fiberals’ first mistake is thinking the populace is stupid. Taxpayers are broke, tired of being fleeced, and tired of being subjected to ineptitude and police-state antics.

Case in point is Amrik Virk – Christy

Clark moved him into another portfolio because he was caught facilitating internal sanctioning in senior government circles.

Does transferring him make him any less of a trickster in his new portfolio? Do the people want to be ruled by corruption?

The people want leadership, honesty, and value for their tax dollars.

Richard Keill, Langley

Chamber pernicious presence in Langley Dear Editor, I read with alarm of the Chamber of Commerce’s pernicious presence in

Langley. Continent-wide, the Chamber promotes insidious far right-wing policies that corrupt dem-

Police Act needs revamp

Dear Editor, Your editorial, [Transparent, accountable trust needed, Feb.26 Langley Views, Langley Advance] expresses concerns about transparency and accountability in the way investigations into police are conducted.

Those concerns should also apply to the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner. B.C.’s Police Act allows the OPCC to work in near secrecy and with zero accountability. So unless a case happens to get publicity, the public has no way of knowing how the OPCC handled it.

Take for example the case of Vancouver police constable Taylor Robinson who shoved a disabled woman to the sidewalk. Police complaint commissioner Stan Lowe’s November 2013 Notice of Public Hearing into Robinson indicates that Lowe didn’t order an investigation until 48 days after Robinson pushed his victim to the ground, 47 or 48 days after Vancouver Police Professional Standards found out, and 29 days after Lowe’s office found out.

Not mentioned by Lowe is a barrage of publicity that began when the media found out five days before Lowe finally ordered the investigation.

Reforms to the Police Act should start with Lowe’s office.

Greg Klein, Nanaimo

ocracy, victimize consumers, and contribute to the corporatist agenda. It’s in collusion with “think tanks” that attempt to drive federal policy toward Americanstyle failed policies, like lack of oversight, dismantling regulations that protect the public, cutting government revenues and redistribution of public wealth into the hands of private interests, and concentrating power in the hands of lobbyists.

When I discover a business or local merchant pays dues to this pernicious entity, I bring my potential purchases to the counter and then inform the business owner that I would have bought those items until I discovered that they belong to the CofC. I want local businesses to realize that membership in this anti-social, right-wing conspiracy has its costs.

Holly Guinan, Aldergrove

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Harper bill danger to democracy

Dear Editor, It’s a strange time indeed when NDP Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, and former prime minsters Jean Chretien, Joe Clark, Paul Martin, and John Turner are agreed in their concerns about Prime Minister Harper’s Bill C-51, which among other things, redefines national security threats to include interference with critical infrastructure and threats to economic and financial stability.

Conservative MPs argue this legislation is necessary solely to prevent terrorist threats to our nation.

However, under current laws, the RCMP and CSIS have been able to break up numerous terror plots. Our security services have sufficient powers under current statutes to deal with terrorism and security.

So does Harper have other targets in mind? The government has shut down critics in the past. They’ve silenced scientists who produce research that conflicts with Conservative government policy. They’ve taken away financial support or threatened audits of non-profit organizations in an effort to suppress criticism of the government.

TransLink spelled perfectly

Dear Editor, Thank you ever so much for two great columns [TransLink’s got to go, Feb. 17 Langley Views, and Why I’d make a perfect TransLink CEO, Feb. 19 Painful Truth, Langley Advance]. You have spelled out so perfectly and realistically the situation with TransLink, and the answers as to what to do about this disgusting situation that we are in with this outfit. I hope everyone reads your columns, and maybe something can be done to straighten out this mess and get our transit system on a better track.

Jewel Williams, Langley

And soon the government may have Bill C-51. The focus on economic stability could see new classifications of who is a terrorist.

Aboriginal groups protesting pipelines or advocating for land claims could be seen as a threat, and deemed terrorists.

A union’s strike action might threaten the economic agenda of the government and result in intense CSIS and RCMP scrutiny.

Academics criticizing government diplomacy may be spied upon.

The RCMP recently called the “anti-petroleum” movement a growing and violent threat to Canada’s security.

Under Bill C-51, environmentalists could be detained on mere suspicion.

We should heed the words of our former prime minsters. Bill C-51 stifles free speech and gives much more power to secretive policing activities with no oversight and no accountability. It will undermine our rights and freedoms.

Shane Dyson, Aldergrove

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Referencing Langley in History, we noted that the crowded schools in Willoughby mirror the situation in Aldergrove in the 1980s. Readers weigh in: Scott Waddle – Even though we look back on the past in fondness, history has a way of repeating.

Word of a new Timmies in town also got some positive feedback: Sonia Peters – I will be dropping in for my timmies soon.

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ippee! Another Timmy’s has arrived in Langley.

This past Saturday, the new restaurant at Douglas Crescent and 204th Street had a soft opening. An official grand opening is expected to follow.

For most, it might not be a big deal. In fact, some have told me they don’t care, while others have said there are ROXANNE HOOPER already too many.

But since it’s on my direct path to the office, I’ll share with you that I’m elated. Plus, it’s within walking distance of home, and might serve as another excuse to stroll downtown.

looking to work with apprentices in Langley.

Dhatt was hailed as a key new support for trades training south of the Fraser River during a recent Industry Training Authority (ITA) meeting in Surrey.

In his new capacity as the apprenticeship advisor for South Delta, Surrey, White Rock, and Langley, Dhatt will be an on-the-ground resource that Minister of Education – and our former Langley City mayor – Peter Fassbender said is overdue.

“ITA is necessary to Artisans sought ensure that our children And as a little aside, for are prepared for the jobs all you artisans in Langley, of tomorrow,” Fassbender Friday, March 6, is the deadsaid. “Dal Dhatt will be line for applications for the instrumental in buildpopular Bloom Market in Fort ing the knowledge base Langley. and awareness of the Organizer Sarah Barrett is B.C. apprenticeship syscoordinating the next market tem and will be a key for Mother’s Day weekend, liaison to apprentices and and she’s seeking “talented employer sponsors.” artisans who create unique Dhatt brings more than Roxanne Hooper/Langley Advance handmade items.” eight years of experience Walnut Grove’s Allie Matthews “Last year, we had over motivating and counselserves up some hot coffee in the 2,000 visitors to our quaint ling individuals, specifdrive thru on her first shift at the little market, making for a ically youth, towards new Tim Hortons that opened in fun and successful event for employment. downtown Langley City Saturday. all,” she said, inviting those He will serve as an interested to apply at www. extension of the ITA BloomMarket.com. customer support team, with a primary focus on regional support to apprentices Advisor in place and sponsors, creating a positive impact Dal Dhatt appears to be the guy to on continuation and completion rates for know if you’re an apprentice or employer apprenticeship.

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FILM INDUSTRY

Bates benefits Langley

The spooky Psycho prequel filmed throughout the Lower Mainland, including at the “Bates Motel” in South Aldergrove, has numerous positives for the community.

RONDA PAYNE news@langleyadvance.com

Of all the possible locations in the Lower Mainland, producers of Bates Motel chose a lightly sloped parcel of land across from the Langley Transfer Station in Aldergrove to set up shop.

According to Ken Brooker, one of the two location managers for the show now filming its third season (set to begin airing on A&E network on March 9), location scouts would have looked for the ideal spot for months prior to the show’s first season two years ago.

“An application was made to the Township [of Langley] for a lease,” Brooker said. “It was disused land... it just seemed like a good fit.”

In addition to the Aldergrove location, crews work all over the Lower Mainland filming scenes for the spooky prequel series which centres around a teenaged Norman Bates who was introduced to movie-goers in 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock in the Psycho thriller movie.

While the motel built on 272nd Street for the filming is somewhat non-descript except for the name, it’s the house on the hill that looms and adds tone to the show.

“We benefit from the time of year,” Brooker said. “Our show is a moody show.

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Location manager Ken Brooker stands at the iconic home of Norma and Norman Bates from the A&E series Bates Motel, sitting in Aldergrove.

The Pacific Northwest is complementary. We don’t pack up just because it’s raining.”

Mark Freeborn, the production designer during all three seasons, is responsible for creating the ominous look of the sets.

The weather definitely helps with his job.

“They play in the dark and they love the fog. They are completely in love with the weather,” Val Gafka, Langley Ronda Payne/Langley Advance Township’s senior manager of The Bates Motel sign has become something of a landmark for the part of Langley in corporate administration, said of which the TV series of that name is primarily shot. the crew.

“What they’ll do is find a space that offers them many stays on the site. production also leases a priperviews [shooting possibil“It’s a very labour intensive vately owned vacant lot nearby ities],” Gafka said of those who industry,” said Brooker. to allow for the trailers for hair, film locally. “We’ve noticed that Gafka noted that the positive makeup, and the actors. Catering quite a lot over the past couple impacts from Bates Motel could facilities are set up nearby with of years... they be both diverse and significant shuttles that stick to one to the Langley area. run talent or two pri“From an environmental perback and forth mary areas. It spective... they are very clean... between locaactually minithey leave the area in a very tions. mizes the trafclean state,” Gafka said.

“It’s one of fic within our In addition to respect for the the things we community.” environment, benefits of local do to keep Filming people happy,” filming like Bates Motel comes in for the show the form of local purchases. said Brooker. takes place in “It runs from procuring local It isn’t easy Ronda Payne/Langley Advance the Township services and local goods to hirkeeping all of Langley, ing and retaining local talent,” of the action Inside the Bates Motel, rooms Vancouver, and are shared with directors and Gafka said. on a filming beyond with Bates Motel production assistsite coordincrew who film the TV series at the four or more ant, Leanne Clerihue can attest ated. It can South Aldergrove location. locations being to that. “The day that it snowed, take upwards used in one day of shooting.

I think I bought three pairs of seven days to prepare for a “The Township has been very, shoot, a single episode takes of gloves from Mark’s Work very good... quite progressive, eight days of shooting, and there Warehouse,” she noted. in how they approach film,” “It’s all these people [who are 10 episodes per season.

Brooker said. work on the site], driving Including those on the construcFrom the Township’s side, through [Langley] buying gas on tion team, it can take up to 50 Gafka had positive things to say the way, stopping to get gum...” people to get a set ready. about the experience with the Ken added of how the crew “Before a camera is even crew from Bates Motel. delivers an economic benefit. turned on,” Brooker noted.

“There’s just so many differThen, there are the people Daily there are close to 100 ent TV series [being filmed] here people on the production site who come to Aldergrove simply locally,” she said. “It definitely because Bates Motel is filmed with vehicles and equipment. instills pride in the community. here.

Despite the fact that the lot is It has many different economic secure, very little equipment continued on page A11… impacts, but the aspect of civic pride is definitely there.”

“They’ve always been really interested in finding middle ground or solutions,” added Brooker of the Township, noting that Gafka is one of the key people who makes the process work smoothly.

“The biggest deal is that people are willing to work with you to make your products,” he said. “We rely on people’s supRonda Payne/Langley Advance port to do what we do.”

The Bates Motel TV series is primarily shot in the Township of Langley on a In addition to the lot across formerly vacant lot. from the transfer station, the

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Film and television crews around Langley may be very visible, or they may be tucked away on quiet rural lots, far from the view of passerby.

Either way, they’re adding significantly to the town’s economy.

Val Gafka, who oversees film permits in her role as Langley Township’s senior manager of corporate administration, said the direct economic benefit of film production is over $34 million per year.

“Generally speaking the Township is one of the most film-friendly communities in B.C.,” said Gafka.

The Township charges a very low rate for a film permit – just $25 for a film application, making it competitive with other nearby towns and cities.

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Local actor Rustin Gresiuk worked on a scene with director Jeffrey Lando while on location in Langley for the movie Suspension, filmed in 2014.

However, it also charges daily fees for productions looking to film in Township parks, and a production requiring traffic control or firefighters on hand for pyrotechnics will have to pay for the extra services.

In 2014 there were more than 600 filming days in the Township, said Gafka, meaning that on a typical day, there were at least two productions filming in various locations.

Gafka is now waiting to see if the lower Canadian

dollar, hovering around 80 cents to the American greenback, and down from around 95 cents last year, sends more U.S. productions this way.

“The dollar definitely has a bearing on that, as well as the tax incentives east of 200th Street,” Gafka said.

Filming in Langley often makes financial sense.

The B.C. government offers a 33 per cent tax credit on local labour used during film production.

If you film outside the

“Vancouver area,” or east of 200th Street, another six per cent tax credit is available.

Another recentlyannounced change is aimed at bringing digital animation or special effects work to the province.

An existing tax credit was expanded to postproduction work, and the whole credit was extended to 2018.

The film industry spends more than $1.1 billion in B.C. annually, and generates an estimated 20,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Some estimates put that as high as 36,000 jobs.

It’s hard to tell at the start of 2015 if this will be a bigger than average year for filming in Langley Township.

“We’re in pilot season, to begin with,” Gafka said in February. “This is a pretty busy time of the year.”

There are about 80 to 100 productions in Langley Township every year, ranging from student films to TV movies to ongoing series.

The Township treats an ongoing series as a single production, even if it films here repeatedly, Gafka noted.

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Friends, neighbours on set It’s easy for the crew to identify who belongs on “Film tourism in general the site and who doesn’t. is something we see not “We’re like a family,” all too often,” said Gafka.

Brooker noted. “We’ve all “But there is a general been working together day interest in the film indusin day out.” try.”

“You get to This interest know faces was apparpretty quickent when two ly,” added fans were Clerihue. spotted on Although the side of the the film road, watchindustry ing the filming involves numpreparations erous people, at the main Ronda Payne/Langley Advance many of those Bates Motel Michelle Graham of working on site. Michelle Chilliwack and Kevin Bates Motel Graham from Coulter of Ontario are local, Chilliwack came to Aldergrove according to brought her Brooker. friend Kevin specifically to see the “We’re not Coulter from Bate Motel site. just from Ontario to Vancouver,” he said.

Aldergrove, specifically to “We’re your friends and see the site. your neighbours from all “I love it,” Graham said over the Lower Mainland.” of the Bates Motel series.

One of those individuals “We were just giddy is John Scavarda who [when we saw the site],” works grips and has been she added. an Aldergrove resident for “I’m going to make my about 15 years. friends jealous,” added “It’s awesome, I don’t Coulter. have the commute or the Brooker took a picture bridge [tolls],” Scavarda of the pair with the iconic said of working just 10 house in the background.

The crew are kind to vis- minutes from home.

“I have extra time to iting fans, and allow them sleep, I get to see my famto watch from the east ily. There are tonnes of side of the street so long benefits for me.” as they don’t get in the A side benefit for way of filming or cause Scavarda is being able to trouble. …continued from page A9

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bring his family out to the set when it is permitted.

“Quite a few people [working on Bates Motel] live out here,” he added.

For the Township, it seems as though having the production in Aldergrove is a great arrangement.

“They are an excellent crew. They have some really skilled people working on that crew,” Gafka said. “They also have 24/7 security on the site.”

While the Langley Advance was offered access behind the scenes at the site of Bates Motel, no story line details were revealed, to ensure the show’s progression remains a mystery.

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Those who watch Bates Motel on TV will recognize the office where Ken Brooker, location manager, and Leanne Clerihue, production assistant, stand behind the desk.

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A barn dance on March 7 in Langley will feature fiddle music, Scottish country dance tunes, a silent auction and treats as the West Coast Fiddlers raise funds for the youth musical group.

The West Coast Fiddlers are a long-running group for 12- to 18-year-olds.

They are a talented group of players that opened up for Natalie McMaster, explained event organizer Csilla Wilson, the treasurer with the Harmony Music Society.

People can check out the West Coast Fiddlers Barn Dance 2014 performance through the group’s Facebook site.

They’ve also rounded up some old-country help for the fundraiser on Saturday.

The Tartan Players are a Scottish dance band with more than 80 gigs under their kilts, having performed around the Lower Mainland and as far away

The West Coast Fiddlers are musicians ranging from 12 to 18. as Hawaii.

As well, Louise Steinway will be calling dances, and the event includes treats, a silent auction and games for the kids during intermissions.

The barn dance has been held since 2009 in different communities including Fort Langley, Abbotsford, Aldergrove, and Langley.

It is sponsored by the Sabir Sisters Music Studio for the Harmony Music Society.

“We will have a caller and we will be demonstrating the dancing to everyone,” Wilson said. “It

is fun for all ages.”

This year it’s at the Southridge Community Church, 22756 48th Ave. “We hope to have around 250 to 300 people there,” Wilson said.

The doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the dance starts at 7 p.m. Advance tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for children and $35 for a family (two adults and two children).

At the door, tickets cost $20, $15 and $45, respectively.

For tickets, contact harmonymusicsociety@gmail. com or 604-312-7578.

LIVE THEATRE

‘Chaperone’ plays at Trinity The Broadway musical comes to Langley.

Trinity Western University is offering up a bubbly 1920s spoof in The Drowsy Chaperone.

Playing the drowsy chaperone is Julianna Towle, a second-year TWU student and Langley Secondary grad.

“I think the beautiful thing about this story is that while it’s so ridiculous and hilarious, it still holds so much truth,” Towle said. “It speaks to the imperfections of life and the people around us, but it also shows the beauty and joy that can be found within them.”

TWU’s spring musical follows Janet, a Broadway star who wants to leave the spotlight for a storybook romance with her dashing fiancé. But Janet’s producer and a mischievous pair of gangsters-indisguise won’t let their leading lady go without a fight. Enter, a notorious Latin lothario hired to seduce the bride. With a chaperone who’s not too good at her job, will there be wedding bells… or scandal?

“This show pokes fun at the musical theatre world from a 21st-century perspective,” said director Angela Konrad.

“It celebrates all the things you love about musicals, while poking fun at the rest. Mistaken identities, zany plot twists, catchy song and dance numbers – I dare anyone not to have a good time!”

The show features infectious tap-dance

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People can check out the characters in a YouTube preview piece for The Drowsy Chaperone. numbers, splashy jazz tunes with a live orchestra, and even tongue-in-cheek love ballads such as I Put a Monkey on a Pedestal as well as Art Deco-era set design.

The Drowsy Chaperone plays at TWU’s School of the Arts, Media + Culture (SAMC) from March 10 to 28. Tickets are $15. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday with Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. Tuesdays are 2-for-1, and high school students are invited to attend an exclusive free performance with pizza. Email samc@twu.ca to get details for that special event.

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Corner Gas creator performs standup Brent Butt is bringing his solo show to Langley.

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Ask Brent Butt about what he does for a living and he will tell you he’s living his dream.

Since he was 12 years old all he ever wanted to do was standup comedy, TV shows, and movies.

Perhaps best known for coming into living rooms on the small screen in the Emmy-nominated Corner Gas, Butt has been doing standup since 1988 and sees his “routine” as a discussion.

“I don’t really do many ‘jokes’,” he said. “It’s

Langley welcomes Canadian funnyman Brent Butt to Cascades Casino on March 12. more of a discussion that’s (hopefully) funny.”

He’s the winner of four Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Male Stand-up, Best Male TV Performance (twice), and Best Writing

TV Series, the latter being for Corner Gas, his own creation. He is also the recipient of a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to community.

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With a presence that gets more emphatic each year, Fuchsia magellanica, begins flowering about the end of July and continues till frost.

It’s popular with hummingbirds.

Clematis would flower arcococca humilis has well if it can get up trees small white very frainto the sun. Very vigorous grant flowers early in ones can be hard to control. spring.

ANNE MARRISON The shorter clematis should Skimmias’ red berries be easier to handle. (you’ll need a male and The one vine-like plant a female) provide winter that flowers persistently in 100 per cent colour. shade is Jasminium nudiflorum which Dwarf rhododendrons would succeed has yellow (scentless) flowers through beautifully under trees. I’d suggest the December to February. It’s not self-supYakushimanums, in various pinks, some porting, so it must be tied onto a frame, pale with a deeper pink bud. Many kinds and it needs drastic pruning after flowerare easily available. There are many lovely purples among small-leaved rhodo- ing. But it flowers for many weeks at its dendron hybrids, including Blue Diamond most needy time of year. and Ramapo, as well as whites and pinks. Dear Anne, For good spring bloom, brunnera has “I have a kalanchoe plant that has fina long flowering season. Some varieties ished blooming. I have cut back the flower have gold-splashed leaves. All have small, stems. How do I get it to bloom again?” blue forget-me-not flowers. Another good, Koko, Vancouver long spring bloomer is pulmonaria, with fter cutting back the flower stems, flowers that can be variably pink, blue, or encourage reblooming by putting white with pale green or silver blotched the plant in a dark place for 14 or splashed leaves. Both brunnera and hours, then in bright light for ten hours pulmonaria self-seed abundantly. each day. Since kalanchoes are small, it So does Helleborus orientalis, which should be easy to pop them in and out of buds early in the year. After flowering for a cardboard box. Keep the light variation weeks, the cup-like flowers morph into for about six weeks, and don’t water or large seed-heads that self-seed prolifically. fertilize them – it should be a completely Over the summer, columbines and dormant time. astilbes thrive in shade. For fall flowers When you see buds form, it can return and silver-dappled winter leaves, to a normal life. Some people keep kalanCyclamen hederifolium makes a lovely choe going strong for years this way. low-growing plant.

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MUSIC

Coffee with baroque The Langley Community Music School goes for baroque.

Classical music is sweet and sappy and dull, right?

Not so and this Sunday afternoon is a chance to hear the rock and roll of the era from about 1600 to 1750.

Stile Moderno performs baroque music and comes to the Langley Community Music School March 8 as part of the Café Classico Concert series.

“This baroque performance is such a great treat,” said LCMS artistic director Elizabeth Bergmann. “The performers are stunning musicians who bring the music of this period to life with a freshness and vibrancy that is insightful, rich and wonderfully expressive.”

Using period instruments, Stile Moderno is able to create a warmer and richer sound.

Stile Moderno is violinst Arthur Neele, raised in the Netherlands. He now lives in Vancouver and spends half his time working in health care at the

Critical Care Department of St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.

He’s joined in the group

by Natalie Makie and lutist Konstantin Ruslanov Bozhinov.

Makie plays the viola de gamba, and all three have long list of performing credentials around the globe.

The Café Classico event starts at 2:30 p.m., featuring a conversation with Stile Moderno’s three performers, hosted by Elizabeth Bergmann.

Learn more about bar-

oque music, and the inspiration behind it, through the personal insights of the performers.

There will be a short break with coffee and refreshments, before the performance from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tickets for this Concerts Café Classico event are $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and $10 for students.

Call the box office at 604534-2848.

The school’s Rose Gellert Hall is located at 4899 207th St.

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Artists livening up evenings

Township For the week of March 5, 2015

his hybrid vocalist/percussionist performance.

Also in attendance at the first First Thursday will be Emily Thornton, a violinist who hails from Fort Langley.

Kirstin Krimmel, whose works are currently on display at the gallery, will host an artist’s talk as well.

First Thursdays at the Fort

public open house

Tuesday, March 10 | 7 - 9pm Seniors Advisory Committee Civic Facility Salmon River Committee Room Wednesday, March 11 | 3 - 5pm Mayor’s Standing Committee on Public Engagement Civic Facility Fraser River Presentation Theatre Wednesday, March 11 | 7 - 9pm Recreation, Culture, and Parks Advisory Committee Civic Facility Salmon River Committee Room Township of Langley Civic Facility 20338 - 65 Avenue, Langley V2Y 3J1 604.534.3211 | tol.ca

2015 - 2019 Five-Year Financial Plan

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Township of Langley Council would like to hear from citizens and take their views into consideration as they deliberate on the 2015 - 2019 Five-Year Financial Plan, with emphasis on the 2015 Operating and Capital Budget.

The Draft 2015 Operating and Capital Budget includes a 1.59 percent base property tax increase.

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

road closure Temporary Road Closure: 201 Street at CN Rail Crossing 201 Street will be closed at the CN rail crossing from 9am on Thursday, March 12 until 9pm on Sunday, March 15. The closure is required to allow CN crews to repair the crossing. A detour route is noted below.

Staff will be available to answer questions and provide information on the budget.

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Budget Open Houses will be held on March 9 and 10, 2015 at the Civic Facility and the public is encouraged to attend.

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Tuesday, March 10 9am - 4pm

Location: Township Civic Facility, 4th Floor Foyer Address: 20338 – 65 Avenue Watch our website at tol.ca/budget for further details or email tolbudget2015@tol.ca.

Karen Sinclair Deputy Director of Finance ksinclair@tol.ca

public programs and events Food Hub Feasibility Study Stakeholder Workshop

The Township of Langley, with the assistance of the Agricultural Advisory Committee, is preparing a Food Hub Feasibility Study to assess the needs of local small/medium food producers and their customers.

Food hubs are integrated facilities that process, package, store, distribute, and sell local food. They support a wide range of activities, including farmers’ markets, food warehousing and distribution, online brokering and logistics, commercial kitchens for food processing and preparation, and restaurants.

A Stakeholder Workshop will be held to explore the elements of a successful food hub and will feature guest speaker Amy McCann of Local Food Marketplace, Eugene, Oregon.

Thursday, March 12 6:30 to 9pm

The Food Hub Feasibility Study is part of the Agricultural Viability Strategy, which emphasizes providing the services and infrastructure required to enhance the agri-food industry in Langley.

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1. Visit the Township website at tol.ca/budget and complete the questions on the budget simulator tool 2. Complete a budget questionnaire available on our website, at community recreation centres, and at the Budget Open Houses.

Please plan to attend the Budget Open House on either of these two dates: Date: Monday, March 9 Time: 1 - 8pm

Date: Time:

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Council seeks public input on four additional items under consideration: addition of three RCMP officers, addition of eight full-time firefighters, an increase to the amount set aside for capital infrastructure, and an increase to the amount for paving roads.

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Rolo Preza

Organizers at the Fort Galley want to start the month off with a bang, as well-known percussionist Rolo Preza performs at the gallery Thursday.

Preza’s performance will be the

first in a new series at the Fort Gallery, known as First Thursdays.

As the name implies, on the first Thursday of every month, artists, writers, poets and musicians will be invited to the Fort Gallery to play an evening set from 5 to 7 p.m.

Preza, originally from El Salvador, has toured throughout North America and Europe with

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Once a month, locals will play at Fort Gallery.

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We appreciate your patience.

Engineering Division 604.533.6006 enginfo@tol.ca

public notices Hired Equipment Pre-Qualification The Township of Langley invites submissions from qualified contractors to be included on a pre-qualified list for hired equipment.

Submissions will be received until 4pm on Friday, March 13, 2015 at the Purchasing Department.

Contractors submitting pre-qualification submissions must consent to the Township of Langley verifying the information provided on their submission.

Forms and further information can be found on the Township of Langley website at tol.ca under Doing Business with the Township or picked up from the Township of Langley Purchasing Department, on the main floor of the Operations Centre at 4700 - 224 Street.

Purchasing Services ceirikson@tol.ca

Boat Launch Closure Notice

To register, please call 604.533.6154 or email alacki@tol.ca on or before Monday, March 9.

Please be advised that the Marina Park boat launch in Fort Langley will be closed to motorized watercraft from 7am - 3pm on Saturday, March 7, for the University of the Fraser Valley Cascade Athletics’ “Head of the Fort” race on the Bedford Channel.

The location of the workshop will be confirmed upon registration.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Teresa Kaszonyi Community Development 604.533.6091

Scott Johnson Parks Services Coordinator 604.532.3538

After-Hours Emergency Contact 604.543.6700

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Langley’s best guide for what’s happening around town.

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March 5

Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Comics John Cullen, Larke Miller and Sean Proudlove perform March 5 in the Cascades Casino Summit Theatre. Tickets: $10 plus tax.

No minors allowed. Showtime is 8 p.m.

March 10

The Drowsy Chaperone The Trinity Western University School of Media, Arts + Culture presents the annual spring musical March 10 to 28 on campus, 7600 Glover Rd. Showtimes are 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday with 2 p.m. Saturday matinees. Info: www.twu.ca.

Tickets: drowsytwu.brownpapertickets.com. 2-for-1 Tuesdays and deals for students.

March 11

Brass Blast A concert by

Kwantlen Polytechnic University students starts in the Langley campus auditorium at 7:30 p.m. on March 6. Info and tickets: www.kpu.ca.

Libraries

Programs are free and pre-registration is required unless noted otherwise.

Aldergrove Library 26770 29th Ave. 604-856-6415 Brookswood Library 20045 40th Ave. 604-534-7055 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. Preregistration required. Call ahead to confirm. 7 p.m.

Fort Langley Library 9167 Glover Rd. 604-888-0722 Muriel Arnason Library #130 20338 65th Ave. 604-5323590 International Women’s Day is honoured March 8 from 2 to 4

p.m. Enjoy henna, refreshments and a display of successful Canadian women. Free, drop-in.

Murrayville Library 22071 48th Ave. 604-533-0339 Murrayville Library Art Club Show runs to March 13.

Walnut Grove Library 8889 Walnut Grove Dr. 604-882-0410

Ongoing

Love Kindness and Friendship The Freedom Arts Collective Gallery (ABC Fine Arts), 20573 Fraser Hwy., exhibition runs to March 21. The collection of art

and poetry is open for viewing Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Square Wheelers Square Dance Club. Info: 604-513-9901 or 604-594-6415, or www. squaredance.bc.ca.

Wednesdays

Langley Camera Club Meets 7 p.m. at Fort Langley Community Hall, 9167 Glover Rd., on 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wednesday of each month. All levels of photographers and newcomers welcome. Info: 604-532-9212.

March 6

World Day of Prayer The Langley Presbyterian Church, 20867 44th Ave., is the site for a service written by the churches of the Bahamas and organized by several local churches. The annual service is 1 to 2 p.m. on March 6. All welcome. Info: Ella, 604-533-4997.

World Day of Prayer Six congregations from Fort Langley and Walnut Grove are hosting a service at St. George’s Anglican Church, 9160 Church St. from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on March 6. This year’s service is about the Caribbean. Refreshments to follow.

Free. All welcome. Info: www. stgeorgeanglican.ca.

March 7

Broadway to Hollywood Enjoy vocalist Calla Krause and musician Perry Dickison in concert followed by a reception starting 7:30 p.m. on March 7 at Sharon United Church, 21562 Old Yale Rd. Tickets: adults $18 and seniors/students $15. Info: www. ucol.ca.

Barn Dance A family-friendly fundraiser in support of the Harmony Music Society features the West Coast Fiddlers and the Tartan Players with Louise Steinway calling the dances. The annual barn dance is March 7 in SouthRidge Fellowship, 22756 48th Ave., and features music, Scottish country dancing (no experience necessary), games, food and a silent auction. The doors open at 5:30 p.m. with the dance starting at 7 p.m. Tickets: $15 for adults, $10 for children and $45 for a family (two adults and two children) at the door.

Reserve in advance at harmonymusicsociety@gmail.com or 604-312-7578.

Networking breakfast The Breakfast Club hosts presenters mortgage broker Cheryl Batke and realtor Taya Docksteader March 7, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Wings Restaurant conference room, 19696 Fraser Hwy. Reserve in advance and pay $10 (includes breakfast). Drop-ins $12. Info and RSVP: 604-530-7304, 604-3197416 or 778-554-3304.

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ROAD UPGRADES Road upgrades will ensure people, goods and services move more freely, efficiently and safely, while also addressing critical bottlenecks.

Together, these projects and many more meet the demands of an expected population growth of 1 million in the next 30 years, which would otherwise put unimaginable strain on an already overcrowded transportation network.

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Proposed Closure on Glover Road Notice is given pursuant to Section 60(2) of the Transportation Act that the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure has received an application from the Kwantlen First Nation to permanently close the section of Glover Road within the McMillan Island IR No. 6 lands, south of Gabriel Lane to the former Albion Ferry landing, within the Township of Langley, and that such closed road be vested pursuant to Section 60(2) of the Transportation Act. Glover Road was originally acquired by the Province from the Kwantlen First Nation, as shown on CLSR Plan RD2650 and CLSR Plan 4701.

The road will be returned to the Government of Canada for inclusion to Kwantlen First Nation McMillan Island IR No. 6 lands.

The plan showing the proposed road closure can be viewed from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure South Coast Region, Lower Mainland District Office at the address below.

Any persons wanting to provide comments of support or objection to this application for road closure should do so in writing no later than March 12, 2015, to the following ministry contact:

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HISTORY

Each item a piece of history

Fort Langley’s Centennial Museum has a wide range of artifacts on display until March 22.

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Sometimes things hold an important place in history, but they aren’t able to be appreciated due to space constraints. Such is the challenge of Langley Centennial Museum curator Kobi Christian.

With a collection of rare, unique, interesting, and generally local items on hand, but minimal space to show them, Christian wants the community to see some of its own history.

Fortunately, because the museum’s exhibits are planned well in advance, a number of lesser-seen items are on display for public appreciation until March 22, in a show called Collected and Curated: Artifacts from the Permanent Collection.

“We usually have four to six exhibits in here each year,” Christian said of the museum’s exhibit space.

“We try to plan a year or two in advance, so we planned this show.”

The items on display range from the familiar to the unusual with one common thread running through them: all have been donated to the museum to mark their role in history.

Of special interest to those familiar with the lumber industry are the coin-shaped tokens with numbers stamped on them.

“They came from the Fernridge Lumber Company,” Christian said.

It is believed that the tokens were a time-keeping and payment device that worked somewhat like a time-clock where workers would pick up their coin on the way in, then return it at the end of the day’s work.

“This was common in mills at the time,” noted Christian.

Another lumber-related item was found on a privately owned lot that was once part of the former Beaver River Lumber Company in Glen Valley.

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A hand-coloured collection of records of May Queen winners and the maids of honour from 1929 to 1939. lumber,” Christian said of the metal stencil.

With Langley’s agricultural foundation, it’s not surprising to see a chicken egg incubator from a small to mid-sized farm on display.

“The incubator is from the Hall Farm on 84th Avenue,” added Christian.

An embroidered high school sweater and jacket are also on display. The jacket was that of Langley Heritage Society president Fred Pepin ,and features the Future Farmers of Canada logo.

“There is still a Future Farmers of America,” Christian said.

Unfortunately, there is little information on many of the pieces in the collection.

“Some of these things came in in the ’50s, or even the ’30s, but the records were not as good then,” Christian said.

There may be little more noted about an item beyond who donated it and what it is.

“All museums our age seem to have these types of things,” she added of items that lack recorded history.

Unique and beautiful are the Chinese court jackets, hand-painted May Queen lists, and hand-woven baskets.

To see a small part of Langley’s diverse history, check out the exhibit at the Langley Centennial Museum at 9135 King St. in Fort Langley.

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JUNIOR A HOCKEY

’Men’s mission: eliminate Kings

TRACK AND FIELD

Spartans rule Canada West

For the second year in a row, the Trinity Western University women’s track and field team won the Canada West title after a convincing performance at the 2015 conference meet. The Spartans finished first in the standings by a whopping 39 points Saturday at the University of Manitoba’s James Daly Field House.

Langley’s BCHL squad has a formidable first-round playoff foe in the form of the Prince George Spruce Kings.

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Stealth sting visiting Swarm The Vancouver Stealth won big, 2115, over the Minnesota Swarm at the Langley Events Centre on Saturday.

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BASKETBALL

Gators 7th in B.C. in 2014 The Walnut Grove Gators placed seventh at the 2014 B.C. senior boys Quad A basketball championships, not second as reported in the March 3 Langley Advance [Jr. Gators bronzed at provincials].

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Hands on: Walnut Grove Gators guard Hamish McKay looked to get

a hand on the ball while defending against Rex Dong from Port Moody’s Heritage Woods Kodiaks at the Langley Events Centre early Saturday afternoon. The Gators downed the Kodiaks 79-72 in the game deciding fifth and sixth place in the Fraser Valley Quad A senior boys basketball championships. The Yale Lions from Abbotsford are the Fraser Valley champions after an 88-78 win over Cloverdale’s Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers in the title game, also played Saturday afternoon at the LEC. The Gators’ Ty Rowell was named to the Fraser Valley’s second all-star team. Next up for the Gators is the B.C. championship tournament running March 11 to 14 at the LEC. Walnut Grove’s first game at the provincials is Wednesday, March 11 against Burnaby South in the LEC’s arena bowl. Opening tip-off is 6:45 p.m.

A sparse crowd dotted the Langley Events Centre arena bowl’s blue seating landscape to watch the Langley Rivermen drop their B.C. Hockey League playoff opener to the Prince George Spruce Kings.

An unassisted goal from forward Daniel Nachbaur with 1:06 remaining in regulation snapped a scoreless tie and gave the Spruce Kings a 1-0 victory.

The best-of-seven, Mainland Division semifinal series between the Rivermen and Spruce Kings continued with game two last night (Wednesday, March 4) at the LEC. The game got underway after the Langley Advance went to press Wednesday afternoon.

On Tuesday, just 315 fans were inside an arena bowl that has the capacity to seat more than 5,000.

But the Rivermen have other things to worry about than fan support, mainly beating a Prince George team that finished third in the Mainland with a 27-24-1-6 record.

The Rivermen slotted in second in the Mainland with a 29-23-1-5 mark.

During the opener, Rivermen goaltender Bo Didur was named the game’s first star, stopping 26 of 27 shots.

His counterpart at the other end, Prince George’s Jesse Jenks, earned second star honours after getting in the way of all 34 pucks fired his way.

This weekend, the series shifts to the Prince George Coliseum where the teams will meet Friday and Saturday (March 6-7).

If the Rivermen win any or all of the next three games, the teams will meet in game five on Monday, March 9 at the Langley Events Centre, with a 7 p.m. opening puck drop.

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This means the sensory cells in the cochlea that hear high-range sounds are damaged as a result of circulatory disorders, diabetes, sudden hearing loss or workplace noise. Hearing loss in the high-frequency range makes speech sound muffled and unclear. The person with hearing loss mixes up, or can no longer hear, consonants like s, f, t, k, h and g. Speech comprehension is particularly impaired when there is background noise or when television programs have background music. The dilemma is that people with hearing loss in the high-frequency range do not consider themselves to have a

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UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Spartans celebrate first-ever CIS championship

TWU made program history at the national tournament in Toronto.

ship wrapped up Sunday in Toronto.

The Spartans overcame a two-set deficit to edge the Alberta Pandas in five sets.

Scores in TWU’s 3-2

The Trinity Western Spartans lived up to their No. 1 seed by claiming their first-ever national women’s volleyball title as the 2015 CIS champion-

win were 22-25, 23-25, 2515, 25-15, and 15-11.

The Spartans become the 11th CIS institution to earn the national women’s volleyball banner.

TWU ended its 2014/15 season on a 12-game win streak, having only dropped nine sets.

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We are the champions:

The Langley FC U16 gold team capped an undefeated season by winning the B.C. Coastal Girls Soccer League (BCCGSL) championship game versus Burnaby on Sunday, March 1. The coaches are Jamie Plowman and Mike Lamborn and the team consists of Alycia Thompson, Virginia Nikkel, Bethany Jackson, Hallie Urzinger, Hannah Plowman, Jenna Stea, Jordan Hagen, Kylie Pooohachoff, Liesl VanWyk, Miranda Parker, Rachel Lamborn, Sandra Wong, Simran Dhaliwal, Taylor Cahill, Taylor Michon, and Tripat Sandhu.

Second-year setter Nikki Cornwall of Coquitlam tallied 53 assists and a team-high 20 digs and was named the 2015 championship MVP. “It feels absolutely amazing,” said an elated Cornwall after the game.

“Being down the first two sets, I knew we could come back and it was just a matter of finding that fire within us. We were able to keep fighting through all five sets, whereas other teams, I don’t think would be able to do that as well as we did.”

The two teams also met in the Canada West final one week ago, with the Spartans overcoming a two-set deficit to take the conference banner 3-2.

Trinity Western is a perfect 3-0 versus the Pandas on the national stage, having defeated them at the 2006 and 2011 tournaments.

“These girls refuse to die,” Spartans head coach Ryan Hofer said. “They just never gave up and they had so many chances to give up and they just said no, not today. After the second set, I didn’t say

The CIS national women’s volleyball champion Trinity Western University Spartans celebrated their title win in Toronto. a whole lot. They knew what they needed to talk about and I just encouraged them.”

Third-year outside hitter Elizabeth Wendel topped TWU with 21.5 points on 16 kills, three aces and 2.5 blocks, while fifth-year veteran Royal Richardson had 16 kills, 11 digs and two blocks. Sophie Carpentier added 15 kills, 10 digs and 2.5 blocks, with Alicia Perrin notching 11 kills and seven digs.

Cornwall, Wendel and Perrin earned tournament all-star honours.

“Alicia Perrin has been

the glue for us, all of our seniors in fact,” Hofer added. “I’ve got great leadership across the board. Not all of them could be on the floor but they’re cheering their guts out in the back corner.”

Appearing in their 12th championship final since 1993, the Pandas are now 7-5 in the CIS title match.

Alberta has claimed three of the last four national silver medals, most recently winning the title in 2007.

CIS all-Canadian Meg Casault led the Pandas with 18 kills, three blocks and 15 digs.

JUNIOR B HOCKEY

Kodiaks persevere to oust Pilots TROY LANDREVILLE tlandreville@langleyadvance.com

The Aldergrove Kodiaks managed to outlast the Abbotsford Pilots in the first round of the Pacific Junior Hockey League playoffs.

The Kodiaks held a 3-1 lead in games on the Pilots in their best-of-seven Harold Brittain Conference semifinal series, before Abbotsford stormed back to win the next two contests.

This forced a seventh and deciding game Monday at Aldergrove Arena.

“We coughed up the lead [in games], but credit to them, they made it very difficult for us,” Kodiaks head coach Brad

Rihela said.

Sparked by a partisan crowd that filled Aldergrove Arena to watch game seven, the Kodiaks scored once in the first period and three more times in the middle frame to take an insurmountable 4-0 lead into the third period.

The Pilots scored the lone goal of the third period to round out the game’s scoring in a 4-1 Kodiaks win.

“We had an 8:30 p.m. start time and the rink was packed. It was outstanding,” Rihela said. “I can’t say enough about our fans and how much it means to our players. The boys were so fired up to see that many people there.”

In a balanced attack, four players scored for the Kodiaks during the series clincher.

Goal-scorers for the Kodiaks were Cameron Davitt with a power play marker 10:02 after the opening puck drop, Spencer McHaffie at the 11:28 mark of the second period (during another Aldergrove man advantage), Davin

Padgham with 3:46 to go in the middle frame, and Scott McHaffie, who tallied a backbreaking goal with just nine seconds to go before the second intermission.

Rihela said that while goaltender Ben Giesbrecht had an oustanding game on Monday, making 32 saves, he was stellar throughout the series.

He added that the Kodiaks’ “execution was on point,” in game seven.

Next up for the Kodiaks, who are looking to defend their PJHL playoff title, is the Mission City Outlaws, who dispatched the Langley Knights in six games in the other Harold Brittain best-of-seven semifinal.

The Outlaws erased a 2-0 lead in games to win their series against the Knights.

The Knights had a day’s rest before they resumed their playoffs last night (Wednesday, March 4) against the Outlaws.

Last night’s game got underway after the Langley Advance went to press Wednesday afternoon.

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Using his right pad, Aldergrove Kodiaks goaltender Ben Giesbrecht thwarted a scoring bid from Abbotsford Pilots defenceman Arshdeep Shergill earlier in the best-of-seven series between the two teams. Giesbrecht played all seven games for the Kodiaks during the series, with a 2.91 goals against average and a .923 save percentage.

“They’re a team that is very dangerous,” Rihela said, regarding the Outlaws.

“They’re led by an Aldergrove guy, [19year-old forward Bryce] Pisiak and they score a lot of goals. They’re dangerous off the rush. We will have to be playing our best to beat these guys.”

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To the Trenches!

Museum digs into history

All aboard! Restore a part of BC’s rail history

In 1917, nearly 3,600 Canadian soliders died in the Battle of Vimy Ridge. But they did not die in vain. The meticulously planned and executed assault became a model for other battles. On April 11, Port Moody Station Museum is honouring their memory with a special exhibit that recreates life in the trenches of WWI.

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