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Hundreds of people marched for the preservation of Brookswood Sunday, on the eve of a vote that could add almost 30,000 people to the area. An estimated 300 people marched from Noel Booth Park to Brookswood Park as part of the rally, many carrying signs. They
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oppose a proposed Brookswood/ Fernridge Official Community Plan. Langley Township council was scheduled to vote on the plan on Monday night, after Langley Advance press deadlines. Check www.langleyadvance.com for results of the vote. Hundreds of residents packed recent public hearings on the plan, saying they want lower density. “It should be developed with larger lots of single family homes to keep the feel of the neighbourhood,” said Laura and Keely Warren, two of the marchers. The quiet of Brookswood was one of the main reasons the Warrens moved there, they said. They worry they will find themselves sandwiched between a four-lane highway and condos if the plan goes ahead. Their two boys are five and three years old, and the Warrens want them to be able to walk to school safely in the future. Ken Grainger, one of the rally organizers, called on Township to “scrap the plan.” He said a new process should give all of Brookswood the opportunity to have its say. Traffic is a concern for many. Les and Sona Fuller live on 40th Avenue, and worried they’ll be in the middle of a lot more traffic if the street is widened to four lanes. A loss of trees in the area is also a major concern for the
Several hundred Brookswood residents marched from park to park Sunday to oppose increased density. Fullers. Traffic, a loss of greenspace, future school overcrowding, and density have been the primary concerns since the community became engaged starting earlier this year. Under the plan, the population of the area would rise from about 13,500 to 42,000 people. Much of the new density would be found in the areas south of 36th Avenue. Residents opposed to the plan were waiting for the vote Monday, as were those in favour and hoping to see the area developed. Cameron Gair, a realtor who heads up the Griffith Neighbourhood Advisory Corporation (GNAC), said he would like to see the council take into consideration that Brookswood has been dormant for 30 years. “It’s been promised for so long,” Gair said. Many residents and landowners
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bought property in the southern portions of Brookswood intending to either develop, or to sell when they retired and downsized. Many of those speaking in favour of the project at the hearings had bought land with the expectation that the area would eventually be developed. The GNAC loaned the Township $500,000 to hire planning staff to draft a neighbourhood plan, as the Township’s staff had enough work finishing plans for Willoughby and Aldergrove. Gair said that’s actually a fairly common practice in the Lower Mainland. If the Township votes against the OCP and starts from scratch, there’s no mechanism to get the money back. “We lose half a million bucks,” Gair said. The money was to have been paid back from the Township to the GNAC through development fees paid as Brookswood developed.
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Blaze levels mushroom barn A plume of black smoke was visible from across much of Langley Monday. by Tom Zytaruk Glacier Media
Surrey firefighters are trying to determine what caused a spectacular fire in a mushroom farm barn in Port Kells Monday morning. Deputy fire chief Dan Barnscher said the barn contained a licensed medical marijuana growing operation. “According to Health Canada, they were licensed to grow in excess of hundreds of plants,” Barnscher said. “We don’t know at this point whether that was anything to do with the origin of the fire, but we do know it did house a medical grow.” Twenty firefighters and six fire engines battled the blaze, which consumed a 100-foot-long barn at 18646 88th Ave. It contained 536 plants. By mid-afternoon Monday fire-
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The office section of a large mushroom barn collapsed as fire devoured the entire building on Monday morning. A massive plume of smoke rose above the building, which was a legal grow operation. fighters had all but knocked the fire down, but an inspector had not yet been able to enter the wreckage to assess the cause. Surrey RCMP Cpl. Bert Paquet said police are preparing, if need be, to launch an arson investigation.
“From their first impression they believe the fire is suspicious,” Paquet said. “At this point in time it hasn’t been confirmed.” The fire started at about 9 a.m. Nobody was in the barn at the time and no injuries have been
reported. A black column of smoke could be seen from kilometres away. A second cloud rose over Langley just before 3 a.m. when a truck caught fire on Highway One between 200th Street and 232nd Street.
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Surrey man killed in Gloucester crash A crash in northern Aldergrove has claimed the life of a lone driver.
Reconstruction Service (ICARS) was called in to help with the investigation, and speed is thought to have been a factor in the crash, Marks said. by Matthew Claxton A mechanical inspection of the mclaxton@langleyadvance.com vehicle will be conducted as part of The Langley RCMP is investigatthe investigation. The victim is a 23ing the community’s third fatal crash year-old man from Surrey. His famof 2014 after an SUV slammed into ily has asked that his name not be a parked trailer in the Gloucester released. Industrial Estates early Sunday morThe RCMP are looking for a truck ning. driver who may have witnessed the The crash took place at about 1:30 accident and left without talking to a.m. in the 26900 block of Gloucester police. Langley RCMP Way, said Cpl. Holly Marks, spokesThe possible witness is an IndoThe crash tore apart the driver’s vehicle. person for the Langley Mounties. Canadian man who was driving a An SUV was heading west down the road When police and emergency crews arrived, semi-truck with a trailer. Anyone who witwhen it crossed the center line and crashed nessed the crash and has not yet spoken to the driver was deceased, Marks said. into a parked flatdeck trailer. the RCMP should call them at 604-532-3200. The Integrated Collision Analysis and
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Crooks take car components Thieves in Langley will take anything from car parts to alcohol.
Langley City firefighters worked to remove a car that drove into the front of a local business Thursday.
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A car had to be pried free from the front doorway of a Langley City business. by Matthew Claxton mclaxton@langleyadvance.com
No one was hurt when a car smashed into a massage therapy business on Langley City’s Industrial Avenue Thursday morning. At about 11:04 a.m., a driver about to pull out from a parking spot in front of the small business apparently put the car into drive instead of reverse. The car went through the front of the building, smashed the door and part of the storefront, getting stuck in the building, said deputy Langley City fire chief
Pete Methot. No one inside the building, either staff or clients, was injured, Methot said. The driver was taken to hospital to be checked out, but was thought to be okay. “She was able to walk to the ambulance under her own steam,” said Methot. The staff and patrons were trapped inside the building for 45 minutes until the car could be removed by City fire crews, as it was jammed in the only entrance. The car did substantial damage to the front of the building, and a City engineering staff member had to check it to ensure it was structurally sound, said Methot. There were several incidents last year in which cars slammed into buildings around Langley, including at least one that resulted in serious injuries.
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Rather than stealing a car, some thieves made off with $7,000 worth of car parts from a Langley garage over a March weekend. Sometime between March 15 and early on March 18, someone broke into the garage in the 5700 block of Production Way. A mechanic was storing
vehicles there that were being worked on, said Cpl. Holly Marks, spokesperson for the Langley RCMP. The thieves seem to have broken a lock on an access door. They then broke into the three vehicles and swiped parts, wheels, and gasoline from the shop. The three cars are a white Lincoln Town Car, a purple Chevrolet pickup, and a red Oldsmobile Cutlass. The Mounties are also investigating a pair of relatively petty thefts from two liquor stores. On Jan. 30, just after 1:30 p.m., someone stole
about $150 worth of booze from Jimmy Mac’s Beer and Wine Store in Walnut Grove. The suspect, a Caucasian man in his 40s wearing a long-sleeved buttoned shirt, fled west on 96th Avenue in a red 1980s Chrysler LeBaron with a temporary operating permit. On March 29 at 1:30 p.m., the RCMP were called to the Willoughby Liquor Store in the 6400 block of 201 Street after $75 worth of alcohol was swiped. Anyone who can help solve any of these crimes can call the Langley RCMP at 604-532-3200.
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The B.C. government is trying to fix something that isn’t broken – and it’s making a mess in the process. Cities and towns in B.C. have successful recycling systems in place, but the province has thrown everything into confusion by mandating creation of a monster called Multi-Materials B.C. Since MMBC began ramping up, one protest has followed another, as municipalities and businesses began to realize the effects it would have on them. Premier Christy Clark has called the creation of the new organization a “bumpy road.” Business groups across the province have allied under the banner Rethink It B.C., to demand the government delay implementation and sit down to talk about changes to the new entity. The theory is that the companies that profit from products that produce waste should have to pay the cost of recycling that material. Proponents say the added cost will also be an incentive for those companies to reduce the amount of packaging they use, as not producing waste is a better solution than recycling it after it is produced. MMBC, beginning May 19, is a B.C. initiative – run by a board of directors representing Unilever Canada, Walmart, Tim Hortons, Loblaws, Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble. Does anyone expect them to put B.C.’s interests first? MMBC’s fees will be much higher than those in other regions. For instance, newspapers would have to pay 20 cents per kilogram, compared to 0.42 cents in Ontario. About 85 per cent of all newspaper in B.C. is already recycled, and municipalities generate revenue from it because it is the most valuable recycled material. Peter Kvarnstrom, chairman of the Canadian Newspaper Association, warned that the added costs are so significant to an industry that is already fragile that they will force layoffs across the province. Everyone, including critics of MMBC, can get behind reducing waste. But the province needs to listen to Rethink It B.C.’s call for solutions to very serious concerns. – Victoria Times Colonist
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Harper’s policy just a plain joke Kijiji is an online classified ad service. There, now that wasn’t so hard, was it? Harper and his cronies, however, appear to be a bit more challenged than average. They thought Kijiji was a suitable replaceBob Groeneveld ment for Statistics Canada when deciphereditor@langleyadvance.com ing Canada’s overall employment situation, in preparation for setting national policy on such little things as filling the country’s future I expect that, soon after you start reading skilled labour needs, or allowing corporathis, you’ll glance towards the top of the page, tions to hire from out-of-country and bypass smile knowingly… and make an incorrect Canadians seeking jobs. assumption. Economists (other than Harper) wondered So, to head you off at the pass: no, this is where the Conservative policies were comnot an April Fool’s joke. ing from, as they seemed completely at Apparently, today’s federal Conservatives odds with the information coming out of really are this stupid. Statistics Canada… the organization on which Economic brainiac Prime Minister Stephen Canadians spend millions of dollars to collect Harper and his business-approach-to-governand parse information so that ment flunkies have been basing the federal government (in this their economic policy on… wait Apparently, case Harper and his cronies) can for the drum roll… Kijiji. get a reasonable idea of what According to the Poynter today’s federal the country has and what it Institute – the people who reguConservatives really needs, for – you know – policy larly update the journalism bible development. in North America – significantly are this stupid. But Harper and his more than half of the people Conservatives tried to emasreading this only get their mass culate Statistics Canada a few years back – information from printed paper. remember? – making much of the fundamental That may be difficult to believe, considering data-collection through the census voluntary. all the smart phones, pads, mini-pads, tablets, That was just before the time when it started laptops, desktops, Dick Tracy wrist watches, becoming clear that Harper didn’t have much and other and sundry devices aimed at luring use for scientists who tended to come up with our readers out of the material world and into the “wrong” answers when investigating anycyberspace. thing to do with climate change. Even people within our industry are having Statistics, science… who needs all that comdifficulty with the concept that our trek into a totally electronic future is a longer, slower slog plicated stuff when a quick look at the want ads can get you all the answers you prefer? than was envisioned by the folks who in the Perhaps the most depressing part of it all 1980s predicted it would be complete within is how the Conservatives react when the real 10 years (and furthermore, their vision of an electronic future was not anything like the one world is explained to them. Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney we appear to be heading towards – considersimply admitted his ignorance, claimed ing that, at the time, only a handful of people nobody else knew more than he did anyway, in large universities knew anything about the and intimated that nobody should be “laughARPANET, and few of them had any inkling ing at Kijiji.” that it would years later became our ubiquiWell, nobody is laughing at Kijiji, Minister tous Internet. Kenney. So, bear with me while I try my best to We’re all laughing at you. explain Kijiji for the electronics-challenged.
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Polak’s plan hurts small business porations out of Toronto. If this has you scratching your head and wondering what was wrong with the existing blue-box program, you are not alone. Opposition to Polak’s plan is growing. Last week, a coalition of B.C-based businesses representing agriculture, newspapers, landscaping, manufacturing, retail, wholesale, food, and waste collection sectors held a press conference to announce a #RethinkItBC campaign to fight the new rules. If small businesses really were “exempt” why would so many of them band together against this new policy? Minister Polak did put
in place some compliance thresholds around gross revenue, packaging volumes, and number of locations. The problem with her approach is that the are too Letters thresholds low, and in some to the cases don’t apply at all. The bottom line is that too many Editor small businesses are still being hurt by a policy that adds a lot of cost and bureaucracy for no environmental benefit. For example, under the new rules, franchises are not exempt. Several pizza franchisees have reported to us they will be paying between $200 and $400 a week in taxes to MMBC. Pizza joints don’t have fat margins, and paying for this might mean selling another 100 pizzas Willoughby a week – or passing those costs on to customers. Some small businesses are being bullied into compliDear Editor, ance by big corporations. I just want to speak to the parking issues that seem to Several major grocery stores have come up in Willoughby as of late. have sent letters to suppliI, too, made the choice to call Willoughby home. My husband and I did our diligence in looking around the area and ers, saying they will only do business with firms that are research what was to be built in the lots not yet developed. MMBC compliant, regardless We ended up in the first home of our dreams, close to of whether or not they fall schools, parks, and beautiful pathways. under Polak’s exemption. How is it the Township’s fault, or anyone else’s other One went as far as threatthan your own, if you bought a home with little to no extra ening to withhold partial parking? Certainly, the buyer has responsibility to do due payment as a fine for lack of diligence before purchasing something so substantial as a MMBC compliance. home. The information is there, you only have to go lookThese same supermarkets ing for it. will not accept any price It also saddens me that our beautiful community gets a increases associated with bad rap because of this issue. I love living in Willoughby. compliance – small business How lucky are we to live in an area where we can walk to has to eat the cost. get our groceries, enjoy a multitude of playgrounds with In small towns, communour children, and take leisurely strolls on our beautiful, ity newspapers and local wide pathways? recycling depots are at risk Maybe instead of being so quick to blame someone else for your miscalculations, we can appreciate and realize how of going out of business, thanks to the new policy. fortunate we all are to call this wonderful area home. B.C’s newspaper indusStephanie Holmes, Willoughby try is facing $14 million of additional taxes. They will What you’re telling us on Facebook be paying 4,762 per cent (that’s not a typo) more per kilogram of waste than Anyone who has driven up and down the equivalent program in 208th Street, from Walnut Grove to Langley Ontario. How many job City – in the past few months, especially losses that translates into – has been caught by construction. Will it has yet to be seen. ever end? Is this an unnecessary evil that comes with That it is at odds with the community growth and development?. government’s stated “strong I remember 208th when it first opened, the biggest economy, secure tomorrow” slow down was when there was a runaway horse on it. agenda is crystal clear. They say growth is good. I miss the runaway horse. The only good news in – Theresa Perry this mess is that it is never It’s come about because of a serious lack of foretoo late to reverse course on thought and planning. Follow the 2 lanes good, 4 lanes bad policy. Premier Clark bad philosophy. Residential parking in Willoughby is an has shown she has the courabsolute joke – and Brookswood/Fernridge is next. age to admit mistakes and – Dale Harrison change course where necesI used to take 208th to work every day… now I avoid sary. it like the plague. It’s necessary now. The – Delaine Prowal new recycling rules don’t Good things come to those who wait! It will be a great work for small business or road when it’s finished. As someone who drives around the communities they supLangley every day, it’s amazing how these roads are makport. ing things easier... I can go from Grade Cresc. all the way Laura Jones, to 96th Ave. and not hit a train. Canadian Federation – Joanne Bonetti of Independent Business Yes, better roads are a plus, but the overcrowded land-
Dear Editor, Last month, Environment Minister Mary Polak announced what seemed like good news: small businesses would be “exempted” from the province’s onerous new packaging and printed paper regulation coming into force this May. Unfortunately, it looks like the real news for small business isn’t quite so good – many are not actually exempted, and some will not survive. The new recycling policy fundamentally changes the current blue-box program. Instead of being run by local municipalities, the B.C. government has given control over the blue-box program to an unelected body, called Multi Material B.C., governed by multinational cor-
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Langley’s Lee Sisters Duo made a successful debut at Carnegie Hall on March 25. Samantha and Jasmine Lee shared a moment in New York City, in front of Carnegie Hall, with their hometown newspaper, and wanted to extend thanks to their teachers, Elizabeth and Marcel Bergmann, and Langley Community Music School, as well as adding a big thank you to the whole community and all their friends, who have been supportive or have taken in their concerts. The girls noted, “We love to share our music with everyone, and hope to keep playing for our community.”
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learned that many of the young couples got together through their love of music. Among this year’s contenders, there were numerous singers (individuals, duos, and trios) as well as bands, dancers, a unicyclist, a circusstyle acrobatic, a rapper, and even a finger-style by Roxanne Hooper acoustic guitarist. rhooper@langleyadvance.com “I was just so proud of all of the performers Young love was blostonight,” said Luongo, soming on the stage of Natasha Jones/Langley Advance who told the Langley Langley Has Talent this Contestants Rachel Dunn and Colson Kinna were among Advance immediately after weekend. the couples who made an impact at the Langley Has the event that the show The chemistry was Talent semi-finals on Saturday evening. put on by all four Langley apparent, with a few kissRotary Clubs was a firstes exchanged, hands held, “Many of these performers will go on class performance that and even some romance to have a career in entertainment and this rivaled professional shows. will be a place they can reflect on as an and song served up on “I’m delighted I don’t a park bench during the important part of their development as have to make the decision, entertainers,” said Luongo. talent competition’s semibecause the finals held Saturday night. It wasn’t revealed until level of talent Of the 25 acts that almost midnight that across the stepped onto the stage night which acts were board was in the Christian Life picked to move on to the first class,” Assembly (CLA) auditorfinals. he added. ium on March 29, at least “I think five of them included the typical young couples. • Singers Jet Tangerine Natasha Jones/Langley Advance audience And if the emcee, and Hugh Barbour (yes, Aerial hoop artist Alexandra members Education Minister Peter one of the couples); Susheski made it through to the would have Fassbender, still has any • Dancer Paige Langley Has Talent finals. been hard influence locally, there McLachlan; pressed to might be a potential sixth. • Singers and musihear or see any mistakes,” The former Langley City mayor jokingly cians from Peace of Luongo said, noting each suggested a two young dance competiEarth trio (including of the acts listened to sugtors get together, proposing that 10-yearan Aldergrove couple Natasha Jones/Langley Advance gestions offered during the old Dante Arias and 12-year-old Paige Sara Garber and Kevin Performing to Crank It Up, Kaitlin auditions and implemented McLachlan would make one heck of a Wellman); Hartwig danced her way to the those ideas to enhance their cute couple. • Singer Hayley Bouey; finals of Langley Has Talent. semifinal performances. “It appears there were several ado• Returning singer A crowd of about 600 lescents here tonight who were seeking Rachel Dunn and her people watched each of the acts perform out each other to make beautiful music beau Colson Kinna; Saturday, and while judges Joilenne together,” Peter Luongo said with a • Aerial hoop performer Alexandra Moore, Natasha Zimbaro, and John chuckle. He’s one of the host Rotarians, Susheski; Donnelly did the heavy lifting when it an entertainer, and the founding organ• Rock band Quinn and Tonic; came to picking the top 12 of those 25 izer of the annual Langley Has Talent acts, the audience had work to do, too. contest that is now in its fourth year. It was up to the crowd to vote for a “This year, we couldn’t believe how fan favourite. They had to pick the 13th many couples there are… Isn’t that act to earn a spot at the finals happening funny,” Luongo added, noting that, havApril 12. ing chatted with the participants, he’s
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Singing Bruce Springsteen’s I’m On Fire, Michaela Mulder made it to the finals of Langley Has Talent. • Rapper Josh G; • Dancer Kaitlin Hartwig; • Singer Michaela Mulder; • The youngest of contenders returning, dancer Dante Arias; and • Kathleen Dunn and Jesse LeBlanc (yes, another of the couples). Two of the four Langset sisters, Jazmine and Amanda, ended up being voted the people’s choice and earned the 13th spot at the finals. Tickets for the Rotary Club talent show finals are available online at www.langleyhastalent.com. The event begins at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 12, again at CLA.
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The job of picking the final round of performers for Langley Has Talent was left to judges, from left, Natasha Zimbaro, John Donnelly, and Jolienne Moore.
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Looking back… 1954: Glover light expected Langley’s history, as recorded in the files of the Langley Advance. Eighty Years Ago
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• A group of northwest Langley residents got together to form the West Langley Community Club, and decided to purchase a site for a community hall about 300 yards south of West Langley School on Alexander Rd. (208th St.). • A special House of Commons committee studied the feasibility of discontinuing the $2 radio licence.
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• Council expected installation of a traffic light at the intersection of Glover Rd. and the Trans-Canada
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$35 a year on average. The new proposed system does not guarantee to keep our local environment as its first priority, nor does it guarantee that there won’t be job losses here in BC. It doesn’t guarantee service levels, or say anything about how big business will pass along the costs to you when you go to pick up a pizza or buy groceries. Yikes! Perhaps this is why several of BC’s municipalities refuse to sign onto the new program, calling it a “scam.” Given that, maybe it’s time you called Premier Clark to keep BC’s environmental decisions right here in BC where they belong.
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• Alderman Walter Jensen recommended sale of Langholm, a seniors’ home owned and operated by Langley Township, to private interests. • Township council was given an option to buy 31.2 acres, provided it was used for park land. (Council purchased the property, which is now Williams Park.) Forty Years Ago
March 21, 1974
• Only eight years after its original construction, Langley Memorial Hospital was undergoing expansion. A single-storey wing was being added for emergency, out-patient, and physiotherapy departments, and the inside of the fourth floor was to be finished. • The Langley Lords knocked off the Bellingham Blazers, to take the Coastal Division championship in Western Canada Junior A hockey. The Lords were to meet Kelowna for the league championship. Thirty Years Ago
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• Gypsy moths were discovered in Fort Langley. Residents gathered for a
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meeting with Agriculture Canada representatives to discuss how to deal with the problem. • Fraser Valley Regional Library hours were cut to five days a week, to hold the line on taxes.
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• CEO Pat Zanon said it would take $12 million for Langley Memorial Hospital to meet the future health care needs of the community. Plans included a new maternity unit, physiotherapy and occupational therapy space, ambulatory care facilities, and cafeteria renovations. • Anderson Engineering, a Langley company that manufactured firetrucks, was outbid by $3,000 on a Burnaby truck by a company in New York. Because of the free trade agreement between Canada and the U.S., Burnaby felt legally obliged to take the Americans’ $411,992 offer.
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• A Brookswood man who set out to visit a woman he had met online was murdered in the United States. • Costco was looking at a establishing an outlet in the Willowbrook area.
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• Langley poultry producers were hopeful that the culling of 275,000 chickens in Abbotsford would halt the spread of a deadly bird flu.
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Hwy. (Fraser Hwy.) within a month. • Glen Valley farmer and fisherman Ben Christie was off to the USSR to represent the United Fisherman and Allied Workers Union at the May Day parade in Moscow. Fifty Years Ago
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Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk, former RCMP inspector in Langley, is under scrutiny with a KPU funding scandal. by Glenda Luymes
Special to the Langley Advance
Directors at Kwantlen Polytechnic University hoped to use funds intended for student bursaries and awards to pay the school’s president $100,000 more than the salary he was allowed under provincial law, emails obtained by The Province show. The idea was discussed by several members of KPU’s board of governors – including Amrik Virk, who was vice-chair of
the board before becoming B.C.’s minister of advanced education – according to a 2011 email by board chair Gordon Schoberg to the university secretary. The idea appears to have been rejected after the president of the B.C. Association of Institutes and Universities (BCAIU) offered an opinion that using money from the Kwantlen Foundation to get around a salary cap would, if discovered, result in an “extremely negative reaction” from government. On Thursday at the B.C. Legislature, Opposition MLAs tried to connect Virk to the KPU executive compensation scandal during Question Period, suggesting that, as vice-chair he should have known what was happening. Virk responded by say-
ing the matter is being investigated by the Public Sector Employers’ Council (PSEC) Secretariat. PSEC oversees compensation plans for executive employees at public institutions to ensure they fall under a government-mandated salary cap. Advanced education critic David Eby tabled two emails Thursday in the Legislature that appear to show KPU executives discussing the practice of hiding wages above the
cap by characterizing them as other expenses. Earlier this month, Eby questioned Virk about $100,000 in payments to senior (KPU) administrators by recording them in their financial reports as payments to suppliers of goods and services. KPU’s financial report for the year ending March 31, 2013, lists remuneration and expenses for new president Alan Davis totalling $161,773, but also includes a separate entry
indicating he was paid $50,000 as a “supplier of goods and services.” Asked for comment by The Province, Virk provided an emailed statement saying “government takes the matter of executive compensation very seriously... The (PSEC) review is currently underway and is looking at the payments themselves, the public disclosure of those payments, and whether the compensation was consistent with govern-
ment’s compensation guidelines.” Eby said the review should be passed to the Auditor General. “I think there are employees at Kwantlen who want to come forward... but they’re not going to be comfortable coming forward to a (PSEC) investigator who reports to Mr. Virk’s colleague the minister of finance.”
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Brookswood Dry Grad Pub Night The 2014 Dry Grad benefits from this fundraiser at the Murrayville Pub 6-9pm on April 12. $25 tickets. Evening features a buffet, silent auction, 50/50, lucky squares, and prizes. Info: www.bssdrygrad.webstarts. com.
Clubs/meetings Fraser Valley Business Network A business networking lunch is on the first Wednesday of the
month. Cost: $5 (members), $10 (non-members). 11:15am1:30pm. at NY Grill & Bistro 20204 Fraser Hwy. RSVP: www. fraservalleybusinessnetwork. com or Jennifer, 778-823-2421. The April 2 meeting features Township Mayor Jack Froese. Walnut Grove Business Association The April 10 workshop is about work/life balance and resolving conflicts. At 9734 207th St. from 1-4pm. Free for members, $49 for non-members. Sign up in advance. Info: Laurie@wgba. ca or 604-850-5095.
Seniors Brookswood Seniors Centre 19899 36th Ave. 604-5304232. New members welcome. Activities offered: Line dancing (beginners to intermediate): 604-534-0299; Square dancing (beginners to advanced): 604838-8821; duplicate bridge: 604856-7170; chess: 604-530-4693; Fibre arts, cribbage, pool, scrapbooking, crafts: 604-530-4232; dog training: 604-514-9221; Food and Friends: 604-5309227.
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Downsizing to smaller spaces A free presentation runs 1:303pm on April 16 at the Langley Seniors Resource Centre, 20605 51B Ave. Pre-register at 604530-3020. Drop-ins welcome. Food and Friends Langley Meals on Wheels has a program for seniors (55+) to share a nutritious lunch along with socializing and guest speakers. Lunch costs $5. RSVP in advance to the number listed. 11:30am-1pm Aldergrove • Bob’s Bar n’ Grill, 27083 Fraser Hwy.: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Tuesday of the month. RSVP: 604-857-7725. • Otter Co-Op: 3600 248 St.: 2nd and 4th Monday of the month. RSVP: 604-607-6923. Brookswood • Brookswood Seniors Centre, 19899 36th Ave.: 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month. RSVP: 604-590-3888. SCAN WITH LAYAR TO BUY NOW
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OAP Hall Aldergrove The Aldergrove Pensioners and Seniors offers various activites at the hall at 3015 273rd St. At 9:30am Thursdays, a qualified instructor offers exercise for seniors. $6 per person per session. Carpet bowling is $1 per person and is at 1:30pm on Thursdays. Seniors housing counselling The Langley Seniors Resource Centre has help with housing options in Langley. Drop in Wednesdays 1:30-3:30pm or make an appointment. Info: 604 530-3020, ext 319.
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Fort Langley • Parish of St. George Church, 9160 Church St.: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. RSVP: 604-888-7782. Langley City • Choo Choo’s Restaurant, 20550 Fraser Hwy.: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month. RSVP: 604-514-2940. • Yanaki Sushi, 20477 Fraser Hwy.: 1st and 3rd Monday of the month. RSVP: 604-514-2940 • Flourishing Chinese Restaurant, 20472 Fraser Hwy.: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. RSVP: 604-514-2940. • Grand Tandoori Flame Restaurant, 20345 Fraser Hwy.: 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. RSVP: 604-514-2940. North Langley • Walnut Grove Community Centre, 8889 Walnut Grove Dr. 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. RSVP: 604-882-0408. Volunteers needed for the various gatherings – about two to three hours twice per month. Contact Langley Meals on Wheels, 604-533-1679 or shannon@langleymealsonwheels. com.
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Langley Seniors Resource Society 20605 51B Ave., 604-530-3020 Outreach programs: information and referral, Telephone Buddy, and seniors counsellors. We will come to your home or building and provide information on what is available in the community to help seniors to stay independent in their homes. Call for more information. Better at Home: The program provides transportation and shopping assistance, friendly
visitors and light housekeeping. Subsidies are available. Seniors Housing Counsellors: provide information about housing options here. Drop in Wednesdays 1:30-3:30pm or make an appointment. Info: 604 530-3020, ext. 319 Coffee and Connecting Support Group, and Flying Solo for 55plus solos, both groups meet Tuesdays at 10am. Birthday Socials: $6, held once every two months Sharing and Caring Socials: (will resume in 2014).
Other Blood donor clinics Call 1-888-2-DONATE to book. April 8: 1-8pm Murrayville Hall, 21667 48th Ave. April 12: 10am-5pm Aldergrove Community Secondary School, 26850 29th Ave. (Not at Aldergrove Kinsmen Community Centre) April 22: 1-8pm Murrayville Hall, 21667 48th Ave. Spring vegan potluck The Langley Herbivores potluck is 1-3pm on April 5 at St. Joachim And Ann Catholic Church, 2827 273rd St. Bring a dish to share (no dairy, no meat and no eggs). RSVP and info: pattallman@shaw.ca. Wonderful Wetlands Tour On April 6 from 1:30-4pm enjoy a guided walk through the restricted wetland of the West Creek Wetland Reserve. Presented by Metro Vancouver and the Langley Environmental Partners Society. For ages 13 and older. Free but sign up in advance at www.metrovancouveronline.org or 604-432-6359. Moving Foward 2014 A resource fair for individuals with disabilities and their families will be 4-7pm on April 10 at Langley Secondary School, 21405 56th Ave. Planned and organized by the Langley Vocational Services Committee, the fair brings together up to 50 agencies, service providers and institutions.
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Visitors Buffalo-ed by Stealth win Langley’s pro lacrosse team improved its record and is closer to a playoff spot since Saturday.
The Vancouver Stealth notched their fourth win of the season Saturday, beating the Buffalo Bandits and gaining in the race for the last playoff spots in the Western Division. Playing at the Langley Events Centre, the National Lacrosse League’s Stealth put up a convincing win of 12-8 over Buffalo. The Stealth began as they meant to go on, with a goal just 19 seconds in by Rhys Duch, bringing the crowd to their feet. In the first half, they outscored the Bandits 9-5, with Duch scoring his 500th career regular season point, then surpassing that milestone. Duch would finish the night with nine points, four goals and five assists, and he was named the game’s first star. Three of the first nine goals were scored on Stealth power plays. “Too often this season we haven’t been aggressive enough early on,” said Stealth head coach Chris Hall. “We talked about getting some good shots early and being aggressive, and we were successful with that tonight.” After the high-intensity scor-
Clubs invite in public Senior men’s golf resumed in late March. The Poppy Senior Men’s Golf Club is looking for new members (over 55). The club (not affiliated with the golf course) is a not for profit club playing Wednesday mornings. For more information, check out the club’s website at www.poppyseniormensgolf.com.
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Buffalo Bandits forward Joe Restarits got a goal past the Stealth’s Tyler Richards, but it wouldn’t be enough to prevent the Stealth’s 12-8 victory Saturday. ing during the first half, the scoring declined but the intensity remained in the second. There were 33 penalty minutes issued in the second half, out of 47 overall. Trying to stay out of the penalty box was a major challenge for the Bandits, said head coach Troy Cordingly. “It’s now three games in a
row where we felt we were very undisciplined and we have to get back to putting the team first in order to be successful,” Cordingly said. The Stealth racked up two more powerplay goals in the second half. The Stealth will be looking for win number five on the weekend, during their April
5 game against the Toronto Rock. The game against the Rock starts at the LEC at 7 p.m. The Stealth’s record of 4-9 this season means it needs to catch up to the rival Colorado Mammoth. With the Stealth’s win, and a loss by the Mammoth, they are only one game back of a playoff spot.
Aldergrove Kodiaks push series to limit Junior Hockey League championship to the full seven games with their rivals, the Richmond Sockeyes. The Bears and the Sockeyes met for Game 7 on Monday evening (after Langley Advance press time). They headed into the final game having tied
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the series 3-3. In the Saturday, March 29 contest, the Kodiaks got off to an early start, taking the lead on a powerplay. Richmond, visiting the Aldergrove Arena, answered back less than a minute later with a powerplay marker of their own.
Richmond went up by one in the second frame and appeared to be gathering momentum. At 12:27 of the period, Aldergrove tied it up on a short-handed rally. The third period went scoreless, filling the arena with tension. Kodiak Scott McHaffie gave the crowd a rea-
son to explode when he scored at 2:56 into overtime. McHaffie was named first star with goalie Jordan Liem second star. Aldergrove shots, 44, far outpaced Richmond at 29. On the powerplay, Aldergrove was 1/7 while the visitors were 1/4.
A little southwest of there is another chance for some recreation. Drop-in mixed doubles tennis starts April 3 at the courts by Brookswood Secondary, 20902 37A Ave. Drop-in tennis runs April through October, weather permitting, on Tuesday and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. This is friendly, drop-in tennis but it’s starting a bit earlier this year. It’s mostly an older crowd but it’s open to anyone. The tennis courts at the school have been resurfaced so players are looking forward to taking advantage of them. Anyone with questions can contact Ella at 604-534-1658.
Get y’er feet wet
The public has a chance to try dragon boating 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 12 at the Langley Paddlesport Dock in Fort Langley. No equipment is required, and the Fort Langley Canoe Club event goes rain or shine. People must be 15 and older, and a parent or guardian must sign a waiver for those 15-17). There’s no need to sign up in advance. Just show up and there is an on-site tent for registration and equipment fitting (such as personal floatation devices). The place is get information is via email to Miriam (holscot@ shaw.ca).
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The Steve Nash Junior Challenge at the Langley Events Centre, March 28-30, included contests for boys and girls as well as wheelchair athletes. (Above) Wheelchair athletes had skill training drills, played against each other, and then took part in contests with ablebodied athletes, including some from Trinity Western University, who were trying out the sport. Tessa Burton of the Tri City Swish found out just how challenging it is to play basketball in a wheelchair. Her errant pass was intended for wheelchair athlete Karl Moeller, right. (Lower left) Tanner Jung (in the grey shirt) and Harry Bruehler vied for the ball during a contest.
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