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Flower power A yellow flower pinned to a jacket or shirt marks a sign of support for the fight against cancer.

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Volunteer Pat Ziola (above) put a daffodil pin on acting City Mayor Ted Schaffer, while volunteer Dianne McCafferty pinned Township Mayor Jack Froese.

The yellow daffodils that mark an annual drive to wipe out cancer are adorning the lapels of Langley’s two mayors this month.

For Daffodil Month, organized by the Canadian Cancer Society, Township Mayor Jack Froese and City Mayor Ted Schaffer were both pinned by CCS volunteers last week.

Pat Ziola, a seven-year veteran volunteer for the Cancer Society, was on hand to pin the daffodil on Schaffer last Wednesday.

Ziola has lost her mother, in-laws, and cousins to cancer over the years.

Dianne McCafferty, a volunteer and cancer survivor, pinned the plastic flower on Froese on Thursday.

This will be a big year for the Canadian Cancer Society in Langley, with Daffodil Month gearing up, and the 10th anniversary of the Langley Relay For Life coming up this June.

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Richard charged in violent attack

The man suspected of setting a fire in a family home was to appear in court Monday.

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Crown prosecutors have laid 13 charges against a man suspected of attacking his wife and daughter and setting the family house ablaze in a quiet Langley neighbourhood.

Andre Richard, arrested Thursday near Fernie, in southeastern B.C., was officially charged with three counts of attempted murder, arson, break and enter, four counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of assault causing bodily harm, and two counts of breach of recognizance, said Langley RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Holly Marks.

Richard was scheduled to be returned to Langley to appear in court Monday, April 7 following his arrest in the interior.

“This was a tragic event which thankfully now has a a successful conclusion,” said Supt. Derek Cooke, head of the Langley RCMP detachment. “I would like to express my thanks for the role played by the media, the general public, and in particular the individual who brought Richard to police attention.”

The violent incident in the early hours of Wednesday morning saw the home of Richard’s family gutted by fire.

Police and firefighters in Langley Township were called to an incident in the 19600 block of Wakefield Drive Wednesday morning.

Marks said a man broke into the home, set the house on fire, and then attacked the woman.

The woman’s daughter tried to who said they were aware of intervene and she was struck in domestic violence incidents. the chest with the same weapon In the aftermath of the fire, it or weapons. was uncertain for some hours The woman, her whether Richard had daughter and her son actually fled the burnall managed to escape ing home, or if he had the house before it was died in the fire. Police gutted by the fire. The had begun searching woman and her daughfor him already under ter were both hospitalthe assumption he was ized with their injuries still alive. Alerts were but were expected to issued for his vehicle survive. and his photo was Police announced released to the press.

Andre Richard that they believed the A vehicle Richard had attacker to have been been reportedly driving Charged the woman’s estranged was later pulled over husband. By the late afternoon, near Fernie thanks to a report an arrest warrant for Richard had from a passerby that the vehicle been issued for breaching a nowas being driven erratically. The contact order that banned him caller thought there might be a from being in the presence of his drunk driver behind the wheel. wife.

Richard was arrested peacefully The two were separated and after the local police brought in a described as estranged by police, crisis negotiator.

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Parents and guardians Like you, BC’s teachers only want the best for your children, our students. You likely have seen or heard reports about current negotiations between teachers and the Provincial Government.

Despite bargaining for more than a year with the government through the BC Public School Employers’ Association, there has been little progress. We have been very patient waiting for government to provide the necessary funding so we can move forward in achieving a negotiated collective agreement at the bargaining table. Instead, they have attempted to remove, yet again, the important provisions for class size and composition and minimum levels of specialist teachers that the BC Supreme Court restored. As a result, in early March 2014, teachers voted 89% in favour of job action.

On March 6, 2014, after the strike vote was announced, BCTF President Jim Iker spoke to parents through the media. Here is some of what he had to say: As teachers, we do not take job action, or even a vote on job action, lightly. We care deeply about our schools, our students, and their families. Many of us are parents or grandparents ourselves. I myself am a proud grandfather.

BC teachers remain committed to negotiating a deal at the table. That is our goal. But once again, it depends on developments at the negotiating table. I encourage you to reach out to your local MLA and tell them to work with us to get that deal negotiated at the table.

I want to thank our parents for the work that they do with their children and their support of us.

How parents can get involved • Talk to your child’s teacher(s) about the supports they need to help our students succeed.

• Check out the new website www.aFairDeal.ca where you can quickly and easily “Have your say” in a letter to the Minister of Education and your MLA. The site also provides quick access to lots of information on the issues around bargaining.

• Read the current BCTF brochure with information for parents. A Fair Deal for Teachers, Better Support for Kids highlights the facts behind our bargaining objectives. Find it in the top graphic section of the BCTF home page at www.bctf.ca • Speak out about your experiences in our public schools and how things could be even better. Discuss the funding and supports your children and their schools deserve.

• Talk to friends, relatives, and others in the community about the importance of an agreement that is fair for teachers and that will provide better support for our students.

Be assured that BC teachers are strongly committed to reaching a negotiated agreement with government. We truly appreciate all the support we receive from parents to help us achieve this goal.

This letter is available in multiple languages. Please visit www.BCTF.ca for a complete list.

Five quick facts about potential job action: 1. A strike vote is a normal

occurrence during negotiations of collective agreements and helps apply pressure to both parties during negotiations.

Our hope is that a settlement will be reached without job action being necessary.

2. Whatever happens next will

depend entirely on progress at the negotiating table.

3. If a first stage of job action

does become necessary, it will have no impact on students’ learning. Teachers will continue to be in classrooms teaching, preparing lessons, and assessing students. They will continue participating in voluntary activities.

Teachers will also continue writing report cards and communicating with parents.

4. If at some point talks stall or

government won’t make fair and reasonable proposals, rotating strikes would be the next step.

5. We’ve made a commitment

that a full-scale strike will require another province-wide vote of the BCTF membership.

A message from the Langley Teachers’ Association

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Butorac retried

An Aldergrove man will stand trial again for the murders of two sex workers after the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear an appeal related to the case.

Davey Butorac was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder of two women, Sheryl Lynn Korrol and Gwendolyn Jo Lawton, whose bodies were found months apart in Abbotsford and Langley in 2007.

But the B.C. Court of Appeal overturned those convictions last year and ordered a new trial while also giving Butorac the opportunity to apply to have the cases heard separately.

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A unique resource fair on April 10 will bring together various community agencies and people with disabilities.

People with disabilities and their families are invited to Moving Forward 2014 on Thursday from 4-7 p.m. at Langley Secondary School, 21405 56th Ave. The event is being planned by the Langley Vocational Services.

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Residents mull pipeline plans A forum held by Kinder Morgan attracted a fair number of foes of its pipeline plans.

by Matthew Claxton mclaxton@langleyadvance.com

The TransMountain pipeline expansion plans drew hundreds of people to an open house held by pipeline owner Kinder Morgan on Wednesday night.

The meeting was to talk to residents of the region, including Langley and Surrey, about the various proposed routes of the expanded pipeline.

Kinder Morgan has applied to the National Energy Board to almost triple capacity on its oil pipeline that runs from near Edmonton to Burnaby, with part of its length passing through Abbotsford, Langley, and Surrey.

The $5.4 billion proposed project would increase the amount of oil flowing through the pipes from 300,000 barrels per day to 890,000 per day.

They also plan to reroute the pipe around some neighbourhoods that have developed over the intervening years.

The meeting Wednesday showed the possible routes and allowed locals to comment on them, for feedback and information that can go to the National Energy Board, said Lizette Parsons Bell, a Kinder Morgan spokesperson.

In Langley, proposed changes in the route to avoid heavily built up areas in Walnut Grove have already attracted a great deal of interest from some residents. Farm owners around the Fort Langley floodplain expressed their displeasure at a possible route there, as did homeowners near another possible route, which would run through the Redwoods Golf Course, a future Township park.

Quite a few of the residents at Wednesday’s meeting were not

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Kinder Morgan employees in green shirts showed possible pipeline routes through Langley and Surrey to locals on Wednesday, April 2. happy with the pipeline expancomfortable retirement. sion in general or its proposed “It’s our life savings,” Joy route. said of their property. Who will The Mancinellis, Jerry and Joy, want to develop there with an are worried that the pipeline will oil pipeline on the property, she blow a hole in their retirement said. plans.

Walnut Grove’s “I always wantGayle Doren was “I always wanted to ed to live with also unhappy that live with 800,000 800,000 barrels the tax benefits of bitumen a day add up to very barrels of bitumen a going through my day going through my little compared backyard,” said to the potential backyard.”

Joy. downsides.

Joy Mancinellis The Fraser “Based on Heights couple everything I’ve were told that the read and heard, pipeline could be on their propit’s completely unconscionable,” erty. said Doren.

“I’m worried about my propLong term costs and potential erty value,” said Jerry. spills worry her.

Jerry is 80, and the couple “It’s the oil companies that are starting to think about sellwill benefit, not this communing their longtime home to a ity,” she said. developer so they can afford a Marty Vander Zalm was also

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“There’s nothing in it for the Canadian people,” said Vander Zalm.

Several other people at the event said they were there primarily to get more information.

The National Energy Board is planning to start its hearings on the pipeline expansion in January next year. Fewer than 20 per cent of those who applied to become intervenors have received that status, the NEB announced this week. About 400 intervenors will be joined by another 1,250 people given commenter status with the NEB. According to Kinder Morgan staff, at least 140 people visited the forum in Langley.

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Nature

Elderly wild cat felled by nasal cancer

Papa the lynx had to be put down after a cancer diagnosis.

The Greater Vancouver Zoo has euthanized an elderly lynx that was once someone’s pet. Papa, the Eurasian lynx, was put down April 3 after a few months of illness.

“The decision to euthanize was based on Papa’s difficulty breathing and inability to swallow,” said manager Jody Henderson. “Biopsy results of a mass in the nasal cavity confirmed adenocarcinoma [cancer].”

Staff first noticed discharge from Papa’s nose in early February.

He was treated with different antibiotics, anti-fungal, and anti-inflammatory medicines. Papa was about 19 years old. The median life expect-

ancy for a lynx exotic animals such is 15 years. as a lynx for a pet.

“It is always Lynx are typically extremely difskittish, very private ficult losing and solitary animals, a member of in addition to havour zoo family. ing specialized needs Papa will be which the average missed dearly person is not familby those who iar with.

Greater Vancouver Zoo photo cared for him Eurasian lynx are Papa, the Eurasian lynx, was euthanized. and those who listed as “least conconnected with cern” conservation him through their visits to the zoo,” status by the International Union she said. of Conservation of Nature Red List.

The zoo has rescued numerous They are found in 46 countries in exotic animals over the years includ- Europe, Asia and the Middle East. ing Papa, who was rescued from a Illegal skin trade remains the leadprivate owner back in 2000 in poor ing threat to the species, together condition. with habitat loss and prey base The Greater Vancouver Zoo does depletion, according to the U.S. govnot encourage individuals to keep ernment.

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Flower provides hope this month It’s not just a daffodil.

And at this time of year particularly, it’s certainly not just another flower, The daffodil has become symbolic of the Canadian Cancer Society’s struggle to defeat cancer.

The CCS was founded on March 28, 1938, and with the help of thousands of volunteers and fundraising initiatives such as the annual daffodil sales, it has become Canada’s leading anti-cancer charity. The yellow flower was used by volunteers during the 1950s to decorate tables at fundraising events that became known as Daffodil Teas.

It has become a tradition of the CCS to raise money by accepting donations in exchange for daffodils and by selling daffodil pins through April.

That’s why, throughout this month, you’re likely to see CCS volunteers selling the bright yellow flowers, raising not only money for cancer research and other anticancer work, but awareness that, although a lot of solid ground has been won in the battle against cancer, there is still a long road ahead.

Donations to the CCS during Daffodil Month help fund research to outsmart cancer, assist in providing information and delivering programs to prevent cancer, support those living with cancer, and advocate for public policies to improve Canadians’ health.

When the CCS started, the cancer survival rate was about 25 per cent – only one in four people who developed cancer were able to get past it.

Now the average survival rate for Canadians diagnosed with any cancer is above 60 per cent – significantly more than half. And for many once-devastating cancers, the survival rate is approaching 100 per cent.

So those bundles of daffodils in CCS volunteers’ hands, or the daffodil pins on the lapels of passersby are not just about pretty flowers.

They’re about hope, and a fight for life… and everyone fighting together.

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Opinion

Honour lost with embarrassment beyond belief if your cheque had bounced or you had been unable to come up with the final $10 payment you’d promised the merchant.

Yes, they used to do that: accept your word of honour that you’d come back with the rest Bob Groeneveld of the money in a week or two. editor@langleyadvance.com That was before the television ads began asking, “Will that be cash… or Chargex?”

Call me an old fogey, if you will, but it still Charge cards have made things easier, of irks me every time I buy something… and course, and the bank debit cards that followed then am expected to pay extra to ensure that it them, and the online payment systems that actually does what it’s supposed to. have taken us yet another step further from It seems that a certain amount of embarrassany personal involvement between buyer and ment is missing. seller and manufacturer.

And with it, honour seems to have dissiAnd as the personal distance has grown, so pated, as well. has the impersonal distance.

It used to be that when you bought a car or Indeed, it seems to have started with the a refrigerator or a washing machine – or anybanks and their credit cards and their ATMs thing – there was an understanding between and what not. When is the last time you yourself and shop owner who actually stood face-to-face with a sold it to you. bank teller?

And as the personal That understanding extended So if your money doesn’t make all the way past the shop owner, it to the merchant, or indeed, it distance has in fact, and right back to the doesn’t get to the bank because grown, so has the folks who built the thing in the you don’t have it this week – or first place. impersonal distance. you never intended to have it The understanding was that – where’s the cause for embaryou would pay your money, and rassment? You don’t know the they would provide you with whatever widget guy… he doesn’t know you. And it’s not your you were buying – in good working order. money that actually falls into the shopkeeper’s The understanding was based on your word hands – it’s all a sort of collective, with extra and theirs. charges and penalties for everyone to make up And those words meant something. for those who are beyond embarrassment…

Washing machines and toasters and typebeyond honour. writers (it’s probably not a total coincidence It’s all calculated into the final mix. that the “understanding” of which I speak And that’s why that washing machine seems to have dissipated with the rise of the doesn’t come with an understanding – a word computer) were built, distributed, and sold by of honour that used to be an ironclad guaranpeople who not only took pride in their work, tee. but backed up their pride with their word of Instead, it comes with a warrantee… at a honour. price.

If your toaster fell apart or for whatever reaYou pay extra to ensure the value of the son stopped toasting, you took it back to an product that you are buying. embarrassed shop owner who apologized all And make no mistake about it: you are not over the place for having sold you a defective paying extra to ensure that the product you piece of equipment. are buying will be fault-free.

And there was a sense that the manufacturer That extra cost is to ensure that, in the likeliwas equally embarrassed, and eager to make hood that the manufacturer’s product is faulty, things right. someone else will come and fix it. …Just as you would have been embarrassed No reason to be embarrassed: no honour.

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Parking solution shot down

Dear Editor, I live in a newer development in Yorkson South, on a quiet side-street made up of single detached homes with short and narrow driveways.

When parking two average-sized vehicles side-by-side, it is difficult to open their doors. My fellow neighbours all agree that we each would really benefit from a little wider driveway [Parking homeowners’ fault, April 1 Letters, Langley Advance].

Just the other day, my neighbour received a letter from the Township, ordering him to remove his driveway width extension (about three feet) or face daily heavy fines of $500 per day until it is removed.

Although the extension is on his own property, it apparently violates some bylaw requiring the driveway to be a certain distance away from the property line.

The letter states that he should be a “good neighbour” and remove it.

My neighbour is being a good neighbour by having the extra space to park his vehicle on his own driveway and off the street!

Recently, the Township eliminated parking on one side of our street. (And what a time did they choose to put up No Letters Parking signs: just when all our to the sidewalks were getting repaired and none of us could even park in our driveways for a week. What happened to common sense?)

We all pay property taxes on this Editor useless, wasted strip of grass that turns into a muddy mess when it rains, but we are not permitted to turn it into something beneficial and aesthetically pleasing for all of us.

Not only has the Township of Langley chosen not to solve the problem of public street parking, it even prevents solving parking problems on our own private properties.

Vickash Kumar, Willoughby

Education

Pro-D days will cost parents more

Dear Editor, Parents need to be aware of a decision by the Langley School Board that will cost them money and reduce our quality of life, while reducing the quality of our children’s educations.

Teachers get professional development days in the school calendar. In 20132014 there were four of those days. Each required

a parent to stay at home or find alternate care for their children, costing either money or vacation days.

Apparently, the school district has decided that ruining four days of work was not challenging enough for parents, so for the 20142015 elementary/middle school calendar, professional development will be by the half day. Next year,

Emergency services

Four safest and most efficient

Dear Editor, The I.A.F.F has done extensive studies on responding with three and four firefighters. The studies have shown time and time again that responding with four or more firefighters is 60-70 per cent more safe and efficient for both firefighters and taxpayers.

Mutual aid and paid on call firefighters are not free. The extensive training they receive before being allowed to respond is time consuming, and always ongoing.

The suggestion to cut back to three firefighters [Too many firefighters too expensive, April 3 Letters, Langley Advance] is risk management at its worst, with the firefighters assuming all the risk. Help them help you.

Ken Johnson (retired firefighter), Langley

parents are going to need to either find daycare or stay home from work eight times instead of four.

Since most workplaces only give 10 vacation days a year, a working parent could conceivably have to use most of a year’s worth of holidays so teachers can “collaborate” for half a day at a time.

Apparently, teachers will “collaborate” for the morning, and we will be asked to send our kids to school at noon to eat lunch, then attend class for two hours before they are dismissed.

When will our school district recognize that these inventive and novel ideas don’t just mildly inconvenience parents, but cost them real money?

If you have to give the teachers professional development, do it over a full day, and don’t further mess with our lives and our schedules.

Blair King, Walnut Grove

Odd Thoughts

Kijiji legitimate base for employment policy

Dear Editor, You have shown a huge misunderstanding of the power of Kijiji [Harper’s policy just a plain joke, April 1 Odd Thoughts, Langley Advance]. While not well used in British Columbia, it dominates the market throughout Canada. Craigslist is a non-starter east of BC. The usefulness of Kijiji for Statistics Canada as a tracking device for employment cannot be disputed. The daily number of job seekers and job offers is, for the most part, a good indicator of the employment health of the country.

Kijiji listers may not be looking for newspaper editors, but the jobs offered are, for the most part, starter and/or labour-type work, work that can pay the bills while seeking a more fulfilling position. I am not too sure that tracking jobs offered and jobs sought can be regarded as a policy. Any information is good information.

As to your knock about scientific information being disregarded by the current government, I concur. When does anyone in the ivory tower know anything about the man in the street?

Your apparent reliance on economists for valued information leaves me questioning economists’ grasp of the economy in the past 10 years. Where were they during the meltdown that still affects a major portion of the world?

I believe a large component of the training to become an economist is to bury your head in the sand until the storm is over, then appear with solutions, valueless for the most part.

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Aldergrove

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Dear Editor, Every time I see an article about the “pool for Aldergrove” I cringe, because it seems to say, let’s make the building ugly, start cutting features, let’s sell off more land (we need more money), it’s too expensive to give you what you want… so that after a time, it could and may come down to, “Sorry, folks, it’s just too much. It ain’t gonna happen.”

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the same kind of services other areas of the Township receive; is that too much to ask? We pay taxes, too.

Did the Council have to sell land for the Blair Pool?

Did the council have to sell land for the Langley Events Centre?

I have to pay my taxes, so I have no money to bet with, but if I did, I’d say, probably not. As I understand it, the provincial government played a part in the development of the LEC project.

And does the artist’s rendition fit with the current and probably the future

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community style? posed a long time Look at all the boo Letters ago. Would it not be hoo hoo about the less expensive to do to the Coulter Berry buildan upgrade to the ing in Fort Langley. existing arena? They Did the designer of would be within the proposed arena of each other.

Editor blocks do any homework Maybe because I’m on the history of trying to reduce my Aldergrove? expenses, I have to pose the I’m not opposed to mixing question, “Why is it costthe old with the new, but ing $1 million for a detailed why do we have to go to technical study?”

Star Trek for a design?

Really? How many studies Why do we need a new have already been done? arena? That question was D. Atkinson, Aldergrove

Development

Willoughby plan obscure Dear Editor, Your article [New OCP stopped, April 3, Langley Advance] suggests that the GNAC loaned money to develop a plan for Brookswood, as the Township staff was too busy working on the plan for Willoughby and Aldergrove.

Watching Willoughby from Walnut Grove, I really wonder if there ever was a plan. What a mess!

Bruce Buchan, Walnut Grove

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Dear Editor, The Metro Vancouver authority lost its lawsuit over Langley Township council’s decision to rezone properties that did not conform to the regional growth strategy.

Unfortunately, Langley did not get the 2/3 approval vote required from Metro to amend the urban containment boundary when this matter went before Metro, though one of those applications was supported by Metro’s own staff.

Before the lands were designated part of the GVRD green zone in the late ’90s, I had a chance to address the mayor and council.

Proposed for the Green Zone were both ALR and non-ALR lands. I voiced my concern that, with almost 80 per cent of Langley within the ALR boundaries, why would council want to give another authority the power to influence how Langley grows in the future?

The mayor directed this question to the planner present at the time, who advised council that there would be a process in place that would allow the boundaries to be amended.

Council ended up approving the proposed boundaries for the green zone dedication, only to find out now that a 2/3 vote from Metro is required to change that boundary.

Well, here we are. It appears as though we have indeed added to the planning process another layer of bureaucracy that is not afraid to try and flex its muscle. The thought of politicians from Point Grey having more control over how Langley will evolve than our elected council is disturbing.

My family and I support the court’s decision. We own property that is not in the ALR, is located in the GVRD services area, and has now been designated rural reserve/ Green Zone by Metro.

We bought our acreage in I995 with the thought of building housing to accommodate our children and grandchildren. If the court had ruled in favour of Metro, our dreams for the future would have required a favourable 2/3 vote from the 40 Metro directors.

I would rather leave those decisions up to our elected mayor and council.

Tod McGovern, Langley [Note: Find more letters on this topic online at www.langleyadvance.com. Click on Opinion.]

Animal welfare

Compassion for injured bird

Dear Editor, I wish to thank a wonderful couple who assisted me when, during my run, I saw a bird get hit by a car.

The bird was not dead, but horribly injured. I could not leave it in the middle of the road, but wasn’t sure what to do. I picked it up and took it to a nearby house.

The couple was wonderful as I babbled on about this poor bird. They let me in their house so I could wash my hands that were covered in blood, and the husband was going to take care of the bird.

Although it was not pleasant to see this bird get hit, the kindness and compassion this couple showed a stranger and an injured bird is something I will not forget.

Carolyn Smith, Langley City For more letters to the editor visit... www.langleyadvance.com

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Charity

Mobility restored to woman’s ‘sanctuary’

A team of volunteers showed up at Carol Oldford’s Langley home Sunday to fix up her mobile home.

by Roxanne Hooper rhooper@langleyadvance.com

Carol Oldford’s deteriorating physical abilities in the past two years, compounded with the fact that her home is literally sinking, means she no longer has the strength necessary to open her front door.

The arrival of a 10-person team of workers on her very sloped stoop this weekend was a blessing that Oldford hopes can restore some of her mobility and consequently her independence.

“I think it’s fantastic… just fantastic,” she said, watching from inside as workers began to rip apart her slanted deck and rotting trailer skirt early Sunday morning – all in an effort to reveal and assess the problem.

“This is such a huge burden off me… they have no idea,” she said, near tears several times as the widow felt the trailer shaking under the vibration of the work.

The 71-year-old Langley woman moved into the mobile home park at 232nd Street and Fraser Highway 12 years ago and proceeded to build a breathtaking garden around her large lot on the park’s perimeter.

She called it her sanctuary, a place where she could go and unwind, where she could admire all the beautiful plants and watch and listen to the birds.

But as it stands now,

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she’s unable to safely manoeuvre onto her deck, let alone down the steps into the garden – at least not without some major assistance.

So Oldford admits she tends not to venture out much.

Living on a pension, she said she’s been struggling to figure out how to get the necessary repairs done, pointing up to a giant problem with her water-damaged living room ceiling. The linking is the cause of her trailer sinking.

Learning of Oldford’s plight, members of the Aldergrove Seventh Day Adventist church’s Acts of Kindness team came to her aid.

They’re performing what project leader Pastor Michael Dauncey describes as a mini Extreme Home Repair (EHR).

Each year, the AOK team selects at least one deserving and very needy family in Langley (often Aldergrove) to receive an EHR that typically takes hundreds of volunteers 15plus days and thousands of dollars worth of donated materials to complete.

But this year, instead of one massive project, they’ve chosen to take on two slightly smaller projects.

The first is Oldford’s home.

A small team arrived Sunday to access the dam-

Roxanne Hooper/Langley Advance

Carol Oldford, 71, was all smiles Sunday when a team of volunteers from the Seventh Day Adventist church showed up at her Langley home to help her out. age, develop a plan of attack, and begin some of the demolition.

Over the course of the next eight days or so, they hope to level and stabilize the 1972 double-wide trailer, then go about resurfacing the deck, repairing the roof, and fixing the floors that were damaged by the shifting and sinking of the ground below.

As well, Dauncey said, there are a few other projects in the works, including upgrading the electrical and doing a few other minor repairs.

“It’s a big relief. The stress level went down a great deal,” when she received a call from Dauncey a few weeks back announcing they’d been

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“I phoned everyone I knew,” she said. “I just couldn’t believe it.”

Oldford’s mobility started going downhill about two years ago, when she suffered a herniated belly button and required surgery. Since then, she has lost all her strength and subsequently some of her mobility. Her instability when walking has been amplified by the problems with her home. But she wants so much to stay where she is, and credits AOK for making that possible.

“Already, I can see the appreciation in their faces,” Dauncey said, of both Oldford and her

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A team of AOK volunteers, including Del Knowlton, went to work immediately ripping apart the severely slopped deck on Carol Oldford’s mobile home Sunday. daughter Connie.

A slightly bigger AOK repair project is still coming for next month, running from May 2 to 19 (with the reveal on Victoria Day, as usual),

for an Aldergrove grandmother and her grandson, Dauncey explained.

• Stay tuned to the Langley Advance for more details on this current mini extreme home repair, as well as the new project.

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Brookswood rugby is raising money for trip to Southern California.

Elise Cluney and Quintan Morley are two Brookswood Secondary rugby players who are taking part in the rugby tour.

by Jean Konda-Witte news@langleyadvance.com

Spring is in the air for Brookswood rugby students and it’s not just on the rugby pitch. They’re thinking a year in advance as they get ready to hold a manure sales fundraiser April 11-12 at the school.

The team is hoping monies raised will help foot the bill for the team to travel to southern California for a rugby tour in spring 2015.

“The tour is a great way to get the kids interested and promotes the game of rugby,” said Brookswood Secondary rugby co-ordinator Dino Camparmo.

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The tour is slated for March 20 to April 1, 2015, and the Brookswood Bobcats will play three different schools in the area between Los Angeles and San Diego.

Students will need to raise $1,600 each for the trip.

Next weekend’s mushroom manure sales will have 50-lb. bags available for $5/per bag. Those ordering 10 bags or more will have free delivery to the Brookswood area.

The sale is Friday, April 11, 4-7 p.m., and Saturday, April 12, 10 a.m. to noon, at Brookswood Secondary School, 20902 37A Ave., by the tennis courts.

A second team fundrasier, a dinner, fashion show and silent auction will be May 9 at the school. Cost of the event is $20 and features a beef dip dinner, the silent auction and a fashion show with clothes from Big Kahuna Sports.

For more details on either fundraiser or to place an order for the manure sales, call 604-5302141.

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Langley home to new political party A new Langley municipal party has four candidates, but is not releasing their names.

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The newest Langley municipal party has chosen four candidates for the coming November elections, but will not reveal names until later this summer.

Clint Lee of Live Langley said four potential Township candidates have been chosen internally.

Lee said it’s always possible some of the candi“We don’t want to be dates may not be able to perceived as a party run by November, so the names won’t be released that wants absolute immediately. control.”

So far, the party is only Clint Lee contemplating four candidates, rather than creating a full slate of eight council candidates and a mayoral candidate.

“We don’t want to be perceived as a party that wants absolute control,” said Lee. As the group’s executive director, Lee said he’s still not certain if he himself will run.

“I’ve gone back and forth,” Lee said.

The group has also not yet decided if it will run a mayoral candidate. So far the consensus is that the party will not.

“But that may change,” Lee said.

Live Langley is opposed to the bulk of the current Township council, having been formed out of residents upset with a number of recent land use and rezoning decisions.

Problems with the ongoing development of Willoughby, the Coulter Berry building controversy in Fort Langley, and approvals for projects such as the Trinity Western University District caused the group to come together last year.

The group was mostly formed out of opposition, and Lee said they are discussing what they do to move forward with positive solutions.

The group has recently seen much of its executive leave.

Lee said Brad Richter stepped down for health reasons, while Andy Schildhorn and Diane Morrison left as they were stretched between many commitments.

Lee said the group is now looking for both new executive members of help run the group as well as regular members. The party is holding a pub night at the Artful Dodger pub in Brookswood starting at 7 p.m. April 11.

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Spring cleaning

Clean up Langley

Anxious to work outdoors

Langley Township is encouraging people to keep their neighbourhoods clean this spring.

The arrival of spring-like weather on Friday brought out road crews to work on a section of Logan Avenue, at the intersection of Glover Road.

Roxanne Hooper Langley Advance

Charity

Stores enlist customers to fight hunger

Real Canadian Superstore and its sister stores are hosting a spring food drive.

The milder weather has people thinking spring, not hunger, but those who require food banks face the need, no matter the time of year.

Loblaws stores, including Langley’s Real Canadian Superstore, Your Independent Grocer, and no frills, are holding the Extra Helping Spring Food Drive until April 24.

“We always try to find ways to support the local Langley community and the Extra Helping Spring Food Drive is just one way we can

do that,” said Joe Viana, manager of Langley’s Real Canadian Superstore.

People can donate non-perishables at the stores (the bins are out yearround) or they can add a donation to their bill at the checkout.

“Hunger is a year-round reality for far too many families,” said Laura Lansik, executive director of Food Banks BC. “The Spring Extra Helping Food Drive helps us replenish our stock and fight hunger in our communities. Adding just one item to the food donation bin or a few extra dollars to your grocery bill makes a big difference to local families in need.”

According to Food Banks BC, about 94,000 residents, 30 per cent of them children, rely on a food bank in an

average month around the province.

“When customers are thinking about what to donate, we’d like them to consider selecting the same types of healthy foods they would pick up for their own family,” Viana said.

All of the food donations and 85 per cent of cash donations will go directly to food banks across B.C., while the remaining 15 per cent of donated cash will support provincial food bank programs.

Loblaw Companies Ltd. and its stores hope to raise $1.8 million and 1.8 million pounds of food in 2014.

The stores have supported local food banks for years, but in 2009 rebranded under Extra Helping and has twice-yearly food drives.

Cleaning doesn’t have to be a chore. Just gather your family and friends, pick your favourite neighbourhood, and help Clean Up Langley on Saturday, May 10.

Now in its third year, Clean Up Langley is a community-wide clean-up event that targets various neighbourhoods with the goal of making the Township an even more beautiful place to live. Running from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., businesses, community groups, families, and individuals are invited to spend anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours collecting litter and other waste.

“Earth Day doesn’t have to end on April 22,” said Tess White, solid waste coordinator with the Township of Langley. “We’re hoping that more and more residents will see the benefit in volunteering their time so that our community can really sparkle and shine.”

Last year, more than 300 people braved the rain and formed 15 groups to Clean Up the community.

Thanks to their efforts, more than one tonne of garbage was cleared away, along with large items including concrete blocks, rebar, mattresses, propane tanks, an old barbecue, cans of paint, rusty barrels, and tires.

This year, the event was put back a couple of weeks in the hopes of better weather, but the event will be held rain or shine. Registrants can choose to join an existing large group or head out with their own group, armed with supplies provided by the Township of Langley.

Clean Up Langley is presented by the Township’s Adopt-A-Program, which encourages residents, schools, organizations, and businesses to help keep local streets, streams, trails, and parks clean.

“We are lucky to live in such a beautiful place, and it is up to all of us to take care of it,” said Township Mayor Jack Froese. “Clean Up Langley Day is a great opportunity to enhance the environment and get to know other caring people in your community. It makes a big difference and is a lot of fun, so we encourage people of all ages to do what they can.”

To take part, visit tol.ca/events by Thursday, May 1 to sign up and receive your Clean Up supplies.

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25215 - 32 Avenue (see Map 1) Lot 26 Section 26 Township 10 New Westminster District Plan 41660

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Bylaw No. 5065 proposes to rezone property from Community Care Facility Zone P-2F to Rural Zone RU-3.

PROPOSAL:

This application will accommodate residential and agricultural uses.

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Properties affected by the proposal are generally shown on Map 2

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Bylaw No. 5059 proposes an amendment to the Rural Plan to provide for future subdivision in the area immediately adjacent to the eastern boundary of Walnut Grove, south of 88 Avenue and not located in the ALR provided: • the proposed zoning allows only two lots for each existing fee simple lot and only one single family dwelling per lot

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AT THE PUBLIC HEARING all persons who believe their interest in property is affected by the proposed bylaws shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the bylaws that are the subject of the hearing.

OWNER:

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NOTICE is hereby given that the Township of Langley Council will meet and hold a Public Hearing.

• the lot is serviced by municipal water and sanitary sewer services • access to lots fronting 216 Street and 88 Avenue is provided by new roads connecting to 217A Street or 86A Avenue

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AND TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a copy of Township of Langley Bylaw Nos. 5059 amd 5065 and relevant background material may be inspected between the hours of 8:30am and 4:30pm, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, from April 4 to 14, both inclusive, at the Community Development Division Development Services counter, 2nd floor, Township of Langley Civic Facility, 20338 - 65 Avenue or may be viewed on the Township’s website at tol.ca/hearing.

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Volunteers of the year named by Township Longtime Langley volunteers were awarded for years of efforts to improve the community.

An Aldergrove woman behind many of the community’s fairs and parades, and a Glen Valley couple with a yen for taking to the waters of the Fraser River won Langley Township volunteering awards last week.

Karen Long was the 2014 recipient of the Eric Flowerdew Volunteer Award, given annually to recognize dedication to the quality of life and community spirit in Langley.

Cheryl MacIntosh and Glenn Howes took home the John and Muriel Arnason Award, which honours two people who are advocates of literacy, culture, and learning. It is for couples who work together towards the same goals.

Long, MacIntosh, and Howes took home their awards from

an event with hundreds at the Langley Events Centre Thursday night. Numerous dedicated volunteers were honoured with dinner and entertainment.

A long-time resident of Aldergrove, Long has spent years dedicated to making a difference in her neighbourhood.

In fact, there are very few activities or events that happen in Aldergrove that Long hasn’t contributed to in some way.

For many years, she has served on the executive of the Aldergrove Festival Days Society and the Aldergrove Agricultural Association, organizing fairs and parades to educate and entertain the community.

A member of the Rotary Club of Aldergrove, she exemplifies the motto “Service Above Self,” helping the group raise money for a women’s shelter, clean up and beautify downtown Aldergrove, raise funds for Langley Centennial Museum student programs, and partner with the Township of Langley Fire Department to install smoke

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Karen Long was awarded the Eric Flowerdew Volunteer Award, named for the first director of recreation in the Township and a longtime proponent of volunteerism.

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Cheryl MacIntosh and Glen Howes took home the John and Muriel Arnason Award at Thursday’s volunteer celebration event.

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detectors in the Aldergrove paddling. Interest grew and with Mobile Home Park.

MacIntosh chairing the board An integral force behind the since 2009, the club grew to Aldergrove Christmas Parade, more than 500 members. she can be found manning a ketThat meant more boats, docks, tle for the Salvation Army durand storage space was needed. ing the holidays. An advocate Howes became the key person of Aldergrove Neighbourhood for getting the docks upgraded, Services’ programs, she is also a leading working groups through huge part of the success of the planning, design, and physical local Walk for Memories, which labour. has raised almost $100,000 for The couple also lends their the Alzheimer Society. leadership qualities to local Long is also a long-time environmental groups. A true member of the Aldergrove team, Howes is the chair of the Legion who serves as chair of Glen Valley Watershed Society the branch’s internal auditing and MacIntosh was the treascommittee. She helps secure urer. Cheryl has also been secdonations for retary, treasurer, community dinand chair of the “Our community ners for families Derby Reach/ at Thanksgiving, wouldn’t be the same Brae Island Parks Easter, and Association. without them.”

Christmas, parHowes is one of Jack Froese ticipates in an the association’s annual Terry most diligent Fox barbecue members and fundraiser, and works with the turns out in all kinds of weather Rotary Club to provide food and to pull weeds and conduct tours gifts for Aldergrove families that as part of the association’s goal are struggling at Christmastime. to promote conservation and On the water and on land education.

MacIntosh and Howes, have Beyond running many meetcontributed to ensure that North ings, the pair has opened up Langley is a better and healthier their home for work parties place to live. and lunches for events such as For 12 years, the pair has been the annual Bird Count. They dedicated to the Fort Langley participate in Rivers Week, the Canoe Club.

Cranberry Festival, and the MacIntosh began as a voyaannual Brigade Days journey geur paddler then became a and arrival at the Fort Langley leader and coach, encouraging National Historic Site. MacIntosh the group to try dragon boat and Howes help protect the

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environment by doing everything from planting trees and sampling and analyzing stream water to talking to neighbours about issues, and keep many kilometres of Glen Valley roads clean and collect numerous bags of garbage through the Township’s Adopt-A-Street program.

“We are really fortunate in this community to have so many people willing to volunteer their time to make life better for others,” said Township of Langley Mayor Jack Froese.

“This event is a wonderful opportunity to thank those who give so much to Langley. Our community wouldn’t be the same without them.”

Froese presented the awards along with co-emcee Meghan Cheung, a Grade 12 honour student from Brookswood Senior Secondary who has been a member of Langley Township’s Youth Advisory Council since 2011.

The Eric Flowerdew award is named after the former school trustee, municipal councillor, and Parks and Recreation Commissioner who had an unfailing commitment to volunteerism.

The John and Muriel Arnason award is named for the first woman elected to Langley Township council and her longtime husband and partner in activism John. Arnason served 26 years on the Township council.

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Langley’s Hannah Beaton mixes athletics and aid work.

Hannah Beaton has been named the Pete Swennson Outstanding Community Youth Award winner for 2014.

An accomplished track and field athlete, Hannah can usually be found in her running shoes – or supplying them to those in need.

A Grade 12 student at Langley Fundamental Middle and Secondary School, Hannah created the Step In Someone Else’s Shoes program three years ago to provide inner city schools with footwear.

A member of her school’s student council and a youth leader, she also established Family Sports Night to promote play and strengthen family ties.

An athlete who shines in soccer, volleyball, and track and field, she holds a record with the Langley Mustangs for youth shot put, was named fifth in Canada for heptathlon and fourth for javelin, and holds several track and field records at her high school. Hannah has made

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Hannah Beaton, centre, received her award from co-emcees Meghan Cheung, a Grade 12 honour student from Brookswood Senior Secondary who has been a member of Langley Township’s Youth Advisory Council since 2011, and Township Mayor Jack Froese. the Langley Mustangs Top 10 in five events and was the recipient of the club’s Spirit Award, and was named Langley Fundamental’s Track and Field MVP from 2008 to 2013.

A Leadership and Principal’s Award-winner for outstanding effort and work habits, Hannah has earned an A Honor Roll award each term. A youth leader at her church and a recreation leader with the Township of Langley, she has just returned from a humanitarian trip to Nicaragua with her Global

Education Class.

Hannah has won an athletic scholarship to Trinity Western University where she will be a member of the track and field team and pursue a degree in nursing.

Beaton received the award during the volunteer appreciation event held last Thursday at the Langley Event Centre.

The annual event chooses some of Langley’s top volunteers and honours all of those who have dedicated time and effort to making Langley a better place.

The Pete Swensson

Outstanding Community Youth Award is given to a Langley student in Grade 11 or 12, from one of the area’s secondary schools, in recognition of his or her athletic, scholastic, and community efforts.

Pete Swensson, for whom the award is named, was an internationally recognized athlete and photographer, and an outstanding member of the Langley community.

The Township of Langley’s first recreation director, he was the originator of the annual Langley Walk.

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Carol Leeson and Jean Sexsmith have never stopped to calculate how many hours a week they volunteer at their

home, the Renaissance Resort.

Sexsmith has lived at Renaissance for about seven years, and Leeson has been there about four.

But since each has lived there, they’ve been volunteering at the Country Store, a small tuck shop for residents.

“The pleasure of serving,” was Sexsmith’s reason for why she does it.

Leeson cited an example of the value they place on helping others.

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Volunteer attitude started at childhood stamps and a few dining room for special Kleenex,” Sexsmith sales. explained.

The next special sale is Over the years, it’s for Easter, giving residents expanded to include a chance to pick up items snacks, for their sundries grandchil“It started with just like gardren or bage bags others. stamps and a few and paper The two Kleenex.” towels, gift friends Jean Sexsmith items, and rely on even homeLeeson’s made sewhusband to ing and other items. go over the books at the Sometimes residents store, where every transhave been known to action is recorded by hand donate items, such as gift in a ledger. baskets of bath products They do not have the or other items they are luxury of a computer sysunable to use themselves. tem.

And four times a year, Volunteering is nothing the store sets up near the new for these women.

“We were in the Kinsmen Club for many, many years,” Leeson said, referring to their work together through her husband’s service club membership.

Sexsmith said she recalls helping threading needles for her grandmother, and now she receives help with her needles from Thank you to our volunteers for younger members of her family. your dedication and commitment.

“I have always been a volunteer, from the time we were kids,” she explained.

When she and her husband lived in Hong Kong, she volunteered for a

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A resident came by with a request, but due to health issues could barely speak.

Leeson and Sexmith were able to get some sundries for him from a retail outlet.

That’s because part of their work, in addition to the two hours the store is open each week, include special-occasion sales, accounting, fulfilling requests, and even some personal shopping.

It’s a far cry from the origins of the Country Store when the Renaissance opened several years ago.

“It started with just

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group that helped mainland Chinese adjust to living in the former British colony.

The store doesn’t just help residents.

The women pick up items on sale, and they are then sold at the Country Store for regular retail price.

The difference is then donated to charity.

That’s been going on for years.

The most recent donations amounted to $1,200 for the Langley Memorial Hospital Foundation, and the same amount was applied to BC Children’s Hospital.

“Our goal was $2,000 for the year,” Leeson said.

Sexsmith said that the store would not be nearly as successful without Carol, who does the driving.

Working at the store keeps the women active and involved.

“We are blessed with real good health,” Sexsmith said.

And one of the added benefits is that they get to socialize with their neighbours.

“We’re next door to the hairdresser,” Sexsmith noted, adding with a chuckle, “We get all the news.”

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Looking back… 1984: Lions plans upset Fort Langley’s history, as recorded in the files of the Langley Advance.

Eighty Years Ago

ing if a threatened janitors’ strike materialized.

• A government committee had a $1,000 expense account to look into reconstruction of the Hudson’s Bay Co. fort at Fort Langley.

Fifty Years Ago

April 2, 1964

March 29, 1934

• Council bought a new gravel truck. Farmers wouldn’t bid on road work, because their horses weren’t shod, and private truck drivers were too expensive.

• Langley Amateur Dramatic Society’s three-act play, The Ghost Train, was a hit.

Seventy Years Ago

March 30, 1944

• Councillors disagreed over whether or not to accept a closed shop deal with municipal employees.

• Fort Langley May Day celebrations were in jeopardy, as school bus drivers refused to volunteer to transport children in and out.

Forty Years Ago

March 28, 1974

• The Langley Elks sold their Eastleigh Cres. hall. It was to be demolished to make way for a hotel complex.

• Langley School Board approved an eight-room addition to the year-old Blacklock Elementary School.

Thirty Years Ago

March 28, 1984

Sixty Years Ago

April 1, 1954

• People volunteered to clean schools to keep classes go-

• Fort Langley residents balked at a Lions Club pro-

posal to build a multi-use recreation centre at Glover Road and 88th Avenue.

Twenty Years Ago

March 30, 1994

• A new regional park was planned along the Fraser River, straddling the Langley-Matsqui boundary.

• A Liveable Region Strategy and Transportation Plan proposed by the GVRD was endorsed by Langley Township council.

Ten Years Ago

March 30, 2004

• The Salmon River was placed on B.C.’s top 10 list of most endangered rivers.

• Ground was broken to commence work on a new casino in Langley City.

April 2, 2004

• Langley School Board chair Steve Burton characterized an education ministry announcement of $32 million in extra spending as “disgustingly misleading.”

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Morris-Read and McMurty had the assists.

There were lots of exciting chances at both ends of the ice, but neither team could get the puck past Yordanov or Rachel Fontinha.

The Fraser Valley Phantom now advance to the 2014 Esso Cup in Stoney Creek, Ont. from April 20-23. Canada’s National Female Midget AAA Championship will welcome the top female midget teams from across the country.

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The Phantom won the best-of-three series for the third year in a row. The action was at the Langley Sportplex.

But the Phantom players don’t get to hang up their skates for the season just yet. They head off to Ontario for the national contest in late April.

In the Female Midget AA Championship, the Phantom pulled out a 2-0 win in a close battle during Game 1.

Chelsea Wilson opened the scoring late in the first off passes from Michelle Torr and Delaney Duckek.

Midway through the second, a great effort from Kirsten Martin to Shannon Morris-Reade to Kaely McMurty who found the back of the net to give the Phantom a two-goal lead.

The Rockets battled hard but the Phantom goalie, Valencia Yordanov, wasn’t letting anything past her.

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Fundraising

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.

NU-2-You The Langley Lodge boutique and jewelry sale is 10am-3pm on April 12. Pick up gently used women’s clothing, accessories and jewelry. Proceeds go to programs at the seniors facility.

Clubs/meetings Chamber of commerce The Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce dinner meeting

is at the Cascades Casino ballroom starting at 5pm. The April 15 meeting features MLA Rich Coleman on liquid natural gas.

Tickets: $35 for members, $50 for others. Book by April 11 at 604-530-6656 or www.langleychamber.com.

Chamber of commerce U40 Mingle The Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce U40 Monthly Mingle is April 9, 4:30-6:30pm at the Earl’s Kitchen and Bar, 6339 200th St. Network over complimentary treats. RSVP and info: 604-530-6656 or www. langleychamber.com.

Langley Field Naturalists The monthly meeting is at 7:15pm, at the Langley Community Music School, 4899-207 St. The April 17 meeting features naturalist Anne Murray on Mongolia. Everyone

welcome. Info: www.langleyfieldnaturalists.org.

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.

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 604-

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.

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.

• Flourishing Chinese Restaurant, 20472 Fraser Hwy.: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the

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FORT LANGLEY’S GOOD FRIDAY WALK Stations of Holy Week

April 18, 10 AM Join the churches of Fort Langley as we reflect on and celebrate the story of Jesus, the cross, and Easter.

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• 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.

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.

Langley Seniors Resource Society 20605 51B Ave., 604-530-3020 Outreach programs: information and referral, Telephone Buddy, and seniors counsellors.

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.

Talking to your doctor The free education workshop

by Langley Lodge, 5451 204th St., is 7pm on April 15 and features Dr. Leo Wong on how people can be more active in their health care. RSVP: Dayna, 604-532-4241 or ddriscoll@ langleylodge.org.

Support Mental Health Family Support and Respite Program This program offers support for families and caregivers of a family member with severe mental illness (Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective disorder, and Bipolar disorder). The group meets Mondays 7-8:30pm in Langley. Info: Hardeep, 604574-1976.

Fraser Valley Transplant Network The group for people who have had transplants and their families meets at the Township Civic Facility, 20338 65th Ave. Info: Charlie or Diane, 604-5333352.

Alzheimer Society of B.C. Support, information and education about Alzheimer’s and related dementias available 604533-5277.

Arthritis Support Group, Langley 3rd Mon./mo., 1:30-3:30pm, Langley Seniors Centre. Info: 604-532-9671.

Epilepsy support group The Centre for Epilepsy in British Columbia invited parents, families, friends and anyone affected by epilepsy to a meeting 7-8:30pm on the last Wednesday of the month at the Township Civic Facility, 20338 65th Ave. Get resources and information. No meetings over Christmas and summer.

Info: 1-888-9SEIZURE or www. epilepsy.ca.

FASD adoptive and foster parents Monthly support group meetings for those with children who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

Info: Jamie, 604-530-5917.

Fibromyalgia Well-Spring Foundation The support group meetings are on the first Wednesday of the month in the Murrayville Library at 12:30pm. Info: www. fibromyalgiawellspringfoundation.org.

Harvest produce bags The public can get a bag of fruits and vegetables on the first Tuesday of the month for $5.

Pick up is at Douglas Recreation Centre and the Langley Seniors’ Resource Centre. Delivery available for those 50+ and unable to pick up. Book in advance: Rec centre, 604-514-2865 or seniors centre, 604-530-3020.

Sponsored by the City, the seniors’ centre and other community groups.

Harvest boxes The Harvest Box program offers three kinds of produce packages to encourage healthier eating. The Harvest Value Box is $8. Each box contains at least seven varieties of fruits and vegetables. The Harvest Local Box also has at least seven varieties, sourced as locally as possible and costs $15. The Harvest BOGO Box, $15, is a value box for oneself and a value box for a local family in need. All are available for pick up on the 2nd and last Thursday of the month at the Douglas Recreation Centre.

Order in advance through Douglas Rec, 604-514-2865, or the Timms Communty Centre, 604-514-2940.

Health Equipment Loan Program HELP, a Canadian Red Cross program, needs volunteers for its equipment loan service.

Looking for people who can spare three hours a week to work in the depot in Port Kells.

Info: Wendy, 604-513-3935 or 604-881-1113.

Langley Hospice Society The society offers palliative (end of life) care and support at its hospice residence and in the community, as well as individual and group grief support programs for children, teens, adults and families, education, outreach, advocacy, volunteer training, and day and summer camp programs. All services and programs are free. Info: 604-530-1115 or www.langleyhospice.com.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly The non-profit weight-loss support group has 14 chapter meetings around Langley with morning and evening meetings.

Info: Lynda, 604-856-8014.

Other Blood donor clinics Call 1-888-2-DONATE to book.

April 8: 1-8pm Murrayville Hall, 21667 48th Ave. April 12: 10am-5pmAldergrove Community Secondary School, 26850 29th Ave. (Not at Aldergrove Kinsmen Community Centre) April 22: 1-8pm Murrayville Hall, 21667 48th Ave. 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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Langley hoopster part of two wins

Tayla Jackson was on Team BC Selects, taking on a top Japanese team.

Sporting number 12 Tayla Jackson, of Langley, played on the Team BC Selects which hosted the Japan U-18 girls for three basketball games, including two at the Langley Events Centre.

(Below) Langley’s Tayla Jackson, number 12, said the games against the Japan U-18 girls were a more physical style of play than the Canadians who adapted their game.

by Heather Colpitts hcolpitts@langleyadvance.com

The coach of the Japan U-18 Select girls basketball team wanted to put his players to the test by bringing them to Canada.

“I want to give them a chance to play against a tall player in Canada,” coach Tatushi Isshiki said through a translator.

The team is prepping for the Asian Games and the three-game series against Team BC Selects offered other benefits.

“The reason why we are here is to improve each game,” he said.

So he used all his squad so they could be exposed to a different style of ball in another culture.

His players are high school students ages 16-18.

They played Team BC to a 7162 win on April 2 with Team BC taking game 2 with 71-67.

Game 3 was Saturday at UBC and resulted in a thrilling 70-68 win for Team BC. Admission to the games was a donation to KidsSportBC. “We have to improve defensively,” Isshiki said about the two Kayla Gordon are also on the days between the later games. team.)

That won’t leave the teens Jackson said the first game was much time to be sightseeing but a little rough. Team BC only has he said they’ve taken a shine four practices before taking on the to one aspect of visitors.

Canada.

“It’s very scram“It makes us think on “The food is bly at times but great,” he said. it’s good,’ Jackson our feet. We’ve gotta Langley’s Tayla said. “It makes us make quick decisions, think on our feet.

Jackson is on the so it’s a big learning Selects, and was We’ve gotta make flattered when quick decisions, so experience for us.” asked to join the it’s a big learning Tayla Jackson group of young experience for us.” women from high The Selects gelled schools and unibetter for the secversities. ond meeting.

“I thought it would be a great “It’s very fast paced, a very experience because I was able to physical game. I’ve never played play with girls I look up to at the at the international level before so university level,” she said. it’s pretty cool,” said Jackson.

The Grade 12 student at The games are a challenge but Brookswood Secondary plays Jackson sees the benefits, espeforward. (Trinity Western cially since she plans to continue University’s Chantelle Martin and playing basketball into university.

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Trinity Western men’s volleyball coach Ben Josephson went back to a pair of familiar wells for his latest two recruits, signing outside hitter Riley Vander Meulen of Edmonton Christian High School and left side/libero Carter Bergen of Winnipeg’s MCBI (Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute).

Both are arguably the best graduating players from their respective provinces.

Bergen joins the Spartans after being named the top graduating high school player in Manitoba. Vander Meulen, by many’s estimation, would have been atop his province’s list had Alberta a similar poll.

Edmonton Christian has been a hotbed for TWU men’s volleyball players. Vander Meulen follows in the footsteps of former Spartans Josh Doornenbal (graduated in 2011) and Lucas Van Berkel (2014), and current Spartan Levi Wolthuis.

Similarly, Bergen comes to the Spartans on the same path that fellow MCBI graduates Adam Schriemer and Devyn Plett also once took en route to TWU. The two add to an already distinguished 2014 Spartans recruiting class that includes Aaron Boettcher (Surrey), who was ranked No. 2 in The Province poll of the best graduating players in B.C., Ben Lieuwen (Abbotsford), who was No. 4 on that same list, and Braden Heppell (Langley), who came in at No. 8.

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Stealth find their feet too late in the game against Toronto.

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In the battle between the West and Central Canada, the Vancouver Stealth lost out to the Toronto Rock 17-9 Saturday evening at the Langley Events Centre.

The Stealth failed to rock the Langley Events Centre when taking on Toronto Saturday.

The Vancouver Stealth’s (4-10) slow start proved costly, as they fell 17-9 to the Toronto Rock (6-9) in National Lacrosse League action.

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we put ourselves behind league. It’s a shame that it the eight ball,” said Stealth happened.” captain Kyle Sorensen, In second half the teams who made his return to were basically even offenthe lineup after missing sively, with the Rock time due to injury. “We scoring six goals to the battled back a bit after the Stealth’s five. Rhys Duch slow start, led the but then we charge for “We showed flashes fell asleep the Stealth of brilliance, but that’s in the secagain.”

The Rock ond half not good enough.” led right finishing Kyle Sorensen from the the game outset, outwith four scoring the goals in a Stealth 6-2 in the opening losing cause. Duch was quarter and held an 11-4 also named the third star advantage at halftime, of the game.

“We’ve had a number of The second half also good starts this year, our turned into a physical batproblem has been the mid- tle, as the two Canadian dle of the games at times,” teams combined for 37 said Toronto Rock head penalty minutes, in the coach John Lovell. “It was second half alone. good that we maintained The playoff-like atmosour momentum throughphere at the LEC seemed out the third and fourth to fuel the Stealth in the quarters tonight.” second half, but the slow Langley native Garrett start was too much to Billings led the charge overcome. for the Rock in the open“We showed flashes of ing half assisting on the brilliance but that’s not team’s first five goals of good enough. We’ve put the game and finished the ourselves in this position half with seven points to too many times this year,” lead all players.

Sorensen said. “We know Billings we can play would end 60 minutes, up leaving we did it “We’ put ourselves in the game last week this position too many with an against times this year.” injury in Buffalo.” the second The Kyle Sorensen quarter Stealth now and did not head out return. He’s now tending on the road to face the to a torn ACL. Rochester Knighthawks “We’re not sure where on April 12, in what will he is and you don’t be a repeat of last year’s replace a player like that,” Champions Cup Final. The said coach Lovell. “It’s next home game is April devastating to us because 19 when Philadelphia visof his ability and I feel its. sorry for the guy because For more information he’s one of the best, if on upcoming games visit not the best player in this www.StealthLAX.com.

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