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B.C. Seniors’ Week fun pg A11
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
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History renewed Willoughby Hall is newly restored and open to the public.
What was an old hall in Willoughby is new again. The community was invited to the grand re-opening celebration of the newly renovated Willoughby Community Hall on Saturday afternoon. The hall, at the 8300 block of 208th Street, has served the community for 89 years and was restored with a new foundation. In July 2013, a crew of contractors used a large winch to haul the heritage building to its new location, just a little to the left of where it has sat since 1937. Troy Landreville/Langley Advance
Willoughby Community Hall secretary Alice Johnson stood in front of the hall at 83rd Avenue and 208th Street. A grand re-opening of the hall was held Saturday, May 24. (Below) The inside of the newly renovated Willoughby Community Hall was available for viewing by the community at the celeration.
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Sitting near a piece of one of the original cedar logs that held up the Willoughby Community Hall starting in the late 1930s, musician Willie MacCalder warmed up for the hall’s grand re-opening on Saturday.
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Charges are likely against a woman who dumped six dead dogs in a ditch and claimed they had been stolen. by Matthew Claxton
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The BC SPCA will recommend criminal charges against a Delta dog walker after six dogs died in
the back of her truck on May 13 due to heat. The SPCA has been investigating since it was revealed last week that the dog walker had not, as she had first claimed to the police, had the dogs stolen from her vehicle in a Brookswood dog park. In fact, it is believed that the dogs died while the truck was in Richmond at some point on that day. The woman discovered the
dogs, which included her own pet, were dead and panicked. She apparently took them to Abbotsford, where their bodies were found in a ditch last week. She then called the RCMP and reported the alleged theft of the dogs. A private missing pets investigator revealed last week that the dog walker had admitted to the hoax. The Langley RCMP has said it is looking into a possible public
mischief charge for claiming the theft. The SPCA says it will move forward and recommend charges of causing unnecessary suffering, and causing damage or injury to an animal under the Criminal Code. Separate charges will be recommended for each of the six dogs, said Marcie Moriarty, the BC SPCA’s chief prevention and enforcement officer.
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