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Sam Thiessen helped hand out fire helmets at the Langley City Fire Rescue Service open house Oct. 9 for Fire Prevention Week. (Upper left) Firefighters scaled down the fire hall tower to show rope rescue work to the public. (Upper right) Firefighter Colton Platzner hung out with Sparky the fire prevention mascot.
Local elections
Community
The former mayor will try for election again against the incumbent and a newcomer.
Aldergrove won’t light up with jack o’lanterns this Halloween.
Rick Green in race for mayor No glow and council for what he called council, mostly composed of a flawed community planning incumbents. process, out of conGreen had his budget trol spending, and for suggestions shot down building townhouses in by the majority on the prime farmland. council. He promised if electIn 2010, council by Matthew Claxton ed that he will resume determined that Green mclaxton@langleyadvance.com his practice of holding had misled them, and Rick Green, one of the most monthly mayors forums he was officially cencontroversial mayors of Langley at which he would sured by the rest of Township’s recent history, meet residents in difthe council. He was announced at the last minute ferent parts of the comstripped of his post that he is running for the top job munity to answer quesas a director of Metro Rick Green again. tions and keep them up Vancouver. Mayoral candidate “It’s going to be a real grassto date on the issues. Green called the roots campaign,” Green told the The late entry means attacks politically Langley Advance shortly after he a three-way race for mayor, with motivated, but he admitted to filed campaign papers on Friday Green, incubment Mayor Jack misleading. afternoon. Froese who defeated Green in An internal report suggested The former mayor said he came 2011, and newcomer Serena Oh. Green had lied to council more back because a large number of Green was elected mayor in than once, and an RCMP investipeople have encouraged him to 2008, defeating Kurt Alberts in an gation was launched, overseen by try again. He upset. Green a special prosecutor. No charges met with his ran a campaign were ever laid. family before Green ran with a slate called See the full list of Township, that focused making the attention on Vote Langley Now in the 2011 City and school board decision to taxes, and in campaign and came third, with candidates on page A5. enter his name the wake of just under 24 per cent of the again. several years in vote. Mel Kositsky, a longtime “Of course which property councillor, came second. the issues are the driving force,” tax increases had hovered near Green is running alone this Green said. five per cent, his message hit time as a full independent. He said the biggest issues this home with enough voters to win “This is going to be a very time will be a lack of transparenhim the job. defining election,” Green said. cy by the Township government. However, he almost immediThe voters of the Langleys go He slammed the current mayor ately ran into conflicts with the to the polls on Nov. 15.
The host Aldergrove Business Association won’t be able to put on a popular Halloween event this year. The Wall O’Lanterns Festival has been cancelled for 2014, but will hopefully be back in 2015, said Aldergrove Business Association president Ken Kendall. Without necessary sponsorship, the $10,000 budget can’t be secured, so the merchants’ group was “unfortunately unable to move forward,” he said. “I would like to deeply thank those Aldergrove businesses and individuals who stepped up and got us to about half our goal,” Kendall said. “You are all to be appreciated for your generosity of your time, money, and support, and for your commitment to the community.” The hope, he said, is to have the Wall event back in 2015, and “to make it an even better and bigger community event going forward.”