Langley Advance March 3 2015

TUESDAY March 3, 2015

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Township talks about taxes

A “base” property tax increase of 1.59 per cent is projected, with another 2.10 per cent worth of projects in debate.

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Forum discusses transit taxes

A proponent of the proposed 0.5 per cent sales tax increase for transit purposes is organizing a forum aimed at providing information for all concerned.

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TWU answers district prayers

When Langley’s public schools needed help to save the International Student summer program, Trinity Western University was called upon to save the day.

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FINANCES

Tax talks held Saturday More money was found for crosswalks and cats in the Township budget.

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Surrey starts biofuel building A City of Surrey works yard in Port Kells will be the site of a $68 million facility to process waste organic matter.

The site at 97th Avenue and 196th Street was unveiled Feb. 27 and is set to be completed in 2017.

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Man forgets gun in casino A Chilliwack man has pleaded guilty to weapons charges after he lost a loaded handgun in Langley’s Cascades Casino.

Kristopher Mino, 37, pleaded guilty.

Police were called in last July after the .45 calibre handgun was found tucked into a daytimer left between two slot machines.

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Langley City approved a 2.95 % tax increase.

The Township is looking at 1.59-3.69%.

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Power through it: Township Fire

crews along with utility firms scrambled to respond to several incidents of lines down on Monday, March 2. One incident on Glover Road at 216th resulted in sparks.

This incident was one of a couple in Brookswood.

PROPERTY CRIMES

What happens in Walnut Grove…

Two suspected truck thieves were nabbed and are headed to court.

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A suspect almost slept through his arrest Sunday after a tip led police to a stolen truck parked in Walnut Grove.

On Saturday, the Ford F350 pickup was stolen from the Walnut Gate parking lot – the owner was shopping but spotted the

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years. A Township staff member will also help LAPS oversee the process of creating the new building.

• An electrical vehicle charging station costing $15,000 has been scrapped, and the money will instead go to the Langley Seniors Resource Centre, a motion sparked by Coun. Kim MATTHEW CLAXTON Richter. The Township already mclaxton@langleyadvance.com has six charging stations.

• The Brookswood Official Langley Township council Community Plan process has wrestled with the municipal funding – but will not start withbudget on Saturday, and cut a out a vote by council. There handful of projects while delaying is $150,000 earmarked in this or eliminating a few others. budget, plus $60,000 carried over The budget will have a 1.59 from 2014 for starting a new proper cent “base” tax increase, said cess, building on the research and Mayor Jack Froese, representJack Froese feedback from the failed previous ing mostly increased salaries.

Township mayor OCP process. The planning could The Township will also be askbe put aside for a year if council ing residents whether they want decides not to start it again for 2015. to proceed with hiring more firefighters, • About $30,000 in surplus funds from a Mounties, and with funding for roads and crosswalk project will go towards a temporinfrastructure. Those costs would bring ary parking lot on 80th Avenue near 212th the tax increase to 3.69 per cent if all are Street in Willougby. Residents asked for the approved. lot in lieu of on-street parking.

“We’ve worked hard, to keep our budget • A crosswalk planned for 216th Street in low,” Froese said.

Walnut Grove will not go ahead, in favour At Saturday’s special budget discussion, of a crosswalk on Walnut Grove Drive near the council voted on a number of proposthe community’s high school, an amendals and specific items. Some of those items ment suggested by Coun. Charlie Fox. were: Public meetings will be scheduled for • Funding for a new isolation facility for March 9 and 10 to seek more input on cats at the Patti Dale Animal Shelter. The the budget, and whether the police, fire, Langley Animal Protection Society had and infrastructure expenditures should be asked for $225,000 to fund 40 per cent included this year. of a new building to serve felines better.

Froese said he believes the final tax Councillor Angie Quaale moved that money increase for this year will be around 2.59 or be found in a capital works reserve fund 2.69 per cent.

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vehicle driving away, said Cpl. Holly Marks of the Langley RCMP. The next day at 2:30 p.m., the owner called police to say he had spotted the truck parked at the Walnut Grove Chevron. He was certain, as the vehicle still had its distinctive business decals on the side panels.

The truck was running, but not moving, and as it is fairly high, it was hard to see if anyone was still inside, said Marks.

Langley Mounties boxed it in and brought in the Lower Mainland Police Dog Service to help with the arrest as well.

With the suspect vehicle unable to move, an officer approached – and found a man snoozing in the driver’s seat.

Officers opened the door and arrested a 26-year-old man of no fixed address. He was held in custody overnight for a March 2 court appearance.

On the same day, a father and son teamed up to catch a suspected thief trying to make off with another Ford F350. A North Langley man heard his vehicle alarm going off at 4 a.m.

He headed outside and caught the suspect trying to get out of the truck’s passenger door. With the help of his son and a neighbour, they held down the suspect until police arrived.

A 36-year-old Langley man was arrested and is to appear in court in May.

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Trinity Western University proved to be the answer to a prayer for Langley School District last summer.

The public school district hired the private Christian university to offer programs to its students from around the world, because the International Student summer program, a source of revenue for the district, could not be offered during the teacher job dispute.

TWU provided the summer school for about 220 ISP students, costing the district about $296,890.

“It was imperative that we find an alternative,” said Barry Bunyan, the district director for the international student program.

The district, which runs the summer program for students from outside Canada, didn’t want the late cancellation to hurt its image abroad and impact future prospects.

The English language camps, as the district calls ISP summer school, feature three weeks of language classes in the morning and activities and field trips in the afternoons, he explained.

The program runs two camps for ages 10-18. The July 2014 camp had about 170 kids with about 50 signed up for the August camp.

“We had to cancel our summer camp,” Bunyan said.

In June the district decided it couldn’t offer the camps but camp families had already made commitments so the district gave parents the option to have their kids attend the TWU camp or get a refund.

Bunyan explained the TWU camp is run for the same ages and in a similar fashion.

Bunyan said no parents asked for a refund and the camp didn’t include religion.

TWU used its own staff, medical coverage and amenities, but the kids used the home stays already arranged by the school district.

Bunyan explained that lots of international families use the summer camp

as a way to see if their children want to come to Langley for the school year.

Many from the summer program end up in the program during the school year.

The teacher job action also meant the district had to make changes in the school program.

The district has approximately 740 international students or 655 full-time equivalent this school year. Most stay the full year with some staying a semester and a very few staying a matter of weeks.

Because the school year didn’t start in September as normal, the district provided $310,000 in refunds to about 650 families.

“We provided people compensation for that time,” he said.

Bunyan explained that families from other countries live in different labour environments from Canada so the refund was a goodwill gesture to save its reputation. “Everyone got the same [amount],” he said.

As well, the district provided some activities for the international students.

“Every district in the Lower Mainland has an International Student Program,” he said. “Some districts gave it [compensation], some didn’t.”

The school board went over the amended budget at its Feb. 24 meeting.

Because of the teacher job action and other budgetary items, the figures for this school year had to be amended.

The district has budgeted for $261,000 in tuition revenue from the ISP summer program and $7.65 million for the ISP regular school year session but has amended the budget, now expecting an additional $300,000 from those because of increasing student numbers.

The district started welcoming international students in 1989, with arrangements made school by school.

“Langley was one of the first districts in B.C.,” Bunyan said.

The program continues to grow and the extra revenue helps the district bottom line. He said the declining Canadian dollar helps with the exchange rate but that’s not typically the main reason why a family in another country would choose to send their children to Canada for schooling.

Bunyan said the majority of international students come from Asian countries but the district is working to broaden the program to encourage students from other continents.

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Deadly drug is popular here JOHN COLEBOURN Special to the Langley Advance

Startling statistics on fentanyl-related overdoses and deaths have prompted police and health authorities to issue a public

warning – particularly to recreational pot users.

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Sandra Glendinning said Monday said they are now finding fentanyl turning up in seized marijuana.

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Surrey, Maple Ridge, Nanaimo, Prince George and Fort St. John have the most drug overdoses.

See more at www.langleyadvance.com – John Colebourn is a Province reporter.

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Langley RCMP are looking for help to identify a man who held up a bank in the Willowbrook area on Friday.

The man walked into the bank, gave the teller a note demanding money, and left with an undisclosed amount of cash, said Cpl. Holly Marks, spokesperson for the Langley RCMP. The man did not produce a weapon during the hold up, said Marks.

The man is Caucasian, about 35 years old, and wore a brown toque, a lumberjack-style jacket, and blue jeans.

Police are not sure if he is linked to a previous robbery attempt earlier in February.

In the first incident, on Feb. 17, a man walked

604-530-3333 This man held up a Willowbrook-area bank on Friday, Feb. 27.

This man ran away emptyhanded from a bank in Langley City earlier in February.

into a bank in the 20800 block of Fraser Highway and passed the clerk a note saying he was robbing the bank.

The man indicated he had a weapon but did not produce one.

However, when the teller went to get the cash, the would-be robber ran away, empty handed.

The man in that robbery was described as Caucasian, about 5’10”, 185-200 pounds, and was wearing a beige or yellow ballcap with the word

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Killer’s jail sentence reduced A Cloverdale machete killer’s sentence was reduced by the courts.

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A young drug trafficker who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2011 killing of Branson Kerick Rendell Sanders has had 133 days shaved off of his prison sentence.

Court of Appeal Justice Mary Newbury reduced Shakib Abdiriz Shakib’s sentence to four years and 332 days after the Crown did not oppose him being granted a day and a half credit for every day he served prior to sentencing.

When Shakib was originally sentenced, he received one-for-one credit for the 269 days he’d already spent in custody.

He had pleaded guilty on Dec. 5, 2013, to manslaughter in the 2011 death of 20year-old Branson Sanders of Burnaby and

was sentenced in Surrey Provincial Court on April 10, 2014, to five years and 100 days in prison.

Shakib and Brandon Shiu Nandan were originally charged with first-degree murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge. Nandan was sentenced to five years and 169 days in prison.

Sanders had been attacked with a machete at the Nandan family’s house in the 18000-block of 55th Avenue in Cloverdale, over a dispute involving drugs.

He and Shakib were both 19 at the time. During the attack, Sanders was heard pleading, “Please bro, I’m going to bleed out.”

His badly burned body was found in a forested area of Robert Burnaby Park on Dec. 2, 2011.

Before passing sentence, Judge Michael Hicks read out portions of Sanders’ mother’s victim impact statement.

“What was done to Branson shattered my world,” Hannele Sairanen wrote.

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Imagine childhood arthritis

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rthritis is a nasty disorder.

Just the thought of it brings to mind pictures of old people with grey hair and wrinkled faces, bent and shuffling slowly, with crippled, twisted hands barely able to hold on to the canes and walkers that are needed to allow any mobility at all.

But it’s worse than that.

Much worse.

Imagine those same old people trying to butter a slice of bread.

Imagine them trying to sleep through a painful night, trying to find a way of laying abed that eases the excruciating pain, even if just a little bit, and experiencing worse pain every time they try to shift positions.

But it’s still worse than that.

Much worse.

Read the labels on some of the medications that those old people with arthritis resort to because the pain of just getting through an ordinary day is so unbearable.

Check out the side-effects on some of the “most effective” medications, which include significantly increased risks of heart disease and the potential for sudden death.

Imagine being one of those elderly arthritis sufferers who feel that escaping the pain is worth taking such tremendous risks.

But it’s still worse than that.

Much worse.

Because arthritis isn’t just about old people with grey hair and wrinkled faces.

It’s also middle aged men and women who are disabled and unable to work anymore long before normal retirement age.

It’s young men and women disabled even before being able to establish a career.

But it’s still worse than that.

Much worse.

Imagine all of the above – but now imagine that we’re talking about a child of 14… of 10… of six… of two.

March is Childhood Arthritis Month.

Imagine a childhood disease so terrible that a whole month is set aside to make us all aware of it.

– B.G.

Once or twice clouds beat laziness

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t happens to me once or twice every time around this time of year: I really can’t think of anything to write about.

Actually, to be more truthful, I just don’t feel like writing about anything.

Heck, I can be even more truthful than that: I don’t really feel like doing anything at all.

Actually, that’s not true, either.

There is something that I’d love to be doing right now.

There’s blue sky outside of my office window.

And there are just enough billowy white clouds floating around the edges, towards Vancouver, to make me wish I could lie out in the backyard in one of those “zero gravity” chairs that Donna and I bought a few years back, and count them.

There’s one out there, hanging somewhat off to the northwest, that kinda looks like a giant freshly hatched chick, with a (relatively) tiny, crooked featherless wing sticking up and out of one side and a much-too-big-for-its-size head flopping forward because it’s still simply too heavy to lift after the horribly tiring struggle of breaking through its shell to the freedom of the outside world.

Oh, wait!

The head has now floated away from the body and has become a turkey with its butt stuck high in the air, while the

one outweigh the needs of chick’s body has morphed the many. into a dancing rooster, Now, of course, parts of reminiscent of Foghorn the Enterprise have faded, Leghorn. its nacelles trimmed and The two are facing each its lower decks shifted other, and I swear I can into fins, leaving the craft actually hear Foghorn looking more like Flash instructing the turkey: Gordon’s rocket, headed “Now, boy! I say, boy! Boy, off to the planet Mongo I say! I say! I say, boy, ya to do battle with Ming the gotta hear what I’m sayin’, Merciless. boy… listen to me, boy…”

BOB GROENEVELD And there’s a killer whale And I look again, and rising out of the horizon they’ve both evaporated about where the chick/turkey/Foghorn into just a few still-diminishing wisps.

Leghorn faded into oblivion just a few Meanwhile, further to the south, a moments ago. giant anvil has magically transformed No, wait! itself into the starship Enterprise, comIt’s a submarine – one of those short, plete with two albeit off-kilter nacelles fat ones that are usually called “suband a command module, tilted towards mersibles” and are used by modern-day the heavens to begin a new journey to explorers with daring to equal their explore the vast reaches of space and brains, to descend to the deepest depths to “boldly go where no man has gone of the ocean, to the Marianas Trench or before.” the North Atlantic Rift or the thermal (This cloud has taken on the shape vents off Vancouver Island, where dwell most like the original series Enterprise, strange creatures and even stranger geobefore Star Trek Next Generation venlogical anomalies. tured instead to where “no one” has In the time it took me to write that, it gone before.) has become a shark – definitely a shark.

Or perhaps it is armed with the Perhaps a great white, but I think more Genesis Device, in hopes of restoring Spock – whose alter ego Leonard Nemoy like a whale shark: huge but harmless.

Lucky for me, blue skies, white clouds, left us a few days ago for an exploraand a warm March day are just enough tion that every one of us will eventually to overcome a limited desire to write. undertake… because the needs of the

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Letters to the editor ‘Our’ tax guide MP self-promotion Dear Editor, Recently, households in Langley received a “Tax Guide” from Our Conservative Government MP Mark Marawa.

Dear Editor,

Bart Verhoef, Langley

Our Conservative Government appears 28 times in the 15 page booklet, more than once per page. How much did it cost Our Conservative Government to produce and send out this wee bit of Our Conservative Government self-promotion?

Did other MPs in Our Conservative Government send these out, too? If so how much did Our Conservative Government cost us in total to do so?

Is the honourable member from Our Conservative Government aware that virtually all of the information he provided is from the Tax Guide available for pickup at all Canada Post Offices if you no longer receive it with an Income Tax form in the mail? That guide, and even more so the searchable guide available at www.cra-arc. gc.ca, are of far more use.

Our Conservative Government might be interested to know that my taxes are already done and in, using both an online tax tool and the excellent guide found at the CRA website, both being far more useful and easy to use than this one provided at our cost by Our Conservative Government.

R.L. Read, Langley

Injustice requires immediate attention Dear Editor, The injustice facing the Figueroa family in Langley must be addressed. A more responsive approach is needed from our federal government, to unite Jose with his family.

At one of the candlelight vigils that I attended in support of Jose Figueroa, a lengthy list of families and children was read aloud.

Many very young, they

were brutally massacred in El Salvador.

It was difficult comprehending how Jose and his native El Salvadorans could have endured such inhumane treatment.

Jose needs to be with his own Canadian-born family, supporting the needs of his children and wife. His eldest son has autism and has very much need of his father’s love and parenting, as do

Election donations disgusting

Dear Editor, It is with disgust that I read that Mayor Jack Froese had large amounts of funding given to him by three major developers, including Vesta Properties [Froese spent twice as much as Green for win, Feb. 24, Langley Advance].

It now makes sense that, when an entire neighbourhood fights to disagree with a re-zoning application, the mayor ignores their views and pushes the applications through.

I have lived in Langley for just over three years, and given what I have seen, with over-building and poor infrastructure planning, I doubt I’d have chosen to live here.

Greg Sadowski, Langley

his two daughters.

I should like our MP Mark Warawa to take a more visible stance in the support of one of our own constituents.

Other MPs, namely from the NDP, have attended rallies in support of Jose and have been much more demonstrative publicly of their support for helping him to obtain justice.

Also, church clerics from many different denominations attended these public showings of support.

It is really a visible presence that is needed to end the already lengthy time, since October 2013, that Jose has spent seeking sanctuary at the Walnut Grove Church in Langley.

The Figueroa family needs resolution to this injustice, so that they can once again be together as a family.

Fiona Mason, Walnut Grove

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March 3

Author Faith and Death: an Evening with Rudy Wiebe is a free lecture by the Mennonnite author on March 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Northwest Building Auditorium. Presented by the Trinity Western University’s Anabaptist-Mennonite Centre for Faith and Learning (A-MCFL).

Comedy Fort Langley comic Harry Doupe hosts a night of comedy at the Fox and Fiddle Pub, 19530 Langley Bypass, on March 3, featuring Patrick Maliha and Art Factora. $5 at the door. Showtime is 8:30 p.m.

Cinderella Bridal Show Admission is free to the show March 3 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Princess and the Pea B&B, 201628 48th Ave. Info: www.cinderellabridalshow.ca.

Surrounded by art: While her student Nav Noor drew a sketch in the foreground, Rosemary Wallace held her piece, entitled, “All You Need Is Love,” at her gallery at Freedom Arts Collective Gallery ( ABC Fine Arts), 20573 Fraser Hwy. The gallery is hosting a themed exhibition, Love Kindness And Friendship, to March 24. The exhibition will combine the mediums of artwork and poetry by local artists.

March 4

Connect Now The networking group has a lunch March 4 at NY Grill and Bistro, 20204 Fraser Hwy. at 11 a.m. Fee: $5 members, $10 nonmembers (does not include meal). RSVP in advance through connectnowbusinessnetwork.com.

Free concerts Kwantlen Polytechnic University offers free lunchtime concerts. The March 4 event features KPU brass students and starts at noon in the Langley auditorium. Info: http://www.kpu.ca/arts/music.

Songs of the Night The Trinity Western University School of the Arts, Media + Culture presents concerts by the Chamber Singers performing songs ranging from Renaissance to jazz. The Langley concert is March 4 at Mountainview Alliance Church, 7640 200th St. A Vancouver show is March 6 at First Baptist Church on Burrard. Both start at 7:30 p.m.

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Advance Traveller Tina McMillan, 85, took the Langley Advance along for her first trip to Mexico, in January. She missed having her picture taken with the Advance on a zip line overtop of the trees, but she did, however, gain the distinction of being the oldest person they had ever had on the zip line. Tina can usually be found at the Penny Pincher Thrift Store, where she has volunteered for many years.

March 6

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

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

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Langley City Mayor Ted Schaffer picked up a Federation of Canadian Municipalities award at the recent national convention in Ontario. Presenting the award were FCM CEO Brock Carlton (left) and FCM first vice-president Raymond Louie, a Vancouver City councillor.

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March 7

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

Barn Dance A family-friendly fundraiser in support of the Harmony Music Society features the West Coast Fiddlers and the Tartan Players with Louise Steinway calling the dances. The annual barn dance is March 7 in SouthRidge Fellowship, 22756 48th Ave., and features music, Scottish country dancing (no experience necessary), games, food and a silent auction. The doors open at 5:30 p.m. with the dance starting at 7 p.m. Tickets: $15 for adults, $10 for children and $45 for a family (two adults and two children) at the door. Reserve in advance at harmonymusicsociety@gmail.com or 604-312-7578.

Networking breakfast The Breakfast Club hosts presenters mortgage broker Cheryl Batke and realtor Taya Docksteader March 7, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Wings Restaurant conference room, 19696 Fraser Hwy. Reserve in advance and pay $10 (includes breakfast).

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RONDA PAYNE news@langleyadvance.com

Rainy January weekends keep most families indoors watching TV or playing games, but a group of dedicated parents of Blacklock Fine Arts Elementary students braved the mud to help their new playground take shape.

It has taken four years to raise the more than $98,000 required, according to school principal Susanna Eppich.

“It’s been four years of very hard work of parents and [the] community of Blacklock,” she noted. “It was spearheaded by two moms [of Blacklock students].”

Alison Ewing, the PAC Ronda Payne/Langley Advance treasurer, and Kristina Blacklock Fine Arts Haglof, a PAC member, took on researching the Elementary PAC treasurer, best equipment, where to Alison Eewing and principal purchase it, the requireSusanna Eppich posed in ments, and fundraising front of the school’s new and plans, Eppich said. nearly complete playground.

Those plans all came together when the equipover the weekend,” Eppich ment was delivered and added. “To watch families assembly started for the put in the hard slog for approximately week-long their children. Their kids process of erecting the watched that, and we saw new playground. their reactions.”

“Four years ago parents According to Eppich, dreamed a dream of a everyone pitched in to new modern playground Ronda Payne/Langley Advance help with a wide range at Blacklock Elementary,” Workers from Rectec and Blacklock volunteers braved mud to of tasks from doing prenoted Eppich. “This past get the school’s new playground assembled. assembly of smaller porweekend that dream tions of the structure to became a reality.” ensuring the refreshment water out of those holes, and get the With three employees from the and rest area set up in the gym was main elements of the playground in Delta-based manufacturer, Rectec, always well stocked. and a team of parents, rain and mud place. On Monday, a crew that also The project is a group effort included a large number of volunwere no match for the vision everybetween the school, School District teers, was still hard at it in anticipaone held for the school.

35, and Rectec. Rectec will do the tion of the concrete pour scheduled “There were over 20 volunteers,” final safety inspection before the for the afternoon.

Eppich said. “I am very blessed. school takes classes out to the play“It is a beautiful example of what We have an amazing crew of hardthe [school] district of Langley’s core ground, one by one, to explain the working dads. Many of our dads are guidelines of the area. Once the values are,” commented Eppich. tradesmen with tools, so we didn’t school has had an opportunity to try Those core values are: excellence, have to rent a lot [of tools].” it out, the playground was opened to courage, community, and integrity.

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Free to a good home: a sizeable airplane model made almost entirely from salvaged table rounds.

Brookswood resident Greg Williams is willing to part with the prized wooden model, designed and built by his dad Harvey Sr., who passed away June 12, 2012, at the age of 87.

Profiled by the Langley Advance in 2011, Harvey Sr. owned a treasure trove of antiques, memorabilia, and artifacts housed in three buildings, including his home, in Brookswood.

Inside a pair of lofty, oval-shaped buildings, which Harvey Sr. handbuilt on the eastern portion of his Brookswood property, the items were laid out to look like a museum.

Williams began constructing the first building in 1971.

The second one took him 11 years to build,

Greg Williams is willing to part with this airplane made out of wood. The model was built by Greg’s dad Harvey Sr., a Second World War veteran who passed away in June 2012.

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from 1981 to 1992.

After Harvey Sr.’s death, the buildings, along with the memorabilia and artifacts still inside them, were sold to a private buyer from the Lower Mainland.

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intended to be used as museums, as per Harvey Sr.’s wishes, with Greg being the caretaker.

However, Greg was unable to get the buildings classified as heritage status because they simply weren’t old enough.

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“I went to the City of Langley as well as the Township of Langley to try to get them considered as heritage buildings but was turned down,” Greg said, adding that “everything” is sold.

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wood that Harvey Sr. – a Second World War veteran who served with the Canadian Air Force – used to build it came from a furniture company that went out of business.

Its fuselage is created from maple wood table

rounds, and the rest of the plane was built from pieces of boards.

A section of the model is made up of spruce.

The plane is 18’ long, with a wing span of 14’ when opened, and the wings can be folded up on the top. The model stands 6’ 7” in height.

“Dad used slats of wood he cut himself to design the rest of the plane,” Greg said, adding that Harvey Sr. “loved building” and that the plane was one of his prized possessions.

“He had two pieces that were quite big,” Greg said.

“This one and the submarine that he made out of wood, as well.”

Greg said he was “extremely close” with his dad which is why it’s so important that the plane goes to a place where it can be appreciated and given lots of tender loving care.

“We want to find a good home for it,” he said. “We tried with the air cadets but they just didn’t have room for it; it’s just too big.”

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With the date of the transit funding referendum rapidly approaching, a Langley advocate for public transit is holding an information session this Wednesday.

Nathan Pachal has organized a forum for March 4 from 7-9 p.m. at the Kwantlen Polytechnic campus at 20901 on the Langley Bypass.

Although Pachal supports the yes side in the debate, the main purpose of the event is to provide information for anyone who wants to learn more about the vote, and about what’s included in the Mayors’ Council plan.

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be on hand to talk about the plan, and there will be information boards, pamphlets, and a question and answer session, said Pachal.

Between March 16 and May 29, Metro Vancouver residents will be able to complete mail-in ballots to vote yes or no on a plan to fund TransLink expansion plans with a 0.5 per cent increase in the PST, to be levied locally.

The increase is planned to pay for some major projects, including a light rail link from Langley City through Surrey to join up with existing SkyTrain services, along with a subway in Vancouver and broad expansions in bus service.

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“It’s always the bigger ticket items that will garner the most attention,” Pachal said.

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3D604 is giving a free demonstration from 2 to 4 p.m. that Saturday.

The group is for people from throughout the Lower Mainland interested in 3D printing.

“The 3D printers we bring to these events are desktop sized... a little bit bigger than a microwave or a ‘2D’ inkjet/laser printer/scanner combo,” said John Biehler, with 3D604.

This will be the third of four free demos at Fraser Valley Regional Library locations, and the events have proven popular.

“The event is open to all ages,” he said. “We typically see just as many kids as we do adults of all ages.”

He and others will have their 3D printers at the library.

“We’ll likely print a few things on each printer... every printer owner will print something different. I’m probably going to be printing the wrench that NASA recently printed on the International Space Station,” he said.

These events are meant to be more like show and tell.

“People can see how they work, touch some objects that have been 3D printed and ask any questions they have about the technology,” Biehler said. “We typically get a lot of people interested in them for either their own use at home or work so the questions run the gamut from what can I print to how much does it cost.”

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Langley in history City seeks total gambling ban Looking back through the files of the Langley Advance.

Eighty Years Ago February 28, 1935

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! New Westminster (including Langley) MP Tom Reid appealed a freight rate decision of the board of railway commissioners. ! Rev. E.H. Baker of Bradner was nominated the CCF’s candidate for New Westminster. [The CCF was the forerunner of today’s NDP]. ! Rising school costs were expected to add three mills to local taxes. Much of the blame was levelled at the local high school’s principal and four teachers, as well as the district’s five school buses. The annual school budget for Langley was $25,000 for ordinary

expenses, and there was another $5,000 earmarked for a new two-room school at Glenwood plus an addition to the high school.

Seventy Years Ago

March 1, 1945

! P.O. Doug Hopkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins of Berry Road (208th St.), was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal for his part in bombing rocket bases overseas in the world war’s European theatre. ! Magistrtate D.W. Poppy, guest speaker at the Langley Lions Club dinner, spoke about the early days in Langley, when taxes on a 160-acre farm amounted to an equivalent of $1.50 plus four days of work.

Sixty Years Ago

March 3, 1955

! A.M Cronkhite of Jackman Road (272nd St.) was elected president of the newly organized Aldergrove local of the Farmers Union of B.C.

Fifty Years Ago

March 4, 1965

! The executive of the Langley Minor Ball Association was set up for Langley’s fourth consecutive season of Little League Baseball.

Forty Years Ago February 27, 1975

! The murdered and sexually assaulted body of 22-yearold country and western singer Deborah Helen Roe was found in a water-logged

bush near the 7700-block of 204th St. ! An 85-year-old farmer was believed to have been trampled to death while he was trying to remove a neighbour’s bull from his property.

Thirty Years Ago February 27, 1985

! Langley School Board and Township council blamed each other for serious overcrowding of schools in Aldergrove. ! Teachers asked the school board to submit a “needs” budget to the minister of education, setting spending rates according to local needs instead of adhering to spending limits set by the ministry in Victoria.

Twenty Years Ago March 1, 1995

! Township residents were confused – and unhappy

– when they got separate bills for utilities and taxes.

Township Mayor John Scholtens apologized for the “insensitive” manner in which the change in billing policy had been handled. ! Third reading of a bylaw to ban sales and performances of wild and exotic animals was put on hold while Township council sifted through “mounds of material” on the subject. ! Township council was considering banning electronic gambling. ! Meanwhile Langley City council was looking further afield, at a Whistler bylaw which banned the “use of any land, building, or structure for gaming activity of any kind.” Gaming was defined as any game played with dice, cards, or “any mechanical or electronic device or machine” for

money. Lottery tickets would be exempt from the Citywide gaming ban.

Ten Years Ago March 1, 2005

! Solicitor General and Fort Langley-Aldergrove MLA Rich Coleman defended the Bait Car Program, pointing to its success in reducing numbers of car thefts. ! Renowned rock band Nickelback signed Langley musician Daniel Adair as its new drummer.

March 4, 2005

! A bear cub tranquilized in Maple Ridge and brought to a Langley shelter for care didn’t survive the ordeal. ! Local provincial NDPers chose Dean Morrison to lead them into the next election.

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• The threshold for paying personal taxes in BC for 2015 has increased. Now provincial tax kicks in on income greater than $19,000.

• Starting in 2015 a new credit for parents will be introduced for qualifying children’s fitness equipment of up to $250 per child; this is in addition to the existing $500 BC child fitness credit.

1. Stay in the kitchen! If you leave the kitchen for even a short time – turn off the stove.

2. Keep curtains, dish towels, plastic containers and pot holders away from hot surfaces.

3. Keep all of your cooking surfaces and appliances free of spills and grease that may catch fire.

On average, the Red Cross helps more people after home fires than all other personal disasters combined.

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• Employers continue to receive support for apprentices from the extended BC training tax credits to the end of 2017.

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• The film industry will receive expanded credits to include post-production film activities for new productions beginning on or after March 1, 2015.

For more information or to receive a copy of BC Budget Highlights, please contact the experts at Deloitte.

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• The temporary 2.1% BC surtax applied to taxable income over $150,000 for 2014 and 2015 has been repealed as promised for 2016 and beyond.

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Your credit report is used to calculate your credit score, which ranges from 300 (low) to 900 (high). Positive actions increase points and actions reflecting difficulties cause a loss of points. Lenders often have policies on what is considered a permissible score and use scores to set interest rates and credit limits.

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The University of Alberta Golden Bears swept the Spartans in three sets in the CIS championship match Saturday night at the Physical Activity Complex in Saskatoon.

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TRACK AND FIELD

Ellenwood shines

Langley’s Georgia Ellenwood won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the Big Ten Championship, held Feb. 27 and 28 in Geneva, Ohio.

The redshirt freshman, competing for the Univeristy of Wisconsin Badgers, finished runner-up with a score of 4,223 points.

Ellenwood hit personal-best marks in the 60 hurdles (8.75 seconds), long jump (5.88 metres) and shot put (12.03m) while also setting an indoor best in the high jump with a clearance at 1.77m and a 2:18.55 in the 800m.

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Willoughby 145 Langley 144 Milner 130

Walnut Grove Gators’ Noah Shopland was guarded closely

by Ryan Curtis of the StevestonLondon Sharks on Saturday afternoon at the Langley Events Centre (LEC), during the bronze medal game of the B.C. junior boys basketball championships. The Gators defeated the Sharks 71-59.

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The Walnut Grove Secondary Gators finished third in the B.C. championships.

Exactly one week after losing in the Canada West championship to Alberta, the Trinity Western University men’s volleyball team was stopped short of gold again, this time in the national final.

Fort Langley 10 Willoughby 17 Langley 16

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It was a slightly duller colour medal than they were hoping for, heading into the Telus B.C. junior boys basketball championships, but the Walnut Grove Gators were happy to take home bronze.

A 71-59 victory over the fourth-seeded Steveston-London Sharks on Saturday afternoon at the Langley Events Centre (LEC) gave the Gators a thirdplace result at the provincial tournament, which ran Feb. 2528 at the LEC. The Gators were four points shy of competing for a B.C. title.

In one of two semifinals played on Friday, the No. 7 Killarney Cougars edged the Gators 53-50.

The nail-biting game came down to the final few minutes where Killarney got some clutch baskets from guard Jason Tantengco and come away with a tight victory over the Gators.

Walnut Grove went into the half with a 27-23 lead but was outscored 30-23 in the second half, unable to make some shots down the stretch.

Gators guard Brett Christensen led all scorers with 21 points.

The Gators’ James Woods earned a first team all-star selection while his teammate Andrew Goertzen was named as a provincial second all-star.

While his team fell short in its bid to win B.C. gold, Gators coach Lucian Sauciuc said he was happy with the effort the Walnut Grove Secondary junior boys put forth, during the tour-

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nament and all season long.

“We had a great season,” Sauciuc said, a few minutes after the Gators’ victory over the Sharks. “We came three points shy of playing in the final game. I’m really proud of the guys, they worked hard. We have 11 Grade 9s on this team so we’re extremely young. We had an unbelievable season.”

Sauciuc continued, “It’s a great program, great kids who work their butts off, so I’m really happy with their accomplishments.”

Defence was the key to the Gators’ success throughout the year.

Sauciuc noted that the Gators’ goal was to keep their opponents under 50 points, every game.

“We did that for the most part and it kept us in games,” Sauciuc said.

With 11 players eligible to return to play junior hoops at WGSS, the Gators have the potential to take another run at the B.C. title next year.

On Thursday, the Gators had strong crowd support in their

game against the Terry Fox Ravens from Port Coquitlam.

The lead never got to more than seven points for either team but the Gators tightened up their defence in the final quarter holding the Ravens to just five points and came away with a 47-44 win.

Woods led all scorers with 20 points The Gators are Alasdair Coyle, Andrew Goertzen, Azino Urefe, Ben Whiton, Brett Christensen, Brody Ward, Dannon Sturn, James Woods, Lucas Adams, Luke Chalk, Min Kim, Noah Shopland, Ritesh Nandakumar, Ryan Taylor, Sheldon Frew, and Yannick Lauzon.

FINAL BUZZER: In an allVancouver final played right after the bronze medal game, Killarney upset the top-seeded Kitsilano Blue Demons 64-55 to capture the B.C. championship title.

Tantengco was named tournament MVP. In 2014, the Gators finished fourth at the provincial tournament, that was won by West Vancouver.

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The Gators senior boys finished fifth in the tough Fraser Valley Quad A playoffs after a 79-72 win over Port Moody’s Heritage Woods Kodiaks early Saturday afternoon at the Langley Events Centre.

Abbotsford’s Yale Lions are the Fraser Valley champions as they defeated the Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers from Cloverdale 88-78 in the championship game at the LEC on Saturday afternoon.

The Lions earned a spot in the title game by upsetting the provincially top-ranked Terry Fox Ravens 107-94 early Friday night at the LEC. Also Saturday, Terry Fox rolled past Semiahmoo 103-70 in the match-up deciding third and fourth in the Valley.

The Gators are now heading to the B.C. tournament, which they won in 2013.

Walnut Grove finished second at the provincials last March.

The Gators’ opener is March 11 at 6:45 p.m., when they play Burnaby South at the LEC.

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