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Musically Gifted Meet the Bysouths A Kwantlen Elder’s Story From Lords to Chiefs
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elcome to the first edition of Sideroads to be published in 2011. Earlier editions of Sideroads proved very popular with readers, and we hope you will enjoy this one as well. In this edition, Brenda Anderson introduces us to a talented Langley actress, Kaylee Harwood. Dan Ferguson profiles two superb young musicians, brother and sister Peter and Celine Pao, who recently played at Carnegie Hall and have been offered spots in the pre-college program at the Julliard School of Music. Gary Ahuja takes a look at the much-loved Langley Lords, a legendary hockey team in this community in the early days of the George Preston Recreation Centre. Natasha Jones lets readers get to know Eric and Helen Bysouth better. Both have been very involved in Langley community life for many years. John Gordon introduces members of the wider Langley community to George Antoine, a much-respected elder with the Kwantlen First Nation. John also treats us to some of his superb photography. And there are our regular features. such as an in-depth look at one of Langley’s sideroads, and some commentary from Jim McGregor, to round out the edition. We hope you enjoy this edition of Sideroads and refer back to it again and again. Your comments are most welcome, and can be sent via e-mail to newsroom@langleytimes.com. Frank Bucholtz, editor
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4 Musically Gifted 6 A Role Fit for a Queen 9 Free as a Bird 10 Meet the Bysouths 12 80th Avenue Story 16 An Elder’s Story 18 Langley Hockey – from Lords to Chiefs 26 Back when Folks was Folks, Jim McGregor’s column
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LANGLEY PRODIGIES PERFORM AT CARNEGIE HALL
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eter Pao’s eyes half-close as he begins to play. The 11-year-old gently rocks side-to-side as he coaxes a rich, deep sound from his cello, while seated in the living room of his Langley home. The stringed instrument is almost as tall as he is. Peter’s younger sister, Celine, listens while her brother demonstrates the musicianship that has won him top honours in competitions in Canada and the United States. Then it’s her turn. The 10-year-old takes her seat in front of the family piano in the music room down the hall, confident fingers dancing over the keyboard with grown-up confidence and skill. Celine also owns an impressive number of firstplace awards from music competitions on both sides of the border. A computer in the music room displays photos of the sister and brother performing at New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall this January. It was at the Forte International Music Festival in New York, an annual winter event that is open to competitors ages four and above from any country. The photo of Celine shows her performing solo at
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN GORDON Peter Pao heard the joke for the first time a few weeks after he and Celine performed at the Forte. He wasn’t too sure it was funny, but he has good manners and smiled politely. In his case, he got to Carnegie Hall by practising two hours a day. His 10-year-old year old sister practises about an hour a day. If the children have been misbehaving, their mother Claire punishes them by forbidding them from playing. She wanted her children to study music to help develop themselves. She was surprised, pleasantly, to discover how talented they are. “I thought it would stimulate their brain to develop,” she says. “I didn’t expect them to be so good.” Peter tried piano first, then cello. Most beginning students of the cello need little stickers on the neck and body of the instrument to help them remember where their fingers need to go. Peter never did. He remembers being a little nervous, but confident as he walked through the white door onto the highceilinged stage of the 120-year-old Carnegie. His sister remembers being excited and happy at how good the piano sounded. Before they went to New York in January, brother and sister already had dozens of award-winning per-
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hen Kaylee Harwood walks on stage at the Stratford Festival this spring, she will be stepping into a role that much like her character, she seemed destined to play. The Langley actress has won the lead role of Guenevere — a queen torn between two great loves — in the mainstage production of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot, which runs at the Ontario theatre festival from April 16 to Oct. 30 In many ways, Harwood has been on a trajectory toward this moment since her childhood. She grew up in Ontario, attending the Stratford Festival each summer, and with family still living in there, she has continued to take in shows whenever she visits. For most of those years, the young actress visualized herself up on that stage. “I’ve had (Stratford) on my radar for a long time as something I want to be a part of,” said Harwood, sitting down to chat before heading east in early February to begin rehearsals for the production. After applying for the last three seasons, in September she got the chance to audition while she was in Ontario, visiting her dad. Then, the wait. The call came just as Harwood was getting ready to board a flight home to B.C. “I was about to go through security when I saw the number come up on my phone. I thought, ‘Here’s the moment of truth.” Knowing the news — good or bad — would be a huge emotional jolt, she sat down on the floor of the airport and answered her phone. When the woman on the other end offered her the role, she couldn’t manage to choke out more than a few words in response. “I hope this is good news,” the caller continued, uncertainly. “It’s the best news,” Harwood replied. Just a few short years out of university, Stratford is just one more milestone Harwood, 24, has already hit, among the targets she’s set for herself. “I’ve always believed in goal setting. Articulating it, puts you on the road to achieving it,” she says. At the same time, it’s important to set attainable goals, she stresses — “Things that are currently, but not indefinitely, out of my reach.” As with any career in the arts, there are never any guarantees of steady work. “At auditions, it’s important not to be thinking, ‘I have to get this or I’m not going to eat.’ Desperate is not attractive,” Harwood laughs. In 2010 she did spend a chunk of time without a job. “I did Frog and Toad (with Carousel Theatre) then had the summer stretch out ahead of me with no contract.” But that’s been the exception, rather than the rule for the actress who has been in fairly high demand. Since leaving Trinity Western University, she’s played Cosette in the Arts Club Theatre’s 2009 production of Les Miserables, Eliza Doolittle in Western Canada Theatre Company’s (Kamloops) production of My Fair Lady and Johanna in Citadel Theatre’s (Edmonton) production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Gertrude McFuzz in another Carousel pro-
Guenevere at the Stratford Festival duction — Seussical. All her hard work didn’t go unnoticed. At last year’s Jessie Richardson awards for live theatre in Vancouver, she took home the Sam Payne award for Most Promising Newcomer. But neither education nor awards determine whether an actor will get roles, she says. “Your degree doesn’t give you a ticket to a career, it’s just your training. “As an artist, your work speaks for you,” she said. “Kaylee Harwood is a superstar,” says Angela Konrad, chair of the TWU Theatre Dept., and Harwood’s former instructor. “She’s got the whole package. She can sing, dance, act, and audition. And more importantly, she’s a lovely human being, so people like working with her.” Still, Konrad had a very specific piece of advice for Harwood as she embarked upon a career that is fraught with heartaches, dizzying ups and downs “Angela said, and I remember this
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clearly, ‘If there’s anything else you can imagine doing, do it.’” But there wasn’t. “Acting is second nature. This is what I do.” The constant flux it brings is at once invigorating and unsettling. Leading up to each performance there’s a feeling of utter bliss, she says.
Knowing people will either love it or hate it. Or perhaps they’ll fall asleep in their seats. Opening night is terrifying and exhilarating at once, says Harwood. “As actors, we clamour for approval, whether by laughter or applause. But sometimes it’s most meaningful when they don’t make any noise.”
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A long life fills shelves with mementoes, the mind “Helen, my dear,” the young woman’s mother counseled, “as long as you are sure he’ll treat you well . . .”
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was all Helen Hobbs needed to seal her engagement to Eric Bysouth, the dashing young Air Force officer she met while he was on leave at the end of the Second World War. Seven months later, they were married in Blackfoot, Alberta, Helen’s
home town. “She proved to be the best wife any man could hope for,” Eric said. On May 15, Helen and Eric will celebrate 65 years of marriage. Not surprising then, to learn that when they rise each morning, they walk to the kitchen to make breakfast together: He stirs the porridge, and she pops in the toast. Occupying a corner of the kitchen are two pieces of exercise equipment. One is a rebounder, and the other an inverter which, with the head down and the feet up, takes pressure off the back. A few minutes on the inverter and a back ailment is quickly remedied, they say.
The equipment is an indicator of just how important physical fitness is to the couple. The kitchen is in their Harrison Landing flat into which they moved last June. With windows on three sides, it is bright and sunny, and during the day provides enough natural light for the couple’s reading pleasure that keeps them mentally fit. They have their meals in the communal dining room, reaching it by the stairs rather than the elevator. Hand in hand, they walk along the corridor. A long life fills shelves with mementoes, the mind with memories, and the Bysouths have both in abundance. While his wife stayed home to raise their three children, Eric worked his way through a host of postings including Africa. His postings in Canada crisscross the country. Despite all the commitments to home life and work, he still found time to volunteer, and since retiring the pace has not slackened. The accolades have flowed since he became a Scout leader in 1956. For more than half a century, he has been feted for his contributions: A coronation medal in 1952; YMCA volunteer, 1981; the Queen’s Jubilee Medal, 2002; City of Langley Olympic certificate, 1988; H.D. Stafford Good Citizen of the year, 1993. There are many more. He won his first volunteer medal for service during the war, and in 1972 joined the Langley Rotary Club. It cemented his contribution to the service club: He has been a member of Langley Rotary ever since he joined, and was named a Paul Harris Fellow in 1992. The club was instrumental in developing McLeod Athletic Park, which has become Langley’s premier sports and recreation facility.
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ike many Langley roads, what is now known as 80 Avenue is actually loughby develops, it will one day be lined with homes, commercial buildings four very different pioneer roads. All just happen to be on the same and other urban amenities, and will bear no trace of what was once a bucolic latitudinal point of the compass. rural area of farms and forests. In the days before roads were numbered, all four had different The next portion of 80 Avenue, going east, is the relatively short portion west names and were very familiar to Langley residents. of 232 Street. This is one of many Langley roads named after a First World War Modern-day 80 Avenue begins in Surrey, and in Langley, veteran, Mr. Brand (his first name is not given in the book Roads extends from the Surrey boundary east to 216 Street. Another and Other Place Names in Langley), whose name also appears The area the short stretch extends west of 232 Street. A third stretch runs east on the cenotaph in Fort Langley. from 240 Street, and down what is known as “Snake Hill,” to the road runs through This road today is dotted with homes on large rural properflat lands of Glen Valley. It dead ends near 256 Street. The photo ties. has changed very of the peacock on the front cover of this edition of Sideroads was McKay Road is the name of once given to 80 Avenue from little over the taken on this stretch of the road. 240 to 256 Streets. It is named after Donald McKay, who owned The fourth stretch of 80 Avenue extends both west and east of on both the uplands and lowlands of Glen Valley, east of years, with many land 272 Street, also in Glen Valley. The eastern portion extends into 248 Street. He homesteaded the land in 1891, after coming from farms established Scotland to Canada to work on the construction of the Canadian Abbotsford, where it is known as Marsh McCormick Road. The westernmost portion of 80 Avenue was once known as Pacific Railway. The home he built in 1909 still stands, in good along it. McLarty Road. Today it is a busy commuter route, with drivers condition, at 25014 80 Ave. from Walnut Grove and Willoughby using it to get to 176 Street McKay farmed on his land for many years. His niece Elizabeth, or Fraser Highway in Surrey. Development in the Clayton area of Surrey and who lived with him for many years, was the first teacher at East Langley School in Willoughby has caused this road to get much busier in recent years, particu- when it opened in 1924. The school still stands at 84 Avenue and 256 Street, larly during peak commuter times. but has not been used as a school for many years. McLarty Road was named after Peter McLarty, who in 1892 owned land in The area the road runs through has changed very little over the years, with the vicinity of what is now 198 Street, on the south side of 80 Avenue. many farms established along it. The most memorable building along this portion of 80 Avenue is the Langley The fourth and easternmost stretch of 80 Avenue was once known as CorEvents Centre, which is another reason the road is busier these days. As Wil- nock Road. It is named after John Cornock, who had a large farm in the area.
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eorge Antoine, 72, is one of the Kwantlen First Nation’s most respected Times: After coming out of the residential schools, did you have difficulty knowing elders. There are eight other elders, all of whom in their own way conwho you were? tribute to the growth and vitality of the resurgent Kwantlen Nation in George: Even the white guys let us know we were just Indians, you just had to Fort Langley. live with the prejudice. These days it’s OK. While George may not hold any political office with the band, his standing Now understand what we all went through. Some people got paid off, I never amongst his peers is unequaled. Times photographer John Gordon sat down with got nothing, except for $800 from the federal government to keep our mouth shut. Antoine and asked him about his childhood experiences, his time at B.C. residenThat’s just a drop in the bucket. it was very sad, very sad situation. tial schools, his working life as a logger and fisherman and his later years on the Times: How about the salmon? Fraser River in Fort Langley. George: In the old days we always had fish. Then the government took over and George’s father arrived on McMillan Island in 1932 and married Mable Philardo. the fish disappeared very fast. They were giving everyone licences, they even let “I was born on the McMillan Island in 1939 and that’s how I became one of us.” them fish in the spawning grounds, the government let them do it, and then they Times: What was your childhood like? Can you tell me something about the residenallowed us so little fishing time we couldn’t make a living and then they made a tial schools? rule that we can’t sell our fish. (George’s voice wavers, there is a long pause and, almost choking My old man told Times: What happened to the eulachon run? with emotion, he begins his harrowing story. Editor’s note — Due George: The same thing. They let the white guys fish with long to the graphic nature, some parts have been omitted.) me to give, you nets until they are almost gone. They won’t let me fish them, they George: There was not much to tell, I played, I fished just like any say they need to let them come back. There used to be lots, even 15 other child. I was raised on the island until I was seven years old give from here (he years ago. some guys test fish them but they don’t give us any. and then “taken” to residential school for 10 years. First I was sent motions toward Times: What do you think about the island ? Chief Gabriel is certo Cooper Island (midway between Ucluelet and Bamfield) in 1946, his heart), don’t tainly making things happen for the band. where I stayed up to Grade 6. Then I was sent to Sechelt for Grades Marilyn helps us when she can, she’s a good chief, 7-8 and finally to St Mary’s in Mission for Grades 9-10. ask for a payday, sheGeorge: is making life better for us. Things like they are bringing the It was sad.... very sad, they wouldn’t let us go to a school near to drumming back. There are days when they drum and sing the old here because we would just run away the next day so they put us on you give your best songs. When someone dies we drum, we don’t bring in the priest Cooper Island. Some of the kids tried to swim for shore but they and try to help anymore, we don’t want any priests anymore, we just go into the drowned. When the parents came to visit, they told them that their church and drum. A few years back a new priest came down to say people. child had run away. mass and she said you better go ask the elders, go and see George The food was terrible , When I came out of St Mary’s Mission, I and see what he says. He came down and we told him what Marilyn was 5 foot, 11 inches, and weighed 127 lbs. You couldn’t eat the greasy macaroni had said and he asked me if he could say mass and I told him to leave the island. food they gave you six days a week. Sometimes they would give us hamburger with I told him you guys were given a chance a long time ago but look what you did. rice in it, you couldn’t eat it. We don’t trust you and we would prefer to talk to our totem pole god and get the It was the same with the powdered eggs and milk. It was real sad the way they same answers. treated us, almost every day someone would get the strap for doing something. Times: What do you you mean by totem pole god? Like I say, boys will be boys but I have never met a meaner woman than a nun. George: We get the same answers from the gods, we ask for something, we get They were mean, and the priests too, look how many boys they raped. It happened nothing. Before the Roman Catholics we had our own religion, our own spirits, we lots, little girls too. The courts wouldn’t believe us against the Roman Catholic talked to the spirits and that is who we are, we are spiritual and even today, in the Church. To this day, I still don’t pray, even to this day, it didn’t do us any good. winter when it becomes cold the spirits come back. There are certain people who We still got strapped every day, it was a very sad part of our lives that residential the spirits come to and they dance to them and they do that until the frogs come school. My son got to go to school in Langley, he was lucky. out in the springtime. The spirits are our guides, when my brother dances there is We weren’t allowed to speak our own language. We were called savages. They someone who grabs him and holds him, he dances blindfolded and they go around told us to talk like them. the smokehouse. I don’t do it, some people have the spirits, others don’t. Times: They called you a savage? Times: Do you think that was taken out of you by the residential schools? George: Worse than that, they called us everything, they had some dandy names George: At the residential school we prayed so much from the time we got out of for us — Siwash, it’s an Indian swear word, they even called us heathens. It was bed until the time we went to bed at night. We went to mass, prayed after eating, not a good time, it’s hard to remember anything good, we hardly had any good we confessed our sins, they lied to us. They said to us that if we were bad we were times. going to be smitten, we would say what is smite and they said it was God would Times: How about your schooling ? send down lightning and puff, you were dead.. That’s strange, those guys were bad I was 16 but I didn’t finish. I left and became a logger and fisherman. I still fish. and they didn’t get smitten. My father gave me a fishing hole (near Derby Reach) when he passed on. He told To this day I still don’t believe it. The Kwantlen community still use the church me to look after it. I am allowed 100 feet of set net, and that is where I get all my but they don’t have mass for any of our dead people, we don’t have a priest, we food. There are only five set net holes in the Kwantlen area and I have the best. don’t allow it unless the family wants it. The others catch only five or six fish, I sometimes get 50. In the springtime, I get Times: What would you say to the younger people on the island? more spring and coho which I give to other members who don’t have any. When George: I would say is to live by the golden rule which is to do to others, try to I was in Grade 10 and could see that I was going nowhere at the school so I left. help everybody and don’t look for a payday. My old man told me to give, you give I knew I was going to be a logger and fisherman. I said goodbye and came home from here (he motions toward his heart), don’t ask for a payday, you give your best and started in the logging camps in Harrison Lake and then in Alaska and then and try to help people. divided my year in the U.S.A. and Canada. In the summer I would fish and then That’s how I like to work. Everybody needs a hand now and then. I live that way. in the fall log until Easter, and then fish for sockeye.
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Kwantlen elder George Antoine has seen much in his life including a harrowing stint at a number of Catholic residential schools. These days he fishes the Fraser River and leads a quiet life on McMillan Island in Fort Langley.
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PHOTOS BY JOHN GORDON
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or a hockey team which had just a brief history, the Langley Lords left a lasting mark. Glancing at the roster for the old junior A hockey club, which played in Langley from 1973 to 1978, and a number of names jump out. Barry Beck, Ryan Walter, Larry Playfair and Mark Taylor, to name a few, all spent time in a Lords uniform. They also all went on to lead long NHL careers. And while not all the Lords went on to have long careers in the NHL, several others, including Dan Clark and Errol Rausse, used Langley as a springboard to further their hockey careers. Dwayne Lowdermilk is another one of those players. He arrived in Langley at the same time the Lords set up shop. Lowdermilk, who was from Burnaby originally, came to Langley after the Lords spotted him at a tournament and invited him to come tryout. His arrival coincided with the Lords’ inaugural season, which was played in the brand new Langley Civic Centre (now known as the George Preston Recreation Centre). “It was incredible, being able to play in a brand new building with a brand new franchise, basically,” recalled Lowdermilk. He arrived in town as a 15-year-old and spent a couple of seasons with the Lords, before his hockey journey took him to Kamloops and Seattle, of the West Coast Junior Hockey League. An offensive-minded defenceman, Lowdermilk put up an eye-popping 28 goals and 86 points in his final season with Seattle. That caught the eye of the National Hockey League, and the burgeoning New York Islanders, who selected him 51st overall in the league’s entry draft. Lowdermilk played for two years with the Fort Worth Texans and Indianapolis Checkers of the Central Hockey League. Eventually, the Islanders traded him to the Washington Capitals and Lowdermilk did suit up in a pair of NHL games with the Caps, recording one assist. He retired from pro hockey in 1982, but stayed involved in coaching, and settled in Langley. He is the head coach of the Trinity Western Spartans men’s hockey team.
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Lords won Langley’s first league championship in 1984. That squad went 40-8-2 during the regular season and defeated the Penticton Knights for the league title. They also beat the Prince George Spruce Kings — the Peace Caribou Junior Hockey League champs — to win the B.C. title and the Fort Saskatchewan Traders in a battle against the Alberta champs. Playing the Weyburn (Saskatchewan) Red Wings, the Eagles failed in their bid to win the Abbott Cup. The Eagles ceased operation in 1987 and the latest reincarnation of junior hockey came with the Thunder in 1994. The Thunder made one appearance in the league cham-pionship, in 1996, but lost thee Vernon Vipers. The team changed its name to the Langley Hornets in 1998 before leaving for Westside in 2006. But the Chilliwack Chiefs relocated to Langley to fill the void. The Chiefs honoured Langley’s hockey history this past season, donning the Lords jersey for a handful of games.
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received a pamphlet from our Community Policing Office urging me and my neighbours to get involved in the Block Watch Program. Block Watch is a very successful neighbourhood policing initiative that encourages us to get to know the people in the neighbourhood, be aware of the daily routine activities in your immediate area and to report any suspicious activity to the police. I couldn’t help but think that we had that program when I was growing up in Langley but it didn’t have a name or an instructional manual, it was simply a way of life. We all knew who lived where, what kind of car they drove, where they worked, what time they got home and whose kids belonged in which houses when it got dark. If a neighbour was going on holidays, they would stop over and let us know where they were going and when they would return. We had boys in our family so quite often we were asked to feed the cats or dogs or throw some feed to the chickens and make sure they all had water. The cat food was in the pantry and we knew where the spare key was to get in. We came and went without question and picked up the newspaper from the front step on the way out. In the summer I would often go with my Dad on the milk truck. The concept of leaving cash in glass bottles on the doorstep overnight is overwhelming to some people today. It was not unusual to see a note in the delivery book with instructions for the milkman to leave the milk on the kitchen counter and the back door was left unlocked on milk day. Regular delivery people such as the postman, the bread man or the milkman were eyes and ears for their customers and would certainly notice if something was amiss. It seemed that everyone had a dog, but it was never a vicious breed that was chained behind a locked gate. Neighbourhood dogs had names like Patches, Bingo, or Spot and they welcomed the neighbours with wagging tails and barked their heads off at strangers. Neighbours learned to recognize the bark of the dog next door. There was the ‘Hi glad to see you’ bark; there was the ‘let’s play’ bark, and then there was the ‘who are you, you don’t belong here’ bark.’ That bark got your attention and that was Block Watch at its best. If you had a dog, it was always outside and would be the first line of defence in your crime prevention program. If Spot followed you home, you dragged him back or phoned your buddy to come get him. Nobody phoned the pound
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or the SPCA, you knew where they belonged. The pamphlet has some tips on making your home less inviting for thieves. It suggests car alarms or other anti theft devices. In a big family where more than one person shared the family car, the most common place to leave the car keys was in the ignition. If somebody other than a family member was driving your sedan down the street, you would get phone calls before it had gone a country mile. Now when we hear a car alarm, we seldom even get up to look out the window, usually muttering something about it being a ‘bloody nuisance’ that goes off all the time. All types of sirens have become part of our daily background noise and we pay little attention to them. Fire trucks, ambulances and police cars scream past our homes and we’re not sure if the siren was outside or on the TV. A police car or fire truck in the neighbourhood used to bring moms out, wringing their hands to see which neighbourhood kid was in trouble or dads running to see if someone needed help. Early Langley volunteer firefighters were alerted by rooftop sirens activated by the telephone operator. Anyone could dial the operator and find out where the fire was, as this was usually how the volunteers knew where to respond. Seldom would the operator give an address but more likely report that the fire was at the Littleton house, or Totem Meats or just south of the Gueho Bridge. Everyone knew where those places were and if it sounded bad, neighbours would go and lend a hand. Today, if we hear a siren stop at a neighbour’s, the usual procedure is to pull back the curtains a bit and peek out to see what’s going on. We are reluctant to get involved. After all, we hardly know the people. We may not know that the police are there because our neighbour was broken into, but if our friend’s cousin in Alberta, who we don’t know at all, is robbed, we will read about it that night on Facebook and send them condolences. Certainly there are more families in our neighbourhoods now. We don’t all work in the same town, our children don’t all go to the same local school and parents don’t meet each other at PTA meetings or Sunday school picnics. Perhaps the new people on the block are a different nationality or maybe have some alternative lifestyle that scares us off. But they are neighbours and they share common concerns for home and family with you. The pamphlet tells us that by getting to know our neighbours we can work together and combat crime before it starts. Don’t complain about that nosy old lady up the street — knock on her door, shake her hand and introduce yourself. Her eyes and ears might save you a lot of trouble and, just maybe, she makes the best chocolate chip cookies in the neighbourhood.
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Visit our Discovery Centre today 5655 - 210A St, Langley. Open Saturday to Thursday, 12-5. cornerstoneliving.ca 604.534.6000.
Sutton Group Express Realty * Visit Discovery Centre for details. This is not an offering for sale. Any such offering may only be made with a disclosure statement. The developer reserves the right to make changes without notice. E&O.E.
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SMART RUNS IN THE FAMILY.
2011 ACCENT • BEST-SELLING SUB-COMPACT IN CANADA
2011 ELANTRA • AWARD-WINNING COMPACT
HIGHWAY 5.7L/100 KM – 50 MPGʈ
HIGHWAY 5.6L/100 KM – 50 MPGʈ
2011 SONATA • CLASS LEADING FUEL ECONOMY
INSURANCE INSTITUTE '03 )*()WAY SAFETY
HIGHWAY 5.7L/100 KM – 50 MPGʈ
AWARDED THE HIGHEST GOVERNMENT CRASH SAFETY RATINGʆ U.S. NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION
2011 TUCSON • THE AWARD-WINNING COMPACT UTILITY VEHICLE HIGHWAY 6.5L/100 KM – 43 MPGʈ AJAC BEST NEW SUV/CUV UNDER $35K.
INSURANCE INSTITUTE '03 )*()WAY SAFETY
5-year/100,000 km Comprehensive Limited Warranty 5-year/100,000 km Powertrain Warranty 5-year/100,000 km Emission Warranty
Langley Hyundai Dealer # 30331
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2011 SANTA FE • BEST SELLING IMPORT SUV IN CANADA
604-539-8549 19459 Langley Bypass Surrey, BC www.langleyhyundai.com
HIGHWAY 7.2L/100 KM – 39 MPGʈ
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