Your community newspaper since 1931 Your source for breaking news, sports, and entertainment: www.langleyadvance.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Audited circulation: 41,100 – 28 pages L a ng ley Advance Pay it Forward pg A13-16 Roxanne Hooper/Langley Advance Blown away Almost 700 people spent Friday night at McLeod Athletic Park during the seventh annual Langley Relay for Life. The 12-hour relay brings together teams of people who fundraise for the Canadian Cancer Society and its work to find a cure. The relay began Friday evening with a lap by cancer survivors who sported yellow T-shirts, then everybody joined in to continue until Saturday morning. Volunteers provided entertainment overnight and participants had fun with various games and contests. See mor e on page A11. A legal battle over comments about fill farming has ended in the favour of a conservation group. by Matthew Claxton [email protected]The Glen Valley Watershed Society has seen a $13 million lawsuit against its members thrown out of court. The lawsuit was brought by Robin Scory, a property owner in the uplands above Glen Valley. He applied to have a large amount of fill – about 100,000 truck loads – deposited on his land. That sparked protests from a number of locals, and the Glen Valley Watersheds Society. Scory sued the society and member Sian Kranitz for defama- tion, but the suit was dismissed this week. The decision by Madame Justice J. Bruce found little evi- dence for the claims that the Watershed Society or its members had lied or maliciously spread rumours about the plans. “The claimant’s evidence amounts to no more than bare assertions about the true state of affairs,” wrote Bruce in her reasons for judge- ment. The only prob- lem the judge could find with statements by Kranitz was that she mis-calculated the amount of fill potentially contained in 100,000 truckloads. “The claimant [Scory] also asserts that Ms. Kranitz posted handwritten notices on trails around his property wrongly describing his proposal as a ‘landfill’ site. Ms. Kranitz denied that she posted these notices and the claimant did not provide evi- dence that he or anyone else wit- nessed her posting the notices,” wrote the judge. The judge also noted that the opinions that Kranitz and other society members expressed were based on pub- lic interest, and were prompted by a concern for streams running through and near the property, not by malice. She also dealt with trespass and harassment claims related to the claim that low-flying aircraft photographed Scory’s land. “While low-flying aircraft can be regarded as trespass in some circumstances, there is not a scin- tilla of evidence that either of the respondents engaged someone to fly over the claimant’s property for any purpose,” wrote Bruce. The judge said Scory’s appli- cation was ultimately not put on hold because of anything neighbours said, but because he didn’t supply the Department of Fisheries with more information about his proposal. The judge said he could re-start his applica- tion. Kranitz and the Watershed Society were represented by law- yers from Ecojustice. “This case is a clear statement that meritless lawsuits against people who speak up for the environment will not stand,” said Jennifer Agnolin, Ecojustice staff lawyer. Scory has said he will appeal the ruling. He is still suing two Township employees in a related matter, said Mark Bakken, Township administrator. That case has not yet finished. Court Property owner’s lawsuit turfed “This case is a clear statement that meritless lawsuits against people who speak up for the environment will not stand.” Jennifer Agnolin 7024 Glover Road, Langley, BC Phone: 604-888-4491 www.cedarrim.com Open 7 days a week Offer ends June 13, 2011 or while supplies last CEDAR RIM NURSERY TENT SALE! 50% off Select Pottery 20369 56 Ave., Langley (Behind the Baseline Pub) 604-534-8845 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK KEY LARGO Jewellery & Loans Ltd. 04269173 TOP DOLLAR PAID ON THE SPOT!! CASH IN ON HIGH PRICES! WE BUY AND • Scrap Jewellery • Broken Jewellery • Flatware 03081148 NEW LOCATION BC’s #1 Power Stroke Specialist Stroke Specialist RIGHT HERE IN LANGLEY 604-532-9445 5957 - 206A St., Langley www.bernhausendiesel.com NOW OPEN NOW OPEN
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Blown awayAlmost 700 people spent Friday night at McLeod Athletic Park during the seventh annual Langley Relay for Life. The 12-hour relay brings together teams of people who fundraise for theCanadian Cancer Society and its work to find a cure. The relay began Friday evening with a lap by cancer survivors who sported yellow T-shirts, then everybody joined in to continue untilSaturday morning. Volunteers provided entertainment overnight and participants had fun with various games and contests. See more on page A11.
A legal battle over commentsabout fill farming hasended in the favour of aconservation group.
The Glen Valley WatershedSociety has seen a $13 millionlawsuit against its membersthrown out of court.
The lawsuit was brought byRobin Scory, a property owner inthe uplands above Glen Valley.He applied to have a largeamount of fill – about 100,000truck loads – deposited on hisland.
That sparked protests from anumber of locals, and the GlenValley Watersheds Society.
Scory sued the society andmember Sian Kranitz for defama-tion, but the suit was dismissed
this week.The decision by Madame
Justice J. Bruce found little evi-dence for the claims that theWatershed Society or its membershad lied or maliciously spreadrumours about the plans.
“The claimant’sevidence amountsto no more thanbare assertionsabout the truestate of affairs,”wrote Bruce in herreasons for judge-ment.
The only prob-lem the judgecould find withstatements byKranitz was thatshe mis-calculated the amountof fill potentially contained in100,000 truckloads.
“The claimant [Scory] alsoasserts that Ms. Kranitz postedhandwritten notices on trailsaround his property wrongly
describing his proposal as a‘landfill’ site. Ms. Kranitz deniedthat she posted these notices andthe claimant did not provide evi-dence that he or anyone else wit-nessed her posting the notices,”wrote the judge.
The judge alsonoted that theopinions thatKranitz and othersociety membersexpressed werebased on pub-lic interest, andwere promptedby a concern forstreams runningthrough and nearthe property, notby malice.
She also dealt with trespassand harassment claims related tothe claim that low-flying aircraftphotographed Scory’s land.
“While low-flying aircraft canbe regarded as trespass in somecircumstances, there is not a scin-
tilla of evidence that either of therespondents engaged someone tofly over the claimant’s propertyfor any purpose,” wrote Bruce.
The judge said Scory’s appli-cation was ultimately not puton hold because of anythingneighbours said, but because hedidn’t supply the Department ofFisheries with more informationabout his proposal. The judgesaid he could re-start his applica-tion.
Kranitz and the WatershedSociety were represented by law-yers from Ecojustice.
“This case is a clear statementthat meritless lawsuits againstpeople who speak up for theenvironment will not stand,” saidJennifer Agnolin, Ecojustice stafflawyer.
Scory has said he will appealthe ruling. He is still suing twoTownship employees in a relatedmatter, said Mark Bakken,Township administrator. Thatcase has not yet finished.
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Property owner’s lawsuit turfed
“This case is a clearstatement thatmeritless lawsuitsagainst people whospeak up for theenvironment will notstand.”Jennifer Agnolin
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What would you do for Canucks playofftickets? How about dress as Lady Gagafor a day?by Matthew [email protected]
Langley’s Colin Alexander is headed forgame two of the Stanley Cup final, to see hisbeloved Vancouver Canucks compete.
The 25-year-old Country Lumber employeejust had to don some makeup, a blonde wig,and size 11 high-heeled shoes to get thetickets to the Canucks/Boston Bruins game.
Alexander spent Friday working whiledressed as pop star Lady Gaga, revealing hisnew look to his fellow employees while hersong Born This Way blared from speakersat the company’s office. His stunt won himtwo tickets and a gift certificate from BestBuy, in the Vancouver Province’s So WhatWould You Do? contest.
While getting his makeup done, Alexandersaid the idea wasn’t his.
“It was actually my friend Sam’s,” he said.His first suggestion was dying his playoff
beard blue, but Sam had the Gaga idea.“I don’t really know any of her music,”
Alexander admitted.Because he won’t be wearing steel toed
boots for a day, he couldn’t do his normaljob.
“Normally, I’m a forklift operator, butthe boss said he’ll put me on the front gatetoday,” Alexander said.
That means that somewhat startled cus-tomers were having their loads checked bya tall man in a blond wig, with glitter in hisbeard.
Fellow employees loved his new look,snapping pictures as Alexander danced inafter finishing his makeup job.
“My dad thinks it’s hilarious, my momwants to move,” Alexander said of his celeb-rity.
His boss, Scott Rexworthy, wasn’t too
surprised at how his employee got Canuckstickets.
“If anybody would, it would be Colin,”Rexworthy said. “He’s a pretty easygoingguy.”
Not surprisingly, he said Alexander is a“huge, huge Canucks fan.”
Week, World Environment Day,and United Nations InternationalYear of the Forests, Langley MPMark Warawa and the LangleyEnvironmental Partners Societyare giving away three species ofnative plants.
The plants go fast and thegiveaway starts at 10 a.m. onJune 4 at the Langley HomeDepot.
Being given out are 230Pacific rhododendron, 160 mockorange and 160 red twig dog-wood.
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of the Hells Angels suppliedmarijuana and muscle to amultimillion-dollar cross-borderdrug-smuggling ring in which22 people have so far beencharged, U.S. court documentsallege.
The chapter has been locatedin Langley’s Milner neighbour-hood for years.
U.S. law enforcement agentsallege Hells Angel associateTrevor Jones was the Canadian“boss” of the drug ring.
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Colin Alexander gets his makeup done for a day working at Langley’s Country Lumber while dressed as Lady Gaga.
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Langley’s MP says hewants to look at potentiallychanging asbestos salesoverseas.
Just weeks after PrimeMinister Stephen Harper saidCanada won’t ban asbestosexports, Langley MP MarkWarawa wants to re-open thedebate.
Warawa, a member ofHarper’s Conservative Party,said he wants to bring up theissue again.
“I think we need to take a ser-
ious look at the export of asbes-tos,” he said. “It’s directly linkedto cancer.”
He noted that asbestos is cur-rently being removed – at greatexpense – from one wingof the Parliament build-ings in Ottawa.
Warawa would not sayif he favours an outrightban on the export ofthe substance, or othermeasures.
“I think we need tolook at all options,” hesaid.
During the federal cam-paign that just finishedwith Harper winninghis first majority government,he campaigned in the town ofAsbestos, Que., Canada’s major
source of the substance.Calling it “chrysotile,” Harper
dismissed calls from healthgroups to limit the exports.
“Canada is one of a number ofexporters of chrysotileand there are manycountries where it islegal who are buyers,”Harper said. “And thisgovernment will notput Canadian industryin a position whereit is discriminatedagainst in a marketwhere sale is permit-ted.”
He said the sale ofasbestos is permitted
internationally under conditionsof safe and controlled use.
Warawa said his departure
after five years from the post ofParliamentary Secretary to theMinister of the Environment wasat his own request.
He wants to focus on otherissues and hopes to be appointedto a number of committees onceParliament resumes sitting onJune 2.
Justice, public safety, andhuman rights are his top picks,Warawa said.
“I’m waiting to find out whichcommittees I’m on,” he said.
In addition to the asbestosissue, he wants the Canadiangovernment to condemnattacks against albino people inTanzania, and he is interestedin working on issues of borderaccess and medical marijuana.
A new bridge, underconstruction for muchof the past year, wasopened Saturday.by Matthew [email protected]
The new NicomeklBridge was finished underbudget, and the remain-ing funds may be usedto upgrade more roads inLangley City.
The news came as pol-iticians, builders, andTransLink officials gath-ered to officially open thenew bridge, which takesthe Fraser Highway acrossthe river just to the east of208th Street.
Ironically, the ribboncutting required closingthe bridgeand a mile-long stretchof highwayto traffic,just a dayafter thelast of thecones and pylons had beenremoved.
City Mayor PeterFassbender was happywith the bridge’s comple-tion.
“We’re ahead of time,we’re under budget by
about $1.1 million,” hesaid.
Fassbender said hehoped the funds wouldrepave Fraser Highway,
from theLangleyBypassto 56thAvenue.
Also pres-ent wereLangley MP
Mark Warawa, MLA MaryPolak, and representativesof TransLink and Tyam,the firm that build the newstructure.
The $9.1 million budgetto create the new bridgecame from the City, the
province, and the federalgovernment. Much of thecash was part of the fed-eral infrastructure fundinghanded out by Ottawa inthe wake of the recentrecession.
The five-lane bridgereplaces a 40-year-old two-lane wooden bridge, whichwas vulnerable to highwater during heavy winterrainfall.
The new bridge isarched to allow water toflow underneath even dur-ing flooding, and includespedestrian walkways onboth sides and bike lanes.A traffic signal was alsoinstalled at Old Yale Road.
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Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender got help wielding his scissors fromlocal politicians, transit representatives and builders as the NicomeklBridge opened Saturday.
“We’re ahead of time,we’re under budget.”Peter Fassbender
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Pursuant to sections 98 of the Community Charter, S.B.C., 2003, c. 26, Council for the City of
Langley will receive delegations in the Council Chambers at City Hall 20399 Douglas Crescent,
Langley, B.C. on Monday, June 20, 2010, commencing at 7:00 p.m. to provide the public an
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Langley will be a host to one ofthe first of the new wave of Targetstores taking over Zellers outlets.by Derrick PennerPostmedia Network Inc.
American retail giant Target hasselected some of Metro Vancouver’s hot-test regional shopping centres, includingLangley, as beachheads for its entry intothe Canadian market.
On Thursday, Target announced that 15British Columbia Zellers locations will beamong the first 105 across Canada whereit will take over store leases with theintent of converting them into Target out-lets by 2013 as part of its $1.825-billiontakeover of the Zellers chain.
Target announced in January that itnegotiated a deal to take over the leasesof up to 220 Zellers locations, and onThursday, Target Canada president TonyFisher said the initial roster will “ensureTarget will be represented throughout thecountry.”
Fisher said the discount retailer ana-lyzed trade areas based on demograph-ics, competition and market potential toidentify trade areas that “would be wellserved by a Target store.”
In Metro Vancouver, those loca-tions included Willowbrook in Langley,Oakridge Centre in Vancouver, Metropolisat Metrotown in Burnaby, CoquitlamCentre, Scottsdale Mall in Delta, andHaney Place in Maple Ridge.
Elsewhere in the Lower Mainland,Target has zeroed in on the AbbotsfordPower Centre and the Cottonwood Mallin Chilliwack.
Some of the location decisions appearobvious because of their strength asregional centres, according to JimSmerdon, director of retail and stra-tegic planning at Colliers InternationalConsulting.
They are spots with strong trad-ing areas, but where Target sees it canimprove on Zellers’ performance, whichmay be lagging because of the poor per-formance of its brand.
“Those are easy ones to evaluate,potentially, simply based on the popula-tions of those areas and the potential forsales,” Smerdon said.
In other locations, Smerdon added thatTarget “clearly made those location deci-sions in the first round very strategicallyto position themselves against Walmart.”
The Cottonwood Mall location, forinstance, which will face off against anew Walmart location being built nearChilliwack, is one of those locations,Smerdon said.
Smerdon said he found some locationsfor Target’s rollout in B.C., and someabsences, surprising.
For instance, the list includes four loca-tions on Vancouver Island, but none inKamloops or Kelowna.
However, Smerdon said that could be amatter of the lease conditions and amen-ability of landlords to make changes.
“There are probably a couple of storeson the list that maybe weren’t high prior-ity stores, but the [landlords] just made itvery easy for the transition,” he added.
And Smerdon said Target is still act-ively searching for development sites tobuild stores and they are likely looking tofill other gaps, such as Richmond, a largepopulation area.
- Derrick Penner is a reporter with the Vancouver Sun
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Routley-area parents will have achance to sit down with the schooldistrict and Langley Township.
Routley area parents and the LangleySchool District will be meeting tonight(May 31).
The meeting was suggested at the May17 school board meeting.
It’s set for 6-7 p.m. at the the schooldistrict head office in Murrayville. Alsoinvited to the meeting are Willoughbyslope school community parent repre-sentatives, Township mayor and council,Township staff, and school district staff.
Parent Rena Terry has expressed con-cern about the May 31 meeting.
“I feel this is very unfair to provide theresidents of Routley such short notice,”she said.
The meeting is to have both the school
and Township representatives in the sameroom so Routley area parents can findout more about the land swap involving aschool district lot in their neighbourhood.
Many residents have complained thatthey were told the site would become aschool and bought homes believing therewould be more student spaces coming tothe growing community.
The school district has posted a var-iety of reports related to planning in theWilloughby slope area, such as five-yearcapital plans for 2006 to 2011, a March2010 report on the Willoughby area by aconsulting firm, and other material.
The paperwork is to document thedistrict’s changing priorities in theWilloughby slope area.
It’s been about four years since the dis-trict considered putting a new school inRoutley.
A new school was recently announcedfor Yorkson and the school board con-tinues to lobby the provincial governmentfor another school in Willoughby, theonly area of the district that is growing.
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Up and overTracey Epp and Santee tackled
the first obstacle during the$25,000 B.C. Timberframe
Grand Prix Sunday afternoon,May 29, at Thunderbird ShowPark. A total of 32 horse-and-
rider entries participated inthe show jumping competition.
Calgary’s Ben Asselin, on Lolita,earned top spot in a jump off.
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Our View
Poor definitionWhen Prime Minister Stephen Harper
promised Senate reform, we thought heintended to try and improve it for Canada,not improve upon its use as a Conservativepayoff/reward system.
Harper’s move to appoint three defeatedTory candidates to the Senate drew howlsfrom opponents – as it should.
It’s one thing to find retired politicians– those who have gone on to do some goodworks in their retirement – it’s quite anotherto take newly defeated candidates and putthem in the Senate.
Harper had promised to reform the Senateby making it an elected body, and if he wasserious about that promise, he would haveat least waited until all the election signs hadbeen pulled out of lawns before rewardinghis team’s losers.
And then there’s the case of defeatedConservative MP Josee Verner, who receivesseverance of roughly $116,000, and whomHarper immediately appointed to the$132,300 per year Senate posting.
Talk about double-dipping.Some pundits have suggested that Harper
appointed the defeated Tories to incite thecall for reform again, and to get the prov-inces involved.
If he did, there’s certainly easier and lessdestructive ways of moving reform forward.
We understand that previous parties haveused the Senate to reward members, and asa guaranteed backup for government policies– but few seem to have used it so quickly orso nakedly for their own interest as StephenHarper’s Conservatives.
The Senate offers lawmakers and theparliamentary system an opportunity to bea force for a judicious, sober second lookat legislation – but it is becoming (perhapsalready is) just a parking place for patron-age, and consequently, it will continue to bea target for derision and jokes.
If the government is serious about reform,it needs to ask the provinces to get Senatorson the ballot for the next election.
And it needs to lead the movement, notexploit the system for its own benefit.
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Here I go again, the stodgy old coot pedal-ling his velocipede down into the past, back tothe “good old days” – which, frankly, weren’treally all that great…
But on the other hand, any time when youwere a kid is likely to have been better thanpounding away at your keyboard (not a type-writer anymore… sigh!) at the wrong end ofanother 14-hour day.
Nevertheless, take a ride backwith me, will you, to some of thebetter of those days.
I’d like to take you back to thebeautiful days of 10-cent Cokes(no, I’m not old enough for anickel Coke) in those cool green-ish-blue-tinged bottles.
I want to take you back towhen it was a neighbourhood event any timea family installed a telephone… and whenthat telephone automatically became a neigh-bourhood possession… for emergencies only(because that was the only good reason forhaving a telephone, after all).
It was a time when using something as pre-cious as a telephone to just “chat” with some-one was not only deemed bad taste, it wasimpolite, and would earn you a bad name.
Come back with me to a time when weplayed marbles with cats’ eyes and steeliesand crystal cobs, and we played baseball overat my house, but with sticks… unless maybethe new kid who just moved in down the roadmight have a bat… you never know.
I want to take you back to the days whenthe fanciest bike on the block had three speeds– and there was no way your own parentscould afford one of those for you.
You wanted to go faster? You pedalled faster.And none of those fancy handlebar brakes, if
you please. If you wanted to stop, you kickedthe pedals back… and if you wanted to stop
fast, you kicked ’em back and stood on ’em.Hard.That was the way to do some pretty cool
tricks, too… and a fine way to bust yourbrakes (something you wouldn’t tell Mom– and certainly not Dad – until they started towonder why the soles of your sneakers werewearing down so darned fast – the only otherway to stop your bike).
I want to take you back to warm spring andhot summer days when kids rode their bikesto school, to their friend’s house down thestreet, or even off all the way to the end ofthe road just for the sheer joy of busting a gutto get up that hill there, and screaming backdown again. You could go all the way throughan entire summer back then with virtually no
adult supervision… and withoutanyone worrying about whethersome sicko might be lurking inwait for unwary children.
But I also want to take youback to when kids learned toride their bikes properly, so thatthey could get where they weregoing… and back again.
Alive, and with no broken bones.Nobody got to school in their Mom’s SUV.Heck. Mom probably couldn’t drive.So it was either walk or ride your bike.I want to take you all the way back to a time
when there were bells on the handlebars, orhorns. And kids used them to keep from run-ning into pedestrians or their dogs.
Or we used clothes pegs to stick a playingcard into the spokes for a fine ratatatatatat.
Of course, that wasn’t for safety… just tomake noise.
In those days, bicycle lessons were partof the school curriculum, and the classroomwalls were plastered with posters outlining (adnauseum) the rules of the road, not just forcyclists, but also for the kids who walked toschool. “Stop! Look! Listen!”
And woe betide any kid who was spied rid-ing – or walking – unsafely within visual rangeof any teacher!
Ahhhh… the good old days.Visit Bob Groeneveld’s blog, Editor’s Notes, at http://tiny.cc/v7b94
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Frontier BuildingSupply is closingafter 40 years in
Fort Langley.
Dear Editor,Another landmark of Fort Langley will be
closing its doors on May 31.My parents, Bill and Blanche Dyck,
bought the PK Building Supply Store in FortLangley in 1971 and re-named it FrontierBuilding Supply. It became our family busi-ness, operating as a hardward store andlumber yard.
As my parents prepared for retirement,my brother, Jim Dyck, took over the store,and added a garden and craft centre.
In the early 70s, I worked there as aclerk, and saw many loyal customers walkthrough those doors, some shopping forsupplies, while others just stopped in to say
hi and tell a story or two.Last weekend, I took my last visit to the
store, and as I walked through the par-tially emptied aisles, I couldn’t help butshed a tear, remembering those customersthat remained dedicated throughout the 40years, even as those big box stores openedall around.
You can buy hardware and lumber athundreds of stores, but none will ever com-pare to Frontier Building Supply, nor willthe service ever be as personable as youreceived from Bill, Blanche, Jim, Margo,and their family throughout the decades.
Jimmy Dyck will be sadly missed.Ceci (Cecile) Tolman, Jimmy’s sister
Fort Langley
Frontier service coming to end
Dear Editor,Richard Roberts [Green
cans expensive error,May 24 Letters, LangleyAdvance] and all of Langleyshould feel ripped off bythe Township’s green can(delayed) rules.
We also purchased asmall plastic container tomeet our family’s needsfor this “environmentallyconscious” initiative, andalso ended up with a “Non-compliance” sticker overtop of our GreenCan sticker,stating that we had failed tocomply with regulations.
Since we knew that theamount of kitchen wastewould amount to no morethan one cubic foot of wasteeach week, we purchaseda container that would suitour requirements.
There was absolutely noindication at the start thatour container would notcomply – and why woulda person collecting wastecomplain about picking up asmall container instead of alarger (heavier) one?
But after collecting ourwaste, they seemed to haveplenty of energy left to writeout a “ticket” and stick iton top of our “GreenCan”sticker (with such strongadhesive that removing itactually damaged the origin-al “GreenCan” sticker!).
So now the Township– after raising our taxes– expects all of us to go outand purchase a larger, moreexpensive can – to meet therequirements posted AFTERwe all bought smaller, moreappropriate cans.
Sorry, but the Townshiptook all my remainingmoney that I had, and sincethis initiative is supposed tobe about helping and pro-tecting the planet, I will notbe driving my vehicle intotown to purchase anotherlarge can.
The existing plastic gar-bage can that I use for regu-lar garbage is already on itslast legs from all of the mis-use and abuse from garbagecollectors who do not careabout my property.
But maybe there lies theproblem: the Township nolonger has its own employ-ees doing the garbage andrecycling pick-up. TheTownship – and not its cit-izens – made the decisionlong ago to “farm out” thoseservices to independent, pri-vate companies.
Why are we being dic-tated to by Sierra Waste?Last time I checked, mytaxes go to the Township,not Sierra Waste.
I will continue to put mykitchen waste in the con-tainer that I purchased forthe job, and carry it to thecurb every week.
And I encourage allLangley citizens to continueto use whatever can theypurchased, as well. If thisTownship initiative is aboutwhat’s IN the container,rather than what the con-tainer IS, then the Townshipwill do its job instead of nit-picking us to death.
Otherwise, the Townshiphad better hire anothercompany to start printing alot more “Non-compliance”stickers.
Doug Nickason, Langley
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Energy
Easier gas brings dark daysDear Editor,
I am one of many Fraser Valley residents who were grate-ful when the provincial government took steps to perma-nently shut down the natural gas-fired Burrard Thermalgenerating plant in Port Moody.
Burning non-renewable fossil fuels in a confined airspacelike the Lower Mainland is not good for anyone’s lungs, letalone for our children or for those who suffer from asthma.
But now that a new technology has been developedthat can extract natural gas locked in massive shale rockdeposits (providing an abundant new supply of relativelycheap natural gas), I fear natural gas-fired power plantssimilar to Burrard Thermal and Sumas II could resurface,and reverse progress we’ve made in cleaning up our air.
I would therefore like our elected officials to recommit toclean energy development, because burning natural gas togenerate electricity is simply not necessary when we haveso many alternative energy resources in this province thatcan do the job better, and do it cleanly and renewably.
Staying on the clean energy path is something our chil-dren and grandchildren will thank us for someday.
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Even zero tolerance hasn’tstopped drivers from drinking.
Strict penalties, including roadsidedriving bans, still aren’t deterringsome Langley residents from drinkingand driving, local RCMP say.
Over the Victoria Day long week-end and the previous weekend, sixdrivers were caught and face criminalcharges for drinking and driving, saidCpl. Holly Marks.
All of them were handed 24-hoursuspensions, followed by 90-day driv-ing bans.
A total of 12 drivers were given90-day bans and saw their carsimpounded for 30 days.
In one of the most bizarre incidentsin May, two people in the same carwere both given 24 hour suspensions.
The car was seen driving erraticallyin the Willoughby area. The driverthen got out from behind the wheelto let his friend try, but that didn’t govery well either.
The car only traveled a short dis-tance before being pulled over.
Two young drivers with graduatedlicenses were given 12-hour suspen-sions under the “zero tolerance”rules.
While not drunk, they broke therules banning any use of alcoholbefore driving.
The average cost of towing andimpounding a vehicle is $800, andthe driver will pay a $500 penalty, aswell as a $250 license re-instatementfee, plus higher insurance premiumsfor several years.
“Motorists choosing to operate avehicle impaired in Langley are tak-ing monumental risks,” Marks said.
They risk the financial penalties ofbeing caught, not to mention the riskof losing a license, going to jail, oreven killing someone.
Fiery crash FridayA car crashed and burned Friday
afternoon in South Langley, sendingone young man to hospital with ser-ious injuries.
At about 4:30 p.m., a 1993 NissanSentra with a 20-year-old at thewheel veered off 232nd Street, saidCpl. Holly Marks of the LangleyRCMP.
The car was headed south in the700 block, and crossed the centre ofthe road before crashing on the eastside.
Marks said the car became air-borne, bounced off one tree, snappeda second tree, and finally came torest with the passenger side wrappedaround two more trees.
The driver and two 16-year-old pas-sengers managed to get out as the carburst into flames.
One of the passengers was takento hospital via Air Ambulance. Theother passenger and driver weretaken to a local hospital for treatmentof minor injuries.
Speed seems to have been a factorin the crash, Marks said.
Langley Client Support and VictimServices were called in to help boththe occupants of the car, and wit-nesses to the fiery crash.
Car slams into hydro poleA woman was airlifted to hospi-
tal with serious injuries following acrash in Abbotsford involving a carand a tractor on Tuesday morning.
Abbotsford Police spokesmanConst. Ian MacDonald said the detailsare still not clear, but that a ToyotaCorolla and a tractor were involvedin an incident in the 3700 block ofLefeuvre Road around 11:45 a.m.
The female driver of the Corollamay have been trying to pass thetractor when it lost control, hit ahydro pole, and landed on its roof ina ditch, said MacDonald.
The sole occupant of the car, a54-year-old woman from Langley,suffered injuries needing immedi-ate medical care, but is expected torecover, said MacDonald.
Crashes, drunk drivers keep RCMP busy
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Community
More than $270,000 wasraised to fight cancer at the2011 Langley Relay for Life.by Matthew Claxton andHeather [email protected]
“We don’t relay for cancer,we relay for life,” said DianaBeglaw.
The survivor chair for the 2011Langley Relay for Life kicked offthis year’s even Friday by tell-ing the crowd about beating acancer that has a three per centsurvival rate.
If Beglaw hadn’t turned yellowin 2002, she’d be dead now.
The Walnut Grove resi-dent had just returned from aMexican holiday several yearsago when she decided it wastime to see a doctor.
It was a tumour at the head ofher pancreas, she said.
For every 100 people whoget pancreatic cancer, 97 won’tmake it, because most peopleare asymptomatic until the can-cer is well-established.
The diagnosis made her numbbut the floodgates opened whenshe had to tell her husband andtwo sons she had cancer.
“When I had to look into hiseyes and tell him I had cancer,the tears started to flow,” shesaid.
She credited her doctors withan amazing job. She under-went a six and a half hoursurgery, having part of her pan-creas, stomach, and intenstineremoved.
After coming out of the sur-gery, she was told that her doc-tors had managed to removeevery part of the tumour.
She burst into tears of joywhen she heard the good news,Beglaw said.
“I never did say the word die,”Beglaw told the large crowd atMcLeod Athletic Park.
Cancer free for nine yearsnow, she started doing Relay forLife and has for the past severalyears been the chairperson whooversees survivor services and
activities.That’s one of Relay’s busiest
portfolios for the volunteers whoorganize the 12-hour relay tofight cancer.
And each year more and morepeople gather under the survivortent and join Beglaw to walkthe first lap ofRelay for Life,the survivorlap.
“I still crywhen I walkthe survivor lapand light the luminaries,” saidBeglaw.
Beglaw cut the ribbon to startthe walk, and led the legionof survivors, all clad in yellowshirts, through the first lap.
The survivors range in agefrom senior citizens to youngparents and even children.
After the survivor lap, the bulkof the participants, represent-ing 80 teams, took to the track.From then on, members wouldtrade off, walking the track
alone or in groups, allnight long.
Relay for Lifeteams come froma wide variety ofbackgrounds, fromteams formed by
families and friends, to teamsof co-workers, to walking clubsand high school and elementaryschool groups.
Brookswood Secondary pro-vided a sizeable team this
year. While the D.W. PoppySecondary teams couldn’t makeit this year – the date conflictedwith their graduation ceremonies– an alumni team of former stu-dents took part.
To keep the teams entertainedall night, a var-iety of activitieswere held.
Music wasprovided by theCancer SucksAll Stars Band,along with anumber of upand coming Langley singers suchas Payton Rector.
There were group activities inwhich teams competed againstone another, such as tug o’ war,
and “Relay Crash Course” inwhich teams tried to out-do oneanother at tasks like shaving aballoon and rolling two sixes ona pair of dice.
By 4 a.m., it was time forkaraoke, traditionally a time
for some of theyounger relayersto show off theirsinging chops – orlack thereof.
As the last lapapproached at7 a.m., volun-teer chair Howie
Vickberg announced that thisyear’s event raised $273,651.
That total is expected to go upa bit as late donations come inover the next few weeks.
Canadian Cancer Society
Survivor ‘never did say the word die’
Heather Colpitts/Langley Advance
White paper bags with candles inside were positioned in the McLeod Athletic Park bleachers. They remained lit overnight during the Relay for Life.
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“I still cry when I walkthe survivor lap andlight the luminaries.”Diana Beglaw
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Kindness blitz
Several of the community’s faithgroups will keep giving throughnew and different ways this month.by Roxanne [email protected]
Love Langley, as local residents haveknown it, has run its course and hasbeen discontinued – at least on thegrand community-wide scale.
But that doesn’t mean the giving, charit-able spirit behind the event will die, saidSouthgate Church Pastor Dave McTaggart,one of the Love Langley founders.
Several churches that participated in thepast are carrying on the work – just on anindividual basis, he elaborated.
Love Langley was a one-day blitz ofkindness that involved about a dozen localchurches coming together one Saturdayeach June, and blanketing the communitywith random acts of kindness. The jointprogram ran for five years in Langley.
While some churches held events, suchas free car washes and garage sales, otherswent out into the community and per-formed kind deeds for complete strangers.
There was a lot of meaningful work done.However, it was a large job to coordin-ate it all, and this year McTaggart said theresponsibilities are simply being left to indi-vidual churches that wish to continue thisform of community outreach.
So far this year, Brookswood Baptist hasstepped up. It’s once again holding its com-munity garage sale and open house at thechurch, 20581 36th Ave. on Saturday, June11, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
This year’s event in the parking lot andchurch is being held in lieu of official par-ticipation in Love Langley, said churchadministrative assistant Marie Rodgers.
Likewise, Southgate is again tying someof its former Love Langley activities in withthe 27th annual Langley Community Daysparade and celebration on June 18.
In the past, Southgate Church took overa chunk of the Langley Mall parking lot,as well as the courtyard and their lobby,to give away quality men’s, women’s, andchildren’s clothing 10 a.m. to noon. Theyalso gave away free hot dogs and car wash-es. It’s unclear yet how much of that willbe repeated this year, beyond the clothing
giveaway. A few weeks out from the event,McTaggart said that depends on volunteers.
And like last year, several churches willforgo separate activities in favour of helpingorganize or assist with the Community Daychildren’s activities at Douglas Park.
Love Langley lives on, just independently,McTaggart said.
Love Langley lives on with the individual churches
Jeremy Leavittchowed down onone of the freehot dogs offeredup last year bySouthgate Churchas part of thenow defunct LoveLangley.
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Literally hundreds turned out to the Brookswood Baptist Church Love Langley garage sale last year. Even though it’s not being run under theLove Langley banner this year, the 36th Avenue church is once again holding its sale and open house on Saturday, June 11.
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Day Camps
The Langley Boys and GirlsClub runs after-schoolprograms September toJune and summer daycamps for several weeks.
When school lets outfor summer vaca-tion and thousandsof Langley children
prepare for long days of sunny fun,some parents may be left worryingabout finding and paying for childcare.
It’s for that very reason thatthe Boys and Girls Clubs of SouthCoast British Columbia offeraffordable day camps during thesummer months: to meet theneeds of local families.
This year’s Langley club campsoffer creative titles like “Walk thePlank” and “The Great Outdoors”that are designed to engage kids inoutdoor, interactive activities.
“Every week we’ll do one or twoout-trips, and we base our themesaround those,” said Langley clubcoordinator Herv Bezjak. “Forexample, we have a Land of theLost week, a dinosaur theme, sowe’ll be taking a group down toScience World, who are having adinosaur exhibit in August, and
at the club we’ll be doing artsand crafts, food and games basedaround that theme.”
Bezjak said the themes are theresult of creative brainstorming bythe whole club team, and changeeach summer.
“Having fun is really important,in a safe and properly supervisedway,” said Tracey Cooke, regionaldirector of the Boys and GirlsClubs ofSouth CoastB.C. “We’realso wantingto exposekids toexperiencesand bringexperiencesto them thatotherwisethey mightnot be ableto have.”
Cooke saidday-camp-ers will beable to enjoy trips to parks andbeaches, with lots of emphasis onphysical activity.
There is space for about 40 chil-dren in Grades 1-6 each week, andCooke said she expects all spotswill be filled each week.
During the school year, theLangley club, located in a port-able on the grounds of DouglasPark Community School, offers
after-school and evening care forchildren, and a breakfast programwhere students can receive a mealeach morning before classes.
“We try to meet the needs offamilies, and during the schoolyear what’s needed is a place forkids to go after school,” Cookesaid. “When school is out, we doday camps. We’re always tryingto make it new and different and
exciting for thekids.”
BeginningJuly 4 and run-ning until Sept.2, the Boys andGirls Clubs daycamps cost $70per week forregistration. Butfamilies unableto pay the entirefee will not beturned away.
“Accessibilityis very mucha part of what
we do,” Cooke said. “It’s a reallyimportant feature of how theBoys and Girls Clubs work. [TheLangley club] is located in thatneighbourhood because some fam-ilies are struggling.”
“It’s a very diverse group ofkids that we’re serving in DouglasPark, which is just great,” saidCooke. “It’s a really nice feature ofthe program and it does reflect the
neighbourhood.”The program runs successfully
thanks to the help of volunteersand communitypartners.
Cooke said shewas excited abouta new partnershipwith the RotaryClub of LangleyCentral. They are working onreplacing the existing portable forthe after-school program with anew one.
“That’s how we work, we havegreat partners and great supportfrom the community,” Cooke
noted.Day camps run
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Alice Swenson is a cancersurvivor, but that’s not whyshe has become one of theLangley Relay for Life’s most
reliable volunteers.“Thank goodness, I was very, very
lucky,” she said of her bout of cervicalcancer 20 years ago. Aside from that,she doesn’t mention her own cancerbattle, focussing on others.
She worked out once that, includingherself, cancer had affected 14 peopleshe was related to or close friendswith.
That’s reason enough to be a fund-raiser, organizer, and survivor walkparticipant at the Langley Relay foryears.
Her daughter’s friend Scott Mitchellwas 22 when he got his cancer diag-nosis.
“He was gone within about sixmonths, he passed away on ChristmasEve that year,” said Swenson.
That was also the year she heardabout Relay for Life.
It was natural to enter a team – thelong-running team dubbed Scotty’sHotties, in honour of Mitchell. Herfriends organized a “sister team”called All Jazzed Up.
Swenson was out again this year,with a newly renamed team.
Because of a cancer diagnosis in ayoung boy she knows from her day-care, a merged team has been giventhe name Xavier Got Scotty’s HottiesAll Jazzed Up.
Swenson laughed as she noted it’sprobably the longest name for a teamever in the Langley Relay.
In her first year with Relay, Swensonwas blown away bythe event, a 12-hournon-competitive relayattended by between80 and 100 teams everyyear.
The Relay itself ispartly a night-longparty, partly an endurance test, andpartly a time to remember those whohave died of cancer.
This year was the seventh annualLangley Relay for Life, which raisedmore than $270,000 for the CanadianCancer Society.
Swenson said that after the firstyear, she was ready to jump in withboth feet.
She met Shannon Todd-Booth, whooversees the Langley Relay for theCanadian Cancer Society. It didn’t take
much convincing by Todd-Booth to getSwenson to join the organizing com-mittee.
“It was like, yeah, I’m there,”Swenson said.
She’s now the team developmentco-chair, a volunteer job that sees herworking with newteams and team cap-tains, getting themready to go.
Helping them set upfundraisers, and givingthem tips and tricksto raise money beforethe Relay is the biggestpart of the job.
“Just generally being there for theteams that need ideas,” Swenson said.
Between being a team captain andhelping out the other teams, Swensonspends most of the year with Relay in
the back – or the fore-front – of her mind.
When asked whatRelay means to her,she quickly answers“Everything.”
She jokes thatpeople probably get
sick of hearing about it from her, asshe’s been known to bring it up atevery family gathering or event.
“Every opportunity to get on thesoap box,” she said.
She tries to fundraise for Relayalmost year-round, to keep up momen-tum and bring in more money.
“I almost live, eat and breathe it,”she said. “because I feel passionateabout it.”
Her hair is dyed with blue andyellow streaks, the colours of the
Canadian Cancer Society. She wearsa necklace with the Relay slogan, andcan often be seen wearing one of herRelay T-shirts, either a blue volunteershirt or a yellow survivor shirt.
Like many Relay participants,almost all of whom have lost at least
one friend or familymember to cancer,Swenson wants tobattle the disease to astandstill.
“It’s just wrong,”she said. “I could usesome really bad wordsto describe the way I
feel about cancer.”One of the things Swenson likes
about Relay for Life is watching peoplesee the event for the first time.
Like she was at her first Relay forLife, they’re often amazed and eager tocome back.
Swenson noted that the Relay hasbecome a big family event, with a lotof young children and toddlers duringthe early evening hours, and with highschool students forming several teamsand staying all night.
Swenson plans to keep working as aRelay volunteer and team leader in thefuture. She’d like to encourage evenmore people to attend the event infuture years.
“It’s almost become a lifestyle,” shesaid of her participation.
The Langley Relay for Life is held atthe McLeod Athletic Park on the lastFriday night in May, after the VictoriaDay long weekend. The event hasrasised well over $1 million for cancerresearch, prevention, and education inthe past seven years
Relay for Life
Survivor helps build up Relay teams
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Alice Swenson has organized teams for the Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life for severalyears, and plans to keep paying it forward in the future.
“I almost live, eat andbreathe it, because I feelpassionate about it.”Alice Swenson
“I could use a lot of badwords to describe the way Ifeel about cancer.”Alice Swenson
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Seventy Years Ago
JUNE 5, 1941A School Loan bylaw, tobuild a new junior highschool, was defeated atevery polling station inLangley. The final tally was402-835.Unemployment insurancewas to be implemented, asof July 1.A flag-raising ceremony atthe B&K Feed Store markedthe opening of Langley’sVictory Loan Campaign.The first three days raised$42,000 towards Langley’s$100,000 quota.
Sixty Years Ago
JUNE 7, 1951A Defence Association wasformed to organize LangleyCity as a cushion area incase of an atomic bomb at-tack on Vancouver.
Fifty Years Ago
JUNE 8, 1961Girls outnumbered boys52-36 in Langley SecondarySchool’s graduating class.Langley Cricket Club de-
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Forty Years Ago
JUNE 3, 1971Belmont Elementary Schoolwas razed in a $250,000fire that left 350 studentswithout accommodation.After the fire, Brookswoodfire Chief John Heppnercondemned the municipalcouncil for not makingwater more readily availablein the area. The nearest hy-drant was half a mile fromthe school, and with onlytwo tanker trucks on hand,water supply to the fire wasintermittent.The Langley Meals onWheels program started.
Thirty Years Ago
JUNE 3, 1981One man was in hospitaland his brother-in-law faceda charge of attempted mur-der following a shooting inNorthwest Langley.An Aldergrove store clerksuffered a heart attack afterhe chased down and caughtone of four armed robberswho attempted a heist atthe OK Corral. Three othersuspects were apprehendedby police shortly after. Thesuspects were all 16 and 17years of age.
Twenty Years Ago
JUNE 5, 1991Two Abbotsford mechanicswere arrested in connectionwith the rape and stabbingof a Langley woman whohad been abducted whileshe was walking with two
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male friends in downtownLangley. Police were look-ing into the possibility thatone or both of the menwere involved in othersexual attacks in the LowerMainland.Speaking at a $50-a-platefundraising dinner, SocialCredit Premier Rita John-ston hinted that she wouldcall an election soon, andoffered a veiled warningthat, if the NDP were victor-ious, it would put B.C. onthe “road to ruin.”
Ten Years Ago
MAY 29, 2001Vandals caused thousandsof dollars in damages toAlex Hope Elementary,opening a fire hydrant andflooding several classrooms.The Greater LangleyChamber of Commerce wasnamed B.C.’s Chamber ofthe Year.
JUNE 1, 2001An Aldergrove family’seight-day ordeal had ahappy ending when 19-year-old Joe Spring wasfound alive. He had beentrapped in his car after ithad left the road near Wil-liams Lake.Langley’s mayors, Kurt Al-berts and Marlene Grinnellexpressed disappointmentat the imminent demiseof photo-radar announcedby the new Liberal provin-cial government. But bothLangley MLAs, Rich Cole-man and Lynn Stephenssaid they were happy at theprospect.
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Clubs/meetingsCN Pensioners AssociationMeets in the KinsmenCommunity Centre, 26770 29thAve., on the first Wednesdayof each month at 1pm. Thenext meeting is June 1. This isthe last meeting until autumn.Potluck lunch. Info: JonnHanlen, 604-824-0531 or RossDewar, 604-533-5071.
Langley Field NaturalistsJune 4: Campbell ValleyRegional Park. Go on a walkto listen for songbirds and
learn about their habitat andhabits. 8-11am. Meet at thenorth entrance (16th Avenueand 200th Street. Info: 604-882-2020.
Brookswood SeniorsBridge/pool/crib, etc. Tues.& Thurs. 10am-3pm; chesson Mon., 7-9pm, bingo/whistFri. eves. At 19899 36th Ave.Regular activities: call 604-530-4232, line dancing: 534-0299,chess: 530-4693, duplicatebridge: 856-7170, Paws2Dance:
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Food and FriendsLangley Meals on Wheels hasa program for seniors to sharea nutritious lunch along withsocializing and guest speakers.Lunches cost $3 and seniorsmust register in advance.Walnut Grove CommunityCentre: 2nd and 4th Thursday,11:30am. Info: 604-882-0408.Aldergrove KinsmenCommunity Centre: 2nd and4th Friday, 11:30am. Info: 604-856-2899.Brookswood Seniors Centre:1st and 3rd Tuesday, 11:30am.Info: 604-530-4232.Langley City (Choo Choo’sRestaurant): 1st and 3rdTuesday, 11:30am. Info: 604-514-2940.Fort Langley: (St. George’sAnglican Parish) 11:30am, Info:604-888-7782.Murrayville (Avalon Gardensseniors complex): 11:30am.
Info: 604-546-3100.Volunteers are needed at thevarious gatherings. ContactLangley Meals on Wheels, 604-533-1679.
Langley Seniors Resource Society20605 51B Ave.Sharing and Caring Socials (1-2:30pm, $3 drop-in fee):June 2: The Remaining Light, adocumentary on care of seniorsJune 9: no sharing and caringsocial but lots of Seniors Weekactivities.Coffee and Connecting: a sup-port group for seniors startingover is Tuesday, 10-11am.
Senior Vets and AssociatesThe Fraser Valley Senior Vets& Associates is a fun group forthose 55-plus. Activities includetrips and in-house functions.The group meets on the lastThursday of each month, Sept.to June. Cost: $12 per year.Info: Enice, 604-882-8691.
3Rs for SeniorsLangley residents 65 andolder are invited to take partin Reminisce, Recipes andRemedies, a program to pre-serve their history related tofood and cooking. Free. Donethrough Langley Meals onWheels. Info: 604-533-1679 oremail [email protected].
VolunteersLangley Seniors Resource CentreVolunteer drivers are neededto transport seniors to appoint-ments and for the seniors’ bud-dies program. Training beginsJune 15 at 9:15am and goes fivesessions. Info: Janice, 604-530-3020 ext. 302.
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Shopping ExtravaganzaAdmission is by donation tothe B.C. Cancer Foundation fora shopping event June 4, 9am-4pm in St. Andrew’s UnitedChurch hall, 9025 Glover Rd.Organic products, shoes, jewel-lery, rock art, homemade ravi-oli, and more. Info: Candice,604-825-0380.
Career and lifestyle programKwantlen PolytechnicUniversity offers a tuition-freeprogram for women to exam-ine career, work and lifestyleissues. The program runs day-time September to December.An information session is June9 at 10:30am in room 2075.RSVP: Elly, 604-599-3431 [email protected].
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Local swimmers made waves at Canada GamesPool in New Westminster over the holiday longweekend.
Langley Olympians Swim Club’s latest adventure wasat the Hyack Festival AAA Youth Cup over the holidayweekend.
A team of 13 swimmers spent the weekend at theCanada Games Pool in New Westminster, along withathletes from Alberta, Vancouver Island, and all overB.C.
A total of 375 AAA standard swimmers took part inthis meet, so the competition was very tough.
This was a long course meet (50-metre pool) withheats and finals.
The Langley swimmers were up to the challenge withmost of them making finals, winning medals, achievingbest times, and taking home FINA cash awards.
Martha Metcalfe, 14, won $175 for her performancesin the 13-14 girls distance freestyle and in the individualmedley (IM).
She garnered the highest points in the 400/800-metrefreestyle and second highest in the 200m/400m IM.
Metcalfe broke the LOSC club record in the 400m free-style (4:38.12) while winning the event. She went on toplace second in the 800m freestyle and 400m in the IM,third in the 200m IM, and fourth in the 200m fly.
Hillary Metcalfe, 13, won $150, highest points inthe 100m/200m breaststroke, and third highest in the200m/400m IM. She won the 100m and 200m breast-stroke events, placed second in the 200m freestyle, 50mfreestyle, and 200m IM, and swam to fourth in the 200mbackstroke.
Michael MacDonald, 15, won $50 for achieving thethird highest points in the 400m and 1500m freestyleevents. He also placed fourth in the 400m and 1500mfreestyle swims.
Eleven-year-old Robyn Nakano won $50 for the thirdhighest points in the 100m/200m fly. Nakano placedthird in the 200m fly, fifth in the 100m fly, and sixth in200m backstroke.
Other LOSC swimmers making finals were:Kyla Barton, 14 – 2nd in the 13-14 girls 200m breast-
stroke and 6th in the 100m breaststroke;Siobhan Board, 13 – 3rd in the 13-14 girls 200m back-
stroke and 100m backstroke;continud on page A23…
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This year’s NARCh regionalsattracted 40 teams from B.C.and beyond.by Troy [email protected]
The creativity and free-flowingstyle of high-level inline hockeywas on full display at the LangleySportsplex over the weekend.
The Sportsplex was the site ofthe North American Roller HockeyChampionships (NARCh) regionaltournament, which ran Friday mor-ning to Sunday night, May 27-29.
A total of 45 teams ranging frommite (10 and under) to senior (18and older) vied for tournamenttitles in their respective divisions.
On the final day, tournamentcoordinator Andy Evans said theregionals had “gone really well.”
“It’s super competitive,” he said.
“It’s good to see teams from outof town come in. Lots of youngguys we’ve seen over the years getbetter, so it’s good to see teamscoming and getting stronger andstronger every year, and seeing thesame teams comeback.”
The event inLangley is one ofroughly 25 regionaltournaments heldthroughout the U.S.and Canada.
Every team thatplays in theseregional tournaments qualifies forthe NARCh finals July 15-31 inEstero, Florida.
The finals have four levels ofplay: platinum, gold, silver, or club.
Teams are seeded into the fourlevels at the end of the regionaltournaments, depending on howthey fare.
Regional entries can then choose
to take part in the NARCh finals,which, in the past, have hostedmore than 400 teams from acrossNorth America.
The goal of each team varies,Evans said.
“Some teams comeout and are reallycompetitive and wantto win, other teamscome out just forthe experience andstill have fun. Thereare bragging rightsto compete for,” hesaid.
The tournament attracted a num-ber of teams representing Langley’sWestcoast Warrior program. Thelocal entries had strong outings.
“We have year-round rollerhockey, which is something a lotof places don’t have, and we’ve gottwo year-round floors, so the guysget a lot of practice,” Evans said.
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Inline hockey
NARCh squads roll into Sportsplex
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Members of theWestcoast Warriors94 team fell into agiant dogpile while
celebrating their4-3 shootout victory
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Sunday afternoon.
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“Some teams comeout and are reallycompetitive and wantto win.”Andy Evans
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When the Langley Thunder broughtAthan Iannucci into the fold this season,the Western Lacrosse Association teamhoped he’d be an offensive terror.
For good reason – Iannucchi has quitea resume. He shattered Gary Gait’s NLLscoring record of 61 goals by tallying 71in the 2008 season; in ’07he won the WLA scor-ing crown as a memberof the New WestminsterSalmonbellies; and in84 WLA games headinginto this season, he hadaccumulated 154 goals and167 assists.
Judging from the firstthree games of this season,in which he leads the Thunder in goals(six), assists (nine), and points (15), thescoring beat goes on for Iannucci.
Iannucci tallied three goals and addedthree assists to lead the Thunder to theirfirst win of 2011, a 10-9 victory over theCoquitlam Adanacs Wednesday at theLangley Events Centre.
With last year’s leading scorer GarrettBillings and third leading point-get-ter Stephan Leblanc (teammates withthe National Lacrosse League’s TorontoRock) opting to stay in Ontario to playfor the Six Nations Chiefs of Major SeriesLacrosse this summer, the addition ofIannucci is all the more important, saysThunder head coach Rod Jensen.
“Garrett and Leblanc not being hereputs a big hole in the offence,” Jensensaid. “He [Iannucci] is more of a horse– a big strong guy who attracts a lot of
attention. He can take on one, two, orthree players at a time to create oppor-tunities for other people.”
Jensen said Iannucci is a physical pres-ence who loves to shoot.
“He loves to go to the net, and go tothe net hard, and he puts up good num-bers wherever he plays,” Jensen said.“He likes to shoot a lot, and at end of theday you look at the scoresheet and he hassix or seven points.”
All three of Iannucci’s goals came dur-ing a third period in which the Thunderovercame a 7-4 deficit by out-scoring theAdanacs 6-2.
Jensen called the comeback win aconfidence booster for a Thunder, whoare now 1-1-1 three games into the WHL
season.“To get this win, espe-
cially at home, picks theguys up,” he said.
Langley scored the finalfour goals of the game,including the winner offthe stick of Nick Bilic with1:33 remaining in regula-tion time.
Andrew Potter also hada big game offensively, with two goalsand three assists for the Thunder. AlexTurner scored once and added a trio ofhelpers for the winning side, with KyleMcEwen, Patrick Saunders, and DanWilliams also finding the Coquitlam net.
The Thunder fired 56 balls at Coquitlamnetminder Nick Rose, while Langley’s JoeBell and Andrew Leyshon (who earnedthe win) shared goaltending duties, com-bining to stop 36 of 45 Adanacs’ shots.
• • •The Thunder play twice this weekend.
The team is in Burnaby Friday for a datewith the Lakers and return to the LECSaturday to take on the New WestminsterSalmonbellies starting at 7:45 p.m.
The Salmonbellies are winless at 0-1-1 heading into their home game versusthe visiting Maple Ridge Burrards thisThursday at Queens Park Arena.
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…continued from page A21The Panthers, a team
that included Langleyiteand former Team Canadacaptain Kirk French, wonthe senior division titleSunday morning.
Other high profile play-ers involved in this year’stournament includedpeewee Warrior JakeVirtanen, who was taken
first overall by the CalgaryHitmen in this year’sWestern Hockey Leaguebantam draft, and RyanDonaldson, who playedon peewee and bantamWarrior teams, and wasselected in the fifth roundof the WHL draft by theKelowna Rockets.
Evans is an inline hock-ey player but didn’t play
on the weekend. Duringthe regionals he spentbetween 10 and 12 hourseach day at the Sportsplex,coordinating the event.He said the sacrifice wasworth it.
“It’s a fun weekend andwe definitely enjoy it,”Evans said. “It’s our 15thannual, so we’ve beendoing it for a long time.”
WHL draft picks involved in tourney
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…continued from page A21Kennedy Douglas, 12
– 4th in the 12 & undergirls 200m breaststrokeand 100m breaststroke.She also achieved 100 percent best times;
Ryan Moloney, 15 – 5thin the 15 & over boys 1500freestyle;
JustinSchramm,13 – 6thin the 13-14 boys100m fly;
Gabriella Szalkai, 12– 8th in the 12 & undergirls 200m fly, and;
Hannah Weinkauf, 12– 4th in the 12 & undergirls 50 freestyle and 5thin the 100m freestyle.
LOSC head coach Brian
Metcalfe said “It’s alwaysa challenge for swimmersto perform in heats andfinals meets as they needto be prepared to swimhard to make the finalsand then swim better inthe evening.”
Metcalfe said theOlympiansteam mem-bers haveonce againshown himthat they are
capable of producing greatswims under pressure asmost of them made finals.
“I am very pleased withour results,” he said.
LOSC registration isongoing. Call 604-532-5257or visit www.langleyolym-pians.com for details.
• • •Langley’s Jake Tapp was
the individual gold-medalstar at the Canada Cup-Mel Zajac Jr. internationalswimming competition atUBC, collecting his fourthof the competition Sundaywith a victory in the 100mbackstroke.
Tapp posted back-to-back victories Saturday,winning the men’s 100m
butterfly in 55.67 seconds,followed by American NeilO’Halloran in 55.79 andEdmonton’s Joshua Au in55.95.
Tapp clinched the 50mbackstroke title in 27.42,with Joel Greenshieldsof Edmonton second in27.57 and Craig Brazier ofVancouver third in 27.75.– With files from the Vancouver Province
and Vancouver Sun
Tapp nets four gold at Mel Zajac Jr. meet
“I am very pleasedwith our results.”Brian Metcalfe
The Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency team isin town today (Tuesday, May 31) to face Gold KeyLangley Athletic FC in an exhibition game.
Game time at the Willoughby Turf West field besidethe Langley Events Centre is 6:30 p.m., for the first ofa two-game exhibition series.
Langley Athletic FC was formed in 2011 with theintention of providing top class soccer for boys leav-ing the youth system. A member of the United SoccerLeagues, the team represents Langley and plays in theNorthwest U20 division.
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Unique facility offers better care for outpatientsThe delivery of health care in Surrey will change foreveron June 1, with the opening of the Jim PattisonOutpatient Care and Surgery Centre at 140 Street andFraser Highway.
The four-storey, 188,000-square-foot facility will be thefirst in B.C. to bring together more than 50 services andprograms, including day surgery, exclusively foroutpatients – those who don’t require an overnightstay or emergency care.
Day surgeries, chronic disease management, specialistvisits, diagnostic scans and other services thatcommonly take place in a hospital setting will shift tothis innovative new space, custom-built to meet theneeds of outpatients in Surrey and throughout theFraser Health region.
The Centre is expected to receive more than 450,000visits a year, including most of the 134,000 outpatientclinic visits and 94,000 outpatient diagnosticprocedures that take place each year at SurreyMemorial Hospital.
“We’re evolving our service-delivery strategy with thegoal of providing the right care in the best place for the
patient,” said Dr. Nigel Murray, President and CEO ofFraser Health.“The Centre will not only provide bettercare for outpatients, but will free up capacity that canhelp us improve care in our hospitals and otherfacilities.”
Distinct environmentOne key question guided the construction and designof the Centre:“What will serve the patient best?”
The answer is apparent from the moment you step intothe lobby,a bright and welcoming space that embodiesthe feel of the entire building.Light streams in throughfloor-to-ceiling windows, the aroma of coffee wafts overfrom the coffee bar,and finding your way around is easierwith computer Express Check-in kiosks and clear signage.
As you move through the building, distincttree-inspired motifs and different colour schemes oneach floor (along with reception areas and signs) helpyou stay oriented, even if English is not your firstlanguage.
The patient-focused design is everywhere throughoutthe Centre, from sky ceiling murals in MRI and CT roomsto living room-style seating and ample use of windowsthat bring the outside in.
The soundproofed exam rooms have plenty ofspace to accommodate family members. Or theycan wait for you in the window-lined seating areason each floor, with views of trees and gardens. Ifyou need a moment alone, visit thenon-denominational sacred space on the first floor.
“We didn’t want it to feel like a hospital or an officebuilding, and it doesn’t,” said Barry Pearce, ChiefProject Officer.“The whole focus was onthe patient’s needs and comfort.”
“The Centre will not onlyprovide better care foroutpatients, but will free upcapacity that can help usimprove care in our hospitalsand other facilities.”
FIRST IN BC - OUTPATIENT CARE ANDSURGERY CENTRE OPENS IN SURREY
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LEVEL{ Day surgeries and ambulatory procedures, which includescopes, biopsies and use of the first Extracorporeal ShockWave Lithotripsy within Fraser Health (a non-invasivesurgical procedure for kidney stones).
HOURS OF OPERATION:Monday to Friday, 7am to 8pm; Saturday, Sunday andstatutory holidays, 9am to 5pm.
PARKING AND ACCESS:Over 600 parking spaces within 3.5 levels of undergroundparking and ground level parking. Easy transit access, go towww.translink.ca or call 604-953-3333 to plan your route.
EXPRESS CHECK-IN UPON ARRIVALMake sure to bring your BC CareCard to Express Check-in fora scheduled appointment at the Outpatient Centre—similar tohow you check in at the airport!
Express Check-in kiosks are located throughout the buildingto make the check-in process faster and easier by helping to:
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ABOUT BCHSBCHS Healthcare (Surrey) LP is the private sectorpartner to Fraser Health for the financing, design,construction and maintenance of the Jim PattisonOutpatient Care and Surgery Centre. A contractbetween BCHS and Fraser Health was signed inAugust 2008 and the Centre was delivered on timeand budget on March 31st of this year.
BCHS is a consortium of InfraRed Capital Partners (aspecialist manager of equity funds, investing in the
development of infrastructure projects around theworld), Bouygues Building Canada and ETDE FacilityManagement Canada. Bouygues Building Canadaand ETDE are members of the Bouygues Group, oneof the largest, diversified construction groups in theworld.
Construction of the Centre was undertaken by a JointVenture between Bouygues and BIRD Construction;the architectural design was developed by Kasian.Both BIRD and Kasian are Canadian companies.
“The focus here is timely,accessible, well-roundedcare and convenience forpatients.”
Integrated, expanded careThe Centre takes an integrated “one-stop-shop”approach to patient care that views each patient asa whole person rather than an individual illness. Tothose with multiple conditions, such as diabetesand a weak heart, this will mean fewer medical visitsalong with a more comprehensive picture of whatthey need to do to improve their overall health.
Care providers from different service areas will notonly work together – with the help of technologythat assists with information-sharing andscheduling – but will also collaborate with patientsthrough a strong focus on education andempowerment.
Most of the Centre’s 50-plus clinics and programs areeither new or enhanced, featuring new technology,larger space, additional staffing and increased servicehours.
Some of the“firsts” to be found at the Centre include:
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Other programs and services include a variety ofspecialty clinics (e.g. diabetes, heart, lung, pain, seniorsand neurology), urology services, maternity services,diagnostic services (e.g. ultrasound, x-ray, CT and MRIscans), day surgeries and surgical procedures, scopesand biopsies.
Ultimately, the overall goal is to provide faster accessto patient-centred care, resulting in better health andquality of life for patients, and fewer visits to thehospital or emergency room.
“The focus here is timely, accessible, well-rounded careand convenience for patients,”explained Dr. ChrisMahony, a Surrey physician who provided input intothe project.“All aspects of the centre, including thehealth care delivery models and the physical facilities,are designed with the patient in mind.”
A model for the futureThe Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centrebrings the future of health care to Surrey, with itscollaborative and patient-centered approach,sustainable building techniques that are on track toachieve Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesign (LEED) gold status, and built-in infrastructuredesigned to accommodate future growth.
The Centre will also play a critical role in Fraser Health’slong-term strategy to relieve pressure on hospitals,build further capacity in the system, and ultimatelyprovide patients with more opportunities forimproved health.
For more information go to www.fraserhealth.ca oremail [email protected]
