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Dyson wins NDP nomination for Fort-Aldergrove By FRANK BUCHOLTZ Black Press
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Aldergrove Secondary’s Joel Waterman (in blue jersey) in the first round of Fraser Valley senior boys soccer championships, a 2-1 overtime victory over Samuel Robertson Technical School, Oct. 30 at Aldergrove Athletic Park. Aldergrove advanced after defeating Delta’s Delview School at their field Nov. 1 and are now qualified for the provincials this month in Burnaby (story, page 16). Waterman’s high performance team in Surrey also won the U-16 national soccer championship last month in PEI.
Shane Dyson won the NDP nomination in Fort Langley-Aldergrove on Sunday afternoon. Dyson, a longtime Aldergrove resident, won the nomination by defeating Gail Chaddock-Costello, who ran for the party in the riding in the 2009 election. She is also president of Langley Teachers Association. It was the first contested nomination in memory for members of the NDP constituency association executive, and the contest helped the party double its membership in the riding. The event began with a speech from party leader Adrian Dix, who has made many appearances in Langley in the past two years. He repeated his assertion that the party can win seats in the Fraser Valley — including Fort Langley-Aldergrove, and cited the results of the Chilliwack-Hope byelection, where the NDP won a seat it had never won. “We are not satisfied with writing off 30 to 35 seats any more,” he told the 130 people in attendance. Dix said the party will continue to press the government on issues, but will not engage in personal attacks. “We are not going to disrespect people involved in the political process,” he said. Dix said the party has had far more influence on B.C. than winning three out of 21 elections would indicate. “The NDP is not about me, nor is it about me sitting in the premier’s office. It is about a more just, fair and equal society,” he said. “We do it by getting a Shane Dyson mandate for change. We need to take the fight to Rich Coleman, Mary Polak and change the way people of Langley think about the NDP.” After Dix spoke, the two candidates outlined their visions for the province and the riding, and the audience asked questions of them. Dyson said the NDP has steadily been gaining votes in both Langley ridings provincially, and said the 2011 federal election was particularly successful, with candidate Piotr Majkowski getting more votes than the NDP had ever received in Langley. He said there must be more effort made to get commuter rail into the Fraser Valley, south of the Fraser. He said water issues are important, particularly in rural Langley, and called for strengthening of the Agricultural Land Reserve and farmworkers’ rights. “This (Liberal) government is a tired government and well past its best-before date. Let’s move away from the current government’s obsession with lowering taxes. It’s all a shell game anyway. All it has done is transfer costs through user fees like higher MSP SEE: Page 3
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