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Remembrance Day
Mayor Susan Johnston and John Fortoloczky, the district’s chief administrative officer, walk to the Memorial Park cenotaph to lay a wreath on Remembrance Day. Hundreds of people braved cold temperatures on Sunday morning to take part in the Hope ceremony honouring Canada’s veterans. For more on the event, see page 3.
Hope to offer mobile business licences
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Hope is among nine Fraser Valley communities taking part in a oneyear, mobile business licence pilot program. The initiative strives to make it easier for companies to operate by allowing them to purchase one licence for specific trades, rather than obtaining non-resident permits in each municipality they do business. “It makes sense. We want to encourage business and cut out the red tape,” said Parissa Aujla, the district’s director of finance. “It’s revenueneutral. So we’re not bringing in any
more money, but we’re not losing together with their chambers of commoney. That was one of the premises merce to adopt a common bylaw allowing businesses to for all the partnerpurchase an inter-muing agencies.” nicipal business licence. The licence will “We want to “It gives local conbe available for tractors the opportunity construction/trades encourage to expand their busicompanies, and any business and cut ness into what has now business affiliated become the largest ecowith the industry. out the red tape.” nomic zone in the provIf the first year is ince,” said local Chamsuccessful, municiParissa Aujla ber president Glen palities will look at Ogren. “From Surrey expanding the proto Hope you now can gram. The participating municipalities, operate in each jurisdiction with the lead by the City of Langley, worked inter-municipal business license. The
Trade-in days!
Trade in your old hearing aids to receive up to $1500 off your purchase of digital noise reduction hearing aids*
Hope Chamber applauds district council for seeing this through and showing to the rest of the Fraser Valley we are open for business.” The mobile business licence program was successfully piloted in 2007 by 17 communities in the OkanaganSimilkameen, and since then, Sicamous and the Central Okanagan Regional District have joined that group. Mobile business licences will be available in Hope starting Jan. 1 at a cost of $250. For more information on the program, visit http://www.resourcecentre.gov.bc.ca/mobile.html.
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Call now for a free hearing screening. 1-888-933-3277 For more info, see our website: www.cvoh.ca Visit us at Southgate Shopping Centre in Chilliwack or at www.cvoh.ca Each hearing aid traded in earns up to $750 off of each new hearing aid purchased between October 9 and December 9, 2012 depending on age, style and brand of hearing aid traded-in. Not to be combined with other offers. Some conditions apply. See in-store for details. wAs voted by the readers of the Langley Advance.
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