Aldergrove Star, November 15, 2012

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A Mother’s Wisdom for Solomon

Recreation open houses seek input Aldergrove Star

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Sarah Neault and her son Solomon are pleased to see the YWCA’s single mothers support program expand to the Aldergrove area.

A helping hand for single mothers By KURT LANGMANN Aldergrove Star

The YWCA Metro Vancouver is expanding its Single Mothers’ Support Services program to Aldergrove and four other new communities, thanks to a threeyear $450,000 commitment by three B.C. credit unions.

The YWCA’s Single Mothers’ Support Program works to ensure women parenting alone are able to achieve personal and economic independence. Funding commitments by Coast Capital Savings, Vancity and Envision Financial, a division of First West Credit Union, will allow new support

groups to be established in Surrey, Port Coquitlam, Aldergrove, Maple Ridge and Abbotsford. Previously, single mothers had to travel into Vancouver to take advantage of the service. The YWCA program expansion is the result of the vision of three female credit union CEOs

� Coast Capital’s Tracy Redies, Vancity’s Tamara Vrooman, and First West’s Launi Skinner � who decided to pool resources to ensure much-needed services are available to more single mothers in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. SEE: Page 3

Plans to provide the community with a new recreation centre and pool in Aldergrove are being developed and the Township of Langley wants residents to have their say. A proposed new community centre is planned for the former Aldergrove Elementary School site on Fraser Highway. Two open houses will be held this month by the Township to collect input on two facility concept plans. The first open house will be held Saturday, Nov. 17, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Aldergrove Kinsmen Community Centre, 26770 - 29 Ave. This public input opportunity will be available before and after the Aldergrove Joint Town Hall meeting that will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. at the same location. The second open house will take place Tuesday, Nov. 27, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Aldergrove Community Secondary School Library, 26850 - 29 Ave. “The new Aldergrove community recreation centre is a significant investment that will provide the Township with leisure opportunities for generations to come,” said Township Councillor Bob Long, Chair of Mayor Jack Froese’s Aldergrove Community Recreation Centre Standing Committee. “It is important that decisions about this project are made with the public’s opinions in mind. I encourage everyone to take the time to provide input. We really want the community’s feedback.” Residents can also have their say online. From November 15 to 30, the public can learn more about the proposed plans and make their choice via www.placespeak.com\aldergrovecommunitycentre or simply link to it from the Township’s website www.tol.ca • Option One would see the facility located at the north end of the site, near Fraser Highway, and connected to the existing heritage schoolhouse. It would provide a modest leisure pool and a six-lane, 25-metre lap pool, both constructed indoors for year-round use, as well as fitness activity and multi-purpose rooms, a single sheet ice arena, and lobby space with food services. The Aldergrove Library would be relocated to the heritage schoolhouse. Option One SEE: Page 3

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