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Anita Comba directs the Langley Community Chorus during their Merry Fa La La performance at Willoughby Christian Reformed Church on Nov. 24. The Chorus is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and will give two more Christmas performances this season. The first will take place on Dec. 2 at 3 p.m. at Sharon United Church, 21562 Old Yale Rd, and the second on Dec. 9 at 3 p.m. at St. Dunstan’s Anglican Church, 3025 264 St.
Langley RCMP is looking for a driver who may have sped up before hitting a pedestrian at 197 Street and 78 Avenue on Thursday morning. Around 7:20 a.m., a 67-year-old Langley man was walking south on 197 Street when he noticed a vehicle driving north towards him at apparently a high rate of speed, said Langley RCMP Const. Craig van Herk. The pedestrian raised his arm and waved at the approaching vehicle in an attempt to get it to slow down. “Rather than slow down, the vehicle continued towards the pedestrian striking his right arm. The vehicle then fled the area continuing north on 197 Street,” said van Herk. The victim sustained a broken wrist, broken finger and suffered a cut on his hand that required stitches.The suspect vehicle involved is described as an older model white Chevy Cavalier, possibly a two door. It has not been confirmed but the car may have some damage to the passenger side windshield. Anyone with information is asked to call the Langley RCMP at 604-532-3200. If you wish to remain anonymous contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
Protesters ‘Pipe Up’ over oil line expansion Kinder Morgan pipeline information meeting draws 52 people to Walnut Grove Secondary Monique TaMMinga Times Reporter
According to Kinder Morgan, a total of 52 people — many of whom are property owners — turned out to at an open house for the proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion held at Walnut Grove Secondary on Thursday night. Many people don’t realize that 17 kilometres of pipeline already runs through Langley, right through many urban neighbourhoods in Walnut Grove. Kinder Morgan is proposing to twin that pipeline and
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double the amount of oil pumped through those lines. Several citizens with a new group called Pipe Up Network, who are opposed to the expansion project, set up an information booth outside the meeting on Thursday. “A lot of residents we have talked to were shocked to know that a pipeline already runs through Langley,” said local resident Kevin Harper who joined Pipe Up Network, a group of concerned citizens from Burnaby to Hope. Wendy Major, a retired school teacher in Chilliwack, said a bitumen spill in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 2010 “caused health
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problems for the people and devastated local business.” That pipeline, owned by Enbridge Energy Partners, reportedly spilled an estimated 843,000 gallons of diluted bitumen into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. The cleanup and health impacts raised questions about B.C.’s ability to respond to a similar disaster. Kinder Morgan wants to build a second pipeline from Alberta through B.C. to a shipping port in Burnaby. It would increase daily capacity to 750,000 barrels from the current 300,000 barrels. “It’s a 60-year-old pipeline that has diluted bitumen running through it. They want to run 750,000 barrels per day through those lines. “It’s scary to think of,” said Harper. He
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said the Huntingdon aquifer, several waterways and a bird sanctuary in Langley are all on the pipeline route. “When they put in this pipeline 60 years ago, this was all farmland,” said Major. She taught at an elementary school that has a pipeline running right through the playground there. “They don’t even have a definite plan for the second line so we are very worried. Now they are dealing with running a new pipeline through heavily populated areas,” she said. Inside the meeting, several land owners wanted to be re-assured that Kinder Morgan can’t just go on their property and start digging to put in a new pipe. continued, PAGE 4
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