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Youngsters Ready to Ride
Two homes collapsing into creek
Landslide threatens pair of 40-year-old Township homes By DAN FERGUSON Aldergrove Star
Trent and Sherry Sultz offer a horse camp for hundreds of youths every summer at their Aldergrove acreage.
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Horse camps send kids ‘a-loft’ By KURT LANGMANN Aldergrove Star
A Christian ministry that began in a barn loft has turned into a summer horse camp for youths. The Loft Country Children’s Horse Camp will host some 450 children this summer — almost double last year’s 273 — and organizers are anticipating 600 to 700 guests next summer. This summer’s program started on July 1 and 50 to 60 children are enrolled
for each four-day session, Mondays to Thursdays, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. The guests work with the horses in the mornings and various events and activities are offered in the afternoons. It’s the brainchild of Trent and Sherry Sultz, who own the 20-acre farm on 248 Street, which has a riding arena and a large meeting room. “We’ve been doing the camps for about ten years, at first just for the church kids, but it was too good, so we expanded
it for the past three years,” says Trent. “We have a lot of repeat customers and word of mouth has been great too.” Trent, who was raised on a Merritt farm, began working as a farrier and horse trainer. He married Sherry, who shows and trains quarter horses, in 1994. Trent had “an encounter with God in 1994” that he says “turned my life around,” and he became an ordained minister. The couple bought the farm on Otter
Two Langley homeowners are scrambling to fix their collapsing back yards after a March landslide revealed unstable soil in the 7900 block of 227 Crescent that runs along the Salmon River. Neighbours Eric Nicholl and Roger Eggert came to Township council Monday to appeal for permission to bypass the usual approval process to shore up the site of the collapse with 8,000 square metres or about 70 truck loads of fill during the dry summer months. “We could potentially lose our homes,” Nicholl said. “The back yards to both our houses are causing actual danger,” said Eggert. Following heavy rain in March, portions of the two back yards dropped 4.5 to three metres coming within eight to 10 metres of the two houses. Other houses in the area were Homeowners Eric Nicholl and not affected. Roger Eggert are scrambling Tests by a geotechnical engito repair their back yards folneer show up to four metres of lowing a March landslide. The fill was used to level the back residents of the 7900-block yards overlooking the river of 227 Crescent will need 700 around the time the two houses truckloads of fill to arrest the were built in 1973. continuing collapse. A report filed by the engineer describes the fill as an “unstable” mix of “firm to soft silt” under a one-third metre thick layer of topsoil. The soil is continuing to collapse, the report warns, and goes on to describe the situation as an “emergency” that could cause damage to both houses and contaminate the river. Earlier this year, council revised its soil deposit and removal policy to require approval by at least 80 per cent of local residents for large amounts of fill. The new process takes a minimum of six weeks which means
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