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THURSDAY November 21, 2013 • www.langleytimes.com NEWS Cost-effective Crime Fighting
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Boy, 11, hurt in hit-and-run MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
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Rose Harry gives out information about her pieces of largely local Aboriginal arts and crafts at Saturday’s Milner Village Winter Market. The indoor market is being held at Milner Gardens each Saturday, until Dec. 14.
RCMP are trying to track down the driver who struck an 11-yearold boy in the 19600 block of 72 Avenue on Tuesday. Around 5:30 p.m., the boy was clipped by a vehicle that fled the scene. It’s believed the boy suffered cuts and bruises and possibly a broken leg. The Times has not been able to confirm that. He was hit with such force, there was broken glass and car part fragments left behind at the scene, said one witness. Several people stayed at the scene to help the boy and give information. The vehicle involved may be a brown sedan. That area of Clayton
Heights has seen an explosion of high density housing. In some areas there are no sidewalks or proper lighting. The road, 72 Avenue, is a busy thoroughfare. In April, a 19-year-old woman was struck in a hit and run crash in the 19700 block of 72 Avenue. The driver left her lying on the side of the road crying for help. Her boyfriend was walking home and heard her cries, saw that it was his girlfriend and called 911. She suffered serious injuries. The driver was never found. Police continue to investigate. If you have any information about the hitand-run and haven’t spoken to police call Langley RCMP at 604532-3200.
Three possible Langley pipeline routes FINAL DECISION WON’T BE MADE FOR SOME TIME, PROJECT DIRECTOR TELLS CHAMBER FR AN K B U CH O LT Z Tim e s Re po r t e r
The man in charge of the TransMountain Oil Pipeline twinning project has confirmed that a right-of-way through Redwoods Golf Course is being considered. Greg Toth, senior project director of the expansion project, was in Langley Tuesday night to speak to Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce about the economic benefits of the project. The initial oil pipeline built from Edmonton to Burnaby would be twinned and able to transport up to 890,000 barrels a day of crude and refined oil products. Fort Langley landowners have been
concerned that one leg of the new pipeline has been proposed through low-lying farmland adjacent to the Salmon River, just west of Fort Langley. The twinned pipeline will veer away from the original route to avoid going through the built-up area of Walnut Grove. Toth told The Times that the company has recently started to consider putting the new line through the Redwoods Golf Course, which is owned by the Township of Langley. The existing pipeline runs near Telegraph Trail, and the company wants to build the new line from its existing rightof-way to an alignment along the CN rail
line, before the current pipeline enters the urban area of Walnut Grove. Doug Hawley, general manager of Redwoods, confirmed that the pipeline company has had its surveyors approach the golf course, asking to look at the property for a potential route. The Redwoods route is not the only one under consideration. Toth said there are at least three possible alignments for the new pipeline in Langley. Toth said that the final route through Langley will not be determined for some time, and it will come after the company files its formal application to build the pipeline with the National Energy Board
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on Dec. 16. The company is able to file “supplementals” after that date, and in several locations along the route, it has not made a final determination as to which would be the best spot for the new pipeline to be built. In answer to a question, he said the company does not have the right to expropriate land to build the pipeline, but “it wants to minimize the impact on landowners. “What we have to file is a route that is constructible,” he said. Continued Page 6
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