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Aldergrove Couple Bats ‘Home Run’ Wedding
Canada geese create border ‘carnage’ By MONIQUE TAMMINGA Aldergrove Star
KURT LANGMANN PHOTO
Bride-to-be Barb Andrews hams it up on the Aldergrove Athletic Park ball diamond for her wedding photographer before her marriage to Bruce Taylor on the same ball diamond, Monday evening.
Pastor pitches connubial bliss By KURT LANGMANN Aldergrove Star
Pastor Wes Dahl reckons he’s performed marriage ceremonies for 50 couples in his career but on Monday evening he pitched his first-ever connubial bliss home run. More than a hundred guests, many of them wearing baseball uniforms, sat in the bleachers on an Aldergrove baseball diamond infield for the baseball-themed exchange of vows by Barb Andrews and Bruce Taylor. Prior to the ceremony the couple had
posed for official wedding pictures while wielding bats in the ball diamond. The dugout had been decorated with curtains and bows, the home base had a heart placed atop it and the table for signing the marriage documents was made of baseball bat legs. To top it off, the bride had cut a baseball in half, placed the wedding bands inside it and taped it up so that the wedding party could throw the ball around the field before the couple opened it up and placed the rings on each others’ hands. The couple, who first met seven years
ago at a Cinco de Mayo “Boogie for Books” fundraising dance for Aldergrove’s Betty Gilbert school, are obviously baseball fanatics. It is the second marriage for both of them and they had both brought their four, now-grown children up with a love for the game as well. Bruce also served as the school’s Parents Advisory Council president at the time when he first met Barb, and the couple continues to be active members of, and contributors to, the community’s events — especially baseball. SEE: Page 3
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They may be called Canada geese by name, but by address they are very much American. Langley residents living along a portion of Zero Avenue wish these waterfowl would stay in the States. The Canadian geese are already nesting and babies are hatching. Then they will start crossing the road several times a day in the 23200 block of Zero Avenue, said resident Trudy Handel. “It’s been a real frustration. Drivers are going way too fast, and many geese and babies are killed each year,” said Handel. Neighbours have just put up their own sandwich boards on the side of the road last week saying “watch for baby geese.” The Township did put up another Watch for Wildlife sign but it hasn’t helped with many drivers looking for deer crossing, said Handel. Apparently the grass is greener on the Canadian side, as this year’s batch of mother geese get ready to take their goslings from their swamp home on the American side of Zero Ave. across the road to the Canadian side to eat grass several times a day. The Langley RCMP are aware of the problem and are warning drivers to watch for this “seasonal hazard” and slow down. Speed enforcement may be looked at for that area. Handel said it’s not so much about the geese, but about the dangers of these feathered friends crossing the road. “Someone is going to get hurt.” She hears drivers honking at the geese and has seen near rear-enders and head-on collisions as drivers try to maneuver around the big birds. Handel has spoken to wildlife experts and fencing doesn’t even deter these determined American geese from crossing the road. Neighbours in the area are hoping for some speed enforcement and a dramatic sign warning drivers.
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Residents along Zero Avenue aren’t thrilled about nesting Canada geese and babies crossing the busy road.
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