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THURSDAY January 15, 2015 • www.langleytimes.com
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COMMUNITY A Night of Comedy
My Thai owner warns of scam
BUSINESS Congestion Tax Debated
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SPORTS Wake Up Call
A Wing Ding in the Works
RESTAURATEUR NEARLY FELL FOR ‘GOOD CON’ BY WOMAN CLAIMING TO BE FROM HYDRO M O N I Q U E TA M M I N G A Tim e s Re po r t e r
Anne Alliott, owner of Langley City’s My Thai restaurant, is warning everyone she can about a utilities scam that she almost fell for. “I want to tell everyone: don’t be foolish like me. I have never been scammed before. “I always have been pretty smart about these things but this one was a good con,” said Alliott. A woman named “Amy” called her just before New Year’s Eve claiming to be from B.C. Hydro. She told Alliott she hadn’t made her last payment and if she didn’t pay that day, the power would be cut off. Continued Page 4
D A N FE R GUS ON Langley Time s
Langley Canadian Museum of Flight volunteer John Jouan works on the wing of a classic Tiger Moth biplane undergoing restoration. The museum is planning a fundraising gala and auction for March 7. More information can be found at www.canadianflight.org.
New rules would restrict smelly grow ops TOWNSHIP HOPES TO USE ANTI-REGULATION TO CONTROL LEGAL MARIJUANA GROWING D AN FERGU SO N Ti m e s Re po r t e r
The Township of Langley is taking another stab at restricting legal marijuana grow operations within municipal boundaries, this time going after growers over the smell from their operations.
The new rules won preliminary approval Monday. They would allow the Township and the RCMP to fine smelly grow-ops $500 a day for the nuisance. A staff report says the Township has a legal opinion that going after growers over odours
“is unlikely to raise a constitutional challenge” because it doesn’t order growers to quit, but only insists that they install filters. The report says there are an estimated 600 legal marijuana grow-ops in Langley operating under designated-person pro-
duction licences. Those licences were supposed to be eliminated under a federal government switch to large commercial grow-ops instead of many small growers in April, but that has been held up by a Supreme Court challenge.
Last year, a Langley Township bylaw that would restrict medicinal marijuana cultivation to industrial areas and ban it altogether on farmland was rejected by the provincial government. Continued Page 4
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