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Langley man killed in crash A 32-year-old Langley man was killed and his 22-year-old passenger injured in a two vehicle crash in south Cloverdale July 25. A 2003 Saturn, being driven by a resident of North Vancouver, was west bound on 8th Avenue, and was turning left onto 172nd Street when it was in a collision with a motorcycle.

A woman also riding on the motorcycle was transported by Air Ambulance in serious condition.

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Feds pay to beat up vehicle parts The Canadian Standards Association Langley facility will get $90,000 from the federal government to create a field test site to certify high-pressure hydrogen and compressed natural gas components for the auto industry.

The CSA will do destructive testing, including gunfire penetration, bonfires, and drop impact testing of items like hydrogen fuel cell containers.

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The ending to Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labours Lost was rewritten in an unexpected fashion Saturday.

The Bard in the Valley production on the Spirit Square stage at Douglas Park concluded with one of the actors down on one knee, asking the show’s director for her hand in marriage.

Big cheers could be heard echoing from the park as the Mandy Dyck said “yes.” She was shocked by the romantic gesture by Darcy Knopp.

“Darcy got the idea to do it during the run of Julius Caesar last year, so he had been keeping it secret a long while,” Dyck told the Langley Advance.

Knopp, who grew up and worked in Langley, went to some lengths to make his proposal memorable, and to keep it a secret – apparently even from his own father who just happened to be in the audience.

Before Saturday’s show,

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Surrounded by the cast,Darcy Knopp proposed to Mandy Dyck on the stage of the Bard in the Valley production of Love’s Labour s Lost.

Knopp asked the cast and crew to sign a card for Dyck, to publicly acknowledge her contribution as the show’s director.

After the final curtain call, he took centre stage, and began his tribute, thanking Dyck for all her work and calling her on stage to receive a card and gift.

Then, the twist.

“Some of you may know Mandy and I have been together for four years,” he said. “In that time, Mandy has had a complaint, that I don’t profess my love often enough to her, so I’d

like to change that tonight.”

He reached into his pocket, took out a ring box, and got down on one knee.

“Mandy was truly taken by surprise as was everyone else on and off the stage,” said producer Diane Gendron.

“Everyone cheered! Then another big cheer erupted when everyone heard Mandy say ‘yes.’ The cast and crew and some of the audience were in tears. It was all very exciting,” Gendron said.

Langley’s own Lauren

Trotzuk, a cast member, made the comment “Love’s Labour’s Won tonight.”

Knopp’s character in the play has a beautiful monologue all about his love for a woman.

“His delivery during this speech has been truly inspired, which I have attributed to the fact that Darcy is a talented actor. I now know that, as all good actors, he was drawing on his real love for Mandy to give his monologue that extra spark,” she said.

Knopp has been with Bard in the Valley (BIV) since the first show in 2010. He picked up the ring about six months ago.

“The proposal definitely was a surprise for me. I had no idea it was going to happen or that he had even been thinking about this,” she said.

Dyck has been with BIV for three years with lead roles in the past two productions and as a director this year. Both are graduates of the University of the Fraser Valley and live in Chilliwack.

No date set for the wedding but there are for the final four performances of Love’s Labours Lost in Douglas Park: July 30, July 31, and Aug. 1 at 7 p.m., as well as a 2 p.m. matinee on Aug. 2. Shows are free.

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Lisa Farquharson has been named the new publisher of the Langley Advance, started in 1931, and the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Times.

“As a Langley resident for over three decades, I’m thrilled to be once again working in this amazing community,” Farquharson said.

“I’m anxious to reconnect with the growing business community and residents.”

Farquharson has been with Black

Press since 1998, and has served as an advertising sales manager at the Langley Times, as publisher of the South Delta Leader, and general manager of BC Classified.com’s Lower Mainland division.

An SFU graduate with an executive management and leadership diploma from Thompson Rivers University, she has been active on boards and committees around the area. She has served as a member with the Greater Vancouver Homebuilders Association for more than two years.

Farquharson and her husband, Rod, are parents to three schoolaged children.

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A short time later, the truck and flatdeck trailer that had dropped off the backhoe returned, said Cpl. Holly Largy, spokesperson for the Langley RCMP. Police found the truck nearby, and an officer activated the emergency lights and sirens on his vehicle.

The driver of the Dodge pickup

shifted into reverse and backed into the cruiser at a high rate of speed, said Largy.

The truck then attempted to flee, but drove into a cul-de-sac at Wakefield Drive and 196B Place, said Largy. Trying to escape from the dead end, the truck hit the same police cruiser, this time with the flat deck trailer.

The officer tried to break a window of the truck to get the driver out, but she fled out of the passenger door.

The woman driving the pickup tried to run, but was caught after a brief chase. She sustained minor injuries in the collision and was treated and released from hospital before being held in custody.

The officer was not hurt in the crashes.

A 36-year-old Surrey woman was expected to appear in court on July 27.

The Kubota backhoe was a rental unit, also stolen. Police aren’t certain why it was unloaded on a residential street, or why the same truck and trailer appeared to be coming back for it when police caught up with the driver.

HARPER’S CONSERVATIVES ARE BLEEDING OUR PUBLIC SERVICES. ANIMALS CIRCUS in the Plaza in the Plaza

The Harper Conservative government’s vision for Canada’s future? Cuts, cuts, and more cuts.

Canada’s border security services? Slashed.

Canada’s environmental protection services? Sliced.

Canada’s food safety services? Butchered.

Veterans Affairs? Nine Veterans Affairs offices shut down and front-line services gone.

Canadians who paid into Employment Insurance denied benefits.

Canada’s public search and rescue services? Systematically dismantled.

Essential public services threatened without regard for the safety and welfare of millions of Canadians.

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Teen luring probed A teenaged girl was approached by a stranger in Langley City.

MATTHEW CLAXTON mclaxton@langleyadvance.com

Langley RCMP are worried about a potentially disturbing incident that took place in the City on July 15.

A teenaged girl and two 10-year-old boys were walking in the 5400 block of 203rd Street just before 5 p.m., said Cpl. Holly Largy, spokesperson for the Langley RCMP. The two boys were walking ahead when the teenager was approached by a middle-aged man.

He told her to come with him, but she told him no and ran away, said Largy.

The teenager ran back to the two boys and they continued on their way. The man followed them for a short time before turning off on a side street, said Largy.

The man is described as about 45 years old, 5’10” to 5’11” tall, with brown eyes, a short, scruffy beard, and messy, knotted, frizzy hair.

He was wearing a dark brown T-shirt and dirty, grey shorts.

Largy said these incidents remind parents to review important safety information with their children, such as not accepting gifts from anyone you don’t know who approaches you.

Also, parents can ensure their children know who they can talk to you freely, said Largy.

Finally, if they do become involved in a suspicious incident like this one, encourage children to come directly home to tell you about it. That reduces the time delay in reporting to the police.

Anyone with information on this incident can call the Langley RCMP at 604-532-3200, or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

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Many rode The Ride Into History had good weather… for one day.

Rain dampened spirits and fundraising for the first night of Ride Into History, but the sun came out for the big event Saturday.

The annual fundraiser for the Salvation Army Gateway of Hope began July 24 with a concert by Dave Anthony, the Seabillys, and Randy “Elvis” Friskie at the Fort Langley National Historic Site.

More than 200 people attended while the first major rainfall in weeks soaked Langley.

“We needed the rain to help our firefighters this summer,” said Troy Gaglardi, the Ride Into History co-chair. “We took one for the team and endured through the blessing of rain.”

Last year the Friday night concert raised $3,000 in donations, and this year’s total was expected to be down because of the rain.

“In th end, it’s not a loss for us but for the Gateway of Hope, as this event aims to support the funding many of its programs and services,” Gaglardi said.

The Saturday scenic ride and banquet went off without a hitch under sunny skies, and with more than 110 motorcycles registered.

The dinner guests listened to Gary, a former Opportunities Program resident at the Gateway of Hope, who has changed his life with help from its programs, including cook training.

“Best year yet,” said Steve Prost of the Greater Vancouver Motorcycle Club.

Due to the lower donations at the Friday evening events, Gaglardi is asking people to consider donating, whether in person, by mail, or phone to help with the shortfall.

Who’s inspecting B.C. hospitals?

Hospital inspections lagging yet are used to decide spending.

ROB SHAW Special to the Langley Advance

B.C. is playing catch up on tracking the physical condition of its hospitals, after allowing inspections to get more than a decade out of date. Langley’s most recent such inspection is from around 2003.

The government is spending millions on consultants to generate new “facilities condition index” reports for hospitals. The reports catalogue such things as structural safety and the condition of electrical systems, roofs, elevators, stairwells, flooring, plumbing, fire alarms, boilers, sprinklers and ventilation systems.

These reports look at a hospital’s physical structure, except for earthquake safety, which is done through a separate process using specialized consultants.

The knowledge of what is aging, broken and in need of repair in hospitals is supposed to form a key part of how government decides to spend the more than $2.75 billion

million on the original faciliin upgrades it has budgeted ties reports, and is spending over the next three years. $4.6 million to update all the The facilities database reports by 2017. ranks repairs by priority, “It’s valuable information giving government a clear list of critical upgrades (such to the health authorities, and when you consider the as a failed fire suppression ($11-million cost) versus the system, or a collapsing ceilcapital plan of $12 billion ing), as well as less urgent over 14 years it’s a fairly upgrades, such as aging small number,” said Lake. floors and leaky windows.

“When you are building But much of the informaa business case for each of tion is up to 12 years old, these facilities and trying to after the Ministry of Health say, OK what comes higher allowed its assessments to on your list is it this facility lag without update since or that facility, they were first every element completed It’s valuable you have is valubetween 2003 able for making and 2006. information. that assessment.”

A copy of Terry Lake Critics say the the governgovernment’s ment’s facilities failure to keep its inspections condition index database, up-to-date has left it flying provided to The Vancouver blind in how to spend taxSun, showed that many of payer money on repairs. the assessments of B.C.’s 81 “It’s really a mystery to me hospitals (defined as those why the government doesn’t with in-patient beds and have a clear up-to-date emergency rooms) are so out-of-date as to be function- assessment on the physical state of our hospitals,” said ally useless.

NDP critic Judy Darcy.

Health Minister Terry Lake The Health Ministry built said the reports are “one the facilities database to part of the tool we use to track its buildings, set spenddetermine priorities for caping priorities, and give an ital.” Other considerations independent way to assess are demographics, governwhether B.C.’s six health ment priorities and whether authorities have defensible a building is functional for arguments when they ask future health care needs.

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The outdated data has left government to rely on the health authorities, whose staff are the only ones with firsthand knowledge of what’s broken and what’s repaired inside buildings.

The old facilities reports are often invalidated by renovations, upgrades or, in some cases, building replacements done in the subsequent decade.

More than $86 million in repairs identified in facilities reports for Surrey Memorial Hospital were calculated in 2003-04, and rendered redundant when the new emergency department and critical care tower opened in 2013.

Inspections of Fraser Health Authority’s hospitals in Langley, Burnaby, Delta, Mission and New Westminster are as old.

B.C. Nurses’ Union president Gayle Duteil said the physical state of a hospital affects patient care, due to the quality of things like infection control, the absence of basic hand washing sinks, restrictive washrooms, and the absence of seclusion rooms for agitated or violent patients.

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The City along with the province and federal government announced the project with each pitching in $1.4 million.

City Mayor Ted Schaffer said that in addition to injecting $6.5 million into the local economy, the project will help with traffic flow, and make it easier for pedestrians and cyclists to travel the corridor.

“Before the project breaks ground, the City will consult with the community,” Schaffer said.

The project involves a traffic circle or roundabout at 53rd Avenue, widening of 203rd Street from 53rd Avenue to just south of the bridge over the Nicomekl River and widening

Project manager Doug Hyde of the 40-year-old bridge. That said the use of a roundabout should extend the bridge’s instead of traffic lights has lifespan another three to four several benefits. The City will decades.

The project includes dedicatno longer have to maintain and ed bike lanes on that stretch of service the traffic lights and road. traffic flow will be smoother.

The City had the bridge People don’t sit at traffic lights upgrade on its capital priorities idling so it’s better for the list. environment, he said.

“Langley identified this as “It’s a busy corridor,” Hyde a priority,” said MP Mark noted.

Warawa, representing the fedThe roundabout will have eral government at accommodation so Friday’s announcecyclists and pedIt’s a busy ment. estrians can use it corridor.

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Mary Polak It will be single Doug Hyde noted this kind lane and the larof announcement gest vehicles that would not be could use it are possible if the three levels of buses. government did not have their There’s no dates set but the books in order.

City will be announcing public “If it wasn’t for governments consultation on the proposed watching the pennies, we project. wouldn’t have these announceThe City started working on ments,” she said. the proposal about five months Warawa said there would be ago. Under the infrastructure other funding announcements program, the City must comaround the province in the plete the project by 2017 or coming weeks. lose out on the funds.

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Initially police believed the man had been shot, but medical treatment revealed he had been stabbed.

Investigators at the scene could not confirm that there had been a shooting there.

The victim suffered non-life threatening injuries. Johal said the incident appears to be targeted.

Police closed down 92nd Avenue between 184 and 187th streets for a few hours after the incident.

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t’s easy to envy the Americans their political theatre, a theatre that a dedicated surrealist could only stare at in wonder.

Even if there wasn’t Donald Trump, bestriding the Republican race like an orange-tinted colossus, you’d still have a host of other candidates literally chainsawing the tax code, comparing an arms treaty to the Holocaust, and arguing that it’s fine to take guns to the movies – days after a lethal mass shooting in a movie theatre.

Thanks to America’s position as the richest, most powerful, and in many ways most dysfunctional democracy in the western world, we have another 15 months or so of this madness before the actual election.

Here in Canada, we have a lower insanity threshold. The average Canadian political campaign, even now that they’re being stretched out to six or seven months, can barely produce as many gaffes overall as the U.S. race is already producing per week.

Think of some of the more famous Canadian political missteps – Robert Stanfield fumbling a football back in 1974, John Turner’s “I had no option,” the mockery of Jean Chretien’s facial paralysis, Stockwell Day’s jet ski and wet suit combo, “beer and popcorn.”

These all seem like pretty small beer compared to a country in which you can

apparently slam a man who spent several years as a tortured POW as “not a hero.”

Yet Donald Trump said that about John McCain, and it doesn’t seem to have hurt him in the polls yet.

If Donald Trump was running in Canada, it’s tempting to say that he couldn’t be elected as a small-town councillor. But Torontonians elected Rob MATTHEW Ford. Multiple times.

Why can some candidates get away with spewing gaffe after gaffe while whole campaigns can be destroyed by one poorly chosen phrase or backfiring attack ad?

The most valuable thing a candidate can do is get the voters to identify with them. When you have that core who think “Yeah, that’s what I’d do if I was him!” you have your base of voters, volunteers, and die-hard supporters.

Politicians from Bill Vander Zalm to Jack Layton to Jean Chretien have all parlayed a kind of regular-guy appeal into victory. You can win without that – Stephen Harper is proof that a different approach works – but it helps.

That kind of identification between voter and politician can have a dark side, however.

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he drought is not over, regardless of a good soaking for our plants on Friday and Sunday.

Metro Vancouver’s Stage Three watering restrictions remain in force, and restrictions of greater or lesser severity are also in effect in many parts of B.C., as we cope with one of the longest dry spells in living memory.

Metro Vancouver has been reminding everyone that two days of rain does not break a drought.

The lessons they are hammering home are mostly short term. If we conserve water now, we’ll be fine through to November. That means sticking to the watering ban, taking shorter showers, and not washing the car for a few weeks.

That’s all relatively simple stuff, and the vast majority of residents will be able to stick with it.

The long term phase could be more important.

Global warming can’t be blamed for any one specific weather system, but we know that around the world, temperatures are rising and weather becoming more extreme. We will likely see more dry summers to come, and with a growing population, we’ll need to plan ahead.

That could mean expanding the sources of our water, tapping into more reservoirs.

After all, even with lower water levels, we have a much smaller population and a lot more lakes than California.

It should also mean looking at permanent ways to save water, whether that’s offering more subsidies for water-efficient toilets and shower heads, to more money for repairing leaking water mains, to changing building codes.

We might also want to meter more water while we’re at it, including water that major industrial users take straight out of our aquifers. If, as we’re constantly told, we’re adding a million new residents, we need to think 25 or 50 years out into the future at a minimum. Saving water on a society-wide scale will cost a lot over time, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the costs of running dry.

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untrue things about Mexican migrants, his fellow candidates and Republicans, his opponents, the press… and he gets away with it.

I think that’s because there is a subset of angry people, who go through life feeling like they’re persecuted. They don’t like immigrants, legal or illegal. They feel like they’ve been held back. They don’t like that they can’t just CLAXTON say any hurtful thing that pops into their heads without being called out for it.

And then Trump appeared, the avatar of every bellowing, populist impulse of modern America. Here he is, think these voters, the man who says what I would say if only I had the wealth and power to not worry what anyone else thought.

He gives them a perverse hope that maybe, in Trump’s America, they too could somehow get rid of the immigrants they don’t like, call everyone they don’t like a loser, and get themselves a gold-plated toilet.

We don’t have a national-level Trumpstyle candidate here in Canada, and they’re rare even in the U.S. But it’s only a matter of time. After all, it’s working for Trump, so far.

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View on amalgamation shifts Dear Editor, I have just read the letter [Reunification study sensible, July 9, Langley Advance] where the writer is advocating the joining of the Township of Langley and the City of Langley.

I used to think this was a wonderful idea when I lived in the Township.

Langley City seemed sensible and I was all for saving money by joining the two councils.

However, I have in the last year moved into the City from the Township and I am more than relieved to not have the Township council over me.

There has been only trouble, infinite raising of taxes, absolutely no listening of the Township council to the concerns of its citizens, endless overcrowding in their building areas, and of course, breaking heritage bylaws in Fort Langley for the friends of the mayor.

Now that I live in the City there is no way I want to be associated with the Township and its council.

And I think that the 3,176 folks who signed the petition for amalgamation either do not know what has been going on in the Township, are friends and associates of those pushing for it, or simply, like me, think that it would save money.

They need to look into the reputation and activities of the Township over the last several years before they jump to this conclusion.

Pot editorial appreciated Dear Editor, Thank you for your July 16 editorial [Politicians behind on pot laws].

It gave me some validation that my decades of legalization activism were not spent in vain, and that I am not too crazy.

I enjoy cannabis, and I am a good person.

Jay Bergstrom, Forest Ranch, Calif.

They would be paying more in every way, not less.

We here in the City are privileged to have the management we do, maybe not perfect but far superior.

No, we don’t need more meetings. We need a council that listens to the citizens, the ones who they promised to lead by democracy.

I also wonder how many hundred thousands of dollars they paid the consultant for this amalgamation study.

It was unnecessary. And a further example of the way the Township operates.

So I would conclude – to those folks in the City of Langley – don’t make a move toward amalgamation until you find out just what the reputation of the Township is like.

Of course the folks of the Township want to join us.

We would benefit them but we would be the losers.

Lois Hooks, Langley City and very relieved

Pro-active developer should be applauded Dear Editor, I read in your paper this week about a meeting for Tall Timbers 2.0.

Your story noted that this was a neighborhood meeting hosted by the owner of the land. There were no plans on display, just an initial meeting to share ideas and to talk.

What a concept – talking to neighbours.

Regardless of where this goes – if the developer decides to apply for rezoning or to stick with the current zoning, they should be commended for reaching out so early in the process to “test the waters” and let the neighbours know they are considering building, giving everyone ample time to process the idea and think about what they might like or not like to see in their neighborhood.

I also read Mrs. Stelting – a North Otter resident, has created yet another “Leave [something] Alone” Facebook group.

Perhaps someone should just start one giant group called “Leave Absolutely Everything, Everywhere Alone. Forever” and invite all of Langley’s disgruntled to moan in a single, convenient place.

Or perhaps, that is the purpose of Councillor Richter’s

Facebook page since she seems to always be at the forefront of a perceived battle, wooden spoon in hand.

Is “leaving things alone” really a good idea or even remotely realistic?

I was also heartened to read that local realtor Annabel Young is quoted as saying she doesn’t want this area to “turn into another Willoughby”.

That seems plausible.

It sounds like she has a pretty good handle on what is happening in the community.

Another intuitive local realtor is quoted as saying “anything that is developed brings cars.”

Really? Cars? Yes, with people in a rural areas comes cars.

Remember – we don’t have transit in Langley.

Are there some folks so desperate for a fight that they are lighting fires where there are none? Isn’t the lack of communication between development and the community been what people have been railing on about for years?

And now you have a developer opening the door really early in the process and they still can’t catch a break?

There really is no way to please some folks who just want to fight.

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Battle lines: Art in the Plaza on July 25 in McBurney Plaza featured arts activities. Josh Palfreyman went toe to toe or rather brush to brush with Lisa Powers in a painting contest by the Makers Room art studio. The public got to pick the colours they used and watch as each created paintings. As well as visual arts, the event included live music.

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The assault conviction of a man who spat at a bus driver after being ordered off the bus for refusing to pay his fare has been upheld by the B.C. Supreme Court.

On Nov. 23, 2012, Braydon Dylan Sydney Antone was among a group of young men who boarded a Coast Mountain bus at 272nd Street and Fraser Highway.

The men refused to pay the fare and the driver, Jason Davie, asked them to leave.

Antone said something obscene and as he got off the

bus, he spat on the driver, court heard.

Davie left the bus to follow Antone but was unable to reach him. A police officer testified that Antone was among a group of individuals stopped near a local high school shortly after the report of the assault. While the officer was talking to them, Antone fled the scene.

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July and August Love’s Labour’s Lost Bard in the Valley performances of the Shakespeare classic are July 30 and 31 as well as Aug. 1 and 2 at Douglas Park Spirit Square.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening performances begin at 7 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Free admission. Bring a lawnchair.

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Brigade Days Celebrate the B.C. Day weekend with activities at the Fort Langley National Historic Site Aug. 1 to 3. Regular admission rates apply. Meet historical characters, music, stories, demonstrations of traditional skills. At 1 p.m. on Aug. 3, watch the re-enactment of the arrival of the fur brigades on the waterfront.

Aug. 7

Cinema Under the Stars Prospera hosts an outdoor movie (Home) at dusk on Aug. 7 at Willoughby Park (beside the Langley Events Centre). Volunteers wanted to help at this fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Langley. Email: admin. langley@bigbrothersbigsisters.ca. Bring lawn chair, blankets and bug spray.

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Info: www.bbbslangley.com.

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Garden Party and Tour Enjoy tea at Michaud House, a historic property, on Aug. 8. This fundraiser for the Langley Gogos runs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $6, includes tea and scones, enterainment, a gardening display, tour of the home and more. Bags, jams and jellies, soap, books and more for sale to raise funds.

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Brigade Days a glimpse into the past Langley does up B.C. Day like no other community.

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iper Colin Fraser first set foot in British Columbia around 1839.

And people can meet him during Brigade Days on the August long weekend.

The ‘modern’ Colin Fraser is portrayed by Colin Barrett.

When Barrett was asked to be part of a new activity at the Fort Langley National Historic Site in 1984, he ended up portraying Fraser with whom he shares many similarities.

Aside from the first name, Barrett is also a piper and uses that skill as a volunteer at the site.

Brigade Days, a way for the community to mark B.C. Day, features the arrival of voyageur canoes on the Fraser River shoreline.

“They wanted to celebrate the BC Day weekend by having a group of volunteers portraying what life might have looked like during the return of the brigade,” Barrett explained.

Well, that first year there weren’t too many visitors but the event has become an annual tradition.

“The following year a number of volunteers set up primitive tents to stay over and the visitation was better. In 1986, Expo year, the fort exploded with over 5,000 visitors over the Saturday and Sunday,” he said.

Fraser came to the New World after winning a contest but may not have ended up liking the prize.

BRIGADE DAYS From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 1, 2 and 3, enjoy stories, music and displays of traditional skills such as carding and spinning wool, and musket firing. Regular admission rates apply.

• The Arrival of the Fur Brigades is at 1 p.m. on Monday.

• Enjoy a free BC Day concert at 6 p.m.

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Entertainment will be by the Langley Community Music School Fiddlers and Swing Patrol.

“George Simpson Sr. back in Great Britain, felt that because his son now held such a high position, as governor of the Hudson Bay Company, he needed to have his own piper.

A competition was held, where the pipers were to march while playing for two miles,” he said. “The winner was Colin Fraser.”

Fraser sailed from Scotland to York Factory.

“Having never been off land before, he had a miserable trip over,” Barrett noted.

Once in York Factory he was introduced to Governor

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A procession leaves the Fort Langley National Historic Site and heads to the Fraser River waterfront for the annual Arrival of the Fur Brigades each August.

Simpson and plans were made for Simpson’s “review” of the Hudson Bay outposts from Upper Canada to New Caledonia, and to Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River, around 1839 or 1840.

But Fraser found the voyageur’s rigourous lifestyle difficult. Simpson wrote in his journals that Fraser wan’t much when it came to bale or paddle but had no equal when it came to jigs and hornpipes.

Barrett has even convinced people from Scotland that he’s a son of Edinburgh when in his character.

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“I think we have a special privilege in being able to bring the Fort alive for the visitors,” Barrett said.

“People are intrigued by our clothing, food, our camps. ‘You actually stay here?’ is something I have heard many, many times.

Some find it hard to believe we would ‘subject’ ourselves to this hard living.

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There isn’t much difference other than we don’t use a Coleman stove to cook on.”

In the early years of portraying Fraser, Barrett met his descendents.

“These encounters were very special for me,” Barrett said. “The relatives expressed how grateful they were knowing someone was keeping the memory of Colin alive.”

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Temporary Road Closure: 232 Street Between 56 Avenue and 64 Avenue A temporary road closure will be in effect along 232 Street between 56 Avenue and 64 Avenue from Thursday, August 6 to Friday, August 7, 8:00am - 4:30pm each day. The closure is required to complete a cross culvert replacement and maintenance work. A detour route is outlined on the map.

public notice All forms of lawn sprinkling using treated drinking water are prohibited.

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Believed to have originated in China over 4,000 years ago, peaches now make up a large portion of the fresh fruit crop sales in British Columbia.

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The sweetness level will be determined by whether the peaches were allowed to grow to maturity on the tree. Although maturity and ripeness may sound the same, a mature fruit is described as one that has grown to a degree that allows it to ripen.

The ripeness of fruit focuses more on the texture appeal.

Maximum sweetness levels will develop on the tree, while the juiciness and softness continue to evolve after the fruit is harvested.

Peaches can easily be canned or frozen to help extend the season into the winter months. > More at langleyadvance.com Chef Dez is a food columnist and culinary instructor in the Fraser Valley. Visit him at www.chefdez.com. Send questions to dez@chefdez. com or to P.O. Box 2674, Abbotsford, B.C. V2T 6R4

Dear Anne,

the infected branches for burying.

The temperatures in city-type green waste composting should definitely be high enough to sterilize diseased plant material.

But in rural ANNE MARRISON Serena Chan, areas where Vancouver garbage needs Dear Serena, to be taken by home-owners When the weather’s dry, to a transfer station, the habit burning definitely won’t do. in past years was to simply Nor will home composting. place infected plant material The online information would in the garbage. Green waste probably refer to burning bins are now available in within wood stoves in houses most transfer stations. or outside in normally moist If you prune for black knot rural areas. In cities outside every winter, you will gradburning is generally illegal. ually have less infection. But But there’s another safe some is inevitable because option, Serena: digging a spores from untreated neighhole at least 12 inches (30 bourhood infections will concentimetres) deep and deeper tinue to blow in on the wind. if you can, then burying the Black knot pruning is best black knot branches which done in fall when trees are you’ve cut into small pieces dormant and leafless. Spores so that they fit better. are released in early spring.

Lawns are good places for Dear Anne, this type of burial. Any soil What is the best time to that’s unlikely to be dug up take cuttings from my white will also do. hydrangea and plant them.

It’s best to sterilize your Will it grow successfully in a pruners in a small containbig pot as opposed to planting er of 10 per cent bleach as in the ground? you work on your tree and Terry Wong, Burnaby also after you’ve prepared Hydrangea cuttings root I have a plum tree that’s infected with black knot.

What do I do after I’ve pruned them?

Online it says burn them, but that’s not appropriate in this weather. If I throw them in the compost bin, will it be made into compost and spread the disease?”

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very easily and will do so in a big pot or in an outside garden provided you keep the soil moist with careful and frequent watering. It will be best if the pot stands in shade or semi-shade.

But this isn’t a good time to take cuttings because it’s so hot and dry. Hydrangeas hate both situations.

It would be best to wait until the late fall and cooler weather. It would be even better if natural rain begins falling sometimes. If not, start the cuttings anyway but be very careful to keep the soil moist and put the pot in shade.

I wonder if your hydrangea is a mophead (big, round heads and not much over three feet (one metre) tall or a shrub type. Both will grow nicely in a big pot, but every few years they will need to be taken out and root-pruned and top-pruned so that they fit better.

If your chosen pot is large, your new hydrangea may be contented for several years.

But eventually, you’ll notice the soil in the pot dries out frequently and the shrub doesn’t look as healthy. Then you’ll know it’s time for some therapeutic pruning Anne Marrison is happy to answer gardening questions.

Send them to amarrison@shaw.ca

Langley in

history

Look back through the files of the Langley Advance.

Seventy Years Ago July 26, 1945

ˠ The volunteer fire department said its pumper would not go out of the Langley fire zone except for a major blaze.

Sixty Years Ago July 28, 1955

Free BC Day Concert at the Fort featuring Langley Community School Fiddlers with Andrea Taylor, and

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ˠ A Municipal Act techni­ cality disqualified three municipal councillors, Bill Poppy, Eric Flowerdew, and Walter Jensen, from keeping seats. All were members of the Otter Farmers Insititute, from which Langley municipality bought oil and gas.

Twenty Years Ago July 26, 1995

ˠ At the suggestion of the Langley Chamber of Commerce, Township council agreed to meet with their City counterparts about an amalgamation study.

More Langley History online at www.langleyadvance.com click on ‘Living’

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MIDGET LACROSSE

Thunder takes A1 bronze The Langley A1 Thunder battled to a bronze medal at the Subway British Columbia Lacrosse Association (BCLA) box lacrosse provincial championships for the midget division in Prince George.

The tournament took place July 22 to 26 and involved 26 midget teams from around B.C. in the A1, A2, B and C divisions.

The Thunder edged Ridge Meadows 8-7 in the bronze medal game.

Langley’s Riley Richardson was named as a provincial all-star while an All Warrior Sports Canada Fair Play Award went to the Thunder’s Jordan Daniel.

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ROWING

Bauder medals at Pan Ams Langley’s Kristin Bauder made up onehalf of Canada’s bronze medal winning rowing duo at the Pan American Games in Toronto and its surrounding areas.

Bauder, who turns 26 on Aug. 10, teamed with Victoria’s Rosie DeBoef to capture bronze in women’s coxless pairs during the Pan Am rowing competition in St. Catharines, Ont.

More online at

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CYCLING

Tuft finishes Tour de France Langley cyclist Svein Tuft finished 159th, 4:48:08 off the pace, at the Tour de France.

Tour winner Chris Froome and his teammates pedalled slowly over the finish line, soaking up the applause Sunday on the Champs-Elysees.

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LangleySPORTS THURSDAY, July 30, 2015 | Page A19 JUNIOR FOOTBALL

Rams stumble in loss to V.I. Raiders The Langley juniors suffered a seasonopening defeat to the V.I. Raiders.

TROY LANDREVILLE tlandreville@langleyadvance.com

The defending B.C. Football Conference champion Langley Rams appeared poised to kick off their 2015 season with a win late Saturday afternoon in Nanaimo.

Then the second half happened.

Leading 14-9 at halftime, the Rams coughed the ball up five times and were outscored 13-0 during the second half in a 22-14 loss to their longtime rivals, the Vancouver Island (VI) Raiders at Caledonia Park.

Rams head coach Jeff Alamolhoda said his team showed flashes of what they’re capable of during the game but couldn’t sustain momentum over four quarters of football.

“We didn’t execute when we had our opportunities, and we did get our opportunities a lot of times,” Alamolhoda said. “We just didn’t capitalize.

We weren’t able to put drives together and put points on the

Aaron Hinks/Nanaimo Daily News

Punt returner John Beckerleg and the Langley Rams weren’t able to run away with their B.C. Football Conference game against the V.I. Raiders at Caledonia Park in Nanaimo on Saturday.

O’Brien put it in the endzone board and that hurt us in the on second and goal on a naked long run.” bootleg to give his team a fiveThe Rams scored all 14 of point lead. their points during the second Also scoring a major for the quarter, courtesy of touchdown Raiders was receiver Dustin receptions from running back Rodriguez.

Jordan Traversy Raiders’ kicker and tailback Nathan Lund.

We just didn’t Matias Bueno was good on both But the visitors capitalize. of his field goal weren’t able attempts while to muster any Jeff Alamolhoda also booting a points in the pair of converts. first, third, and Meanwhile, Rams kicker Brian fourth stanzas.

Hope missed his lone field goal A turning point came early try from 25 yards out. in the fourth quarter, with the Offensively, Rams quarterback Raiders trailing 14-12.

Devoun Hallums had a decent Raiders linebacker Dexter day, connecting on 19 of 36 Shea recovered a Rams fumpass attempts for 284 yards and ble at midfield and took it two touchdowns. down to the Langley nine-yard Two of Hallums’ passes were line before quarterback Liam

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The Rams’ ground game sputtered as the game wore on, with a paltry 11 total yards rushing in the second half.

Leading Langley’s defence in a losing cause were defensive lineman Brock Gowanlock with four quarterback sacks, three tackles, and one assist, defensive back Darrian Matassa-Fung with five tackles, one assist, and one knockdown, and defensive lineman Alex Agnoletto with four tackles and three assists.

An 0-1 start doesn’t worry Alamolhoda, because there are nine games still to go in the BCFC season. “Definitely, no time to press the panic button at this stage. We saw glimpses of being really good and what we can do.”

FINAL DOWN: The Rams were looking for a winning start to their campaign after coming off a 2014 season that saw them go 7-3 and win both of their playoff games, before losing on home soil to the Saskatoon Hilltops in the Canadian Bowl, emblematic of the national junior football championship.

The Rams will look for their first win when they visit the Kamloops Broncos this Sunday, Aug. 2 at Hillside Stadium.

– Files from Scott McKenzie, Nanaimo Daily News

SPECIAL OLYMPICS

Golden day for Langley swimmer at world games Josh Low was as good as gold in the pool on the opening day of competition in Los Angeles.

TROY LANDREVILLE tlandreville@langleyadvance.com

Sharing pool space with Special Olympics athletes from around the world pushed Langley’s Josh Low to be at his best.

Low became the first gold medalist at the Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles with a win (and personal best) in the 25-metre back stroke, with the rest of Canada’s swim team bringing a

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Swimmer Josh Low sat by the edge of the Walnut Grove Community Centre’s aquatic facility recently, before heading to the Special Olympics World Games currently taking place in Los Angeles.

total of seven medals and a record eight personal-best times at the pool Sunday, which marked the opening day of competition at the Games.

Profiled by the Langley Advance [World games in L.A. await trio], Low joins basketball players Alastair Singh and Matthew Williams as Langley residents competing for Canada at the world games, which run July 25 to Aug. 2. > Read more at langleyadvance.com, search “Josh Low”

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2015 BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARDS

19th Annual Business Excellence Awards Recognizes the Growing U40 Business Community

The Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce’s Celebration of Excellence Awards recognizes and honours business excellence in our community. The awards evening in October provides an opportunity to celebrate Langley businesses and individuals who have made a significant contribution to business, community spirit and service by demonstrating outstanding business leadership, innovation and success.

“We look forward to the Celebration of Excellence each year because it is a great way to honour our local businesses and celebrate as a community,” said President Scott Johnston. “We encourage our Members and the public at large to nominate a local business, business person or not-for-profit organization that they feel is deserving of recognition.”

Nominations are now being accepted for the following Business Excellence Awards: George Preston Memorial Business Person of the Year Entrepreneur of the Year U40 Business Person of the Year - NEW FOR 2015!

Service Excellence Business of the Year (Small/Medium/Large) Environmental Leadership Community Impact Award (For-Profit) Community Impact Award (Not-for-Profit)

“This year’s planning committee wanted to include a U40 Business Person of the Year category to recognize an individual age 40 or under who has distinguished themselves by supporting business growth,” said Johnston. “The recipient will be someone who inspires others with their business vision, leadership and achievement, and who contributes to community programs. We already know there are lots of worthy nominees in our community so now we need people to recognize them by filling out the nomination form.”

To nominate a business or business person, or to purchase tickets ($80.00+GST) to the awards evening (Thursday, October 29 at Cascades Casino Resort), please visit www.langleychamber.com or call the Chamber office at 604-371-3770.

Langley Eats Local

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Among the young skateboarders learning tricks and manoeuvres during a camp at the Brookswood skatepark and hosted by Recreation Excellence were, left to right, seven-year-old Kobyn McLauchlin, eight-year-old Cameron Chilzers, and 11-year-old Sam Isaak.

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Kobyn McLauchlin, seven, turned on a ramp Tuesday morning during a skateboarding camp put on by Recreation Excellence at the Brookswood skatepark.

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That’s because the end result would make them better skateboarders.

Part and parcel with a camp hosted by Recreation Excellence and taught by 16-yearold Sammy Vankevich were occasional tips and tumbles onto the pavement.

Vankevich taught the ’boarders basics such as “ollies” (jumping in one place where all four of the skateboard’s wheels come off the ground, usually the first trick attempted by a beginner skateboarder) and safely moving up and then turning down banked ramps at the park.

“I’ve already taught one camp and it was a ton of fun and we’ve had nothing but good response,” said Vankevich. “The kids really loved it and improved their skills.”

Vankevich said once a skateboarder gets the basics down, “it’s all about progressing from there. Balance and committing are the big things.”

The next camp for skateboarding newbies ages six to 12 is Aug. 24 to 28, from 9 a.m. to noon each day.

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