Langley Times, September 23, 2015

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NEWS An Early Harvest

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ARTS & LIFE Fort Langley’s Ghostly Past

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SPORTS Rams Ready for Showdown

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Langley man accused in JIBC attacks

Running for Terry

40 -YEAR-O LD ARR ESTED IN CO NN ECT ION T O ARSO N, SH OO TIN GS IN VOLVIN G STAFF AN D ST UDEN TS MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter

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Terry Fox Run participants begin the 35th annual fundraiser for cancer research in Langley City on Sunday morning. Despite the wet and windy weather, attendance and donations were up. There were 203 participants registered and $9,000 was raised.

A 40-year-old Langley man is accused of orchestrating targeted attacks against staff and students at the Justice Institute of B.C. After a complicated fouryear investigation, Vincent Eric Gia-Hwa Cheung was arrested on Friday, Sept. 18. A rural property on 267 Street in Aldergrove was also being combed over by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFESU) that same day. Between April 2011 and January 2012, 15 people were targeted in a series of offences, which occurred in multiple jurisdictions, including Surrey, Rich-

mond and West Vancouver. Their homes, vehicles, and property were the subject of shootings and arsons. In July 2011, the Justice Institute, which trains law enforcement and other officers, received a threatening email. The message referenced nine staff and students at the institute, located in New Westminster. All but one of those individuals had their homes or vehicles targeted. The motive was unknown at the time and police weren’t divulging motive at a press conference on Monday. However, Cheung is alleged to have possible gang ties. Continued Page 7

Wider 208 mixes public-private funding OVERPASS, FARMLAND-ADJACENT STRETCHES OF ROAD F OC US OF T OW NSH IP PL AN D AN FERGU SO N Lan g l ey Ti m e s

A plan that would speed up the widening of congested 208 street in Langley will see the Township directly fund work on two sections where the road runs next to protected farmland and where it crosses the freeway. Private developers have been funding the widening work on 208 a piece at a time as they build new housing along the congested Willoughby route, but that strategy

can’t be applied to the construction of a second two-lane overpass across Highway 1, or to the Willowbrook connector between 64 Avenue and 68 Avenue that runs next to the Agricultural Land Reserve. With approval of the new plan by council, work on those two sections could begin within three years. The new overpass, currently being designed by engineering staff, will be considered for funding in the 2016 and 2017 budgets.

The Willowbrook connector will be considered for the 2017 budget. The current approach of using private builders to widen the rest of 208 will be reviewed in three years. By then, the widening of 208 Street from 76 Avenue to Highway 1 should be completed. Widening 208 between 72 and 76 Avenues is expected to take five or more years. The road will become four lanes from Willowbrook to Highway 1, going to six

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lanes where traffic is expected to be especially heavy. The road currently handles 15,000 to 22,000 vehicles a day, close to the limit of 25,000 for a two-lane road. The Sept. 14 vote to endorse the plan was unanimous (with councillor David Davis absent). Editor’s note: a previous Times report incorrectly suggested the entire 208 Streeet plan would be fast-tracked, using direct funding through DCCs.

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