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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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Racing along River
Cyclists sped east along River Road in Glen Valley on Sunday morning, during the first race of the Escape Velocity/dEVo Spring Series. The event attracted 31 cyclists in the ‘A’ Group, 37 in the ‘B’ Group, and 57 in the ‘C’ Group, as well as 20 novices. The next race of the series is scheduled for this Saturday in South Langley, with registration starting at 9:30 a.m. at 8th Avenue and Murchie Road. For more on the series and rider requirements, visit: www.escapevelocity.bc.ca/spring.
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LAPS doggedly pursues online cash
It was good news and bad news for LAPS in a recent contest to win $100,000.
However, the top group of runners-up in the contest has been automatically re-entered for the next two-month round of voting. That means, since March 1, all those dedicated volunteers, donors, and dog lovers who by Matthew Claxton supported the Langley Animal mclaxton@langleyadvance.com Protection Society over the winter Langley’s animal shelter will have continued voting. get a second chance to win a As of Friday, they’d pushed huge financial prize this spring. LAPS’ ranking up to number two. The Patti Dale The shelter and Animal Shelter LAPS are still “The name of the was in the runencouraging everyning for the Pepsi one they can to game is to go in and Refresh Project, vote, and to vote vote every day.” to win $100,000 every day, Baker Sean Baker through online said. voting. “We try to tell When the votevery client that ing period ended on Feb. 28, comes through,” he said. LAPS came up short, in fourth That’s in addition to sending place out of almost 100 projects out weekly email blasts to about vying for the money. 1,200 donors and volunteers, “We were number four, and we Baker said. don’t know the number of votes,” Aaron Pritchett, the Langley said shelter manager Sean Baker. country singer, and local pol“We could have been 20 votes iticians such as Township behind, or 20,000.” Councillor Kim Richter, have
been promoting the to construction. contest, as well. A $100,000 prize “The name of would do the job the game is to go nicely. It would in and vote every allow the shelday,” Baker said. ter to hold more Every time he indoor dog trainsends out one of ing sessions, for his emails, Baker larger groups. It said he gets a meswould come in sage back from especially handy someone saying in the winter, that they’re votwhen bad weather ing every day, that can make it hard they’ve got their to bring in large whole family or groups. workplace voting, To vote for or that they’re tellthe LAPS bid ing other people for $100,000, go about the contest. to www.refreThe $100,000 is sheverything.ca/ Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance intended for a spehelplapshelplangSean Baker, manager of the LAPS ley. Once signed cific project: a new pet training buildin, people can animal shelter, with adoptable ing. vote for the prodog Tess. The building has ject every day. been in the plans It’s competing since the Patti Dale shelter was against more than 90 other ideas from across Canada for various first built. But there hasn’t been community projects. enough money to see it through