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Fundraising Bikes for Humanity Donate old and unused bikes Sept. 20 1-3pm at Sharon United Church, 216th Street and 48th Avenue to Bikes for Humanity which will fix them up and send them to Africa. Barbecue by donation. Info: www.bicycles-for-humanity.org or mike@bicycles-for-humanity.org. Princess Project Help the Princess Project Society by donating money or gently used women’s and men’s formal wear and accessories suitable for graduations at Willowbrook Shopping Centre (centre court by the Body Shop). On Sept. 20, items accepted 9:30am-6pm and 11am-6pm on Sept. 21. Info: www.shopwillowbrook.com and www.surreyprincessproject. ca. Critter Care Walkathon Sign up for the sixth annual walkathon on Oct. 5 for the wildlife rehabilitation society. Early bird entry (before Sept. 25) is $10. 2k or 4 k. Dogs welcome. Barbecue, entertainment, prizes and displays. Info: crittercarewildlife.org or Cathy, 604-202-5697. Steptember Sept. 3-30, take part in this four-person team challenge/ fundraiser for the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC. Wear a pedometer each day and record the distances, fundraise and compete to be more active. $25 fee for adults, $10 for kids. Info: www.bccerebralpalsy.com.
Seniors Food and Friends Langley Meals on Wheels has a program for seniors (55+) to share a nutritious lunch along with socializing and guest speakers. Lunch costs $5. RSVP in advance to the number listed. 11:30am-1pm Aldergrove • Bob’s Bar n’ Grill, 27083 Fraser Hwy.: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Monday of the month. RSVP: 604-857-7725. • Otter Co-Op: 3600 248 St.: 2nd and 4th Monday of the month. RSVP: 604-607-6923. Brookswood • Brookswood Seniors Centre, 19899 36th Ave.: 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month. RSVP: 604-590-3888. Fort Langley • Parish of St. George Church, 9160 Church St.: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. RSVP: 604-888-7782. Langley City • Choo Choo’s Restaurant, 20550 Fraser Hwy.: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month. RSVP: 604-514-2940. • Flourishing Chinese Restaurant, 20472 Fraser Hwy.: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. RSVP: 604-514-2940. • Grand Tandoori Flame Restaurant, 20345 Fraser Hwy.: 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. RSVP: 604-514-2940. North Langley • Walnut Grove Community Centre, 8889 Walnut Grove Dr. 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month. RSVP: 604-882-0408. Willoughby • Langley Seniors Village, 20365 65th Ave. 1st and 3rd Wednesday. RSVP: 604-5331679
Volunteers needed for the various gatherings – about two to three hours twice per month. Contact Langley Meals on Wheels, 604-533-1679 or shannon@langleymealsonwheels. com. OAP Hall Aldergrove The Aldergrove Pensioners and Seniors offers various activites at the hall at 3015 273rd St. At 9:30am Thursdays, a qualified instructor offers exercise for seniors. $6 per person per session. Carpet bowling resumes Sept. 18 and is $1 per person. At 1:30pm on Thursdays.
Support Chronic pain workshop The Arthritis Society presents its pain management program 1-3 p.m. on Sept. 18 at the Langley Seniors Resource Centre, 20605 51B Ave. Free to attend but sign up in advance at 604-714-5550 or 1-866-4147766.
4217 or sthirsk@langleylodge. org. Lower Mainland Green Team The volunteer group welcomes people to help with green projects. Learn more at www. meetup.com/The-LowerMainland-Green-Team. Sept. 21: blackberry and weed pull, Creekside Park, Aldergrove, 9:45am-1pm. Sign up at event 204769302 at the website above. Garbage clean up Meet at the Walnut Grove Rotary Field House behind Walnut Grove Secondary for the local project with the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Hosted by the Langley Environmental Partners Society and the Yorkson Watershed Stewardship Committee. 4-7pm on Sept. 25. Work gloves, trash bags, snacks and refreshments provided. Goes rain or shine.
Osteoporosis Canada The Langley branch meets monthly at 1pm in the Langley Seniors’ Resource Centre, 20605 51B Ave. Everyone welcome. The next meeting is Sept. 22. Info: 604-534-4924.
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Education lectures Langley Lodge hosts free education lectures. The Sept. 16 lecture is at 7pm and is with Rose Puszka of the Alzheimer Society of BC on behavoural changes with dementia. RSVP: 604-532-
Municipal Pension Retirees Ass’n The monthly meetings are 1:304pm in the Douglas Recreation Centre. Everyone welcome. The Sept. 22 meeting features Township fire department Cpt. Gary Proznick on fire safety. Info: mpraemail@gmail.com.
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Looking back… 1974: Student numbers
short as homes fail to fill
Langley’s history, as recorded in the files of the Langley Advance.
Seniors housing summit The Triple A (affordable, accessible and appropriate) Housing Summit runs Sept. 25 and 26 at Newlands Golf Course, 21025 48th Ave. Fees: $60, for seniors/students $20 Register in advance at www. tripleaseniorhousinglangley.ca.
Blood donor clinics Call 1-888-2-DONATE to book. Sept. 23: 1-8pm Murrayville Hall, 21667 48th Ave.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Eighty Years Ago
September 13, 1934
• Sir Arnold Theiler of South Africa, world authority on nutritional diseases of animals, visited the Dominion Red Water experimental farm in Milner.
Seventy Years Ago
Roberta Spence by retiring queen Janice Anderson. • City council, spurred by a number of near accidents at the corner of Fraser Hwy. and Carvolth Road (200th Street), supported a proposal to install a traffic light at the intersection. • Alderman Tony Slogar reported that the City had spent $480,000 on a sewer system.
Forty Years Ago
September 12, 1974
September 14, 1944
• Two hundred men in a South Aldergrove relief camp were being moved to help widen the road at Green Timbers. • Langley School Board bought sewing machines for home economics classes. • Farmers meeting at Sid Grey’s home organized the Langley Certified Seed Growing Association.
Sixty Years Ago
September 16, 1954
• Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs Mr. Bridgeman was to address a group of Langley Prairie property owners who were meeting to discuss seceding from the rest of Langley. • Dignitaries at the Fall Fair crowning ceremony included retiring Harvest Queen Bessie Hurl, Queen-elect Norma Mufford, Princesses Hazel Greenwood and Margaret Greenfield, Queen Mother Mrs. R.R. Brunt, and Vancouver Mayor Jack Cornet.
Fifty Years Ago
September 17, 1964
• Highlight of the Fall Fair opening ceremonies was the crowning of Harvest Queen
• A “discharge of firearms” bylaw whose introduction had sparked heated controversy was passed by Township council. • Only a quarter of the expected elementary student enrolment increase materialized. Tight money was blamed, as newly built homes remained empty.
Thirty Years Ago
September 12, 1984
• City council down-zoned 33 acres of Dumais farm land to ensure that the property, upon which a proposed regional shopping centre failed to materialize, was not split up and sold piecemeal.
Twenty Years Ago
September 14, 1994
• Everybody embroiled in the Civic Centre ice time controversy decided to play nice, after all. The Langley Minor Hockey Association apologized for “any adverse impact” it may have had on the careers of Parks and Recreation Director Doug Brimacombe and Councillor Steve Burton, and Mayor John Scholtens admitted that he should have consulted with the rest of
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council before giving away the Old Crocs prime ice time to the LMHA. The ice was returned to the adult hockey team, but just for one more season. • Langley Memorial Hospital president and CEO Pat Zanon was appointed to help out the financially troubled Ridge Meadows Hospital in Maple Ridge. • Langley bicycle patrol police officers arrested a Saskatchewan convict whose parole had been revoked. • Federal officials discouraged a Langley Township council plan to rezone the CFS Aldergrove property so that it could not be broken up and sold piecemeal. The feds said the proposed bylaw would not be in the federal government’s best interests.
Ten Years Ago
September 14, 2004
• The 2004 Langley Good Times Cruise-In, although assaulted by rain and wild weather, was declared a success by organizers and attendees, alike. • Dignitaries and politicians got together to officially open the 200th Street freeway overpass which had been in use since June.
September 17, 2004
• Work on the 56th Avenue bridge over the Salmon River, initially estimated to cost about $700,000, was now expected to cost $1.7 million. The bridge and approaches had to be rebuilt after council designated 56th as a truck route, before the road was condemned by engineers who discovered it was woefully inadequate to handle trucks.
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