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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
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Etienne Lapierre, from the Langley Flippers, competed in the Div. 7 men’s 100-metre backstroke during the Fraser Valley Regional Swim Championships at Al Anderson Memorial Pool over the weekend. While the meet was held in Langley from Friday to Sunday, it was hosted by the Chilliwack Stingrays.
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A Langley Township councillor is resigning and taking himself out of contention for this November’s municipal elections. Councillor Jordan Bateman has served almost two terms, but is leaving as of Aug. 15 to become the B.C. communications director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Bateman said he will miss serving on the council, but the new job “was simply too great an opportunity for my family and me to pass up.” The councillor, at 35 the youngest on the council, was first elected more than five years ago, and ran as a member of the Langley Leadership Team slate in 2002 but failed to win a seat. That year marked the end of slate politics in Langley for nearly a decade,
byelection for a vacant seat. With and Bateman tried his luck again in 2005 as an independent, winless than four months until the ning a seat. November municipal elections, Before running for office, he provincial law says there is no was a Langley Advance reporter, need to replace a councillor. covering the Township council There will still be eight people during the tumultuous late 1990s. on the council, including Mayor He was first approached by Rick Green. the Taxpayers Federation in the Bateman said the often contenspring about a job, Bateman said. tious atmosphere of the council “I wasn’t ready to say yes,” he in the last few years was not a said. major factor in his deciAfter a further intersion to take a job outview, he took the job in side elected politics. late July. The position Green said he was will involve work as a surprised by the public spokesperson for announcement, but he the group, which advowished Bateman well in cates for lower taxes the new job. and eliminating govern“It’s a very, very ment waste. important decision that Bateman will split he’s making for himself his time between a and his family,” Green Jordan Bateman home office in Langley said. Township councillor and the CTF office in Coun. Charlie Fox, Vancouver, he said. frequently a political With the new job, he will ally at the council table, said it be giving up blogging at was a loss to the community to Langleypolitics.com, the website lose Bateman. he created with fellow local polit“I think in good time we’re ical junkie Sam Kirk. going to see him back in polThe resignation will not mean a itics,” Fox said.
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32 days until the Langley Good Time Cruise-In
It’s been an incredible past few days for Langley baseball players. Playing in his third bigleague game, Brett Lawrie from Brookswood launched his first home run into the centre field seats in the sixth inning, as he helped the Toronto Blue Jays to a 7-2 win over the host Baltimore Orioles on Sunday. Lawrie made his MLB debut versus the Orioles on Friday, after being called up from the Blue Jays’ Triple A affiliate in Las Vegas. His first hit came in his first at-bat. “I’m glad I could contribute,” Lawrie said, after going five-for11 in the series versus Baltimore. The recent call-up is the culmination of a childhood dream for Lawrie, who was drafted in the first round, 16th overall by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2008 MLB draft. Lawrie is playing third base. The Jays obtained him in an off-season trade for pitcher Shaun Marcum. ••• Meanwhile, at the 2011 Canadian Little League Championship tournament at North Vancouver’s Chris Zuehlke Memorial Field, the B.C. reps from Langley moved to 2-0 with a 2-1 win over Atlantic representative Sydney Mines on Sunday afternoon. Early Saturday evening, the Langley Baseball team consisting of 11, 12, and 13-year-olds won its opener, 10-3 over host Mount Seymour. The 2011 squad is looking to be the first Langley team since 1998 to win a Canadian championship and advance to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. The last time a Langley Baseball 11/12 team represented B.C. at the nationals was in 2004. Langley faced the High Park Braves, representing Ontario, on Monday afternoon. Results were not available at press time. – With files from Postmedia Network Inc.
Commemorative Cruise-In posters are for sale at the Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce for $2, all proceeds to charity.