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Scotty Milne was showing his national pride at an early Canada Day celebration at Langley Lodge on June 30. There’s several events July 1 around the community.

INSIDEVolunteer performers labours not lost on audience

Bard in the Valley is back for another summer, offering Shakepeare’s play Love’s Labour’s Lost.

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INSIDENew thrift shop created to help abused women

The family behind the Kalma Family Restaurant and the new Brogan Family Deli have another venture that will help people.

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The new project would add more than 40,000 square feet of retail space.

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A major new commercial development has been proposed for the Willoughby neighbourhood, as the northern Yorkson area continues its rapid growth.

If the project passes through a public hearing and gets final approvals from the Langley Township council, it would add 41,700 square feet of commercial space in the Willoughby Town Centre.

“It’s in the village core, and it pro-vides that really critical mass,” Qualico Commercial senior project manager John Anders said.

The planned two-level project would be located on the inner side of the Willoughby Town Centre Drive and 206A Street, oppos-ite the existing shops and grocery stores.

A breezeway would allow pedestrians to pass through the middle of the block of shops, where a stairway and elevator would allow access to the second storey.

Parking would be at the back and will include a raised parking deck for the second floor. Plans for the upper level could include a daycare, fitness centre, and offices.

Those plans are not just ideas, said Tami Huitema, Qualico’s development coordin-ator. There has been interest from a fitness firm and a daycare about setting up there once the project is finished.

The demographics of the area, with lots of new families moving in to houses and townhouses, mean there will be a need for more daycare in Willoughby in the near future.

The development proposed is different from what was planned in previous ver-sions of the site design.

Previously, larger areas of mixed residen-tial-commercial buildings were suggested for that particular block, with approximate-ly 70 housing units included.

Now Qualico wants to put a concentrated series of storefronts in the middle of the commercial area, said Anders. That will help the existing businesses, which range from veterinarian and optometrist offices to a grocery store and a coffee shop, Anders said.

“It really defines a town center,” Anders said.

It’s a lot of commercial space, but Willoughby is growing rapidly, and is now the Township’s largest neigh-bourhood at more than 25,000 residents.

Huitema, who lives in the area, is always being asked by friends and neighbours about what’s going to be built there, she said.

Although there won’t be residential in this phase, the units planned for this area will be added to future developments to the north and west of this area. =

Other mixed commercial-residential build-ings are still planned for other phases of the project.

If the project is approved, the building

permits could be issued by the spring or summer of 2016, and construction would be finished about 10-12 months later.

At Monday night’s council meeting, coun-cillors had nothing negative to say about the plans and first and second reading passed unanimously. The public will get an opportunity to comment at an upcoming public hearing.

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A street of new shops is planned for the Willoughby Town Centre

at 208th Street just south of 80th Avenue. The proposal is the next phase in the sizeable site mixing commercial and residential uses.

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Trucker scrapes Glover overpassA trucker squeezed under a Langley overpass Monday.MATTHEW [email protected]

Another truck hit the Glover Road highway overpass in Langley Monday afternoon.

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The truck smacked into the overpass in the early afternoon but managed to scrape through.

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The Glover Road over-pass has been hit sever-al times in the past by overheight truck loads, in some cases damaging it to the point where it needed reconstruction and reinforcement.

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A new thrift shop helps women and children.

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Sharon Dumas was living on the street when she met the Brogan family about five years ago through a Whalley church.

“I was living on the streets for about three years, under a stair-way,” she said.

Five years later, she’s kicked her addiction and looks forward to the future.

That’s why she’s elated to be helping set up a new Langley thrift shop that will help other women and their children.

The Battered and Abused Women and Children Thrift Shop opens today (July 2) on 56th Avenue and 205th Street (the former McFrugal’s discount store site).

Dumas has lived at the Brogans farm for women and children for about three years where she loves tending the animals, helps at the Brogan Family Deli and their Kalma Family Restaurant beside thrift shop, and looks forward

to helping others through the Brogans’ various efforts.

“I was a taker all my life,” said Dumas, who dreamed of becoming a pastor in her youth.

Now her grown children and father are back in her life, and she wants others to know they can change their lives.

The thrift shop will have volun-teer staffing so the funds can be devoted to helping the women and children, as the family has done for years.

Mike Brogan owns Kalma Family

Restaurant ,and has spent several decades in the restaurant and hos-pitality industry.

His daughter Shannon Brogan and her husband, Keith Smythe, recently opened a deli beside Kalma. The deli is part of an oper-ation that includes a seven-acre ranch and farm where abused women and children live.

“It’s not a recovery house,” said Dumas. “It’s a community.”

A portion of the profits from the restaurant and deli support the project and now so will proceeds

of the thrift shop.The new shop accepts donations

of clean, gently used household goods, furniture and clothing.

Shannon noted that if people need something and cannot afford to pay, the store will help them.

She grew up in restaurants and

said Kalma is there to provide affordable family dining.

“We want to reach the people that don’t have a lot,” she said.

The restaurant will often provide a little something for those who can’t afford food.

The new thrift store, which will expand in the near future to almost 20,000 square feet, will be open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The Brogans plan to have a grand opening for the deli and thrift store in late July.

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Family makes helping others its business


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Sharon Dumas is one of the people helping get the new thrift shop ready. She’s lived with the Brogan family for about three years. (Right) Esther Gibb (left) manages the Brogan Family Deli and is helping at the new thrift shop created by Shannon Brogan, her husband, Keith Smythe, and her father, Mike Brogan.

COURTS

Fraud trial date setTwo road builders go on trial next year.


A preliminary hear-ing has been sched-uled for early next year for two local road builders accused of fraud.

Matthew Brooks and Kirk Roberts are both charged with fraud over $5,000. The two men, respectively the former president and book keep-er for Aggressive Roadbuilders, were charged early this year after an investigation by the RCMP Federal Serious and Organized Crime Section.

A preliminary hearing will start on Feb. 23, 2016, and is expected to last for eight days.

A trial by judge and jury will follow.

Brooks has been appearing without a lawyer thus far in the proceedings, which has led to some delay in setting a trial date.

Little information has been released on the nature of the charges, although the investigation stretches back to 2009 and is related to financial institutions.

Aggressive was formerly a prominent Lower Mainland road construction firm, taking on multi-mil-lion dollar projects in Langley Township, Langley City, and in Surrey.

Brooks formerly lived in Langley and had a lengthy build-ing permit and bylaw dispute with the Township over a large house he owned in the 500 block of 202nd Street.

Starting in 2006, construction and renovations without permits were noticed on the property, and that eventually led to court action by the Township that wrapped up in 2009.

At around the same time, Aggressive went bankrupt owing mil-lions of dollars, and the house went into receivership and was sold.

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WILDLIFE

Cougars eyedLangley Township is reassuring residents

that it monitors the local cougar situation after recent sightings.

Earlier this month, a cougar was spotted near the Otter Co-Op and there was one confirmed cougar attack on a young cow in South Langley.

The B.C. Ministry of the Environment is responsible for dealing with wildlife through its Conservation Officer Service.

Township Mayor Jack Froese has been in regular contract with the Ministry of the Environment and the area’s Conservation Officer, and is being kept up to date on the issue.

While there have been some unconfirmed cougar sightings, no further attacks have been attributed to the wild cat.

The Township offered advice if a cougar is seen. If a cougar is spotted in an area, keep away from the animal and bring children and pets inside until it leaves.

Most cougars will simply be passing through but if it lingers or becomes threaten-ing, call the conservation call centre at 1-877-952-7277.

Anyone who encounters a cougar should remain calm and keep the animal in view at all times. Pick up any children present and slowly back away to an area with a clear avenue of escape. People should never turn their backs on cougars and never run because sudden movement can be a trigger for the animal.

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An electrical fault is thought to have started the fire.


Langley Township firefighters doused a Sunday night fire at an older home in the Willoughby neigh-bourhood.

The fire broke out on a rear deck of a home in the 7400 block of 200th Street,

on the west side of the road, said Township assistant fire chief Pat Walker.

When the firefight-ers arrived, the back deck and its fibreglass roof panels were fully aflame, and the rear windows of the house cracked from the fire’s heat.

Although the struc-ture was mostly saved, the owner had no insurance, Walker said.

An overtaxed elec-trical circuit is thought to have caused the residential fire, said Walker.

SAFETY

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OUR VIEW

Kindness a start with homeless

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) has launched a case in Abbotsford that should be watched close-ly in every other community

across the province.Since 2013, there have been a number

of confrontations between the City of Abbotsford and local homeless people, who have been “evicted” from local parks and other public spaces. The BCCLA will now argue in B.C. Supreme Court that banning someone with no private home from public lands is unconstitutional.

We agree that simply kicking the home-less out of parks and alleys, out of vacant houses and camps in the bush, is broadly unjust. Our society is very good at pro-tecting private and civic property, and less good at providing a space for people with nowhere else to go.

Obviously, having homeless camps in public parks or on private lands is less than ideal, for everyone. It is intrusive to other park users, it increases costs for the municipalities, it can cause fears, whether justified or not, about crime, and it ultim-ately tends to become a drain on police resources.

We often forget that it isn’t ideal for the homeless, either. There are a very, very small number of people sleeping on the streets and in the bush who actually want to be there.

The solution to the problem of home-lessness is to find people homes. We may balk at the cost, we may argue about the best way to do it, but if as a society we can’t find a clean, safe place for everyone to live, we are failing.

Experiments around the world are now taking place in simply housing the homeless. In many cases it proves cheaper to build new housing, or to provide them enough money to rent a decent space, than all the combined medical, policing, and legal costs of dealing with them as home-less.

We tend to think of homelessness as something that needs to be “dealt with,” but the best way to deal with homelessness is to get people into homes.

– M.C.


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G uns! Sure, they make lots of noise,

they’re good for hunting pesky wabbits, and they look cool. But

they also have a nasty habit of killing people.

There’s been yet another mass shooting in the States, and while the Americans are having pretty productive debates about racism and symbols of oppression like the Confederate flag, they’re not talking about gun control much. Every time there’s a mass shoot-ing, people call for new laws, and noth-ing much happens. The gun lobby gets its back up, and gun owners freak out and call their congressmen, and any legislation is killed quickly.

Most people in the States have now given up on ever seeing gun control laws passed.

The main problem, as many people have pointed out over the years, isn’t American gun laws, it’s American gun culture.

For instance, there are four reasons for having guns in your house: Target shooting, hunting and/or pest control, personal defence, and the need to over-throw the government.

Canadians, with their quite different gun culture, are generally okay with the first two, have some disagreements over the third, and are baffled by the fourth.

I’ve already written about how the

argument that you need guns for self defence are massively overstated. Crime is down across most of the western world, and it isn’t like the police don’t have big guns of their own to deal with bad guys.

But the argument that you can’t have gun control because you might need to overthrow the government has never made sense. Most of the people making the argument haven’t thought it through.

Here’s the thing – in the U.S., you can buy machine guns in many states. They’re expensive and hard to get and actually are fairly tightly controlled com-pared to pistols and rifles, but you can get them. You can also, in some places, get a truly astounding array of military weapons. Light anti-tank guns. Grenade launchers. You can buy second-hand armoured vehicles and drive your kids to school in them.

How many people are actually doing this, though? There certainly are a few, but many of them are wealthy hobbyists, who just like going out to a big gravel pit a few times a year to blow stuff up.

The other problem with this plan is that even if you did buy millions in gear, and you and your friends decided

that the United States had become a dictatorship, and you had to overthrow it, hav-ing a few grenade launchers wouldn’t do you much good.

Have you seen the U.S. military? They don’t just have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, and pilots. They have stealth bombers, artillery, battle-ships, cruise missiles, and helicopters weighed down with very accurate missiles. They have nukes.

The fantasy of “security from tyranny” helps sell a lot of “tactical” weapons, and laser sights, and camouflage pants. But a bunch of guys who go target shooting in the woods every now and then wouldn’t stand up long if they real-ly rebelled and tried to secede from the U.S. government. There’d just be footage of a smoking crater on CNN and that would be it.

Yet serious people – presidential can-didates – advance this argument, every year. And very few people point out that it’s wildly impractical. Until views like that change, the Americans won’t even have a sane discussion about guns, much less make any changes in the way they actually use them.Read Bob Groeneveld’s Odd Thoughts online

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At around 2 p.m. on Monday, a truck hit the Glover Road overpass, scraped under, and the driver kept going for a bit.Readers weigh in:No mention of fines tickets point or infractions ???? – Valorie York

Well, I don’t know why they don’t just raise the overpasses then. Haha. – Cathy Hebert

Apparently u can be stupid and drive a huge machine that can kill someone in a split second. His was not a mistake this is complete ignorance for rules. I’m sure height restriction is taught when u get your licence to drive big vehicles. Common knowledge thrown out the window for this guy yesterday. I seen the damage yesterday evening, he did do a pretty good chunk removal or concrete. The ppl behind him must have been so lucky to have time to react – Valorie York

Not to mention that he actually HIT the first overpass, and didn’t do anything about it, he just kept going.... what if he damaged the bridge and it ended up hurting someone because it went unreport-ed!! (Take responsibility for your mistakes!!) Thank goodness he was smart enough to know the train bridge was shorter than the overpass and didn’t try to pass under it! – Faith Schellenberg

Lack of Darwin. – Kyle Friesen

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LangleyAdvance Thursday, July 2, 2015 A7COMMUNITY FORUM

Dear Editor,Markets for seal products are

fast disappearing around the world. Yet for the past two dec-ades, the Canadian government has been subsidizing this dying industry.

In a last-ditch attempt to revive an unnecessary and bar-baric industry, the Canadian government is considering sell-ing sex potions made from seal penises to Asia.

A shocking report commis-sioned by the Canadian govern-ment in 2013 reveals a plan for the following:

• Grinding up seal carcasses to make seal hot dogs, meatballs, and other processed meat prod-ucts,

• Marketing seal-meat protein as a weight loss product,

• Selling seal penises as sexual enhancement products for Asian markets.

This marketing plan will cost the Canadian taxpayers $20 mil-lion.

There is no scientific evi-dence to support a seal cull. It is merely used as an excuse to appease fishermen – the reasons for dwindling fish stocks include

ocean acidification and overfish-ing, but that’s another topic.

It is appalling in the 21st cen-tury for a developed country such as Canada to be marketing wildlife parts – such as seal sex organs for virility – to perpetuate this misguided belief to Asian populations, when wildlife con-servationists around the world are trying to stop wildlife traf-ficking and poaching.

Send a letter to your MP if you are against this outrageous plan and the seal hunt itself.

Dr. Patricia Tallman,Walnut Grove

Canadian government’s plan for seal products outrageous

Dear Editor:Honouring the Past,

Investing in the Future was the motto of this committee when we set out last year to cele-brate Langley Memorial Hospital’s South Tower 50th anniversary.

After months of planning and two spe-cial events – a tea for present and former staff, and a barbecue on the hospital grounds for staff and the public –

we feel we have accom-plished our goal.

Judging from the decibel level at both events, it can be assumed that they were a resounding suc-cess. The excitement of people who had not seen each other for years, but still had so many memories to share, was intoxicating.

And it was gratifying to feel the energy and interest of the present

staff as they welcomed Langley citizens to view memorabilia, and tell stories of their association with LMH, particularly the South Tower that has become the cornerstone of the present facility.

However, neither the tea in February nor the recently held barbecue could have happened without the help and support of countless individuals

including: Langley Township Firefighters; the hospital department managers and staff; and volunteers and LMH Auxiliary members and Sodexo staff who went above and beyond.

Two people guid-ed our committee – Graham Hiscocks of the LMH Foundation, and Craig Goulet from Fraser Health Authority, while Dr. Elaine Mah’s generous monetary contribution made it all possible.

Our committee has fulfilled its role to hon-our the past; now we leave it to the LMH staff and future genera-tions of Langley citizens to continue to invest in the future.

LMH South Tower 50th Anniversary

Committee

LMH anniversary towering success

Dear Editor,I had to take my grandson to

Langley Memorial Hospital over the weekend. His mother couldn’t drive due to worry and stress.

We entered the Emergency and to my dismay the parking was $4.25 per hour.

We were there approximately six hours, and the toddler had to stay for two days.

Whilst I can understand (to a degree) parking when visiting a patient, I think an emergency charge is diabolical. End of rant.

Tom O’Neill, Langley Meadows

Hospital ER parking fees diabolical

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road paving road pavingNighttime Road Work: 16 Avenue from 224 to 232 Street and 240 to 248 StreetNighttime road paving work is scheduled to take place along 16 Avenue from 224 to 232 Street and from 240 to 248 Street, starting Sunday, July 5 until Sunday, July 19. The work will occur from 7pm to 5am. Traffi c will be limited to single-lane, alternating fl ow.

Motorists are advised to plan alternate routes and allow extra time to reach their destination safely. The work is weather dependent and the construction schedule is subject to change. Visit tol.ca/roads for the latest traffi c updates.

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Langley ThunderWLA Lacrosse

Wed Jul 8 7:00pm vs. Nanaimo TimbermenWed Jul 15 7:45pm vs. New West Salmonbellies

Langley Intermediate Thunder BCILL Lacrosse

Fri Jul 3 7:30pm vs. US BoxLa (*exhibition)Tue Jul 7 7:30pm vs. Delta Islanders*Sun Jul 12 2:00pm vs. Nanaimo Timbermen*

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Water Restrictions Now in EffectResidentialMorning sprinkling only: 4:00 - 9:00amEven addresses: Monday, Wednesday, SaturdayOdd addresses: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday

Non-ResidentialMorning sprinkling only: 1:00 - 6:00amEven addresses: Monday, WednesdayOdd addresses: Tuesday, ThursdayAll addresses: Friday, 4:00 - 9:00am only

The Township of Langley’s Water Shortage Response Bylaw has four stages of watering restrictions:

• Stage 1 automatically implemented every year• Stages 2 and 3 used in times of extended drought or when facing

a water supply issue• Stage 4 reserved for emergency situations

All areas of the Township are subject to the next stages of restrictions if deemed necessary by Metro Vancouver or the General Manager of Engineering.

Engineering Division 604.533.6006 [email protected] tol.ca/waterrestrictions

Nighttime Road Work: 200 Street from 86 to 84 Avenue and 200 Street – 80 Avenue IntersectionNighttime road paving work is scheduled to take place on 200 Street between 86 Avenue and 84 Avenue and at the intersection of 200 Street and 80 Avenue starting from Sunday, July 12 until Sunday, July 26. The work will occur from 7pm to 5am. Traffi c will be limited to single-lane, alternating fl ow.

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Free Private Well and Septic Tank SeminarsProtect your investment! Learn about proper private well and septic system maintenance from guest expert, Dean Scovill, during freeupcoming seminars:

Private Well SeminarDate: Monday, July 6Time: 7 - 9pm

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The drop-in seminars will be held upstairs in Murrayville Fire Hall 6, at 22170 - 50 Avenue.


Master These Water Wise Tips to Decrease Your Water Usage: Water Wise is a Township initiative delivered in partnership with Langley Environmental Partners Society.

• Limit lawn sprinkling to once a week for an hour. This allows your lawn to stay green while increasing its resilience to drought.

• Fix leaks in your toilets, showers and faucets. Repairing leaks is a great and easy way to save a lot of water.

• Replace old ineffi cient fi xtures in your house with water-saving fi xtures.

• Spread a layer of organic mulch around your plants to help the soil retain moisture.

• Use rain barrels to water the garden – the fl owers love rain water.

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A 12-year-old started Rachel’s Ride for Rwanda last year and this year the public can join in to help provide education in the African nation.

The second annual bike ride goes July 4 along the Fort to Fort Trail.

The ride benefits the Wellspring Foundation for Education, a group that

works to provide education in Rwandan schools. (This is a different organization than the Langley-based Fibromyalgia Wellspring Foundation which helps people with the disease.)

Last year’s ride with Rachel Fitz and eight other young cyclists raised $5,600. The goal this year is $10,000.

“When we lived in Rwanda for three years, the children who walked by our house each day on their way to school

had so little, and I wished there was something I could do to help them,” Rachel said. “When we moved back to Canada, I volunteered at Wellspring’s Lake2Lake bike race for adults to raise money for Rwandan schools. Then I thought, if adults can do this, why can’t kids?”

People can learn more and sign up at www.rachelsride.ca. The staging area is Derby Reach Regional Park.

Wellspring CEO Andy Harrington is impressed.

“To see young people raising funds for children who are just like them, but who don’t have some of the same advantages, is deeply meaningful,” he said. “I love the way that kids are being empowered, and the way in which they are not over-looked or ignored in the process. Kids count, they matter, and they can be world changers.”

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Lauren Trotzuk is back for her third year with the local Bard theatre group, as an actor and musical director.

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She sings and writes music and scripts.

She apparently even dances a bit, and does martial arts.

She acts and has just recently co-founded a new musical theatre group in the Fraser Valley.

She is Lauren Trotzuk, and she is described by fellow Shakespearean devotee and show producer Diane Gendron as a “bright, multi-talented” young woman who is once again lend-ing her talents to Langley’s Bard in the Valley theatre group and its current production of Love’s Labour’s Lost.

In her third season with Bard in the Valley, 20-year-old Trotzuk has not only taken on a position in the cast, but she’s embraced the duties of the music-al director too – penning a few songs for LLL.

“Theatre is 100 per cent of my pas-sion… As long as I’m doing this, I’m a happy person,” Trotzuk told the Langley Advance.

In addition to her volunteer duties with the local theatre group, Trotzuk has recently co-founded a new musical theatre group that presents its first ori-ginal show in Abbotsford this fall.

And all of this is done while juggling two jobs – one at the Marketplace IGA

in Murrayville and the other as a taek-wando instructor – and being a full-time student at KPU.

“It’s a juggling act, for sure,” Trotzuk said, insisting how important schedul-ing has become in her life. “But I need to be busy… I always need a new chal-lenge.”

Trotzuk is one of 60 actors and artists volunteering their time to present this early Shakespearean comedy over the next month.

The show is running on three differ-ent outdoor stages in town for a total of 16 performances between July 1 and Aug. 2.

Their sixth season kicked off with their first free show on Canada Day and continues today and Friday on the lawn in front of Fort Langley’s historic com-munity hall.

That’s followed with a few $20 shows during the next few weeks at the Township 7 Winery. Those per-formances are being held July 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 7 p.m., with a matinee on Sunday, July 12 at 2 p.m.

Then there’s eight free performances being hosted at the bandshell in Spirit Square at Douglas Park. Those dates are July 23-26, and July 30 to Aug. 2.

> Read more about Trotzuk and the Bard show at www.langleyadvance.com

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One of the last Red Ensigns to fly in Ottawa is now at TWU.

Before Canada had its beloved Maple Leaf flag, the Red Ensign flew over the nation.

On July 1, many Canadians flew the Maple Leaf – a symbol of national identity – which turned 50 earlier this year.

But a little known fact is that 50 years ago, when the new Maple Leaf flag was adopted, then-prime minister Lester B. Pearson gifted one of the last Red Ensigns that ever flew over Parliament Hill in Ottawa to then-member of Parliament – and a founder of Trinity Western University – Robert N. Thompson.

Consequently, one of those histor-ic Red Ensigns now has a permanent home in Langley, in TWU’s archives.

> Read more at: langleyadvance.com

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HowTwo lucky Langley Advance readers will each win a pair of tickets to Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Township 7 Winery on July 10, 11, 17 or 18 at 7 p.m. or July 12 at 2 p.m.How do you win?• Click on the live link in the story about Love’s Labour’s Lost at www.langleyadvance.com, and tell us why you want to attend this show. You will be entered into the draw. Preference will be given to Langley residents.Postings must be received prior to 5 p.m. on Monday, July 6, and the winner will be notified by email. No staff or family of the Langley Advance or Black Press are eligible. This giveaway is restricted to online participants, 19 years or older only. Must include name and phone number.

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A Red Ensign flag was gifted to Robert Thompson (above)and later to TWU.

Langley’s Lauren Trotzuk and Chilliwack’s Luke Stevens are among the cast in Bard in the Valley’s current production of Love’s Labour’s Lost being presented in Langley this month.

July 3Dancing in the Park Free, at Douglas Park 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. July 3.

July 4Butterfly release Release a monarch butterfly for a $20 donation on July 4 at Krause Berry Farms. Benefits Langley Lodge and the Langley Hospice Society. Info: [email protected] in the park Enjoy Will Stroet & the Backyard Band 11 a.m. on July 4 in Douglas Park. Games and family activities. Free.

July 9Painting pARTy Partial proceeds go to the school breakfasts. July 9 at the Mocha Room. Info: http://zealousart.com.

LibrariesAldergrove Library26770 29th Ave. 604-856-6415Norden the Magician 2 p.m., July 8Muriel Arnason Library#130 20338 65th Ave. 604-532-3590Pajama Storytime 7 p.m., July 8Walnut Grove Library 8889 Walnut Grove Dr. 604-882-0410

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OngoingEvening walks by Langley Field Naturalists. Houston Trail/Derby Reach 7 p.m. July 8. Info and RSVP: 604-888-1787 or 604-888-7261.

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LangleyFaces&PlacesFrom Tenn-essee: The Alex Hope Elementary team (Anna Pyper, Zack Yasuda, Indiana Bateman and Adam Vandenberg along with teacher Nadine Vonk) attended the Destination Imagination Globals in Knoxville, Tennessee in May. They were profiled in the Langley Advance which the kids took along on the trip to the creative problem-solving competition. There they met teams from around the world. They took this photo with a team of middle school students from New Hampshire. When they weren’t competing, the students took part in workshops and trips.

Trucks and tiaras: Children’s Wish supporters raised $30,00 in one weekend, in part due to a truck show in Abbotsford and a princess and pirate tea party in Langley. Dozens of families flocked to the Coast Hotel and Convention Centre for the annual tea – which on its own raised $6,500. Shown, the fourth annual APNA truck show at the Abbotsford Tradex reached its $25,000 goal. The money goes to Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada, which for 30 years has been granting wishes to kids between three and 17 who are diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses.Andy Kallstrom photo

Gang up on cancer: On June 23, Heather Davies of Delta, Questa Lee of Richmond, Chervelle Richards of Delta, Mercedes Takacs of Langley and Becca Toews of Abbotsford, delegates in the Miss and Mrs BC Pageant, held a joint fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society and Cops for Cancer. From traumatic brain injuries to painful miscarriages, and battles with depression, anorexia or low self-esteem, each woman shared inspirational lessons from personal struggles they had overcome and challenges that had propelled them to join the pageant. The annual Miss Teen, Miss and Mrs BC Pageant is July 5 at the Chief Sepass Theatre in Fort Langley and open to the public. People’s Choice polling is now open and the public is invited to vote for their favourite delegate at www.missbc.ca until the crowning gala July 5.

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A sweet fundraiser: Rotary Club of Langley Sunrise members Rod Wainwright, Dick Hooper, and Tom Louie (below), as well as Bill Lindhal (right)were among those handing out strawberries June 13 in the Langley Mall parking lot. Between five participating Lower Mainland Rotary Clubs, they sold 60,000 pounds. This is an annual fundraiser, but it was the first time that Helen and Gerald Kristoff (right) of Cloverdale purchased the berries. The local club sold 151 of the 13.5kg pales, and 30 five-kilogram pales.

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Smile pooch: (Right) The new off-leash dog park in Langley City, at Linwood Park on Michaud Avenue, is a huge hit with Salome on a recent evening. What is your favourite Langley dog park? Tell us why on Facebook (www.facebook.com/LangleyAdvance).

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More useful right now is figuring out ways of using the little bit of water that still comes our way.

Conventional water-ing advice is that watering should be a

thorough drenching infrequently given. But in desperate times this becomes impossible, unless one picks a few favourites and leaves the others to their fate.

Luckily even small doses of water can stop a plant from dying. Grey water is very useful and most is relatively clean. I’m thinking of leftover tea, boiled-egg water, vegetable water, as well as water leftover from rinsing dishes, washing clothes or the cold clean water that runs down the drain while waiting for hot water to kick in.

All good for flushing toilets, too.

Years ago, when our water supply came erratically from a five-foot well down in the bush, we plugged the bath and got a water bonanza from a week of showers. Showering with cold water up to your knees is not fun.

But on weekends, we put a hose in the

bath, connected a small portable pump and used the shower water for watering the vegetable garden.

Later we harvested a very decent crop – though we did dis-cover that pole beans watered once weekly are stringy unless picked much earlier than normal.

Grey water isn’t clean enough for leafy vegetables or dwarf beans. But it’s very effective for trees, shrubs or berry bushes especially if you get it directly down to the roots.

Standard garden equipment includes deep-root watering spikes which can attach to a hose. The low-tech way is to plunge a crowbar into the soil (or in a pinch a sharpened piece of wood) and pour water down the hole which results. Best to cover the hole afterwards so it stays open for future use.

Container gardeners may be interested in watering bulbs. Lee Valley Tools sell por-ous ceramic spikes which can screw onto various water contain-ers such as soft drink bottles or wine bottles.

With food crops, priority should always go to anything current-ly forming fruit or the edible part of the crop.

Other extra-needy plants include shal-low-rooted ones such as rhododendrons and blueberries. Any tree, shrub or perennial plant in its first year also has an increased need for water.

Meanwhile, the tougher characters include anything with taproots, tubers, or bulbs. Filagree, lacy, or needle-like leaves, grey leaves or succulent or waxy leaves also with-stand drought well. So do lawns – and they do green up when (if?) fall rains hit.

People wanting to be prepared next spring in

case next year is like this could start early mulching vegetable beds with grass clip-pings in-between the rows. The clippings can be spread closer into the rows as vege-tables sprout.

Soaker hoses are a good investment too, though it’s best to remember the soak-ing is less effective towards the far end of the hose. Sprinklers are not. Sprays of water evaporate super-fast.

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The Langley Thunder outscored a struggling Maple Ridge Burrards team on June 24, beating the Burrards 14-11 in Western Lacrosse Association action at the Langley Events Centre.

The Thunder looked for their third straight win on Tuesday, June 30, when they travelled to Burnaby’s Bill Copeland Arena to play the Lakers, but results were not available due to earlier-than-usual Canada Day holiday press deadlines.



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The Walnut Grove-based Langley Otters water polo club is starting to gain traction, locally.TROY [email protected]

Suffice to say, water polo has been good to the Smith sisters.

The Maple Ridge sib-lings both secured full-ride university athletic scholarships through the sport, and have excelled over the years with the Fraser Valley Water Polo Club.

Now, they’re giving back to a sport that has given so much to them.

Victoria – a 22-year-old recent graduate of San Jose State University – has taken on the role of head coach of the Langley Otters water polo club, with her kid sister Virginia helping out as her assist-ant.

Nineteen-year-old Virginia, meanwhile, completed her first year at Long Beach State University.

The club they’re coaching is based at the Walnut Grove Community Centre, a handy commute over the Golden Ears Bridge from their hometown.

Victoria started with FVWP when the club was cre-ated by Justin Mitchell

before playing with the national team starting at 14.

Like her former coach did years before, Victoria is hoping to lay a foundation for water polo in Walnut Grove.

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we’re excited to help develop these new players,” she said.

“[FVWP coach] Kevin Mitchell approached us and said, ‘Hey, I have this team, would you like to coach it, it’s brand new.’”

The sisters jumped at the opportunity to promote and grow water polo south of the Fraser River.

“The [Maple Ridge-based] Haney Neptunes, a lot of the kids

are already super developed in water polo,” Victoria said.

Cupping her hand down and holding it up to her shoulder, Victoria noted, “We want to bring the Langley Otters up to here.”

Virginia hopes to pass along her passion for water polo.

“I love the team aspect of it,” she said. “If your team sticks together for a long enough time, you all start to click. I played with Valley and started with my age group and as I developed, our whole team was one big, synchronized family.”

An element of water polo that attracts players is the challenge that it brings.

“I have my ‘eight-and-unders’ where some kids will try it out and after five minutes they’re like, ‘This is so hard!’ But it’s amazing to see the huge dif-ference that even three weeks does for them,” Victoria said. “They go from being barely able to swim to where they can multi-task by picking up the ball and mov-ing around, where before they were scared about not being able to touch the bottom [of the pool].”

The Otters consist of roughly 40 members and the goal of the sisters, and the club, is to expand on those numbers in Langley.

“This is a big developmental club,” Victoria said. “Our big-gest goal is to get the kids into water polo and for them to love it.”

Victoria, who like her sister is a Garibaldi Secondary grad, started playing water polo to complement her soccer. “It was like a crossover and then we ended up loving it, and all the benefits from it,” she said.

Helping hands

Another member of FVWP, Grant Phillips-Hing, was part of the

17U squad that finished third at the Western National Championships in Calgary in May.

Phillips-Hing is helping coach the younger Otters and says his appeal to the sport is the “strat-

egy about it.”“You’re constant-

ly swimming and you’re always mov-ing,” he added.

“I’d say it’s getting more popular in Langley especially, because five years ago we didn’t even have a team here,” he said.

Also helping out is 15-year-old Deena Charles, who helped the FVWP 16U

girls squad capture gold at the nationals in Calgary last month.

“It helps me improve my play by being able to tell the other kids how to do the different movements and exercises in the water,” said Charles, who start-ed playing water polo when she was 10.

The club’s website is www.langleywaterpolo.com and its general email address is [email protected].

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Smith sisters guiding young Otters The Langley Otters, with a pair of sisters handling the coaching reins, held a spirited practice recently at the Walnut Grove Community Centre’s pool facility.

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“Our biggest goal is to get the kids into water polo and for them to love it.”Victoria Smith

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Joe Bird, 13, from the host club powered towards the wall in the Div. 4 boys 50m butterfly race, part of the Langley Flippers Invitational that took place last weekend, June 27 and 28, at Al Anderson Memorial Pool. The meet drew about 550 swimmers, representing clubs from around the Fraser Valley.

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Hometown boy Mat Andreatta has an oppor-

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Andreatta faces Coquitlam’s Tyler Nicholson for the B.C.

lightweight cham-pionship, in the main event of the latest instalment of the Clash at the Cascades amateur boxing series.

In total, a dozen fights are scheduled for the July 4 event and according to matchmaker and pro-moter Dave Allison,

“all of them will pro-vide excitement and drama, but as always it is the main event that attracts the inter-est.”

Nicholson owns a City title at 140 pounds and has

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kickboxing and MMA bouts, and has had about 20 fights alto-gether, Allison noted.

Andreatta, who just completed his third year at UBC, is strictly a boxer, and has been involved in roughly 20 matches, as well.

“Both fighters are tall for 135 pounds, and both can hit for that weight,” Allison said.

The card will include some new faces. Langley City Boxing will feature Chris Chiavacci at 140 pounds, and he is scheduled to meet Sage Balakrishnan of Carlson Gracie’s.

Dan Hettes of Langley City will take on Cody Robertson of Surrey’s World Kickboxing.

Tyson Gemby and Jeremy Cooke of Carlson Gracie’s will also be in action.

Cooke is set to face Scott Woodward of City Boxing.

Port Kells will be represented by Brendan Kim, as well as Jerome Serrano who will take on Zack Ronse of Ocean City Boxing.

The card will also display some juniors from North Burnaby as well as Surrey’s Bisla Martial Arts.

“This is a card with some new faces and without doubt, surprises, and an out-standing main event,” Allison said. “Cooke and Woodward will be a war.”

Allison said there are boxers from Prince George, Quesnel, Williams Lake, and Victoria scheduled.

Tickets at the door are $30 and parking is free, while fans ages 12 and under get in free.

There is a bar ser-vice and concession bar. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the action starts at 7:30 p.m.

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3rd Prize:All inclusive for two people with accommodations for up to 6 in a two bedroom suite.No air � ight included.$6,000 Value

WIN 1 OF 3 TRIPS TO MAZATLAN!

Contest #12 started June 29th, 2015

Draw date September 26th, 2015



New fully computerized lens fabrication laboratory on site that makes the highest quality precision lenses or glasses available in the Lower Mainland.New fully computerized lens fabrication laboratory on site that makes the highest quality precision lenses or glasses available in the Lower Mainland.We direct bill your insurance provider

Polarized Progressives

$305*

including frame


Langley Advance, July 02, 2015

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