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John GORDON/Langley TimesR.C. Palmer Griffins point guard Bill Cheng dishes the ball off to a teammate during the B.C. boys’ AAA basketball championship final against Vancouver College on Saturday at the Langley Events Centre. Cheng, named the tournament top defensive player, helped the Richmond school win its first provincial title with a 71-63 victory. See page 13 for more. Video at langleytimes.com.

DAN FERGUSONTimes Reporter

Work to replace a cracked section of bridge decking on the controversy-plagued 200 Street overpass at Highway 1 in Langley is expected to wrap up Wednesday (today).

The provincial ministry of transportation said the damage to a six-metre slab of concrete was not a safety issue because the structural integrity of the eight-year-old six-lane bridge was not affected.

The crack was discovered last fall and a tempo-rary steel plate was installed to cover the crack while engineering studies were carried out.

Work to replace the damaged slab began on Sat-urday, March 19 to coincide with the school spring break when traffic levels are lower.

The six lanes were reduced to four while the work was underway.

Because the bridge is still under warranty, the repairs are the responsibility of the builder, BA Blacktop Ltd. of North Vancouver.

In order to provide more clearance between the bridge and highway while keeping the incline as low as possible for vehicles, the 200 Street design-build project used what is described as a “flat plate cast-in-place design” instead of the more common system of precast girders that are manufactured off-site and lowered onto bridge supports by crane.

In place of regular ground fill, BA Blacktop used Geofoam, an expanded polystyrene product that looks like large Styrofoam blocks, to minimize ground settlement at the bridge abutment and reduce long-term maintenance costs.

The company did not respond to a Times request for information about the cause of the cracking or the cost of repairs.

The $31.5 million dollar project was built as a private-public partnership, where the private companies were given $15 million in the form of government-owned land near the crossing in return for building the bridge.

Construction started in 1999, but was repeatedly delayed because of clashes between the Township of Langley and provincial government over issues that included the layout of the intersection, the number of traffic signals and terms of the land swap.

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At the end of March, the last group of about 50 bulls will be loaded onto trucks from the green-and-white Westgen barns at the intersection of Glover Road and Worrell Crescent in Langley, for shipment to an artificial insemination facility in eastern Canada.

And with that, more than 60 years of history will come to an end.

Seven full-time and two part-time people have been handed layoff notices, and the land where the soon-to-be empty barns stand will probably be sold and the Westgen offices relocated since there is no more need for locally-based bulls.

“We are now a sales and marketing organiza-tion” Westgen general manager Brad Howard told The Times Monday.

Technology is the main reason for the closure of the Langley barns.

Advances in artificial insemination technology have meant fewer bulls can produce more off-spring than ever before.

Most of the barns at the Langley operation are 40 to 50 years old and far bigger than they need to be.

Westgen is a partner in the Semex Alliance of artificial insemination companies in Canada, an association with three other firms in Ontario and Quebec who also have more capacity than they need.

In an open letter to members and customers in January, Westgen president David Janssens said renovating the aging barns to accommodate fewer bulls “really doesn’t make much sense” compared to relocating the bulls to eastern Cana-dian facilities and closing the barns.

Janssens said the move will keep costs down for customers.

“Westgen will continue to supply the world’s best genetics at the lowest possible price to its members.”

What is now Westgen began life as the Surrey-based Lower Fraser Valley Artificial Insemination Association in 1944.

It moved to its current location in 1949, becoming the B.C. Artificial Insemination Centre (BCAI).

BCAI merged with the Okanagan AI Centre in 1958 and with the Chilliwack AI Centre in 1986.

It joined the Semex alliance in 1997 and change its name to Westgen in 1998.

The alliance produces millions of doses from hundreds of bulls every year.

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Some patrons had to wait outside Vancouver’s Ultimate Dance Club in Langley for two hours on Saturday (March 19) before they were admit-ted to the official opening of the teen dance club on Eastleigh Crescent.

That’s according to comments posted on the Facebook page of the new dance club for 14 to 18-year-olds.

Some who posted messages esti-mated about 700 teens showed up for the event at the club, which is only allowed to have 500 people inside at a time.

The club operators posted an apol-ogy to those who weren’t able to get inside. “We were full again and due to the Cities [sic] capacity bylaws as we can only let so many people in,” the Facebook message read.

The Times has learned the club operators have approached the City of Langley to see about boosting their allowed capacity from 500 to 800.

That would still be fewer people than the 1,000 the building was allowed when it was the Langley Legion.

No formal application has been made yet and it’s likely the operators would have to add more bathrooms and entrances and exits to get the increase.

The club owners did not respond to Times queries about the proposal.

Langley RCMP report there was one noise complaint over the week-end about the club and one incident involving two intoxicated teens who were arrested for creating a distur-bance.

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Langley artificial insemination facility sends animals east

John GORDON/Langley TimesWestgen Intern Kendall Chan sterilizes test tubes at the Milner operation Tuesday morning. Barn and lab staff will lose their jobs when the last of the bulls are shipped east. Shipping and receiving will remain open.

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During an earlier interview about noise complaints from nearby residents during the weekends leading up to the official opening, club owner James Thom said he has been in contact with some of the area residents whose grievances include loud bass from the dance music, as well as vandalism, pot smoking and public drunkenness among the club’s under-age patrons.

Thom said he has walked the area with his sound man while the music was playing, and using a decibel meter, determined the levels were within legal limits.

However, he said he would reduce the bass,

which is the part of the music that carries farthest.

“We may address some inside soundproofing, too,” he added.

“I wouldn’t want music blasting if I lived in the area.”

In an effort to reduce problems

outside the club, Thom has already instituted a policy that does not allow teens to come and go once they’ve paid their cover and entered the building, he said.

While some teens have complained that means they can’t go out for a cigarette,

Thom has no plans to designate a smoking area for his patrons, who are too young to buy cigarettes legally.

Thom can be contacted by email at [email protected] or by phone at 778-278-2582.

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A DJ plays while club patrons dance during the grand opening weekend of Vancouver’s Ultimate Dance Club in this photo from Facebook. Open for the past three weekends, the club for 14 to 18-year-olds has created headaches for some of its neighbours.

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Even the blackened shell of the house couldn’t disguise what once was a character home in the Salmon River Uplands.

Built approximately 80 years ago, the house at 24121 48 Ave. had been lifted to create a full basement, and a loft had been built above the main floor.

Surrounded by mature evergreens, the house had little landscaping. An ornamental bush on the east side was singed, but a circular patch with hundreds of purple and white cro-cuses escaped the worst of the heat and water.

Shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, the house went up in flames, destroy-ing the structure causing the roof to collapse.

No one was injured.The only sign of human habita-

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The owners of the house had recently evicted the renters, said Township fire department spokes-man Bruce Ferguson.

The cause of the fire is under-mined, Ferguson said, but investi-gators believe it was deliberately set.

The fire drew a large crowd to 48 Avenue, and firefighters and appara-tus from Willoughby, Aldergrove and Otter halls.

Two hours earlier, fire crews from Murrayville, Willoughby, Brookswood and Aldergrove raced to 3492 205 St., to fight a barn fire. The barn was badly damaged, and the flames destroyed a harvest of marijuana growing in two shipping containers.

Ferguson was unable to say what started the fire.

Police were at the scene of both fires late on Monday morning.

The large turnout of fire crews to the two fires was needed because the neighbourhoods where the fires occurred have no municipal water, Ferguson said.

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Prior to the official tabling of the budget on Tuesday afternoon, it appeared that the Conservatives were ready to include some items that the NDP had asked for. If this proves to be enough to secure NDP support for the budget, it will likely pass and prospects for an election will dim.

For most Canadians, that would be the preferred approach. They are not consumed with politics, and see little need for another election that is likely to confirm the present status of all four parties in Parliament.

That would be the Conservatives in power with a minority; the Liberals as official opposition; the NDP as a perennial third party with a fair bit of influence; and the Bloc Quebecois as separatists from Quebec, holding the majority of Quebec seats.

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The fact that the Conservatives are forced to govern with a minority of seats has actually produced a remarkable period of stability. The government cannot bring in radical change, because Parliament won’t back it. Tinkering around the edges is allowed, but only so much.

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attention was a verbal battle royal at Langley Township council, with Mayor Rick Green and Councillor Jordan Bateman the main combatants.

While such arguments have been frequent, the duration and nastiness of this one stood out. The root of this dispute, as I understand it, is whether the mayor must always follow the will of council, or whether he can spend taxpayers’ money or ask for action on his own.

The background is this. In the B.C. municipal system, the mayor has limited powers. He or she has one vote on council, but also chairs the council meetings, names committee members (to most, but not all committees) and has the power to bring back an item for reconsideration at a council meeting.

Most of the mayor’s “power” is in name, rather than fact. The mayor is seen by people in the community as the top elected official. The mayor is asked to attend events, pose for photos and be the official voice of the elected council.

When there is a general spirit of harmony and collegiality at council, this comes easily. How-ever, when a majority of council members dis-agree with the mayor on almost everything, it is impossible for the mayor to be that voice.

We’ve been down this road before in Langley. The most notable example was Joe Lopushinsky, who was elected mayor of Langley City in 1988, and then re-elected in 1990. He served a total of five years in office, but never had the support of the majority of council. The City administrator

quit as soon as he was elected, and Lopushinsky had no shortage of disparaging things to say about past and present councillors and some senior administrators.

Yet at the same time, the City continued to function — albeit in a fractious kind of way, particularly

at council. Eventually, the voters chose to turf Lopushinsky, but not without giving him a fair chance to accomplish what he said he wanted to. They determined that he had not done so.

In Langley Township, a much milder version of the same scenario occurred when John Schol-tens was elected mayor in 1993. He never had the support of the majority of council on more than a few scattered issues in his first term, although the atmosphere was generally civil.

That led him to put together the Langley Lead-ership Team in 1996, which won majority con-trol of both council and the school board. Ironi-cally, while the LLT accomplished a great deal by holding a majority of council seats, the methods used on many issues turned off voters. Scholtens lost in 1999, and by 2002, the LLT was dead.

Green has adopted some of the tactics of Lopushinsky, appearing to have no interest in what other members of council think. He has positioned himself as an underdog as he prepares to run again, with the big, bad majority against him. In the words of John Diefenbaker, he thinks that “every-one is against me, except the people.”

In 1993 in Langley City, and in 1999 in Langley Township, voters came out in droves to pass judg-ment on fractious councils — 36 per cent in the City, and more than 40 per cent in the Township. In November, it will be up to voters to do the same. Hopefully, many more than usual will do so.

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Editor: I read with disgust and disbelief that once again the Township has decided to enforce its illegal bylaw of dictating to property owners what and where they can store their property on their land.

The Township knows that this is an illegal cash grab. Want proof? Even Councillor Steve Ferguson predicted it correctly by stating, “It will not appease anyone.”

Why would it? Forcing RV, trailer, and boat owners to park their property for hundreds of dollars a month at a storage facility and not being able to easily access it or know if it is getting vandalized is ridiculous. What does the Township expect?

Once again the Township has failed to see the real issue in all of this — it comes down to ownership. My trailer is my property — I will park it wherever I please on my property, whenever I please, thank you very much. The fact that the Township has tried to appease owners of trailers, RVs, and boats by allowing them to park between May 15 and Sept. 15 is not only a sad joke, but further proves that there is really no issue here at all.

If the issue is about other home owners

(incorrectly) believing that a neighbour’s trailer lowers their property value, I find it laughable that the bylaw allows them to stay in the drive-ways during prime real estate selling time.

I guarantee that not one local real estate agent has had a potential buyer demand the seller drop their price by a few thousand dol-lars because a neighbour has an RV, boat, or trailer parked in their driveway. It is long over-due that meddling people and meddling gov-ernment back off and mind their own business.

Councillor Jordan Bateman even voted against the amendment altogether, stating that it would encourage property owners to allow family and friends to park their RVs in their driveways between May 15 and Sept. 15. Who does Bateman think he is? It is perfectly within my rights to invite anyone to my property any time.They are welcome to bring their RV, trailer, camper, or boat and park it on my property, and they are welcome to stay as long as they want.

The provision of having to park RVs, trailers and boats at least 1.6 metres inside a home owner’s property line is completely ridiculous. I can and will place whatever I see fit right up to and including my property line, thank you

very much.Between rising gas prices, rising utility costs,

food prices, property taxes, the HST’s hidden costs, and the cost of basic necessities continu-ously going up higher than anyone’s wages or pension cheque, it is time for Township to eliminate all illegal bylaws that would not stand up in the Supreme Court of Canada.

We need less government, not more.To add insult to injury, the Township does

not have a problem forcing me to be respon-sible for clearing snow off Township sidewalks, curbs and storm drains the second that a snow-flake hits it.

Does anybody see a big problem here? Town-ship owns that property, not me.

I clear snow from their property, and as a reward, Township tells me what I can park on my property, and when.

I strongly urge all citizens of Langley to fight the stupidity of this illegal bylaw. If you are among the minority of citizens who think oth-erwise, please start minding your own business. This incliudes the Township.

Doug Nickason,Langley

Township confused about property

Medicinal marijuana works well for patients

Far too much antipathy to little green plantEditor: This is a response to “Feds urged to

cancel grow-op licences” (The Times, March 11).Although I don’t use it, nor want my kids to

use it, the little green plant has no basis for the amount of antipathy shown toward it. For mil-lennia, its curative power has been used to treat both physical and mental/emotional conditions with great success in the right circumstances.

I’m uncomfortable with the ongoing knee-jerk reactions of powerful people, reactions that only serve to keep the means to grow and distribute it in the hands of the criminals who care little what the plant is used for. It is well known that criminals will and do often kill, maim, extort, and make huge piles of tax-free profit at the expense of those who use it for curative or pleasurable purpose.

The specious argument for closure made by our local RCMP head is that a few grow-op licensees have had grow-rips and break-ins hap-pen. If this is solid logic, then we should surely shut down car dealerships that sell us vehicles that are broken into, stolen or trashed at the hands of idiot criminals.

Banks should close immediately, having shown clearly that they cannot be trusted to do the people’s business without multi-billion dol-lar white-collar crime, destroying the ability of a quick economic recovery in North America.

Churches should close their doors perma-nently, considering the huge number of sexual crimes against children and young men and women that have become a heavily publicized blight upon organized religion.

The Langleys’ two mayors are of a single mind: distribution should be through pharma-cies. There can’t be many pharmacies that would want to become a cannabis distribution centre, considering their prominently placed signs about how little of this or that type of narcotic they have onsite, meant to prevent robberies.

My point is that the only good choice is to legalize and tax marijuana, and begin to treat people as grown-ups, thus taking the biker gangs and high-ranking criminal element out of the equation within months. And stop demon-izing one of nature’s greatest gifts — if we only had the guts to use it that way.

Eli Bryan Nelson,Langley

Editor: You left a few important facts out of your anti-medpot editorial “Government approved headache,” (The Times, March 16).

First, and most important, is that weed works. Many people across this country are coming to the realization that medical cannabis is a safe, affordable, healthy alternative to toxic syn-thetic pharmaceutical drugs which can damage organs and can have severe and sometimes fatal side effects.

Second, the government of Canada did not “reluctantly agree” to allow citizens to use medical cannabis.

It was forced to by the Supreme Court of Can-

ada after the pot laws were repealed temporarily in 2001.The only reason it created the medicinal marijuana program was to maintain the status quo on cannabis prohibition by allowing limited access to medical cannabis, to the sick.

Finally, the main reason why medical can-nabis is being grown throughout our com-munities is because the federal government only allows a very limited number of growing permits per address. This makes it difficult for producers to start cheaply producing large quantities of quality organic cannabis on rural properties in greenhouses for large numbers of sick Canadians.

The government is creating a very large mar-ket and not allowing anyone to fill the demand with the exception of Prairie Plant Systems, who only grow one strain of expensive, weak, irradiated, pulverised product that no one seems to want.

As a long-term user and producer of medi-cal cannabis, I would recommend that Langley look at a production and distribution model that will eventually cure the problem of urban medical marijuana growing.

Carl Anderson,executive director,

Canadian Safe Cannabis Society

Editor: Re: “Government approved headache,” (The Times, March 16).

With an air of Sherlock Holmes, you leave your read-ership wondering where on Earth are all these legal grow-ops coming from, and why are they overproducing so much?

You only have to forward to Tom Fletcher’s column on page 17 of the same issue to find the answer — smart meters. A by-product of smart meters for grow-ops is either go legal or move to a province that does not have them.

No use turning to gas generators either — gas and water smart meters should follow shortly after.

J. Anderson,Langley

Editor: B.C. Views col-umnist Tom Fletcher covers some of the political, techni-cal and business issues that make BC Hydro’s so-called smart meters controversial (The Times, March 16).

But it isn’t until he’s half-way done that he mentions the most important issue, and then dismisses it with, “There is another concern, which is that the brief signals … are somehow a health hazard.”

They are definitely a health hazard.

People in places such as California and Ontario, where smarter meters have already been installed are practically rioting, and it isn’t because their electricity bills have gone up. It’s because they fear for their health.

Greg McIntyre,Langley

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RCMP said the girl was playing with her seven-year-old sister on a window seat at their family home in the 19600 block of 68 Avenue when she pushed on a window screen that gave way.

Sgt. Ravinder Pawar said the girl fell about 20 feet (six metres) and landed on her side on the asphalt driveway.

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Police are satisfied that the fall was an accident, and will not be recom-mending charges.

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The atmosphere was electric, the stands were mostly full and the basketball was phenomenal.

And judging by the feedback tournament director John Buis received afterwards, the first B.C. high school AAA senior boys’ basketball championships ever held in Langley were a success.

“I never thought that the efforts of previous years could be improved, but somehow you and your crew did it,” read one e-mail he received.

Another said “the event looked amazingly professional. It was very slickly run and a great expe-rience from a spectator point of view.”

As he does after every tour-nament, Buis will send out a questionnaire to the teams, tour-nament sponsors, officials and media for their feedback.

“That is the only way we are going to get better,” he explained.

But the early indications are the tournament, which was held at the Langley Events Centre for the first time, was a big success.

The estimated crowd for Sat-urday’s championship final — which saw Richmond’s R.C. Palmer pull off a thrilling come-back 71-63 over Vancouver Col-lege — was more than 4,000 fans.

While not concrete, early estimations are that more than 10,000 people were in the Lang-ley Events Centre over the tour-nament’s five days.

“We filled up both parking lots (for Saturday’s final) and still could have put a few more thou-sand fans in,” Buis said.

“It is pretty early to try and give all the information,” Buis added, explaining he still needed to have debrief sessions with the Langley Events Centre staff and another one with his tourna-ment committee.

“From my point of view, there were just a couple of minor snags.”

One involved when a couple of hundred spectators flooded the ticket window at the same time. That was quickly rectified by moving the ‘will call’ window to a different area.

The other had to do with buses not parking in the des-ignated areas, and taking up

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things when you are talking about the overall scope or scale of the event,” he said.

He was also complimentary of those who helped stage the tournament.

“The Langley Events staff worked really hard on accom-modating the fans and the play-ers,” Buis said. “And I think the Township has proven that it is a good facility for a number of things, including amateur events.”

Jared Harman, the LEC’s direc-tor of business development, said he had heard nothing but positive feedback.

“From our standpoint, we strived to make sure it was the best tournament possible for everybody,” he said.

“We really wanted to create an event that people would remem-ber, specifically the players and coaches, and from the feedback we got, I think we accomplished that.”

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On only his sec-ond day on the job, Coleman was already showing why Premier Christy Clark calls him a “tough guy” who can stare down the big-spending BC Hydro. Clark is, of course, con-cerned that it may not be “good for families” if Hydro rates go up 50

per cent in the next five years.

The city media made a big story out of how Coleman is considering pulling the plug on the smart meter program or some other expen-sive project like the Ruskin dam overhaul. Interim NDP leader Dawn Black is demand-ing that the new pre-mier “tackle skyrocket-ing Hydro rates” now that she’s eliminated poverty by raising the minimum wage.

Don’t hold your breath. What Coleman actually mused about in his first scrum as energy minister was “amortization” and such. It’s not a ques-tion of whether or not B.C.’s 20-year lapse in grid and dam upgrades needs fixing, only how fast it’s done.

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was completed in 1911 and the Ruskin dam followed in 1929. Their modest power output kept up with growing demand — at huge cost to salmon runs — and connect-ing tunnels between reservoirs also pro-vide flood control.

Ruskin dam is a mossy old concrete monolith wedged in a granite gorge. Until it’s completely rebuilt, even a moderate earth-quake would not be good for families down-stream in the village of Ruskin.

The Ruskin upgrade alone is estimated at a staggering $800 mil-lion, if it starts next year and is done by 2018. It could be delayed to give Cole-man and Clark a short-term political boost, if they want to gamble on a deadly dam failure.

The resulting inland tsunami would have B.C. featured on CNN for a couple of weeks. Delaying this long-overdue work further will also certainly push the cost over $1 billion.

Coleman could rein in BC Hydro without directly risking lives by delaying smart meter installation. But as described last week,

this project is also unavoidable, and delay can only lead to bigger costs and rate hikes.

Coleman could pos-sibly reduce the rate impact via privatiza-tion. According to BC Hydro’s most radical union, COPE local 378, this is imminent, as the utility’s contract with Accenture expires in 2013.

COPE produced the infamous “Gordon Campbell wants to kill your grandma!” ad campaign for the 2009 election, and its penchant for overstate-ment continues. It issued a news release last week warning of the “possible breakup” of BC Hydro in out-sourcing agreements as much as three times the size of the Accen-ture deal.

(In 2003 BC Hydro contracted with Accen-ture to provide cus-tomer service, finance, information technology and other back-office functions.)

A BC Hydro spokes-man advises me that no, the utility is not considering breaking itself up into three enti-ties, or greatly expand-ing its outsourcing.

The next time you hear about a quick solution for rising electricity rates, take it with a grain of salt.

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Harold Hamon liked to start his days with breakfast at a small establishment near 198 Street and 57 Avenue.

It was almost always eggs Benedict with tea or milk. He didn’t drink coffee.

Then the owner of the Langley-based Hamon’s Towing & Recovery would head

out in search of break-downs and other peo-ple needing assistance.

When family and friends decided to orga-nize a memorial drive for Hamon, they agreed it should begin at his

favorite restaurant.At least 35 tow

trucks and one ambu-lance have said they will participate.

It will start 9 a.m. Sun-day at the cafe, pass by Hamon’s home and pro-

ceed along the Langley Bypass before ending at the Fort Langley Com-munity Hall on Glover Road, where a public memorial service will be held at 1 p.m.

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Hamon died after he was injured in a two-vehicle crash on the Langley Bypass on Fri-day March 11.

He had a reputa-tion as a hard-working, big-hearted man who

would never leave any-one by the road, even if they had no money to pay.

Two of his brothers will operate his com-pany, something Hamon asked for in his will.

Tow truck drivers to honour Harold Hamon on Sunday

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Forty-eight people who signed a petition objecting to an inter-section at 0 Avenue and 200 Street, have upset a number of residents who believed it would be built.

Earlier this month, council voted to sup-port eliminating the intersection, which had been in the plans after High Point residential development was com-plete.

Councillor Jordan Bateman called the clo-sure “some pretty smart traffic calming,” but some residents say it’s anything but smart.

In order to deter construction vehicles from using that entrance, there was no intersection while High Point houses were being built, transporta-tion manager Paul Cor-deiro told council.

High Point residents asked that the closure remain in effect, and 48 of them, representing more than 50 per cent of the properties sold at High Point, signed a petition to that effect.

Only emergency vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists would have access in and out of the equestrian-themed subdivision from 0 Avenue.

High Point is at the southerly tip of 200 Street which, local resident Dave Belliveau pointed out, is one of the busiest north-south roads in Langley.

Belliveau, who lives in the 20400 block of 4 Avenue, questioned the usefulness of the peti-tion when some own-ers may not necessarily live there, and many lots remain vacant.

Belliveau said that keeping 0 Avenue and 200 Street closed is put-ting more traffic onto eastbound 8 Avenue and onto his street.

Shawneen Hartmann, who lives at 317 - 208 St., said many residents are “choked” by coun-cil’s ruling.

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A pair of Langley music schools are taking the collaborative process to the next level.

In a unique event, three instructors from Kwantlen Polytechnic University will take the stage together at Langley

Community Music School on April 2, to perform an extensive program — including compositions by Bach, Schubert, Doppler, Beethoven and Debussy — titled simply, Musical Offerings.

The trio — flutist Paolo Bortolussi, violinist Calvin Dyck and pianist Jane Hayes — are all music faculty members at KUC’s Langley campus.

In addition to the evening concert, which will be offered for free in Rose Gellert Hall, the musicians will also sit down, one-on-one, with LCMS students in a series of afternoon master classes, which will also be open to the public at no charge.

When it comes to teaching in front of an audience, generally, the approach is a little broader than a private lesson, where instructor and

student get into the “nitty gritty” of a piece, said Bortolussi.

The master classes will deal more with fine tuning performance-ready pieces.

While the day is not focused on recruiting new students for Kwantlen’s music department, it’s important to create connections

between the schools, Bortolussi believes.

“We want it to feel like (music students) have the opportunity to stay

in Langley. People tend to look outward when they leave high school.

“Our goal is to create in Langley an integrated stream for our excellent music

students to ‘graduate’ through the system, from the conservatory

through Kwantlen University — and create a more home-grown arts scene.”

While this is the first

time this particular type of collaboration has taken place between the two schools, Bortolussi would love for it to become an annual event.

“We’ll see how it goes this time. I’d like to see the LCMS orchestra performing on the Kwantlen stage,” he added.

He sees potential benefits for students at both institutions.“It seems like a huge divide between university and high school

performances, but it’s not; it’s just one year.”“Playing with people at the next stage (of development) can be very

instructive,” he said. “The older students learn to lead and younger students see how much effort goes into (university studies).”

More immediately, he’s looking forward to being on stage with his two Kwantlen colleagues.

“It’s nice to find opportunities to feel more cohesive, versus saying, ‘hi’ in the hall.”

Bortolussi has performed only once before with Hayes, but he and the violinist are regulars on stage together with the Vancouver Island symphony, where Dyck is concert master.

“We’re really excited about having three musicians of such impressive calibre playing together on one stage,” says Zdenek Skoumal,

Kwantlen Music Department chair. “This sort of concert demonstrates how Kwantlen

faculty really are able to practise what they preach. It’s a terrific opportunity for anyone passionate about chamber music. It should not be missed.”

LCMS principal Susan Magnusson agrees it’s a mutually beneficial

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she noted.“Our programs

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“Musical Offerings” is being jointly presented by Kwantlen and the Langley Community Music School. The free concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 2 at the Rose Gellert Hall in the

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Flutist Paolo Bortolussi and violinist Calvin Dyck will be joined on stage at Langley Community Music School by pianist Jane Hayes, when the three

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Although the fine arts have been grouped as a faculty for years at Trin-ity Western University, its School of Arts, Media + Culture (SAMC) formed just last spring, and kicked off with a two-week festival featuring student work from all the disciplines that fall within the school’s sphere.

From March 29 to April 11, they’ll do it all again as SAMC presents the second annual Festival of the Arts, Media + Culture.

David Squires, dean of the fledgling school, sees the annual festival as an opportunity to put students’ talent on display in a big way.

“It’s such a lively arts climate here at TWU, there’s so much creativity,” he said.

“Students prepare all semester long and (at the end) their work comes to fruition.”

The fact that the end of this semes-ter also marks the end of the school year adds an extra element of celebra-tion to the event, said Squires.

Projects which students have worked on for the past four months will be on display for two full weeks, with presentations in the areas of visual arts, music, theatre, film and creative writing.

Ask Squires to name a few of the highlights of the festival and he chuckles.

“Close your eyes and point (at the schedule).”

He does note, however, that this year’s big theatre production, The Bacchae, represents a collaboration

among three disciplines, with a score written especially for the perfor-mance in the digital music depart-ment and sets designed by a SAMC visual arts student.

And while most of the events are taking place on campus over the two-week period, a few will be scattered throughout Langley and even cross borders into neighbouring communi-ties, with concerts scheduled for Sur-rey and Abbotsford.

The senior student art show — titled A Parade Marching Backward in Time — will hang from March 31 to April 30 in the Langley Centen-nial Museum’s gallery space in Fort Langley.

Meanwhile, new student art will be on display in the President’s Gallery on campus throughout the two-week festival.

While Squires encourages people to come out and support the disci-plines they’re familiar with — often that means music and theatre — he’d like them to branch out and explore a few other mediums, too.

Perhaps, he suggests, take in Vignettes, An Evening of New Student Literature, on April 7.

“Or, if you like movies, check out some student films,” he said. Cinergy, the student film night, takes place on campus on the final evening of the festival.

For the full schedule of TWU arts festival events, go to twu.ca/samc and click on the link under “breaking news.”

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A local Girl Guide group is learning about poverty by help-ing with a worldwide initiative to provide basic necessities and dignity to young girls in Africa.

The 3rd Telegraph Trail Unit is participating in the world-wide Panties with Purpose cam-paign to help supply panties and sanitary pads to 6,000 girls in Kenya.

Thirty-seven cities from around the world are participat-ing in the e-campaign, started in January by Maridadi.co.ke.

“It was very much about how we can help older girls gain a sense of dignity,” said Guide leader Nancy Cardozo.

The group of nine girls, aged nine to 12, brought together 100 pairs of panties to symbol-ize the 100-year anniversary of Girl Guides Canada, which was celebrated last year.

Cardozo says this fundraiser is an excellent opportunity to educate the girls on poverty and empathy.

“I was thinking, ‘wow, this is going to be fantastic.’ And we were talking with the girls and

exploring a little bit about the meaning of acting globally to change the world,” she said.

“We went over key words like passion, what it means to live in pov-erty, what it means to lack opportunities, and what other words mean such as dignity and opportunities — all those powerful words.”

According to Cardozo, UNI-CEF says one in 10 school-age girls in rural areas of Kenya does not attend school during menstruation because of a lack of access to underwear and sani-tary pads.

She thought this campaign would be something that would empower both the young women in Kenya and the Girl Guides in Langley.

“To me, it was very inspir-ing. Change always starts with people and change usually starts with women,” said Cardozo.

Having moved to Canada five years ago from a developing

nation in South America, the topic of pov-erty remains close to Car-dozo’s heart.

“I have to remember, the kids all the time feel so entitled that they need this and they need

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“Kids that are living on the street, kids who don’t have par-ents, kids that don’t have food, kids that are in the cold and don’t have appropriate clothing — those are the kids that are in need,” she said.

“And seeing that awakens their empathy and their awareness that they are so privileged.”

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Soroptimist International of the Langleys Celebrates Outstanding Women in the Community. On March 1st, members of the Soropti-mists presented three awards to deserving local women at a social evening at the Langley Senior Recreation & Resource Centre.

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At the start of the season, if you had told Paul Getz he would be an all-star at the provincial basketball championships, he would not have believed it.

After all, Getz is in Grade 10, playing up a level with the Walnut Grove senior boys team.

And the Gators had some star power of their own in senior forward Larry Blyth and guards Jack Tsai and Derek Muxworthy, to name a few.

As far as Getz was concerned, he just wanted to chip in and play his role.

Over the weekend, the Gators finished a respectable eighth at the 20-team AAA B.C. high school championships held at the Langley Events Centre.

And helping lead the way was Getz, a six-foot-three forward who averaged nearly 15 points and just over 10 rebounds per game.

His efforts earned him a third team all-star selection.

Out of the 15 all-star awards, two of the second team all-stars and two of the third team all-stars were Grade 11s, but Getz is the lone Grade 10 to earn the honour.

“I was really surprised (with the award),” he said. “We had such a great team and for me to be picked out of all of them was a great surprise.”

His coach wasn’t surprised, saying Getz was the team’s best player in two of the games and probably second-best in the other two.

“A player who averages a double-double is having a good tournament,” said George Bergen.

Getz’s play in the latter half of the season shows why Bergen brought him up to the senior

level a year early.“I recognized he had not

only ability but also real drive and energy,” the coach said. “And that was displayed at provincials.”

Bergen called him one of the top five players in the province for his age group.

Getz joined the senior team last year after the season for spring ball and did not look out of place.

“Playing from junior to senior, the pace of the game is just so much faster,” he admitted. “It took me a few games to get used to.”

He began the season as the sixth or seventh man, but by the time the playoffs rolled around, Getz was starting some games depending on the matchup.

Getz also came up big as the Gators’ top player, Blyth, turned his ankle in the second game, limiting him for the rest of the tournament.

Walnut Grove, the fourth seed out of the Fraser Valley, drew a tough opening round opponent, facing the Vancouver College Fighting Irish (Lower Mainland #3) in the sweet 16.

The Gators led 34-29 at the half, but the Irish took over in the third quarter and won 76-62.

The Irish advanced all the way to the championship game before losing 71-63 to Richmond’s R.C. Palmer Griffins.

“We knew coming in that Vancouver College was a good team — and they showed that in making the finals — but we knew we were a good team too,” said Getz, who finished with 10 points and eight rebounds in that game, his lowest numbers of the tournament.

And the team was able to put their disappointment behind them for the rest of the tournament.

“Something just clicked,” he said. “Just the atmosphere in our locker room was completely different for our next game.

“Everyone wanted it and it showed on the court. We were a completely different team.”

Getz really ramped his game up over the team’s final three contests, finishing with 17

points and six boards in a 69-44 win over the Gleneagle Talons and then 13 points and seven rebounds in a 90-77 overtime victory over the Oak Bay Bays.

In the first game, Walnut Grove came out gunning and led 23-4 and then 42-13 at the half.

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from 10 points down in the fourth quarter to force overtime when Muxworthy banked in a three-pointer at the buzzer to tie the game.

Muxworthy finished with 25 points, eight assists and five rebounds. Tsai scored a team-high 27 points, including six three-pointers.

Getz saved his best for last in the game for sixth place, scoring 19 points and hauling down 20 rebounds.

Unfortunately, the Gators lost 68-60 to the Sir Charles Tupper Tigers, to wind up eighth.

“If someone had told us at the beginning of the season we had placed eighth, we would have been happy with it,” said Gators forward Larry Blyth.

“The real goal was to put ourselves in position to do what we wanted to and we were in that position in the first game.

“They might have been the better team on that night, but it is hard two win a game when you have 28 turnovers, that was the difference. We were right in the game.”

Blyth had a monster game against Van College, finishing with 23 points and 17 rebounds, but an ankle injury hobbled him for the rest of the tournament, as he played just 19 minutes against Gleneagle and nine minutes against Oak Bay.

He did return to full action for the final game of his high school career.

He said there were some tears in the locker room following the team’s final defeat, but not because of how the season ended, but rather because the players’ time together had come to an end.

Blyth was boarding a plane on Monday as he went to visit schools in Ontario and Montreal for his post-secondary playing options.

He is one of nine graduating seniors on the team.

For photos from throughout the tournament, visit the Langley Times’ Facebook page.

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John GORDON/Langley TimesWalnut Grove’s Paul Getz goes up for the shot against the Vancouver College Fighting Irish during opening round play last week at the AAA basketball championships. Getz, a Grade 10 player, was named a third team all-star for the Gators, who finished eighth at the tournament.

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Slow starts became a worrisome trend for the R.C. Palmer Griffins midway through the season. And early Saturday it looked like it might cost them a provincial championship.

But as so often before, Palmer was able rise from the ashes.

Down 19-2 to Vancouver College Fighting Irish at one point in the opening 10 minutes, of the championship game at the Langley Events Centre, the Griffins pulled to within seven at the end of the first quarter and showed an obvious shift in their body language. Palmer pulled to within a single point, 33-32, at the half and then poured it on in the third quarter on their way to a 71-63

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“It’s awesome, man,” said a beaming Palmer coach Paul Eberhardt, whose choice to call a pair of timeouts on opposite ends of a TV break during the first quarter proved astute.

“Us being down happened so fast, but I think the timeouts helped settle the guys,” he said. “During the timeouts I said, ‘Guys, this is exactly what happened to us last year (when Palmer lost the AA final to Britannia) and we’re better than this.’ I could kind of see in their eyes they were angry and when (Jamie) Madewan made that first three-pointer it kind of loosened us up and we took all the momentum.”

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“I think it’s amazing the way they held their discipline,” he said. “It’s very easy to lose it when things aren’t going well but our guys rarely did that. They believed in the system.”

The Griffins too control in the third quarter, dominating the Irish in every facet and outscoring them 21-10.

“I think we were overwhelmed by the atmosphere to start,” said Palmer point guard Billy Cheng, who was named the top defender and a second team all-star. “We got lucky when we came back because V.C.’s a very good team, but I think all the work paid off. We deserved this.”

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SALE ENDSFRIDAY, APRIL 1/11

While supplies last

Corner of 200 St. & 80th Ave., Langley • 604 888-5388Hours: MONDAY - SATURDAY 9-6 • SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS 9-5

Gibbs& Florist

GARDEN CENTRE • FLORIST • GIFT SHOPNurseryland

1 Gallon Pot Reg. $19.99

C.A.D.Customer Appreciation Day

15% offEvery Thursday at

Gibbs Nurseryland

Regular priced items only. (Some exceptions apply).

Seed Potatoes9 Varieties to choose from.

NOW$597ea

BlueberriesFast growing, fast producing,

big healthy plants in 1 gallon pots.

NOW$597

Great SelectionSummer Flowering Bulbs

Choose from Dahlias, Canna Lilies, Glads, Oriental Lilies, Bleeding Hearts and

MUCH, MUCH MORE AT GREAT PRICES!

Flower & Veg SeedsGreat Selection Available

20%off

Nurseryland Steer Manure & Mushroom Manure

Big 10kg Bags. Use in planting shrubs, trees, fl owers and veggies.

LIMIT OF 10 PER FAMILY Reg. $2.99 ea.

Spring Blooming

HeatherDark Pinks, light pinks & white In Bloom Now!

Mass plant these beauties for a Great

Display!Reg

$3.99 ea4” Pot.

Big 2 Kg Bag

Mouth WateringDutch Onion Sets

NOW$247ea80

PER PACKAGE

Plant now for an early

harvest!

NOW$497ea

Nurseryland All Purpose Mix

Specially formulated for growing plants & fl owers in containers

Great Deal!

Choose from Tulips, Hyacinths & DaffodilsPOTTED BULBSPOTTED BULBS

BLOWOUT!BLOWOUT!

33FOR $$12129797That’s an $8.00 Savings!

Reg $6.99 ea,

Gladiola BulbsYour choice of colour. Plant in clumps for a spectacular

display. Great cut fl ower. Reg. 10 for $4.99NOW

5050%% off off

Selected

Dahlia TubersChoose from giant cactus or decorative type.Huge clumps for a beautiuful summer display

3 $999or $3.99 each

for

Perennial Hardy White

Calla LilyExcellent Cut Flower!

NOW$1997EA

2 Gal Pot.

Yellow Lynnwood

Gold ForsythiaIn Bud and Bloom NOW!

All Sizes25%off

1 Gallon Pot Reg. $19.99

Early Spring Blooming

CamelliasIn bud and bloom

$1497ea

1 gal Pot

$697ea

RosemaryGreat for cooking!

Seed Sprouter$1297ea $399ea

We have them! Lots of varieties to choose from. 4” potLooking for Herbs?

NOW$197ea

Strawberry PotsChoose from 6, 9 or 12 pocket

20%off

Mason BeesThese non-aggressive Bees are the Bee All & End All for Pollinating Fruit Trees & Berries.

3 days only March 25-27

NOW$1999ea

10 Bees for

5 $1297for

Flowering CurrantIn Bud and Ready to Bloom Now!!

All sizes from bush form to tree form

Reg. $8.99-$69.9925%off

24 Litres Reg. $6.99 ea.

Strawberry PlantsTristar, Totem, Allstar, Quinault and more!Everbearing, Big sweet, delicious berries!

$49710 plantsfor ea

Selected

Rhododendrons5 Varieties to Choose From

1/2 Price

NOW$649ea

Reg $12.99 ea

Scrumptious!

Plant your bulbswith Bone Meal

& Bulb Dust!

$399ea

or 3 for $997Power Top Soil

New!

$227ea

30 Litres | Organic | Top up your fl ower & vegetable gardens today!

100% Natural!

1 gal. pot

Sprouting SeedsChoose from Alfalfa, Onions, Chickpeas, Broccoli, Wheat, Red Cabbage & more

Tubes & Hives also available, at 20% off.

Wed March 23, 2011 Langley Times

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