Eighty Years Ago
June 24, 1937
• Ten days of incessant rain, just as strawberries were maturing, left farmers concerned for their crops.
• Aldergrove goat farmer Edna Newman and dietician J.H. Wells spoke at an Otter hall meeting aimed at starting a goat milk products industry and co-op.
Seventy Years Ago
June 26, 1947
• May Day at Athletic Park had netted the Langley Agricultural Association about $1,000 out of gross receipts of $130,756.
• A December referendum was being planned for a municipal-wide fire protection proposal.
Sixty Years Ago
June 20, 1957
• Turn of a valve at the corner of Roberts Road (56th Avenue) and Johnston Townsline Road (216th Street) sent natural gas into Langley City mains. Township Reeve Bill Poppy and City Mayor E.E. Sendall turned the valve together.
• Northwest Langley fire chief Bill Nish asked council for a plebiscite to build a $25,000 firehall, the vote to be held in July, at the same time as the one for a new municipal hall.
Fifty Years Ago
June 22, 1967
• W.G. “Bob” Duckworth was elected president of the Langley Chamber of Commerce. George Preston was among the other officers.
Forty Years Ago
June 22, 1977
• A Langley school board move to demote a teacher from H.D. Stafford school to a lower-paying job at Langley Secondary was met with a countermove by the B.C. Teachers Federation: a declaration that all administrative positions in the district were “in dispute.”
• MP Bob Wenman cut the ribbon to officially open Langley City’s nature trail.
Thirty Years Ago
June 24, 1987
• Rain flooded Langley’s Country Style parade. Just before the parade started, four people were injured when a Vancouver City Police motorcycle drill team member lost control.
• Langley City council endorsed Murrayville, in the Township, as the location for a new RCMP building.
• Langley post offices were hit by pickets as the national postal strike moved into the valley.
Twenty Years Ago
June 20, 1997
• After years of haggling, provincial highways minister Lois Boone promised that money to widen 200th Street was only one year away.
• A movement was growing to try and stop the Langley Leadership Team-dominated Township council from building a freeway overpass at 208th Street.
• A 71-year-old woman was left tied up after a burglary in her seniors complex home near the airport.
• A case of necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease) was the fifth reported in Langley in nine months.
• Heather McMullan decided to drop her publicly declared plans for a lawsuit against fellow Township councillor Dean Drysdale when it was determined that Drysdale’s legal costs would be reimbursed by the Township.
• School board meetings were rescheduled to fall on Tuesday evenings, so there would be no conflict for the public to attend both board and council meetings.