Eighty Years Ago
July 14, 1938
• Works superintendent Urquhart asked council to bring in a sewerage engineer for advice about the pollution in Langley Prairie. Septic tanks were emptying into open ditches, causing a risk of a typhoid outbreak.
• The Board of Trade protested the relocation of the post office to Old Yale Road “at the extreme end of the village.” The proposed location was next to the postmaster’s home.
Seventy Years Ago
July 15, 1948
• Council complained about the telephone service in the district, and planned to investigate. Counc. Richard Langdon complained that he could call Langley from New York faster than he could reach Vancouver from Langley.
• Water in most parts of Langley affected by one of the worst floods in memory had receded sufficiently to begin repairing and reopening roads.
Sixty Years Ago
July 17, 1958
• Langley awaited the arrival of Princess Margaret at the opening of the reconstructed Hudson Bay fort in Fort Langley.
• About 160 acres of bog land burned out of control in Glen Valley. The source was believed to be deep down in an area that had been smouldering since early spring.
Fifty Years Ago
July 18, 1968
• Expectations of a mail strike, slated to start at 5 p.m. on July 23, had businesses in an uproar.
• Small frogs, in such numbers that “the whole road appeared to be moving,” were observed at Stokes and Carvolth Roads (20th Avenue and 200th Street). The brown frogs were each about the size of a quarter.
• The Texas Hotel, condemned by inspectors, was demolished, and replaced with a row of stores.
Forty Years Ago
July 19, 1978
• Two Trinity Western College aviation students who had gone missing during a flight from Penticton to Langley three days earlier were found dead in their crashed plane, about 17½ miles (28 km) east of Hope. Both had recently acquired pilot’s licences.
• Langley Cricket Club earned a berth in the Gardner Johnson Shield semi-finals by defeating Simon Fraser University 112-33.
Thirty Years Ago
July 13, 1988
• After a meeting with the minister of education, local school officials were optimistic that they could get funding for a new high school in Walnut Grove.
• Langley MLA Carol Gran felt “affronted and hurt” at being passed over for a cabinet post.
• City council received a 231-signature petition favouring a “passive park” concept for Douglad Park.
Twenty Years Ago
July 17, 1998
• Walnut Grove skaters – and business owners – got their wish: a new skate park was to be built, to give the youngsters a place to work their boards, away from shops and stores.
• Housing starts in both Langleys had dropped by about half, compared to the previous year, according to Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation statistics.
• Langley’s Junior A hockey team, the Hornets, unveiled a new logo which featured a cartoon hornet with a hockey stick.
