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Looking Back: Teen died followed crash

Our community’s history through the files of the Langley Advance
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Eighty Years Ago

October 14, 1937

Langley residents contributed nearly 30 tons of fruits and vegetables for the people of drought-stricken Saskatchewan. Cash donations totalling $47.25 were also received by the local committee headed by Rev. W. Garbutt.

Fifteen acres of tax-sale land in Brookswood sold for $100. Tax sale of five acres in County Line fetched $75.

Seventy Years Ago

October 16, 1947

Langley Amateur Athletic Association turned down a suggestion to buy 10 acres immediately south of its current holdings. The LAAA decided to sell a number of its lots on the north side of Douglas Crescent, instead, and use the proceeds to upgrade the rest of its property [now Douglas Park].

Sixty Years Ago

October 10, 1957

A 40-pound stone, wedge-shaped at one end and with a grooved neck at the other, was unearthed in a ditch on Norris Road (61st Avenue). A Victoria archaeologist who was unable to identify the object from photographs decided to visit Langley to view the stone in person. He conjectured that it could have been an anchor or an incomplete Native carving.

Art Seller came under fire from council for installing a 1,000-gallon gasoline tank off the Fraser foreshore for use at his Fort Langley sea plane base, without first getting appropriate municipal permit and provincial fire marshal approvals.

Fifty Years Ago

October 12, 1967

Township deputy clerk Miss E.V. Coates was named manager of Langley Centennial Museum in Fort Langley.

Peter Friessen of Aldergrove was elected to one of five directorships on the newly formed B.C. Egg Marketing Board.

Aldergrove realtor Jim Paris was elected president of the Aldergrove Chamber of Commerce.

Forty Years Ago

October 12, 1977

Rising incidents of bad cheques being passed in Langley prompted local police to initiate a “fan-out” program, whereby merchants could quickly inform each other of the identities of perpetrators.

Mayor George Driediger announced that Driediger Farms Ltd. would sponsor and annual $1,000 scholarship for the top student in Langley School District. The scholarship was to be named after teacher Miss Hilda Jude.

Thirty Years Ago

October 14, 1987

Former Langley Township alderman John Beales announced he would run for the mayor’s chair against sitting alderman Len Fowler.

The president of the Langley local of the Canadian Union of Public Employees was arrested in connection with alleged picket line mischief outside the Production Way mail processing plant.

Twenty Years Ago

October 10, 1997

Heidi Klompas died in hospital. She had been in critical condition since she and several other teens were were struck by a car while they were partying at Stokes Pit on Sept. 13. Ashley Reber had been killed immediately in the incident.

Langley City Council decided its experiment with a one-way street through the middle of the downtown core was a success, and voted to keep Fraser Highway that way.

City Council voted 6-1 against accepting applications for any casinos within its borders. Councillor Ron Logan was the lone dissenter.

The SPCA re-established itself in Langley, taking charge of the community’s animal control services.

The Vicwood housing and golf course development proposal for 200th Street at Zero Avenue hit a snag when testing by the provincial environment ministry found high arsenic counts in the soil.