Seventy Years Ago

August 1, 1940

Reeve Alex Hope said he was “sick and tired” of the sewer question coming up before council and nothing being done about it. The engineer reported that total cost of a sewer system would be $1,000.

A landowner’s request to do municipal work to pay his taxes fell on deaf ears. He had made the same request the year before, done the work, received the money — and still didn’t pay his taxes.

Ten acres of Aldergrove bottom land was offered for sale for $195.

Sixty Years Ago

August 3, 1950

It was announced that the radio show, “Town Meeting in Canada,” was to be aired from Langley in October, to coincide with the B.C. Teachers Federation convention, also in Langley. The topic of the broadcast was to be, “Are we getting the most out of citizenship for our education dollar?”

Fifty Years Ago

August 4, 1960

Provincial Highways Minister Phil Gaglardi assured Langley Council that Coghlan Rd. (256th St.), cut off by construction of the new freeway, would be re-opened.

Langley City submitted an official agreement to the Township Council for getting water from its wells in the Township to the City’s border.

Forty Years Ago

August 5, 1970

Sue Ann Ens of Langley was named Short Horn Lassie of the Fraser Valley.

Art Seller of Skyways Air Services brought council a proposal to develop the seaplane base east of Fort Langley to include a combined land and water airport – but cautioned council that the project might take some time.

Thirty Years Ago

August 6, 1980

Four people died in Langley in water-related accidents over the weekend. A fifth water victim, a young local man, died in a diving mishap in Maple Ridge.

Twenty Years Ago

August 1, 1990

The annual re-enactment of the arrival of the Fur Brigade at Fort Langley once again drew thousands of spectators.

The Fort Langley Festival of the Performing Arts and Summer Strings brought in a lot of great performing groups — but the audiences failed to materialize for all but the String School which was filled to capacity and a well-attended street dance.

Ten Years Ago

August 1 2000

Langley and North Langley baseball teams were in the hunt for not only local and regional, but national an international titles.

The Langley Advance discovered that a case of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease – more commonly referred to as Mad Cow Disease – at Langley Memorial Hospital had gone unreported to Health Canada.

August 4, 2000

Bev Braaten won the Progressive Conservative nomination for the federal Langley-Abbotsford riding, pitting her against Canadian Alliance incumbent Randy White.

The Langley Advance changed hands as part of the biggest media deal in Canadian business history. The Advance, along with 135 other community newspapers, 13 daily metropolitan newspapers, 85 trade magazines, 50 per cent of the National Post, and Internet properties including canada.com, were sold by Hollinger Inc. to media giant Canwest Global Communications for $3.5 billion. The deal included a seat on the Canwest board for Hollinger chairman Conrad Black.