Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-21
issued: 1973-08-22
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note: 1$ 'Small in size - but big in scope' B i i i H H O > H > f i i V0L46 N0.32 20 PAGES THE STAR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1973 10 CENTS 9 3 SAYS FINANCE ALDERMAN Keep property taxes in check Aid. Gary Smith, Langley district's finance whiz, has asked municipal staff to fight off further tax increases. Smith says there will be a 10 per cent increase, as usual, in assessment values nextyear, but he has asked the staff for "no increase in the millrate next year if at all possible." He says the 10 per cent up- ping of assessment, coupled GIRL KILLED IN HIT-RUN A 15-year-old girl was struck down by a car and fatally injured as she was walking with a friend along Fraser Highway Sunday evening. The girl, Debbie Jill Williams, of 2652 Rainville Road Victoria, was hit by a 1961 or 1962 model white car of unknown make, police said. The driver of the car sped off in spite of the attempt of another motorist to bring the car to a stop. Lower mainland police were seeking the driver of the killer car all day Monday and scanning the scene ail' the accident for clues, but yesterday they were said to have a suspect of the Mt-ahd-run in custody. No name nor further information with regards to the details of the accident were released, however. The two young girls were walking alongside Fraser Highway near 270th Street when the incident occurred shortly before dark at 9:35 p.m. with a hike of "a couple of mills" amount to a 16 per cent increase in tax revenues, and he doesn't feel this is warranted. At the same time, Smith has asked other committee chairmen to "bring out things that necessary have to go up." Recreation needs more money, and so does road building and maintenance, he says. Former finance committee chairman, Aid. Bill Blair, Monday morning pointed to staff wages as a contributory factor in municipal inflation. Blair said wages paid but in July of 1972 amounted to $77,000 but a year later, in July 1973 had shot up to $125,000. Aid. Andy MUne, in an earlier discussion of farmlan…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0420359
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publications
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text