Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1976-10-27
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note: ' Prwtnoi»l Ubraxy 3m 77 Vlotorla BC The Aldergrove^Star Vol. 19 No. 42 Wednesday, October 27, 1976 All the news that fits, we print This week-'30 pages Phone 856-8303 or 856-5212 15c per copy TELEPHONE SURVEY Trend continues, says chamber official ALDERGROVE — Survey forms are still coming into chamber of commerce secretary Walt Liber's office, although the survey — at least unofficially — was closed last week when about 1.000 completed forms from an advertising campaign in The Star were turned over to B.C. Tel representative Frank Bogle. The results of the latest returns indicate the same general trend as the forms first submitted, says Liber. More than 90 percent in favor of the metropolitan 'free calling' area to be extended to take in the 856-telephone exchange. Since October 13, when the first 1,000 ballots were handed to Bogle at a chamber function, another few hundred have come in, Liber says. And they are still coming, although the pace has slowed somewhat from the about 50-a-day returned shortly after the ads first appeared. B.C. Tel's district office in Abbotsford is currently studying the survey forms and comments made by local telephone subscribers. Fat cat bureaucrats all, says mayor Telephone exchange a separatist line? MURRAYVILLE - "They're all a bunch of fat cats," said the mayor. Aid. Jim Lee. however, compared the Greater Vancouver regional district to an octopus. "1 can see the tentacles reach, ing out here from the GVRD," he said. "They want regional government from Vancouver to Hope,'* said Mayor George Driediger. "It's just another big. fat bureaucracy." GVRD has urged the provincial government not to exclude 1,720 acres in the Chilliwack township from Ihc agricultural land reserve. City developers there wanted the land to the southwest of the city included in the urban area. GVRD wanted the land left in the reserve. "What have Ihey (GVRD) got to do with Chilliwack, anyway?" asked Driediger. "The last thing we want to happen is their planners…
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: 10.14288/1.0420380
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
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