Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1976-07-28
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note: Wktm h-oflneltl Ubrary Jnn 77 Viotoria BC Head butting contest behind closed doors By RUDY LANGMANN MURRAYVILLE — When asked by this reporter how his joust with Langley city Mayor Bob Duckworth is coming. Mayor George Driediger said Monday the two Langley colleagues were not jousting, but he intended to renounce Duckworth's statements in a letter to the editor of The Star of two weeks ago. Driediger said the two Langley councils would have a joint meeting at two o'clock on August 4. Behind closed doors. And to further determine who pays for what and why not. After the head-butting contest, said Driediger, he would release a complete and comprehensive blow by blow report. "And then he (Duckworth) can claim 'horse feathers' all he wants." said Driediger. The distrie mayor allowed that Duckworth's claim that the provincial government and not the district municipality pays for tho policing of the city, is.right. But. he said, that was not the whole picture. Taxpayers in the municipality pay the bill for the cop shop on the hill, all facilities and civic employees as well. And yet, Langley city wants to have twelve men of the joint police force on constant duty in the city. "They can have them." he said. "But then let them open their own police station down there. Let them hire their own radio operators and secretaries." And it is the same with recreation, he said. Recreation director Darch Oi- bur'nc spends a lot of time in Langley city catering to the pastime needs of the residents there. Paid for by the district ratepayers, claimed the mayor. Duckworth claimed just as emphatically that the city government pays its own way, and that Driediger's remarks arc nothing but "horsefeathers." The city mayor also said he always has been in favor of an amalgamation of the two Langleys. but that the current "all- time low" in relations between the two civic governments pro- hahly would cause his council to seriously reconsider such a move. Driediger said he. too. always has been …
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: 10.14288/1.0420413
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
type: Text