Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1976-10-20
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note: trorlwUX library Jun 77 Victoria BC The Aldergrove^Star All tlie news that fits, we print Vol. 19 No. 41 Wednesday, October 20, 1976 V Phone 856-8303 or 856-5212 1SC per copy Toll free calling wanted by 99.9 percent... DRIEDIGER SPELLS /T ALL OUT £ALDERGROVE — Ninety-nine- l| point-nine percent of the business :':'.: people in Aldergrove telephone S exchange are in favor of gaining :•:■'free-calling' privileges' to the :| Greater Vancouver .area, Walt j; Liber told a chamber of commerce ?5 meeting here last Wednesday ■:•; night. :3 Liber said he had just finished ■;!; tabulating the returns of a public ji; opinion poll conducted through an :•:■ advertising campaign in The Star. :■:• Better than 20 percent of the ¥i people living in the exchange, j: which reaches from 244 Street in j! the west to Mt. Lehman Road in fi; the cast, had responded to the |; poll, Liber said. S There arc approximately 4.700 S telephone subscribers within the Aldergrove switch. :• Of these about 10 percent are i business people. •: Liber handed over the results to ji B.C. Tel district manager Frank ■: Bureaucracy, you want to hear about government bureaucracy? By RUDY UNGMANN Bogle, who said his company ijALDERGROVE - Speaking at a would certainly be studying the -..chamber of commerce dinner figures, with an eye to conducting jilhcre last Wednesday night Lang- an official subscriber survey once :■:•. the cost factor had been worked :■'• ■* ' out. The survey showed, said Liber, ;i that people who responded ave-1 rage four calls per month to the ii metropolitan area at the present : time, ;i It also showed that many :• people make their calls to the city :; while in Langley, although they : would prefer to make them from ; their own homes. ;i Icy district mayor George Driediger was in top form. Driediger gave the finest speech, bar none, this reporter has ever heard flowing from his lips. Sure, he exaggerated and many. parts of the address had to be accepted with a grain of salt — but, other…
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: 10.14288/1.0420414
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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