Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1981-02-04
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note: Driver ruins soccer pitch ALDERGROVE - Vandalism in Aldergrove continues to effect almost every cross- section of the community. In the past week a number of private homes and one schoolyard were attacked by motorists, who used vehicles to tear up lawns. At Shortreed. elementary school the damage was devastating. Since the school opened it has had drainage problems on its soccer pitches and • gradually the problems have been minimized. In recent weeks the lawns have been growing lush and the rainwater has been draining reasonably well. It seems you can't win, however, because the soccer More burglaries plague area ALDERGROVE - A six-string electric 'Framus' guitar, brown in color, was stolen from a residence in the 5400 block 272 Street last Thursday. The instrument is valued at $500. Police are also investigating theft from two lockers at the Aldergrove senior secondary school. Stolen from the locked cupboards were a $400 Armstrong .flute, serial number 1042817696. Also a Scientist calculator valued at $50. , Some time Sunday the Aldergrove garbage dump's office was broken into . and ticket receipts stolen. The burglary is believed the work of juveniles. Police are still investigating. pitches now resemble ploughed cornfields, having been torn up by some crazed individual who took a car into the schoolyard and drove it in circles over the wet turf. Huge ruts form a haphazard partem on the grass, totally destroying what could have become one of the finest summertime grass pitches in town. A resident of the condominiums adjacent to the school saw the incident and reported it to police, and a number of children In the school say they too saw the car and know the identity of the driver. Police, however, will not begin the investigation until, later this week due' to shift rotation schedules of the detachment. - It is not known whether the school was vandalized by the same driver who attacked the lawns of a number of private homes in the Aldergrove area last week. iegif…
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: 10.14288/1.0420711
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