Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1979-08-29
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note: -w Xe'glftlativo Library,. ParUiPDi* Building Jan 80 ALD^GROVE - One of the biggest construction .projects ever Has been taking place much to the wonder of local citizens during recent weeks. . This' marvellous piece of engineering know,how, unequalled by the Great Pyramid of Khufu or the long and arduous technical wprk that went before man first set foot upon the moon, Is progressing beyond all expectations, ' Aldergrove residents have been watched while gazing in deep awe at heroic municipal works crews who have pushed .man's endurance to the. snap- | ping point or beyond as they have hoisted extremely. heavy' two by three feet culverts Into place in pre-cut holes in the sidewalk. Tourists from out of town stop and shake their heads In wonder. How can it possibly be done? It is a fantastic and bold new design and engineering concept. A project of this type takes time. Rome was not built in a single day and neither can Aldergrovians expect this tremendous and absolutely enormous project to be quickly : completed. It is only about three weeks ago the vanguard of courageous municipal workers first drove into'town In their crew cab Vehicles, pulling compressors and heavy duty farm tractors behind them. After their first coffee break they (almost) immediately set out to slice up the concrete sidewalks with masonry saws. Later they returned with jackhammers to chop the 30-inch square by four-inch thick concrete slabs up into tiny pebbles. These were carted away in stand-by dump trucks after the front end loaders had been at work. Numerous coffee breaks later,' and after the project superintendents had conferred with design engineers, the crews returned to hoist the sections of; pipe: into the newly created four-inch deep holes In the' sidewalk. This Was perhaps 'the greatest feat of all carried out to date by the intrepid workers. They ingeniously wrapped logging chains around the. culverts and lifted them off the ground with a front end loading tractor. They were caref…
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: 10.14288/1.0420796
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