Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1979-12-19
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note: legislative library, Parliament} BuUdings Jan GOVERNMENT By RUDY LANGMANN VANCOUVER - Lawyer Bill Ireland has been Instructed to issue a writ against the government of British Columbia on behalf of his client, Gloucester Properties Ltd. director and agent Ainslie Loretto. "We (Gloucester) properly and democratically won our case of appeal with the provincial cabinet's environment and land use committee," Loretto told The Star last night, "and I have just had a long telephone conversation with our lawyer and we decided to go ahead with a legal suit against the government." According to Loretto, her legal advisors, have left no doubt that Gloucester has "an absolute watertight, airtight, case." "As British Columbians we are not little pawns or puppets," she said. "If Premier Bill Bennett doesn't think'-, that the appeal procedure was right; if he doesn't think that the cabinet ministers who decided in our favor list _ July acted honorably and democratically, then he j should fire them. "I am as much offended on behalf of these cabinet members whose judgment has been questioned as I am on behalf of Gloucester." Loretto said the on-again- off-again action taken by the government and its various commissioned bodies in the celebrated case of the 626 Aldergrove acres was clearly an attempt by somebody to "emasculate" ELUC. "If that is what they want to do," she said, "then we no longer have farmland preservation in British Col- Vol.22 No. 51 Illec\itimusnoncarboruridurp Wednesday, December 19, 1979 18 pages Phone 856-8303 or 856-5212 25« pet copy INDUSTRIAL CENTRE Mayor Oil carpet |ft 0n*gain-of f-again By ANNE BERTING MURRAYVILLE ■ Mayor George Preston was again put on the spot Monday when questioned about his appointment of new auditors for 1980 without specifically notifying t council of the change. The names of Langley chartered accountants Piskorik, Baker and Zacher as auditors were listed among ISO committees and other appointments made by the mayor at his inaugural …
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: 10.14288/1.0420832
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