Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1978-01-25
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/alderstar/items/1.0420918/source.json
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note: f ■"<-.>: tMHarfi^nt ■rant -linwi w» ws—«J cs;r**i»* ' w __2__'i-i |KBIJ.| ia • l&, E_j_. support H'Ldet? grove n i i ■* h t I i a i^Jfj^J+j-J »'Pftov jjwwi>.-j». «■•'mijuui^iimw*. -.i.iii.jniiui^i.. ■■'iii»j,'...; Is industry being scared away locally? By RUDY LANGMANN MURRAYVILLE —Not enough is being done to attract industry and commerce to the Aldergrove and Langley communities. Aid. Elford Nundal told council here this week. Nundal, who said he was "concerned about the welfare of everybody", claimed that Lang- Icy district council was. in fact discouraging new business from establishing in the district. "We arc throwing stones in front of these people and we are not going to get them to come here." he said. "It is cheaper for them to go into Langley city; those are the facts." Nundal blamed the district's taxation policies as well as newly introduced business license application forms for what he said was a sure way of scaring away business. "They don't feci we are too favorably concerned about them," he said. When the district chose the first of four different options suggested by the provincial government under which to apply the new assessments to the individual taxpayer, it did in fact, he said, hit present and future industry harder than any other segment of society. Under option A. residential homeowners are assessed at 15 percent, commerce at 25 and industry at 30 percent in the calculation of taxes. The heavy tax burden is removed from bona fide farmers under this schedule. "What, else could we do?" asked Aid. Art Brooks. If council instead had chosen option D. council's finance committee chairman said, everyone, homeowner, farmer, businessman and entrepreneur, would have been assessed at 100 percent of market value, resulting in a situation "which would have affected farming and housing severely." Nundal replied that Langley city had chosen one of the other options, and as a result business would establish in the city before it would choose the district…
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: 10.14288/1.0420918
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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