Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [unknown]
issued: 2022-11-03
issued: 1987-03-05
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/alderstar/items/1.0421825/source.json
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note: NEW BYLAW COMING .M". » 'Butts out' to be the rule ALDERGROVE - Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette! And you better do it now, because after July 1 this year you could be fined for lighting up in Langley. Unless, that is, you can find an old barn somewhere behind which you can hide yourself and your disgusting habit. A municipal bylaw is in the ■•■ -worksr:;".""'; " ' .•..-'.- \ Arid according to this local ordinance, in four months time "no person may smoke (cigars, cigarettes, pipes, or other lighted smoking equipment)" in any of the following places: school buses or public buses, elevators, escalators or inside stairways in public buildings, at service lines or service counters, health care facilities, reception- areasy grocery stores, supermarkets, retail shops or business offices visited by the public, theatres, movie theatres, music halls, lecture halls, classrooms, concert halls, auditoriums and gymnasiums, museums and art galleries, public libraries, and in other places of public assembly, except for specifically designated areas for the poor nicotine addicts. .Violators_wiJl.be fjned .anywhere between $50 and $500, according to the draft bylaw. Most of the township councilors like the idea. They are all non- smokers from away back or else reformed users of the cheroot themselves. Only one alderman does not like the idea. "It will be unenforceable," says Aid. Len Fowler, but the other sixjyon-'t listen te-himr— ■ — -'•ibwlerfnys the'inunitiptfiiblfti^' tor has advised that the bylaw might be 'ultra vires' to the provincial municipal act. The other six are determined. "We only have one bylaw control officer," Fowler points out. "What are we going to do if and when complaints come in?" The other councilors decide that will be taken care of. A tough enforcement section will "be included in the bylaw, they say. If people can't police themselves according to the proposed bylaw, The Aldergrove ALDERGROVE - Susanne Warner [left], Trixie Elvers and Stephanie Warren c…
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: 10.14288/1.0421825
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: [place of publication unknown] : [publisher not identified]
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text