Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
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issued: 2022-11-03
issued: 1987-07-09
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note: *svs '- j?jg-BB».i i- Mawsjijtg It's for the birds... ALDERGROVE - It is strictly for the birds. But Noel Welsh from the Coghlan area west of here is unhappy about his neighbor's "bird cannon" which is being fired dawn to dusk at 14-minute intervals close to his home. The noise is designed to scare birds away from a blueberry farm on Mclnnis Road. Welsh has complained to Langley's bylaw enforcement officer, but this official says there is nothing he can do to make the noise go away. The district's anti-noise bylaw cannot be enforced in an agricultural area, Welsh has been told. "Can nothing be done?" asked Aid. Muriel Arnason in council Monday night. "I feel sorry for Welsh," she added. Arnason said she went to the Welsh residence to listen to the banging and "almost fell to the ground." Welsh says the owners of the Lullaberry Farm themselves live in Clearbrook. The Baffle's recently began farming blueberries on the big property in west Aldergrove and had the apparatus installed to keep starlings and crows away from their crops. The cannon is located about 100 feet from the Welsh home. Councilors say they have not yet received an official complaint from the unhappy resident, but they add that there is probably little they can do to stop the noise. Aldergrove volunteer firemen Jim Ferguson [centre] and Joe Breier [right] received medals for exemplary service from British Columbia's lieutenant- governor, Robert Rogers, at ceremony held at the Otter firehall Monday afternoon- Other recipients of the award were fire chief Gordon Yerkie, Robert Quiring, Ramsey McDonald, Norm Dixon, Duncan Anderson, Larry Hazelton, Jim Duncan, Robert Brown, and Lyle Caswell. Breier and Ferguson have both served the Aldergrove volunteer fire department for 34.4 years. Other Langley firemen have served 20 to 28 years. Housing development stopped MURRARYVILLE - A subdivision proposal for the Salmon River uplands at North Otter is "incompatible and not in keeping with the neighborhood," accor…
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: 10.14288/1.0421836
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