Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [unknown]
issued: 2022-11-03
issued: 1987-08-06
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note: Valley's Only FREE CLASSIFIED ADS! *J I t m% § Local pilot, passengers survive crash into ocean i DELTA - Four local men were taken to hospital here Thursday night after they survived a plane crash into a shallow Fraser River tidal flat. Pilot Murray Lundberg and three passengers in the light plane were enroute from Port Hardy to Boundary Bay when the engine stopped, forcing the crash landing. The four men prepared themselves by jamming the doors open and gathering life jackets. Following impact, they dove into the waters, expecting to have to swim for it, but were pleasantly surprised to find themselves in only a metre of water. The men, suffering relatively minor injuries, fired flares and waited for the Coast Guard hovercraft to rescue them. Aside from Lundberg, 37, of Langley, the passengers included commercial fishermen Bob Secord, 33, of Mount Lehman, Dennis Malloy, 35, of Langley and David Secord, 34, of Richmond. Archie McDonald is now 75 but he's still fiesty. The president of the north-east Langley rate payers' association is leading the battle against a proposed 200-acre gravel pit, adjacent to Bree Pit [above], which Glen Valley residents believe will destroy their watershed. VOL. 29 No. 31 THURSDAY, AUGUST 6,1987 30 CENTS Established 1957 3089 - 272 Street, Aldergrove, B.C. Cell B56-8303 or 856-5212 Farmers fear land will dry out By KURT LANGMANN GLEN VALLEY - Gravel extraction from 200 hillside acres here will ruin the watersheds of almost 100 property owners on 2,000 acres below the proposed pits, says a spokesman for a local ratepayers' group. Archie McDonald lives on acreage at 8355-264 Street, immediately south of the properties which a consortium of property owners propose to strip-mine. Advance Holdings and NorJay- Casablanca received tentative approval from the province's Agricultural Land'Commission on June 21, 1985, to remove about 1.6 million cubic metres from the hillside. The applicants say they wish to re-contour the hillside into a platea…
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: 10.14288/1.0421851
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