Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
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issued: 2022-11-17
issued: 1988-05-05
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note: Property taxes up by $83 MURRAYVILLE - The average homeowner in Aldergrove and Langley will have to dig deeper into his or her pocket this year. Taxes will be going up by an expected $83 for a house with an $80,000 property assessment. Cost increases, minicipal growth, and resident requests for services are blamed for the increase. The township's annual budget, app roved by council this week, contains a 6.9 percent increase in tax levies over 1987. Nevertheless, according to treasurer Steve Wilcock, "Langley taxes are expected to compare favorably with those of other lower mainland municipalities". Wilcock says taxes over the past six years have increased at a rate lower than that of inflation. VOL. 30 No. 18 THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1988 30 CENTS Established 1957 3069 - 272 Street, Aldergrove, B.C. Call 850-0303 or 856-5212 Enhancement seen MURRAYVILLE - Plans are under way for public improvements to the Aldergrove and Brookswood commercial areas. Included in Langley township's 1988 budget are funds "for the enhancement of the Aldergrove and Brookswood commercial areas, an improved civic core in Murrayville, as well as new parks and playing fields'" Also in the budget are plans for the construction of a new RCMP building here at Murrayville. Aldergrove Groeneveld students Kim and Andrea Davidson drink their milk finishing the school's supplied by Dairyland after annual Milk Run. 10th FOR BUS TAX EXEMPTION Beales to petition Johnston Great turnout for By RUDY LANGMANN MURRAYVILLE - They have not given up yet. This week, Mayor John Beales and municipal administrator Jim Godfrey will be taking the ferry to Victoria to have a chat with municipal affairs minister Rita Johnston. It's about the tax exempt status councilors sought for Aldergrove in regards to the three-cent-a- litre gasoline levy by the B.C. Transit commission. When councilors entered into an agreement with the commission earlier this spring, they believed Aldergrove would be exempt from the tax. Later, the commis…
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: 10.14288/1.0422450
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