The Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
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issued: 2024-02-22
issued: 1992-04-09
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/alderstar/items/1.0440052/source.json
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note: S^MM£WS£Wi^?wp^fH»mii ^^^^^^W^^^^^^^&^^^^^^^^^ 'Tax grab" adds to troubles LANGLEY - A shortfall of $471,000 in provincial grants to the township has dire consequences for the district. It's a 2.4 percent reduction in the municipal budget forecast and together with an anticipated additional $200 per home charge in school taxes leaves the district with the problem of balancing their own provisional budget, currently in the works. Aid. Aubrey Searle said the township will have difficulty "reconciling the budget with this shortfall" and scolded the province for not "cutting expenses as we thought they should have." Aid. Muriel Arnason countered that with federal transfer payments being reduced, and "resource-based revenues down, it behooves us to get the pencils out and do what housewives do when there's not enough money." Aid. John Campbell calls it a "simple outright tax grab. What happened to open government and consultation' We should resist any cutting just to get the province off the hook. It only delays the impact to the taxpayer." Campbell said the shortfall could "be more than adequately covered in the stablization fund" which has been closed to the municipalities this year as the province uses these funds for other purposes. He called for A member of D.W. Poppy's Rugby Club tries to break away from the scrum during their game against WHA T TO DO. WHA T TO DO Aldergrove, Tuesday. The teams played to a 4-4 tie. - Tim Attwood photo U n i ve rsity propone nts put council on the spot By KURT LANGMANN LANGLEY - Municipal council appears torn on the proposal for a privately-funded Korean university-college in north Aldergrove. The site, previously proposed as a gravel pit and then as a dump for members of the GVRD (Cache Creek was chosen instead), sits between 264 and 272 Streets in the 7200-block, and overlooks the beautiful Glen Valley. Due to the numerous ravines and its soil quality, it has never been developed for farming, but like 80 percent of the township of…
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 Rudy Langmann, April 9, 2003.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0440052
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