The Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
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issued: 2024-02-22
issued: 1995-11-29
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note: I— — ■NTS OUTLINE THEIR VISION FOR FUTURE Family farms finished in Langley By KURT LANGMANN LANOLEY - Family farming in the township is as dead as the dodo bird and only agri-business on an industrial scale in industrial parks has "some merit." Margaret Ormston was the only Aldergrove resident to speak at the public hearing called by the township over its proposed "temporary experimental research and demonstration composting site permit bylaw" on Monday evening, and she called the preparation of mushroom growing medium "an industrial procedure, comparable to making chemical fertilizers." The location for this site, yet to be determined according to council and staff, "will become pennanent and large, and should be located in an industrial zone at least two miles away from homes," said Ormston. She observed that distance is how far the smell from The Answer composting plant at 8 Avenue and LeFeuvre Road travels, "as the stench has defied all the best efforts" of its operators to contain and mitigate it. "Farming is a tax-cheap way of making money; the land's cheap, taxes are low," she said. "Agribusiness views fields as a waste of land. Most animals spend all their lives in barns, never seeing the green fields." Residential homeowners provide two-thirds of property tax revenues, compared to a small fraction from fanners who qualify for fann exemption, and the residents "can't be expected to put up" with the "obnoxious" smells and the tax burden. "All levels of government have failed to recognize the changing face of fanning. Council has to take responsibility — all its setbacks for barns are inadequate aesthetically," said Ormston. "Apply grandfathering rights to current sites and refuse all others," until such time council draws up new restrictive bylaws. Eleven members of the Coalition of Concerned Citizens also spoke passionately for better than an hour against pennitting on-site composting at the two new T&T farms mushroom barns on 232 Street Harold Swift said th…
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: 10.14288/1.0440083
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