The Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
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issued: 2024-02-22
issued: 1995-09-27
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note: — BYPASS LEFT FOR LATER REVIEW Y ^ Town growth plan goes to land commission ALDERGROVE - The township's application to the Agricultural Land Commission to remove some 500 acres surrounding the town from the land freeze was approved by council Monday. The highly contentious issue of a proposed Fraser Highway bypass remains part of the application, however its exact alignment will be left for a later decision when the highways ministry decides it's needed. A property at 2456 - 272 Street was also removed from the application at the owner's request. The township's proposal for development of future plans for this community follow the opinions of most who spoke at a packed and lengthy public hearing held here -on June 6. .Mayor John Scholtens has said that a previously proposed alignment of the bypass was not necessarily the best location, and there was "room" in the ALR-exemp- tion application to move it further south. Township planners said it was "beyond the jurisdiction of the township to plan for such a route, but it is in the interest of the township to ensure that a route is Baby-kissing is usually reserved for politicians, but four month old Carter Williams was more interested in ^meeting the first-ever Fraser River swimmer, Fin Donnelly when he arrived at Matsqui Trail Park, Friday. Mayor George Ferguson and MLA John van Dongen also got their chance to shake the marathoner's hand and leave cheques behind for Donnelly's fund-raiser for community river enhancement projects. Donnelly was slowed by tidal currents in this stretch of his 1,300 kilometre swim from the river's source, in the shadow of Mount Terry Fox, to the mouth at Delta. The water's about ten degrees warmer here than it was at the beginning, but he was sorry to remark that the pollution was noticeably worse after Agassiz, and especially after seemingly "pristine days on end" before arriving at Prince George. However, he ran into a positive sign, a seal under the Mission bridge - "He was very curious…
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: 10.14288/1.0440099
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