Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
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issued: 2024-05-03
issued: 1996-12-18
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note: hJ&ikWMtt^^ fa^H'W, 3089 - 272nd Street ft Ph: (604) 856-8303 ft Fax:856-5212 Illegitimus non carborundum Vol. 38 No. 51 Established 1957 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1996 40 CENTS Santa received a warm welcome from 50 youngsters, Sunday at the Aldergrove Naval Radio Station. George McAdam, a retired officer who has assisted Santa make his appearances here for armed forces children for the past 46 years, says the event has become the highlight of his life: "I'm going to keep doing this until I set some kind of record." -Kurt Langmann photo AWARD FOR HUMANE TREATMENT Farmer moves into next generation ALDERGROVE - A local man is somewhat taken aback by all the attention he's receiving, since the B.C. SPCA named him the first Farmer of the Year award winner. Cors de Lint, a Holland-born veterinarian, said he's honored, but the three year old experimental hog farm's design was driven by practical thinking and his experience as a vet with pigs, which he considers a very intelligent animal. The fact that the design also makes for a natural environment mat makes pigs happier and more relaxed, and earns praise from animal welfare advocates, is well and good, but de Lint points out that it also makes economic sense. He said that in conventional hogbarns, pigs are unable to express their natural character, and this frustration results in them chewing and otherwise injuring each other. Pigs enjoy rooting, and with de Lint's pen designs, "we use their natural behavior. They remove all soiled bedding consistently by themselves." He explained that the pigs push the soiled bedding under a gate, into a gutter, where a scraper system removes it to a greenhouse-type structure. In this 160 foot long building, an in-vessel composting system treats it over a 50 day process to become an odorless fertilizer. This, he considers the most exciting aspect of his farm, and the organic fertilizer is what his company will be concentrating on marketing, rather than the Eco Pork. 'The problem with deep…
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: 10.14288/1.0442127
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