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Waste turns green pg A10
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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My, what a big appetite you have! While her dad Don lent a pair of helping hands, twoyear-old Charlotte Jacklin had a jaw-dropping experience feeding handfuls of grass to a very hungry goat Saturday at the Fort Langley National Historic Site. Charlotte and her family were in Fort Langley for the Fort Farm Fair over the Labour Day long weekend. From Saturday until Monday, visitors explored the heritage garden, saw farm animals, and learned about the fort’s farming past. Free cooking lessons and pony rides were also offered.
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Saturday at McLeod Athletic Park that the tournament got off to a smooth start. “The weather’s held, which has been great, so we are very happy with that,” he said. by Troy Landreville “Everyone’s getting their first games in, so we’ve been very tlandreville@langleyadvance.com pleased with how everything has On the opening day of the turned out with the tournament, Langley Labour so far.” Day Michael J. Shopland said Smith Memorial “Once the planning for Tournament, chair this year’s LLDT games get Jim Shopland was in started almost going, I start a sunny mood – and as soon as last not just because of to wind down a year’s event the pleasant late wrapped up. little bit.” summer weather. He said the The 12th annual Jim Shopland LLDT organizing youth soccer tourcommittee met nament, known as the LLDT, on a monthly basis leading up to drew 128 teams of boys and girls the summertime, adding that the ranging in ages from U11 to U18 bulk of the prep work was done to 30 fields throughout Langley in July and August. from Sept. 4-6. “This last week, there’s the Shopland, in his fifth year final preparations, making sure as chair of the LLDT, told everything’s ready to go, and the Advance on a partly sunny the fields are ready to go, and
Langley United’s Graham Thornton put his hands to his head after a missed scoring opportunity against the Ladner Cobras Saturday at Noel Booth Park. The U16 silver boys soccer game was part of the Langley Labour Day Michael J. Smith Memorial Tournament, which ran Sept. 4-6. Troy Landreville/Langley Advance
the teams have all checked in and stuff like that,” he said. “It’s been good, though. It’s been nice having the same people [on the committee] for the second year in a row.” Shopland said once the tournament begins to roll, his stress level goes down. “The teams show up, the referees are there, and as long as the weather holds off, we’re
just fine,” he said. “It’s sort of the last couple of nights before the tournament, where we are making sure we’ve covered all the details, and that we haven’t scheduled two games on the same field at the same time… all those little details. “Once the games get going, I start to wind down a little bit, and then by Monday afternoon, I feel much more comfortable.”