LangleyAdvance
Shine on
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Your community newspaper since 1931
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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Santa visited with dozens of little ones in Fort Langley, including five-year-old Breanne Lammers.
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Santa floats into village Santa Claus used an alternative mode of transport for his appearance in Fort Langley Sunday evening. He left his sleigh and reindeer at MORE home, arriving at the PHOTOS Paddlesport ONLINE Dock aboard a Fort Langley Canoe Club vessel. From there, Santa, the children and their families went from the docks towards the Fort Langley CN Train Station for the lighting of a Christmas tree.
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Safety
Fingerprinting irks volunteer
A Langley volunteer was subject to another background check last week, due to a change in policy.
man is that they were both born on the people applying to work with children, the same day in 1938. elderly, or the handicapped could require The fingerprinting is part of a new polfingerprinting if they, too, share their birthicy when volunteers work with vulnerable day with a former sex offender. people – typically children but also the elderOmelaniec has been told it could be up to ly or handicapped. 120 days before he gets the word back that “You can change your name he is not, in fact, the same by Matthew Claxton legally when you get out of jail,” person as the unknown sex mclaxton@langleyadvance.com “It’s kind of said Langley RCMP Supt. Derek offender. However, he’s been bureaucracy Sam Omelaniec is facing the prospect of Cooke. “You can’t change your told he will be allowed to being fingerprinted every year, thanks to a date of birth.” continue work in the reading gone crazy.” coincidence of birth. Therefore, the new searches program. Sam Omelaniec Omelaniec, a prominent Langley businesswill prevent people from slipping He quipped that he would man and volunteer, has been reading to chil- through the cracks if they’ve have picked a different name dren at Douglas Park Elementary for the past changed their names. if he had changed it. dozen years. However, it is also resulting “I don’t think I would have changed it to This year, when he was in more matches on birthSam Omelaniec,” he quipped. “I would have “They know renewing his criminal record dates, and more people getchanged it to Sam Smith.” it’s not me, but check, he was told there was ting fingerprinted in Langley, Omelaniec is concerned that he may have a complication. He apparently Cooke said. to get his fingerprints taken every year. He officialdom has shares the same date of birth The exact numbers of how would rather have the prints kept on file. He to clear me in with a pardoned sex offender. many were not available, but presumably has fingerprints on file with the Ottawa.” “They know it’s not me, but Cooke said it was significant government from his military service decofficialdom has to clear me in compared to the old system. ades ago, but those are stored separately. Sam Omelaniec Ottawa,” Omelaniec said. There is no extra processOmelaniec is also concerned about the On Thursday last week, ing fee for fingerprinting for time this is taking up for the RCMP and Omelaniec had to be fingerprinted at the volunteer positions. However, job applicants government workers who must process the Aldergrove Community Police Office. His who require the checks will need to pay $25 information annually. fingerprints will be checked against the sex to cover work done in Ottawa. “It’s kind of bureaucracy gone crazy,” he offender. All Omelaniec knows about the Presumably, that would mean many said.