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Archive for November 14th, 2008

Abrasive campaign marks Langford election battle – Friday TC

Posted by Cheryl McLachlan on November 14, 2008

The Times Colonist story highlights:

The caller accused Hedstrom of stabbing council in the back after it took her side in an ongoing dispute with the Tower Fence cement plant. Council is taking the plant to court after receiving repeated noise and dust complaints by Hedstrom and others. “Anyways, just to let you know that the builders I know will not be buying their landscaping products from you any more,” the caller says.

The call followed a press release in which Hedstrom and her longtime foe, Dennis Madsen, president of the cement plant, jointly endorsed the Langford Team. The two claim the council challengers found more common ground between the opposing sides than council ever did.

“This is a democracy we live in,” said Hedstrom, who said Read the rest of this entry »

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The big ogre is out to get the little elf: A longtime Langford business, Little Elf, gets a threatening phone call for publicly supporting challengers to incumbent Langford Councillors

Posted by Cheryl McLachlan on November 14, 2008

A longtime small Langford business broke the myth that business owners always back the incumbents, who serve on a council often marketed as business and development friendly, by publicly putting up signs for the Langford Team of Steven Hurdle, Michael Mortimore, Herman Surkis, and Vern Trew as well as Ryan Hinton. Now it seems the big ogre is out to get the little elf for straying too far into the dark woods of politics. Lynne Hedstrom-McAuley, owner of Lynne’s Little Elf Garden Centre, received a call that threatened Read the rest of this entry »

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