Langley Times has additional coverage of this issue. Mayor Alberts says in the Langley Times:

"The interview was based on a police advisory and my response was that the police are (prepared). How can anybody interpret that as a welcome?".

See the complete Times article at this link;

http://www.bclocalnews.com/surre...ate=07-04-2008&
LFP Editor | 07.11.08 - 11:25 pm | #

The simple truth is that the Hell's Angels are not at a law abiding group of individuals. They will only obey by the law when it is in their own interests.

They are not worthy of any comment whatsoever. Period.
methinks | 07.12.08 - 9:44 am | #

The Vancouver Province in today's Sunday Province on page A4 wrote the following that they call a clarification:

' The Province would like to clarify comments attributed to Langley Township Mayor Kurt Alberts in a July 10 article.

While the article may have implied the mayor welcomes the Hells Angels, in fact, Alberts strongly states he does not welcome the motorcycle club to Langley for the July 25-26 25th anniversary party. He says police will be out in force to ensure public safety during the event.

"The RCMP have a plan in place with extra resources to deal with anything that might arise and given those extra resources the rest of the community will also continue to be safely covered," Alberts said." '
LFP Editor | 07.13.08 - 10:44 am | #

The Vancouver Province also printed a separate letter from Kurt Alberts, Mayor, Langley Township in their Sunday July 13th, 2008 Province in addition to the clarification.

It can be viewed online here:
http://www.canada.com/theprovinc...ae- 81988e546a3a

This is it also as an Excerpt:

' Mayor's warning
The lead sentence in your story "Langley expects Hells Angels to be 'law-abiding' during bash" (July 10) is not accurate.

The lead-in would more appropriately have been "Langley Township Mayor warns event must be law-abiding and police have resource plan to ensure it is."

Kurt Alberts,
Mayor, Township of Langley '
LFP Editor | 07.14.08 - 11:04 pm | #

The Langley Advance "regrets the error in the July 11 article..". See the posting following.
http://www.canada.com/langleyadv...b8- 2947a3edcfbc
LFP Editor | 07.15.08 - 10:18 am | #