Announcing The AGHS Community Builder Awards

Alder Grove Heritage Society is pleased to announce the Community Builder Awards. These two new annual awards will be presented at Community Heritage Day, which this year is being held on Saturday 19 August 2023 at the Aldergrove Community Museum & Archives.

There are two categories, one for a current Aldergrove resident and one that is awarded posthumously in recognition of a past Community Builder, which will be decided upon by the AGHS Board of Directors.

The current resident Community Builder Award is open for nominations until 5pm PDT, 16 July 2023. The nominations will then be viewed and a winner chosen by a 5 member committee comprised of 3 AGHS directors plus 1 director each from the Aldergrove Business Association and the Aldergrove Community Association.

Criteria for the current resident award is very simple: A current resident of any age who is an active volunteer (community organization/club members, coaches,

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Aldergrove Star Newspaper Digitization Project Part One Now Online

Aldergrove – In July 2021 former Aldergrove Star newspaper editor Kurt Langmann donated a set of 29 microfilms to the Alder Grove Heritage Society to augment the donation of physical copies of the 1957-2000 newspaper and photographs by his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Rudi Langmann in 2003.

Kurt Langmann making use of the Aldergrove Star microfilm to revisit his first newspaper-published photograph of the Abbotsford Airshow, August 1967

In December 2021, Alder Grove Heritage Society applied for and received financial assistance from the Library British Columbia History Digitization Centre Programme (BCHDP) to have the microfilms digitized by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC, for inclusion in UBC’s Historic Newspaper Collection. The funding covering $4163.77 of the total $6751.65 cost, with the remaining $2587.88 for the project very generously donated by Alder Grove Heritage Society’s supporters.

The completion of part one of the Aldergrove Star Digitization Project enables anyone

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Community Heritage Day Is Nearly Here

Community Heritage Day 2022

The Alder Grove Heritage Society invites you to its 3rd Annual Community Heritage Day being held at the Aldergrove Community Museum & Archives from 11am - 4pm on Saturday 12 August 2022.

A free, family-friendly event, Community Heritage Day is your opportunity to not only meet the volunteers who operate the museum, you can get an in-depth look at the many photos, documents, stories and objects held within its walls - and attendees will be among the first to view a very important recent addition to our community archives in a special new exhibit.

Special guests include the Waceya Métis Society, Langley Spinners & Weavers Guild, Abbotsford Spinners & Weavers Guild, Aldergrove Business Association, with food services provided by the Aldergrove Sea Cadets RCSCC 169/NLCC 125 Columbia. Rumour has it that there will also be an ice cream vendor on site. There will also be an

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Spring Fundraiser

2022 FUNDRAISER:

Alder Grove Heritage Society has just launched its Spring Fundraiser, with the hopes of purchasing much-needed archival preservation supplies. This Fundraiser will run until the end of April 2022.

Our archive has hundreds of documents that need to be preserved and to do so effectively, we need to purchase several hundred dollars' worth of archival supplies.

To raise funds for these supplies, we are partnering with Clearview Garden Shop for a hanging basket fundraiser.

You can purchase a $34.99 voucher online for a 12” basket that will be made available at the beginning of May. This way you are able to select a basket of your choosing at Clearview.

Please use this link to purchase your basket vouchers - the baskets make great Mother's Day gifts.

Thank you for supporting the preservation of our community’s history, and thank you to Clearview Garden Shop for this opportunity.

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