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		<title>Bike rentals free at Eagle Ridge</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/135262748.html
Bike rentals free at Eagle Ridge
By Edward Hill &#8211; Goldstream News Gazette
Published: December 09, 2011 9:00 AM
Langford residents can now cycle city bike lanes and trails for free, thanks to a bike borrowing program run out of City Centre Park.
Residents can check out one of 10 cruising or mountain bikes for free up to three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blasting causes headaches for Langford homeowners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 00:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blasting causes headaches for Langford homeowners
Posted By: Danielle Pope
05/11/2011 12:00 AM
http://mondaymag.com/articles/entry/blasting-causes-headaches-for-langford-homeowners/
Langford has no control over blasting, says city planner
When Derek Galon and his wife Margaret first heard the explosion that made their house shudder, their dishes shatter and pictures shake off the wall, they thought it was an earthquake.
The couple had lived in their Langford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family pushing to reestablish community garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Edward Hill &#8211; Goldstream News Gazette
Published: April 21, 2011 11:00 AM
Updated: April 21, 2011 11:25 AM

Christina Willing opens the tall wire gate to what was once a community garden, now overgrown with broom and largely forgotten. She scowls at a sign that reads “Willing Park Closed.”
About 10 years ago the garden was abandoned, although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Langford not a happy home for all</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Langford not a happy home for all
Published: goldstreamgazette.com September 17, 2010
I couldn’t disagree more strongly with claims about Langford being a culturally vibrant, environmentally friendly community.
In south Langford where I live there have or are six subdivisions going in within a block of my house. First they cut down 98 per cent of the trees, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hazelwood Rd Construction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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 lands and farms are being taken over by housing subdivisions

This semi-rural area in a flood plain is subjected to heavy construction as houses are levelled, soil is scraped and farmers try to cope with the new reality.  
There will only a chain link fence separating a herd of cattle from the new subdivision, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting our Farmland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dean Murdock
Saanich Councillor, and
Peninsula Agricultural Commission Liaison
Once again, our region is faced with the challenge of proposals to develop agricultural land for residential purposes. The market value of farm land as potential real estate is a tempting cash infusion for farmers struggling to maintain a profit.  But this is a short-term solution.  In the long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing our local landscapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manufacturing our local landscapes
Published: August 03, 2010 1:00 PM
A native black-cap bush used to grow beside the road just along from my place. It yielded tasty berries unlike anything you can buy.
To me the bush seemed such a treasure that in a dry August I carried buckets to water it. So I was shocked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An early Langford Green Advocate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecting science and art
Focus Magazine July 2010

BRIAN GRISON
When the Garry oak meadows of Langford were threatened, naturalist Fran Benton turned to art and politics.

Considering that she is an artist, it is interesting that Fran Benton’s first passion is natural history, a branch of science. With a degree in biology and geography from the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food tourism comes to Langford!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food tourism comes to Langford!
Langford is fortunate to be fairly close to the world-renowned destination for local food tourists &#8211; the Sooke Harbour House.  A food tourist /journalist sought out the fine local food there, but also made a point of visiting a place in Langford where a foody feels at home.
In a newly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crown jewel of this continent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[anonymous wrote:
The following is a one-paragraph excerpt from the April issue of FOCUS Magazine by Gordon O’Connor p.15  who is the forest campaigner with the Dogwood Initiative. It just applies so beautifully to Langford that one cannot help but think of Langford while reading it.

“Vancouver Island is one of the crown jewels of this continent. [...]]]></description>
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