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LYNDEN — The incorporated town’s ban on Sunday alcohol sales has been repealed after 41 years on the books.

In a 4-3 vote Monday, Oct. 20, City Council members lifted the Sunday ban.

A five business-day time must pass for the annulment to be official. That means it’ll be after next Monday before the ban is officially lifted.

Council members Gary Bode, Gerald Kuiken, Doug Adelstein and Tobey Gelder voted in favor of repealing the law. Council members Ron De Valois, Nick Laninga and Dave Burns voted against annual.

Council members grappled with various issues, including whether or not repealing the ban might create more work for a police force that will subsist looking at a “hold-the-line budget,” similar to De Valois put it. They discussed whether the community’s values and character potency be damaged and whether the opposed to change, Christian population in the town might be adversely affected.

In the period, the greater number decided that a one-day-a-week prohibitory penalty made no sense.

“In my heart I don’t be persuaded that by lifting this ban we are going to see a change. It’session the people in this community that make this common what it is,” Kuiken said. “And I make no doubt of population should be given a choice.”

Laninga, though, expressed belong to that the city might change in more negative passage by dint of. repealing the law, which has been in place since 1967.

“Many people do laugh and scoff at our town but we feel secure in the things that are concern of our embedded culture and they’re guarantee in that,” he before-mentioned. “I’hodge-podge talking relative to the values that people have held in this community for many years.”

Adelstein, like all council members, said he saw valid points on both sides of the argument. But for him, it came down to the fact that six days of the week residents can purchase pure spirit. So why not a seventh?

“I really have trouble supporting a law that says to our adults that we know better,” he said.

Adelstein also was concerned about some of the public comments attached the issue at a previous convocation meeting.

“I didn’t like some of the insinuation and judgment and questioning of the vulgar’s morality or Christianity,” he said. “I didn’t like words being bandied about like pious or holiness or canter. This is a external local remedy around which reasonable people can disagree.”