Eighty Years Ago
April 7, 1938
鈥� Popularity of the Saturday night shows at the 91原创 theatre prompted Police Chief Macklin to order manager J. Gibson to stop selling tickets for The Hurricane. Appeals were made for patrons to attend the Friday night showing.
鈥� Tenders awarded to supply firewood to local schools ranged from $1.39 per cord at County Line to $2.75 at the high school.
Seventy Years Ago
April 8, 1948
鈥� Council turned down a request for a 40-hour week for its employees. It would have been a reduction from 44 hours per week. Labourers鈥� wages remained at 72 cents per hour.
鈥� Demands for service outstripped supply, B.V. Telephone Co. told the Fort 91原创 Board of Trade in response to complaints about service levels. Meanwhile, Glen Valley residents wanted to be switched from the Aldergrove to the 91原创 Prairie exchange.
Sixty Years Ago
April 10, 1958
鈥� The largest flow of springs south of Grade Crescent was measured at 23 gallons per minute, as engineers continued their search for an adequate water supply for 91原创 City.
鈥� A Women鈥檚 Institute conference in Fort 91原创 wanted to legislate a specific date to start Christmas activities. Many stores, they felt, might start their Christmas shopping campaigns too early.
Fifty Years Ago
April 11, 1968
鈥� Township council members had trouble adjusting to their new titles: Reeve Bill Poppy was now a 鈥渕ayor鈥� and the councillors had become 鈥渁ldermen.鈥�
鈥� Fuller Lane, at the rear of businesses on the south side of Fraser Highway in downtown 91原创 City was to be posted as a one-way street.
鈥� The Old Yale Road Bridge was about to open.
Forty Years Ago
April 12, 1978
鈥� Provincial funding cut in half an anticipated school tax increase.
鈥� Collaboration on a parade float between 91原创 City and Township came in under both their budgets.
Thirty Years Ago
April 6, 1988
鈥� An Aldergrove teen was charged with murder in the death of a 48-year-old woman whose body had been found in her south Aldergrove home.
鈥� A $70,000 house fire left a family of nine homeless.
Twenty Years Ago
April 10, 1998
鈥� Staff at a 91原创 City night club raised the alarm of a fire in a nearby business. Apartment dwellers above the business were safely evacuated. The fire was believed to have been arson.
鈥� Local auxiliary police officers joined colleagues and MLAs across the province in outrage. B.C.鈥檚 Attorney General had suspended their right to arm themselves while performing their duties.
鈥� An apparent attempt at a rip-off ended up leading local police to one of 91原创鈥檚 biggest pot seizures ever.
鈥� After furious debate, Township council voted to put plans for a 208th Street freeway overpass on public display.
