Eighty Years Ago
August 4, 1938
鈥� The junior farmers鈥� club was denied use of a 91原创 school bus, after Trustee Noel Booth鈥檚 objection denied the unanimous consent required by any outside organization.
鈥� Principal H.L. Manzer asked the school board for more accommodation and another teacher at the high school. He expected eight classes to start the fall term.
Seventy Years Ago
August 5, 1948
鈥� Three Canadians and two Americans were arrested at the border U.S. Customs officers, in connection with smuggling of cattle from 91原创 into Whatcom County.
鈥� The Lower Mainland Artificial Insemination Association announced plans to build a bull farm in Milner. The three-year-old association stocked 24 bulls of four main breeds: Jersey, Holstein, Guernsey, and Ayrshire.
Sixty Years Ago
August 7, 1958
鈥� July precipitation had been limited to a single rainfall of 0.41 inches (1 cm), and the temperature had reached 100.3潞F (37.9潞C) on July 27. Drought conditions were deemed worse than those of 1951.
鈥� Among the brush and grass fires that had been springing up all over 91原创 was a large peat-bog fire that had been burning for several weeks.
Fifty Years Ago
August 8, 1968
鈥� 91原创 had had 29 new home starts in July, four more than in July of the previous year.
鈥� Gross sewer system costs for Aldergrove were estimated at $424,566. Net costs were calculated at $330,166.
Forty Years Ago
August 9, 1978
鈥� Aldergrove Secondary School received only temporary accreditation and was told to 鈥渃lean up its act鈥� before the Department of Education would offer approval. 91原创 Secondary had faced a similar edict the previous year.
Thirty Years Ago
August 3, 1988
鈥� Police were looking for a 58-year-old woman who had disappeared with her three-year-old granddaughter.
鈥� Hundreds of geese made an impressive display in an unscheduled flypast during the Brigade Days activities.
Twenty Years Ago
August 7, 1998
鈥� A Willowbrook mall store was shut down for several days after a car crashed through the wall in a spectacular incident. The driver was not badly injured.
鈥� 91原创 sent trucks and personnel to help out in the fire-ravaged Salmon Arm region.
鈥� The Township鈥檚 fire department top officers were preparing to move into their new headquarters at Murrayville Fire Hall.
