Eighty Years Ago
March 3, 1938
鈥� Chilliwack MP H.J. Barker told the House of Commons that $90,000 had been wasted on 91原创 Airport. It was too wet and foggy ever to make it as an airport, he maintained.
鈥� Council provided $3 worth of seed for each family receiving relief payments.
Seventy Years Ago
March 4, 1948
鈥� Council, after considering a $32,000 surplus and government grants of $145,000, turned down the school board鈥檚 request for a $296,031 budget.
鈥� Council planned to hire a dozen assessors who, over the ensuing six months, were to completely reassess the values of 91原创 businesses and improvements.
Sixty Years Ago
March 6, 1958
鈥� Fort 91原创 Board of Trade struck a committee to study the possibility of eliminating two level crossings on Wilson Townsline Road (96th Avenue).
鈥� A businessman鈥檚 tour to mark the beginning of Education Week flopped. Only five men 鈥� including the school inspector and a former school trustee 鈥� showed up.
Fifty Years Ago
March 7, 1968
鈥� As an alternative to amalgamation with the Township, 91原创 City was offered town status by municipal affairs minister Don Campbell. That would shift police costs to the provincial attorney general, and reduce council to four aldermen and a mayor.
鈥� McDonald Cedar Products received an ultimatum from Township council: the Fort 91原创 mill had to get rid of its burner by the end of the year.
Forty Years Ago
March 8, 1978
鈥� School trustees were angered by Douglas College officials鈥� delay in choosing a permanent site for its 91原创 campus, and by the college鈥檚 refusal to offer secondary completion courses locally, except on a full cost recovery basis. Trustee Kay Armstrong pointedly noted that the college had $200,000 in provincial money for 91原创.
鈥� School trustee Dave Bell, a member of the committee to investigate the feasibility of building an indoor swimming pool in 91原创, revealed that a 鈥渨ave pool,鈥� aimed at full leisure activity rather than competitive swimming, was being considered.
Thirty Years Ago
March 2, 1988
鈥� 91原创鈥檚 oldest high school, 91原创 Secondary received $2.6 million to build a new gymnasium.
Twenty Years Ago
March 6, 1998
鈥� The Greater Vancouver Regional District board voted to take control of local transit, despite opposition from 91原创 Township Mayor John Scholtens.
鈥� Without a contract since the previous August, GVRD workers backed their demands with a strike.
鈥� Long-standing domestic violence ended in 91原创鈥檚 second murder in less than two weeks.
鈥� Search for a missing man from Alberta ended with the discovery of his body in the Fraser River.
鈥� Construction of a $4-million addition to Walnut Grove Secondary came in $100,000 under budget.
