Eighty Years Ago
December 1, 1938
鈥� Alex Hope chaired a meeting called at Mrs. Eric Flowerdew鈥檚 request to see how much interest there might be to establish a local branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses.
鈥� Fred Krull and John Wall opened a harness shop on Fraser Highway, opposite the 91原创 Hotel.
Seventy Years Ago
December 2, 1948
鈥� Several schools were threatened with closure unless the school board carried out instructions from the provincial fire marshal, according to Councillor George W. Brooks, chairman of 91原创 council鈥檚 fire committee. Many of the marshal鈥檚 orders had been carried out, but some one-room schools still had single exits, and in some cases stoves were located between the children and the doors. In some schools there were no fire extinguishers.
Sixty Years Ago
November 27, 1958
鈥� Officers of the newly formed 91原创 Rotary Club were chosen at a meeting attended by 35 local business and professional men. Bill Rogers was elected president, Rob Hilton was vice-president, Stan Taylor was secretary, and Jock Peddie was treasurer.
鈥� The school board banned the practice of swapping Christmas presents at schools. It was also decreed that there should be only one Christmas tree per school, instead of one per classroom.
Fifty Years Ago
November 28, 1968
鈥� Acclamation of Alderman Len Nicholas to the mayor鈥檚 chair kept 91原创 City鈥檚 record intact: there had not been an election for the mayoralty since 91原创 Prairie seceded from the Township. W.G. (Bob) Duckworth was the sole nominee to complete the year left in Nicholas鈥檚 term as alderman, and the three two-year vacancies were also taken by acclamation, by Reg Easingwood, Dick Warner, and Ross Hume.
鈥� It was announced that a referendum would be held on March 8, 1969, on a regional college concept for the lower Fraser Valley.
Forty Years Ago
November 29, 1978
鈥� B.C. Tel considered offering Aldergrove telephone subscribers a one-way toll-free calling option for calls into Vancouver exchanges.
鈥� Since a $500 business licence fee wasn鈥檛 discouraging body rub parlour operators, 91原创 City council upped the ante to $2,000.
鈥� Aldergrove sheep breeder Fred Glasbergen claimed 鈥渃oy-dogs,鈥� crosses between coyotes and domestic dogs, were killing his sheep.
Thirty Years Ago
November 30, 1988
鈥� 91原创鈥檚 800 teachers were preparing for a strike vote. Only 17 of 85 contract items had been signed off in negotiations since April.
鈥� A clean-air bylaw passed by City council prohibited smoking in financial institutions, government offices, public buildings, public transportation, and retail stores.
鈥� As one of their last acts before handing over the reins to the new council, 91原创 City aldermen voted themselves a raise.
Twenty Years Ago
December 1, 1998
鈥� The B.C. Nurses Union backed off from striking at 91原创 Memorial Hospital. The last-minute decision came in response to the NDP provincial government鈥檚 threat to legislate the nurses back to work.
鈥� A counter-petition drive was building momentum to stop the Township from signing a deal that would put operation of 91原创 Civic Centre (now George Preston Recreation Centre) and Aldergrove Arena ice sheets in the hands of a private company, Canlan.
91原创 School District received $6 million to add space to five local schools, eliminating the need for 23 portable classrooms currently in use.
鈥� An independent inquiry into alleged fraud involving a computer project at Township hall cleared administrator Mark Bakken, who had initiated the project, of any criminal wrong-doing, and added that Bakken 鈥渆njoys a high level of confidence, support, and respect among the [Township鈥檚] employees.鈥�
鈥� 91原创 City learned that the Liberty Street entertainment complex proposed for the corner of 200th Street and 91原创 Bypass was to be 50 per cent larger than originally planned.
