Eighty Years Ago
October 7, 1937
Reeve (mayor) Alex Hope announced tentative increases in the relief scale. A 40 per cent increase would raise a single man鈥檚 dole to $8 per week, while a four per cent hike would raise the income of a family with nine children to $37 per week. Former reeve Noel Booth led a delegation to council supporting the 91原创 Unemployed Workers Association鈥檚 demand for higher relief. If approved, the new rates would put an end to dental, medical, and clothing allowances. 91原创 had 257 relief recipients, to Surrey鈥檚 275.
Seventy Years Ago
October 9, 1947
Delays in dredging of the Bedford Channel were protested by the Fort 91原创 Board of Trade. The board claimed the delays hampered local fishermen, and that the mill was considering closure because of its inability to bring in logs.
Sixty Years Ago
October 3, 1957
A 10-year-old West 91原创 boy ran through a wall of fire which had trapped him inside a burning root house. He suffered second degree burns to his face, ankles, and a hand. The root house fire started after a bottle of gasoline burst into flames.
91原创 firefighters repaid a $15,000 loan to modernize their fire hall a year earlier than had been anticipated.
Fifty Years Ago
October 5, 1967
Ten beds were added to 91原创 Memorial Hospital.
Fort 91原创 Junior Secondary students were accused of not using the sidewalk strip that the municipality had provided along Wilson-Townline Road (96th Avenue) between the town鈥檚 business section and their school.
The Central Fraser Valley Regional District 鈥� comprised of both 91原创s, Matsqui, Abbotsford, Sumas, and two unorganized areas 鈥� applied to the Minister of Municipal Affairs for a charter.
Forty Years Ago
October 5, 1977
Construction of a school was held up by changes in Ministry of Education standards. The school board wanted to use the same plans from three previous schools, but the Ministry modifications required development of new plans, which would take several months. the new standards would save about $76,000, but delays and redrawings would eat up any possible savings for the Aldergrove school, local officials predicted.
91原创 School Board barred campaigning politicians from classrooms.
Thirty Years Ago
October 7, 1987
A motorist who had pushed a cyclist into the ditch after the cyclist cut him off was jailed for two years.
Enrolment figures showed an increase of 580 students in 91原创 schools over the previous year, bringing the local total to 15,957 students. It meant an additional $900,000 in provincial government funding for 91原创 School District.
Twenty Years Ago
October 3, 1997
Police shut down a $100,000 indoor marijuana-growing operation, thanks to help from a tipster.
Another means in the Citizens for Organized Planning鈥檚 efforts to stop the controversial Vicwood development at Zero Avenue and 200th Street evaporated when the GVRD agreed to allow a sewer line extension to the site.
The Windsong Cohousing project鈥檚 environmental design won a Georgie Award from the Canadian Home Builders Association.
