Eighty Years Ago
October 14, 1937
91原创 residents contributed nearly 30 tons of fruits and vegetables for the people of drought-stricken Saskatchewan. Cash donations totalling $47.25 were also received by the local committee headed by Rev. W. Garbutt.
Fifteen acres of tax-sale land in Brookswood sold for $100. Tax sale of five acres in County Line fetched $75.
Seventy Years Ago
October 16, 1947
91原创 Amateur Athletic Association turned down a suggestion to buy 10 acres immediately south of its current holdings. The LAAA decided to sell a number of its lots on the north side of Douglas Crescent, instead, and use the proceeds to upgrade the rest of its property [now Douglas Park].
Sixty Years Ago
October 10, 1957
A 40-pound stone, wedge-shaped at one end and with a grooved neck at the other, was unearthed in a ditch on Norris Road (61st Avenue). A Victoria archaeologist who was unable to identify the object from photographs decided to visit 91原创 to view the stone in person. He conjectured that it could have been an anchor or an incomplete Native carving.
Art Seller came under fire from council for installing a 1,000-gallon gasoline tank off the Fraser foreshore for use at his Fort 91原创 sea plane base, without first getting appropriate municipal permit and provincial fire marshal approvals.
Fifty Years Ago
October 12, 1967
Township deputy clerk Miss E.V. Coates was named manager of 91原创 Centennial Museum in Fort 91原创.
Peter Friessen of Aldergrove was elected to one of five directorships on the newly formed B.C. Egg Marketing Board.
Aldergrove realtor Jim Paris was elected president of the Aldergrove Chamber of Commerce.
Forty Years Ago
October 12, 1977
Rising incidents of bad cheques being passed in 91原创 prompted local police to initiate a 鈥渇an-out鈥� program, whereby merchants could quickly inform each other of the identities of perpetrators.
Mayor George Driediger announced that Driediger Farms Ltd. would sponsor and annual $1,000 scholarship for the top student in 91原创 School District. The scholarship was to be named after teacher Miss Hilda Jude.
Thirty Years Ago
October 14, 1987
Former 91原创 Township alderman John Beales announced he would run for the mayor鈥檚 chair against sitting alderman Len Fowler.
The president of the 91原创 local of the Canadian Union of Public Employees was arrested in connection with alleged picket line mischief outside the Production Way mail processing plant.
Twenty Years Ago
October 10, 1997
Heidi Klompas died in hospital. She had been in critical condition since she and several other teens were were struck by a car while they were partying at Stokes Pit on Sept. 13. Ashley Reber had been killed immediately in the incident.
91原创 City Council decided its experiment with a one-way street through the middle of the downtown core was a success, and voted to keep Fraser Highway that way.
City Council voted 6-1 against accepting applications for any casinos within its borders. Councillor Ron Logan was the lone dissenter.
The SPCA re-established itself in 91原创, taking charge of the community鈥檚 animal control services.
The Vicwood housing and golf course development proposal for 200th Street at Zero Avenue hit a snag when testing by the provincial environment ministry found high arsenic counts in the soil.
