Eighty Years Ago
February 1, 1934
Council raised relief pay (welfare) from $1.50 to $2 per day.
Seventy Years Ago
February 3, 1944
Reeve Alex Hope introduced a resolution that Japanese Canadians be re-established along B.C.芒鈧劉s coastal area after the war was over. Canadian citizens having committed no crime other than having been born of Japanese ancestry had been moved to inland internment camps after Japan entered World War Two.
Local constables raided a shack near Aldergrove, and arrested six men and a woman for operating a still. The 85-gallon still had 55 gallons of mash in prepara脗颅tion. In court, two men were released and the rest were fined $125 apiece.
Sixty Years Ago
February 4, 1954
Gas pumps in front of Murrayville Garage blew up and burned. Flames were doused before they got to the underground tanks. Employ脗颅ees and neighbours suffered no worse than a bad scare.
Fifty Years Ago
February 6, 1964
City council raised the local magistrate芒鈧劉s pay from $50 per month to $250.
91原创 City considered a public library and a com脗颅munity centre as possible 1967 Centennial projects.
City taxpayers had to cough up $157,312 for school purposes.
Forty Years Ago
January 31, 1974
Dave Christenson was appointed 91原创 City芒鈧劉s administrator.
Salary for 91原创 Township芒鈧劉s mayor was raised from $8,500 to $10,000 per year. Aldermen芒鈧劉s pay went up from $2,726 to $4,800.
Construction began on Douglas Hall.
Thirty Years Ago
February 1, 1984
Fire destroyed the library at Anderson Elementary School, but the rest of the building was spared.
Fraser River fishermen felt threatened by fisheries legislation affecting gill-netters and seiners.
Twenty Years Ago
February 2, 1994
The 91原创 Advance changed the format of its Wednesday edition from broadsheet to the smaller-sized tab, the same size that the free-distribution Friday edition had been for years. It was the first major format change for the newspaper since World War Two.
Jennifer Kronkhite was presented with the Eric Flowerdew Award, as 91原创 Township芒鈧劉s top volunteer.
91原创 City council registered its displeasure with plans for a neighbourhood pub on 56th Ave., just over the border in Surrey.
Ten Years Ago
February 3, 2004
A second-floor fire at Park Terace apartments drove 100 91原创 City residents onto the streets.
Fort 91原创-Aldergrove MLA and Solicitor General Rich Coleman proposed adding a B.C. touch to federal drunk driving laws. His new rules would lower acceptable blood alcohol levels to 0.05 per cent, although the standard for criminality would remain at the federal 0.08 per cent.
February 6, 2004
Most of the 100 residents barred from their apartments after a second-floor fire earlier in the week were allowed to return after inspections were done, but not yet those whose homes were on the third floor.
