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The Chilliwack Progress from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada • Page 43

The Chilliwack Progress from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada • Page 43

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THE CHILLIWACK PROGRESS, Wednesday, September 29, 1976 3C Oilier 3aif3 Jlte Ckiidwack Ualtey. WEISCO COHTItJUOUS ALUM. GUTTERS Custom Made to Any Length Right on the Job Site RESIDENTIAL 'COMMERCIAL BARNS 794-7832 JACK WEISS 51969 E. YALE RD. XT ROSEDALE HOW ALSO AVAILABLE: Lower Mainland held their annual conference in Chilliwack.

Local baseball team won the Fraser Valley Baseball championship, winning three to two over Agassiz. Provincial chapter of the IODE will hold its annual meeting in city hall. October 11, 1911 Chilliwack breeders were a successful in the provincial fair in New Westminster. Report from the police department indicates crime is dropping in this city. Students from Chilliwack high school won many trophies at sports day.

City council has approved a donation of a site for a projected drill hall and a grant of $500 was made to Chilliwack General Hospital. October 9, 1901 Only 4,000 feet of Semiault dyke remains to be completed and upper and lower dyke construction by McLean Brothers is responsible for $13,000 a month in wages. Chilliwack won first prize for the district exhibit at New West-minster with Kelowna, Kamloops, Kent. Burnaby, Surrey and Coquitlam Only Do-lt-Yourself 5" GUTTERS in 16' lengths 75 provincial government will refuse to sanction the borrowing of money by city and township for the proposed $12,000 grounds. City building permits are below last year's mark.

Municipal council learned that provincial government has made an additional grant of $1,000 for use to clear snags from the Fraser River so tugboats with booms can navigate safely. Chilliwack's fire loss so far in 1941 has been only $81.50. Last month was the second wettest September since the Dominion Experimental Farm at Agassiz started to keep records in 1892. Luthor King, a distinguished Negro tenor, sang in Chilliwack United Church before an overflow crowd. October 8, 1931 City and township councils agreed to increase Chilliwack Hospital bank guarantee from $3,000 to $3,500 to meet monthly expenses.

Township council is faced with the problem of providing relief to 60 applicants. Men working in the relief camp on Spences Bridge total 533. There are 1.000 unemployed men in B.C. relief camps. Rev.

G. Turpin was elected to head Community Chest. L. Eyers is secretary and Mayor E. Manuel is treasurer.

Nine planes made use of Chilliwack airport during September. October 6, 1921 Women's Institutes of the October 15, 1966 Chilliwack school district faces a slowdown in parts of its building program. No hold up is expected in contracts, but plans for gymnasiums and activity rooms may have to be set aside. Mormon missionaries are keeping the public informed on the perils of smoking with a home and street survey in which they tell how their religion can help the smoker. Hopes of having a hospital expansion bylaw before the ratepayers are still present but are growing fainter every day.

Harrison Hot Springs resident Walter Henry Fyfe was charge with two counts of murder in Country court. October 11, 1956 Former Fraser Valley MP George Cruickshank announced he will not seek Liberal nomination in next year's federal election. Two hundred more camping units will be built at Cultiis Lake provincial park this year! New agricultural minister, Ralph Chetwynd. made his first official visit to Chilliwack and told local dignitaries they now have two agricultural ministers himself and Kenneth Kiernan. Township decided against having a civic holiday to mark the forthcoming opening of the Agassiz-Rosedale bridge.

Confirmation was received that Lester Pearson will open the new Sardis Junior High School October 23. October 8, 1941 Possibility looms that the Lowest price in town on all gutter accessories Installation kit available with full instructions given flFI Cf hmivhY MICROBIOLOGY STUDENT Doug Smith, 17, of 9266 Armitage Street, Chilliwack, went a long way from home to study microbiology, among other subjects. Doug is a student at the King Campus of Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, located just north of Toronto. He is taking a two-year HistoricalNatural Interpretative Services program. Photo by Peter Scott Sears A British study has indicated virtually all urban non-smokers have measurable amounts of nicotine in their body fluids.

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