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Newspaper
Chetwynd The Echo
Location
Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 25, 1971
Page
3
Chetwynd couple Dave and Diane LaFortune welcomed a baby girl on August 9 weighing nine pounds five ounces. Barbara Darosh, a former George Peck employee, congratulates on the new paper and its quality.
Fred Taylor is hospitalized after a logging accident Friday. The injury occurred when a bucking leg kicked back, fracturing his knee. He is expected to stay in St Joseph General Hospital in Dawson Creek for three weeks and off work for six months.
Gagnon Contractors paid 25 dollars for over length. Robert L. Potter fined 10 dollars for failing to show a vehicle insurance card. Jacob Wolfe charged 25 dollars for driving without plates. Brian Niel Johnson fined 20 dollars for a Motor Vehicle Act violation on August 16.
The Chetwynd Dusters, Dawson Creek and District ladies fastball champs, finished 1971 with a 9-8 playoff final over Yem's Lake Sonics. Harold Guthrie presented the trophy to Captain Bev Turner as Bev Turner earned winning pitcher relief in both final games. The Dusters rallied from early playoff losses to claim the title after beating Three Way Service and Mile Zero in earlier rounds.
Terry Blair of Chetwynd was fined 50 dollars for consuming alcohol in a public place. He pled guilty before Judge Williams on Monday after police saw him tipping a beer outside the Hotel Chetwynd.
Local dignitaries including Bill Wanka Verna McKay Jim Burtch and Chuck McInnis attended a centennial gathering in Chetwynd where MLA Don Marshall and Premier Bennett praised the community. Bennett called Chetwynd a model community and joked about returning for the next centennial in 2071 after noting the hospital’s completion in the centennial year.
Brenda Williams now lives in Prince George and David Williams resides in Fort St James. David runs a survey crew for the Pacific Great Eastern railway while visiting his grandparents in Chetwynd with Brenda and their parents, Judge and Mrs Williams.
John P. Martin son of Mrs Dell Green is back in Chetwynd on sick leave from the Navy after three months at sea. He returned last Wednesday and expects to stay until September 12. He is stationed at Cornwallis.
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