Legion Christmas Party Brings 150 Supper Dinner Donation
The Legion Branch 258 and Ladies Auxiliary hosted the Christmas Party on Saturday December 17 in Chetwynd. One hundred fifty members attended a Chinese dinner and watched a presentation of 1000 dollars accepted by Jim McLane, Branch Executive Member, from the Ladies Auxiliary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion Branch No. 258
Branch
Ladies Auxiliary
Jim McLane
Legion Branch 258 and
Bobbie Larsen
Auxiliary
Legion
Legion Children's Christmas Party Draws 200 Plus Attendees
Traffic President Robbie Larsen helped share costs for gifts and dinner for Legion members. Games, skits, and jars of pickled bums by Jessie Lodge provided chair prizes. Dancing and an old fashioned carol sing concluded the event as over 200 children and parents attended despite cold weather on December 18.
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Robbie Larsen
Legion Childrens
Jessie Lodge
Holiday season enforcement boosts BC road safety drive
Provincial officials announce intensified December to January traffic enforcement across British Columbia. Police will expand road blocks saturations and deploy Breath Analysis Testing Mobile vans to curb impaired driving, with automatic six month driving prohibitions and roadside suspensions for suspected intoxication. Officials urge avoid driving after drinking and to use public transport during holidays.
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British Columbia
Brian Smith
Alex Fraser
Transportation and Highways
Canada
Smith
Fraser
Northern Lights College Year in Review at Three BC Towns
Northern Lights College reflects on a busy year in Chetwynd Hudson Hope and Tumbler Ridge with new part time programmers Sheila Simard and a Hudson Hope hire. It notes funding for a Business Office Training course and ongoing academic upgrading programs as well as staff changes and community support.
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Northern Lights College
Chetwynd
Hudson Hope
Tumbler Ridge
Sheila Simard
Sheila
Joanne Matthews
Geraldine Harrington
Goria Millsap
Mark Hanen
Dianne Herman
Patti Krawczyk
Pioneer
The
Echo
Charles Lasser
Three witnesses awarded 500 for cattle rustling case
Three witnesses from Gilpin commune in West Kootenay were given 500 each by the BC Cattlemen’s Association after aiding police in the arrest of three commune members. The informants, two women and one man, were forced to relocate due to harassment, with one shot at and others threatened.
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BC Cattlemen’s Association
Gilpin
Grand Forks
West Kootenay
Carrier Lumber lands huge lodgepole pine sale in B C
Carrier Lumber Ltd of Prince George will receive a Forest Licence to harvest five million cubic metres of beetle infested lodgepole pine in the west Chilco area near Anahim and Tatla. The sale, the largest Crown timber deal in 15 years, aims to curb the beetle outbreak and salvage timber while creating 250 jobs in two portable sawmills. Other bidders included Khalsa Enterprises Pandemonium Enterprises and a joint Lignum Pinette Therrien Weldwood West Fraser bid.
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Victoria
B.C
Carrier Lumber Ltd
Prince George
West Chilco
Tom Waterland
Waterland
Khalsa Enterprises Ltd
Pandemonium Enterprises
Lignum Ltd
Pinette and Therrien Mills
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the Legion
Santa Clause
Royal Canadian Legion
Aeas
Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 258
Santa
Santa Claus
Jay Lazarko
the Legion Auxiliary
Ethel Blair
Mary Saunders
James Dean Abrogast
Robin Yeo
Robert Allen Remple
Abrogast
Yeo
Remple
RCMP
BC Cattlemens Association
Chilco Area
Carrier Lumber
Anahim
Tatla
Simon Fraser Inn
Quebec Street
Marlene Walker
M.C.E
Mike) Schmok
47Th Avenue
Conn Brown
Canfor Limited
Chetwynd BC
VOC
Bennett Dam
Williston Lake
B.c.hydro
Legion New Year's
Dave Hamilton
Legion Lounge
Hart Hi-Way
Girard’s
Red Rooster
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