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Newspaper
Chetwynd The Echo
Location
Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 26, 1988
Page
1
The Chetwynd Secondary Tour Band hosts a first annual Dance-A-Thon on Friday January 29 at Windrem Elementary gym from 4 PM to midnight. Musicians pledge per hour danced with 5 minute per hour rest and a 15 minute mid event break. Proceeds fund Victoria trip and band program purchases.
Regular January 1988 council session discusses private highway maintenance concerns, provincial letters, and preserving service quality. Input requested on large power boat restrictions at Carbon Lake, subdivision plans, and Kidney and Heart Month campaigns. Agenda notes pending on stumpage meeting with Canadian Forest Products and Time Air service plans.
A tractor trailer carrying lumber crashed into a cement abutment at the East Pine Bridge entrance on January 22. The load spilled onto the Pine River and bridge deck, causing extensive damage. Both occupants were ejected and died on arrival at Chetwynd Hospital. Dennis Blair Wiebe and Eugene Frederick Nagel, residents of Grande Prairie, Alberta, were pronounced dead.
Education planning and student funding through University Scholarships of Canada aim to ease post secondary costs for Canadian families. The program targets children under 13 with early enrollment to maximize returns, backed by federally insured deposits and annual funding for four years. Wakeham notes growing interest and a new full time enrollment representative in Chetwynd, with brochures to be mailed locally.
The District of Chetwynd seeks residents to volunteer for the Dawson Creek 1988 Winter Games March 10 to 13. Help is needed in food services results recording security first aid and site prep for Broomball and Ringette. Contact Arena Manager Lawrence Duggan at 788 2214 for info and registration.
Mayors in Peace Country Alberta write to Finance Minister Michael Wilson and MP Albert Cooper to protest that their communities do not qualify for lucrative northern tax breaks, aiming to arrange meetings to express anger over the issue.
The Annual Chetwynd Lions Heart Fundspiel begins February 13 with four events and four end games, continuing the long-standing charity golf tradition. Participants gather for a weekend of competition and community support as organizers drive fundraising goals.
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