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Chetwynd Celebrates 50 Years of Community Life
The district marks a half century with a week of festivities including a giant yard sale soccer and baseball tournaments a Chainsaw Carving Championship charity dances sidewalk sales and show and shines Chetwynd now a bustling town of 3500 in the Peace Region reflects on its origins Little Prairie renamed in 1957 and its incorporation as a village in 1962 The town’s evolution from a RCMP detachment to a hospital opening in 1971 is noted along with constant community ties and the Chetwynd Echo’s continuity.
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Chetwynd
Peace Region
Little Prairie
Ralph Chetwynd
Peace River Country
RCMP
Chetwynd Hospital
Chetwynd Echo
The
Chinook
Weekly Advertiser
Reporter
Pioneer