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Newspaper
Chetwynd The Echo
Location
Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 20, 1974
Page
2
Published weekly in Chetwynd by Echo Publishing Ltd with rate card details for legal and municipal ads. Includes subscription prices for Canada and U S A readers, single copy cost, second class registration, and editor publisher Bunne Hoffman.
In a passionate letter, R.D. Benoiton accuses the Honorable Member of hogging credit for the Peace River-Liard regional designation. The writer blasts federal and provincial leaders, notes prior groundwork by others, and cites tax changes, welfare claims, and local economic struggles as evidence of perceived Liberal bias and misattribution.
The reader cites figures since the NDP rose to power in August 1972 noting housing starts at a twenty‑year low, school district funding lagging teacher raises, university budget constraints, and large salary increases for Premier Barrett and staff. Claims include 86 thousand for Gary Lauk office refurbishing and over eighty million dollars in tax funds funneled to private business by Order in Council, questioning affordability of a “people’s paradise.”
The council endorsed a new wage scale aligning outside workers with Chetwynd at the recent meeting. It also approved Mr. Aavo Taaler’s home mail order sporting goods business license and defeated MacKeigan Enterprises’ re zoning to light industrial by a 3 2 vote. Dick's Service Ltd won the municipality oil and gas supply contract over MacKeigan. Mayor Rod Trew detailed a Victoria trip and a recreation study for Hudson's Hope with the school community project as BC Hydro Site One plans loom.
A lively column blends Brownies folklore with Palmer Cox highlights, noting Cox's Canadian roots and U S fame, then shifts to local news in Fernie and Moberly Lake. It chronicles an eye clinic, school bus trips, a community group debate, a fund raising dance, and social chatter about oil politics and history references.
Evie Godsman and family visited her parents Mr and Mrs Morris Edinger over the weekend. Harley and Pat Pollen returned home from work for a quick visit to Beryl Prairie. Umberto Derenzi is back in hospital in Chetwynd and improving with nurses tending him. Hudson's Hope laundromat is busy as the Chetwynd facility remains down. Ladies from Moberly Lake are patronizing the town. Bill and Bernie Beattie welcome all.
Hudson's Hope Speed Skating Club took part in the BC Indoor Speed Skating Championships in Fort St John alongside skaters from Calgary Dawson Creek Esquimalt Fort St John Haida Vancouver and Mission totaling about 80 entrants Four skaters from Hudson's Hope competed two Bantam girls and two Midget boys The meet produced multiple podiums and times across 200 and 500 meter events with several FSJ athletes placing within top positions.
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