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Newspaper
Chetwynd The Echo
Location
Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 06, 1982
Page
4
Autumn offers a true harvest if planning is done. Preserve soil moisture and nutrition for winter bloom, limit nitrogen, prepare soil for fall and spring planting, and extend the harvest by pruning, mulching, and sheltering plants. Harvest beyond frost by stringing vines, hanging tomatoes to ripen, and using storage methods.
Twenty years ago this issue continues the highlights of 1962 reflecting past events in 1982 Chetwynd. Oberle family travels to Karlsruhe for Rudolph’s priestly ordination. May notes include 540 names on preliminary electoral list and a police-free week. Ferry upgrades improve Sukunka Valley access. water main extension approved. flying club talked for July. hotel expansion and 24 hour service open. Community plans include Moberly Lake Girls Camp and Guide Mothers.
BC Rail plans a 130 kilometre Tumbler Ridge branch in northeastern British Columbia to start coal shipments by December 1983. President Mac Norris cites contingency plans after a months long construction dispute and notes the line will be Canada’s first to use 50 kilovolt electrification. General Motors Diesel is supplying equipment.
Letter to the editor notes Social Credit government replaced a discretionary lease plan for 250000 ha of crown grazing lands with increased public access for hunting and fishing. Hundreds of letters to officials pressured a policy reversal, contrary to prior government claims. Separately BC Rail outlines seven locomotives servicing a 98 car coal train from Prince Rupert to Prince George via Anzac Junction and CN lines toward the Pacific.
BCGEU says about 40,000 provincial workers will begin voting October 15 on the tentative 15 month agreement reached September 20. The union will distribute 60,000 copies of the pact summary to workplaces and members' homes next week, according to spokesman Robbie Robinson.
In Salmon Arm and Williams Lake residents joined a 24 hour energy saving contest starting at 9 am. participants rode horses carpooled walked and used candlelight dinners to cut power use. B C Hydro and Inland Natural Gas monitor energy and aim for municipal savings of 50 000 annually.
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