1908New York capitalists were negotiating for the purchase, by bond and lease, of the Hummingbird property, situated about 12 miles north of Grand Forks.1913Direct railway communication between Grand Forks and Penticton was expected to be established by the Kettle Valley Railway within a year announced F.W. Peters, general superintendent of the B.C. division of Canadian Pacific, in Vancouver. 1918Robert Gaw, one of the city’s most respected and distinguished citizens, passed away in local hospital at the age of 65. A resident of Grand Forks for 17 years, Mr. Gaw had an illustrious career as a general contractor. 1923Number two unit of the local irrigation project was put into operation, with two pumps in action. The unit covered an area two miles east of Grand Forks, including Riverside Nurseries. 1928Miss Ruth Hesse was engaged as a teacher for the Brown Creek School on the North Fork, at an annual salary of $1, 080, her duties are to commence with the fall term. 1933A search was being conducted for robbers who broke into S.J. Matthew’s’ grocery store and also stole a B.C. Telephone Co. car from the home of Ed Ruzicka. 1938Twenty-two mines of the Boundary District shipped a total of 5, 250 tonnes of ore to the Trail smelter during the first six months of this year. Shippers were eight mines from Beaverdell, seven from Greenwood, four from Grand Forks and one each from Paulson, Carmi and Boundary Falls. 1943Some 70 guests were present at St. John’s United Church at a reception honouring Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Kerr on their golden wedding anniversary, this year also being the 50th anniversary of their arrival to the Boundary district. 1948Residents of the Boundary district were given the opportunity to invest in their own district, the bonds to be sold locally, following approval of a bylaw calling for an expenditure of some $37, 000 for construction and extension of schools in the Kettle Valley school district. 1953The Sunshine Valley Coop made a further step in its expansion program by purchasing the business of Bill’s Dry Goods from owner Bill Arishenkoff. 1958Jim Flynn and his horse Goldy returned home after a rousing reception in Kelowna that climaxed their mission of being the first horse and rider to cross the new Okanagan Lake bridge, recently opened by Princess Margaret. 1968Granby Mining Co. Ltd. reported a net income of $162, 000 for the second quarter, which is equal to 11 cents a share on the 1,444,371 outstanding shares. 1973Dr. and Mrs. D.A. Perley left last Friday for England where they will visit Mrs. Perley’s mother for a few weeks. 1978A few members of the hard-working group behind the Grand Forks and District Fall Fair are Ruth Anderson, Nick Kinakin, Helen Durham and Dawn Elves. 1983The North Fork Reunion, held 102 years after the first settler came here, was observed July 29 to 31 with 423 people registering plus 75 guests. The reunion took place on a five-acre Brown Creek site. A ‘camper city’ sprang up along Rock Candy Road. 1998Boundary resident, Stefani Barg, a 21-year-old UBC graduate, has been forced to flee the Democratic Republic of Congo due to social unrest. Barg was working at a public health care facility with the Mennonite Central Committee. Her mother Lorraine, a resident of Christina Lake, has been unable to keep in contact with her daughter because of poor communication lines in the war-torn country. 2003Lightning is the culprit behind a 1,600-hectare forest fire on Galena Mountain that could send over 70 Grand Forks residents fleeing their homes with little notice. Crews from both the U.S. and Canada were called in to combat the blaze, which, as of Aug. 19, was about 800 metres from the border and 1.5 kilometres from the outskirts of Grand Forks.2008Residents of the Grand Forks area saw a great deal of smoke enter the valley from a fire south of the Canada-U.S. border, as well as fires caused from over 110 lightening-caused fires outside of the Grand Forks area.