1906: A.I. Traunweiser, John Temple and Alex Fraser offered a $5,000 bond to the city for all costs if the council would defend the liquor license bylaw.
1911: The Evening Sun moved into the Brick block on Winnipeg Ave., two doors from the Gazette office.
1916: J.A. McCallum, secretary-treasurer of the Grand Forks Curling Association, received a $5,000 cheque from the provincial Department of Agriculture. The loan was to equip the factory for the manufacture of jams.
1921: Robins have been spotted flitting around town and a subscriber called in to assure the Gazette office that spring had arrived.
1926: Monty Mudge passed away at Camp Kearney Hospital in San Diego at the age of 33. Monty was one of the first volunteers from Grand Forks for the late war. He was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery.
1931: The Greenwood Gorillas captured the third hockey game 5-3 against the Grand Forks Indians. Line-up for the Indians was: Manson, Savage, Barlee, Atwood, Bailey, Lewis, Ronald, Bickerton, and Saunders.
1936: Stockholders of the Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Vancouver approved the voluntary dissolution of the company’s affairs there.
1941: The first Buttercup Award went to Joe McDonald. Oddfellows trimmed the Firemen at crib for 70 games to 60.
1946: Ace Talarico returned from Vancouver where he received his final discharge from the army. He planned to stay in Grand Forks and operate the Valley Meat Market.
1951: Two district pioneers, Mrs. Donald McCallum and Mrs. Emma Barlee, were laid to rest here.
1956: A $40,000 enterprise consisting of a service station and later a café and auto court is planned for the Christina Lake area, along with the new southern provincial highway.
1961: The worst traffic accident in the district wiped out the male side of a Fife family when a station wagon driven by Fred Szimmer was in a head-on collision with a transport truck. Killed in the accident were Szimmer and his two sons, Tony and Fred.
1966: Beautification of the arena grounds was finally selected as the Centennial project.
1971: It was announced this week that equipment has been ordered from a Vancouver firm for converting the present beehive burner of the Grand Forks sawmill to a smokeless, ashless operation
1976: RCMP had to use tear gas to flush an armed man out of a local sporting goods store early Friday morning, successfully defusing a situation that could well have ended in tragedy.
1986: This year Grand Forks joins other North American cities in paying giant liability insurance premiums hikes. Last year, the city paid about $4,000 for a $5-million policy. This year, the city paid $20,000 for $2-million of coverage. The huge increases are blamed on generous settlements being awarded by judges in liability cases.
1991: Winning the A Event in last weekend’s Inter-club Bonspiel was the BEL Maintenance rink, skipped by Homer Good, with third Ina Good, second Bill Ortis and lead Georgina Ortis.
1996: The 1995 Christmas Bird Count saw 86 people fanning out to count birds from Bridesville to Christina Lake. They spotted 77 different species with a total of 10,006 individual birds. This is an increase of almost 100 per cent over last year.
2001: From the Okanagan to the Paulson, members of the Boundary Historical Society gathered together in Greenwood to celebrate the society’s 50th anniversary. It was on Jan. 29, 1951, that a group of people, interested in recording and preserving history, gathered to form the society. Fifty years later and 13 (soon to be 14) reports later they are still going strong.
2006: The Kal Tire Southern Bears were victorious in the historic Grand Forks Border Bruins Alumni Tournament this past weekend.