Recent History – 2001 April 17, 2001 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff The future of the mall will continue to be a major issue when the Dawson Co-op annual general meeting is held this Wednesday evening. Members will vote on two special resolutions related to concerns brought up last year when the board at… Read More

Recent History – 2001 April 19, 2001 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Dawson Co-op members voted in favour of some changes to their board of directors when the annual general meeting was held Wednesday night at Kids Kin Arena. Juste Hendricks, Gordon Parslow, Wayne Janowsky, and Fred Lumnitzer were voted in. Lumnitzer was the… Read More

Recent History – 2001 Oct. 11, 2001 DAWSON CREEK — It’s a little-known fact that roughly 10 per cent of all jobs in rural B.C. are created through projects supported by a federally-supported, community-based program known as Community Futures Development Corporation (CFDC). It’s facts like these that the staff at the Community Futures Development Corporation… Read More

Recent History – 2001 Oct12, 2001 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Progress is being made on opening a small-scale coal mine in the Chetwynd-Tumbler Ridge area. Barry Girling, a spokesman for Western Coal Corporation said Thursday that a mine capable of extracting 250,000 tonnes of coal per year could be operating on its Burnt… Read More

Recent History – 2001 Oct. 18, 2001 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Seven months after announcing a temporary shutdown, Louisiana-Pacific has finally given up on its Chetwynd pulp mill. Blaming a weak market for the product, the company announced Thursday that the mill will be closed indefinitely and will be put up for sale…. Read More

Recent History – 2001 Oct. 25, 2001 DAWSON CREEK — A strong oil and gas industry combined with a healthy tourism sector made for plenty of growth in the accommodation sector in northeast B.C. according to numbers from B.C. Stats. Revenues from rooms in the northeast climbed 22 per cent in 2000, more than any… Read More

Recent History – 2001 Oct. 25, 2001 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff It will be at least two-and-a-half more years before Louisiana-Pacific can finally start up its still-to-be completed veneer plant — and it will be operating without a laminated veneer lumber line. Poor markets and technical problems with the type of veneer that… Read More

Recent History – 2002-2003 May 9, 2002 In 1967, George Graham hauled propane from Girouxville, Alberta to Dawson Creek in his first truck. He sold it for the same price as in Alberta (14 cents per gallon), cheaper than the 21 cents it had previously cost locally. From these humble starts grew Joy Propane, one… Read More

Recent History – 2002-2003 May 15, 2002 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Federal Industry Minister Allan Rock announced Tuesday that the Kiwanis Enterprise Centre has received $36,000 for its Branding the Peace project. The cash, which comes through the Western Economic Diversification fund, is being used to develop a business and marketing plan for… Read More

Recent History – 2002-2003 July 26, 2002 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff British Columbia stands to gain plenty from the Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline, Peace River Regional District directors learned Thursday. Directors took in a presentation from Dan Begley of Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd. in which he stated that construction of the section that… Read More