Recent History – 2000 Jan. 10, 2000, By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff When the bombing stopped and NATO forces moved into Kosovo this summer, a man who grew up in Bessborough was among the 25,000 troops sent in to monitor the withdrawal of Serbian troops. A captain in Lord Strathcona’s Light Horse Regiment, also known… Read More

Recent History – 2004 June 7, 2004, By Gary Rusak, Daily News Staff It was 60 years ago, but for Dawson Creek’s Bud Melin it seems like just yesterday. “You just remember everything,” the current president of the Dawson Creek branch of the Canadian Legion said reflecting upon his landing on Juno Beach in France. “Between… Read More

Recent History – 2005 By Gary Rusak – 4 November 2005 Every seat in Unchagah Hall was occupied and many people lined the walls for the annual Remembrance Day ceremony presented under the auspices of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 141 on Friday morning. At 10:55 a.m. the March on The Colours began as the… Read More

Recent History – 2006 By Brad Lyon, 17 April 2006 Lieutenant-Colonel Brent Anderson has accumulated an impressive list of accomplishments during his 33 and a half years of service as a fighter and test pilot with the Canadian Forces. But the graduate of South Peace Secondary School (class of 1972) still looks back to his… Read More