Recent History 1999 March 12, 1999, By Daily News Staff The provincial government will undertake a $15-million road improvement program in the South Peace constituency in the coming year, and several roads will be hard-surfaced for the first time, Transportation and Highways Minister Harry Lali announced on Friday. Lali said the program for Peace River… Read More

Recent History 1999 March 23, 1999 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff The City of Dawson Creek has turned to a professional management firm to run the Dawson Creek airport. Frontec, which acts as the promotions arm of the Edmonton Airport Authority, will take over management in an effort to keep the failing airport going…. Read More

Recent History 1999 April 5, 1999 By Daily News Staff The federal government handed responsibility for the Fort Nelson Airport to the Fort Nelson-Liard Regional District (FN-LRD) on Thursday. “Fort Nelson is to be congratulated for stepping forward into a new era of airport management,” said Vancouver South-Burnaby MP Herb Dhaliwal, who made the announcement… Read More

Recent History 1999 September 28, 1999 By Mark Nielsen Daily News Staff Former Peace River Block News editor and noted Rotarian Charles Hutchison died Monday morning. Relatives say he died of an apparent stroke in the early hours. He was 84. Born in Rumsey, Alta. on Sept. 26, 1915, Hutchison came to Dawson Creek from… Read More

Recent History 1999 Oct. 6, 1999 By Charity Wallace, Daily News Staff At 69, Bernice Ashlee is still flying high and this time she’s doing it solo. The Gundy resident flew solo for the first time Monday and is well on her way to becoming a recreational pilot. “This is something that I wanted to… Read More

Recent History 1999 Nov. 30, 1999 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Getting around town has suddenly become a lot easier for people like Arnold Bennington and Dennis Mracek. While Bennington must use crutches while he isn’t riding a scooter, Mracek is wheelchair bound, and neither could use the public transit system. But that changed… Read More

Recent History 2000-2002 March 27, 2000 DAWSON CREEK — Although better than it used to be, there is room for improvement in the way grain is handled by the rail carriers in Dawson Creek according to a BC Rail representative. Speaking at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon Thursday, Wayne Banks, BC Rail’s vice president of… Read More

Recent History 2000-2002 June 13, 2000 By Gerry Clare From the Archives – a series of historical articles About two weeks after the first South Peace homesteaders broke land in 1912 they began demanding a road to connect them to the rest of British Columbia. The demands were ignored, of course, and didn’t get much… Read More

Recent History 2000-2002 July 13, 2000 DAWSON CREEK – More than 500 people will converge on Dawson Creek this weekend for a reunion of Canadian National Telecommunications (CNT) employees. The reunion will kick off Friday at Memorial Arena with registration and wine and cheese. Saturday will find visitors playing in a golf tournament at the… Read More

Recent History 2000-2002 Aug. 25, 2000 By Rick Davison, Daily News Staff Municipal politicians, including Dawson Creek Mayor Blair Lekstrom, are fuming at the federal government’s plans to tighten up fire-rescue regulations at local airports. Most galling to Lekstrom is the feds’ requirement that smaller airports reinstate fire crews after the communities took over the… Read More