Recent History – 1999 June 17, 1999 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff An effort to build a housing complex for handicapped people is receiving a boost from the City. Council gave three readings to a bylaw Monday to sell a parcel of city-owned land at 10200-18th Street to the Dawson Creek Society for Community… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Oct. 7, 1999 By Daily News Staff A new era of co-operation between local government and the forest industry was ushered in Wednesday with the signing of a community partnership agreement between the Northern Forest Products Association (NFPA) and the City of Dawson Creek. Mayor Blair Lekstrom, administrator Jim Noble, and… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Oct. 18, 1999 By Daily News Staff The battlefield has unfolded for 39 candidates for 18 positions on Dawson Creek’s council, the South Peace school board and the Peace River Regional District board. At the close of nominations last Friday, three people had filed their nomination papers for mayor and 16… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Oct. 19, 1999 By Charity Wallace, Daily News Staff There are 17 more Canadians in the area than there were Monday morning. New citizens of Canada were sworn in at Notre Dame school Monday morning. The ceremony started when Const. Russ Greer, dressed in traditional Mountie regalia, announced that the court… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Nov. 3, 1999 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Dawson Creek will receive $256,750 from the provincial government to upgrade the pumphouse on the bank of the Kiskatinaw River, the city’s source of drinking water. Mayor Blair Lekstrom welcomed the announcement, made by municipal affairs minister Jim Doyle, saying that the… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Nov. 3, 1999 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff The torrid pace of construction continued through October in Dawson Creek according to a report from the city’s building inspector. Permits for work worth $2.481 million were taken out in October, bringing the year-to-date total to $32,091,500, well ahead the previous record-breaking… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Nov. 3, 1999 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Wheelchair accessible buses could be on the city streets as early as New Year”s Day, city council learned Monday. As part of a program to replace all buses over 17 years old, B.C. Transit will be replacing the two operating in Dawson… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Nov. 4, 1999 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Tax rates and what should be done about them was a major theme when mayoral candidates Blair Lekstrom and Bill Kusk took the stage Monday at an all-candidates meeting. Kusk, who was the mayor for three years until Lekstrom defeated him in… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Not. 5, 1999 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Parking meters, curfews, and the proposed Alaska Highway Interpretive Centre were some of the issues that voters brought up Wednesday during the question period at the all-candidates forum. Alaska Hotel owner Charles Kux-Kardos, a proponent of varying the times on the programmable… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Nov. 8, 1999 Several reunions and a Homecoming 2000 celebration are just a few of the many events that will make the year 2000 a memorable one. While the actual homecoming events only take place in July and August next year, the Homecoming Committee has compiled a preliminary list of events… Read More