45 YEARS AGO (1978): The village council declared Jan. 2 an official civic holiday. This followed a request by 100 Mile House businessmen to find out how many businesses would support closing the day after New Years Day as well. In a survey conducted by assistant administrator Scott Nichol, 61 of 89 businesses indicated they were in favour of declaring the day a civic holiday. Aldermen Van Tine and Graves supported the declaration, Fearing was opposed and as Allen was absent the motion carried.
34 YEARS AGO (1989): A Cariboo country painting was donated to the 100 Mile House Hospital to adorn the walls of a new sitting room. It was purchased by the South Cariboo Chapter of the Registered Nurses Association of B.C. On-hand for the presentation, 108 Mile artist Marvin Poole said the Cariboo scenery was painted especially to go in the room. Director of Nursing Marg Mitchell said the sitting room had been created for counselling, interviews or for anyone needing a quiet place away from their room or for anyone wishing to visit privately with their friends or family.
26 YEARS AGO (1997): The RCMP brought in heavy equipment to help fight drugs in local schools back in 1997. A police helicopter took four students from two local schools on a tour of the area after their names were drawn as part of a poster contest with an anti-drug and Crimestoppers theme. The contest was part of the 100 Mile RCMP detachments campaign to encourage youth to phone in tips on drug information. The tour was scheduled to start at Peter Skene Ogden at 10 a.m. and 100 Mile Junior at 1 p.m. on Dec. 12.
16 YEARS AGO (2007): Sixty people attended a meeting to discuss the construction of an aquatic centre in 100 Mile House. It was decided the first order of business should be the formation of a society so fundraising could begin in earnest. One of the people who attended, David Majcher said when the arena was built a small area was put aside for a pool. A benefit to using the existing arena location is it could share an exterior wall with the pool cutting down on construction costs plus heat from the ice plant could go through a heat exchange to be used to heat the water in the pool.
