11 YEARS AGO (2013): BC/DC, who were described as "Canada's own AC/DC tribute band", were supposed to come to 100 Mile House on July 2013 - and they were ready to crank out the same energy that had made AC/DC into a legend in the music industry. The event was going to be hosted by the South Cariboo charity organization Hun City Hunnies Non Profit Community Improvement Society. Doors were set to open at 6:30 p.m. - with DJ Maestro Kit opening the show at 7:00 p.m. before the band would take the stage at 8:00 p.m. Amanda Usher, then spokesperson for the Hunnies, said that the band has blown her away each of the four times she saw them perform.
22 YEARS AGO (2002): The BC Ministry of Forests had planned an intervention to disrupt the spruce budworm, which were expected to return to a "tree-top needle feeding frenzy." The Ministry planned on treating the worm with aerial sprayed organic bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki (Btk), and had done so for the past five years - where they had sprayed 8,000 to 18,000 ha in the Williams Lake and 100 Mile House forest regions. The Ministry at the time did not know if Btk was harmful or not. There were 19 treatment areas between Alkali Lake and Axe Lake that was scheduled to be sprayed.
33 YEARS AGO (1991): 122 then-graduates of Peter Skene Ogden Secondary School (PSO), were going to take a giant step towards completing high school and moving on to "a new phase in life." Jennifer Finley, who then lived in Lac La Hache, believed that there was going to be more challenges to finding jobs because more people had been wanting to go to college. Sheri Northeast, who back then lived in Sheridan Lake, had planned on studying tourism and business management. Northeast believed that she would need to be more responsible than others who had came before her - and had no idea if she would keep up with the fast-changing world. Northeast says she was fortunate to be raised in Sheridan Lake.
44 YEARS AGO (1980): Then reverend Neil Vant, who was also then-Human Rights Commissioner, attended the regular meeting of 100 Mile House village council where he was going to explain the workings of the commission and his responsibilities within it. He was the vicar of the local Anglican Church - stating, "my rights end where you begin." He had explained there was a federal human rights commission, while BC had its own. Vant noted that there was a Human Rights branch and a Human Rights Commission, with Vant telling council would be "glad to officiate a marriage" between both bodies. Neil Vant stated that the village of 100 Mile House had at the time, been free of "racist strain."
