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.-< ...v :..r,-iivi.jr: Viv%QV%SL9 B+ <?• Published in Gibsons, B.C. Serving the Growing Volume 10 Number 22 Sunshine Coast — 7 May 31, 1958., . from Squamish to Pender Harbour up misfing A badminton cupy is among the missing. Sechelt won it about 15 years agbyin competition but no one Under sponsorship of they This will be held just after firms. Keith Wright is the man the npon hour and will arrive to contact in regard to this now knows where it is. Gibsons and District Board -of at the Kinsmen Playground .in contest and Jack Marshall Any information should be Trade a -Dominion day Celebra-f . This northern end of the time to allow for an afternoon heads the Board of Trade com First Gibsons Scout Group sent to the Pender Harbour tion, is planned yfor July _2ndj of sports entertainment at the mittee sponsoring the celebra of the Sunshine Coast enter-' Sunshine Coast opened the : club which is.trying to locate in Gibsons. 7. - -'y field. ; tion. tained their fathers and. guests r Tourist Season with a bang on. Present plans are for a par^ A bathing beauty contest is it is hoped that all of Gib including the members of the the May 24 holiday. Every re it.. ade in which it is hoped a go ode planned, entrants to be con sons and District both as indi Kiwanis Club at a banquet in • sort was TEilled to. overflowing, fined to students -who will, it viduals and as business men the School Hall Tuesday even many < 'people being -.caught* representation of local busi-v is expected, be sponsored by will get behind this event to ing. withouty accommodation - and New Lang nesses will have entries. ••••:•£• local associations or business ensure its success. The .ladies auxiliary pre- (having to slee^ in their cars pared the luncheon and were or in sleeping bags along .the store opens very highly complimented • highway. .* -. 5 on radio in Canada Scout Cedric Trueman pre Light, space, arrangement sented Rae Kruse Vice Presi Pender. Harbour was at its and accessibility combined to bejif. "The weather was warm,"'' dent of the Kiwanis club a . make Lang's new drugstore in donation to the Kiwanis Boy the water calm, and. salmon of Trade r Gibsons the most modern store Scouts building fund ' fishing great. Trout fishing .on . The CBC, what it means toy with the approach toi the- dock parts of the country was non Andrew Johnston, presi the lakes was something tobe v on the Peninsula. Canada was discussed by Norfy it was OK as far as they were existent- dent of the Sunshine Coast Boy remembered. Everything • seem All display shelves are .at man Hansen, CBC corhmehta-j; concerned. Arrangements were made Scouts executive committee ex ed* to be-just right for the vis--' convenient levels and con tor at the last meeting of they The pi-oposal to have a tes with the United States author :: pressed the thanks of the iters'..-. .... '•«.-•• , .••• .;;- ,y . veniently located. The wrap-y Board of Trade at Port M!el|y ises for the use of six bands timonial dinner for Hon "James guests for the pleasing gesture - JMrs. / Eunice Fincham's new - ping counter is a low U-shaped Ion. Some 35 to 40 people* afey for Canadian stations with 11_ Sinclair federal minister of of the banquet and outlined the Pender- Harbour Hotef was op-' affair in the center, and acces tended the meeting.. 7'"•-.. '••'y-7:\. others, shared. This helped the fisheries and M.P. for this area fine progress of the Scout . erktihg, at 1 capacityyall .'week-'[ sible from all"sides; y ; Before Mr. Hansen' spoke'7 was brought up again and the Canadian situation but it did 1 movement on the Sunshine enk and many"' . were turned '' The whole, store is planned: business matters of the board? not assist wide areas without meeting decided to go along Coast. away. Mr.TLloyd Davifes of' the • for semi-self-service, and at were cleared and among -them-7; with other organizations if the radio. Radio could exist only Ga*deif 7Bay LodgeA says • he tractively arranged. Ay smart was a letter from Black Bailiff dinner could be arranged. where there was a good con Chief Scouter Ed. Fiedler - assisted by Mr. Brown then hacf the' best holiday' business • cosmetic display, decorated in on the proposed breakwater? Mr. Hansen discussed the or sumer market..* blush-pink, occupies a part of • presented all the scouts with •'• in Tyeafs; and it-was-12.30 a.m. The federal government hadj;. igin and growth of the CBC. In 1926 the Aird Radioi Com each day before he finished^ one wall, beyond which is the previously stated the biiijdingy identification cards and pro- . modern dispensary. As one First broadcasting license was mission was appointed to make ficiency buttons. serving dinner: Sladey's Motel of a breakwater depended orix issued in 1919 to a Marconi recommendations on radio for walks around the store, shelves Mr. Fiedler had Canon Os was! booked solid a month what BlackBall Ferries intend, station in Montreal. By 1928 Canada. As a result a .bill to ' of merchandise are displayed, wald present to Winston Rob ahead, while Farrington Cove ded to do, move to Hopkins crt- there were 60 radio stations in establish the CBC was intros ; .agafnst the s>>ft pastel gray inson a silver'cup for highest Motel were turning people stay, at; Gibsons. Black Ball's) Canada. Interference from big duced in Commons in May, background. proficiency in scouting for the away, all weekend. letter simply stated -that s'o|7 U.S. and Mexican stations caus 1932, by the Bennett govern A large magazine rack stands past year,, best attendance, best . y yLen Larsen at Madeira Park long as it did not interfered ed trouble. Coverage in many ment and passed unanimously, opposite the entry, -"and ,'thie attention and best all around was -another that was filled publicly owned radio was adjacent walls are completely scout in the group. and all his boats out. Westmer& shelved. Display ' islands: are then born in Canada. The main Lodgieon Nelson Island was The scouts then demonstrat placed for convenience about functions of the CBC were ta catering". mostly' - to'*"£ishermen. regulate and control all broad ed first aid and rope making ' ; the floor. ' - ' ._ 7 In the early part oi71954 arij Bud White who represented frpm. New ^Westminster; The casting in Canada and to carry and followed with games in , J The cool sea green is a pleas enterprising group of men whJo;; this area at UN was sponsored which the fathers and.Kiwan trout fishing "at their ptece" on ant combining cojor .on the on National broad-casting. make their homes on the Se-i by the local lodge of the IOOF ians endeavored to join, but West Lake has been excep remaining wall space. Big dis In. 1936 the - commission tional this year. chelt Peninsula and had been: and-the lodge is proud to have never quite qtialified in spite play* windows admit plenty of or were still members of Odd-* started broadcasting on a net light. This is helped by mod such a youth in our midst. of some valiant attempts: Mrs. Pat Cotton of Sakinaw fellow lodges through out the work for six hours a day with ' It was a highly successful Lake Lodge also reports a full ern store lighting. Next in line, comes the la- seven' CBC stations and 50 pri province realized the need o» dies. They were quic& to or_ evening, full of7 good fellow* - house and marvellous fishing. an Oddfellows lodge here. ' J- vate stations. Owing to the ship and enjoyed by .all. , A . The Pender Harbour Motor ganize what is Icnown as the After a few meetings t tailed ge ^ proximity of US stations there hearty vote of thanks; was ex Court 'was well patronized. c Arbutus Lod No/ 7a It a was, still..-,a considerable --in- things ove a campaign to forrrf| ^ tended to' the ladies and Scouts It was a great weekend, and Short meeting r y wonderful feeling £or lodge flux of Ajnerican material. A a gG 3S begUn ; by Kiwanian Jules' Mainil In one of the* shortest meet: ™u Y " - V '-> ambers to know that they a little effort on the part of special parliamentary committe who assured -the Scouts that, ings the yillage Commission When the time came for the' - the -game boards and the as- have behind them ladies who investigated the radio picture kiwanis would see that, they 06 buS initiation, Brother McKae thea , v ^ ^ . whieh. restdte41^ a .:^jeyfe.Canr-y s^iated^oar^o^^gde^oulJ d J^^^JS^^S £- grand • mastery and^ jBTotM&M^'A jf tl e e a job to don it vhad^yhailri-v y y y_ -.^-y- •-.-,. .-.-,y •; ea&rm*ke & Secheli^^^'^es^^ra^ixartsactcd m quick' is'the ladies wfea"*k> iiz-Alopg adiah broadcasting- lact ^being 7 v time. Mainy secretary of the Grand' with the Oddfellows the ladies insula the envy of all ether- Lodge along with representa passed in 1936 which gave As regards impounding an cf Arbutus Lodge celebrated birth to the CBC as it is known playground areas. tives from two Vancouver lod imals roaming at large" the their first anniversary. today. 7 . .. -...,.. commission learned from of ges conferred the degree Garden club A surprise party in honor of ^As time passed , additional ficials in* Victoria that all they Tw0 years later, in 1956, ] Mrs. Evelyn Begg of the Re CBC key stations were built Load of piling could do was to pass a village \vhat is now known as the Sun bekah Arbutus lodge 76, who to give coverage in yth©7 sparse sees.;vieivs '" bylaw to set up a village shine Coast lodge, No.