Month: August 2024

The 1969 Interact Club Bed Race was hotly contested, but the Aldergrove High School team was first across the finish line. The Interact Club is sponsored by local Rotary Clubs around the world, and while Aldergrove's Rotary Club is very active, there is not currently an Interact Club at ACSS.

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A little baseball news from 1959.

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This week's Navy News looks at HMCS Aldergrove & Matsqui Station for the month of March 1962. There wasn't a news post for the 7th of March, so I've included the Sea Cadet news for the month as well.

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Early indications in the cataloguing of the Harry Hunt Collection of CDs is that there are many 4-H photos. Here is one of them, in a mash-up of the original photo and the information that appeared on page 9 of the 22 March 2012 Aldergrove Star. This photo is one of the few printed photos we have in the collection, but an excellent clue on dating it was the St. Patrick's Day balloon in the background.

We are closing in on our 700th CD to be catalogued, with another large box yet to be processed. Once the CDs are catalogued and numbered, we'll be going back to itemize and number each photo on every CD, which also involves finding the newspaper edition the photo appeared in.

Naturally, Harry took more photos than what we will find in the newspapers, but at the very least we'll be able to nail down …

Hot Weather Alert - the museum will be open at noon, but please be aware that if we can't get the temperature down inside the building to something tolerable for our volunteers (it was 28 degrees in there at 930pm last night), we will be closing early. Please call ahead to check our status if you're planning to visit us today. Thank you for your understanding, here's hoping that our borrowed portable AC unit will kill the heat. =)

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A look back at municipal election activity for 1959 and 1965. The 1959 candidates' occupations were quite indicative of the majority of the population in the township at that time.

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This week's 1944 Victory Garden column is accompanied by photos from the Harry Hunt Collection and a story from the 19 October 2012 edition of the Aldergrove Star that features the garden grown and tended by students at Aldergrove Community Secondary School.

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Langley School District Cross Country Meet, held at Aldergrove Regional Park on the 1st and 3rd of October 2012. Photos from the Harry Hunt Collection. Coverage from the Aldergrove Star, 11 October 2012, page 15.

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A look back at a local no controversy soccer tournament - the 2012 BC Youth B Cup Provincial Championships, held at Aldergrove Athletic Park in July 2012. Photos are from the Harry Hunt Collection. Aldergrove's U16 team placed 8th in the tournament while the U13 team placed 5th and won the Fair Play Team Award.

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