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Week
of September 6 - 12, 2001
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Trillium’s
Ken Hertz and Blaine mayor Dieter Schugt, at left,
were in the background as White Rock mayor Hardy
Staub and Amtrak’s Gil Mallery celebrate
a train stop in White Rock.. Photo
by Christine Callan |
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| White
Rock stop gets OK from Amtrak Under a conditional
agreement announced at the White Rock railway station
August 30, Amtrak promises the train will stop in White
Rock if White Rock meets a list of conditions. |
| Election
could cut short Tomsic’s tenure as manager
In two weeks, in what some see as a referendum on his
tenure as city manager, Blaine voters will get to have
their say. |
| Smugglers
busted with small haul Tuesday morning, border patrol
agents saw two men in military fatigues appearing to
carry backpacks, run into the woods off Harvey Road.
Agents brought in local police and sheriff’... |
Cutting
corners
Roberto Moreno takes the checkered flag at Vancouver’s
Molson Indy. |
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Peace
party!
The Peace Arch is 80 years old. Time to get
in your time machine and celebrate.
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| Close
call on the water Rescue crews arrived at the Blaine
Harbor Marina August 29 in response to a report that
a crab fisherman’s boat had gone down near Birch
Point. |
| Gas
line breaks A backhoe operator had broken a two-inch
gas line approximately 3 p.m. at Eighth and B Streets.
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| Will
orcas join salmon on list? Peter Hamilton received
the call March 18, 2000; an orca had been beached in
Boundary Bay. |
PEACE
ARCH ANNIVERSARY!
Eighty years ago... Sam Hill
publicly spoke of a Peace Arch or Portal in July, 1915
in a speech at ceremonies celebrating the centennial
of the Treaty of Ghent (1814)...
Blast into the past! On September
8 the U.S./Canada Peace Anniversary association will
take Blaine back with a small scale recreation of the
massive arch dedication. From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. the 1920’s
will come alive and Sam Hill will be back in the park
to celebrate the arch’s 80th birthday.
Did you know? The Portal
of Peace stands astride the international boundary between
Washington State and British Columbia.
 Samuel
Hill, president of the Washington Good Roads Association,
spearheaded the fund raising efforts by citizens of
both the United States and Canada to build the arch. |
| Teary
finish at Vancouver Indy “I am just full of
joy, it was so hard to get here. With five laps to go
I started to cry in the car and I kept saying to myself;
concentrate, concentrate... |
| ON
THE WATERFRONT The summer commercial Fraser
River sockeye season has been and gone. So far there
was one day of salmon fishing for the commercial fleet.
The treaty Indians got... |
| VIEWPOINT
ON September 18, 2001 Blaine voters will be asked to
approve funds for the construction of a new station.
The present station, located on H Street, has been declared
seismically unfit for further use and has been vacated... |
| SPORTS
Neil's
Notes...Football starts vs. Notre Dame |
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