http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0185961
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-01-09
issued: 1974-02-27
description: Serving the Sunshine Coast.
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note: « / 2nd Class Mail Registration No. 1142 Serving the Sunshine Coast, (Howe Sound to Jervis Inlet), including'Port Mellon, Hopkins Landing, Granthams Landing, Gibsons, Roberts Creek, Wilson Creek, Selma Park, Sechelt, Halfmoon Bay, Secret Cove, Pender Hrb., Madeira Park, Garden Bay, Irvine's Landing, Earl Cove, Egmont Umor, <*_■_»£» Label This Issue 14 Pages —- 15c New system on trial . » . 'octors on emergency Luty ai LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER ON THE SOUTHERN SUNSHINE COAST. Vol. 11, No:14 — [WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1974 _. i ;_?-.*» J* - '' tw Arson no. ruJed ou_ GIBSONS—J. Harvey Department store on Gower Point Road was gutted by fire in the early hours pf Feb. 23, destroying the building.and all its stock. Store owner, John; Harvey, estimates - the- loss -at *'over-J$250,000r- v~~ ' "*" Flames burned' through into the .adjoining building, causing • damage to the school district offices' and Kruse Drugs. The alarm was raised at 2:40 a.m. by Mrs. Carole Brakstad of Bay Road. "I heard a snapping, crackling noise and ran to window to look and see what was going on. I saw a building on fire and said to my husband, "My God, Harvey's or Kruse Drugs is on fire'." Then she called the fire department., "The building was' totally involved' when we .arrived," said fire chief Dick Ranniger. ■ Three units from the Gibsons department and two from Roberts Creek:had the blaze under, control within 45 minutes and, miraculously, stopped it from spread- , ing to the adjoining premises. In the school board office; above Kruse Drugs, flames broke through the wall and damaged both the,board room , and the office of the secretary-lxeasurer. But school board chairman, Agnes, Labonte, told The Times Sunday that the' district's maintenance crew had erected a temporary wall and it would be "business as usual" Monday. , .. ', "We feel very fortunate that the fire department managed to save the buildings on either side of rtarvey's," she said, "Someone called me during the fire and' wh…

The Peninsula Times
type: Keep Down Taxes
type: dehorncr end he
type: 10
spatial: Sechelt (B.C.)
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language: English
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provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sechelt, B.C : Powell River News Town Crier Sechelt Times Ltd.
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