Events, People, Society News

Sad to Report

The Ladysmith & District HIstorical Society is sad to announce that it lost two volunteer members in the Society, both on July 23

Long time member Ruth Weeks passed away suddenly at home joining her husband Ken. Both were active members in the Society.

Museum volunteer Taher Rampuri never recovered from the surgery he wanted in order to feel better and stronger according to his wife, Shamin who is also a volunteer at the museum.

LDHS wishes to extend the sympathy of all members to the families of Ruth and Taher.

 

People, Website Additions

Additions to website – June 2016

The minutes of the May 2016 Board of Directors meeting have now been approved and are available to view in the Members section of the website. Requires logging in with a password

We have started our oral histories section which appears in the Maps and Media section. There are two Audio pages, one entitled Audio – Knight files which contains the older recordings which were part of the Knight collection and were transferred over from cassette tapes to mp3 format suitable for displaying on the website.

So far this page contains two of these older recordings. There are many more coming. Watch for our article in the coming months about Nathan Dougan and the 1900 Trainwreck just north of Ladysmith. It will be added to our Transportation section.

The second audio page contains an interview with long time Ladysmith resident, former owner of the Chronicle and Mayor Rollie Rose. Rollie and Helen moved to the Okanogan in June to be closer to family. Here’s hoping Rollie will continue his Ramblin’ ways and come back to visit often.

We plan to add to this page interviews done with other long time residents who have contributed so much to this town. Suggestions welcome!

Two articles contributed by museum curator, Bernardien Knol were added to the Our Stories section of the website. One concerns the 30th anniversary of Ladysmith Downtown Revitalization Project and the other is about the efforts to create the Ladysmith Museum on its 5th anniversary.

Events, Website Additions

Home Town Tourist History

Amongst the many happenings taking place this weekend (June 18 & 19), for the Home Town Tourist campaign sponsored by Take 5 magazine, history buffs will be especially interested in the following two events.

The museum is located at 721 First Avenue and the Legion is at 621 First Avenue so they are only a block apart.

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