The official newsletter of the Ladysmith
& District Historical Society.
November 2006 Issue 601
Saturday October 28 – A Spirited Night, an
evening of Clairvoyance with Christine.
Over two dozen folks enjoyed snacks and beverages at the
A special thanks to Marina and Isabelle for
putting on our first very successful fundraiser. Thank you Marilyn Johnson for your
preparation of our delicious snacks, Vera from Take 5, for our poster, and
Trish for your wonderful decorating talent. Of course many thanks to our
Clairvoyant Christine who donated her time.
Thank you very much to all our volunteers for your time and donations of
the wine.
Welcome to our
new members: Raelene Gold,
George Telford, and June Ehmig
We have to be
constantly promoting membership in the Society. One of the best ways is for us as members is
to encourage our friends and neighbors to be involved, not just
financially. Membership forms are
available at The Archives office.
Our next
meeting is November 21st at 7:00 pm at the home of
Lil and Ian Hardy,
Corporate
memberships are actively encouraged. Uforik computers are our newest corporate member. Don’t be afraid to ask any business if they
would like to belong to the Society. If
they want to join, it is $30.00 and we will give them a nice certificate of
thanks.
Archives
Office: I have been
opening the Archive office on a regular basis Tuesday and Thursday from10 am to
4 pm. I have had tremendous help from
Ian Hardy and Kit Willmot in organizing the office. Our first huge project has been dealing with
all the Chronicles. I thank you very
much Ian and Kit for all your help.
The new
computer is in place. We can scan
documents and photographs with the new scanner.
So if you are speaking with people who would like to share their family
collections with us, we can scan them and then return them.
Ladysmith
Legion has generously donated their old copier to us. They also gave us a computer. Brian Grouhel also gave us a couple of
computer towers.
The Black
Nugget Museum was opened on many occasions this past summer. We tried to have it open for special town
events, such as Ladysmith Days, as well as the Thursday shopping evenings. Once again a word of thanks to all those
volunteers that supported it by acting as tour guides. It certainly raised our profile in the
community and also attracted new members.
Delegation to
Council Meeting is hopefully on November 20th. I have filled out the Request For Delegation
Status Form and returned it to the Mayor’s secretary so that she can put us on
the agenda for that night. I would like to have a meeting with the
members before that date so we can review our issues before we attend.
Fund Raising
Ladysmith
Centennial Book: After
Ladysmith
Historical Family Cook Book has begun. Thank
you very much to Lil for creating our questionnaire. Isabelle is taking this project and creating
up a storm. She has done seven
interviews, collected the recipes and scanned pictures that represent the
families. I have transcribed the first
four interviews and I will circulate to you all a sample of one. Hopefully we can get more people doing
interviews of the families of Ladysmith.
How is the rest of the committee doing?