Society News
For information about the 2021 and future raffles, please go to our new website
2019
Another successful raffle. 708 of 800 tickets sold; profits went to the Willingdon Beach Trail insurance and the Forestry Museum operation
$2255 total revenue
Proceeds to the trail insurance and Forestry Museum staffing.
Winner Robert Deyo of Aggasiz, BC.
This legacy site still works and is useful for detailed information that has not been transferred to the new website, but it is not being updated.
For the latest information, try the new site: qathet.prfhs.org/whats-new
This legacy site still works and is useful for detailed information that has not been transferred to the new website.
For the latest information, try the new site: qathet.prfhs.org
Minutes are in What's New
Minutes of the AGM held June 2020 (held electronically)
Minutes Sep 24, 2019 (back in the day when we met face to face..)
AGM April 9, 2019 Minutes and GOALS
Regular Meeting April 9, 2018 Minutes
2018 2nd meeting Sep 12, 7 pm ; historical museum admin bldg
Minutes of meeting Sep 12, 2018
Minutes of the April 10, 2018 Annual General Meeting
2019 "Thank You" Updates:
GHOST TRAIN Oct 25/26
Lois Lumber donated cedar planks for maintenance on the trail
T&R has kindly continued their support to PRFHS this year by deeply discounting the gravel and sand we use on the Railroad expansion project - a gold level contribution over many years.
- Special shout out to Cottage Creek Bakeshop. Since 2011 owner Janet Lyon has often donated delicious baked goods to volunteer train crews on Sundays at the farmers market.
See the full list of Friends and Sponsors below.
Sea Fair 2016 has been cancelled See the Peak story here
2015 We sold three books of raffle tickets at our Sea Fair display Friday and Saturday.
We hosted PRLiving's "Bring back Logger Sports" petition Saturday and collected well over 100 signatures in a few hours. PR Living Ferns and Fallers
| We started an annual newsletter in 2011.
Readers are welcome to read the newsletter online, or download and print it for free. We issue a free printed version of each newsletter to Silver-level and higher level sponsors, and to our active members donating more than 15 hours per year of their time to the PRFMS. To help support issuing printed versions, Interested readers may like to donate $5 or more to the PRFMS. Issue 5 December 2015 8 page .pdf Issue 4 December 2014 8 page .pdf Issue 3 October 2013 8 page .pdf Issue 2 November 2012 8 page .pdf Issue 1 November 2011 8 page .pdf Versions suitable for printing on 11x17 paper (booklet format) are available by email request. |
We enjoyed Arts Alive in the Park, Willingdon Beach Aug 15/16, 2015: a demonstration of use of the cedar tree by Betty Wilson, a Tla’amin Nation elder and cedar root weaver at 1:30 Sunday, along with Ron Hunter carving axes for the kids.
the 2015 edition of ferns and fallers is out
Congratulations to PRLiving for this excellent insert.
read more below abt the 2014 edition which featured the forestry museum on page 43
Farewell to Rudi van Zwaaij.
At an dinner event attended by 32 Forestry Museum Society members and friends, we said our formal goodbye to Rudi.
We inducted him as an honorary member. (plaque to the right)
More photos here. Thanks to Stephen and Dave for the photos
Shellfish Festival
At Lund's Shell fest 2014 Saturday, set up and ready - lots of folks showed up to view the photos at our tent.
Bert's "guess this item" display was very popular.
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