Veterans honoured for service

Three Chilliwack men were among 12 B.C. veterans honoured for service at a special ceremony in Vancouver Friday. Jim Harris, James Lobe and Robert Provost were each presented the Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation.

Ozarks Genealogical Society's conference focuses on Southern roots

Learning to research Southern ancestors will be a large part of the Ozarks Genealogical Society's 30th annual conference.

Great Uncle Fritz Was a Blacksmith

In a small, but bustling railroad city, where horses and mules were still the mode of travel, and iron fences and gates were becoming the fashion, a blacksmith could always find work.

Author writes about canneries

John Foertschbeck had not planned on being an author

Shenandoah crash still remembered 85 years later

MARIETTA - In the 1940s, Bryan Rayner's grandfather purchased two farms in the Noble County community of Ava, farms where pieces of the United States' first rigid airship, the USS Shenandoah, crashed in 1925.

Annual reunion celebrates long heritage of Fretz family

Few of the Fretz family members are famous. Normal people, hard-working and deeply religious, they were mostly farmers, although a few doctors, a judge, and a diplomat to Barbados were among the lot, according to Fretz Family Association secretary and descendent Erma Keller.