Local history now, and a couple stories from the December 1st, 1982 front page of the Cochrane Northland Post.
Mayor Ray Fortier was disappointed that a private logging road owned by Abitibi-Price that was linked to the Detour Lake mine road… would be open to the public.
Library archivist Ardis Proulx-Chedore reads from the report.
“Mayor Fortier complained that a meeting to discuss the situation was supposed to be held with natural resources minister Alan Pope, Cochrane North MPP René Piché and Iroquois Falls Mayor Lawrence Cutten, but it was never scheduled.”
SEARCH AND RESCUE UNIT FORMED
On the same front page, the creation of a local search and rescue air patrol.
Organizer and chairman Yvon Desroches was pleased with the initial membership of 12 people, as Proulx-Chedore reads from the Northland Post story.
“’This may make better pilots out of us and make us more safety conscious,’ he told the group. He noted that the formation of a Cochrane Flying Club would probably be part of the unit’s development.”
Desroches felt the flying club would allow the group to have regular social activities, and attract more members for the search and rescue unit.
Cochrane history comes alive in the archives department at the public library.