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ABBOTSFORD T RIBUNE PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1951
Recreation area to be dedicated Sunday
Dedication of the new recreation area, which will take place Sunday, July 1, will give entertainment for all the family. The picnic area will be open for those who wish to bring their own lunch and there will be refreshment stands on the grounds.
A big program of entertainment has been planned, which should be of interest to everyone.
At 1:30 there will be a baseball game between the Junior Legion teams of Abbotsford and Colby and at 4:30 the girls’ All Stars will play the Firemen, garbed in fire fighting attire, in a soft ball game at the center field diamond. At 8:15 the Abbotsford Athletics will play a Cloverbelt league game versus Loyal.
Throughout the afternoon there will be archery and .22 calibre rifle shoots, kiddie contests and at 6:30 there will be a tennis exhibition of singles and doubles. Door prizes will be awarded at various intervals and a Polka band will play throughout the afternoon and evening.
The event is being sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.
Band concert will be presented Friday night The Tri City band will play the first in a series of free open air summer concerts at the band stand on main street in Abbotsford Friday evening.
The public is invited to attend the concert which is made possible by the Village of Abbotsford in cooperation with Local 194 of the American Federation of Musicians.
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1981
DNR, Harmony anticipate no contamination from oil spill
A DNR spokesman and a representative of Harmony Co-op said Monday that no contamination problems are anticipated as a result of last Friday’s 5,000 gallon oil spill at the co-op’s bulk plant in Colby.
A thorough cleanup of the affected area, and subsequent burnoff of spilled oil remnants by Colby firemen, make it unlikely that any of the liquid will enter nearby waterways or wells, both spokesmen said. The spill occurred about 4 a.m. Friday morning, June 26, when a Midlands tanker was making a delivery of number two fuel oil at the Colby tank farm. About 2,300 gallons of the tanker’s 7,300 gallon load had been pumped into a storage tank when a hose disconnected. The driver, sitting in his truck, was unaware of the accident, and 5,000 gallons spilled onto the ground.
“Normally, it would have stayed inside the dike that was constructed for that purpose,” said Jim Hager of Harmony. “But we had so much rain lately that water was standing inside the dike, and we had opened it for drainage the night before. Only one out of about 150 nights would that dike be open,” he continued.
The dike did hold back about half of the volume spilled, and the remainder flowed down into the marshy section east of the storage facility, which is located on Colby’s Division Street. Hager said the DNR was contracted about 6 a.m. and DNR officials arrived on the scene about 10 a.m.
