Happy New Year! We begin 2020 in conversation with Langley Heritage Society president Fred Pepin, pictured above at his portable sawmill. Over the years he drilled 2,400 irrigation wells on farms across the Fraser Valley and employed a well-witcher who boasted a 90% success rate. Also on the show: you can learn a lot about local history through its cookbooks. We see what’s cooking in the Newman Western Canadian Cookbook Collection at the University of the Fraser Valley Library with librarian Mary-Anne MacDougall. Learn more about the collection HERE. Valley Voices is heard Wednesdays at 11 am on CIVL 101.7 FM at the University of the Fraser Valley, or by listening via link HERE. (Open with Google Music Player if required.) Valley Voices is hosted by retired CBC broadcaster and LHS member Mark Forsythe.
May-Anne MacDougall originally trained as a chef and is now special collections librarian at University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford.