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The Yellow Creek School was built on the SE 17-80-6-W6 on land donated by the Stefan Badiuk family. A teacherage was also on site. In 1959 the school was closed, the land returned to the Badiuk family and the school building sold to Walter and Vera Grela who moved it to their farm. This farm later became the Dobish farm.

The Sundquist Research Library at the Yakima Valley Museum is the principal regional repository specifically devoted to local history. The Sundquist Library contains over 6,500 historic photographs of the region; 200 maps of the Valley; 73 recorded oral histories, bound copies of the Yakima Herald-Republic from 1890 to 1952; 1,100 linear feet of personal and local business papers, pamphlets, scrapbooks and other ephemera; and 95 linear feet of newspaper clipping files. Function: Yakima Valley Museum in Yakima, Washington, U.S.A. presents the region's natural history, American Indian culture, pioneer life, early city life and the roots and development of the valley's fruit industry.

The concept of "Team'88" was developed as a means of unifying OCO'88 staff and volunteers into a cohesive work force. Its mandate was "to mold volunteers and staff into a single, unified workforce during the Games." The Team'88 Services Group was established in early 1987, the last "Group" to be added to OCO's organizational structure. Its creation brought together several divisions or departments of OCO which had existed previously under the mandates of other groups of the organizing committee, especially the Executive and Operations Groups. Don Smith was appointed Vice President on 1987 April 27. By Games time, Team'88 Services consisted of six divisions: Accreditation, Human Resources, Protocol, Volunteers, with IOC Relations and Government Services being added in the fall of 1987, a result of the reorganization of OCO'88 as a whole. The Vice President considered the greatest success of Team'88 to be the moulding of the staff and volunteers into an effective team given budget limitations which forced a reduction in the numbers of volunteers and staff allowed. The staff took on most of the responsibilities prior to the Games for operating the various OCO'88 programs, managing the budget, building facilities, raising funds and organizing the Games. These responsibilities were then transferred to the volunteers with the switch to venue management at Games time. To accomplish its mandate, Team'88 was divided into two main areas of responsibility: VIP visitors; and staff, volunteers and contractors within the Organizing Committee. "During the Games, the vice-president, Team'88 Services reported to the president on staff and volunteer concerns and to the chairman on most VIP-related matters." For organizational charts from 1987 April and September, see the appendix.

The Finance Group appeared as a distinct functional group within OCO'88 in 1984 March. In addition to the principal objective of ensuring the financial success of the Games, the mandate of the Finance Group was to work with all levels of the organization to plan and control revenues and expenditures effectively, to acquire and deploy necessary goods, and to administer the organization. It functioned as a "service" group in many respects, providing financial, administrative, scheduling, legal and graphics services to the Departments within all OCO'88 Groups. The wide range of services offered by the various Divisions and Departments of the Finance Group illustrate that its mandate went well beyond that of financial control. The functions ultimately performed by the Finance Group were originally, from 1983 August to 1984 March when the Finance Group was established, within the mandates of two divisions of its predecessor, the Corporate Services Group: the Finance and Administration Division and the Systems and Planning Division. In 1984 March, the Finance Group was established with two Divisions: Administration Division and Systems Division. These two Divisions essentially took over the functions of the Corporate Services Group's Finance and Administration Division and the Systems and Planning Division respectively. As the OCO organization evolved, various service-type functions, such as Human Resources and Government Services were part of the Finance Group from time to time until they were ultimately transferred elsewhere. For more information regarding the XV Olympic Winter Games, Finance Group administrative history, please link to the City of Calgary Archives homepage and click on the "fonds level descriptions" link.

A "Communications" section was part of the organizational structure of OCO'88 from its formation, although it sometimes appeared on early organizational charts under various other names, such as "Public Affairs" or "Public Relations." The title "Communications" was most frequently used, however. Frances Jackson, the first Vice President of Communications, was among the very first appointments to the administration of OCO'88 in 1982. Initially, she was to report to the Vice President of Marketing, although this reporting structure was soon changed if it ever existed in practice. Her mandate was to be "accountable for the provision of a group of communication services related to the positive identity and image of the XV Olympic Winter Games through the expertise and leadership provided to professionals and administrative staff that achieves the images being sought for this unique event." These duties included public relations, publicity, press, radio and television services and the cultural programme for the 1988 Olympic Winter Games, and extended into Language Services, a Library/Archives programme, and developing the graphics for the 1988 Games. An organizational chart of the Communications "Group" distributed these tasks among five Departments: Media Relations, Public Relations, Culture, Language Services and Archives. The records of this series do not clearly reflect the existence of these separate Departments, but they do reflect the importance given to OCO's relations with the media right from the onset of its work. For more information regarding the XV Olympic Winter Games, Communications Group administrative history, please link to the City of Calgary Archives homepage and click on the "fonds level descriptions" link.