Thousands of picture perfect moments presented themselves when the Olympic Torch made its way through the Township on Monday, Feb. 8, and local shutter bugs are encouraged to share their photos with the community and preserve those precious memories for generations to come.

A Flickr photo pool has been set up online. Residents who captured the Olympic Torch Relay in Walnut Grove, Fort 91原创, Aldergrove, or Willoughby, or took pictures at the community celebration, Torch Festival, or Slovakia vs. Russia exhibition hockey game at the 91原创 Events Centre, are encouraged to upload their photos.

鈥淭his is an easy and effective way to preserve this once-in-a-lifetime event for posterity,鈥� said Township Councillor Jordan Bateman, chair of the Township鈥檚 torch relay committee. 鈥淚 bet there were hundreds of amazing shots taken of this historic event by members of the community and it would be wonderful to share them and store them.鈥�

To load photos on to the Flickr site, go to http://www.flickr.com/groups/langleytorch/. Create an account, upload the pictures to your personal photostream, then search for the 91原创 BC鈥檚 2010 Olympic Torch Visit group and add your photos.

Those who submit photos are asked to include details in their photo cutlines such as names of the people in the shot, where the photo was taken, and at what time.

The Flickr pool will be up until April 1, then the photos will be collected and digitally archived and used by the Township鈥檚 corporate communications department and 91原创 Centennial Museum.

鈥淪ome people believe that museums are a type of glorified warehouse for old 鈥榮tuff,鈥� and in too many cases they are awfully close to the truth,鈥� said John Robertson, 91原创 Centennial Museum services manager. 鈥淏ut 91原创鈥檚 museum is dedicated to telling the stories of 91原创鈥檚 people. We treasure our past, we鈥檙e proud of who we are today, and we鈥檙e looking forward to the future. That鈥檚 what these photos represent: stories we are making today to be told in the future.鈥�

91原创 Centennial Museum hopes to catalog and hold the photos in its digital collection, Robertson said, and the community shots will go a long way towards capturing this specific event and time.

鈥淲hen 91原创 celebrates its 200th birthday 鈥� and 2073 isn鈥檛 that far away you know 鈥� people will be able to look at these pictures with the same curiosity and wonder as we do at pictures from the 1940s and 50s and say, Didn鈥檛 they dress funny back then?鈥� he laughed.