2000 – 10 YEARS AGO
• Independent MP Jack Ramsay officially announced he will seek the nomination for the Canadian Alliance Party for the federal Crowfoot riding although the 62-year-old incumbent was convicted last November of the attempted rape of a 14-year-old girl in 1969 when he was serving with the RCMP police in Pelican Narrows, Saskatchewan.
• Canada Post building in Stettler is the latest target in a series of break-ins downtown Stettler as about 16 sets of silver millennium costs commemorating the Year of the Older Person and a large number of stamps all totaling over $12,000 was reported stolen.
1990 – 20 YEARS AGO
• Harm done by sometimes-torrential rains Friday through Tuesday appeared to have less-than-possible benefits to most local farmers. Big Valley Raft Races were cancelled due to high water levels for the first time in the event’s 25-year history. Aside from a few basement leaks and localized erosion or flooding, problems were few.
1980 – 30 YEARS AGO
• When the Circle Four Teams of Stettler, Red Deer, Drumheller, and Ponoka met in competition in Stettler on the weekend, Brenda Limpert of the local Centennial Swim Club won a plaque for the fastest time in ladies’ 800-meter freestyle.
1970 – 40 YEARS AGO
• Stettler Lions club held its charter night in the Memorial Hall in Stettler on Friday, May 29.
The Lions’ charter night took on additional importance this year as the international club in Canada marked the 50th anniversary. Master of ceremonies was club president Richard Derwantz.
* Students of William E. Hay Composite High School in Stettler elected their student union for 1970-1971with president Colin Kuefler, secretary Kathleen Kaufman, treasurer Colleen Mohr, along with David MacNaughton, Bill Elliot and Terry Heighington.
1960 – 50 YEARS AGO
• St. George’s Anglican Church building in Stettler will be dedicated on Sunday, June 12 at 11 a.m. with Rev. G.R. Calvert, Bishop of Calgary, conducting the service.
• Some 25 drivers took part in extensive tests at the Stettler branch of the Royal Canadian Legion’s annual Car Roadeo. Gerry McIntyre of the Royal Bank staff scored the most points among the adults and Bill McAlister was declared the best driver among teenagers.
1950 – 60 YEARS AGO
• Encouraging oil signs have been uncovered south of Erskine and could possibly forecast the discovery of a second oil field in the Stettler area.
• Of greater benefit to the district than the discovery of a new oil field were the rains which fell on Monday and Tuesday of this week as .55 inches were recorded at the Canadian Pacific Railway gauge and immeasurable good has been done to dry crops and gardens.
1940 – 70 YEARS AGO
• Literally everyone with a will (and surely that means all of us) can help the war now that the federal finance minister has begun the sale of 25-cent war savings stamps which, when four dollars of them have been collected, can be exchanged for a five-dollar bond or certificate.
It is the most painless kind of easy payments we have ever heard of.
• Approximately $200 is the average value of all automobiles on American highways.
1930 – 80 YEARS AGO
• On Friday evening, June 13, the church shed at Liberal will be sold by public auction. The ladies’ aid will serve ice cream and refreshments.
1920 – 90 YEARS AGO
• Something extraordinary must have happened in Big Valley on Sunday as neither the Presbyterian or Anglican church minister came out to take their service.
• The few loads of cinders placed in the mud hole opposite the Methodist church in Stettler have made such a big improvement that the road commissioners should use the same things for the other bad holes on Main Street which show up after a rain.
1910 – 100 YEARS AGO
• Stettler District Agricultural Society is making a bee to haul lumber and put up buildings on the fairgrounds in Stettler on Friday, June 17 and Mr. Adair, the president would like all those interested in the fair and society to come and help on that day. Farmers and everyone interested, come and bring your team (of horses), your hammer and your saw and if you don’t have either of those, just bring your two hands.