1999 – 10 YEARS AGO
• On the heels of some of the worst flooding in Stettler in recent memory, the town has been included in the provincial government’s recently announced disaster recovery program.
• Two Stettler citizens were arrested Monday along with eight other people as an undercover drug operation by the Camrose Police Service wrapped up.
1989 – 20 YEARS AGO
• The Stettler Summer Games committee received approval from the Stettler School District to build a $436,000 track and field facility on its property. This will include a paved track with a rubberized surface, plus a renovated playing field and area.
• One in every three students attending Wm. E. Hay High School drink alcohol at least once a week, and one in four has smoke marijuana. These are the results of a questionnaire completed by 354 of the school’s 450 students.
1979 – 30 YEARS AGO
• The annual fish derby will be held at Boehlke’s Pond near Byemoor on Aug. 4 and 5, sponsored by the Elks Club. A pancake breakfast will be served Sunday morning.
• A new way to make operator=assisted long distance calls will come to Stettler and 10 other central Alberta communities in August. With Zero Plus number dialing, callers may use the service to dial their own collect calls, person-to-person, charge calls etc.
1969 – 40 YEARS AGO
• Harvey Anderson’s Lazy A Ranch of Erskine, a leader in the Charolais breed in Canada, showed the champion crossbred steer at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Livestock Show. Anderson has just returned from France where he purchased a Charolais bull and two heifers.
• Representatives of retail sections of the boards of trade of Coronation, Castor and Stettler, agreed that stores of their respective towns should be closed on Saturdays and Sundays, and that there should be night shopping on Thursdays.
1959 – 50 YEARS AGO
• Stettler Rotary Club is studying the possibility of setting up a museum of pioneer relics, providing it can obtain the Nazarene Church for the purpose. The church was the first to be built in Stettler, and was erected in 1905 by the late Mr. Fred Colley.
1949 – 60 YEARS AGO
• A group of Gadsby boxers trained by Ronald Walters dominated the fight card held by Stettler Kinsmen. Only knock out of the evening came in the fourth bout when Jim Doer of Gadsby floored Don Huntinigton of Hanna with a smashing left.
• July 1949 will go down in the records as a month of violent storms. Since June 29 over 9.5 inches of rain have fallen in Stettler, coming in cloudbursts of only one or two hours duration.
1939 – 70 YEARS AGO
• Fire broke out Sunday afternoon in a hay meadow belonging to Ben Skaley. IT was brought under control by neighbours, but not before 50 acres of good hay had been burned.
• Safeway Stores prices: Watermelon, 5 cents/lb; field tomatoes, 10 cents/lb; two dozen oranges, 25 cents; 3 lb. coffee, 75 cents; 98 lb. flour, $3.39.
1929 – 80 YEARS AGO
• Fenn News: Drought and hot winds continue unabated. What crops have not been burnt up; have now been practically blown away.
• Willie: “Ma, if baby was to eat tadpoles, would it give him a big bass voice like a frog?”
Mother: “Goodness gracious, no! They’d kill him!”
Willie: “Well they didn’t.”
1919 – 90 YEARS AGO
• Dentists Aunger and Brebber have installed electric drilling machines and all the latest devices for the comfort and pleasure of their patients. Most people will be glad they have cavities in their teeth so they can have the opportunity to visit these offices.
• Classified ad: Teacher wanted, second class, salary $1,000 per annum. Duties to commence Aug. 11. Apply to Secretary Treasurer, Heart Lake, Alta.
1909 - 100 YEARS AGO
• Robert Willis, of Seaforth, ON visited his son C.L. Willis last week. He says if he were starting life over again, he would homestead in the Stettler district.
1909 - 100 YEARS AGO
• One of the most exciting baseball games of the season occurred when Wessington met Haneyville in the final meet for the Dunlap Trophy. There was a large and enthusiastic crowd present, and rooters for both sides rooted until they could root no more.