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First cottage built at White Sands summer resort - A Look Back

2001 - 10 YEARS AGO

• Gadsby School has been awarded the national Platinum QDPE Recognition Award by the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. This award is for providing quality daily physical education (QDPE) and is awarded annually to Canadian schools achieving more than 150 minutes of physical education per student per week. Bashaw School is one of only 511 schools in Canada to receive this prestigious award this year.

•A former Stettler native is the producer of a musical which is playing in Red Deer this week. Bruce Hennel is the producer of “Tell Me on a Sunday”, an award-winning musical by world renowned composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

1991 - 20 YEARS AGO

• The Stettler Pro Rodeo drew large crowds throughout the three-day event. Instead of having a mid-way, various activities were planned to create a family atmosphere, making it a high calibre event with small town appeal.

• The Stettler District 4H achievement day, held in Byemoor for the first time in 45 years, was a roaring success. Six steers, donated by cattlemen in the area, were sold, with proceeds to go to feed the athletes at the Alberta Summer Games.

1981 - 30 YEARS AGO

• A truck carrying cans of 2-4D lost part of its load and spilled about 50 gallons of the chemical at the junction of Highways 12 and 56. Officials cleaned up the spill, and the truck driver was fined $25.

• Stettler County Fair has grown from five to seven days this year. As a B Class Fair for the first time, there will be a greatly improved midway and professional shows on the grandstand, as well as many new features over the week.

1971 - 40 YEARS AGO

• Ken Wilkie of Big Valley and Ken Kobi of Byemoor won over 52 other entries in Big Valley Legion’s annual River Regatta Raft Race. Winners of the ladies division were Bev Smith and C. Watson of Delburne.

• The Erskine Evangelical Free Church Junior High Quiz Team has won the Prairie District quiz finals, and now advances to the North American finals at Seattle: Marilyn Boyce, Darryl Rachar, Ken Boyce, Kathy Boyce, Doug Leschert and Brenda Wittwer.

1961 - 50 YEARS AGO

• Town of Stettler has announced that it willplace a “full and complete restriction on all hose watering of lawns and gardens” until further notice. It is expected that the new wells will be put into use by June 20.

• The first cottage has been built at White Sands, a beautiful new summer resort adjacent to Bar Harbour at Buffalo Lake. The project calls for a trailer park, golf course, parks and children’s playgrounds.

1951 - 60 YEARS AGO

• Just recently the Stettler School Division advertised that it contemplates the sale or removal of these rural schools: Adshead, Thompson, Fenn, Star Ridge, Ransom, Little Knife, Snake Lake, Bignell, Vimy Hill, Line Tree, Blumenau, Spring Lake, Wild Rose and Ozark.

1941 - 70 YEARS AGO

• The merchants on Main Street and Alberta Avenue have decorated their premises with flags and streamers for the Victory Loan Campaign, and the Mayor would like to see the householders also decorate their premises.

• A beacon was built on Johnson’s Hill by the Big Valley Boy Scouts, and when set on fire one night last week, it gave a great flare of light that could be seen for miles down the valley.

1931 - 80 YEARS AGO

• Approximately 25.000 young Albertans will greet with loud cheers an announcement by Hon. Perren Baker, minister of education, that there will be no departmental examinations this year for grades 8 and 9 in the public schools of Alberta. There have been many objections to the rigid examination system hitherto in effect.

• Drell Smith, accompanied by two friends, left this week for Rocky Mountain House, where they will build a raft, and float down the Saskatchewan River to the Brazeau district, where they will pan for gold.

1921 - 90 YEARS AGO

• The month of June is the most important of the year to the province, as the supply of rain or the absence of it during that month will make or mar a crop. There has been only one good fall of rain during May, so it is up to June to fill the breach.

• Crows are particularly numerous this year, and they are destroying a large number of duck eggs. Now that seeding is over, we should get out and shoot the crows!

1911 - 100 YEARS AGO

• The site of the CNR station has been staked out, and a force of workmen began construction at the foot of Saunders Street. It is to be a regular divisional depot of the second class, the same as ones at Battleford and Kindersley.

• Harker District News: Tuesday evening three bears were seen in the vicinity of Mr. Hammaberg’s house. Early next morning, six of our local sports, with six guns, six dogs and a lasso rope, made for the scene of action, but at time of writing, there is no news.