1999 – 10 YEARS AGO
• A new storage garage for Stettler District Ambulance Association will be needed in the near future to replace the current garage – built in 1972 – that is too small to accommodate the larger modern ambulances.
• Stettler realtor Fran Snowden was honoured by Central Alberta Realtors Charitable Foundation for here community service to the foundation that serves social shelters.
1989 – 20 YEARS AGO
• Stettler Curling Club took the wraps off its renovated curling rink with an official ribbon-cutting that promised the keenest ice in central Alberta for years to come. The rink now has its own ice plant, capable of delivering bone-chilling temperatures even during the height of summer.
1979 – 30 YEARS AGO
• Doris Aunger, a strong community worker, and Vic Whittaker, returning secretary-treasurer of Stettler School District, were acclaimed as Stettler’s Citizens of the Year. Unpretentious, honest, consistent and friendly are adjectives that best describe both of them.
• Sunday school children of Sharon Lutheran Church in Donalda have been bringing extra pennies every Sunday to help buy an airplane for the Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots. These missionary pilots make mercy flights into remote areas in the far north.
1969 – 40 YEARS AGO
• Susan Sikstrom and Debbie Kroeger took part in the Alberta Dancers Association tap competition in Edmonton and won five medal. Sikstrom teaches dancing in Stettler and Kroeger teaches in Consort.
• Under construction for the past four years, an addition to the Canadian Utilities Battler River generating station has now been connected to the Alberta electricity grid am dos is supplying about 50 per cent of its rated output. The $26 million plant addition will uprate the station’s total output to 220,000 kilowatts.
1959 – 50 YEARS AGO
• A cordial invitation is extended to everyone to Mel’s Shoes grand opening of their children’s shoe department. An increase in business has made it necessary to enlarge the store which now includes a well-appointed children’s department.
• More than 150 people attended the annual trophy banquet of Endiang 4-H Club in the fine Endiang community hall and heard an outstanding address on the 4-H pledge by Arthur Kay of Stettler, past president of Stettler District Agricultural Society.
1949 – 60 YEARS AGO
• UFA Co-op, which has a site just north of the old power plant, has placed six large oil tanks underground for its wholesale oil business. Each tank is 12 feet long and six feet high.
• At the suggestion of former Town of Stettler mayor H.A. Blair, Stettler Board of Trade decided to take rigorous action to secure a post office building in Stettler and a committee was appointed to draw up a course of action.
1939 – 70 YEARS AGO
• You will find Christmas shopping in Stettler this season most enjoyable. Businessmen have recently spared no expense to secure the very best and largest stocks ever shown in stores.
1929 – 80 YEARS AGO
• Ben Trayer Sr. has imported a flock of sheep from England and reports they are doing well on his farm near Donalda. They don’t seem to notice any difference between the Old Country and Alberta.
1919 – 90 YEARS AGO
• Municipal and school elections on Monday caused quite a bit of excitement in Stettler. One our or leading merchants, F. Seabrook, headed the poll for councilors.
• Christmas is nearing by leaps and bounds. Pride & Nash in Stettler offers Japanese oranges for $125 per box and mixed nuts for 40 cents a pound. A large assortment of ladies’ handkerchiefs has just arrived – imported stock in pretty lace designs, three to a box for 15 cents.
1909 – 100 YEARS AGO
• A solemn high mass was celebrated in the new Catholic church by the Stettler congregation. R.F. Bazin, parish priest, has tendered his thanks to contributors who built the church which is a mark of honour to the town.
• Botha is experiencing the joy that comes from hopes fulfilled. After waiting three years, the rails have at last reached the town. Telephones arrived a few weeks ahead of the train and Botha is now in full touch with the outside world.