2000 – 10 YEARS AGO
• The movies are coming to Donalda as a filming crew has set the stage in the prairie lands for the movie War Bride with a cast including Brenda Fricker, Anna Friel, Molly Parker, Loren Dean and Aden Young.
• Stettler will host the 2001 Safeway Select men’s provincial curling championships eventhough the town doesn’t have a Safeway store which was prerequisite, until tournament officials decided in favour of Stettler.
1990 – 20 YEARS AGO
• Doug McDavid has been named the new principal of William E. Hay Compsite High School in Stettler. Mr. McDavid, who has taught 12 years at Wlliam E. Hay and served six years as vice-principal, will succeed Gerritt Kampe who retires at the end of June.
• Karen Betts of Stettler won a bronze medal for third place in primary-class Highland dancing at the provincial competition April 28 in Calgary and she won two first-place awards at Red Deer.
1980 – 30 YEARS AGO
• Marvin Seibel of Stettler has taken responsibility for three brothers who are refugees form the confilict in the Far East. Mr. Seibel will remain responsible for the welfare of the refugees until such time as they become self-supporing in Canada. The three young men will spend seven days on a 30-foot-by-15-foot single-deck boat with 502 other refugees.
• Grade-8 students of Waverly School in Stettler and their teacher Bill Simon were at the Alberta Legislature last week to present a 700-name petition asking to stabilize Buffalo Lake, as they submitted the petition to Environment Minister Jack Cookson and local MLA and Solictor-General Graham Harle.
1970 – 40 YEARS AGO
• Erskine 4-H Light Horse Club sponsored a ride-athon from Botha to Erskine, a distance of about 18 miles, as 31 persons, mostly belonging to family groups, participated. Eleanor Walgenbach and her family of five children, the youngest, Bonnie, six years old, and Mrs. Walgenbach earned $33 by competing the trip.
• Heart of Alberta Trailer Club and Stettler Board of Trade are expecting 300 trailers form all over Alberta for the fourth annual trialer railly in Rochon Sands Provincial Park. About 300 trailers and close to 2,000 persons attended the rally in 1969.
1960 – 50 YEARS AGO
• Stettler Booster Club’s Mammoth $4,600 Bingo wil get under way at 8 p.m. tonight at the community centre. There will be 10 games for an outstanding group of prizes including a small Nash Metropolitan car. There is also a door prize, a $200 man’s or lady’s wardrobe. There are seats for more than 5,000 persons.
1950 – 60 YEARS AGO
• A public meeting to discuss the proposed agreement with T.L. Brook to supply natural gas to Stettler will be held in Calder’s Hall Monday, May 8 at 8 p.m. A large attendance is espected at this meeting as all citizens are taking a keen interest in the proposition.
• The final “Search for Talent” Show will be held in Edmonton Sales Pavilion on May 6. The show will be broadcast on CFRN at 8:30 p.m. and Miss Georgina Murray of Stettler will be one of the contestants. She is the 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Murray.
1940 – 70 YEARS AGO
• The weather this week has not yet become stabilized. It is neither spring, summer or winter, but a combination of all three. The mornings start mild and sunny then change to cold winds and intermittent rain, and by night it feels like winter again. There has been no spring so far, but by May 24, we should start the summer season.
1930 – 80 YEARS AGO
• Bill Rutledge of Rutledge Air Service Co. of Calgary will be here on Thursday, May 8 with two machines for the purpose of working up interest in a local aero class. The machines will be a Curtis Robin Cabin Monoplane and an American Eagle two-place bi-plane.
1920 – 90 YEARS AGO
• In answer to a challenge issue by the chess players of Coronation to the Stettler Chess and Checker Club, arrangements have been made to play four games of chess by correspondence.
1910 – 100 YEARS AGO
• Many conditions favourable to the livestock industry are peculiar to Alberta. First, there is an abundance of grass for pasteurage and hay. Second, the climate is dry in the cold season and cattle, horses, sheep and pigs can be wintered without the cost of stabling.
• The undersigned is prepared to herd milk cows from from the first day of May to October at $1 a head per month. Dairy bull with the herd. Leave town 7:30 a.m. and return at 6:30 p.m. – Emmanuel Gray, Herder.