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Blast from the Past: Card holders at Unity Library doubled in 10 years.

50 years ago, librarians of the Unity Public Library asked town council for more space with a large jump of card holders from 1968 to 1974.
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Kerrobert curlers Helen Richelhoff, Pat Knorr, Irene Shortt and Lucy McHarg pose with drawmaster Edwin Heilman after scoring a perfect eight-ender in the Unity Ladies’ Bonspiel. Thirty-seven rinks competed in the event.

50 years ago

The Unity Volunteer Ambulance Corps held their annual meeting and re-elected Bob Duns as president, Marie Thalheimer as secretary-treasurer and Graydon Olsen as vice-president.

In making a request to Unity town council for more space, Mrs. Howdle and Mrs. Simpson indicated the role of the public library had grown substantially, from 570 library cards in use in 1968 to 1,180 in 1974.

A petition from residents of northwest Saskatchewan was successful in calling a halt to further brush-cutting in the Atton’s Lake area. The PFRA had intended to clear more land for cattle but that plan had resulted in a storm of protest.

20 years ago

Heartland Health’s public health inspector sent a letter to Keith Wilson, Unity parks and recreation director, ordering the town to clear the Unity Community Centre of bats. The letter was the result of a town employee handling a live bat to take it outside and perhaps having been bitten through his glove.

Class A shareholders of the proposed Prairie Springs Mineral Spa in Wilkie gave the board an overwhelming vote of confidence, asking them to carry on with the project. The other option had been to stop the project and return all moneys raised thus far.

The Darlene Rumohr rink of Major, which included Ester Witt, Candice Rumohr and Diane Smith, defeated the Donna Fowler rink of Luseland to win the A event at the Luseland Ladies’ Spiel.

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