Peek at the Past

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A peek from the Town Crier’s Tuesday, April 28, 1992 issue – Top photo: It was wall to wall people at the Mildmay Conservation Park on Easter Sunday when Mildmay Recreation held their first Easter Egg Hunt for the youngsters.  Bottom photo: The prize table was really kept busy as the boys and girls returned with specially marked eggs. The older children had to find ribbons which were also hidden throughout the park area.    – Town Crier photos

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A peek from the Town Crier’s Wednesday, April 4, 2012 issue – The Mildmay Monarchs PeeWee Rep team became the 2012 O.M.H.A. PeeWee “DD” Champions after a 2-1 win over Lucknow in Game 4 of their “best of five” series. Back row (l-r): Ryan Martin  (Coach), Paul Tolton (Asst. Coach), Jared Liesemer, Nick Kieswetter, Wes Diemert, Jeremiah Lemay, Scott Girdler (Trainer), Logan Tolton, Donna Ruetz (Manager). Middle row (l-r): Max Jones, Mitch Borth, Justin Fischer, Curtis Ruetz, Caleb Tolton, Rhys Martin. Front: Zach Girdler

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Here are the members of the Mildmay-Carrick Public School Boys Volleyball Team in January 2017. Pictured are Barb Spence (Coach), Cayden Houston, Preston Rhody, Caleb Golding, Owen Small, Jaxon Begio, Nigel Kreager, Owen MacKenzie, Braden Lantz and Caleb Zhang.  Thanks Barb for submitting this to the Town Crier!

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A peek from the Town Crier in 2002 and 2012 – The hometown team won the Championship title at both the 43rd and 53rd Annual Mildmay Atom Hockey Tournaments held in 2002 and 2012.  Pictured above is the team from 2002. Front row (l-r): Zach Bross, Isaac Wilkinson, Dan Kreller, Tyson Kraemer, Spencer Ruetz, Kyle Bross. Middle row (l-r): Brenda Kraemer (Manager), Tyler Kuntz, Chris Ruetz, Ewan Canning, Robbie Durrer, David Rae. Back row (l-r): Bruce Kuntz (Assistant Coach), Mike Ruetz (Trainer), Pete Critchfield (Coach).    – Town Crier photo  

 Pictured above is the team from 2012.  Front row (l-r): Adam Ruetz, Jon McDiarmid. 2nd row (l-r): Blake Wideman, Matthew Ruetz, Trevor Fischer.  3rd row (l-r): Avery Wettlaufer, Jordan Borth, Kyle Durrer, Connor Borth, Logan Dietz, Colin Huber, Justin Rogers, Josh Kieswetter. Back row (l-r): Mike Fischer (Coach), Trevor McDiarmid (Trainer), Darren Wideman (Assistant Coach).   – Photo submitted

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A peek from the Town Crier’s Thursday, March 25, 1982 issue – Millie Schurter recently celebrated her 100th Birthday. Pictured is Miss Schurter beside one of the early telephone switchboards at her Mildmay store.  The first switchboard had five subscribers, namely  the Bank, Urban Schmidt (butcher), Dr. Huck (veterinarian), Dr. Wilson (medical doctor) and Conrad Liesemer (hardware store), and the list continued to grow. Miss Schurter continued manning the Mildmay switchboard until 2:00 am, September 21, 1958 when South Bruce Municipal Telephone Company switched everything to dial

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A peek from the Town Crier’s Wednesday, March 13, 2002 issue – Pictured are the members of the girls and boys senior volleyball teams from Mildmay’s Sacred Heart School. They were the Champions of the Board Tournament which was held at Sacred Heart High School in Walkerton. This title had not been awarded to Sacred Heart since 1979! Team members include (front l-r) Katherine Hill, Natalie Huber, Ashleigh Fortney, Ashley Kraemer, Jamie Speilmacher, (middle) Derek Kuntz, Jennifer Seifried, Jennifer Meyer, Katelyn Durrer, Jodi Huber, Jeff Lantz, Ben Kupferschmidt, (back) Coach Mrs. Donnelly, Carson Soers, Andrew Grubb, Jamie Haelzle, Bill Kueneman, Gary Schotman, Coach Ms. Massaloup.         – Town Crier photo

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A peek from the Town Crier’s Friday, March 3, 1972 issue – Pictured is the Mildmay Bantams hockey team, the WOAA Bantam “D” Champions for 1971-72. Front (l-r): Gordie Hill (Captain), Dave Niesen (goalie), Chucks Schmalz. 2nd row: Whitey McDiarmid (Coach), “Nooky” Schmalz (Manager),  Paul Woods, Dave Strauss, Murray Woods, Glen Wendt, Chuck “Horse” Niesen (Coach). Back row: John Albert, Rick Liesemer, Pete Liesemer, Danny Anstett, Darryl Dahms.     – Town Crier photo

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A peek from the Town Crier’s Wednesday, March 6, 2002 issue – Shown above are the Gold Medal winners from the Science Fair projects that were judged at the Mildmay-Carrick Public School. Back row (l-r): Trevor Reuber (Hovercrafts), Matheson West (Slippery Dippery), Marshall Gayman (Space Invasion), Nicole Barnes (D.T. Fusion), Brian Beitz (Light Work), Alayna Weigel (DNA), Cara Culbert (Care Icicles), Jake Reid  (Awesome Acoustics), Ben Diebel (Up In Flames). Front row (l-r): Lisa Rae (Phototropism), Sadie Niesen (Will Birdseed Grow), Taylor Russell (Do Plants Grow Towards Light), Sarah Gray (Road Salt vs. The Environment), Shani Schierholtz (The Brain), Lea Oberle (The Kidneys), Tiffany Doerr (The Kidneys), Curtis Cho (Lights and Shadows).                                                                                        – Town Crier photo 

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A peek from the Town Crier’s Friday, February 18, 1972 issue – Mrs. Patricia Cross, R.N. watches the control panel and tape of a patient’s heartbeat. The equipment is only part of the complex new Intensive Care Unit at the County of Bruce General Hospital in Walkerton. When the new wing is constructed, there will be a total of four beds in a much larger area devoted to the ICU section.   – Walkerton Herald-Times photo

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A peek from the Town Crier’s Tuesday, February 4, 1992 issue – TOP PHOTO: Winners of the 11 o’clock draw at the Mildmay Men’s Curling Bonspiel.  Presenting the Mildmay Co-op trophy is Lloyd Weiler (left) and accepting it is (left to right) Paul Hossfeld (skip), Bevan Weber (vice),  Mark Pennington (second) and Norman Hossfeld (lead). BOTTOM PHOTO: James Goetz (right) presented his trophy to the winners of the early draw. Left to right: Gerald Koeslag (lead), Richard Rae (second), Lorne Underwood (vice) and Keith Derbecker (skip).  – Town Crier photos