A peek from the Town Crier’s Friday, September 26, 1975 issue – Not long after this photo was taken at the Mildmay Fall Fair, rain arrived spoiling the usual Fair atmosphere.  Organizers decided to carry on with all the events despite the downpour. The Fall Fair was held at the Mildmay Arena and the ball diamond (now Carnegie Park).     – Town Crier photo

A peek from the Town Crier’s Friday, July 14, 1967 issue – Mildmay’s dentist, Dr. Eugene J. Weiler, retired after serving the community and area for 44 years.  His office was located above Liesemer’s Home Hardware.    – Town Crier photo

A peek from the Town Crier’s August 27, 2003 issue – Six teams competed in the Bed Races at the Teeswater Rural Fair. This entry by the Ambassadors captured the “Best Decorated” prize, but it was the Green Gerichios who placed 1st (47.14 seconds) and The Woodchucks were 2nd (53.25 seconds). In the Toilet Races, 1st went to Glen Weber (15 seconds), 2nd to Josh Luyten (18 seconds) and 3rd to James Needham (27 seconds).    – Town Crier photo

A peek from the Town Crier’s June 9, 1987 issue – Another load of concrete heads to the top of Mildmay’s new elevated water storage tank currently under construction in the west end of the community. Wilhelm Concrete from Stratford, Ontario was in charge of building this stem portion of the mushroom shaped tower. (Workers in the photo were already above the height of the old standpipe at right and actually had one more section of three (the dark portion) to pour before the global section was added to the top. While many residents had been thinking there would be water stored in the stem portion, they were wrong. All 235,000 gallons would be stored in the globe. For comparison sake, the old water tower (at right) held only 80,000 gallons. The general contractor was KWI Construction from Stoney Creek, Ontario and the estimated overall cost of the project was + $460,000.00.     – Town Crier photo

A peek from the Town Crier’s Tuesday, July 21, 1987 issue – Nadine Matthews of RR#5 Mildmay accepts the keys of a candy red Corvette (valued at about $40,000.00). The car was the grand prize in a Chatelaine magazine “Famous Beauty Brands” contest. The price of a postage stamp was all it took to win. Nadine’s entry was one of over 900,000 submitted.  She picked up the car at Walkerton Motor Sales. Bill Baillie (left) proprietor of the business presented Nadine with the keys.      – Town Crier photo

A peek from the Town Crier’s Friday, June 24, 1977 issue – Shown above are some of the members of the Mildmay Jets Girls Broomball Team and friends who took part in a Walk-A-Thon for the Mildmay and Belmore Arena funds. Front (left to right): Sandra Durrer, Chris Inglis, Janet Haelzle. Middle row: Charlene Stroeder, Charlene Reinhart, Anne Dietz, Patty Haelzle, Joyce Weber, Barb Haelzle. Back row: Bill Robson, “Butch” Durrer, Bob Dietz, Earl Weber, Murray Schneider, Marilyn Bell, Dwight Metcalfe. Absent were Donna Baynton and Doug Inglis.    – Town Crier photo

A peek from the Town Crier’s Friday, July 14, 1967 issue – Dr. W.D. Morley and Mrs. Morley, from Mildmay, took their covered wagon entry to quite a few of the area’s Centennial Parades… an entry which pleased the crowds in Mildmay, Ayton, Walkerton, Neustadt and Clifford!   – Town Crier photo

A peek from the Town Crier’s June 18, 1997 issue – Two members of the Mildmay Lions Club, Alex Mitchell and Wayne Ellis visited the two elementary schools in Mildmay as a part of their “Proud To Be A Canadian” project.  They are pictured above the Grade 1 class at Mildmay-Carrick Public School and  the Grade 1 class at Sacred Heart Jr. School. Each student received a flag and a certificate.

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A peek from the Town Crier’s Friday, July 1, 1966 issue – Mildmay’s first Girl Guide Company marked a history-making event when they held their first enrolment exercises.    – Town Crier photo