A peek from the Town Crier files – May 6, 1986 – Members of the Mildmay & District Chamber of Commerce chose the perfect night to repaint the decorative lamps along Mildmay’s main street. Vice President Sandy Fedy is seen on the ladder painting the top part of one of the lamps, while Harvey “Jiggs” Liesemer (left) and Lorne Kieffer (right) are busy cleaning the glass. (By the looks of Jiggs he must still think he’s in Florida!)  – Crier photo

A peek from the Town Crier files – April 22, 1986 – Shown above are the seven elementary school students who made it to the Zone Finals Public Speaking Competition. Sacred Heart Jr. School hosted the event and there was a very good turnout to hear the varied addresses. Back (l-r): Bo Reichenbach (Sacred Heart, Mildmay), Courtney Metcalfe (Mildmay-Carrick Public), Dan Schiestel (Immaculate Conception, Formosa), Tricia Zettel (Immaculate Conception), Brad Arnold (Sacred Heart). Front: Tracey Weber (Sacred Heart), Kim Spence (Mildmay-Carrick Public).    -Town Crier photo

A peek from the Town Crier files – Friday, April 30, 1976 –  Dave Mawhinney (left) Captain of the Mildmay Otters accepted the All-Ontario Juvenile “D” Championship trophy from O.M.H.A. Convenor Al Moore (right) of Guelph. The Otters won the final series with Warkworth four games to two.     – Town Crier photos

This week’s “Peek at the Past” photo was submitted by Doris Opperman from Formosa, ON.  Pictured is Amelia (Maud) Kramer and Kathleen Herringer standing in front of the Mildmay Post Office in the early 1900s.  The building is the current location of Klassy Lady.

A peek from the Town Crier files – Friday, April 5, 1968 – One of the final duties to perform in the making of maple syrup is to put the product in a container.  Here the team of Bill Mulvey and Jim Rae fill one of the many containers at the Belmore Sugar Shanty in preparation for the Annual Belmore Maple Syrup Festival.

A peek from the Town Crier files – March 11, 1986 – These two photos appeared in an advertisement for Donaldson Farm Equipment Ltd’s Open House.  The heading read “We’ve raised our roof… come and see what we’ve put under it!”  The photo on the left shows an aerial view taken before construction began. The photo on the right shows how the building appeared after the construction.

A peek from the Town Crier files – Tuesday, April 28, 1992 – One-year-old Jacob “Jake” Lantz of Mildmay obviously found it confusing to be sitting on the lap of this giant Easter Bunny… why, just a few months earlier he sat on the lap of a stranger in a red suit. Jake recalled all the nice gifts that the other guy left, so he wasn’t taking any chances at the Mildmay Easter Egg Hunt that this guy wouldn’t have a gift for him!

A peek from the Town Crier files – March 19, 1976 – Mildmay’s Flea Hockey Team captured the consolation trophy at the Flea Hockey Tournament in Lucknow. Back row (left to right): Pat Kramer (Assistant Coach), Murray Borth, Terry Borth, Jeff Hall, Tom Schmalz, Jeff Bross, Dennis Becker, Robert Kramer, Steven McMann, Ray Kramer (Coach). Front row (left to right): David Waechter, Michael Kunkel, Mark Pinder, Paul Kupferschmidt, Doug Campbell. Absent were Doug Waechter and Peter Goetz.

This photo shows what Mildmay looked like in 1873. The picture, taken in a southerly direction, shows some of the mills that were located in the village. The straight course taken by the Elora Road is illustrated as the principal route of travel, the same replaced in later years by Highway 9, which would now lead off to lower left of picture. The original Roman Catholic Church can be identified by its spire in the upper right of the photo.