A peek from the Town Crier files – September 26, 1975 – Fair events at this year’s Mildmay Fall Fair are seen here just as the afternoon began …. rain, however, sent patrons running for cover on numerous occasions during the afternoon.  (Note: This is when the Fair was held at the sight of the old arena, where the Medical Clinic is now located.)

A peek from the Town Crier files – August 27, 1965 – Mr. C.A. Warren of Burlington, Ontario (left) came to Mildmay to regrind and rematch the local club’s curling stones. This is quite an art and there are few men left who regrind curling stones. Mr. Warren had nearly a hundred to do here in Mildmay. The time to do one rock varies as to its condition, but it can take from 15 minutes to 1½ hours to do one stone. Mr. Warren told the Crier that some of the rocks here were different by a pound. Pictured along with the Burlington man is Elmer Perschbacher who is chairman of the Property Committee of the local Club.

A peek from the Town Crier files – August 17, 2005 – A historic moment happened on August 10, 2005 when the Mildmay-Carrick Firefighters conducted a controlled burn at the old Weber Butcher Shop slaughterhouse located 1¼ miles south of Mildmay on Hwy #9. The 59 year old building had been closed as the Weber Butcher Shop was no longer in operation.  The structure was built by Leo Weber in 1946. His son Tom was born into the business, working with his Dad from 1956 until the business was closed in December of 1981.

A peek from the Town Crier files – August 13th, 1965 – Rotarian Howard Johnston (left) is shown as he presents a gift of a barometer-thermometer to Mr. & Mrs. Leo Weber, recently wedded couple, on behalf of the Mildmay Rotary Club.

A peek from the Town Crier files – Friday, July 30th, 1965 – A great deal of time and work was saved last week when the South Bruce Telephone Co. digging machine (shown above) was brought into action at the Agricultural Park in Mildmay to dig the trenches for the underground cables to hook up the new floodlighting. Bob Montgomery is shown above operating the pint-size machine. The project is one being undertaken by the Mildmay Rotary Club and is expected to cost about $5,500.

A peek from the Town Crier files – Friday, July 18, 1975 issue – Well, it happened again!  Another accident at Mildmay’s “safe” intersection. This time the driver was crunched between two trucks (as you can see in the photo). The car was attempting to turn off Hwy. #9 onto Absalom Street, West, when it was struck from behind by Baylor’s Transport of Burlington (hauling rock to Douglas Point), sending the car headlong into the path of a Carman’s rented truck. Traffic was routed around the accident at first and then later around the block until the O.P.P. arrived to investigate.  – Crier photo

The Walkerton Golf & Curling Club is marking their 90th Anniversary this year!  General Manager Ryan Martin provided this photo of the original farmhouse on the property which eventually became the clubhouse.

A peek from the Town Crier files – Friday, July 18, 1975 issue – Lori Jennings (right) host of the CBC show “Away Out” chats to four of the former Wightman Telephone operators (left-right: Mrs. L. Wightman, Mrs. Maude Paulin, Mrs. Lille  Reddon and Adele Schnurr) prior to the taping of the program.  Wightman’s was chosen for the tv show because they were the only family telephone company in Ontario and the oldest family telephone company in Canada

A peek from the Town Crier files – Friday, July 2, 1965 – Shown above are the individual champs of the Mildmay Public School Track Meet which was held at the Mildmay Agricultural Park.Left – right: Wayne Dahms (Senior Boys), Kathy Seager (Senior Girls), Everett Newton (Intermediate Boys), Julie Liesemer (Intermediate Girls), Jim Wendt (Junior Boys) and Donna Baynton (Junior Girls). 

The caption on the above postcard (dated sometime before 1940) states “Pletsch’s Garage, Mildmay, after the cyclone”. The building on the right is the present day La Galeria located at 112 Elora Street, while the building on the left was owned by Irene Patton. The garage was located in both buildings. Families that lived in the buildings at one time were the Henry Bester family (left) and the Joseph Kupferschmidt family (right).