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).

A peek from the Town Crier files – Friday, June 18, 1965 issue – Mrs. Dominic Fischer of Mildmay had an unusual experience when seven of her grandchildren were among the group of 34 who received their First Holy Communion at Sacred Heart Church. Front (l-r): Patricia Haelzle, Doug Fischer, Bruce Fischer, Darlene Fischer. Back: Mrs. Fischer, Linda Breig, Brenda Goetz, Rosemary Fischer and Sister Leanora, the instructor.

A peek from the Town Crier files – Thursday, May 14, 1985 – School buses and other vehicles will soon find traversing the narrow bridge near Lot 34 (Concession 8-9) in Carrick Township much easier.  The bridge is located at the bottom of a steep hill (is very narrow as you can see as this school bus crosses the bridge) and was especially very dangerous in the wintertime. Work on replacing the structre is to start this year. Total cost is estimated at $406,000.00. – Town Crier photo

A peek from the Town Crier files – May 31, 2000 – “Now that’s a bunch of bologna!” the heading read for this photo.  In conjunction with the Grand Opening at Stewart’s Town & Country Market, a contest was held to guess the weight of a gigantic bologna. Stuart McIntosh (centre) will be throwing a big “Bologna Bash” after he guessed the weight at 37.6 lbs., missing the exact weight by .1 lb. Pictured with Stuart is his sister Sarah (right) and Deli Co-ordinator Kathy Dahms (left). That’s a pile of sandwiches!

A peek from the Town Crier files – Friday, May 21, 1965 –  Two Grade 12 students from Walkerton Separate High School Rosemary Fedy (left) and Joanne Houghton (right) of Mildmay chose The Crier as an essay project dealing with a “local industry”. In the above photo the girls try their hand setting “cold type” on one of the new machines at the Crier paper. 

A peek from the Town Crier files – May 7, 1965 –  This is the Mildmay Monarchs hockey team who gave local and district fans one of the best winters of hockey excitement for some time. Holders of the group title, they also were W.O.A.A. Int. “C” finalists. Front: Peter Liesemer, mascot. First row (l-r):  Harvey “Jiggs’ Liesemer (coach), Bob Fortney, Merv Helwig, Ron Dietz, Gary Johnston, Bob Niesen and Don Leach (transportation. 2nd row: Don Missere (asst. treasurer), Bob Becker (secretary-treasurer), Dave Gutscher, Sandy Fedy, Mike Weber, Reuben Schefter (treasurer), Billy Dosman (stick boy). Back row: Harry Dosman, Dave Wendt, Chuck Niesen, Bob Armstrong, Dave Niesen and Bill Niesen. Missing from the photo were Bob Weiler, Ross Harrison, Don Beckner and John Hafermehl (publicity).

A peek from the Town Crier files – April 16, 1971 – The Mildmay Arena Commission held a Skate-A-Thon with some 123 skaters taking part. Organizer of the event, Arthur Albert (right) is pictured presenting trophies to the various winners. Left to right: Dave Dietz, 24, was the oldest skater with the most number of hours, who skated 21 hours;  Anna Lou Fischer was the girl who skated the longest, and she also skated 21 hours; 19-year-old Mike Goetz was the only person to skate the entire 24 hours and he raised the most money;  Brian Durrer, age 10, was the youngest skater with the most number of hours, that being 16.  A grand total of $1,900 was raised.