Town Crier file photo
From June 2015: Students and staff gathered in front of Sacred Heart Junior School in Mildmay on the final day of school, June 25th, 2015, for a prayer service and reflections. The school is closing and classes will be moved to the Senior Building located beside Sacred Heart Church in September.
July 2015
– The 2015 edition of the Ontario Miss Mid West and Princess Pageant will be held on Saturday evening, July 11th. The Pageant will be held at the Walkerton Community Centre
-The summer of laughs continues at the Drayton Festival Theatre with an uplifting comedy that’s sure to keep audiences in stitches with its nostalgic look back at a seemingly simpler time. Canadian playwright Norm Foster delves into the comedic complexities of family dynamics in the 1950s with Hilda’s Yard on stage now through July 18th as part of the theatre’s acclaimed 25th Anniversary season.
July 2005
-The South Bruce Grey Health Centre installed its very own G.E. CT scanner, after having one on loan for the past five years. The new unit cost 1.3 million dollars and the fundraising committee had raised an amazing 1.7 million dollars for the project, Dr. Doug Mowbray gave a demonstration and noted that in the first year, 3,500 scans were provided about 7,000 in the final year of the loaner, and the new faster one would allow over 10,000 scans.
-Parishioners at Sacred Heart, Mildmay and St. Francis Xavier, Carlsruhe, welcome a new priest, Father Terry Sehl from the Kitchener area. He replaced Father Jiri Macenauer.
July 1995
-The South Bruce Buck Skinner hosted their first “Black Powder Rendezvous” in the Mildmay area. Members of the camp included Gary Weber, Bruce Reinhart, Mike Arnold, Rob Voisin and Kevin Klein. Participants came from as far away as Mississauga.
-The 1995 Pool staff was pictured and included the following: Joe Kieffer (supervisor), Erin Kueneman (assistant supervisor), Angie Kamrath, Elizabeth Lorenz, Jane Schnurr and Josh Ellis (Instructor/guards) and Chad Spence (part time guard).
July 1985
-Six Mildmay Scouts and their Assistant Scout Leader joined 10,000 Scouts and Ventures from across Canada and some other countries for Canada’s 6th National Jamboree held on a 4,000 acre site near Guelph for ten days. The group included Greg Diemert, Dave Weber, Bill Karl, Jason Hinsperger, Brent Schneider, Mark Kuntz and Len Kuntz (assistant leader)
-There were many happy local winners of the big money games at the Mildmay Rotary Cash Bingo. Verena Goetz of Mildmay won the $500 special and the $700 Rotary Money Game Prize was split between Ruth Grein of Ayton and Cherrie Nieuwenhoff of Clifford. The first “Share The Wealth” game for $218 went to Rita Durrer of Mildmay and the second for $280 was won by Jana Dentinger from Walkerton.
July 1975
-A CBC television crew was in the Village of Clifford filming at the Wightman Telephone Company Limited for the CBC show “Away Out”, hosted by Lori Jennings. Wightman’s was chosen for the production because they were the only Family telephone company in Ontario and the oldest Family Telephone Company in the Dominion of Canada.
-Village of Mildmay Council members asked residents not to water unnecessarily and only between the hours of 9p.m. and 8 a.m. during the months of July and August. The water tower level was dangerously low if there was ever a fire.
