50 years ago
The Sifto salt plant strike was in its 11th week, with 55 workers off the job.
Unity music students attending the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts were trumpeters Blain Ollenberger, Blair Wagner and Diane Ashing, French horn player Shirley Quick, percussionists Doris Havard and Beverly Levaillant, clarinetist John Rutledge and flutist Kathy Rutledge.
The Unity Cardinals were planning a special day to honour local baseball star Eddie Ralston. In the current season, Ralston’s batting average was .364, with two home runs and 15 runs batted in.
The Town of Scott was to receive a capital fund grant of $5,580 towards the $9,300 cost of replacing one block of waterline and installation of a water pump system. The town was receiving an additional grant of up to $2,520 towards the cost of establishing a sanitary landfill site, estimated to cost $4,200 in total.
20 years ago
An early summer storm flattened fields from Macklin to Wilkie, damaged siding on many houses in the area, and broke a number of windows on the Holy Rosary Church in Reward.
Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Saskatoon, Rod Andrews, drove an antique John Deere tractor, across the province, arriving at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Wilkie, June 14. Following lunch there, he drove it to Unity where he was met with a crowd of people waiting at the salt plant forming a parade all the way to the Unity museum grounds where he and his “Trekkers” were able to stay overnight.
Track hoes were brought in to help with the demolition of the former co-op hardware store.
