50 years ago
SaskPower announced new monthly residential rates for the use of power. Minimum charge including the first 20 kilowatt hours were to be: rural, $2; village, $1.80; town, $1.50; and city, $1.20.
Besides the students in the photo, other Unity Composite High School curlers taking home trophies from their bonspiel were Robin Deroo’s rink which included Reg Paradis, Donna Phillips and Ken Phillips, and Rhonda Van Den Bruel’s rink of herself, Lorraine Pellerin, Don McGonigle and Dale Safanuik.
Sperle’s Tire & Battery was advertising Goodyear whitewall power cushion ‘78’ four-ply polyester tires at two for $48 or four for $90.
Delta Co-op advertised a special beef sale with a side of beef priced at 82¢ a pound. Ice cream was available for $1.09 for a half-gallon.
20 years ago
In a landslide win, Sask Party candidate Wally Lorenz captured almost 70 per cent of the vote to win the Battleford – Cut Knife provincial byelection. Voter turnout was almost 50 per cent.
Despite forgetting their jerseys at home and having to borrow their hosts’ old ones, the Luseland Lords senior boys’ basketball team won their games at regionals to qualify for Hoopla 2003. Also headed to Hoopla were the Macklin senior girls.
After being told for years to diversify, many local farmers were giving up on bison, elk, ostrich and emu, returning to strictly grain. Blane Heitt said, “The government told us to diversify and then made it impossible with all the rules and regulations.”
SaskTel high speed internet, 50 times faster than dial-up, was now available in Luseland and Denzil.
