50 years ago
John Savostianik was presented with a certificate of acceptance into the Rural Municipal Secretary-Treasurers Association of Saskatchewan. Savostianik was working as the secretary-treasurer for the RM of Tramping Lake.
Neilburg held a grand opening for their new library, part of the Lakeland Library Region. In addition to encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries and other reference works, readers would be able to enjoy novels by such authors as Agatha Christie, Alistair Maclean and Mary Stewart.
The debut of Gentle Ben, a television series about a black bear and his human boy friend, was announced.
Playing at the Roxie Theatre in Wilkie was Gone With the Wind, starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland.
20 years ago
Low water levels resulted in the Sifto salt plant building a pipeline to pump water from the Sink and Gordon lakes to the East Killsquaw Lake (since renamed Kikiskitotawânawak Iskêwak, “we honour the women”). Without the additional water, manager John Gottschalk was concerned the plant could freeze in the winter which would shut down production and necessitate major layoffs.
Prairie Springs Mineral Spa was granted extended time by the Saskatchewan Securities Commission to sell more shares for the proposed Wilkie spa project.
Sylvia Maljan, secretary at Unity Public School and a member of the CUPE local, was invited to attend the World Congress of Public Services International, in Ottawa, Ont.
