50 years ago
A 660-pound black bear was shot by farmer Gerald Kipp when the bear was found lurking around his farm about 12 miles east of Wilkie. Kipp was worried about his spring calves.
Twenty-eight seniors formed the New Horizons group in Unity, with John Jansen as president and Walter Haight as secretary-treasurer.
Among the No. 15 Troop graduates at Depot Division, RCMP, in Regina was 3/Cst. Alan Jensen, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Jensen of Wilkie.
20 years ago
Vern Schaab was named Unity’s 2003 Citizen of the Year.
World War Two veteran Bill Fleming organized a ceremony for 20 former Canadian soldiers (and widows) in the area who had served in Holland during that country’s liberation in 1945. The veterans and widows received special commemorative medals courtesy of the Netherlands.
The McCreas’ purebred Black Angus cattle herd – 110 head – were taken by the Canadian Food Agency to be slaughtered and tested for BSE, mad cow disease. Neighbour Todd Bertoia was angry, calling the McCreas “sacrificial lambs … “to please the public to get the borders opened.”
Arnie Villenueve of Wilkie Shop Easy said sales of beef in the grocery store had only dipped slightly since the mad cow scare.
Former Unity resident, Jessie Wallace, won a Golden Sheaf award at the Yorkton Film Festival for “best experimental film.” Her winning submission was 15 minute death, which she wrote, produced and directed.
Subway, the first fast food franchise in Unity, opened.
