01 March 1946, Peace River Record Gazette RENO RENO, Feb. 26—Bert Ackerman has gone to Edmonton to attend the co-op school being held there. Nick Johnson’s “caterpillar” and brush cutter arrived this week. All the children and most of the men spent the afternoon admiring it. With all the “cats” and brush cutters coming into this district it leaves many poor trees shaking at their roots. Miss Dayck’s sister, who has been visiting here since Christmas has now taken over the pos

11 January 1946, Peace River Record Gazette LITTLE PRAIRIE NAMPA, Jan. 5-L.Cpl. Cal Williams reached Eastern Canada from Overseas Dec 15. A wire was received by his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Williams, that Cal was married to Miss Lucille Jones, 205 Mary St. Hamilton, Ont., Dec 26. Details of the wedding at a later date. District good wishes are extended to the young couple. Cal has been in the army for the past five years, spending three years overseas. The flu epidemic has been g

04 January 1946, Peace River Record Gazette RIVER BEND RENO Jan. 3 – The Christmas tree and concert was quite a success December 20 in Harmon Valley Community Hall, thanks to Mrs. Wilson the children’s supervisor who arranged the concert in less than a week. The children did well with parts in plays and Christmas carols. Mr and Mrs. M. Whitney celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary December 30. Friends and neighbors visited in the evening and an enjoyable time was spe

07 December 1945, Peace River Record Gazette NAMPA NAMPA, Dec. 4 – The Nampa senior school room is closed because the teacher, A.E. Warren, is in hospital with flu. Ken Williams, home from overseas to spend leave at his home here, has returned to his unit at Edmonton Tuesday. A crowd from Nampa attended the dance at Reno Friday of last week. Pte. Lyle Owen, who arrived home from overseas the 20th of last month, is staying at Jack Coulter’s. Fred and Johnnie Haak are leaving s

30 November 1945, Peace River Record Gazette Veterans Show Much Interest in Farms Notable Increase in Applications During November Increased activity under the Veterans Land Act has been noted during the month of November as more than 40 applications for land have been received, with the advisory committee passing on prospective farmers throughout the month. This activity is expected to be further increased during succeeding weeks as applications are now being received for pr

23 November 1945, Peace River Record Gazette RENO RENO, Nov. 21 – Douglas Sinclair’s brother and wife left on Tuesday’s train for Southern Alberta. A large crowd gathered at Reno for the basket social held to raise funds for Santa Claus. About $117 was cleared. After the cold spell we are glad to see it warming up again. Mr. and Mrs. Chabot have their daughter and son-in-law and family from Morinville visiting them for a few days. Others returning after holidaying outside wer

09 November 1945, Peace River Record Gazette LITTLE PRAIRIE NAMPA, Nov. 2-After their auction sale of Oct. 16 Ollie and Art Grumlund were honored by a farewell party the following week at the Nampa hall. Each Grumlund family was presented with a lovely vase and silver flat ware by the ladies of the W.I. as gifts from the neighbourhood. Mr. Hibbard gave the farewell speech and Art and Ollie expressed thanks, The boys left Nama Oct 23 to join their families at Erickson, Manitob

02 November 1945, Peace River Record Gazette NAMPA NAMPA, Oct 30-Five Nampa boys are leaving here shortly to work in other parts of Canada. Michael Zahara is going as far as Vancouver to work in a paper mill, not expecting to return until next fall. Lewie Rucka is also going to the Coast, stopping a Coleman en-route. Camilo Stano will go east as far as Toronto. #NampaAB #75yearsago

26 October 1945, Peace River Record Gazette RENO RENO, Oct. 24-The NAR repair crew completed work on the Devost home and have gone on to McLennan, where they expect to remain for sometime. Mrs. Matheson returned to Tuesday’s train. George Goullet, Springburn, is expected to move to the Andrew Havirko home farm soon. Mrs. Ray Hawley was a visitor at the Crawford home Tuesday. Miss Seguion left on Tuesday’s train for her home in Toronto. She has been staying with her brother Fr

19 October 1945 LITTLE PRAIRIE NAMPA, Oct. 16-October 11 Sgt. E.E. Williams and Gnr. Russell Hawley returned home from overseas. They visited for a few days in Edmonton enroute home with former school chums, Mr. and Mrs. E. Tuson, and with Russell’s sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Ramsay. Mrs. Fred Haack and daughter Mona returned from British Columbia the 16th. Mrs. Haack has been away for the past seven weeks on account of her health and expects to go on later to the M

12 October 1945 LITTLE PRAIRIE NAMPA, Oct 4-Extending greetings and a hearty welcome to Sgt. Estelle Williams, returning from overseas with the Edmonton regiment. “Bill” joined the forces in June, 1941, taking part in the Normandy invasion, later in Germany until V-E day. It will be great to see you again and thanks from all for your share in the big scrap. Little Sandra Lee Tuson’s picture appeared in the beautiful children feature of the Edmonton Journal, September 29. Sand

28 September 1945, Record Gazette RIVER BEND HARMON VALLEY, Sept. 22 – The weather man has sure played a trick on all the farmers. Threshing is at a stand-still until we get better weather. Some farms were lucky to get done before the rain came, but the majority are out of luck. Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Griffith and Mrs. Chas. Nousek and families are back on the farm after an absence of over four years. They say they are glad to be back. Mrs. B. Nousek’s little son Richard was bit

05 October 1945, Record Gazette LITTLE PRAIRIE NAMPA, Sept 28-Folks here are happy once again trying to complete the harvest after two weeks of inclement weather and feel fortunate not to have bad the snow reported in some districts. Chins up, folks, remember that old saying to complete this harvest: “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and the time t

29 June 1945, Record Gazette RIVER BEND Mr. and Mrs. Marchenkow celebrated their second wedding anniversary Sunday at their home near Little Prairie. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney, Gladys and Gray were guests for the day. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney went to Berwyn by train last Thursday on business. We have had some good rains lately and in some parts of the district there has been hail. The crops and gardens are coming along well so far in Harmon Valley district. We are expecting Mr. and Mr

15 June 1945, Record Gazette RENO RENO, June 13 – The department of public works has a machine operating in the district digging reservoirs. Several have been dug in the district. The men’s softball team played the Falher team Sunday. A storm finished the game in the fourth inning with a score of 3-1 in favor of Reno. The dance, which was to have been held Saturday, was postponed until Friday, June 15. Paul Dobransky is employed on the railway section at Nampa. #RenoAB #North

08 Jun 1945, Record Gazette LITTLE PRAIRIE Nampa, June 1 – The district for miles around had three hours rain early May 30 and all day Thursday. Mrs. Ray Hawley left Thursday by train to visit her son Billy and family at Banff and Norma and family at Edmonton. Mrs. E.W. Hibbard, Sr., Nampa, and Mrs. A.S. Newcombe, Peace River, were seen enroute to Calgary on the train May 31 attending the Women’s Institute convention in Calgary. #NampaAB #NorthernSunriseCounty #ThisWeekInHist

01 June 1945, Record Gazette RENO RENO, May 30 – The giant picnic at Jackpine school May 25 was a decided success, despite disagreeable weather. The picnic was opened by a colorful parade up Main street to the sports grounds. Mr. Day kindle supplied ponies for the pony race and parade. A large crowd attended the dance in the evening. Theresa Devost left Tuesday for High Prairie, where she will visit her sister, Mrs. Alvin Callin, and be nurse maid to baby Georgette. Sgt. Majo