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FRIDAY FLASHBACK | A retirement, two winning babies, a car wreck, a cowboy

Our weekly trip in the time machine
PelhamToday Staff
03-16-2022
March 16 2022: Retiring crossing guard given snowy send-off. Crossing guard Violet Steingart with her husband, Ken, outside the A. K. Wigg Public School last Friday, March 11. The entire A. K. Wigg student body and staff turned out to send off Steingart as she retired from two decades-plus on the job. FILE

Each week, Friday Flashback turns to the past and finds photos from, more or less, one year ago, five years ago, ten years ago, the 2000s, the '90, the '80, the '70s, the '60s, and the 1950s, with their original captions. Here we go!

 

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March 16 2022: Retiring crossing guard given snowy send-off. Crossing guard Violet Steingart with her husband, Ken, outside the A. K. Wigg Public School last Friday, March 11. The entire A. K. Wigg student body and staff turned out last Friday to send off Steingart as she retired from two decades-plus on the job.  FILE

 

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March 14 2018: Judy Reid accepts Citizen of the Year award before packed house. Reid with her award and congratulations from local, provincial, and federal offices. FILE

 

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May 3 2006: Earth Day's in the Bag. Cindy Cameron (front centre), owner of the local Sobeys store, accepted 545 paper grocery bags from the students at St. Alexander Catholic School last week. Each student in the school decorated a bag with an Earth Day message, which will be shared with the community when the bags are used to pack groceries at Sobeys. FILE

 

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January 31 1996: Four people were sent to the Welland Hospital after a truck and car collided on Highway 20 just west of Haist Street around 8:30 AM last Tuesday. Three of the occupants involved were treated and released and the other held for observation. The truck spilled its bricks, causing the highway to be closed for cleanup. FILE

 

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May 27 1981: Winners of Class 1 of the Fenwick Lions Baby Contest were James Douglas Miller born Dec. 7 1980, son of Joan and Douglas Miller of Niagara Falls, and Sarah Elizabeth, born Jan. 12 1981, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Van Maaron of Foss Road, Fenwick. FILE

 

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March 21 1978: Craig Irvine, second prize winner at the Fonthill Senior Public Science Fair, based his project on the human brain and tried to interpret the difference in the minds between boys and girls at juvenile age. FILE

 

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September 4 1962: John Bromfield will be the featured performer at this year's Welland County Fair, September 11-15 inclusive. Star of the television series "Sheriff of Cochise" and "US Marshall," he will appear in afternoon and evening performances. FILE

 

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October 27 1959. FILE