Week of April 11, 2024
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- Aug 15
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40 years ago (April 11, 1984)
“Homemakers conference ready to go”
On this day forty years ago, Strathcona County women were looking forward to the fourth annual Homemakers of Strathcona Conference. The Homemakers Conference was designed who wanted to learn and meet other women around the county. In the newspaper conference coordinator Susan McLeod announced changes from the previous conference including extended sessions and lower costs. Some of the sessions planned for the 1984 conference on Saturday April 14th were Adult Life Stages: Where are you? and Making Friends Not Enemies: A Positive Approach to Parenting and Discipline. Other topics included stress management and efficient gardening. The one day conference would begin with breakfast and a speech by keynote speaker Jenny Bain, a career counsellor at the Alberta Career Center in Edmonton, entitled “Women: Looking Ahead.”
30 years ago (April 14, 1994)
“World champions receive hero’s welcome from Park”
Local teen, Colin Davison, skipped his way to a World Junior Curling Championship victory along with teammates Kelly Mittelstadt, Scott Pfeifer, and Sean Morris. The team representing the Shamrock Club in Edmonton was the first Canadian junior men’s curling team to win a world championship title since 1988. It was a whirlwind month for the team who first won the week-long Canadian title in Nova Scotia before leaving for the world championships in Bulgaria two days later. The team fought illness the whole time, but persevered in hope of victory. Davison spoke to reporters afterward saying “We didn’t want to be sitting at home a month later saying ‘I wish I could have given a little more energy.’ So we just gave it all we could.” The effort was not in vain, as upon arriving back at the Edmonton airport Davison was hoisted on the shoulders of Archbishop Jordan classmates as a world champion skip.
