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The Yarmouth Lions Club was planning an auction as a fundraiser to help pay for the development of its new community hall on Parade Street. The club had acquired the former Campbell property in 1967 with the intention of turning into a community centre and was turning to the public to help complete the project.

35 YEARS AGO

The future of policing in Yarmouth was the subject of one of the front-page stories in The Vanguard’s July 18, 1973 edition, town council member Willard Allen having suggested that the question of who should police the town should be put to the voters as part of the upcoming civic election. (The town police force had gone on strike the previous year and the RCMP had policed the town during that time.)

The Yarmouth area was experiencing “one of its wettest summers in many years,” the paper noted.

CBC’s Friday night TV programs included M*A*S*H, All In The Family, Tommy Hunter Show, Singalong Jubilee, Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

30 YEARS AGO

The Town of Yarmouth had decided to develop a landfill on a site off the Hardscratch Road. Plans for a new dumpsite had been made necessary because seagulls flocking to a dump near the Yarmouth airport were a source of concern for aviation.

There reportedly was disagreement between town council and the federal government regarding where to build a federal tourism distribution centre. While the town favoured a south-end location, Ottawa was expected to opt for a different part of town.

25 YEARS AGO

While more people may have been travelling between Yarmouth and Bar Harbor – thanks, at least in part, to the recent launch of a new Bluenose ferry – tourism in the Yarmouth area was said to be down. Industry people cited the ferry schedule – which made it inconvenient, they said, for visitors to spend the night here – as a factor in the downturn in business, The Vanguard noted in its July 20, 1983 edition.

The Town of Yarmouth expected to have a new water system in operation by the fall.

20 YEARS AGO

Industrial parks were in the news – in the Municipality of Argyle officials said they remained optimistic about the Tusket Industrial Park, even though tenants had yet to be secured for that facility; in the Municipality of Yarmouth, meanwhile, officials reportedly were a step closer to establishing a new industrial park in the Dayton area.

Clare was getting a new high school gymnasium. Work on the $1.65-million project was to start immediately, The Vanguard reported in its July 19, 1988 edition.

15 YEARS AGO

The fate of Yarmouth’s exhibition park property remained uncertain. Six months had passed since local municipal units had assumed ownership of the property from the Yarmouth County Agricultural Society, which now was trying to get the property back.