Looking Back
News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts
25 Years Ago
January 27, 1999
Chris Denny won first place in the Lions District 5M9 drug awareness poster contest. Hewitt Lion Alvin Finn told students Friday morning that 512 Lions and Lionesses attended the district conference. Forty-eight posters were submitted. Chris won a 19” color television set and will have his poster printed on refrigerator magnets. Kevin Denny’s poster won second place. Kevin won a CD player. Amber McGrath’s poster also went on to the District contest. She won a personal cassette player.
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Deciding that 28 or more years of service on the Bertha Town Board was enough, Larry Wegner has submitted his resignation. Elected and then re-elected as a supervisor, over the years Wegner has also served as the board’s chairman a number of times.
50 Years Ago
January 27, 1949
Bertha is growing. Because the members of the Bertha Commercial Club feel that Bertha has more to be proud of than most of us think, they have undertaken the task of evaluating all of Bertha’s resources—human and physical—current and potential. This week the work will begin. Some members of the senior high school social science class will be around to call on you, asking for pertinent information. They will be courteous and considerate, please give them your cooperation. It is for Bertha’s future! We are no longer going to hide our light!
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The scope of the 1948 polio epidemic was so great, Miss Elmie Lewis, chairman of the March of Dimes campaign in Bertha, said that only a “tremendously successful polio fund appeal this month will enable us to carry on the fight against the disease with undiminished fiber.” Additional March of Dimes funds are urgently needed, not only to carry on research and prepare for possible polio epidemics this year, but also to continue to care for thousands of children and adults stricken during the drastic epidemic of 1948.