Remember when for April 14

95 years ago

April 16, 1915

Photo caption. The Carson Valley Hospital was recently erected at Gardnerville by Dr. E.H. Hawkins. The building is heated by a furnace and is electrically lighted. Besides an ex-ray machine, the operating room is equipped for all branches of surgery.

[The building currently houses the Manoukian law office.]

80 years ago

April 18, 1930

The heavy downpour of rain last Sunday turned a portion of the detour between Minden and the Haybourn tract into a sea of soap and automobiles were about as helpless as flies on tanglefoot. As many as eight automobiles slid off the road while others were crosswise and in every other conceivable angle but the way the drivers were endeavoring to go. Drivers not only lost control of their automobiles, but tempers as well, and blue smoke was wafted to the skies.

50 years ago

April 14, 1960

Photo caption. Nevada 4-H members Chris Gansberg Jr. and Dennis Heitman Jr. exhibited fat beef and fat lambs at the Grand National Junior Livestock Exposition at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Heitman's beef animal placed choice to win a blue ribbon. Gansberg placed two lambs in the star prime group, one in the prime group, and won expert showmanship honors in his division.

25 years ago

April 18, 1985

The Minden-Gardnerville Sanitation District plans to spend $350,000 to repair the sewer treatment system damaged by a series of illegal toxic waste discharges, according to plant superintendent David LaBarbara. He said the discharges, which began last August, stopped in mid-December but not before clogging the trickling filter system. The toxic waste killed bacteria in the filter system that further treats the sewage. "The plant has been damaged by this in a permanent fashion, and that's why MGSD is spending all this money," LaBarbara said.

10 years ago

April 12, 2000

After 20 years of the same logo, the East Fork Fire and Paramedic District wants to have a community member design a logo that will represent the Carson Valley. "The Tahoe-Douglas Fire District just redid their logo and has the Lake and trees in it. And we thought, why not have a logo that would look like the Valley," said fire Capt. Terry Taylor.

A look at past issues of The Record-Courier by Sharlene Irete.