5 YEARS AGO
Dec. 3, 2004 — Elmira Sausage King Jeff Selby was set to spend a week in a buggy outside a Sobeys store in Waterloo, in an effort to raise support for the Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

• Two goals by Shawn Dunn helped the Elmira Lancers to a 4-1 win over Waterloo Oxford in high school boys hockey action.

10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 3, 1999 — Despite an earlier reprieve, the Waterloo District School Board voted to close Heidelberg Public School. The school had an enrollment of 73 students.

• Head coach Jeff Bloch left the Elmira Junior B Sugar Kings for a position as assistant coach with the Ontario Hockey League’s Kitchener Rangers.

20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5, 1989 — Woolwich council indicated that a chemical research farm operated by Hoescht Canada Inc. on township road 66, used to test new pesticides on crops, did not contravene the zoning bylaw.

• Nearly 400 people attended two open houses in Breslau about proposed changes to highway 7 between Kitchener and Guelph.

30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5, 1979 —Elmira youth Malcolm Gladwell’s fiction entry topped the intermediate category and was among the 26 winners of $1,500 in prize money given out for the 9th annual Dorothy Shoemaker literary awards in Waterloo.

• Sheila Bauman recorded a hat trick as the Woolwich petite rep team, coached by Brenda Metzger, opened the season with a 6-1 win at London.

35 YEARS AGO
Dec. 4, 1974 — Howard Ziegler was re-elected as mayor of Woolwich Township, defeating challenger Joe Zinger by a 241-vote margin.

• Elmira Kiwanis Club president Jack Price accepted the club’s charter from district governor Charles Forsyth, during a dinner and dance at the Elmira Rod and Gun Club.