“Name that Year” is designed to put your knowledge of Tracy and its newsmakers of the past to the test. Each week, we will publish a news item that ran in a past edition — maybe it was a major event, or a story about a Tracy resident — it’s up to you to determine in what year that particular news item hit the pages of the paper:
• ABOUT 200 PEOPLE CROWDED INTO THE CURRIE GYMNASIUM IN March of this year for the hearing on the issue of the Currie school closing.
After an hour of presentations by Vernon Grinde on projected enrollments, Dayton Lauthen on operating expenses, Ray Ruppert on the value of the Currie school to the community, and Walt Silvernale on the interest and support of Currie residents in the school district — with questions and applause from the audience -- the hearing was adjourned and the regular school board meeting convened.
Board members went immediately to No. 14 on the agenda — “Currie School.” A Malone-Ludeman motion to keep the Currie school open for at least two more years was carried, and a spontaneous “Hurrah!” from a member of the audience voiced the sentiments of most of the persons at the meeting.
• Last week’s answer: The name Tracy Veterans’ Memorial Center was dedicated on Memorial Day of 2005.
