“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:
• NEARLY A DECADE OF PLANNING AND EFFORT was brought to fruition thos year with the grand opening of the “Wheels Across the Prairie” museum in Tracy.
Several special events are planned in conjunction with the Saturday-Sunday grand opening.
Festivities will begin with a 10:30 a.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday. Among the guests will be Sen. Gary DeCramer, Henry Herren of the Minnesota Historical Society and Mayor Dale Johnson.
Ribbon cutting and flag-raising ceremonies will also be conducted. Tours of the museum will follow. Coffee a n d cookies will be served.
In conjunction with the grand opening, a special program on rural pioneer history will be held at the school auditorium at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday by Marcy Schramm, a former Tracy resident.
The program, “Sharing the Wilder story,” opens at 2 p.m. both days with a display of historical artifacts dating back to the times of Laura Ingalls Wilder. A historical presentation on Laura Ingalls Wilder will begin at 3 p.m. Admission will be charged.
A pancake breakfast fund-raiser will be sponsored by the Wheels Across the Prairie group Sunday beginning at 8:30 a.m. All proceeds will be given to the museum.
The museum will open Sunday at 1 p.m. Coffee and cookies will again be served.
• Last week’s answer: Both Tracy-Milroy basketball teams reached the state tournament in 1987.
