100 years ago

March 23, 1916 — Redmond is soon to have a new theatre and one built along modern lines. The house is even now well along toward being enclosed and its completion will proceed without delay. The building is 40 feet in width and more than a hundred in depth and the stage will have a depth of 25 feet and a width of about the same, with dressing rooms down stairs and adjoining the bathrooms which are being built for the gymnasium for the Redmond High School. The structure, being so wide, will have a 16-foot ceiling and will be finished in the very best possible manner. As the school law was recently published in these columns, it will be fresh of mind of the reader that school property may be used for community and civic purposes. In order that the district shall not be taxed in any manner for the some of the features not absolutely essential to high school purposes, the Redmond Dramatic Club and individual citizens are making good for all these features at an estimated cost of some six or eight hundred dollars.

75 years ago

March 20, 1941 — Deschutes County had to dip into its draft list for the first time Tuesday to complete its selective service quota of 10 men who left for final army enrollment in Portland, three were inductees, six were local volunteers, and one was a volunteer from another board. Date or quota of the April call has not been set. However, notice has been received that a call for replacements is to be between April 1 and 4. The replacements will be sent as substitutes for those men on previous draft quotas who failed to pass the final physical examinations, or about three or four men thus far. The order numbers of the first draftees were in the 40s — Charles M. Boardman 41, Kenneth H. Bigelow, 45, both of Bend, and Jack Heinrick, 46, of Terrebonne. Class 1-A men with order numbers lower than these are in the service already, but went as volunteers.

50 years ago

March 24, 1966 — The Rotary Club crab feed will be held from 5:30 to 8 o’clock Saturday evening, March 26, in John Tuck Cafeteria, with the committee planning enough food to satisfy the appetites of 1,000 patrons, it has been announced. Menu will include crab, garlic bread, various relish dishes, coffee and milk. Serving lines have been arranged to allow rapid and efficient service. Francis Baker is general chairman of the event, with Bill Melhase and Ralph Windsor in charge of the serving committee, Ray Babb and Dr. Neil Morris handling clean up and M.L. Myrick and Olaf Anderson taking care of tickets. The entire club membership, with wives, will work in various phases of the cooking, serving, and clearing up, Baker said. Proceeds of the dinner will go toward furnishing a room in the school for retarded children, which is to be built this summer and be ready for occupancy the first of September. Rotary Club has pledged to furnish entirely one room, so will probably have other fund raising projects during the year, a spokesman said.

25 years ago

March 27, 1991 — The Central Oregon District Hospital Board of Directors will have a new director come July 1. Susan Higbee defeated two other first-time candidates for the hospital board in Tuesday’s mail-in election. Higbee received 866 votes to Rick Nissen’s 685 and Paul Convers’s 216. There was a 22.1 percent response county wide in the election, according to County Clerk Susie Penhollow. The CODH race was one of the only three contested races in the county in this election. All other seats up for election in the Redmond area were uncontested. Becky Johnson received 1,560 votes to retain seat on the CODH board. Bill Humphreys received 1,416 votes for his seat on the hospital board, and Jeryy Andres received 1,410 votes for the fourth hospital board seat up for election this year.