100 years ago

Sept. 7, 1916 — The Redmond Women’s Club is an organization that, in point of civic pride and results obtained, ranks well up with our commercial club. Many are the civic improvements inaugurated by the ladies and carried to a successful termination. They now propose to seat and paint the gymnasium, the outside coat having been finished recently, and they will succeed. Tomorrow evening they will sponsor an indoor carnival at the new gym, with booths for the sale of candy, ice cream, cake, punch, sandwiches, flowers, fortune telling, etc., with music and speaking by many of the ladies, who will also stage a boxing bout, with a “jitney” dance to close the festivities. Admission is only ten cents and the novelty of the attractions should bring an immense patronage.

75 years ago

Sept. 4, 1941 — With first-day registration approximately the same as last year Redmond Union High School and Redmond Grade School opened for the 1941-42 year Tuesday morning. Buses covered their routes, bringing the students from all sections of the two districts to Redmond. Eighty Freshmen entered the high school Tuesday, total enrollment being close to the 300 mark, Principal Edgar R. Means said Tuesday morning was spent in registration, students being dismissed in the afternoon to obtain books and supplies. Regular classes began Wednesday. As a result of last minute change to staff, Mrs. Chalmers Nooe of Redmond is teaching girls’ physical education and biology, Means announced. Miss Elnora Sandford of North Plains, who indicated she would accept a contract, signed to teach at Gresham, and the high school was lacking a teacher with no applicants available.

50 years ago

Sept. 8, 1966 — Miss Spud of 1966 is to be crowned during intermission at the Central Oregon Potato Festival Teenage Dance, this Saturday Sept. 10, in Redmond Union High School Gymnasium. A teenage combo will furnish music for dancing between the hours of 8:30 and 11 p.m. Last year’s Miss Spud Delta Durfee of Culver, is to place the tiara on the head of the honored girl. Jay-c-ettes will present the new Miss Spud with a trophy, and charm bracelets are to be given to the entire court by Redmond Chamber of Commerce President Leonard Nord. Comprising the court are Sherry Farrier, Redmond; Sylvia Reyes, Culver; Kathy Conlee, Madras; Sandra Tooley, Prineville; and Sally Komar, Bend.

25 years ago

Sept. 4, 1991 — Opening day enrollment in the Redmond School District lends support to the importance of the job the district’s building committee has taken on. First-day student counts show increases in almost all schools contacted. Tumalo School Principal Suzanne Burton tallied 366 in grades kindergarten through six. That’s 18 more than last year’s opening day. “We were thinking as many as 380,” Burton said. “By the end of the week, the no-shows who preregistered will be here.” Tumalo’s two second grade class rooms are jammed with 30 and 29 students, according to Burton. Lynch School grew by at least 20, to 435 Tuesday morning. The kindergarten and grade 4-6 are large, with more than 30 students in each of the intermediate level classrooms.