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Throwback Thursday

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This week we go back to 1946.
calf club
The Ladner Optimist ran this photo on its front page on Thursday, Sept. 12, 1946. “Members of the Delta Jersey Calf Club went from their own field day here last Saturday to win top awards at the Chilliwack Fair this week. Three members of the club, Sheila Adrain, Rennie Dawson and Bob Adrain, are standing with the calves they raised,” the cutline reads.

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This week we go back to 1946.

The Ladner Optimist ran this photo on its front page on Thursday, Sept. 12, 1946. “Members of the Delta Jersey Calf Club went from their own field day here last Saturday to win top awards at the Chilliwack Fair this week. Three members of the club, Sheila Adrain, Rennie Dawson and Bob Adrain, are standing with the calves they raised,” the cutline reads.