Here is a look at Surprise history through the years on this week, compiled from archives of Independent Newsmedia, Newspapers.com and the city of Surprise historical records.
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A look back at Surprise's history on this week
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Here is a look at Surprise history through the years on this week, compiled from archives of Independent Newsmedia, Newspapers.com and the City of Surprise historical records:
1928
Dysart School hosts a box social, with money raised going to Christmas items for the school.
1951
A 15-year-old Wickenburg High School student and his father are killed when their car swerves to avoid hitting a dog on the Wickenburg Highway and crashes head-on with another vehicle. It happens around where is now Grand Avenue and Bell Road. Three other people are injured in the crash.
1973
A new bird shooting facility opens on 320 acres at Grand Avenue and the Beardsley Canal. Club membership is $20 a year with up to 100-bird plans available.
1980
The $280,000 Community Center opens its doors in the Original Town Square.
1985
Voters decide whether to buy or condemn the Citizens Utility Co. and its subsidiary Sun City Water Co. to serve an area about 20 square miles big. Voters also decided on the town’s first sewer for the 340-acre Sun Village retirement community that’s under construction.
1998
John Walter is named permanent fire chief, six months after being named the interim chief.
2000
A battle brews over the validly of petition signatures over stopping the 776-acre Sierra Montana development. The development is south of Greenway Road, west of Cotton Lane, north of Waddell Road and east of the Beardsley Canal.
