The next house featured on this blog is the one and a half story house facing First Avenue at #202. It would have seen and heard trains passing by at the rate of several a day for many years and faced the Lake of the Woods elevator until it burned in 1950.
Polish immigrants Bill and Nettie Haidish first arrived in Reston with his work on the C.P.R. in 1934. They must have liked what they saw because they returned in 1935 and stayed until 1941. After a few years elsewhere, they returned to raise their family from 1950 - 1965 in this house on First Avenue also known as Railway Avenue. Their two sons Albert and Stanley Haidish and daughter Julie called Reston home for many years. Bill died while at work in 1965 and Nettie passed away in 1980.
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| Page 641 Trails Along the Pipestone -The Sequel |
Reston pharmacist Grant Schiltroth and his wife Nancy moved to Reston in 1976. They moved from living above the old drugstore to this house in October of 1980 when son Kent was just an infant and Kurt was a toddler. Their youngest son Kyle was born in September of 1981 and the family of 5 would have spent some busy years in the house. They moved to their new home on Lucy Street south of the railway tracks at the end of January of 1984.
Jim and Dawn Paul moved into the house in 1985 for a few years.
Next resident was hydro man Darcy Decock who then sold to Brad and Donna Rozak. They raised two daughters here. The Rozaks have renovated and updated the interior and exterior over the years as the picture below is from likely over 50 years ago.
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| Found on page 334 of Trails Along the Pipestone - The Sequel 2009 |
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