The Stettler and District Retired Teachers’ Association (SDRTA) is one of the younger branches of ARTA. It took us some length of time to make up our minds about becoming a branch. In the early 2000s, retired teachers in our area had been courted by the Red Deer and Camrose branches to join their social functions, which some of us did. Eventually, Gerry Smith who was a former teacher in Stettler and, at that time, incumbent Executive Secretary of ARTA, encouraged us to form a branch.