Red Deer scrap metal business celebrates 75 years

Red Deer scrap metal business celebrates 75 years

Red Deer’s four-generation scrap metal dynasty is celebrating 75 years of sending metals on their own multi-generational recycling journeys. Harper’s Metals company was started by Happy Harper in 1951 and the first scrap yard was located off Kerry Wood Drive next to the river, not far from where the BMX track is now. Son Randy grew up in the family business but went out on his own for a few years, working as a petroleum technologist and landman …