Harness Races Open Season at Assiniboia Downs with New Secretary
The third season at Assiniboia Downs starts Friday August 23 for an 85 day meet ending Saturday October 19. John Mace named racing secretary, replacing Gary Wilmot, with a Monday Wednesday Friday Saturday schedule announced by President Jack Hardy. Mace, 39, from Montreal, brings decades of racetrack experience and joins Canadian trotters groups.
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Assiniboia Downs Raceway
John Mace
Jack Hardy
Raceway
Gary Wilmot
Jockey Club
Ontario
Montreal
Downs Raceway
Canada
Mace
Connaught Park
Ottawa
Mutuel
Connaught
Blue Bonnets
Kings Park
Mount Royal
82Nd Airborne Division
Lew James
Canadian Trotting Association
The
Harness Horsemen’s Association
Ontario Harness Horsemen’s Association
Noella
Caroline
Natalie
Jacquiline
Western Canada
Death of Vancouver Resident John T. Johnson at 89
Bru News reports the death of John T. Johnson of Vancouver British Columbia a Bru district resident on Saturday July 20. The funeral occurred July 23 in Vancouver. He would have turned 90 on August 9 leaving a wife a daughter and two sons with another son Stevie predeceased him. The couple had celebrated sixty years of marriage earlier that summer. Also noted is Mr and Mrs Bill Leeson of St Vital visiting Mrs H S Sveinsson.
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John T. Johnson
Vancouver
B.C
Bru
Stevie
Johnson
Bill Leeson
St. Vital
H. S. Sveinsson
Bhasin
Brockville
Ontario
Gerry McLeod
Glenboro
Arnie MacLean
Los Angeles
California
J. H. Hamilton
Mervyn
Jack Hamilton
Jean Cruikshank
Chris Anderson
Aberdeen
Scotland
Barry Reilly
Ian
Thomas Weir
Glenboro Lutheran Church
Melanie Meredith
Bert Meredith
Gima
Brian Johnson
St James
Don Steele
Pleasant Valley
Gordon Jefferies
Lawrence Lowes
Killarney Lake
Mrs C A Hall Hosts Trouseau Tea in Glenboro
Local notes report a trousseau tea for Marnie Hall at her Glenboro home on Saturday August 10 from 3 to 5 30 p m and 7 30 to 10 p m with all welcome. The Diehl and Malyon families held summer reunions at area farms with relatives from multiple towns in attendance.
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C. A. Hall
Marnie
Glenboro
Diehl
Jim Diehl
Souris
Brandon
Gladstone
Boissevain
Carman
Winnipeg
Cypress River
Oak Bank
Treherne
Valerie
Byron Witherspoon
J. McKinnon
Ian
Kingston
Rainy River
Ontario
Lorne Wither- Spoon
Inlaw
Howard Barker
Jeffry
Portage la Prairie
Malyon
Frank Malyon
Ivan Jefferies
Manitoba
Legislative
U. of M
Centennial Art Centre
Assiniboine Park
Pan Am Pool
Elaine Tanner
Ashern
Dauphin
Peter Kiez
Ivan
Gold Guernsey
Lake Audy
Clear Lake
Minnedosa
Neepawa
Saltwells
Neepawa Golf Club
Arden
Ag Rep
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Assiniboia Downs
Steve Foord-Kelcey
Horticultural Society
BRU News
Union
McDonald
High Bluff
Glenora
Carroll
Ted Thompson
Dryden
E. Jewsbury
Stockton
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