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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 26, 1981
Page
1
The period August 17 to 23 shows high of 31 on August 19 and a low of 9.5 on August 17. Average daytime 27, lifetime 13.5, overall 20.2. Precipitation totals 162 mm or 6 3/8 inches with rainfall on August 23 setting a new daily record.
The Tiger Hills School Division 29 opens for the 1981 82 year on Thursday September 3 at 9 a.m. Glenboro enrollment is about 334 with 154 in high school 180 in elementary and 20 in kindergarten. New staff include Ann Clark exchange teacher Grade 1 and Ann Hamilton teaching in England.
The 1981-82 fall term starts September 3 at Cypress River with grades one to six enrolling about 44 students and staff unchanged. Wawanesa welcomes new teachers and plans microcomputer programs division wide, with a focus on computer literacy and inservice workshops across Tiger Hills School Division 29.
The Band Program for the 1981-82 year splits duties with Donald Horbas teaching in Glenboro Baldur and Belmont while Bernard Helster directs bands in Holland Treherne and Pilot Mond. Horbas aims to play and direct the Division stage band. he graduated May 1981 from Brandon University with a Bachelor of Music Education.
The farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Amedee Lussier near Glenboro sustained extensive water and smoke damage after a fire in the upper part of the house early Tuesday morning August 25. The Glenboro South Cypress Fire Department responded with two trucks and called for extra water from Glenboro and Belmont. the fire was under control before the additional units arrived. The cause is undetermined.
Heavy rainfall convert Sunday August 23 into a possible regional record with over six inches soaking Glenboro and Wawanesa. Basements flooded and a duck farm reported ducks swimming in the yard while surrounding areas logged two to three inches. Percy Shepherd notes this surpasses his decades of rainfall records.
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