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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 15, 1981
Page
4
Crop prospects look good with 2% rain in the past week and a half, but shipments have slowed and storage will fill by crop year end. Permits are being processed for 1981 82 year, with quotas listed for Red Spring Wheat and Open Durum across grades and bushel weights.
Farm Safety Week runs July 25 to 31, backed by the Canada Safety Council and Agriculture Canada. The observance highlights costly farm accidents and emphasizes safer practices to boost productivity and reduce damages, injuries, and fatalities.
On July 4th at Brandon Fair district 4-H Show Valerie Johnson won first in showmanship and second in trail with Timmy Toad Blain. Sheilagh Cullen placed third in trail and fifth in bareback on Bridge Chicabar. Other riders Cheryl Northey Squeeze Box Rosalind Rollins Fulada and Jennifer Sigurdson Renview Robin Hood also competed. A three day trail ride and campout in Spruce Woods Park drew eighteen horses and was enjoyed by all.
Glenboro firm C B Armitage & Co. advertised coaches lounges and window blinds as a promotion. Glenboro Turf Club scheduled its annual races on July 1 with 700 dollars in purses. Stockton residents attended Millford versus Belmont cricket matches as area crops headed well into the season.
The 50th anniversary Jubilee for Icelandic settlement was celebrated at Grand on Sunday July Sth despite rain. Wedding bells rang for Winifred Beech and Norman C. Williams on July 6. A new son was born to Mr and Mrs Mel Anderson on June 26. Lightning struck telephones causing curtains to burn at W H Carruthers home and a barn owned by Jas Dowd southeast of town burned with hay and harness. no insurance.
Births include a daughter to Mr and Mrs Les Hopkins on June 28 and twin daughters to Mr and Mrs W Wiggett on July 2. Weddings for Florence Moore with John Seeley June 24 and Russell Cline with Edith Mutch June 21. A mobile recruiting unit visited Glenboro and five of thirteen applicants were accepted.
Family members hosted a surprise dinner on June 30 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Moore to celebrate a couple's 40th wedding anniversary. Annie Rolfe and John Kenneth Smart also wed, as did Ann Russell and Bruce Haskins.
Born this month were Betty Ann Stewart Hamilton on June 12 to the Hamiltons, Guy Morgan June 22 to the Iskefsons, and Grant Shane June 24 to the Stephensons of Belmont. Willene Chewings and George Wertz wedding planned for June 24. Glenboro Golf Club to hold first tournament July 9. Drought harms crops and pastures. rain urged. Leonard Wilton of Wawanesa celebrates 50th wedding anniversary. Cecilia Hamilton hosts 93rd birthday gathering June 19. Glenboro ladies form golf club with Allan Frederickson president and Jack Gowanlock secretary. 27 members at meeting.
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