Current Comments on Firth of Forth and Local Happenings
A readers column from Manitoba recounts bits about Scotland’s Firth of Forth definition, local weather, spring hopes, and names of townspeople. It notes social visits, curling trophies, a skateathon, and police, with light gossip and community updates from Ollie Jordan to Marshall Maddock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firth of Forth
Scotland
Nettie Yeo
Broxburn
W. Lothian
Cameron
Forth
Perthshire
Alloa
North Sea
Bass Rock
Ollie
Millie Jordan
Moosomin
Sask
Harvey McConnell
Kay Curll
Barbara Burton
Forrest
Earl Miller
Isabella
Barry
Decker
Cardale
Elphinstone
Paper Boys of 1969 Share City Notes and Views
A retro style feature lists active paper route boys Keith Brooks Edwin Miller Kenny Kerr Harold Beamish Lindsay Brooks Lyle Campbell Carolyn Gregory Paige Clark noting both girls on routes. Also items from Curly Heavy Oak River on town printables SQUAWKING EAGLE on seal skinning and Bill Leach Oak Lake sighting 22 deer near Bradwardine on March 21 first day of spring with heavy snow. Thought for the Week by Frances Benson paints a hopeful closing line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Pollock
Harold Beamish
Carman Currah
Bernie Miller
Keith Brooks
Edwin Miller
Kenny Kerr
Lindsay Brooks
Lyle Campbell
Carolyn Gregory
Paige Clark
Bill Leach
Oak Lake
Man
Bradwardine
Bill
Reggie's Ramblings on Manitoba Politics and Sports
Reggie muses on Manitoba politics and culture noting MP comments on taxes, Bracken's legacy, liquor liberalization, carmakers push in Canada, medicare opt outs, Muggeridge on humor, Liberal critique of regional growth, hockey humor, and curling champs with Alberta influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba Medical Association
Medicare Corporation
Malcolm Muggeridge
Punch
Winnipeg South Centre
Manitoba
St. Regis Red River
Jim Colemen
Czechoslovakia
Sweden
Alberta
Rapeseed Varieties and Pamphlets Offered by Ag Office
Agricultural Office offers free pamphlets Outlook 1969 and Tractor Selection and Nebraska Tests. Farmers preview rapeseed options Argentine Target and Polish turnip turnip varieties with yields, maturities, and seeding rates. Echo is a turnip rapeseed variety with 85 day maturity and 32 inch plant height.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Outlook
Nebraska
Manitoba
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wey
Hamiota Echo Publications Ltd
Hamiota, Manitoba
USA
England
F. S. Venables
Jack Coombs
Calgary
Squawking Eagle
Dave Arbuthnott
Old Hospital
James Killoh
Calgary General Hospital
al Stevens
F.E.A
Kenton
A. S. Trueman
Marshall Maddock
Bill Maddock
RCM
Jay
G.L.S. Gem
Wimp
Hydro Lines
Sandra Woods
Glen Gregory
Ryan Davison
Don Sheridan
Rick Hamilton
Dallas Johns
Dick Prawdzik
Kelowna
B.C
Ev Pittendreigh
Nellie Rutherford
Paradise
Curly Heavy
Oak River
Frances Benson
Reggie
Winnipeg
John Bracken
Canada
Toyota
Hamieta Echo
Doak, Buckingham
Goliath
Toews
Smeltz & CO
Hamiota United Church
R. E. Clark
Oarner
A. McColl
United Church of Canada
Strathclair
D. L. Holtzman
McConnell
Christ Church Hamiite
Rev
W. D. Smith
Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
Pastor R. V. Daum
Wendell Wight Ag. Rep
Agricultural Office
Echo
RED Cross
Independent Breeders Association
Jon Klagenberg
Hamiota
Strickland
Oaths
Bill Chappell
Denwal Pharmacy
Rexall Super
Hamliete
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