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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 24, 1969
Page
6
A spring note emphasizes bicycle rights and duties under the Highway Traffic Act. It lists twelve operator rules including riding on the right, not riding two abreast, keeping one hand on the handlebars, and avoiding sidewalk use. Convicted juveniles may have bicycles impounded for up to three months. Remember motorists studied tires must be removed before April 31, 1969.
William Ernest Longstaff died at Vancouver General Hospital on April 11 after a short illness. Born in 1884 in Pontefract England, he moved to Canada in 1910, farmed near Cardale and retired to Ladner BC in 1947. Survived by three sons, two daughters, a sister, ten grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. predeceased by wife in 1956 and son Rowland in 1935. Funeral held April 15 at Brockie and Donovan Chapel Brandon with Very Rev T W Wilkinson officiating. Interment Brandon Cemetery.
Weather permitting work will resume on the 8.4 mile Portage la Prairie by-pass of the Trans Canada Highway. Nelson River Construction Co won a contract worth 854335 dollars to pave the by-pass from Provincial Diversion bridge to P R 240. The project will complete four lane paving and allow use of the by-pass and interchange system. Concrete paving begun last spring and extended to the eastern interchange. The by-pass will have four 12 foot lanes guiding traffic around the southern edge of Portage.
Local residents report visits across towns with Hyndmans from Virden hosting cro ses of friends and relatives from Swift Current Winnipeg Arrow River and Regina. A color TV gifted to the lounge draws appreciative comments as Easter guests gather for Mrs Cormack’s 89th birthday with family and friends in attendance.
Isabella and R E Heise visited Gordon McCallum in Roland this past week. Mrs George Lawn remains a patient after an operation at Hamiota Hospital and is wished a speedy recovery. Church services begin 9 a.m. Sunday May 4. Murray Bell and family visited in Calgary over Easter weekend. Mrs J Coxworth visited Winnipeg to see her father R L Stevenson, a Winnipeg General Hospital patient.
Game time is 8:00 p m with admission priced at 1 00 and extra cards costing 25 cents.
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