Premier Lyon Pushes Western drought aid plan
Manitoba premier Lyon announces reactivated Provincial Drought Coordinating Committee and to seek joint western premiers action for a coordinated federal provincial drought aid program. He cites last year’s 40.3 million dollar drought package and notes ongoing readiness measures and forest fire support.
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Lyon
Winnipeg
Alberta
B.C
Thompson
Manitoba
Ottawa
Ontario
Lions Create District 5M Foundation In Manitoba
Winnipeg hosts the Lions Mid Winter Convention where District 5M12 announces the Lions Foundation of District 5M Canada to replace the Disabilities Fund for Children. The new body broadens scope beyond children and includes North Western Ontario, with a July 1 1981 start and a board led by John Sinclair.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Lions Clubs International
Lion Bill Kuzenko
Lions Foundation
District 5M
Canada
Lions Disability Fund For Children Inc
Lions Foundation of
Ontario
Thunder Bay
Kuzenko
Lion John Sinclair
Sinclair and Associates
Lion Rev
Allan Simms
Kiwanis Centre For the Deaf
Rural Construction Minimum Wage Increases Across Regions
Winnipeg announces rural construction minimum wage rises effective June 1 1981. Rates vary by area from 4.55 to 7.45 per hour outside Winnipeg and 5 to 11.75 in Brandon Portage la Prairie. The Pas and north of the 54th parallel see 5.60 to 12.55 per hour. The Rural Construction Wages Board held hearings before recommending the changes.
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Winnipeg
Ken MacMaster
Rural Construction Wages Board
Brandon
Portage la Prairie
Pas
54Th
French School St Lazare Offers Immersion in Manitoba
Ecole St Lazare in western Manitoba provides a full French education from Kindergarten to Grade 9 excluding Language Arts. The immersion program is expanding as more families choose French education. In 1960 immersion students performed on par with regular program students in English. The principal can be contacted at 683 2251 for more information.
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Ecole St. Lazare
Manitoba
Adjudicators Named for Hamiota Festival First Week of May
Olga Friesen will adjudicate the vocal section on May 6 and 7 with diplomas in piano organ and voice from multiple institutions. Malcolm Ashby of Brandon adjudicates Band and Instrumental May 4 and leads Brandon Schools band classes and the Festival of the Arts. Elizabeth Grant of Brandon is piano adjudicator May 5 and conducts choirs at Brandon University while serving as vice president of the Festival of the Arts. The Festival Committee welcomes adjudicators, parents, and interested people.
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Olga Friesen
Toronto Conservatory of Music
College of Music
England
Wate Board of Music
Manitoba
School of Music
University of Manitoba
Faculty of Education
Malcolm Ashby
Brandon
Elizabeth Grant Brandon
Brandon University
Grant
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Agriculture
Jim Downey
Canada Agriculture
Eugene Whelan
Northern Affairs
Selkirk
Dauphin
Natural Resources Department
Lions Establish Foundation
Natural Resources
Harry Enns
Clint Walker
The
Conservation Districts Association
Bill Poole
Turtle Mountain
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