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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1967
Page
4
Weekend visitors gathered at many homes for weddings and anniversaries including the Angus Kirk wedding and Mr and Mrs Arnold Lowe 25th anniversary. Families traveled from Oshawa Winnipeg Regina North Bay Minneosta Banff Yellowknife and Calgary to attend events and visits.
Mrs. Morgan Johnson attended the wedding of her nephew Rick Borland of Winnipeg to Heather Holmes of Winnipeg at Fort Garry United Church on July 22. The couple plans to live in Winnipeg. Also mentioned are visits by Bobby Woods of Oakville to the Stan Coupe home, Claude and John Dickey families in Roland, Pan Am baseball in Carman, Newfoundland visitors M. E. Wilson and family returning home with H. V. Johnston, Edith Ariss finishing a year in Victoria Hospital and taking a four week holiday, and Ted Shier, Beverley, Linda and Lori Carnegie traveling to Prandon and Portage and Winnipeg for horse racing and Pan Am games.
Isabella notes a flurry of visits and travels. Families including Wall Bell Duff Finkbeiner Wright Finkbeiner Heise and others attended Pan Am Games in Carman Winnipeg and Expo 67 with later trips to Ontario Montreal and Ottawa. Allan Stewart passed Grade XII exams and Hugh Johnson longtime Homefield educator died in Brandon.
A reminiscence of a Saturday farmer auction in Hamiota scenes along Main Street. A crier with a bell draws crowds to McConnell Hall, paying twenty five cents as buyers crowd the room. The piece recalls winter bustle, sleighs, and social life centered on the town sale.
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