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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 28, 1968
Page
1
Gillam town near the dam site opens with a 15 bed hospital a large modern school water treating plant and entertainment and lodging facilities including a four sheet skating rink a four lane bowling alley permanent staff housing trailer and shopping centre serving a self contained community.
Ottawa August 12 1968 the 1968 Migratory Birds Regulations set daily bag limits for waterfowl in Manitoba five ducks and ten in possession. Mallards canvasbacks redheads limits are specified with two daily and four possession. After October 12 two more scaup or goldeneye may be taken and four more possessed. Goose limits five and ten with white fronted limits three and six. Rails coots eight sixteen Indians Eskimos Metis may take twenty five daily with no possession limit. Snipe ten twenty and sandhill crane four eight. If a whooping crane is sighted the open season is canceled.
School board meeting at Shoal Lake on August 22 1968 approves van routes for September 1968 to June 1969 with multiple drivers paid per day rates. Minutes adopt August 15 1968 minutes and authorize facility purchases and land title transfers. plans for debt issue to fund borrowing discussed.
Manitoba Telephone System sets September 1 as the deadline for new numbers in the yellow pages and Alphabetical Section of the 1968 Provincial Telephone Directory. Changes must be requested before the date at the local office. About 170000 directories will be printed, up from 1967, with the new issue effective in November.
Dr K H Dean chief of fisheries and acting wildlife director in Manitoba was chosen vice-president of the Association of Mid West Game and Fish Commissioners at the latest meeting in Chicago. The group includes about 20 U S states along with Ontario Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The annual gathering brings directors to discuss wildlife administration licensing practices and resource use. The association will meet in St Louis next year and Winnipeg in 1970 during Manitoba’s centennial.
Two supervisors have been named to oversee Manitoba’s new voluntary vehicle inspection program and to train four-man crews for four mobile testing units. John Samuel Sinnock of St. Boniface and Frederick Colston of St. James will study Ontario’s system in Toronto for two weeks and return to Manitoba to prepare units expected to be ready by September.
People from Brandon Winnipeg Fort Chur chill North Vancouver Ham iota Miniota Decker and Isa bella gathered at Isabella Community Centre on Tuesday evening August 20 to honor Jan Finkbeiner and Mike Malanchuk with a miscellaneous shower. Corsages were presented to Jan her mother sister Susan and two grandmothers. The event featured a comic Bridal Party fashion parade and a gift presentation by the participating ladies. Jan expressed thanks for the gifts and support she received during her school years and Sunday words of encouragement.
Friends gathered Monday July 22 in Chumah hall to honour Frances Mathison with a miscellaneous shower. Frances, her mother Mrs John Mathison and aunt Mrs Bill Brooks received corsages and sat with escorts Betty-Lou Cameron Rose Twerden and Det Lepine. Debbie and Kenny Pedlow presented gifts while Frakie thanked guests and invited them to her Morden home. Judy Pedlow Sherri Turner and Cheryl McMillan sang with Mrs M Pedlow at the piano as old school chums surprised the guest of honor with song. Lunch was served to close.
A nostalgic note describes a lane transformed by patient labor into a serene resting place. The writer praises a gardener’s craft and compares the scene to the hymn I come to the garden alone, with dew on the roses, invoking providence and beauty for weary travelers seeking solace.
During the strike period the treasury prepared over 7000 welfare cheques and predated them to August 1 to reach recipients before delivery halted. End of July superannuation cheques were advance mailed. Hon Gurney Evans praised field taxation staff and civil servants for maintaining cheque flow as 2400+ people collected cheques. outside Metro Winnipeg arrangements were made and unconditional grants were available to municipalities on July 31.
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