Oak River Friends Visit Hamiota Shuffleboard Club
Oak River Friendship Club members listed for a social day at Hamiota Shuffleboard Club last Monday. Seventy members registered for shuffleboard, carpet ball, cribbage, five hundred, crokinole, table shuffle or visiting. Audrey Griffiths celebrated a birthday. Also notes Bruce Lemon quotes and local anecdotes. New Zealand trip by Jim and Nora Mathison. Hamiota Collegiate student supper. Betty White’s scrapbook feature. disposal of litter and local political service tribute to Nelson Kreager.
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OAK River Friendship Club
Hamiota Shuffleboard Club
Herb
Jean Skinner
John
Caroline Lebid
Bob King
Etta Wright
Luella Bowman
Fred Mylrea
Myrtle White
Audrey Griffiths
D. Robbins
Lizzie Morcom
Edgar Vickery
Oak River
Reggies Ramblings on Sports Rules and Politics
A strip of quirky notes mocks rule tinkering in football hockey and basketball and laments changes. It cites an American magazine writer and Reagan’s space program cutback. Toronto news mentions rising rabbit meat popularity and a St Regis Hotel quip about weather under shifting governments.
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Canada
Reagan
News Out of
Toronto
Tax-Based Incomes Policy Sparks Ottawa Skepticism
Canadian Federation of Independent Business rejects a tax based incomes policy seen as wage and price controls. Ottawa debates guiding wage hikes for large firms while public sector settlements risk skewing outcomes. Small and medium enterprises fear added government intervention amid 13 percent inflation.
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Canadian Federation of Independent Business
Trudeau's constitutional battle risks centralizing power in Ottawa
Peter Ward argues Trudeau's push on constitutional change endangers provincial autonomy and risks straining Canada. He notes Western and Quebec tensions, deadlines, and economic neglect, warning that Trudeau's unilateral approach could fuel separatist pressures if Quebec votes again.
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Ottawa
Pierre Trudeau
Trudeau
Canada
Quebec
Rene Levesque
Claude Ryan
Quebec National Assembly
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Jack Coombs
Bruce Lemon
Wimp
Robin Red
Art
Betty Oakden
Manitoba
Jim
Nora Mathison
New Zealand
Nora
Winnipeg
Los Angeles
Hawaii
Hamiota Collegiate
Betty White
Alfred C. Fuller
Fuller Brush Company
Birdtail River
Nelson Kreager
Nelson
Bill Chappell
RAK
Native Rights
WRN
Reggie
St. Regis Hotel
Mainstream
W. Roger Worth II
Allan MacEachen
MacEachen
Fers
Ing
Cent Postal
CFIB
Peter Ward
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