Holiday Gift Drive for Saskatchewan Mental Health Assn
The Canadian Mental Health Association in Saskatchewan lists dozens of contact points across towns like Canora Estevan Estevan Melfort Melfort Regina Saskatoon Shaunavon Swift Current Tisdale Weyburn Prelate Piapot Lafleche and others inviting readers to mail small gifts to brighten the mental hospital patients Christmas. The appeal urges indicating tents on packages and signs of community support with a motto Better there be many small gifts than too few large ones.
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Canada
Canadian Mental Health Association
Saskatchewan
Edna Avenue
Tisdale
J. N. Adams
Bank of Nova Scotia Weyburn
Badham Yorkton
M. Yaholnitsky
293Rd Avenue
John Raycheba Piapot
Mary Grenbeiel Lafleche
F. Poliquin Herbert
Riverhurst
Kinstock
Sceptre-Lemsford
Albert Trew
Sask. SSPCA helps stray animals thrive at night
Mrs Lulu Chalmers a Saskatoon SSPCA executive member and volunteers patrol city streets at night to rescue stray cats and dogs. 35 cats and 11 dogs are cared for on Albert Ross's West Dewdney farm while four border collie pups a labrador and kittens await homes for Christmas. 378 calls were logged to Mrs Chalmers between Oct 15 and Nov 12 as she balances family and animal care.
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Lulu Chalmers
Allan Avenue
The
Saskatchewan Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Albert Ross
West Dewdney Avenue
Mrs. Chalmers
SSPCA
Chalmers
Quick Canadian Quiz Facts from Canada
The quiz reveals 1880s Quebec first practical electricity use for lighting textile mills. Yellowknife name from an Indigenous group the Yellowknives. In 1957 union membership 1,386,185 and personal savings about 1.4 billion with tax payments near 9 billion. The first trans Atlantic cable raid occurred in 1858 from Ireland to Newfoundland. Canada’s labor force unions total about six million workers.
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Yellowknife
N.W.T
Breater
Quebec
Ireland
Newfoundland
Yellowknives
Quick Canadian Facts
Pocket Annual
Facts About
Royal Humane Society Award Given in Biggar
Vi Envin received a Royal Humane Society Award for reviving seven year old Judith One from a river in Saskatoon in September 1957. Jim Envin performed artificial respiration. The ceremony, held at the Biggar pool, was presented by Mayor L A Jones with attendees including Mr and Mrs Stone and Mrs H D Hart Water Safety Convener for the Saskatoon Red Cross Branch.
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Envins
BSS
Royal Humane
Judith O Ne
Saskatoon
Jim
Biggar
L. A. Jones
Stone
H D. Hart
Saskatoon Red Cross
Barley champion named in Golden Prairie Wheat Pool update
Miss Elaine Sawby of Golden Prairie earned the Wheat Pool barley title for Saskatchewan with a standout test plot performance. Her Husky barley yielded 984 bushels per acre, while Trail 109.2 bushels, Parkland 99.2, Montcalm 109.2, and Vantage 121.3 bushels per acre, suggesting Vantage may suit the district best for top results.
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Elaine Sawby
Vern Sawby
Golden Prairie
Saskatchewan
Parkland
Montcalm
Vantage
the News
Maple Creek
Sask
Boy’s Christmas letter found in Newport post office
Newport post workers discover a stamped but unmailed letter to Santa listing a child’s misdeeds and requests. The note asks for 40 army men a plane set hoody doody puppets and a cowboy hat while mentioning the writer is eight years old in third grade and hoping someone in a mental hospital is helped this Christmas.
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Newport Post Office
Santa Claus
Santa
Lessons From a Forced Bed Rest
The narrator recounts an enforced period of immobility from illness, realizing sleep is earned through activity and that absence hardly disrupts the world. The quiet time reveals that busyness increases productivity and that leisure may be overrated. They resolve to value being active and engaged again.
Cantons Names for Swiss States in Federation
The term cantons designates the member states of the Swiss federation reflecting a long tradition of territorial autonomy. Each canton holds its own constitution and government within the unified Swiss state structure.
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