White Cane Week Spotlight Promotes Blind Awareness
National White Cane Week February 1–7 promotes public understanding of blindness. CNIB and CCB sponsor events across Canada including bowling, dances, tech-aid demos, displays, and school talks to show blind people can contribute in jobs, homes, and the arts.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
CNIB
Canadian Council of the Blind
CCB
Euclid Herie
CMIB
Gerry Brank
Braak
Arrow River News Family notices and local updates
The community shares grief for Ted Oliver of Yellowknife who died in a January accident and acknowledges Lloyd and Beth Oliver. Les Gessener of Quadra Elevator died after a January fall, with sympathy extended to his Carberry family. Congratulations to Ron and Shelley Gardham on the birth of son Kelly Robert. Several travels and family events are noted including visits to Victoria, Vancouver, and Salmon Arm. Marital and birth records list Kathy Bonner with Brian Leiben, and Murray Lockhart with Lori Lee Gabrielle. Deaths include Elmer Brown. Births include Brian and Donna Gardham’s son Duane Thomas.
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Ted Oliver
Yellowknife
N.W.T
Lloyd
Beth Oliver
Miniota United Church
Miniota
Ron
Shelley Gardham
Kelly Robert
Brandon General Hospital
Les Gessener
Quadra Elevator
Les
Carberry
Wendy Leland
Arrow River
Kathy Bonner
Brian Leiben
Murray Lockhart
Lori Lee Gabrielle
Virden
Elmer Brown
Brian
Donna Gardham
Duane Thomas
Uncertain Prayer in the Dark Hour
A reflective verse asks guidance through night and storm toward the dawn. The speaker seeks a calm path through troubled thoughts and green pastures and still waters to find a decisive way forward.
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Lord of the
Dark
The Perfect Church Poem of a Skeptical Dream
A reflective poem about an ideal church that remains unattainable. The speaker concedes no perfect congregation exists yet vows to work and pray to improve their own church. It envisions faultless behavior, unity, and kindness while acknowledging human flaws.
Winter Survival Lean-To Shelter Guide
The guide explains building a simple lean-to shelter after establishing a fire. It describes driving forked sticks five feet apart, interlocking them, adding a supporting pole, and covering with spruce bows or a tarp. It notes ventilation for fire safety and references other snow shelters and Red Cross contact for more details.
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Arrow River News
Ivy Lockhart
Crandall
Brent
Craig
Victoria
Vancouver
Howard Richardson
Tom
Roy Flannery
Ethel Flannery
Salmon Arm
M. D. Butcher & Associates
Notaries Public
P.O. Box
Birtie
Manitoba
Morrison D. Butcher
Woody Langford
LAW Office
Sims & Sims
Norman H. Sims
Elizabeth J. Sims
Main Street South
Minnedosa
By Winifred N. Hulbert
The
Red Cross
Patterson
Epticervice
Bev Patterson
Hamiota
S. Perimutter
Mendey
Hamiota, MB
Oak River
Regina
Swan River
Dauphin
Portage
Yorkton
Brandon
Pee Wee Wheat Kings
Manitoba Community Newspapers Association
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