Manitoba Community Festivals Promote Arts Awareness Week
Manitoba marks Awareness Week February 11 to 17 with the festival drawing over 120000 participants including performers volunteers and audiences. The Birdtail River Fine Arts Festival in Hamiota lists entry deadlines February 21 with events April 4 through 12 and contact Marcie Harrison ROMOTO.
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Loreena McKennitt
Tracy Dahl
Gwen Hoebig
Fred Penner
James Ehnes
Hamiota
Marcie Harrison
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Romoto
Barb Brown
RCMP Cops for Cancer links echo Prairies heritage
Readers share praise for the RCMP Cops for Cancer drive and note its fundraising on Vancouver Island and across communities from Port Hardy to Duncan. The column links the program to RCMP history, citing Riders of the Plains and Chief Crowfoot’s Treaty 7 speech, and highlights a $500,000 island-wide total.
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Arctic Circle
South Seas
Prairies
Duncan
B.C
Carlyle Observer
Vancouver Island
Port Hardy
RCMP
le Tour
U.S
Canadian Great Plains
Red River
Rockies
Canadian Prairies
Gerald Friesen
Crowfoot
Cops
Fred McGuinness
Brandon
New Vermeer Reproduction Highlighted at Library
Gladys Mathison reports a February feature at the library showcasing a 1664 painting by Johannes Vermeer titled Young Woman with a Water Vessel. Don Thomas presents the exhibit, inviting patrons to view the old master’s work and its replication.
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Gladys Mathison
Don Thomas
Johannes Vermeer
Premium Park expands with new barns and facilities
Premium Park plans additional commercial facilities a second nursery barn and a gilt development barn as geological testing proceeds at several locations. A feed mill is not yet feasible despite rumors. Construction of Premium Park’s new office and truck wash will start in Hamiota this summer. Gladys Mathison librarian at Hamiota Centennial Library 764-2680.
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Premium Park
Michael Wilson
Hamiota
Pitcher
Gladys Mathison
Hamiota Centennial Library
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Hamiota Park
Hamida, Man
Hastings
DVA
Graham Ave
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Graham & Edmonton
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