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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 15, 1969
Page
4
Wanted to take short auto trips near Hamiota. Applicant must have a car and be over 40. Apply to Airmail S W Dickerson president Southwestern Petroleum Corp Fort Worth Texas 76101.
Hamiota High School basketball franchises have played hard across multiple games. The girls beat the Grads 29-20, led 6-0 and 12-5, while the Grads rallied late. key scorers included Lynn Woods and Sheila Harper for the Grads and Janice English and Audrew Brooks for Hamiota. In the boys game, Hamiota trailed but finished strong in a 37-32 loss to the Grads with Rob Woods and Al McNiven each at 12. The period recaps cover December 31 trip to Brandon, results against Neelin Composite, Harrison, and a championship run at Weyburn, where the boys dropped the Estevan title game after strong showings. The girls also played in Estevan, splitting games and advancing to consolation rounds. The season features notable retirements and lineup changes, with Marv Clark retiring for medical reasons and several Grade 12 players remaining.
The article recounts the birth of the first white child in western Canada, a girl born January 1808 at Pembina Fort in Manitoba to Jean Baptiste Lasimodiere and Marie Anne Gaboury. It describes Lasimodiere's epic 1815 mile foot journey to Montreal to warn Lord Selkirk of a planned raid and his capture and imprisonment before rescue.
Reggie muses on New Year resolutions and symbolic ties to Britain and France. The piece ends with a humorous note about a college professor claiming Cleopatra had a goitre, a surprising detail in any context.
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