30 Jul 1970
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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 30, 1970
Page
1
The 1970 Hamiota Fair faced poor weather yet the directors and staff delivered a successful event. About 600 attendees enjoyed a pancake breakfast as Jim and Vi Emerson provided organ music. Livestock judging proceeded with resilience. prizes went to Isabella W.I. Float, George Crighton, and the Hamiota Pioneer Club.
The Kinsmen Club of Brandon sponsors the Pan Am Playdowns for the 1970 Canadian Senior championships set for August 28 in Brandon Hamiota and Souris. Ten teams compete with Manitoba receiving an extra host slot. Transcona Bisons already named while the Manitoba Sovier Baseball League team will be assembled. Manager Lloyd Horn discusses early picks including catchers Ralph Gardiner and Cliff Seafoot and infielders Greg Cameron Bill Chapple and Lynn Caldwell with two outfielders and two pitchers chosen. more details to come in later writings.
Peter Desbarats a former Tribune reporter now in East fete exile wrote a national article calling Winnipeg the ugliest city in Canada. Manitoba capital deserves a return visit to set the record straight. Elbert Hubbard once called editors men who separate wheat from chaff and print the chaff.
The Red Sox were shutout 4 0 by Rollo with Gord Roberge fanning 13 as they lost first place after a single game. Lynn Caldwell tripled in the 6th and others singled while Feldner issued seven walks and Dauphin tripped them 3 2 in a prior result.
The Birdtail River School Division No. 38 held a board meeting at Crandall on July 23 1970 at 8 pm. Trustees listed included Fulton Waddell Rapley Randell Butcher Lewycky Falloon Armitage Hyndman. Motions approved minutes of July 9 1970 and routine correspondence and superintendent report. Advances authorized to E & E Janitorial and progress payment to Hoffman Construction for Birtle Collegiate addition. Maintenance equipment purchased from Marlin Bros. Letter of congratulations sent to Diane McLean for track and field success in Winnipeg. Meeting adjourned for August 6 1970 at 8 pm.
After a July 23 shower the Pioneer Club parade activity began at the elementary school grounds with about 65 floats and displays. Antique cars decorated bicycles and Hamiota Horse Club members in costumes joined Doug Beamish with a threshing outfit and George Crighton with oxen as the parade moved through town to Centennial Park for the 78th annual Hamiota Agriculture Society Fair.
The Manitoba Theatre Centre sends six top students to rural Manitoba in August to conduct Creative Drama workshops for children and adults. At Hamiota Collegiate Institute Auditorium on August 11 at 2 p.m. a children’s drama class and at 8 p.m. an adults class will be held.
Manitoba Hydro chair Cass Beggs receives a two year extension by order in council after initially joining as chair and hydro consultant on December 16 1970 on a six month basis. Finance Minister Saul Cherniak notes his intimate knowledge of sites and plans for power in the province and confirms the continuation at 35000 dollars yearly.
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