Current Comments by Jack Coombs Sparks Small Town Notes
Local column shares anecdotes from Brandon and Hamiota including Venables hospital transfer after a stroke at age 93, a pig with two trunks, ospreys nesting, a youth teaching plan, Knox Church youths visiting town, and a Pine Falls rink fire. Also mentions Lavinia post office closing a year ago, a dyspeptic fish story, and Brandon Legion Band concert raising funds for a school band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. W. Venables
Salvation Army
Brandon
Brandon General Hospital
Venables
Toronto
Hamiota Hustler
Hamiota Echo
Lavinia
Man
Decker
Portage la Prairie
Lawrence Tremaine
Eva
Boyd Lief
Hamiota
Brandon Legion
Goode
Wightman
Wilfred McIntosh
Ted Good
About Town and Country notes from Hamiota area
Community items recount Brandon Arena closing due to low income and locals debating where revenue goes. Anecdotes include Dr Andy Hodge moon shot night, a TV failure, and farm talk on wild oats. Notes celebrate Diamond Wedding Ed Homuth, reflect on “Good Old Days,” and joke about signs and pemmican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon
Andy Hodge
Andy
Tom Faucett
Johnnie Finkbeiner
Isabella
Ed. Hamuth
Victoria B.C
Hamiota
Man
Homuth
CPR
Victoria
Church Notices Sunday Service at 1 30 PM
Reverend A McColl leads church notices for Sunday June 12 1966 with a 1 30 pm service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Clark
God
Rev
A. McColl
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ths
Manitoba
Canada
A. F. S. Venables
Jack Coombs
Charlie Bell
Charlie
Alex Kirk
Knox United Church
HIC
Ralph Clark
Shoal Lake
Ernie Brown
Dick Coombs
Harvey Brown
Oak River
Narrows
Paul Twerden
Pine Falls
John McGhee Sr
Philip Cashmore
Group of Establishment
Wimp Sheardown
Wimp
Shauneen Gay McMillan
Roy
McMillan
Kenny
Jack
Prince Albert
Italy
City Parks Board
Saskatchewan
Morris Deveson
Ted Venables
Wallace Fraser
Signs OF the Times
McConnell
Hamitor
Slim Brooks
Walter Moffat
Strathclair
Kerr Fraser
Hamiota Council
MTS
Crandall
F.E.A
Drs. Hudson, Hames, Gellatly
Lovell
STERN
Cashmore
RED Cross
United Church of Canada
D. L. Holtzman
Cardale
Christ Church
W. D. Smith
Sundy School
J. M. Williams
Gospel Chapel
Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
E. Meyers
Ser I
Miniota
Winnipeg
Don Gregory
Earl Gregory
Harry
Birtle Hotel
H. Heath
Strickland
General Insurance
Tome Town Girls
Cec’s Barber Shop
Cecil Cormack
James H. Gradwell
J. Klagenberg
John Smyth
Doak, Buckingham
Goliath, Toews, & CO
Barristers, Solicitors & Notary Publics Credit Union Building
R. M. B. Toews
L.L.B
Virden
Imperial Life
Ken Drozda
Shoa Lake
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