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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1978
Page
6
A total of 78130 in Western Canada Lottery Funds is earmarked for Manitoba leadership development in the current fiscal year. Health and Social Development Minister Bud Sherman announced the program run by the department's Fitness and Amateur division.
Manitoba Finance Minister Don Craik says the savings bond issue, which closed at midnight June 13, totalled 41 million dollars after a strong surge in the final two days. The sale began May 25 and exceeded expectations, signaling Manitobans’ appetite to invest in the province’s future.
Proceedings of the 1977 Manitoba Child Abuse Symposium are published as a 141 page booklet by Queen's Printer in Winnipeg. Held September 14 to 16 and sponsored by Health and Social Development, Corrective and Rehabilitative Services and the Attorney-General, it includes the keynote by Dr. Ray E. Helfer and synopses of presentations. Copies cost one dollar from Manitoba Queen's Printer, 200 Vaughan Street.
The $3 million Tupperware Canada plant begins construction on Highway 3 near Morden, Manitoba, creating 150 jobs. Industry minister Banman lauds the site for Western Canada reach and local workforce, with officials from Tupperware attending the sod turning ceremony. The 130000 square foot facility will produce the full line of household plastics for western Canada and serve as Tupperware’s second Canadian plant.
Manitoba authorized 18,473,323 in equalization payments for 1978 to school divisions and districts, with per pupil grants boosted to 260 dollars and northern allowances set at 65 to 80 dollars per pupil depending on location. Education Minister Cosens noted early budget notices to boards as cabinet kept other direct grants under department control.
Clues and quiz guide readers through a word cage puzzle about Margot Fonteyn with letters circled across the grid. Readers identify clue letters, circle quiz words with given initial letters and lengths, then letters left uncircled spell the 10 letter solution Proletariat appears as the previous week’s answer and quiz prompts reference Vladimir Ilyich and Siberia.
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