Busy weekend landmarks in Hamiota area events
Don and Jean McKean celebrated 36th wedding anniversary on March 15 with family and friends. Glen and Irene McKean visited from Moose Jaw as they attended hockey games in Shoal Lake and Virden featuring Blake Sheane, Darrell Forsyth, and Jamie Sheane. A surprise party and Smorg dinner followed at the Motor Inn with attendance from multiple local families. Mary Cameron turned 85 on March 10. a gathering was held at Bill and Eleanor Cousins’ home with several Camero and Leary relatives. The community enjoyed bridge, a Birtle Cash Bonspiel, 4-H public speaking in Kenton, and a lively Miniota Air Band Concert at the school with Sylvia Hanlin’s orchestration and school alumni performances. Sympathy extended to Mrs. Lewis Leland. a TV raffle winner was Ron Bryant. The event wrap included note of the school concert, taped by Samtronics Video.
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Don
Jean McKean
Glen
Irene McKean
Moose Jaw
Shoal Lake
Blake Sheane
McAuley
Yellowhead Chiefs
Virden
Darrell Forsyth
Deloraine
Jamie Sheane
Elkhorn
Jean
Motor Inn
Smorg
Evelyn Inglis
Randy
Olive Ann McKean
Marty McKean
Darcy McKean
Tracy Lyall
Hamiota
Don Forsyth
Jim
Debbie Forsyth
Donna Brown
Brendon
Kenton
Del
Bob
Donna Gardham
Delbert
Pat Cole
Minsota
Luke Leland
Kathryn Popper
Brian Armitage
Leslie Bunn
Cherilynn Clark
Heather Bunn
Candice Hudey
Lewis Leland
Birch Lodge
Ron Bryant
Miniota
Jamie Aikin
CKY
MacDonald
Mercury Blues
Sylvia Hanlin
Shelley Gardham
Sharon Armitage
The
Supremes
Trudy Watters
Wendy Leland
Dorothy Gow
Kay Leland
Linda Clark
Glenda Tourand
Mike Krukewich
Bill Cousins
Marcy Joseph
Betty Shewfelt
Ann Walker
Shirley Hudson
Elsie Dickinson
Bridget
Tricia Cole
Sarah Leland
Erin Brown
Elvis
Edward Leland
Samtronics Video
Feds knuckled under to law breakers editorials reflect
Newspaper weeklies debate tobacco tax policy in 1940s Canada as smokers face new levies. Editors from Grenfell to Barrhead criticize government action while recalling wartime mail sacks of cigarettes to troops. Barbs on smoking shift to social pariahs, with Provosts predicting future nostalgia.
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Hmcs Alacasse
Sydney
Nova Scotia
Hmcs Adversus
Grenfell and Melville
Stonewall
North Battleford
Barrhead
Bow Island
Ethel O’neill
Carlyle Observer
Filmon Fridays extended in Manitoba civil service
The Civil Service Commission extended Filmon Fridays into the next fiscal year April 1 1994 to March 31 1995 affecting about 100 000 Manitoba workers including civil servants Crown corporation employees and hospital staff. The program aims to save taxpayers 15 million while allowing up to two years of payroll clawbacks. Labor Minister Darren Praznik says the savings have prevented 500 civil service layoffs.
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Manitoba
Manitoba Government Employees’ Union
Civil Service Commission
Labor
Darren Praznik
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the Hamiota Echo
Canada
Quebec
Feds
Fred McGcuinness
Filmon
Magee
Keystone Centre
Brandon
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