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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 10, 1999
Page
11
A long classified page offers several help wanted postings across agribusiness manufacturing trucking and farming plus personal ads. Positions include company drivers owner operators welders and production workers with details on locations hours and pay.
Rural municipality council reports on Prairie Mountain Natural Gas meeting held April 19 in Oak River with preliminary estimate above twelve million. Little Saskatchewan River Conservation District programs cost about twenty thousand this year. Reimbursements for grass seed set at five dollars per acre up to twenty five acres, first come first served, up to ten thousand. Street signs ordered for Cardale at twenty dollars each. Road blasting costs reimbursed to L Desrosiers. Barbara Peters hired as Waste Management Supervisor. Fence around pesticide depot to be installed with ninety two feet of mesh fencing. BC DC C included under insurance, and BCDC funded for a golf driving range in Oak River. CAO authorized URN grant for PR 354 road repairs. Library funding considered September to December. Fencing contract for municipal yard. Millennium Committee loan for souvenirs. Drainage survey of six mile slough near Oak River discussed. no implied approval. By law 99 2 fire protection agreement approved. by law 99 3 tax levy read second.
Members from Manitoba and visitors from Saskatchewan gathered April 22 24 for the provincial convention in Russell. Highlights included calls for stronger MWI and MFWC collaboration, support for the Faculty of Human Ecology, and resolutions on health care, safety, and literacy.
The Long Range Game and Fish Club hosted The Great Gopher Hunt on April 18. Forty nine tails were counted? No, 439 tails registered with 50 attendees. Charlie Madsen led with 38 tails as Gord Lee family won top family honors and Mike Boyle's Hamiota Collegiate Commando’s took the corporate division with 58 total. Hot dogs and Cajun hot dogs were served at the Pope store by Bev Patterson. Redfern hats were given as door prizes. The club plans to make it an annual event and seeks new members in Lenore Kenton and Hamiota.
The Decker Country Riders held a Poker Derby on Sunday April 25 with Patrick Flynn Bruce Bartram and Kelly Graham winning riding hands. Cheryl Bartram Curtis Farms and Eileen Stampford won silent rider hands. Ben Hodges was the furthest rider, Leonard Shmyr oldest, Dayna Roland youngest. Charlene Gregory Jade Johnston and Tim Scwaluk each received 10 dollars. The group thanks Bruce and Cheryl for facilities and trail guiding.
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