Changes in Crop Insurance Include Seeded Acreage Plan Revisions
Manitoba Agriculture Minister Jim Downey announced amendments to crop insurance regulations. Grain corn coverage rises about 10 percent with a five percent premium reduction next year, while rapeseed and sunflowers see small coverage gains with minimal premium shifts. Unseeded acreage coverage expands to 15 and 25 dollars per acre in most zones, and the final application date moves to January 31.
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Winnipeg
Jim Downey
Manitoba Crop Insurance Corporation
Downey
Fine Arts Festival Wraps Up in Shoal Lake
The Fine Arts Festival held November 6 to 9 in the new Shoal Lake auditorium drew participants from Hamiota Strathclair Oak River and Elphinstone with non competitive dance gymnastic baton action song and singing games classes. Trophy winners included the Dave Blake Trophy Kenton Strathclair Cons No 284 Trophy Morris McGregor Trophy Seanna Hydaman and more. The event concluded with a Final Concert showcasing class winners and trophy presentations.
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Shoal Lake
Hamiota
Strathclair
Oak River
Elphinstone
Newdale
Dave Blake
Kenton
Strathclair Cons
D. No
Morris McGregor
Desmond Little
Brandon Brier Committee Details Calgary Brier Trip
In support of its 1982 Brier bid the Brandon Brier Committee finalized travel plans to Calgary. The package covers return bus fare eight nights accommodation and a Brier pass for all games. An air package from Winnipeg has also been arranged.
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Brandon
Winnipeg
Free Energy for Municipal Ornamental Lighting
Manitoba Hydro announces ornamental lighting will be available from December 15, 1979, to January 13, 1980, for municipalities within its service area. This 44 year tradition began in 1935 when the utility first provided festive energy for rural communities.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba Hydro
Manitoba
Manitoba Power Commission
Crests Awarded for Manitoba Big Game Cooperation
Manitoba hunters who help biologists with age and reproductive studies will earn colored jacket crests for elk moose and woodland caribou. Natural Resources Minister Brian Ransom announced the program urging hunters to submit lower jaws female reproductive tracts and diseased organs during or after the 1979 80 season to conservation officers or wildlife biologists.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Natural Resources
Brian Ransom
Carter dedicates McEwen Building at St Boniface Hospital
Mrs Carter dedicates the McEwen Building at St Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg at Government House on November 16. The structure will be renovated into the hospital’s psychiatric wing. Present were Health Minister Bud Sherman Dr D S McEwen and Maureen McTeer.
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Rosalynn Carter
United States
McEwen
St. Boniface General Hospital
Government House
Winnipeg
Bud Sherman
D.S. McEwen
Maureen McTeer
Joe Clark
Carter
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Seanna Hydaman
Ryan Hodgson
Chris Brown
Corrie Hunter
Chadiey Westaway
Pamela Wareham
Dale Little
Nadene Halm
Dylan Hodgson
Brier
Ransom
Mrs. Carter
McEwen Building
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