Late breaking credit card notes and rural life joys
Column recalls readers who safeguard cards with low limits and paper copies, then shifts to rural Canada praising Sandra Schmirler Park donors who have sold 35,000 pins and raised 271 thousand dollars for charity. A skunk attack in Tantallon leads to two dogs, a shot, and three deaths, then a tribute to Jessie Whyte and notes from Fred McGuinness of Brandon rural life hobby farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Visa
Vancouver
Big Sister
Biggar Independent
Biggarites
Sandra Schmirler
Friends of
Regina
Canadian Cancer Society
Carrie Dyer
Tantallon
Dyer
Esterhazy Miner- Journal
Jessie Whyte
Sterling
Wellwood
Carberry News-Express
Carberry
Fred McGuinness
Brandon
Community club registrations and show trip announced
Nadine Slimmon invites locals to join card, floor shuffle, and carpet ball clubs with a $5 monthly fee. Contacts are Arnold Gray, Marie Brooks, and Olive Newton. Also urged to book Lawrence Welk Show tickets by February 27 with advance payment. Joy Goertzen will present The Older and Wiser Driver for senior safety, Friday Nov 17 at 10:00 a.m. in Lilac Lounge. Nadine Slimmon, Senior Resource Coordinator, reachable at 764 2658.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nadine Slimmon
Marie Brooks
Arnold Gray
Olive Newton
Lawrence Welk
Westman Centennial Auditorium
Joy Goertzen
Manitoba
Hamiota Senior Services
Lilac Lounge
Hamiota
Miniota family unveils 85-pound prize pumpkin
The Morton family of Miniota displayed their giant pumpkin weighing 85 pounds. Kelsey Danielle and Dustin Morton posed with the entry, celebrated as a standout at local harvest show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelsey
Danielle
Dustin Morton
Miniota
Jack O’lantern
Mobile welding unit thrives after move to Hamiota
Skayman operates a on site welding service for farm machinery from the Hamiota Industrial Park. The business, aided by his father Russ Skayman and Todd Brown, with Jan Skayman handling books, remains busy and may hire more staff if demand grows. His family notes the convenient location and relocation last summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamiota
Skayman
Todd Brown
Jan Skayman
Also Mentioned on This Page
Manitoba Community Newspapers Association
Government of Canada
The
Hamiota Echo
Nesbitt Publishing Ltd
Box 70
Romoto Telephone
Canada
U.S.A
Gregory Nesbitt
Wanda Strachan
Connie Kay
Judy Nesbitt
Darrell Nesbitt
Echo
Russ Skayman
Miota
David Cochrane
Optometrist
Nelson Street West
Virden, MB
Lakeville
Mel Higgins
Whytes Lumber & Insurance
Kenton
Palace Wood Group
Terry
Chris
Maureen Schwanke
Arrow River
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