Manitoba farmers face higher income yet tough year ahead
Manitoba real net farm income is forecast at 452 million in 1986 up nearly 20 percent from 1985, but inflation and debt gaps will blunt gains. Analysts say some farmers will survive on lean margins while others, with low debt, may do reasonably well.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Bob Ward
Manitoba Agriculture
Statistics Canada
Ward
Canada
Ontario
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Farm Women's Conference Planned in Portage la Prairie
Manitoba hosts its first provincial Farm Women's Conference November 12 and 13 1986 in Portage la Prairie. Women from across the province will explore topics from farm family law to health with Dr Val Farmer as a featured speaker and advance registration urged. The event receives ERDA support.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Portage la Prairie
Val Farmer
Farmer
Expo tops budgeted attendance as 13.75 million mark hits
Art and Rosa Lees of Tsawwassen become the 13.75 millionth visitors to Expo 86, greeted by Premier Vander Zalm and Expo officials. The couple receive VIP tours, dinner at Ontario Pavilion, and a weeklong B C vacation prize, as organizers note the year’s attendance target. The expo closes October 13.
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Vancouver
Art
Rosa Lees
Tsawwassen
B.C
Lees
Bill Vander Zalm
Claude Richmond
William Reid
Jim Pattison
Pattison
Ontario Pavilion
Senior Choir Wind-Up Ends After Pot Luck Social
The Hamiota Senior Choir gathered Friday August 27 for a wind-up in the church choir room. Twenty members shared a pot luck supper and social hour with corsages given to Lil Peacock and Gert Rankin by Dot Pangman marking 214 months of fellowship.
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Hamiota
Lil Peacock
Gert Rankin
Dot Pangman
Agreement reached with dentists in Manitoba
Manitoba Health Minister Larry Desjardins announced a two year deal with the Manitoba Dental Association. Hospital based oral surgery fees insured under the Manitoba Health Services Insurance Plan rise 2 percent retroactively to April 1 1984, matching other health care fee trends and costing about 71000 for the period. Dentist office procedures remain uninsured.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Larry Desjardins
Manitoba Dental Association
Manitoba Health Services Insurance Plan
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Hamiota, Manitoba
the Echo
Farm Women’s Conference
ERDA
Jamie Jamieson
Jamie
Pat McTavish
Jim Daniels
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