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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1979
Page
1
Manitoba agriculture engineer Harry Harms urges planning in metric for farm buildings as Imperial materials dwindle. CPS offers metric plans. new projects should be metric from tape to square for easier readings and fewer inventory sizes.
Health and Community Services Minister Bud Sherman announced a 1500 grant to the Age and Opportunity Centre in Winnipeg to fund a three day conference for about 400 senior citizens and volunteers from across Manitoba. The event, in October, is sponsored by the centre and the Manitoba Society of Seniors to discuss elderly concerns and volunteer work.
Garnet Knight of Hamiota won the open class with 737 points after traveling far and impressing three judges Al Jarvis Fred Boychuk and Maurice Barnchard. Carl Phohman 712 and Eugene Ledecute 678 followed. Senior class was led by John Kuzyk 640, with Roland Shipley 565 and Art Desjardin 560. Buck Rodgers hosted the event while Floyd Lacroix organized it.
Hamiota Manitoba September 5 reports 152 students at the start of the fall term up from last year by three and 11 staff including three new. The roster lists seven new pupils and introduces staff across grades from Kindergarten to Grade 6 with positions for a teacher aide to be filled.
Hamiota championship flight leads Amos Cochrane Strathclair 67 Clayton Wyburn Dauphin 69 Greg Cameron Boissevain 69 Gene Kenton 70 first flight Doug Gill Rivers 74 Norm Sexsmith Virden 75 Lloyd Campbell Brandon 76 Lloyd Mansell Hamiota 76 second flight Neil Reeves Rivers 77 Ernie McLean Strathclair 77 Henry Sharpe Brandon 79 Brent Strachan Hamiota 80 third flight Chuck Wood Rivers 81 Roy Phillips Rapid City 82 Nelson Kreager Hamiota 83 Ed Ardagh Brandon 84 fourth flight Irving Wood Rivers 87 Jim Stevens Hamiota 90 Ed Morris Hamiota 90 Harold Hall Crandall 90 fifth flight Ted Middleton Elkhorn 94 Lorne Shear down Hamiota 94 Gary Kidd Hamiota 96 John Commons Rivers 97.
In Brandon area the Silver Wedding anniversary for Bob and Kay Tinkess was celebrated with a family dinner at the North Hill Motel on Friday August 31 and a reception at the Red Oak Inn on Saturday. Guests came from Prince Albert Weyburn Winnipeg Decker and Rapid City. Bob and Jo Van Norman were guests of honor. The couple have lived in Brandon Rapid City for 13 years and now reside in Beausejour.
At a August 29 1979 meeting in Hamiota seventeen cottage owners proposed actions for Shoal Lake Rural Council. They urged garbage dump road access monthly pickup summer grants for pier removal police surveillance at South End Camp Grounds recreation funding water testing improvements to boat launch and lagoon maintenance and beautification to restore the site as a recreation area.
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