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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 27, 1988
Page
15
The Echo reports the Wind Fall Draw winner for September is Betty White of Hamiota who wins $50. Two hundred tickets funded twelve monthly $50 draws with two $100 bonus draws in December and April and a final $200 bonus in August 1989. Winning tickets re-enter the drum for future draws. Next draw is October 28.
A Decima survey of forty rural Canada Post outlets shows 97 percent of customers are satisfied with retail postal services and 92 percent with mail delivery after rural conversion. The results credit improved access, convenience, and community impact from private sector operated outlets.
Lloyd and June Hazlewood and kin spent last weekend in Portage and attended the Air Show featuring the Snowbirds on Saturday. Other district residents enjoying the event were Butch and Audrey Kirk, Kenny and Amanda, and Doug Lewis. Carmen Andrew was home from Winnipeg where she studies at the University of Manitoba in her third year.
Get well wishes go to Joe Sutherland of Birtle after a scaffold fall he is a patient in Brandon General Hospital. Margaret Irwin spent three days with her sister Nancy. Sympathy to Frank and Hannah Reid and families on the death of their sister in law and aunt Mrs Helen Foxton of Oakburn. Cherilyn Clark sprained her ankle at school and receives well wishes. Mr and Mrs George Robb of Okotoks Alberta visiting with Margaret Ross. Bella Gallagher of Winnipeg visited with Iaa Doran. Shannon Still of Brandon visited with Bernice Still.
The Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference in Winnipeg on November 8 to 10 reached full capacity of 500 with over 160 on the waiting list. Quotas set for each of five departments were met quickly for Central and Southwest areas, while Eastern Northwest and Interlake areas showed 52 89 and 66 registrations respectively. After August, remaining quotas were filled by Central and Southwest participants. Video tapes of the conference will be offered post event. Plans already begin for the 1990 provincial event and the 1989 National Farm Women’s Conference in New Brunswick. Details and speakers to be released in October.
Chris Angus attended with his parents Doreen and Wayne Angus while he pursues Wildlife Management studies at Bottineau North Dakota. Belated get well wishes to Mrs Ethel Bates in Hamiota Hospital and Mrs Charlotte Watts in Brandon Hospital. Sincere sympathy to friends and relatives of Clare Hodgson who died suddenly this week with funeral Saturday September 24 and interment at Hamiota Cemetery.
The new Off Road Vehicles Act limits registration to those 16 and older. Individuals 16 to 18 must have written parental consent. Ministers say the measures will greatly improve public safety and MPIC offers a contact number 946-6134 for more information.
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