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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 10, 1969
Page
5
A 16 year old player Gordon Pasacreta of Trail died after a puck struck his chest in the first period of a game against Flin Flon Manitoba at the IFT CURRENT Sask tournament. He wore regulation padding and helmet but the chest area was unprotected.
Father Renaud, associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan, travels weekly by air to Tle-a-La-Crosse and Buffalo Narrows to support Metis communities with off campus instruction. He lectures about education and community development, aiding relocation, diet, leisure, and health.
The CGIT tea and bake sale takes place at MacGregor United Church hall on Saturday April 26 from 3 to 5 p.m. A UCW traveling bake van appears on Saturday May. The UCW also sponsors a variety concert on Friday April 18 at 8 p.m. in MacGregor Memorial Hall to aid the manse fund. The Women's Institute hosts a spring tea bake sale and novelty table on Thursday April 10 in the MacGregor Memorial Hall from 3 to 5 p.m. A whist drive is at the Manor on Thursday April 10 at 8 p.m. Proceeds go to Hospital Aid.
At Riverton Nova Scotia Mr and Mrs Angus MacPherson observed their 60th wedding anniversary with open house at Lansdowne hosted by their daughter and son in law. The 107 year old father in law John Adams attended as relatives and local clergy offered congratulations. The couple, married in Newhaven Scotland in 1909, have six children, ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
A New Democratic motion to have a legislative committee study hearing aid sales was defeated 28 to 25. Ben Hanuschak urged action amid profits up to 300 percent, while Health Minister George Johnson suggested waiting to see federal regulation before any act next year.
Fulton, a veteran entomologist with the federal agriculture department in British Columbia, began in the 1930s during a Fraser River Valley moth outbreak that affected about 3,000 acres. He built a 33 year career studying vegetable pests including the tuber flea beetle and carrot rust fly, retiring mid December and planning future work at the department research station.
Resources Minister Harry Enns said Manitoba has not yet arrived at any policy for aid to vegetable growers affected by last year's wet weather. He was replying to a Legislature question from T P Hillhouse who noted the Manitoba Vegetable Growers Association had applied for compensation. Enns added the request was received by Agriculture Minister J Douglas Watt's department but the matter is not comparable to flood situations.
John I. Dey describes the Hermitage as a showplace of decor and living, praise from the Ladies Hermitage Association of Nashville. The piece notes fundraising, revival of the estate, and a novel plan to house descendants of General Andrew Jackson among the Thoroughbred keeping and stables, with involvement from Gambett H Brows and other local historians.
A MacGregor Herald Office listing documents a set of businesses including Jack's Barbershop Co-op Lamb's Lockers and Meats Crocker's Store Rossendale MacDougald's Store Lavenham Lamb's Solo Store Austin Larry's Starlite Service Austin Dankesreiter's Store and Sidney Pauch Electric, reflecting a varied local commerce scene.
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