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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 10, 1974
Page
1
The Rural Municipality of North Norfolk Council, chaired by Reeve Duncan, held its April meeting with full participation. Preliminary 1974 budget figures show higher mill rates across most budget sections, with the three school divisions reporting about a 10 mill increase and the municipal portion also needing hikes.
The Pine Creek School Division approved a 1974 budget of 2,008,231 with 25.5 mills on balanced assessment after a board meeting. They will share mobile reading centre services with Portage la Prairie and Whitehorse Plains Division and seek education department personnel to provide reading consultants, psychologist, and speech therapy services regionally. The plan envisions a mobile unit 4-8 weeks in fall 1974 and in-service reading education for teachers.
The Lyn Snaith Lynda Snaith Robert and Velma Rodgers foursome won the His & Her's bonspiel final, taking Harold Lamb Memorial trophies as 34 rinks entered. Other event winners included Harvey Robinson led team and Ellen Cooper Memorial trophies awarded by Percy Alderson. Local officials noted staff updates and council approvals including a new Transportation Supervisor for Pine Creek School Division, a Rossendale teaching position, and a Champion Motor Grader purchase funded from replacement reserves.
Michelle Barber was crowned carnival queen Friday night at the MacGregor and District Hockey Association ice carnival. She was sponsored by MacGregor Elementary School. Prizes funded by Tarr's Solo, Snaith's Store, Lye's Ltd, and MacGregor Co-op. The event featured costume judging for multiple age groups, a ringette game between girls and their fathers, and numerous prize drawings won by Barbara Snaith, Joyce Clark, and Daryl Scora.
Alberta farmers can claim premium payments under a new Beef Premium Program for cattle sold for slaughter between March 4 and March 17. Payments are five cents per pound for slaughter cattle excluding cows and mature bulls, while rail grade A1 or A2 carcasses qualify for twelve dollars per hundredweight. Producers should file using bills of sale and slaughter proof, with forms available at plants, stockyards, auctions, district agents, and Ottawa ADSB. Between March 17 and April 1 payments posted were seven or five cents per pound or twelve dollars twenty-five cents per hundredweight for steers and twelve dollars fifty cents for A dressed heifer carcasses.
Still no sign of spring as Saturday saw below zero morning temps and a high near 30 in the afternoon. Snow remains heavy with April tenth noted. Good Friday and Easter Sunday prompt church plans. Jack Wolfe, Lyn Snaith, Barry Barber and Bill Turner won a top event at the Gladstone bonspiels. fisherman's rink failed to prize. Community Centre closed for the season as spring awaits.
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