Edwin News and Weekend Visits Across District
Local residents recount weekend visits and family ties across Calgary Sprague Steinbach Killarney Brandon Portage La Prairie and Portage area. Garry Patterson wedding guests include Mrs Patterson Mrs Renwick and Mrs Short with various relatives visiting and celebrating. Cape Town AP reports on butcher Dickie Joubert opening a meat boutique with dimmed lights and music.
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N. Painter
S. Ostopowich
Vernon
Calgary
Barrie MacEwan
Roy Lyall
Sprague and
Steinbach
Clarence Patterson
Will Anderson
Kamloops
Jessie Renwick
Portage
Short
Ontario
Sunderland
Ont
C. Patterson
Helen
Binks
Florence Grubb
Patterson
Verna
al Howarth
Killarney
Marilyn
Ernie and
Bill
Cape Town
South Africa
Dickie Joubert
Beard Defends Stand In Hostile Wawanesa
Independent M P Gordon Beard defended his vote for the Manitoba N D P government auto insurance bill in a hostile Wawanesa village meeting. He argued his support prevented a general election and allowed time to build a stronger case for the plan. Beard credited concessions from fellow independent Larry Desjardins and PM Ed Schreyer for maintaining the minority government amid opposition uncertain of defeating the program.
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Ed Schreyer
Manitoba Ndp
Gordon Beard
Forther
Churchill
Manitoba
Brandon
Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Co
Beard
Legion Hall
Larry Desjardins
Garment District child care centre to open in Winnipeg
A pilot day care centre for 40 to 50 children aged two to six, whose mothers work in Winnipeg garment factories, will open on the main and lower floors of 344 Cumberland Avenue. Health and Social Development Minister Rene Toupin signed with Monarch Wear of Canada Limited president Julius Berkowitz to finance initial capital costs and operation. The center, supervised by the provincial department, will convert 1,800 square feet on the main floor and 1,685 on the lower level into play rooms study areas and wash rooms, with work starting immediately and completion planned for early fall.
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Health and Social Development
Rene E. Toupin
Winnipeg
Cumberland Avenue
Manitoba to allow right turns on red lights begins
The province plans legal right turns on red at intersections with traffic signals except where a no right turn on red sign is posted. Manitoba’s Department of Transportation notes drivers must stop and yield to vehicles from the right before turning. A new child care center proposal accompanies the change, detailing daily care costs and staff plans.
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Provincial Department of Transportation
Mennonite Central Committee gets federal grant for Brazil project
The Mennonite Central Committee receives 25 000 from the federal government to back an 80 000 rural development program in north east Brazil. Volunteers from Mennonites and locals will assist the Brazilian Government in improving diets of undernourished sugar cane workers. A pilot poultry project will supply 225 families with chickens and a supervised credit scheme will offer low interest loans to farmers who typically do not qualify for government funding.
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Mennonite Central Committee
Brazil
Canadian International Develop
One Party Idea Not Favoured by Manitoba Liberals and Conservatives
Federal supply minister James Richardson proposed Liberals and Conservatives unite to oppose the NDP government in Manitoba. Sidney Spivak called the idea negative and said there is no organized move toward a merger. Richardson suggested a non socialist party to sharpen choices, but critics doubt it would work.
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James Richardson
Manitoba
NDP
Richardsson
Winnipeg
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