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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 10, 1970
Page
5
Joan Batch argues that yearly television toy advertising fuels children's holiday wants. Don the approach: discuss toys with kids, assess suitability and budget, and redirect focus to family gifts, crafts, and shared holiday activities to curb commercialism.
Canton radio reports a campaign promoting the new chemical fertilizer 702 since early this year in Kwang Tung province. The broadcast credits 702 with strengthening roots, increasing grain size, and shortening ripening time, while suggesting it may boost yields in rice and other crops by as much as 28 percent in experiments.
Ian Farley of the Derry Beef Club and Kim Harkness of the Beaver Beef Club led the ceremony where five year certificates were presented to a list of members from Derry Beaver Sidney Brookdale Ingelow Carberry Rossendale Spruce Hills Wellwood Pine Creek Seals were also awarded for six years of club work to Mary Ann Acutt Jim Strain Brian Baron Marilyn Clark and Gwen Muirhead of the Carberry Combines Club.
Local churches list December services across Evangelical Mennonite, MacGregor United, Pentecostal, Calvary Tabernacle, Austin United, Sidney United, Anglican, and Christ Church Austin. The notes include Sunday School times, worship, a White Gift service, carols, choir practice, and a community Beef Club gathering with multiple named participants and attendees. A talk by Mr. Pollock highlights inter-club and provincial recognitions, followed by games and social hour.
The department of mines and natural resources at Dauphin reports West Blue Lake in the Duck Mountains is closed to fishing due to a marked decline in pickerel abundance. High angling pressure last summer and tests by the University of Manitoba research station show a pronounced drop in fish population. The closure remains in effect for an immediate period of time.
Spruce Hills 4-H held its second meeting in the Spruce Hills Community Centre on November 26. Members planned a December 11 Christmas party inviting one friend and their families. Entertainment and decorating committees were formed, gifts were drawn, uniforms discussed, and a February whist drive and dance was scheduled.
The Manitoba education committee recommends a four year secondary program with a university like credit system. Graduation would require a minimum credit total completed at varying student speeds. Emphasis on teacher training, interpersonal skills, communication, and student appraisal to enable implementation. Members include teachers students parents administrators post secondary institutes business and government.
Record lows across North Vancouver Island and interior British Columbia as Arctic air grips the region. Terrace hits 1 F below zero, Quesnel reaches 21 F below, Sandpit 13 F below, and Prince Three 11 F below, all by day’s end.
The Mactregor and District Central Hospital aid offers a bursary to North Norfolk home graduates entering nursing this fall or January. The amount rose from 100 dollars, is interest free, and may be repaid after a year if the recipient returns to Ros Nanfok hospital for a year. Six months of work halves the repayment. Apply in writing to Mrs. Elsie Douglas, secretary of Central Aid.
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