H Robinson Heads Austin Rec Assoc
The Austin Community Recreation Association held its annual meeting on December 9 with officers elected. Harvey Robinson as chairman Mildred McMillan as secretary Iverna Thomson as treasurer Loreen Amann as vice chairman Alex Beresford as executive. Pins were given to Elsie McIntyre Karen Loewen and Pat Kowalchuk for playground supervision. Two boys Larry Snaith and Ken received crests. Leadership camp attendees were noted. Financial report shows 271.82 on hand. Six delegates attended the regional conference at Portage and two attended a softball clinic. All organizations urged to file 1969 financial statements by January 10.
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Austin Community Recreation Association
Harvey Robinson
Mildred McMillan
Iverna Thomson
Loreen Amann
Alex Beresford
Elsie McIntyre
Karen Loewen
Pat Kowalchuk
Larry Snaith
Ken
Portage
Power Toboggan Club Organized
A meeting on December 12 organized a Power Toboggan Club in MacGregor. Officers elected: President Don MacDonald, Vice President Ron Telford, Secretary Treasurer Cliff Shaw, Executive Keith Thompson and Jack Anderson. A second meeting is set for December 21 at 1 30 p.m. at Bruce Muir's home to discuss race rules and a club name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacGregor
Don MacDonald
Ron Telford
Cliff Shaw
Keith Thompson
Jack Anderson
Bruce Muir
Charles and Anne to join Queen on Canada trip in July
An official confirms Prince Charles and Princess Anne will accompany the Queen and Prince Philip on a two week journey to Manitoba and the Northwest Territories for centennial celebrations. It will be Charles second Canadian visit in 1970 with a May stop en route from Australia and New Zealand.
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Buckingnam Pastice
Prince Charles
Princess Anne
Prince Phillip
Manitoba
Northwest Territories
Anne
Charles
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Alabama man remanded for preliminary hearing in murder case
Larry Jay Morgan of Alabama was remanded to January 5 for a preliminary hearing in a provincial court after facing a non capital murder charge in the death of Glen Curtis Heeps, 17, found October 14 beside railway tracks near Morris Manitoba. Heeps is believed beaten and dumped from a circus train. Morgan was brought from Fort Worth Texas after waiving extradition and is charged jointly with Philip Close of Fort Worth.
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Larry
Jay) Morgan
Alabama
Glen Curtis Heeps
Vancouver
Heeps
Morris
Man
Morgan
Fort Worth
Tex
Philip Close
New Move To Help Whoopers
The National Audubon Society filed a federal lawsuit against the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and five oyster shell dredging companies claiming operations threaten the 55 surviving whooping cranes. The suite seeks a permanent injunction to halt new permits, citing dredging in San Antonio Bay as destroying aquatic foods. The Aransas refuge hosts cranes in winter and Canada summered birds. the 1938 low of 14 has risen to 55 this year with eight hatchlings in Canada.
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Texas
National Audubon Society
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Cranes Wildlife Refuge
San Antonio Bay
Aransas Refuge
Canada
Babies Die Of Exposure Inuit Babies Die Of Exposure Inquest Ordered
Provincial coroner M. M. Cantor ordered an inquest for January 12 into the deaths of Brenda Moses eight months and Janet Papastestis eighteen months on the Sturgeon Lake Indian reserve 130 miles northeast of Edmonton. Autopsy results attributed the deaths to exposure. RCMP were investigating Moses when Papastetis body was found in another unheated cabin. Cantor will direct the inquiry at Valleyview nearby.
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M. M. Cantor
Sturgeon Lake Indian Reserve
Edmonton
Brenda Moses
Janet Papastesis
Cantor
RCMP
Moses
Papastetis
Dr. Cantor
Valleyview
Bagot and District News Reflect Local Life
In this Bagot district column writer Mrs. J M Baskier shares Christmas shopping wisdom urging prudent buying and price comparisons while noting reports of local visits and hospital stays. The piece also offers reflective temperance guidance and Christian virtues, and closes with notices of construction at Kalberg Sons and residents moving to White Rock BC along with a roundup of local visitors.
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A. W. Kalberg and Son
W. G. Burch
Portage
White Rock
B.C
L. C. Baskier
Perry
Jim Meikle
Brandon
Lavenham Christmas Concert Plans Noted
Lavenham residents plan a Christmas concert at the Lavenham church on December 20. Doerfler family travel to Ben Stanley funeral in Chilliwack B C and return with various neighbors visiting and hosting through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Doerfler
Nelson Stanley
Ben Stanley
Chilliwack
B.C
Debbie
Ken Kreitz
Bob McLennan
Dean Doerfler
Frank Edinger
Doerflers
Abe Wiebe
John Funk
Orangeville
Stephen MacDonald
Lavenham
Lavenham Church
Norman Doerfler
Okanogan Valley
Loch Ness Monster A Has Been A Has Been
Reported decline in Loch Ness visitor traffic as Morag, a new monster said to live in Loch Morar 50 miles away, draws crowds. Two men in a boat claimed Morag nearly overturned them and they fired at the creature before it vanished. The sighting spurred a Morar area touristic boom with claims of a 60 foot long, fungus-covered brown humps.
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Loch Ness
Loch Morar
Bonny Makes Port For the Last Time in Halifax
Workers in downtown Halifax paused as the aircraft carrier Bonaventure steamed into harbor for the final time before decommissioning on April 1, 1970. The Bonaventure returned from exercises off the east coast marking its last voyage as a Canadian warship.
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Halifax
Bonaventure
Community Centre Meeting and Christmas Events
A series of local gatherings and fundraisers are planned in December. The Community Centre will host a meeting at Memorial Hall on Thursday December 18 at 8 p.m. Beaver Hospital Aid stages a Christmas party December 20 at 8 p.m. in Community Hall with a quilt draw by Mrs A Duncan. The Christmas Card Fund at Pauch Electric, run by Central Hospital Aid, invites donations for a TV for the hospital day room. MacGregor 4 H Bake Sale occurs December 20 at 3 p.m. at Pauch Electric.
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Beaver Hospital Aid
A. Duncan
Pauch Electric
Central Hospital Aid
MacGregor
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Bagot and District News
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Calgary
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Winnipeg
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Babe of Bethlehem
E. E. Baskier
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Forrest
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Lauder
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Swan River
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Bradley and
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Saskatoon
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Lavenham News
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Art MacDonald
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Currie
Jim MacDonald
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M. Harmon
McLennans
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H. Schroeder
K. Peters
Tom Towle
Ann Rand
Mildred
S. R. Lamb & Son
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