Portage band on tour with nineteen participants
The Portage senior om papa band departing Portage la Prairie on a first tour to Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia. Ten concerts or church services are planned across ten centres with both self and joint performances by school bands. Adults include Rev P Y Lee conductor and several parents, plus the bus driver and wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
British Columbia
Portage
Portage la Prairie
Saskatchewan
Rev
P.Y. Lee
Geof. Heal
Roy McDonald
Trustees and staff honored at Portage la Prairie school board dinner
Portage la Prairie school division board honored two retired trustees Stan Case and Oliver Pelk and three custodial staff members at a Tuesday dinner in the Portage Hotel. Presentations were made by John Ostenfeldt Jack McMaster and Mrs Melba Bartlett with tribute to Walter Thomas Michael Zdan and Frank Gehlen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Plains
Red River
Portage Arc Industries
Portage and District Chamber of Commerce
Karen Devine
Garry Cobbe
Bartlett
Virgil Holmes
Garry Little
Portage Division
Ken Arrundell
Wes Chen
Ray McClelland
Portage la Prairie
Stan Case
Oliver Pelk
Michael
Gehlen
John Ostenfeldt
Kelvin
Salem
Jack McMaster
Mr. Pelk
Melba Bartlett
Walter Thomas
Thomas
Oakville School
Michael Zdan
Henry Falk
Mr. Zdan
North Ward School
la Verendrye School
Falk
Frank Gehlen
Peter ‘Swidnicky
Wallet found after 23 years in Manitoba incident
Jack Ross of Winnipeg forgot a wallet lost in a Macdonald construction job in spring 1962. Fred Burdett of Oak Point mailed it back with contents intact, including two King George VI dollars worth about two dollars each as collectors’ items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Jack Ross
Macdonald
Man
Fred Burdett
Oak Point
Mr. Ross
Forest tent caterpillar threat looms in Manitoba region
A 1975 joint survey by Manitoba agriculture tourism and Environment Canada warns forest tent caterpillars could strip 10 000 to 12 000 square miles of Aspen Parkland in the Interlake and Westlake areas. Egg bands on trees signal potential defoliation, with control starting from larval counts and May spraying. wandering larvae and cocoons by late June complicate protection of farms and resorts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interlake
Westlake
Manitoba Departments of Agriculture, Tourism, Recreation and Cultural
Asea
Environment Canada
Northern Forest Research Centre
Also Mentioned on This Page
Portage Band
Ferne Green
Mary Henderson
Irene Smith
Larry Dimmery
Rev. Lee
Geoff Heal
Guy Costley
Portage Hotel
Laurie Matthews
Pana
Rey McDonald
Kenny Wettlafer
Robert Hawkins
Jerry Green
Terry Brown
Byron Hammond
Terry McDonald
Margaret Heather. Miller
Wayne Costley
Don Friesen
Laura Ann Lee
Carolee Smith
Nancy Smith
HL. Henderson
Cheryl Green
Dimmery
Ross
Macdonald Airport
Central Livestock, Equipment & Supplies Ltd
Portage In
Prairie, Man
Royal Road
ST. Boniface General Hospital
Tache Avenue
Manitoba
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