Plans Progressing For 88th Annual Summer Fair
Plans for the 88th annual summer fair proceed with July 3 to 5 events. Art Leckie leads a board finalizing details for 4H shows, a Memorial Hall dance, pancake breakfast, parade floats, livestock and horse judging, baseball tournaments, the Midwest Midway, and Shriner Band attendance as part of Centennial Year celebrations.
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Tox Sop
Eterno Ely
Fair Board
Art Leckie
Direc
Ea Arsla Non Niere Ee
Memorial Hall
Midwest Midway
Midway
North Norfolk Walk-a-thon to Sprucedale Workshop
The North Norfolk association sponsors a walk-a-thon starting at Holland junction of routes 34 and 2 and finishing at Sprucedale Workshop on Saturday June 27. A pancake breakfast and registration run 7 to 9 am at Holland. Forms are available at Sprucedale Workshop. The workshop staff and trainees thank everyone who helped with baked goods cash donations and the Flowers of Home tea at MacGregor last week.
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North Norfolk Association
Holland Junction
Sprucedale Workshop
Holland
MacGregor
Pine Creek Board Holds Meeting
Pine Creek School Division No. 30 board discussed visits to Plessisville Quebec during Easter and heard Miss Donna Toth praise benefits. The chair was invited to a May 7 conference on a regional vocational secondary school at Neelin High Brandon. Salaries policy updated effective May 1 1970 with specific pay dates and immediate pay for substitutes. Several resignations announced from Langruth and Gladstone schools. New hires approved for September 1 at MacGregor Elementary and other posts.
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C. E. Whitten
Donna Toth
Pine Creek
Plessisville
Quebec
Miss Toth
Brandon
Neelin High School
A.C.T
Austin
Margaret Corda
Langruth Collegiate
Adria Burkhardt
W. Olive
Residential Taxes Remain The Same in MacGregor
MacGregor village council on May 11 kept the residential property tax rate at 58 mills while other property taxes drop to 78.4 mills. Total anticipated revenue is 117,338.59 with water utility needs of 15,100.88 from taxation, 19,700 from water sales, and a 2,389.93 nominal surplus transfer. Major costs include 27,699.80 for education and 21,000 for transportation, with debenture payments, utilities, and police services funded from combined revenues. The council approved a police services signing bylaw and building permit for Keith Thompson and authorized attendance at the Urban Association meeting in Boissevain on May 22.
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North
Norfolk
MacGregor
Keith ‘Thompson
The
Urban Association
Boissevain
Curtis Sims
Collegiate
Centennial Park
Dennis Lamb
Ani
Drive In Opens Tomorrow With New McGregor Venture
MacGregor welcomes Lorne and Nell Henrys Drive In at the TransCanada Highway one block north. The new venue offers soft ice cream hot dogs hamburgers and assorted confectionery with an official opening to be announced later.
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MacGregor's
L & Nell’s
Lorne and
Nell Henry
Mae Motte
Town Happenings in Sunny Weekend Outlook and Local News
The weekend brought sun and warm winds with 80s temperatures and dry conditions. Lions Club walk in May, local gardening, and lawn raking noted. Minor league practice, Cubs and Merchants Country Club games reported. Ducks Unlimited optimistic about duck nesting after rain and snow, plus town growth updates and civic notices.
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Ducks Unlimited
Saskatchewan
Walk-a-Thon Set for May 31 in MacGregor
The MacGregor Lions Clubs walk-a-thon is scheduled for Sunday May 31 with many walkers already secured sponsors. The event runs from 8 AM to 12 noon starting on Highway 34 south and ending at the Memorial Hall with check points along the route. A pancake dinner opens at 11:30 AM at the Memorial Hall with a small charge. sponsor sheets are available at local businesses.
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MacGregor Lions Clubs
No.34 Highway South
Memorial Hall
MaGregor Memorial Hall
MacGregor
Central Plains Inc Position Seen Healthy After First Full Year
The treasurer Bert Nichol reported a 303, 826 gross revenue and 267, 782 expenditures creating a 4004 surplus for the year. With a prior 20009 surplus the total stands at 24103. Henry Arthur president highlighted regional study on Central Plains resources by Frank E Price and Associates as major accomplishment though beyond fiscal means. He urged the new board to study the report to guide expansion of services and notes Ottawa Portage and White Mud River efforts alongside farm credit and tourism groundwork.
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Bert Nichol
Regional Development Corporation
Central Plains
Frank E. Price and Associates Ltd
Arthur
Ottawa
White Mud River Water
Shed Authority
Bachelor Degree for Ross Hall at Evangel College
Ross Hall of MacGregor among 150 seniors to receive bachelor degrees at Evangel College Springfield Missouri on May 21 He earns a Bachelor of Music Education degree and is an honor student pianist and concert band member The commencement speaker is Dr Cordus C Burnett president Bethany Bible College Santa Calif Rev Thurman Faison will read Scripture Evangel College is the Assemblies of God four year college in Springfield Missouri led by President J Robert Ashcroft with 97 enrollment
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Ross Hall of MacGregor
the Evangel College
Springfield
Portage Collegiate High School
A. J. Hall
Cordus C. Burnett
Bethany Bible’ College
Santa Calif
Thurman Faison
Chicago
Ill
Evangel College
Sciences
The
Assemblies of God
J. Robert Ashcroft
Canada Surpasses Others With Largest Wheat Stockpile
The March Wheat Review shows four major exporters holding 2.948 billion bushels, rising 17 percent from a year earlier. Canada accounts for over 40 percent of the total stockpile and leads in exports during the first seven months, with the United States, Australia, and Argentina following in varied export performance.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United States
Australia
Argentina
Austin Man Killed in Winnipeg Construction Accident
James Makinson, 61, of Austin, Minnesota, died in a Winnipeg hospital after a fall from a ladder at a Shilo construction site. Police said he fell from the ladder and died soon after being rushed by ambulance to Winnipeg for treatment.
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James Makinson
Austin
Man
Winnipeg
Shilo
Brandon
Makinson
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Osaka
Japan
Shriners
Sprucedale Workshop News
Pine Creek Board
Lions Club
Cubs
Merchants
and Country Club
Lorne Henry
Jim Cox
Norbert Hutler
Macleod
J. L. Lamb
Central Plains Inc
Manitoba Tourments
Portage
Southport
Ross Hall
Austin Man
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