Thanks and appreciation notes from families and friends
Expressions of gratitude from multiple families for cards gifts flowers visits and hospital care. Special thanks to doctors and staff for care given to wives and mothers. Includes anniversary and social event acknowledgments and local job ads mixed with thanks to relatives neighbors and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter H. Wiebeing
Oakvil
Brian
Gini Martin
Conrad
Mary Ro
O Ur
Ong
Jey
Aliee Beck
Portage General Hospital
Christmas Gifts Under Five Dollars At Fingers Knit Shop
Old advertisement offers inexpensive Christmas gifts including caricatures, personalized place mats, monogrammed toothbrushes, Doodle Art cards, and various keepsakes. Calls out items like 12 gauge Stevens shotgun and Firestone tires with contact hints and scattered incomplete details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevens
Firestone
Shaw
MacGregor council closes highway transfer to housing corp
Village of MacGregor by law closes portions of Lots 28 and 27 Block 5 plan 2io in Portage la Prairie land titles area. Highway land will transfer to Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation with minerals retained by the Crown. Officers to execute documents as required. Dated first 10, 1975.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bing
Macgregor
Portage la Prairie
Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation
Poplar Point Weekend Socials and Church Notice
Poplar Point reports Winnie Chapman visiting Winnipeg with her parents the Fidlers. Congratulations to Kenneth and Yvette Kirton of Winnipeg on becoming grandparents to a baby boy, as Steve Kirton and family celebrate. An UC dessert party and bazaar is set for Friday November 28 at 7 30 in the Hall, all welcome. United Church service will be at 1 15 this Sunday November 30. Mrs F Delbridge and the Warburtons took part in Portage teachers Spiel. Ber Nices rink placed second in the Second Event. the Gabriel brothers attended an AYF zone rally at Morden. Portage visitors included Geo Jewison and Geo Leslie relations with local families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnie Chapman
Winnipeg
A. Fidler
Steve Kirton
Kenneth
Yvette Kirton
U.C
United Church
F. Delbridge
Bob Warburton
Portage
Bernice
Brian
Brent Gabriel
Morden
Geo. Jewison
H. Gabriel
Geo. Leslie
H. McKinstry
Family celebrates 40th wedding anniversary with open house
The Allan family of Portage announces an open house for Ethel Allan in honor of her 40th wedding anniversary. The event is at their home Sunday from 2 to 5 PM and 1 to 9 PM with dancing 9 PM to 1 AM and lunch at 10:30 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Igs — Theta
Chrissie Wisoa
Army and Navy Airforce Hall
Obituaries From Portage Area Honor Local Residents
Obituaries list George Edwin Carman 72 of Delta Manitoba with wife Una, two daughters and three grandchildren. Alex Kukurudza 81 of Portage la Prairie, born Austria, husband of Annie, five sons and two daughters. Herbert Larkin 99 of Winnipeg, formerly Burnside, survived by daughter Ella Robins and sister Lily. services held at Omega Funeral Home and local churches with multiple pallbearers, prayers, and interment in Hillside and Burnside Cemeteries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Edwin Carman
Portage General Hospital
George
Edwin Carman
Delta
Manitoba
Una Carman
Rathwell
Carman
George Carman
Portage
Portage Lan Prairie Consumers Co 1 Operative
Gulf Oil
Una Beck
Una
Don Fraser
Carol
Robert Roche
Iris
Rastatt
West Germany
Lisa
Randy
Darren Fraser
Hugh
Wickliffe
Kentucky
William
Winnipeg
Violet Gardner
Toronto
Jim Scott
Trinity United Church
Omega Funeral Home
Audrey MacFarlane
Heart of God
V. Galbraith
William Caskey
Douglas Garnham
George Tomalin
Douglas Dow
Les Garnham
Alf Garnham
Archie Nicholls
Lindsay Munro
Hillside Cemetery
Alexander
Alex) Kukurudza
2Nd Street
Portage la Prairie
Alex Kukurudza
Annie Kukurudza
Mr. Kukurudza
Austria
Canada
Annie Marcinyk
Sandy Lake District
Lawrence Kukurudza
William Kukurudza
Joseph Ousiak
Maksym Klucckowski
Herbert Larkin
Burnside District
Larkin
Middlesex
England
Albert Larkin
Burnside School
Edith Black
Victor
Ella Robins
Edmonton
W. _Stanbrook
Lily
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Kenneth Rentz
Bert Crewson
Gordon Jack
William Jack
Fred Hillman
Harry Gould
Everett Leader
Theamily
Burnside Cemetery
Car stolen from Children’s Aid foster home
The RCMP report a single auto theft overnight involving a 1972 Ford Custom 500 stolen from a foster home on 103rd Street N.W. at about a.m. Tuesday. Police are investigating with two juvenile suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Rcmp
Children’s Aid Group
Foster Home
103Th Street
N.W
Westbourne Community Notes With Many Local Visits
Westbourne news lists hospital wishes for Mrs. W Neufeld and well wishes for Dorothy. It notes visits from Mrs M Hanna Winnipeg relatives and Linda Karen and Debbie Hanna with their parents W Hanna and N Fietener at Graysville. Shiels Winnipeg visiting Mrs C Doty. Breckman family visits include Mrs Brekman Lundar and Sandra Boutilier from Thompson with Geo Poschenrieder visiting Oak Lake. Portage visitor Lynn Carol with John Shaffield family. Mervin Burke Winnipeg visit. A.C.W. Senior Citizen Dinner planned at St Georges Church basement on Tuesday December 2 at 12 2090. Congratulations to Doug Palmerston rink with Irene Scharien on Teachers Bonspiel win in Portage. Judy Sapinski Portage visited with S Sapinski family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernice Fletcher
W. Neufeld
Dorothy
M. Hanna
Winnipeg
Linda
Karen
Debbie Hanna
W. Hanna
N. Fietener
A. Anderson
Graysville
F. Shiels
C. Doty
Poschenrieder
Inlaw
Spence
Oak Lake
Lynn Carol
Portage
John Shaffield
Mervin Burke
Fred Poschenrieder
A.C.W
St. Gorge’s
Doug Palmerston
Irene Scharien
Judy Sapinski
S. Sapinski
Seed growers seminars set for Brandon December 1 2
Seed growers seminars will be held December 1 2 at the Agricultural Extension Centre in Brandon Manitoba. The first day targets probation seed growers while the second day welcomes about 1300 pedigreed seed growers with topics on regulations identification production and marketing. Registration is 3 dollars daily with lunch 2.50 and 9 30 a m start each day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitova Sea
Agricultural Extension Centre
Brandon
Manitoba
Manna from heaven helicopter drop planned for Portage
The Portage and District Chamber of Commerce aims to drop gift certificates and possibly cash from a helicopter on December 6 as part of its Yuletide program to boost the Santa Claus parade in downtown Portage la Prairie. Merchants will join, with Disneyland characters and festive music to spread Christmas spirit. council supports traffic changes if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portage la Prairie
Portage and District Chamber of Commerce
Portage
Mel Narvey
Narvey
Mary Morrar Receives BA at Winnipeg Convocation
Mary CYAN Morrar daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Moffat Rossendale Manitoba earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Winnipeg during the fall convocation on October 18 1975. She is a graduate of Rossendale School and the MacGregor Collegiate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Cyan Morrar
Robert Moffat
Rossendale
Man
University of Winnipeg
Mary Lynn
MacGregor Collegiate
Portage taxi fare rise request stalls at council
Portage taxi operators pressed for higher local fares with a 1.35 dollar first mile rate and 0.95 dollar minimum for short trips, backed by a 1974 increase reference. City council spent time reviewing the proposal with no decision, while also approving rezoning talks and a regional veterinary clinic project with provincial cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie
Mark McDonald
Crop Insurance Claim Deadline In Manitoba
Manitoba Crop Insurance Corporation reminds farmers that crop insurance claims for 1975 crops must be received by November 30. Adjustors must be requested via local MCIC agents by that date even if crops are not harvested. Farmers should check stored grain and sample weights at their elevator to verify grade moisture and guaranteed bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba Crop Insurance Corporation
MCIC
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Leader-Herald
Tess
Edivona
Canace
Gener Centre
Currie Sewing Circle
Marion Frank
Fuller Brush
R. Wature
P.O. Box
Watkins
Firestone Stores
Saskatchewan Ave
Portage la Prairie, Man
Oeuaires
Dave Delaney
United Grain Growers
W. Schmitt
Railroad St
Banff
Alta
Sa & Feos
Sfanteato Wu
Ravi
Larson
Larry Elizabeth
Samantha Jill
Montreal
Ken Larson
Thomas Hoyt
Moncton
Mec
Ernest Bagnall
Pratt
Dianne Elizabeth
Donald Nils
Nils Note
Lyndale Or
Trinity Brandon
Milley Reaty
H. J. Dankesreiter
P.T.H No. 10
Pas
Manor
COLT
Dan Thiessen
Austin
ST. Bernards
Boek’s. Sales and Service
Vopmi Press Ltd
Ben Wiebe
Vanguard Agencies
Uta
Sask
Portage Prairie
Phon
J. Braun
John Wieler
Isinscotland
Perthshire
Scotland
Allan
Abe Wiebe
Egal
Poplar Point
Westbourne News
Tom Breckman
Brekman
Lundar
Sandra Boutilier
Thompson
Geo
Katherine Hepburn
Ana Wnat
Fry
Ald
Heaven
Council
Portage Taxi
Mellenville
Ural
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