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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1956
Page
2
The MacGregor Herald established February 1897 prints every Thursday from the Herald Office in MacGregor Manitoba. Published by A M Shaw with second class mail authorization from Ottawa. Subscriptions are five dollars per year in the USA.
The Two year campaign for funds for the Children's Aid Society of Central Manitoba starts October 1 and runs all week. Door to door canvassing targets the $180,000 goal across 9,000 square miles serving about 103,000 people in towns like Portage la Prairie and St Norbert. Local volunteers man the effort, with services including child protection, support for unmarried parents, foster care and adoption. Last year 1,426 families received aid, about 1,600 children. The Society relies on government grants and public support to raise funds. Citizens are urged to back the campaign.
Sunday visitors include Ed Hay and family from MacGregor and S Richardson from Portage. Harvest service at Katrime noted. Birthday greetings given to multiple residents. Discussion of wildlife effort mentions whooping cranes migrating south through Canada and the United States, with hopes for reestablishment and cooperation of hunters in Texas.
Birthday wishes go to Betty Scora for her Sunday birthday on September 9. Toronto visitor Mr K A Larsen stays with son Ken Larsen and family in Norman Ontario. Norman visitors Mr and Mrs E Caron and sons Robert J and Jimmie drop by. Brown-Tarr wedding held in Bagot last Saturday with Mrs Olive Towle starting hospital cook duties. Olive sends best wishes from friends. Mr Ormy Turner returns home from MacGregor Hospital after several days as patient.
The nesting habits of whooping cranes remain unclear as the birds migrate southward. Canada’s Wood Buffalo Park yielded limited young, with only one successful chick among several pairs observed. Return to Texas Aransas Refuge will determine whether the small northern population is rebuilding.
Will those who remembered me while I was in hospital please accept my sincere gratitude for their kindness. Your flowers, cards and gifts and your visits, including the box of fruit from the Portage Mutual and the flowers and gifts from the Beaver WMS, all meant a great deal to me.
Mrs Maude McAskie extends thanks to the ladies of the district and friends in Winnipeg who sent cards and visited during illness. She thanks doctors, nurses and staff of MacGregor Hospital and All Saints Nursing Home on Osborne Street for care and attention.
Memorial notice recalling George Porrestin as husband and father. Wife and family express enduring love, honor his memory, and place flowers on his grave though time passes. The notice laments decay of flowers but faithfulness of love remains eternal.
Passenger traffic across urban transit systems declined four percent in 1986 while revenues edged down to 120.144 million dollars from 120.238 million despite higher fares in some areas.
Manitoba's total of banned drivers rose to a record 7234 after an August police crackdown on driving offences. Motor registrar RB Baillie said suspensions climbed above the previous peak of 7016 set two months earlier.
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