Three Letellier farmers thresh flax in January
Three Letellier farmers Roger Parent Lionel Lavallee and neighbor Joe Lavallee harvested about 36 bushels from a 40 acre flax field on the Gordon Smith farm near Christie Siding Saturday after noon. They have been combining grain monthly and took on winter harvests on a custom basis. They completed six acres west of Letellier and aim to reap more oats next week despite heavy rains and frozen ground.
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Joe Lavallee
Roger Parent
Lionel Parent
Echo
Letellier
Roger
Lionel
Gordon Smith
Christie Siding
Emerson
Mr. Smith
Joe
Manitoba Education Pays Out for New School Support Plan
Manitoba's Department of Education paid out 337000 dollars to about 570 school districts in the first month of the new school support program. Education Minister W C Miller said the province covers one fifth of annual debt costs and capital construction levies, plus purchases, furnishing, remodeling, and enlarging of schools and residences. Regulations allow support for existing districts still paying off and for future construction, with applications starting December 20 and 570 districts processed by late January.
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Manitoba
Department of Education
W. C. Miller
Steinbach inventor Bruno Derksen debuts prize-winning gadget
Bruno Derksen of Steinbach created a retractable trailer hitch that stole the show at a Devils Lake Minnesota inventor’s convention. It won display prize honors but not prize money due to a rule against awarding prizes to out of state entries. Derksen later appeared on TV during a St Paul Minneapolis broadcast.
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Bruno Derksen
Steinbach
Devils Lake
Minnesota
Derksen
St. Paul- Minneapolis
Carillon News
Man
United States Mints Produce Coins for Several Nations
The article notes U.S. mints manufacture coins for foreign countries such as El Salvador Ethiopia Haiti Honduras Mexico and Venezuela highlighting international minting programs and diplomatic ties.
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United States
el Salvador
Ethiopia
Haiti
Honduras
Mexico
Venezuela
Edmonton expands nurses aide training with new center
Alberta opens a 100 student Edmonton nursing aide training center February 3 as part of a provincial program to staff hospitals. The Calgary school will continue operations in southern Alberta. The Edmonton site at Garneau High School offers 40 weeks of study with 20 weeks theory and 20 weeks practical work across hospital placements.
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Alberta
Edmonton
Department of Public Health
Calgary
Garneau High School
University of Alberta
New Edmonton
Edmonton School
Nursing Aide
Ave
N.W
Bears of Alaska: Size, diet, and wary of human contact
Alaska bears, among the largest land carnivores, reach nine feet and up to 1500 pounds. They vary by species such as Ursus middendorffi and Ursus gyas. They fear humans, avoid contact, and rely on salmon runs in summer for sustenance.
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National Geographic Society
Cecil E. Rhode
National Geographic Magazine
Alaska “Panhandle
Alaska Peninsula
Kodiak
Peninsula
Young Boys Clear Snow For Church Walks In Carman
A group of boys from Carman Manitoba cleared six blocks of Main Street and Fournier Avenue, using borrowed shovels and snow pushers, to help churchgoers walk to services. They also cleared some private paths to homes. The workers were Bobby Blight Victor Douglas and David Reimer.
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Carman
Main Street
Fournier Avenue
Bobby Blight
Victor Douglas
David Reimer
Dufferin
Man
Cowboy applique quilt pattern for youth and bed size
Heartland themed patchwork pattern 7353 features a horse and cowboy as single patches with directions and yardages. Send thirty five cents in coins for the pattern to Household Arts Department, Department P.P.L., 60 Front Street, Toronto, with name and address.
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Household Arts Department
Department P.P.L
Front Street
Toronto
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