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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 09, 1977
Page
6
The Miniota Drop-In Centre hosts a busy week with a fastball clinic planned for June 13 to 17, a Rocking Horse Rodeo for Grades 1 to 6 on June 18, and swimming lessons from July 4 to 22. A playground will be built at the lake, and test day is scheduled for July 23.
A May 28 1977 shower in Miniota honored Sheila Bryant at the Community Hall. Flowers and pink and white bells decorated the hall. Guests were entertained by festival songs directed by Lynn Cornish and a Word game led by Betty Howard. Corsages for Sheila and her relatives. Gifts presented on a decorated wagon. Community gifts included stools trays and a clothes hamper. A recipe box of community recipes was also given. Lunch followed.
Unclear OCR captures a rural Manitoba style page listing multiple real estate ads for homes and mobile homes, a shoe store business opportunity, and a golf tournament. The golf event notes May 28th and 29th with 155 participants and various flight and championship results. The later line mentions the next tournament on October 1st and 2nd, 1977.
Claude Ryan publisher of Le Devoir told Winnipeg listeners that a fully bilingual Canada is a broken dream that will never become reality. He also criticized government waste as taxpayers’ money is poured down the drain by a forceful push for the dream.
Ethel Stowe aged 76 died May 8 1977 at Westman Nursing home following a long illness. Born March 16 1901 in Breighton England she moved to Manitoba with her parents, married Henry Stowe in Miniota 1927, and was predeceased by her husband in 1964. Survived by daughter Erma and four granddaughters, one great grandson, sister Edie and brothers Arthur Bill and Frank. Funeral April 11 1977 at Campbell's Funeral Chapel Hamiota with interment Miniota cemetery.
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