Miniota Museum expands with Canada Works hires and plans
The Miniota museum, boosted by a Canada Works grant, hires five staff to work in the museum and New Horizons Drop In Centre. Led by project manager Jim Clarke, the team includes Joe Spanks, Leah OCallaghan, Doris Bruce, and Laurel Burr. Work runs 9 am to 6 pm five days weekly as the group advances display setup, filing, and typing. The museum seeks items for a Pioneer Home upstairs and prepares to incorporate, with a public meeting to elect a board once by-laws are approved. A May 3 monthly meeting had 10 members. the highway department will supply signs around Miniota, and a May 24 seminar in Killarney is noted. Bob and Peg Clarke and Arthur Alley attended a Roblin seminar April 23 to learn display arrangement and mannequin construction. Bob and Peg plan to attend a Steinbach seminar May 13, with the next meeting set for June 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miniota
Canada Works
New Horizons
Jim Clarke
Joe Spanks
Beulah
Leah O’callaghan
Arrow River
Doris Bruce
Laurel Burr
Crandall
Highway Department
Killarney
Bob
Peg Clarke
Arthur Alley
Roblin
Peg
Steinbach
District Happenings Celebrate Weddings and Moves
Wedding congratulations go to Mr. and Mrs. W Ringland on their 63rd anniversary. New district residents include Ken Lief and Hamiota foreman moving to Uno, Don and Judith Hawes relocating to Beulah. Rain ends plains feed. visits spread across Moose Jaw, St. Vital, Thunder Bay, Los Angeles, Gladstone, Boulder Colorado. A Martin Campbell wedding in Isabella Church is noted along with guests from St Albert and Winnipeg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Ringland
Ken Lief
Decker and Hamiota
CNR
Uno
Don
Judith Hawes
Beulah
Rain
Thunder Bay
Ontario
Allan Still
Harvey Still
Harry Page
Los Angeles
California
Lloyd Irwin
Stan Teasdale
Meredith Ashcroft
Winnipeg
Ken Klimm
Boulder
Colorado
Gordon Campbell
Martin-Campbell
Easson
Laurie
Sheila
St. Albert
Alberta
Martin
Inwood
Tannis Campbell
Winnipeg and Moorhead Visitors Share Weekend
Isabella Eric Irwin of Winnipeg spent the weekend with his parents and brother in town. Mrs. Don Nicolson of Moorhead, with her mother, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Finkbeiner before a motor trip to Wyoming and Idaho, then the West Coast. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gilchrist of Winnipeg visited Mr. and Mrs. Bob Stewart. Garth Johnson of the Air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eric Irwin
Winnipeg
Lloyd Irwin
David
Don Nicolson
Moorhead
Minnesota
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hamiota Manitoba
Hamiota Echo Publications Ltd
P.O. Box
U.S.A
England
Manitoba Community Newspapers Association
Canadian Community Newspapers Association
F.s.and
F.D. Venables- Publishers
Museum News
Morton Farm
Allied Farm Equipment Homesite
G. House
Birtle
Wider Parish
John Patterson
Isabella
Crandall United Church
D. K. McNeill
Ar Uns
M. J. Geoffrey Fulton, M.A
Ll.b
Manitoba
Donato Fed
Mrs
Charlie Nichol
Gladstone
West
Malcolm Campbell
Hamiota Telephone
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