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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 14, 1952
Page
5
Local residents and visitors recount gatherings and travels across Leskard Queensville Oshawa and surrounding towns. Highlights include Lowerys recovery from a hand injury, the Prusts at their summer home, trips to Manitoulin Island and Toronto visits, and church activities paused for harvest with donations totaling 439.34 dollars.
The Ontario Government extends its forest fire prevention plan to educate Indian trappers on safe methods. District Foresters reported several fires during spring break up blamed on trappers burning muskrat marshes in the Patricia area.
Former MPP and Hope township figure dies after long public service including the Ontario Legislature. Funeral at Elizabethville residence August 15 at 2 30 pm with Rev. E Udell officiating. Interment in Orono Cemetery. Also notice of George Forbes selling his service station and plans for landscaping work in Bowmanville.
Western Region district officers will attend Indian trapper meetings and Treaty payment gatherings to promote forest fire prevention. Trappers will receive instruction and films, with similar courses planned when licences are issued in September, as other districts adopt the approach.
A long list of social visits from Toronto to Port Hope notes Mr and Mrs Wm Knight in Cooks Town with R E Logan, Detroit visitors with Percy Morgan in Sixth Line, and other gatherings in Perth Ont Bowmanville Blackstock and Oshawa. The Orono Band to play at Oshawa Fair August 15. Roger J McIsaac dies suddenly at Orono summer home. services held at Holy Name Church and Mount Hope Cemetery.
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