Jubilee Parade and Banquet Tickets Promote Oldtimers Event
Local residents are urged to register for Jubilee celebrations in The Pas with special Gold Ribbons and complimentary Oldtimers Banquet tickets priced at $2, available first come, first served at Legion Hall on August 25. The schedule includes a band concert, a street dance, a lawn derby, a fashion show, and a War Memorial unveiling, with notable dignitaries set to attend.
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Legion Hall
CWL
Oldrimer’s
MLA
Guy Hall
Roy Vickery
Devon Park
Laird Oulette Dies at 51 A Dog Musher Remembered
Funeral held for Laird Oulette at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Cathedral after a lengthy illness. The Pas resident and celebrated dog musher with wins in 1950 and 1959 faced retirement from races. survived by wife Marie, five children, two brothers and twelve grandchildren.
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Laird Oulette
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Cathedral
Oulette
St. Anthony's Hospital
The
Pas
Lamb Airways Faces Stop Order Over Grace Lake Strip
Manitoba official Foss Chalmers orders Lamb Airways to halt immediate construction of a Grace Lake landing strip near The Pas. Crown land is being used. Lamb argues a safer, distant site is needed away from the golf course and town. Lamb's team had begun clearing land for the project.
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Manitoba
Lamb Airways
Pas
Grace Lake
Foss Chalmers
Department of Mines and Resources
Tom Lamb
Feaures
Crown Land
Fay Reader Wins Manitoba Teachers' Society Bursary
Fay Reader, daughter of Mr and Mrs Phil Reader, receives a $200 bursary from the Manitoba Teacher's Society Kelsey Division to attend Teacher's College at Brandon. She begins college this fall.
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Fay Reader
Phil Reader
Teacher's College
Brandon
Manitoba Teacher's Society
Kelsey Division
Timmy Knox Suffers Serious Eye Injury
Timmy Knox, son of Mr and Mrs Gerry Knox formerly of The Pas, was seriously injured in Winnipeg when an eye was struck by a 22 rifle. He underwent a three hour operation and faces uncertain sight in the affected eye. Further details are not known.
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Timmy Knox
Gerry Knox
Pas
Winnipeg
Timmy
Knox
C.N.R
Golden Jubilee souvenir tray sales brisk in The Pas
The Pas committee reports brisk sales of the Jubilee souvenir trays and expects them to sell out by the anniversary dates. They are attempting to order 10 dozen more units to have enough stock for the celebrations.
Vandals Damage War Memorial Stones at Devon Park
The Pas group and town installed two 480 pound stones at Devon Park’s War Memorial honoring World War II and the Korean Conflict. One stone was toppled by vandals, believed to be adults. Officials will drill steel rods and cement the blocks to the base to secure them.
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Devon Park
Canadian Legion
the Pas
Vandalism Hits Fischer Avenue Parking Meters
During the night of August 9 a rash of meter vandalism broke glass fronts on about 100 meters along Fischer Avenue east side between Second and Third Avenues. Town spent 35 to replace the panel and notes ongoing damage from trucks bending meter posts.
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Fischer Avenue
Fischer
Second
Third
Town Equipment Use Ordered for Tonight's Council Meeting
Public works chair Councillor Alex Wilchowy ordered a full report on town loader use at the lake cabin project. He called for a review of whether equipment is leased to private contractors and for a council policy by resolution to govern future loans or leases.
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Public Works
Alex Wilchowy
Wilchowy
Council
Pease
Mayor Proclaims Welcome for Hudson Bay Governor
The Pas hosts an opening of the Indian Village at Edwards Avenue by the river. The arrival Friday morning August 24 will feature the Hudson Bay Governor Tom Lamb in costume. Guests from Grand Rapids and Cumberland House join the event.
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Pas
Edwards Avenue
Hudson Bay
Tom Lamb
Grand Rapids
Cumberland House
Canadian trampolines? Monkeys aboard high altitude balloons
Donald Lamb of Lamb Airways in The Pas helped recover scientific balloons reaching 130000 feet from Goose Bay Labrador heading west. Capsules carried two monkeys hamsters and insects. first flight monkeys died, second flight they survived. A third flight left Goose Bay and was lost near God's Lake area prompting a two day search.
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Donald Lamb
Lamb Airways
Pas
Goose Bay
Labrador
Candle Lake
Saskatchewan
Don Lamb
Baloon
God's Lake
Lamb
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Swan River High School
Errick Willis
Duff Roblin
Girl Guides
Edwardson
Paul Fee
Quebec
CNR
Price Albert
Marie
Breen, Reai
Robin
Joyce
Jackline
Harld
Vancouver
Dave
Flin Flon
Batl
Fay
War Memorial
Wpy
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