Lions Host Trappers Festival Sports at Ice Palace
The Lions Club runs most events at the Ice Palace corner Edwards and Fourth during the Trappers Festival. Friday and Saturday feature contests including bannock baking tea boiling rat skinning and junior brie events. Evening dances with oldtime music at Ukrainian Catholic Hall and Community Hall on The Pas Reserve start at 10 p.m. Admission is $1.00.
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Ice Palace
Edwards
Fourth
Lions Club
the Palace
Lions
Kitty Corner
Legion
First Street
Pas Reserve
Festival Highlights Saturday Festival Highlights
The festival will change format with only three finalists in moose calling goose calls squaw wrestling fiddling and jigging after Friday preliminaries in Guy Hall at 8 p.m. Public admission is 50 cents adults 25 cents children. Saturday features include race prizes trophies and a fattest couple contest and the festival awards of 2000 dollars.
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Guy Hall
The
Legion
Rotary
Festival Schedules Three Dance Nights
Two public dances are set for the Festival with events on Thursday Friday and Saturday. The plan covers three nights of dancing activities and community entertainment.
Three Rendezvous At Elk's Hall This Week
Three Mad Trap Rendezvous events set for tonight Thursday and Friday at Elk's Hall start at eleven and run to 3 am. Tickets limited to 300 each night two fifty. lunch served. Tickets from Festival Headquarters Cambrian Hotel Lobby. no door sales. Non transferable and under twenty one barred.
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Elk‘s Hall
Festival
Cambrian Hotel
Elk's Lodge
Festival Feature sparks three big displays at Provincial Building
August anniversary displays proved popular but unseen by many residents. Under Mrs. Harry Bickford, a trio of shows will run Thursday to Saturday 9 am to 6 pm in the Board Room. A mining display from Flin Flon, Wildlife display outside by the Department of Mines, and past festival pictures plus trophies will be featured.
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Harry Bickford
Flin Fion
Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd
Flin Flon Trout Festival
Flin Flon Chamber of Commerce
Department of Mines and Natural Resources
Demand for Trappers' Festival booklet exceeds supply
The Trappers' Festival booklet, printed in 3000 copies, sold out quickly as distribution began a week ago. The Chamber of Commerce coordinated advertising and sales, with a few booklets held for festival entrants. Prize donors and sponsors were not listed due to timing, but a full list will appear in the local press after the Festival.
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Chamber of Commerce
Festival Feature Prompts Public to Join Local Event
The notice urges local residents and visitors to participate in a worthwhile festival feature, highlighting community appeal and inviting broad public involvement.
Bonspeil Filled Up At Trappers Festival Curling Event
The Pas Curling Club hosts a 24 hour Trap pers Spiel limited to 32 rinks with many outside entries including five from Snow Lake. Entry is $20 per rink. Prizes total cash $175 for first and $125 for second in the first event, with $125 and $75 in the second. A merchandise end prize is also offered. Curling runs from Friday midnight to Saturday midnight.
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Pas Curling Club
Don Fisher
Curling Club
Snow Lake
Snow Machines On Display At Trappers Festival
Snow mobiles and skidoos will be shown on an empty lot on Fischer between Jack Johnson Insurance and Gateway Dr ugs during the Trappers Festival. Brook's Equipment of northern Manitoba including Roger's Texaco Service at The Pas and the H C Paul Company organize the display. Races are scheduled at the exhibition grounds Thursday morning at eleven and Friday at 10 30.
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Trappers
Fischer
Jack Johnson Insurance
Gateway Drugs
Brook
Manitoba
Roger
Texaco
Pas
H.C. Paul Company
Exhibition Grounds
Second Bog Highway Tender Signals Northern Manitoba Work
Six road contractors Thursday bid to build the second stretch of highway through Wekusko Bog in northern Manitoba. Public works minister Walter Weir said the 17 mile project will use the same frost and weight standards as the Trans-Canada Highway, requiring contractors to make their own permafrost foundation at Thompson No. 10 junction near Simonhouse.
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Wekusko
Manitoba
Walter Weir
Nique
Thompson No. 10
Simonhouse
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