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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1977
Page
1
Teachers and principals discussed total emersion French programs for Kelsey Division in The Pas within three years. Plans consider grades one to four with 75 percent French instruction and note available provincial funding. implementation hinges on parental education and coordination across schools.
Bill Benson president of International Woodworkers of America Local 1324 said an arbitration hearing is scheduled for The Pas from February 16 to 18 to determine if the union must pay a $26,000 company grievance for costs from a one week spring 1976 shutdown. He noted the union refuses to pay without an itemized expense list, which company officials say is confidential.
MBCT Principal Dick Pugh leads a Tri Mester Review Committee to evaluate the three 62 day terms system. Winnipeg trip sparked comparisons with other schools. open findings planned for February. Staff and parents to join the review as questions about class length and continuity arise. Students are performing well despite concerns.
Brief page reference notes indicate sections in the local paper covering town planning on page 3, school board briefs on page 8, and classified ads on page 6. The snippet provides navigational cues without readable stories or names.
The Overture Concerts Association reminds members of a January 25 8:00 pm program at MBCI Auditorium featuring The Federation Singers. The Desert Song Auf Wiedersohn and Drinking Song from The Student Prince are on the bill with audience singing encouraged. Guest tickets available at the door.
Two ferry barges are being built for northern Manitoba. Purvis Naveon Limited of Selkirk constructs one for Jenpeg to Cross Lake at about 380000 dollars. Riverton Boat Works builds another for Split Lake Odei River at about 325000 dollars. Each 112 feet long, 164 tons, seven knots, capable of carrying a semi trailer and passenger vehicles. They should be ready for this summer's open water season.
Four hundred employees in the Woodlands Division at ManFor will be laid off for one month starting January 21. The layoff follows an inventory build up in cut wood that exceeds demand from the Sawmill and Pulpmill Divisions and leaves the company short on cash to buy wood. Union leader Bill Benson says the union was not consulted and notes the impact on hourly workers more severe than piece workers.
Joseph W. Kryschuk aged 20 and Donald D. Jackson aged 25, both of The Pas, pleaded guilty to one charge each of gross indecency in Provincial Judges Court after previously contesting three offenses arising from an incident on September 18, 1976 involving a 15 year old girl. They were remanded for sentencing on February 1 and February 21. maximum penalty is five years.
Union leader Keith Elvers collapsed from hydrogen sulfide gas while taking effluent samples inside a metal shed at the ManFor plant. Engineer Ernie Magiera performed mouth to mouth resuscitation, likely saving Elvers’s life. Elvers, fully recovered, heads to Toronto for National Union duties and future organizing in Ontario mills.
John Donald, a government researcher and former conservation officer, tests traps at his Westray area center to replace the leg-hold trap with humane designs. He highlights the Conibear and Larocque traps, noting progress, design challenges, and the need for practical, instantly lethal devices.
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