Shift Added at MFRs Sawmill Signals Expansion Hiring
Manitoba Forestry Resources Lumber Division plans adding a second shift at the MFRs sawmill starting May 20, with sixty to seventy new workers for the B lumber and planer mill as market conditions improve. Management remains noncommittal on broader expansion despite a Winnipeg paper delaying a potential 60 million expansion due to market uncertainty.
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Manitoba Forestry Resources Lumber Division
International Woodworkers of America Union
B’ Lumber and Planer
ManFor
Winnipeg
Kelsey School Division Budgets Revealed Up 22 Percent
Figures released Monday show the Kelsey School Division budget rising 22.13 percent from last year to a total 1975 budget of 4,307,570 dollars.
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Kelsey
Manslaughter conviction nets 30 month Manitoba sentence
Calvin Morris Spence of Weir River Manitoba was sentenced to 30 months in Stony Mountain penitentiary after a Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench verdict for manslaughter in the December 1 death of Ellis Stanley Miles. A jury found him not guilty of murder after a two day trial. Miles bled to death from a gunshot wound during a drunken Weir River party. The trial was led by Justice A C Hamilton in Winnipeg.
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Calvin Morris Spence
Weir River
Manitoba
Stony Mountain
Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench
A. C. Hamilton
Winnipeg
Spence
Ellis Stanley Miles
Miles
Gillam
Demonstrations Hit Government Wage Offers In Manitoba
About 225 local government employees gathered in light rain last Friday to protest provincial wage offers. In The Pas, rallies focused on the Provincial Building and related offices, with events tied to demonstrations in Winnipeg and other cities. Clerical staff led the action, with sick‑leave protests following, as the Manitoba Government Employees' Association presses for higher pay.
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Keewatin Community College
Northern Manpower Corps
IC Centre
Winnipeg
Thompson
Dauphin
Brandon
Whitmore
MGEA
Manitoba
Unhappy MGEA Staff Press for Higher Wages
Jim Grant Assistant Executive Director of the MGEA says employees are very unhappy with the current wage scale and find the government's 6 percent increase plus a $300 yearly cost of living bonus insufficient. He notes the consumer price index rose more than that in the last year and calls for a stronger offer.
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The
MGEA
Jim Grant
Grant
New ruling targets swamp fever at local Exhibition Grounds
The Pas and District Exhibition Association approved a ruling requiring horses to be certified free of equine infectious anemia before taking part at the Exhibition Grounds. President Wilf Cudmore warned the disease is highly contagious with rising cases, urging horse owners to consult veterinarians and ensure testing, especially with spring flies and mosquitoes returning.
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Pas and District Exhibition Association
Wilf Cudmore
Festival elects nineteen directors and four executives
The Northern Manitoba Trappers' Festival held its annual meeting last Tuesday electing a nineteen member Board of Directors plus an executive of four. George Takashima was re elected chairman. Three vice chairs Murray Houlden Sharon Arnold and Alison Skelly join the executive. Nine new community members were elected to the board and funds from the 1975 festival were disbursed with 4 500 returned to the community. Donations include 2500 to Kelsey School Division 1000 to The Pas branch of the Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded and 1000 to The Pas Golf Club to aid the course.
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George Takashima
Murray Houlden
Sharon Arnold
Alison Skelly
Sandra Hardiey
Sid Wilton
Ted Chartrand
Dennis Slater
Hugh Johnston
Clifford King
Emelia Reddy
Terry Brookes
Terry Williams
Robert Nutley
Jim Wilson
Kathleen DeLaronde
Mable Armstrong
Nestor Soroka
Grace Hillsden
David Cain
Bill Harper
Chris Sunde
Nancy Bown
Kelsey School Division No
Canadian Association For the
Pas
Marigold Centre
Pas Golf Club
Chairman presents annual report on 1975 Trappers' Festival
George Takashima delivered the annual chairman's report. He praised the Pasquia Arts and Crafts Association show and noted Rendezvous Dances as a major success. New programmes in 1975 included a two day Beerfest and an International Tea and Fashion Show.
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George Takashima
Terry Brookes
Terry Williams
Emelia Reddy
Nor Plains lands Cranberry housing contract in Manitoba
Nor Plains Development Company wins a 270000 contract to build eight single family homes in Cranberry Portage for Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation with funding from the Manitoba government and CMHC. Project manager Andreychuk says construction has begun with completion projected for November 1 and sub trades to be used locally in The Pas.
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Nor-Plains Development Company
Cranberry Portage
Nor-Plains
Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation
Manitoba Government
Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Pastor Plains
David Andreychuk
Marchenski Lumber Company
Winnipegosis
Pas
Andreychuk
Wood Acres
St. Antoine Street
Six Month Sentence For Carrying Sawed Off Shotgun
Patrick Sereno Bignell of The Pas was found guilty on four charges and sentenced in Provincial Judge's Court to six months in The Pas Correctional Institute after police restrained him for a sawed off shotgun concealed beneath his clothing.
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Pas Correctional Institute
Patrick Sereno Bignell
Pas
Safety awards for Pulp and Paper Division
Alf Walker of the Workers Compensation Board presented ManFor Pulp and Paper Division with a safety achievement award for 100000 man hours without a lost time accident. Seven department awards were given, totaling 956269 hours without a lost time accident, with the mill cited for having fewer incidents than most Canadian mills in 1974.
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Alf Walker
Workers Compensation Board
ManFor Pulp & Paper Division
Dave Bown
Workmen's Compensation Board
MFR
Pulp and Paper
Walker
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Consol
Board of Trustees
Doug McBride
Ben Hanuschak
Ron McBryde
Harold Grundy
Government Information Service
Department of Education
Graham Construction
Margaret Barbour
Grundy
Manitoba Teachers Society
Gov't
Cranberry Housing Contract
Pulp & Paper Division
Edwards Avenue
Lyall Gardiner
Pat Ferg
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