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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 17, 1972
Page
5
The Chamber outlines duties for visitors and local inquiries about The Pas. It notes 1971 membership at 130 and urges prompt dues as the directory will be printed soon. Tours are arranged for excursion visitors and chamber meetings are held biweekly at 8:00 PM at the coat house.
In Easterville residents report Manitoba Hydro effects on hunting grounds now flooded by Grand Rapids Power Dam and rising lake levels. The writer notes drownings and near misses as brothers fall through ice during a snowmobile trip at six in the morning.
A speaker recounts three brothers dead after ice breaks and another survives with help from a string. He describes crossing rivers and Lake travel costing sixty gallons of fuel and sixty miles to Connolly Lake. Loss of reserve lands, poverty, and frustration with officials follow.
A notice to Manitoba fishermen announces a two day meeting in The Pas on May 23 and 24 1972. Local boards of directors from various communities are invited to attend to discuss fishing issues and potential cross province cooperation with Saskatchewan fishermen to address common problems. Percy Ross Moose Lake.
The Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Lonepak 207 hosted an intersquadron volley tournament at Cranberry Portage Manitoba on May 9. Eighteen Air Cadets from 803 Squadron The Pas and 22 from 302 Squadron Flin Flon joined 28 Sea Cadets as captains led by Capt. William Gaitens. Cranberry Portage won 21 to 17 over The Pas A in a round robin format, with Cap Gaitens announcing a September annual baseball tourney and a trophy from Capt. G Turner.
The Manitoba Department of Manpower and Immigration approved 88 contracts to provide on the job training for 92 unemployed residents. The total exceeds 90 thousand dollars. Two local merchants will share about 33 hundred dollars to hire a general office manager and a warehouse man. Fred R. White of The Pas will hire two staff including a bulk fuel distributor.
Fragmentary item notes a government cost to federal governors including rent about 2000 dollars and 1300 dollars for training. Also mentions Marshall Wells Ltd and a repair technician.
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