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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 08, 1967
Page
1
Saturday marks Remembrance Day with a community service at the Lido Theatre at 10 45 a m. Veterans and parade participants assemble at the Legion Hall at 10 a m and the parade moves off at 10 30. Most businesses close except essential services and post office lobby remains accessible.
Manitoba education minister George Johnson announces a new phase in curriculum development. Professional provincial curriculum councils will assess kindergarten through grade 12 programs, broaden liaison with post secondary opportunities, and continue the 1960 curriculum study begun after the Royal Commission report. Initially councils will focus on mathematics language arts social studies and modern languages.
The Pas saw several pranks including broken shop and school windows with damage around 300 dollars. A former Margaret Barbour Collegiate vestibule window was smashed by youths aged 12 to 13. A compact car tipped into a ditch on Bignell Avenue. Police described the night as quiet with no youths apprehended.
The Manitoba government launches a regional vocational education program offering broad opportunity across the province. It plans to transform provincial vocational institutes into community colleges and will cost over 40 million dollars with federal sharing.
Monday afternoon October 30 the Margaret Barbour Collegiate opened amid confusion as students navigated 26 classrooms 2 labs a library a theatre split into two rooms seven offices and a typing room. The building resembles a grain elevator from the outside and features skylights a large picture window and a campus intercom system including shower rooms. The gymnasium stage and roofing are incomplete adding to the unsettled yet admiring reaction.
Winter Work project under the Northern Affair program began at Brochet Landing strip with twenty men starting January 18. By February 10 the initiative was under way with a local committee organizing efforts.
The Pas Lodge of the B P O Elk s held its annual Hall o we en Party on October 31. The Herald photographer photographed four preschool children with Exalted Ruler Steve Anaka as judges awarded prizes to multiple age groups including preschool, 8 and under, 9 12 years and a couple and pairs category. The Elk s thanked The Pas community for supporting the Air Cadets Carmel drive.
The federal government has no plans to reinstate the Roads to Resources program. Letters between Bud Simpson MP for Churchill and the Prime Ministers Office show discussions continue at cabinet level. Simpson cites the burden on provinces and the need for a national road system to support northern resource development.
Readers note on the new Moccasin Collegiate describing a hotel like campus with strict rules and modern art. clocks placed to discourage watching time. essay prompts reveal student views. Also coverage of Judy LaMarsh CBC critique and Bill Martin’s Ottawa Supreme Court appearance on November 20 regarding a Cedar Lake Indian case.
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