Rivers native James Ashton reflects on life and career
James Ashton born November 20, 1937 in Rivers, worked 35 years loading turkeys for Don McFadden and nine years as Forman Motors service manager. He lives in a 4-plex on 4th Ave Rivers and enjoys golf, boating, old time dancing, and Western music. He studied at Rivers Elementary, Brooke School, Rivers Air Base, Rivers Collegiate, Brandon Agriculture and Homemaking, and Assiniboine College Winnipeg for an Ag Diploma in 1956. He loves Holland for travel, Christmas as his holiday, and the Toronto Maple Leafs as his hockey team.
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James
Jim) Ashton
Don McFadden
Forman Motors
Rivers
4Th Ave
Brooke
Rivers Air Base
Rivers Collegiate
Brandon
A. of M
Winnipeg
Holland
Johnny Cash
Toronto Maple Leafs
On This Day Events From History April 12
Recap covers 1876 royal assent to the Indian Act replacing prior policy, 1954 Bill Haley and the Comets chart Rock Around the Clock, 1961 Yuri Gagarin orbits Earth, 1980 Terry Fox begins Marathon of Hope from St John’s Newfoundland to Thunder Bay. Fox later dies of cancer in 1981 after a 5373 km cross country trek raising funds.
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Bill Haley
Yuri Gagarin
Earth
Terry Fox
St. John’s Newfoundland
Canadian Cancer Society
Fox
Thunder Bay
Ontario
Canada Reads winner interview leaves long memory of Auschwitz
A CBC program features Max Eisen and Ziya Tong discussing the Canada's Reads winner. The Holocaust survivor recalls his Auschwitz experiences, the last words of his father, and the impact of survivor voices on students. The writer reflects on humanity, hate, and the risk of atrocities resurfacing anywhere.
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CBC
Max Eisen
Ziya ‘Tong
Auschwitz
Eisner
Lake Wahtopanah Dam and Cairn Unveiling Near Rivers
The 1961 Rivers front page describes a man made reservoir named Lake Wahtopanah created by a Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration dam begun 1958 and completed in 1960. The earth filled dam spans 4000 feet, with a 72 foot height and a six mile long reservoir. A cairn on the north dam end, built by Nowe and Mills, was unveiled July 15 1961 by Hon. Douglas Harkness in a ceremony with about five thousand spectators. The plaque from the cairn face is missing and query is raised.
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Rivers Gazette
Wahtopanah
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
Charles Nowe
Robert Mills
Douglas Harkness
G.I. Barker
Rivers Boys
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