Kelvin Lamb Personal Profile Card
Kelvin Lamb, born March 12 1960, is a retired CN inventory maintainer. He began firefighting in Riding Mountain Park, hunts and fishes, and has lived in Rivers Rapid City Oak River since June 2017 south of 250 Highway. He attended Oakburn Elementary and Rossburn Collegiate, loves Jamaica Blue fields, rib steak and chocolate, Christmas, 80s music, Nascar racing, elk, The Black List, Mr Bean and Mrs Brown's Boys. He works with Rivers Game and Fish Association and is a new grandparent in Manitoba with family in Winnipeg.
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Kelvin Lamb
Mountain Park
Rapid City
Oak River
250 Highway
Oakburn
Oakburn Elementary
Rossburn
Blue Fields
Jamaica
Nascar Racing
Mr. Bean
Mrs. Brown
Winnipeg
The
Rivers Game & Fish Association
Historic Highlights From August Sixteen Across Years
Key events on August 16 include the Klondike gold discovery by Carmack and Mason at Bonanza Creek in 1896, the 1930 British Empire Games opening in Hamilton, the 1947 DHC 2 Beaver first flight, and Canada’s 1969 Summer Games opening in Halifax Dartmouth. Additional notes cover The Guess Who’s 1969 gold record, 1971 Hurricane Beth in Nova Scotia, 1974 Cindy Nicholas’s Lake Ontario crossing, 2008 Usain Bolt’s 9.69s 100m world record, and 2016 Derek Drouin’s Rio high jump gold.
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Klondike
Bonanza Creek
Yukon
George Carmack
Kate
Tagish Charlie Mason
Skookum Jim Mason
Hamilton
Canada
George Chuvalo
Toronto
Ontario
Halifax
Dartmouth
Winnipeg
Guess Who
New York
Beth
Nova Scotia
Cindy Nicholas
Scarborough
Lake Ontario
Usain Bolt
Derek Drouin
Sarnia
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Remembering family losses across generations and ages
The narrator chronicles the deaths of key relatives from age 16 to 74, reflecting on grandparents great grandparents and a mother. She recalls traits, humor, and life lived on farms, noting how age and aging shaped memory, identity, and what “old” means to her.
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Morden
Flowers of Time and Truth Across a Summer Funeral
A personal reflection from 1963 recalls a grandfather's funeral and a minister’s simple floral metaphor. The author links those moments to a garden's transient beauty, urging living fully today, cherishing memories, and using God given gifts to bless others.
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Tare
King Solomon
God
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By Rita Friesen
Neil Strohschein
Rivers Community Church
Edward Street
Rivers
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2Nd Avenue
Rivers, MB
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