Ashlee Blandford Personal Profile Snapshot
Ashlee Blandford is a nail technician lash artist and body sugar artisan living in Oak River since April 2013. She hails from Brandon and studied at Vincent Massey. Her hobbies include baking woodworking and drinking wine. She loves Italy spaghetti and meatballs Christmas Rihanna Boston Bruins Wentworth Angelina Jolie and once aspired to be a model at age 12.
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Ashlee Blandford
Little Italy Pizzeria
Brandon
Rivers
Rapid City
Oak River
Vincent Massey
Italy
Rhianna
Boston Bruins
Tiger
Wentworth
Angelina Jolie
Imagination and curiosity in a family tea tale
A reflective essay on imagination, questions, and aging, recounting conversations with Ed and two grandsons during a tea party. The narrator celebrates curiosity learned from a father, notes how imagination grows at different ages, and imagines a kinder world while pondering personal growth.
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CBC
Dr. Seuss
Where am I
Sandra Garbutt of Rapid City recognizes the skating rink at Rivers east end near Highway 25 in Millennium Park. Donna Morken recalls development since 2005 with grants from Manitoba Hydro and a $25,000 tree planting project, now totaling over 200,000 in grants, plus a train rail arbour and memorial features.
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Sandra Garbutt
Rapid City
Highway 25
Millennium Park
Donna Morken
Rivers In Bloom
Manitoba Hydro
Brandon
Rivers
CDC
Wild Turkeys Sighting Request By Rivers Area Group
The Rivers and Area Game and Fish Association seeks help from residents to locate and estimate wild turkey flocks. Report sightings to Hal Sveistrup or Ron Taylor with bird counts and approximate locations. The club has released over 100 birds in seven years, all banded and logged by Frank Baldwin Manitoba game bird manager.
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Rivers and Area Game and Fish Association
Hal Sveistrup
Ron Taylor
Frank Baldwin
Province of
Manitoba
Historic world events and milestones across centuries
On January 11 several notable moments are recorded including the 1693 Magt Briain Sicily quake near 7.4 magnitude with about 60 000 deaths. In 1838 Morse and Vail demonstrated telegraph dots and dashes at Speedwell Ironworks. 1922 insulin first used on a human, Leonard Thompson. 1935 Amelia Earhart flight Honolulu to Oakland. 1964 Surgeon General Luther Terry warns smoking hazards. 1991 Ben Johnson stripped of 1988 Olympic gold finishes second. 2014 Mick Fleetwood says Christine McVie rejoining Fleetwood Mac.
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Mt Briain
Sicily
Speedwell Ironworks
Morristown
New Jersey
Samuel Morse
Alfred Vail
Leonard Thompson
Canada
Amelia Earhart
Honolulu
Oakland
Ist
Luther Terry
Ben Johnson
Maui
Mickleetwood
Christine McVie
Fleetwood Mac
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By Rita Friesen
Rivers & Area Game & Fish Association
Tion
2Nd Avenue
Barb Jardine
Rivers Community Church
Edward Street
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