Community Calendar May to July for Rivers area events
May 24 to July 8 schedule lists rodeos meetings yard sales thrift sales bake sales and civic events across Rivers Oak River Riv ers Minnedosa and Rapid City. Highlights include high school rodeo at Rapid City grounds. Rivers Train Station Restoration Committee potluck. Riverdale Health Auxiliary meetings. town wide yard sales May 31. various church and community activities. 4-H events. council meetings. veterans banquet. sidewalk sale June 7. decoration Day June 8. graduation awards June 20. and Rivers fair plus drift racing July 28-29.
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Rapid City
Rivers Act
Third Avenue
Rivers
Lake Wahtopanah
Riverdale
Riverdale Health Centre
Kenton
Rivers United Church
Oak River
Rivers Collegiate
Zion Pentecostal
St. James Anglican
Rolling River
Tanner’s Crossing Park
Minnedosa
LAD of Oak River
RM of Blanshard Council Chamber
Rivers Legion Ladies Auxiliary
Rivers Legion Hall
Town of Rivers Council
Rivers Legion
Eye Level Services Farmyard
Rivers Cemetery
Upper Hall
RM of Saskatchewan
Council Chamber
Rolling Dale Enterprises
Prairie Crocus Regional Library
Rivers Civic Centre
Rivers Air Base
MGRA
May 15 Rivers 50 Club Meeting Report
Mary Bridgeman reports on the May 15 Rivers 50 Club gathering at Rivers Civic Centre with 30 members present. Nora McBurney presided and read two articles. reports covered Senior Services activities, Lifeline clients, meals programs, recycling, and donations. Officers saw one change with Ernest Shelvey stepping down and Myrtle Wooldridge becoming president.
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Mary Bridgeman
Rivers
Rivers Civic Centre
Nora McBurney
O Canada
Peggy MacKay
Ruby Gottfried
Senior Services
Rivers Rapid City District Incorporated
Jean Young
Mavis Cronkrite
Rapid City
Ernest Shelvey
Myrtle Wooldridge
Georgina Bollman
Westman
Brandon
Bollman
Sonja Ramsay
Minnedosa
Sandy Lake
Shoal Lake
Birtle
Rapid City 4-H Beef Club Annual Clinic and June Plans
On May 10 the Rapid City 4-H Beef Club held its clipping judging and showmanship clinic at Rapid City fair grounds with four market steers judged and a showmanship workshop. Herb and Kerri Hinsburg demonstrated clipping. A potluck followed. On May 13 the group met at the Rapid City Library basement for a clipping DVD by Kirk Stierwalt and training from basic to advanced clipping. The club voted to buy steak knife sets for steer purchasers and requires project books by the June meeting. The Fat Stock Show and Sale is set for July 2 in Neepawa as part of the Rapid City Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justin Kristiansson
Rapid City 4-H Beef Club
Rapid City Fair Grounds
Herb
Kerri Hinsburg
Rapid City Library
Kirk Stierwalt
Rapid City
Neepawa
May history notes include Komagata Maru arrival and Victoria Day
May 23 marks the Komagata Maru arrival in Vancouver with 376 Sikh migrants who were barred from landing, later expelled on July 23. May 24 recalls Canada's first Victoria Day in 1902, designated by Prime Minister Laurier to honor Queen Victoria's birthday. May 25 notes the 1995 Supreme Court ruling protecting homosexual rights under the Charter despite no explicit mention of sexual orientation.
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Vancouver
Canada
Wilfrid Laurier
Supreme Court of Canada
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Peggy Rudnnski
McBurney
Betty Frazer
Percy Rosamond
Judy Jago
Peter
Jean Citulsky
God Save the Queen
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Doreen Bate
Bob MacDonald
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Bob Usunier
A&b
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Autopac
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