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Newspaper
Rivers Banner
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 17, 2008
Page
6
Dororthy Beedie continues the Rivers Banner series tracing plant life from the Silurian seas retreat to the Devonian evolution of leaves roots and seeds. The piece outlines how intertidal algae gave way to land plants with vascular systems and sporangia, the rise of gymnosperms, and the Mesozoic floras that shaped modern vegetation and oil deposits in the North Sea.
A compact historical ledger notes Canadian Pacific Railway formation in 1872 with a charter in 1873 and political intrigue. It recalls the 1970 War Measures Act during the FLQ crisis, Patrick Roy’s 2000 goalie win record, women as legal persons in 1929, and the 1929 stock market panic culminating in Black Thursday.
Jessie Bell recounts a small farewell for Gretta Bromley at West Avenue Steakhouse with eight friends. Joan Marriott praises Bromley for six years of residency in Rivers Lions Village and present her jewelry. Bromley and husband Cliff moved from Kirkham's Bridge to Rivers in 2001 and kept winter residence there, now living at Riverheights Terrace in Brandon.
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