30 Sep 1996
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Newspaper
Rivers Banner
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1996
Page
1
City events include a Rolling River festival planning meeting on October 23 at 7 pm. Rivers hospital board session at an unspecified room at 2 pm on the 24th. A Vimy Ride banquet hosted by the Rivers Legion is also listed.
1911 report notes G B Somerville buying three Second Avenue lots to erect a large hotel. 1931 elocution contest planned by Excelsior Lodge L O B A for Rivers area children. 1941 birth of Wilfred Dennison's son on Sept 28. Kenneth Vining injured near coal dock by train, legs amputated, later died. Masons meet in new hall with Rt Wor G V Henderson visit. Janet Thomson marries Robert Cochran in Spring Valley.
Ninety five words recap events: 1951 unions of Dorothy Hales and John Taylor, Donelda Hunsaker and Elman Lowe, Viola McClement and Arvil Heppner. James Frame holes in one at Clear Lake. 1961 Don Mitchell hunting tale near Pope. 1971 Indian bands gathering in Manitoba with Jean Chrétien opening. fire masks cost 400. St James ACW supper 250 attendees. 1981 births and anniversaries. flax fibre plant. hospital auxiliary funds. retirements. pumpkin yield. 1991 Wyness barbershop closure. decentralization moves. Rivers Laundromat 30 years.
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