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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 08, 1945
Page
5
A cold night did not stop good attendance at the Legion Carnival in the Community Hall on Thursday evening last week. Bingo drew the top prizes with Mrs. N. C. Williams first, Mrs. Fred Taylor second, Mrs. Norman F. Mitchell third, and Mrs. Jas. A. McKenzie fourth. Proceeds go to the Legion Building Fund.
Bradwardine locals hosted and visited relatives from Souris Gimli and Winnipeg with several traveling—Cpl Wes Common and Mrs. Common and daughter Sharon, Maggie Common, Gladys Joynt, Annie Klywak, and Pte W Edwards. Bradwardine boys won first in the Boys Bonspiel Challenge Event at Rivers last Saturday. Mr H Thomson visited Winnipeg this week.
A Canadian Navy frigate delivered a ten foot Christmas tree across a convoy line to a combined freighter and passenger ship in the central North Atlantic on Christmas Eve. The crew sang carols as the tree crossed the bow while passengers cheered, though ship names and skipper remain confidential.
Highlights include Frank Sinclair winning first prize in the Grand Challenge of Rivers School Bonspiel with Emil Kervanki second, Rex Collingwood taking the Consolation, and Douglas Morrow second. A severe storm delayed Daly Rural Council, a death notice for Rev W G Wilson, and a Wheatland School double tragedy. Other items note church calls, a hockey crowd of 375, River bonspiel next Monday, crime statistics, and wartime board offences fluctuations.
Winnipeg readers hear Dr A G Henderson recounts his war imprisonment in Germany and credits Canadian Red Cross parcels for survival. He emphasizes medical supplies, clothing and books as vital during captivity and urges continued donations from Canadian National Railways officers and employees.
Seventy CPR sailors on the wartime honor roll have been praised by the King and Lloyds of London for their sea service. The Vancouver photo features M D Atkins MBE 20 survivor of Empress of Asia and Empress Atkinson, T M Atkinson MBE chief engineer and veteran of dangerous waters, R McKillop MB.E. lauded for D Day command, and E B Vick OBE awarded Lloyds War Medal for bravery at sea.
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