National Child Safety Week Focuses on Child Dangers
Canada Safety Council marks May 17 as National Child Safety Week to highlight the high child death toll from accidents. James C. Thackray notes nearly 2,000 under 15 die annually, with thousands more injured. Health minister John Munro urges adults to educate and safeguard children from birth. Pedestrian, drowning, and fire fatalities disproportionately affect those under 15, with 493 of 1,287 pedestrian deaths and 360 of 1,173 drownings in 1970 occurring to children.
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The
Canada Safety Council
James C. Thackray
Council
John Munro
National Health and Welfare
Premier pledges 4.3 million for student employment
Premier Ed Schreyer announced a 4.3 million dollar provincial plan to create about 4,100 summer jobs for students, up from last year. The funds include 2.3 million for government departments and agencies and 2 million for the STEP program and other youth projects.
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Ed Schreyer
Manitoba
Schreyer
Secretary of State Department
Maritimes
Oats Quota Opened Across Prairies Deliveries
The Canadian Wheat Board announced a new B quota for oats in the designated prairie area. It took effect Monday April 10 and allows producers to deliver oats at three bushels per quota acre at all Prairie delivery points.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Wheat Board
Summer employment for students urged nationwide
The article notes the Canadian economy cannot absorb the thousands of students seeking summer work. It advises students to contact the Student Placement Office at 51211181 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg Manitoba R3C 0V8, phone 786-5827. Rural and northern students should reach government offices.
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Portage Avenue
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Official Opening For Coopers Yamaha Music Centre
The Yamaha Music Centre in Dauphin Manitoba holds its official opening at 9:45 a.m. on Saturday April 22. The facility, opened in February, houses a Yamaha Music School with seventy students aged four to eight. The program is part of Yamaha education methods developed over fourteen years and now has over one million graduates in eighty countries. The centre adds a local Yamaha dealership and offers the Music Education program to Parkland Region. Attending officials include Mayor Andy Newton Reeve John Potoski and Chamber of Commerce and school board reps. Guests from Yamaha include H Toyoda of Japan and N Giesbrecht of Yamaha Canada Ltd.
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Coopers Yamaha Music Centre
Dauphin
Manitoba
Yamaha Music School
Yamaha Foundation For Music Education
Yamaha
Dauphin Centre
Parkland
Peter Burtiack
Andy Newton
John Potoski
Chamber of Commerce
H. Toyoda
Japan
N. Giesbrecht
Yamaha Canada Ltd
Unemployment Decline in Manitoba Reported in Legislature
Manitoba saw the sharpest March unemployment drop in Canada with the rate falling to 5.8 percent from 6.3. National unemployment rose to 7.4 percent while seasonal unemployment rose to 6.0 percent. 22 000 Manitobans were unemployed, compared with 24 000 last month, as Prairie region total unemployment reached 74 000 of 1 376 000 employed across Manitoba Alberta Saskatchewan.
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Canada
Manitoba
Russ Paulley
Canda
Prairie
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Hockey education and trust in Roblin community
A reader argues hockey builds character and responsibility for boys. The piece praises the commitment required for skating and hockey, notes the fatigue from practice, and lauds Roblin’s arena and strong minor hockey system respected regionally.
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Roblin
Community benefits of local facilities praised by Rev Peter Stasiuk
In Manitoba and Saskatchewan voices emphasize the wide advantages of community facilities. The speaker urges residents to uphold these assets, noting that benefits are real even when they are not always visible.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Peter Stasiuk
Reggies Ramblings On Mps And Corporations
Reggie notes Cy Gonick of Crescentwood NDP claims free enterprise firms like Eaton’s The Bay Safeway and Imperial Oil rob the public while crown bodies CNR and CBC fail to help. An overheard line in St Regis Coffee Shop mentions Jean Allard quitting the NDP to join the Opposition after three sessions, a sign of the government side’s grip.
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Cy Gonick
Cresentwood Ndp
Eaton’s
the Bay
Safeway
Great-West Life
Weston’s
Imperial Oil
CNR
CBC
ST. Regis
Jean ‘Allard
NDP
Saturday Openings For Manitoba Student Jobs Office
The Student Placement Office in Portage Avenue will open on three Saturdays in April to help university students seek summer work with the Government of Manitoba. Minister Saul Miller announced registrations run 8 30 a m to 4 p m on April 15 22 and 29, in addition to regular weekday hours.
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Manitoba
Portage Avenue
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