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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 06, 1972
Page
2
The article emphasizes hazardous forest fire conditions due to unusual dryness and urges careful behavior in the woods. It blames a small but destructive minority for man-made fires and calls cottage owners campers fishers hunters and loggers to practice strict fire safety.
A statewide appeal calls on workers, woods dwellers, picnickers, brush burners, smokers, sight-seers, and tourists to prevent fires. It stresses personal pride in forest safety as dryness signals a bad year and urges careful use of fire in all outdoor activities.
Canada Manpower Centres in the Prairie region report an 88 percent rise in summer job placements, totaling over 9,100 students through May across 12 special centres. Walter Tkach notes these figures cover GMC activity and do not reflect all student job gains.
On Thursday June 29 a total of 599 head of livestock passed Roblin Auction Mart comprising 5 sheep 237 cattle 19 sows 6 boars 328 weanling and feeder pigs and 4 horses. Prices show butcher steers and cows with various feedlot and breeding values, feeders and stock calves and bred sows listed with examples like 40.00 veal calves and 57.75 feeder pigs.
Reverend John Fleser becomes parish priest for the Orthodox churches in Shell Valley and Lennard serving St. John the Baptist and St. Elijah. He and his wife Victoria and son Christopher arrived from Indiana in June and reside in Lennard. Services are in English with Romanian, Matins at 9 am, Divine Liturgy around 10 am Sundays, Vespers Thursday 8 pm in Shell Valley, Great Vespers Saturday 7:30 pm in Lennard. Contact Father John at Inglis 276.
Provincial horticulturist Fred Weir warns that frequent light waterings cause shallow roots and vulnerability in hot weather. He advises keeping a sprinkler in one spot for about two hours or until one inch of water accumulates, then using a hose to soak corners and edges. For large lawns, one sprinkler may not deliver enough water during heat.
An agreement has been concluded transferring the Upper Grand View Dam on the Aailey River to provincial control, detailing a formal handover of ownership and management responsibilities by the parties involved.
Acting Mines, Resources and Environment Minister Len Evans announced the Duck Mountain dam in the Grandview area now belongs to the province. The earth-filled structure, built about 15 years ago by federal and provincial governments with Grandview RM, stores water for Grandview, Gilbert Plains, and downstream farms. The dam, originally under local jurisdiction, is now owned, operated, and maintained by the province after talks with the town.
Parkland Development Corp will publish all Regional Analysis Reports from sixteen communities funded by a $100 grant each. Reports are due in June. copies go to Parkland and Winnipeg. Parkland will compile a regional summary for province and distribute the booklet regionwide.
Ottawa announces 15-cent stamps depicting photogrammetry cartography geology and geography honoring four international congresses in July and August. Designed by Gottschalk and Ash Limited and printed by Ashton Potter Limited, 16 million stamps issued in se-tenant panes of sixteen with host country inscription.
The Canadian Wheat Board authorized a ten bushel increase in the quota for low erucic acid rapeseed varieties for domestic crushing plants. The quota rises to 30 bushels per quota acre and allows producers to deliver their full crop by July 31. Deliveries must be made directly to crushing plants.
Sunlight affects fish behavior and fishing tactics. Fisher Red Fisher notes fish lack eyelids and prefer shade, so early morning, late evening, or night fishing yields best results when sun angles are low. Wind and cloud cover also influence depth and surface activity, with shallow water favored on cloudy windy days.
A memorial note marks the death on July 15 1971 with a July remembrance and a tribute from three daughters three sons two daughters in law two sons in law and ten grandchildren detailing loving memory and heartfelt regret by the family
Celeste LaRocque expresses gratitude to Dr Jones Dr Paul and the matron Mrs Sims and all the nurses for excellent emergency surgery care. She also thanks relatives for housework help and friends for treats flowers baking and get well ecards during the hospital stay.
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