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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 06, 1977
Page
6
John Bulloch notes some futurists use cloudy forecasts as Canada faces inflation scarcity and unemployment. He argues Canada lacks a strong industrial base and warns of deficits, a weaker dollar, and limited job mobility if trends rise, while calling for prudent planning.
The speaker argues that rising energy prices will make labor more competitive with energy, boosting small factories and farms. He notes solar homes cut costs, enable food production and waste recycling, and foresees employment growth from small-scale solutions replacing large systems.
Summer Blood 1977 urges readers to donate blood, stressing that all blood types are needed. It reassures donors that personality or looks do not affect the call to help others, and directs readers to a local clinic to learn their blood type.
Farm operators planning drainage improvements may apply for surveying aid this summer from the Manitoba Department of Agriculture. Applications for a drainage survey of flood prone farmland can be made through local agriculture offices. MDA chief engineer Orly Friesen says the program has been expanded, with three survey teams this year compared to one in 1974.
The MDA engineering section provides rob bersons under the province Agricultural Employment Program with a fee of 30 dollars per quarter section. Surveys run from now until early September.
Market summary from Weiller and Williams Auction Mart Roblin Manitoba shows 420 head sold including 275 cattle 128 weanling pigs 10 feeder pigs 3 horses 3 sows and 1 boar with prices listed for butcher steers and heifers cows bulls feeder stock calves veal pigs and bred sows priced per unit 41.70 27.75 26.50 0.06 34.00 37.50 31.50 47.00 28.00 36.00 165.00 0.33 0.45 per head or unit as applicable.
Vlad and Mrs D Larocque visited Edmonton relatives and spent the weekend in Roblin and Flin Flon with E LaRocque and Isabel Leslar. June 25 weekend guests from Virden included Mr and Mrs Terry Stychyshyn and children. St Vlad’s Reunion hosted Ed Dyck Karen Jan and Earl Staple from Winnipeg and family, plus visits to the Eugene Artemenko family in Calder.
The Roblin Review corrects an earlier report on Goose Lake High School Graduation Exercises. Karen Hawryluk was honored for an outstanding English 300 paper with a score of 98 percent as Hooper and Wayland presented the award to the student in English 300 rather than English 200.
The Giles and Doering wedding is postponed. Mr and Mrs George Giles announce the delay. Roblin residents Victor Suidak and Roblin host engagement of Wayne Martin to Tammy Lou White, daughter of Mr and Mrs James White of Roblin. The note ends with a quip about two Julys.
Listings show daily devotions, cartoons, talk shows, sports and movies on CKY-TV and Space Donated by Shamrock Television. Key programs include The Six Million Dollar Man, Sonny and Cher, The Waltons, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Wide World of Sports and All Star Wrestling with regional news and late night features.
Television timetable listing CBC Winnipeg programming from July 9 to July 15 1977 includes parade, Calgary Stampede coverage, Tomorrow People, various drama and comedy programs, sports, news, and children's shows across multiple hours with periodic local updates and weather segments.
Postmaster General Jean-Jacques Blais announced a joint Canada United States stamp issue to honor the Peace Bridge linking Fort Erie Ontario and Buffalo New York. The Canadian design by Rolf Harder features the bridge with three flags and marks 50 years since its completion.
A McMaster University biochemist warns that no one knows long term effects of additives and urges Canadians to discard all packaged processed and canned goods. He questions safety and urges drastic dietary change.
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