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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 02, 1982
Page
1
The Manitoba Society of Seniors coordinates events from June 7 to 18 funded by Canada’s New Horizons program. Activities promote the concept that Ability is Ageless, highlighting the productive nature of later life. Penicillin development credited to Alexander Fleming.
A Manitoba note highlights aging trends with 12.5 percent 65 plus, life expectancy rising to 16 more years at 65, and seniors as a growing political force. It calls Manitoba Seniors Week June 7 13 to reexamine neighborhoods, opportunities for involvement, education, employment, and volunteers while detailing community efforts and preparations for a postwar era of longer, richer lives.
The article notes a proposal to inform main offices of chain stores about the situation. A vote on evening store openings was held and the result was unanimous: no one supported staying open even one night a week.
Dave and Daralyn McGill teamed for mixed low net while Harold and Vera Dillin earned mixed second low net and John and Margaret Mitchell claimed prizes. All received golf balls and Greenskeeper Peter Motyka provided a beef supper with able help.
The committee learned a Lions Club auction may occur Friday during the festive weekend. Merchants Committee is being approached to organize a Friday afternoon activity. Kinsmen will run the demolition derby again this year. The next meeting is Tuesday June 8 at the Co op Offices.
The Roblin town council approved grants to Keystone Museum Roblin and District Chamber of Commerce Airport Commission Parkland Festival Committee and Horticultural Society. They plan sidewalk tenders on Hospital and 2nd Streets and removal of about twenty trees. A Main Street improvement fund and street decorations were discussed.
The meeting urged volunteers to bring lawn mowers rakes and shovels for extensive cemetery work with coffee and donuts to be served. Mrs BE Reyda and Mrs M Bailey oversee lunch supplies. Allan Martin donated two loads of black topsoil to be hauled in. Concerns were raised about uneven grave marker lines hindering grass cutting. A plan for a 40 foot by 22 inch cement base was presented to support markers and two continuous bases could serve 20 graves in a new section.
Re-elected to office for another year were President Gordon McArthur Vice President Tom Aitken Secretary Treasurer Margaret Oliphant and committee Eunice Reyda Islay Simpson Essie Cross Irene Howe and Kay Black The meeting thanked the Roblin Horticultural Society for cemetery planter flowers and Hugh Kines for auditing the books.
In a St. Regis lobby, a diplomat notes rising pacifist sentiment among Soviet youth worrying Kremlin and Red Army leaders, signaling potential shifts in domestic policy and international posture. The remark reflects broad concern over antiwar mood affecting defense and foreign policy.
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