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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 01, 1978
Page
1
Second semester activities show the choir preparing for the Winter Games performance Sunday night. Goose Lake High earns high standings at Gilbert Plains festival as Parkland Festival unfolds. Photo Club members learn dark room development and host photo contests.
The article recounts February events with both teachers and students. Social Convenors organized box social and bingo for Valentine month games, a bubble gum contest for Grades 7 to 9, and snow sculpture projects next week. Alumni visits and a basketball game saw the Raiders beat the Angels, while a French student group toured Winnipeg for Festival du Voyageurs. The Angels won the Dauphin tournament with stars Ostrowski and Radwanski. the Raiders reached the Consolation final but lost to Killarney. Drama Club works on Up the Down Staircase under F Bird with 37 cast members, aiming for late April or early May shows. Folk Group practices To Believe in Jesus and eyes a March 10 talent contest. Grade 12 graduates on June 28.
Weiller Williams Auction Mart Roblin Manitoba processed 677 head including 1569 cattle 3 sows 4 boars 81 weanling and feeder pigs and 20 horses Prices posted for butcher steers heifers cows bulls feeder steers feeder heifers stock steer calves stock heifer calves and veal calves with buyers from Calder Grandview Ewacheski Binscarth Nabe Yorkton Kamsack and other towns. The Manitoba Motor League notes heat build up caused by under inflation and overloading as the most frequent issue.
The article notes Myshchuk and Larry Hawrychuk performing a Ukrainian dance prepared by the Ukrainian Cultural Committee. Linus commends Regional Games officials for their work and requests applause. Awards handed to Speed Skating entries, Women’s Table Tennis Sharon Radwanski, Intermountain Pelly Trail Volleyball and Recreational Hockey teams. An age joke accompanies a salute to Carpet Bowling winners absent from the event.
Linus Westburg donated his time to the closing ceremonies. The event in Roblin featured thanks from Mr Nowosad to Linus and Ed Yurkin for their roles, with the Goose Lake High Glee Club performing and six dancers delivering a comedy routine. The closing included a bagpiper, flag bearers, and the flame passed toward Dauphin for the Provincial Finals.
March 4th is the final day to contribute to the Frost-Hunt benevolent fund at Banks, Credit Action, or Post Office. Derek, flown back from Toronto in a partial body cast, awaits a second Toronto trip in late March. Minor surgery and therapy continue, with optimism he will walk with crutches and soon regain his normal vitality.
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