Mark Western farmers seek aid as Throne Speech looms
Dauphin Swan River MP Inky Mark urges Ottawa to rethink farm policy and press for foreign aid and cost share fixes. He criticizes Prime Minister and Chretien government over the farm income crisis, cites US support, and backs Kroeger Report ideas on grain handling, railway revenue caps, and Wheat Board reform.
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Dauphin Swan River
Inky Mark
Mark
Prie
Canada
Saskatchewan
England
Bill Clinton
Feds
Ottawa
Kroeger
Canadian Wheat Board
Five Gilbert Plains men charged over Riding Mountain incident
Five men from Gilbert Plains face hunting offenses after an incident near Riding Mountain National Park on Sept 25. Charges include hunting inside a national park and, for Bill Robertson and Stewart Robertson, carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle. A bull moose was killed outside the park during the event. The arrests followed an RCMP, DNR and park warden operation.
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Gilbert Plains
Riding Mountain National Park
Bill Robertson
Dale Robertson
Stewart Robertson
Warren Parker
Ivan Yakimishen
DNR
RCMP
New Farm Listings Show Diverse Manitoba Acreage and Barns
Real estate notes describe several farm properties in Manitoba with varying acreages from 130 to 800+ cultivated acres plus total acres up to 1120. Listings detail dwellings ranging from 788 to 1470 square feet, multiple barns, quonsets, calving structures, bins, and water access along Highway 482 and near Roblin Inglis and Newdale areas.
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Roblin
WayWayseecappo builds 40 room hotel at Shoal Lake
The Waywayseecappo First Nation advances a 50 000 square foot project titled The Shoal Lake Star. Project manager Paul Mentuck Jr confirms a 40 room hotel with 16 poolside rooms and a 1 053 square foot swimming pool and water slide to open later this year. The facility includes a 112 seat dining area a poolside patio a conference room and a lounge with 40 VLTs relocated from the Gaming Centre.
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Shoal Lake
Waywayseecappo First Nation
Paul Mentuck Jr
Tars Reunite With Russell Banner Crew at Three Day Gathering
Members of HMCS Petrolia held a three day reunion in Russell from September 3 to 5. The 15 former Navy men renewed friendships and toured sites including Silver Creek Bison Ranch Inglis Elevator National Historic Site Asessippi Ski Hill Village and enjoyed a houseboat ride on Lake of the Prairies.
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Russell Banner
Petrolia
Russell
Silver Creek Bison Ranch
Inglis Elevator
Asessippi
Lake of the Prairies
Community backs Kamsack fundraiser for Filipino girl’s surgery
Westminster United Church leads a 14 month drive by Kamsack residents to fund room, board, and transportation for a five year old Philippine girl scheduled for open heart surgery at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children on Oct. 17. Mika Auelster’s story will be featured in Life Network’s Little Miracles documentary for the Herbie Foundation aiding foreign children’s medical care.
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Kamsack Times
Westminster United Church
Kamsack
Phillippine
Toronto
Hospital For
Mika AeUste
Life Network
Herbie Foundation
Grandview Sugar Loaf water project expands to 68 more homes
The RM of Grandview accepts a Saskatchewan firm bid to connect 68 additional households to the Sugar Loaf rural water pipeline. The PFRA supported project began in 1997 with the plant and 22 hook ups and Phase Three aims to complete the network at a total cost around 3.5 million dollars. Woman murdered.
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Grandview
RM of
Sugar Loaf
Saskatchewan
PFRA
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Jakeman Insurance & Real Estate
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Elizabeth Neuhofer
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Pine Street
Terry's Drive Inn
Inglis
Asessippi Ski Hill
Ploeg ST
R.M
PARK
Duck Mountain Provincial Forest
Duck Mountain
R.M. OF
Hillsburg
Bield
Shell River
Togo
Shellmouth
Boulton
Hwy
Newdale
Erickson
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Tars Reunite
Swan River Star & Times
Swan River
Ninth Avenue North
Swan River Valley Hospital
Gary Guiboche
Noreen Stevenson
Stevenson
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