How Safe Is Your Kitchen
A home safety check lists common kitchen hazards and prevention tips. It urges keeping sharp knives and matches away from children, safe handling of grease fires, turning off burners when not in use, back burner use, securing pot handles, avoiding loose clothing near heat, drying hands before using the radio, keeping appliances and cords away from sinks, keeping floors dry, and storing poisons safely. The article notes that even homes without children can see accidents and stresses ongoing vigilance.
Colorful Skitchen Safety and Kitchen That Works in Roblin
A colorful Skitchen Safety hang up and a Kitchen That Works pamphlet are available in the local Department of Agriculture offices. Readers may drop in for a copy or write to Box 970 Roblin Manitoba 30 for mailed copies.
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Assiniboine Community College
Canada Manpower
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Dept. of Agriculture
Roblin
Manitoba
Managing Your Family Finances and Kitchen Upgrades
Dr Carl F Hawver offers steps to track spending by paying bills from a checking account and recording monthly expenses to set priorities and reduce debt. The piece also advises cost saving kitchen improvements such as fluorescent lighting, cabinet door adjustments, no wax flooring, and durable countertops to refresh a kitchen.
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Carl F. Hawver
Dollar Wise Decorating Old Kitchen New Look
If you are dissatisfied with your kitchen you can make it more functional attractive and liveable without spending much. Two easy fixes are new paint and lighting with semi gloss enamel for cabinets and woodwork rather than flat paint.
Saving energy at home cuts your heating bill
The article urges modest energy cuts to avoid shortages and higher future prices. It explains oil and gas furnace efficiency checks, signs of needed service, and how a summer and mid winter tune up can save up to 25 percent. It advertises two free copies of The Billpayer's Guide to Furnace Servicing with a coupon.
Screen Out Household Hazards
The Screen Manufacturers Association urges homeowners to seal cracks around doors windows foundations and fireplaces to cut energy loss. If your furnace is ten years old or more consider replacement to improve efficiency. When adding storm windows or doors, include screens so you can open to fresh air on cool days and save money.
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Carl F. Hawver
National Consumer Finance Association
Armstrong
Market Quotations From Roblin Auction Mart 1975
On Thursday October 9th 1975 the Weiller and Williams Auction Mart in Roblin Manitoba sold 759 head of livestock. The mix included 531 cattle 3 sows 2 boars 134 weanling pigs 85 feeder pigs and 4 horses with prices ranging from 25.00 to 125.00 per head and various figures listed for steers cows bulls calves and sows.
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Weiller and Williams Auction Mart
Roblin
Manitoba
Holses Oessessseersssser Sesssone Sessissseassonsen Eie
Study Spotlights Youth Drinking Problem Today
Federal findings show more than 1.1 million youths aged 12 to 17 have serious alcohol abuse problems. The survey led by Dr. Morris Chafelz’s unit notes 1.13 million youths drink weekly, 50 percent drink at night in cars, with early drinking rising in New York City before seventh grade.
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Scullions
Morris Chafelz
National Institute On Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
United States
National Council On
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