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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 18, 1985
Page
1
Tony Carlson honors Canadian farmers facing droughts, hail, and insect plagues across the prairies. The piece notes record dryness, stress, and resilience, recalling an Alberta farmer who endured 14 years without a crop while sticking it out as times changed.
A government inquiry exposed dire living conditions in Alberta coal towns through World War II era. Reports detail crowded classrooms in Wayne and chicken coop shacks housing miners, with inadequate sewage, filthy water, and unsafe housing.
Continuation of Clinic Corner notes many individuals and families including Haberstock Koroluk Hoff man Andres Kopetsky Weir Oliphant Senko Ludwig Hojnocki Onofriechuk Georgettes Pan chuk Beck Hardy Robin Baptiste Sorbo Peterson Storozynsky Storozyn sky Tummon. Donations to Roblin District Medical Centre Inc Box 940 Roblin Man R0L1P0 requested.
A send off was held at the Ballard home on Sunday September 15 in honor of Bernie and Gloria Fillion hosted by Lorne and Bennie Cockerill Florence Fraser and Mary Cockerill along with Don and Noreen Ballard and Lloyd Wendy and Pete Motyka. Good luck to the couple. obituaries follow with Michael Remenda of Vonda Sask passed away September 9 1985 funeral held September 13 at St George's Cathedral Saskatoon. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. He leaves a son and daughters and ten grandchildren. He was predeceased by wife Olga and siblings. Also obituary for Alexander Sandy Korbut of Toronto formerly Roblin died August 25 at St Joseph's Hospital. He was born in 1900 in the Ukraine and came to Canada at age 11. He married Pauline Tkatchuk and farmed before moving to Roblin and then Toronto.
The council discussed tough new by laws to curb heavy truck traffic and designate truck routes with signs before fall. At the September 11 meeting the council approved a tender for Centennial Park development with Roblin Concrete winning the bid at 2.50 per yard for sand and 2.00 per yard for dirt used as fill near a future ball diamond.
His passing leaves wife Pauline and five daughters with sons-in-law in Toronto and Winnipeg. Surviving grandchildren Norma Jean, Ron, Barbara, Douglas, Shelley, Jodie, Korey, and Andrea. A sister Rose Strombighi of Windsor also survives. Panachida August 27 at Turner and Porter. funeral August 28. interment Park Lawn Cemetery.
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