CMIB Celebrate Diamond Jubilee in Canada
CMIB marks its Diamond Jubilee the organization’s 60th year in Canada with expanded recreation for the visually handicapped. CNIB coordinator Marlene Kilfoyle notes new aids and programs enabling blind individuals to enjoy activities such as archery soccer football and hockey beeping balls and pucks aid play while community centres and volunteers support summer fall and winter programs and an annual fund campaign seeks public contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CMIB
Canada
CNIB
Marlene Kilfoyle
Telephone
Kilfoyle
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
Manitoba School Trustee Cost Study 1978 Overview
The 1978 Manitoba school system total expenditures topped 381 million, an 8.1 percent rise from 1977. Cost per pupil was 1901.85, with operating cost per pupil at 1593.07 up 10.1 percent. Salaries and fringe benefits comprised 83.5 percent of operating costs, and reliance on property tax funding declined slightly from 53.5 percent in 1977.
Province study cites 1978 property tax rebates and school costs
The 1978 tax rebate is projected at 110 million with 53.2 percent linked to property taxes and municipal relief. Trustees argue education should be funded mostly from nonproperty taxes, while per pupil spending rises and student-teacher ratios fall. MAST President Ed Hart calls enrollment declines a major challenge.
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MAST
Ed Hart
Meals On Wheels schedules corrected after week shift
Inadvertent full schedule shift corrected with apologies to participating organizations. Readjusted delivery blocks span Sept 18 to Feb 16 across Kinetics Legion Auxiliary Mennonite Church Evangelical Church Free Methodist Church Evangeline Rebecca Lodge Pentecostal Church Tops United Church Sacred Heart Church and the Horticultural Society. Quotable Quote notes tourism memories in British Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kinetics
Legion Auxiliary
Mennonite Church
Evangelical Church
Free Methodist Church
Evangeline Rebekah’ Lodge
Pentecostal Church
United Church
Sacred Heart Church
Horticultural Society
Umbrella TV Schedule Highlights Shamrock and Roblin
A Sunday to Saturday broadcast grid lists ads for Shamrock Television and Roblin Review with programs from cartoon blocks to news. Notable segments include Yogi Bear Huck Hound Funtown Lassie Battlestar Galactica CTV Movie Special Merv Griffin Six Million Dollar Man The Waltons Family Starsky and Hutch and The CFL on CTV across September 24 1978 to September 30 1978.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rex Humbard
University of the Air
McGowan & Company
Vegas
CKY TV
Merv Griffin
Donna Fargo
Donny and Marie
Ray Janch
CTV
Miss Sarah
CBC Winnipeg Channel 8 TV Schedule Sept 23-29 1978
TV guide style schedule listing programs for CBC Winnipeg Channel 8 from Saturday Sept 23 to Thursday Sept 29 1978. Highlights include Parade quiz shows children programs Sesame Street Muppet Show news hours and prime time hits like The Beachcombers Nature of Things Mary Tyler Moore MASH and Major League Baseball.
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Just William
The
Goodies
All
Mary Tyler Moore
Rene Simard
Three's Company
Fifth Estate
Beyond Reason
Canada
the Goodies
Edgar Briggs
Canadian Express
Vic Franklin
Buffalo Hunt
Tommy Hunter
Obituary notices for Louis Lafontaine and Edith Stinson
Funeral services were held for Louis Lafontaine at San Clara Church in Roblin with burial at the parish cemetery. He leaves a wife, two sons, four daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren. pallbearers named. Edith May Stinson died at Roblin Personal Care Home after a lengthy illness and was interred in Roblin District Cemetery after a service at Roblin Knox United Church. She is survived by a daughter, sister, and two more relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Lafontaine
San Clara
Roblin
E. Verhulst
Roblin Memorial
Emma
Boggy Creek
Man
Henry
Steve
Regina
Sask
Alice
Hubert Laviolette
Lillian
Frank Laviolette
Annette
George Wapemoose
Winnipeg
Josephine
Frank Flament
Phillip Lafontaine
Eugene
Melvin Flamont
Ray
Don
Rick Laviolette
Edith May Stinson
Manitoba
Roblin Knox United Church
Glenna
Béduchamp
Rabin
Clarence Stinson
Stella Lamont
Coral Burdon
Vancouver
B.C
Notable pallbearers and family survivors listed
The obituary notes Allan Martin, Walter Ward, Wilford Gamey, Lawrence Lietz, Robert Cross and Metro Kozmeniuk as children with five great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Honorary pallbearers were Jules Reitmier, Kenneth Busch, Gerald Stinson, Edward Morris, James Halliday, Randolph and Robert McNichol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan Martin
Walter Ward
Wilford Gamey
Lawrence Lietz
Robert Cross
Metro Kozmeniuk
Jules Reitmier
Kenneth Busch
Gerald Stinson
Edward Morris
James Halliday
Randolph
Robert Mce- Nichol
Crown Land Maps Issued for Agriculture Region
Manitoba releases maps for ten crown land areas to aid outdoor recreation and land use planning. Maps show wildlife areas refuges parks forests and historic sites covering Winnipeg Kenora Selkirk Hecla Virden Brandon Duck Mountain Neepawa Dauphin Lake Riding Mountain. Each map sized four miles to the inch costs 1.75 dollars and can be bought at Winnipeg Dauphin Brandon offices or Winnipeg map sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Ken McMaster
Winnipeg
Kenora
Selkirk
Hecla
Virden
Brandon
Duck Mountain
Neepawa
Dauphin Lake
Riding Mountain
Century Street
Dauphin
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Telephone Pioneers
la Barrier Park
Roblin Cleaners & Carpet Centre
Roblin, Manitoba
Texaco
Bob Miller
2Nd Avenue
N.E
Manitoba School Trustee
Shamrock Television and
Roblin Review
Cky-Tv
Shamrock Bargain bin
C.e.’S
T.V
Shamrock Television Ltd
Channel 8
Cbc-Tv
Turday
Parade
Flipper
Mr. Chips
Mark
Mindy
Chase
J. A. Martin
NFB
CBC Access
Disney
the Beachcombers
Nature of Things
Mary
Sidestreet
Market Place
Ombudsman
the National
Lord Peter Wimsey
Dallas
Crown Land
ART Potoroka Realty
ART Potoroka
Memorial Blvd
Lorne Boguski
3Rd Ave
Inglis
Hobby Farm
Shell Valley
Dropmore
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