Eskimo Mother sculpture chosen as Manitoba royal wedding gift
Winnipeg artist Helen Granger Young recounts to Premier Sterling Lyon how her porcelain sculpture Eskimo Mother will be Manitoba s wedding gift to Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Donated by Mrs Young the piece portrays an Inuit mother with son, polar bear cub, and dog and will be on display in the Legislative Building until mid July. Young s works are in demand and have featured as royal gifts before including a Nixon gift to Brezhnev years ago.
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Winnipeg
Helen Granger Young
Sterling Lyon
Manitoba
Prince Charles
Diana Spencer
Richard Nixon
Leonid Brezhnev
U.S
Rossburn Council backs pari mutuel wagering and track plan
The Rural Municipality of Rossburn meets June 8 and reconvenes June 15. It votes third reading for By-law 1083 and approves May financials. It supports Rossburn Agricultural Society's effort for a quarter horse racetrack and backs pari mutuel wagering on Sundays. The secretary is instructed to prepare legal documents and by laws.
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Rossburn
John Mitchell
Lawrence Kostesky
Elmer Sawchuk
William Antonow
Leonard Sitko
Walter Zegalski
Municipal Planning Branch
Rossburn Agricultura Society
Mid
Union of Manitoba Municipalities
Departments of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Local student wins Whiteshell prize for atomic energy project
David Kostecky of Rossburn Elementary in Rossburn Manitoba received a 50 dollar book prize from Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment for his science fair project The Atom at Work on peaceful uses of Atomic Energy. The establishment funds regional Best At The Fair prizes of 100 dollars and a national prize of summer work, as part of AECL efforts to promote science among students. Whiteshell is 70 miles northeast of Winnipeg at Pinawa Manitoba near Whiteshell Provincial Park. built in the early 1960s, it studies safe disposal of nuclear fuel wastes.
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Rossburn
David Kostecky
Manitoba
Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Whiteshell
Winnipeg
Pinawa
Whiteshell Provincial Park
Kushniryk Promoted to Carberry Postmaster Role
Local postmaster Kushniryk from Rossburn has been transferred to Carberry to fill the same post. Carberry Post Office is larger, marking a promotion. Ed Shust serves as Acting Postmaster until a final replacement is chosen by Canada Post.
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Rossburn
Bill Kushniryk
Carberry
Kushniryk
Manitoba University marks 102nd Convocation for 2600 graduates
The University of Manitoba held six spring Convocation sessions in late May and early June across the Fort Garry campus Bison Building St Boniface College and Steinbach to confer degrees diplomas and certificates on more than 2600 graduates Blaine Veitch of Rossburn is among the 1981 graduates earning the Certificate of Education degree.
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University of Manitoba
Bison
University
Fort Garry
St. Boniface College
Steinbach
Blaine Veitch
Rossburn
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