Visit Friendly Manitoba and the Tourism Challenge
A Carman Valley Leader editorial urges improving service and hospitality in Manitoba as tourism growth relies on friendly, helpful staff. The piece contrasts Canadian and U.S. dining experiences, cites provincial survey results, and calls for warmer attitudes in restaurants, service stations, and shops to boost visitor satisfaction and employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Tourism
Canada
Department of Tourism
Manitoba
U.S.A
Carman
Olden Days notes across decades in Russell Manitoba
The compilation surveys Russell Manitoba milestones from 1872 public schools to 1968 reunions. It records teaching changes at Craigie and Ratcliffe, military casualties, medical and business moves, a chiropra ctor clinic closing, a meat market transfer, Edwin Moore’s death, gladiolus show entries, municipal secretary appointments, and old residents reuniting in town life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell
Edwin Moore
Pacific Coast
R.G. Ledingham
Vancouver
Manitoba July electricity sets record generation high
Manitoba generated 1222 million kilowatt hours in July 1978, nearly all from water power, the highest for July and aided by river flows and new hydraulic capacity. July 1977 consumption fell 1.5 percent to 749.7 million KWH, due to reduced mining, with Southern Manitoba up 2.1 percent. Excess power exported: 68 percent to the U.S., 27 percent to Ontario, remainder to Saskatchewan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Thompson
U.S
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Russell Town Council Sets 1978 Elector List Revisions
Russell council meets with Deputy Mayor C D Brown presiding on August 10 1978. The minutes honor last meeting, approve accounts totaling 21637 91, discuss revising the 1978 List of Electors, consider Beef and Barley Festival as a main community event, suspend Sec 183 2 and read By law 1047, grant tolerance for a non conforming garage, deem derelict vehicles under By law 965 and order removal, approve building permits for Bilinsky and Munro, and adjourn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council of
Russell
C.D. Brown
R.P. Clement
J. Lynn Spurway
Alex Ashey
Ashey
Spurway
Council of the Towns of
Liquor Commission
Town of Russell
Town of
Acreage reassignment offered for early permit grain applicants
The Canadian Wheat Board offers a special acreage reassignment for grain permit book holders who applied early before quotas for rapeseed, flax, and rye. The change adds to the normal general reassignment and must be requested by September 16. Opening quotas for these grains will be about five bushels per assigned acre, down from the initial eight anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Wheat Board
Otto Lang
Wheat Board
Veterinary Guide and Fall Rye Seeding Tips for Farmers
A new veterinary guide from Popular Mechanics discusses treatments for ketosis in dairy cows, cattle grubs, and diseases in pigs and poultry. It also covers fall rye seeding varieties Cogar Frontier Puma with dates August 25 to September 12, seeding rates, soil fertility, and herbicide options including 2 4 D MCPA Banvel Embitrol Canada thistle patches and Roundup with timing guidance and soil considerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Mechanics
Russell Ag
Frontier
Gentry oppose fox hunting ban as Labour eyes reform
A British political controversy arises over the Labour government’s riding-to-hounds fox hunting ban. The debate reflects broader tensions as English papers critique a Tory female legislator and question gender representation in Parliament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Labor Party
School Essentials List for Classroom Supplies
A dated classroom shopping list includes items: pencils HB lead one year supply, one package of wax crayons, one bottle of glue, one metric ruler, one marking pencil, one pair of scissors, one pencil case, one pair of rubs, one dictionary Webster or Winston's supplementary edition, eight wide ruled scribblers, three scrapbooks for music social studies science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster Or Winstons
Mentary
Lepages
Hilroy
Also Mentioned on This Page
Russell Banner
Main Street
Russell, Manitoba
United States
Chaloner
Clayton G. Chaloner
Provincial Telephone Directory
St Zenith
E.B.R. Shaw
Craigie School
Jean Bates
Millwood
Mae Matheson
Russell and Binscorth
Ratcliffe
Alberta
W.G. Robb
J. Clee
H. Clee
G.W. Wishart
C. Briggs
T.H. Parnell
C. McLennan
Denver
Col
Eadcliffe
Allbright
Wm. Burrows
The
Russell Meat Market
W. Brad
Brad
Dominion City
Aneroid
Sesk
Harold Thompson
Nanaimo
B.C
Jim McNeill
Kitimat
Maurice Christie
Edmonton
Harry Warrington
Winnipeg
Russell Council
Clement
Russia
Clement—Ashey
Spurway—Ushey
Clara McKay
Audie Zimmer
Don Bicknell
Paul Bilinsky
John Munro
P. Otto Penner
Fall Thistle Control
Reggies
Broadway
Department of Education
Portage Avenue
ST. Mary’s Church
Major Pratt
Maerban
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