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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1987
Page
4
A Come and Go tea honoring Glen and Louise Zimmer will be held at Endcliffe Community Hall on December 26 from 2:00 PM. Everyone is welcome to attend and celebrate the couple's marriage.
Frank and Rhonda McLeod announce the birth of son Robert Josey on November 26 1987 in Russell. Baby weighed 10 pounds 1 ounce and measured 21 inches. Grandparents are Sonny Heap and Merna McLeod with great grandparents Fern Hyde Annie Heap Russell Cairns.
Attendees enjoyed a December 11 pot luck supper and carol singing in the community with Santa visiting to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Sympathy extends to Jean Morrison on the death of her youngest brother John Gnntal. Jean and daughter Joyce Bezo attended the funeral in Menzie, Manitoba, last Wednesday.
Lila M. Bily outlines Russell Horticultural Society events for 1988 including a Card Party and Penny Sale on January 8 at the Russell Leisure Centre, a Binscarth event in late February, a landscaping speaker in April, a spring pot luck, a perennial plant sale in May, a garden tour in August ending at Vern Klimack residence, and an August show month with seed catalog planning. The year closes with a fall bake sale at the C Store and a tentative November meeting.
The schedule lists morning prayers and services for multiple denominations on December 27 and early January. Churches include Russell Sincere sympathy extended to the Lopushinsky family. Events cover Anglican, Lutheran, Ukrainian Orthodox, United Church, Catholic, and other local congregations with times for worship, Sunday school, family Bible hours, and prayer meetings across Binscarth, Foxwarren, Inglis, Russell, and nearby parishes.
Fr. Bohdam Demczuk offers a Christmas message highlighting the Incarnation as God becoming Man to unite Heaven and Earth. He cites church fathers and Ukrainian carols, urging love, service, peace, and faith in Christ’s birth, with a call to strengthen Ukrainian Orthodox faith in Canada.
In September 1983 ten Mennonite families loaned 12000 in inventory to the Olive Branch gift shop at 185 Hendeson Highway Winnipeg. The shop stocks SELFHELP crafts from 20 nations, supports the Host refugee program, and funds local needs with profits from sales and member volunteering.
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