Community Centre Nears Usable Status by Summer
Russell and District Community Centre Inc held its annual meeting with about 30 attendees. Financials showed assets of 5706 cash and 339,752 total, with grants and donations totaling 355,812. A $27,000 advance on a 47,644 unemployment grant funds five workers for phase II, aiming for a usable hall of about 600 capacity by summer.
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Desmarais
Russell and District Community Centre Inc
Jack Wilson
Lynn Spurway
Fpfc
Mort Perrin
Perrin
Gerald Keating
Daymon Guillas
Luxury Greyhound expands service from Russell to Winnipeg and Edmonton
Greyhound Bus Lines launches two new express routes from Russell to Winnipeg and Edmonton. New buses feature three movie televisions and a stereo system. Earphones cost two dollars by March 1. Complimentary juice and cookies offered. Select-a-seat available for one dollar. Itineraries include brief stops at Neepawa Yorkton Saskatoon North Battleford and Lloydminster. Route improvements partly to offset Via Rail cutbacks.
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Edmonton
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Greyhound Administration
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Greyhound
Check carefully before accepting cheques
Russell RCMP reported several January incidents. A car backed into at Central Inn parking lot. investigation ongoing. A motor vehicle collision at Stonehouse Esso on Highway 16 led to a charge under the Highway Traffic Act. Earlier, two drunken males were removed from a Russell home. NSF cheques from a Russell resident involved two stores in town. charges contemplated. A hit and run damaged a car in the Dental Clinic parking lot. Oldsmobile backed into by another vehicle. investigation continuing. The RCMP urged businesses to verify identification and be cautious when accepting cheques.
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Russell Rcmp
Central Inn
Perry
Russell Detachment
Stonehouse Esso
Russell
NSF
Binscarth
RCMP
Dental Clinic
Russell group plans meeting over tourist booth site
Town council backs relocating the Highway's Maintenance Yard to a free site north of town to secure the provincial tourist booth. A deputy mayor and chamber representatives will lobby Premier Gary Filmon and ministers in Winnipeg on January 30 to move ahead with the Russell district future viability project.
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Desmarais
Vern Rosnoski
Gary Filmon
Jim Ernst
Albert Driedger
Three Manitoba grain elevators to close next year
Three towns Riverton Poplar Point and Silverton will lose Manitoba Pool grain elevators in 1901 due to repairs and economic issues. Riverton will receive federal compensation for rail line abandonment, while Poplar Point and Silverton face no such funding. The move follows a broader Prairie trend of elevator closures and rail-line losses, with ongoing debate over a $720 million grain transport subsidy to farmers.
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Manitoba
Riverton
Interlake
Poplar Point
Portage la Prairie
Silverton
Russell
Manitoba Pool
Greg
Dennis Trinder
Manitoba Pool Elevator Board
Trinder
Neepawa
Inglis
Ottawa
Manitoba Rates Cut as MTS Errors Adjust Bills
Manitoba long distance rates to points outside the province but within North America fell up to 17.9 percent on January 1, yet a billing system error left four cycles unadjusted. Bills issued between January 1 and 16 may have charged old rates. post January 15 bills reflect the lower rates and credits will be issued to correct prior charges.
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Shellmouth
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Lloydminster
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Russell and District
Arason
Liberal
Ree Alcock
Filmon
Alcock
Mulroney
Boissevain
Arlene Gibson
Association For Community Living
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