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Local News and Social Notes From Binscarth District
Binscarth notes cover visitors Ray Joyce and family from Brandon and Rennie visits in Winnipeg. A mass exodus to the Shrine Circus in Brandon is noted with 4 H youth and students. Weather is sunny, dry, windy. summer activities set with swimming courses in June and July. Handicraft shop reopens after winter. Fisherman Bill Brown catches a 25 pound 10 ounce jackfish on the Assiniboine River. Sideliff Community Club meets and plans a 60th anniversary celebration for the ladies group and 50 years of the hall, with a raffle Afghan planned. Alan Honey visits from Shoal Lake. continued social updates and greetings circulated. Carol Peters vacate for Cranberry Portage. Myrtle and Jim Pete head north for summer. Reta Murdoch sends district greetings from Strathclair. old-time reminiscences enlivened by singing. Beta reports Bob in Calgary with Middle East deployment. Ruthie and family in Edmonton. Bob Rannie attends Winnipeg Post Masters Convention. twin daughters Tracy and Cindy born to Oilla and Bob. Isabelle Clements and Margeret Lamoureux visit Moose Jaw. Mrs. J Barrington passes away in Russell. funeral arrangements and local condolences noted. Fran Hutton visits Virden with Dave and Bev Anderson, newly moved from Churchill. Five Japanese students arrive May 24–27. barbecue May 25 at 6:30 p.m. at Binscarth Park for Youth Exchange with United Church of Canada. Roberta Graham of Foxwarren toured Hong Kong in 1975. Shirley Dorothy Wotton funeral held April 22, 1976. survivor details and interment at Binscarth Cemetery.