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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 23, 1975
Page
2
A retrospective column records key events from Russell including principal changes at Russell School, grain shipping hopes, top farmers, military promotions, prairie fires near stables, coop poultry leadership, bank staff transfers, electoral majorities, local deaths, hardware store recalls, tanker truck upgrades, and a 60th anniversary Brightside School, plus a 1965 student council election with listed officers and room reps.
Minutes from the Town of Russell meeting on October 9 with Mayor Kinney and councilors present. Topics include adoption of prior minutes, sewer water discussion, accounts totaling 102180.77, Elk’s Lodge raffle 9800, bylaw 968, building permits, and adjournment. Second session covers electors list, court of revision, motor grader operator appointment for 1976 at 3.50 per hour, financial statements for Sept. 30, 1975, and cheque payments 2763 to 2782 totaling 2347.39. Meeting adjourned to November 5, 1975.
Thelma Forbes, renowned Manitoba cabinet minister and Speaker of the Legislature, reportedly urged provincial Conservatives to drop some MLAs rather than oust leader Sidney. The remark, overheard at the St Regis Hotel Coffee Shop, hints at strategic inside views within the party.
Magda Thode Haas, born October 16 1904 in St Margarethen Germany, died October 7 1975 in Russell District Hospital at age 70. She married Frank Haas in 1931, lived on a Hofenthal farm before moving to Russell in 1962, and leaves husband four children fifteen grandchildren two brothers Ernest and Max. Prayers October 10 and funeral October 11 at Grace Lutheran Church Russell with interment at Russell Memorial Gardens.
More than 100 members from Dauphin Russell and Roblin Hort societies gathered in Roblin on September 26 to hear Susan Oliver of the University of Manitoba discuss home orchid growing and other house plants. The evening featured slides from the International Peace Gardens and a poetry music presentation Symphony of Peace by P J Peters.
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