Marg Ford makes it One in a Row on provincial team
Marg Ford of Pine Falls earned the last spot on the Ladies Golf Provincial Team after a strong back nine and three birdies. Bonnie Brekke Ollie Hynduik and Sue Thomson also made the team, with junior members Nixon Ariza and Price slated for Canadian championships next month. A Pine Falls Club celebration honored Ford and her caddie Homer Thomson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marg Ford
Pine Falls
Miss Ford
Marg Homenuik
Bonnie Brekke
Ollie Hynduik
Sue Thomson
Hynduik
Brekke
Homenuik
Nixon
Ariza
Price
Pine Falls Golf Club
Margaret
Homer Thomson
Homer
Regional health talks set for Lac du Bonnet area
Dr. Ted Tulchinsky and Manitoba health officials will meet July 23 at the Legislative Building with Lac du Bonnet and area councils to discuss forming regional health services. The area of about 7,000 permanent residents relies on one public health nurse, no ambulance service, long travel to doctors, and a feasibility study was promised after January consultations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lac DU Bonnet
Man
Ted Tulchinsky
Rene Toupin
Agriculture
Samuel Uskiw
Manitoba Health Services Committee
Legislative Building
Pinawa
Pointe du Bois
Werner Lake
Ontario
Toupin
Manitoba Health Services
Joyce Larson
Riverland
Manitoba to gain 128 new jobs under incentives
Ottawa reports that three firms, under the Regional Development Incentives Act, will create about 128 jobs in Manitoba. Unistican Trail Motel Limited of Winnipeg will get roughly $124,000 to help build a Rivers mobile motel facility employing about 85 people, with incentives tied to the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Jean Marchand
Manitoba
Unistican Trail Motel Limited
Winnipeg
Rivers
Pine Falls Stirling Pipe Band Dominates Highland Games Circuit
The Pine Falls Stirling Pipe Band, fresh from winning the Aggregate for Best All Around at the Kinsmen International Band Festival in May, continued strong at the Highland Games. Events on July 3, 10, and 11 featured medals for Allister Rodger and family in Solo Piping and Tom Gold in Solo Drumming, plus honours for Bandmembers such as Michael Miller and J Bulmer. Pipe Major W J Mac Leod notes ongoing competition ahead at Rivers Manitoba on July 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kinsmen
Scottish Amateur Athletic Association
Univeretty of
Selkirk Highland Gathering Inc
Selkirk
Allister Rodger
Maureen Rodger
James Rodger
William Rodger
Tom Gold
Michael Miller
Edmund Roy
William Welsh
Tony de Luca
Adrian Farmer
W.J. MacLeod
J. Bulmer
Tan Roger
Rivers
Manitoba
Autopac Agent Qualifications Set by Manitoba Public Insurance
Manitoba Public Insurance informs motor vehicle branch agents how to qualify to sell Autopac. Requirements include deriving more than 25 percent of gross income from MVB commissions using 1969 or 1970 as base year, plus license from the superintendent of insurance. Special consideration available for those unable to meet income rule due to extraordinary circumstances. August seminars and study materials will assist applicants, with July 16 deadline for consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation
Howard Pawley
Autopac
Superintendent of Insurance For
Manitoba
Pawley
Death of Lac du Bonnet artist Charles Hodgkins in 1971
Local Artist C F Hodgkins died at his Lac du Bonnet home on July 10 1971. Born April 24 1910 in London England he grew up in Russell Manitoba and became a noted landscape painter and amateur radio operator VE4MJ. He moved to Lac du Bonnet in 1943 and worked as a radio operator for the Manitoba Government Air Service. Hodgkins also practiced music and studied wildflowers for Manitoba’s centennial project painting crocuses and wild orchids. He urged preservation of native flora and left a legacy of Prairie scenes and Western Canada landscapes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Francis Hodgkins
Lac du Bonnet
Manitoba
Hodgkins
London
England
Canada
Russell Manitoba
Russell
Manitoba Government Air Service
A.M. Pratt
R. Gossing
B.C
Prairies
C.F. Hodgkins
Prairie
Charlie
Western Canada
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ford
B. Brekke
Ross
O. Hynduik
Elm
Thomson
M. Ford
P. Falls
M. Homenuik
T. Ariza, Ross
C. Nixon
B. Bend
Jo Hillier
Free Press
Stirling Pipe Band
M.V.B
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