Local athletes urged to back Southern Alberta Summer Games
The Times reports host towns often top overall standings but this year many sports lack local teams. With registration due tomorrow at 4 30 pm locals in Taber Barnwell Grassy Lake Vauxhall Enchant Hays and surrounding MD of Taber must register to ensure regional participation and a strong opening in July.
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Barnwell
Grassy Lake
Vauxhall
Enchant
Hays
M.D
Tabor
Writing a Focused Letter to the Editor
Advice on crafting concise persuasive letters to editors. Focus on local issues, keep to 150 250 words, avoid ranting, support claims with facts and figures, stay topical, and aim for a rational argument.
Mental health pamphlet laughs at stress while asking for donations
Reader notes ironies in a door to door mental health donation pamphlet. It jokes that canvassers add stress by knocking, while promising a door friendly magnet sticker after a mail donation next May. The piece mocks marketing and ends with a wry take on laughter as medicine.
Library staff urge public input on library site choice
Taber Library staff with 38 years of service urge town residents to comment on the library location. They note concerns about choosing the old firehall site for proximity to downtown and schools, and argue they have a vested interest as both staff and taxpayers.
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Firehall
New Legion Hall opens as Taber notes progress in 1949 1950
Taber records a year of civic growth with events from the New Legion Hall dedication to plans for a sugar factory and hospital expansion. Key figures include Ted Sundal, Mayor Edward Browne, and Johnny Longden. Highlights cover corn interviews with Kellog Co, the Stampede, theatre projections, and a new high school.
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Donald Cameron
Department of Extension
University of Alberta
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Barnwell
Ed Davis
Haddon
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Brown
Vauxhall
Alberta Gazette
Ray Hackett
Chevrolet
Oldsmobile
Vauxhall Board of Trade
Bow River
Scandia
Joseph Norman Jackson
Mr. Jackson
Brooks
Winnipeg
Angus McKay
Lion’s Club
Pincher Creek
Johnny Longden
Taberborn
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