Strong Support At Gilbert Plains/Grandview Ag Society Meeting
About 60 people showed up to the ag society's board meeting last night to show their support for the annual event and the society itself.
There was concern that without more volunteers, board members, and ideas, the fair and rodeo may have to start cancelling some parts of the show. But after last night's meeting, Vice-president Murray Stoughton says it looks like the fair may even be added to.
"There's some really great ideas, (like) the sand and the straw pile, putting money or tokens in it for the kids; not a lot of cost involved in it and it seems to be a good idea to keep the kids entertained."
The prospect of a Homecoming 2016 in Gilbert Plains was discussed last night as well. The majority of people at the meeting said they supported the idea.
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RM Councillor Pleased With Work Of AMM
of two young women in Winnipeg.
Twenty-one-year-old Justin Hudson has pleaded guilty to two
counts of aggravated sexual assault in attacks on a 16-year-old and
a 23-year-old a year ago.
The younger girl was beaten unconscious and sexually assaulted
before ending up in the Assiniboine River. She was also beaten with
a hammer and left to freeze to death.
When she was found by a passerby early the next morning, she had
a body temperature of 25 degrees Celsius.
Court heard she went into cardiac arrest several times and police
thought she would not survive. But she did, and went one to become
an advocate for an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous
women.
and Great Britain in the Second World War.
Ninety-six-year-old Ian Wilson was part of the Royal Canadian Air
Forces' Spitfire Squadron, receiving the Legion of Honour, France's
highest national honour.
His 92-year-old wife, Betty, served for Great Britain from 1939
until 1945, earning her Majesty's Armed Forces Veterans Badge and a
war medal.
The pair was also each awarded with a Certificate of Recognition
signed by former prime minister Stephen Harper.
