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Box 239 Vulcan, Alberta Phone: 485-2996 TOL 2B0 485-2681 Remembfr FATHERS DAY *' Sunday June IB4- Do SotAE THING- m For DADVillage of Milo The regular meeting of the Village of Milo was held on April 12, 1995 at 6:30 n m * the Village office. • • in Present were Mayor Umscheid, Councillors Monner and Hingley, Municipal Administrator Lynda Cyr and Bill Brown from S & B Holdings. A letter was read from the County bus drivers in regards to the use of flashing lights when picking up students at the Milo School. Mayor Umscheid said he would try to get some more facts on this matter and bring them back to our May meeting. Tarragon Oil and Gas Company sent the Village a letter saying they are proposing to install a sweet gas compressor at the 06-05-19-21 W4M wellsite. The booster is required to compress gas produced from the wells in the area. The compressor will be driven by 430 HP natural gas driven engine. The facility will be constructed and operated according to the Existing Alberta Energy and Utilities Board and Alberta Envirnment Rules and Regulations regarding equipment spacing, safety standards, noise levels and emission standards. A signed letter is to be returned to them saying we have received this notice. A discussion was held and because some members of Council are concerned with the noise level, a letter is to be sent back saying this. Mr. Robert Langridge, the lawyer, who has been renting the village office on Thursday afternoons wrote to say he has not had much business. He would like to rent the office on a "pay as you come" basis. Council are in agreement with this and will charge $ 15.00 per hour., A letter is to be sent to him saying this, and asking him to let Lynda Cyr know when he will be using the office. There was a discussion in regards to the landfill site and the operation of it on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. A letter is to be sent to Dave McIntyre saying the Village has hired a Geophysical Company to do some test holes on the streets for the paving project. The approximate cost of this will be $ 1,500.00. Lynda Cyr said George Yanicki from Little Bow Park said Lake McGregor will be ready for the May holiday weekend. Several loads of sand have been hauled already. There will be 4,000 trees planted in the next few years. Councillor Monner said he has been talking to Dave McIntyre from Alberta Transportation and Utilities in regards to the water improvement project. He said Dave did not like the idea of the total cost being higher than originally quoted. He said to go ahead and purchase the plant package to save any further increases. It will be about two weeks before we get written confirmation. As of now the Village is approved to get $ 280,000.00. Councillor Monner will be in touch with Tom Armstrong from McPherson & Thom to go ahead. Council decided to get a quote from Bexte Construction in regards to having the rest of the Village office building sided. They also want a quote on shingling the west half of the roof and putting tin on the whole roof. A discussion was held in regards to the construction of a new R/V park near the entrance to the Village.A letter is to be sent to Apegga in regards to Terry Mullinger and the way he conducted his business as an engineer for the water improvement project. He will not answer any letters, faxes or telephone calls. Councillor Monner said Mr. Harold Dewitt is coming to the Village to do some surveying for the bike path. He charges $ 50.00 per hour. Council decided it would be a good idea to have the Village office lots surveyed. The meeting adjourned at 8:45 p.m. NORTH PETERSEN LINT ANDREACHUK "Southern Alberta's Regional Law Firm" B-A-R-R-l-S-T-E-R-S- and --- *• Dr. Robert J. (Bob) Langridge will be available to the Milo and area residents upon appointment which can be made at 485-2070 NORTH PETERSEN LINT ANDREACHUK Barristers & Senators Vulcan: 104 Center Street East 485-2070 JfoTlCE ’ NEXT RURAL INITIATIVES GROUP MEETING IS SET FOR JUNE 19, 1995 AT 8:30 P.M. AT THE MILO HALL. WE WILL BE DISCUSSING ALL ASPECTS OF THE BIKE PATH INCLUDING FUNDRAISING AND CONSTRUCTION. YOUR ATTENDANCE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.MILO COMMUNITY CAMPOUT JULY 7-9, 1995 "HOGG PARK" WEST OF HIGH RIVER, 24 KM. ON COAL TRAIL ROAD OR WEST OF RODEO GROUNDS ON TONGUE CREEK ROAD TURN SOUTH AFTER 15 KM. & WATCH FOR HOGG PARK SIGN BREAKFAST SERVED BOTH MORNINGS BY LIONS GAMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS FUN FOR EVERYONE FOR MORE INFO., CONTACT KEN FETKENHER 599-2307 EVERYONE WELCOME! O/C o To /<_£ U <:Times have changed in the Yukon town of Whitehorse, and not for the better. The Klondike days are done and the wimps have taken charge. You cannot drive under age or over the limit — not any. more. Scat belts arc compulsory oa the highway, and you need a helmet to ride that snowmobile. Restaurants may not serve moose steak to paying customers. Unlicensed campfires arc subject to a hefty fine, and there is even a 24- hour cash machine to help you pay it, outside the bank in Main Street Can this really be the wild frontier - of the far, frozen North, where the Bishop Ate His Boots, and the constables of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police set out to trail the Mad Trapper of Rat River? Was it for this that sourdough poet Robert Service wrote The Ballad Of Blasphemous Bill? Not likely. . “Never mind,” says Blaine Walden, nodding at the sleds strapped to the roof of his van. “You can still go bareheaded and drunk with a’ dog team.” The vastness of the Yukon territory still harbours a few grizzled die-hards, and Blaine Walden is one of them. Blaine is the kind of fellow for whom the Great North Woods were invented. He knows how to build rafts, tan hides and jug hares. Every fall he goes out and bags himself a moose. Then he dredges the lake below his cabin to net half a ton of fish, which he stores in a treehouse beyond the reach of four-legged thieves. The unlucky moose (or most of it) is for the kitchen. The fish come in handy as trail-food for his dogs — served frozen, raw and hacked into neat chunks with an axe. Blaine’s cabin is 50 miles from anywhere, in wilderness so remote ' that the lakes are unmapped and the mountain peaks unnamed. There is no road, but in high season and hard winter he and his clients can get in by canoe or by dogsled. During the treacherous mud and melt seasons Between, the place is completely inaccessible. I was a February client In Whitehorse, it was so cold that 1 could have chopped off my own nose and not felt the difference. Blaine sported a long ponytail and flowing moustache — modest enough in a town that still prizes full-face bird's-ncst beards, and where clean-shaven men feel somc- ThlS CUt'Tlde. c^pci/ OH -f-he. Proper pcL^n. Qp tAe. Lotivot! PEHPLAf/D ) Times . Bi- A aASE WEUDEfi/ (pofJ tTtam (JtSO/T/D) Took Will,pm (}peEfJ /ro^ £ I/O LA A/D on CL do9 /> Me Ye, T'aai hi/aa£/%mess This sTrpy IP T/ie rescir Dp i~ oip - how underdressed. At -25°C you need all the hair you can get He patiently inspected my inadequate boots and mittens, and announced that he had better lend me some of his own gear. Next morning, 50 miles from town and muffled to the eyebrows, 1 was ready for my first lesson in mushing. From Blaine's* “dog- mobile”. we loaded two sleds with food, fiicl and snowshocs, and laid out yards of gangline. Each sled was anchored with a grappling hook stamped hard into the snow. Then, one by one. we brought out 11 Alaska-cross Huskies — high- tailed, wet-nosed and whimpering with excitement. Blaine introduced them as we slipped each dog into its harness and hooked up to the traces. “This is old Ruby — she’s eight now, and our best lead dog. And Poncho, he’s got some saluki in him somewhere. Most of the younger dogs are grandsons to those two — like Frank, or Kobuk and Banjo on your team here. They can be hard to tell apart. But Spud’s easy — he’s die only one with a white coat.” My team of five dogs seemed amiable and informal as they waited for the off. but I was worried about the correct forms of address. Somebody had warned me that it is no longer the done thing to give a lusty shout of “mush!”, as men used -to in the old Jack London books. “Your dogs will follow my tracks,” said Blaine, “but if you like, you can go ‘haa!’ to wheel them left, and ‘gee!’ for right. Now, step on the trad, hold on to the sled bow and pull up your anchor. All you have to remember is — -never let go of the sled.” I was still wondering about what to say instead of “mush!” when Blaine’s team steamed off along the trail, and I pulled my anchor. An instant later we were round the first comer and shooting down a kind of laundry chute. Ahead and far below. I could hear Blaine shouting “And don’t forget the foot brake!” Lesson one. Sled dogs don’t have to be told to start pulling. They just go, and keep going. Sleds run faster than their dogs on steep downhills, but I managed to get to the bottom without running over Kobuk and Banjo. We were now all on the frozen surface of Squanga Lake, and our trail led offIn the snowy Canadian wastes of the Yukon WILLIAM GREEN hooks up his dog team and runs with the mushers of ‘Lake Blaine’, where he meets Kobuk, the husky that can’t howl across the ice, comfortingly horizontal. We clipped along for an hour or so. I haid nothing to do but ride my sled, braking occasionally to keep distance from the leader, and give myself up to the pleasure of the moment A light breeze stung the cheeks, with the glacial silence of winter broken only by the hiss of the runners and the panting of the dogs. We left one lake, and climbed over a rise to join the next I jumped off and “pumped” to help the team pull over the incline, remembering to hang on tight to the sled bow. If a driver lets go, the dogs will press on regardless. Drowsy mushers on the marathon Iditarod trail sometimes fall off their sleds and are found, cold and cursing, 20 miles behind their dog-teams. I stumbled in soft snow at the top of the hill, but jammed one knee on to the runner, and pulled back aboard. I was beginning to think of myself as quite a musher. The sled tipped, swerved and then bashed against a tree. We were accelerating downhill again. Suddenly, I was poking my head out of a large snowdrift, in which the rest of me appeared to be buried. At a standstill on the trail, five dogs looked back with reproachful expressions. Blaine anchored his sled and ambled up to inspect the wreck. “Good,” he said, “you held on to the sled.” • We reached the cabins before nightfall, without, further calamity, but after some hard pumping over soft snow. Jt was warm work, with plenty more to keep us busy after the dogs were unhooked and dispersed around the camp, each to his own chain and doghouse (there are no “kennels” in Canada). There were II ravenous stomachs to feed, along with snow to clear, logs to chop, and stoves to be lit Minutes after our arrival, a whiskey jack, or camp-robber jay, flew into a tree overlooking the kitchen. It maintained its stakeout for the whole week of our stay. The camp had two cabins — a tumbledown shack built by Blaine with his brother when they first came in to the territory 15 years ago; and a spanking new skookum version, with luxuries such as gas lamps and double-glazed windows. Running water, however, remains beyond Blaine’s handyman ingenuity. We scrambled down to the frozen lake, and smashed a scoop-hole in the ice with an iron pick. The ice was about 2ft thick. We had to ferry all our water in pails up the snowcovered trail, Jack-and-Jill style — the hardest of die daily chores. On the trails that week we visited several nntenanted trappers’ cabins, austere sawn-wood shelters with rusty stoves, frozen logs of loo paper and cryptic messages chalk- marked on the walls. “Shot moose but missed. Hank Henry,” said one. It must be a cold, lonely life working the trap lines in midwinter. But a short spell outside of civilisation, making pancakes and eating game in a cosy cabin, with a team of dogs for good company and exercise, is absolute bliss. Blaine knows of luxury backwoods cabins, accessible only by helicopter, that are rented out by the week to Hollywood stars and pressured executives, who know no other way of escaping the telephone. For getting out and about in the fresh air of deep winter, there is nothing to beat a good team of dogs. I tried two other local methods — racquet snowshoes and “fishscale” cross-country skis — but both were slow, and tricky, too. Snowshoes trip you up in the same way as loose shoelaces, and then they make it almost impossible for the wearer to stand up again. They are more useful as snow shovels. A third, and noisy, option is the snowmobile, preferred by busy trappers and antisocial teenagers. Blaine has a typically no- nonsense view of the matter “Dogs can do things that a skidoo can’t, like get you safe across a half- frozen lake. A skidoo may be fast and furious, but it can be unreliable. You are much more likely to die if there’s a breakdown and you’re far from help. As all the old mushers say — you can’t eat a carburettor.” Midweek, we took ourselves as far from help aswe could on an overnight sled trip up-country from the cabin. By this time I was on speaking terms with all the dogs, and practised enough to harness them, or tie colourful nylon booties to those with cracked paws. I was particularly drawn to young Kobuk. a willing dog with one terrible failing. He can bark. A good husky is unable to bark, and is ticked off sharply if it growls. Instead it is supposed to flaunt its wild ancestry by yapping and howling like a wolf. We set off with our full teams, although we were lightly loaded, and Frank was sick. A chained dog alone at the camp would fall easy prey to one of its wild cousins. Blaine wanted to recce a distant lake, the possible site for a new cabin he wants to build for his canoeing clients. We mushed all afternoon, in heavy snow. Sometimes it got too soft and deep for the dogs. Then we would hook up the sleds, and one of us would snow- shoe ahead to break trail. At dusk we made camp in the trees. The dogs were picketed in a long line, and fed from tin bowls. We stretched a tarpaulin, stamped out a circle and built a huge fire. Then we cooked our own meal — along with our mittens, which we turned like toast slices against the flames to dry them. Later, we rolled up in voluminous bags. Through the treetops, we could see the northern lights dance over our heads. Next morning, the temperature was -15°C. “You can tell that from the ice crystals in your nose,” said Blaine. “And if it was colder, we would hear the trees crack.” Emerging from my protective cocoon of down, I ran about stamping my boots to try to thaw them. I looked over at the dogs. Each one was curled up happily, on a bed of frozen snow. We showshoed through more woods to emerge on “Lake Blaine” — unvisited and gleaming in the early sun. Fresh caribou tracks crossed and recrossed the frozen surface. “It’s a safe bet that you are the first tourist ever to see this lake,” said Blaine. He picked out a good stand of black spruce, and sized up the trees. A cabin- builder likes to have his materials ready on site. The weather began to cloud in. so we slogged back to the dogs, hooked up and made for iomc. Arctic squalls blew in and. covered our old tracks. We made >cttcr running in the woods. On one lair-raising bend I crashed again, extravagantly. I may have done it on purpose — the snowdrift was as soft as feathers. Back in Whitehorse, I parted regretfully from the dogs, and from my borrowed Mukluk boots. The weather had changed again, to just below freezing. “That’s 10 degrees loo warm for me, and 20 too many for my dogs,” grumbled Blaine. He drove off in the dogmobile, back to some real work. It may take him the whole summer, but he is determined to teach Kobuk how to howL • Getting there: Whitehorse is not the most .accessible of cities, but travellers from London can fly via Vancouver on Canadian Airlines (081-577 7722). Apex fare from £537, plus £21.50 taxes. Blaine Walden runs half-a-dozen backwoods sled trips out of Whitehorse every winter between January and March. No experience is necessary, but participants should be “skier” fit and happy to shovel snow when required. Maximum four guests per trip. The cost of a week-long outing is C$1,700 (roughly £800), plus flights. Bookings through Arctic Edge, Box 4850, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada (010 1 403-633 5470; or ring Glyn Lovel on 0372-843032 in Britain for a brochure). Other operators featuring the Arctic Edge include Twickers World (081-892 8162) and World Expeditions (0628-74174). Health warning: William Green and Blaine used water from the frozen lakes, but care must be taken when extracting from such natural sources. The water may harbour a variety of microbes, including giardia, which cause giardiasis, a particularly severe form of diarrhoea. Boil water for 5-10 minutes or treat with iodine and/or use a water filter that guarantees to extract bacteria, protozoa and viruses. Further information: Visit Canada Centre, 62-65 Trafalgar Square, London WC2 (071-839 2299). • William Green travelled as a guest of Blaine Walden's Cadillac Kennels. Arctic Edge and Canadian Airlines HE IS JUST A LITTLE BOY by Chaplin Bob Fox He stands at the plate with his heart pounding fast. The bases are loaded, the die has been cast. Mom and Dad cannot help him, he stands all alone. A hit at this moment would send the team home. The ball meets the plate, he swings and he misses. There's a groan from the crowd, with some boos and some hisses. A thoughtless voice cries, "Strike out the bum." Tears fill his eyes, the game's no longer fun. So open your hearts and give him a break, For it's moments like this a man you can make. Please keep this in mind when you hear someone forget. He is just a little boy, and not a man yet.BIKE PATH FunoRRisinG UPDATE!! We have Raffle Tickets out in the Local Businesses for a Go-Kart. So please go and get some. The $5.00/foot campaign has been slow. Any donation you can give is appreciated!! The Casino Dates are set for Nov. 22&23 in Lethbridge. If you would like to volunteer to work there please give Laurie a call at 599-3852. PLEASE REMEMBER!! THE BIKE PATH IS Afl ASSET TO THE COmmUDITYI! i --- rompi BIKE PATH DONATION LIST! The Milo Rural Initiatives Group will be updating this list in the Canopener monthly so you can we can recognize and thank the people who are contributing to this exciting project. LARGE DONATIONS TO DATE ALBERTA LOTTERIES TARRAGON OIL & GAS LTD. MILO RECREATION BOARD MILO AG SOCIETY SPRAY AIR CANADA CRESTAR OIL & GAS LTD. $20,000.00 $10,000.00 $ 5,000.00 $ 5,000.00 $ 1,000.00 $ 250.00 LOCAL DONATIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS Grant £- Betty Lahd Lome & Laurie Umscheid Shirley Wilson Bill & Ruby Brockway Milo Tops Club WE WOULD LIRE TO THANK THESE PEOPLE FOR THEIR DONATIONS! COUNTRY 1 «* * CARPET 0 CARE Wi Specializing in: aftep, Carpels, Upholstery and Drapery RVs, Autos, Windows and Exterior Home Cleaning WE CLEAN DRAPERY RIGHT IN YOUR HOME? ROSS AND SHIRLEY ZUEIIT JKE Box 566, Vulcan, Alberta TOL 2BO PHONE 485-6359FLASH SACK TO THE 4O'S PRESENTED BY: THE 8/9 DRAMA CLASS DATE : WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14th TIME : 8:00 PM , Milo School Gym BABYSITTING A VAILABLE: approx. 2 $5 PER FAMILY FOR THE EVENING PLEASE CALL THE SCHOOL BEFORE JUNE IF YOU REQUIRE A BABYSITTER ( THE PRODUCTION INVOLVES TWO PLAYS WHICH WILL NOT 8E INTERESTING TO YOUNG CHILDREN) THERE WILL BE NO CHARGE FOR ADULTS THIS IS OUR GIFT TO YOU!!!V PoaCi Rinner Bowling League' "2dZwnMAs STANDING^ KAY ZAVrSOFF SHEILA WINCH CAROL VOOY5 PROMT- HELEN SHIELD AUDREY FETICENHER Qsrr\qnatuJ2cUia7U>Letter to a graduate Dear child: today is your Graduation! We, your parents, have had mixed feelings as this day has drawn near. We’ve shared in your happiness as you’ve scoured the department stores to find just the right outfit for you to wear and we’ve suffered in silence with you as you’ve crammed your time into a few hours of studying to make sure that you pass your grades. By studying hard, and passing the tests, you will ensure that you will take your place upon the stage, along with your classmates, at this most important time in your life. However, we are also saddened because this day means that our “baby” has grown up and you are ready to try your hand at living on your own. For the most part, you will be making your own way and your own decisions. Because we are parents, we don’t believe that you’re ready for this. After all, you are still “so young and innocent”! As you’ve heard a thousand times, it’s a big, cruel world out there and we have this fear of what might happen to you unless we’re there to guide your steps along the way. Our fears are bom from experiences which you have yet to face. This fear has probably been in the hearts of all the parents before us who have ever seen their child take that first step into adulthood and it is one which you, yourself, will probably experience. As you will understand in the years ahead, this fear is formed from our love for you and our continued instinct to protect you from all those evils that lie in your path. On the other hand, we are very happy and extremely proud of you for having^achieved this milestone in your life. You have put ih 12 long and, sometimes, frustrating years in the classroom to reach this point. For this, you have our admiration and our congratulations. Tonight we will celebrate this event with you and we will think back to our own school days. As we will look down the row of graduates, we will remember our own eagerness to get out into the world. We will remember our dreams and we will take stock of our own lives and despair may form in our hearts because of the plans that didn’t take shape. At the same time, we will also be counting our blessings and you, my child, will be up there at the top of the list! Over the years you have given us untold amounts of joy and on many occasions you've made us very, very proud! This will not stop, just because of your graduation, and we eagerly look forward to the future with you. The time since our own school days until now has passed by very quickly and we wonder where it’s gone. Our wish for you is that you not be in too much of a hurry to grow up. Take your time and enjoy your youth and remember that the simple things in life are usually the best so “take time to smell the roses” as you go. Don’t get yourself tied to a situation where you spend all your hours engulfed in work and forget the joys of life. Remember the rule of the classroom — what you learn today will follow and guide you in the future. Don’t think that you will be able to learn how to enjoy life later on. It doesn’t usually happen that way! You must learn to separate your career from your family and be able to give each the attention they deserve. Take time, also, to learn about yourself. Plan your future based on your likes and dislikes, on your instincts and your talents. Now is the time to experiment. Don’t be in too much of a hurry to select a lifelong career based only on financial and social rewards. While these are important, your own self-satisfaction must be number one and you are the only one who will be able to judge what that might be. In choosing your career,^however, don’t sell yourself short. Don’t settle for less than you are capable of achieving. There’s an old athletic saying “Without the pain, there’s no gain!” and this may be used in life, as well. So always aim one step further than you think possible. When you reach that goal, set yourself another one and always do your best. Never settle for mediocrity because it could become a habit, both in your work and in your personal life. By now, we hope you’ve learned the rights and wrongs of life. You will have to make your own choices but if you follow the golden rule — “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” — you will have few problems. Remember to treat all others with respect and dignity, no matter what their role in life might be. Remember, too, that you will always be ours in our minds and in our hearts and, because of this, we will be available if we’re ever needed. Wherever life takes you, no matter how rocky the road, the place where we live will always be your home. May God bless you with His love by giving you health and happiness. — Your parentsCONGRATULATIONS TO MILO GRADE 9 GRADUATES Jim Godkin, Tammy WeaselHead, Jana Godkin Jennifer Bartsch V.E. Day Parade May 1945 Front: John Maries - Teacher Larry Umscheid, John Stumph, Bill Watt, Bert Clemmons. Can you identify any one else?v^s s ** Sm gle Rel ease Party (Hillcrest cotnp25) Single: “LIFE AFTER THIRTY" Murray McCartney B.A. LL.B Barrister Solicitor Notary Public 115 - 2nd Avenue Vulcan, Alberta Phone 485-2039 485-2953 (res) OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. -12 noon 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. B/efwngs and Weekends By appointment LARRY LEE STRAIGHT CLEAN & SIMPLE Place: RANCHMAN'S (Lounge) Date: Fri & Sat June 23 & 24 Time: 9pm to 1am Showcasing Nightly 10pm to 11pm BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT *start-up counselling ‘planning assistance ‘financial counselling ‘investment liason ‘government liason COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT ‘assistance in event planning ‘liason/facilitation with community groups (Rural Initiatives, Municipal Councils & Chambers) TOURISM DEVELOPMENT ‘information ‘linkages ‘marketing PLEASE GIVE GEORG1E OR BEV A CALL 485-2992 - — --- TILindsey Henry Born April 4 , 1993 died June 3, 1993 GODS LOAN I'll loan to you for a little time a child of mine, He said. For you to love the while she lives And mourn for when she’s gone. It may be just a few years, or twenty two or three. But will you, till I call her back take care of her for me? She'll bring her charms to gladden you And should her stay be brief You'll have her lovely memories As solace for you grief. I cannot promise she will stay Since all from earth return But there are lessons taught down there I want this child to learn. I've looked this wide world over In my search for teachers true Now will you give her all the love nor think the labour vain. Nor hate me when I come to call to take her back again? I fancy that I heard you say Dear Lord Thy Will Be Done? For all the joy thy child can bring the risk of grief will run. We'll shelter her with tender care We'll love her while we may And for the happiness we've known forever grateful stay. But should the angels call for her Much sooner than we've planned We'll have the bitter grief that comes and try to understand. Somewhere beyond the sunset Where happiness never dies She dwells in Gods beautiful garden, Amidst the blue & gold of the skies. And to us who will always love her And whose passing bought great pain We will treasure her memory forever Until we meet again. Love Mom, Dad & Cory Grandma, Grandpa, Sandy, Marlys, Jordan, Darian, Doug & Leah Bridal Show onov m< Kelly CYR BftlDF EL ECT o F FRAME KotfUT Thursday tune 22 T‘30 pw. Hilo common/tv HAlL RE 0 VESTED Plf$s£ emo- RE OPE EVERYOUE WELCOME LAURA MSCIHDB & GOREOR SHAMOU would like to invite you to their wedding dance on Saturday, June 24 at 9:00 pm in the Innisfail Legion, Innisfail, Alberta Family , friends and neighbors please come join us in this celebration. -d1| f|hl| & <? *o A 0 % 1 € i ^jyll WfLCOM E ro JULIA ER/N BhxtE ^Rf/ may i); VULCAN UOSPl T/5L ~l JOm. ~1 T i £ € € € € € e £ PROUP P^EaJTS Co?>Yi Ll-S/9 a «Nt» o B.o SlST£* F/?lc A . % © (rl?/WD 0/J06-HT&R. Tfc ToHNsSitS/iN ^ ^ XVBRi «* AAD/A/i^ & -<7 ^ Grfat G'ftftwppflcifrTFR TO Roth t<M IMkes ^ <? € 6fit=5T££ v T/fUASA RAtABY £ A OWfi KEXTf V | G^-4 ffira| 0^-4 £i^y& I CONGRATULATIONS to Brandy Ann Miller on the birth.of her son, Austen. Congratulations also to grandmother April Miller and great grandmother Myrtle Milliken. Congratulation :::::::::: ;;;; ;;-;.;-;.;X;:;:;-: :;S:-S:^ : oil • :tHeir: farm '•■•■• west, of fidsfeiy ;•■•:■:■: Gene & Marilyn Henry of Milo & Barrel & Judy Gillespie of Lomond would like to announce the marriage of their children LEAH & DOUG to take place on June 24 at 5:30 pm in the Hope Lutheran Church in Milo Iiiauls and family please consider tills your invitation to tfie wedding dance to be held at 9:00 pin at the Milo CiMimiiimty HallThe Milo Recreation Board would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their donations of equipment, labour and materials towards construction of the New Ball Diamond. A1 Bertram Holdings Ltd. -land levelling McCallum’s Backhoe Service -trenching and packing Bexte Construction -reduced labour rates Tarragon Oil and Gas Limited -pipe Tollestrup Construction Inc. -reduced shale price Lyle Eddy Trucking -reduced trucking fee lan Thomson -use of tractor Doug Umscheid -use of welder Bill Brown -many hours of labour r" * A Your support is very much appreciated!CeN&RflTOLATIONS CMST/U-. gr^duatikJA Tone ^/<?5 F.C.H.S. 'y-ryOtf* < T>A D Jim and Wanda Domolewski [.P.'s TRAVEL Call us for your Travel Needs We book any Trip, any Where, any Time! (Our office isn't closed after 5:00) Air Fares, Packages, Tours, Cruises, Hotels, Car Rentals, etc. through any company . Ph (403) 792-2227 fax (403) 792-2209 Jim or Wanda LAS VEGAS May & June (excl. June 29) $299 round trip Air Only from Calgary 3 to 7 nights $419 Double occupancy Palace Station Thurs. to Sun. June (excl. June 29) $429 Double occupancy Hacienda Thurs. to Sun. Fares based on regular scheduling, call us for Seat Sales. Taxes not included. Due to the excessive rain in the foothills the Bow River at Cluny has overflowed into Hidden Valley. Some local people who have cabins there are concerned that the flood waters will overflow into their property. CONGRATULATIONS to Dene Peterson who won the jackpot at the SODA bingo on June 8th.EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH WOMEN The May meeting of our ELW was held at 2 p.m. in the church basement with 7 members present.Lois led the Bible study in Ephesians. Marilyn read the Grace Gift Meditation. Carol read the minutes of the last meeting. Business from the Minutes: Harriet gave a report on the convention in Claresholm. The fall training event will be at Medicine Hat, and the convention at Redeemer in Hanna. Bethel Lutheran talent night was successful With a good turn out. Treasurer's report was given by Harriet and correspondence read. We will spring clean the church on May 29, at 9 a.m. We will set up Friday night at the hall for our Mother's Day Tea. Kathy and Lois will look after the door prizes, Bible study leader for the month of June is Carol, lunch hostess is June and Francis is on cleaning. Lois moved the meeting adjourn, and Harriet served a lovely lunch. The Lutheran church women are collecting empty pill bottles to send overseas. If you wish to help us out they can be given to any member or left at the church. Thanks. The Terry Fox Foundation KonorwyChatocn - Betty L. and Holland M. Fox 4114 Belanger Drive Abbotsford. Brltt-faCOumbU VXJ 1K3 T«fc l&Hi 650-0241 F«jc *GO<) *50-0207 MILO TO BE PROUD!! According to the latest Terry Fox newsletter, Milo finished 1st for the per capita fund raisers in the Alberta/Northwest Territories for the 1994 Terry Fox Run. The final results were as follows: TOWN per capita Total 1. Milo $92.60 $10,556 2. Cluny $16.99 $ 2,004 3. Enterprise $11.94 $ 681 4. Standard $10.97 $ 3,687 5. Alliance $10.50 $ 1,933 6. Wandering River $ 8.13 $ 545 7. Slave Lake$ 7.77 $ 1,508 8. Hughenden $7.75 $ 2,169 9. Derwent 10. Water $ 7.38 $ 1,099 Valley $6.94 $ 756 11. Lamont $6.90 $10,766 12. Veteran $6.75 $ 2,106 13. Okotoks $5.58 $ 1,188 14. Fort Simpson $5.37 $ 5,374 15. Nanisiuk $5.12 $ 1,604 We also were told that we finished in the top 3 for per capita fund raising in the entire country!! Way to go Milo - keep that in mind for the next run in September. Let's keep up the great work!! SMILE VARN YOU! SMILE I & you can Amite ujh.cn thlngA go mmong, and Aay It doeAn’t matten. I & you can Laugh, ofifa caaeA ^ wo eA, And trouble make-4 you fatten; I & you can keep a cheeafiul &ace WEen aZZ aaound aae blue, Then have youn. head examined Bud, Thebe'6 Aomethlng waong with you. Eon one thing I've annlved at, Theae aae no andA and butA. A guy that Ia galnnlng all the time MuAt be completely nutA! Xl’s /"or. Sale The Michael Monners’ are finally going to sell their playground set !! To be fair to all who have asked about it, over the years, we will take offers until June 15th. It includes - fort, firemans pole, slide, monkey bars, tire bridge. 599-3790| -KHf, \ Helping Farmers 4 Feed The World FOR ALL YOUR AGRO INPUT NEEDS THIS SPRING PLEASE CONTACT THE ALBERTA POOL MILO/QUEENSTOWN WE HAVE A GOOD STOCK OF COMPETITIVELY PRICED SEED FERTILIZER CHEMICALS TWINE 2 FERTILIZER SPREDDERS 4 VALMAR CHEMICAL APPICATORS To serve you belter mere will be someone at me elevator or an call at all times including weekends PRODUCTS INCLUDING Please Call MILO QUEENSTOWN DENNIS TRENT GALVIN 599-3866 599-2151 599-3745 599-2172 599-2199 YOUR PATRONAGE IS APPRECIATEDMILO SLOW-PITCH LEAGUE 1995 REVISED GAME SCHEDULE DATE TIMES: 6:30 PM 8:00 PM MAY 25 Thursday 6 vs 8 1 vs 3 MAY 28 Sunday 5 vs 7 2 vs 4 JUNE 1 Thursday 2 vs 6 1 vs 5 JUNE 4 Sunday 4 vs 8 7 vs 3 JUNE 8 Thursday 1 vs 7 4 vs 6 JUNE 11 Sunday 5 vs 3 2 vs 8 JUNE 15 Thursday 4 vs 3 7 vs 8 JUNE 18 Sunday 5 vs 6 1 vs 2 JUNE 22 Thursday 2 vs 5 4 vs 7 JUNE 25 Sunday 3 vs 8 1 vs 6 JUNE 26 Monday 1 vs 8 3 vs 2 JUNE 29 Thursday 6 vs 7 4 vs 5 JULY 3 Monday 1 vs 4 3 vs 6 JULY 6 Thursday 7 vs 2 8 vs 5 JULY 10 Monday 5 vs 7 2 vs 4 JULY 13 Thursday 6 vs 8 1 vs 3 JULY 17 Monday 2 vs 6 1 vs 5 JULY 20 Thursday 4 vs 8 7 vs 3 JULY 24 Monday 1 vs 7 4 vs 6 JULY 27 Thursday 5 vs 3 2 vs 8 TEAMS D Majorville Molesters Gord Vooys 2) Milo Ice Lyle Nelson 3) Nelson Cowboys Tom Nelson 4) Queenstown Hackers Anne Zaytsoff 5) Milo Posse Kyle Lahd 6) Queenstown Cleaners Gerald Deitz 7) Eastway Pickups Lorraine Marshall 8) Milo No-Stars Ken Fetkenher ENTRY FEE PER TEAM WILL BE $100.00 THIS SCHEDULE REPLACES THE ONE IN THE CAN OPENER■# UPHOLSTERY 485-6032 ALL KINDS OF REUPHOLSTERY & SUPPLIES -aVS To v h °o 9 STOP IN TO SEE WHAT WE DO IN THESHOP & 1 CHECKOUT K OUR FREEBIE & DISCOUNT BiNS! REAR OF 311 3 ST NORTH .VULCAN, AB BOX 787, TOL 2B0 Neville HOME OF &e-Chiya coll to arrange a visit by 8e-Chiya to celebrate your special occasion Irene m Recreation Board Meeting Thurs,, June 15 7:oo p.m. Village Office Anyone requesting funds please have the form in to Doug Bushel! or Lome Umscheid before the meeting. Forms are available at Jamie's AG Foods. P- CATCH^jTO] Guess What! Our May 18th trip to Chinook Centre was a go. There were six passengers from Milo and three from Vulcan. Bill Watt was our man at the wheel; Thank you Bill. The Legion Bus is booked for June 15th, our regular 3rd Thursday. Book your seat by calling Carol Henry 599- 2107 or June Beckner 599-3902. THE HUMAN RACE In this day and age it’s plain to see When we rush around like the proverbial bee, And vie with others to reach first base; Why someone called it THE HUMAN RACE. Village Office Hours: Tuesday 8-11 am l-4p_m. Thursday 8-1 lam POE ANYONE INTERESTED, THERE ARE 6 AERIAL PHOTOS OF THE VILLAGE OF MILO. There are good prices for different size enlargements. Stop in the Village office & see them. PHONE: 599-3883 MAYOR - LOKNE UMSCHEID COUNCILLORS- BARRY MONNER MIKE TU NG LEY TOWN MAN- BILL BROWN MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATOR LYNDA CYR -- _____________________________________________________________BROWNIE NEWS On May 18th, the pack held their last meeting tor the year at the Monner farm, where they enjoyed a good play, saw the wild boars and beat the rain to squeeze in a weiner roast. The girls received some badges, gifts and special mementos. We will be sorry to not see around the toadstool next year - Pamela Sukut, Kimberley Armstrong, Anita Wong and Phyllicia Many Guns. Jennifer Way and Katie Wilson had perfect attendance all year long and also wore their uniforms every one of those days. They were each awarded a Fun Saver camera for their efforts. They will probably be snapping pictures left and right at our campout in July!! It has been another fun year of Brownie events and the pack and leaders would like to thank very much all of those who helped us out in anyway to make it so, especially the Milo Community School staff who go out of their way to make us welcome in the school. We hope everyone got their cookies and we thank you for your support. Keep those soup labels coming in !!!! We still collect them all summer!! So until there is a report on our campout. Yours in Guiding, Brown Owl SAi O THt 2vKV£»£srp '7H/HGS . - -AJ.t^W/VA7TA Q iS> 0 Our young son was asked to be an usher at my friends' wedding. He was coached to ask if the person he was escorting was a guest of the bride or groom, to know where to seat them. We had to hide our smiles when he graciously offered his arm and asked the first arrival, "Madam, whose side are you on?" ###***###***###***###***###*** Little Jimmy; "Aw Mom, I don't want to take L'il Sis fishin' with me. Last time she came I didn't catch a single fish." Mom: " I'll tell her to be real guiet this time." Little Jimmy; " It wasn't the noise. She ate all the bait." ###***###***###***###***###*** WELCOME TO THE COMMUNITY: Johan and Susana Friesen and their four children - Johnny, Trudy, David and Anna have moved temporarily into the Hugh Winch home until their home is ready. Johan is employed at the Alvin Winch farm. As part of my small community B.C. school's All Saint's Day celebration, I took my class to our local cemetary, to encourage the children to bring flowers to place on a loved one's grave. Sammy brought flowers to remember his uncle, but we couldn't seem to locate his grave. Next day at school,he told me; Saskatoon.Thank you to Pat Gauthier - Milo UFA The Milo Majors Ball Team would like to thank you for the new uniforms! Billy Godkin Amy Hingley Pam Mackenzie Mary Nelson |§L^ Craig Robertson ffPiiL Wm Daniel Sukut Cole Beagle Dereck Tiegen Devin Doram Shaun Umscheid Jon Fischer Gavin Vooys Mitch Honess Ryan Way Ben Stokes Melissa Doore " The gang looks good in blue!" IXMWrrf Lost Mis SeEt> PHius totted Me ? rotMh A Oxne^, HOVUNNtT: !>4 2 (Q) TXfrVS 7feWA/ toml He* m>* THC( 2) ^ Without you we’d be . . . yo&irtfe&zA. 'fOU'/ZB fl\tJFi\StTc The Milo Community School wishes to express our sincere gratitude for the support received from the entire community for another very successful school year. A big thank you goes out to our bus drivers who have volunteered several hours of their time so our programs can continue. Bill Watt, Sandy Henry, Kathy Sukut, Penny Heather, Marlys Henry, Rod Armstrong, Warren Heather and Jim McNiven. The following people have donated to or volunteered their time over the past year to our school: Colleen Deitz,Wendy Hingley, Bev Holmes, Anne Zaytsoff, Betty Nelson, Yvonne Umscheid, Kathy Vooys, Sharleen Bushell, Dorothy Way, Kathy Sukut, Laurie Umscheid, Barb Godkin, Carol Robertson, Kevin Umscheid, Jo-Anne Wilson, Betty Godkin, Joanne Monner, Charlotte Bath, Monica Monner, Doug Bushell, Jamie Robertson, Gord Vooys, Rocky Wilson, Allan Bartsch, Keith Godkin, Brenda McMorris, Penny Heather, Neil Northcott, Darlene Phillips, Charlotte Nelson, Paul Forestell, Jim McNiven, Tracy Lyster, Blahne Sukut, Mike Monner, Barry Monner, Lome Umscheid, Mike Hingley, Ellen Watt, Philomena Many Bears, Bill Watt, Delbert Yellow Fly, Jackie Spring Chief, Dave Shin- goose, Sandy Henry, Rosemary Monner, Marlys Henry, Muriel Northcott, Tom Nelson, Dale Deitz, Marianne Armstrong, Rod Armstrong, Frances Thompson, Donna Will, Alice Bartsch, Gordon Gore, Marina Vannatta, Ralph Gross, Julie Nelson, John Ivers, Ken Vooys, Marilyn Henry, Lynda Cyr, Sheryl Smith, Darb Holoboff, Ian Godkin, Lloyd Deitz, Wendy MacKenzie, Carol Vooys, Diane Monner, Dorothy Monner, Dale Nelson, Donna Deitz, Judy Ashbacher, Linda Booth, Colleen Bartsch, Shannon Reynolds, Betty Domolewski, Lorraine Kirk, Richard Lambert, Cathie McNiven, Florence Bushell, Ross Nelson, Jamies AG Foods, Snake Valley Trading Post, Pioneer Grain, Alberta Wheat Pool, Meadowlark Sewing, Milo Freight Systems Inc., Earl and Irene Smith, White’s Photography, Vulcan Chev Geo Oldsmobile, Bank of Nova Scotia - Milo, Southern Creations, Mr. R's, Vulcan Ford, Milo Cafe,Milo & District Ag Society, Milo & District Rec Board, GROW - Milo Rural Initiatives, Wes and Lana Reynolds, Gilbert Vooys, Shirley Wilson, Bill Brown. The following are the Community School Advisory Council members: Barb Godkin, Doug Bushell, Lome Umscheid, Jamie Robertson, Colleen Bartsch, Monnie Fetkenher, Kathy Vooys, Karen Forestell, Rocky Wilson, and Joanne Monner. Thanks to the Public Library for their support all year. The Parent-Teacher Group whose help we could not do without is once again greatly appreciated. We would also like to thank the Palliser Regional School Board for their support of the Compressed School Week by appointing us permanent status. A thanks to the Palliser North maintenance crew. To anyone we may have inadvertently missed, our apologies and our thanks. Our annual Bar-be-que and Awards Day will be on Thursday, June 29th at Noon. For $1.00 you get a hamburger, popsicle, and coffee. All of our volunteers are welcome!! Have a great summer!!AGENT FOR AGRICULTURE FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP. (Alberta Hail & Crop^ HENDERSON HAIL GREAT AMERICAN RAIN & HAIL for further information please STOP IN AT THE ELEVATOR, AT HOME OR CALL BUS: 599-3866 HOME: 599-37451 ‘ThisIsj4 farmer Farmers are found in fields plowing up, seeding down, returning from, planting to, fertilizing with, spraying for and harvesting if. Wives help them, little boys follow them, the Government confuses them, city relatives visit them, salesmen detain them, meals wait for them, weather can delay them, but it takes Heaven to stop them. When your car stalls along the way, a farmer is a considerate, courteous, inexpensive road service. When a farmer's wife suggests he buy a new suit, he can quote from memory every expense involved in operating the farm last year, plus the added expense he is certain will crop up this year. Or else he assumes the role of the indignant shopper, impressing upon everyone within earshot the pounds of pork he must produce in order to pay for a suit at today's prices. A farmer is a paradox - he is an "overalled" executive with his home his office; a scientist using fertilizer attachments; a purchasing agent in an old straw hat; a personnel director with grease under his finger nails; a dietician with a passion for alfalfa, animals and antibiotics; a production expert faced with a surplus; and a manager battling a price-cost squeeze. He manages more capital than most of the businessmen in town. He likes sunshine, good food, fairs, dinner at Noon, auctions, his neighbors, Saturday nights in town, his shirt collar unbuttoned, and above all, a good soaking rain in August. He is not much for droughts, ditches, throughways, experts, weed, the eight- hour day, helping with the housework, or grasshoppers. Nobody else is so far from the telephone or so close to God. Nobody else gets so much satisfaction out of modem plumbing, favourable weather and good ice cream. Nobody else can remove all those things from his pockets and on washday still have overlooked: five "steeples", one cotter key, a rusty spike, the stub end of a lead pencil, a square tape, a $4.98 pocket watch, and a cupful of chaff in each trouser cuff. A farmer is both Faith and Fatalist - he must have faith to continually meet the challenges of his capacities amid an ever-present possibility that an act of God (a late spring, an early frost, flood, drought) can bring his business to a standstill. You can reduce his acreage but you can't restrain his ambition. Might as well put up with him - he is your friend, your competitor, your customer, your source of food and fiber, and a self-reliant citizen that helps replenish your cities. He is your countryman - a denim-dressed, business-wise, fast-growing statesman of stature. And when he comes in at noon having spent the energy of his hopes and dreams, he can be recharged anew with the magic words: "The Market's Up.'' The highest reward for a farmer's toil is net what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it./llbcrta COMMUNII* OCVCUTMCNT T**~TT “ “ A A NOVA <s SAftWAy CANADIAN WKTIRN NATURAL QA8 nDkthwyxtcrn UTRiTO An AteOQyvvvy Alberta S|K)rt Recreation i'lfks & Wildlife Foundation t OK UKTtiLK fM-OfWATION CALL 403-333-H7M)nr Fa X 40J-335-V794 1905 Big Cmmlrv SummiT (lUimvs Didsbury, Alberta June 16, 17 Sc 16, 1995 Oidsbury will be hooting the Big Country Summer Games Big Country Games are designed to provide mass participating opportunities in a multi-sport and cultural festival at the zone level, allowing selected athletes to qualify for Alberta Games. Participation opportunities for a wide variety of ages and abilities are also offered. On behalf of the Town of Didsbury, we invite you, your family and friends to be our guests and take part in the activities and events so we may all come together to experience the fun and excitement of being included in the Big Country Summer Games. SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES: Take in the lighting of the torch at the Opening Ceremonies 7:00 p.m. Friday night at the Memorial Complex. Athletes arc encouraged to attend. The Cultural Committee has arranged several events for your entertainment and enjoyment. Several events will encompass the whole /.one, such as writing contests, art show and sale, and strolling minstrels and clowns. During the Gaines Days, there will be Historic Site Tours of Didsbury, a Variety Night and a Three Act Play. Additionally, there will he an arts show and sale, a craft show and sale and an author reading and book signing by Marilyn Halerson. The Didsbury Museum will also he open with many displays, demonstrations, and tours, and also a Sunday Morning interdenominational service is being planned . For the children, there will be street entertainment with face painting and other forms of fun activities. To gel you around to all these activities and sport venues, there will he horse drawn (ransporation at you disposal.and other tidbits gleaned from the once-popular autograph album Memory by Doris Nicolav y HATEVER became of auto- graph albums? During my Sr school days in the 1930s almost every girl between the ages of eight and 14 had one. They were popular gifts that we proudly brought to school to offer to best friends, who wrote little poems or limericks above their signatures. Girls loved them. They usually penned such good wishes as: "When Cupid shoots his arrow, I hope he MRS. you!" (Women’s liberation had yet to be bom.) Boys didn’t seem to care much for autograph books. Certainly no boy I knew ever owned one. But they might agree to write in one and perhaps were secretly flattered to be asked. Sometimes they blotched up those lovely pastel pages with smudges and ink stains, but sometimes their offerings were surprising. I have in mine a drawing of the most modem airplane of that era with the caption: "This plane can go 350 MPH!" What became of that boy, I wonder? Did he become an artist, or perhaps an aeronautical engineer? Teachers often were invited to write in autograph albums, and they invariably wrote quotations from Shakespeare or the Bible. Dedicated souls they were, who felt they might shape our characters with a few well-chosen words. Interest in autographs seemed to wane as we progressed into the teen years and they were finally put away with the things of childhood. Autographs were not exclusive to my generation. Recently, looking through an old trunk of my mother’s, 1 found an old album wrapped in an embroidered linen pillowcase. What a treasure-house of memories it must have been for Mother and what a glimpse of history it was for me. Fashioned of dark green padded leather, the cover featured hand- painted blue and white daisies with the word "Autographs" in flowing script edged in gilt. On the flyleaf, written with intricate swirls, was the inscription: “To Myrtle with love, December 25,1907." This was not a gift to a child. Myrtle was 19 years old in 1907. It was an era when people were not ashamed to display sentimentality. And the entries! Poems, quotations, as in mine, but with the nostalgic flavor of lacy Victorian valentines. Wishes for joy, serenity, health and heaven's blessings, and pleas for remembrance. "Youth, happiness, love. Ah! tell me true, What could I wish thee more?" A most appropriate message from Mother's music teacher advised: "Sometimes B flat, Never B sharp. Always B natural!" And who, I wonder, was the man whose signature blossomed and twined so gracefully across the page? Who suggested to Mother that: "Pleasure comes through Toil; When one gets to Love Work, her life is a happy one." If he was one of her suitors, I can certainly understand why she did not marry him. For sheer exuberance, who could top this: "Cows love pumpkins, pigs love squash, John loves Myrtle! Oh! By Gosh!" Only one man, apparently. The man who, in that era of high starched collars and formal manners, penned this risque little ditty: “There once was a girl whose name was Hood. One of her legs was made of wood. We went down to play in the sand. And I got slivers in my hand!" Who was this daring young man? Perhaps a sense of humor was as desirable a trait in marriage then as it is today. He was the man who captured Myrtle's heart and who 15 years later became my father. I wrapped them together in the old linen cloth, those two generations of autograph albums, and hid them tenderly away in Mother's old trunk. My granddaughter may discover them there some day. What changes in customs and mores may have taken place by that time? I wish I could be here to see for myself. ♦ (Doris Nicolay grew up in Winnipeg and is now retired in Calgary.) April 27,1995 Western PeopleA CONCERN FOR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES EVERYWHERE. PETITION 2493 Madelyn Murray O'Hara, an atheist, whose efforst successfully eliminated the yse of Bible reading and prayer from all public schools 15 years ago, has been granted a federal hearing in Washington, D.C., on the subject of P.C.C., the petition R11.2493 - which could ultimately pave the wav to stop the reading of the eospelon the airwaavs of America. She took her petition with 27.QQQ signatures to back her. If her attempt is successful (as was her last one), then all Sunday morning whorship sercvices being broadcast, either by radio or by television will be stopped. Many elderly people and shut-ins, as well as those recuperating from hospitalization or illness, depend on radio and television to fulfill their worship needs every week. Madelyn is also campaigning to remove Christmas programs. Christmas carols and songs from public schools. You can help at this time. We need over a million (1,000,000) signed letters. This should defeat Mrs. O'Hara by showing that there are still many Christians alive, well and concerned in our country. This petition is 2493. Sign and cutoff and mail the form below. Please do not sign Mr. & Mrs., but sign individually. Let each adult sign one separately and mail it in separate envelopes. Be sure to put PETITION 2493 on the lower left comer of the envelope. This is very important. Please have this letter and Petition photocopied and give it to (ten) people, friends and relatives who will share your concern. (Cut off below and send) FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISION 1919 "M" Street N.W. Washington, DC USA 20554 RE: PETITION 2493 GENTLEMEN: I am a Canadian and proud of my heritage. I am also very much aware of the part religious freedom has played in the freedom that we, as AMERICANS AND CANADIANS, now enjoy. Therefore, I protest any human effort to remove, from radio or television, programs designed to show faith in God, or to remove Christian songs or Christmas carols from the public school system. Sincerely,___________ -___________________________________ NAME:________________________________________________________ ADDRESS: _________________________ _______________ DATE: LyttftjfSjjj i Mii° ■ $ ■ - / IBM# . $]isn«£sj ill r- - j^p Municipal % Library if II Bapi mi W—i News 1. New materials VIDEOS - 'The Holocaust: in memory of millions" - 'The Magic School Bus for lunch" - 'The Magic School Bus gets lost in Space" BOOKS - 'The Complete Bird Feeder Book" -'The Creative Conainer Gardener" -"Garden Projects you can Build" 2. Return your books in June and pay no fines!! Our method of recording who has books, etc. will soon be done on the computer rather than manually. It will be much easier for you to get lists of what books you have out. We would very much like patrons to return all overdue books as soon as possible. June is amnesty month, so there are no fines - an excellent time to return books. The library has lists of who has overdue books right now and we will get them to you the first few weeks of June. 3. Summer reading program theme is an amusement park!! In July and August, we will again have a summer reading program for children. In a summer reading program, children are encouraged to use the library during the summer months. There are activities related to taking out books to read on any library day. As well, we usually have several special fun days. Our "Kick-off' day will be Tuesday, July 4 at 1:00 pm. Any children are welcome to come join us for fun, food, and games. This year, the theme is "Welcome to Bookworld", an amusement park theme, and several junior high students will be helping with the program this year. Several junior high students are going to be helping with the program this year. LIBRARY HOURS Tuesdays 9:00am-ll:30am Thursdays 10:00am-12:30pm 1:30pm- 4:00pm 6:30pm- 8:00pm S Phone 599-3850 STRING / SintMEE BLOUSES .MI BRIGHT & COLORFUL___ Hundreds tc chmce from In pints & sohds. -- Most with, pants & shorts to match. 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THANK YOU I would like to thank everyone who sponsored me in the Jump Rope for the Heart Foundation. - Crystal Vair We would like to thank every one who helped make Louise and Kevin's wedding day so perfect. Thank you to our families and friends who helped at the dance and gift opening. We really appreciate your help. Thank you also to everyone who brought squares for the dance. They were delicious. Thank you to Pastor Grandburg who performed the ceremony in a way that was so personal and meaningful for the kids. A special thank you to our family and friends who gave us help and support with the preparations for the wedding. - Sheila and Alvin Winch k /Tk k kk a k rT a~kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk MONICA MONNER WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED MY BEDDING PLANT SALE IT WAS FUN TOO!!!!!!!!! THE WINNERS OF THE DRAWS WERE: Irene Kiemele, Alma Nelson, Carol Robertson, Eva Ivers, Shannon Reynolds and Kay Zaysttoff We would like to thank every one who attended our shower in Milo. Thank you for all the lovely and useful gifts. Thank you also to those who sent gifts but could not attend. I know we will be able to use every one of them. A special thank you to the M.C. Linda Booth who made all the beautiful poster and to all the hostesses who spent all the time and effort putting on the shower. It was beautiful. The entertainment was excellent. Thank you to Marlys Henry for her lovely song and to Carol and Marcie for all their touching words. We are so overwhelmed with your generosity. We appreciate it very much. Thank you again. - Kevin and Louise Krebs THANK YOU The Milo E.L.W. would like to thank everyone who came out to our Mother's Day tea. A special thank you to everyone who donated items for sale and for our draws. Tt was very much appreciated. The turn out was great. The proceeds will go to many needy causes.
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