United Church Archives - Manitoba Co-operator

Bruce Friesen, Dugald United Church member, together with Murray Gillespie, Bev Zarazun and Lesley Thomson are members of the recently established  Springfield Seniors Housing Co-op Ltd. which is constructing a 47-unit, three-storey apartment development on the east side of Dugald.

Dugald housing co-op a model for meeting rural seniors’ housing needs

By Lorraine Stevenson August 26, 2015

With their Oakbank-area acreage becoming too much to maintain, Bev and Adam Zarazun plan to sell and move to a home that takes less to maintain. In the past, that would have meant leaving their neighbours and friends too but the Zarazuns are thankful they have a new option closer by. They’ll be living just

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Holiday Cheer Spreads Through Rural Manitoba

By Lorraine Stevenson December 23, 2010

If hunger and poverty at Christmastime strikes some as a big-city problem, last week’s massive rural Christmas hamper drive is ample evidence that these troubles are closer to home. Canned soups, bread, cooking oil and many other everyday foodstuffs, along with the fixings for a Christmas dinner, were the gifts of food being delivered to

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Ghostly, But Still Alive And Kicking

By Daniel Winters October 28, 2010

Everyone knows that you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. But after driving past the abandoned gas station and the rows of empty, decaying houses in Lauder, a visitor may start to wonder if there isn’t a valid reason why the tiny town in southwestern Manitoba is listed on the website www.ghosttownscanada.ca. Pull

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The Jacksons – for Mar. 4, 2010

By Rollin Penner March 4, 2010

“So Andrew tells me you’re going to be a shepherd,” Grant Toews chuckled as he picked up his coffee cup and took a sip. Randy Jackson, who was sitting next to his father Andrew and across from Grant at their table in the café, scowled. “We shepherds prefer to be known as sheep ranchers,” he

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Colony Women Sew For A Cause

By Dora Maendel December 17, 2009

Distinctively stylish, the bags feature a variety of African motifs including orchids, orange tigers, a striking mask collage, leopards, elephants and giraffes… CORRECTION The correct address to link to the website of Prairie Pens to purchase a copy of their new book From All Directions is www.fromalldirections.com.An incorrect e-mail address was published in the Dec.

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Agriculture Hall Of Fame – for Sep. 17, 2009

September 17, 2009

Alex Stow, the eldest son of T. J. and Bessie Stow, was born June 2, 1928, in Graysville, Manitoba. After completing Grade 11 at Graysville Consolidated School, Alex took over the family farm. In 1951, he married Pamela Laroque. Together they raised five children: Christine, Mary, Lisa, Janet and Paul. Alex became a pedigreed seed

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The Harvest On The Yard

By Lorraine Stevenson September 3, 2009

“A past generation did it because they had to. I’m not doing it because I have to. I like the challenge.” – SPERLING FARMER AND HOME GARDENER JOYCE NICOLAJSEN Ki tchen counters are stacked with cutting boards, glass jars, colanders, bags of sugar and pickling salt. Out in the garden, or piled on the back

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Conservation leader Don Alexander passes

By Allan Dawson February 5, 2009

“Conservation efforts were very, very important to D. J. and he spent countless hours working with the Pembina Valley Conservation District.” – DONALD ORCHARD Don (D. J.) Alexander, one of Manitoba’s conservation leaders, died January 20 at his farm home near here following a brief illness. He was 74 years old. Alexander, chair of the

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Bringing the Christmas story to life

By Lorraine Stevenson December 18, 2008

“I got to thinking maybe we could unite all of our churches in telling an old story.” – Linda McNabb, United Church Choir Director A burst of laughter rolls down a snowy street, then fades away under a darkening sky. The sound has come from just outside the doors of the United Church where men,

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