1946: Town looking at real estate deal to help veterans
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- Published on Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Photo courtesy of Cecil Pittman archives. 70 years ago, Thursday, Dec. 12, 1946: The Town of Neepawa completed plans to purchase airport homes.
By Cecil Pittman
Neepawa Press
80 years ago, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1936
There were no decisions of great importance made at the school board meeting Friday night. The offer of the Dominion Postal Department to supply pictures for a night’s entertainment was favourably received and plans were made to have a showing early in the New Year. Two new flags are to be purchased and the matter of buying some new chairs for the collegiate and auditorium will be further considered.
70 years ago, Thursday, Dec. 12 1946
The Town Council will meet this afternoon to discuss with Mr. Higott, of Reclamation organization, the plan for selling 23 of the airport buildings to the town for resale to veterans. Action in this line is the result of an interview between Mr. Higott and Mayor Pollock in Winnipeg some time ago. Monday afternoon the mayor and a committee, appointed by the council, inspected the buildings but made no definite decision.
Under the present plan, the town council will purchase the surplus buildings at a price of eight per cent of the cost, for resale to veterans only.
60 years ago, Thursday, Dec. 12, 1956
Board inspects plans for collegiate addition
George Wickett and W.D. Cram reported on a visit of architects Smith, Carter and Katelnikoff, Winnipeg and on the plans of a 10-room addition to the collegiate were inspected by the board. Rooms are to accommodate 30 pupils instead of 50, to comply with building regulations of the department of education. The cost of each room, complete in every detail, is to average $15,000.
50 years ago, Friday, Dec. 9, 1966
Ken Singleton, 45, became the new president of the Manitoba Farmers’ Union (MFU) by acclamation Wednesday. He succeeds H. Andresen, who has served in this position for the past four years. Mr. Singleton, who was vice-president of the MFU for the past two years was born and educated in Eden. Having been a farmer all his life, the new president is well aware of the difficulties Manitoba farmers will have to face in the future.
40 years ago, Thursday, Dec.9, 1976
The Neepawa and District United Way campaign is over the top and still climbing.
With one week left to go in the campaign, the total stands at $27,000 – a great effort, when the campaign last fall had difficulty getting off the ground at all.
The original goal of this year’s campaign was $22,500, but with the excellent cooperation received from canvassers and the response of the rural areas and surrounding villages, campaign chairman Earl Murray said they have exceed their highest expectations.
30 years ago, Thursday, Dec. 1, 1986
At least once a week, Neepawa Mayor Homer Gill takes time off from his business and civic commitments to escape into a wildlife sanctuary, made possible by his donation of 25-acres of land in 1979.
He said he became concerned when he failed to notice tracks, which signaled the presence of deer. He then walked along the path he has made in the bush, looking for signs of their presence. Gill found two of the deer, but not as he would have wanted. In one case, a five-point buck had been shot and a portion of its carcass eaten by wild animals. In another incidence, all that remained of what he suspects to be a doe, that had been a sanctuary regular, were the entrails. Gill said he has seen one buck and two does frequenting the sanctuary.
“It’s discouraging and infuriating,” said Gill at the site of the kill. “That’s the two words that are most appropriate.”
20 years ago, Monday, Dec. 10, 1996
The board of Beautiful Plains Health Services – which oversees Neepawa Hospital and East View Lodge – has written a letter of intent to sign over day-to-day operation to the Marquette Regional Association.
Following a meeting with Marquette Health Association CEO Sandra Delorme last Tuesday, the board said it would retain its position for the following year. However, board chairman Dean Dietrich said plans call for handing over control after the end of the 1997-98 year.
10 years ago, Monday, Dec. 11, 2006
It would have been the best Christmas present the province could have delivered – a start date for construction of the new personal care home.
But the town was scrooged again following a meeting with former Manitoba Health Minister, Tim Sale.
However, to a man - or a woman - Neepawa councilors expressed little surprise.
“What does anybody expect?” newly elected councillor Monty Simon questioned.
“We’ve come to expect the same thing they’ve given us for the past six years.”
Simon also pointed out the town isn’t “putting up any roadblocks” to the construction. As well as signing a tax sharing agreement with area RMs (Langford, Lansdowne, Rosedale and Glenella) earlier this year, a road to the proposed site has been constructed.
Like Simon, councillor Wayne Hollier said the bigger surprise would have been if a start date had been announced. “I imagine that would have been [news] all over town,” he said. “But nothing dramatic [came out of the meeting] from Sale like that.”
