Looking Back - 1978: Happy Timers place fifth in championships
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- Published on Sunday, May 20, 2018
Neepawa Banner & Press archives
In 1978, the top three ladies and top three men from the Happy Timers Bowling League, in Neepawa, represented the league in the Golden Age Provincial Championships in Winnipeg. The six participants were Dolly Sykes, Clare Oliver, Alice Chudley, Melvin Potter, Tot Montgomery and Fred Chorneyko.
By Jessica Morton
Neepawa Banner & Press
80 years ago
Tuesday,
May 17, 1938
Lou Partaker’s freak of nature, his singing mouse, took to the air last Thursday, making his radio debut in the afternoon nature broadcast Period.
Mr. Partaker took it to Winnipeg to be examined by Professor Jackson. After the mouse had performed satisfactorily, Mr. Partaker gave an account of how the mouse was caught and then the professor gave a lecture on the rare subject.
70 years ago
Thursday,
May 20, 1948
Another young man of Neepawa entered the professional ranks this week, when Charles Manson Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Martin, received his degree in Pharmacy at the University of Manitoba convocation yesterday. In 1942, he enlisted in the R.C.A.F and served as an instructor for two years before proceeding overseas. He returned to Canada in 1945 with the rank of Pilot Officer.
60 years ago
Friday,
May 16, 1958
Ronald J. McLaren, 17-year-old son of Mr. Jim McLaren of Union district, was named winner of the third annual Jaycees Teen-Age Safe-Driving Road-e-o. Arden: Mrs. S.A Ford was a patient in the Neepawa General Hospital from Thursday to Saturday. While fencing Thursday, Mrs. Ford was holding the posts and her husband was driving them with a post maul. The head of the maul hit her on the head necessitating five stitches.
Close to 1300 watched —and liked— the Monster Minstrel Show put on by the Neepawa Lions Club here Wednesday.
50 years ago
Friday,
May 17, 1968
A heavy downpour of rain which dumped an estimated six inches of water in a one hour period caused considerable erosion damage in a narrow strip of land located between Riding Mountain and Kelwood, to the west of No. 5 highway, Tuesday evening.
The population of the Town of Neepawa showed another increase during the past year. Neepawa now boasts a total population of 3,367 residents, an increase of 32 over the 3,335 registered last year.
40 years ago
Thursday,
May 18, 1978
The Happy Timers bowling team, from Neepawa, topped the fifth annual Golden Age Provincial Championships this week in Winnipeg. The Happy Timers top three ladies and top three gents from their league represented the league at the provincial finals, held at the Uptown Lanes in Winnipeg on May 15. On the Neepawa team were Dolly Sykes, Clare Oliver, Alice Chudley, Melvin Potter Tot, Montgomery and Fred Chorneyko. They won out over nine other Manitoba teams coming from Winnipeg, Brandon Dauphin and Swan River, with a score of 112 pins over their average. The three highest scoring ladies and three highest scoring men at the provincial finals will join together as a team to represent Manitoba in the national finals to be held June 27 and 28 at the Rossmere Lanes in Winnipeg. Among that selected group was Fred Chorneyko, of Neepawa, who was the second highest man in Monday’s field, with 94 pins over his average. This is the Happy Timers third time in five years to have a representative in the national finals. Fred Burgess was a participant in 1975 and Mac Mikkelsen was on the team in 1977.
30 years ago
Tuesday,
May 17, 1988
Myra Bennet said her first impression immediately after a runaway car hit the building housing three retail businesses was that, “It felt like an earthquake.” “It really shook the place,” added Shelley Lepischak of The Kid’s Kloset, “I couldn’t believe it.” A car driven by 84 year old Nicholas Kawka, of Neepawa, crossed the intersection at Hamilton Street and Mountain Avenue, before coming to rest on the front step of Robert’s Men’s Wear. The accident occurred on Saturday at about 4:15 pm. Robert’s is in the building which also contains Myra’s Ladies Wear and The Kid’s Kloset. “He was at the third stall down from in front of Dan’s Men’s Wear when he came out backwards and kept going backwards,” said eye witness Jim Holmes. “He went across the street, through the intersection, and then hit the (traffic) lamp pole and then the building.”
20 years ago
Monday,
May 18, 1998
Roger Cross of Neepawa is one of 10 Manitoba Natural Resource Officers drafted into the battle against Alberta forest fires. Cross, who is district supervisor of the Neepawa Resource office, will be fighting the fire for at least two weeks, Natural Resource spokesman Dick Bon said. Bon said Resource officers like Cross are trained to not only put out fires, but supervise others in the task. “They are fire boss material-type people,” said Bon, “They could be coordinating firefighting efforts.” Cross joins officers from branches in The Pas, Dauphin, Virden, Swan River, Lac du Bonnet and Gimli. They were sent following a request from the Canadian Inter-Agency Forest Fire Centre, of which Manitoba is a member. There are still 13 fires burning in south and central Alberta, bringing the total to 134 since the season began in April.
10 years ago
Monday,
May 19, 2008
Portage-Lisgar MP Brian Pallister is introducing a new award to recognize volunteers in the riding.
The Standing Tall award will be given to those who have generously donated their time to others in need. “No one stands taller than when they stoop to help someone in need,” Pallister said, “As a community, we need to recognize and encourage this kind of selfless behaviour that is so prevalent in our area.”
