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COLBORNE CHRONICLE Thursday,' March 4th, 1965 Holiday with a bonus For several years, ever s I took my memorable trip to Fort Churchill, I have been trying ti 'remember in time for peopl planning their vacations, to writ ebout Flin Flon's annual Trout Festival. This is the type of truly rugged adventure that one wants to have the joy of anticipating for several months. Held on the weekend to celebrate our famous July holiday, this year the festival is slated for June 30 to July 4th. With a title such as TROUT FESTIVAL, one could be forgiven if they thought this is a fishing venture only. Far from it. The Flin Flon annual fling, this year celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, covers everything from the trout trophy event to Kart racing. Travelling by rail from Win-nipe you will find there is no spirit like that of the peoph of the north country. They throw themselves into organizing this festival with the zest of a hive of bees. There are two pictures in the publicity which is to me each year that certainly, if I hadn't already sampled the hospitality of this rugged community, would sell me the idea of a TROUT FESTIVAL holiday The first is the burly winner of last year's flour packing contest (it says here 650 pounds'.) toting huge sacks of flour on his back aided only by a wide thong across his forehead. They keep piling the sacks on until the winner staggers over the finish line. One more teaspoon of flour added to his load and I'm sure he'd have been on his knees. The other picture that intrigued me is the bannock baking contest. Squatting in the middle of the road over a small wood fire, a pretty squaw is watched by her well-fed mate while she pours the batter and produces in jig-time a beautifully flipped bannock. I am not quite sure whether the object of the contest is the best bannock, the quickest cooked, or the prettiest contestant. That is left for the vacationers to find out. Paul Edwards of Chicago, Illinois, was the first Trout Trophy winner, landing a beauty that weighed in at 37 pounds 12 ounces in 1951. His reward was a brand new Pontiac. In 1962, which is the last year noted in the press release, Allan Rattray of Willoughby Hills, Ohio, fished out of Clearwater Lake a radiant lake trout that tipped the scales at 40 pounds 8 ounces. He drove away in an Envoy with a trophy replica to boot. No festival is complete without a beauty contest. This one chooses for the duration of the festi-ities a Queen Mermaid. I won- der what she prizes most,; her win, her mink jacket or the adulation from her admiring court. These are the entrants who' didn't win but enjoy with her, such, majestic rule. There are canoe races, a square dance jamboree, fish fries and the most wonderfully hospitable people you'll meet anywhere in the whole wide world. Now if you want to extend this fishing frolic, CN has added to its Maple Leaf Tours several packaged tours to six'of'the marvelous lakes in Manitoba's fisherman's paradise. The package includes rail travel, lower berth and meals and transfer to and from the lodge of your choice; lodge accommodation with meals for the four days fishing, plus boats, motors, guides and fish packing. For those who like to fish this is a bonanza holiday. North of '54 While my enthusiasms are north bound I must recommend the CN's annual all expense tour to Hudson Bay. It is without doutot Canada's most unique holiday experience. There is fun and dancing, scenery, white whales in the sun, and wheat - bushels of it in huge government grain elevators - ready to be shipped all ovei the world. The tour includes £ visit to these elevators. Some years ago I sat in the cluttered office of the late Professor E. J. Pratt in Victoria College, University of Toronto. He was brewing tea with hot water he had boiled on a stnat electric plate perched precariously atop a slanting pile of books. As he very precisely j sured a teaspoon of tea for each cup and one for the pot,, he cited his poem describing Laurentian Shield as a huge which surrounds our inland I never dreamed on that dreary day in March when he was- try- ing to convince me I could make writing my career that I would see so much of his "Great Lone Land". Don't miss it, that is, if you can: get aboard that tram. Quite often it is booked months WEDDING STATIONERY More and more brides are finding they can have the luxury-look they love and still keep on the sunny side of their bridal budget with exquisite Rainbow stationery. It features Thermo-Engraving -- an amazingly rich, raised lettering with all the good taste and distinction of the finest craftsmanship -- yet costs so little. Do see our exciting selection of contemporary and traditional type faces . . . one perfect for you. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS INVITATIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS and for the Reception PLACE CARDS, NAPKINS, MATCHES etc. Colborne Chronicle KING STREET, COLBORNE PHONE 355-2107 NEW STAMP TO MARK INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION YEAR The Honourable Rene Tremb-lay, Postmaster General, announced this week that a special stamp honouring I.C.Y. -- International Co-operation Year -- will be issued by the Post Office Department oh March 3rd, 1965. Mr. Trembley said that the stamp forms one part of Canada's contribution to the United Nations' sponsorship of 1965 as a year of international co-operation. Its aim is to foster greater j interest in United Nations efforts j in the field of international good will, in order to achieve a deep-1 er and wider understanding of the aims,-purposes and achieve-; ments of the United Nations fam-By, of organizations. Canada, as a member, of the United Nations Committee'for I.C.Y., heartily en-j dorses this aim, - and the Year's j theme: "Peace and Progress; Through Co-operation". Three diagonally interloced! links. With Canada's maple leaf' in the '■ centre are featured and symbolize Canada's role as a link in the .world-wide chain of nations. The .upper right corner shows., the -I.C.Y. symbol: the United - Nations wreath encircling two. firmly clasped hands. The tion Year 1965" and "L'Annee de words "International Co-opera-hi:„ Cooperation Internationale lags" appear at the top and bot-toia borders. •Jitfhe stamp will, be printed by tJM: intalglib process, a method designed: to delineate, detail and value with' utmost precis large size, the stamp will be dark c.reen. The 'Cana t-i'ar. I':>.'■.'■■ \ :: Company executed^'and printed .the stamp. ■ largest conventions, the session are expected to attract more than 1,500 delegates from all section-of Ontario. President of the OMEA, whi h comprises utility commissions is John MoMechan, To:on'< Hydro Chairman. James Ham mond, general manager, Hamilton Hydro-Electric Commission, is president of the AMEU, composed of chief administrative, engineering and accounting representatives. Long partners in giving direction to Ontario's public enterprise, the two associations represent well over 90 per cent of the province's municipal electrical customers. SAULT STE. MARIE NEW DEPT. OF FORESTRY HEADQUARTERS Delegates than 300 utilities aw MUNICIPALITY UTILITY GROUPS PLAN CONVENTION '-' Ontario's electrical future will highlight discussions at the 56th joint annual meeting of the Ontario Municipal Electric Association and the" Association of Municipal Electrical Utilities (of Ontario) in -Toronto, March 1 to 3, this year, i ^presenting more inicipal electrical the province will eonvergc on -. -the Royal York 'Hotel for the three-day gathering. : • Featured speakers will be Dr. Carl S. .Winters, .New York City, .world, traveller, author and lecturer, and. Arnold. Edinborough. noted Canadian publisher and literary authority. Special reports on the opera-lions pf. the.'province-wide Hydrc. organization will \ feature addresses by Ontario Hydro Chairman W. Ross' Strike. G.. nera: Manager"J. Mt Hanttiley arid Assistant "General Manager H. J. "Sissons. Dr. D. K Grant, Hydro's director of medical services, w-ii' also speak- on tho subject, *'Hav< A Heart" ' - - ' ' Greating - particulai line with our general departmental reorganization plan currently underway," he added. Locally, this will result in the department's Forest Insect Laboratory and Insect Pathology Research Institute remaining in Sault Ste. Marie. Other departmental field establishments in Ontario will eventually be centred on Sault Ste. Marie but, Mr. Sauve said, "the speed of this development will be determined by our ability to provide appropriate research facilities there." 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