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Vol. 130 No. 8 Friday, May 4, 2012

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90 cents + taxMinnedosa, Manitoba Canada R0J 1E0

Grand Prizeplatinum tickets

to Jets game

Friday, May 11th

& Saturday, May 12th

By RICHARD DAVIES

he Erickson Elemen-tary School Parent`sAdvisory Council (PAC)recently held a raf e toraise unds or their group.Since November 2011,the group sold roughly2,000 tickets or a silver2012 Ford Focus SE. Only4,000 tickets were avail-

able selling or $20.00

each or three or $50.00.On Friday, April 20th, thedraw was made with JillPearns o Brandon beingthe lucky winner.

Pearns was surprisedto receive a phone call tosay she had won the car.She was very happy thather name was drawn andsaid I very rarely win. Teonly thing I have ever won

is a V.

Te o cial grandprize presentation wasmade at Kelleher Ford inBrandon Monday morn-ing, April 30th. Pearnsdoes not plan to keepthe car and instead, sheis trading it o or a newFord Escape.

Kelleher Ford inBrandon generously gavethe Erickson Elemen-

tary PAC a discount on

the car whose retail valueis $23,000. Fundraisingchair, Leslie Woywada-Roesch, said that thegroup raised $12,000rom the undraiser. Teunds will go towards newplayground equipmentat Erickson ElementarySchool which PAC stillhas $20,000 to raise beorereaching its target.

Car raf e nets EricksonPAC $12,000

Photo by Richard Davies

(L-R) Erickson PAC President Barb Desiatnyk , PAC Vice-President Barb Brewster, Leslie Woywada-Roesch,car raf e winner Jill Pearns, and Al Twerdochlib o Kelleher Ford are pictured during the 2012 Ford Focus car raf e

presentation at Kelleher Ford in Brandon earlier this week.

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ITS TIME TO RENEW

CALL 867-3816

By RICHARD DAVIES

Greyhound has recent-ly announced that itis dropping 12 bus routesand reducing others inManitoba starting July 1st.

T ree routes that makestops in Minnedosa will becancelled once the chang-es take eect. Te cancel-lations are the YorktonWinnipeg route whichmakes a stop in Minnedo-sa at 5:20 a.m., Winnipeg-

Yorkton which stops inMinnedosa at 12:45 p.m.,and Winnipeg-Brandonstopping in Minnedosa at9:25 p.m. Routes remain-ing that service Minnedosa

will be the 5:50 p.m. stopwhich runs rom Yorkton-

Winnipeg and the Winni-peg-Yorkton route whicharrives in Minnedosa at10:45 p.m.

Provincial o cialshave said that they arecon dent that smaller,independent transporta-tion providers will step upto take over the smallerroutes aected. Minnedo-sas Greyhound DepotManager, Lauri Ludwig,also expects that this willhappen.

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Greyhound

drops threeroutes

aecting

Minnedosa