Vol. 128 No. 38 Friday, November 26, 2010 Minnedosa, Manitoba Canada R0J 1E0 90 cents + tax

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By AMANDA BOYD

The Town of Minnedo-sa has agreed to give

$7,000 to the joint Rockin’ Th e Fields of Minnedo-sa/Minnedosa Regional Events Centre Your Choice Lotto. Despite favourable feedback from partici-pants, the second year of the lottery saw a drop in participation from out-of-province residents. RFM president, Ken Cameron, feels this was due largely in part to Manitoba Lotter-ies Commission restricting their 1-800 number ac-cess to Manitoba callers. A great many participants of last year’s lottery were residents of Saskatchewan and do not have access to a Manitoba phone line. Local ticket sales also de-creased by half. Unfortu-nately, the result was that this year’s lottery was un-able to make any proceeds. A standing agreement between the Town of Minnedosa, Rural Mu-nicipalities of Minto and Odanah, RFM, and MREC prior to last year’s initial lottery was that the Town and RM’s would back the lottery, provided the pro-ceeds were split evenly be-tween RFM and MREC.

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Town agrees

to $7,000 for

RFM/MREC

lottery

By KATHLEEN LEDWITH

The Minnedosa Emer-gency Services re-

cently received a donation of $3,000 from Manitoba

Hydro. EMS purchased a stair chair with the money re-ceived. Th e stair chair lift is manually operated, made of quality aluminum alloy

and costs approximately $3,000. Th ere are only three such chairs in the region. Th e chair is used by EMS to get patients in and out of

tight spots where they can-not get the stretcher to. Th e chair is also very suitable for ambulance use and only requires a single op-erator to load and unload

it from the ambulance, the foldable design makes this product ideal for safety.

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Local EMS Paramedics Ed Tait, Hannah Archbutt and Barb Hanishewski demonstrate the use of a new stair chair purchased as a result of a $3,000 Manitoba Hydro donation. Also pictured is Manitoba Hydro representative

Gerri Harrison presenting the funds to EMS District Coordinator, Bev Zboril.

Photo by Kathleen Ledwith

Hydro supports new EMS stair chair