Barrie Murray’s pacer wins at Blue Bonnets: Noble Hartack, a 3 year old brown pacing horse, owned by Barrie Murray of Shawville, won in 2.03 and 3 on Monday night at Blue Bonnets Raceway in Montreal. Barrie bought Noble Hartack,

Pontiac Holsteins Club barn meeting at Stanleys’: Friday, March 12th, about 50 Holstein breeders gathered at the farm of Archie Stanley and family, for the annual barn meeting. In a spacious stable two rows of well groomed young cows were

“Xmas Belle” Tops in Quebec: Elmside View Xmas Belle “G.P.” owned by George Pirie & Son, Bristol, Que., has won the honour as the highest producing 4 year old in Quebec, with a record of 20,851 lbs of milk, 861

Pontiac County mayors ask Department of Social Affairs to not close down Mosgrove’s: Following a presentation to County Council Monday by Mr. Larry Mosgrove regarding the threats to close down his boarding house near Shawville, the Mayors voted unanimously to

Pontiac Coop Medical still going strong invites new members: The Pontiac Cooperative Medical Services is one of several cooperatives operating in Pontiac County. This particular one met with an identity crisis several years ago with the implementation of medicare in

Quyon groups receive New Horizon grant: Thomas H. Lefebvre, M.P. for Pontiac, is pleased to announce that a project submitted under the New Horizons Program has received a grant from the Department of National Health and Welfare, in the amount

Tentative agreement in C-B strike: Robert Pelletier, president of Local 420, Canadian Paperworkers Union, announced at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday that the union had come to a tentative agreement with Consolidated Bathurst Limited. He and his negotiating team had been meeting

Bank of Montreal wins Community Bonspiel: The Community Bonspiel for 1976 is now history. This all-week event involved 192 curlers and numerous other watchers, cheerer-onners, organizers and sandwich makers. There is no doubt it will become an annual event and

PC leadership candidate visits Pontiac: Joe Clark candidate for leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party came to Pontiac last week. This young man spoke with enthusiasm and optimism about his Party at a public meeting in St. Paul’s Anglican Hall,

Teachers practice for strike nobody wants: Teachers at all the schools in Shawville demonstrated outside their schools before classes last Thursday morning. Teachers at the two Protestant schools are disturbed by what seems to them to be delaying tactics of