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Volume 136 Issue 33 Friday, October 26, 2018 www.minnedosatribune.com 90 cents plus tax

New Town Ready For Trick-or-Treaters

Council
Elected
E lectors across the
province
ed to the polls on
head-

Wednesday, October
24th to elect their mu-
nicipal governments
and school boards.
Here in the Town
of Minnedosa, there
was only 30 percent
voter turnout with
only 646 voters out of
an eligible 2,175 cast-
ing their vote for our
next Town Council.
The six elected
councillors elected
include Jim Dowsett
who earned a whop-
ping 570 votes, Frank
Taylor with 500 votes,
Mark Blais with 489
votes, Grant Butler
Photo by Karen Mitchell
with 488 votes, Rick
Saler with 394 votes, Ken and Karen Parenteau took advantage of the nice weather over the weekend to decorate their yard for Halloween.
and Tom Dowsett with
The couple lives in the southeast corner of town and look forward to attracting a lot of trick-or-treaters on October 31st.
349 votes.
The two candi-
dates not elected to
council were incum-
bent Judith Mac-
Dowall who earned
Dan Johnson Honoured With Sport Award
328 votes and Clarke By KAREN MITCHELL no slowing down for him yet!
Swain who recieved His volunteer credentials are many, start-

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215 votes. he 2018 award winner for Outstanding Dedica- ing with coaching ten and under baseball at the
Former Town tion to Sport and Recreation was announced age of sixteen. There are numerous things around
Councillor, Pat Skatch at the 21st Annual Sports Dinner on Saturday, Oc- Minnedosa that Johnson has his blood, sweat and
has been acclaimed tober 20th. This years recipient was the deserving, tears in. Some of his volunteer work includes mul-
Minnedosa’s new Dan Johnson. tiple years of coaching baseball and hockey, help-
mayor. Born and raised in Minnedosa, Dan has been a ing start the breakfast club at the arena, building
The new council vital part of the community for decades in numer- baseball diamonds for the 1992 Manitoba Games,
will be sworn in at the ous projects and organizations around town. His and sitting on multiple boards and committees.
November Council passion and leadership style can be felt by anyone
meeting. who sits down with him and Johnson says there is Continued on Page 3
Photo by Karen Mitchell

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