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Pre-Retirement Seminars
Beth Smith
Find the answers to the following questions and submit your entry by; a) email to bxssmith@mymts.net, with KIT Reading Contest in the subject line, or b) by mail to
Beth Smith,
RTAM KIT Reading Contest, 206-1555 St. James St.,
Winnipeg, MB R3H 1B5.
Submissions must be received by ___________________. A random draw among those entries with all answers correct will determine the winner. Be sure to include your name, mailing address, and phone number. The prize is your choice of a $15.00 gift card; Tim Horton’s, Superstore, McDonald’s, Subway. Please identify which gift card you prefer. The winner will be announced in the next edition of KIT. Good Luck! 1. What event occurred on May 25, 2019 where hundreds of Manitoba public school teachers joined with hundreds of others? 2. What does Johnson, the Johnson Insurance mascot, have to say about Home Insurance? 3. What did the Winnipeg Normal School Class of 1954 do for their 65th Anniversary Reunion? 4. How much money did the Dauphin Area Retired Teachers donate to the Alzheimer’s Society? 5. What year will the MTS 100th Anniversary Time Capsule be re-opened? 6. Identify the group of people dressed in costume at the MTS 100th Anniversary Gala. 7. What year did the United Nations General Assembly establish the International Day of Older Persons? 8. Identify the slogan for the MTS 100th Anniversary Celebration. 9. What year was Duty-free lunch established? 10. Name the presenter of the Photography Workshop on Friday, September 20, 2019.
The winner of the KIT Fall 2019 contest is Doreen Perrin of Brandon, MB.
In Memoriam
April 2019
Rita M. Fisher, Qualicum Beach, BC
June 2019
Gail Marie-Anne Cochrane, Portage la Prairie, MB
July 2019
Aubrey A. Asper, Winnipeg, MB Marie A. Ayotte, Winnipeg, MB Bernice R. Blakeman, Winnipeg, MB Ronald Bruce Bodie, East St. Paul. MB John Albines Gray, Winnipeg, MB Jack Kaplan, Winnipeg, MB Sophie Kominetsky, Saskatoon, SK Robert Denis Lovatt, Winnipeg, MB Richard Charles Pugh, Vancouver, BC Margaret H. Putnam, Winnipeg, MB Marion K. Stevens, Winnipeg, MB Irene Olga Stevenson, St. Andrews, MB Gwendolyn Doreen Streich, Clandeboye, MB
August 2019
Frances-Mary Brown, Winnipeg, MB Arthur T. Bryant, Winnipeg, MB Cecil Edmund Grant, Winnipeg, MB Nestor Gylywoychuk, Winnipeg, MB Katherine Elizabeth Kennedy, East Selkirk, MB Jeannette Rollande Martin, Winnipeg, MB Olga A. Nahirniak, Winnipeg, MB Hildegard Sen, Winnipeg, MB Bruce Howard Silversides, Winnipeg, MB John Ross Skabar, Winnipeg, MB Archie Stone, Winnipeg, MB L.J. Maxwell Taylor, Qualicum Beach, BC L. Jean Thiessen, Winnipeg, MB S. Jesmondine Thompson, Whitehorse, YT Mary Veenhuyzen, Winnipeg, MB Phyllis M. Wolfe, Brandon, MB
September 2019
Mark William Bishop, Winnipeg, MB Kathleen Blanche De Pape, St. Claude, MB Sherry Louise Evans, Winnipeg, MB Francis Gerard Fontaine, Winnipeg, MB Walter O. Fuller, Dauphin, MB Luc Albert Gamache, MacGregor, MB Ronald C. Kirbyson, Winnipeg, MB Harley Alvin McKellar, Sanford, MB James Richard Partridge, Winnipeg, MB Deo Harry Poonwassie, Winnipeg, MB Edward P. Reimer, Steinbach, MB Donald J. Soutter, Winnipeg, MB Maureen Karen Wiebe, Portage la Prairie, MB
