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Vol. 131 No. 6 Friday, April 19, 2013




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Mary Gerbrandt celebrates centennial birthday

Ice patch causes rollover

Photo by Darryl Holyk

Photo by Kate Sjoberg

By KATE SJOBERG Th e church is putting on a party. They told me I dont have to make no food, NOTHING. Just come. I didnt ask them to do it. Th ey did it on their own. Mary Gerbrandt is laughing about plans the Covenant Church made for her 100th birthday party last Sunday. I was so surprised when my grandson asked me if I was excited. I said to him why? Are you excited? And he said yeah! After 99 birthdays, the 100th could really be just another day. In the life of a centenarian, the concept of time is something entirely diff erent. Like when Mary talks about her cancer surgery where the doctor said that the survival rate for people with her condition was five years. Th at was 40 years ago.

Some early morning travellers were off to a bad start Monday morning. Around 8 a.m. on April 15th a Lexus SUV travelling from Toronto, ON to Edmonton, AB wound up in the ditch with its wheels in the air between Minnedosa and Basswood on Highway # 16. The driver lost control when the vehicle hit a patch of ice causing it to careen across the oncoming lane, flip and land upside down in the south ditch. Fortunately, neither the driver nor passenger sustained any injuries. A similar incident, also caused by an ice patch on Highway #16, occurred near Newdale on Wednesday.

$110 million in assets for MCU

By KATE SJOBERG ver 100 members attended the Minnedosa Credit Union Annual General Meeting. President Beth McNabb reported positive growth in 2012 with assets of $110 million. Loans increased from $49.5 million to $56.9

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million, deposits from $92.7 million to $101 million and equity stood at $9.2 million; up from $8.4 million in 2011. Coincidentally, these gains were made in the same year as celebrating the United Nations Year of the Co-op with $70,000 in donations to the Rivers Edge Park, MREC,

and the Tanners Crossing School Playground. MCU membership has dropped slightly from 3,850 to 3,650 due to an internal clean up of abandoned accounts, while patronage refund stayed steady at $360,000, slightly lower than last years refund, and calculated based on

$16.5 for every $100 interest earned, $7.70 for every $100 paid. General Manager Brad Ross reports that this puts patronage refunds at $15 million over the last 15 years. Only one change happened at the Board of Directors with Bjarni Walterson replacing Dave Pollon.

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