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Volume 135 Issue 38 Friday, December 8, 2017 www.minnedosatribune.com 90 cents plus tax

INSIDE Ho-Ho-Holiday
this week

Train
New
Equipment
For PCH

Grain Photo by Darryl Holyk

Growing By HILLARY MILLER years, making the whole crowd as the tunes flowed Christmas this year. Once people in the crowd. How-
experience much more from the trains main stage. the holidays are over, the ever, Adamson noted that
Update T he 2017 Canadian Pa- pleasant for perform- After Emma-Lees per- remainder of the funds and they had to take away from

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cific Holiday Train was
in Minnedosa on Sunday,
December 3rd. The train
rolled westward over the
Main Street railway bridge
just after 4:30 p.m., and
was greeted by an eager
If your label reads crowd of a few hundred
17 /12 /31 people, which had gath-
ered west of Minnedosas
Its time to renew historic train station. with a few cheerful Christ-
your subscription! Luckily, this years mas songs.
weather was warmer than
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it has been in previous
ers and onlookers alike. formance, the crowd was
The train was once again greeted by Riding Moun-
beautifully decorated with tain MLA Greg Nesbitt
lights, and really brought and Minnedosa Mayor Ray
out the festive spirit of Orr. Representatives from
Christmas. CP then presented a giant
This years musical cheque in the amount of
performers were Emma- $5,500 to Trudy Adamson,
Lee and Colin James, who
got the crowd amped up
a member of the Minnedo-
sa Food Bank. These
funds will go towards the
Audience Minnedosa Christmas
members of all ages were Cheer Board, to ensure
spotted dancing in the that everyone has a great
supplies from the Christ- this total, since some of the
mas Cheer Board will go to food items were expired.
the local food bank. We cant take anything
The large CP dona- thats expired, said Adam-
tion was not the only son. She noted that if it is
goodwill going around less than a year after the
that evening. As volun- expiration date then they
teers circled throughout can give people a choice of
the crowd, they collected
$1,029 in cash from peo-
taking it or not, but beyond
the one-year mark, they
ple attending the Holiday need to throw most things
Train show. They also col- out.
lected 942 pounds of non- Continued
perishable food items from on Page 9

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