Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press {Newspaper} - 1974-07-06,Winnipeg, Manitoba New Leisure wimp Peg free press. Saturday. July 6, w4 features t7chickadee notes no. 31three species of egrets sighted in Manitoba. This is certainly the year of the a ets in Manitoba. For the first time Ever three species of egrets common cattle and now snowy a have been recorded within the prov tace in tie same year. Cordon Graham a conservation officer at Steinbach. Is a care fill observer who has made some excellent contributions to knowledge of Manitoba ornithology. Besides being a a amiable observer he Readi it by contacts other Pei Ile to Are his observe Lions and to add confirmation to these sightings. Last week i mentioned his record of two Orchard orioles Al Steinbach and. This week ii is an even rarer Bird a the snowy egret in cop hoax Thula. May 25, or. Graham saw a snowy egret feeding in a drainage ditch near Steinbach. He contacted or. R. W. Nero to gel him to confirm ibis rare sighting and when or Nero was unable to go he in turn contacted Herb Copland of the Manitoba museum of Man and nature. The ethnic press May 2s, or. And mrs. Copland accompanied or. Graham to the place be d seen the egret the previous Day and there it was. They studied the Bird and even photographed it at a considerable distance. Their observations confirmed that it was definitely a snowy egret. By David Halub this species Lias solid i White feathers but Black legs and yellow toes. The color of the feet is the diagnostic feature in Kle notifying this member of the Heron family. The Bill is Black and the Lores Are yellow. In Breeding plumage the eathers at Tjie snowy egret Are magnificent. The head has a Crest of loosely webbed feathers. Long filamentous plumes also cover the Back Tail a Iii lower Neckli. Tiese plumes Are shed alter the Breeding season and the Bird ass Miles a Slimmer appearance. Snowy egrets Are the Siee of american bitterns and Are therefore larger Tolian cattle egrets but smaller than the common egret. This is the third re Cord of the snowy egret in Manitoba and is a significant record because this species is b uly Southern in origin and Bias never been re courted nesting in Canada the first report of this species in the Keystone province was of one shot Nordi of the Wani Perow River by an Indian in 1930. Arthur Quesnel of Manl Googan came into Possession of this Bird and sent the head and plumes to the United states biological Survey in Washington. It confirmed the record but. Unfortunately Many details regarding this Bird Are lost and the smithsonian institution in Washington has no record of it. The Validity of this report now is in doubt because to lab confirming correspond Lenee and specimen Are lost Canadian hungarian news there s a Hattte shop on Sheri Crook Street Many people May have passed without noticing. The sign above the doorway says Kana Al Magyar usag which Means Canadian hungarian news. The hungarian news it the oldest hungarian paper not Only in Canada but also in the entire British Commonweal la. Its editor Gustav Nemes has been with the paper since 1sz7. The Kana Al Magyar usag was established in 1924 by Ivan Hordesky after two other paper the Canada Magyar Nep Lap and the Kanabai Magyar Sag bad folded. Or. Hordesky took Over their subscribers lists. In 1829, when a Toronto paper Rifae Kanabai Magyar Hirlan became bankrupt it merged with the Magyar usag. This year the paper celebrates its 50tb anniversary a during the Early years the paper served the needs of about 60, 000 hungarian canadians from coast to coast Quot or. Nemes said. A its aim always was to help the people to preserve their culture to a mow understand and appreciate their new Homeland to become responsible Loyal citizens and to promote Friendship and harmonious relationships with other ethnic the Kanabai Magyar to Sag became a biweekly in is33 but now because of prohibitive postal Rales has had to revert to weekly publication. A the postal costs Are so High it is almost us Quot or. Nemes said. A we have already lost four papers from the press the Magyar i Sag prints a column in English especially or younger people who can to read Hun Garian Rig it Row it s a history of Hungary. Or. Nemes has a penchant for history. In the past he s serialized or. D. Mcarthur a history of Canada translating it into hungarian himself plus two other histories of Hungary one by or. Tibor Eckhardt and the other by or. Dominic Kousiry. There san emphasis on literary work. There s a Short Story in every edition and a weekly chapter of a novel plus some poetry. By Lee Sebater there Are correspondents All Over the world who Send in material tree of charge. Columns come in from Sweden a refugee Camp in Italy the United states England and Czechoslovakia. A or. Nemes gels Quot of material directly from Hungary because of his political affiliations. A i have always in an anti my main purpose is to carry on the fight against communism. My paper can to go to private people n Hungary just to the government. They re keeping an Eye on me. 1 have never been Back to Hungary because of my relationship with the at one time even former soviet Preir Iier Nikita s. Khrushchev had a Sii ascription to his paper but when it was discovered that Magyar usag was anti communist Quot i became a bad Hoy to a the. Hungarian government keeps track of All hungarian publications or. Nemes said. He is a Veteran of the first world War a Captain in the hungarian army. He was captured by tie italians and spent a year in a prison Camp m Italy. When he got Back to Hungary he could not see a future there so in 1923, he came to Canada. He started As an Okiec Hoy with the Kanabai Magyar usag graduated to Unity per and in 1939, took Over the Editorship. During the second world War he bought the paper from the government which was holding it Hungary being an enemy state. U under or. Nemes the paper fully supported the Canadian War Effort. A Printer who has been with the paper for 4 years a a rotary and or. Nemes Are the entire staff of to paper. Or. Nemes sets the Type himself his Secretary is a Linotype operator too. A or. Nemes abandoned editorials a few years ago and now does no writing just editing Quot in a in a position to Lead people by what i put in the paper a he said. He is an ardent churchgoer and sometimes chides people on Church matters. He proudly recalls that in i96j, he won the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce Ethek press award for his editorial civic duties in a free land. He is even prouder of having been accepted into the Knightly order of Vitez an organization Wahidi began in Hungary in the Lith Century and which confers honors on deserving citizens. He won Liis right to Call himself a Knight for services rendered during the War. A i Only waited 50 years for the Only other record for Manitoba is of one i saw in the Maple Hunter lakes Complex West of Hart Ney sept. 11, Ihu. Two Days Tater this Bird was again seen on the South Shore of Oak Lake. The first time it was seen i was conducting an Aerial wildlife Survey but the second time i saw it i hired an aircraft and hunted diligently for the Bird. On this second flight the Bird was observed at close Range and the yellow feet were clearly seen protruding behind the while Tail. The Story of the recovery of the snowy egret from the Brink of sex thic Tion is h fascinating one. The species is a Welcome addition o uie Fauna of Manitoba. St. Ambroise Bird count members of the Manitoba naturalist society conducted their annual Bird count at St. Ambroise May 26. They counted a total of 99 species of Birds at St. Ambroise itself with several other species seen Between this Prev modal Park and Winnipeg. The highlight for Nisi Gay members was the sighting of the Cate egret Kaiung i Way 26 North of is. Eur Stallc. This Bird was originally seen in this Kica Uon May and Ull Hough it wanders As much As circe Miles along this Highway it was in nearly the original location 16 Days after first being seen. A nother highlight of Bie Day was i he observing of i least weasel by several Oij servers at St. Ambroise. A choral Competition once again chairs from All Over the world arc Brou Glit together by the medium of radio to Lake part in the in emotional choral Competition let the Peoples sing. And again Csc radio is on hand to give Canadian listeners a taste of Amateur choral music. Broadcasts begin priday on the Csc am network and tuesday on the pm network with a total of four choirs by Iii in two classes on each half hour program. All in All 33 choirs from is countries Are competing for trophies in five categories a youth equal voice mixed voice school and contemporary music. Winners will be announced in an hour Long broadcast on themes and variations. Oct. 3 on Csc am oct. 2 an pm. Canada is represented by two Manitoba choirs this year. In the schools division the Kelvin High Schoul mixed choir from Winnipeg will be heard under the direction of Louii standing aug. 9 and in the youth class he Brandon University chorale conducted by Leonard Mayoh will be heard aug. 1h. Other countries with choirs in the Competition Are Australia Austria Bulgaria Finland France West Germany Hungary Iceland the Netherlands Norway. Spain Sweden the United kingdom and Yugoslavia. Along with each Wedi s choral performance is a son nary of the adjudicators comments and decisions under the chairmanship of or. Siegfried Doslich of bavarian radio the panel consists of representatives from five of the world 3 radio broadcasting systems. This year the Csc is represented by James Kent a Musie producer and composer of masses and other choral works. A Valley s heritage Valley sketches a 13-week documentary television series explores the annals of history and pieces together the Rich heritage of the Ottawa Vauney. This series of half hour programs examines he origin social development and architecture of the Early settlements. Valley sketches was first broadcast on Bot the cd cd a Ottawa station in the fall of 1973, and will come to Winnipeg beginning Friday in cwt channels. Bob Carl and Ken Dougan Are hosts and narrators for the programs taking Channel amp viewers on a unique journey Bac into urae with the help of several local historians and the memories of elderly area residents. The series reveals the ancestral beginnings of the Ottawa area including the towns of Richmond Beil s Comers Stittsville Fallowfield Lanark. Carleton place Almonte Smiths Falls Perth Manotick Osgood Cumberland Arnprior Kemptville Orleans and Hull. Sketch one looks at How the War of 1112 and Napolean s Conquest of Europe helped shape be Ottawa Valley s beginnings the military settlement founded at Perth in 181c, Perth As a judicial Centre and the last fatal Duel in the Region. In subsequent weeks. Valley sketches presents Turmer examples of the Rich legacy of the Valley As the cameras examine the records of a Federal Colonjr in Mcmabb township the founding of the Timber Trade Early customs and social life i in coming of the railway and the building of the ride a canal. The hundreds of hours spent Silling through books recorded interviews and photographs Many of them donated by Bot viewers enabled producer Cec Browne and writer researcher Sheila Petzold to create a living history of the Ottawa Valley s Pioneer Era ;