Homebodies - To me, this is Canada
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- Published on Saturday, July 1, 2017
Rita Friesen
The Neepawa Banner
As you read this, I will just be settling my wings after the long flight home from Paris. Canada Day, Canada 150, will have filled the front pages of newspapers and flooded the airwaves. And so it should. I am proud to be a Canadian. I work diligently to do justice to the title.
NACI drama receives donation
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- Published on Friday, June 30, 2017
Banner Staff
The Neepawa Banner
NACI’s drama program recently received a donation from Neepawa Banner and its advertisers. The $120.90 donation represented a portion of the proceeds from the Banner’s “Beauty and the Beast” spread, which ran in the April 28 edition of the paper. From left: Graeme Chapman (Lumiere), Vicky Elgert (Babette), Blair Chapman, and the Banner’s John Drinkwater.
Cemetery sagas coming to Neepawa
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- Published on Friday, June 30, 2017
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
This summer, Neepawa-area residents will have the chance to “walk” with the town’s pioneers and visionaries. On July 21, local grief support group, New Beginnings, will be hosting Cemetery Sagas; a salute to those who shaped the community.
Out of Helen's kitchen - The 1930's
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- Published on Friday, June 30, 2017
Helen Drysdale
The Neepawa Banner
What would be known as the Great Depression was ushered in by the stock market crash in 1929. That caused a worldwide economic depression. This was followed with a horrendous drought that struck the Prairie provinces, which were reliant on one single crop, wheat. What the drought did not get, the grasshoppers and the wind storms that tore away the topsoil did, and devastated agricultural production.