Concert comes to Onanole
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- Published on Thursday, May 11, 2017
Photo by Ron Nordstrom
Emma Clooney and Dale Brown, of the New Customs, performed at a house concert in Onanole Saturday, May 6. Emma’s rich powerful voice combined perfectly with Dale’s fiddle, mandolin and other unique instruments
Lottery surpassing last year so far
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- Published on Thursday, May 11, 2017
By Ken Waddell
The Neepawa Banner
The Beautiful Plains Medical Clinic cash lottery is showing great promise as the 50/50 pot now stands at $78,960.
WWII book an easy read
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- Published on Wednesday, May 10, 2017
By Ken Waddell
The Neepawa Press
If you get hold of a pretty little green hard cover book titled Beaufighters and Mosquitos, you will have access to unique details about the Canadian war effort in WWII. The subtitle is “The Balkans, Malaya and The Sudan” and it is written by Donald Jackson.
A Senior's Story: Alf Newton, "Victory came at a tremendous cost"
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- Published on Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Photo courtesy of Alf Newton.Alf Newton training at the Bombing and Gunnery Air Force Training Centre in Macdonald, Manitoba, 1943.
By Wayne Hildebrand
The Neepawa Press
In 1878, Thomas Newton was lured from Ontario to Manitoba by the promise of free land. He took the train to Winnipeg and made his way west on a prairie wagon trail. In the County of Beautiful Plains, he found his new homestead on the unbroken grasslands four miles east of Neepawa. At the Land Titles Office, he looked at the “free land for homesteaders” poster on the wall, with the promising picture of bounteous golden wheat blowing in the wind and the description of Manitoba’s climate as, “bracing and salubrious, undoubtedly the finest climate on earth for constitutionally healthy people.”
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Looking back - 1957: Scottie, the prize pig
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- Published on Tuesday, May 9, 2017
By Cecil Pittman
The Neepawa Press
80 years ago Friday, May 7, 1937. Fire destroyed the barn and four horses on the farm of Jack Elliot in Osprey on Thursday. The horses belonged to Fred Strohman, who has the farm rented. He had brought the horses in at noon and when the fire was noticed, he was able to get only one out. All his harness and feed were also destroyed. It is not known how the fire started.
