1947: Evans heads to California for bowling competition

 

1947: Tony Evans travelled to California to participate in the North American Bowling Championship. (Neepawa press archives)

 

By Cecil Pittman
The Neepawa Press

 

80 years ago: 

Tuesday, Apr. 20, 1937

Buzz-saw radio programs are quite the thing in this town, but nobody seems to know where the interference comes from. It must be very comforting to listeners when in the midst of an interesting broadcast, they get the taste of the Spanish revolution. 

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CWE returns to Gladstone

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The Neepawa Banner

The countdown is on as we reach the final hours before Canadian Wrestling’s Elite (CWE) hits the road celebrates eight  years of operations with a company record 16 live events in 16 days across four Canadian provinces. On May 4, they’ll be making a stop in Gladstone.

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Temporary measures in place to protect Lake Dauphin walleye

The Province of Manitoba Media Release

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On April 19, Manitoba Sustainable Development announced that temporary conservation measures have been put in place to protect walleye populations in Lake Dauphin and its tributaries this spring, during the walleye spawning period.

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Changes coming to rural blood donors

By Miranda Leybourne

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People in the Westman region who regularly or occasionally donate blood to the Canadian Blood Services (CBS) will have a harder time giving of the precious substance. CBS plans to shut down its Brandon, Man. clinic as of June 8. Mobile blood donor clinics that ran out of the Brandon clinic will also be no more.

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Neepawa resident will soon have a "Nurse Next Door"

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

The Neepawa Banner

Working as a director of care for a personal care home, Ann Chan used to get calls from people looking for help for their family members. The common story involved an elderly parent living in another community who needed a nurse or care giver’s help, or faced social isolation. “I could feel their frustration,” she said.  As a charge nurse in a transitional unit in Winnipeg, Chan saw a similar story; patients who needed more support and weren’t really ready to go home. While there was government supported services, such as home care, patients and their families found that it didn’t meet all of the patients’ needs. Chan would try and find help for these patients, something she now does on a full time basis.

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