Emotional stories of immigrant life
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- Published on Wednesday, December 14, 2016
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Author Karen Emilson visited the Neepawa Library on Dec. 1, to promote her first work of fiction, Be Still the Water. The story is based loosely on historical events in the Lake Manitoba community of Siglunes. Filled with emotional stories and hardships of the early 20th century, the story is built around an immigrant Icelandic family who struggled to make a new life in a new country.
NFSC prepares for annual Christmas Show
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- Published on Wednesday, December 14, 2016
File photo. Members of the Neepawa Figure Skating Club are ready for the 2016 Christmas Show. These performers were a part of the 2015 extravaganza.
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The Neepawa Figure Skating Club is now in full swing and members are getting ready for the upcoming annual Christmas Ice Show. This season we have 20 StarSkaters who skate Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays with coaches Cynthia Chartrand and Kim Smith. Our season has started off strong with a fabulous skate from Zoie Forgue at the Manitoba Sectional Skating Championships in November in Morden with a fifth place finish. The rest of the StarSkaters are hoping that the ice show will help them get the “jitters” out before their first competition of the season, in Virden at the beginning of January.
Book writing process full of surprises and lingering mysteries
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- Published on Tuesday, December 13, 2016
By Tony Eu
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Rick Sparling’s new book might not be selling quite as well as his first, but it certainly has its share of interesting stories and surprises.
On Aug. 11, Rick Sparling released Amateur Hockey in Neepawa: A Scrapbook. Now, four months later, it’s time to take a look at how the book sold and what the writing experience was like.
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‘It was a hard life, but you’ve just got to keep moving on’
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Submitted photo. Madeline Ferguson at 15 years old, when she moved to Winnipeg on her own.
By Tony Eu
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Madeline Ferguson’s life hasn’t been what anyone would describe as easy. Ferguson grew up in a Métis family during the dirty ‘30s. From there, her life was a nearly constant uphill battle.
Despite the hardships, Ferguson never let the bad overshadow the good. Always focusing on the silver lining, she considers her life a good one. “I’m blessed, very blessed,” she expressed.
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