Neepawa welcomes the world at annual event

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Photos by Tony Eu. The Saturday evening banquet included some student-led entertainment, some of which even included participation from Neepawa Rotary and Inner Wheel members.

By Tony Eu

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

This past weekend, Neepawa was host to 21 people from all over the world.

As part of the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, exchange students in Rotary District 5550, which encompasses Saskatchewan, Manitoba and northern Ontario, came to Neepawa for a weekend orientation, hosted by Inner Wheel.

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Three lucky families got a free meal in their field

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Submitted photos. The farm owned by Harvey and Darla Hanke was the winner of one of the two meals delivered by Beautiful Plains Credit Union.

The annual Meals in the Fields contest has wrapped up another year of food on the farm.  The draw to determine the winners of this year’s event happened at the end of August.

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Volunteers needed to winterize Bird Sanctuary

By Miranda Leybourne

Neepawa Banner

The Rotary Park Bird Sanctuary is in need of volunteers to help protect the birds from the harshness of a prairie winter, before cold weather sets in.

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Home Routes returns to Arden

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Photo by Ron Nordstrom.

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A show of vintage horse power

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Photo by Diane Warner. 

Under the watchful eye of Art Gibson, Justin McKee guides his horses down the furrow during this year’s plowing days. The two day event, held Oct. 1 and 2 in Carberry, was hosted by the Manitoba Plowing Association and the Carberry Agricultural Society. It featured two days of vintage horsepower, both four-legged and machine.

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