Crocus Festival coming to Arden
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- Published on Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Photo by John Dietz. These purple flowers recently opened up their petals in Arden, the Crocus Capital of Manitoba.
By Kira Paterson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
The first Saturday of May, as it has been since 2001, will be a busy one in Arden. May 7 is the day for the 16th annual Arden Crocus Festival. The Crocus Festival is a fun day for the whole family that celebrates Arden’s status as the crocus capital of Manitoba.
Digital resources offered through Neepawa library
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- Published on Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Submitted Article
Neepawa Public Library
Do you hoopla? One of the many services library patrons can access is hoopla, an online collection of digital content selected to provide a variety of resources for all ages. And now, hoopla has a new “Kids Mode” called “hoopla for kids,” where titles in each format – video, music and books – has been selected and brought together in one place to provide a one-stop location for all the great content kids can enjoy.
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Looking back - 1996: Home-care workers across Manitoba go on strike
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- Published on Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Photo courtesy of Neepawa Press Archives. 20 years ago; Monday, April 23, 1996: Trudy Slishinski expressed her thanks to the community for the support of the striking workers.
By Cecil Pittman
The Neepawa Press
80 years ago Friday, April 24, 1936
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My Neepawa - The early bird
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- Published on Tuesday, April 26, 2016
What’s “Your Neepawa”? We’re asking readers to share with us their pictures of past and present Neepawa.
To share a picture, please email a high resolution version (1 MB or higher) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or stop by the office at 243 Hamilton Street, in Neepawa. Please include your name as well as a description of the photo.
Photo courtesy of Larry Powell of Neepawa.
This robin was one of about 100 that recently gathered on the lawn at Aspen Lea just before a snowfall a couple weeks ago. He was one of several who found his dinner there.
Bradwardine burns
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- Published on Sunday, April 24, 2016
By Sheila Runions
Banner Staff
Bradwardine’s history book reports settlers first arrived in the district in 1880; the first post office opened there four years later. There were “other smaller fires in the early years” including one in 1905 which destroyed the CPR section house. Two years later a “few businesses were damaged,” and on Jan. 27, 1910 Hotel Windsor, “one of the finest hostelries in the west” was destroyed by fire. In December 1910 a “major setback” happened to the town, which suffered another “huge fire” in which seven businesses were burned to the ground, leaving only two left to serve the town. On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 another significant fire burned three-quarters of an entire block, eating up lots of dead vegetation and four structures.
