Local girl takes pageant title

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Submitted photo. Three-year-old Kennedy Brown of Glenella won the Toddler Miss Manitoba title earlier this month.

By Kira Paterson

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

A little girl from Glenella, MB was recently named Toddler Miss Manitoba 2016. She will be competing for a national title at the National Canadian Girl, Teen and Miss (NCGTM) pageant in Edmonton this summer. 

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Green candidate Smith proposing ‘different thinking’

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

The third candidate in the Agassiz riding to step into the race, Robert F. Smith is running for the Green Party.

The mixed farmer runs a section of land and has a herd of 25 cows, as well as growing oats and buckwheat.  He has been an organic farmer since 1999.

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'If someone has Chase, please bring him home'

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

At 5 p.m. on March 24, just shy of 48 hours after Chase Martens went missing from his family’s yard, the two-year-old’s parents issued a public plea. Father Thomas and mother Destiny were visibly distraught speaking to the assembled media. Thomas Martens choked back tears as he urged anyone with information to contact the police, “If someone has our son, please bring him home.  We won’t be angry, we’ll be forgiving and grateful.”

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Manitoba Votes 2016 - Meet the candidates in the Agassiz constituency

By Banner Staff

The Neepawa Banner

This week, we asked the candidates about their previous experience in politics and why they wanted to represent their party. Over the next few weeks, we will ask the candidates for their take on certain topics that concern rural Manitobans. 

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Overnight search for Chase Martens yields no results

Banner Staff

After another night of combing area fields and brush, searchers came up empty in the their efforts to find missing two-year-old, Chase Martens. On March 24, at 11 a.m., RCMP held a press conference to provide an update on the search. 

Manitoba RCMP Media Relations Officer Sgt. Bert Paquet, said that at one point yesterday, over 500 volunteers were participating in the search.  At dusk last night, about 100 volunteers were sent home, with only trained search and rescue personnel participating in the overnight search.  Many of those volunteers returned this morning.

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