Faithfully yours - Reinventing ourselves
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- Published on Saturday, June 20, 2015
By Neil Strohschein
The Neepawa Banner
As time passes, growing numbers of local congregations are being forced to make decisions that, 20 years ago, would never have been imagined. They are being forced to cease operations—close their buildings, liquidate and disburse the assets and find other places to worship. The pain these small congregations feel is worse than the pain of losing a loved one in death.
My perspective - What the future holds
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- Published on Friday, June 19, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
This is always an exciting week at the paper. In Neepawa this week, we publish our annual feature celebrating this year’s graduating class. I always enjoy looking through the pictures and seeing the students I know. Some live near me, some work in local businesses and some I have met while covering events throughout their school years. It’s interesting to hear their plans for the future and their excitement at beginning a new chapter.
Right in the centre - Worth the cost
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- Published on Thursday, June 18, 2015
By Ken Waddell
The Neepawa Banner
The most recent issue of the Minnedosa Tribune carried a very encouraging front page story.The Minnedosa Tribune is by the way the oldest community newspaper in Western Canada and is privately owned by Darryl Holyk. Privately owned papers are the best kind as I have stated many times and the Tribune is no exception.The Trib’s front page story outlines extensive plans for a new medical clinic in Minnedosa. It’s long overdue. Just as the renovated and then expanded medical clinic in Neepawa was long overdue, the community owned clinic in Minnedosa has been “talked about” for a long time.
Faithfully yours - Confessions of a skeptical voter
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- Published on Sunday, June 14, 2015
By Neil Strohschein
We are still a few months away from the official dissolution of Parliament in preparation for the October federal election. But I have already received the first of what I am sure will be many visits by people hoping I will vote for their candidate (and their party) this fall.
Read more: Faithfully yours - Confessions of a skeptical voter
Homebodies - A day well spent
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- Published on Saturday, June 13, 2015
By Rita Friesen
As I completed the last trek of the day with my four footed friends - three laps around the tear drop drive – the day had passed before me as a slow Power Point presentation. It was good, really quite great. In the morning I carefully spot treated a couple of white pieces of apparel and hung them outside to dry. Cleaned, well, tidied, my bedroom. It had become a catch all, and had caught a fair bit. I tried changing the placement of the furniture, but ended up, after a thorough cleaning, putting everything back where it came from. Spent a bit of time trimming the lilacs. I used to do that in one fell swoop but this year, well, there wasn’t any rush and so over a three day period I snipped and clipped away at them. Did get the debris all transported to the burning pile. Broke for a bowl of soup with friends. Friendship, rest and back to work.
