Homebodies - When you feel alone, reach out
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- Published on Saturday, February 27, 2016
By Rita Friesen
The Neepawa Banner
The past several weeks have been tough slugging with my studies. I feel a need for frivolity coming on. For starters, I decided to practice what I teach. I encourage people who feel alone or lonely to reach out. We are not mind readers and can’t know what someone else needs.
Right in the centre - Neepawa, Minnedosa, we have a problem
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- Published on Friday, February 26, 2016
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Yes, you read the headline correctly. WE have a problem.
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Popular Cherokee leads the way for image and capability
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- Published on Thursday, February 25, 2016
Photo by Ben Castle. In the mango tango pearl of our test model, the styling is both distinctive and attractive.
By Ben Castle
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The original compact Cherokee SUV of 1984 was a pioneer in being one of the first SUVs to combine a genuinely good and refined on-road driving experience with legendary off-road ability, thanks to its unibody construction. It enjoyed a 17 year production run with minimal changes.
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My perspective - Bigger is better, or is it?
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- Published on Thursday, February 25, 2016
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Bigger is better, bigger is better. For centuries, that’s been the mantra and for the last 100 years, the chants have gotten louder. Almost anywhere you look, we are consistently told that things must get bigger. North America was built, after all, on the premise that we need to fill up all that empty space.
Homebodies - Thrumming in my consciousness
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- Published on Sunday, February 21, 2016
By Rita Friesen
The Neepawa Banner
There is a word swirling around in the depths of my consciousness, thrum, thrumming. I think it took root when I reflected on the words from the song ‘How then shall I live’, ‘heard a sound outside of my listening, felt the living hum of the ground.’ There have been moments when I have been very aware of the hum of the surface beneath my feet. Somehow the word ‘thrum’ more accurately captures the sensation of those times.
