Friday December 9, 2022 - Neepawa Banner & Press
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In this week's edition of the Banner & Press, the Holiday train made a stop in Carberry. As well, updates on the Jingle & Mingle event set for ArtsForward, a neww name for the Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa federal riding & Gladstone welcomes a new dentist to the community. Those stories, plus all the latest on the Titans, Farmers and high school volleyball in the Neepawa Banner & Press.
Right in the centre - More rules doesn't mean better results
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By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
I find it interesting that there are 10 truck loads of lava per second coming out of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. Wonder what that does to warming up the atmosphere and to the carbon levels? Guess everyone has to shut down their furnaces in Canada to compensate for the Hawaii volcano.There are 1,350 active volcanoes in the world, plus a bunch more under the oceans.
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Friday, December 2, 2022 - Neepawa Banner & Press
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In this week's edition of the Banner & Press, there is plenty of coverage related to the beginning of the holiday season. As well, a new high-tech server is now on the job at Boston Pizza Neepawa. There's also details on Shop Hometown, the Rotary Club auction and major theatre production for NACI in the Dec. 2 Neepawa Banner & Press.
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Right in the centre - Historical foundations
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By Ken Waddell
When we look back through the archived pages of our newspapers, we get a bird’s eye view of how things were done over 100 years ago. Some things really stand out.
Perhaps the first thing that jumps off the pages is the lack of what we would today call “political correctness”. Opinions and humour back in the day were pretty much unbridled. There was no filter on the editors’ typewriters 100 or more years ago.They said whatever was on their minds and sometimes their comments very bluntly called out politicians and citizens alike.
