My Perspective - Hungry for knowledge
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- Published on Friday, August 12, 2016
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
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Right now, the biggest challenge facing agriculture isn’t an ageing population, market volatility, weather or rising input costs. Today, the biggest challenge facing farmers is consumer education.
Home sweet home
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- Published on Thursday, August 11, 2016
Submitted photos. Nikki at the Sound of Vienna classical concert in Vienna, Austria.
By Nikki Tomoniko
Rotary Exchange Student
I sit at home, look over the fields I’ve grown up playing in and think to myself, “Crazy.”
My name is Nikki Tomoniko and I have spent the last year in Switzerland on a Rotary exchange. I, an unassuming prairie girl, left the safe valleys of our flat province to join the high life in the mountains. I arrived in Switzerland on a hot, August day with primitive German in my back pocket and nodding smiles as survival methods. My year grew and evolved from that day on, into what I can’t describe as anything other than extraordinary. I have made friends, found families, laughed with Rotarians and explored so much of what were once just foreign concepts to me.
Wawanesa hosts and wins senior baseball crown
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- Published on Thursday, August 11, 2016
By Gladwyn Scott
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Under warm, sunny skies, Wawanesa hosted and won the senior AA baseball championship Aug. 5-7. Wawanesa Brewers (10-3), South West League pennant winners, edged Minnedosa Mavericks, 11 time Santa Clara pennant winners, 5-3 in the finals and Pilot Mound Pilots (Border League winners) 3-2 in the eight team semi finals.
Elephants and meerkats and squirrels, oh my!
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- Published on Thursday, August 11, 2016
Submitted photos. Daniel Heschuk on top of Table Mountain near Cape Town, South Aftica.
By Kira Paterson
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Daniel Heschuk, of Neepawa, has recently returned from a unique trip to South Africa. Heschuk, 20, who is going into his third year at the University of Manitoba, spent three months on a wildlife reserve called SA Lombard researching the Cape ground squirrel.
