Santa Clara year end awards
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- Published on Friday, August 5, 2016
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The Santa Clara Baseball League (SCBL) has announced its 2016 individual award winners. The worthy recipients are determined each year by the league officials. For the 2016 regular season, the award winners include:
Right in the centre - War machines of a different sort
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- Published on Friday, August 5, 2016
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Watching the world record threshing event on July 31 brought a flood of memories and thoughts to mind. I was only 10 years old or less when the neighbour’s threshing machine was retired. We never owned one and many farmers never did own their own threshing machine. One farmer, or a group of farmers, might have a machine and it would do double duty or more on several farms in a district. Through a small boy’s eyes, these machines were a source of wonder and mystery. They looked huge and for their day, they were big. They were a strange contraption of pulleys, gears, belts and spouts.
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‘It was dedication of the heart for this hallowed ground’
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- Published on Thursday, August 4, 2016
Photos by Kate Jackman-Atkinson and Christine Waddell. Following the plaque unveiling, members of the Military History Society of Manitoba and the Friends of Camp Hughes led volunteers into Camp Hughes’ trenches and across No Man’s Land, towards the enemy trenches.
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
In the summer of 1916, Manitoba’s second largest city was actually a military training camp located west of Carberry. That summer, Camp Hughes was home to more than 30,000 soldiers training to head overseas to fight in World War I as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
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World record broken at Austin
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- Published on Thursday, August 4, 2016
Photos by Diane Ruzycki. A view of the world record attempt.
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Ahead of Sunday’s record attempt, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank advertised on their web site they planned Harvesting Hope: a World Record to Help the Hungry. They expected 600 volunteers from across Canada who would harvest a field of wheat with 146 old-fashioned threshing machines from the early 20th century. They were expecting 146 machines, which combined, are capable of harvesting more than 20,000 bushels of wheat per hour. They would be driven by 6,100 horsepower of engine capacity.
