Rolling River Festival soon returns to Minnedosa
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- Published on Friday, February 26, 2016
By Sheila Thiessen
Publicity
The annual Rolling River Festival of the Arts is less than a month away! Sessions will be held in Minnedosa March 14-18 and the committee has secured the services of Elizabeth Rotoff, Caron Whitlaw-Hiebert and Wendy Bobby as adjudicators. You may be interested to know their credentials and expertise in offering suggestions to our participants.
No Escape from Greatness
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- Published on Thursday, February 25, 2016
By Sheila Runions
Banner Staff
The headline of this story is the title of a book written by a man who spent one year of his life in Rivers and while he has few memories of town, several readers will be familiar with his family tree. His mother Laurie Plumb explains the history of author Jeffrey John Eyamie of Winnipeg.
Farmery to begin brewing in Neepawa this spring
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- Published on Thursday, February 25, 2016
Banner file photo. Last September, Chris (left) and Lawrence (right) Warwaruk stood with Bob Mazer (centre) to announce the purchase of the former Mazergroup building in Neepawa. Brewing equipment will be installed in the building starting in April.
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Chris and Lawrence Warwaruk’s dream will come one step closer to reality this spring. In 2011, the brothers set out to build Canada’s first estate brewery, which they called Farmery, and at the end of April, they will take delivery of their new brewing equipment. Not only is Farmery a microbrewery, all of the inputs used to make the beer are grown on their Arden-area farm.
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.