Donation helps students and seniors in Rivers
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- Published on Wednesday, June 17, 2015
By Sheila Runions
Banner Staff
The Grade 6 class at Rivers Elementary School has spent this school year volunteering, sharing and learning at Riverdale Personal Care Home (PCH). Those biweekly visits have culminated in unique relationships between youth and seniors, most notably in that the students became the teachers. When they brought the school’s iPads, residents were initially reluctant to touch them, but after the pupils demonstrated how to play games, attitudes of the elderly began to change — they embraced the technology.
Film with Neepawa connection arrives at the Roxy
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- Published on Monday, June 15, 2015
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The Neepawa Banner
The Amityville Playhouse movie will be shown at The Roxy Theatre, Neepawa on June 19-21. The red carpet will be spread out to welcome the local and area stars at the first showing on Friday, June 19th. The Roxy Theatre was the setting for this movie.
Dad's Quilt earns special recognition
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- Published on Sunday, June 14, 2015
Beverly Dean with “Dad’s Quilt”
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The Neepawa Banner
In 1992 my father-in-law was diagnosed with a condition which would keep him housebound for the last years of his life. He became very despondent and lost all will to live; just sitting for hours in a chair in front of the TV waiting to die. The family tried to find something he could do which would bring him out of this depression - we tried puzzles, paint by number art, cards and any crafts we could think of to stimulate him, to little avail.
Camp Day deemed a success
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- Published on Saturday, June 13, 2015
By Eoin Devereux
The Neepawa Banner
More than 18,000 youth from across Canada, including a pair from Neepawa, will go to camp this year thanks to your generous support during Tim Hortons Camp Day. The annual fundraiser, held on Wednesday, June 3, saw all the proceeds from coffee sales donated to the Tim Horton Children’s Foundation to send kids from low-income homes on a camp experience. Tim Hortons was able to raise $12.4 million in total on a national level.
