Home sweet home
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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.
Elephants and meerkats and squirrels, oh my!
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Submitted photos. Daniel Heschuk on top of Table Mountain near Cape Town, South Aftica.
By Kira Paterson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
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.
Activities planned for 10th anniversary of the Langford Recreational Trails
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Submitted photo. This scenic lookout can be found along the hike at the Langford Recreational Trails.
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Ten years ago, local volunteers developed The Langford Recreational Trails as a place for people to hike, bike and enjoy nature. This series of connecting trails allows people to choose a hike or a bike ride with distances ranging from one kilometre to 10 kilometres. Located 10 kilometres east of Neepawa on Highway 16, and south five kilometres on Road 81 W, it is easily accessible. A map of the trails can be obtained on the website neepawaleisure.com.
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Bed and breakfast embarks on new path
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Photos by Tony Eu. George and Susan Phillips, inside the dining room of what was once The Garden Path B&B.
By Tony Eu
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
As of Aug. 1, 2016 The Garden Path Bed & Breakfast is officially closed. George and Susan Phillips have owned the building for 11 years and operated as a B&B for 10.
STARS helicopter ambulance
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Photo by John Drinkwater.
The Airbus Helicopter BK117 at the Neepawa Hospital landing site. Early evening on Wednesday, August 3, a Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) air ambulance landed at an assigned site near Neepawa Hospital. The 40 minute rendevous flight from their base at Winnipeg International Airport (WIA) was requested to collect a patient for transfer back to (WIA) then on to Health Sciences Centre (HSC) via ground ambulance. The BK117 helicopter covers an approximate 250 km radius holding one critical patient or can be converted to hold two patients should circumstances require. Operating range can be extended further when refuelling is available. STARS captains have a minimum of 3,000 hours flying experience and are trained to fly with night vision goggles. The crew consists of a critical care nurse, an advanced life support paramedic and two pilots.
