Fire Hall rebuilt in Rapid City

Ribbon cut

The official ribbon cutting in Rapid City.

By Sheila Runions

      Banner Staff

Thirteen months after fire leveled the Town of Rapid City civic office and attached two-bay fire hall, a grand opening ceremony was held for a new building. 

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"It changed my life completely."

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(L to R) Karla Hall and Darryl Kulbacki

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

Neepawa Banner

Neepawa-area siblings Darryl Kulbacki and Karla Hall are bound by more than just blood. On Oct. 23, Hall went into surgery at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg to donate a kidney to her older brother. 

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"If we are here today, it's because of them."

 

Medals

From left: Honorary Consul of France in Winnipeg, Bruno Burnichon, congratulates Earl Stewart and Roy Snaith on their induction into France’s National Order of the Legion of Honour

Kate-Jackman-Atkinson

The Neepawa Banner

For the second time in four days, a hall was packed in support of two exceptional members of Gladstone’s Royal Canadian Legion Branch #110. On Tuesday, Earl Stewart and Roy Snaith were officially recognized as members of the French Legion of Honour, when the Honorary Consul of France in Winnipeg, Bruno Burnichon, pinned the medals to their chests at a special ceremony in the Legion Clubroom. 

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Rapid City youth wins national award

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Carson Burr

By Sheila Runions

      Banner Staff

Nine-year-old Carson Burr of Rapid City has been featured in these pages of the Rivers Banner several times in the past two years. He was born with a heart defect and has been fundraising for Winnipeg’s Children’s Hospital for two-thirds of his life (six years).

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Kenton remembers

By Paulette Wiens

On Nov. 11 at 10:45 a.m. Kenton Royal Canadian Legion No. 118 held its Remembrance Day Service at Kenton Memorial Hall.

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