Parking solutions for small towns
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- Published on Thursday, November 27, 2014
The town of Oswego, Kansas has an interesting way of providing extra parking in their downtown core area. There is angle parking on both sides, centre parallel parking and one lane of traffic going each direction. Oswego is slightly smaller than Minnedosa.
Ken Waddell
The Neepawa Banner
Discussions and even arguments about parking spots have been going on for decades. Rural people are infamous for wanting to park right in front of the store or restaurant they are headed for. Business owners are just as bad as they too like to park close to their daily destination.
Federal cash for sewer upgrades in Neepawa
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- Published on Friday, November 21, 2014
By Eoin Devereux
The Neepawa Banner
A massive wastewater infrastructure project in Neepawa has received new federal support. The Town has been notified that it’s one of five communities in western Manitoba receiving funding under the New Building Canada Plan’s Small Communities Fund.
Fire Hall rebuilt in Rapid City
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- Published on Friday, November 21, 2014
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.
"It changed my life completely."
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- Published on Thursday, November 20, 2014
(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.
"If we are here today, it's because of them."
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- Published on Thursday, November 20, 2014
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.
