Observation - January 5, 2018
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- Published on Friday, January 5, 2018
Addy Oberlin
Neepawa Banner & Press
We started a new year. 2018. What is our outlook of 2018? Maybe we are bringing some pressures and disappointments from last year with us into the new year. Some mourning for loved ones who so recently left us has joined us again now. But we are also facing new challenges and we are making plans for this year.
Faithfully yours - Consider the Franklin's gulls
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- Published on Sunday, December 31, 2017
By Neil Strohschein
Neepawa Banner & Press
My early years were spent on a farm in rural Alberta. I was the first of three “home made hired men” who, along with our mom, helped my dad build a successful mixed farm. The youngest of the hired men took over the farm when dad retired. Today, he and his son raise beef cattle on the home quarter—the rest of the land is rented to a neighboring grain farmer.
Faithfully yours - The greatest story ever told
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- Published on Sunday, December 24, 2017
Neil Strohschein
Neepawa Banner & Press
The “little town of Bethlehem,” about which we sing every year at this time, isn’t nearly as little as it once was. Today it is a city of 75,000 people, mostly Palestinians, located about 10 miles west of Jerusalem. But 2,000 years ago, it was a little town—population, roughly 1,000 people.
Observation - December 15, 2017
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- Published on Sunday, December 17, 2017
Addy Oberlin
Neepawa Banner & Press
The road trip took us out of town for two days. When we came back it was almost dark. When we came closer to home I noticed the yard lights on the horizon. Those lights represented a farm, a home to someone. It brought back an interesting thought.
Faithfully Yours - The silver lining in this chaotic cloud
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- Published on Sunday, December 17, 2017
Neil Strohschein
Neepawa Banner & Press
The war of words between US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea just doesn’t seem to want to end. And as each new volley in this war is fired, our world inches closer to the brink of a full-blown crisis that could lead to nuclear war. Although these two men are at opposite ends of the political see-saw, they are eerily the same. Trump believes that the United States has enough military might to totally obliterate North Korea if they ever fire a nuclear equipped missile in his direction.
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