Right in the centre - You don't have to do that
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- Published on Thursday, April 16, 2015
By Ken Waddell
The Neepawa Banner
If individuals and governments at all levels would adopt the title of this column as a one of their pillars of life, the world would be a better place. Individuals and governments at all levels are continually saying they are short of money. In many cases, they aren’t short of money, they are long on spending.
Homebodies - Things I hold dear that I may have to rethink
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- Published on Sunday, April 12, 2015
By Rita Friesen
When our first family was young the writings of Corrie Ten Boom were popular. “The Hiding Place”, the story of a young woman and her family aiding people of the Jewish faith during the Nazi regime, was made into a movie. “God does not have problems. Only plans,” proclaimed Corrie Ten Boom when a clerical error allowed her to be released from a Nazi concentration camp one week before all women prisoners her age were executed. Amid the horrors of the time, faith shone.
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Faithfully Yours - Close encounters of the natural kind
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- Published on Saturday, April 11, 2015
By Neil Strohscein
The Neepawa Banner
Shortly after my arrival in Neepawa, I boarded a Greyhound bus heading west. My destination was Cariboo School of the Bible in Quesnel, BC; where I was invited to be a guest lecturer.
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My perspective - On the road again
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- Published on Friday, April 10, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
Across south-western Manitoba, rural medicine is changing. Most communities are desperately short of family physicians and many people have to travel out of town to see a doctor. Some communities are seeing temporary or permanent closures of their emergency rooms because there aren’t enough staff to operate them. Rural medicine in changing and for many Manitobans, one thing is clear, we will be travelling further for health services.
Right in the centre - Two First Nations communities are really on to something
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- Published on Thursday, April 9, 2015
By Ken Waddell
The Neepawa Banner
In a recent article in The Winnipeg Free Press, what may be a very innovative solution is being applied to cases where children are at risk. It was reported that “Grand Rapids will turn parents – not children – out of troubled homes under a new child welfare policy to be adopted on the northern Cree First Nation.
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