Right in the Centre - A message for every community
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- Published on Friday, June 30, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
As summer holidays emerge on the scene, I have a favour to ask of every reader. I am especially asking that over the summer, people aged 25-45 years of age contemplate the future of their respective communities.
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Right in the Centre - Historical Foundations (Republication)
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- Published on Friday, June 23, 2023
By Ken Waddel
Neepawa Banner & Press
When we look back through the archived pages of our newspapers, we get a bird’s eye view of how things were done over 100 years ago. Some things really stand out.
Perhaps the first thing that jumps off the pages is the lack of what would today we call “political correctness”. Opinions and humour back in the day were pretty much unbridled. There was no filter on the editors’ typewriters 100 or more years ago.They said whatever was on their minds and sometimes their comments very bluntly called out politicians and citizens alike.
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Right in the centre - Thoughts, lots of thoughts
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- Published on Friday, June 16, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Sometimes columns come to mind based around one theme. Sometimes, like this week, many thoughts come to mind.
The first one is that a person can think or believe whatever we want but with one exception. That exception is we can’t make someone else believe or think what we want. That said, what we want or think should be expressed openly and gently. There’s a lot of non-gentle stuff going on these days so gentle and informed discussion is very important.
Right in the centre - A missing service
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- Published on Friday, June 9, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Manitoba has a problem. Actually it has a lot of problems but proper cell phone and internet service is a glaring one.
Right in the centre - Thought dictators
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- Published on Friday, June 2, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
The world is polluted today with thought dictators and nobody likes them. It doesn’t matter what a person’s beliefs are, they don’t like to be told what they must think, what they must say and, perhaps more important, what they must not say.
