Auto accident in downtown Neepawa

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Photos by John Drinkwater

Neepawa Banner & Press

A three vehicle accident occurred in Neepawa on Monday, Feb. 26. Eyewitnesses noted that it appeared that one person went to hospital. No additional details on the cause have been confirmed at this time. (Click on story for additional pictures.)

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World Day of Prayer

Christine Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press

The World Day of Prayer (W.D.P.) is a worldwide movement of Christian women of many traditions who come together to observe a common day of prayer each year. It is celebrated in over 170 countries on the first Friday in March. The roots of this day can be dated back to the 1800s. Through WDP women around the world are encouraged to become aware of the whole world and no longer live in isolation and to be enriched by faith experiences of Christians of other countries and cultures and to pray for and with them.

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What is Neepawa? We’ll find out soon enough

Eoin Devereux
Neepawa Banner & Press

The effort to launch Neepawa’s new brand is a step closer to becoming a reality. A task force, consisting of local municipal and business leaders, received a creative brief from Travel Manitoba on Tuesday, Feb. 13. The brief focused on ideas for generating new opportunities in tourism and launching a coordinated branding effort for the area. While the specific details of the Travel Manitoba creative brief will not be released until the final brand strategy is officially unveiled, the early draft of the campaign does appear to place emphasis on targeting cultural explorers attracted to niche tourism.

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Local librarian takes literary leap

Miranda Leybourne
Neepawa Banner & Press

Neepawa Public Library’s newest employee is also one of Westman’s newest published authors. Lenora Buffi, who has been working at the local library for just over two months, has published her first novel: a sweeping historical mystery entitled Vista. Born in Steinbach, Man., and raised by two educators, Buffi says a love of the written word was passed on to her, and was a natural part of her childhood.
“My father [called himself] a ‘sesquipedalian’: a lover of big words,” she remembers fondly. “He inspired me to love reading, to love learning, to love books and good literature, to love art and classical music, which is a huge component of this book.”

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Local artists put on display

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Photo By Christine Waddell
Many artists from Neepawa's high school put their art on display at the NACI Art exhibition at ArtsForward,  from wonderful paintings to plasterdermy.

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