Multiple fatalities in Minnedosa crash

By Eoin Devereux

Neepawa Banner & Press

Three people are dead following a multi-vehicle accident just south of Minnedosa on Wednesday, Feb. 14. RCMP have confirmed that the collision took place about five kilometres south of the community on Highway 10 at around 5:25 p.m. 

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Looking Back - 1978: “Tribute to Elvis” Dance

Jessica Morton
Neepawa Banner & Press

80 years ago
Tuesday, February 8, 1938
An annual report of Manitoba Telephone System, just issued, reveals a highly satisfactory condition, the most outstanding item being the revenue balance of $143,282.52 for the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1937, as compared to $14,739.95 for the previous year. In the list of exchanges, Neepawa stands fifth in the province in telephones, the total being 641 for local and rural.

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Out of Helen's kitchen - Honey oat biscotti

Helen Drysdale
Neepawa Banner & Press

This recipe comes from an older Canadian Honey Counsel cook book. If you are a biscotti cookie fan this recipe is for you!

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From the prairies to the mountains

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On Thursday, Jan. 25, 19 grade nine students from Neepawa Area Collegiate Institute (NACI) and their teachers Mr. Gaudet and Mrs. Heschuk left for a week-long adventure to Mont-Laurier, in northwest Québec.

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On Thursday, Jan. 25, 19 grade nine students from Neepawa Area Collegiate Institute (NACI) and their teachers Mr. Gaudet and Mrs. Heschuk left for a week-long adventure to Mont Laurier, in northwest Québec. Their trip was part of the two-week Experiences Canada program which is a reciprocal home-stay exchange.

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Homebodies - Embracing brokenness?

Rita Friesen
Neepawa Banner & Press

There is a line from one of the newer hymns that has been haunting me all day. The hymn – ‘Come Touch Our Hearts’ words and music by Gordon Light, 2002, includes a line, ‘Come touch our hearts that we may know compassion’. Somewhere during the day, the words switched to ‘come touch my heart’. The words became more powerful. My thoughts were possibly influenced by the writings of Ann Voskamp, ‘The Broken Way’. One of her chapter thoughts is ‘maybe wholeness is embracing brokenness as part of your life’.

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