Homebodies - Pondering...
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- Published on Sunday, November 5, 2017
Rita Freisen
The Neepawa Banner & Press
A phrase from the book on my bedside, ‘Ride the Rising Wind, One Woman’s Journey Across Canada’, by Barbara Kingscote echoed and re-echoed in my thoughts and musings. [ I digress, but it isn’t often that a compelling book stays as long as this one has – I have been busy and busier!] This time the author is making her way across Ontario, waiting to see the prairies. She has chosen to stop at a small home, tucked in a clearing in the bush. The scent of a wood smoke smudge, the light from a window, drew her in. she ‘stepped across the threshold of my own hesitation into a lamp lit kitchen’.
Riverdale Palliative Care plans events
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- Published on Saturday, November 4, 2017
By Esther Krahn
Co-ordinator
Riverdale Palliative Care will be hosting several events in the next few weeks. We are looking for more volunteers so, together with Minnedosa Palliative Care, we are hosting the Volunteer Education & Training Program. This is a five-week 6:30-9 p.m. course which will be starting on Wednesday, Nov. 15 in the board room at Minnedosa Hospital.
Stability starting to surface at NACTV
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- Published on Saturday, November 4, 2017
By Eoin Devereux
Neepawa Banner & Press
Though this year’s annual general meeting (AGM) for NACTV wasn’t quite as dramatic as had been seen previous years, that didn’t mean it still wasn’t as important for the future of the community access channel.
Classic country supports local group
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- Published on Friday, November 3, 2017
photo by John Drinkwater John Cullen, as Johnny Cash, performing “Folsom Prison Blues “. Cullen was one of the wide array of local artists who participated in the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday, Oct. 28.
By John Drinkwater
Neepawa Banner and Press
On Saturday, Oct. 28, local musicians performed the songs of the Grand Ole Opry country music stars.
Lake Agassiz book launch a success
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- Published on Friday, November 3, 2017
By Eoin Devereux
Neepawa Banner & Press
Writing about the history of a long forgotten glacial lake can be hard; making it actually interesting can be even harder. But if the recent capacity crowd, which filled the foyer of the Beautiful Plains Museum in Neepawa was any indication, Bill Redekop has found a way.
