Looking back - 1947: Lion’s Club Halloween Party a success
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- Published on Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Cecil Pittman
The Neepawa Banner & Press
80 years ago
Tuesday, November 2, 1937
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Foley was nearly demolished by fire Friday afternoon. A neighbour informed Mrs. Foley that smoke was issuing from an upstairs window and when she investigated she found a bed in flames but with a few douses of water she was able to quell the fire. It is thought an over heated stove pipe ignited the curtains in the room.
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Gladstone to host folk singer
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- Published on Monday, November 6, 2017
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Neepawa Banner & Press
Acclaimed songwriter, Lizzy Hoyt is one of Canada’s most powerful Celtic-folk artists. Known for bringing history to life with music, she is a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal recipient for her work commemorating Canadian veterans and Vimy Ridge history through music.
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.
