Building food skills and physical literacy for newcomer youth
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The camp participants learned about healthy foods with Sherrill-Lee Hyra.
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The Neepawa Banner
There was a lot on the menu at this year’s Neepawa and Area Settlement Services Newcomers Day-Camp! This project, supported by Healthy Together Now funding, provided local newcomer youth, between the ages of 10 and 15 with opportunities to build their food skills, as well as introduce some of the local recreation opportunities in the Neepawa community. Don Walmsley, director of Neepawa and Area Settlement Services, saw success with a past food skills project, supported by Healthy Together Now, that was targeted at the adult newcomer population this past winter and thought, this would be something to replicate and bring to the newcomer youth in the community!
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Out of Helen's kitchen - 1954
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This is the store that Reg Williams owned named “Williams Tom Boy Neepawa Grocery.” Back then, telephone numbers were only two digits long and the phone number for this Neepawa Grocery store was 97. This store was located on Mountain Avenue. In 1967, the store moved to its current location, at the corner of Mountain Avenue and Hamilton Street.
Solar eclipse
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Kira McCormick-Adema
The Neepawa Banner
On Aug. 21, there will be a solar eclipse passing overhead. During the event, the sun will be covered by the moon. This eclipse can be seen all over North America, the maximum time the moon will be covering the sun is two minutes and 40 seconds.
Gladstone Fair makes for exciting weekend
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Photos by Kira McCormick-Adema
Channing Ferguson and Jordyn Ham laughed as they threw water balloons at the people watching the parade on the hot day.
Kira McCormick-Admea
The Neepawa Banner
Two area groups join efforts to attract soy processing facility
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photo by John Dietz
This spring, Orville Berg planted soybeans on his land on the east side of Highway 5, between Erickson and Onanole. Berg is one of a growing number of farmers seeding soybeans. Statistics Canada reported that Manitoba farmers continued their trend of planting more soybean acres, seeding 2.3 million acres in 2017, up 40.1 per cent compared with 2016. Westman Leadership Opportunities Group is hoping to make the industry even more beneficial to Manitoba farmers by attracting a world-class soy processing facility to the province.
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
The race to attract a world-class soybean facility to Manitoba gained some momentum last month. NADCO, along with two other municipalities, have stepped forward to help attract a soybean facility to Manitoba. NADCO (Neepawa Area Development Corporation), which is made up of representatives from the Town of Neepawa and municipalities of North Cypress-Langford, Rosedale and Glenella-Lansdowne, formally joined the Westman Opportunities Leadership Group (WOLG) last month.
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