Community comes together
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- Published on Friday, July 21, 2017
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
In just over two weeks, Neepawa residents banded together to help keep the community beautiful. Following the four incidents of offensive graffiti over the Canada Day long weekend, Neepawa Cares, a grass roots fundraiser was established. Messages were found on the Town of Neepawa welcome sign at the east end of town, the Royal Canadian Legion, the sidewalk at the flats and Lions Riverbend Park.
On July 17, a total of $426.75 was collected at drop off spots at Neepawa Golf Pro Shop, Neepawa Home Hardware and It’s Time. It was decided that $200 would be donated to the Legion and the remainder would be donated to the Town to help remove and repair recent vandalism or for use in future beautification projects. Additionally, if there’s any more clean up required, Home Hardware offered to donate paint, while Vincent Livingston, of Competitive Edge Painting, offered to donate his time.
Currently, the aim is to complete the repainting at Riverbend Park during the July 21 weekend.
Odd Job Squad barbeque
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- Published on Thursday, July 20, 2017
photo by: Kira McCormick-Adema
The Neepawa Odd Job Squad held a barbeque in front of the Neepawa-Gladstone Co-op grocery store on Friday, July 14. The event was in support of employment of youths in the community.
Parade a pleasure at Oak River
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- Published on Thursday, July 20, 2017
By Sheila Runions
Rivers Banner
While Oak River holds a fair each year, they seldom have a parade, but to celebrate Canada 150, such an event was planned as part of the Monday, July 17 activities. It was long and colourful with plenty of candy, suckers, freezies and Canada flag pins tossed out windows or off flat decks.
Neepawa Public Library summer update
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- Published on Thursday, July 20, 2017
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The Neepawa Press
Calling all summer readers! Neepawa Library has lots of reading options for this summer, whether you want some fun picture books for your young readers or a little light fiction for the beach.
Vote for Rivers to be Manitobaville!
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- Published on Wednesday, July 19, 2017
By Sheila Runions
Rivers Banner
For at least the past six years, a host of partners have provided $25,000 to one Manitoba community which is ultimately voted Manitobaville. This year’s votes will be collected by text between 6:45 a.m. Monday, July 24 and Friday, Aug. 4 at noon. By 1 p.m. that day (Aug. 4), votes will be tabulated and a winner announced. Because of press deadlines, it is unknown if the video submission by Riverdale Community Centre will make it to the Top 10/12-day voting period. Finalists are announced sometime Wednesday, July 19; Banner deadline is Tuesday at 5 p.m. Manitobaville judges will select finalists based on needs and fulfillment of a community project, which is defined as something which “supports and enriches the life of community members residing in a town, village, hamlet or city.” Finalists will also be selected on creativity and overall effort in the submission, description of their project and impact/benefit the prize will have on the project. Videos which have the highest score in these categories will advance to the finalist stage.
