Local machinist creates masterpieces in metal
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- Published on Thursday, March 2, 2017
By Miranda Leybourne
The Neepawa Banner
On any given day, you can find Mike Reader in the basement of his Neepawa home, in his workshop, manipulating metal into intricate, technically perfected recreations of pop culture. It’s a passion of his that blossomed naturally from his work as a machinist.
Giant Tiger donates winter gear to HMK School
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- Published on Thursday, March 2, 2017
By Miranda Leybourne
The Neepawa Banner
While it seems spring is in the air already in Manitoba, kids are still being bundled up with hats, mittens and scarves before heading off to school, in case a cold snap is in store weather-wise for the region.
Neepawa Town Council: Resource Centre property sold
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- Published on Thursday, March 2, 2017
By Eoin Devereux
The Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Neepawa town council has approved the sale of 290 Davidson Street to Budz ’n Bloom. The daycare was one of three groups who submitted a tender to buy the property, the others being Brews Brothers and CJ Radio.
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Award winning Canadian country act set to perform in Gladstone
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- Published on Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Twin Kennedy’s debut LP, It’s a Love Thing, is a beautifully honest account of the ebb and flow of the navigation through love and life. The record generated numerous awards nominations and won Song of Year and Country Recording of the Year at the Vancouver Island Music Award. (Submitted photo)
Gladstone and District Community Centre
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Their musical bond is as strong as their small town roots–Twin Kennedy, comprised of West Coast sisters Carli and Julie Kennedy, have been making music together since they could talk. Born and raised in the small town of Powell River, Twin Kennedy grew up perfecting their sibling harmonies and dynamic live performances, while making their name known through their small community as a family band.
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Vivian Hildebrand: Life has been a great adventure
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- Published on Wednesday, March 1, 2017
By Wayne Hildebrand
The Neepawa Press
Vivian Hildebrand was born on a farm south of Kenton, Manitoba in 1930. Vivian jokingly says she was born in a henhouse, because that is what their old home became when her family moved to a new farm in 1931. The new farm house, affectionately referred to as “the shack”, was home to her parents, Lewis and Amy Richards and her three siblings, Lois, Kae and Barry. Vivian came into the world at the onset of the Great Depression, commonly referred to as the “dirty thirties”. It was a period of hard times for the Richards family and many of their farm neighbors.
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