Open house held to shape future of the Neepawa area

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

The Neepawa Press/Neepawa Banner

Last week, Neepawa and area residents had the chance to voice their thoughts on the community’s future.  On Oct. 27, the Neepawa and Area Planning District (NAPD) hosted an open house and visioning workshop as part of their development plan review process.  The new plan will apply to all three NAPD partner municipalities: the Town of Neepawa, the RM of Rosedale and the Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne.

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Boston Pizza coming to Neepawa

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By Press Staff

The Neepawa Press/Neepawa Banner

The Neepawa Boston Pizza Investment Group announced on Monday that a Boston Pizza Family Restaurant and Sports Lounge are coming to the town in the near future. The business group consists of long term locals Andrew Dennis, Bruce and Sheila Bremner, Lyle Bremner, as well as Linda Dennis, who has recently returned from BC to Manitoba. They are all looking forward to serving the people of this rapidly growing community and surrounding area and the traveling public.

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Preserving the past

By Norma Forsman

Archivist, Beautiful Plains Archives

The Beautiful Plains Archives, located in the Beautiful Plains County Court Building, are looking to add to their large collection of records of the history of the Beautiful Plains area. These records could be from the business community, schools, churches, sports, service clubs, theatre, choirs, music groups, festivals, medical, political, artists, musicians, writers, local television station and many more. Our communities have been built and still are being built on the activities and programs of all of these groups.

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Eastern Belles coming to Kaleidoscope

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Photo by Tony Eu. The 2016-2017 Neepawa Kaleidoscope Concert Series board (from left): Colleen Taylor, Carol Walker, Marg Wopnford, Val Jarema, Ron Nordstrom, Jim Danino, Janet Husak, Moira Woods. Missing: Berni Harley, Shawn Woods.

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Kaleidoscope Concerts

Nov. 3 is our second Kaleidoscope concert this year and it’s the Eastern Belles. Catherine MacLellan, Ashley Condon and Meaghan Blanchard are the Eastern Belles. They hail from PEI or “The Island” (as it is affectionately known) .

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The 2016 Mazda 6: grace, space, pace

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Photos by Dan Cowell. 

By Ben Castle

Neepawa Banner

“Grace, Space, Pace” was a phrase coined by the late Sir William Lyons, founder of Jaguar, the British luxury car manufacturer to market their vehicles in the 1950s and 1960s. So what has that got to do with the latest 2016 Mazda 6?

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