Three lucky families got a free meal in their field
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- Published on Thursday, October 6, 2016
Submitted photos. The farm owned by Harvey and Darla Hanke was the winner of one of the two meals delivered by Beautiful Plains Credit Union.
The annual Meals in the Fields contest has wrapped up another year of food on the farm. The draw to determine the winners of this year’s event happened at the end of August.
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Volunteers needed to winterize Bird Sanctuary
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- Published on Thursday, October 6, 2016
By Miranda Leybourne
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The Rotary Park Bird Sanctuary is in need of volunteers to help protect the birds from the harshness of a prairie winter, before cold weather sets in.
A show of vintage horse power
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- Published on Thursday, October 6, 2016
Photo by Diane Warner.
Under the watchful eye of Art Gibson, Justin McKee guides his horses down the furrow during this year’s plowing days. The two day event, held Oct. 1 and 2 in Carberry, was hosted by the Manitoba Plowing Association and the Carberry Agricultural Society. It featured two days of vintage horsepower, both four-legged and machine.
Six months on top of the world
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- Published on Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Photos courtesy of Matt Soroka. A picture of mainstreet in Site 31. The smaller buildings, in the rows on the right side, were where the workers slept, while the bigger building in the centre was the cooking hall.
By Tony Eu
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
In May of 1956, Matt Soroka took a trip north. Far north. All the way up, well into the Arctic Circle, to a place known as Site 31.
