Big development at Neepawa still under wraps

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By Ken Waddell

The Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

The signs went up last week for the equipment auction for Mr. Ribs Restaurant and Evans Lanes in Neepawa. The contents will be sold on August 30 by Meyers Auctions of Arden and demolition of the building is scheduled to take place a few days later. A demolition permit has ben issued by Neepawa and Area Planning District in the name of T.L. Penner Construction of Kola. The Highway Traffic Board held a hearing on July 20 at the Brandon Provincial Building. The hearing was inconclusive pending further information being clarified.

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My Neepawa - Park Lake

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Photo by Jodi Baker. Beautiful Park Lake in the spring 

Business after business

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Photos by Kate Jackman-Atkinson. On Aug. 17, 4U Home Decor and Consulting hosted the Neepawa Chamber of Commerce’s August Business After 5 event. Over a dozen members of the Neepawa business community stopped in to check out the store and network during the two-hour, come and go event.

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Looking back - 1956: ‘Dream home’ now located in Neepawa

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Cecil Pittman Archives. L.O.B.A.(Ladies Orange Benevolent Association) float at the Diamond Jubilee in 1927, Hotel Hamilton in background.

By Cecil Pittman

The Neepawa Press

80 years ago Tuesday, August 25, 1936

Earl Murray received word last week that he had placed himself third in a Firestone tire-selling contest embracing all of Canada. The contest lasted two months, ending August 15. 

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Clearing the way for new development

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Photo by Tony Eu. On Aug. 17, P. Baker Backhoe Service was busy demolishing the old Neepawa Plumbing and Heating building at the corner of First Ave. and Mill St. in Neepawa. 

By Tony Eu

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

For a couple months, there’s been a sign by the former Neepawa Plumbing and Heating building on the corner of 1st Ave. and Mill St. advertising a new senior’s housing complex ‘coming soon’. On Aug. 17, the project got underway, by demolishing the existing building.

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