Looking back - 1956: Vienna Academy of Music top graduate has local ties
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- Published on Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Photo courtesy of Cecil Pittman Archives. Car accidents also happened in the “good old days.”
By Cecil Pittman
Neepawa Press
80 years ago, Friday, August 14, 1936
Brandon is the next place to experiment with a salt soil stabilized road. An order for the local salt company was filled this week for several tons of salt for the work. The company has received inquiries from other centres regarding the experiment in Neepawa and if the roads stand up in Neepawa over the winter, salt roads will without doubt then become quite popular.
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Community mailbox program almost here
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- Published on Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Photo by Kira Paterson. One of the two new community mailboxes scheduled to be ready by August 15. Pictured is the one located beside the McLaughlin GM dealership, on the road leading to the Westcreek development.
By Kira Paterson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Neepawa Town Council: Tuesday, August 2
The topic of community mailboxes, which had been discussed in previous meetings, was brought up again to give an update on the progress of the project. Introducing the new community boxes is meant to reduce congestion at the central post office in Neepawa and help meet the demand for new boxes.
RCMP looking for missing man
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- Published on Monday, August 8, 2016
Name: Leslie Gordon Levasseur
Last seen: August 7th – 12:00 PM
The Amaranth RCMP are presently searching for Leslie Gordon Levasseur (61 years old) of the Sandy Bay First Nation.
Santa Clara year end awards
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- Published on Friday, August 5, 2016
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The Santa Clara Baseball League (SCBL) has announced its 2016 individual award winners. The worthy recipients are determined each year by the league officials. For the 2016 regular season, the award winners include:
‘It was dedication of the heart for this hallowed ground’
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- Published on Thursday, August 4, 2016
Photos by Kate Jackman-Atkinson and Christine Waddell. Following the plaque unveiling, members of the Military History Society of Manitoba and the Friends of Camp Hughes led volunteers into Camp Hughes’ trenches and across No Man’s Land, towards the enemy trenches.
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
In the summer of 1916, Manitoba’s second largest city was actually a military training camp located west of Carberry. That summer, Camp Hughes was home to more than 30,000 soldiers training to head overseas to fight in World War I as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
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