My Neepawa - Field of flax
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- Published on Tuesday, July 12, 2016
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Photo by Sue Atkinson. This photo captures a field of flax in the Mountain Road area under a stormy sky, taken over the weekend.
‘Exciting times at Country Meadows’
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These pictures were drawn by some of the Grade 5 students and hung up in the halls of Country Meadows.
By Kira Paterson
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It’s been a long-standing tradition for the Hazel M. Kellington School (HMK) Grade 5 students to visit the seniors at the Neepawa care home and this year was no exception. There was, however, a change in the way the kids interacted with the residents this year.
Looking back - 1976: Neepawa's new liquor store officially opens its doors
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Neepawa Press Archives. 40 Years ago: Thursday, July 8, 1976: Lionel Charbonneau and Industry and Commerce Minister Len Evans officially opened Neepawa’s new Liquor Mart.
By Cecil Pittman
The Neepawa Press
80 years ago Friday, July 10, 1936
Whether they agree with his politics or not, Errick Willis, new Conservative leader in Manitoba, will create an interest in town Wednesday night at the rink, where he will address the electors in the interest of Dr. J. S. Poole. Few of the districts have ever heard or seen him.
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Wild summer reading at the local library
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Photo by Tony Eu. The main display for the summer reading program at the Neepawa Public Library.
By Tony Eu
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
The Neepawa Public Library is in the midst of its annual summer reading program. Having started on June 20, the program is well on its way, but it’s not too late to jump in before the 2016 program ends on August 19.
Dreams from A to Z: the legacy of the Alphabet Railway
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- Published on Sunday, July 10, 2016
Media Release
Our project brings a focus to small prairie towns in 2016. The rail line that has captured our imagination is a very specific slice of Canadiana which provides us with parameters that are current, national and universal. When Grand Trunk Pacific (GTP) laid a rail line across Canada’s northern prairies at the beginning of the 20th century, it promised a new world of “Health, Wealth and Happiness,” according to a 1913 GTP ad. Despite its early bankruptcy and subsequent absorption by Canadian National Railways (CN) in 1923, GTP was instrumental in creating community along this new route from Winnipeg to Prince Rupert, B.C. Today, the section of railway between Portage la Prairie and Jasper is fondly known as the Alphabet Railway. CN freight trains ply the rail line, maintaining its role as the heart of the local communities and intrinsically tying it to international economic progress. Interestingly, the extensive network of rail lines that once snaked across the Prairies, it is only this line that still carries passengers on Via Rail.
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