Rapid City 4-H achievement results

By Deb Inglis

Leader

Rapid City 4-H Beef Club held its achievement on June 25, in conjunction with the annual fair. The day commenced with participating in the parade, where the club won first; way to go, kids! Classes started in the morning with Darby Cochrane as judge; Darcy Hickson was show announcer; Christopher Hillis and Joey Bootsman, both former members, were ring person and show marshal respectively; Rana Reid was our photographer.

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Town honours its past

By Jessie Bell

The hamlet of Harding has a remarkable collection of cairns and plaques to remember its ancestors. One of the most interesting is Harding Community Center. The centre was once a church (Methodist and then United), built in 1893 at the north end of the town. Due to larger farms, rural depopulation and declining interest, it became vacant and was closed around 1967-68. Since Harding Agricultural Society needed more accommodation at fair time, the building was moved to the town’s southwest entrance, at the fairgrounds, in 1999. It was set on a cement slab, with crawl space to allow room for a furnace. It became Harding Community Center and has since been refurbished inside and out, insulated for the first time, has new wiring, plumbing, air conditioning and an exterior wheelchair ramp.

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Postal disruptions and paper delivery

Due to the impending strike/lockout at Canada Post some rural lock box locations could not get their July 8 Neepawa Banner. This amounted to about five per cent of our papers.
We have placed extra copies of the Neepawa Banner at our drop off locations in Neepawa to help compensate.
We have no idea how long the postal disruptions may be so if you missed getting a paper and are comfortable with an internet version in the interim, please email us a This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Facebook message us. 

Sylvia Maloney on the run

By Jessie Bell

Sylvia sure can run, and while pushing a grocery cart too! That’s Sylvia Maloney of Rivers, who won the grand prize in The Grocery People (TGP) $600,000 Fresh Giveaway contest. The six-week promotion began April 30 at all TGP stores (Bigway Foods and Super A Foods) and included weekly $25 gift cards and a 50-second shopping spree.

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Fun times at the Carberry Fair

The Carberry Fair, held over the Canada Day weekend, offered lots of fun for the whole family.

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Photos by John Drinkwater. Jason Falk pilots his Falk Pharmacy parade entry.

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