Plumas UCW meeting minutes
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- Published on Thursday, June 16, 2016
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Plumas UCW
The Plumas UCW met on June 2 for the final meeting of the spring season ,following our supper at the Plumas Inn. Nine visits were made to those sick or shut in.
Court’s Greenhouse no longer a perennial business
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Photo by Kira Paterson. After being open for 32 years, Jeanine Court has decided to close Court’s Greenhouse after this season is over.
By Kira Paterson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
After 32 years in the greenhouse business, Jeanine Court has announced this as the last season for Court’s Greenhouse. At the end of June, the business will be closing for the year, like it usually does, but the doors will not open again next spring.
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Medical clinic lottery winners announced
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- Published on Thursday, June 16, 2016
Photos by Kira Paterson. Norm and Pearl Hogarth, of Neepawa, won the grand prize of $100,000.
On June 14, the two main prizes in the Neepawa & District Medical Committee Farm and Leisure Lotto were presented with their cheques. Committee chair Mary Ellen Clark presented the cheques.
Quilter, washboard player and grand adventurer
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- Published on Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Photo by Kira Paterson. Mary Murray put on her thimbles and demonstrated how to play the washboard. She plays with bands at the Legion every Wednesday.
By Kira Paterson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
This is the first of a monthly Neepawa Press series highlighting stories from some of our local residents.
Everywhere one goes, there are people with stories to tell. Shocking stories, funny stories, inspiring stories, can be found in places one would never think to look. Mary Murray of Neepawa holds a treasure trove of such tales. Her life has been an adventure from when she was just a few years old, even to now, being in her 70s.
Coast to coast, canoeing for comrades
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Photo by Sheila Runions. Mike Ranta will spend six months paddling various river systems to cross Canada; here he approaches the bridge at Deerboine Colony.
By Sheila Runions
Banner Staff
On April Fool’s Day, Mike Ranta, of Atikokan, Ont. began a cross-country trip he expects will take six months to complete. According to posts on mikeranta.ca, he started April 1 at dawn “at the ocean’s edge at Fisherman's Memorial, Steveston, BC. Heading up the Fraser River, Mike is aiming to set a speed record on his 2016 journey… faster and farther than any person in history. This epic journey will be accomplished when Mike [lands] at Dominion Beach, Cape Breton, N.S.”
