Clear Lake businesses excited to start the season
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Photos by John Drinkwater. Parks Canada staff Megan Cooper (left) and Keanne Brown perform a summer makeover on the Wasagaming Moose.
By John Drinkwater
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Looking back at the 2015 season, RMNP operators are ready to thestart the new season. Richard Dupuis, Riding Mountain National Park’s manager of Visitor Experience commented on last year’s season, “We had the busiest [year] in 15 years. We recalibrated the counters at the gates last year and our figures show an increase of 18 per cent in Park attendance. Great weather helped as well. We are constantly improving our events and camping experiences.
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Rural Week comes to Neepawa
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Photo by Kira Paterson. From left: Laurel Grant, Holly Cole and Eunice Chang are all first year medical students at the University of Manitoba who came to Neepawa for Rural Week. Colleen Pitzel (right), a third year med student, wasn’t part of the program, but she wanted to join them on the experience.
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From May 23 to 27, Neepawa played host to three first-year medical students, from the University of Manitoba, as part of this year’s Rural Week.
Rivers a part of Rural Week
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By Blaine Kraushaar
Communications Co-ordinator
First-year medical students enrolled in University of Manitoba’s (U of M) Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine are preparing to spread out across rural and northern Manitoba during Rural Week (May 23-27). Rural Week 2016, co-ordinated by Manitoba’s Office of Rural and Northern Health (ORNH), U of M and rural regional health authorities, will provide an excellent opportunity for 110 medical students to gain first-hand experience of how a rural and northern Manitoba medical practice functions. It also doubles by extolling the benefits of working and living in a rural/northern Manitoba area.
Rural Council Clips - June 2, 2016
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Council Clips
RM of Oakview, May 10: Metals are to be hauled out and gravel applied at both waste sites. Eight feet of 24-inch plastic culvert will be donated to Hamiota Kids Club Inc. for playground use. Cleaning up property in Basswood was discussed. An inquiry if council would consider reducing the price of the lots in Oak River subdivision was mentioned; a suggestion was received that a $10,000 rebate be given to owners who buy and build a new home there within two years. A policy is to be drafted for review.
Airport Project receives local support
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Photo by Ken Waddell. Darryl Gerrard of Enns Bros., the John Deere dealership in Neepawa, operating a JD 8310R tractor and land roller to smooth out a field seeded to soybeans at the Neepawa Airport Farming project.
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Enns Bros., the John Deere dealership in Neepawa, has stepped up again this year to spearhead the Neepawa Airport Farming project. The Town of Neepawa rents the farmland around the airport to the project, which is jointly administered by the Neepawa Curling Club (Yellowhead Development Society-YDSI) and the Yellowhead Centre (arena and hall). The two facilities invest some cash each year for crop inputs and crop insurance and then share the profits on a 50/50 basis.
