Prairie Chicks don Easter hats
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- Published on Sunday, March 27, 2016
By Jessie Bell
Sixteen ladies sat around a table in Lee’s Restaurant for a noon luncheon on March of varying sizes in bright colours, adorned with tiny fabric chickens, rabbits, butterflies, shamrocks, ring flowers and ribbon.
Successful year for Heart and Stroke
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- Published on Friday, March 25, 2016
Submitted by Jean Borchardt
The Neepawa Banner
This year’s campaign went very well again. I had 14 receipt books issued and returned. We collected $4,489.92 in donations from the days we were at Neepawa Gladstone Co-op Grocery Store, Harris Pharmacy, Elks Manor, Aspenlea Seniors Apartment, Kinsmen Kourts, Venus Hair Salon and West Park Place Residents. According to my records, this year’s totals were more than we received in 2014 and 2015.
Killarney commits big bucks to secure new doctors
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- Published on Friday, March 25, 2016
Submitted by Kim Langen
The Killarney Guide
In a groundbreaking move, the municipality has invested thousands of dollars in order to secure new doctors long-term.
Frustrated by the shortage of physicians in the Killarney-Turtle Mountain area – and losses of present doctors when their four-year contracts run out – the town decided last year to implement their own recruitment program, hiring a specialist company in Winnipeg to get the job done.
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Local girl takes pageant title
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- Published on Friday, March 25, 2016
Submitted photo. Three-year-old Kennedy Brown of Glenella won the Toddler Miss Manitoba title earlier this month.
By Kira Paterson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
A little girl from Glenella, MB was recently named Toddler Miss Manitoba 2016. She will be competing for a national title at the National Canadian Girl, Teen and Miss (NCGTM) pageant in Edmonton this summer.
Green candidate Smith proposing ‘different thinking’
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- Published on Friday, March 25, 2016
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
The third candidate in the Agassiz riding to step into the race, Robert F. Smith is running for the Green Party.
The mixed farmer runs a section of land and has a herd of 25 cows, as well as growing oats and buckwheat. He has been an organic farmer since 1999.
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