Christmas cheer one box at a time

OCC boxes online

Photo by Kira Paterson. Darlene Giesbrecht loaded up a total of 353 Operation Christmas Child boxes from the Neepawa area.

By Kira Paterson

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

 

On Tuesday, Nov. 17, Neepawa’s Darlene Giesbrecht started collecting Operation Christmas Child (OCC) boxes to take to Brandon.

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An evening of small town hospitality

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Photos by Kira Paterson.

On Thursday, Nov. 18, six local businesses hosted A Winter’s Eve in Neepawa.

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Auto theft involving keys on the rise

Article submitted by Neepawa COPP

The Neepawa Press

On the weekend of Oct 23-25, Manitoba Public Insurance sponsored the annual Citizens on Patrol conference in Winnipeg.

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Recreation in Neepawa

The Town of Neepawa is planning yet another review of recreation facilities and services in Neepawa. 

An invitational meeting is planned for Nov. 26, where reps from various facilities and organizations have been invited. The following material was published in April 2008 and April 2009. It is re-printed here to provide some background material for discussion. Some of the points may be outdated but the articles do provide some history as to why and how facilities have developed the way they have in Neepawa. 

While these articles are seven years old now, not a lot has changed in that time.

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Two arrested after suspicious vehicle spotted

RCMP News Release

On Nov. 21, 2015 around 1 a.m. the Spruce Plains RCMP stopped a suspicious vehicle outside the Town of Plumas.

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