Right in the centre - Naysayers can paint or get off the ladder

By Ken Waddell

The Neepawa Banner

As I sat in my office on Saturday July 25, 2015, it was a much different July Saturday than the past 8-10 years. For most of those years, I was chairman of the Neepawa Area Lily Festival and I was involved for all 18 festivals. 

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Influencing positive change

By Vern May

Minnedosa & Area Community Development Corporation

Don’t touch that! Mind your manners. Look both ways before you cross the street. Think about how many times you’ve had to repeat these instructions in order to influence habit-forming positive behaviour. Dozens, probably hundreds of times, in different situations and contexts, I suspect. With any luck, after a few years you start to see the results you were hoping for.

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Homebodies - Today I chose to wonder

By Rita Friesen

The Neepawa Banner

There are things in my daily life that could, and sometimes do, irritate me. Today, as I tackled the day, one chore at a time, I chose to wonder. The yard is looking presentable, the grass short enough for me to spot the mole hills. 

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My perspective - Don't get a job

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

The Neepawa Banner

Imagine if instead of telling kids to “Get a job!”, we said, “Start a business!”? Imagine how different our Main Streets would look? For a country that was built by small business owners, some of whom became large, we have become increasingly adverse to entrepreneurship. 

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Right in the centre - Take the personalities out of it all

By Ken Waddell 

The Neepawa Banner

I hear a lot of criticism of our governments at all levels. Criticizing the government is a privilege we have in this country, one to be protected. However, we need to make sure we are dealing with truth and not just colouring our criticism with personal based nastiness. It seems that our prime minister, Mr. Harper generates some personal based criticism, often evidenced by phrases like “I don’t like Harper” or “We have to stop Harper.”

Why do people say such things? The reason is quite simple, Harper does what he said he was going to do.

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