My perspective - Looking to the past
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- Published on Friday, April 10, 2020
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
Imagine you want to go to the movies with your friends, but you can’t, because all the theatres are closed. Everything is closed. This could have been written about today, but it wasn’t.
Right in the centre - Life goes on– hopefully!
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- Published on Friday, April 10, 2020
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
When it comes right down to the facts of life (and death), all we have is hope. We are living in trying times. We have all gone through trying times before, be it personally, in our family history or in the history of our country.
Right in the centre - Some observations on our current situation
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- Published on Friday, April 3, 2020
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
I have had the privilege of receiving information about the COVID-19 virus from an infectious diseases physician. His first and strongest message was that while he and his co-workers have been repeatedly thanked for being on the front lines, he emotionally insisted that it is the average Canadian, you and I and all our friends and neighbours, who are on the front lines in this great battle.
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My perspective - Questions, no answers
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- Published on Friday, April 3, 2020
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
Another week, another COVID-19 column. I promise, I do have other things I’d like to write about, but it’s hard when most of our lives are on hold, as we watch this virus race around the world.
The newspaper is a special form of media because it has a unique sort of permanence. Go into the archives and you can find stories from over 100 years ago. While they may be changed by corrections in future editions, those printed words can’t be revised– the original words will always remain. Those pages remain forever as a snapshot of a certain time and place.
Column like I see 'em - It’s okay to be scared, it’s not okay to be selfish and stupid
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- Published on Friday, April 3, 2020
By Eoin Devereux
Neepawa Banner & Press
I’m scared... Now I know, a man of my age, who was raised on the examples of stoic 1980s action movie tough guys, isn’t supposed to admit to even having feelings, let alone feelings of fear. I am afraid and I feel absolutely no shame or embarrassment in admitting that to you. Nobody can leave their house and everybody is losing their jobs. It’s okay for me to be a little freaked out by that… and it’s okay for you to be freaked out too.
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