March 29, 2024 - Neepawa Banner & Press
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- Published on Thursday, March 28, 2024
Neepawa Banner & Press
In this week's Banner & Press is done a little bit earlier than usual due to the Easter weekend. The early edition includes an update from the Beautiful Plains Museum and some notable new features for the upcoming season.
Right in the centre - A newspaper review
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- Published on Thursday, March 28, 2024
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
As of the date of this issue, I have been around for 76 years. For almost half of those years, I have been in the newspaper business full time. For 58 of those years, I have been involved in writing and publishing and that dates long before the desktop or laptop computer.
Many people have asked me questions about the newspaper industry, people from seniors to farmers to sports figures to politicians, including premiers and prime minsters. They ask questions, lots of questions, and here’s a few examples.
March 22, 2024 - Neepawa Banner & Press
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- Published on Friday, March 22, 2024
Neepawa Banner & Press
Right in the centre - Farmers feed us all
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- Published on Friday, March 22, 2024
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
March is a memorable month for me. Seventy-six years ago I was born on March 29. I remember many of the intervening Marches. One year, when I was in my very, very early school days, we had to travel by horse drawn sleigh and van to school because the roads weren’t passable for a truck. The snowplows of the day couldn’t keep up. Yes, students used to be hauled to school in the back of a covered in pick up truck. But that year our early 1950s rear wheel drive half ton could not make it through the snow clogged roads. It wasn’t “over the fields we go” or “dashing through the snow”, it was more like slogging all the way.
