December 15, 2023 - Neepawa Banner & Press
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Neepawa Banner & Press
The December 15th edition of the Banner & Press is super sized with Christmas cheer! Section B and C features many holiday recipe from Helen Drysdale. As for our A section, it includes news on new funding heading Neepawa's way, U of M students gathering in town & the discussion on the potential expansion of active transportation options in Neepawa over the next five years. As well, updates from Carberry and all our local sports in this week's Neepawa Banner & Press.
Right in the centre - Memories and going forward
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By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
The older I get, obviously the more memories I gather unto my aging brain. The first Christmases that comes to mind seem to blend together. Always a tree cut out in the bush and placed in the house bay window. I remember the red ball placed near the top of the tree, the ball bought by my uncle for my brothers in early WWll to cheer them up as Dad was not home that Christmas. No electric lights either on the tree or in the house, as we didn’t get electricity until 1954 when I was six years old. I remember presents under the tree in plain green or red tissue. Usually there was a toy or two. One Christmas, my older brother played Santa Claus at the local Christmas concert and I didn’t even catch on. I was always naive and sometimes still am. When I was about eight or nine, my brother bought me a matchbox bulldozer and I still have it over 65 years later. Its poor little rubber tracks are pretty much evaporated away.
December 8, 2023 - Neepawa Banner & Press
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This week's Banner & Press features highlights from the Holiday Train's arrival in Neepawa. As well, pictures from parades and events in Neepawa, Minnedosa, Carberry and Gladstone. Those stories, plus updates from Neepawa COPP, Spruce Plains RCMP and the Neepawa Titans in the Friday. Dec. 8 edition of the Neepawa Banner & Press.
Right in the centre - The CBC needs to get smaller to get stronger
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- Published on Friday, December 8, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
In Sept. 2022, I wrote, “Pierre Poilievre is calling for smaller government and I agree. I personally believe we should sell the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and have constantly said so. I think a strong case could be made to eliminate or very much scale down the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commisio (CRTC) as well. Hundreds of people work at the CRTC deciding who can and cannot broadcast on radio, TV and internet as well as what they can broadcast. It’s expensive censorship at best and a waste of time and effort at most.”
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