Neepawa doles out the dollars: Town Council - Tuesday, Mar. 14, 2017
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- Published on Tuesday, March 21, 2017
By Eoin Devereux
The Neepawa Press/Neepawa Banner
Preliminary information on Neepawa’s new budget was discussed by council on Tuesday, Mar. 14. Mayor Adrian de Groot noted that those deliberations are on schedule. He added that public feedback through surveys and other input, as well as suggestions from town administration, have been very helpful in the process to this point. De Groot also announced the recipients of the town’s annual grants. These grants were unveiled this early in the process in order to allow the organizations time to do any budget planning required. The recipients were:
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Neepawa Natives fall to Pistons in six
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- Published on Tuesday, March 21, 2017
By Eoin Devereux
The Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
The post season run of the Neepawa Natives has come to an end, as they were downed by the Steinbach Pistons on Monday, Mar. 20, by the score of 3-1. The game, played at the Yellowhead Arena, was a great back and forth battle between the two clubs with the final outcome remaining uncertain until the very end.
Archbishop Gagnon visits and blesses St. Dominic’s
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- Published on Sunday, March 19, 2017
Photo by Miranda Laybourne. Siblings McGregor and Cherish Pepino present Archbishop Richard Gagnon with a bouquet of fresh flowers on Sun., Mar. 12 at St. Dominic's
By Miranda Leybourne
The Neepawa Banner
The Most Reverend Archbishop Richard Joseph Gagnon, the Seventh Archbishop of Winnipeg, visited St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church in Neepawa on Sun., Mar. 12, to perform a special blessing of the main sanctuary now that the church’s roof construction has been completed.
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Final flurry facts
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- Published on Sunday, March 19, 2017
By Sheila Runions
The Rivers Banner
Readers will recall last week’s issue of both this newspaper and the matter of the storm. Submission deadline is Tuesday at 5 p.m. yet often, that rule is stretched to accommodate as best we can before the pages are completed and sent to the print shop in early afternoon on Wednesday. When reporting on the Monday-Wednesday blizzard, final figures were not yet released so let’s recap.
