Rivers Jets ready to soar in NCHL
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- Published on Wednesday, October 26, 2016
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By Trena Moore
Riverdale Community Centre is now home ice to the Rivers Jets senior men’s hockey team (formerly Kenton Cougars). The team consists of a number of local players who have played in the Rivers area, as well as players from surrounding communities.
Neepawa Farmers win season opener
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- Published on Wednesday, October 26, 2016
By Eoin Devereux
The Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
The games that matter are underway for the Neepawa Farmers, as the team has played its first regular season game of the Tiger Hills Hockey League (THHL) schedule. The Farmers travelled to Deloraine on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 and picked up a hard fought 7-4 victory.
My Neepawa - The old school
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- Published on Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Photo courtesy of Suzanne and Leonard Nicholson.
The Cascades, Neepawa’s rock ‘n’ roll pioneers
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- Published on Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Submitted photos. Left: The Cascades in 1962 (from left): Barry Hunter, Gerry Suski, Darwin Crabbe, Larry Novak and Ted Greenhaulgh. Right: The Cascades, in the same order, at their 2013 reunion performance
By Rick Sparling
Neepawa Press
The year was 1960. I remember heading up to the hospital where Larry Novak had a room throughout his high school days. Larry looked after a few duties at the hospital, such as garbage detail, checking on the boiler room (daily) and other responsibilities, in exchange for the room. Larry had a bunch of songs he had written and a couple of us would go to listen to him play the guitar and sing. We always requested songs like Johnny Horton’s “Sink the Bismarck”, for example, which he knew all the words to: He usually entertained us for a couple of hours, with both his original and popular songs that were on the charts, back in 1960.
