Looking back - 1956: Vienna Academy of Music top graduate has local ties
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- Published on Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Photo courtesy of Cecil Pittman Archives. Car accidents also happened in the “good old days.”
By Cecil Pittman
Neepawa Press
80 years ago, Friday, August 14, 1936
Brandon is the next place to experiment with a salt soil stabilized road. An order for the local salt company was filled this week for several tons of salt for the work. The company has received inquiries from other centres regarding the experiment in Neepawa and if the roads stand up in Neepawa over the winter, salt roads will without doubt then become quite popular.
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Community mailbox program almost here
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Photo by Kira Paterson. One of the two new community mailboxes scheduled to be ready by August 15. Pictured is the one located beside the McLaughlin GM dealership, on the road leading to the Westcreek development.
By Kira Paterson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Neepawa Town Council: Tuesday, August 2
The topic of community mailboxes, which had been discussed in previous meetings, was brought up again to give an update on the progress of the project. Introducing the new community boxes is meant to reduce congestion at the central post office in Neepawa and help meet the demand for new boxes.
Santa Clara year end awards
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The Santa Clara Baseball League (SCBL) has announced its 2016 individual award winners. The worthy recipients are determined each year by the league officials. For the 2016 regular season, the award winners include:
Right in the centre - War machines of a different sort
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By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Watching the world record threshing event on July 31 brought a flood of memories and thoughts to mind. I was only 10 years old or less when the neighbour’s threshing machine was retired. We never owned one and many farmers never did own their own threshing machine. One farmer, or a group of farmers, might have a machine and it would do double duty or more on several farms in a district. Through a small boy’s eyes, these machines were a source of wonder and mystery. They looked huge and for their day, they were big. They were a strange contraption of pulleys, gears, belts and spouts.
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