My Neepawa - Saints and angels
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- Published on Tuesday, May 17, 2016
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Photo courtesy of Jodi Baker.
This is the Stone Angel that stands watch over Riverside Cemetery in Neepawa.
Looking back - 1976: Neepawa Rotary Club celebrates its 25th anniversary
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- Published on Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Photo courtesy of Cecil Pittman Archives. 40 years ago; Thurs., May 20, 1976: George MacKidd was elected Charter President of the Neepawa Rotary Club.
By Cecil Pittman
The Neepawa Press
80 years ago Tuesday, May 19, 1936
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"All I could see was devastation"
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- Published on Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Photo courtesy of Blair Ferguson
By Eoin Devereux
The Neepawa Press/Neepawa Banner
Blair Ferguson could see the flames and smoke in the distance, when his hotel in Fort McMurray, Alberta was temporarily evacuated on Sunday, May 1. He, along with everyone else, kept a close eye on the path of the fire and the prevailing wind, still optimistic that the worst of it would miss the city. But by Tuesday, May 3, that optimism gave way to the grim reality of just how serious the situation was about to get for him and the community of nearly 80,000 people
Seeing the difference first hand
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- Published on Friday, May 13, 2016
By Sheila Runions
Banner Staff
Ray Baloun began working in grain elevators in Winnipeg three decades ago and for the last 10 years has been the grain buyer at Viterra north of Forrest. Since 2008 he has been the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) member on the World Relief Canada board. He has been fundraising for CFGB since his capital city days in the 1980s but says he, “Really ramped up the fundraising when we developed Kernels of Hope through the Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada in 2005. I call myself the connector — I get real farmers across the Prairies to grow small fields from five to 50 acres and I get donors from across the country to provide funds to pay for the crop expenses of the real farmers.
