Friday, April 26, 2019 Neepawa Banner & Press
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This week, read about the huge deal HyLife made with a Thai company, a menagerie of budget meetings and AGMs from the area, the new initiative Neepawa's golf club is implementing, an NACI student who excelled at an all-stars basketball tournament and much more!
Don't forget to pick up a hard copy of the Banner & Press so you don't miss out on some great deals in the flyers! In this week's, you can find Home Hardware, Giant Tiger, Rona, Peavey Mart, Princess Auto and Husqvarna, depending on where you pick up your paper.
Friday, April 26, 2019 Rivers Banner
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This week, read about a the lake thaw and some new jobs in the Westman area as well as 4-H awards that went to some area locals.
Don't forget to pick up a hard copy to see the flyers from Princess Auto and Husqvarna.
My perspective - Serving up a balanced diet… of news
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By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
Some weeks, I worry that we’ll scare off our readers. As we left for the holiday weekend, the list of completed or in process stories included two about Neepawa council (both about the financial plan), two about local annual general meetings, one about changes at the planning district and one about the impact on businesses of the federal and provincial budgets. I was (only sort of) joking that we’d scare our readers away from the May 2 paper; they wouldn’t yet have woken up, a week later.
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Right in the centre - Assorted topics from a rural perspective
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By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Monday morning came early with the blockbuster news that HyLife was being sold. HyLife is perhaps best known locally for its hog processing plant at Neepawa, which employs over 1,300 people. A bit lesser known is that the company has barns, feed mills and other hog-related enterprises across Manitoba, as well as interests in the U.S., China, Japan and Mexico. What is even less well known is that the founding families, the Janzens and Vielefaures, started out from very humble hog farmer beginnings.
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