By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner & Press

I have been asked many times recently, “Who will win the U.S. presidential election?”

My answer is simple, “I don’t know.”

By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner & Press

This will be two columns in one. The first one is short and is an  “ask”, a request for everybody who reads these words. If you want to do something good for yourself, for your family, for your community and in fact, for our country, please do the following.

By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner & Press

Last week, I wrote about the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend and how it coincided with our 55th wedding anniversary. For about two weeks before the big day, I asked my wife what she wanted to do for our anniversary. No real plans were forthcoming so I went about our regular business of doing the best we can to publish three newspapers and help out at the Neepawa Access Community Television Station (NACTV). The Thursday before our anniversary was the regular paper delivery run to Rivers and Rapid City.

By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner & Press

Fifty-five years ago on Oct. 11, it was a Saturday and it was a bit cool and blustery. It can easily be said that it was the most important day in my life. Christine and I got married that day in the Virden Presbyterian church. Our wedding reception was at the former Scarth School which, by 1969, had been converted into a community centre.

By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner & Press

Last year, about this time I wrote about the danger of the elites and allowing an elite group of people run organizations. I hope you think it’s a topic worth re-visiting. One of the organizations in question was the Progressive Conservative Party of ˮ����Ƶ. I outlined how, over a few decades, a once vibrant, grassroots party let its organization and leadership to become, at best, mediocre. I got some definite feedback on that subject.

Another thought came to me today and that is, “Why do governments like keeping people poor and uninformed?”