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My Perspective - Blank canvas

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

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Health is one of the most important issues facing any person. Our jobs, our relationships and how we are able to live our lives are all dictated by our health– anyone who has known someone with ailing health knows this to be true. 

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Thumbs down - To vandals

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Submitted by Genie Barnaby

The Neepawa Press

Thumbs down to whoever destroyed the planters in front of Brimont and ArtsForward this weekend. The Girl Guides and the Horticultural Society planted them and they were just beautiful! Luckily, I don’t think any of the other big planters were destroyed.

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Ë®¹ûÊÓƵbodies - A reminder of the world

By Rita Friesen

Neepawa Banner

Summer is off to a great start. Spent a week in Winnipeg with my sister from Australia and her grandson, a fine young man of 16. Side trips out to Steinbach Mennonite Museum, the Pembina Hills and Lower Fort Gary. (Special event there- I presided at the wedding of my oldest niece and her beloved, am now an accredited marriage commissioner, just in case I have too much free time!) Once again toured the Museum of Human Rights, the Forks and bookstores. All in all, it was a well rounded holiday. 

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Observation July 8, 2016

By Addy Oberlin

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School is out! It is strange not to hear the children playing on the school’s playground. The parking lot at the high school is empty. Graduations have taken place.

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Faithfully yours - It takes a little sanctified blindness

By Neil Strohschein

Neepawa Banner

In the mid 19th century, philosophers like John Stuart Mill introduced the world to the concept of a just society. A just society, they argued, was a society of which three things are true.

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