My perspective - Planning for the future
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- Published on Thursday, October 15, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Imagine your community without volunteers鈥� you can鈥檛, it鈥檚 impossible. Rural communities exist because of volunteers, it鈥檚 only because of them that we have things like festivals and facilities. It鈥檚 volunteer work that makes our communities the places in which we want to live.
Right in the centre - Decision time
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- Published on Thursday, October 15, 2015
By Ken Waddell
The Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
With election day looming next Monday, the whole country is holding its breath to see who will form the next government. It would appear that The Banner readership area will vote Conservative. It has usually done so and that鈥檚 because the people of Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa have made their assessment that the Conservative Party most closely represents their views. It鈥檚 a pretty simple process.
It starts with a visit
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- Published on Sunday, October 11, 2015
By Vern May
Minnedosa & Area Community Development
It starts with a reason to make your first visit. Unless you were born and raised in a community that you鈥檝e grown to know not by street names but by landmarks, your first visit somewhere new requires a reason to go.Maybe the town is hosting an event you鈥檙e interested to attend 鈥� a concert, trade show or sporting event. Perhaps you鈥檝e heard about an obscure restaurant or specialty retailer you鈥檙e dying to verify if they live up to their hype. Even if you鈥檙e just looking for a reason to turn off the road to break up a longer journey with a quick gas and go, there鈥檚 still a lingering curiosity about what may await you.
水果视频bodies - The books on my bedside table
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- Published on Saturday, October 10, 2015
By Rita Friesen
The Neepawa Banner
On my bedside table鈥� There are always a number of books awaiting me. When the stack begins to lean precariously, I sort and re-start the priority reading. Top five, not in order of urgency!
My perspective - Back to our roots
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- Published on Friday, October 9, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
Once upon a time, in this country鈥檚 early days, most Canadians lived outside of the cities. A hundred or so years ago, Canadians predominantly lived on farms or in small farming, fishing, logging or mining towns. However, during the 1900s, many Canadians left these rural areas for the cities, which offered a better life, characterized by electricity, indoor plumbing and a social life not possible when town was so far away.
