From tuk tuks to farm yards– vocational training team trip an eye opener
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Photo by Kira Paterson. Bill Taylor, a retired teacher from Brandon, spoke to the Neepawa Rotary club on June 10 about his participation in a Rotary Sponsored Vocational Training Team.
By Kira Paterson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
The Neepawa Rotary Club and guests at their weekly luncheon meeting on Friday, June 10 got to see a bit of Ethiopia, thanks to their guest speaker of the week.
Bill Taylor, a retired teacher from Brandon, was part of a Rotary Sponsored Vocational Training Team that went to Ethiopia to train school teachers.
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Looking back - 1996: Local investors purchase Neepawa Natives hockey team
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Photo courtesy of Cecil Pittman Archives. Looking southeast from the hill where East View Lodge was later constructed shows the major flooding in the spring of 1923.
By Cecil Pittman
The Neepawa Press
80 years ago Tuesday, June 12, 1936
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Neepawa approves new cemetery sidewalk
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By Eoin Devereux
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Town Council has approved the installation of a new sidewalk at the Neepawa Cemetery. The Town received two formal bids on this project, which will feature an intricate design that wraps around the site’s new columbarium. J.C. Lavish Construction had the low bid at $25,000. That bid amount was approved and a timeline for the work to begin is currently being explored
Summer at the food bank
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- Published on Monday, June 13, 2016
By Sharlette Paddock
Secretary
Summer is almost here! Which means everyone’s normal routine gets traded in for vacations, camps, late night bonfires, visiting family and friends. It is such a wonderful time of year to enjoy the outdoors and our many hours of sunlight. One of the effects of all of us getting out of routine includes the donations to the food bank tend to dwindle for the summer. Unfortunately the use of the food bank does not correlate to this reduction in donations.
Dauphin RCMP investigate missing person
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- Published on Monday, June 13, 2016
Photo courtesy of Manitoba RCMP.
News Release
Manitoba RCMP
Dauphin RCMP are seeking the public's assistance in locating Lorne Robinson, 69 years old, who was reported missing on June 12, 2016 from Dauphin, MB.
