Homebodies - Teetering on the top rung?
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- Published on Saturday, March 3, 2018
Rita Friesen
Neepawa Banner & Press
For many years I felt like the filling of a sandwich- caring for those beneath me, children and such, and caring for those above me, parents. You know how you make a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich by heavily spreading the peanut butter on the bottom slice and the jelly on the top and then forcibly compressing the two? (yes, there is a correct way to make a pb and j sandwich!) I felt a lot like that compressed goo. First my mother passed away and then, ten years later- eleven plus years ago- my father died. Not only was I an orphan, I transferred from the filling to the upper crust in this sandwich of life.
A seniors story - Schmidt family built new life in Canada
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- Published on Friday, March 2, 2018
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Kurt and Frances Schmidt Family. Back L to R: Ken, Faye, Russell, Donald, Leona, David. Front: Kurt and Frances.
Wayne Hildebrand
Neepawa Banner & Press
Thirty three years ago my job took me to a beautiful village along the Grass River called Waldersee, Manitoba. The village is located about one hour north east of Neepawa. Over time I got to know some of the area farmers with last names like Schmidt, Rossnagel, Single, Schultz, Dilk, Bohn, Mitchler, Oswald, Klassen, Mauthe and Marohn. I always wondered how a cluster of German immigrants homesteaded and established a German named village near the eastern boundary of the Rural Municipality of Glenella. I decided to ask Kurt Schmidt, who was born 92 years ago at his home farm in Waldersee.
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Neepawa left in the cold
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- Published on Friday, March 2, 2018
Photo by Micah Waddell. The Neepawa Health Centre was absent from the list of 120 projects getting financial support for maintenance and security upgrades. Nearby communities Minnedosa and Gladstone, however, have received funding from the province.
120 health care facilities receive support, including Minnedosa & Gladstone
by Eoin Devereux
Neepawa Banner & Press
Communities across the province are receiving financial support to help maintain and secure their health-care facilities; Neepawa is not one of them. On Monday, Feb. 26, the Manitoba government announced that it had approved more than 120 projects to receive funding totalling nearly $30 million. These specific projects were selected due to the safety and security needs of the facilities.
Neepawa’s own highlander
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- Published on Friday, March 2, 2018
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In medal testing exams, Violily received great praise from the examiner. She is looking forward to taking further exams in March.
Shona McHarg
Neepawa Banner & Press
Five-year-old Violily Jeffrey began highland dancing only one year ago under the direction of Shona McHarg in Brandon. To date, she has participated in various performances in Western Manitoba, taken part in Scottish Dance Teachers Alliance (SDTA) annual medal testing examinations and competed in competitions.
