Looking Back - 1978: “Tribute to Elvis” Dance
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- Published on Monday, February 12, 2018
Jessica Morton
Neepawa Banner & Press
80 years ago
Tuesday, February 8, 1938
An annual report of Manitoba Telephone System, just issued, reveals a highly satisfactory condition, the most outstanding item being the revenue balance of $143,282.52 for the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1937, as compared to $14,739.95 for the previous year. In the list of exchanges, Neepawa stands fifth in the province in telephones, the total being 641 for local and rural.
Letters - Collection for recreational purposes should not be mandatory
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- Published on Monday, February 12, 2018
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Neepawa Banner & Press
I object strongly to a mandatory collection of funds for recreational purposes. Funds for the above should come only by fund raising events, combined with user fees if necessary. If that can’t be achieved, then perhaps its time to shut down some. The fact is, is that businesses have been shutting down in town here one after the other recently. The die has long been cast for small towns such as ours.
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Observation - February 9, 2018
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- Published on Sunday, February 11, 2018
Addy Oberlin
Neepawa Banner & Press
A friend came to visit me and stayed for a few days. She had to bring her own bed and bedding which she gladly did. Someone said that this was a real friend. We had fun together, played games and it made the time fly by. I’m sure everybody has those precious friends who put everything aside and come for a visit.
Faithfully yours - It’s time for an inward look
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- Published on Sunday, February 11, 2018
Neil Strohschein
Neepawa Banner & Press
Two significant events happened in the first half of 1945. One made the headlines. It’s highly unlikely that the other one got any coverage at all, for reasons that will soon become obvious. In May of that year, the front pages of major newspapers around the world carried the news that, after over five years of fighting in Europe and north Africa, the war against Germany had ended. What followed was the biggest party England had ever seen, as people took to the streets in the first of what would become an annual commemoration of VE (Victory in Europe) Day.
