Observation - November 3, 2017
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- Published on Sunday, November 5, 2017
Addy Oberlin
The Neepawa Banner & Press
Do you have many friends? The past week, I was amazed to find out how many friendships I have formed in the last 20 years in the Swan River Valley. Even my children were surprised and did not think their Mom will be in a hurry to move closer to her kids. When we get in touch with people and do things together we are bound to make friends.
Homebodies - Pondering...
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Rita Freisen
The Neepawa Banner & Press
A phrase from the book on my bedside, ‘Ride the Rising Wind, One Woman’s Journey Across Canada’, by Barbara Kingscote echoed and re-echoed in my thoughts and musings. [ I digress, but it isn’t often that a compelling book stays as long as this one has – I have been busy and busier!] This time the author is making her way across Ontario, waiting to see the prairies. She has chosen to stop at a small home, tucked in a clearing in the bush. The scent of a wood smoke smudge, the light from a window, drew her in. she ‘stepped across the threshold of my own hesitation into a lamp lit kitchen’.
Faithfully Yours - Knowing everything won’t change anything
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Neil Strohschein
The Neepawa Banner & Press
October 26, 2017 was a day to which conspiracy theorists had long looked forward. That was the day when, according to legislation enacted 25 years earlier, all documents regarding the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were to be released. As the day approached, the question on everyone’s mind was: “What, if anything, will we learn about this tragedy that we don’t already know?” As it turned out, not much.
Read more: Faithfully Yours - Knowing everything won’t change anything
Riverdale Palliative Care plans events
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- Published on Saturday, November 4, 2017
By Esther Krahn
Co-ordinator
Riverdale Palliative Care will be hosting several events in the next few weeks. We are looking for more volunteers so, together with Minnedosa Palliative Care, we are hosting the Volunteer Education & Training Program. This is a five-week 6:30-9 p.m. course which will be starting on Wednesday, Nov. 15 in the board room at Minnedosa Hospital.
