Parade a pleasure at Oak River
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- Published on Thursday, July 20, 2017
By Sheila Runions
Rivers Banner
While Oak River holds a fair each year, they seldom have a parade, but to celebrate Canada 150, such an event was planned as part of the Monday, July 17 activities. It was long and colourful with plenty of candy, suckers, freezies and Canada flag pins tossed out windows or off flat decks.
Neepawa Public Library summer update
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- Published on Thursday, July 20, 2017
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The Neepawa Press
Calling all summer readers! Neepawa Library has lots of reading options for this summer, whether you want some fun picture books for your young readers or a little light fiction for the beach.
Letters to the editor: Where have all the flowers gone?
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- Published on Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Submitted By Cecil Pittman
The Neepawa Press
It is with great concern from me, and I can assure you many other citizens of Neepawa and surrounding municipalities who had members of their families involved in the military expeditions in World Wars I and II and the Korean conflict when we heard the instructions given by Mayor de Groot and Town employee Denis Saquet a couple of days ago to long time cemetery employee (some 43 years), Jack Follows.
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Vote for Rivers to be Manitobaville!
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- Published on Wednesday, July 19, 2017
By Sheila Runions
Rivers Banner
For at least the past six years, a host of partners have provided $25,000 to one Manitoba community which is ultimately voted Manitobaville. This year’s votes will be collected by text between 6:45 a.m. Monday, July 24 and Friday, Aug. 4 at noon. By 1 p.m. that day (Aug. 4), votes will be tabulated and a winner announced. Because of press deadlines, it is unknown if the video submission by Riverdale Community Centre will make it to the Top 10/12-day voting period. Finalists are announced sometime Wednesday, July 19; Banner deadline is Tuesday at 5 p.m. Manitobaville judges will select finalists based on needs and fulfillment of a community project, which is defined as something which “supports and enriches the life of community members residing in a town, village, hamlet or city.” Finalists will also be selected on creativity and overall effort in the submission, description of their project and impact/benefit the prize will have on the project. Videos which have the highest score in these categories will advance to the finalist stage.
