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.
Out of Helen's kitchen - Honey oat biscotti
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- Published on Saturday, February 10, 2018
Helen Drysdale
Neepawa Banner & Press
This recipe comes from an older Canadian Honey Counsel cook book. If you are a biscotti cookie fan this recipe is for you!
From the prairies to the mountains
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- Published on Saturday, February 10, 2018
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On Thursday, Jan. 25, 19 grade nine students from Neepawa Area Collegiate Institute (NACI) and their teachers Mr. Gaudet and Mrs. Heschuk left for a week-long adventure to Mont-Laurier, in northwest Québec.
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On Thursday, Jan. 25, 19 grade nine students from Neepawa Area Collegiate Institute (NACI) and their teachers Mr. Gaudet and Mrs. Heschuk left for a week-long adventure to Mont Laurier, in northwest Québec. Their trip was part of the two-week Experiences Canada program which is a reciprocal home-stay exchange.
Homebodies - Embracing brokenness?
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- Published on Saturday, February 10, 2018
Rita Friesen
Neepawa Banner & Press
There is a line from one of the newer hymns that has been haunting me all day. The hymn – ‘Come Touch Our Hearts’ words and music by Gordon Light, 2002, includes a line, ‘Come touch our hearts that we may know compassion’. Somewhere during the day, the words switched to ‘come touch my heart’. The words became more powerful. My thoughts were possibly influenced by the writings of Ann Voskamp, ‘The Broken Way’. One of her chapter thoughts is ‘maybe wholeness is embracing brokenness as part of your life’.