Neepawa Tigers set the pace at track and field event
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Photos by Eoin Devereux. Tanner Mann of NACI competing in the Long Jump competition during the Neepawa Senior Invitational.
By Eoin Devereux
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Several athletes from Neepawa Area Collegiate Institute (NACI) found themselves at or near the top of podium at the Neepawa Senior Invitational Track and Field Championship. The event was held on Friday, May 13 and featured some of the best young competitors from high schools across western Manitoba. Notable results for NACI included:
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My Neepawa - Saints and angels
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What’s “Your Neepawa”? We’re asking readers to share with us their pictures of past and present Neepawa. To share a picture, please email a high resolution version (1 MB or higher) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or stop by the office at 243 Hamilton Street, in Neepawa. Please include your name as well as a description of the photo.
Photo courtesy of Jodi Baker.
This is the Stone Angel that stands watch over Riverside Cemetery in Neepawa.
Looking back - 1976: Neepawa Rotary Club celebrates its 25th anniversary
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Photo courtesy of Cecil Pittman Archives. 40 years ago; Thurs., May 20, 1976: George MacKidd was elected Charter President of the Neepawa Rotary Club.
By Cecil Pittman
The Neepawa Press
80 years ago Tuesday, May 19, 1936
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"All I could see was devastation"
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Photo courtesy of Blair Ferguson
By Eoin Devereux
The Neepawa Press/Neepawa Banner
Blair Ferguson could see the flames and smoke in the distance, when his hotel in Fort McMurray, Alberta was temporarily evacuated on Sunday, May 1. He, along with everyone else, kept a close eye on the path of the fire and the prevailing wind, still optimistic that the worst of it would miss the city. But by Tuesday, May 3, that optimism gave way to the grim reality of just how serious the situation was about to get for him and the community of nearly 80,000 people