It's beginning to look at lot like...

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Photo by Kate Jackman-Atkinson.

On Nov. 22, Joan Enns and Cecil Pittman were busy setting up the Christmas village in the front window of the Town of Neepawa office. This is about the fifth year they have set up the elaborate display. 

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Youth curlers hit the ice in Neepawa

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Submitted photo. Youth curlers, aged 5 to 7 on the ice with their instructors.

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Neepawa Curling Club

The Neepawa Curling Club is humming on Wednesdays at 4:30, with activity and the sound of youth curlers aged 8 and up.  Similar to last year, the session is run by volunteers familiar with the game of curling. Through fun drills and games, the children are taught curling etiquette, safety on the ice, proper form on delivery and sweeping techniques, game strategy and of course rules of the game.

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Up, up and installed

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Photo by Tony Eu.

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From small town girl to politics with a capital P

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Photo courtesy of Betty-Ann McPhedran. Jack McPhedran, Marilou’s father, was known as ‘the flying vet’, as he was a large animal veterinarian who flew to farms, landing in the fields. L to R: Jack McPhedran, Marilou McPhedran, Colleen Cram, Bev Ann Murray, Colleen’s mother and father, Fran and Wallace Cram and Colleen’s little brother, David Cram.

By Tony Eu

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

Of the nine new non-partisans that will be joining the senate, three of them are from Manitoba. Of those three, one comes from close to home; meet Marilou McPhedran, a human rights lawyer, professor at the University of Winnipeg and a Neepawa girl, born and raised.

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