Federal cash for sewer upgrades in Neepawa
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- Published on Friday, November 21, 2014
By Eoin Devereux
The Neepawa Banner
A massive wastewater infrastructure project in Neepawa has received new federal support. The Town has been notified that it’s one of five communities in western Manitoba receiving funding under the New Building Canada Plan’s Small Communities Fund.
Fire Hall rebuilt in Rapid City
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- Published on Friday, November 21, 2014
The official ribbon cutting in Rapid City.
By Sheila Runions
Banner Staff
Thirteen months after fire leveled the Town of Rapid City civic office and attached two-bay fire hall, a grand opening ceremony was held for a new building.
"It changed my life completely."
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- Published on Thursday, November 20, 2014
(L to R) Karla Hall and Darryl Kulbacki
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner
Neepawa-area siblings Darryl Kulbacki and Karla Hall are bound by more than just blood. On Oct. 23, Hall went into surgery at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg to donate a kidney to her older brother.
"If we are here today, it's because of them."
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- Published on Thursday, November 20, 2014
From left: Honorary Consul of France in Winnipeg, Bruno Burnichon, congratulates Earl Stewart and Roy Snaith on their induction into France’s National Order of the Legion of Honour
Kate-Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
For the second time in four days, a hall was packed in support of two exceptional members of Gladstone’s Royal Canadian Legion Branch #110. On Tuesday, Earl Stewart and Roy Snaith were officially recognized as members of the French Legion of Honour, when the Honorary Consul of France in Winnipeg, Bruno Burnichon, pinned the medals to their chests at a special ceremony in the Legion Clubroom.
Rapid City youth wins national award
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- Published on Thursday, November 20, 2014
Carson Burr
By Sheila Runions
Banner Staff
Nine-year-old Carson Burr of Rapid City has been featured in these pages of the Rivers Banner several times in the past two years. He was born with a heart defect and has been fundraising for Winnipeg’s Children’s Hospital for two-thirds of his life (six years).
