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While the official Remembrance Day service in Neepawa was moved to the Legion building, many still braved the snowy weather conditions to gather at the cenotaph in Neepawa, outside the Beautiful Plains County Court Building on Thursday, Nov. 11. (Additional pictures on Page 21)

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Weekend snowfall keeps plowing crews busy

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Above left and right: Crews were working on clearing First St. on the afternoon of Monday, Nov. 16. They had equipment running on several streets throughout town. Right: A snow pile on Mountain Ave. on Monday.

By Kira Paterson Neepawa Banner & Press A heavy snowfall between Nov. 11 and 13 made for a busy start to the snow clearing season in Neepawa. The Town of Neepawa staff and the Town’s two contractors for snow clearing, P. Baker Backhoe Service and Rob Smith & Son Backhoe and Trucking Ltd., were out in full force over the weekend and early this week to clean up the streets.

Town of Neepawa manager of operations Denis Saquet noted that considering the challenges posed by the weather, he was quite happy with the amount of time it took to get streets drivable again. “One has to look at the events– rain/heavy, wet snow are not easily cleared.

It’s a slower process, add to that, that after the first round of plowing happened, we had areas that had to be re-plowed,” he stated, adding that closed highways on Friday also posed a challenge for workers getting into town to do the job. “I am very pleased with our contractors and staff who worked through

the weekend.”

The amount of time it takes to clear the town roads can vary from storm to storm, but Saquet estimated this one would take them about four to five days to completely clear the streets.

Some residents may have noticed that the plows left a ridge of snow across the end of their driveway. Saquet noted that while they have snow gates on their plows that typically prevent this from happening, they couldn’t use the snow gates

this time because the snow was too wet and there was too much of it. “Regrettably, with the amount of snowfall and its moisture content, the snow gates could not be used and residents will have to shovel out the windrows,” he stated.

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Saquet asked locals to be patient with the snow clearing process, as there is a lot to contend with during storms like the one last weekend.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Neepawa will be rockin’ round the Riverbend Massive musical event being planned for summer 2022

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Neepawa has a rich and varied independent music subculture, it just doesn’t, for the most part, know it yet…Jeff Desender is hoping to do something about that. Desender, the owner and operator of Frozen Fire Studios have partnered with Neepawa Tourism and its Riverbend Makers Market, to announce the creation of Rockin’ the Riverbend.

The musical showcase is being planned to run in unison with the artisan marketplace on July 22 and 23, 2022.

Desender explained to the Banner & Press the reasoning for teaming with the Makers’ Market on this endeavour. “[Neepawa] has had a great demographic when its comes to farmers’ markets and music, which are two big things in our community. So, if we could tie them together, it makes for Neepawa to have one big festival, that we could have that we could get a whack-tonne of visitors to, it would be beneficial for the community. And, maybe, it slowly creates, almost a Lily Festival type of event, that Neepawa has been lacking for many years,” stated Desender. “It’s stepping stones.

First, we had the Riverbend Market, which proved to be a real success this year, now we have the music side and maybe in the next year, we could grow from there.”

Desender said that when he pitched the concept

to the Neepawa Tourism board, in which he is a member, the response was encouraging.

“Neepawa Tourism was all for it. We’re pretty diverse individuals on the board. Some understood and [there were] some that didn’t understand the many variables that’ll go through, but were still supportive,” Desender said.

Kelsey Wilson, Neepawa Tourism board member and coordinator of the Makers’ Market, stated that they are very excited to be adding live music to the Riverbend Market.

“We weren’t able to have live music at the 2021 market, due to COVID-19 restrictions. Many people commented that they would like to see live music,” said Wilson.

As for the arrangement and structure of Rockin’ the Riverbend, it will use the same grounds as the Makers’ Market, with a small stage in the centre in place on Friday, July 22.

The smaller, more intimate set-up will feature an array of acoustic artists. Then, on Saturday, July 23, once the Markers’ Market concludes in the afternoon, the musical portion will expand to feature a full stage and lighting setup and feature a more rock oriented, full scale show.

As for just who Rockin’ the Riverbend will be open to, in terms of performers, Desender said it’ll be inclusive.

“I’m hoping to spread the message to artists across Neepawa, because there are

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Jeff Desender, the studio/label executive of Frozen Fire Studios in Neepawa and office assistant Melissa Payette. Frozen Fire will be leading the way in a new partnership with Neepawa Tourism and the Riverbend Makers’ Market, for the Rockin’ the Riverbend musical event, set for 2022.

tonnes of them out there.

I’ve attended a lot of ArtsForward open mics and I’ve seen the talent our town has to offer, and really, what the area has to offer,” Desender said. “Neepawa is a musical community and I’m hoping to have acts, primarily from

our area. This is a showcase of what all around us and what’s in us.”

Any interested artists looking for more information or to register can contact Frozen Fire Studios via its social media platforms or website.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Homebodies

By Chad Carpenter

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Is this THE winter?

Things will break loose soon W I Right in the

am not sure what breaking loose will look like, but changes are coming in the battle against COVID-19.

C-19 is serious, it can make you very sick. It can kill you, but the death rate has mostly been among people who are elderly (old like me, or older) or among people who had health struggles already. Some victims have been younger and healthy, some, not many. Every death is sad.

We should not be surprised, though, that people are getting very tired of all the rules and regulations.

Twenty months ago, we were told we would have to shut down and flatten the curve for two weeks. How well did that work out? We didn’t flatten the curve and it’s still not flat 20 months later.

Washing our hands, social distancing and now vaccines have likely reduced effects, but C-19 is still here and even rampant in some areas.

We were told if 70 per cent of people got vaccinated, it would be good. Then it was 75, 80, 85 and 90 per cent. Explain this then, how can a community have 90 per cent vaccination rates and still have 150 cases? Vaccination seems to help, but it doesn’t stop C-19. Just ask the people at Neepawa hospital with 24 cases and Third Crossing Manor home at Gladstone with 61 cases. Almost everybody at those places were vaccinated. C-19, like many other diseases, is here to stay and it may well happen just like colds, flu and pneumonia.

The government has tried everything from coaxing, to threatening, to shutting down businesses, to sanitation, to vaccination and we are not done yet. I have no idea when all this will ever be over.

My biggest peeve is, and always has been, that none of the people demanding a shutdown are having their income affected by the shutdown.

A breaking loose is coming. The tourism industry predicts that 2 billion neepawa

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Ken Waddell people will take trips over the next year.

So much for social distancing or caution in that regard. This past week, the Winnipeg Free Press was asking for tighter restrictions. Ironically, three separate members of the Free Press staff made public through both the Free Press itself and their social media accounts that they had been traveling to areas of much higher risk than Manitoba.

The paper made a big deal that a Winnipeg Jets player’s family wasn’t wearing a mask at a hockey game, but their staff can seemingly travel wherever they want without a care.

People are heading south for the winter, leaving the relatively quiet C-19 situation in Manitoba for areas with far higher infection rates and far lower vaccination rates and where masks are rare. This doesn’t make sense to me.

What all this travel means to me is that people are just plain fed up with restrictions that seem to no longer be working and have decided they are going to do what they want and not care about the irony, or the consequences.

We have gone through 20 months of excruciating trouble and I am afraid some of it has been misplaced. I am thankful for the hand washing, the hand sanitizing, the social distancing and even the vaccines. It has all helped, I guess. But we are at the end of what we can do to stop the disease from going through the population, with or without our further efforts now, and we will have to live (or die) with the consequences.

Just 5 per cent of Manitobans have

contracted C-19. Two per cent of the cases have died. The death rate for the whole province is so small you can hardly measure it as percentage.

Cancer has a higher death rate, does it not? Heart attacks have a higher death rate, do they not?

I think we are very close to the stage where we need to stop wearing masks. I think we need to realize that no amount of convincing to get vaccinated will raise the vaccination rate. We need to move on with surgeries and tests. It’s time to move on.

People can be mad about me saying that, but if you are double vaxxed, what are you worried about? Either the vaccine wills top you from getting C-19 or at least lessen the effects. If that isn’t the case, then we have been misled.

We are being told to get a booster shot. I am not convinced of that. I have also never had a flu shot and yes, flu could kill me, but at 73 years of age, I have never felt the need to get one.

Maybe I am wrong, we’ll see.

What I have learned over 73 years, and especially the last two years, is the government rarely gets everything right and they sure didn’t get C-19 right.

The efforts have been admirable, but never as effective as promised. After 20 months of promises, with mixed results at best, it’s no wonder things are about to break loose.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this column are the writer’s personal views and are not to be taken as being the view of the Banner & Press staff.

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e have all heard the stories– snow so deep that children walking to school walked on banks as high as the telephone wires, snow so deep that farm families were isolated for much of the winter. Heck, I lived some of those! Nearly completely my 76th orbit, I have seen a great deal of weather. The drought years, the wet years and the snow years, which often produced the flood years. The cycle as old as time.

This heavy snow, and it is not an early snow, is bringing much needed moisture to our area, to the prairies. It is also bringing back, for me, memories. When I was a child, we did not have the wonderful warm, water repelling gear that is available now. I remember wet woollen mittens, the gap between the jacket sleeve and mitt a raw, red, chilblained stretch of tender flesh. It was a chore to get the ski pant leg over the top of the boot, but a necessity, or the ankle skin soon matched the wrist. Getting ready to play outside, or go do the chores was a feat on it’s own.

The years of parenting young children often came with the extra excitement of the child declaring they needed the bathroom right after you had them bundled to the ears! Oh, yes, the ears. Homemade toques and scarves, not often matching, and frequently crafted from left over yarn, creating a colourful pattern, provided protection from the cold. The footwear of my youth pales in comparison to the stuff the children are wearing today. I remember boots with buckles, not for fashion, but to keep the flaps shut.

And buckles broke, replaced by anything goes repairs, for dry feet were essential. Some of us had heavy felt liners, great for warmth, slow to dry if they ever got wet. With a home filled with children, humidity was never the issue in winter. The array of drying boots, mitts and scarves ensured that!

The winters of the heavy snows were challenging.

Getting to school in a horse drawn caboose, straw on the floor and a small wood stove at the front for the driver and small children (where warmth trumped safety! )was interesting. It was not unheard of that a van would tip, necessitating all the students exiting the unit, the big kids helping the driver right the thing, calm the horses, and hopefully arrive at school nearly on time. The country school I attended had a furnace room right next to the teacher’s lounge, and more than one bunch of kids would get to huddle near the furnace while the teacher made hot chocolate, getting warm enough to stop shivering before entering the classroom.

It was not fun for the parents to have to dig their way out of the house, creating a tunnel to the door. The home was warmer for the shelter from the winds that the snow provided, but again, safety? Snow forts and sleigh rides were fun. Slugging through deep snow hauling bales and buckets, straining to lift them above the path through the snow was not. We may make snow memories with the winter of 2021-22.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

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This too shall pass

he story is told of a man who was living through a series of unfortunate events that had taken a significant toll on his mental and physical health. In desperation, he picked up a Bible and began to read it, looking for some encouraging words.

As he read, his eyes landed on these words from one of the gospels– “And it came to pass...” He read them again, then a third time, finally a fourth. Then, breathing a huge sigh of relief, he closed the Bible, looked up to heaven and said: “Thank you, God. That is just what I needed to know. It came to pass! It didn’t come to stay!”

I thought of this story this past week, when I was told that a COVID-19 outbreak had been declared at the Neepawa Hospital. Like all of the challenges we have faced over the last 18 months, this outbreak will not be with us forever. But while it is here, it will inflict its share of stress on the hospital staff, patients and

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Neil Strohschein their families. The effects of that stress will be with us long after the outbreak is declared over.

My own study of the Scriptures led me to a man and his family who understood the impact of confinement and quarantine on a person’s life. That man was the patriarch Noah. When we meet him (see Genesis 6), he is living in a world where people spend every waking hour trying to find new ways to offend and anger God. In fact, they have become so skilled at this art that God decides to totally obliterate them.

Only Noah and his family will survive the cataclysmic judgment that will come upon the earth.

Noah was told to build a “floating zoo,” a huge

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his morning, it was cold when I got out of bed and felt like a bear looking for a warm den.

I turned up the furnace and gave the fireplace a boost.

Then I found a sweater that I could zip up and found some warm slippers. Now I found a spot close to the fireplace and felt a contentment wash over me.

boat that would float on the waters of a flood that was about to cover the whole earth. It took Noah roughly 120 years to build the boat. Then, he and his family went on board, taking with them two of every land animal and bird.

They remained enclosed in this floating zoo for several months, unable to see what was happening around them. When they finally left the boat, the world that greeted them was nothing like the one they left.

You and I are living through a similar experience. When COVID-19 hit, we were told that it would all be over in three or four months. It wasn’t.

It still isn’t; and no one can accurately predict when (or if) we will finally be able Most of us are so blessed with a warm home, a closet full of clothes and a cupboard full of food. Do we realize how blessed we are and how God provides for us just what we need, not more or less?

I was reading the book of Job and how he was hurting and grieving. God spoke to him in Job chapter 38.

to say that COVID-19 is no longer something about which we will have to worry.

But there is one thing about which we can be absolutely certain. The God who protected Noah during the flood will do the same for us today. He has been with us over the last 18 months. He will be with us in the future. This current crisis will not be with us forever. The emotional wounds that we feel today will eventually heal. And just as he did with Noah, God will help us adapt to the new world that is unfolding before us.

But we must do our part.

Noah had to obey God’s command to build, board and trust his floating zoo to keep him, his family and his precious cargo safe from harm. We must likewise obey the commands that those in authority over us have given and trust that in response to our obedience, God will protect us all through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

“Then the Lord spoke to Job. ‘Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?’” Who marked off its dimensions? On what were its footings set, or laid its cornerstone? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?

Something to think about this week.

Thumbs up, thumbs down A salute to the Gladstone Elementary and WMCI students and teachers who gathered at the local Cenotaph last Wednesday to honour our community’s Veterans and fallen heroes.

The Legion members present were moved by the placing at the Memorial of hand painted poppy rocks by the little ones and personal letters of thanks from the Grade 10 students to individual soldiers whom they had researched.

We were proud to see this next generation holding high the torch in remembrance of lives sacrificed for their freedom. Well done all of you!

Royal Canadian Legion Branch # 110 Gladstone, MB

Thumbs up to Dean Cochrane for cleaning our driveway on the 352 Ridge Road.

Rene & Lenda Jerome Arden, MB A really big thank you to my neighbour Allan Rempel for pushing and blowing snow away from the street in front of the Sidney Store! Also a second thank you to my other neighbour for blowing snow off the sidewalk in front of the Sidney Store on Friday Robert Smith Edrans, MB

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Reducing the risk

Thanks to Natalie Gordon BSc PhD for replying to my recent COVID-19 letter. And thanks to the editor for correcting her misstatement that the mRNA vaccine is experimental.

COVID-19 will only disappear from Manitoba when the rest of the world achieves Manitoba’s vaccination percentage. And that is years away. However, when we get our vaccination percentage up to 95, and that is very likely since we are on the verge of getting Health Canada approval to vaccinate ages 5 to 11, COVID-19 will be gone as a serious threat to our health. COVID-19 risk will be reduced to something like the current health risk from seasonal influenza or the common cold or pneumonia. There will still be isolated COVID-19 outbreaks, largely linked to travel, but they will be quickly contained and the capacity of our health care system will be sufficient to cope.

John Whitaker Erickson, MB

‘Essential’ question Thanks for the question, Ms. Cathcart. I suggest you read all available statistics on cause of death for 20002020, with special attention to respiratory illnesses and age demographics. Then, read about “viral epidemiology” from as many reliable sources as possible. You will not find any evidence we can seriously reduce transmission in “flu-like” viruses on a mass-population scale. I’ve often stated that Covid is a factor in deaths—but for an extremely tiny portion of the population! The numbers do not at all constitute a pandemic or an emergency.

Next, research verified sterilization protocols for germ transmission prevention. You will soon discover that the health orders purported to stop Covid’s spread are not in any way scientific or effective. Most importantly, consider all the workers classified as “essential” under Covid restrictions—all of whom are out interacting and performing duties 24-7, without interruption and without getting sick (while living among family or friends). To name a few: truckers, nurses, doctors, EMTs, teachers, dentists, firefighters, electricians, plumbers, computer techs, construction workers, farmers, optometrists, grocery and hardware stores, water and wastewater operators, public works, pharmacists, engineers, manufacturers, liquor/marijuana stores, food processing, Hydro crews, airlines, lawyers, accountants, daycares, veterinarians… point made. Each of the millions listed above worked during a supposedly catastrophic pandemic, without medicine, and without being confined to a sterile room, yet they never dropped like flies as “modeling” warned.

Fact: 37+ million Canadians never once caught Covid in 2020. Covid-linked deaths that year? ~15,000. Despite dire predictions, useless lockdowns and numerous divisive actions by government, 2021 has been nearly identical. Compare what your own eyes can see, with the current narrative. To answer your question: end the foolish PCR testing, end the health orders, and end the vaccine mandate. Increase staffing at hospitals and clinics.

These two changes alone will already largely take care of matters. Train people in self-care methods for colds/flus and distribute prophylactics. Send Covid enforcement officers to assist in care homes instead of badgering people trying to make a living. Create billboards, commercials and webinars to educate people on epidemiology—don’t touch your face, wash frequently, stay home when ill, etc.

Treat people like responsible adults, not mindless gerbils.

Finally, firmly declare that death is an unavoidable, painful reality. We’re tough. We can handle it.

Lenora Buffi Neepawa, MB

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Helen Drysdale out of helen’s kitchen

Venison

If you have a deer hunter in your family, here are two recipes to help use the bounty of the successful hunt. Slow, moist cooking is the way to go with a shoulder roast and venison stew. Come home to a hot and hearty meal straight from your slow cooker!

Slow cooker venison roast 3-4 pound venison shoulder roast 2-3 cloves garlic 1 onion, sliced 1 package of mushrooms 2 small bay leaves

2 tsp. dry parsley 2 cups beef broth 1 can mushroom soup salt and pepper to taste

If you wish, you can brown all sides of the roast in a frying pan with butter or oil before putting it in the slow cooker. This helps seal the juices in and gives a nice colour and taste to the gravy.

Take a knife and make a slit in the meat in several places. Push the garlic in the slits.

Place the onion slices on the bottom of the slow cooker. Place roast on top of onion slices.

Sprinkle on the mushrooms, bay leaves and parsley. Mix the broth and mushroom soup together. Pour over the roast. Cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4-6 hours or until roast is easily broken apart with a fork. Add salt and pepper to taste to the juices. Serve with mashed potatoes or noodles.

Venison stew 1 large onion, diced 2 sticks celery, sliced 2 cloves garlic, minced 2-3 cups sliced carrots 2-3 cups sliced mushrooms 3-4 cups diced potatoes 1 bay leaf

1 tsp. dry oregano 1 tetra pack beef broth 2 pounds venison stew meat 1/2 cup flour 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. pepper 3-4 Tbsp. butter or oil

Layer first nine ingredients in a slow cooker. Prepare the stew meat by tossing it with the flour, salt and pepper in a mixing bowl. Heat the butter or oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the venison pieces. Cook for several minutes or until browned nicely, turning occasionally. If it is too much for your pan, do this in two batches. Add the venison to the slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for eight hours.

Remove bay leaf. Serve with fresh bread or biscuits.

COVID-19 cases confirmed at Neepawa schools, no close contacts identified

By Kira Paterson

Neepawa Banner & Press

Beautiful Plains School Division has confirmed that there have been four positive cases of COVID-19 between the three Neepawa schools recently.

BPSD superintendent Jason Young stated that as of the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 16, four cases have been identified, two at Neepawa Middle School and one each at Hazel M. Kelling-

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ton School and Neepawa Area Collegiate. The division was made aware of all of these cases on Nov. 11.

“No close contacts were identified by public health in any of the cases due to the fact that none of the people had been in our schools in the previous 48

hour period,” said Young.

“Therefore, no cohorts or students were placed in remote learning.”

Young could not confirm whether any of the cases were from the same household or whether they were students or staff at the schools.

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By Cpl. Jacob Stanton Spruce Plains RCMP

During the week of Nov. 8 to Nov. 14, Spruce Plains RCMP dealt with 46 police activities.

Nov. 8: RCMP responded to a report of domestic assault in Minnedosa. One person was arrested, charged and released with a future court date appearance. Police received a report of fraud in Neepawa where a person disclosed personal identifying information to a scammer on the phone. A large sum of gift cards was also purchased and provided to the caller who was pretending to be from Border Services. There was insufficient evidence to proceed further.

Nov. 9: RCMP received a report of threats being uttered in Neepawa; the matter is still under investigation. Police responded to a report of a firearm being used carelessly in Rapid City. Police attended, found the suspect vehicle and completed a foot patrol but did not locate anything concerning.

Nov.10: RCMP received an anonymous tip that a stolen camper was parked at a residence in Basswood. Police attended, confirmed it was stolen, seized the camper and arrested and charged the individual residing inside. Police conducted a Covid compliance check at a residence in the Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne.

All person(s) were found complying with quarantine regulations.

Nov. 11: RCMP responded to two separate abandoned 911 calls from a commercial building in Neepawa. Faulty phone lines were to blame and both calls were determined to be false. Police were dispatched to a single vehicle rollover near Gladstone.

There were no injuries, however the highway was shut down shortly after due to inclement weather.

Nov. 12: RCMP received a report of a stolen side-by-side in the Municipality of Westlake-Gladstone. The keys were left in the vehicle and there were no wit-

nesses, cameras or suspects. The matter had insufficient evidence to proceed further.

Police responded to a commercial alarm in Neepawa that was determined to be false.

Nov. 13: RCMP responded to a report of an assault at a business in Neepawa. Police attended and discovered the complainant had already left. The individual was found shortly after and it was determined that the assault allegation was unfounded. Police responded to a hit and run that occurred in Neepawa. The suspect driver was located at their residence where they admitted fault and was issued a ticket.

Nov. 14: RCMP responded to a semi-trailer fire near Neepawa.

The fire was extinguished and no injuries were sustained. Police received a report of mischief to a vehicle in Minnedosa.

The vehicle had been broken in to and had interior and exterior damage. There were no witnesses or cameras in the area so the matter did not proceed.

RC M P c o n ducted six traffic enforcement actions during this reporting period.

Public service announcement If you have any information about these crimes or any other crimes, please contact your local RCMP Office or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Neepawa and Minnedosa RCMP detachments advise they will be limiting front counter services at the detachments until further notice.

We request that you contact each detachment at 204-476-7340 (Neepawa) or 204-867-2916 (Minnedosa) to inquire about criminal record checks or to file a report.

Leave a message if needed and it will be checked the following business day.

Do not leave a message if you require immediate police assistance. You must dial 204-476-7338 (Neepawa), 204-867-2751 (Minnedosa) or 911 to have a police officer respond to you promptly.

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The Minnedosa Community Conference Centre saw a buzz of activity on Nov. 6 at the Christmas Market. Over 30 vendors were set up selling everything from decor, to jewelry, to bath products and more. A portion of the proceeds from the market were donated to the Minnedosa & Area Food Bank.

COVID-19 outbreak growing at Third Crossing Manor

By Kira Paterson

Neepawa Banner & Press

A COVID-19 outbreak a n nou nc e d l a st week at the Third Crossing M a nor c a re home i n Gladstone has seen a spike in numbers over the weekend.

The numbers reported on the Manitoba Government website from Friday, Nov. 12 stated that the facility had 40 cases in total, with 26 being staff and 14 non-staff. As of Tuesday, Nov. 16, those numbers became a total of 66 cases, with 30 staff and 36 non-staff. Of those cases, 48 were still active, 18 had recovered and no deaths had been reported.

T he Winn ipeg Free Press reported on Monday that the Southern HealthS a nt e S u d R e g i o n a l Hea lt h Aut hor it y has

shared that they have contingencies in place to ensure the facility is adequately staffed, however, the RHA did not specify where staff would be moved from.

The outbreak in the care home coincides with high active case counts in the Seven Regions health district, in which Third Crossing is located. As of Tuesday, Nov. 16, the

province had reported 112 active cases in the district, which covers an area from Katrime in the south, to north of Amaranth and from just west of Plumas to Westbourne in the east.

The Banner & Press reached out to Southern Hea lt h- Sa nte Sud on mult iple occasions for comment, but did not hear back from them before publication deadline.

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1961: Neepawa water tower almost ready

By Casper Wehrhahn Neepawa Banner & Press

110 years ago, Friday, November 17, 1911 Arden: Glaude Pettitt has left to spend the winter at his home in England.

100 years ago, Friday, November 18, 1921 R id i ng Mount a i n: What’s wrong with our new hotel keeper? Livery men and pool room. All seem to have done the disappearing trick.

The Neepawa Press is the only newspaper in the federal constituency of Neepawa that is not publishing the Meighen g over n ment p ol it ic a l propaganda. There’s a reason.

Neepawa is getting more cosmopolitan every day.

A blind man who did his best in an orchestral way with mouth organ and fiddle, an attendant boy taking care of the voluntarily bestowed coin, attracted attention for a few days and then moved on. Fortunately we are not often visited by itinerants of this class. The strain on finances would stagger this generous community.

90 years ago, Tuesday, November 17, 1931 Dr. W. A . Howden has been appointed to the position of physician to unemployment relief camps in Riding Mountain National Park.

80 years ago, Friday, November 14, 1941 Cg t. Pilot Br ian G. Hodgkinson, one of the most popular and well known of former CKY staff announcers, is a prisoner of war in Germany.

T housa nd s of Na z i troops destined for North America were believed to have been aboard 10 Axis supply ships, all heavily laden, which were sunk Sunday by British troops.

Ten cases of mumps have been listed in the cit y of Brandon, w ith the majority of cases in military establishments.

There are also six cases of German measles, one of chicken pox and two of scarlet fever.

When school opened in September, the classes

of the Neepawa Public School renewed t heir efforts towards helping the War Savings Campaign, the Junior Red Cross and the Salvage Campaign.

Each class is conducting its own campaign to increase the sale of stamps.

Cordova: E. Moth, of the Veterans’ Guard of Winnipeg, spent a day with his family here last week, before leaving for Montreal.

Cordova: P te. John Stewart, of Winnipeg, spent a couple of days last week at his home here.

Birnie: Miss Bastard, of Decker, arrived on Wednesday to take charge of the Oak Leaf School.

Harold A lexander Moad, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Moad, of Clanwilliam, has been enlisted in the R.C.A.F. as a Standard Tradesman. He reports to No. 1 Manning Depot, Toronto, for his initial training.

L au r enc e E l l wo o d , Stevenson, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Stevenson, of Franklin, has been enlisted in the R.C.A .D. as a Standard Tradesman. He reports to No. 1 Manning Depot, Toronto, for his initial training.

Colin A lexander R icha rd s, son of t he late Mr. W. R ichards and Mrs. J. Richards, of Clanwilliam, has been enlisted in the R.C.A.F. as a Standard Tradesman.

He reports to No. 1 Mining Depot, Toronto, for his initial training.

Rumour has it t hat only two men out of the 50 volunteers, called by the Salvage Corp to load scrap met a l Tuesday, appeared on the scene.

However, it is probable that many were quite busy and that others were out of town or entertaining, as it was a holiday. Several of the members of the Frontiersmen obliged by going over to the Salvage depot and parcelling up papers, magazines, etc.

This work was greatly appreciated.

celebrated t hei r 4 0t h anniversary on Nov. 1.

70 years ago, Thursday, November 15, 1951 The newspaper has been called the common man’s university. Newspapers selling for a penny apiece were originated in England in the 1830s.

Eden: Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Scott, who celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary Nov. 12.

The Manitoba Te l e p h o n e S y s t e m announces the publication of a ne w pr ov i nc i a l director y, available in telephone offices on Nov. 15. The directory will be in effect for 12 months.

It has 200 alphabetical pages, an increase of 24 over the previous issue, and approximately 5,500 additional alphabetical listings.

30 years ago, Tuesday, November 19, 1991 Amaranth: Travelling from Toronto to Winnipeg with a load of freight during the recent blizzard and freezing rain, Bob Thompson barely escaped a serious accident when his semi jackknifed in a sheer ice highway near Schreiber, east of Thunder Bay. Bob’s been freighting for over 15 years through Canada and into the United States. He says he never experienced such a treacherous icy highway like that week of the blizzard.

60 years ago, Friday, November 17, 1961 A small black ledger in which a number of snapshots taken in the era about 1920-35 was brought into the Press office by Harry Parasiuk. It was found in the basement of the Roger Block on Mountain Avenue north.

The owner can identify t his photo ow ner can identify this photo album and pick it up at this office.

50 years ago, Thursday, November 18, 1971 Amaranth: The New Hol land dea lers, Thompson and Tychinski, sold t heir quot a of machinery for 1971, to win an all expense paid trip for a ten day holiday in Jamaica. Well done, boys!

40 years ago, Thursday, November 26, 1981 M r. a nd M rs. A lex Onisimchuk of Abbotsford, B.C., formerly of Kelwood,

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20 years ago, Monday, November 19, 2001 N e e p a w a’s d e p u t y mayor says short-term measures aren’t the answer to the town’s water woes.

Instead, Ron Forsman said it’s t ime to start replacing corroded water lines.

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Neepawa’s water tower, as it appeared at this time in 1961. Not quite ready for use, yet!

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What is the Giving Challenge?

By Kira Paterson Neepawa Banner & Press

The Giving Challenge is an annual weeklong campaign through Endow Manitoba, which helps stretch donations made to a community foundation by 40 per cent.

This year, the Giving Challenge is taking place from Nov. 15 to 21. The Winnipeg Foundation and Government of Manitoba each donate $1 for every $5 donated to any community foundation’s unrestricted fund (or community fund) during this time. So every unrestricted $5 donation becomes a $7 donation during the Giving Challenge.

“The Endow Manitoba Giving Challenge was established as a collective, provincewide fundraising effort by Manitoba’s community foundations,” explained Kevin Parsons, capacity building consultant at Endow Manitoba. “Nov. 15 is National Philanthropy Day, so around that day each year, the Giving Challenge was an opportunity for the entire community foundation network in the province to promote themselves and raise funds for their ongoing work.”

Each year, the Winnipeg Foundation and the government stretch donations by thousands of dollars. “In 2020, both The Winnipeg Foundation and the Province of Manitoba each ‘stretched’ the donations made during the Giving Challenge by a total of $88,563.33 (combined $177,126.66),” stated Parsons. Across the province, community foundations received over $1.2 million during the 2020 Giving Challenge, the largest number raised to date.

The campaign has been going annually since 2014, but it has changed a bit since

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it started. Originally, it was known as the 24 Hour Giving Challenge and only donations made one specific day were stretched.

“Last year, we made the change to a week in reaction to the situation that was posed by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as previous feedback from community foundations,” noted Parsons.

“Even before the pandemic, community foundations would pick and choose where to put their efforts on the one day. Then in 2020, when there was provincial guidance to greatly reduce any and all gatherings, all community foundations paid extra attention to following guidelines with any donations being dropped off in person. Based on the volume of donations that some foundations receive, giving them an opportunity to spread the timing of drop-offs out made logical sense. And based on the success and feedback from last year, we made the decision to have it a week-long event going forward,” Parsons explained.

Donations given to a foundation’s unrestricted fund all get invested and interest earned from the investment is used to give out as grants within the foundation’s community each year. So the initial donation made never gets used up and continues to generate funds for the community foundation in perpetuity. The best way to get the most impact from your donation is to give during the Giving Challenge timeframe.

All community foundations in the province can benefit from the Giving Challenge, including the foundations listed below on this page. For more information about the Giving Challenge, or to find a community foundation near you, visit endowmb.org.

Minnedosa & District Foundation recently donated $22,500 to the Squirrel Hills Trail Project.

Minnedosa & District Foundation

Covers the communities of: Minnedosa, Newdale, Rapid City, Clanwilliam, Strathclair and surrounding areas.

Years serving the community: 47

Approximate total distributed since inception: $914,824 OCF treasurer Charlie Sansom presented a cheque to Heather Howdle of the Southquill Health Area Foodbank.

Onanole Foundation Inc. Covers the communities of: Onanole, Erickson, Wasagaming

Years serving the community: 37

Distributed approximately $30,000 in past 15 years

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Mark your calendar! The annual Giving Challenge is set for November 15 – 21, 2021

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Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is giving $1.5 million through its FCC AgriSpirit Fund to 88 community groups across Canada to support rural capital projects.

“The FCC AgriSpirit Fund supports projects that make positive changes in rural communities,” said Sophie Perreault, FCC executive vice-president and chief operating officer.

“Giving is not just about making a donation. It’s about making a difference.

We hope all the community groups that received funding will thrive and continue their good work in their communities for many more years to come.”

This year, the FCC AgriSpirit Fund awarded between $5,000 and $25,000 for various community improvement initiatives that enrich the lives of residents in cities, towns or Indigenous communities with fewer than 150,000 people. The fund is one of the ways FCC gives back to the communities where its customers and employees live and work.

Over the past 18 years, the FCC AgriSpirit Fund has supported 1,444 projects, an investment of $18 million.

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A holiday tradition for Bus 24 A “Bus #24 Halloween Art contest” was held by Brad Mummery, bus driver and art enthusiast. Mummery organized the contest and the HMK staff judged the contest. He has held this art contest almost annually– only missing one year.

First prize was $100, second prize was $50 and third was $20. There was also an honourable mention prize of $10.

The winners were Shawn Dennis, Hailey Dennis and Liam Dennis, respectively, with Myla Sumner’s piece as an honourable mention.

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Plan for modular home development in Neepawa takes a step forward

By Eoin Devereux Neepawa Banner & Press

The development of more new housing in Neepawa has cleared an initial hurdle. On Tuesday, Nov. 16, Town Council passed first and second reading to amend a zoning by-law for 40 acres of land near the water

tower, just west of Highway #5 North. If the amendment passes third reading, that will allow for the creation of 140 individual lots, where modular built homes would be installed.

Crescent Creek Estates are the developers that are spearheading the endeavour. Project manager Warren Mills spoke on the com-

pany’s behalf on Tuesday, Nov. 16, during a public hearing on the proposal. He indicated that if it receives full approval, it would be a four phase project with a start time of late spring or early summer 2022. There is no current schedule for third reading of the by-law to take place.

The sale of modular homes is

on the rise in many communities across Manitoba, as the style of housing is an affordable option for budget-conscious homebuyers, such as f irst-timers and retirees.

A modular home is a house that’s partially constructed in a factory and shipped to the homeowner’s lot, where it’s pieced

together, put on a foundation and then completed. Like traditional homes, modular homes are placed on a permanent foundation.

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Farmers blank Bombers Neepawa prevail in penalty filled Tiger Hills Hockey League showdown

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WMCI Varsity Volleyball wins Zone 7 Championship

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Top picture: Ryan Heino of the Minnedosa Bombers looks to advance the puck into the Neepawa Farmers’ end of the ice, as Brett Levandoski defend the zone.

Above left: Nick Cameron and Josh Blondeau dropped the gloves in the second period. Above right: Daylon Creasy fires a shot on the Minnedosa net.

scoring in the first, with a bullet off his stick at the far end of the face-off circle in the Minnedosa zone.

Braden Gillies put away his first goal of the season early in the second, to give Neepawa a two-goal cushion. Ward Szucki added one more near the midway mark of the second,

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Gladstone’s William Morton Collegiate Institute (WMCI) Warriors varsity boys volleyball team are Zone 7 Champions!

The team’s hard work and dedication over the course of the season has really shown in its play lately, as they were able to go undefeated in round robin play. After facing a tough challenge in the zone semi-final against NACI, the Warriors capped off the championship with a straight set victory against Elton.

With four teams from the zone being ranked in the Manitoba High School Athletic Association’s (MHSAA) Top-10, it was some very exciting and

competitive volleyball. The team has been led by a terrific group of Grade 12 students this year, including Riley McBride, Matthew Pearce and Jhetro Young, who have all been playing on the varsity team since their Grade 9 year. Their skill, experience and mental toughness has been a huge asset for the group.

Over the course of the season the contributions of the first year, Grade 11 players, have also been critical for the team’s success. The progress and growth exemplified by all players in the past couple months has been truly impressive.

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The Neepawa Farmers’ penalty kill got quite the workout on Friday, Nov. 12 against the Minnedosa Bombers in the Tiger Hills Hockey League. Fortunately, Neepawa’s PK proved to be strong enough to withstand their numerous trips to the sin-bin on the way to a 3-0 victory.

Over the course of regulation play, the Farmers accumulated 49 minutes on a dozen penalties. But despite, f inding themselves short-handed for a fair amount of time in the second and third period, the Farmers were able to smother Minnedosa’s power-play efforts, surrendering only a couple of notable opportunities.

The Bombers also spent some time in the box, with a combined 43 minutes in penalties, as well.

The night featured one fight in the second period, as Josh Blondeau and Nick Cameron dropped the glove. Tension rose a bit more in the third after Neepawa’s Lance Nugent was sent off for two and a 10 minute major for a hit to the head. Fortunately, neither team decided to escalate, though some Bombers players did let the officials know, verbally at the end of regulation before leaving the ice, that they were not happy with how the game had been called.

As for the more positive side of the stat-sheet, Corbin Mariash opened up the

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Neepawa 6-5 OT Wayway

First Period 03:08 WAY L. Wotton (8) ASST: Unassited 05:55 WAY B. Bird (6) ASST: Unassited 07:09 NPA W. Highet (7) ASST: C. Brust (9), P. Korman (2) PP 11:29 WAY A. Boucher (7) ASST: L. Bulger (14), R. Rabbit (11) PP 12:08 WAY C. Petrie (7) ASST: Unassisted - Penalty Shot 18:55 NPA D. Wilton (3) ASST: Unassisted - Penalty Shot Second Period 07:17 NPA C. Brust (5) ASST: B. Michalchuk (3) 11:13 WAY L. Wotton (9) ASST: Unassited Third Period 01:54 NPA B. Michalchuk (3) ASST: R. Gudnason (7), M. Thiessen (8) 17:03 NPA C. Trimble (4) ASST: J. Lapointe (5) PP Overtime 03:22 NPA M. Thiessen (4) ASST: Unassisted Scoring 1 2 3 OT Total PP NPA 2 1 2 1 6 2/7 WAY 4 1 0 0 5 1/4 Goaltenders NPA G. Renwick - 12/16 saves NPA E. Demers - 31/32 saves WAY S. Bacovsky - 28/29 saves Attendance: 254 - Wayway Complex

Saturday, Nov. 13

Wayway 2-0 Neepawa

First Period 08:34 WAY J. Peppler (5) ASST: T. Hamilton (3), L. Bulger (15) Second Period No scoring Third Period 01:38 WAY C. Baptiste (3) ASST: J. Charko (4), R. Malkewich (3) Scoring 1 2 3 Total PP WAY 1 0 1 2 0/3 NPA 0 0 0 0 0/5 Goaltenders WAY - T. Wotton - 23/23 saves NPA - E. Demers - 24/26 saves Attendance: 226 - Yellowhead Centre

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NACI Tigers defeated by Major Pratt Trojans

By Eoin Devereux

Neepawa Banner & Press

A strong start to the game could not be maintained by the NACI Tigers, as they fell 8-3 to the Major Pratt Trojans on Sunday, Nov. 14. The Tigers scored a pair of goals just five and a half minutes into the game, with Tarek Lapointe and Jory Kulbacki scoring. Major Pratt replied with one of its own before the end of the first.

In the second period, Riley Davie scored for NACI to make it 3-1. At that point, Major Pratt shortened up the bench, which proved positive for them as they scored seven unanswered.

This loss dropped NACI to 3-2-0 on the season, while Major Pratt improved to 4-1-0

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NACI hosted Major Pratt at the Yellowhead Centre in Neepawa on Sunday, Nov. 14.

Titans split weekend games against Wolverines

By Eoin Devereux

Neepawa Banner & Press

It’s become a very familar pattern for the Neepawa Titans this season of one step forward and then one step back. This past weekend against the Waywayseecappo Wolverines, Neepawa repeated that pattern by spliting a pair of games against their Western Division rivals.

The Titans would first travel to Waywayseecappo on Friday, Nov. 12 to challenge the Wolverines. A strong effort in the third period would ultimately help propel Neepawa to a 6-5 victory in overtime.

Mitch Thiessen would close out the night picking up the

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Hockey team Neepawa Titans regular season home games November 19 at 7:30 vs Waywayseecappo November 28 at 6:30 vs Steinbach

game winner in OT, giving the Titans their sixth win of the season. Will Highet, Dallon Wilton, Connor Brust, Brayden Michalchuk and Cameron Trimble also scored for Neepawa on the night. Wilton’s markers would actually come off of a penalty shot in the second period. Interestingly enough, this would be the second penalty goal in that period, as Wayway’s Caleb Petrie was given the opportunity just a few minutes earlier.

Titans goaltender Emerik Demers was credited with the win, stopping 31 of the 32 shots he faced. Demers entered the game at the start of the second period, in relief of starting goalie Gavin Renwick.

Waywayseecappo Wolverines would bounce back on Saturday, Nov. 13 at the

Yellowhead Centre in Neepawa, with a 2-0 victory.

Wolverines goaltender Tresor Wotton was able to pick up his first MJHL shutout stopping all 23 shots that he faced. Emerik Demers, meanwhile, still put in continued his strong performance on the net, stopping 24 of 26 shots that he faced.

The Wolverines scored in the first period, with Josh Peppler putting away his fifth goal of the season.

The second period would see no scoring, but there was a penalty shot chance for Waywayseecappo. Wolverines forward Adam Paplawski ended up missing his shot wide of the net. It was the third penalty shot in two games between the two teams.

In the third, the Wolverines would add one more goal off of a turnover in the

Titans’ zone. Carson Baptiste would take advantage, getting his third goal of the season.

These weekend results gave Way wayseecappo three of a possible four points in the standings, while Neepawa collected just two points. The two teams will play again next weekend, with the f irst game of the back to back in Neepawa on Friday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m.

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• Blue Jays fans will be pleased that Vladimir Guerrero Jr., first baseman and designated hitter, received the Hank Aaron Award as the 2021 top baseball offensive player with 48 homers.

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• Nice tribute to Muriel McPhail for her many years of leadership at a flower garden in the Carberry Cemetery by the Communities in Bloom.

The United Church has gratefully accepted the donation of mitts (knit by Marg Kuharski) for the Mitten Tree on behalf of the Carberry IODE in memory of Muriel McPhail.

• 2021 Carberry Collegiate Grades 9 to 12 Honour Roll, Semester 1, Term 1 (85 per cent): Grade 9– Rylee Balciunas, Kally Baron, Natasha Bauche, Brayden Bobier, Eva Bock, Ethan Downey, Brooklyn Egilson, Aileen Fast, Jordynn Gibb, Avery Kendall, Tyler Knol, Madden Lavergne, Ryan McCallum, Hannah Polasek, Alex Prodan, Reinhard Rempel, Sandra Rempel, Ella Verniest.

Grade 10– Sarah Baron, Samuel Brauer, Kristin Desrochers, Nathan Dyck, Ava Hamilton, Vera Liubkina, Paige Lozinsky, Kayla Margetts, Jaxon Mueller, Renee Ramsden-Wagener, Aidan Renwick, Nathan Robson, Emma Saley, Rowan Scott, Lexi Unrau.

Grade 11– Mia Amundsen, Emily Beales, Rebecca Bird, Naomi Bock, Keegan Drysdale, Elysia Julseth, Mia Lozinsky, Carson Nakonechny, Esther Sippel, Dahlia Snaith, Tynille Steen.

Grade 12– Celia Boganes, Natalie Clark, Stephenie Cooper-Brown, Amy Desrochers, Laura Fast, Cadence Lavergne, Denisse Macapagal, Andee Nikolaisen, Michaela Olmstead, Matthew Salyn, Ben Saunderson, Annette Sippel, Nevaeh Witherspoon.

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by Minnedosa Nov. 7.

The visitors scored single goals in each of the first two periods and directed 54 shots at netminder Connor Slipp. Plainsmen scoring was handled by Zaine McConnell, assisted

by Jackson Stephens and Josh McMillan, and Colin Van Kommer, unassisted.

Minnedosa got goals from Matt Saler, Brad Lewis and

Kelly Stinson. Two assists were added by Shane Jury.

Scoro winners were Lorne Johnstone, Russell and Reggie Adriaansen.

Jon Davison’s shootout goal in the seventh round led Carberry Plainsmen to a 5-4 win over the visiting MacGregor Wild Friday, Nov. 12. MacGregor was ahead 3-2 and 4-2 at the intermissions and the game was knotted 4-4 after regulation time. Five minutes of exciting overtime followed with 3 on 3. Seven rounds of shootout produced few goals, as the Wild scored once and the Plainsmen scored twice.

Jackson Stephens sank a pair for Carberry, with assists from Zaine McConnell and Tavish Quinn. Quinn also added a goal. Tyson Cloet tied the game with help from Brady Laycock and Jon Davison. Mattias Van De Woestyne was unable to score on a penalty shot. Goalie Des Ramsey played the first part of the game and Connor Slipp was super in the remainder of the match.

Next Plainsmen home game is Friday, Nov. 26 at 8:00 pm against the Cartwright Clippers.

• Vicki Wallace, of the Cartwright Southern Manitoba Review, has decided that she and her newspaper will be retiring at the end of December.

• The Cougardome was the site of the Zone 7 girls’ volleyball play-offs Nov. 4.

Elton Sabres, sparked by power hitter Laura Ramsey of Chater, edged Carberry in the semi-final thriller (14-25, 25-17, 15-13) and beat Neepawa in the finals to capture the Zone banner. The Cougars defeated MacGregor to finish third.

The girls showed dramatic improvement over the course of this season.

Gladstone won the boys’ banner at the MacGregor tournament.

• Boundary Trails Health Centre, located between Winkler and Morden, will receive a new addition, including new inpatient beds and expanded services at a cost of $64.4 million.

• Westoba Credit Union has announced that it will close three branches located at La Riviere, Glenboro and a branch on Portage

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A hero from my youth who inspired hundreds of others Submitted

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As Canadians joined the Canadian Armed Forces, of Army, Navy and Air Force in 1939 to 1944, “What or who inspired them to make this commitment that cost the life of every young man from Edrans, that were involved in front line conflict?”

Yes, of the 39 young men and older men that signed up from Edrans are remembered on the Cenotaph at the Edrans Cemetery and on the Plaque of Remembrance on the Wall of the Edrans Community Hall.

(Six payed for freedom with their lives, my dad lost friends, but also a cousin Bud Seaman and a younger brother Walter Perry Smith, the only casualty in a Lancaster Bomber, as a Tail Gunner, he saved the life of the rest of his crew!)

Clarence Earl Cole, WWI veteran, who later trained as a teacher of the youth, was hired as princi-

pal and high school teacher in 1937, when the south room was added.

There, after changing Edrans from a one room to a two room education centre that provided a complete Grade 1 to high school education, readying the young people of Edrans for the fast paced world of the 1940s and 1950s!

Clarence boarded at Deer Range Farm for some of those years, helping my father with the duties of operating a farm, as Fred’s parents had retired to the west coast, New Westminister, (A suburb of Vancouver, BC ) in 1948, Fred, 28 years old and still not married, required assistance to look after the estate established by his grandfather William Patterson, Jr. in 1895 near the midpoint between the towns of Edrans and Firdale.

Clarence later moved to Austin as a principal of the high school and organist of the Austin United Church.

The Edrans War Memorial.

It was while he was playing his beloved organ at choir Practice that he suffered a heart attack. Rushing to his assistance, all the choir could do was carry

Remembrance in Carberry The War Memorial in Carberry on Thursday, Nov. 11. Upon it are the names of 54 individuals who ser ved in World War I. It was erec ted by the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire– Carberry.

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Clarence to the door of the United Church as the life and spirit of this

wonderfull bachelor, who had devoted his life to the betterment of his community and serviced the needs of many towns– from bringing gladiola flowers to those who needed a gift of love from his garden at Deer Range Farm, to those young women and young men who needed a shining example of a man who lived his life in the service of his community– died that evening doing what he had done his entire life, serving the needs of others!

Yes, the life of his man can be summed up by the phrase– he made this world a better place for everyone who heard him play the organ at those many, many funerals. To much happier times at high school graduations. Clarence even inspired the youth to join the armed services in devotion to their country of Canada, a member of the British

Commonwealth, a place of hopes and dreams of a better and more prosperous future that the emigrants and children or grandchildren of emigrants had been inspired to leave their old country for this new wild world that offered freedom and hope for all!

God blessed all those who had an opportunity to meet him. Few people change the direction of an entire town, but Clarence was one of those special people.

A gift from God to the little town of Edrans... He will be remembered always.

As long as I am alive, I promise to teach my grandchildren the values that this special human being shared in his 70 plus years of life !

Submisson courtesy of Robert Frederick Smith Edrans, Manitoba. A portion of the text had to be ammended to fit the availabe space.

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TURTLE RIVER SCHOOL DIVISION invites applications for the following position: Transportation Supervisor The Transportation Supervisor shall be responsible for the organization of the Division’s transportation system.

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Forward applications complete with 3 references to: Mrs. Shannon Desjardins, Secretary-Treasurer Turtle River School Division Box 309 McCreary, Manitoba R0J 1B0 Phone: 835-2067 or Fax: 835-2426 Email: shannon@trsd.ca Although all applications are appreciated, a selection process will apply. Candidates that have been selected will be contacted.

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Neepawa Cadets paid their respects during the Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph in Neepawa on Nov. 11.

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Moments in Riding Mountain: The duck hunter

By Ken Kingdon Submitted

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The stats are in, and the future for hunting doesn’t look too rosy. The number of new hunters is declining across Canada yearly and the current hunters are getting older.

The pattern is the same in the USA. Although rural Canadians are more likely to hunt than urban ones, the hunting fraternity, even in Manitoba, is generally older males.

I’m not writing to speculate why this decline is occurring, but rather to think back to a magical time in the 1970s when my brother Tim and I were gifted with an experience of being allowed to hunt with Americans.

The year was 1976 or ‘77. A van load of American duck hunters showed up at the farm one day, looking for permission to hunt on our sloughs, but also to ask for directions for a campground.

Since it was September, all the local campgrounds were closed, so my parents invited them to camp in our bale yard, north of the house. I suspect it was my dad who offered up the invitation, because even though it was a simpler, more trusting time, what mother would invite three armed strangers to camp in their yard?

Interestingly, even though this was a formative event in my growing up, I can’t remember their names or faces, but I do remember their kindness.

You see, my brother Tim and I were just the right age to be bold and unabashedly curious, like pester-y little brothers are. For reasons best known to them, they actually put up with us and, in an informal way, acted as mentors to us.

In exchange for allowing us to shoot with them, we pro-

vided impromptu guiding to some of the hot spots around the neighbourhood. At the time, geese were scarce, so the target of the hunts were ducks, focused on the many sloughs that peppered the area around Basswood.

The Americans were well equipped, including having semi-automatic shotguns which could fire off a mess of shells in one go. Tim and I, on the other hand, were armed with a single shot 12-gauge and an ancient 16-gauge shotgun that popped open from time to time, and whose hammer was worn smooth from countless thumbs pulling it back.

I seem to remember the Americans were a bit nervous of the 16-gauge and would always make sure that they stood well away from us whenever we shot. Or perhaps they were just nervous about our general gun handling skills.

On an early Saturday morning shoot, they allowed us to use their guns, but I was so nervous I basically fired off the contents of the gun’s magazine into the morning mist as a brace of ducks flew by. One of the hunters leaned over and recommended that I keep my eyes open next time…

What they thought of us is also a mystery. Somehow, I suspect that we kind of looked like a family of hillbillies.

There would have been five boys and sister Barb at home, so there would have been lots of bodies coming and going, and lots of hollering, and supper time would have seemed like a scene out of the Waltons.

At least we had running water in the house by then and could offer them showers. This is saying something, since they all slept in their van along with a mess of ducks they had harvested, and so I suspect that things got a little smelly in there.

Thinking back, I would have liked to have known more of their backstory. I seem to recall that they were from

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Minnesota or Wisconsin, and that they came from the same hometown. However, they may have formed their friendship during the Vietnam war, as they talked about serving in the army.

Which immediately brings to my mind the movie The Deer Hunter … guys born and raised in a steel town, Vietnam vets coping with their experiences during an unpopular war. Americana at its best and worst. The movie came out in 1978, so these guys may have been living the story. One of the hunters, I vividly remember, had spent time in the stockade while serving in Vietnam, purportedly for throwing a hand grenade into a pond of ducks. Evidently, the authorities took a dim view of this new method of duck hunting.

How long the Americans stayed, I can’t even say, perhaps just the weekend. They seemed to enjoy themselves and hinted that they might come back the next year. They didn’t, of course, and the memories of the events of that autumn faded. So much so, in fact, that younger brother Tim barely remembers this entire experience. Regardless, I suspect that it did have an impact, as Tim ended up doing a lot more hunting than me after our encounter.

And this is where the story ends. To come full circle, I suspect that I am part of the problem in the lack of hunter recruitment department, as I haven’t been much of a hunting mentor. However, groups like the Delta Waterfowl Foundation have taken up the torch and host all sorts of mentored hunts. Somehow, though, I suspect that they lack some of the spontaneity and hijinks of a hunt with a trio of American Vietnam Vets…

Ken Kingdon lives in Onanole. He likes to partake in a wild goose chase from time to time…

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Who would have thought!

An update from the Neepawa Area Health Auxiliary Submitted NAHA T he Neepawa A rea Health Auxiliary (NAHA) has been in existence since 1903, three years before the inception of the Manitoba Association of Health Auxiliaries (MAHA) and is still going strong (as we are able during a pandemic) where the MAHA is not as it held its last convention in 2016. I am sure there has never before been the occasion where the ladies of the NAHA were not able to canvass the community for donations to help with the purchase of much needed equipment for our health facilities and programs for two years in a row.

It is not that we could not send letters to all the businesses or even go into them now with the current health restrictions, but we know that small businesses have been struggling, just like volunteer, non-profit organizations have, so in good conscience could not

do this.

We are nearing the time where managers of the facilities, department managers and program managers will be making up their wish lists of needed equipment to submit to the Prairie Mountain Health (PMH) executive for the budgeting process.

The NAHA has not been able to meet as a general assembly since January 2020, at which time we approved to purchase $10,000 worth of equipment for the Neepawa Health Centre alone, and the PCH gave a list of over $100,000 of equipment that would need replacing over the next few years and would be more than grateful if the NAHA could cover the cost of any of it. Because there was no fundraising done in 2020 or 2021, they did not purchase any of that equipment.

PMH has 20 acute care sites, 43 Personal Care Homes, nine Transitional Sites, one Orthopedic Rehab Centre and six Pri-

mary Care Centres that will be submitting wish lists to them as well as the programs (Public Health, Home care and Mental Health). You can just imagine what the total amount of requests would be for that many sites; therefore, facilities do depend on organizations within their communities to help out with the purchase of some of the equipment because they know chances of getting everything they wanted from the region are pretty slim.

Examples of costs are: Thermoscan Thermometer $575, a stethoscope $103, meat slicer $1,850, Hoyer lift $5,531, electronic blood pressure machine $3,820, etc. We will gladly accept any donations that big businesses, small businesses, individuals would like to make and they can be sent to the Neepawa Area Health Auxiliary, Box 1461, Neepawa, MB, R0J 1H0.

The NAHA does not only go out looking for funds from others, they

Tim’s delivers smiles

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On Saturday, Nov. 13, Westman Tim Hortons owner Greg Crisanti (right) presented a cheque for $9,086 to Hazel M. Kellington School principal Allen Hanke at the Neepawa Titans home game in the Yellowhead arena. The money was raised at the Neepawa Tim Hortons location through this year’s Smile Cookie campaign.

have in the past done many fundraising projects as well.

For example, they held an annual raffle, which would be drawn at their annual Fall Tea, which would be the wrap up to the business canvass; they keep the cupboard at the NHC where you can buy some hygiene supplies if you came to the hospital without them that are all donated by gracious people, there is also hand made articles in there for newborns, etc. for purchase.

We had ladies assist at flu clinics, blood donor clinics when those were coming to communities and we did work at one of the roast beef suppers at the Legion.

We are an optimistic bunch and are looking forward to the possibility of being able to hold our annual general meeting on Jan. 11, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. at the Legion. All attendees will need to be fully vaccinated and will have to follow all current public health orders. New members are always welcome.

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Neepawa Community Ministries Centre director Amanda Naughton-Gale shows off one of the handmade toy planes for sale at the NCMC Thrift Store. The wooden toys, decor and more on display at the thrift store are made by local woodworker Fred Quist. All of the proceeds from Quist’s sales go to Compassion Canada Child Survival Program. The items will be available there until Dec. 18.

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