View from the legislature - July 30
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- Published on Thursday, July 30, 2015
By Leanne Rowat
Riding Mountain MLA
Another session of the 水果视频 Legislative Assembly wrapped up on June 30, but not to the benefit of 水果视频ns. The session that started with the budget address on April 30 was the shortest spring session since the last election. The government chose to sit only 35 days compared to the longest session sitting 90 days in 2013.
Right in the centre - Naysayers can paint or get off the ladder
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- Published on Thursday, July 30, 2015
By Ken Waddell
The Neepawa Banner
As I sat in my office on Saturday July 25, 2015, it was a much different July Saturday than the past 8-10 years. For most of those years, I was chairman of the Neepawa Area Lily Festival and I was involved for all 18 festivals.
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Influencing positive change
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- Published on Wednesday, July 29, 2015
By Vern May
Minnedosa & Area Community Development Corporation
Don鈥檛 touch that! Mind your manners. Look both ways before you cross the street. Think about how many times you鈥檝e had to repeat these instructions in order to influence habit-forming positive behaviour. Dozens, probably hundreds of times, in different situations and contexts, I suspect. With any luck, after a few years you start to see the results you were hoping for.
水果视频bodies - Today I chose to wonder
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- Published on Sunday, July 26, 2015
By Rita Friesen
The Neepawa Banner
There are things in my daily life that could, and sometimes do, irritate me. Today, as I tackled the day, one chore at a time, I chose to wonder. The yard is looking presentable, the grass short enough for me to spot the mole hills.
My perspective - Don't get a job
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- Published on Thursday, July 23, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
Imagine if instead of telling kids to 鈥淕et a job!鈥�, we said, 鈥淪tart a business!鈥�? Imagine how different our Main Streets would look? For a country that was built by small business owners, some of whom became large, we have become increasingly adverse to entrepreneurship.
