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My perspective - Bigger is better, or is it?

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

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Bigger is better, bigger is better.  For centuries, that’s been the mantra and for the last 100 years, the chants have gotten louder. Almost anywhere you look, we are consistently told that things must get bigger. North America was built, after all, on the premise that we need to fill up all that empty space.  

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Ë®¹ûÊÓƵbodies - Thrumming in my consciousness

By Rita Friesen

The Neepawa Banner

There is a word swirling around in the depths of my consciousness, thrum, thrumming. I think it took root when I reflected on the words from the song ‘How then shall I live’, ‘heard a sound outside of my listening, felt the living hum of the ground.’ There have been moments when I have been very aware of the hum of the surface beneath my feet. Somehow the word ‘thrum’ more accurately captures the sensation of those times. 

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Faithfully yours - Stories of love – part three

By Neil Strohschein

The Neepawa Banner

It was to be their last meal together before he died. Jesus knew that. But his disciples didn’t. In their minds, they were doing again what they had done in each of the past three years. They were celebrating Passover, the annual feast that recalled ancient Israel’s deliverance from Egypt.

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Where have all the red squirrels gone?

Submitted by Ken Kingdon

Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve

Plunkety, plink, plink.  My daughter Abbey got a ukulele from ol’ Santy himself this Christmas and I’ve been plucking away at it in my spare time.

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My perspective - Where are we going?

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

With the rapid pace of technological innovation, sometimes, it’s easy to lose track of what we are doing.  As businesses, communities and organizations seek to remain successful, however they define that word, it’s important to step back and ask, ‘What is it we do?’

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