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RADIO RUCKUS

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NUSA’s house league kicks off its spring season

SOCCER SEASON

Kaiten Critchlow/Neepawa PressTigers pitcher Garett Rempel throws some heat as the starting pitcher for NACI’s season opener against the Carberry Cougars recently in Zone 7 action. The Tigers reeled off two big wins in Prai-rie West High School Baseball League (PWHSBL) action this past week while their female coun-terparts have come out of the gates on fi re in Zone 7 action. For more on the Tigers ball games recently see Page 13.

Neepawa, Manitoba May 9, 2012

Coun. Simon says Gade out of tuneDear Editor,CJ97 Radio news about

Neepawa Town Council is B--- S---!

Sorry about the use

of slang terms, for those of you more sensitive to colourful language, but there is no other way to describe the crap being re-

ported on CJ 97 radio.I don’t know how many

of you have listened to or heard of some of the re-porting on Neepawa Coun-

cil business that Bill Gade seems to think is legitimate news. If there are some of you out there, take heed.

See LETTER on pg. 2

By Kaiten CritchlowNeepawa Press

The fi nal decision isn’t expected until May 15, but the indication from last Thursday’s public meet-ing is that Neepawa’s East View Lodge (EVL) facility may soon be no more.

At the meeting, all fi ve featured speakers – two from the Town of Neepa-wa and three under gov-ernment employment – eluded to the fact the EVL property may now be more valuable without the for-mer personal care home’s building on it.

Photos of the building in its present state show the exterior of East View Lodge’s building as it has always appeared; a bril-liant, well-looking facility which Mayor Ken Waddell rightly refers to as being “the signature building for the town...ever since its in-ception”.

But images of its interior gave a much different pic-ture, putting the situation in to a more realistic per-spective.

Images of hazardous tiles needing removal, mouldy or water-damaged ceilings, a desolate kitchen, damaged piping in the boiler room and an infestation of fl ies all pointed to the same con-clusion; the building is no longer feasibly salvageable.

The poor condition is in part because the building has been largely unattend-ed to in recent years.

Waddell, who led the meeting to a full room at the Neepawa United Church Education Centre, pointed out the building had been costing the province about $15,000-$20,000 monthly when it fi rst closed and heating and and other ser-vices were kept up.See DEMOLITION on pg. 3

EVL maysoon beno more

DOUGLAS STEWART ARMSTRONG

D ouglas Stewart Arm-strong formerly of Plumas, Manitoba

oldest son of the late Clar-ence and Elizabeth (Stew-art) Armstrong born January 24, 1924 passed away in the hospital at High Prairie, Al-berta, April 11, 2012 in the presence of his family, at the

age of 88 years and 78 days. Ann Crozier and Douglas were married June 25, 1955. Douglas adopted Ann’s little daughter Kathy. They farmed in the Deseronto School Dis-trict, while living there Patri-cia, Fred, Earle and Stanley were born. In 1965 the fam-ily moved to Taber, Alberta where Douglas did carpentry work until retiring in his late 70’s. Ann and Douglas be-

came residents in the Pleasant View Lodge in High Prairie, Alberta near Kathy Peters, in 2008. Douglas enjoyed a healthy life. He is survived by his wife Ann, daughter Kathy (Gordon) Peters. Sons Fred (Colleen), Earle and Stanley, nine grandchildren, seventeen great-grandchil-dren his sister Grace Single of Glenella, Manitoba, sev-eral nieces and nephews also

cousins and friends.

Those who predeceased him were his father in 1963 at 70 years, daughter Patricia ac-cidentally at age 18 in 1974, mother 1978 at 78 years, two brothers Murray, 76 in 2008, Harvey 85 years in 2011.

Funeral service was held in St. Mark’s Anglican Church April 14, 2012 at 2 p.m. of- ciating was Phyliss Dupuis,

pallbearers were 4 grandsons Maverick Dyck, Shane and Tyler Peters, Skyler Penner and two friends Matt Schaalje and Maurice Gauthier. Hon-orary bearers were brothers-in-law Jim and Sam Crozier from Ontario and Brandon, MB respectively.

Interment was in High Prairie Cemetery.

• May 9, 2012 • www.neepawapress.com

OBITUARIES

By Mayor Ken WaddellTown of Neepawa

Over the past several months, the Town of Neepa-wa has been dealing with a diffi cult legal situation.

In 2011, radio station CJ97, which is operated by Mr. Bill Gade of Swan River, Man., began treating Town of Neepawa staff and Councillors in an ever more aggressive manner.

In some cases, staff and Councillors became very concerned by what appeared to be an unfair and relentless pursuit of information about the Town of Neepawa opera-tions.

Needless to say the rela-tionship between the Town of Neepawa and CJ Radio deteriorated to a point where almost all communication was cut off.

During this time and in succeeding months, CJ Ra-dio called for resignations of certain staff, speculated on staffs’ whereabouts, speculated on motives for decisions and in general and caused severe stress with many Councillors and staff.

Since 2011, the radio station also fi led over 240 FIPPA, (The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)) ap-plications with the Town of Neepawa offi ce.

To put it into context, this number is more than is usu-ally received in a whole year by major departments of the province of Manitoba.

Over the passage of time, the Town of Neepawa senior staff took a course of action whereby FIPPA applica-tions were disregarded under provisions of the Act. Con-sequently 161 applications were disregarded under Sec-tion 13.1 of the Act; public body may disregard certain requests.

Responding to even some of these applications that asked for things like copies of all emails from a particu-lar staff or all correspondence relating to particular matter took thousands of dollars of staff time to respond to the applications.

Responding to the rest may have caused months of work and large amounts of money.

Complaints about dis-regarding the applications were fi led by CJ Radio to the Manitoba Ombudsman’s of-fi ce.

The Manitoba Ombuds-man has found in favour of the Town of Neepawa after several months of investiga-tion.

The Ombudsman’s letter states:

“Our offi ce has completed a review of Mr. Bill Gade’s

complaint of the Town of Neepawa’s decision to dis-regard 161 access requests under The Freedom of In-formation and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA); I apologize for the delay in

providing our investigation report in this matter, a copy of which is enclosed.

“This complaint represents the fi rst time that our Offi ce has investigated and made fi ndings about a decision to disregard requests under sec-tion 13 of FIPPA, which was amended in January 2011.

“As such, it raised sig-nifi cant issues of statutory interpretation relating to the rights of applicants and the obligations of public bodies.

Because of the education-al value of this report, we in-tend to post it on our website in the near future.”

The summary of the re-ports states:

“The applicant submit-

ted 161 access applications to the Town of Neepawa on one day. The Town relied on clauses 13(l) (a) and (b) under The Freedom of Infor-mation and Protection of Pri-vacy Act to disregard these

requests.“The Ombudsman deter-

mined that 22 of the appli-cations were repetitious and all 161 were systematic in nature.

“The Ombudsman also determined that responding to these 161 applications would interfere unreason-ably with the operations of the public body.

“The Ombudsman found that the Town’s decision to disregard the requests was authorized under clause 13(l)(b) of the Act.”

Clause 13 (1) states: “be-cause of their repetitious or systematic nature the re-quests would unreasonably interfere with the operations

of the public body or amount to an abuse of the right to make those requests”.

The Ombudsman’s Report and letter is also posted on the Town of Neepawa web-site www.neepawa.ca

The Town of Neepawa, in addition to the signifi cant amount of staff time han-dling the 161 FIPPA appli-cations, ran up a legal bill of over $27,800 to fi le state-ments of Notices of Defama-tion against CJ Radio.

This legal action was deemed necessary by coun-cil to stand behind staff and Councillors in what had be-come a very frustrating and serious situation.

Due to the continuous ac-tions and comments by CJ Radio that Council felt were totally unfounded and un-fair, these notices have been served. Further legal action may be pending.

The Town of Neepawa is

pleased with the Ombuds-man’s Report on this matter and believes that other issues Mr. Gade and his radio sta-tion continue to raise will be dealt with in a similar fash-ion.

In the past two months, Town of Neepawa staff has been asked not to commu-nicate with CJ Radio due to circumstances and ongoing legal actions.

Until the situation was clarifi ed, as we feel it has now been, virtually no in-formation has been given to CJ97 in interviews with staff or the mayor.

The Council of the Town of Neepawa is accountable to the taxpayers of Neepawa and will not be further frus-trated by the unreasonable demands of CJ 97 Radio.

As a general practice, Town of Neepawa staff should not be responding to media interviews.

The Mayor of Neepawa, the deputy mayor or a person designated by the Mayor or Deputy Mayor will respond to interview requests from any media outlet.

We trust that the foregoing information and the mate-rial posted to the Town of Neepawa web site, will clar-ify both the situation and the actions taken by the Town of Neepawa concerning this matter.

Town of Neepawa council responds to CJ97.1 Radio allegations

“The Town of Neepawa, in addition to the “The Town of Neepawa, in addition to the signifi cant amount of staff time handling signifi cant amount of staff time handling the 161 FIPPA applications, ran up a legal the 161 FIPPA applications, ran up a legal bill of over $27,800 to fi le statements of bill of over $27,800 to fi le statements of Notices of Defamation against CJ Radio.”Notices of Defamation against CJ Radio.”

-Mayor Ken Waddell-Mayor Ken Waddell

CJ97’s council news: Simon says Gade out of tuneCOMMUNITY

LETTER from pg. 1There is no easy way to start

debunking all of Gade’s BS. There is just so much of it.

One thing is for certain though...every last bit of it, the so called Council News he purveys, has been orches-trated, embellished or contex-tually twisted by none other than...wait for it....that’s right, the one-and-only Mr. Bill Gade himself!

How so you ask? Here’s how:

• Gade is THE ONLY party to have applied for no fewer than 241 FIPPA (Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act) requests since mid-2011.

That’s more requests from this ONE GUY than the Pro-vincial government depart-ment with the highest number of requests receives in a full year!

• Gade didn’t get what he wanted, so HE complained to the Provincial Ombudsman, OVER A DOZEN TIMES! Has he ever stated this on air?

Have any of you ever heard

on CJ 97 that it was Bill Gade who was demanding the Om-budsman investigate every bloody thing Neepawa Coun-cil did, was doing, or was go-ing to do?....I didn’t think so.

• It also seems Gade likes to defame people in any way he can come up with if the news appears to be getting dull.

If he doesn’t get informa-tion he wants or thinks he is entitled to, he will simply make things up, regardless of whether there is any truth to it and regardless of whether it’s damaging to someone.

He’s done it to this Council, he’s done it to me, he’s done it to Town staff and he’s done it to our former Mayor. He does it everywhere he goes.

• Speaking to how he has defamed me personally, Gade publicly levies the accusation that I was in a confl ict of in-terest when I PRESENTED a personal subdivision query to Council, in a regular open meeting so that questions I had asked of Council could be clarifi ed.

There were no decisions

being made. Gade has even demanded the Provincial Om-budsman investigate THIS concern of his.

Meanwhile our name (my wife and I) gets regularly trashed on CJ 97 as Gade and his on air staff repeatedly re-port HIS issue! Completely unfounded. Completely wrong.

• Gade is a bully, simple as that. I wonder if he was bullied as a kid?

Now he has a radio station(s) and thinks that gives HIM the power to stick it to the man, whoever HE decides that man to be.

Consider how he handled the Neepawa Natives hazing story. Using HIS radio sta-tion to literally POUND a lo-cal organization supported by many of the same businesses he seeks advertising revenue from.

Let’s be clear. This is no trivial matter. Gade’s conduct has cost Neepawa and its tax-payers in many ways.

Financially, there has been signifi cant legal costs but the

morale costs, though not mon-etary are equally signifi cant.

Town staff are stressed as are many community mem-bers.

His antics continue to cost in ways that pertain to poten-tial development as well, since some developers now look upon the situation Council has with Gade as an issue they will just as soon avoid as take the chance of becoming an inad-vertent victim of.

Four developers walked from EVL because of third party notices indicating Gade

wanted their proprietary busi-ness info.

You know, I was one of the most excited to hear someone wanted to start up a private radio station in Neepawa, so much so that I personally sent a written letter of support to Gade during his licensing stage.

Years ago I worked with Ivan Traill to investigate the possibility of NACTV getting a station going, learning it is certainly no easy task.

I was equally excited to hear the quality of Gade’s sta-tion when it started up. His

people did a great job with my ads during the 2010 election.

You can’t go too far wrong with music. Local weather re-porting is nice to have. Having a local station where area busi-nesses can advertise is a good thing too.

So why in the hell does Bill Gade have to screw up such a good thing by broadcasting BS?

Get off it for Pete’s sake Bill. It isn’t doing anyone any good at all.

Yours truly,Coun. Monty Simon

“Four developers “Four developers walked from EVL walked from EVL because of third because of third

party notices indi-party notices indi-cating Gade wanted cating Gade wanted

their proprietary their proprietary business info.”business info.”

- Coun. Simon- Coun. Simon

www.neepawapress.com • May 9, 2012 •

Kaiten CritchlowNeepawa Press

A Canadian welcoming group has recognized ongo-ing support from businesses in Neepawa.

National, regional and area representatives were all in Neepawa recently as Wel-come Wagon thanked two local businesses for their long history of support.

Chicken Corral was rec-ognized for supporting Neepawa’s Welcome Wag-on for 30 years while The Neepawa Press was given a 40 year plaque and was notifi ed it was only one year away from 50 years of spon-sorship.

“These are two business-es that have been great in supporting us,” Neepawa’s Welcome Wagon director Giselle Lisoway said.

Welcome Wagon is the only national, Canadian-owned, free greeting service for families experiencing a lifestyle change.

The national tradition be-gan with a greeting in Van-couver in 1930 - when wag-ons were actually used - and now continues across Can-ada in more than 300,000 households annually.

On a smaller scale in Neepawa, Lisoway focuses on greeting people who have recently moved to the community and those with newborns.

“We are here to promote businesses in town and to inform people who have moved to Neepawa of fun, social things in the neigh-bourhood; we are really a community resource con-nection,” Lisoway said, not-ing people she visits also get a gift certifi cate to one of Neepawa’s businesses.

Neepawa’s Welcome Wagon has become increas-ingly busy in recent years as well, Lisoway said, as a result of the increased immi-gration coming courtesy of HyLife Foods expansions.

With so many new resi-

dents coming in through immigration, the Welcome Wagon has actually become a part of Settlement Services and HyLife’s community integration sessions when people arrive in town.

In total, Lisoway believes she has been making visits to more than 300 people a year.

“Once you make that physical, personal touch with people, it does seem to make a difference and help connect them to the commu-nity,” Lisoway explained.

One issue for the group is identifying people outside of HyLife who have moved to the community. The or-ganization is hoping other Neepawa residents will help them in pinpointing more people who could benefi t

Welcome Wagon a community resource for new residents

“We are here to promote businesses in “We are here to promote businesses in town and to inform people who have town and to inform people who have

moved to Neepawa of fun, social things in moved to Neepawa of fun, social things in the neighbourhood; we are really a com-the neighbourhood; we are really a com-

munity resource connection”munity resource connection”

- Giselle Lisoway- Giselle Lisoway

Organization recognizes Npwa. sponsors

Kaiten Critchlow/Neepawa PressFrom left, Welcome Wagon Neepawa’s Giselle Lisoway, area manager Sandra Ross and national president Pat Neuman present Chicken Corral’s Dean Tremaine with a 30 year plaque recently for the business’ long-time support of the organization. The Neepawa Press also received a plaque recognizing 40 years of its support.

from their services.“Sometimes it is hard for

us to fi nd out when new people have come to Neepa-wa, so one challenge is that new people, or people who know them, need to contact me,” Lisoway said. “We re-ally rely on people letting us know.”

Anyone who is new to town or knows someone who is, can contact Lisoway

at 476-3509.Sponsorship from busi-

nesses is a huge part of Wel-come Wagon’s success in Neepawa, Lisoway added, and long-term sponsorship has been committed by 12 area businesses.

Local sponsors who have supported Welcome Wagon for more than 10 years are: Gill Schmall Agencies - 49 years; Neepawa Pharmacy

- 49 years; Neepawa Glad-stone Co-op - 49 years; The Neepawa Press – 49 years; Neepawa Furniture Centre - 41 yrs; Chicken Corral - 30 years; Team Electronics - 23 years; Beautiful Plains Credit Union - 22 years; Neepawa Banner - 21 years; Knowledge First Savings Plans; The Brandon Sun - 16 years; and Neepawa Dairy Queen -15 years.

East View Lodge building demolition anticipated

Kaiten Critchlow/Neepawa PressNeepawa’s iconic East View Lodge building may soon be demolished if last Wednesday’s meeting was any indication. Council is expected to consider a resolution to have the property demolished and purchase the land parcel for $1 from the Department of Health for development at its May 15 regular meeting.

DEMOLITION from pg. 1In more recent months,

heat and other amenities have been turned off to lower those costs, leading to the de-terioration issues.

Neepawa’s Economic Development Offi cer Rick Donaldson has been look-ing for potential developers

for the site since about June of 2009 and said as time has gone by, the costs of renovat-ing the building for housing have escalated substantially.

It would cost millions to renovate and, even though Donaldson said he has talked to about 38 developers about varying projects with the

building, they have all even-tually withdrawn in talks.

“None have ever got close to a return on investment...that would allow them to move forward,” Donaldson said.

“I think the due diligence has been done on this and I would not recommend any-

thing but demolition,” Donaldson later added he

believes about seven devel-opers would have serious in-terest in the EVL property if the building was removed.

Mayor Waddell echoed Donaldson’s conclusion, noting information indicates, “we would be better off to

tear down East View Lodge than to let it deteriorate for another 10 years.”

As part of the talks, Wad-dell pointed out the Depart-ment of Health has told the Town it will fund the full cost of EVL’s demolition at no cost to the Town. The Department of Health would also sell the property to the Town for $1 and allow it to fi nd a proper developer for the land parcel.

No decision has been made yet, but council is ex-pected to consider a resolu-tion to support demolishing the East View Lodge build-ing and purchasing it for $1 for development at its May 15 meeting.

Mayor Waddell pointed out at Wednesday’s meet-ing that no one in attendance gave opposition to demol-ishing of the building and that will play into council’s decision-making.

In a follow-up interview Thursday, Mayor Waddell told The Neepawa Press he was not able to disclose any information regarding what type of housing potential de-velopers are considering.

The benefi ts of using the property to offer more assist-

ed living homes in Neepawa was discussed informally at Wednesday’s meeting.

Also at the meeting, MLA Stu Briese commended the Town’s efforts towards the issue throughout this whole process.

“The Town, I think, did exactly what they were sup-posed to do,” Briese said.

Fatal decisionThe historic East View

Lodge building may not have had to meet its end this way.

At the meeting, Donaldson said the Town had previously been working with a devel-oper for about a year-and-a-half regarding the potential of renovating/reusing the building for housing.

He estimated the devel-opment group had invested about $250,000 into its ef-forts for the development.

The Government instead decided to put the build-ing to tender, the developer withdrew its interest in part because of time constraints, and no bids were accepted through the tender put out.

Other developers showed interest in reusing building after the tender process but none were able to feasibly complete the project.


Happy Mother’s Day

When I fi rst came to Neepawa in April 2010, I was worried about adjusting to a new commu-nity.

I felt uncertain as to how I should l o o k , speak and relate to people.

Although I was staying in a house with four other Fili-pinos, I could not help feel-ing alienated probably be-cause I was so far away from my family and friends. Then I was introduced to Andrea Winik, a Filipino married to a Canadian, Howard Winik.

I was immediately drawn to them because they were so accommodating.

It was then that I lost all my inhibitions and in the course of our initial con-versation, I found out that Andrea was the very fi rst Filipino in Neepawa.

She was born and raised in the Philippines.

With a degree in Bach-elor of Science in Educa-tion from the University of the East in the Philippines, Andrea came to Canada in August of 1966.

She worked at the Univer-sity of Toronto Library then went on to teach at Moose Factory Island. In 1967, she was an elementary school teacher at the Red Lake Dis-trict in Ontario. Her hus-

band, Howard, worked at the Madsen Mines.

Andrea married Howard in 1969 and raised a family in Balmertown. They were blessed with two boys, Lee Howard born in 1971 and Kevin James in 1975.

Andrea also acquired Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Education de-grees in 1988 from the Lake-head University in Ontario. After thirty-three years of teaching, she retired in 1997.

In April of 2006, on their way to visit with their son who lived in Alberta, the Winiks stopped by to meet with friends in Eden.

They were given a tour of Neepawa by a couple who were considering buying a property.

Because Howard had re-tired that same year and they were so impressed with the amenities and landscape of Neepawa, they decided to put an offer on a house at Third Avenue.

They moved in shortly af-ter on Mar. 15, 2007.

I asked Andrea what she liked most about living in Neepawa, she stated the friendliness of the people was one of the reasons they chose to reside in a town she described as being “pictur-esque”.

Andrea indicated the town offered a lot of entertainment and community events.

She went on to say that the accessibility of the town

Sunday’s right around the corner and this one marks a special day for all the women out there with young ones - or grown-up ones.

And to celebrate the occasion, I’ve written a poem (I know what you’re all thinking: “Oh no, not another one!”) for all the mothers out there.

I would have written this one out specifi cally to my own mother, but it was her birthday last week (I’m smart enough to not say how many years) and I already took her out for supper

(you can save the applause for how great a son I am) last week.

So, here we go, for all of you people out there who forgot to get their mom or wife a present this year I offer you a template for a mother’s day poem that you can recite to them, tailor as your own and be sure your mom would be fl attered to hear:

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

Dear mother (mom, mommy and baby’s momma are all suit-able as well),It was (insert the number) years ago when I fi rst entered this world,To become your little boy or girl (dependent upon your gen-der).

For nine months you carried me in your belly,And after I popped out, it temporarily turned in to jelly,Come to think of it, I’ve never apologized for that,So mommy, I’m sorry for any of that excess stomach baby fat.

While on the list of baby things I should apologize for,I guess, when I think back, there are still quite a few more,Like when I pulled your hair, spit out my food, or peed on the fl oor,Or when I left a mess, cried all night or knocked a hole in your door.

There’s one more baby thing I could apologize for as well,It involved the use of some expertise and a hot towel,But from what I understand I’ll have to help you with that in a few years,So I’ll refrain from apologizing for all of your poo-in-diaper-related tears.

After that I was a rotten little child through and through,Had troubles sharing with others, and did little things just to bug you,As a teenager I rebelled, thought I no longer needed my ma,But eventually those thoughts were stopped by beatings from pa.

After high school I left home (some people may need to re-word that part) and became an adult man (or woman),But you still always remained as my biggest fan,Even when sometimes I may have asked for cash or a boost,Mother hen was alway willing to watch over from her roost.

In hindsight maybe all of my actions weren’t done to be mean,They were more for something a little unforeseen,I just wanted to grab your attention mom, I’m sure you know,Everything I did was just a special, secretly affectionate, show.

So on this Mother’s Day, in the twelfth year of the twenty-fi rst century,I offer this poem as a special little gift from me,To show you that, even though I don’t always show it,I appreciate all you’ve done for me, every last bit.

By K-10Time Better Spent

Bernadette “Adette” Tripon

A Filipino Voice

to nearby cities like Winni-peg and Brandon is another reason why they were drawn to peaceful Neepawa.

It was easy for Andrea to adapt to her new home as she established friendships with a lot of residents almost immediately. She joined some community programs which gave her the opportu-nity to socialize with them.

When the fi rst batch of Filipino workers came to Neepawa in 2008, Andrea Winik volunteered to be a translator and community mentor. To this day, she con-tinues to offer support and advice to all the Filipinos.

With her help, the work-ers feel welcome and more “at home”. Andrea’s jovial manner encouraged us to be

optimistic about our future in this foreign land.

Everyone considers her to be a mother-fi gure because of her selfl essness and gen-erosity.

Andrea is an inspiration to us for she emulates the true sense of being a Filipino.

Her relentless compassion for her fellowmen is an ex-ample I wish to follow.

A Filipino is hospitable, warm and reliable by nature; all attributes which best de-scribe Andrea Winik.

Note: Change in schedule of activities

The kiddie pageant, Little Miss FILTOBA and FILTO-BA That’s My Boy, originally scheduled for the 16th of June 2012 is re-scheduled for the 30th of the same month.

Adette Tripon/Neepawa PressAndrea Winik moved to Neepawa in 2007, making her the community’s “fi rst Filipino.” She now helps integrate new Filipino people into the community.

Neepawa’s fi rst Filipino resident

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MB: Get ready for more tax hikes

Hold onto your wal-lets Manitobans be-cause you haven’t

seen anything yet when it comes to tax increases.

By now you have prob-a b l y h e a r d t h a t M a n i -t o b a ’ s N D P govern-m e n t r a i s e d taxes by

$184 million in the 2012 budget. Sales taxes have gone up on insurance, hair care services, manicures, pedicures and tattoos to name a few items.

Apparently the latter was an easy decision for the government. They’re trying to reduce the grow-ing demand for posterior-region tattoos that read “tax this.”

Gas taxes are also up 2.5 cents per litre, but as the 5 per cent GST is ap-plied on top of the provin-cial tax, the increase will actually be larger. It’s a disturbing situation where raising one tax automati-cally increases another.

It’s even going to cost

you more to die. Well, maybe not for you direct-ly, but for those dealing with your will as they’ll have to pay more for pro-vincial death certificate fees. Not to be outdone, birth and marriage certifi-cates are also going up. Perhaps the government is encouraging people to live a life of solitude; free of making babies, getting married and being in a position to administer a friend’s will.

On top of all those tax and fee increases high-lighted in the budget, Manitobans will also see a secret income tax hike again this year through a process known as “brack-et creep.” Manitoba is one of only three provinces that don’t protect taxpay-ers for inflation in the tax system. The result – this year taxpayers will pay an extra $5 million or so in income taxes province-wide.

But if you thought those increases were bad, it’s actually going to get worse. A lot worse.

You see, the NDP gov-ernment can’t control expenses to save its life.

By Colin CraigCTF Guest View

OPINION

Over the past 12 years the NDP has spent more than it had budgeted 11 times.

Think about that for a second. Imagine if ev-ery year your boss asked how much your division needed in funding, you provided her with a fig-ure and then you blew through your budget. Wouldn’t she eventually question your managerial skills?

The NDP’s inability to

meet financial targets, de-liver meaningful govern-ment reform and say “no” to funding requests once in a while is why spend-ing is skyrocketing and why Manitobans are see-ing tax hikes to pay for it all.

It’s also why we pay the highest income taxes in Canada at the $30,000 and $40,000 income lev-els. Don’t believe it? Visit Ernst and Young’s 2012

personal income tax cal-culator on the internet and plug those figures in.

But here’s the real kick-er. In the 2010 budget the NDP projected to finally stop running deficits by 2014-15 by tabling a sur-plus of $185 million. Yet in the 2012 budget they updated their estimates and now project a sur-plus of just $23 million in 2014-15. Meanwhile, spending in 2014-15 is

expected to be $624 mil-lion higher than originally thought.

At this pace, there’s lit-tle chance of a balanced budget in 2014-15 and a good chance of even high-er taxes along the way.

It all comes down to this. Either you line up for witty tattoos when your taxes rise or you get off your duff and speak out against wild spending. It’s really that simple.

Dear Editor,When undertaking the

most expensive military procurementz ever, re-spect for hard-earned taxpayer dollars should be priority number one.

But when it comes to the costs of the F-35 stealth fighter jets, Rob-ert Sopuck and the Con-servative Party failed to be up front with Canadi-ans.

But the recent Audi-tor General’s report has

shredded the Conserva-tives’ deception about the project: Stephen Harper low-balled Ca-nadians on the project’s total cost.

The report confirms the government knew the F-35 would cost $25 bil-lion, but told Canadians $15 billion - $10 billion less. That’s a $10 billion mismanagement of your money.

Nearly two years ago, the Liberals first raised a

red flag about these con-cerns - only to meet with Conservative denials and deception.

Mr. Sopuck and the Conservative Party must stop being reckless with your tax dollars. Cana-da should hold an open competition to secure the planes our troops need at the right price.

Yours sincerely,John McKay,

Defence Critic Liberal Party of Canada

Sopuck’s handling of F-35 reckless

Dear Editor,Our Conservative Gov-

ernment is committed to ensuring Canada’s food safety system provides consumers with the pro-tection they expect and

deserve. The opposition has shamefully made claims that decisions made in Budget 2012 – and to the Agency’s overall modernization agenda – are intended to

reduce Canada’s invest-ment in food safety or somehow diminish the Agency’s role in it. This is completely and utterly false. As we all know, the risks associated with

Letters to the EditorSopuck: Safety and Security of Canadians a top priority

the food supply are con-stantly evolving, and the changes being made by the CFIA will allow the Agency to focus its re-sources where they are needed most. The CFIA has not and will not re-duce staff or cut pro-grams that would in any way put the health and safety of Canadians at risk. The Agency will continue to verify truth in labeling. As CFIA presi-dent George Da Point said, “This is carried out in many ways: through

investigations into com-plaints, facility inspec-tions, inspections at the retail level and labora-tory testing of products, including verification of the nutrient content or calories in the food at manufacturers, import-ers and retailers.” Our Government is also con-tinuing to take steps to improve our food safety system. In Budget 2012, we committed $51.2 mil-lion over two years for CFIA, Public Health Agency of Canada and

Health Canada to contin-ue enhanced surveillance, early detection and im-proved response capabili-ties to food-borne illness emergencies. Canadian families can be assured that food safety will not be affected as we regular-ly review program spend-ing. Our Government has and will continue to make the safety and security of Canadians a top priority.

Sincerely, Robert Sopuck, MP

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Tobacco price hike encourages smokers to quitBy Cecil PittmanNeepawa Press

80 YEARS AGOThursday, May 10,

1932A serious accident

occurred on Saturday when Reg William-son, living in Glendale, was accidently shot through the back with a .22 caliber rifle by his companion who did not know that the gun was loaded.

Young Williamson is now in the Neepawa Hospital and, although suffering considerable pain, his condition is reported as being favor-able.


1942Dr. H. H. Hutchinson,

health officer, had quite a busy session at the Neepawa public School Monday when almost every student under-went a tuberculin test.

This was given by an injection in the arm and should the result be positive, it means the child has come in con-tact with the germ. No results were available at the time information was obtained, however, the travelling clinic vis-ited the school yester-day and the results of it, along with the tests, will appear in the next issue.

60 YEARS AGOTuesday, May 6, 1952

Audrey Lee, eleven-year-old Chinese-Ca-nadian daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Frankie Lee, of the town, won the Elks Trophy Saturday, awarded for solo piano-forte classes at the 14th annual Regional Festi-val held at Dauphin.

Audrey obtained 88 marks to place first in the qualifying contest Thursday. She obtained the highest marks of anyone at the entire fes-tival.

50 YEARS AGOTuesday, May 8, 1962

Franklin – a happy combination of circum-stances averted a sure disaster Saturday, when volunteers were able to confine a fire in the office of the Manitoba Pool Elevator (for-merly Ogilvie’s) here, saving the main eleva-tor and avoiding what might have been a se-vere threat to the other two elevators.


1972A new peeling ma-

chine began operation this week at the Prendi-ville Timber Preservers Company Ltd. (former-ly Morton).

The plant is now in full production after a shutdown since Decem-ber 1971, and produces fence posts, poles, and timber treated under pressure with a preser-vative.

William Taylor will continue as resident manager.


1982A public referendum

on the Beautiful Plains County building will be held June 28, town of-ficials announced Mon-day.

Mayor Homer Gill said council made the decision during a com-mi t t ee -o f - the -whole meeting May 7. Coun-cil also agreed to hold two public informa-tional meetings prior to the referendum.

The ballot will ask voters to choose ei-ther renovations or construction of a new municipal building, he said. The council, he added, will not take a position favouring ei-ther of the choices.

20 YEARS AGOTuesday, May 12,

1992Members of Neepa-

wa’s BPO Elks Lodge were a jubilant group Friday evening when they announced con-struction on the pro-posed seniors housing complex Elks Manor could begin as early as June 15.

“At this point, we put the project out to ten-der”, said Elk’s presi-dent Jim Schmall. “The prices look very good and so far we’re right on budget,”

10 YEARS AGOMonday, May 13,

2002A major hike in the

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Barry Hutchinson Photo70 years ago: Thursday, May 14, 1942: Dr. H. H. Hutchinson, Health Offi ce had a busy session at Neepawa Public School testing students for T. B.

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Pharmacist Kevin Harris, of Harris Phar-macy in Neepawa, said since the province raised the price of ciga-

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(Every week The Neepa-wa Press receives weekly newspapers from across Westman and the rest of the province. Here are a few of the most interesting stories coming out of the weeklies received recently.)

Saints marching inIf you build it, they will

come.That may not have been

the idea behind the con-struction of Virden’s new state-of-the-art multi-use facility but it’s certainly the end result.

The Virden Empire-Advance reports Virden Hockey Ventures Inc. has officially brought a Ju-nior ‘A’ hockey club to its community, taking over the reigns of the franchise formerly known as the Winnipeg Saints.

The move will come into effect for the 2012-13 MJHL season, and the new owners promise the change of location will be coupled with a new name, logo and jersey which are not yet determined.

The Saints made a long run into the playoffs last year and, with 13 play-ers returning to the squad now heading to Virden, Virden Hockey Ventures is guaranteeing fans “we will make the playoffs” and the goal is to contend for a title.

Volunteers celebratedPeople in the Parkland

region never forget to recognize those who give

their time freely.Community Futures

Parkland handed out its annual awards recently, The Exponent out of Grandview and Gilbert Plains explained, to peo-ple going above and be-yond in volunteerism in that area.

Awards were given out to both adults and youth who have been involved in things such as com-munity sports, offering a helping hand to clean af-ter houses burnt or build-ings were graffitied, or braiding bracelets to raise funds for Tsunami victims from Japan.

Winners received the recognition along with prizes such as a $300 donation to a charity of choice, a laptop or an iPod Touch.

Councillor quitsWaskada has lost one of

its councillors who is tired of “locking horns” with the rest of the group.

Don Wickham resigned from the position after frustrations involving some of the council’s de-cisions as a whole, the Deloraine Times & Star reports.

Most recently, a request to bring in a larger build-ing for a growing busi-ness – CE Franklin – was denied despite Wickham seeing it as being benefi-cial for the village.

Wickham said decisions by council have “become more of a personal ven-detta than about what’s good for the Village of

Waskada”, adding he wanted to help the village take advantage of oppor-tunities for growth but it isn’t happening.

Some of the reasons for denying the request were because it would create too much traffic, the building was too high, and there was a lack of room outside for equip-ment.

Hockey Hall’erA former Souris resi-

dent is heading to the Inernational Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Hall of Fame.

The Souris Plaindealer reports Andy Murray will head to the hall as a long-time professional hockey coach.

Murray has coached in the minor leagues, AHL, NHL, NCAA, internation-ally and with Team Cana-da over his career. He is only the ninth Canadian Builder inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame and one of only 23 Canadians inducted for any reason.

Souris will be hosting an event June 8 to recog-nize the achievement.

Rodeo RundownCowboys and cowgals

were out in full force around Melita recently.

Melita New Era told its readers the Pierson and Area Indoor Rodeo was a hit recently.

The event featured three days of rodeo fun, including a Ranch Horse Competition, bareback and amateur riding, barrel racing, tie down and team

roping, steer wrestling and bull riding.

Plant perishesThe Minnedosa Tribune

reports the town’s origi-nal water plant has been demolished.

Clint Moffat and Sons knocked down the build-ing as part of a tender with the Town of Minnedosa.

The plant was original-ly built around 1953 when about 18 men worked on the project.

Trashin’ the trash

Carberry’s elemen-tary and senior schools took turns collecting re-fuse, debris and garbage around their community recently, The Carberry News-Express writes.

The initiative helped keep the town green while students were rewarded with hot dogs and canned drinks afterwards.

Talent up, cash downResidents in Russell

were treated to some great entertainment at their

community’s Multiplex Talent Show, according to The Russell Banner.

The mayor sang, youth gathered donations, cow-boy poetry was heard and various other talents stepped on to the stage to show off their abilities.

However, the showcase which is only in its sec-ond year saw a substantial drop in profits made from the previous year, profit-ting only about $3,800 on the night.

What’s in the Weeklies?

Press archivesMay 18, 1950 - It was the 1950s and “The Sign of Progress” for Neepawa residents came in part at the hands of The Manitoba Power Commission who powered the ‘futuristic’ electrical ‘automatic cooking stove’. The new stove helped eliminate the need, and ‘inconvenience’ of fuel and coal stoves.

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By Yellowhead Centre Board

The Yellowhead Centre located in Neepawa is very rare compared to other Manitoba Communities as it is not Town/Municipality owned or operated.

To ensure parity across user groups and fi nan-cial stability for the facil-ity, Neepawa’s Yellowhead Centre will now be requir-ing a membership fee for all facility users.

One membership is re-quired per family and it will be due annually. The cost will be based on the municipal location of the member’s home residence. (Calculation can be found on our Website www.yellowheadcentre.com)

Over the last decade, the centre’s expenses have ris-en dramatically (examples of increases can be seen

in the ‘Expenses’ chart ac-companying this article).

Over the past decade, the Centre has also invested over $500,000 in upgrades. The Yellowhead is very grateful to Organizations, Volunteers and The Major Events that have assisted in making these upgrades possible.

Like many other orga-nizations, the Yellowhead has seen a decline in vol-unteerism, which has led to decreased income and increased costs.

For example, in 1983-84, the Yellowhead Auxiliary donated $20,000 for the facility and today the in-come fi gure remains much the same because many of the jobs that were done by volunteers are now done by the hired manager and concession staff.

While income has risen to cover expenses, tradi-

tional sources of revenue such as municipal grants and concession income has either remained constant or declined.

Municipal grants used to be the facility’s major source of funding, grants from the Town of Neepawa for $63,000, the RM of Rosedale for $1,500, have remained constant over the last 10 years and the RM of Langford’s grant fl uctuates around $4,000. The RM of Lansdowne doesn’t pro-vide a grant to the facility.

With municipal fund-ing not keeping pace with rising expenses, the board has pursued other sources of revenue for the facility over the last 10 years. The difference has been made up by increased income from ice and hall rentals, advertising and special events.

In 1999-2000, the Yel-

Yellowhead Centre establishes membership fee

lowhead had a $75,000 loan and paid $7,700 in in-terest that year. Within two years the loan had been repaid and the Yellowhead remains debt free but the centre has no reserve for future needs.

A membership fee will be required before users can rent the facility or reg-ister for a team or group that uses the Yellowhead.

The base membership fee is $51 per family but

will be reduced based on how much of a grant is provided to the facility by each municipality. Users who reside in the Town of Neepawa will be charged $10 per year, users who re-side in the RM of Langford will be charged $37 per family, users who reside in the RM of Rosedale will be charged $49 per family and in the RM of Lansd-owne and all others will be charged $51 a family.

Such fees are becoming increasingly common in facilities in Manitoba.

Most similar facilities in Manitoba are municipally owned however, as stated, the Yellowhead isn’t. The Yellowhead is owned and operated by the Neepawa and District Centennial Project Committee Inc. Yelowhead staff are not Town/Municipal employ-ees. Without a municipality to cover unexpected short-falls, it’s important that the facility be well funded.

The move to a member-ship fee will at least en-sure that users from each municipality are paying equally their share of the facility’s cost of operation.

“A membership fee will be required before “A membership fee will be required before users can rent the facility or register for a users can rent the facility or register for a team or group that uses the Yellowhead.”team or group that uses the Yellowhead.”

EXPENSES 2000 2011Bookkeeping/Offi ce $3,694.00 $2,480.00Manitoba Hydro Natural Gas $10,020.00 $18,928.00Manitoba Hydro Electricity $31,351.00 $46,707.00Insurance $5,058.00 $16,361.22Bank Charges $8,048.00 $200.00Advertising $1,163.00 $131.00R&M Rink $19,391.00 $44,875.00R&M Hall $2,014.00 $13,800.00R&M Concessions N/A $695.00Taxes $2,741.00 $4,332.00Supplies $1,800.00 $3,686.00Telephone $1,723.00 $1,800.00Water $5,549.00 $13,177.00Wages/Salary/Payroll Liabilities $76,326.00 $115,00.00*WCB $768.00 $589.00Travel/Training $1,160.00 $1,940.00Totals $170,806.00 $284,701.22Difference (2011-2000) $113,895.22 *($20,000+ of that being concession staff)

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Neepawa and area’s pop-ulation increase is leading to some changes at Hazel M. Kellington.

The elementary school is planning to add two new portable classrooms on to its facilities for the fall “to accomodate the growing

Population increase causes HMK additions

New rooms to be addedenrollment at the school”. The portables are expect-ed to be utilized by the school’s Grade 6 classes.

Earlier this spring, Beautiful Plains School Division (BPSD) superin-tendent Jason Young told The Neepawa Press bring-ing in the new classrooms is in part a response to the received and anticipated population increase to the Neepawa area.

“We are expecting our Neepawa schools to grow over the next couple of years due to immigration,” Young said.

The superintendent pointed out many of the original immigrants com-ing to HMK had moved to larger urban centres which kept the enrollment “rela-tively unchanged”.

The BPSD is now antici-pating more of the students to stay in the area which causes the need for the ad-ditional classrooms.

Young said the school division’s past experience has shown trends of about half the eligible immi-grant students ending up in Neepawa schools. The ratio for those students is about 2:1, where for every three new students, two are typically enrolled at HMK and one at NACI.

The school also under-stands it will be having more classes in the younger ages this upcoming year.

“We know we have two Grade 6 classes leaving HMK and are expecting three Grade 1 and three Kindergarten classes for the fall,” Young said.

In mid-March, Young and BPSD Secretary Trea-surer Gord Olmstead and two trustees met with Edu-cation Minister Nany Al-lan and Deputy Minister of Education Gerald Far-thing to discuss Neepawa’s growing enrolment and future education facility needs.

The two portable class-rooms will be funded by the province.

Council Briefs - May 1By Kaiten CritchlowNeepawa Press

-Council passed its by-law to levy taxes for the 2012 year, effectively passing its fi nancial plan for the year.

The Town has budgeted total expenditures for the year at about $5.98 million, up slightly from the $5.39 million budgeted last year. The Town has reported it

compiled about $350,000 in surplus funds in 2011 which has been reallocated into the 2012 budget.

An increase of about $460,000 in capital expen-ditures is budgeted, up to about $1.29 million.

-The Town’s search for a new CAO will continue.

Council announced it had someone it was inter-ested in hiring but the in-dividual is no longer avail-able.

“Unfortunately we had a prospective candidate coming to visit our town and unfortunately they have since taken a job in a bigger community in Sas-katchewan and we’re back to square one in regards to getting a CAO,” Dietrich said.

The Town will now be readvertising for the posi-tion.

At the same meeting, council set its CAO sal-ary range, stating the range will be between $70,000 and $90,000.

-Coun. Dean Dietrich is tired of seeing a dilapidat-ed building on Neepawa’s main highway stretch.

The councillor told council he would like to see something done with the former Happy Bill’s building which sits in be-tween the Co-op gas sta-tion and Agassiz.

Dietrich said as one of Manitoba’s most beautiful towns, the dishevelled state of the building bodes poor-ly on the Town and sug-gested looking into clean-ing up the lot or having the building demolished.

“It’d be nice to have at least a bare piece of prop-erty that would be attrac-tive for our community on the main drag,” Dietrich said.

Council agreed to have Town employees look into the current ownership of the property to bring back for future discussion.

For more on the May 1 Neepawa council meeting see next week’s paper.

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The Manitoba Water Services BoardSealed tenders, marked as follows will be received by the undersigned at The Manitoba Water Services Board, Imperial square, 2010 Currie Blvd., Box 22080, Brandon, Manitoba, R7A 6Y9, up tp 11:00 a.m., prevailing Brandon time on:

May 25, 2012

for the following works:Supply of all material and equipment to complete selective demolition of existing fi ltration equipment, existing roof, opening and closure for access, gravity fi lter modifi cations, media sup-ply and installation of pre-purchased membrane and associated works to the existing Town of Neepawa Water Treatment Plant.

MARKEDM.W.S.B. No. 1068

Town of Neepawa Water Treatment Plant Upgrades

Tenders will be publicly opened and read at the location, time and date specifi ed above.

Each tender must be accompanied by a fully executed BID BOND on the form provided and in favor of the Minister of Finance for the amount shown on the Tender. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES will a certifi ed cheque be accepted in lieu of Bid Bond.

Tender documents may be obtained on or after May 7, 2012 at 2012 Currie Blvd., Box 22080, Brandon, Manitoba, R7A 6YA, on the deposit of a CERTIFIED CHEQUE in the amount of $50.00 on each Tender. Deposit will be refunded only on (1) the submission of a bona fi de tender or (2) the return of the tender documents within seven (7) days after tender closing.The lowest or any tender may not neces-sarily be accepted.


Plumas NewsPlumas competes at Evans tourneyBy Bernice Evenson

Central Plains seniors held their partner crib-bage playoff at Plumas Apr. 18 with nine tables. From here Allan Hogarth and Robert McLaughlin, Bernice Evenson and Loreen Amann are quali-fied to go to Ashern in June for the Manitoba Summer Games.

When I went to work at the Plumas Inn on Apr. 19 I got a shock I didn’t have to unlock the door; it was already open as the cafe, post office and le-gion hall were all broken into during the night.

Mr. and Mrs. Len Ty-erman spent a few days with their daughter Gail and Arnold Hogg in Brandon last week.

Bernice Evenson spent the Apr. 20 weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mar-tens in Baldur. Returned home on Monday after three days of dancing in Belmont.

The Central Plains

Cancer Dance and Sup-per was well attended here on Saturday, Apr. 21. Several of the same dancers were in Belmont on Sunday.

JoAnne Oswald took Ayden McKenzie back home to his mom and dad in Macoun, Sask. after staying a week with Ken and JoAnne Oswald.

From there, she mo-tored to Saskatoon to see the Campbell girls in the three day dance competi-tion.

Chelsey danced with her group six different times and scored three golds and three silvers, as well as three awards for the most promising ballet due, the most promising jazz small group and the most promising musical theatre trio.

Heidi and Kaytlin danced in four dances and won two gold and two silver medals. Chelsey’s one group made it to the final dance-off competi-

tion on Sunday evening where they competed against 31 other groups but they didn’t win.

Everyone returned to Archerwill, Sask. while JoAnne returned home to Plumas Tuesday. She had a great time!

Word was received here of the passing of Grant Schettler’s wife Brenda out in B.C. Sym-pathy is extended to her father Don Collins and her brothers of Glad-stone.

Ron Fischer of Dids-bury, Alb. is spending a few days with his mother Clara Fischer and other family members in the area.

Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Hanneson and Jodi of Lakeland, accompanied by Iris Fischer, were in Dauphin Sunday, Apr. 29 to watch the Ukrai-nian dancing. Iris’ great granddaughter Tristyn Hanneson took part and also received the helper’s

Submitted photoT.I.C. Parts and Service owner Darrell LeB-outillier hands over a cheque to Roxy Theatre representative Marilyn Dietrich for $478. The donation comes as a result of the business’ pledge to give fi ve per cent of STIHL sales during our Lawn Care Days Apr. 17-19.

award.Wednesday, Apr. 25

Larry Evans held the 23rd Annual Senior Bowling Tournament at Evans Lanes in Neepawa. There were 24 teams entered coming from Minnedosa, Brandon, Trehorne, Dau-phin, Neepawa and Plu-mas.

Congratulations to Al-bert Hailstone team that won the gold with two pins more than my team of Gail McGregor, Pearl Sollner, Dorthy Moller and myself.

Sunday two teams from here bowled in Minnedosa with the team of Gail McGregor, Phyl-lis Mauthe, Isabel Dixon, Ted Mauthe and Ken Os-wald winning silver.

If there had been a third prize, David and Marion Single, Erwin and Dorothy Moller, and Pearl Sollner would have won it. But Pearl did win most points over average for the women with 99 points.

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Lady Tigers blazing out

of gatesBy Kaiten CritchlowNeepawa Press

NACI’s female fastball team has opened its season with a pair of impressive wins, and they aren’t showing any signs of slowing down.

After creaming the Carber-ry Cougars 19-6 to begin the season, the Tigers followed that up with a 6-2 showing over the MacGregor Mus-tangs.

NACI 19 - Carberry 6There was no rust on the

female Tigers bats to start their season as they belted out an amazing 19-run total for the win.

Jaya Freemen went 3-for-4, walked once, and dinged in 4 RBIs to lead NACI of-fensively. The Schmall sis-ters, Emma and Adrienne, and Halle Hayhurst had 2 RBIs apiece, while Kailee Stewart had one RBI.

Emma Schmall set the tone defensively, pitching all seven innings to clinch the win.

NACI 6 - MacGregor 2Amy Todoruk and Kailee

Stewart split the pitching du-ties for NACI in their second win of the season, keeping the MacGregor Mustangs bats silent in a 6-2 win.

Adrienne Schmall helped lead the way offensively for Neepawa, racking up two RBIs and a stolen base, while Stewart tallied one RBI and a steal.

Freeman, Emma Sch-mall and Amy Todoruk all grabbed steals as well.

NACI was scheduled to play Monday night in Glad-stone and will host William Morton Collegiate Institute in the rubber match tonight (Wednesday) at Neepawa’s fairgrounds.

The female Tigers com-pete in Zone 7 matches against teams from sur-rounding area schools. The male Tigers play in both the PWHSBL and Zone 7.

Both the boys and girls squads play seven inning games.

Tigers tame Huskies at homeBy Kaiten CritchlowNeepawa Press

There seems to be a trend building for the NACI Tigers boys fastball team early on this season.

So far, the talented young squad is either fi nding itself playing in a blowout game or not playing at all.

To start out its Prairie West High School Baseball League (PWHSBL) season, the Tigers have won two games by 19-9 and 12-4 wins, lost their season open-er 15-2 and had three games postponed due to rain.

Sunday afternoon in Neepawa, the Tigers kept their home record perfect with an impressive 19-9 win over the Hamiota Huskies.

Blair Krutkewich got the Tigers off to a strong start, pitching three innings, while Jesse Adams replaced him for the next three frames and Trent Nelson closed out the fi nal inning of the game.

Garrett Rempel helped lead the way offensively with a double and single at the plate.

A few days earlier the Ti-gers hosted their fi rst game of the season, dominating Russell’s Major Pratt Tro-jans 12-4.

Matthew Sneesby and Adams split the pitching du-ties for Neepawa.

A week earlier in Dau-phin, the Tigers opened their season with a poor outing, being defeated 15-2 on the road.

Nelson started the game as pitcher for NACI.

Coach Mike Levandosky said he is happy with the way his team has bounced back from the opening day loss, and hoped to see that success continue.

“Last year we kind of struggled because we had six Grade 10s and six Grade 9s, that’s pretty tough. But those guys have come back (for this season)...and we’re doing much better,” Levan-dosky said. “I’d say we’re right in the middle of the pack.”

Levandosky isn’t quite as happy about the fortune the team has had with weather lately, as rain has been the cause of three postponed games in the fi rst two weeks

already. With the PWHSBL beginning Apr. 23 and play-offs scheduled to begin May 13, postponements are leav-ing a bit of uncertainty for the Tigers.

“The weather hasn’t been great for us so far,” Levan-dosky said. “With such a short season, I’m not sure where we’re going to be making up all of these games.”

According to the league website, most teams are in the same boat, leaving the PWHSBL with an interest-ing scheduling situation.

In the meantime, NACI’s next PWHSBL game is scheduled for Wednesday in Brandon against Crocus Plains, and then Sunday against Boissevain.

Kaiten Critchlow/Neepawa PressNACI’s Emma Schmall throws a pitch during Zone 7 play against the Carberry Cougars.

NACI, WMCI compete at badminton provincials

Kaiten Critchlow/Neepawa Press From front, Madison Kilburn, Richelle Forgue, Oscar Funk and Trin-ity Wiens battle for a ball during Neepawa United Soccer Association’s (NUSA) house league play last Thursday for ages eight to 12. It was the fi rst night of practice for the kids who were having a blast on the fi eld.


Neepawa and Gladstone had a good contingent of its athletes at the MHSAA’s

2012 Badminton Provin-cials in Carman over the weekend.

NACI’s Matthew Snees-by and Travis Nicolson were a strong force in the

male doubles category after qualifying for the tourney with a second place fi nish at Zone 7 fi nals in Neepawa.

WMCI had even more representation at the tour-

ney with three teams en-tered.

Gaelen Fehr headed to provincials for male singles while Tanner Peters and Alyson Vercaigne com-

peted in mixed doubles. All three won their groupings in Zone 7 playdowns.

WMCI’s female doubles team of Alyssa Hill and Doris Roulette also quali-

fi ed for provincials through wildcard play.

None of the teams were able to place top eight to reach the playoffs at pro-vincials.

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Submitted photosAthletes in Evans Lanes Youth Bowling Canada (YBC) league this season are, front row, from left, Maverick Jakubowski, Dawson Jakubowski and Delanie Newsome. Second row, Bryce Kwiatkowski, Chris Obsniuk and Samantha Nick-art. Third row, Matthew Obsniuk, Katlyn Nickart and Amos Taylor. Back Row, Brianna Porter, Terrell Cloude, Tatrine Porter, Briean Cloude and Emma Gerrard. Missing, Brendan and Callista Lockerby, Chantale Crivea and Allison Byram

Evans YBC season endsThe Youth Bowling

Canada (YBC) league end-ed its season Apr. 18 with awards and recognition being handed out to some of its bowlers for their per-formances throughout the year. From left:

High Series for two or three game totals are, front, Dawson and Mav-erick Jakubowski, Dela-nie Newsome. Back row, Samantha Nickart, Amos Taylor and Chris Obsniuk. Missing is Chantal Criv-ea.

Bowlers of the Year are front, Bryce Kwiatkowski, and back, Samantha and Katlyn Nickart.

Most Improved Bowlers for the season are, front, Maverick Jakubowski (+10), and back row, Briean Cloude (+32), Sa-mantha Nickart (+9), Mat-thew Obsniuk (+19) and Tatrina Porter (+11). Miss-ing are Brendan (+10) and Callista Lockerby (+6).

Other badges or pins were handed out for Tur-keys (three strikes in a row), Family Twosomes, Perfect Attendance, Par-ticipation and Skunks, YBC Badges and Senior Awards of Excellence.

Each bowler was also given a certifi cate of their personal achievements

and a YBC pin. More pho-tos will follow next week for other YBC award win-ners.

Supporters of YBC were also recognized with certifi cates and pins; they are Larry Evans as well as Darren Graham and the staff of The Neepawa Press.

The bowlers enjoyed bowling two games fol-lowed by a draw for three YBC/Evans Lanes jackets and t-shirts donated by Larry Evans, as well as a lunch of pizza, donuts and pop.

See you all again Sept. 8.

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Another busy month has left us in the dust, with May already into its second

McCreary NewsMcCreary NewsBusy month in McCreary, Golden Gals get Glenella grinning

By Thelma Burton

week, the year is fl ying by.School years didn’t go

that fast when I was there. No doubt the youth of to-day are eagerly waiting for summer break to fi nd em-ployment, vacation or just hang out.

Some farmers have their seeding done, while many haven’t started as of yet. I don’t think gardeners have started yet but I could be wrong.

April saw a lot of Mc-Crearyites on the move to

meetings, entertainments, hospital visits and so on, so let me list a few of them for your reading enjoyment or curiosity.

Hello to those in hospi-tal or recuperating at home may you soon be in the pink again.

The Legion Auxilliary District meeting for Hwy. No. 1 South was held in Gilbert Plains recently, at-tending from here were Edie Lloyd, Hilda Longtin, Marilyn Benson and Viv-

ian Livingston of Kelwood who did the chauffering.

Many from here attended the very hilarious comedy play the “Golden Gals” in Glenella last week. A lot of time and effort was needed to pull it off. Writer and di-rector Darryn Cameron did a great job choosing the right players for the charac-ters, people are still laugh-ing two weeks later. You folks deserve all the praise you get.

The Regional Health

Auxilliary District meeting was held in the Grace Bap-tist Church on Highway No. 5 west of Ste. Rose du Lac recently. Attending from McCreary were Sadie Leepart, Jean Buchanan, Millie McLuckie, Vernice Sheppard, Edie Lloyd, Mary Schultz, Anne La-shewicz, Theresa Nault and Jeannette Butterfi eld.

The Burrows Arts Coun-cil have their season tickets ready for our fall and winter schedule, and they are as

follows:Kayla Luky on Oct. 19,

Jake’s Gift Nov. 9 and Elli Barsi on Jan. 25, 2013. We have heard them all and they’re all very good. Sea-son ticket price for all three performances in McCreary is $40.

Until next week -Everything happens for a

reason, live it, love it, learn from it, make your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change YOUR smile.

Happy 45thHappy 45thLove your Love your

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Guess who Guess who is 40?is 40?

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The Happy Rock Children’s CentreThe Happy Rock Children’s Centre Would like to thank everybody who helped make this year’s annual Quad Derby a tremendous success: the landowners, registration workers, trail markers, parents who sold ghost hands, food workers, and all of the 151 riders who came out to support the event. Special thanks to Shane Henton for donating $100 of his winnings back to the Centre.

Poker hand winners were:Poker hand winners were:1st – Jessie McCaughan ($827.50)1st – Jessie McCaughan ($827.50)

2nd – Shane Henton ($496.00)2nd – Shane Henton ($496.00)3rd – Mark Ferguson ($331.00)3rd – Mark Ferguson ($331.00)

Antique Auto & Tractor Auction for Edwin & Rita FriesenSaturday June 9/12 11 AM • Neepawa, MB

Directions: From jct of Hwy#5 & #16 (on east side of Neepawa), 2 miles east on Hwy#16 . Watch for signs. Owner’s Ph#: 204-476-2679

Feature items:•1941 Ford 1 ton truck •1951 Ford Mercury 3/4 ton truck •1928 Ford Model A Special Coupe,rumble seat •1928 Ford Model A, 2 dr •1952 Chevy Half Ton • 1928 Ford Model A, open cab truck • all above vehicles restoredTractors: • Cockshutt mdl #1950, 453 GM dsl engine, restored, call: (204) 476-6314 for info •1948 John Deere Model M,restored,call: (204) 476-6314 for info •1951 W6 • 1954 Super W6 Antiques: • McCormick 3 hp stationary engine, running • McCormick 1.5 hp stationary engine, running • Fairbanks Morris 2 hp stationary engine

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Olive MordenOct 1919 - May 2011

You were a precious giftSo much beauty, grace and love

You touched our hearts in so many ways

You heard God’s whisper \calling you home

You didn’t want to go and leave us alone

Till all your strength was gone and you could no longer fight

So you gave your hand to God and slowly drifted away

Knowing that with our love wewill be together again

Remembered and missed by family and friends

Henry DueckPassed away at the Neepawa

Health Centre on February 12, 2012.

A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. in Clarke’s Funeral Chapel, 102 Dennis St. W., Gladstone.

Clarke’s Funeral Home, Gladstone in care of arrangements.

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There once was a girl named JoWho met Hymie many years agoThey got married one dayIn the middle of May30 years! Where did they go?Love the Hurrell clan

We would like to thank everyone who donated and came out to wish us well at the send-off night at the rink. A big thanks to the Neepawa Curling Club for putting on the night. It was good to see you all there. A big thanks to Paul, Dalyse and Wanda for organizing the evening and to Dalyse, a big thanks for the super website she created to follow our curling en-deavors. Thanks to the Westman Curling Foundation for covering the cost of the lunch, the night of our send-off. Thanks to all the people who donated prizes for the raffle draws that night. A big thanks to both local papers for all the interest and coverage shown for us during both competitions. Team CanadaKelly, Doug, Peter and Bob

Holland Old Time Fiddling Con-test. June 15 - 17, 2012. Holland Community Centre Guest: Jason Lepine. Dance: The Moonshiners 9 p.m. Contest Saturday 1:30 Sun-day dance, 1:00 pm.

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RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF LAKEVIEWPUBLIC NOTICE

REGARDING THE 2012 FINANCIAL PLAN

Public Notice is hereby given pursuant to subsection 162 (2) of Th e Municipal Act that the Council of the Rural Municipality of Lakeview intends to present its fi nancial plan for the fi scal year 2012 at a public hearing in the Council Chambers of the Rural Municipality of Lakeview on the 10th day of May, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. Council will hear any person who wishes to make representation, ask questions, or register an objection to the fi nancial plan as provided.

Copies of the fi nancial plan are available for review and may be examined by any person, during regular offi ce hours at the Lakeview Municipal Offi ce.

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NEEPAWANEEPAWA

SHOPSHOP

Beautiful Plains School Division is accepting applications for an evening custodian for Neepawa Area Collegiate. Duties include the cleaning and maintenance of buildings, equip-ment and grounds under the direction of the Principal and/or Maintenance Supervisor. Hours of work are 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday to Friday.

The starting wage is $15.10 per hour with 4 annual increments of $.50 /hr. to follow. The Division offers a pension plan and other benefits.

Applicants should state experience and include three refer-ences. Duties to commence as arranged. Questions can be directed to the undersigned at 476-2388.

Deadline for application: NOON, Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Send resumes marked “NACI Custodian” to the undersigned.

Successful candidates must complete a Criminal Records and Child Abuse Registry check. Only those selected for inter-

views will be contacted. Others are thanked for their interest.

Phone: (204) 476-2388Fax: (204) 476-3606Email: [email protected]

EVENING CUSTODIAN Neepawa Area Collegiate

Mark HuttonMaintenance SupervisorBeautiful Plains School Division Box 700Neepawa, MBR0J 1H0

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SUNDAY 12 noon - 5:00 PM

NOTICE OF HEARING

UNDER THE HIGHWAYS PROTECTION ACT THE HIGH-

WAY TRAFFIC BOARD

Notice is hereby given that a hearing of the Highway Traffi c Board will be held on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 9:30 a.m. in Room B6, Brandon Provincial Building, 340 - 9th Street, Brandon, Manitoba.

PERMITS - PART 1- SECTION 9 H.P.A. AND PART III - SECTION

17 H.P.A

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Application for On- Premises Sign (Commercial) adjacent to P.T.H. No. 10, Lot 3, Plan 672, S.W. 1/4 18-19-18W, R.M. of Park (Onanole.).

The Highway Traffi c Board will be prepared to consider all submissions, written or oral, on the above applications by contracting the Secretary prior to or at the hearing.

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INVENTORY REDUCTION

GARAGE SALE

May 18 &199:00 am-8:00 pm

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Former Native and home-town product Triston Grant

is enjoying a long playoff run in the American Hock-ey League’s (AHL) - the NHL’s farm league - Calder Cup tournament.

Playing for the Oklahoma City Barons, Grant is cur-rently in the midst of a sec-ond round, Western Confer-ence semi-fi nal bout with

the San Antonio Rampage. As of Monday morning, the Barons and Rampage series was tied at one game apiece.

Grant featured in 53 of the Barons 76 games this season, totaling 11 goals, 15 points and 163 penalty minutes.

The Barons fi nished the regular season with the best record in the AHL’s Western Conference and second-best record in the entire league.

Neepawa’s Triston Grant in AHL conference semis

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