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Newspaper
Rivers Banner
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 18, 2008
Page
6
Readers are invited to submit signed letters to Rivers Banner. Submissions may be edited for length or taste and printed as space allows. Send to info riversbanner.com Box 70 Rivers ME ROK 100 or deliver to 529 Second Avenue.
Brenda Ferguson of Rivers writes of strong local support after a July 12 highway accident near Swan River, noting calls and visits to check on her PT Cruiser and home. She praises Rivers Legion President Garry Nielsen at a July 11 Rivers Banner fair dunk tank event, and reflects on community spirit with a local brotherly story.
Rachelle Hayward of Brandon voices concern over pet abandonment and cruelty in Manitoba. She cites 2007 Brandon pound deaths and rising yearly numbers, urging spay and neuter, responsible ownership, and proactive rehoming through papers and local groups to prevent more animals from meeting Lad die.
The Rivers community marks a century of local journalism in frugal fashion as only about a dozen attendees join the cake cutting and remembrances. Ken Waddell, Chris Waddell, and Sheila Rumions are praised for sustaining a paper that chronicles births deaths marriages and town life through wars strikes and changing industries, with editors working late to meet deadlines.
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