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Neepawa to host Homecoming 2010 party
Submitted by Neepawa Banner
At 6 p.m. on May 12, Neepawa was announced as the winning site to host the province's 140th birthday celebration in May 2010. The contest for a host city was organized by the Manitoba Homecoming 2010 committee and the finalist was chosen by online voting between April 8 and May 8. Neepawa garnered over 14,000 votes to beat out La Broquerie, La Salle, Morden and Thompson. While voting was supposed to be done online, Neepawa's Leisure Services Manager Amanda Cathcart contacted the homecoming committee to find out how those without computers could vote. She gathered over 500 hard copy ballots from places like Country Meadows and Springill Farms and faxed them to Winnipeg, running their fax machine out of ink twice.
The celebration is to have an overall budget of $50,000, but that will include the award winning Manitoba artist to perform as part of the celebration. Nothing has been finalized but Cathcart said they are hoping for someone big. Names like Neil Young, BTO, Doc Walker and Crash Test Dummies have already been suggested.
Along a with numerous Neepawa residents for the announcement were (from left): Vanessa MaCrae (MB Homecoming 2010), Kevin Walters (MB Homecoming 2010), Bob Durston, Jordan Witzel (CTV weather specialist) and Amanda Cathcart (Neepawa leisure services manager)
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