Wes Keating
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1946 - 2026 Watching Steinbach Grow: Jim Penner buying tons of cake mixes (opens the original)
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OCTOBER 5, 1962 – The grocer down the street earned a reputation and a nickname by bringing in train carloads of canned goods to sell at discounted prices, but Jim Penner at Penner’s Tom-Boy is not about to be outdone by “Carload Frank” and promises his “bake sale” this week will “take the cake”. Thirteen tons of Betty Crocker cake mix and assorted General Mills cereals, were delivered by semi-trailer to the Main Street store on Monday. While people eat cake every day, and there shouldn’t be any
1946 - 2026 Watching Steinbach Grow: Huge crowd attends Tom-Boy opening (opens the original)
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FEBRUARY 5, 1960 – Traffic almost came to a halt along Steinbach’s Main Street, as hundreds of cars proceeded to the official opening of Steinbach’s new Tom-Boy store. In spite of the wet snow, hundreds of people stood out in front of the new super-market to await opening ceremonies at 10 a.m., Thursday. Proprietor Jac A. Penner welcomed the guests and well-wishers who, made this venture possible. He introduced Roy O’Neil, manager of Western Grocers, and Jack Rempe[, who had acted in an advisory
1946 - 2026 Watching Steinbach Grow: Car break-down leads to Auto City grocer’s career (opens the original)
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A beat-up old Whippet rattled along a dirt road in central Saskatchewan, where dried up tracts of prairie stretched out on either side. The old machine shifted into low gear and crawled up a hill, barely making it to the top. It was the summer of 1935, midway through ‘the Dirty 30’s. Inside the car was Jac A. Penner and Esther, his bride of two days, both clutching the sides of the car for dear life as they began to roll down the other side of the hill. About halfway down, the couple in the car
COLUMN: Carillon Flashback September 29, 2002 - Grow projects bring out the best (opens the original)
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Throughout the Southeast, farmers, individuals and corporate sponsors are donating time, equipment and services to harvest grain for developing countries. In Manitoba, 28 community growing projects are harvesting 3,000 acres of grain for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB). A lump rises in his throat every time he is at a harvest, according to CFGB Manitoba/Saskatchewan coordinator Henry Klassen. “It is the coming together of all the efforts. It is a coming together of various faiths and is a Ch
COLUMN: Carillon Flashback September 12, 2002 - Steinbach student joins in ‘Ground Zero’ relief (opens the original)
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Like many people, Greg Penner knows exactly where he was Sept. 11, 2001. What he didn’t know at the time was that three months later he would be at “Ground Zero” in New York City, helping with relief efforts at the site of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre. The 24-year-old Steinbach native, who was studying at a mission school in Kelowna, B.C., had just finished breakfast with a group of friends when a woman rushed in with news of planes crashing into the World Trade Centre. Af
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