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We acknowledge the
financial support of the
Government of Canada
through the
Canada Periodical Fund
of the Department of
Canadian Heritage.

Volume 133 Issue 39

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Friday, December , 2015

www.minnedosatribune.com

90 cents plus tax

Brightening The Season

this week

Successful
First
Shift

Visits
With
Santa

Photo by Jeff Pearson

By JEFF PEARSON

Business Owner
Becomes
Canadian
Citizen

warms of people gathered west of the historic Minnedosa CP station Saturday evening
to welcome the Holiday Train. The massive
275,000 lbs., 2000hp locomotive shook the earth
as it slowly pulled the 14
brightly decorated rail
cars into position illuminating the night sky with
hundreds of thousands
technology-leading LED

lights. The crowd of spectators cheered as the music started and the stage
door began to creep open
venting smoke coloured
with stage lighting. Kelly
Prescott, an award-winning country singer and
Holiday Train veteran and
the famed Devin Cuddy
along with the CP Holiday
Train Band, descended
with the stage door on the
modifi ed boxcar creating
a spectacular entrance.
Performing a mix of tra-

ditional and modern holiday-themed songs they

had the crowd singing and
clapping along.
The great live music
and brightly decorated
boxcars are CPs creative
way of raising money and
awareness for Food Banks
and their importance in
the communities. This is
the seventh time the CP
Holiday Train has graced
Minnedosas rails since
2002. Along with the entertainment there was a

special check presentation from CP Rail to the

Minnedosa and Area
Food Bank in the amount
of $5,500. Over the last
seven years CP has donated a gracious $22,200
to our community. Spectators were encouraged
to bring non-perishable
food items that were collected at the event by local
volunteers and passed on
to the Minnedosa Christmas Cheer Board to assist
in the preparation of this

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years Christmas hampers.

Visiting 150 communities in North America
every year now, the CP
Holiday train first graced
the tracks in 1999 and has
raised over $10.6 million
and 3.3 million pounds
of food. This entertaining
Holiday train is certainly
on track and gaining more
steam every year by helping to raise money, food
and awareness for food
banks in all communities.