Winnipeg Free Press By: Declan Schroeder
Oh, mini marshmallows. whither thou goest?
Winnipeg Free Press
Oh, mini marshmallows. whither thou goest?
After a year filled with stress, suffering and often shortages, it was these puffy packets of sugary softness that represented, perhaps, the most unexpected empty spaces on store shelves.
Mini marshmallows were in short supply over the Christmas season. (Robert Cronkleton / Kansas City Star files)
The perfect storm of the innately Instagrammable hot chocolate bombs going viral online, the holiday season arriving, and more people being at home with time to kill making edible gifts meant bags of these sweet cylinders were snapped up as soon as they appeared.
2020: The Year in Pictures
12/31/20 8:59 AM
On many days during this harrowing pandemic, the Daily Reporter’s Tom Russo has found himself in the middle of many of our communities’ defining moments of the year, from the first days of COVID-fueled panic-buying in March to the first injections of the vaccine in December. These moments are part of a rich tableau of our experiences COVID-related and otherwise that Tom chronicled through his lens in 2020. This online gallery features more photographs than were published in the New Year’s Eve print edition.
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The summer of 2020 was a time of reckoning on the issue of racial equality after the death of George Floyd, a Black man from Minneapolis, while in police custody. Rhys Deiter a member of the New Palestine High School class of 2020, joined in the conversation during the school s graduation ceremony, held in July after a COVID-driven delay. (Tom Russo | Daily Reporter)
What books have most profoundly shaped how you serve and lead others for the sake of the gospel?
A handful of girlfriends and I memorized Colossians, plus a good chunk of Ephesians, a couple years ago. Getting those words into my heart and mind have had a huge effect on me. The supremacy of Christ in Colossians 1 is grounds for immeasurable comfort and joy. God’s grace displayed in these two letters has served as an antidote to self-centeredness and reminded me to be God-centered in my life, as well as in my serving and leading of others.
Along those same lines, reading John Piper’s
Rabobank Best of The Country - December 19, 2020
18 Dec, 2020 03:59 PM
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The Country
This week on the Best of The Country, Jamie Mackay caught up with Rabobank senior dairy analyst Emma Higgins, who finally shed her nickname The Grinch as the bank upped its forecast milk price.
This week s top interviews were:
Jane Smith:
The North Otago farmer and former winner of the BFEAs gave us her good, bad and ugly nominations for 2020. She also told us why this year was brought to you by the letter W.
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Emma Higgins:
The Rabobank senior dairy analyst shed her Jamie Mackay-appointed nickname The Grinch as the bank ups its forecast milk price.
The Country - Christmas edition
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The Country
It s beginning to look a lot like Christmas today on The Country, so Jamie Mackay is playing songs from his favourite festive film - Love Actually.
Don t forget to enter the Southfuels competition to win 1000 litres of diesel.
It s also the last day for The Country s Countdown to Christmas, so head to our Facebook page so you can spread a bit of festive cheer with Rabobank - $1000 to the charity of your choice.
On with the show: