Niverville’s town council met for their regularly scheduled meeting at the Community Resource and Recreation Centre on the evening of October 19. The meeting was also streamed via Microsoft Teams. However, there were technical issues this week, so a few moments of the meeting were cut off for those attempting to participate online.

Although many people don’t know about enVision Community Living, chances are most do know somebody whose life has been impacted by their work. EnVision, a non-profit headquartered in Steinbach but operating throughout the southeast, has a mandate to provide support to those with intellectual disabilities.

A re-enactment of the 1870s Mennonite arrival in Manitoba took place on the morning of October 8. For the occasion, Terry Doerksen of Winnipeg hitched up his 18-month-old ox to a replica Red River cart at the Mennonite Landing site, located southwest of Niverville where the Rat River flows into the Red.

Earlier this year, local businessman Paul Ghuman started his latest venture: the Niverville Party Bus.

On October 5, the news broke that the Town of Niverville will be getting its own dedicated police detachment.

Although here in Manitoba we’ve more or less enjoyed blue skies, high vaccination rates overall, and low daily case counts throughout the summer, the last two weeks of September demonstrated that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t finished with us quite yet.