Our local health authority, Southern Health-Santé Sud, is encouraging people to get this year’s flu vaccine. Although the seasonal flu vaccination is available every year, it is seen as being especially important this year, to reduce the risk of serious illness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last Friday, the provincial government announced $6,000 in new grant funding earmarked to complete the Town of Niverville’s Heritage Wall, to be constructed this month in front of the Niverville Credit Union parking lot on Main Street.

If you were looking for an excuse not to rake the leaves in your yard this year, then the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is happy to give you one. Their advice is to leave the rake in the shed and the leaves on the ground. It’s not about laziness, it’s about being a conscientious environmentalist.

Staff Sergeant Guy Landreville from the St. Pierre RCMP detachment appeared at a meeting of Niverville’s town council on October 6 to present a report on how the town is doing on issues of crime and policing.

On October 6, the Town of Niverville received a water quality report for the retention ponds in Fifth Avenue Estates from Native Plant Solutions.

Thanks to a generous grant, Ste. Agathe will be developing a dock and boat launch project in the centre of the town along the west bank of the Red River. On Friday, October 2, the Ste. Agathe Community Development Inc. along with the Conseil de dévelopement économique du Manitoba (CDEM) held a press conference at the Ste. Agathe Community Centre to announce the project.