Community. We all have our own idea about what that is. For some of us, it’s the GPS location our car steers towards at the end of the workday. For others, it’s the people who make up that place.

With the population rising in Niverville, talk continues to swirl around the need for a new school. Randy Dueck, Superintendent of the Hanover School Division, says that the division’s top priority right now is a new Grades 9–12 school for the community. Last April, the division requested a new 400-seat high school.

Niverville’s Community Resource Coordinator, Justina Penner, is organizing a series of classes to educate seniors on important subjects related to personal safety. The classes, called the Police Academy, will begin on February 15 and run for six consecutive Wednesdays from 10:00 a.m. until noon.

The Friends of the Plex are hosting a number of fundraising opportunities for the coming month, and beyond.

Niverville’s town council has a lot on its plate for 2017, including important decisions about policing, Main Street traffic, and multiplex funding. These are reported elsewhere in this edition of The Citizen. Council is also moving forward on plans to extend the business park. 

In late January, Providence hired a new professor to join its Psychology faculty. Brianne Collins, who currently teaches at Ambrose University in Calgary, will begin her new position on July 1.