Every year in September, whether you’re a homeowner, farmer, landlord, or business owner, you contribute to education funding in the Hanover School Division. In Manitoba, as in many provinces, it appears as a school division levy on your property tax bill.

Three years after the provincial government’s initiative to reduce class sizes, an expansion of Niverville Elementary School (NES) has finally been approved. The Kindergarten to Grade 4 school will see the addition of 5 new classrooms by fall of 2016. The province’s mandate is to ensure a maximum of 20 children per K–3 classroom to allow for more one-on-one time with teachers during these critical early years. The province is giving school divisions 5 years to implement the initiative, and by Sept-ember 2017 all Manitoba schools will need to be compliant.

If you’ve been around the Niverville Heritage Centre recently, it’s hard to miss the construction happening on the southeast corner of the campus. This new $14-million facility is the Heritage Life Retirement Living complex and it’s the last piece of a dream that started over 15 years ago.

At the fall Parade of Homes award ceremony on October 17, Heritage Lane Builders took home 4 awards for houses built in Niverville and St. Adolphe. Among the prizes were 2 gold, 1 bronze, and a special recognition honour.

Earlier this year, Niverville area resident George Dyck was honoured by the Winnipeg Police Service.

The second annual Heaps of Dreeps fundraiser went off without a hitch on August 29, raising $12,000 for The Heart and Stroke Foundation. The yearly event is organized in memory of Drew Cook, who passed away in 2013 due 
to a rare undiagnosed heart condition.