As the calendar flips to September, the local Clippers program is gearing up for another season of great local hockey. Conditioning skates will soon get underway and tryouts are slated to begin on September 17.

The Niverville Chamber of Commerce held their annual golf tournament fundraiser on Friday, August 24—under sunny skies, a welcome change from the bad weather that hampered the last several Chamber tournaments.

Sarah is seven years old and is going into Grade Two.

When Jets management decided not to offer a contract to lifetime Thrasher/Jet defenseman Tobias Enstrom, it marked the end of an era for both sides. Enstrom, originally an eighth-round draft pick of the Thrashers in 2003 (yes, they’re used to be an eighth round), had worked his way up the rank and onto the team in the 2007–08 roster, where in his debut season he dressed up for all 82 games. From there on out, it was practically a guarantee that when the Thrashers hit the ice, you would at some point see number 39 lacing up, should he not be held back by injuries—which plagued him in his final years in Winnipeg.

Grace Mayers is an 11-year-old from Niverville who has completed Grade Five. She started the dance program at Prairie Soul when she was four years old and has continued to dance competitively every year since. 

Across Manitoba, young men and women are getting ready to grab grass and growl as the 2018 minor football season gets set to kick off. Locally, the story is no different. A number of area kids are signed up and pumped up for another season.