Prairie Soul Dance Company of Niverville is encouraging residents to spend their Thursday evenings in August participating in a barre and yoga class.

Clipper Ice Sports in Niverville wants to get the word out that registration for the upcoming 2018–2019 hockey season is open. This year, signups are solely available online at the Hockey Canada website (see below).

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.

John Funk has served on Niverville’s town council for more than 30 years, longer than anyone else in the town’s history. He was first elected in a 1988 by-election when two seats opened up midterm, seats which were heavily contested when an unprecedented 11 candidates threw their hats into the ring.

With the municipal elections coming up this fall, on October 24, voters will be looking to our slates of candidates and judging them based on their ideas and platforms. Sometimes we spend so much time evaluating candidates by their politics, though, that we forget to evaluate them as potential leaders.
This is the second article in an ongoing column by Clarence Braun, former mayor of Niverville, about the qualities of leadership we should look for in those who will lead our communities for the next four years.

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. 

It is a well-known economic theory that the three major factors in free markets—resources, labour, and capital—will be used or invested in the area where they are most productive. According to the theory, these factors, and the people who direct them, will always look for the greatest efficiency, and hence the greatest profit.

On Monday, July 9, a demolition crew made short work of the commercial rental property sandwiched between Country Snacks and Gan’s Kitchen in Niverville. The demolition of 166 Main Street will make way shortly for a significant expansion to Country Snacks.

Niverville and surrounding area will soon be able to cut out one extra trip to the city. Construction on the Great Canadian Dollar Store will begin early this summer and provide the region’s thrifty shoppers with over 6,500 square feet of great deals.

Fifteen-year-old Hailey Sigurdson fulfilled a long-time dream in July, a dream realized thanks to the help of The Dream Factory, her NCI peers, and the community at large. In mid-July, Sigurdson and her family indulged in the sights, sounds, and experiences of Prince Edward Island.