After a bit of uncertainty this winter and spring, fireworks are a go for the 2018 edition of the Niverville Olde Tyme Country Fair. This will come as especially good news to the many local residents who came forward in recent months to praise the annual fireworks display, citing it as the one of the biggest highlights of the fair.

Scorpions Elite Cheer (SEC) had another successful season, taking home the provincial championship title on May 5 in Portage la Prairie.

They say age is just a number. But for two Niverville centenarians, theirs marks a pretty significant number—100! Susana Doerksen and Mary Peters are both residents of the Heritage Life Personal Care Home in Niverville, and they are the first in the facility to reach this major milestone. 

It’s been an exciting spring for Keegan Beer. The 18-year-old has been playing basketball with the Niverville Panthers for years, and after two years of near misses the team finally made it to provincials and won the Boys AA championship. The Panthers went in as the number one seeded team and defeated the defending champions, the Carman Cougars, 76–40 to capture Niverville Collegiate’s first Varsity Boys banner for basketball in 40 years.

Christina Colyn, Manitoba born and raised, is coming home and will be ready to hit the stage with songs from her new album on June 2 at the West End Cultural Centre. Her album, Uncaged, is a reflection of her own journey of self-rediscovery and breaking away from personally imposed limitations. 

On Friday, May 25, Prairie Soul Dance Company hosted their year-end recital at the Pantages Playhouse Theatre in Winnipeg. The evening featured 40 performances by both recreational and competitive students, ranging in age from two years old to adult.

Although Niverville’s splash pad in Hespeler Park would ordinarily turn on the taps around June 1, it’s currently unknown when exactly the pad will open for the summer of 2018. The water use restrictions in place for Niverville residents is the main cause of uncertainty.

Old Drovers Run (ODR) in Niverville is set to host a whiteout party for Jets fans on Friday, May 18 when the Jets meet the Las Vegas Golden Knights in the highly anticipated Game 4 of the Western Conference Final. Although the Jets opened the series with a victory in Winnipeg, they dropped the next two to Vegas and now find themselves in desperate need of a win on hostile ice.

The whole notion of artificial intelligence can evoke various levels of excitement and fear when it comes up in conversation these days—and both are likely fair responses when referring to something that’s still as obscure as artificial intelligence is. No one quite knows how it will affect our lives.

If there were ever one game you could watch that represented the entirety of the Winnipeg Jets 2017–18 campaign, Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Nashville Predators would be it.