For the second year running, a team of management and staff at Wm. Dyck and Sons plied their skills at a worksite far from home: Tactic, Guatemala. In February 2018, co-owner Heather Fast and nine staffers spent eight days in this rural area of South America, volunteering their labour at an orphanage soon to be opened by Impact Ministries. 

In 1973, my father purchased ten acres of land south of Mitchell. At the time, minimum wage was $1.90 per hour and the land cost $80 per acre. Today, two acres of land in the same area sells for $80,000–90,000.

I remember one Easter growing up very specifically. We sat down to eat dinner together as a family, and it was a meal that none of us kids particularly liked. As we ate, my parents left for the Easter service at church, leaving us alone at home. We were old enough to fend for ourselves, but not old enough to make wise decisions yet. Since it was a dinner we didn’t like, we conspired to throw out and hide our food so we wouldn’t have to eat it.

Fifteen-year-old Riley Weir is an all-around kind of guy. He is a floor hockey goalie, competes in track, and has his red belt in taekwondo. He sings and plays guitar, acts in high school dramas, and gets involved in school life wherever possible. To the staff and students of École Gabrielle Roy in Île-des-Chênes, it would seem that Riley loves everyone and everyone loves Riley.

The Niverville Nighthawks are inviting you to their second annual gala fundraiser dinner on February 10. This year’s gala will feature a silent auction extravaganza, a live auction spectacle, a meet and greet with the players and coaching staff, and gourmet dining infused with community spirit.

Niverville Collegiate’s Junior Varsity girls basketball team headed to provincials this year in Somerset, Manitoba. 

The Winnipeg Jets are heading back to the NHL playoffs, and they’re doing so in incredible fashion. From Patrik Laine putting up a 15-game point streak (the longest point streak by any teenager in NHL history) to the Jets setting a new franchise record for wins in a single season (49 and counting), the month of March was full of positive storylines.

March 24 marked a date that Margaret Kyle of Niverville won’t soon forget—the official launch of her book, Landmark Roses. Kyle was co-author and key contributor to the historical fiction novel, set in 1940s rural Manitoba. She was joined by author Nancy M. Bell and a host of family, friends, and book keeners at McNally Robinson in Winnipeg.

The Hanover School Division has appointed Kimberley Funk as principal for the new high school in Niverville, which is shortly about to begin construction.

Another season of Clippers hockey has come to a close.