As the leaves hit the ground and the nights get chilly, friends are gathering all across Canada in groups of fours to throw lead rocks on a new curling season. It’s no different in our region, where the St. Adolphe Curling Club is ready to rock for another year.

A rewarding inaugural season for the Niverville Rush U15 boys soccer team has come to a close.

The Niverville Panthers had a highly successful volleyball season this past fall. Both the girls and boys junior varsity teams secured their zone championships, earning for them the right to compete at the provincial level.

Many of us know how to toss around a Frisbee, whether we learned it at home, played Ultimate in high school, or even tossed a disc for our dog. But have you heard of disc golf? 

Quinn and Dot offers modern design and comfort in clothing for infants and young children while keeping it local. Its owner, Rachel Drader, lives in Niverville.

On October 7, hundreds of people will flock to Roland, Manitoba to see a showdown between the province’s avid pumpkin growers. The Roland Pumpkin Fair has been around since the 1970s, and this year both the pumpkins and the fair promise to be bigger and better than ever—and that’s saying something, given that last year’s winning pumpkin was a whopping 1,338 pounds!

A local photography company is offering a fresh take on family photos. The Little Things is owned and operated by Kayla Hoskins from Niverville, although she offers her services to clients in a broad region throughout Winnipeg and the rural southeast.

The original pioneers of Niverville, of both British and Mennonite ancestry, inspired many other groups to settle the prairies by demonstrating its enormous agricultural potential. The hardiness and determination of these early settlers, many coming from a harsh environment in Russia, ensured that this unforgiving land would be transformed into a place from which livelihoods could be wrested, in spite of the challenges.

A sunny and temperate September 23 provided the perfect day for this year’s mental health awareness run. After ten years, Imagine’s last run has come and gone, and its team marked the special day in a fittingly flamboyant fashion: with colour. Lots of colour.

There was plenty of buzz around the Winnipeg Jets this preseason. None of that buzz, however, came from the razor of Patrik Laine. Yes, folks, the 19-year-old has started growing a beard. Whether or not he’s just growing his playoff beard a little early remains to be seen, but the teenager’s five-point game against the Flames this preseason surely expresses his desire to get the regular season underway.