The Town of Niverville will be cleaning sewers throughout the community from September 11–15. Although no exact route or timeline has been identified yet, sewers along the following streets will be affected: Main Street, First Street North, Second Street North, Third Street North, First Avenue North, Second Avenue, Third Avenue, Fourth Avenue North, Ritchot Drive, Church Street, as well as all residents of The Highlands up to Muirfield Cove.

The RM of Ritchot has partnered with Southern Health-Santé Sud, Gabrielle-Roy, and some passionate volunteers to grow locally sourced vegetables in Île-des-Chênes’s community gardens. The new garden boxes, located to the northeast of Gab-Roy along the Hamilton Road bus loop, are bursting with fresh produce.

While hockey is almost a prerequisite sport for boys in rural Manitoba, girls have more recently been introduced to the game and are loving it. Kristen Fontaine of the Île-des-Chênes Minor Hockey Association board has been working to bring an all-girls team to the Ritchot and Niverville area—and she’s seen an exceptional level of interest.

Ritchot’s 2017 budget plan is finalized and property tax bills are in mailboxes. A three-month break in council administration and a by-election left residents of the municipality in limbo until the new budget could pass its final readings.

True to their fall campaign pledge, the NDP will be making good on their promise to apply a temporary freeze to the 14-cent per litre provincial fuel tax as of January 1.

About 200 resident students are settling in at Providence University College this week despite a fire earlier this summer that claimed Bergen Hall, the men’s dormitory. The university has been busy making alternate arrangements to ensure that the fire doesn’t result in any disruptions.

Ethan (Grade 5) and Logan Maroni (Grade 6) are well rounded athletes.

Over the past few years, Niverville has been on the forefront of implementing environmentally friendly policies. Among their most successful initiatives is the ongoing decommissioning of the town’s sewage lagoon through a bioremediation process. This led to Niverville receiving a Manitoba Excellence in Sustainability Award in 2014.

The Town of Niverville has partnered with Community Safety Net to help raise awareness about drug safety. The initiative is targeted at local young people, to help ensure that they have access to the information they need to make smart life choices.

For ten years, the annual Imagine Run has been a fixture on Niverville’s event calendar, and the same will be true this year as the run once again transforms Hespeler Park on September 23 into a family-friendly party zone. But as the run marks its ten-year anniversary, it also bids farewell.