Bristal Hauling has moved their head office from Niverville’s industrial park further into town.

For the first time in many years, École St. Adolphe School is participating in a student exchange program. Nine Grades 7–8 students will be travelling to Quebec from February 6–13.

Beginning November 17, Ste. Agathe residents will have access to their own hometown doctor. Using newly created clinic space inside the Ste. Agathe Pharmacy, Dr. Riviraj Warnakulasooriya, more easily called Dr. Rivi, will meet with scheduled and drop-in patients from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. every Friday going forward.

An associate professor of biology at Providence University College, Dr. Rebecca Dielschneider, was awarded the Simon and Sarah Israels Thesis Prize earlier this month for her doctoral thesis, entitled “Targeting Susceptible Signaling Pathways in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.” The annual prize, in the amount of $2,000, is presented to a graduate student at the Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology.

In today’s world of uncertainty and turmoil, it would seem we are past the age of innocence. If you read and listen to both conventional and social media, you may have noticed that this has united many people. In others it has sparked fear, and not only fear but anger, frustration, and an alarming level of intolerance.

Many of us have thoughtfully reflected upon what dreams and desires we would like to experience in this new year. It’s natural to desire positive change, but if you’re at all like me, you need to see immediate results if you’re going to stay the course. Yet my unwillingness to “patiently wait” has prevented many of my desires from coming to fruition.

Back before there was a Tim Hortons in Niverville. Before there was a sushi restaurant. Before there were estates off Fifth Avenue. Before you’d even recognize the place if you weren’t there to see it. Before the commuters and growing pains, when Niverville was a different town in a different era, there was the Niverville Curling Club. It’s still here now, and it hasn’t changed as much as everything around it.

The St. Adolphe Winter Carnival, which has been a feature of the community for almost 40 years, took place over the last weekend of January in the community club.

Without question, residents of St. Adolphe, not to mention the daily commuters who travel through the town, anxiously await a planned rehabilitation project for the town’s Main Street.

The Winnipeg Jets/Atlanta Thrashers franchise has never had consistent goaltending. Ondrej Pavelec is the current franchise leader in games played (375), wins (150), losses (156), overtime/shootout losses (47), and shutouts (17). He also has a 0.907 save percentage and 2.86 goals against average for his career. All of these numbers scream “mediocre,” yet he’s been relied upon as the number one goalie for years.