On a chilly November 11 morning, a moderate crowd gathered around the cenotaph on Niverville’s Main Street to pay homage to those who fought for our freedom and those who have served to bring and maintain the peace since the great World Wars.

The Rural Municipality of Ritchot is working with HTFC Planning & Design to create plans to revitalize the main streets of three of its biggest communities: St. Adolphe, Ste. Agathe, and Île-des-Chênes.

Who doesn’t remember the monotony of eating lunch at school? What parent wouldn’t appreciate a break from planning and preparing lunches for their teenagers? Well, every Tuesday at noon, ten regular volunteers (and three subs) provide that reprieve by preparing lunch for up to 200 high school students in Niverville—and all it costs is two toonies.

Christmas Memories 2016

The world has truly lost a great leader in the death of Fidel Castro. This greatness is unarguable, for by greatness I mean charismatic leadership and creation of change. What will likely be debated is whether the good of the man, the good of his actions, outweighed the bad. And, as is often the case, determining this tally may lead to a study of the alternatives, those that were and those that could be.

These last few weeks have found me sifting through the aftermath of the U.S. election in the hope of finding some salvageable life lessons with which to move forward. One thing I have learned is that I no longer desire to be a brick in any wall that serves to further alienate me from others.

King Herod, who ruled Judea when Jesus was born, was a brutal man who killed his father-in-law, several of his ten wives, and two of his sons. He ruthlessly suppressed any challenge to his rule. Herod’s heavy taxes, used to pay for lavish projects, forced an unfair burden on the Jewish citizens who were in a state of groaning over the oppressive Roman rule

Some of us have had the privilege to take skating lessons when we were young, less fragile, and able to bounce back up from a hefty fall. Others of us, frankly, weren’t that interested in learning how to skate.

The Niverville Panthers Junior Varsity volleyball team won the AAA Provincials this past weekend, defeating the Linden Christian Wings in straight sets in Landmark on Saturday, November 26.

The Southwest Jets AA (Bantam) hockey club is comprised of 13–14-year-old players from the southwest part of Manitoba’s Eastman region. The communities involved are Niverville, St. Adolphe, Ste. Agathe, St. Pierre, St. Malo, Grunthal, Dominion City, Vita, and as far south as Emerson.