30-year-old Kaeleb Visram only began taking pictures a year ago, but in that short time something remarkable has happened. He’s gone from working full-time at his own successful carpentry business to becoming a professional photographer.

On February 6, 2014, only three months after my wife and I moved back home to Niverville from our two-year stay in Ontario, I got an email from a filmmaker in Winnipeg named Orlando Braun. The subject line of the email read “Menno Documentary Inquiry.”

Federal Lights, the Winnipeg-based pop rock group with Niverville roots, has spent the last few years touring extensively throughout Canada and Europe.

The NCI drama team has finally settled on a play. This year, the team will mount “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.

Moroccan art may not be something a lot of Manitobans are familiar with, but to artist Ahmed Laarissa, it is his passion. Laarissa has been painting in this difficult style for many years.

What do you get when you cross a traditional medium like crochet with pleather? It’s not the start of a joke; it’s the start of a brand-new business. Created by two Niverville women, Joyful House Designs is a small online business that sells custom-made pillows. The pillows, which come in an array of creative shapes, sizes, and colours, are painstakingly crafted by sisters-in-law Bethany Speers and Melodie McMahon.

The pair teamed up to start this enterprise early last year.