At a regular meeting of Niverville’s council on the morning of Tuesday, October 8, the announcement was made that Niverville is in the running to host the 2022 Manitoba Winter Games.

CAO Eric King informed council that town administration is in the final stages of preparing a bid to host the Games. In order to bid, the Town of Niverville would agree to take responsibility for any deficit associated with the Games, to contribute at least $75,000 to cover capital expenditures, and other conditions as laid out by the Manitoba Winter Games.

King indicated that the $75,000 payment would not come from the town coffers but rather from private partnerships interested in seeing the Games come to Niverville.

Council voted in favor of making the bid. The announcement for a host community will be made in January.

“There’d be [about] 700 athletes… and they come with [family] so we’d have 3,000 to 4,000 extra people in town that weekend,” says King. “There’s lots of economic spin-offs.”