In 2013, 28-year-old Drew Cook passed away suddenly of a heart condition that he didn’t know he had. A year later, his widow, Ashley Humphrey, decided to host a fundraiser in his memory called Heaps of Dreeps.

“We wanted to do something in memory of him and thought, what better way to do it than to have a huge summer end party, all the while raising money for a great cause?” Humphrey says. “It also raises awareness of heart disease [to] maybe prevent this from happening to someone else.”

This year’s event will be the third Heaps of Dreeps fundraiser and will be held on September 10. The event runs from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. Children are free and allowed until 6:00 p.m. There will be games, a bouncy castle, and face-painting for kids.

In addition to the five-kilometre run/walk at this year’s annual Imagine Run at Hespeler Park in Niverville, the Imagine team has organized a full day of entertainment geared for the whole family.

Music lessons, whether they be piano, violin, drums, or guitar, are great extracurricular activities for kids. Indeed, music has been shown to improve academic, physical, and social skills in children.

From October 8–14, Manitobans are encouraged to participate in Fire Prevention Week.

The City Harmonic, a Canadian band from Hamilton, Ontario, will perform at Providence University College on Friday, September 2, as part of the school’s Welcome Week festivities. The free concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Rarely do we associate adventure, beauty, and wildlife safaris with Manitoba. Tourists from around the world would disagree. Every summer and fall, hundreds of people from Europe, Asia, Australia, and America make Churchill their vacation destination—and for good reason.

In April, Growing Minds Child Care (GMCC) made their dilemma public. They had too little space to continue childcare services for 14 out of 17 of the children enrolled and entering the school-age care program. A meeting was held at the Heritage Centre with parents of enrolled children, church leaders, business people, the mayor, and select politicians in attendance, all seeking to understand the impact of the situation and how they could participate in finding solutions.

“People who love to eat are always the best people,” said famed chef, author, and television personality Julia Child. Melissa Hryb, chef and one-time Niverville resident, couldn’t agree more. Child’s quote blazons from a large chalkboard sign overlooking the dining room of the Marion Street Eatery, where Hryb and business partner Laneil Smith serve up daily home-cooked dishes made for people who love to eat.

Agatha Wiebe Braun was born in humble circumstances in her family home southeast of Grunthal in 1921. She was the fourth child of a family of six and had one sister and four brothers. As with many others in the builder generation, times were difficult and her family eked out a living by farming land that was neither rich nor fertile.

It seems you can’t buy an ear of corn these days without somebody giving you their opinion about how that corn was grown. A lot of people have a lot to say about genetically modified organisms (GMOs)—food in particular—and they’re not afraid to let you know what should and should not find its way to your dinner table.