The Niverville Elementary School will be holding their annual Christmas program on December 16–17 at the school’s gymnasium, with 2 shows each day: a matinee at 1:30 p.m. and an evening performance at 7:00 p.m. The show will feature students from Kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2. Only half of each grade will be represented each respective day.

It’s been said that one can only see the stars when it gets dark enough. Briana Bloom is a testament to that. Briana looks like your average 14-year-old. She is demure and sweet. Sitting cross-legged in blue jeans across from me, we are surrounded by a gathering of button-eyed monkeys and other delightful creatures of her making.

Niverville’s Hayden Fast is playing professional hockey this season in Sweden. The 20-year-old has signed on to play with the Söderhamn/Ljusne HC, a team which plays at the Division 2 level.

For most of us, Christmas is a special time of year accompanied by the sights, sounds, and smells of the season. Simply put, it is a wonderful time for sensory overload. I have to admit, though, that I sometimes find it quite overwhelming. Don’t get me wrong: I love all of the celebrations and food, but my struggle comes from the fact that I am a self-described minimalist when it comes to design and décor.

At the fall Parade of Homes award ceremony on October 17, Heritage Lane Builders took home 4 awards for houses built in Niverville and St. Adolphe. Among the prizes were 2 gold, 1 bronze, and a special recognition honour.

On Election Day, October 19, Conservative MP Ted Falk won re-election in the riding of Provencher. However, this time he’ll head back to Ottawa as an opposition Member of Parliament—and 60 of his former colleagues in the Conservative caucus won’t be joining him.

While party strategists may lay the best plans and pollsters the most refined algorithms, it is ultimately the voice of the people that roars loudest. And so we sit following an election with unprecedented final tallies, wondering how this came to be.

If you’ve been around the Niverville Heritage Centre recently, it’s hard to miss the construction happening on the southeast corner of the campus. This new $14-million facility is the Heritage Life Retirement Living complex and it’s the last piece of a dream that started over 15 years ago.

Three years after the provincial government’s initiative to reduce class sizes, an expansion of Niverville Elementary School (NES) has finally been approved. The Kindergarten to Grade 4 school will see the addition of 5 new classrooms by fall of 2016. The province’s mandate is to ensure a maximum of 20 children per K–3 classroom to allow for more one-on-one time with teachers during these critical early years. The province is giving school divisions 5 years to implement the initiative, and by Sept-ember 2017 all Manitoba schools will need to be compliant.

Every year in September, whether you’re a homeowner, farmer, landlord, or business owner, you contribute to education funding in the Hanover School Division. In Manitoba, as in many provinces, it appears as a school division levy on your property tax bill.