If you attended the Niverville Olde Tyme Country Fair this past year, you may have noticed a few people walking around carrying exotic birds on their arms. They were from the Wildlife Haven Centre, based out of Île-des-Chênes, Manitoba. Since 1984, they have helped over 35,000 injured and orphaned wildlife.

Skating and sliding are without question two favourite winter activities in these parts. It’s just that most of us prefer to do them on a local rink or toboggan hill, not on a provincial highway. So it comes as no surprise that a healthy number of Manitobans are choosing to take advantage of Manitoba Public Insurance’s Winter Tire Program.

It may not be quite the prize as the hoverboard made famous by Marty McFly in Back to the Future, but today’s power-assisted stand scooter is proving itself a close runner-up. In the past few years, there’s been a resurgence of interest in what most of us previously considered a children’s toy. Adding an electric motor to the traditional stand scooter has made it appealing to all ages.

Plastic is everywhere. From cellophane to storage bags to water bottles, it has become one of the most widely used synthetic products for food and garbage containment since World War II. Loved for its versatility, it is lightweight, inexpensive to produce, strong, and waterproof.

As the cold weather approaches and the fields transform back into rolling scrubland from the bursting oases of greens, yellows, and blues they were just one month ago, we have the opportunity to reflect on another year in Niverville’s biggest and oldest industry: agriculture.

On September 15, 2015, a natural gas explosion and fire began at TransCanada’s St. Vincent Compressor Sta-
tion in Kittson County, Minnesota, just across the border from Ridgeville, Manitoba. RCMP notified a few proper-
ties along the border but no homes were evacuated.

Wiens Furniture is in the process of adding 5,000 square feet of new retail space to their store on Main Street. Construction is already underway.

As a kid growing up in Niverville, I so well remember the times when Jack Stott came to the school on Remembrance Day to talk about his experiences as a soldier.

A Soldier Died Today

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, with Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945. But here in Canada, to the generations since that have little connection to those historic events, it can be hard to appreciate the magnitude of the war years—and specifically, Canada’s role in them.