If you’re reading this, it means that the long wait is over. Niverville finally has a local newspaper: the newly minted Niverville Citizen.

For the past five years, Niverville’s Fire Department has dreamed of purchasing an air bottle fill station. This summer, due to a surge of local support, that dream has become a reality.

On April 30, at the Niverville Community Health Foundation banquet, local volunteer firefighter Gary Macdonald was presented with the Mary Beth Dolin Meritorious Service Award. Macdonald has served for 37 years with the St. James, Winnipeg, and Niverville fire departments.

This fall, local farmers have once again committed to donating their time and property to grow crops for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB). The Niverville Growing Project Committee is comprised of Ken Krahn, Paul Loeppky, Scott Rempel, and Marc Loeppky. Many other farmers and input dealers have pitched in to the effort.

Earlier this year, a committee of volunteers, now known as Friends of the Plex, joined forces with Niverville’s town council to assess our community’s recreation needs. It can now be confirmed that a year-round recreation multiplex is on the way.

Niverville’s Olde Tyme Country Fair, held June 12–13, is always a highlight on the town’s social calendar, drawing visitors from the entire southeast region. 
 

September 26, 2015 marks the eighth annual Imagine Run to support mental health awareness. The event will kick off with a pyrotechnics display at 4:30 p.m. at Hespeler Park in Niverville, setting in motion hundreds of runners and walkers through the 5k or 10k courses. The park will host a full lineup of live entertainment, bouncy castles, a $5 barbecue, a Chinese lantern release, and an outdoor family movie. The purpose of the event is to erase the stigma surrounding mental health issues and suicide through public awareness.

On Saturday, September 30 between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., the St. Adolphe Friendship Trail Volunteer Group (FTVG) will host a Truth and Reconciliation Day event in honour of residential school survivors.

For all those who nurse seemingly impossible dreams, local race car driver David Richert is an inspiration. It’s hard to imagine more unlikely beginnings for a world-class driver than growing up on a family farm in southern Manitoba, not even discovering the world of racing until his late teens. Against such odds, Richert stands tall as one of Niverville’s greatest success stories.

Over the last seven years, a one-hundred-acre land development project has been rising just south of the 311 Highway on the west side of Niverville. For many, it has been rising too slowly and quietly for comfort, and rumors and cynicism have abounded. But under new management, the Old Drovers Run golf course is about to come into its own.