Construction on the new commercial strip mall at 31 Main Street in Niverville hasn’t even begun yet, but the storefronts are quickly being snapped up.

On Tuesday, November 2, Niverville’s town council convened for a regularly scheduled meeting at the Community Resource and Recreation Centre.

The hospitality industry has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic. Service-based operations have dealt with public health restrictions and lockdowns that specifically target environments where staff has to have close contact with the public.

Sometime in the first half of 2023, as previously announced, the rapidly expanding town of Niverville will finally get its own RCMP detachment. The new station will be built on the same campus as Niverville’s municipal offices.

Starting today, October 26, the provincial government has extended the current public health orders for an additional three weeks—although there are many reasons to expect that these orders, or similar versions, will remain in place over the winter.

On October 18, Manitoba’s provincial government brought in a vaccine mandate for frontline workers. Public employees in education, licensed daycares, hospitals, and other workplaces are now required to be fully vaccinated or undergo regular COVID-19 testing.