More than ever, people today are turning to less traditional media to find information on issues including public health, COVID-19, and mask-wearing. These sources are often unregulated, saturated with non-experts or discredited experts, and fraught with misinformation.

A group of local golfers gathered on Sunday, August 16 for their annual Masters tournament. In past years, this has been a weekend-long competition held at an out-of-town course. This year, for the first time in the event’s 18-year history, the tournament had to be scaled down, with COVID restrictions in place.

Niverville’s town council met on the evening of Tuesday, August 18 for a brief council meeting. Following the meeting, media was given a guided tour of the Community Resources and Recreation Centre construction site.

On Tuesday, August 18, the Town of Niverville offered a tour for the media to check in on the progress of the new Community Resource and Recreation Centre (CRRC), which will reach completion in the spring of 2021.

Wearing masks to control the spread of COVID-19 has been hotly debated in Manitoba this summer, and the debate only seems to get more intense as time goes on. Whether it’s seen as an urgent need to protect ourselves and others, a simple personal preference, or an outright assault on our freedoms, our opinions on this issue are creating a lot of tension.

Today, Manitoba Public Health officials advised of 38 new COVID-19 cases, 12 of which were identified as coming from the Southern Health region. More specifically, cases in Niverville/Ritchot now sit at 25, with the most recent cases being linked to known clusters.