Mark your calendars! The Niverville Fire & EMS Department will be hosting their annual perogy dinner fundraiser on Friday, November 11 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the Golden Friendship Centre.

With 493 post-secondary students enrolled in classes this year, Providence is boasting its highest enrollment since the 2009–10 academic year.

The Niverville Elementary School addition, which has been underway throughout the summer and fall, is on track for completion at the end of October, confirms Hanover School Division Superintendent Randy Dueck. The addition will introduce five urgently needed new classrooms to the crowded school.

For 37 years, Mitch Beauchemin has been a type 1 diabetic. He understands the struggles of living with the disease as well as anyone. Now, as an advocate for the Canadian Diabetes Association, he wants to help other sufferers gain access to the necessary tools and information to control the disease and get their lives back on track.

Niverville’s town council will soon be settling in for another annual weekend of community planning and goal-setting. It’s at these think-tanks where ideas hatch and plans grow, without the usual interruptions of a counsellor’s daily routine. The 2017 planning session will be held November 18–19 at the Clarion Hotel in Winnipeg. 

It’s harvest time and we are hopeful that this season’s yield is a profitable one. Farmers are working day and night to gather their crops while avid gardeners busily preserve the fruits and vegetables they have grown.