For Imagine Mental Health Matters, it’s always been about taking the first step. The first step to ending the stigma that mental health issues carry. The first step to preventing suicide and directing people to the help they need.

The Citizen is approaching its first anniversary next month, and to celebrate we are once again increasing our distribution. Starting this month, all residents of Niverville, Île-des-Chênes, Ste. Agathe, New Bothwell, Otterburne, and Tourond will receive our paper in the mail, even if they don’t normally accept flyers. The paper’s total current distribution is pegged at 5,000.

Cue the summer of 1874, when the Dominion of Canada was seven years old and the Province of Manitoba only four, when Louis Riel himself was the Member of Parliament for Provencher, and when the population of Winnipeg was almost exactly the same as Niverville’s today (5,000). Niverville was nothing but a proposed stop on the new Canadian Pacific Railway, and the only so-called development there consisted of a couple of storehouses and stables which have all been lost to the sands—or, in Niverville’s case, swamps—of time.

When you walk, more than 200 individual muscles spring into action, including all the muscles in your spine and pelvic area. Walking is easy and offers many benefits to your overall health.

The heat is here, the kids are home, and the holidays are in full swing. Too bad we can’t take a holiday from cooking. If those family reunions, church picnics, and baby showers have you eating more potato salad and cupcakes than your body needs, try these healthy summer backyard barbecue ideas.

Functional fitness. You hear about it a lot—on television, on social media, and pretty much anywhere you go. You may not recognize the term, but if you see someone carrying in groceries or squatting down to pick something up, that’s functional fitness in action.