In August, two sisters from Île-des-Chênes will represent Manitoba at the Canada Summer Games, competing for the province’s female box lacrosse team. It will be the sport’s first-ever competition at the Summer Games.

On June 12, Volleyball Manitoba recognized the lifetime achievements of Don Dulder, head coach of the Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) Blazers volleyball team and former Phys Ed teacher and volleyball coach at Niverville Collegiate Institute.

On Wednesday, June 23, the RM of Ritchot’s council voted unanimously in favour of opening a reserve fund which will be used for projects or expenditures that help mitigate the effects of local flooding in future years.

Delegates representing two different conditional use permit applications made presentations to Niverville’s town council at their June 21 public meeting, pitching their homebased business ideas.

In an effort to ease financial burdens for Niverville families in the coming year, council announced at their June 21 public meeting that they will recommend that the Public Utilities Board (PUB) freeze water utility costs in the coming year.

Local licenced daycares could soon benefit from recently announced grant funding courtesy of the Town of Niverville. At a June 21 public meeting, the town’s council approved a motion for a new initiative to provide up to $20,000 to potential daycare provider applicants.

Niverville is now home to its first full-time optometric office. The new venture, Clarity Vision, is open for business at Unit C2-10 Cedar Drive.

A class of 13 Grade 12 students have wrapped up their final year at Niverville High School, having gained new insight on what it means to be global citizens. Much of this is thanks to an elective course the students participated in called Global Issues, Citizenship and Sustainability, taught by Adrienne Happychuk.

On July 15–16, Ste. Agathe will welcome people back to the Cheyenne Summer Festival. Like most other events, the festival suffered back-to-back cancellations for the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but organizers are excited to once again offer family fun and local entertainment.

St. Adolphe’s busy Main Street will soon be under much-needed construction. The province has announced that they’re getting ready to begin patchwork repairs to this busy commuter route.