Automotive Glass Chip Repairs Tinting Farm Equipment Auto Accessories 150C Foxfire Trail Winkler, MB CITY OF WINKLER COMMUNICATOR Voice (204)325-4012 Winkler volume 5 edition 44 SPECIAL NEWSLETTER INSIDE Morden Thursday, October 30, 2014 Locally owned & operated - Dedicated to serving our communities Partying with �Bat Bruce’ The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre hosted its annual Halloween Party last Saturday, with over 50 kids and parents coming out to enjoy pumpkin painting, a dance party with Lulu and the TomCat, and crafts and other themed activities. The afternoon also included a costume contest in front of Bruce the mosasaur, who was dressed as Batman this year. Coming in first place was Logan Froese (Batman) and Summer Davison (the monster in the centre). Search for missing Winkler man comes to a tragic end By Ashleigh Viveiros The search for 19-year-old Travis Sukkau came to a tragic end on Monday when a body was found in the Pembina Valley Provincial Park. RCMP confirmed Tuesday morning that a body had been found in the park the day before but that it had not yet been identified as Sukkau. Police said they continue to investigate Sukkau’s disappearance and that further updates would be provided when possible. Word that the search had come to an end broke Monday afternoon as Sukkau’s family and friends posted the news online, including on the Find Travis Continued on page 2 news > sports > opinion > community > people > entertainment > events > classifieds > careers > everything you need to know HOMESTEAD SOUTH Located in Morden at 400 Loren Dr. just steps away from Boston Pizza off Hwy. #3 Monthly Rent Includes: On site clinic with nurse once per week Meals, housekeeping, linen service Activities and outings Call now for rental info or stop in for a tour! 204 822-1237 www.homesteadmanitoba.ca 2 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 > sukkau, from pg. 1 Facebook page, which was created that day to coordinate the community’s volunteer search efforts after RCMP called off the official search. Sukkau left home early on Oct. 23 to reportedly photograph the fall colours in the park. His family contacted RCMP that evening when he failed to return home. Search efforts began later that same night. Sukkau’s car was found in a wooded area at the park and had been observed parked there since before noon on the day he went missing. Search and rescue teams made up of personnel from several departments spent the weekend looking for Sukkau, making use of helicopters, search dogs, thermal imaging, and drones to hunt for any signs of the young man in the nearly 700 acres of woodland in the valley. For the first time on Monday, the search opened up to community volunteers, whose efforts halted midday when a body was found. No further information on the investigation was available at press time. Volunteers thank community for outpouring of support Over the weekend, while emergency personnel handled the search for Travis Sukkau in the Pembina Valley Provincial Park, local charitable group Donate Love and the Hillside Community Church in Morden began collecting food donations to provide rescuers with meals and snacks. Donate Love’s Kim Klassen said they were overwhelmed by the support they received from the Morden-Winkler communities in those efforts. “The outpouring of generosity from people was amazing,” she said, noting they were able to provide drinks, snacks, and meals to the searchers PHONE 822-4437 throughout the operation, including the volunteers who took over the search from RCMP on Monday. The leftover food will now be distributed to families in need in the two communities, she said. Donate Love and Hillside issued a thank-you to the many individual donors and businesses who helped out, including: Morden Chicken Chef, Coop Foods, Morden Coffee Culture, Morden Tim Hortons, Winkler Subway, The Outpost Grill, Triangle Oasis, Del Rios, Kopper Kettle, Morden McDonalds, Pembina Valley Online, and Radio 88.9. MORDEN Christmas Store Hours (Until the New Year) OPEN SUNDAY 12 noon to 5 p.m. OPEN LATE For the Rest of the week Open November 11 12 noon to 6 p.m. facebook.com/find travissukkau Searchers spent the weekend combing the Pembina Valley Provincial Park for signs of 19-year-old Travis Sukkau, who never returned home from a hike there last Thursday. RCMP confirmed on Tuesday that a body had been found in the park on Monday, but it had not yet been identified as Sukkau as of press time. Martin Harder back for third term as mayor By Ashleigh Viveiros The new City of Winkler council will be split between the old and the new, as Winkler voters gave all the incumbent candidates back their seats in last week’s election, in addition to voting in three newcomers. Voter turnout for the Oct. 22 election was 38.1 per cent (up a full 10 per cent from the 2010 election), with 2,481 of the 6,505 eligible voters filling out their ballots this year. Incumbent Martin Harder defeated challenger Wolfgang Schaefer in the mayor’s race, earning 1,675 votes to Schaefer’s 737. Also elected to city council for another four years were incumbents Don Friesen (1,741 votes), Marvin Plett (1,688 votes), and Henry Siemens (1,677 votes). Newly elected to council were Don Fehr (1,234 votes), Andrew Froese (1,475 votes), and Michael Grenier (1,186 votes). Losing their election bids were David Guenther (645 votes), Teresa Penner (1,040 votes), Neil Reimer (567 votes), and Zahid Zehri (736 votes). Mayor Harder said the day after the election that he’s thrilled to have the confidence of Winkler voters as he begins his third straight term in office. “It’s certainly a pleasure to see the number of people that came out to vote, just over 38 per cent,” he said, adding he hopes the increasing voter turn-out trend will continue in future election years. “It’s gratifying to see that I got 70 per cent of the support.” “I think the issues were pretty clear and our leadership style, my leadership style and council’s leadership style, was very clear and I think the community supported it, as all the incumbents were re-elected,” Harder added. “We also have a nice slate of newcomers . . . I think Continued on page 3 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 Incumbents all re-elected in City of Morden By Cori Bezan The Morden city council looks almost exactly the same as it did prior to the elections held on Oct. 22. With Mayor Ken Wiebe re-elected by acclamation and the five incumbent councillors also retaining their seats, only one new face will appear at the table for the next term. Alex Fedorchuk (who previously served two terms on council from 2002-2010) was voted back to council with 959 votes, taking the vacant seat left by the retiring Maurice Butler. Fedorchuk joins incumbents Hank Hildebrand (952 votes), Doug Frost (897 votes), Heather Francis (884 votes), Brian Minaker (854 votes), and Irvin Wiebe (786 votes). Candidates Harvey Kinsman (759 votes), Bill Potter (569 votes), Marilyn Skubovius (624 votes), Lorne Stelmach (457 votes), and Brian Thiessen (647 votes) all lost their bids for a seat. Morden saw a 33 per cent voter turnout at the elections this year. Seeing council come back mostly intact from the last term is a vote of confidence from Morden residents, says Mayor Ken Wiebe. “It’s rewarding, but it’s also a little bit intimidating and it’s also a little bit humbling to realize that people have that much confidence in you and nobody even wants to run against you,” he said on his acclamation. “It’s a lot of things, but I’m appreciative of the fact that the community has the faith in myself and the council. I think this shows that our council is heading in the right direction.” With all of the returning experience at the table, Wiebe said that they can quickly turn their eyes to the times and projects ahead, including moving ahead with the 2014 Corporate Plan and finding a solution to the day care problem. “Four years ago I wanted to see more day care, and that is something that we haven’t been able to bring to the fore,” Wiebe said. “It’s still something we’re working on—we haven’t given up on it. This city has committed money to it and we’re now waiting for the province to come on board. Once they come on board then we can carry on.” “We have the money set aside for a day care, but the way the funding from the province works is if we start anything before we are given a grant by the province they will match what we have, but if we do anything ahead of time, whatever we’ve done in ad- our plan right now, and it gives us a more solid base come spring for putting in a street.” Looking ahead, Wiebe also hopes to continue working on city infrastructure, installing new sidewalks, and working towards water and wastewater solutions such as a new wastewater treatment facility. “If you have good clean water and somewhere for it to flow when it’s not clean anymore, you’re a progressing community, I believe,” he said. Council gathered on Tuesday for a day of orientation before their inaugural meeting on Nov. 3. • more election coverage on pg. 7 An important message from Agassiz Medical Centre and C.W. Wiebe Medical Centre While there has not yet been a case of Ebola virus disease in Canada and the risk of the disease appearing in Manitoba is extremely low, coordinated efforts continue to prevent its spread from countries that currently have severe outbreaks. If you have travelled to Liberia, Guinea or Sierra Leone, and have any of the following symptoms: > winkler election, from pg. 2 all of them have a lot to contribute and I look forward to working with them.” Harder said that many of the issues raised during the election campaign are well-known to council, and he is eager to get back to work on solving them. “Really, it’s nothing different than what we’ve been focusing on in the last term: we have always had recreation on our agenda . . . and it will happen within the next term,” he said of the expansion to the Winkler Recreation Complex, which was brought up as a major concern by many voters at the Candidates Fo- vance will not be matched, so that’s one of the reasons we haven’t started yet,” he added. “We’re trying to take advantage of the whole grant.” Wiebe also added that they will be proceeding very shortly with some more of the new Tabor Home infrastructure. “We’re now in the process of the infrastructure, [which is] pretty much all in the ground,” he said. “I think everything that has to go in the ground is pretty much done, and now we’re going to get the base prepared for streets for spring installation. Let it settle over the winter, I believe that’s rum the week before the election. The city will also continue to move forward on its ongoing plans for a new regional wastewater treatment plant, Harder said. “We have had a meeting with the federal minister, we know what we need to do with the applications and we’re prepared to do that,” he said. “We will put that project forward in a very short period of time . . . likely within the next year, the next six months.” “We will continue to make the citizens of Winkler proud of their city,” Harder promised for the next four years. • • • • Malaise (general discomfort or uneasiness) Sudden onset of fever • Rash Diarrhea • Vomiting Myalgia (muscle pain) • Sore Throat • Headache Please remain at home and contact us by telephone. 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Instead, hundreds of parents filled Winkler’s Central Station community centre Saturday morning and afternoon to register their pre-school children for the program, which mails out a free book every month to children from birth until they start kindergarten. Sawatzky, a local school librarian, said the program is going to have a big impact on the literacy levels of students in the Garden Valley School Division catchment area. “We have a lot of illiteracy in the area, and with these books, children having exposure to books, when they come to school having had experience with books, we just think it’s going to make a huge difference,” she submitted photo by Cyndie Toews Imagination Library volunteer Judy Unrau signs up the library’s very first child at the kick-off on Saturday. Seven-month-old Charlotte and her mom Destiny Klassen were among the hundreds who came out to register for the free literacy program at the launch party. said. “This program has made a difference wherever it has been in both literacy rates when the children start school as well as in graduation rates, that’s what it translates over to.” It’s been a long road to get the program up and running in the area, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the volunteers who have committed to the program and the community, which has supported the Imagination Library to the tune of $85,000 so far. “It’s incredibly exciting. It’s hum- bling. It’s honouring that people have caught the vision, and caught the vision for what this project can do,” Sawatzky said. “We are not just sending a book to a child once a month. This can be a life changing event. It can be something that affects a child’s life. It essentially can change their future.” In order to keep the program running, ongoing donations will be needed. Sawatzky is optimistic the community will continue to come through for them. “With the response we’ve had, we are going to continue collecting funds and hopefully people will continue to catch the vision for the future of Winkler,” she said, noting they recently received word of a substantial grant as well as a commitment of ongoing support from the Garden Valley School Division. “With that continued support we see only success for this project.” There are 1,800 kids eligible for the program in the GVSD area, and Sawatzky hopes to reach as many of them as possible. Continued on page 7 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 Photo by Cori bezan/Voice Amazing Race Canada winner Tim Hauge Sr. was the guest speaker at this year’s BTHC Foundation gala, which was held in Morden last Friday. BTHC Fdn. gala raises $45,000 By Cori Bezan An evening of good food, fellowship, prizes, and inspirational speeches raised thousands of dollars at the ninth annual Boundary Trails Health Centre Foundation gala in Morden last Friday. “I’m always totally amazed at the support that we get from our community,” said foundation chair Debra Enns. “I think it went awesome. From the feedback that we got after the dinner, everybody was so pleased with the speaker and the dinner, the meal itself, and, from my point of view, it went exactly the way we planned it.” This gala is one of the foundation’s biggest fundraisers. While the numbers haven’t all been tallied yet, Enns said on Monday that they expect to have raised around $45,000 from the sold-old evening. “We sold 372 tickets for it, so that was over and above what we expected,” Enns said. 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My mum was a single parent . . . I am not. I am saying this because more and more I am hearing people say and/or intimate that they are now single parents since their divorce/ separation/conscious uncoupling and I find it annoying because usually they are completely wrong. My own relationship with my children’s mother ended more than four years ago and we now share joint custody of our chilBy Peter dren. I have the kids one week, she Cantelon has them another, and this arrangement has worked very well for us to do the best we both can to not make a bad situation worse for the kids. It also works because we are in a small community. This means that every other week I do not have kids and the following week I am the sole parent in the house . . . this does not make me a single parent on the weeks when I have the children and a childless bachelor on weeks when I do not. On the contrary, I am in regular communication with my children’s mum on weeks when I have them. We text and talk about gymnastics arrangements, school work, discipline, health care and the general well-being of the offspring. I am VERY thankful for this and for her role as my children’s mother. I am not, however, a single parent, because there is someone else out there sharing the load. Let me introduce you to a real single parent. My mum was divorced from my father when I was five. Prior to that he was rarely around, and generally he was a cheating, drunken, non-working, drug-using and violently abusive person. The blessing of women’s shelters was part of my childhood experience. After the divorce, dad was just gone. Oh, we knew where he was. He never left the community, he just never came around anymore. He also never paid child support or alimony. He was invisible. He was not a father. He was not a parent. My mum raised myself and three sisters alone. On welfare. In provincial housing. With no parenting assistance and with all kinds of issues and struggles she was never helped with. She never drowned her sorrows in alcohol or drugs despite being surrounded by an environment saturated with such abuse. She often went without so that we would not have to. She is my biggest hero. That is a single parent. There was no one there sharing the load. Not financially. Not emotionally. Not spiritually. No one but her. Continued on page 7 letters A big thank-you from a grateful family To the unknown mountain biker who found our chocolate Lab, Hazel, on the Lake Minnewasta trail on Tuesday, Oct. 21: Thank you so much for taking care of her and bringing her to the Morden Vet Clinic so that our family could be reunited with her. We are sure that she enjoyed the bike ride with you, but we are very happy to have her back home with us. Thank you for your kindness. The Nadler family, Morden MCC should re-think where it sends its aid Why doesn’t the MCC send Israel ambulances or hospital supplies for the terror victims from rocket attacks? Maybe send some of their highfalutin psychiatrists to Israel to help people suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome because they can’t sleep at night because of rocket sirens. Their military needs blankets and jackets and so forth. And I’m sure there are poor people that could use these things in Israel as well. For sending a non-stop stream of over 12,000 rockets, the Gazan people who voted in the terrorist organization Hamas as their leaders by around 76 per cent got what they deserved during Operation Protective Shield. Building their terror tunnels with supplies they get from other people should only serve to make you want to help them less. If they had the weapons Israel has they would nuke Israel the first chance they got. Joeseph Sparrow, Winkler > Got something you want to get off your chest? How about an act of kindness to share? Send your letters to the editor or acts of kindness to [email protected]. Please include your name, address, and phone number for confirmation purposes. The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 7 New faces on RM of Stanley council this term By Cori Bezan The RM of Stanley council will see several new faces join the table, as the voters elected a new reeve and only two incumbents last week. Morris Olafson will be taking Art Petkau’s place as reeve, beating out Peter Klassen with a total of 493 votes to Klassen’s 392. “It’s a bit of a surprise,” Olafson said. “I had a very worthy opponent, Peter Klassen. He’s done a lot of great work for the RM of Stanley in the last eight or ten years.” “I look forward to working with the new council,” he added. “There’s a bunch of really good people on here.” Ward one will see the return of two familiar faces, as Peter Harold Froese (334 votes) and Bob Giesbrecht (281 votes) were re-elected, alongside newcomers Bitz (Alfred) Loewen (319 votes) and Don Henry Falk (288 votes). Richard Warkentin was the only Ward 1 candidate who did not see election. Ward two saw five people gunning for two councillor positions, with Wayne Penner (243 votes) and incumbent Dick Fehr (217 votes) getting the public’s nod. Candidates Ike Klassen, Edward Reimer, and Leslie Titchkosky did not win their election bids. A total of 19 per cent of the eligible voters in the RM of Stanley hit the polls to cast their ballots last week. In Ward 1, only 12 per cent of eligible voters did so, while 39 per cent of Ward 2’s voters cast a ballot. The blend of new and old faces on council means that the council won’t be initiating any new projects right off the hop, instead giving the newcomers time to learn the ropes, Olafson said. “I don’t see any major changes in how the operation is,” he said. “Being four new people on here, basically you’ve got to play it slow for the first little while so everybody gets up to speed.” “It’ll be a little bit of a learning curve here but I think the board itself has some really smart people on here and I don’t see it as a big, long learning curve,” he added. After that, Olafson said he would like to start working on road maintenance, which had been a common concern throughout the RM. “We want to make sure we have a real good consistency in our road maintenance area so everybody is doing the same thing,” he explained. “All the operators are on the same keel, and our staff to keep it all the right way.” Olafson wished to extend his thanks to everyone who supported him in the election, and also sent a message out to his fellow council members: “We’re here to be caretakers of the RM of Stanley and to make life better for everybody in the RM,” he said. “I think that’s our goal. We want better roads and we want lower taxes and all this kind of thing. Let’s strive to make that all happen.” > imagination library, from pg. 4 “That’s what we’re going to continue to works towards,” she said. “We have people strategically targeting children that we really want to reach.” If you’d like to sign your child up for the program, stop by Central Station (545 Industrial Dr.) Tuesday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. To make a donation to the program, cheques can be made out to the Winkler Family Resource Centre with “Winkler Imagination Library” written on the memo line. Donations can be mailed to: Winkler Family Resource Centre, Box 997, Winkler, MB, R6W 4B1. Regional election round-up There are more than a few new faces coming to the table at councils across the region after last week’s civic election. In the RM of Thompson, Brian Callum beat out Richard LeRoux in the reeve’s race (324 votes to 123). Joining Callum on council is incumbent Walter McTavish (acclaimed) in Ward 1, incumbent Wayne Gall in Ward 2 (84 votes), Robert Penner in Ward 3 (89 votes), incumbent Huntley Knox in Ward 4 (acclaimed), and Royce Burnett in Ward 5 (acclaimed). In the RM of Pembina, which this election includes the former Town of Manitou, incumbent Glenn Shiskowski retains his seat after defeating challenger Murray Seymour 549 votes to 465. Rounding out council are Chad Collins (634 votes), Mike Dymond (489 votes), Frank Frisch (608 votes), incumbent Bill Howatt (559 votes), incumbent Cynthia Hunter (375 votes), and Don McLean (534 votes). Representing the Darlingford LUD on council are Calvin Funk, Thomas Hamilton, and Robert Luger, all acclaimed. Representing La Riviere on council is Evelyn Janzen, Warren Lea, and Albert Wymer, all acclaimed. In the RM of Roland, John Hughes defeated Bud W. Stuart 156 votes to 112 to take the reeve position. Also winning seats on council were Ken D’hoore (158 votes), Carrie Hennan (169 votes), incumbent Bob Horsman (236 votes), and Gary Wieler (217 votes). In the RM of Morris, Ralph Groening was acclaimed as reeve while Mervin Dueck (311 votes), Barry Fraese (228), Rick Giesbrecht (290), Margaret Gluck (251), Denis Robert (243) and Stan Siemens (293) were elected as councillors. Representing the Rosenort LUD on council is Shane Kroeker (87 votes) and Lorne Siemens (74 votes). > cantelon, from pg. 6 So, you see, I happen to be a parent who is single, but I am not a single parent. The equation is quite simple: if there is another parent interacting with and contributing toward the raising of your kids—no matter where they are—you are not a single parent. Stop calling yourself one. It belittles the experiences of others who have been or are truly alone in the daunting task of rearing up human beings. 14105gg02 8 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 Winkler Cheerboard kicks off 2014 campaign bright one for every family in Winkler, Banman says. Winkler Mayor Martin Harder put “We hear many stories of where repen to paper a few weeks ago to offi- ceiving this food hamper, along with cially declare the month of November gifts for the children, has been a huge as Cheerboard Days. source of encouragement during Harder signed the proclamation at a difficult financial time,” she says, the Cheerboard’s October meeting, noting that they also hear plenty of giving them the green light to begin stories of former hamper recipients this year’s awareness and collection giving back in turn when times are campaign in earnest. better for their families. “It’s really With food hampers set to go out to heartwarming to hear all the stories families in need throughout the Win- of people who have been blessed by kler area in December, November is it in the past and now that they don’t the Cheerboard’s busiest time of year, need it, they want to come back and says board chair Sandra Banman. help, to pass it on by donating or vol“This is our collection month: the unteering.” collection of all the food, all the doEach year, the Cheerboard relies nation we need to make it happen,” on community support to make the she says, noting they distributed 305 hamper campaign a success, and the hampers last year and fully expect community certainly hasn’t let them to need upwards of 315 hampers this down yet. year. “We are very thankful for the generEach hamper is packed full of food, osity of our community. We certainly toiletry items, and children’s gifts to Continued on page 10 make sure the holiday season is a By Ashleigh Viveiros Photo by Ashleigh viveiros/Voice Surrounded by members of the Winkler and District Christmas Cheerboard, Mayor Martin Harder (seated, centre) signed a proclamation to officially declare the month of November as Cheerboard Days in the city. The Cheerboard is looking for food and financial donations to make this year’s hamper campaign success. > bthc fdn. gala, from pg. 5 The money raised from the gala will be going towards the hospital’s palliative care program, Enns said. “The Boundary Trails Health Centre Foundation, one of their main mandates is to cover the budget for the palliative care,” Enns said. “Without this dinner, we would be needing to rely on individual donations, so one dinner alone goes a long way to cover our budget for the year for palliative care.” Enns extended a huge thank-you to the residents and businesses of Morden and the surrounding area for their continued support of the foundation. “We are so blessed and so fortunate to live in a community with such generous people,” she said. “The Boundary Trails Health Centre Foundation is grateful that our business community and individuals get behind us and just support us no matter what cause we have.” “The MRI machine, the portable ultrasound machine, spiritual care, and palliative care would probably not be at the hospital were it not for the generosity of the people in our community,” she added. “We are just grateful for the community that we have.” After supper, keynote speaker Tim Hague Sr. took the stage to tell his tale of perseverance. Hague, who has Parkinson’s disease, won The Amazing Race: Canada last year with his son. After explaining what Parkinson’s disease is, Hague was able to demonstrate it, lifting his hand to show the guests the hallmark tremors of the neuro-degenerative disorder. “My entire left side just rattles around. It shakes. That’s Parkinson’s,” he said. Hague, who is a registered nurse, noticed a shaking in his left big toe in August of 2010. By February of 2011 he was officially diagnosed with young onset Parkinson’s disease. “To say that I was angry would be the understatement of the day,” Hague recalled. “To say that I was scared would be the understatement of the year. I was not happy.” After battling with depression, Hague chose to embrace the diagnosis as a blessing and worked towards slowing its effects on his life. Despite his Parkinson’s, Hague auditioned for the first season of The Amazing Race: Canada with his son Tim Hague Jr., and was accepted to participate as the show raced across the nation. Hague spoke of the memorable leg three, where he struggled with a line dance in order to continue with the race. “You ever have one of those days where you know you’re not performing to your best? You know you can do better than this?” he asked.“I simply wanted to give up and go home, because we were not having fun. This wasn’t enjoyable. It was rather painful to tell you the truth.” Hague and his son were saved by a non-elimination round and realized that they needed to make a change on how they ran the race. They refocused their energies on having fun and doing their best. “The race taught me a very important lesson: the strength to simply do my best and the courage to be content with what my best produced,” he stressed. “As we learned in that old adage long ago, the most important things that are learned are learned in kindergarten. We took that to heart that day, to simply have fun and do your best.” Hague and his son still struggled through the race, but they managed to beat out the other teams to secure the victory because of one word: per- severance. “You Google the word perseverance, you get this definition: to continue on in a course of action even in the face of difficulty with little or no evidence of success,” he said. Hague revealed that the way he ran the race was how he decided to run his life. He may have Parkinson’s disease, but it will not stop him from doing the things he wanted. “It’s debilitating one day,” he said. “But not today. It may one day take my life, but today I am alive and well.” “Until we find a cure for it, it may very well one day win my personal battle with it. But not today. Today’s battle is mine.” Hague ended his speech with motivating words that anyone can use for their own personal battles. “I encourage you to persevere,” he said. “To continue on in your struggle. Even in the face of difficulty, even when there is little evidence of success, persevere.” “I pray that each of you will have the strength to do your best, the courage to be content with what your best produces. I pray that you have strength for the task at hand and courage for the road ahead.” The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 MP Candice Bergen recalls Ottawa shooting By Ashleigh Viveiros When the shots rang out in the halls of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa on Oct. 22, Portage-Lisgar MP Candice Bergen’s first thought was that it was just more construction noise, akin to what MPs have been hearing for weeks in our nation’s capital. She and her fellow Conservative caucus members, who were taking part in their weekly Wednesday morning caucus meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, quickly realized, though, that the situation unfolding right outside the room’s doors was much more dire. “We meet right in the Centre Block . . . our room where we meet is right next to the hall where everything happened,” Bergen recalled the next day by phone from Ottawa. “We heard what I thought initially was just some construction banging because there’s construction going on in Parliament. And then we all just realized very quickly it was a lot of bangs and somebody said, �That’s gunfire.’” The politicians quickly moved away from the door nearest the hall, Bergen said, first barricading it with chairs in the hopes of preventing a gunman from entering. Across the hall, the Opposition NDP caucus members were doing the same. “The next 15-20 minutes, it was getting the Prime Minister in a safe, secure place . . . a guard came in very quickly and told us to stay in the room, kind of calmed us all down, but definitely those first 15-20 minutes when we knew there’d been a whole bunch of gunfire, we didn’t know who was doing the shooting, and so then you do think, �Wow, there could be people coming in this room any minute.’” “It was pretty frightening,” Bergen said. “You’re thinking about what might happen next, you’re thinking about what could happen. [I was] praying, praying and thinking about my children and my family.” Meanwhile, just outside the room’s wooden doors, gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was shot and killed by House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers. Zehaf-Bibeau had previously fatally wounded Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the nearby National War Memorial before charging into the Parliament Buildings, exchanging gunfire with security and injuring one officer before running down the Hall of Honour towards the doors to the Parliamentary Library, where he was stopped by Vickers. Parliament Hill was locked down for several hours following the attack, while police ensured there were no other shooters. “We were briefed fairly quickly on what had happened so we knew the perpetrator was dead, but we didn’t know if there was someone else,” Bergen said, noting they spent the next 10 hours waiting for word that it was safe to leave the meeting room. In the House the next morning, Vickers was given an extended standing ovation for his bravery. “All the parties, politics aside, we were all very happy to be there, to be in our seats . . . and grateful to be leading the country [and] that we have Canadian people who have resolve and resilience and will not bow to an attack like this, a terrorist attack,” Bergen said. “The job that we have is first and foremost is to make sure that Canadians are protected,” she added, echoing comments made by the Prime Minister to the nation after the attack.“After something like this, we’re even more resolved to make sure that . . . Canadians are safe by ensuring there are laws in place, that police have the tools that they need to stop attacks like this and to stop people like this who are radicalized and are a threat. And then our resolve in helping our allies in fighting ISIS and the threat that they pose to other countries.” A review of security at Parliament Hill is ongoing, but Bergen hopes the heart of Canada’s government will remain an accessible place for law-abiding citizens. “Definitely there will be some changes,” she said. “I’m sure they’ll strike the right balance between making sure that security is improved 9 where it needs to be improved . . . but at the same time, keeping it as a place of the people. It belongs to the people of Canada.” Earlier this week, RCMP announced that they have evidence indicating the attack was “driven by ideological and political motives.” Zehaf-Bibeau reportedly made a video of himself prior to the attack, which police are currently analyzing for evidence. The video had not yet been released to the public as of press time. 14103GG05 14105gg03 10 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 Prairie Barnwood raising funds for Philippine orphanage By Cori Bezan A local business is set to raise money to support a growing orphanage in the Philippines with a gift card program in time for the holidays. Prairie Barnwood, located on the south side of Morden, got its beginnings five years ago dismantling old barns and processing the wood to create unique, hand-crafted pieces of furniture. Now, owner Blayne Wyton and wife Tara want to put the demand for their furniture to good use half a world away. This holiday season, the company is offering to donate 100 per cent of the proceeds of all gift cards they sell to the Gentle Hands orphanages in the Philippines and India. The Wytons first travelled to Gentle Hands in Manila three years ago after a family connection brought the facility to their attention. “My cousin married into the family that was running the orphanage,” Blayne said, noting the couple have gone to visit it twice so far and have fallen in love with the cause. When the Wytons first attended the orphanage, there were only 45 children, but the need has grown rapidly and Gentle Hands today provides aid and shelter for 89 children. “The need is just huge,” Blayne said. The orphanage got its beginnings as a birthing clinic, but as other clinics popped up in the area they shifted their focus to caring for abused, abandoned, or neglected children. “Kids that come out of poor situations or situations where the parents just can’t afford the health care or health for the children, so they bring them to Gentle Hands to even get nursed back to health in some cases, and then they get sent home,” Blayne explained. In other cases, the orphanage removes abused children from their homes and works hard to find them new, loving families. On his last trip to Gentle Hands, Blayne encountered a dark situation that really stuck with him. “This family of five kids came in a week or two before my wife and I got there, and the kids had all been sexually abused and physically abused by the father, and their mother was found murdered in the house at Christmas-time, and we were there in February,” he recalled. “The one girl was about nine years old . . . and she was out in the courtyard playing with a ball and she got hit in the head. She started to cry, not like a nine-year-old should: she was looking for attention or help. So I went and picked her up and I held her on my lap and she kind of snuggled into my chest, and she sat there for probably two hours. It really impacted me that this could be the first time that a man has actually touched her in a proper way.” Gentle Hands also provides severely abused or ill children and young adults with comfort and care in their final days. “Some kids have come there and they’ve been beaten or abused or neglected so badly that they’ve actually come [to the orphanage] more to die,” Blayne said. “They bring them into the place and it’s just a place where they can rest in their last year or few weeks or days in dignity and safety.” Tara, who traveled alone to the orphanage last March, shared a story with her husband about a young boy who had been brought in off the streets, very ill and beyond help. “When Tara was there, there was a little boy Hillside Community Church Sunday, November 2, 2014 at 11:00 am SPEAKER: Pastor Kevin Jamieson TOPIC: The Solid Rock BAND: Brian et al We welcome everyone to worship with us at the Access Event Centre [email protected] • www.hillsidechurch.ca • Ph: 822-1166 Photo by Cori bezan/Voice Prairie Barnwood’s Blayne and Tara Wyton are hoping a gift card promotion will raise upwards of $7,000 for the Gentle Hands orphanage in Manila, Philippines this holiday season. there they found that was 18 years old, and he had tuberculosis,” Blayne said. “He was neglected and abused, so they brought him back to Gentle Hands, and this little guy was 44 pounds. An 18-year-old boy, 44 pounds. She showed me pictures; I can’t even look at them.” “They brought him back to die. Just a safe, comfortable place where he couldn’t be abused anymore, where he could just rest and go home.” Tara has done a lot of hands-on work helping with some of the nursing aspects of the orphanage during her time there. “Every child comes with a different story,” she said. “Some are beautiful stories, and some are terrible stories of just hard life and scars and things that no child should have to deal with.” In addition to spending time wit the kids, Blayne also helped local carpenters put a second level on the orphanage on his last trip. “They have a very primitive way of building, so they were kind of teaching me how to build their way,” he said. Their time spent at the orphanage has had a major impact on their lives, the Wytons say. “They’re not there just to be an institution, they’re actually there to help launch people into their life,” Blayne said. “That really intrigues me.” Some children who grow up in the orphanage without ever being adopted are still given a helping hand as Gentle Hands helps them get into colleges and universities and trains them on how to live a successful adult life when they leave the facility. “I think what strikes me is it’s not just a facility for children to kind of go through their childhood years,” Blayne said. “A lot of orphanages almost remove the children after they’re 13 or 14 years old and then they’re kind of left to fend for themselves.” Continued on page 11 > cheerboard, from pg. 8 feel like we’re never doing this alone,” Banman says, adding that countless individuals and businesses make food and monetary donations, in addition to the thousands of nonperishable food items local schools collect every year. “We live in an amazing community that is so willing to help those in need.” If you’d like to donate, keep an eye out for Cheerboard reps at various community events in November, including at the City of Winkler Tree Lighting in Bethel Heritage Park on Nov. 27. The Winkler Co-op will also be a hosting a food collection drive this month. The Cheerboard hampers will be put to- gether Dec. 8-10 and distributed by volunteer drivers the evening of Dec. 10. If you’d like to get involved in any way, call the Cheerboard at 204-362-3946. “Together with many giving hearts and helping hands we hope that we can encourage and help to lighten the load for those in need during the upcoming Christmas season,” Banman says. Application forms for hampers will be distributed to school liaisons, churches, and community organizations and charities such as Central Station and Donate Love. Applications are due back by Nov. 28. The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 11 Winkler chamber highlights small business Hildebrand noted that small businesses make up a large part of the The Winkler and District Cham- chamber’s membership base and ber of Commerce shone a spotlight form the bedrock of Winkler’s busion the importance of small business ness community. in our community during its annual “They are the backbone of the CaSmall Business Week Luncheon Oct. nadian economy and the backbone of 23. our community here,” he stressed. “There’s a lot of successful small Speaking first at this year’s packed businesses in our community and luncheon at the Quality Inn was Katethere’s a lot of businesses that we lin Letkeman of Charley B’s Classic don’t necessarily know much about,” Grill and Ice Cream Parlour. said Chamber president Ryan HilLetkeman, who owns the Main St. debrand, “so that’s why we put on eatery with business partner Charlthis event, that’s why we pick as many lotte Guenther, spoke about how speakers as we do and try to give their goal as small business ownthem a little bit of time to educate us ers has been to support buying local on their business.” wherever they can. By Ashleigh Viveiros Photo by Ashleigh viveiros/Voice Charley B’s co-owner Katelin Letkeman talked about the importance local suppliers have had in the restaurant’s success at the Winkler chamber’s Small Business Week Luncheon last Thursday. “Char and I had fashioned our menu using the local culture and it just did not sit right with us to use big food suppliers for the ingredients,” she said. “I mean, we live in an agricultural community so we might as well utilize it . . . we realized that most of our menu could be created using local ingredients. Thus, Charley B’s slogan was born: local, farm-fresh.” Buying local has proven a huge benefit for the restaurant, providing the freshest ingredients possible for better tasting food and also allowing them to thank the community that has welcomed them with open arms by ensuring the company’s dollars are spent close to home. “As a local small business, we believe if we want the community to support us, we must support the community in return,” Letkeman said. Up next, Eden Health Care Services CEO James Friesen took the stage to talk about the work the organization is doing across southern Manitoba. The chamber invites one local nonprofit organization to speak at the luncheon every year. Eden has come a long way since being founded in Winkler in 1967, Friesen said, today offering far more than the acute care centre it began with. “I think when you think of Eden, most of you probably think of the mental health centre, again because it’s been a presence this community for so long,” he said. “Our vision and mission states simply that people on the mental health journey experience hope, healing, and community,” Friesen said. “Our mission is to respond to the community by providing a range of services that will empower persons with mental health needs.” To that end, in addition to the acute care centre in Winker, Eden also offers its community health services, the Recovery of Hope counselling program, Segue Career Options, and its various housing and support services programs. All these services seek to help people struggling with mental health issues address those challenges, find safe housing, and work towards securing meaningful employment. Friesen noted that the organization relies on the community’s support to do all these things, and he thanked the business leaders for continuing to provide that support. Wrapping up the luncheon was Henry Siemens of Serious Marketing, who talked about starting up his company with partner Myron Cornelson two years ago. The company strives to help companies navigate the increasingly complicated marketing waters before them, he said, ensuring a consistent message and brand goes out across all mediums. “As we dealt with clients time and time again, they would tell us that the market in our area was different. It’s different than it was 10 years ago, 15 years ago,” Siemens said, pointing to increasing number of ways companies can market themselves and their products. Since starting, the company has quickly grown and expanded, changing even as the local market needs continue to change, Siemens said. “Two years later our business is almost completely different than it was when we start because we find that doors open and doors close and there’s opportunities everywhere if you’re prepared to listen to them.” > gentle hands, from pg. 10 Blayne and Tara are planning to make another trip to the Philippines to visit Gentle Hands next spring, and this time, they hope to bring other people with them who also want to lend a hand. “We’d like to go back but this time we’d like to take a group of people with us that can come and experience it, and kind of put their expertise to it as well,” Blayne said. “People that are just interested in helping.” In order to help raise funds for Gentle Hands, Blayne decided to kick off a new gift card fundraiser this Christmas. “It’s always exciting to give financially to these different causes, but what I really want to do is make a stand for what Prairie Barnwood stands for,” Blayne said. “The other thing is inviting other people to be a part of it. Not just taking proceeds from the company and giving them away, but actually inviting other people.” With 100 per cent of the gift card proceeds going to Gentle Hands, Blayne says they hope to raise $7,000 to aid in the day-to-day operational expenses and outreach projects in the Philippines, and also help with the renovation of a building to start a new Gentle Hands location in India. Gift cards can be purchased instore at 29026 Willcocks Road in Morden or online at www.prairiebarnwood.com. Every $100 spent on gift cards will also give the buyer an entry into a draw for a dining room set valued at $6,000. “It’s a hand-crafted dining room set to the size and dimensions and colour and style of your choice,” Blayne said. “I think it creates an awareness,” Tara said of the gift card program. “I think in the way that our societ- ies are, in the way that our world is, sometimes we get focused internally and really kind of get busy doing life and get busy just kind of in our own things. I think sometimes we forget that there are in the Philippines alone there are millions of children that have no parents, no home, no food, no shelter, and they’re being able to be cared for at a place like Gentle Hands.” For more information, you can visit the Prairie Barnwood website, or reach Blayne Wyton at 204-822-5476 or at [email protected]. 12 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 Northland Childcare Centre celebrates one year By Ashleigh Viveiros The Northland Childcare Centre in Winkler marked its one-year anniversary last week in the perfect way: lots of candles (each child got a muffin with one on top for morning snack), cake (both an edible one and a colourful wall display cake courtesy of the kids), balloons, and thank-yous to everyone who helped the day care become a reality. Located at Northlands Parkway Collegiate, the community day care has seen a lot of growth since it first opened its doors last fall, says executive director Kim Giesbrecht. “When we started we had 38 enrolled and now we have 78 enrolled and we’re at 70 per cent of our occupancy,” she says, noting those 78 kids include both part- and full-time spaces. The centre has grown its staff, as well, over the last year to accommodate the increasing number of kids— they’re at 20 employees right now, which is nearly double what they started with—and they’ll continue to do so as they aim to reach 86 per cent occupancy by next year. “We are growing the way we want to grow,” Giesbrecht says. “We’re want- Photo by Ashleigh viveiros/Voice Northland Childcare Centre executive direcotr Kim Giebrecht with three-year-old Milliom and Brady as they enjoy some cake in celebration of the day care’s first anniversary. ing to not grow too fast because we want to know our space, know how to use our space . . . and we can’t do that properly if we’re completely full.” Since opening, NCC has made a few tweaks to its facility to better accom- modate the needs of its staff and children, including developing a proper greenspace area for kids to enjoy just outside the front door, and building additional storage space inside as well as a storage shed outside. “It’s a beautiful space,” Giesbrecht says, noting they also love the location, which allows the centre to welcome students from NPC’s community health and child care and Life Skills programs into the centre as volunteers and interns. As a charitable organization, NCC accepts financial donations towards its ongoing operations, as well as donations of toys, books, and other new or gently-used items. “We have people regularly coming by with those types of things, which we really appreciate that,” Giesbrecht says, noting you can contact the centre at 204-325-5667 if you’d like to make a donation. “We are always trying to get out into the community, make sure people know about us,” she adds, noting they’ve held a few fundraisers over the last year and plan to hold more in the months ahead. Learn more about NCC online at www.northland-cc.com. MCDC changes to aid in city’s growth By Cori Bezan The City of Morden is teaming up with the Morden Community Development Corporation to restructure the organization and its processes, making way for increased efficiency and progress when it comes to handling the city’s economic development. Council agreed to enter an option agreement with the MCDC on Oct. 14, providing MCDC with certainty that they can pursue “economic development opportunities” on the commercial and industrial land parcels that they have available to them. In addition, the current MCDC board will be dissolved as of Nov. 30 with the exception of chairman John Wiens, who will submit suggestions to council for consideration as new board members. Both of these changes will streamline some processes for the organization, said Mayor Ken Wiebe. “[Before] if our MCDC had a proposal from a corporation that wanted to come here, they would have to bring it to council,” Wiebe explained. “If council had just met that Monday, they would have to wait another two weeks to get in front of council, and then if there were any questions we would have to get back to them, and then they would get back to us, so it could be four to six weeks before a decision is made.” “By allowing [MCDC] to take care of some of these details and to look after it, them and the city manager, it removes a lot of hurdles,” he said. “If there’s a great opportunity, we can move on it very quickly as opposed to a month or two months’ delay.” These changes come in combination with some changes made in the city’s Corporate Plan for 2014, expressing the city’s vision to grow the population to 15,000 residents by the year 2020. “The City of Morden is committed to its vision for 2020 and in becoming a flourishing community,” stressed Wiebe. “To do this we must remove the hurdles that delay moving forward.” MCDC also has a strong vision for the growth of the city and maintaining a balance between economic and environmental sustainability. “These changes are the most progressive I have seen in all my years of being involved with the council and MCDC,” said Wiens in a statement. “Streamlining the processes as they have been done, will mean deals for the benefit of Morden will happen expeditiously. This is a positive move for the future of Morden.” Koats for Kids kicks off this week By Cori Bezan The Morden and District United Way and the Morden fire department are looking for donations of new or gently used winter clothing items for the annual Koats for Kids campaign, which launched this week “What is does for the community, number one . . . if it’s in reasonably good shape, it gives them a good place to take that and it can probably have another life,” said the United Way’s Terry Gibson of the donated items. “The other good thing is we have all sorts of people in town who have larger families and it gives a place where they can come in and get fitted out with very nice clothing actually.” The iconic big red box is already in place behind the Morden Fire Hall for citizens to drop off their gently-used and in good condition winter clothing. Many people in the area also knit brand-new articles such as mittens and scarves for donation. While that’s all more than welcome, “what we’re after is coats,” Gibson Continued on page 13 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 13 Rett Syndrome Association restarting in Manitoba of crying and spells of laughing, and it’s very difficult to understand what A former Miami resident is re-ener- they want or what they need or how gizing an old organization and shed- to take care of them because there’s ding some light on a rare, often un- not a lot of communication at that heard-of disease for Rett Syndrome young age.” Awareness Month, which wraps up McFadden said that Ema began to this week. develop as any other child does before “Rett Syndrome is a neurological they noticed a delay in her speech. disorder, a disease,” explained Trish “Because we have five kids, we knew McFadden. “It happens almost only that just something wasn’t right,” she in girls, because it’s an X chromo- recalled. some [disorder].” Ema was initially diagnosed with The disease is diagnosed through autism, which can be a common misgenetic testing, and McFadden said take due to the variety of symptoms that most children who have the that Rett Syndrome can display. disorder often begin developing at The family waited a year to complete a normal rate before the signs and genetic testing before they found out symptoms begin to show. Ema had atypical Rett Syndrome: she Most begin to start walking and talk- can’t speak, but is more mobile than ing before the disease causes them to most others with the disease. regress and they lose the ability to do “It was only a year ago that we aceither. tually finally got a final diagnosis,” Seizures are also a common symp- McFadden said. “So the process to tom, but McFadden said that the finding, to helping these kids is awdisease can affect each person in ful long, and there’s not a lot in the vastly different additional ways— province that know about it, so it’s a from strange hand movements, slow long journey.” growth, and small hands and feet to “Once you get living in—we call it gait abnormalities. Rettland—once you get in it and you “The list is huge,” she said. start to see the girls and the smiles in McFadden has had first-hand expe- their eyes, it’s a life-changing experirience in dealing with Rett Syndrome, ence for you because you see life and as it was only a year ago that she everything in a different light,” she was informed her now five-year-old added. daughter, Ema, has the disease. The lack of support for Manitoba “It is a life-changing disease. It’s families coping with the disorder is very devastating for most families,” challenging, and McFadden has takMcFadden said. “The home life, it’s en up the banner to change that. very difficult because the girls don’t “We are just re-establishing the sleep and they don’t talk so you never Manitoba Rett Syndrome Association know what’s wrong. They have spells now,” she said, adding that she will be By Cori Bezan > koats for kids, from pg. 12 said. “For little kids, we really want legging material like ski pants.” Last year Koats for Kids handed out over 300 articles of winter clothing to children and families in Morden and area. While they focus on being able to help outfit children, Gibson said that they do get a number of coats for adults, too. After a couple of weeks of collection, the first free distribution night will take place on Nov. 13, followed by two more on Nov. 20 and Nov. 27. The evenings will run from 4 to 6 p.m. “We’ll collect coats right up until the 20th,” Gibson said. “If people come in and they can’t get what they’re looking for on one night, they should come back the next week later because we will have more clothes in there, different clothes.” After the event is over, United Way teams up with the Morden Police Service and the RCMP to send the leftover clothing to people in northern communities. “It’s not very hard to do, and it’s recycling some good articles that some people really need,” Gibson said. “It is a good feeling, but more than that, it just makes sense that we take something that people are done with.” “It’s just an easy thing to do that works real well,” he added. “If people will drop [winter clothing] off in the red box, gently used or good condition clothing, we’ll make sure it gets to somebody that needs it badly.” Five-year-old Ema McFadden lives with Rett’s Syndrome, a neurological disorder that slows development. submitted Photo president of the organization. The non-profit association was started many years ago, but grew quiet until recently when McFadden became more aware of a growing number of families looking for help. “We’re starting to get it going again, and that helps a little bit, to help deal with it,” she said. “With more families we can communicate and network and it’s relatively unknown to most people.” McFadden hopes to spread awareness for the rare disease in the province, provide support for children and families dealing with Rett Syndrome, and help fund a registry that will help determine how many people actually have Rett Syndrome in Canada. Because of privacy laws in Manitoba, it is very difficult to reach out to local families dealing with Rett Syndrome, but McFadden said that doctors have diagnosed at least 40 patients provincially. That said, the association has only been able to reach out to eight families so far, including one in the Pembina Valley area, which is why they hope to aid the funding for the registry. “We’re pretty sure there’s so many more girls out there that have it that aren’t diagnosed with it, just because people don’t know about it,” McFadden said. “These girls sort of fall through the cracks.” “The association is originally in place and it still is in place as a support for families,” McFadden said.“It’s sort of an alone place when you first learn about Rett Syndrome, because when you first learn your child has Rett Syndrome, with the privacy act, there’s not a lot of places you can go besides the internet to find parents that have girls with Rett Syndrome.” “We as a group stay connected for families,” she continued. “Why? For support and also for help, outreaches, things like that, because the system doesn’t always tell you where you’re supposed to get help or where you can get help, so you have to search that on your own. We’re trying to work as a networking group so we can help each other with programs that we know of or things like that.” McFadden added that they hope to build the association so that they can host conferences and seminars for families, caregivers, and health care providers on the syndrome, further getting the word out about the disorder. “We really want to start getting through to the doctors and the therapists what Rett Syndrome is and how they can diagnose it or how they can find it or spot it,” she said. “As the word gets out, as our Rett Syndrome association starts going again, hopefully we’ll find more families that way, too. In addition to McFadden, the association’s new board of directors will have some local ties, as Morden nurse Janice Lukowski, who has worked with Ema for two years, will take over responsibilities as secretary, and Roland residents Kathy and George Edgar, with their daughter Jody, will serve as members at large. More information can be found online at www.rettsyndrome.mb.ca, but McFadden said that they are in the process of designing a new website at www.manitobarett.com, and the two sites will eventually be linked. McFadden’s blog following Ema and their journey through “Rettland” can be found at www.emasrettworldblog. wordpress.com. 14 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 Warm hearts, warm hands left Photo by Ashleigh viveiros/Voice; right photo submitted Southwood School kindergartners donated nearly 40 pairs of mittens to those in need last week. Left: Tavin, Julena, and Johnny learn from guest Mabel Hildebrand how knitted mittens are made. 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The acclaimed trustees received six candidates for the vacant spots. All six were asked three questions in an interview that took place the day after the Oct. 22 civic election: • Why would you like to serve on the GVSD board? • What do you see as GVSD’s celebrations and challenges? • What skill set or attributes do you bring that will benefit the board and the division? The trustees then voted in Klassen, Letkeman, and Wallace as the new board members. A series of board orientation meetings will now take place before the Nov. 10 board meeting, at which time the board’s standing committees will be formed and the group will appoint a chair and vice-chair. The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 15 Annual trail ride raises $6,000 for STARS By Cori Bezan Over 100 riders took part in the 2014 Pembina Valley Fall Trail Ride, an event that raises funds for local organizations while providing a weekend of scenic riding on the trails. “The trail ride itself, the Pembina Valley Fall Ride, has been going on for over 30 years,” said organizer Fred Carruthers last week. “It’s been kind of done under different people in charge. I took it over eight years ago, and when I took it over, I made it a fundraiser as well as a trail ride.” “I made it a fundraiser because I thought we might as well be doing it for a good cause,” he added. “I wanted to be able to donate the money, after expenses, whatever we made, to a good cause.” Carruthers said that they have raised funds for a few different organizations over the years, but have raised money for the STARS air ambulance for the past two years. “I believe STARS provides a life-saving service to especially rural people and rural communities,” he said. “Most of us we live quite a distance from hospitals.” Carruthers also recalled an incident three years ago where a rider was bucked off his horse on a trail ride and STARS flew in to attend to them. “When you’re doing an activity like trail-riding, you submitted photos The annual Pembina Valley Fall Trail Ride raised $6,000 for the STARS air ambulance last month. can be quite a distance off a main road where any ambulance can get to you,” he said. “STARS can land their helicopter nearly anywhere and provide life-saving service to you if it’s needed.” This year, around 115 riders saddled up to blaze the valley trails in the two-day ride in late September, bringing in $6,000 for the air ambulance—over $1,000 more than last year. “Everything went quite well,” Carruthers said. “The weather was great on Saturday, Sunday was rainy.” The dance and the meals also went well, he added, and the silent and live auctions were as popular as ever. Diamond Doug, a cowboy poet, also returned this year for poetry and story-telling. Carruthers said they also saw a lot of personal and business donations come in this year, not just locally but also from places around the province like Brandon and Winnipeg to support the cause. “We thank everyone so much for their donation of prizes and cash donations. They make the ride possible beside the people who do the ride. We wouldn’t be able to raise this much money without all the donations that we get.” LADIES WINTER INE BOOT L F 20%OF MEN'S H TOUG WINTER INTER DUCK W R GEA F 20% OF AWS BEAR P F F O % 0 2 OBILE SNOWM S IT SU F 20%OF SHOES CASUAL 40.00 $ FROM WESTERN BOOTS FROM $109.99 KIDS WESTERN BOOTS FROM $40.00 WRANGLER JEANS/SHIRTS ALL GENDER FROM $22.00 HUNTING BOOTS 20% OFF WIDE SELECTION OF GLOVES AND MITTS. ALL GENDER. 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Winkler-Morden area high school students got the chance to see what their futures could hold last week as Northlands Parkway Collegiate played host to the annual Garden Valley School Division Career Symposium. “This is not to function as a job fair, it’s more to showcase careers,” said co-organizer and NPC guidance counselor Kim Apperley at the Oct. 22 event. “We do have local business and industry things here, but they were asked specifically to let students know what kind of positions do you have at your business, what kind of education is required, because then there’s also a tie-in—we have all the major players, universities, colleges, bible schools—so they can also direct them to some of those institutions where they might offer training for different jobs and careers offered at those places.” Around 1,400 GVC, NPC, and Morden Collegiate students perused the booths and displays from around 43 exhibitors at the event. Of those exhibitors, around 20 of them held additional break-out sessions for more in-depth information and presentations. “Hopefully it plants a seed,” Apperley said.“Hopefully they can get some ideas, just get them thinking about [the future], because four years goes so quickly that if they can be a little bit more deliberate in choices, even just talk to some institutions and see what kind of feel they get from them, it might help them make a decision earlier on, which makes choosing “A lot of students don’t realize what options they have after high school.” their courses in high school easier.” This is the first time that NPC has hosted the career symposium. Apperley noted that the event will likely alternate between the two Winkler high schools in future years. “It is nice to showcase our new building,” she said. “I know a lot of the exhibitors asked to have a tour at the end of the day, so it’s a privilege to be able to host and to be able to offer to students in our building. They have access to really any post-secondary information that they want.” “It was nice to have our own culinary students be able to prepare stuff for our exhibitors, and our exhibitors see the kind of skills they’re learning here in the culinary program and in the bake shop and patisserie,” Apperley added. “I think that’s been nice, to have it all really in-house . . . and just to showcase our students and what a great job they’ve done in learning.” Rebecca Hamilton, a pharmacist at Pfahl’s Drugs, was among the exhibitors at the event. “I think it’s actually pretty good,” she said of the day’s activities, commenting on the additional space in Continued on page 17 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 > symposium, from pg. 16 the new school’s gymnasium and the talent of the culinary arts students. Pfahl’s Drugs has attended the fair for the past three or four years, after Hamilton expressed interest to her boss that she wanted to help showcase a career as a pharmacist. “It was because of a career fair like this that I actually talked to a pharmacist and got interested in the field,” she explained. Hamilton added that career symposiums like this one are extremely beneficial to students, who still might be looking for their options after graduation. “It’s good because they can see all the different universities, they can ask the questions of what kind of courses do I need to take,” she said. “It’s just great to see all these facilities coming out.” “I think it just gives them a better idea of what’s available to them.” That’s a sentiment echoed by Salon Professional Academy director of admissions and student services Stephanie Dzikowicz, who was onhand with a few of the institution’s students, demonstrating hair-styling, make-up, and mini manicures. “I think it’s really important for students, because a lot of students don’t realize what options they have after high school,” she said. “I think the majority of them are being pushed towards university and that’s not always the best fit for students. I feel like things like this give them a real eye-opener about the options out there and the different things that might suit them better.” GVC Gr. 10 students Damaris Heinrichs and Angela Heinrichs both enjoyed this year’s event, browsing the exhibits for ideas on what they might like to work towards in the coming years. “It’s really nice,” said Damaris, who attended the symposium last year. “We have lots of opportunities to look at stuff and they give us lots of information, so it’s really nice.” “I think it was really awesome,” added Angela, who was attending the event for the first time. Both students are still making up their minds about their futures and say they enjoyed the easy access to information that the symposium provided. “Now you can have an idea of what you could do, and then you have the examples and the information they give you, so you can think about it,” Damaris said. “You can have lots of time to think about it, and maybe every year there might be something new, and you can just get even more information. You can keep coming back and learn more.” 17 Things getting hairy at The Bunker By Cori Bezan Men around the world are putting down the razor and letting their beards and moustaches go wild next month to raise awareness about men’s health issues. “Movember is an attempt to spread awareness for men’s health,” explained The Bunker team captain Jeff Boschmann. “It started out as a way to fight against prostate cancer and over the years it’s kind of evolved into this much larger scheme.” Last year, the Movember campaign was focused largely on mental health, Boschmann said, but this year they are focused on men’s health issues in general. “I think it’s starting to catch on and people are realizing there are a bunch of different things that need to be focused on rather than just one thing at a time,” he said.“I think you can never really stop talking about those kinds of issues.” The local Movember team at the youth ministry, which has been participating for about four years now, currently consists of nine people, but Boschmann said that their numbers will grow as they head into the infamous month of facial hair. “We’re just having fun with it,” he said. “When we joined the organization three years ago . . . we thought it was really just like a fun thing to do. We saw these guys, we found them online, and we thought, yeah, moustaches are cool, and cancer sucks, and these guys are having a really good time with it in Australia, and then we started talking to more people.” Boschmann said that a lot of people thought that the event was simply a “No Shave November” without realizing that it stood for something important. “We realized Movember is actually a thing, it’s actually an organization, it’s a group of guys who are actually trying to do someContinued on page 20 Photo by Cori bezan/Voice The Bunker’s Jeff Boschmann is ready for Movember next month. 18 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 li v e R E L K N I W TABLE OF CONTENTS PW ENNS CONCERT HALL SKAGGS FAMILY CHRISTMAS LIGHT UP THE SEASON WINKLER HOCKEY CITY ADMIN 7 TO KNOW P1 P1 P1 P2 P2 P2 UPCOMING EVENTS NOVEMBER 6 - 8 7:30pm FLATLANDS THEATRE COMPANY THE SECRET GARDEN NOVEMBER 9 3:00pm FLATLANDS THEATRE COMPANY THE SECRET GARDEN NOVEMBER 10 7:30pm DAVID JAMES AND BIG RIVER NOVEMBER 20 - 22 7:30pm GVC MUSICAL THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR NOVEMBER 22 2:30pm GVC MUSICAL THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR NOVEMBER 27 7:00pm AN EVENING WITH FRANK MILLS MR. “MUSIC BOX DANCER” A Skaggs Family Christmas LIVE at PW Enns Centennial Concert Hall Bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs brings his family to the PW Enns Centennial Concert Hall December 5 for shows at 6pm and 9pm Ricky has long been known for strong family values and now three generations of his family are touring with a very special Christmas show. Performers include Ricky’s wife Sharon, sister-in-law and father-in-law, who are also known as The Whites, in addition to Ricky and Sharon’s son and daughter, Luke and Molly. Ricky has released two Christmas albums which feature many traditional Christmas carols including What Child Is This, Do You Hear What I Hear, and Joy To The World. He has also recorded original songs like New Star Shining and Love Came Gently. These shows will prove to be a wonderful way to begin the Christmas season. Tickets are available at www. winklerconcerthall.ca or at City Hall, 185 Main Street. DECEMBER 5 6:00pm A SKAGGS FAMILY CHRISTMAS 9:00pm A SKAGGS FAMILY CHRISTMAS DECEMBER 13 7:30pm �TIS THE SEASON PARKINSON’S FUNDRAISER P1 up the FOLLOW US ONLINE www.facebook.com/cityofwinkler @yeswinkler November 27, 6:30 p.m. at Bethel Heritage Park • Visit from Santa • Story time in the Library • Music from the NPC Jazz Choirs - VOX and Dynamix • Hot Chocolate and Cookies For information visit the events page at www.winkler.ca The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 19 WINKLER HOCKEY all GAME TIMES 7:30pm unless otherwise indicated NOVEMBER 2 WAYWAYSEECAPPO GAME TIME 2:30pm NOVEMBER 4 PORTAGE TERRIERS NOVEMBER 9 SELKIRK STEELERS NOVEMBER 22 SWAN VALLEY NOVEMBER 30 VIRDEN OIL CAPS GAME TIME 2:30pm DECEMBER 7 WINNIPEG BLUES DECEMBER 9 PORTAGE TERRIERS DECEMBER 12 DAUPHIN KINGS DECEMBER 19 NEEPAWA NATIVES DECEMBER 31 STEINBACH PISTONS GAME TIME 4:30pm NOVEMBER 2 CARMAN BEAVERS NOVEMBER 7 CARMAN COUGARS NOVEMBER 8 STONEWALL FLYERS NOVEMBER 11 GVC ZODIACS NOVEMBER 23 WARREN MERCS NOVEMBER 29 ALTONA MAROONS DECEMBER 5 ALTONA MAROONS GAME TIME 8:00pm NOVEMBER 1 MOUNTAIN MUSTANGS GAME TIME 2:30pm NOVEMBER 15 PORTAGE TROJANS NOVEMBER 18 PORTAGE TROJANS NOVEMBER 21 NPC NIGHTHAWKS NOVEMBER 28 GVC ZODIACS DECEMBER 19 MORDEN REDSKINS NOVEMBER 29 MOUNTAIN MUSTANGS DECEMBER 2 CARMAN COUGARS DECEMBER 23 CARMAN BEAVERS DECEMBER 6 PEMBINA TIGERS DECEMBER 13 MORRIS MAVERICKS DECEMBER 16 CARMAN COUGARS JANUARY 8 PEMBINA TIGERS GAME TIME 8:00pm JANUARY 11 NOTRE DAME HAWKS DECEMBER 19 MORDEN THUNDER GAME TIME 12:15pm CITY ADMIN PUBLIC NOTICE WINKLER.CA NEW GARBAGE/RECYCLING POLICY In order to encourage more recycling, effective January 1. 2015, there will be a two-bag limit for trash pickup. 7 THINGS TO KNOW ANIMAL CONTROL P2 For further information on Permits, Garbage and Compost Pickup contact City Hall at 204 325-9524 or e-mail [email protected]. For concerns regarding wild or domestic animals, dead or alive, call 204-362-0480. Please do not call for rabbits. STREETLIGHT PROBLEMS USED OIL DEPOT If you streetlights are flickering or just not running at all, call Manitoba Hydro at 204-822-6131 or visit www.hydro.mb.ca The Used Oil Depot/Eco-Centre is located at 3451st St. and is open on designated Saturdays from 9-12. They accept all types of oil, filters & containers including cooking oils. TEMPORARY STRUCTURES HOME OCCUPATION WATER MAIN BREAKS SNOW ROUTE PARKING Not allowed in residential areas: Tent Garages, Snow Fencing, Sea Containers or Derelict Vehicles. Permits are required. Not applying for permits could be costly. When in doubt, inquire. All Home Occupations require a Business License which are available at City Hall. Section 43.0 of the Office Consolidation of Zoning ByLaw 1938-08 has information regarding Home Occupations. To report a Water Main Break, you can call the Utility Foreman Cell at 204-362-3296 or the Utility On-Call Cell at 204-3626505. There is a 2-day max. for uninterrupted parking on city streets. This is to be respectful to your neighbours and snow removal staff. Please refrain from parking on city streets completely after a significant snowfall until the streets are cleared. 20 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 13th Battery holds training exercise in Morden By Cori Bezan The Royal Canadian Legion hall in Morden played host to a unique event last Thursday, as seven members of the 13th Battery of the 26th Field Regiment took part in a special command post training exercise. “We’re training to get ready to go and fire live with artillery shells,” explained Winkler’s Capt. Mark Wilson. “There’s a lot of pieces to this. You Photo by Cori bezan/Voice During an artillery training exercise last week, Bdr. Jules Hebert (left) entered data while Capt. Mark Wilson (centre) poured over a map board, and Sgt. Cody McMullen and Mbdr. Denis Houle kept track of the radio conversations. have guys talking on the radios, we have guys working on the computers. It’s all technical drills. So how we’re using our radios, how we’re talking on the radios, how we’re computing all of these different drills, we want to make sure we get things right.” The session was part of regular training as the troops prepared for a larger exercise in Shilo over the weekend. While Wilson is a high school teacher at Garden Valley Collegiate, most of the others in the 13th Field Battery hail from Portage la Prairie or Winnipeg. “Normally we parade in Portage, but we know that there’s some interest in the area of military things, and we have a good relationship here with Royal Canadian Legion Branch 11, who was nice enough to let us use their facility,” Wilson explained. “We thought we’d give it a try down here and see how it works.” Wilson served in Afghanistan in 2007 and the Legion invited him to speak about his experiences when he returned. Through his involvement with the Winkler Remembrance Day Service, Wilson has maintained his relationship with the Legion over the last few years. “This seemed like a natural extension,” Wilson said. “Why not have a troop down here that could do some training?” During the course of the evening, the men practiced firing artillery in on-paper simulations. While the concept sounds fairly straightforward, the process is lengthy and must be followed to the letter. Communications between the observation post and the command post must be concise, fully documented, mapped on paper, and calculated on computers before any shots can be fired. If everything is going smoothly, the entire process should take around two minutes from receiving their directions to firing. “It’s a bit of a complicated process to make happen, and that’s why we practice this so much,” Wilson said. “It’s not simple stuff.” Sgt. Cody McMullen was acting as the technical supervisor in the command post for the evenings’ exercise, a position usually held by someone one rank higher than himself. “It’s very common in the Canadian Army . . . where we train above what we are,” he said.“I’m practicing something that I’m not slated to do at any point in time in the near future anyway, but it’s good to at least prepare and practice just to keep my skills fresh.” McMullen added that the majority of their troop doesn’t work in the command post, so the session proved Continued on page 21 > movember, from pg. 17 Meet & Greet with Steve at Jonny’s Java from 6-6:45 A Concert in Support of the Pembina Valley Pregnancy Care Centre thing with it, not just be all gross and shaggy,” he explained. “So we figured, why not actually do something with this fun month while we’re doing it anyway?” But while they are hoping to have fun with the event, Boschmann added that it will be a “reserved excitement” this year. The local Movember team is looking to help financially support a past volunteer and current friend of The Bunker who was recently diagnosed with cancer. “It hits a little bit more close to home this year,” Boschmann said. “We had a volunteer who wanted to work here this fall, and then he got diagnosed with cancer, so the whole chemo thing is kind of keeping him away from everything.” “We hung out with him last week and we sat down, kind of came up with a plan to make Movember a little bit more personal for all of us,” he said. “So instead of putting on big different random weird events around town, we’re being a little bit more thoughtful with it and a little less crazy.” The team has already raised $100 through online pledges. Funds will go to help their friend make end’s meet during this difficult time. “Whatever physical cash we make, we’re hoping to help him out with some medical bills,” Boschmann said. “It was kind of just natural for us. We’re raising money for cancer this month. He’s telling us �I have cancer, and because of it, I’m lacking funds.’ Why don’t we just combine the two things?” Overall, Boschmann said that they hope to raise $1,000 through online donations and physical donations at drop boxes in the community and at The Bunker. “We hit $100 and the month hasn’t even started yet, so I think we can do $1,000,” he said. Donations can be made at the Bunker weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or online to The Bunker team at ca.movember.com. Step with FTC into The Secret Garden By Ashleigh Viveiros The Flatlands Theatre Company is bringing another much-loved story to the stage next week with its performance of France Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. “I think it’s really a beautiful story of changing your life around,” says director Jeanette Hoeppner. “You have a certain trajectory, and things are dark and not looking so great, and it’s nature that starts [turning it around] for young Mary Lennox. Nature’s what started her to look beyond her own wall of grief, wall of angst and thinking no one cares about me, so why should I care about anything? And she starts to care about a garden, and it makes all the difference.” If you’re not familiar with the classic story, The Secret Garden begins when Mary Lennox, a sullen and spoiled young orphan, is sent to live with her brooding uncle. Several unexpected discoveries, including that of a neglected secret garden, start Lennox and those around her on the path of transformation. The cast is filled with several young actors in the lead roles. Finding the right kids proved less challenging than might be expected, Hoeppner said, and the entire cast has really stepped up to tell the story. “All of them knew the story and that’s why the came,” she said. “So the excitement that they have in getting to bring the story alive has been great.” Taking on the role of Mary is 15-year-old Kennedy Daneault. Daneault has taken part in FTC’s theatre classes and been involved in several other theatrical productions as an actor and stage manager, but this will be her biggest leading role. “I grew up watching the movie,” she said, noting it’s been a bit surreal to be involved in bringing that same story to the stage. “When I was little I used to always want to be Mary Lennox.” Daneault believes the play continues to resonate across the generations because “you can really > exercise, from pg. 20 to be good practice for them. “It’s good to practice stuff that I am qualified to do and get a refresher on it,” he said. “As opposed to losing this information and these skills, it’s good to keep it refreshed, on the top of my mind.” “This is all about teamwork,” Wilson added. “Army is all teamwork. Yes, we have ranks and stuff, but we’re a team.” Other than artillery, Wilson said that they can work on a number of different things during a parade, including infantry, marching, survival skills, weapons, and land surveying. “I do think this is worthwhile training,”Wilson said.“It is a valuable way to serve your country.” “I think being in the Canadian Forces is a very prestigious job,” said Master Bombardier Dave Lamirande. “There’s tons of opportunities that you can do. It’s one of the most professional organizations in the country, there’s so many job opportunities, it’s endless. You can do whatever you want.” While Wilson is the only Winkler man in his battery, there are other part-time civilian soldiers like himself who travel great distances for their parades. Wilson said that there is an opportunity to start a troop locally, and last week’s exercise was evidence that it could work. “I think there’s a bit of an untapped potential here,” he said.“I think it would be a great thing to start a troop here. The nearest one would be Portage or Winnipeg, and there are guys driving from Plum Coulee or Winkler or Morden all the way into Winnipeg for like a Tuesday night parade The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 21 From left: Angela Klassen, Kennedy Daneault, and David Schaeffer run through a scene for Flatlands Theatre Company’s upcoming performance of The Secret Garden. connect to most of the characters. And there’s just so many different layers to the characters.” Making up the younger portion of the cast are 11-year-olds John Trinke, who plays Colin, and Kate Heide, who uses her flute-playing skills to represent the robin in the garden. “I just jumped at the chance” to be a part of the show, Heide said, noting she read a junior edition of the book prior to getting involved in this, her first play with Flatlands. “This is my first time doing anything with Flatlands,” Trinke added, noting he’s enjoyed being involved with various school productions in the past. “I from 7 o’clock to 10.” “I think it would be good if we had people who are interested,” said Lamirande. “I’d be more than willing to come here and do whatever.” “I’d be willing to come down here a bit more and see what [Morden] is all about,” he added. “Let’s do it in Morden,”Wilson concluded.“We like working with a whole bunch of different people.” Trinke and Heide think audience members will enjoy the surprises the script includes, but are mum on providing many hints so as not to spoil it for audience members new to the story. “You just feel like you’re at home in the garden,” Heide said, urging people to come check it out. The Secret Garden runs nightly at the P.W. Enns Centennial Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6-8, with a 3 p.m. matinee on Nov. 9. Tickets ($15 for adults and $10 for children) are available at winklerconcerthall.ca or at the Centennial Box Office at Winkler’s City Hall. have the facility, we have the necessary equipment. We can make it happen.” For more information or to express interest in a local troop, you can phone the Portage Armory at 204-857-5831 or contact Wilson at 204362-1900. Tickets available at Morden’s Heartland, 338 Stephen Street, Morden and at EHCS, 309 Main Street, Winkler or call 1-204-325-5355 to reserve your ticket. No reserved seating. Coffee and Dessert will be served. Free admission, opportunity given to support Eden’s recovery programs. 22 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 30 days, 50,000 words: time to get writing By Cori Bezan Writers, get ready to put your pen to the paper as National Novel Writing Month kicks off again this November. NaNoWriMo encourages writers to throw off their inner editor and endeavour to write 50,000 words in a crazy 30-day frenzy, hopefully ending the month with a rough draft to work with later. “Every year, we’re reminded that there are still stories that have yet to be told, still voices yet to be heard from all corners of the world,” said executive director Grant Faulkner in a press release. “NaNoWriMo helps people make creativity a priority in life and realize the vital ways our stories connect us. We are our stories.” This year, 400,000 people are expected to participate across the globe, and the Pembina Hills Arts Council will be opening their doors to the local writers taking part each week. “As an arts council, people often think of us as the gift shop and gallery, but that’s only one small portion of what we’re involved in and what we’re trying to promote,” explained PHAC executive director Amanda Nicholls. “As an arts council, working out of the arts centre on Stephen St., our goal is to promote arts and culture from all the different sectors—be it visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, theatre, these sorts of things—to promote all of those and create more engagement and more awareness for the creativity that exists here, and then build on that.” Literature is an area that has not often been focused on in the past, but the gallery is changing that by hosting write-ins every Thursday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. in November, providing a creative environment for writers to socialize, get help, and simply not have to work alone. “When this opportunity came along and Alex [Klages, municipal liaison] began talks with us, we just thought it was an excellent opportunity,” Nicholls explained. “It’s such a great program for the community to get involved in. It’s free, there’s a whole ton of benefits for the participants. It’s a really great program.” The gallery will also play host to the NaNoWriMo wrap-up party in conjunction with their holiday open house on Dec. 4 from 6-8 p.m. “We’re going to have an open mike and all the participants from NaNoWriMo write-ins can present a little piece about what they worked on for the past month,” Nicholls said. “Then we’re also opening it up to the public as well, if there are other authors from the area who have written pieces that they want to test publicly, this would be a great forum for that.” Nicholls added that they are taking the writing month one step further as they host their own youth short story contest. “We wanted something that would engage a younger audience, and it’s a bit less daunting than 50,000 words.” The contest has been divided up into ages 10 to 14 and 15 to 18 categories. The short stories (one per person) should be between 500 to 750 words in length. The first place winners will each be awarded a $50 gift certificate for PHAC and gallery programs, as well as story publication on their website and a feature on their social media platforms. Second place will also be recognized online. The contest deadline is 5 p.m. on Nov. 25. Entries can be submitted by mail, email, or in person at the gallery. Entries must be submitted with a signed contest entry form, which can be found online at pembinahillsarts. weebly.com. You can learn more about NaNoWriMo online at nanowrimo.org. > an artist’s life Book review: The Practice Revolution In every aspect of the arts, an overwhelming theme emerges: practice. Some arts students love practicing, and some hate the very thought of sitting down to refine their craft. The notion of practice and practice time tends to evoke images of dreaded hours alone in a practice room or studio doing the same things over and over again. In his recent book entitled The Practice Revolution, Philip Johnston addresses the problem of practice time and proposes creative solutions. Rather than discussing how much students should practice, The Practice Revolution seeks to revolutionize how students practice, enabling them to get the best results from that practice. Several chapters focus on the teacher’s role in practice time, while other areas of the book discuss parental roles and give students themselves tips on utilizing their time. The book’s strengths lie in its focus on tailoring practice time to the individual. Johnston has gathered many different ideas for aiding the effectiveness of practice time. These ideas range from tried and true concepts (setting a timer, working in small sections) to the wacky and weird (practice Hangman? Treating practice time as a video game?). The Practice Revolu- tion is full of many different ideas to deal with every possible problem that could arise during practice time and novel ways to make practicing fun. In addition to solving practice problems and creating a more enjoyable practice experience, Johnston has broken down the process of learning and memorization and provided strategies for successful completion of each stage of practice. The end result of applying his principles will be a well prepared, well rehearsed student. If The Practice Revolution has a weakness it lies By Candace Hamm in the fact that several of Johnston’s ideas would be difficult and/or time consuming to implement. In addition, some of the games he uses are too complicated for the younger children to understand. The games would work well for older students, but since the young children tend to be those who need the most �fun’ during their practice time, some chapters may prove ineffective for dealing with these students. 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Last week Wednesday, Morris native and leading league scorer Tristan Keck got his 15th goal of the season late in the opening period to get Winkler on the board first. Patrice Wren took advantage of a powerplay to make it 2-0 for Winkler just a few minutes later. The Terriers, who were undefeated in the league, pushed back hard in the second. Despite that, Winkler increased their lead to 3-0 five minutes in thanks to a goal from Scott Gall. Portage finally got on the board with a goal with just 3:11 left in the period. They went on to close the gap with a second goal at the top of the third. But that was as close as the Terriers got as the Flyers’ defensive line, including 24 saves by goalie Dasan Sydora, handed Portage their first loss of the season 3-2. Winkler went on to notch their 11th win of the season a few nights later against the Dauphin Kings. The Kings managed two goals that game, both in the second, while the Flyers got goal after goal past Dauphin netminder Troy Matrynuik in all three periods. Brett Klassen lit up the board first in period one; Lawson McDonald, Scott Gall, and Keck made it 4-2 in period two; and Keck (who is still the top scorer in the league, now with 17 goals in 17 games) and Shawn Pachet Photo by rick hiebert The Dauphin Kings had no answer for the talent of Tristan Keck, who scored twice and assisted on two more as the Flyers cruised to their 11th win of the season last Saturday. Keck is the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’s top scorer this season, having notched 17 goals in 17 games. made it a 6-2 win in the third. In net for Winkler was Sydora once again. He made 30 saves as a the Flyers outshot the Kings 40-32. The wins bolster the Flyers’ record to 11-2-4, giving them 26 points and a firm hold on second-place in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League behind the first-place Terriers. Coming up, the Flyers play an away game against the Winnipeg Blues this Thursday, host the Waywayseecappo Wolverines on Friday and Sunday, and host the Terriers next Tuesday. SEMHL season begins Saturday The puck drops on the Southeastern Manitoba Hockey League’s 2014-15 season this weekend as the Altona Maroons take on the Stonewall Flyers on Saturday and the Winkler Royals host the Carman Beavers Sunday. This season marks the Royals’ second year back in the league. Last year they claimed second place with a 14-4-2 record and then got knocked out of the playoffs in the semi-finals against the Morden Redskins. Morden went on to clinch the title last spring and look to defend it with their first game of the season Nov. 6 on the road against the Warren Mercs. Morden’s first home game isn’t until Nov. 22 against Carman. 26 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 NPC Nighthawks capture home tourney title By Ashleigh Viveiros Photo by rick hiebert In round robin play in the Northlands Parkway Collegiate varsity boys volleyball tournament last weekend, the Morden Thunder tried to break through NPC defenders Nigel Klassen (left) and Brett Friesen. NPC won the game in two sets, 25-15 and 25-22. The Northlands Parkway Collegiate Nighthawks varsity boys volleyball team captured the title of their home tournament last Saturday. The Nighthawks were flawless in their round robin pool, while fellow local teams the Garden Valley Collegiate Zodiacs took third and the Morden Thunder took fifth in their respective round robins. From there, both GVC and NPC beat their opponents in the semi-finals (NPC downing Westwood in two sets and the Zodiacs besting Niverville) to come up against each other in the final match. NPC emerged from that victorious, beating GVC 25-21 and 25-22. Morden, meanwhile, fell to the Leo-Remillard Renards in two sets in the fifth-place versus fifth-place match. Earlier in the week, the GVC girls varsity team fell to the Morden Thunder in three sets and then downed the Sabres in three, while the boys swept both the Thunder and the Sabres; the NPC girls team fell to the Olympiens 1-3 while the boys fell 0-3; and the Thunder girls also beat the Aces 3-1, while the boys fell to Altona 1-3. In other high school sports news, the Morden Thunder and the NPC Nighthawks faced-off in Zone 4 boys hockey last Friday night in Winkler. Morden skated away with a 4-2 win, with Thunder goals coming from Brendan Turnbull (with two), Keane Boucher, and Steven Baker, and NPC points scored by Cody Friesen and Sam Voth. Also last Friday, the GVC Zodiacs fell to the Altona Aces 9-0. Female Hawks split Blazers, Chiefs games By Ashleigh Viveiros The Pembina Valley Hawks had a split go of it last weekend, falling to the visiting Balmoral Hall Blazers Friday but then downing Yellowhead on Sunday. Friday’s game started off with a scoreless first period as the Hawks struggled to make good on their handful of scoring chances. The Blazers ended up drawing first blood in the second, getting one past netminder Corinne Schroeder. They did it twice more in the third, all the while keeping the Hawks from returning the favour. Despite Schroeder making 20 saves in all in net, the Blazers took the game 3-0. The ladies shook off that loss— only their second of the regular season—as they hosted the Chiefs in Pilot Mound on Sunday. Donning pink jerseys in support of Cancer Awareness Month, the Hawks pressed hard but still found themselves scoreless after the first 20 minutes. On the upside, so did the Chiefs, who failed to break through Taylor Reimer’s defenses in net. After a lot of back and forth in the second period, the Hawks finally managed to pull ahead with a power- play goal from Kate Friesen. In the third, the Hawks kept a firm hand on control of the puck. The few times the Chiefs managed to make it to the Hawks’ zone, Reimer shut down their chances at scoring, leading to a 1-0 shutout win for Pembina Valley. The win brings the team’s record to 4-2, putting them in third place in the Manitoba Female Midget AAA Hockey League behind the first-place Chiefs and the second-place Westman Wildcats. Coming up, the Hawks hit the road this weekend to play Central Plains on Friday, Yellowhead on Saturday, and the Winnipeg Avros on Sunday. Next Tuesday the ladies host Central Plains at home in Pilot Mound. Game starts at 7:30 p.m. Hawks make short work of Cougars By Cori Bezan The Pembina Valley Hawks bounced back from a couple of hard losses with a victory last Friday night against the Southwest Cougars. The two AAA Manitoba Midget Hockey League teams came together strong as the first period saw a couple of minor penalties on both sides, but despite multiple scoring chances, neither team gave ground and the game headed into period two scoreless. Pembina Valley’s Ty Enns got his team on the board in the second, with a goal from Michael Wirth making it 2-0 heading into the final period. That was another 20 scoreless minutes, giving the Hawks the shut-out victory. Travis Klassen defended Pembina Valley’s net, facing 33 shots while his teammates sent 45 the Cougars’ way. Top-ranked team Winnipeg Wild hosted the Hawks on Wednesday. Results of the game were not available. The Hawks will remain on home ice this weekend to face off against Eastman on Friday and the Yellowhead Chiefs on Saturday and Sunday. The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 PHOTOS BY RICK HIEBERT The Pembina Valley AAA Bantam Female Hawks team hosted the AAA Showcase last weekend, welcoming teams from across the province. Above, left: In Friday’s opening game against the Westman Wildcats, Mordenite Maiya Ashberg winds up for a shot on net. Above, right: In the same game, Winkler’s Quinn Hamilton manned the net. The Hawks took the win 4-2 that night, and then went on to fall to the Eastman Selects 6-3 on Saturday and beat the Norman Wild 2-1 and the Winnipeg Victorias 2-0 on Sunday. Twisters down Vics, Twins By Cori Bezan The Pembina Valley Twisters emerged victorious from their two away games last week in the MMJHL. The Twisters took on the St. Vital Victorias last Thursday, dominating the first period to take control of the game early. Pembina Valley’s Joey Delaquis scored the opening goal just over a minute into the game, followed by another goal from Carter Zalluski not too long after. Matthew Hadley scored a short-handed goal for the Twisters after a boarding minor penalty to make it 3-0. The Victorias seized an early chance in period two, but Paul Remillard returned the favour for the Twisters, followed by a powerplay goal from Mitch Chanel to make it a 5-1 game. The third period became a battle as the Victorias scored their second goal. Matt Mazinke found the back of the net for the Twisters, but the Victorias managed to sneak past the Twisters once more as they took advantage of a powerplay. Chanel added another goal Voice The Winkler Morden to the Twisters list, as did Matt Mazinke on a power play before the game came to a close. The Victorias took a total of 21 shots on Pembina Valley goaltender Luke Sirant, but the Twisters outshot the Winnipeg team, making 32 attempts against them and securing the 8-3 win. The Twisters then faced the Ft. Garry/Ft. Rouge Twins on Sunday. After a quiet start, the Twisters took the lead in the first period after a goal from Chanel. The Twins returned in the second period with two goals of their own, but Zalluski tied the game up quickly for the Pembina Valley boys. Brody Chabbert bested the Twins goaltender to tip the scales back, and despite strong efforts on both sides, the remainder of the game went scoreless. The Twisters outshot the Twins with 39-35 with Alcide Grenier and took the win 3-2. This weekend the team hosts the St. James Canucks on Friday and the River East Royal Knights on Saturday. Get in touch with us via e-mail: Send news to: [email protected] Advertising to: [email protected] 27 Manitoba Hockey Standings MANITOBA JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE Addison Division GP Portage Terriers 17 Winkler Flyers 17 Winnipeg Blues 14 Steinbach Pistons 13 Dauphin Kings 18 Virden Oil Capitals 15 Swan Valley Stampeders 16 Selkirk Steelers 13 Neepawa Natives 15 OCN Blizzard 16 Waywayseecappo Wolverines 16 W 16 11 8 9 7 6 6 6 6 6 4 L 1 2 2 4 9 7 8 6 8 9 11 OTL 0 4 4 0 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 PTS 32 26 20 18 16 14 14 13 13 13 9 GF 92 61 59 48 54 44 45 45 47 43 29 GA 31 44 45 42 70 54 64 38 67 49 63 MANITOBA MAJOR JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE GP W Pembina Valley Twisters 12 8 Raiders Jr. Hockey Club 12 7 St. Vital Victorias 12 7 Charleswood Hawks 11 7 St. Boniface Riels 12 6 St. James Canucks 12 6 River East Royal Knights 12 6 Transcona Railer Express 12 5 Stonewall Jets 11 5 Ft.Garry/Ft.Rouge Twins 12 2 L 3 2 3 3 3 5 6 6 6 10 OTL 1 3 2 1 3 1 0 1 0 0 PTS 17 17 16 15 15 13 12 11 10 4 GF 49 45 51 34 38 41 39 42 34 29 GA 36 28 39 32 34 47 36 39 43 68 AAA MIDGET HOCKEY LEAGUE Wild Brandon Eastman Thrashers Parkland Interlake Yellowhead Southwest Pembina Valley Kenora Norman Central Plains GP 7 10 10 7 10 8 8 9 6 8 12 9 W 7 7 7 6 6 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 L 0 3 3 1 4 2 3 5 3 6 10 8 OTL 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 PTS 14 14 14 12 12 10 9 7 6 4 4 2 GF 48 43 35 22 33 34 22 20 13 22 25 12 GA 8 21 22 14 33 18 22 33 17 28 74 39 AAA WOMENS HOCKEY LEAGUE Yellowhead Chiefs Westman Wildcats PV Hawks Winnipeg Avros Norman Wild Central Plains Eastman Selects GP 7 6 6 7 8 6 6 W 5 5 5 3 3 3 0 L 2 1 1 4 5 3 6 OTL 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 PTS 16 14 13 9 9 8 0 GF 18 22 16 16 15 11 4 GA 12 11 11 18 20 8 22 AAA BANTAM HOCKEY LEAGUE Yellowhead Chiefs - B1 Brandon Wheat Kings - B1 Central Plains Capitals - B1 Pembina Valley PV Hawks - B1 South West Cougars - B1 Parkland Rangers - B1 GP 5 5 4 6 3 3 W 3 2 2 1 1 1 L 0 1 1 4 2 2 OTL 0 0 0 0 0 0 PTS 8 6 5 3 2 2 GF 19 21 19 20 13 8 GA 10 21 24 27 15 10 HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY GP W.C. Miller Aces (Altona) 2 Prairie Mountain Mustangs 1 Carman Cougars 1 Morris Mavericks 1 Morden Thunder 1 Cartwright/Nellie McClung/Pilot Mound Tigers 1 Portage Collegiate Institute Trojans 1 Northlands Parkway Collegiate Nighthawks (Winkler) 2 Garden Valley Collegiate (Winkler) 2 STATS AS OF MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 W 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 OTL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PTS 4 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 GF 20 6 5 3 4 2 2 5 1 GA 1 3 2 2 2 5 3 10 20 28 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 Agriculture A fiery end to the harvest for La Salle farmer By Harry Siemens Farm fires—whether on or off farm equipment, in and around grain bins or farm buildings, dust mixed with oil, straw, chaff, faulty wires or fuel lines—can happen really quickly. Case in point: it took only two minutes from fully combining soybeans until flames engulfed the combine Dustin Wiens was driving on Oct. 11, with only one hour left to finish up the 2014 harvest. “It was exciting realizing nearing the finish line of the 2014 harvest, about an hour to go, when suddenly some error codes showed up on my monitor in the cab,” says Wiens, who farms 3,700 acres with his father near La Salle. “[I was] looking at it and thinking that doesn’t make any sense, as different error messages kept appearing . . . finally I looked in the side mirror. I saw about five foot flames shooting out of my engine bay and quickly radioed my dad, Richard, waiting with the grain cart about half mile away.” Next, he turned the New Holland, CR 9090 self-propelled combine into the wind, grabbed the fire extinguisher, and hopped off the combine to see if there was anything he could do to extinguish the fire. By the time he did that and his father arrived seconds later, fire was already raining down around them and all they could do was watch it burn. A neighbour who saw the smoke showed up with a 1,000 gallon water trailer and a pump to help to keep the fire down until the fire brigade arrived to douse the remaining burning tires. Wiens believes he saved the header and the cab by turning the combine into the wind, keeping the fire at the back of the vehicle. Going back the next day to douse the smouldering soybeans still in the combine hopper—about 200 bushels or so—he checked for any cause, and determined it could be many different things: wiring, dust, chaff, a strong dry south wind, or even a burst fuel line. A neighbour finished up the nine acres of soybeans left after their fire. Once they know what the insur- ance pays out for their loss, the Wiens have all winter to decide and browse whether to buy a used one or a new one. “We really liked this combine,” Wiens laments, “the first newer combine we bought in some time.” Looking back at the season overall, though, Wiens says their 2014 total crop turned out average to a little above average, but a little bit lower quality in the cereals. Except for marketing a good chunk of their section of yellow peas— which they took off first—they have sold very little of the other crops, he says. “Most is sitting in the bin and prices are not looking too good to be sell- submitted photo ing just yet,” Wiens says. “Bins are full Watching his combine burn certainly wasn’t the end to harvest with the locks on them and I think season La Salle farmer Dustin Wiens anticipated. we’re not the only ones in this situation.” had to use a grain bag on the last of at 18 per cent moisture content and it They sold enough yellow peas to their wheat. will come out at 18 and won’t get any have enough storage, they thought, “It was really tough wheat, too, and worse, either,” Wiens says. but it still wasn’t enough and they the guys we talked to have put it in Do what’s right, right now T harry siemens he M-COOL debate continues, even after 12 year, to go along the lines of protectionism by some groups in the United States and fair trade for the rest of us. > Chuck Connor, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives CEO and former deputy secretary of agriculture in the U.S., comments on the so-called “consumer’s right to know” aspect of the debate. But first, let me explain what that is. Some who favour M-COOL in the U.S. claim consumers want and have the right to know where their food comes from. Therefore, country of origin labelling. However, when people do surveys of consumers in the U.S., many show that most shoppers still shop based on price, not the origin of that product. Many also shop at the same place time and again, and therefore trust the establishment they buy from to make sure the product is good and wholesome. There are some who absolutely have no problem buying good product at an good price, no matter where that product comes from. Others have preferences of where they buy, what they buy, and who and where they make that product. That is all fair game. Mr. Connor has, as I have, followed this issue since the early 2000s. “It didn’t start out as a consumer `right to know’ movement. It was started by groups who didn’t want competition from Mexico and Canada, plain and simple,” he says. “There are lots of COOL rules by many countries that are legal and compliant. The segregation and other requirements in this rule are not.” Wow. That makes it clear, and in no uncertain terms. John Bode, Corn Refiners Association CEO, says livestock groups that are a part of the COOL Reform Coalition, like National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the National Pork Producers Council, want the U.S. to repeal the law. Other members just want to see the U.S. honour its trade obligations by Congress, setting aside whatever portions of the regulations or law make it noncompliant. It is a disaster to wait for retaliation and export damage, he said. Meaning the retaliation that Canadian Ag Minister Ritz and Trade Minister Fast are working on to help convince the Americans making MCOOL right is in everyone’s best inContinued on page 29 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 29 New dairy quota exchange ready for December By Harry Siemens milk production on the farm.” the same price for the milk, and the In the past, some dairy farmers who value of the milk remains the same.” Dairy producers in Manitoba will hit their maximum production would He says the producer pays for the soon be able to exchange unused literally pour milk down the drain in- cost of buying the production credit production credits instead of moving stead of paying the penand that can cows from farm to farm, if they meet alty for over-production. range, looking the right criteria says Rosser dairy The new program would at other provfarmer Henry Holtmann. help stop that waste from inces anywhere, For many years, to keep the milk happening. from $2 and all “The producers supply close to the demand, the proIt will now be much the way up to vincial milk marketing board would easier for a dairy farmer gets the same $15 per kiloimplement significant penalties for to look at his producprice for the milk, gram. producers going over or under their tion in the middle of the “What that purchased production quotas. and the value of month and see where it’s says is a pro“The quota credit exchange pro- going. ducer needs to the milk remains gram allows producers to trade their “Maybe your butterfat know his variunderproduction and overproduc- is off, or your milk proable costs so the same.” tion credits with other dairy farmers,” duction is off, and I don’t that the varisays Holtmann, vice chairman of the have enough room to able cost and Dairy Farmers of Manitoba. “In Man- make it to the end of the the price of the itoba, producers can a have a range month so should I buy some under credit doesn’t exceed the price he gets of 20 days of flexibility to fall behind production credits and cover that off,” for the milk,” says Holtmann. “People on his quota. A producer’s quota is says Holtmann. “The producer gets have to be sharp with their pencils on based at day zero. He can fall below his quota by an equivalent of 20 full production days without losing the right to refill those underproduction terest. nadian pigs for finishing. days.” Karl Kynoch, chair of Manitoba Pork, “A number of producers in the U.S. He says when a producer has a says pork producers on both sides of who were buying their weanling supbump in production they can go right the border and U.S. pork processing ply from Manitoba, some of them lost back to zero and it gives them lots of plants continue to suffer from the ef- that supply due to the fact that some flexibility in the different seasons. fects of M-COOL. of the processors in the U.S. stopped “On some farms now what they can As the result of requirements for buying any pigs that were raised in do is actually trade with production U.S. pork processing plants to seg- Canada and in turn they weren’t able credits on a public exchange,” says regate domestic origin pigs from for- to find other stock down there to fill Holtmann. “Then farms who have eign origin pigs to meet M-COOL their barns,” Kynoch says. “We know already filled their production quota requirements, most U.S. processors some of the producers actually went and come to the end of their produc- stopped buying Canadian origin pigs. out of business or they’re sitting there tion days and still have a flush of cows Kynoch says the restrictions have currently with empty barns so that coming, they can then buy those pro- hurt both Canadian producers and really did hurt the producers there. duction credits and cover that rise of U.S. producers who had relied on Ca- The packers also had to restructure that one.” “I really look forward to using it on my farm,” he adds. “It is a great tool and way safer to move credits on paper to the farm than to move cows back and forth because of the greater emphasis on biosecurity.” The new quota exchange system will have some restrictions on who can sell credits and how many they can put up for sale. Producers with quality infractions will be able to sell credits, but they won’t be able to buy them. The DFM will limit producers to trading no more that 10 per cent of their total daily quota if they are goldlevel producers. Producers below the gold level can trade up to seven per cent, while standard producers with no infractions can trade up to five per cent. > siemens says, from pg. 28 because they had to fill up that space that was missing from the Canadian pigs going down.” Jurgen Preugschas, former chair of Canadian Pork Council, agrees we need to stop the need for segregation. “That’s the whole problem; so how ever they solve the problem works for us,” says Preugschas. “They need to remove the necessity of segregation in the packing facilities. That is number one and we feel the U.S. must do it through legislation.” Rock Lake Camp building project underway Work on the new washroom/shower building at the Rock Lake United Church Camp is well underway. Though there’s still a ways to go before the project’s completion, the camp expects to have it finished well before camping begins next June. The project was made possible thank to the support of the community by way of the Quilt Art and Craft auctions, Country Blend concert, monetary and in-kind donations, and volunteer labour. Over 260 campers attended Rock Lake Camp last season, with another 362 people stopping by for other group events throughout the summer. For more information on the camp, contact Neita Avery at Box 395, Crystal City, Manitoba, R0K 0N0. submitted Photo by Nancy Macaulay 30 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 Christmas Craft Sale in Morden this Saturday Vendors and local artisans will be filling the Access Event Centre for the annual Morden Christmas Craft Sale this Saturday. Anyone looking for an early start to their holiday shopping, home decor, or just a day out of the house will find a little bit of everything at the show. A total of 80 vendors will showcase their work, including knitting and crochet, baking, jewelry, silk painted scarves and cushions, body care items such as soaps, lotions, scrubs, butters and bath bombs, pottery, Christmas crafts and decorations, jams and jellies, clothing, and eco-friendly products. The free event will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with door prizes, a 50/50 draw, and a silent auction all to help raise funds for the Pembina Hills Arts Council. take a break > GAMES Sudoku Answer Crossword Answer VOICE FILE PHOTO CLUES PUZZLEACROSS NO. 524 54. Yonder 27. Overpowering 1. Smooth music respect 57. Exact 7. Fails to explode 28. "____ of the 59. Grabbed a bite 10. Voluted Spider Woman" 61. Having two feet 30. Influence 12. Tear down 63. Work for nine 31. Northern 64. Rose spike 13. Propose for office 32. Weasel 65. Percentage 14. Yiddish expert 33. Barbers' trim 66. Not right 34. Newsreel maker 15. Great ape of Borneo 70. Cathedral part 35. "Eyes of Laura 71. "____ Sematary" 16. Arab outer garments ____" 72. Makeshift bed 17. Hundredweight 37. Soft fabric 73. Loiter 18. The Muse of history 39. Pin-up girl 74. Run into 40. Blame 19. Neutralizes alkalis 76. Bee chaser 43. College vine 78. Use a bench 21. Mortar trough 44. Adult scrod 80. Head 22. Lapsed into bad habits 45. Whetstone 81. Prompter's 47. Sheer curtain 27. Potato State offering fabric 28. DeGeneres’ partner 49. Mechanic's milieu 33. Egyptian sun god 52. Body 34. Makes more precise Copyright © 2010, Penny Press 36. Deafening noise 85. Farr's feature 48. Dizziness ACROSS 1. Steeple part pleasure 50. Mexican 37. Expresses 86. Lease food item 5. Vietnamese 6. Pouchlike part 87. Attack offensive 29. Popular Canadian word 38. __ Nui, Easter Island 51. Reason 9. Venetian ruler 6. A lyric poem 30. Resort 39. Founder of Babism 53. Buzzing insect 13. Anglers' boots DOWN 55. Roll 15. Purplish 7. Philippine 31. Members of U.S. Navy 40. Speed shade competition 1. Gulp seaport & gulf 17. Poet Pound 56. Gauzy fabric8. Utilizes 2. Tropical rodent 32. Smokes 41. Artist’s tripod 18. Glacial cover 57. Moonlike 3. Roman date 9. Lair 35. Smiling so big (texting) 44. Records 19. Embarrass 58. Untrue ANSWER TO PUZZLE NO. 524 4. Family room 20. Sow's matereply 60. Circle around 10. Covering snowe.g. 36. Capital of Bangladesh 45. A witty 5. Gay of Nineties, 21. Fuel for KITT 62. Aquatic mammal 11. Covered 38. Tore down 6. Browalkway or sis 48. The content of cognition 22. Hat 64. Rapid ____ 7. Cry of dismay 12. Overzealous 40. Travel in a car 49. Mohs scale 24. Mulligan ____ measure 67. Skirt panel 8. Large dwellings 26. Zip 68. Bad actor 14. Stench 41. American bridge 50. __ student, learns 9. Society gal 27. Allied by nature 69. Straightforward 17. Compartment engineer James B. healing 10. Atmosphere 29. Theft 71. "The ____ is layer 42. “Rule Britannia” 51. Put in advance mightier . . 18. ." 2nd largest Costa Rican 31. Enchant 11. Wheat, for one 34. Iron, e.g. 72. Poorly lit island composer 12. Ahead of 35. Manners 75. Of the ear 20. Danish Krone (abbr.) 43. Let it stand CLUES DOWN schedule 36. Desert retreat 77. Cleanse 14. Tear apart 44. Not bright 1. Dress Peru’s 38. for capital Caesar 79. Convert to 23. Long narrow bands 15. Tyke a cryptogram 41. Militarize Isle 24. Woody tropical vine 45. Rated horsepower 2. Emerald 16. Bamboozle 82. Go up 42. Ape 25. Farm state 46. Pinna 3. Group criminals 23. Revenue 83. Dinghy support 44. Place of of worship 26. Tooth 47. Prefix for before 4. Flat sweetleash pea petals 84. Muss 25. caregiver Ire 46. Equestrian's The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 AUTOS STEEL BUILDINGS 2011 GMC Sierra All Terrain 4x4 ext. cab, sunroof, leather seats, power convenience group, remote start, fiberglass cap, 32,700 kms. Like new. $33,900 obo. Ph 204-697-9398. –––––––––––––––––– Guaranteed approval drive away today! We lend money to everyone. Fast approvals, best interest rates. Over 500 vehicles sale priced for immediate delivery OAC. 1-877-796-0514. www. yourapprovedonline.com Steel buildings/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www. crownsteelbuildings.ca WORK WANTED Available to do renos, repairs, maintenance, painting, siding, roofs, fix-ups. Residential or commercial. Call Bill at 204-362-2645 or leave a message at 204-822-3582. PUBLIC NOTICE SEASONAL STORE GRAND OPENING Sat., Nov. 15th, 9:30 a.m. Classifieds Book Your Classified Ad Today - Call 325-6888 or Email [email protected] LAND FOR RENT WORK WANTED Agricultural Crown Lands are presently available for rent for hay or grazing. These lands are situated in the rural municipalities of: Alonsa, Armstrong, Cameron, Clanwilliam, Coldwell, Daly, Dauphin, Eriksdale, Ethelbert, Glenella, Grahamdale, Lac du Bonnet, Lakeview, Langford, Lansdowne, Lawrence, McCreary, Miniota, Mossey River, Mountain South, North Norfolk, Northern Manitoba, Ochre River, Pembina, Piney, Pipestone, Rosedale, Rossburn, Shellmouth-Boulton, South Cypress, Ste. Rose, Stuartburn, Swan River, Wallace, Westbourne, Woodlands. Closing date for applications for hay and/or grazing is November 14, 2014. Please contact your nearest Crown Lands District Office for more information or call 1-866-210-9589. A listing of Crown Lands District Offices can be found online at: www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/land/ crown-land/agricultural-crown-lands-district-offices. html. A complete listing of Agricultural Crown Lands available for rent can be found online at: www. clp.gov.mb.ca/leases_and_permits/properties. html#agLeasePermit or at any Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development office, RM office or First Nation Band office. NOTICES NOTICES Do-it-yourself project gone bad? Need help to start or finish? I can help. Call 204-3622645 or lve. message at 204-822-3582. ARCHERY CLUB at the Winkler Arena OPENING NIGHT .OVs-ONDAY Location: Southland Mall, Winkler n Store Ope (former Hallmark Store) until ! Support artisans in developing Dec. 24th countries while shopping for Christmas! COMING EVENTS WINKLER HERITAGE SOCIETY 12th ANNUAL BANQUET THURSDAY, NOV. 6TH, 6:30 P.M. WINKLER MENNONITE CHURCH Theme: International Story Telling Stories, Music, Displays, International menu t%PPSQSJ[FT t%PPSTPQFOBU GPSZPVUPWJFXUIFEJTQMBZT 5JDLFUT For reservations phone 204-325-8968 Cut-off date for reservations, Monday. Nov. 3rd, 12 noon. CAREERS Invites applications for the positions of: School Administrative Assistant #2014EMMS068 EAL Teacher #2014MIN073 Refer to our website www.westernsd.mb.ca for more information 31 Starts: 7 pm Ends: 9 pm Come try it out! For info. contact: Abe Penner 204-822-3886 Registration on December 1st , 2014 Adults $65 (ages 18 and over) Children and Youth $45 (ages 7-17) **Instructions available ,OCATION5PSTAIRSINTHE 7INKLER!RENA #LUBENDSIN!PRIL Have you found the Gospel Echoes Thrift Store yet? You can see us from Superstore! We’re located in Winkler at 310b Cargill Road, South of Rona, behind the Medi-Chair building. Supporting the Gospel Echoes Prison Ministry Teams of Western Canada. TENDER FARM LAND FOR SALE BY TENDER in the RM of Pembina Sealed tenders in writing will be received for the purchase of the following property: NW ¼ 16-02-07WPM & SW 16-02-07WPM (Total 244.51 acres - approx. 235 cultivated acres) NW ¼ 16-02-07WPM – EXC FIRSTLY: THE NLY 900 FEET PERP OF THE WLY 600 FEET PREP SW 16-02-07WPM – 98.48 Cultivated Acres Terms and Conditions of Tender and Sale: 1. Interested parties must reply on their own inspection of the property. 2. Each tender must be accompanied by a $10,000 deposit cheque payable to Shirley McElroy. Deposit cheques accompanying unaccepted bids will be returned. 3. Possession date December 1, 2014. 4. If the balance of the purchase price is not paid by December 1, 2014, or other satisfactory arrangements are not in place, the deposit shall be forfeited to the vendor as liquidated damages and not as a penalty. 5. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. 6. The successful bidder will be responsible for all reality taxes following December 31, 2014. 7. The purchaser shall be responsible for the GST or shall self-assess for GST. 8. The bidder(s) whose tender is accepted will be required to complete an agreement covering terms and conditions of sale. Please submit tenders to “McElroy Tender”, Box 277, Manitou, MB R0G 1G0 before 4:00pm on NOVEMBER 4, 2014. For further information contact: Bev Furniss (204) 242-4258 or (204) 242-2318, email: [email protected] HELP WANTED Concrete Pump Operator wanted immediately. Experience in machinery operations required. Health benefits, full time year round work. Mechanical skills an asset. $25-$35 hour. Inquire [email protected] NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that the Rural Municipality of Stanley’s Audited Financial Statements for 2013 are available for review in the office of the Rural Municipality of Stanley and may be viewed by any persons during regular business hours. Dale Toews, C.M.M.A. Chief Administrative Officer R.M. of Stanley NOTICES RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF STANLEY PUBLIC NOTICE - BOARD OF REVISION Public Notice is hereby given that the 2015 Assessment Roll for the Rural Municipality of Stanley has been delivered to the Municipal Office at 23111 PTH 14W and is open for public inspection during regular business hours. Applications for revision may be made in accordance with Sections 42 & 43 of The Assessment Act: APPLICATION FOR REVISION 42(1) A person in whose name property has been assessed, a mortgagee in possession of property under Subsection 114(1) of The Real Property Act, an occupier of premises who is required under the terms of a lease to pay the taxes on the property, or the assessor may make application for the revision of an assessment roll with respect to: a) liability to taxation; b) amount of an assessed value; c) classification of property; or d) a refusal by an assessor to amend the assessment roll under Subsection 13(2). APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS 43(1) An application for revision must a) be made in writing; b) set out the roll number and legal description of the assessable property for which a revision is sought; c) set out which of the matters referred to in subsection 42(1) are at issue, and the grounds for each of those matters; and d) be filed by (i) delivering it or causing it to be delivered to the office indicated in the public notice given under Subsection 41(2), or (ii) serving it upon the secretary, at least 15 days before the scheduled sitting date of the board as indicated in the public notice. The Board of Revision will sit on Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers of the Rural Municipality of Stanley to hear applications. The final date on which applications must be received by the Secretary of the Board is Tuesday, November 18, 2014. Dated at Winkler, in Manitoba, this 30th day of October, 2014. Dale Toews - Secretary Board of Revision Rural Municipality of Stanley 23111 PTH 14W Box 1600, Winkler, MB. R6W 4B5 NOTICES FOR RENT Garden Park Estates in Winkler has 2 suites available. 1-1 bedroom with spacious den, patio, small garden plot, laundry hook ups in your suite, and a smaller 1 bdrm with the same amenities, rent includes: heating, a/c, water. Common rooms free for gatherings, 2 lunches per week available, weekly activities. Everything is on one level. Heated garage parking available. Rent depends on the size of suite you choose. No more worry about repairs, maintenance, yard work or snow removal anymore. For more information call Cindy at 362-7151 or 1-866-449-0254, or Dave at 362-7124. KITCHEN TOWELS ( formerly in 1027) I will be selling these towels out of my home, from Nov. 3rd to Dec. 20th $3.50 or 3/$10 By appointment 204-325-7662 Joyce Wilson Bring a Friend. The Disability Tax Credit Allows for: $1,500 Yearly Tax Credit $15,000 Refund (On Avg) Covers: -Hip/Knee Replacements, - Arthritic knees, hips, hands, or shoulders, - COPD, other Disabling Conditions For Help Applying 1-844-453-5372 NOTICES UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE PLANNING ACT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING On the date and at the time and location shown below, a PUBLIC HEARING will be held to receive representations from any person(s) who wish to make them in respect to the following matter: THE CITY OF MORDEN BY-LAW 17-2014 Being an AMENDMENT to the CITY OF MORDEN ZONING BY-LAW 22-2008, AS AMENDED HEARING Morden Civic Centre LOCATION: 195 Stephen St., Morden, MB DATE & TIME: Monday, November 17, 2014 @ 7:00pm AREA: Proposed Lot 1, of Subdivision for File No. 4433-14-7216 with deposit No. 1113-2014, Of S 9-3-5WPM From: “CR” Community Reserve To: “RM” Residential Multi-Family FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Haines, P. Eng.; Planning & Engineering 133 7th Street, Morden, MB. R6M 1V3 Phone: (204) 822-4434 A copy of the above proposal and supporting material may be inspected at the location noted above during office hours, Monday to Friday. Copies may be made and extracts taken therefrom, upon request. 32 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 BEAUTY PRODUCTS RENEW LIFE ULTIMATE FLORA CRITICAL CARE Classifieds Book Your Classified Ad Today - Call 325-6888 or Email [email protected] #JMMJPO$VMUVSFTQFSDBQTVMFtDBQTVMFTt3FH HELP WANTED Sale $29.99 CAREERS Border Land School Division Proud Suppliers of Gluten Free Products Since 2006 4UFQIFO4USFFUt.PSEFOt1IPOF AUCTIONS McSherry Auction Service Ltd VINTAGE SERVICE STATION COCA COLA AUCTION SAT Nov 8 @ 10:00 am Stonewall, MB - #12 Patterson Dr! OVER 200 SIGNS * Red Indian * BA * White Rose * North Star * Ford V8 * Chev * JD * Coca Cola *Orange Crush * Salada * Gas Pumps * Battery; Oil Racks * Oil Cans * Cash Register * Coke Cooler * GOTO Web PICS & Listing Anticipates an opening for a Term Educational Assistant for the Regional Alternative Education Centre, located in Altona, MB. For details visit http://blsd.ca or www.jobsineducation.com COMING EVENTS Stuart McSherry (204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com CAREERS PART-TIME SALES ASSOCIATE NEEDED We’re adding one casual/part-time SALES ASSOCIATE to our ranks in the next few weeks. Medical Transcription is an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get the online training you need from an employertrusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-888-528-0809 to start training for your workat-home career today! –––––––––––––––––– Medical Transcriptionists needed! Employers seeking over 200 additional CanScribe graduates. Student loans available. Income-tax receipts issued. Start training today. Work from home! www.canscribe. com. info@canscribe. com. 1-800-466-1535. –––––––––––––––––– Short on staff? Looking to hire quality individuals? Join us for an allinclusive Career Expo in Jamaica. To get more information go to: www. abpros.ca/cex. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Get free vending machines. Can earn $100,000 + per year. All cash - retire in just 3 years. Protected territories. Full details CALL NOW 1-866-6686629 Website WWW. TCVEND.COM GUITAR LESSONS Now accepting students for fall of 2014. Learn to play your favourite songs quickly and easily. Focusing on Christian music old and new. Space is limited so please register early to reserve your lesson time. Ask for Joe at Creative Chording Guitar Studio 204-325-0824. HEALTH Are you suffering from joint or arthritic pain? If so, you owe it to yourself to try elk velvet antler capsules. Hundreds have found relief. Benefits humans and pets. EVA is composed of proteins, amino acids, minerals, lipids and water. Key compounds that work to stimulate red blood cell production & cartilage cell regeneration & development. Stonewall Elk Products Ltd., 204-467-8428 or e-mail stonewoodelk@ hotmail.com MISCELLANEOUS Regal Catalogue Fundraiser for Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation this October: many affordable household gadgets, and unique gift items. To get a catalogue call 204-8225086 or go to www. ccfm.shopregal.ca CAREERS Are you dependable and resourceful? Do you have lots of energy, intuition and initiative? Do you love jewellery? We’d love to hear from you. APPLY TODAY. PLEASE SEND YOUR RESUME TO [email protected] 55+ ACTIVITY CENTRE .ORTH2AILWAY3Ts-ORDEN 9:30A.M. to 3:30P.M. FREE ADMISSION RAINBOW AUCTION SPONSORED BY MORDEN LIONS CLUB IN SUPPORT OF COMMUNITY PROJECTS CAREERS REAL ESTATE Looking for extra income through the winter? Or wanting to make a career change? We have driving opportunities that allow you to achieve a balance of home time & financial security. Opportunities for Class 1 Drivers: · · · Seasonal and Year round Part-time and Full-time Company Drivers and Owner Operators Don’t have your license yet? We also sponsor and train full-time company drivers. Call 1-855-SLT-JOBS or Email: [email protected] HIDDEN Hunter’s Gem on the Agassiz escarpment located 10 miles south of Morden. 40 acres (15 airable, 25 bushland). Includes 16’ x 20’ cabin, diesel Case tractor with loader, power generator and 8’ x 8’ storage shed. $125,000.00 Call Ron Wiebe Agencies at 204-822-5433 for more details. As a leader in the Modular Construction Industry and an equal opportunity employer, we invite you to join our family and experience the value, integrity, and corporate commitment of Grandeur Housing in a rewarding career as a: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER $V D &KLHI )LQDQFLDO 2IÀFHU \RX ZLOO EH UHTXLUHG WR SODQ RUJDQL]HGLUHFWFRQWURODQGHYDOXDWHWKHRYHUDOOÀQDQFLDO RSHUDWLRQVRIWKHFRPSDQ\5HVSRQVLELOLWLHVLQFOXGHEXGJHWSUHSDUDWLRQÀQDQFLDOVWDWHPHQWVDQGWKHPDQDJLQJ RIDOODFFRXQWLQJDFWLYLWLHVDQGFDVKÁRZ 7KHLGHDOFDQGLGDWHZLOOKROGD&3$RUHTXLYDOHQWGHVLJQDWLRQDQGDVWURQJNQRZOHGJHRI0LFURVRIW2IÀFHDQGDFFRXQWLQJVRIWZDUH$QLQGLYLGXDOZLWKVWURQJLQWHUSHUVRQDO VNLOOV WKH DELOLW\ WR EH H[WUHPHO\ RUJDQL]HG DQG D KLJK OHYHORIDFFXUDF\ZLOOÀQGVXFFHVVLQWKHSRVLWLRQ:HDUH VHHNLQJ D OHDGHU ZKR FDQ SURYLGH WLPHO\ JXLGDQFH DQG IRFXVRWKHUVLQDFFRPSOLVKLQJREMHFWLYHV *UDQGHXURIIHUVDFRPSHWLWLYHVDODU\DEHQHÀWVSDFNDJH DQG D FDUHHU RSSRUWXQLW\ WR H[FHO ZLWKLQ RXU FRPSDQ\ 6DODU\ZLOOFRPPHQVXUDWHZLWKH[SHULHQFH 3OHDVHIRUZDUG\RXUUHVXPHLQFRQÀGHQFHWR (PDLOFDUHHUV#JUDQGHXUKRXVLQJFRP *UDQGHXU+RXVLQJ/WG $WWQ7UHYRU6LHPHQV 32%R[3HPELQD$YH(DVW :LQNOHU0%5:% )D[ :HWKDQNDOOWKRVHZKRDSSO\KRZHYHURQO\WKRVH VHOHFWHGIRUDQLQWHUYLHZZLOOEHFRQWDFWHG The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 Classifieds 33 CAREERS Book Your Classified Ad Today - Call 325-6888 or Email [email protected] MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANEOUS COMING EVENTS Batteries for everything. Automotive, farm, construction, ATV, marine, cycle, golf carts, solar, phones, tools, radios, computers etc. Reconditioned, obsolete & hard-to-find batteries. SOLAR equipment. The Battery Man, Winnipeg. 1-877-775-8271 www. batteryman.ca Sawmills from only $4,397 - make money & save money with your own bandmill - cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: www. NorwoodSawmills. com/400OT 1-800-5666899 Ext: 400OT. Province-wide classifieds. Reach over 400,000 readers weekly. Call us NOW at 1-204-467-5836 or email classifieds@ mcna.com for details. DEKALB SuperSpiel 7th Anniversary. November 20 - 24, 2014 at the Morris Curling Club and Rosenort Arena. Teams from Japan, USA and Canada competing. Including 2014 Olympic Gold Medalists - Team Jennifer Jones. For more information please visit www.morriscurlingclub.org FINANCIAL SERVICES Let’s get you moving forward. Input Capital infuses your farm with the capital you need to start calling your own shots. 844-715-7355 www.inputcapital.com Invites applications for a 0.5 FTE Kindergarten Term Teacher at Rosenfeld Elementary School, located in Rosenfeld, MB. For details visit http://blsd.ca or www.jobsineducation.com SAINTS & SINNERS COSTUME RENTALS At Manitou Phone 204-242-2941 For appointment visit www.saintsandsinners.ca • aluminum • brass • zinc • steel • e-waste • lead • catalytic converters • stainless steel • batteries • copper www.urbanmine.ca 204.774.0192 72 Rothwell Road Winnipeg, MB (1 block south of IKEA) The trusted name in metal recycling AGRICULTURAL CAREERS Border Land School Division HALLOWEEN COSTUMES WE’RE HERE TO SERVE YOU! Please book your bale grinding dates inn advance so we can set up our schedule. e. We now have 2 Mighty Giant bale grinders by Jones Manufacturing to cover all of Manitoba on a regular basis. We grind your poor quality hay, straw, high moisture corn, slough hay, corn straw, and dry grain for improved feed value. We also grind straw for dairy bedding. Our grinders do the job quickly & efficiently. If your bale shredder does not do the job, give us a try. MIAMI WELDING LTD. 0Hs-ORDEN-"sWWWMIAMIWELDINGCOM Estate of John Tiessen As solicitors for the executors for the above estate, we invite TENDERS for the purchase of approximately 79.59 acres of farmland in the RM of Rhineland described as follows: If you share our passion for success and high performance, then Viterra is the place for you. Parcel 2: Approximately 39.59 acres on the THE N ½ OF THE SE ¼ OF SECTION 30-2-3 WPM (Title No. 2735317/4) Grain Buyer Tenders shall be accepted for one or both parcels. A cheque for $10,000.00 must accompany the tender as a deposit. Written tenders must be received by 2:00 p.m. on November 7, 2014. Deposit will be returned if tender not accepted. We are looking for a self-motivated, results-focused, customer service driven sales professional to join our team. As the Grain Buyer, you will be responsible for maximizing the sales of grain delivery through direct contact with clients. Closing date for the sale shall be 30 days after the close of tenders, by cash or approved loan proceeds. Any loan advances paid after closing date are subject to payment of interest at loan rate during reasonable delay for registration of security. Purchaser shall be responsible for payment of GST or shall self-assess for GST. The highest or any tender may not necessarily be accepted. ADDRESS: WIENS DOELL LAW OFFICE P.O. Box 1150 564 Mountain Ave. Winkler, MB R6W 4B2 Ph. (204) 325-8807 Fx. (204) 325-8352 To the attention of Scott C. Doell Full time Company and Owner Operator positions available The Qualifications for this job are: t"QQMJDBOUNVTUIBWFB$MBTT4MJDFOTF t%SJWFSNVTUCFBIFBMUIZBOEFOFSHFUJD QFSTPOXJUIBTUSPOHXPSLFUIJDXIPJT QSFQBSFEBOEDPNNJUUFEUPiPOUJNFw EFMJWFSZBOEDVTUPNFSTBUJTGBDUJPO t.VTUIBWFNJOJNVNPGZFBST ESJWJOHFYQFSJFODF t(PPEQFPQMFTLJMMT t#BTFEPVUPG.#UP"#o )PNFPOXFFLFOET Only selected applicants will be contacted. 1MFBTFTFOESFTVNFUP RTM Transport Ltd. Box 245 Strathclair, MB R0J 2C0 Fax: 204-365-4753 Attn: Ken Wozney Email: [email protected] CAREERS Greenhouse Assistant Under the supervision of the Sr. Greenhouse Technician, the successful candidate will be responsible for assisting in the canola breeding greenhouse programs. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: t1MBOUJOHUSBOTQMBOUJOHBOENBJOUBJOJOH canola plants t .BJOUBJOJOHTFFEJOWFOUPSJFT t %BUBDPMMFDUJPO t "TTJTUJOHJODSPTTJOHQSPHSBNT t )BOEIBSWFTUJOHBOEUISFTIJOHPG greenhouse plants t *OUFHSBUFEQFTUNBOBHFNFOU t "TTJTUJOHXJUIĕFMEBDUJWJUJFTBTOFFEFE INVITATION TO TENDER Parcel 1: Approximately 40 acres located on the N ½ OF N ½ OF SE ¼ 28-1-3 WPM (Title No. 2735318/4) and TRUCK DRIVERS (Full-time, Permanent) Canola Breeding Program TENDER Re: REQUIRED Winkler, MB 14105cc01 Ideal candidates have a post-secondary education in agriculture or agri-business and proven experience in agriculture, customer service and sales. Applicants must also have excellent relationship-building skills and a Class 5 driver’s licence. Tracking number 3400. Viterra offers a competitive salary and benefits plan. For more information and to apply, please visit Viterra.com. To be considered for this position, you should: t )BWFFYDFMMFOUBUUFOUJPOUPEFUBJMBOE organizational skills t #FBCMFUPXPSLJOEFQFOEFOUMZBTXFMMBT part of a team t 4PNFLOPXMFEHFPGQMBOUCJPMPHZBOE FYQFSJFODFXJUI$BOPMBXPVMECFBOBTTFU t &YQFSJFODFXPSLJOHJOBHSFFOIPVTF environment would be an asset t 1PTTFTTWBMJE$MBTTESJWFSTMJDFOTF t #FMFHBMMZFOUJUMFEUPXPSLJO$BOBEB Location and Transportation: %- 4FFET *OD JT MPDBUFE BU 3PBE 0Č )JHIXBZOFBS.PSEFOBOE8JOLMFSćFSFJTOP QVCMJDUSBOTQPSUBUJPOUPUIFTJUF)PVSTPGPQFSBUJPOBSFBNQN The closing date for applications is November 4, 2014. 4BMBSZXJMMCFDPNQFUJUJWFCBTFEPOFEVDBUJPOBOE FYQFSJFODF Viterra is Canada’s grain industry leader, supported by the expertise of its people, a superior network of assets, and unrivalled connections to world markets. Headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan, our commitment to agriculture goes back over 100 years, partnering with farmers to market and move their crops to areas of need around the world. Closing Date: November 14, 2014 %- 4FFET UIBOLT BMM BQQMJDBOUT IPXFWFS POMZ those selected for an interview will be contacted. Guided by our values of integrity, trust and respect, our goal is to achieve a workforce as diverse as the people we serve. We encourage aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, women, visible minorities and others to join our team. Visit Viterra.com %- 4FFET *OD JT BO FRVBM PQQPSUVOJUZ FNQMPZFS that breeds new canola varieties for the North "NFSJDBO&VSPQFBOBOE"VTUSBMJBONBSLFUQMBDF Check out our website at www.dlseeds.ca Email resumes to: [email protected] 34 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, October 30, 2014 Classifieds Book Your Classified Ad Today - Call 325-6888 or Email [email protected] ANNIVERSARY ENGAGEMENT Happy 50th Anniversary Mom and Dad! -Love, Steve, Bev, Meghan and Taylor, Marva, Ronald, Victoria and Bauer Kelly McElroy and Karen Haynes along with their parents Dale and Evelyn McElroy o Darlingford, MB and Roger and Marie Haynes of Franklin, MB; are pleased to announce their engagement. A November wedding In Minnedosa, MB is planned. AUCTION MORNING HOUSEHOLD YARD AND TOOL AUCTION AT 144-12TH ST., MORDEN MB. 3!452$!9./6s!- FOR GEORGE AND HELEN FROESE WEDDING WHO ARE DOWNSIZING 14105gg10 Household furniture. Antique Mennonite Shlop Bank, wooden pull out sleeping bench. Box Telephone, older radios etc. Allis walk behind snow blower Very good Yardman Walk behind self-propelled lawn mower with bagger. Air compressor, some other tools, aluminum step ladders etc. Propane barbecue Plastic rain barrels, and oh so much more! 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She was predeceased by her husband, John C Wiens in 2005, three sisters and one brother. Funeral service was held on Saturday, October 25, 2014 at 2:00 pm at the Chortitz Old Colony Mennonite Church with interment at Reinfeld Cemetery. Wiebe Funeral Home, Winkler In care of arrangements www.wiebefuneralhomes.com Marcia Snider November 9, 1976 – October 28, 2103 What we would give for just one more time to say, We love you, one more hug, one last kiss good-bye. We thought there would be more time, That somehow you would always be there, That you could never die. We know you are in Heaven, But we love and miss you, And our hearts still deeply grieve. We would give anything to have you, If but for a moment, Once again here with us. -All our love, Dad and Mum, Dave and Charity, Mike, Joleen and Jericho Angela Renee Knelsen December 15, 1974 - November 2, 2013 Remembering you is easy, We do it every day; It’s the pain of losing you, That will never go away. Forever Remembered...Forever Loved -The Goertzen family Remember Your Loved Ones with an Announcement in the Call 204-325-6888 or [email protected] OBITUARY Andrew Loewen December 9, 1927 – October 21, 2014 Andrew Loewen of Winkler, MB, previously from Elm Creek and Altona, passed away peacefully at Boundary Trails Health Centre on Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at the age of 86 years and 10 months. He was predeceased by his wife Roselyn in May of 1990, as well as by his parents, sisters Elizabeth and Helen, and brother Jake. He is survived by four daughters and two sons; daughters Sharon, Shirley, Vera, and Vivian; and sons Ronald and Mark and their families. He is also survived by his brother Bill; and one sister Marie, and their families. Andrew was born on December 9, 1927 in the RM of Montcalm to Wilhelm and Maria Loewen. He was raised on the family farm and attended school till Grade 8. Hard work and Christian values were taught by his parents and at the age of 14, dad accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour. He was baptized upon the confession of his faith and accepted as a member of the Sommerfeld Mennonite Church in Sommerfeld, at the age of 17. Dad worked on the family farm until the age of 23, when he married a lovely lady called Roselyn Heinrichs. They moved to Winnipeg to begin their life together; then returned to the Altona area in 1956 when his dad became ill and passed away. They purchased the family farm and lived there for 10 years, then moved to a larger farm at Elm Creek with their family of five children, where their sixth child was born. Dad upgraded his education and worked off the farm for many years to support his family. In 1990, after a two year struggle with cancer, mom passed away and dad moved to Winkler. He continued to work for several years until retirement. Dad enjoyed spending his time gardening, keeping his yard, and having daily visits and coffee time with his friends at the Winkler Senior Centre. He became ill over the last year, and was brought to the hospital may times until he was admitted in August of 2014. Dad went to his eternal reward on October 21, 2014 at 7:15 pm. The family wishes to thank the medical staff at BTHC for their care and compassion for dad in his brief stay there. A private family service with burial at the Altona Cemetery has taken place. Memorial donations may be made to Boundary Trails Health Centre Palliative Care. Wiebe Funeral Home Altona in care of arrangements 204-324-5404 OBITUARY Sarah Hildebrand (nee Krahn) 1925 – 2014 Suddenly on Thursday, October 16th at Boundary Trails Health Centre, Sarah Hildebrand, aged 89 years, went home to be with her Lord and Saviour. She was born January 31, 1925, in Schoeneberg, Ekaterinoslava, Russia and immigrated to Canada with her parents, Jacob D and Maria Krahn and family in December of the same year. They first settled in Plum Coulee for a few months and then moved to a farm south of Winkler (Osterwick), where her childhood years were spent. Here she grew up with two sisters and two brothers. Mother received Christ as her personal Saviour in July of 1940 and was baptized in May of 1945, by Bishop David Schultz and accepted into the Winkler Bergthaler Church. On August 7th, 1949, she was united in marriage to Jake Hildebrand of Winkler, where they resided for their first few years together. In the spring of 1954, Sarah and Jake moved to a farm at Manitou, where they lived for 35 years. Here they were members of the Manitou Mennonite Brethren Church. In October of 1988, Sarah and Jake moved to Morden and in March of 1989, transferred their membership to the Morden Bergthaler Church. In 1999, Sarah and Jake celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their immediate family. Mom was married to Dad for 56 years and she really missed him after he was gone. She often told us how she missed him more and more as time went on. One of Mom’s most important attributes was her faith and her commitment to pray for all her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren continuously. Her desire was to see each and every one of them live in a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Everyone knew that Grandma loved them and cared for them deeply. She always kept in contact with all of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Whenever she called on the phone, she was always ready to talk to them. Her selfless love was felt by all of us. Left to cherish her love and memory are her sons Ray (Nettie) Hildebrand, Rick (Esther) Hildebrand; a special niece Darlene (Vern) Bergen; grandchildren Charlene (Lee) Redpath, Candace (Steve) Bryce, Joanna (Justin) Roszmann, Ryan (Jessika) Hildebrand; great-grandchildren Sarah, Emily and Aaron Bryce. Sarah was predeceased by her husband, Jake in 2005; brother, David Krahn; sister, Mary Baerg; parents, Jacob D and Maria Krahn; sister, Annie Pauls and brother, Jake Krahn. We, the family, mourn at the passing of one who was greatly loved and will be sorely missed, but we sorrow not as those who have no hope. Our hope is in God, our Heavenly Father. Until we meet again. Love you, Mom. Funeral service was held on Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 at 2:00 PM at the Morden Mennonite Church with Rev. Rick Neufeld and Rev. Michael Pahl officiating. Interment followed at Chapel Cemetery. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to all those people who have helped Mom so much in getting around these last few years. Thank you for taking her to medical appointments, shopping and even going out for coffee/meals. Thank you for all the kindness extended to our family during the loss of our Mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother, Sarah Hildebrand. Special thanks to pastors Rick Neufeld and Michael Pahl for officiating, the ushers, pianist, special music and Joey Grenier and staff of Wiebe Funeral Home. We would also like to thank the ladies at Vista Terrace for their quick response calling 911, the ambulance attendants as well as all the phone calls, visits, food, flowers, cards and donations. 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