Settling in
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- Published on Sunday, May 1, 2016
By Scarlette Paddock
Secretary
Riverdale Harvest food bank has been in our new location (at Zion Church), with a new schedule for disbursements, for a couple of months now. We are happy to see people are finding us at our new location. We now have a drop-in disbursement method. Anyone can attend anytime between the hours of 10 a.m. and noon on any Thursday. You can come as often as once every two weeks to pick up a hamper. We are striving to make access easier and more consistent for both clients and volunteers.
Learning more about Parkinson's
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- Published on Saturday, April 30, 2016
By Dianne Kowalchuk
Publicity
One of the goals of Women’s Institute (WI) is to provide education for its members. Rivers WI, like most branches, plans its programs a year in advance so members know what’s coming up and when. In November one of the many topics that were suggested was Parkinson’s. Pat Wood took on the task of finding a speaker; members welcomed Charlotte Potwondy, Westman co-ordinator for Parkinson’s Canada, to the April meeting.
Eden area author hopes to heal hearts
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- Published on Saturday, April 30, 2016
The cover of Meredith Froese's first published book, The Heart's Journey.
By Kira Paterson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
An Eden area woman has recently published a book entitled The Heart’s Journey. The author, Meredith Froese, wrote the book in hopes that it would bring healing to her own and others’ hearts. “God kept giving me hearts to write on,” Froese explained. She added, “it was a healing process for myself.”
Royal reception for Rivers residents
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- Published on Saturday, April 30, 2016
By Sheila Runions
Banner staff
In mid-February Lt.-Gov. Janice Filmon announced her plan to host a birthday party on April 21, the day Queen Elizabeth turned 90. The Queen’s representative in Manitoba invited people born in 1926 to contact her office to express their interest in attending the afternoon party at Government House. Filmon was prepared to invite the first 60 people (and one guest) who responded but her office was so overwhelmed with applications that a morning tea party was held as well. Each party had 150 people and even then, people were turned away because the House could seat no more. Among the guests who attended the afternoon affair were Rivers’ own Georgina Bollman and Bertha Shelvey, who moved to Brandon after living in Rivers for 22 years (1989-2011).
Purple martin house-builder builds one more
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- Published on Saturday, April 30, 2016
Photo by John Dietz. Gord Oleksuk stands with one of his purple martin houses.
By John Dietz
Submitted article
It was time to retire 18 years ago, that’s why Gord Oleksuk built a purple martin house. It was something to do. More than 100 purple martin houses later, he’s still building them in the little shop beside his house at the junction of Highway 10 and 25, sometimes called Glanton Corner. At 81 Gord says he still has a few left to build. Gaby, his wife, is fine with that for now but next winter she’d like to be living in Brandon – and the shop may be just a memory.
