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Funeral For:  Paul Naherniak 
Funeral Date: June 6, 2025 
Paul Naherniak, 88, of Trentham passed away Wednesday, May 28th at Grunthal Menno Home. He is survived by his wife Mary, 1 son, 4 sisters, 2 brothers, and their families. He was predeceased by 1 brother. 
The funeral service for Paul Naherniak will be held Friday, June 6th at 11am at Birchwood Funeral Chapel with bural at Rosa Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery. 
Viewing will be at the chapel prior to the service. 
Arrangements by Birchwood Funeral Chapel, Steinbach.  

As emergency officials work to find hotel space for wildfire evacuees on the Prairies, a Manitoba Indigenous group says it has welcomed residents from the Pimicikamak Cree Nation at a hotel in Niagara Falls, Ont.

The organization, which represents Indigenous peoples in Manitoba, said in a social media post that the first of the evacuees from Pimicikamak were greeted Sunday at the airport in Hamilton with snacks and drinks before being loaded onto a bus for the last portion of their trip.

The Municipality of Rhineland is moving ahead with another of its strategic priorities - developing a master water drainage plan.
    
Council has hired Northern Plains Drainage Systems on a one-year trial to conduct a survey of all local ditches.

"This is kind of a new thing for us," explained Reeve Don Wiebe. "We've had some information; other municipalities have done some work in this area."

Canada's premiers are heading into to a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Saskatoon Monday armed with their wish lists for major "nation-building" projects that could buttress the economy in the face of a U.S. trade war.

Carney asked the premiers to each pass on five suggestions for national infrastructure projects, and Monday's meeting will aim to identify the ones that will make the final cut to be fast tracked using legislation Ottawa may introduce as early as this week.

Garden Valley Collegiate’s (GVC) vocal jazz groups and jazz band went out on a high note last week, Thursday, with their final performances for the 2024-2025 school year. The Jazz Café, put on by a collective with a clear heart for music, put that passion on full display, with tears in eyes as the senior students said goodbye to their GVC ensemble life one final time before they graduate.  

The Winkler Police Service reaffirmed its commitment to community-driven safety efforts this week, presenting a cheque to the local Citizens on Patrol Program (COPP). The annual funding supports their members, who have quietly served as an extra set of eyes and ears in the community for nearly three decades. 

For nearly 30 years, Canadians have been packing shoeboxes filled with toys, hygiene items, and school supplies as part of Operation Christmas Child, a program of Samaritan’s Purse — a Christian relief organization dedicated to helping those in need around the world. 

This year may be Donna Hunter’s first on the committee for the Pembina Valley kidney walk, but she is no stranger to the event or the cause.  

Her mother sat on the committee “for quite some time,” and now she has taken up the reins. Her involvement, however, goes far beyond that still.  

For Hunter, the walk is a chance to offer support, but it’s also a symbol of honouring a struggle that she knows all too well.

Canada Post has rejected a request from the union representing about 55,000 of its workers to send their ongoing labour dispute to binding arbitration.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers made the request in a statement Saturday, saying it was inviting Canada Post to a fair, final and binding arbitration process to resolve negotiations that have dragged on for months without producing a new collective agreement. 

Fire crews in northern Manitoba have so far been able to contain an encroaching wildfire that forced thousands from their homes, while more residents in Saskatchewan have been told to leave due to a fast-moving blaze. 

The Saskatchewan government has issued an evacuation alert for the dozens of residents that live in the small northern hamlet of Timber Bay.

Residents have been asked to make their way to a hotel in Regina.