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A new season begins tonight in Morris as the Mavericks host the defending Zone 4 High School Hockey League champion Morden Thunder. Zone 4 commissioner Seth Cory will join Clayton Dreger on Sportsbeat which airs Wednesdays at 5:15 p.m. on CFAM Radio 950.

Funeral For:  Antonio Tony Sr. Cianflone 
Funeral Date: October 12, 2024 
Antonion Tony Sr. Cianflone, 74, of Altona formerly of Letellier, passed away Monday, October 7th at Altona Memorial Health Centre. He is survived by his wife Lise, 2 sons, and their families.  
The celebration of life for Antonion Tony Sr. Cianflone will be held Saturday, 11am at Letellier Community Centre with ash interment at Letellier Cemetery. 
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Boundary Trails Health Centre Dialysis Unit. 
Arrangements by Wiebe Funeral Home, Altona.  

Funeral For:  Abe Martens 
Funeral Date: October 15, 2024 
Abe Martens, 78, of Steinbach passed away Tuesday, October 8th at his residence. He is survived by his wife Mary, 2 daughters, 2 sons, and their families.  
A memorial service for Abe Martens will be held Tuesday, October 15th at 11am at Southland Church with ash interment at a later date. 
Arrangements by Birchwood Funeral Chapel, Steinbach.  

The Provincial High School Cross Country Championships take place today in Clearwater hosted by Prairie Mountain High School. 1,100 runners are expected to compete in the junior varsity and varsity divisions. Miller girls & Morden boys won the Zone 4 varsity championship banners last week at Stephenfield Park. Sanford girls & Morden boys captured the junior varsity team titles.

Morden Police Service is looking to the public for help identifying this individual. The request for assistance came Tuesday evening in a social media post.

If you have information regarding this male's identity, please contact Morden Police at 204-822-4900.

The next step in the "Grow Morris" Development Plan is coming up November 7th, with council holding a public hearing to receive feedback on the proposed plan. Earlier in Summer residents were given the opportunity to comment on it.

"We're required to redo this approximately every ten years, and we know as a community we didn't quite have alignment between land use, some of the strategic ideas in the community, and where we wanted to go long term," explained Crick. "We've attempted to pull that all together in this development plan, which again has been titled 'Grow Morris'."

Enrollment at Garden Valley School Division (GVSD) is steady this Fall compared to last school year at 4,219. In fact, Superintendent Dan Ward says that's exactly the same number of students submitted to the province in September 2023, something he hasn't had happen previously. 

"I don't think I've ever had the exact same count," he said. "I think I was within ten (students) one year, but those numbers, of course, change month to month, but our end of September count was the exact same as last year."

The scene on Monday was about so much more than numbers.  

On October 7th, representatives from local organizations gathered for an especially moving fall cheque presentation with Morden Community Thrift Shop. $211,000 went into the hands of 15 local non-profit organizations. The amount was great, but the appreciation might have been even greater. 

It seems every day, more and more stories come out of somebody getting taken advantage of with some form of online scam.  

Email phishing, fake online storefronts, crypto fraud — the list goes on and on. With so many different ways to be bamboozled, how can a person ever truly feel safe while online?  

In the spirit of Cybersecurity awareness month, it is important to be armed with solid strategies necessary to navigate the wild west that is the internet.  

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was not allowed to speak in the House of Commons Tuesday as his public feud with Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly spilled into a second day.

House Speaker Greg Fergus delivered the penalty to Poilievre in the morning, a day after he asked the leader of the opposition to withdraw a remark accusing Joly of pandering to supporters of the terrorist organization Hamas.