Steinbach

The Millerettes are a local dual-roster team made up of girls from Steinbach and the surrounding area. 

All of the girls play on a regular co-ed team, and have the option to also play on a girls team. 

Ryan Canada, one of the Millerettes coaches, says there are five dual-roster teams in the southeast, plus the girls-only teams that play in a league. 

“So the dual-roster teams aren't in a league per se, but we do play against all the other dual-roster teams in our area.” 

The dramatic shift in weather this week has local tire shops booked up, swapping vehicles over to winter tires. 

Chris Dyck from Kal Tire in Steinbach says they are as busy as they can possibly be right now. He notes generally speaking, it is a good idea to get winter tires on when the temperature is consistently below 7 degrees. 

The Chief for the Hanover Fire Department says there were no physical injuries in a crash involving a school bus Thursday morning.

Paul Wiebe says they were called out shortly after 10 am to Centre Street in Mitchell following a crash between a passenger vehicle and school bus.

According to Hanover School Division, there were no children on the bus at the time of the crash. 

Also on Thursday, Wiebe says they were called to a two-vehicle crash along Provincial Road 216, at Road 31 North, south of Kleefeld. It happened shortly after 5 pm.

One person was taken to hospital early Friday morning, following a highway crash south of Steinbach involving two cows. 

Hanover Fire Chief Paul Wiebe says their crews were called to the scene shortly after 5 am. It happened along Highway 12, just south of Road 32 North, or Ridge Road.

Wiebe says there were two occupants in the vehicle. The driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries. 

According to Wiebe, both cows died in the crash. Wiebe says they are investigating where the cows came from.

Emergency crews are currently at the scene of a collision north of Blumenort.

It involved at least two vehicles at the intersection of Highway 12 and Road 42N.

A motorist passing through there says the collision has slowed traffic in the northbound lanes. As of 7:30 am, the left northbound lane is blocked by emergency crews. 

A tow truck is currently on scene.

This is a developing story and we will provide more details as they become available. 

A prosecutor urged a jury Thursday to find two accused human smugglers guilty, saying the men cared more about money than people's safety and their actions led to the deaths of a family of four in a prairie blizzard.

"They knew they were risking people's lives," Michael McBride said in his closing arguments after three days of testimony in U.S. district court.

"To them, all of those people were nothing but dollar signs."

A senior official says the Canadian government is not aware of any evidence linking Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to alleged criminal activity perpetrated by Indian agents on Canadian soil.

Meta is refusing to publicly disclose information that could determine whether it is subject to the Online News Act despite blocking news from its platforms.

In this episode of Feel Good Fridays, we went to Clearspring Centre to give away gift cards to Prairie Oils & Vinegars courtesy of the Steinbach Auto Dealers. We ran into a family in the parking lot and blessed them with a $50 gift card, and then they got to bless someone else!

Catch up on past episodes right here.

The Steinbach Minor Hockey Association recently held the Steinbach Minor Hockey Raffle. 3076 raffle tickets were sold, successfully raising $60,000 to cover the registration fees of their members. 

Raffle prizes included: 

1st place - $5000.00 cash (Winner- Jess Loewen)
2nd place - $2500.00 cash (Winner- Karen & Wesley Fontaine)
3rd place - $1000.00 gift card to Harvest Honda (Winner- Savannah Neudstadter  
30 additional $250 cash prizes and gift card to local businesses 
Early bird: 2 Winnipeg Jets tickets