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Funeral For:  Nettie Friesen nee Derksen 
Funeral Date: October 15, 2024 
Nettie Friesen nee Derksen, 73, of Winkler formerly of Reinfeld, passed away Monday, October 7th at her residence. She is survived by 3 sons and their families. She was predeceased by her husband John, 1 daughter-in-law, and 1 brother. 
A memorial service for Nettie Friesen nee Derksen will be held Tuesday, October 15th at 2pm at Winkler EMMC with burial prior to the service at 12:30pm at Reinfeld Cemetery. 

Funeral For:  John Elyk
Funeral Date: October 10, 2024 
John Elyk, 84, of South Junction passed away Sunday, October 6th at Bethesda Regional Health Centre. He is survived by 1 daughter, 1 daughter-in-law and their families. He was predeceased by his wife Catherine, 1 son, 1 granddaughter, and 2 brothers. 
The funeral service for John Elyck will be held Thursday, October 10th 11am at Our Lady of Assumption in South Junction with burial at the church cemetery. 
Viewing will be at the church prior to the service. 

The Pilot Mound Pilots are Provincial A-AA-AAA High School Cross Country champions. Cole Landreville, Christian Caby, Maddox Ramage, Collin Friedrich, Gavin Hildebrand, Matsun Adams and Gavin Noseworthy captured the junior varsity boys championship banner. Landerville also finished first in the overall individual JV boys competition. Warren won the junior varsity girls championship banner; Westgate took the varsity boys while Miller Collegiate of Altona captured the varsity girls team competition. 

Members of the Virden Theatre Production are delving deep into practicing acting, song and dance as they prepare for their next performance on stage.

Many might remember this movie from 2003 where mom and daughter aren't getting along so well and through a series of events end up switching bodies, and then the mayhem begins!

Stage Director, Dean Munchinsky, says there is lots of singing and dancing, and lots of laughs.

A Toronto artist based in Florida says he's anxiously waiting to ensure the safety of his friends in the state and assess the potentially catastrophic damage to his property as Hurricane Milton barrels towards his community just outside Sarasota.

He's just one of many Canadians who own homes in the state. Like him, many have fled because of this hurricane or its predecessor Helene, which unleashed devastation across several southern states just a few weeks ago. 

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has released a report on the latest recommendations and feedback relating to modernizing the seed regulations in Canada.

The process began in 2021 and covers several areas from import to export, seed conditioning, storage, testing and labeling to seed sales.

The National Manager for the Seed Section of the CFIA, Wendy Jahn says a number of the regulations, policies and programs interact with each other and rather than making changes one at a time it makes more sense to take a holistic approach to modernizing the system.

The Manitoba government is introducing legislation that would regulate the retail sale of long-bladed weapons, including machetes, knives and swords, Justice Minister Matt Wiebe announced today.

Media Release - Oct 9, 2024

Impaired Operation of a Motor Vehicle

Blue Hills RCMP respond to fatal collision

Media Release, Oct 9, 2024

On October 8, 2024, at approximately 5:15 pm, Blue Hills RCMP received a report of a vehicle and motorcycle collision on Highway 250, approximately 10 kilometres north of Highway 1, between Road 62 North and Road 64 North in the RM of Riverdale.

When officers arrived, the driver of the motorcycle, a 48-year-old male from Brandon had been pronounced deceased.

Back-to-back weekends of extremely windy conditions in southern Manitoba has some people asking whether we are currently in a windy cycle and if this is a sign of things to come. 

David Phillips is Senior Climatologist with Environment Canada. He says though it has been a windy year for this half of the province, there is not much we should be reading into this.