Robyn Wiebe

With a provincial election less than two weeks away, voters in Morden-Winkler will see three names on the ballot. Winkler's Carrie Hiebert the Progressive Conservative Candidate, Morden's Ken Friesen for the New Democratic Party, and Winnipeg's Mattison Froese the Liberal Party Candidate.  

Winnipeg's Mattison Froese has been serving as a Regional Director for the Manitoba Liberal Party. 

Finally, after four years, Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Support Group (CCCSG) held their annual family camp for the first time since 2019. Usually held in Portage la Prairie, the annual family get together weekend was held in Winkler. 

CCCSG Volunteer Board Chair Naomi Fehr described a bit of the weekend. 

With a provincial election less than three weeks away, candidate nominations are finalized for the constituencies and Morden-Winkler will see three names on the ballot. Winnipeg's Mattison Froese the Liberal Party candidate, Morden's Ken Friesen for the New Democratic Party, and Winkler's Carrie Hiebert the Progressive Conservative Candidate.  

Hiebert's background gives her many reasons to want to serve. 

With a provincial election less than three weeks away, candidate nominations are finalized for the constituencies and Morden-Winkler will see three names on the ballot. Winnipeg's Mattison Froese the Liberal Party Candidate, Winkler's Carrie Hiebert the Progressive Conservative Candidate and Morden's Ken Friesen for the New Democratic Party. 

Friesen is very familiar with this area. 

A show of support took place on Sunday at the Winkler Bible Camp for the first Cruz for Kids event, where several cars travelled around Manitoba for Sunday morning before coming back to a car show at the camp to raise money to send kids to camp next year. 

Organizer of the event Chomper (Bob) Giesbrecht explained where the idea came from. 

Morden Police Constable Jeff Forster will take on a new role for the next few months, as Community Resource Officer working with Western School Division and other community organizations. Forster said presentations and work in the past has been done but it was inconsistent and fragmented, along with other shortcomings.   

Forster added another reason for trying the program.  

A year after the owner of Pembina Air and Mountain City Aviation passed away,  Morden's Jim (or Jimmy) Peters, a community gathered to make a difference and honour his life. 

His wife Carla explained. 

"Jim passed away last August in a plane crash. It was really hard for us, and shocking, and we are here now, a year later, trying to bring some good out of the impossible."  

It was a bittersweet good-bye as Morden's Youth Council Member, Maja Piekarska handed out thank you gifts to her fellow council members around the Morden City Council table on the last day of August. 

This year the Manitoba Government gave out close to $40 million in 2023/24 Rural Strategic Infrastructure Basket Funding for 2023/24 to 137 municipalities across the province. Based on 2021 census data, Morden came in with a population of 9,929.  

Mayor Brandon Burley explained what this means for the community. 

Tuesday morning, Spenst Bros. Premium Meats held a grand opening celebration for a new building expansion. The family run business was born out of the BSE crisis (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy also known as "mad cow disease") in 2003 when cattle prices dropped to as little as $7 a head. Garry Spenst had to do something to survive the bleak future posed to the grain and cattle farm.