PembinaValley

Game one is Friday night. Head coach Matt Melo will join Clayton Dreger on the Flyers Report which airs Thursdays at 5:15 p.m. on CFAM Radio 950.

Golf Manitoba's final event of the 2024 season takes place today at the Grand Pines Golf Club. 32 teams including Kevin Wall & Terry Enns and Dwayne Funk & Austin Wiebe of the Winkler Centennial Golf Club have registered for the Men's Four-Ball Championship. 

Additional rainfall received Wednesday morning has only inflated already significant totals received across the region this week.

"The brief, but intense, downpour brought another significant dump in places that already had anywhere between 100 and 150mm earlier this week," explained CMOS Accredited Weathercaster Chris Sumner. "The Winkler and Morden area, south into the R.M. of Stanley, based on our Rainwatcher reports, again appears to have received the highest totals."

A 14-year-old boy was handed nearly $850 in fines after he and a buddy went for a ride on their dirt bikes.
    
According to Winkler police, officers were heading north on Highway 32 when they spotted the dirt bikes going at a 'high rate of speed' in the west ditch. As the riders approached the intersection at Southview Drive, police say they accelerated and ramped the intersection and kept heading north in the ditch. That's when officers tried to pull them over - one driver stopped but the other fled.
    

The heavy rainfall this week has again brought to the forefront Rhineland Municipality's desire to complete a comprehensive drainage plan. Don Wiebe made the comment for today's Reeve on the Radio.

He noted one of the first steps was becoming a member of the Pembina Valley Watershed District, which has been done.

Two men were arrested by Winkler police earlier this month for sexual offences.
    
On September 2nd, a female youth reported she'd been sexually assaulted two weeks earlier by a man known to her. The man was arrested for sexual interference and later released on an undertaking with a future court date.

Then on September 12th, another female youth disclosed two historical sexual assaults by man also known to her. This suspect was arrested on two counts of sexual assault and released on an undertaking with a future court date
 

Joey Siemens, widely recognized in the Pembina Valley as drummer for L Rae & J, has recently shifted his artistic focus to photography. Siemens shared his journey into this new passion, which he says began early in life, inspired by his mother, who was an avid photographer. 

Genesis House (GH) Board members, staff and volunteers and special guests took part in the 40th Annual General Meeting (AGM) Report at Winkler Arts and Culture Tuesday night.  

With an increase from 1037 bednights for 64 women in 2021-22 to 1213 for 76 women in 2023-24, and from 0 bednights for men in 2021-22 to 35 for 1 man and 904 bednights for 60 children in 2021-22 to 1216 for 82 children in 2023-24, the need for support for victims of domestic violence is increasing.  

Thursday, September 19th

Zone 4 High School Soccer
Boys
Garden Valley vs Northlands Parkway
@ Winkler, 4:30 p.m.
Miller at Morden, 4:30 p.m.
Morris/St. Jean vs Dufferin Christian
@ Morris, 4:30 p.m.
Roseau Valley vs Shevchenko 
@ Dominion City, 6 p.m.
Girls
Miller at Morden, 4:30 p.m.
Northlands Parkway vs Dufferin Christian
@ Carman, 4:30 p.m.
Morris/St. Jean vs Roseau Valley
@ Dominion City, 4:30 p.m.

More than 80% of the Bangladeshi community in the Pembina Valley attended a wonderful and vibrant community picnic in the Altona Park on Saturday. The event was hosted by the Bangladeshi Society of Pembina Valley.