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Funeral For:  Mary Ann Wiebe 
Funeral Date: September 15, 2024 
Mary Ann Wiebe, 87, of Winkler passed away Monday, September 9th at Boundary Trails Health Centre. She was predeceased by her parents Jacob R. and Agnes Wiebe. 
A memorial service for Mary Ann Wiebe will be held Sunday, September 15th at 3pm at Winkler Mennonite Brethren Church, with burial prior to the service at Winkler Cemetery. 
Viewing will be at Wiebe Funeral Home, Winkler Saturday, September 14th from 1 to 8pm. 
Arrangements by Wiebe Funeral Home, Winkler.  

The Manitoba Junior Baseball League's 2024 season is in the books. MJBL president Mike Garlinski will join Clayton Dreger on Sportsbeat which airs Wednesdays at 5:15 p.m. on CFAM Radio 950.

The Board of Directors of the Golf Manitoba Scholarship Fund has announced that Keira Krahn of Carman is the 2024 recipient of the Dr. Dwight Parkinson Award. The $2,000 award is available to a student entering their first year of studies at a post-secondary institution. Krahn graduated from Carman Collegiate with Honours and Distinction and is set to begin her freshman year in Kinesiology at the University of Manitoba.

It's a celebratory kind of week in Morris, with two significant anniversaries being noted. The first was Sunday, with Mayor Scott Crick attending the 50th anniversary of the Red River Valley Lodge.

Volunteers have been at the heart of the Common Ground grow project for 15 years, and this latest effort was no different.
    
Local growers showed up at the field Tuesday with nine combines, a handful of grain carts and semis to take off and deliver 300 acres of Canadian Northern Hard Red Spring Wheat for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. 

The former President and CEO of Loewen is being remembered as an incredible person. 

Al Babiuk died in a two-vehicle collision on Saturday which occurred just east of Ninette on Highway 23.

Jon Sawatzky, Director of Product and Marketing, says Babiuk made a huge impact in the business. 

September is a transitional time. As families adjust to a new school year (and a new schedule) and the community experiences the season change and looks ahead to colder months, everyone — whether it’s subtle or dramatic — is undergoing a shift. It's common for discomfort to come along with these changes.

Western School Division Board of Trustees selected a new board chair and vice chair at Monday night's reorganization meeting. Long serving board chair Brian Fransen declined the nomination for both board chair and vice chair. 

Former vice chair Darcy Wolfe was acclaimed as board chair and is ready to lead. 

Carman Area Foundation (CAF) is teeing up for its third annual mini-golf fundraising event, Thursday, September 12th at Syl's. Although this event is becoming a regular feature in CAF's event calendar, fundraising efforts don't stop there. 

"We take donations anytime of the year. We put that money into an endowment fund, and then we grant off of the interest that comes from our endowment funds," commented CAF Vice-Chair Ian Bergsma. "This past year, we granted out $150,000." 

The topic of residential schools is difficult. Although there is bound to be discomfort for anyone coming to terms with Canada’s history in this regard, it’s something the country has become increasingly invested in remembering.