Steinbach

Funeral For:  Cleo Heinrichs 
Funeral Date: May 3, 2025 
Cleo Heinrichs, 95, of Altona formerly of Plum Coulee, passed away Tuesday, April 29th at Eastview Place. She is survived by her brothers Andrew (Doreen), and David James, as well as their families. She was predeceased by her parents Jacob and Justina Heinrichs.
The celebration of life for Cleo Heinrichs will be held Saturday, May 3rd at 2pm at Harvest Christian Fellowship, Plum Coulee with burial prior to the service at Plum Coulee Cemetery. 
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Eastview Place. 

With warmer weather just around the corner, Steinbach and area residents can’t wait to wash away those last traces of winter. And Cole Trudeau is ready to do the washing for them. The power washing, to be precise.

Trudeau is entering his third season as owner-operator of CT Power Washing, and while he admits he’s still getting used to business ownership he can’t hide his excitement about getting those sidewalks, decks, fences, roofs and backyard living spaces clean and treated for another spring and summer.

The Winnipeg Goldeyes dropped the first game of their 2025 spring schedule Wednesday evening, a 6-4 loss to the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks at Newman Outdoor Field.

On a cool evening on the North Dakota/Minnesota border, the RedHawks opened the scoring with a solo home run off the bat of Dillon Thomas to give Fargo-Moorhead a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning off Goldeyes starter Landon Leach.

Communal grief following the ramming attack at a Filipino festival in Vancouver that killed 11 people on the weekend will likely persist for months, mental health experts in British Columbia warn. 

"Traumatic events, grief, is not something that is resolved in a week or two weeks, or a couple of months," said Heather Mohan, a clinical counsellor and executive director of the charity Lumara Grief and Bereavement Care Society.

The Steinbach Fly-In Golf Club has opened for the 2025 season and with some great weather on the horizon, Head Professional Brian Guenther is ready to welcome back friends both old and new.

"It's been great even though the weather hasn't been terrific yet," Guenther says about the first couple of days open. "It's supposed to get better here and summer isn't far away. We're open, we're ready to go and we're just hoping the weather turns the corner."

A man from Steinbach was inducted into the Manitoba Runners' Association Hall of Fame this week. Nick Paulet was inducted under the Builder category. 

For Paulet, his competitive running career started when he was in his early 20s. As a police officer, Paulet learned of a group of officers from Edmonton that was attempting to complete the Ironman Canada Triathlon, while raising money for the Canadian Cancer Society. Paulet ended up being part of a group of officers in 2002 that took on this challenge. 

It's Smile Cookie Week at Tim Hortons locations across Canada, and in Steinbach, proceeds will support a local cause close to the community’s heart. 

Jorge Sousa, General Manager of all three Steinbach locations says that they have chosen Recreational Opportunities for Children (ROC) Eastman to receive the funds raised. 

As the snow melts and the ditches reveal what winter left behind, residents in the RM of Hanover are being called to action for this year’s round of community clean ups.

Recreation programmer Tayleigh Giesbrecht says there are at least three communities in the RM that are hosting the clean ups this coming weekend, including Grunthal, Kleefeld and Mitchell.

Some Conservative MPs are expressing support for party leader Pierre Poilievre after he lost both the federal election and his own seat on Monday.

In his concession speech early Tuesday morning, Poilievre indicated he would stay on as leader. The Conservative party did not respond when asked Wednesday whether he has officially decided to stay.

"My view is he's not going anywhere," said Kory Teneycke, Ontario Premier Doug Ford's former campaign manager and a former director of communications for former prime minister Stephen Harper.

Wally Daudrich, who was recently defeated in the race to lead Manitoba's Opposition Progressive Conservatives, says he remains a "loyal" member of the party and still plans on seeking the Tory nomination to run in a byelection.

The hotel owner and longtime party board member says he hopes to run uncontested in the Spruce Woods constituency.

"I've been vetted (by) the party. I have gone through all those hoops … and I believe I'm ready to run as a candidate," Daudrich said in an interview Wednesday.