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It’s a common experience in the Pembina Valley and throughout southern Manitoba. You’ve driven through heavy, wet, dirty snow to run some errands, buy groceries or visit friends and family, and buy the time you get home you simply want to go inside as quickly as possible.

Your vehicle, however, can’t dry off as quickly as your boots, and through the night it drips a mixture of snow, sand and salt onto the surface of your garage, damaging the concrete and seeping into the walls.

The Steinbach Minor Hockey Association recently held the Steinbach Minor Hockey Raffle. 3076 raffle tickets were sold, successfully raising $60,000 to cover the registration fees of their members. 

Raffle prizes included: 

1st place - $5000.00 cash (Winner- Jess Loewen)
2nd place - $2500.00 cash (Winner- Karen & Wesley Fontaine)
3rd place - $1000.00 gift card to Harvest Honda (Winner- Savannah Neudstadter  
30 additional $250 cash prizes and gift card to local businesses 
Early bird: 2 Winnipeg Jets tickets

While Christmas may still be a few weeks away, GNM Fine Jewellers on Main Street in Steinbach is already bustling with holiday shoppers looking to find meaningful, lasting gifts. For those wanting to avoid the holiday rush, the classic advice holds: shop early. Sales Manager Nick Lanteigne notes that in Manitoba, the holiday shopping season typically kicks off when the snow hits or during Black Friday week, which falls on November 29th this year.

Imagine owning a slice of the stunning Rocky Mountains in Golden, BC while earning a return on your investment.

Pinnacle Lifestyles Resorts has a vision to enhance outdoor lifestyle. Founded in 2020, Pinnacle Lifestyles has already expanded to seven properties, proving its an eager market.

Let’s face it: the past few years have been no picnic for small businesses. Ellen Covey, a Certified Financial Planner and exclusive Advisor for the Cochrane & District Chamber of Commerce’s Group Insurance Plan, has seen it all. She says many small businesses feel like they are on struggle street, that hard, unpaved road where too many small business owners and their teams have been slogging lately. But Ellen’s on a mission to help chart the way to something better: a bustling, optimistic Main Street where businesses—and the people who power them—can thrive.

Local Weyburn craftsman, Andrew Hulbert, owner of Hulbert’s Cabinets & Interiors, is living his dream – doing what he loves to help others’ dreams come true.

With a passion for perfecting fine details and adding the finishing touches to a home, Andrew Hulbert found his calling with Hulbert’s Cabinets & Interiors.

There are shoes to fill, and then there are the big, distinguished shoes at Chow McLeod Barristers & Solicitors of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. But lawyers Parker A. Chow, B.Comm, J.D. and Devin R. Wilder, B.A., LL.B. have already laced them up.

Chow, for one, was already planning to follow in the family footsteps in elementary school.

Imagine owning a slice of the stunning Rocky Mountains in Golden, BC while earning a return on your investment. For those living in Cochrane – just a few hours away – this dream is now within reach!

Pinnacle Lifestyles Resorts has a vision to enhance the outdoor lifestyle RV experience. It’s why we were founded in 2020, and after only a few years it’s already expanded to seven properties. It’s an eager market. (Founded in 2020, Pinnacle Lifestyles has already expanded to seven properties, proving it's an eager market.)

You know it’s true. They know it’s true. Alberta meat is just superior. This superior product will get yet another upgrade when it arrives at The Butchery Block in Cochrane.

Butcher and owner Shane Wolbaum opened this business only a few years ago, pursuing his passion through partnerships with like-minded craftspeople and local ranches.

“It’s superior because of the local ranchers. They’re taking care of these animals properly- they’re not just another number. Plus, everything is local.”

"We’re still quite young, so we get a lot of enjoyment out of people discovering our business.” 

Need a specific tool to get the job done? Dead Horse Sales and Rentals can help.  

The company opened back in 2023, when owners Annie and Barry Wiebe recognized the need for a construction equipment rental company to operate within Morden. Before this time, Morden residents had to travel to Winkler to find the required gear.