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Funeral For: Katie Ginter 
Funeral Date: August 6, 2025 
Katie Ginter, 75, of Winkler passed away Thursday, July 31st at Boundary Trails Health Centre. She is survived by 3 daughters, 1 son and their families. She was predeceased by her husband Edwin Ginter. 
A memorial service for Katie Ginter will be held August 6th, 2pm at Winkler Bergthaler Mennonite Church with private family interment prior to the service. 
Viewing will be August 5th, 1-9pm at Wiebe Funeral Home Winkler. 
Donations may be made to Central Station Community Centre. 

Charitable not-for-profit organizations interested in applying for grant funding from the Brandon Area Community Foundation (BACF) can access a grant application portal on the organization’s website -- www.bacf.ca -- from Tuesday, August 5 until Monday, September 22. 

The BACF Community Grants Program provides funding to qualified applicants from the BACF’s granting area in the following fields of interest: Arts & Culture, Community, Education, Environment, Health and Wellness, and Recreation.

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Saturday, August 2nd Report: 

Assault with a Weapon 

The Winnipeg Goldeyes (31-43) opened a four-game series in dominant fashion Monday, posting a 13-4 victory over the Sioux Falls Canaries (42-33) at Sioux Falls Stadium.
 
For the first time in four games, the Goldeyes found themselves trailing early after a bases-loaded walk to Mike Hart in the bottom of the first scored Jabari Henry to give the Canaries a 1-0 lead.
 

Killarney resident and teacher with Turtle Mountain School Division, Stephanie Outhwaite, has been focusing on her own physical fitness over the past number of years and is wanting to offer more opportunities for others to join her in an exercise program that is designed to be adaptive for all levels of abilities, and disabilities.

Outhwaite has been training for the Highland Heavy Games events and has competed in a number of meets over the past few months, including the Deloraine Summer Festival.

As the popularity of e-scooters continues to rise, so too does the number of injuries. 

That is according to Diana Craiovan, Program Lead for Hospital Data Advancement and Engagement with Canadian Institute for Health Information. The Institute recently released a report on the leading causes of injury-related hospitalizations and emergency department visits in Canada. Craiovan says the report shows a 32 per cent increase in e-scooter injuries from 2022/23 to 2023/24. 

13-year-old star hockey player, Aljon Gabriel Jimenea, who is known as Gab by his teammates, started playing hockey when he was five years old, and he keeps getting better, and better.

Looking back to when he got to Canada from the Philippines and found the game of hockey, Gab says he knew he found something special right away. "Seeing other people playing, and how challenging skating can be, that stood out."

The young star recalls not knowing anything about the game until he got to Killarney. "I only learned about hockey when we got to Canada," he says with a big smile.

Thousands of people have fled from a First Nation in northern Manitoba Monday as wildfires burned closer and closer to the community. 

The Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, also called Nelson House, issued a full evacuation order Sunday in response to the blazes, as flames threatened to cut off road access and muddied air quality.

It was upgraded one day later to a mandatory evacuation. The community's roughly 4,000 residents were to register with the Cree Nation before busing to the Thompson Airport, about 75 kilometres away, to fly to Winnipeg.

Labour experts say another postal service strike is unlikely after unionized Canada Post workers rejected their employer's latest round of offers in a forced vote and the parties mull their next steps.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said Friday that the roughly 55,000 members represented by the union shot down the Canada Post's latest proposal, which would've seen wage hikes of about 13 per cent over four years and restructuring to add part-time workers to the deal.

Some premiers say they want to have more local control over the immigration system — but experts say what the system really needs is a national conversation on immigration reform that shores up public support.

"Most of the existing policies have been formulated on the fly without any evidence or serious impact evaluations of what the various classes of immigrants are, how they're performing economically and otherwise," said Michael Trebilcock, a retired academic and co-author of two books on immigration policy.

"So it's basically research-free."