Robyn Wiebe

Southern Health-Santé Sud recognized full-time, part-time and casual staff at last week's AGM. Two registered nurses from the Lorne Memorial Hospital were given Quality Service Awards. Recipients of this award are staff who make extraordinary contributions and achievements and who extend their efforts beyond the day-to-day issues and share gifts of compassion, patience, kindness and professionalism. Nominations are made by their peers. 

CEO Jane Curtis shared why Christine Gundrum was chosen for this award.  

After the overwhelming response to Pap Day at Morden Menzies Medical Centre (MMC) in Spring, the clinic is offering an entire month for anyone with a cervix between the ages of twenty-one and sixty-nine who are sexually active, to book an appointment with a female doctor or nurse practitioner for a Pap test. 

Doctor Leanne Nause said the team saw a need to expand the availability for the entire month of October. 

Morden residents only need to hang on a short while longer until the Alvey Street and Parkhill Drive bridges reopen. After overland flooding in the Spring of 2022 wiped out both bridges, they have been closed to foot and vehicle traffic, requiring residents to use alternative ways to access homes and routes in those two areas of Morden.  

Deputy City Manager of Operations Santokh Randawa said today (October 16th), the Alvey Street bridge will be paved and Tuesday it's Parkhill's turn. 

The Central Manitoba Youth Choir is sharing the gift of music with Southern Manitoba this weekend. 

Kate and Beth Giesbrecht are sisters and are excited to be in the choir together this year. 

This will be Beth's third year in the choir. She shared her favourite part of being in the Choral ensemble. 

Celia Rabinovitch was born in Morden to Milton and Sheila Rabinovitch. Her family owned a local store on Stephen Street in the 1920s & 30s. Milton's cousin, Nick Yudell, lived in Winnipeg, but came to live with the Rabinovitch family for a time, and worked in the store. 

It was ten or twelve years ago when Ted Story brought three-time Roland Pumpkin Fair (RPF) Champion, Carman's Jason Terwin, to the Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off and got him involved and he's been back in it ever since.  

The revival of the Dead Horse Creek Speedway, west of Morden, in July and August saw record crowds coming out to watch dirt track racing once again in the Pembina Valley this summer. 

Valley Motorsports President Chris Unrau brought the signature racecar to the Boundary Trails Health Centre Friday to share in the success of the two events with a couple of victory laps. 

In a time when adoption wasn't spoken about openly because there was a stigma attached to it, whether adopting a child due to infertility or giving a child up for adoption due to the inability to care for the child, Morden's Beverly Dyck-Hiebert-Wiebe was born in Grace Hospital in Winnipeg to her birth mother, where Children's Aid kept the pair together for a short time before finding a new home for Beverly. 

Carrie Hiebert will be heading to Winnipeg and the Manitoba Legislature as the Progressive Conservative MLA for Morden-Winkler. 

She just secured the party's nomination in mid-May after former MLA Cameron Friesen stepped back from provincial politics. 

She shared her reaction to being announced the MLA for Morden-Winkler.  

YFC in Carman cuts ribbon on expansion project the ribbon was cut in Carman on the Youth for Christ (YFC) drop-in centre, with community members from Carman, Dufferin and the surrounding area gathered to celebrate this important milestone. 

Carman YFC Female Program Coordinator Stevie Jeske has been with the organization for over 12 years.