Robyn Wiebe

Today marks the 125th Independence Day in the Philippines. A celebration was held on Saturday at the Morden Access Event Centre to recognize this milestone. 

Jewel White is a member of the Filipino community and one of the organizers of the event. 

"This is the second year we celebrated the Independence Day of the Philippines. This year is the 125th Independence Day of the Philippines from Spain. It was 125 years ago when our first Philippine flag was waved, signifying the independence of Filipinos from the colonization of the Spanish rule." 

Recently, Manitoba's Joey Landreth was featured at the Back 40 Folk Festival, closing down the event known for keeping homemade music alive.   

There with his family, enjoying the music of local musicians in the Morden Park Bowl, Landreth took some time to reflect on where it all started for him. 

The Pembina Valley Pride (PVP) March and Rally took place in the Morden Park Bowl on Saturday, bringing together the Rainbow Community to celebrate each 2SLGBTQIA+ person with allies cheering and showing support. 

PVP President Peter Wohlgemut described the day. 

A delegation from Pembina Fellowship Church Climate Group made a presentation to Morden City Council on May 29th. They are hoping to rekindle the MSTW Community Led Emissions Reduction (CLER) Program that ran from 2008-2012. CLER is an action plan that gave guidance and strategic steps to address climate change in the region under the direction of Kelly Stock the CLER Climate Change Coordinator at that time.

Western School Division (WSD) gathered community members in the Minnewasta gymnasium Wednesday night to share the catchment and configuration for Discovery Trails School (DTS), currently under construction on Parkhill Drive, West of Mountain St North.  

A long-awaited day has arrived for the City of Morden.   

Mayor Brandon Burley made the announcement after City Council passed a resolution at Monday's council meeting. 

Tuesday morning, it was all smiles in the Morden Tim Hortons, as staff gathered around Big Brothers Big Sisters Pembina Valley Executive Director Jenelle Neufeld for the presentation of the cheque from sales of Smile Cookie Week in Morden and Winkler May 1-7.  

Neufeld said they smashed their goal. 

One hundred red dresses representing a portion of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2 Spirited People (MMIGW2S) in Manitoba were displayed in Bethel Heritage Park in Winkler, Saturday, to bring awareness to this part of the ongoing Indigenous history. The travelling exhibit is in the third year of bringing the powerful reality to communities across the Pembina Valley and to honour the lives of each Manitoban who has never made it home.  

Morden Police Chief Brad Neduzak wanted to bring a new traffic stop to the attention of motorists, pedestrians, and people coming to the City of Morden.  

"Traffic, pedestrians, citizens will notice a change along Stephen Street, the Morden City Council has decided to take a step in trying to make Stephen St. a little bit safer with the amount of traffic and pedestrians at certain intersections. There is now a new four-way stop at 7th and Stephen St. in Morden." 

He explained the rationale behind the decision. 

École Morden Middle School students are reflecting on their work to create their own land acknowledgements as part of Indigenous Education taking place at the school this week. Students had the opportunity to share their final class project with Swan Lake First Nation (SLFN) Traditional Elder and Spiritual Leader David Scott, who listened to each class, gave feedback, answered questions, and shared stories with them. 

Mrs Bethany Loewen's grade seven class put this land acknowledgement together and presented it to Elder Scott Tuesday morning.