Wh e n Lisele Lindsay invited me to a Capoeira Demonstration Fundraiser in January, I thought she was inviting me to a jewelry party! I felt rather “unworldly” as she had to explain that Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that some local folks have been practising weekly for the past three months. I arrived
Are You Ready For Capoeria?
Know What You’re Up Against
In my 18-1/2 years of country living I’ve always strived to live in peaceful coexistence with nature. OK, I’ve had a few choice words for the woodpeckers that seemed intent on removing the cedar siding from the house, and the weasels that came around hoping for a meal of my ducklings, but generally, strategies such
Time To Hit The Trails
PICTURE PERFECT:Marcia Foord of Onanole, Manitoba enjoys a sunny day on the trails. Cross-country skiing can be a heart-pumping, adrenal ine-surging sport. For more of us though, it is a quieter, more reflective way of experiencing the outdoors and an opportunity to soak in the beauty of winter. Cross-country skiing (a. k.a. Nordic skiing) is
Tracking The Bears
Manitoba Natural Resources and the Canadian Park Service commissioned a study in the ’80s to try and discover if bear movements, home ranges and densities were influenced by the placement of hunting baits around the periphery of Riding Mountain National Park (RMNP). With the use of spring-activated cable snares and culvert traps set at various
Perogies Raise Funds For Sandy Lake
Community volunteers work together Perogies are the fuel that keeps Sandy Lake going!” said Stella Kowalchuk. Looking around the community hall 30-plus people could be seen, all busy making perogies as a fundraiser for the Sandy Lake Museum. A half-dozen apron-clad men were in the kitchen, rolling and cutting the dough and boiling and buttering
Equestrian Centre Will Border RMNP
Molly Kelleher, 24, has been “nuts about horses” for as long as she can remember. When she was 14 years old, Molly’s parents, John and Nancy, purchased a four-year-old quarter- horse, “Tug,” for her for Christmas and the gift made her surer than ever that horses would be her life and career. Molly describes her
Buried Treasure At Lake Audy
Red Ryder became the “spokestoon” for Daisy Air Rifles. To date, it has been the longest-standing licensing agreement in history, as the Daisy Manufacturing Co. Inc. continues to use the Red Ryder name. Sichewski still lives on the farm on which he was born, just off PR No. 354 on Lake Audy Road which leads
Open For Business
Residents of the South Mountain area can now enjoy the Generations Tea Room located at 117 Main Street in Sandy Lake, Manitoba. Kerry and Carrie Campbell purchased land in the town in October of 2009, eventually building a house and moving from Brandon to take up residence there in June of this year. When Tommy’s
Now That’s Good Bread
Beatrice Hosmann of Sandy Lake, Manitoba makes really good bread. I know, because I’m eating a slice right now, toasted, with my coffee! When Hosmann came to Canada from her native Switzerland just over 12 years ago, she and her family found Canadian bread to be insubstantial. “We Europeans love our bread,” said Hosmann, so
Rolling River First Nation Launches Library Program
The Imagination Library is a program of Dolly Par ton’s Dol lywood Foundation, where children under the age of five receive an age-appropriate book every month, mailed directly to them at no charge to the child’s family. Parton’s parents were illiterate, as were many others in Tennessee, so in 1996 she created the Imagination Library
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
