Tables set for the next meal, clean tea towels hung neatly on drying racks and the scent of baking bread was a scene of peace and normalcy inside the James’ Valley Hutterite Colony’s kitchen last week – in marked contrast to the tension and urgency prevailing outside. Located right in the midst of the La
Waiting For The Water
RCMP Bust Rural Drug-Trafficking Network
Rural Manitobans received another reminder this month that drug trafficking is not just a big city problem. Thirty-one people were arrested and another three are being sought in connection with drug trafficking – all with addresses in smaller towns and rural municipalities of eastern Manitoba, RCMP announced earlier this month. Police laid over 100 charges
Recipe Swap A Fruit Pickers’ Must-Have
Swap readers may recall a request on these pages awhile back for recipes using wild fruits. It came from Frieda Martens of Winnipeg who, inspired by her recollections of wild fruits enjoyed as a child, was preparing a cookbook. This spring she has published Precious Wild Berries,a 123-page ring-coil recipe book containing 80 wonderful recipes,
Second Open Farm Day Planned For 2011
Manitoba farmers and the province are gearing up to host another Open Farm Day September 18 and this year promotions are starting early. Last year, nearly 4,000 people descended on 35 participating farms for a September farm show-and-tell event for which publicity only started earlier that month. This year the invitation to Manitoba’s farms will
National “Safe Community” Designation Given To Carman And Dufferin
Everyone had a story of suffering a fall themselves, or knowing someone injured, sometimes seriously, from one, either at home or public place. But until residents of the Carman and surrounding municipality of Dufferin started looking at local injury statistics, no one guessed just how often or how injurious these incidents were. Trips, slips and
Recipe Swap – for May. 12, 2011
That winter storm had many of us hunkered down for a few hours wondering if the calendar was somehow fast-forwarded to late October or thereabouts. But by the time you’re reading this, the weekend winter we woke up to May 1 should be long gone and spring back among us. Here’s a mix of lighter
How-To Workshops Were Popular Last Year
The Assiniboine Regional Health Authority (ARHA) is offering workshops again this spring to help more people learn gardening basics. This is a second year the health authority is hosting the spring workshops at health centres across Westman, bringing in speakers to talk about starting and tending a backyard garden. A series of garden workshops last
Recipe Swap – for Apr. 21, 2011
What’s the weather like?” inquired the office clerk one day last week when I dropped in on an errand. Her smile said it all. She just wanted to hear someone say it again; it was a brilliant sunny day outside, warm enough for shirt sleeves. These first days of warmth and light after another long
Unprecedented Overland Flooding
In all his 25 years of flying over western Manitoba, Jon Bagley saw the springtime on the bald, flat prairie last week expressed in a way he’d never imagined possible – through raging creeks, washed-out roads and unprecedented overland flooding. In fact, provincial officials were calling the situation this spring some of the worst flooding
Grass-Fed Value-Added Products Hit Store Shelves
Al ine of value-added products from the Manitoba grass-fed beef producers is expected to hit store shelves in Winnipeg this month when Vita Health’s Fresh Market stores begin carrying a line of sausages, meat pies and a specialty paté at its six locations. The Manitoba Grass Fed Beef Association (MGFBA) has been working for over
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