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H.E.L.P. growing project members Ron Tone (left) and Gerry Lahaie (right) with donated items outside Grunthal Auction Mart.

Growing project’s auction raises thousands for Foodgrains Bank

Dairy farmers, businesses donated livestock, food and products for the online fundraiser

By Geralyn Wichers May 21, 2021

The farmers of the H.E.L.P. growing project (Helping Everyone Live Properly) in southeastern Manitoba went online to auction off cattle, food, services and other items and raised about $48,000 for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. “If we can do a little bit to help, that’s a big start,” said Ron Tone, a member of the growing

Rescue on the Island strandees raised $155,000 for STARS air ambulance Sept. 6.

News, Other

STARS fundraiser nets over $155,000

Rescue on the Island fundraiser has raised $1.4 million in six years

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 26, 2018

Five Manitoba business and community leaders have helped raise $155,000 for the STARS air ambulance. The annual Rescue on the Island event is a one-day fundraiser that’s brought in more than $1.4 million in the six years it’s been running. The participants were stranded on an uninhabited island in Whiteshell Provincial Park the morning of

The standard fare of a fall supper remains unchanged over decades: chicken or turkey, mashed potatoes, vegetables and, later, pie for dessert.

Country Crossroads, Other

Argyle set to serve its 135th annual fall supper

The Brant-Argyle local history book talks about the popular community meal that began in 1882

By Lorraine Stevenson September 21, 2017

The number of potatoes peeled in the village of Argyle for its annual fall supper can probably circle the planet by now. Several hundred pounds are served every year and 2017 marks the 135th year since this tiny southern Interlake community began its yearly fall tradition. Organizers know for sure their annual fall tradition is

University of Manitoba students from the faculty of agriculture took part in the 35th annual Aggie Bed Push event  on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.

Local news

Future farmers raise funds for Manitoba Farmers with Disabilities

Students from the University of Manitoba’s faculty of agriculture have raised  just over $9,000 for Manitoba Farmers with Disabilities

By Jennifer Paige October 18, 2016

Its not every day you see a group of young people running down the main drag of small-town Manitoba with a bed in tow. Local residents in towns throughout southern Manitoba may have witnessed a peculiar sight recently as agriculture students from the University of Manitoba got together for their annual Aggie Bed Push fundraiser.

Helmut Neufeld, a longtime volunteer at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum at Austin, has been hard at work restoring threshing  machines in preparation for the July 31 Harvesting Hope event.

Country Crossroads, Local news

Everyone’s pitching in to help pitch at Threshermen’s Reunion

Organizers expect more that 125 threshing machines to be on hand for the world-record event

By Lorraine Stevenson June 8, 2016

The pioneer harvest to be staged at the 2016 Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede in Austin next month won’t just be the largest in this organization’s 62-year history. It will be the grandest display of operating threshing machines the world has ever seen, and that’s no publicity pitch. Harvesting Hope: A World Record to Help

Fundraising for a new Tivoli in town continues, say members of a volunteer committee that’s been working the past five years to reopen a new community-owned theatre to replace the old. Pictured are Sharon Currie (r), Gisele Harding and Heather Brewster (l).

Country Crossroads, Local news

Pilot Mound theatre to light the screen — soon

Pilot Mound residents are hard at work fundraising to reopen a new community-owned  theatre in their Pilot Mound Recreation Complex. The former theatre closed in 2010

By Lorraine Stevenson December 3, 2015

Pilot Mound’s first theatre was known as the “cosy” theatre. It was cosy all right, and it didn’t smell like popcorn. It was over a hatchery. That was years ago. After 1945, Pilot Mound had the Tivoli, a fine little theatre where great movies were watched and great memories made. It was so popular for

A Thanksgiving dinner: Darcy Miller pledged a field of soybeans to cancer research following a bout of colon cancer in 2014.

Crops, Local news

‘Phenomenal’ support for harvest to support cancer research

More than 250 turned out for a Thanksgiving weekend harvest and fundraising dinner

By Lorraine Stevenson October 19, 2015

A pedigreed seed grower from Fortier who started a fundraiser to raise money for cancer research says there was phenomenal support over the Thanksgiving weekend and he hopes other farmers and farm businesses will take up this cause. Miller Agritec Inc. owner Darcy Miller vowed to grow a crop and donate the proceeds while in

STARS celebrated 30 years in operation in May. The program began  in Calgary in 1985.

Local news

Stranded on an island for a good cause

STARS Rescue on the Island event will soon see a number of well-known Manitoba community members left on an isolated island until they can earn their way home

By Jennifer Paige September 4, 2015

Elm Creek producer Colin Penner will leave his tractor cab mid-harvest to be dropped on a remote island hoping he gets enough support from the agricultural community to get home. “It’s not every day you get to participate in a phenomenal fundraiser like this. It does make me nervous to be away during our busy

Country Crossroads

Headingley hosts sing alleluia

And cluck, coo, gobble, bleat and whinny their way Back to the Manger

By Lorraine Stevenson December 23, 2014

Christmas lore has it there was no crib for a bed in that manger 2000 years ago — and there certainly was no fuel tank, spare tires, air hoses, and wrenches. But as members of Headingley United Church discovered recently, retelling the Nativity story in a congregation member’s large machine shop opens up all realms

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Those little orange boxes at Halloween

Recipe Swap: Thai Pumpkin Soup, Pumpkin Pecan Pancakes, and Pumpkin Pie Fudge

By Lorraine Stevenson October 31, 2014

I love the cute kids in bunny and pirate costumes who come to my door October 31. They remind me that, despite the silly spendfest Halloween has become, it’s still a celebration for children. Halloween now ranks second only to Christmas in sales, followed by back-to-school spending, according to the Retail Council of Canada. I

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U.S. livestock: ‘Relentless’ fund selling knocks down CME cattle futures

U.S. grains: Soy futures slide as traders worry China may miss US buying target

Pulse Weekly: Steady prices, high production for chickpeas

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