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Manitoba Food History Project researchers invited people aboard their converted food truck to cook and talk about food in their family.
Comment, Op/Ed

Adobo, manomin and the illegal perogy lady

Local food history book tells the stories of many cultures that call Manitoba home

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Many small-town Manitobans have had a “perogy lady” in their lives. For me, it was a perogy couple. They were older, of Ukrainian heritage, and had a deal with my dad. He would trade half a deer’s worth of venison for butchering services. Sometimes the meat would come back with perogies, and those were the
Teamster Richard Grudeski of Vista broke trail while horseback riders followed close behind.
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Season-ending trail ride offers special glimpse of national park

Riding Mountain Wranglers cap off year with trek to Whitewater PoW camp

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Fall is a season of transition, a reminder of the value of change, in this case from bright, buzzing, verdant summer toward the dark, quiet calm of winter.  The journey can be experiential and intellectual, no matter the trip, but it’s more relaxing deep within a national park.  It’s not every day, an invitation is
The railway arrived at the village of Mowbray, south of Manitou along the North Dakota border, in 1902.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Rural Manitoba ghost towns make an interesting day trip

You can imagine the days when the streets bustled with activity

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For an interesting day trip in southern Manitoba, visit a couple of ‘ghost towns.’ Both were once thriving spots but now are virtually abandoned, except for one or two possibly inhabited buildings. Ste. Elizabeth, located about eight miles east of Morris on Highway 23 and a mile south on road 12 E, was established as
Jim and Margaret Templeton gave two young lads a few pleasant days of gainful employment in their teens.
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Neighbourhood labour: ready cash, plus work lessons as the bonus

There were good, not-so-good and great employers in the rural district of my youth

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Hey, a shiny modern tractor to drive. A new voice to give me orders, instead of Dad’s. A different lunch table come noontime. And ready cash at the end of the workday. Why wouldn’t I go and help the neighbours? Life’s lessons are often learned slowly, and occasionally they have to be learned over and
The author, centre, with his parents, in front of the white picket fence built with reclaimed boards from the razed house. photos: submitted
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Old house razing entertains, educates Basswood brothers

For these four lads it was a chance to wreck something for praise, not retribution

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The Mennonite brethren may be known for their barn raising, but in the summer of 1975, four Manitoba brothers gained notoriety for an old farmhouse razing. The farmhouse, along the main entrance to Basswood, and just off the Yellowhead Hwy., was a perfect spot for villagers to witness the destruction. In fact, we could have
Garry Workman (right) with Paul Brennan at the Strathclair Old Iron Club’s threshing day.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

‘Walking tour’ preserves the Solsgirth of bygone days

As the village’s eldest resident, Garry Workman made himself its biographer

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“Straw hats and old dirty hankies, Mopping a face like a shoe, Thanks for the meal here’s a song that is real, From a kid from the city to you.” These words serve as the verse to Murray McLauchlan’s, “The Farmers Song.” Released in 1972, the song is a snapshot of the changing place of
From left, Liz Finch, Floyd McTavish, and Morley Butler, RM of Prairie View deputy reeve.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Foxwarren citizen embodies community service

Floyd McTavish is the RM of Prairie View’s Volunteer Citizen of the Year

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Floyd McTavish, like many volunteers, is part of the glue that holds his community together. “Volunteers are a treasure; Floyd’s quiet commitment to service has indeed made our community richer, in ways that words cannot possibly describe,” said Liz Finch, a Foxwarren resident. Finch nominated McTavish for Prairie View municipality’s 2020 Volunteer Citizen of the
Ed Brown speaks, sings western lore.
Local news, Other

Manitoba’s cowboy poet

Ed Brown of Oak Lake is an award-winning storyteller known throughout North America

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Cowboy poet Ed Brown draws on his diverse experience as a rodeo cowboy, trapper and artist to paint scenes of western life through poetry and song. “My performances are an expression of a lifelong love,” said Brown. “It’s a way of life that stubbornly hangs on in the face of drastic global changes.” Brown, 73,
Comment: ‘Behold the fowls of the air… ’
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Comment: ‘Behold the fowls of the air… ’

We can plan all we want but luck will weigh in too

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My father wasn’t a stoic. Instead, his temperament was one of acceptance. He simply accepted the fact that he wasn’t in complete control of most things on the farm. Sure, he was boss over everything in sight: hundreds of acres, 100 dairy cows, five farmhand sons, three hired men, and his unpredictable, iron-bending Uncle Honey.
Theatre board chair Sharon Currie speaks to the roughly 40 people at the ribbon cutting on Dec. 20.
Local news, News, Other

Pilot Mound celebrates opening of new community theatre

It's Lights! Camera! Action! as Tivoli Community Theatre pulls back the curtain

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Roll film! Pilot Mound’s brand new Tivoli Theatre is open—after what can only be described as a fundraising marathon. “It’s just amazing. It is kind of a little surreal that it’s here now,” said Gisele Harding, a theatre board member. “Kids will have a place to come.” On Dec. 20, board members cut the ribbon

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