The Manitou Opera House is now fully accessible with a ramped walkway leading to a spacious foyer inside an access wing architecturally consistent with the heritage style of the original building.

Manitou takes pride in keeping its opera house in fine form

Manitou has added a seamless new addition to its 1930 Arts and Crafts-style opera house

The Manitou Opera House has always looked as good as it sounds. So when residents of this south-central town added some modern amenities to its 1930s-era vintage theatre, they were determined to keep it that way. No one will ever guess 86 years had passed between the new addition and the original Manitou Opera House,

A Manitoba Treasure

St. Mary s St. Alban s Church south of Manitou, Man. was built in 1892 in memory of the Hon. William Winram. He had come from England and settled in the Riverdale district south of Manitou. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1878 and sat as a member for 13 years. The church





Feed-Rite Closes Two Mills In Manitoba

“It’s definitely going to impact us.” – JAKE GOERTZEN, MANITOU MAYOR Alarge Canadian livestock feed company is closing two of its five operations in Manitoba, partly because of the downturn in the hog industry. Feed-Rite will shut down feed mills in Manitou and Arborg at the end of July, throwing approximately 30 employees out of

Outstanding Manitobans Honoured

Community leadership was honoured at last week’s Capturing Opportunities conference. “Every community has people who work hard, often without any kind of acknowledgement, to make their town or region a better place to live and work,” said Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers who presented the awards at a banquet here last


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El Nińo strengthening: The U. S. Climate Prediction Center said Sept. 10 the El Nińo weather anomaly should strengthen this fall and through the 2009-10 Northern Hemisphere winter. El Nińo is an abnormal warming of waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Despite its current weak state, El Nińo has apparently affected the annual Atlantic hurricane