Many people have moved to Roblin and spent some time here before moving on. Most often when people do move to the community, they have family here already, however there are some who came here seeking new opportunities.

Jenny Wong and her family came to Roblin as part of a new opportunity and it’s a part of her life that’s been with her ever since.

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The Windsor Hotel, Bar and Grill in Fleming (SK) is hosting a fundraiser to help Kennedy Langevin and her family.

On Dec. 20 from noon to 8 p.m., all of the proceeds made from the restaurant will be donated to Langevin’s family.

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Mountain View School Division hosted its 2023-24 pre-budget consultation with members of the general public Dec. 5 to discuss strategies for education and what the focus will be moving forward.

“Up until this year’s budget, the partnership has been between the provincial government and our local communities,” noted MVSD board chair Floyd Martens.

Find out more in this week’s issue.

Frances Chartrand is a huge supporter of the British Royal Family. And, that support makes her recent receipt of a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee medal, that much sweeter.
“It feels great. I got a letter from the Leg. in the first week of November,” Chartrand said, adding she was nominated to receive the medal by several people, with the one recognized in the correspondence coming from NDP leader and MLA for Fort Rouge, Wab Kinew.
“I’m a big fan of the Royal Family and I just love Canada and I love the Northwest Region and I love Parkland,” Chartrand added, displaying the kind of passion that got her nominated for the recognition.
“I want to thank my nominators, it was a huge honor and I want to thank the Province of Manitoba for recognizing the Queen’s commitment and her 70-year reign.”
The vice-president of the Manitoba Metis Federation based at the Northwest Metis Council Inc. office in Dauphin received the medal at a special ceremony at the Manitoba Legislature, last week.
Premier Heather Stefanson and Lt.-Gov. Anita Neville handed out the awards to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne in 1952.
“As recipients of the platinum jubilee medal, each of you brings the spirit of public service to life,” Neville told the recipients during the ceremony.
“Each of you leads by example. Each of you takes responsibility for making your community, your province and your country a better place.”
Queen Elizabeth, Canada’s head of state and the longest-reigning British monarch, died, Sept. 8 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
“In fact, I was in Scotland when the Queen passed away,” adding she had tried to earlier visit Balmoral Castle and was not allowed entry.
“But we went to Edinburgh, So we were on the Royal Mile and we were having dinner at five, well before five, I guess, and they made the announcement. Then some of the staff came and told us the queen passed away, so they started shutting down the Royal Mile. So we went to her palace and put flowers and paid tribute to her before we left the Royal Mile. So that’s a real piece of history.”
Manitoba was one of five provinces which decided to provide medals for their residents after the federal government opted out of offering medals for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Chartrand is appreciative of the recognition as it raises awareness about the work of the Manitoba Metis Federation in the Northwest Region and across the province.
“It’s a recognition, I believe. People think that ‘they’re way up there’ and they don’t understand and recognize what we do at the local level and the community involvement we have in the programs and services we’re able to bring to our citizens,” Chartrand said.
One hundred and forty Manitobans have received the medals so far, with a total of 1,000 selected to receive the honour. The remaining medals will be awarded at future ceremonies throughout the province.

Swan River resident and World War Two veteran Keith Fulford celebrated his 101st birthday at the Royal Canadian Legion Br. 39 on Friday (Dec. 2), surrounded by friends and family. Fulford is one of a few World War Two veterans left from Swan River, and one of less than 20,000 left in Canada overall...

Anyone who grew up here – especially anyone who was involved in the arts - might remember Beth Naylor.

She was the type of woman you’d remember. Always perfectly turned out in the best of clothing with a sparkling sense of humor and fantastic community spirit.

Miss Naylor was best known for her collection of vintage clothing which dated back to the late 1880’s and legend has it, started when a black wedding dress from that period was placed with her for safe keeping by the family of one of our founding fathers. The Beth Naylor Historic Clothing Collection has recently received the wonderful gift of 435 hats from Jayne Andres of MacNutt, Saskatchewan – which is a perfect addition of prairie history. She has two full binders of how she catalogued all the hats. And most of the pictures are worn by her grandchildren and her sister. She has little stories about who they belonged to, when they were worn and how they were acquired – all in these wonderful binders.

Read the full story in this week's Russell Banner!

'Tis the season. Whether we like it or not, there’s plenty of snow and beautifully lit Christmas trees on all the lampposts on Main Street.

So we knew it wouldn’t be long before Santa and his friendly helpers from the MJHL Waywayseecappo Wolverines teamed up for the annual parade.

Last Thursday, the Russell and District Chamber of Commerce started off their Claus for a Cause Santa Parade and Food Drive. As the parade wound around Arsini Street past the Personal Care Home and off down Main Street, the Wolverines were once again on hand to pick up the non perishable food stuff from ‘watchers’ as donations to the Russell and Area Food Connections Group.

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The issue of who will be the town’s sanitation pick-up service provider was a hot topic at the Ratepayers Meeting on Wednesday evening.

What was thought to be the difference between Roblin Sanitation’s tender and OSS’s was made public and was actually incorrectly portrayed.

“There were statements made that Roblin Sanitation’s tender was $32,000 higher than OSS and my question is how did you arrive at that amount?” asked Greg Perchaluk. “Roblin Sanitation’s tender has an amount for residential and commercial and OSS’ only had for the residential, nothing yet for the commercial, so how did Council arrive at amount as the difference between the two?” “I had said $30,000 to $32,000 was the difference,” said Misko. “I had just taken from my memory $89,000 and $119,000. Those numbers weren’t quite right.

In Roblin Sanitation’s case their amount included GST. The one from OSS didn’t, so it was closer to $20,000 on the weekly, on the bi-weekly it was about $48,000.

“We considered the way it was proposed to us, that was including the commercial pick up. Whatever wasn’t needed for the residential, those containers would be reduced and we’d have front load pick up on the other. We don’t yet officially have that number, hence why we haven’t signed a contract. At this point, we’re still looking to get confirmation on everything."

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At the start of the season, Dauphin’s Breken Brezden set a goal of making it to the Skate Canada nationals in January. She fulfilled that goal after qualifying at the Skate Canada Challenge in Winnipeg, this past weekend.

Brezden was seventh after the short program and finished 10th after the free skate, thus earning a spot at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Jan. 9 to 15 in Oshawa, Ont.

Of the 38 skaters competing in Winnipeg, the top 18 qualified for nationals and Brezden was the only skater representing Manitoba.

Make sure you check out this week's 'A View From The Couch' podcast on the Dauphin Herald's Facebook Page with Breken slated to join Doug and Christian.

The Parkland Rangers find themselves back in the Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League playoff race after earning three of four points from the Southwest Cougars, this past weekend.

Two goals in the third period lifted the Rangers to a 3-2 victory, Friday in Dauphin. On Saturday in Killarney, Nate Robson netted the winner with 35 seconds left in overtime to give the Cougars a 4-3 win.

Southwest led Friday’s game 2-1 after the first period on goals from Kelby Diehl and Sebastian Stone, while Dru Mushumanski replied for the Rangers.

After a scoreless second period, goals from Tavyn Boychuk and Hayden Seib erased the deficit and put the Rangers in front, and they hung on for the victory.

Glover was outstanding in net for the Rangers, finishing with 45 saves, while Southwest’s Micky Gross stopped 28 shots.

On Saturday, the Rangers had three different leads only to see Southwest to tie the game on each occasion.

Andrew Pidskalny and Mushumanski with two, scored for Parkland, while Nicholas Cullen, Stone and Luke Mackenzie replied for Southwest.

Evan Svoboda made 22 saves for Southwest, while Glover made 32 saves Parkland.

Rangers coach Tyler Carefoot was pleased with the team’s play in both games.

“I think Friday, other than our first period, I thought we were the better team in the second and third. I just thought, after we made some little adjustments going into the second period, we were the better team and I was very pleased,” he said. “Not only did we get the win, but just how we executed the game plan. It was good to see, considering it’s been a work in progress. And to finally have a game where, for the most part, we put everything together, it was gratifying, for sure.”

The Rangers are 3-2-1-1 in their last seven games and are now just six points behind the eighth-place Eastman Selects.

That is something the team talked about on Saturday, Carefoot said, about how if they keep picking up points they can get back into the playoff race.

“So we had to have the mindset that this is a playoff mentality. And (Saturday) night, almost from start to finish, I thought we were the better team,” he said.

Another topic of discussion was the need to hang onto leads.

“That’s something we’ve got to do a better job of is locking down some of these leads that we have,” Carefoot said. “But we stuck to the game plan, we outworked them and they got a late goal to tie the game and we went to overtime. Three-on-three, anything can happen.”

Carefoot has seen a lot of improvement from the team from the start of the season, noting the players are playing with more confidence and are feeling good about themselves.

The Rangers have a chance to close the gap on Eastman as they play the Selects, Saturday and Sunday in Beausejour.

Carefoot hopes the players have the mindset of sacrificing the body to make plays.

“I hope they have the mindset that we’re going to have to hurt. We’re going to have to take hits to make the right play and getting in lanes to block shots. That’s something we’re going to have to add to our repertoire this weekend,” he said. “Eastman is probably somewhat of a surprise this season. They’re usually at the top of the league and this year, they’re near the bottom. I’ve heard they’re a big team and I feel if we can continue with focussing on getting pucks behind their D and all of the things that we’ve been talking about, hopefully, we’ll have some success.”