The Municipality of Roblin is planing to spend $7.78 million and that’s pretty much to maintain things the way they are.

About 20 people showed up Wednesday night (March 25) at the Community Centre for council’s hearing into its 2024 financial plan.

Find out where your taxdollars are going in this week’s Review.

The North Western Marquette Festival (NWMF) hosted a wonderfully exciting day of adjudicated dance (March 12), a beautiful day of adjudicated piano and vocal (March 13) and then the weather turned frightful, school buses were cancelled and our planned day (March 14) of school choirs was rescheduled to March 21

With a lot of flexibility and co-operation from many people and organizations the unadjudicated NWMF Choir Fest was delightful.

More in this week’s Review.

The Manitoba government wants you to mark your calendar and start planning your getaway as reservations for campgrounds in provincial parks are set to open on April 8.

Environment minister Tracy Schmidt noted the government has taken steps to streamline the booking process “so Manitobans can reserve their favourite sites headache-free.”

Check out this week’s issue for more information.

Connor Dewar recently underwent his first professional hockey career trade from the Minnesota Wild to the Toronto Maples Leafs on the trade deadline. He was traded for Dmitry Ovchinnikov and a 2026 fourth round pick.
“It was really weird at first, because I’ve never experienced being traded before, even in my Junior career,” said Dewar. “I knew at some point in my career it would happen; it happens for a lot of hockey players.
“It’s been exciting to come and play for a Canadian market. When I was growing up as a kid, I was watching Hockey Night in Canada every Saturday, so it’s cool to be in the marquee slot in the market for the hockey world.

Last week Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN) held their OCN Youth Gathering over three days for for youth ages 12 to 30 to discuss and engage the Wahkotowin Tawastak, as part of developing new C92 legislation. Some keynote speakers and presenters were brought in to work with the youth and they were Scott Wabano, Jackie Traverse, Adam Beach, Brett Mooswa, Kairyn Potts and James Jones.
Scott Wabano has made a name for themselves as an award-winning fashion stylist and designer; creative director and content creator. Wabano grew up as a two-spirited Cree from the Mushkegowuk and Eeyou Istchee territories and has always had a passion for bringing Indigenous representation to the fashion industry.

Two talented artists from Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN) are earning international recognition for their work. Rhonda Head and Gabe Constant teamed up together to create a music video called Island Dreams, which represented not only an experience of being in another country, but gave the opportunity to showcase Indigenous people from that area as well.
“I went to Belize for Christmas two years ago, and it’s such an amazing country with beautiful lands and people,” said singer and songwriter Rhonda Head. “I was about seven days into my trip, when I was sitting in my room alone and all these images came to me of my trip. I grabbed a piece of paper and began writing about all the images that came to me. Before I knew it, I wrote a song.

This summer should see the completion of some major projects from the Manitoba Metis Federation. A much needed 40-spaced licenced daycare and some senior housing units are well underway in terms of construction and should be finished by mid-summer.
“We’re looking at a July or August completion date for our daycare according to the last progress report I was given,” said The Pas MMF Vice President Judy Mayer. “There was a call out for hiring and training staff for the daycare and that seems to be a work in progress.

Swan School of Dance held their annual recital last Wednesday (March 20) at the SVRSS gymnasium. Dancing to songs that related to the theme ‘Imagine...’ the performers put
on a spectacular show for the audience who filled the space.

A former Parkland resident has entered the world of publishing.

Chenise Puchailo joined forces with some friends who were writing short stories, which became Debut, the first book published by Spud Pub, an independent publishing company the group started.

“Everybody was writing their first drafts for submission. We had everything kind of hammered out,” she said, adding they were trying to decide how to get the book published.

Puchailo had met a publisher with At Bay Press at a fantasy sci-fi convention in Winnipeg. What followed was a two-hour conversation all about publishing and the ins and outs about it.

“Initially, my questions were about distribution, because we were just going to do the one print run or do it on Amazon,” she said.

Check out the full story in this week's Herald!

On Wednesday afternoon (March 20), the Swan Valley Fire Department (SVFD) was dispatched to a Vehicle Fire on Westwood Road behind Swan Valley Funeral Services. Upon arrival of Incident Command, a vehicle was observed to be fully involved. SVFD crews advanced one attack line to extinguish the fire. Shortly after the first call was cleared, a call came in for a rekindle to the same location. Upon arrival of SVFD units, a small smolder was observed in the box of the truck. The call was responded to in a non-emergency capacity. Crews advanced a trash line (short attack line for small fires and smoldering fires) and inundated the box with water. No injuries are reported.