Roblin Elementary School held its Grade 8 Farewell ceremonies June 26 to say goodbye to 37 students who are moving on to high school.
The MC for the morning was principal Mark Rathgeber.
“We really appreciated having this class of grade eights this year, and we just want to say congratulations on coming to this point of your life, you’re finally off to the big school,” he said.
Read all about it in this week’s Review.

Thunderstorms brought close to 140 mms of rain to the area June 28, 29 and 30 leaving flooded basements, sewer back-ups and washed-out roads in its wake. Coupled with an already high water table and super-saturated soil pretty much everywhere made things much worse than the recent flooding of the Boggy and the Shell River.
Overland flooding caused a massive landslide near Deepdale which took out the CN’s trestle bridge.
Check out the photos in this week’s paper.

The Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) at Western University in London, ON has confirmed it was a tornado that ripped through the Doug and Marlene Lyon farm about 20 kms south of town.
The tornado struck around 8:05 p.m. Sunday, June 28 with the start of the damage track roughly three kilometres to the south southwest of the Lyon’s place.
Find out more in this week’s paper.

On June 23, RCMP in Roblin stopped three drivers at 1:16, 1:31 and 2 p.m. for having too dark of a tint on the windows of their vehicles.
Each receveid a ticket worth $174.
Check out this week’s RCMP report for more police news.

What started as a project to brighten the LEARN Centre’s outdoor space and add interest to its early education programming has grown into a productive community garden.
LEARN has taken the initiative to provide space for the town’s Community GreenSpace established by the Roblin District Chamber of Commerce and previously located on Main Street.
More in this issue.

Goose Lake High held its commencement exercises Saturday, June 20, celebrating the 24 students in this year’s graduating class.
Presiding over the ceremonies was vice-principal Andrew Collins, taking the place of principal Kirk Wilson whose daughter Maya was among the graduands.
Read all about it in this week’s Review.

A series of thunderstorms Sunday night spawned a violent tornado in the Rossburn area and brought stormchasers to Roblin.
While Environment Canada confirmed a tornado did touch down near Rossburn, reports of a possible tornado near Roblin had not been confirmed. The tornado near Rossburn was reported at about 7:59 p.m. local time.
More in this issue.

There were smiles all around as Kathy Zachedniak, chair of the Roblin Playgrounds Rejuvenation Project committee, cut the ribbon at a ceremony Thursday, June 25 to officially open the new and improved Lions Park.
In her speech, Zachedniak thanked everyone who donated funds to the cause and helped in any way.
Find out more this week.

The Roblin Métis Local and the Shell River Métis Association joined forces to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day in Roblin, Sunday, June 21.
The community event took place at the curling rink.
See what you missed in this week’s Review.

Roblin’s 15U Stars hosted the Regionals over the June 20 weekend, going undefeated in the round robin and going on to beat Grandview 12-2 in the final.

Teams from Swan River and Dauphin also took part.
Check out the team picture in this week’s paper.