Oct. 11 was the United Nations’ International Day of the Girl celebrated to commemorate efforts and achievements by girls and women throughout the world.

Many women have pioneered the way for other women to succeed, especially in what have been deemed as male dominant fields of work or education.

Check out the story in this week’s Review.

Prairie Mountain Health’s (PMH) updated COVID-19 and seasonal flu vaccine clinics will begin Monday, Oct. 23.

The free public clinics will run throughout the region until the end of November.

Read the rest of the story in this week’s issue.

In honour of National Truth and Reconciliation Day, many organizations and schools are doing their part to educate and create awareness around Every Child Matters and residential school survivors.

In Grandview, a beautiful gift honouring residential school survivors has been given to the Grandview School, to fly in honour of National Truth and Reconciliation Day and to create awareness.

Read all about it in this week’s Review.

Manitoba Health is providing an update to Manitobans about respiratory viruses expected to circulate in the province over the coming months, as well as the provincial plan for COVID-19 and seasonal flu vaccinations.

COVID-19, flu and other respiratory viruses will be circulating this fall and winter. Manitobans can take important steps to help protect themselves, their families and their community.

Find out more in this week’s paper.

The public got its first look at the Roblin Playgrounds Revitalization Project’s plans for the redo of the old Lions Park in the north east part of town at a live auction
Sept. 16 held in conjunction with Roblin’s first-ever Fall Harvest Festival.

The auction added more than $2,000 to the committee’s fundraising goal of $150,000
municipal funding commitment.

For more on the fundraising effort and a look at the plans, check out this week’s paper.

The week of Monday, Oct. 2 to Friday Oct. 6 is “Break In Your Skates” week at the Roblin Centennial Arena.

This week is designed to give everyone young and old, competitive, or not, an opportunity to break in their skates and get a feel for the ice again before regularly scheduled programs begin.

More in this week’s REConnection.

On June 4, 2023, at Bethany Lutheran Church in Inglis, Bauereiss was ordained as a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

She is the first woman to be ordained in Bethany Lutheran in what has been the first ordination in that building since 1938. She has been serving as a Deacon since 2022.

Find out more in this week’s issue.

Prairie Mountain Health (PMH) is offering a new recruitment incentive of $75,000 to all new physician recruits, including ‘in-progress recruitments, to the region.

The new incentive was announced to communities and municipalities in a letter from PMH CEO Brian Schoonbaert dated Aug. 3.

Read all about it in this week’s Review.

Do you enjoy trying new things, or meeting new people? Join us every other Saturday afternoon starting in September for fun with board games.

If board games aren’t your style we will be hosting more craft hour activities in the library as well, for kids, families or just adults!

More about the library in this week’s Library Report.

A series of three Moose Management town hall meetings for the Duck and Porcupine Mountain areas were held recently in Dauphin, Swan River and Roblin and left a lot of questions unanswered.

The town halls were hosted by the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), Manitoba Natural Resources and Northern Development along with the Canadian Section of the Wildlife Society.

Find out more in this week’s issue.