Manitoba Health is reporting the first confirmed human case of West Nile virus (WNV) in 2023, along with three other probable WNV cases currently under investigation.

The confirmed case is 40 to 49 years of age and lives in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.

Read this week’s issue to find out more.

After a five year hiatus, the Gerega and Gregor families, originally from the Roblin area, held their 15th family reunion at the Gamey farm in July 2023.

This gathering marked 32 years since the first reunion at the Gamey farm in 1991 and we’ve seen many changes in our family since then.

Read the write up in this week’s paper.

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.

All the effort put in to the fair and rodeo by members of the Roblin Agricultural Society and its volunteers has paid off.

From the exhibit hall and the King Farmer competition to the rodeos and the Roblin’s Got Talent contest, the weekend show was another successful one.

“It was good,” said ag society president Ellen Arnott with a chuckle.

Read all about it in this week’s Review.

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.

Report of a person walking around naked in their yard.

Person was spoken to, who said they would wear a towel or a fern leaf until they can make the yard more private.

Check out what kept police busy over the past two weeks in this week's RCMP report.

A move to jump on the Star Search/Canada’s Got Talent/
American Idol band wagon was a great one for the Roblin Agriculture Society.

“I heard a lot of positive comments about the event. People really enjoyed it,” noted ag society president Ellen Arnott. “We weren’t even sure if it was going to go because we only had one person registered on Monday. But in the end we had eight competitors and two junior competitors so everything worked out.”

Find out who won in this week’s issue.