The annual Roblin Agricultural Society Fair & Rodeo kicked off Thursday evening with the King Farmer Royal Family edition, a popular event for competitors and fair goers alike. And it was a great night for it as a light breeze offered some relief from the day’s heat and humidity.
This year’s King Farmer featured eight teams competing at 11 different stages to test the competitors’ prowess at several farmer-related tasks including welding, fencing, combine feeder repairing, bale throwing, B-train driving, fertilizer spreader setting and navigating a self-propelled auger.
Find out who won in this week's Review.

The Assiniboine West Watershed District (AWWD) hosted open houses at Prairie Lake Lodge and the Roblin Golf & Country Club Tuesday and Wednesday to get some local input to help guide its future planning and conservation efforts in the Shell River watershed.
On hand for the open house were Kylie Plett, a watershed planner with Manitoba Environment and Climate Change and AWWD regional manager Adam Kerkowich, based out of the Inglis office.
Read this week’s Review for the whole story.

Getting Dauphin Regional Health Centre back up and running is not as simple as plugging in a generator and firing up the x-ray machines.
Prairie Mountain Health CEO Treena Slate said all systems in the hospital are intertwined and operating such a facility requires a significant amount of power.
Read all about it in this week’s issue.

Thirty-six local high school students across 11 communities are one step closer to achieving their educational goals thanks to Fusion Credit Union’s annual scholarship program.
This year, Fusion is awarding a total of $18,000 in scholarships, with each recipient receiving $500 for post-secondary education.
More in this week’s Review.

Nick Kossovan spends more time than he cares to admit wondering how digital technology has transformed our personal and professional lives.
Sometimes he finds himself staring at his smartphone as if it were Alice’s looking glass, wondering what his 1985 self would make of this glass-and-metal slab, about the size of a chocolate bar, that’s never more than an arm’s length away.
Check out his commentary in this week’s Review.

Golf here has never been just golf. It has been coffee or supper with neighbours, leagues that double as reunions, and a course that, at its best, has drawn visitors from across the Parkland to see why Roblin calls itself the Jewel of the Parkland.
This is why what happened to our golf course this summer matters to every one of us, not just the golfers among us.
Find out what you can do to help in this week’s Review.

A former Roblin teacher has been stripped of his professional licence after an undercover police investigation found he sent explicit messages to a social media user he believed to be a 15-year-old girl.
The province cancelled Josh Braaksma’s credentials on July 6.
Find out more in this week’s issue.

Independent country music artist Austin Ryder is following in his father’s footsteps in more ways than one.
Ryder, just like his father Ryan Keown, has been nominated for three Josie awards including Song of the Year for Chances Are; Music Video of the Year for Chances Are; and Artist of the Year – Modern Country.
Read all about it in this week’s issue.

Riding Mountain MP Dan Mazier is concerned about Prairie Mountain Health’s response to the situation at the Dauphin Regional Health Centre.
In a letter to provincial health minister Uzoma Asagwara, Mazier indicated as the federal representative of the area, he has been effectively stonewalled in his attempts to tour the facility and assess the damage for himself.
Read this week’s Review for the whole story.

Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure (MTI) is providing additional information about financial assistance available to municipalities, homeowners, tenants and other individuals affected by flooding between
June 6 and July 1.
To speed up payments for individuals with basement flooding, MTI’s Emergency Management Organization (EMO) is using a Rapid Residential Assessment Model (RRAM).
Details in this week’s Review.