What started as a joke amongst acquaintances soon became a reality when it came to starting up a partnership and distillery in Grandview.

Since 2017, Grand Vieux Liquor Company has been busy behind the scenes working on their product line and is one step closer to getting their liquor ready for sale.

The location for the facility started out with plans to build a factory where the old recycling depot was located in Grandview. That plan was replaced when the old Manitoba Hydro Service Centre on 117 Government Road East, was on the market. In Dec. 2019, the Grand Vieux Liquor Company purchased the building and discussions of incorporating a restaurant, lounge and tasting room were had.

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Life with a disability can be challenging at the best of times. Limitations can add to the stigma people with disabilities face when trying to go about their daily activities or trying to find acceptance from others.

Winnipegosis resident, Alex Lytwyn has been breaking down barriers that try to prevent him from living a full and active life. Just this past January, Manitoba Possible, to help encourage others with disabilities, as well as to enlighten the general public, created a video to show how living with disabilities is possible.

The video showcased Lytwyn’s personal journey in a feature documentary style film, which was aired last week for everyone to see.

“They featured what it was like for me, to go about my life on a day-to-day basis,” said Lytwyn. “I talked about how Manitoba Possible had helped me over the years and my role as the Manitoba Possible Adult Ambassador. The organization helped me in so many ways, for example, they assisted me in getting a powerchair, which enables me to move and do more independently. The camera crew followed me around for two days and filmed different aspects of my daily life from how I live to everything I do. It was an awesome experience.

“My service dog, Fanta, was also featured in the video and I’ve had her for four years now. Manitoba Possible wanted to know all the ways that Fanta helps me to live and do things independently. She was a big part of the video.”

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Many of us are in shock and our hearts are heavy, with what is happening right now in Ukraine.

There’s a strong Ukrainian heritage and presence in Roblin and the Parkland area as a whole.

Many families that reside here once emigrated from Ukraine either by choice or by force. Alia Marcinkow lives in Grandview, and like many in the area, she has strong ties to Ukraine.

Her grandmother and mother were forced to leave their native country due to war.

“My baba, Stefania Pankewycz, was born in Ukraine and my mother, Mary Marcinkow, was actually born in Poland, after my grandparents were displaced from Ukraine in 1947, after WWII,” noted Marcinkow. “The Polish government enacted an ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians and forced them out of western Ukraine to Poland to segregate them. My grandparents then immigrated to Canada in April of 1966 and took up residence in Winnipeg. “Unfortunately my grandfather died not long after the family had immigrated, so my baba had to raise her five kids in a place where she didn’t know the language. She somehow managed and went on to travel the world. It’s where I get my love of travel. She always said that no one could take away your education or experiences. I think her philosophy on that stemmed from her living through World War Two.”

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Will Dueck and his family have made a home in the Valley for over 10 years, but now they can officially call it home, for they were sworn in as Canadian citizens last week. The Duecks, along with 74 other people, completed the process to get their Canadian Citizenship.

It takes a certain amount of commitment and dedication to become an aircraft pilot of any kind. For Curtis Stevens, it started out with a dream of becoming a helicopter pilot and he made it happen.
“I used to work on the Bi-Pole site when it started up until it was finished,” said Stevens. “I did seasonal work with them for five years and the one year they called me back, they assigned me to a water truck job and a specific site. It just so happened that every day I was driving to where all the helicopters were and I became fascinated with them.

Playing sports in university is an accomplishment only a few select elite players have the privilege of doing,
but for two brothers from the Valley, it’s been a very big part of their post-secondary education and achievements...

In an effort to manage the nursing shortage crisis in Manitoba, the Province has invested $1.9 million to
add 259 nurse-training seats at five post-secondary institutes. Currently there are just over 800 nursing
seats offered at post-secondary institutes in Manitoba and the provincial government plans to add close to 400 more...

As of Monday the Swan River and Duck Mountain areas, no active cases have been reported, however in the Porcupine Mountain Region there are 29...