The public was invited to visit some of Swan River’s private green spaces during the Garden Walk tour, which serves as a fundraiser for the Swan River Ladies Golf Club. 

 In just a couple of days, the NorthWest Round-up and Exhibition will be a go for the first time since 2019. Here, a grader operator lays down the sand for the chariot and chuckwagon track.

Last week (July 11-14), youth between the ages of 10 to 14 had their first experience with the first ever Rec Angling Day Camp, hosted with a partnership between Swan Valley Sport Fishing Enhancement and the Elbert Chartrand Friendship Centre. The first of the five weeks saw youth cast their rods into Red Deer River, with future weeks taking them to Wellman Lake and the Red Road Compass Land-Based Learning site along the Swan River. Cohen Bulycz stands by the shoreside, waiting for a bite on his line.

Activities in the area included pancake breakfasts in Minitonas and Benito, baseball and slo-pitch, live music, a car show, a picnic-in-the-park at Swan River Legion Park, fireworks and plenty more fun for all.

Festival du Spikageur was the latest event in the sophomore season of the Munro Smashball League, which features a volleyball-variant backyard game called Spikeball. Pictured here, participants compete by returning the ball bounced onto the ground-level net instead of over a vertical net.

Swan River celebrated National Indigenous Day on Tuesday (June 21) with dancing, music and more, including a sunrise ceremony at the Elbert Chartrand Friendship Centre and activities for SVSD students throughout the day at the
Veterans Community Hall.

The Swan Valley Cheetahs Gymnastics Club presented an outdoor spring showcase outside of their gym on Thursday (June 23), along with a fundraising barbecue to raise money for roof repairs.

The U15 Royals of Swan Valley Youth Baseball kept the Swan River Legion Park busy on Saturday (June 18) and Sunday (June 19) with their regional playoffs, competing against two teams from Dauphin and one team from Ste. Rose.