Dawson Trail Dispatch
Celebrating Over 20 Years of Service to Our Communities!
Vita Students Collect Tabs By Marianne Curtis The students at Shevchenko School in Vita are being recognized for their recent donation to “Tabs for Wheelchairs”. “The students from Vita school provided us with approximately 720,000 Tabs,” said Barrow. He went on to say that this donation was the largest donation the group has ever received all at once. “The overall response from the public has been remarkable.” This year’s tabs are being collected for Delaney Kolowca of Lorette. Delaney was born with Gorlin syndrome, which is a genetic condition that can affect many areas of the body. In the summer of 2014, she began to have difficulty in walking because of scoliosis. She had surgery on November 10, 2014, and was given a 75% success rate. Unfortunately, the worst scenario happened and as a result of the operation, she became paralyzed from the mid chest down. She will presented with her new chair in June. For the past eighteen years, Tabs for Wheelchairs has collected tabs, and used the money raised from the sale of the metal to purchase wheelchairs for people who require the specialized equipment. A standard sports wheelchair costs $6,000 or 14 million tabs and specialized chair that allows for elevation, costs $10,000 or 24 million tabs. The public can still get involved by dropping tabs off at various schools in La Broquerie, St. Adolphe, Niverville, Ste. Anne and Ile des Chenes. Tabs can also be brought directly to the Pat Porter Centre in Steinbach. The students at the Shevchenko School in Vita collected about 720,000 tabs for “Tabs for Wheelchairs”.
April 2017
Ste. Anne Well Represented at Women’s Hockey Championship By Marianne Curtis Ste. Anne’s Bailey Bram and Jocelyne Larocque along with Halli Krzyzaniak from Neepawa are representing Manitoba at the 2017 Women’s World Ice Hockey Championships. Twenty-three players have been selected to represent Team Canada on a roster that was hand picked by head coach Laura Schuler alongside Melody Davidson, Hockey Canada’s General Manager of national women’s team programs. “This is a determined group of players that have been chosen to wear the red-and-white on the international stage,” said Schuler in a written statement. “As our evaluation process continues to lead into the selection of our Olympic centralization roster later this year, we’re confident this group will make Canada proud in Plymouth and we’re looking forward to building on our successes from the 2016-17 season.” The Championships began March 31 with Canada facing the US in a game that ended with Canada failing to score. The final tally was 2-0 for the US. Larocque was on Team Canada in the December Series against the US. Bram and Larocque won silver medals at the 2016 World Championship and Larocque won a gold medal with Canada’s National Women’s Team at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. After facing the US in the opener, Canada will meet Finland (April 1) and Russia (April 3) in the preliminary round. The 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship is the 18th since the tournament’s 1990 inception. Canada’s National Women’s Team has appeared in every world championship gold-medal game and successfully won 10 gold medals and 7 silver. The event failed to start without a hitch after the US team threatened to boycott the event due to financial demands. A last minute deal was made before the opening of the games.