The EnRicher August 2022

Volume 25 Issue 2

August 2022

See inside for a quick view of the weekend. Please visit richerrodeo.ca for more details!

CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE AT RICHERRODEO.CA FOR MORE INFORMATION!

MARK YOUR

CALENDAR! Richer Community Club meeting...

August 10, 7:30 pm at the Dawson Trail Museum.

Dinner and Dance...

Richer Young at Heart Club Dinner and Dance Saturday, August 20 with music by the Genstars.

Cost is $25 per person and dinner is at 6 pm. Music till 11 pm. Call Ron @ 431 275 0874 for tickets.

Dawson Trail Museum Are you finding it hard to find time to work on your beading? Would you like to work on your beading with other beading artists?

Musée Dawson Trail Museum presents: Dawson Trail Beading Circle August 3rd, 17th & 31st, September 14th & 28th (starts at 6 pm each day).

Free for Museum Members. Non-Members pay $10 per person per day. No pre-registration required.

Memberships can be purchased by contacting yfontaine52@gmail.com The Dawson Trail Museum committee will not hold a monthly meeting during the month of August. Next meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 13th at 7 pm at the museum.

EnRicher deadline:

Monday, August 29 is the deadline for September 2022 submissions for the EnRicher.

Classic Cars on Display During Rodeo

On Saturday, August 6th the MB Antique & Classic Auto Club will be parked at the museum ground from 12 noon to 3 pm after the Rodeo Parade.

You are also welcomed to take a tour of the museum Saturday noon to 4 pm and Sunday 1 pm to 4 pm.

DON’T FORGET...

Monday Night Bingos are Back!

From The Pastor’s Desk...

Return The Favour

By Pastor Ben Funk

The content of this article is different than what I usually write.

This story is fascinating fiction and filled with some intrigue and mystery. Let’s say, a Forest Ranger had retired from the forestry. He chose to retire in the small com-

munity that was surrounded by the forest that he had managed most of his adult life. It could be Sandilands, Woodridge, or some other small community. One day he decided to wonder off into the forest and find some blue berries and saskatoons for a pie he was hungry for. He brought along a two gallon basket to receive the berries into. He becomes lost in his environment as he is picking berries, and forgets where he is. All-of-a-sudden he hears the

growl of a large animal, it sounded like a bear. He reaches for his riffle that he had brought along (for just in case) and discharges a shot into the air as a warning.

As he keeps walking he becomes aware it is not a bear but a tiger.

He cautiously moves closer, he surveys the surroundings, he realized the tiger’s little cub is entangled in something, from which it is unable to free itself. As he approaches the young tiger, the mother tiger is watching as he

moves closer to the cub. She allows him to move in and free the cub. On his return to his home he begins to sense that something is following him out of the forest. He turns around and sees the tiger is following him as if to say thank you and to guide him home.

Some time later his highly pregnant daughter and son-inlaw come out for a visit. The two of them decide to go for a walk, to the daughter’s favourite place as she was growing up. This required walking across a tall old bridge. Over the years the bridge has become fairly rotten, so they need to watch where they stepped to avoid breaking through. They underestimated the one section and they both fall through. Later that day a tiger makes its way into town. Several men become aware of what is developing. They reach for their riffles and fire into the air. The tiger is undeterred.

The Forest Ranger takes a closer look and sees that the tigers nose seems to be blood stained. The tiger comes closer to the Ranger and sets to the ground a little baby. The Ranger immediately becomes aware that his daughter is in trouble. The community takes care of the baby and the Ranger follows the tiger into the forest who leads him to the scene where his daughter is located. As a result of that fall his daughter had given birth to her child. The tiger picked up the child and brought it to the Ranger. His daughter survived the fall, but his son-in-law had succumbed to his injuries.

The tiger had not forgotten the Ranger, where he lived and what he had done for the mother tiger.

She remembered he had freed her cub, she returned the favour to the Ranger. The moral of the story is: Doing something good for someone else is never forgotten, even across species. Have you done something good for someone lately? Become aware of your surroundings, if we see a need lets meet it with joy. Jesus invites you to come and enter into relationship with Him. Richer Fellowship Church invites you to come and worship with us each Sunday at 10:30 am. Live in person, live on YouTube, Live on 101.9FM. Be blessed in Jesus.

Discover Our Past.

Dawson Trail Museum Celebrating Our Past.

The museum windows and stucco received a complete face lift. We thank Norm Bremaud and Bert Reimer for a job well done. We couldn’t accomplish this large task without the help of Raymond Vauclair, RVP Projects. By his generosity and devotion to his community, his support gives us the opportunity to move forward at completing major projects. Thank you.

How can you get involved in your community you asked? The museum board is looking for you. Could we interest you in selling books of 50/50 tickets, help organize displays, work at the gift shop, help at craft shops, if you think you can help, please do not hesitate to call Yvonne at 204-422-9369 or email at yfontaine52@gmail. com , we would love to hear from you.

The museum has launched a new web site early this Spring, you may view it at www.dawsontrailmuseum.ca.

Dawson Trail Museum is holding a 50/50 draw where you may win up to $3,000. The draw will take place on October 13th at our Annual AGM meeting. Looking to buy a ticket for $2 only, stop in at the museum or visit us at our booth at the Richer Rodeo weekend at the park.

Museum is looking for gently used books, towards a book sale in the Fall. You may drop them off during the week from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. We have books for sale now where you may come and purchase throughout the summer. For more information, please call Yvonne at 204422-9369. All proceeds go towards renovations.

Rodeo Features TWO Pancake Breakfasts!

There will be two pancake breakfasts available during the Richer Rodeo. The first one will be hosted at and by the Richer Young at Hearts Hall on Saturday morning. The second one will be at the park on Sunday morning and hosted by the Richer Fellowship Church.

Both will serve freshly cooked pancakes and sausages along with drinks. Bring your appetite and start your days off on the right foot.

Adults are $5 and children eat for $3 at both locations.

Thanks to both the Richer Young at Hearts Club and the Richer Fellowship Church for organizing and creating these tasty events!

A Positive Outlook for the RM of Ste Anne In recent weeks, The Bank of Canada announced its 4th interest rate increase since March with this most recent increase being a full 1%, or 100 basis points. This decision was made in hopes of tackling the nations whopping 8% inflation rate and an attempt is being made to pull inflation down closer to the nations 2% target rate. What does this mean for Richer and the RM of Ste Anne? We can’t be too sure yet but the outlook seems positive. I have had some conversations with local real estate experts to learn more about what this can mean for

Crib News

Richer Crib club met on July 12th with only 3 tables playing. It’s hard to get people out during the holidays, but those of us who were there had a great time! Our winners for the evening were Lucy Richard in first, Rick Betts came in second and Norm Burnell took third place.

Roger Chenier took the dimes home for fourth place while Mike Pelletier won the Booby prize. Congratulations to all our winners!

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the value of what is likely many of our resident’s biggest asset, their homes. I was told that we can likely see a market reduction in competing offers, especially amongst higher priced listings. The market under $300,000 however is expecting to stay consistent. Real Estate is expected to hold its value and from my observations it seems like we are thriving still with demand in the area. Recent listings may have not sold within a few days with bidding wars like not too long ago, but when houses do reach the market, they still seem to be ending up with a one more summer tournament on August 9th, and everyone is welcome! Entry fee is $5, no partner required, snacks and coffee are always free and we all have fun! Cash prizes for our winners and a 50/50 for more fun. Starting in September, we will be meeting every two weeks, and I’ll let you all know when we are starting.

Hope to see you all!

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Brent Wery Ward 3 Councilor, RM of Ste Anne LUD of Richer Committee

sold sign still in a short span of time. The amount of “stock” on the market seems low compared to other areas, yet we are still seeing the demand for development through building permits. in the month of June, the RM of Ste Anne processed over $4 million in value of building permits and we are currently sitting at over $9 Million in increased value for 2022. We seem to be on target of reaching the over $14 Million in new value in the RM that we saw last year. People are building and house listing are being snatched up quickly in the municipality. It certainly appears there is a demand to both make the RM of Ste Anne home and also to remain living here.

This is a recipe for protecting the value of our homes. The key

focus moving forwards must be to keep this reality alive. There is still a lot of work to do and areas the RM of Ste Anne needs to improve on. We can’t slow down. in recent years we have seen significant improvements to recreation, community support and various infrastructure. As mentioned before in my articles, the RM is still lacking in economic development, sewer systems and transportation to other key area’s such as Winnipeg.

There are models that exist to tackle these items without a big hit to the rate payer. I am always happy to have conversations on how this could look and how it can work. Steps have been taken to move forward and the future continues to look bright in the municipality. I encourage everyone to have conversations and reach out to discuss what can make this municipality even better! I wish everyone a wonderful the rest of the summer and I hope you all enjoy it with the piece of mind that the RM of Ste Anne is a safe place to invest!

Movie Under the Stars Planned at Museum Grounds The Dawson Trail Museum is hosting “Cinema Under the Stars“ on Saturday, August 20 at 8:45. Thanks to CDEM for presenting this feature.

It is a family film in French with English subtitles called “Mystere/Mystery” After his wife’s death. Stephane moves to the mountains with his 8-year-old daughter Vicky, who has stopped talking. One day, while walking in the forest, Vicky discovers a puppy that she decides to keep a secret. She names him Mystery.

It’s free admission, please bring your chair or blanket.

Museum will provide hot and cold beverage and popcorn at a fee. The movie will be seen in the museum if the weather does not cooperate.

Looking forward for a fun evening.

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Please note that during the rodeo, our Facebook page will not be checked regularly.