February 17, 2023

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MHSAA Mixed Doubles Curling Provincials

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Shyla Johnson and Max Barrett, both grade 10 students, defeated Winnipeg duo, West Kildonan Wolverines for the Provincial Championship.

Manitobans are encouraged to get outside a nd explore fishing opportunities throughout t he province during this year’s Winter Family Fishing Weekend, Natural Resources and N orthern Development Minister Greg Nesbitt announced today.

“Everyone can enjoy ice fishing for free this weekend without requir -

Can collections for canoes

and Chimo Beach areas for contributions from the community.

Max Barrett, both grade 10 students along with their coaches Randin and Tracey Baker. We hope to see and hear more of these skilled young curlers in the future.

at Rivers Collegiate planned a project for Riverdale Harvest. Dubbed the Boat Load of Food, students secured a canoe from Rolling River School Division with an intent to fill it with non-perishables. Although the campaign was fully organized by that class, the original idea came from a suggestion made by harvest volunteer Liliane Dupuis.

presentation on March 20 to Riverdale Harvest president Heather Gray and Liliane.

Because the snow had melted so much, the canoe could not be portaged across the street to Zion Church (home of Riverdale Harvest). Rather, the teens carried bags, boxes and garbage

cans from the school foyer into the church basement the afternoon of March 21, where the food was weighed and sorted. Although the project was a senior students brainstorm, the entire high school was encouraged to participate. The collegiate hosted a poor boy floor hockey tournament in which to play, athletes had to pay with food for the canoe. Some students also canvassed Rivers, Oak River

When all was said and done, the scales at Riverdale Harvest noted a total of 434 pounds, “a fabulous amount,” says Heather.

put away in the proper place on the shelving units. They were fantastic! We are very, very pleased.”

ing an angling licence,” s aid Nesbitt. “There’s no better way to spend a winter day in Manitoba than ice fishing w ith family and friends, while also enjoying free admission to provincial parks during the month of February.”

“I heard the idea at a meeting in Brandon. St. Augustine School had tried Fill a Canoe in conjunction with the 10-day Festival du Voyaguer in Winnipeg in February. It was very successful and whenever I hear food bank, my ears always perk up!”

She then brought the suggestion to Riverdale Harvest, which supported the idea and asked her to present the promo -

From Feb. 18 to Feb. 20, anglers may fish without a licence in the province, except in national parks where a federal angling licence is still required. Anglers may retain up

to a conservation licence limit of fish, which includes four walleye/sauger, four northern pike, t wo smallmouth bass, one lake trout, one channel catfish and two stocked trout. Regular limits apply for those who already have a regular angling licence and all other a ngling regulations apply during this weekend, including regulations for individual waters.

For more information on all provincial angling

regulations, refer to the 2022 Manitoba Anglers’ Guide at www.manitobafisheries.com.

To ensure ice fishing is safe and enjoyable, anglers should always check ice conditions before travelling onto ice, w ear weather-appropriate clothing and advise s omeone where they will be fishing.

Anglers are also reminded that aquatic i nvasive species (AIS) requirements are in effect

“We are so pleased they decided to help those we serve. A lot of times kids don’t get enough credit but this group of students certainly deserves some praise.

All students stayed behind to help check expiry dates, sort and

Elementary school staff member/Harvest volunteer Yvonne Crouch initiated a similar campaign in her school. That threeweek effort simply encouraged students to leave product in the canoe; 87 pounds of food was collected from the younger group on Thursday, March 22.

Manitoba government offers free winter family fishing weekend

year-round. To review the winter (ice-covered) season checklist, a stepby-step resource to ensure compliance with AIS r egulations, visit: https:// www.gov.mb.ca/stopais/ checklist/winter.html.

Anglers cannot remove live bait from aquatic invasive species control zones and retain for future use.

B ait taken into an AIS control zone must be discarded before leaving shore, if it:

is live bait, has been handled (e.g. hooked), or has come into contact with surface water from the control zone. The requirements apply even with a valid three-day live bait fish transfer and use receipt. Additionally, all water from bait containers must be drained before leaving shore. For more information, visit: www. Manitoba.ca/StopAIS.

Photo by Sheila Runions

Photo by Heather Gray

The canoe at Rivers Elementary School was adequately filled.

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By Chad Carpenter

How does God want us to live (and love)

The following two key verses are often quoted and with good reason. They clearly illustrate what our response should be toward God.

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23 (NIV)”

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.John 3:16 (NIV).”

Here’s why they matter. People are born, they live and they die. Most people, albeit sometimes reluctantly, come to this conclusion. Debate can go on forever about faith, beliefs and traditions but the born, live and die statement is irrefutable regardless of nationality, culture or history.

The Romans 3:23 statement doesn’t make sense if a person doesn’t believe in God. The fact that a person may or may not believe in God proves to me that we have a free choice in life over many things. God made us with a free choice, otherwise He would have made us to be robots. We have a free will and can control most of the decisions in life.

We can’t choose where we are born nor can we choose our parents. For the first few months of our lives, our choices are pretty limited but by the age of one year a child starts to very strongly exercise some choices. Anyone who has held a child when they want to be held by someone else will know what I mean.

In later years, choices become wider in number and variety. Granted, some choices are limited, but most people have more choices in life than they can handle. I daresay, the choices a person makes are usually more in number and in variety than any choices that are forced upon a person. Note, I say usually, not always. Accidents, disease

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and other peoples’ actions can have some devastating effects on one’s life but usually the largest effects come from personal choices. All this talk about choices leads me to believe that God made us with a free will and we usually are able and usually willing to exercise that free will.

In exercising our free will we tend to think about how we should live, what we should do and not do. Growing up, we see examples of what works out well and what doesn’t. Parents, siblings, friends and community members, who are also making their free will choices, affect us in what choices we make. We develop ideas about favourite toys, favourite foods, where we want to live, what we want to do to support of life choices and who we want to love.

Most of us look to a faith or belief system to figure out what is right and what is wrong. As far as human behaviour goes, most faith systems are very similar. In spite of bitter wars and disagreements, Judaism, Islam and Christianity are surprisingly similar. Other faith systems have definite similarities. All are good in their own right but not all answer the question about what happens after we are born, live and die. The clearest answer, in my view, comes from Christianity.

The first Bible statement illustrates that all people fall short of God’s glory,

God’s ideals. The second verse tells us what to do about that shortfall. It is a time honoured process and in line with the free will concept, we are free to buy into it or not.

I have written many lines about what I think are correct choices in life and which are incorrect and even harmful. But what I say or have said, may or may not be correct. Again, people have a free choice and will exercise that choice.

In rural Canada, and maybe in other places as well, attendance in places of worship is down. That is sad and it would do everyone good to get involved in a place of worship and learning. We can go and listen and learn. We can switch to other places, the choice is ours, but worshipping God and learning how to live and love others can be a very good thing. Just one word of warning, places of worship and the people may not be perfect. I guess that should be obvious, but also remember, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

And, one last thing, if you let someone get between you and God, they may be closer to God than you are.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this column are the writer’s personal views and are not to be taken as being the view of the Banner & Press staff.

Rita Friesen

‘Umble’

“Me, Master Copperfield?” said Uriah. “Oh, no! I’m a very umble person.” ... “I am well aware that I am the umblest person going,” said Uriah Heep ...For those of us who studied Charles Dickens, or simply read his works for pleasure, Uriah’s hand wringing humility stands firm in memory. “the umblest person going”. Stepped right into the being proud category to my understanding!

I have been giving humility a good bit of thought lately. It may have been triggered by the fact that my partner and I, both not young but not yet old!, against our better judgement moved a small, medium weight piece of furniture. All because I wanted a bookshelf in its place. Long story short, my partner compressed a disc in his lower back. This has happened before, but never with the degree of pain and immobility he has now. We knew better, didn’t think, and now need to ask for help… For me that is a part of being humbled and humility.

True humility goes so much deeper than that. Humility is not the lack of self-esteem, it is knowing our place in the universe. Not an economic, education, name, creed or colour place, but a place defined by our connectedness and dependance on God for who and what we are. We, as a society, have glorified ‘getting ahead’ as a mark of human achievement. As a Christ follower I am reminded frequently, that the first shall be last, and the last shall be first; look to the needs of others, serve, seek justice, mercy and walk humbly with my God. A quote from this weeks reading –‘ Winning, owning, having, consuming, and controlling are not the high posts of the spiritual life.’ Looking around this world, my world, I see too much winning, owning, having, consuming and controlling…It rather centres back to my musings of a few weeks ago, too many people have lost the desire to be a servant. And it is from lack of teaching, or lack of example? We do know that actions speak louder than words… Humility requires self examination and self-revelation. Psychologists tell us that the struggles we hide are the ones that consume us. Too many of us wear masks, pretending to be what we are not, hoping to present as perfect! I do not have the energy for that! For most of my adult life I have been open and transparent. Telling the truth every time means I do not have to try to remember who I said what to!

‘Benedict tells us that it is bad for the soul to have more than necessary, that it gluts us, that it protects us in Plexiglass from the normal, the natural. The goal of life is not to amass things but to get the most out of whatever we have.’ Perhaps it is only my news feed, but never before have I been inundated with ways to de-clutter my home, to simplify my living. Hey, I have done that, and doing that.

Another quote from this weeks reading;’ Humility the lost virtue of our era, is crying to heaven for rediscovery.’ Knowing our place, and purpose in the universe…

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Neil StrohScheiN layiNg the fouNdatioN, part three

This event happened on a weekday evening in early Spring in my first church. We were hosting a guest speaker-a missionary from Cameroon, West Africa. As was customary in these meetings, we sang an opening hymn, the missionary gave his presentation and then we adjourned for lunch.

During the lunch, our guest shared some details of his latest assignment. “Eighteen months ago,” he began, “the mission board decided that since I was from western Canada, I was the perfect person to teach Cameroonians how to raise beef and dairy cattle. Imagine that! Me! A city slicker; suddenly an expert on raising cattle.”

He thought we would laugh. No one did. What actually happened was something that only God could have arranged. Roughly half a dozen of those in attendance that night were either beef or dairy farmers. They moved to his table and listened as he shared some of the challenges he was facing. They offered him several suggestions, fielded additional questions from him and answered them as best they could.

Two hours later, after everyone had gone home, I knew that I had witnessed something very special-something I might never witness again. That night, I saw a small group of men working together to help people they would never meet learn how to care for their farmland, rotate crops and avoid overgrazing of pastures so that they could have high quality feed and grass for the cattle that provided them with milk and meat.

The most intriguing part of that night’s conversation came when the missionary asked how the Cameroonians could restore nutrients to the soil without the use of chemical fertilizers-which they could not afford. The answer came from two elderly gentlemen. They might never have thought that they were “organic” farmers; but on this night, they gave all of us a lesson in identifying and using natural fertilizers to replenish the soil.

That night I learned an important lesson. Every person on this earth was a person of value when born and will remain that way until death. Even in our advancing years, we still have some knowledge, insights or ideas we can offer that will help make our world a better place for everyone. No one should be pushed into the background and ignored just because he or she is getting old and might be considered “behind the times.”

The same applies to those whose education and experience are not the same as yours or mine. I have high respect for Canada’s indigenous people, especially for their close ties to Mother Earth. They have much to teach us about respect for the planet and care for the environment-if the rest of us would care to take some time and listen.

We can also learn much from those who have recently moved to Canada. They place high value on rights and freedoms that you and I take for granted. They can (and often will) warn us if they feel these things are in danger of being taken away. We may not agree with their views or appreciate the fervency with which they are expressed, but we need to listen and learn from them.

We need each other. We must give people the freedom to share their insights and ideas with the world so that we all can learn from them. You never know. One of those radical ideas just might prove to be the answer to a persistent problem and will open the door to the hope, help and healing that so many in our society desperately need.

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Riverdale Municipality Special Meeting-Jan. 20/23

Officer Kat Bridgeman recorded the minutes.

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The minutes of the special meeting of Council for Riverdale Municipality held at Riverdale Council Chambers on the 20th day of January 2023.

Mayor Heather Lamb called the meeting to order at 9:00 AM with the following members of Council in attendance:

Councillor Everett Smith, Councillor Christa

Veitch, Councillor David Creighton, Councillor

Tyler Pod Councillor

Tyson Peters

Regrets

Chief Administrative

to discuss legal matters.

2.1 Adoption of the Agenda: SMITH-CREIGHTON

Be It Resolved that the special meeting agenda dated January 20th, 2023 be adopted as presented; Be It Further Resolved that the agenda form part of the minutes.

CARRIED

PURPOSE OF MEETING:

3.1 In Camera – Legal CREIGHTON-POD

Be It Resolved That Council recess the regular meeting to sit in camera as a Committee of the Whole

Be It Further Resolved That all matters discussed are to be kept confidential.

CARRIED VEITCH-CREIGHTON

Be It Resolved That Council come out of Committee of the Whole and continue with the regular meeting.

CARRIED

ADJOURNMENT: POD-VEITCH

Be It Resolved that Council do now adjourn.

Councillor Shawn Mason

Meeting minutes January 17th

The minutes of the regular meeting of Council for Riverdale Municipality held in the Council Chambers on the 17th day of January 2023.

Mayor Heather Lamb called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. with the following members of Council in attendance:

Councillor Everett Smith

Councillor Shawn Mason

Councillor David Creighton Councillor Tyler Pod Regrets: Councillor

Christa Veitch Councillor

Tyson Peters

Chief Administrative Officer Kat Bridgeman recorded the minutes.

CREIGHTONSMITH

Be It Resolved that the regular meeting agenda dated January 17th, 2023 be adopted as presented; Be It Further Resolved that the agenda form part of the minutes. CARRIED

POD-MASON

Be It Resolved that the minutes of January 3rd, 2023 be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED

4. DELEGATION:

5. COMMUNICATIONS:

5.1 MB InfrastructureRivers Dam Rehabilitation Project – New Project Manager Contact – Reviewed & Filed

6. MONTHLY REPORTS:

6.1 Public Works & Utilities

6.2 Police

6.2.1 Chief L Schwartz – Monthly Report – Reviewed & Filed

6.3 Finance

6.3.1 List of Accounts

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Be It Resolved that the List of Accounts submitted to Council and having been certified by said council and totaling the sum of $948,934.12 being cheques numbered 12982

to 13077 be hereby passed for payment.

CARRIED

6.3.2 Bank Reconciliation SMITH-POD

Be It Resolved That the Bank Reconciliation for the General and Utility accounts for September 2022 be hereby adopted as presented.

CARRIED

6.3.3 Financial Statement - TABLED

6.3.4 Razzmatazz – Uncollectible

CREIGHTONSMITH

Therefore Be It Resolved That rent owed for space in Riverdale Community Centre in the amount of $4,416.66 be deemed uncollectible and written-off.

CARRIED

6.3.5 Cemetery Trust Fund Transfer

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The Rivers Jets came up with a 3-2 loss to the Neepawa Farmers on Saturday, Feb. 11 at Rivers in t he season finale.

As a result of finishing 4th in the west division the Jets will take on Deloraine in the best of 3 division quarter finals starting Wednesday night in Deloraine at 8pm. Game 2 will be at Rivers Community Centre on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 7:30.

The team posted a message to their fans on their Facebook page saying, “The Executive and players would like to offer a big t hank you to everyone who attended the social. It was a great way to celebrate a successful first season back.”

The game report on the Tiger Hills web site showed relatively few goals but lots of penalties in hard foiguht game

Scoring Summary

Period : 1

1. 03:36 Neepawa - Brad

Marshall (Shane Byram, Lennon Carr)

2. 16:30 Neepawa - Corbin Mariash (Brad Marshall, Garrett Rempel) PP

Period : 2

3. 06:02 Rivers - Riley

Shamray (Brock Paddock, Joben Smith)

Period : 3

4. 00:17 Neepawa - Kyle

McDonald (Brad Marshall, Nolan Speiss)

5. 08:31 Rivers - Kale

Bomback (Al McFadden)

Penalty Summary

Period : 1

05:05 Neepawa - Ben

Rainka (H : 2 mins)

11:51 Neepawa - Benoit

Mowbray (TR : 2 mins)

16:02 Rivers - Jaxon

Heeney (R : 2 mins)

Period : 2

08:09 Neepawa - Ben

Rainka (H : 2 mins)

11:48 Neepawa - Shane

Byram (C.C : 2 mins)

15:26 Rivers - Gerald

Kuculym (R : 2 mins)

15:26 Rivers - Riley

Shamray (R : 4 mins)

15:26 Rivers - Gerald

Kuculym (M : 10 mins)

15:26 Rivers - Gerald

Kuculym (HTH : 2 mins)

15:26 Neepawa - Brad

Marshall (R : 2 mins)

15:26 Neepawa - Dustin

Cook (R : 4 mins)

16:22 Rivers - Keaton

Moore (INT : 2 mins)

16:59 Rivers - Riley

Boles (C.C : 2 mins)

Period : 3

15:32 Rivers - Gerald

Kuculym (BD : 2 mins)

16:29 Rivers - Ryder

Richmond (H.S : 2 mins)

16:29 Rivers - Ryder

Richmond (M : 10 mins)

19:59 Neepawa - Benoit

Mowbray (R : 2 mins)

19:59 Rivers - Jaxon

Heeney (R : 2 mins)

Goalie Stats

Neepawa - Reese

Jones Mins: 60 SV: 36 GA: 2 [L]

Rivers - Riley

Lamb Mins: 60 SV: 31 GA: 3 [W]

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Letter to th editor

Ottawa Pledges $196 Billion in Health Care Funding to Provinces Over 10 Years

Canada is a confederation of ten equal provinces with separate areas of jurisdiction set out in the constitution sections 92 – 95. The federal government is intruding into provincial jurisdiction by using healthcare funding as a lever to direct provinces on how to deliver healthcare.

There cannot be variances in how individual provinces are treated. That impinges on provincial autonomy and equality.

For decades, the federal government has refused to allow private hospitals and clinics in any province, although that option is desperately needed. The reason cited is to prevent a two-tier system where people with money could access care others could not afford.

It is a socialist myth. Healthcare delivery is funded based on services delivered. Whether the service is publicly or privately delivered, the cost to the taxpayer is the same. Moreover, people who can afford it go outside Canada to access services rather than sit forever on a waiting list.

We need private investment in healthcare delivery facilities. Private investors can build facilities at far less cost than governments.

Governments must ensure their service fees include the value of land, buildings, equipment, staffing and forgiven taxes to level the playing field and attract private investment.

Investors will determine what facilities they can provide while working within the funding framework. For example, investors may create a joint replacement facility to service an area. Once backlogs have been cleared, area hospitals can convert joint replacement facilities for other uses, saving money.

Investors can create diagnostic facilities and tackle current backlogs. They can operate 7/24 and reduce backlogs to where in-house public facilities have less of a diagnostic burden.

We need dedicated trauma centres where seriously ill or injured patients can be stabilized and sent to an appropriate after-care facility. The traditional emergency room service is not working.

We have 17 medical schools in Canada, but provincial physician’s colleges limit students to about 700 annually. That is unacceptable in a nation where tens of thousands can’t access a family doctor. We need to train thousands more doctors and nurses to fill the gaps in a broken system.

The federal government recently announced new national long-term care standards but they are not mandatory. The standards should have been referred to the provinces for amendment and mandatory adoption. Optional standards are not standards at all.

The federal government is constitutionally responsible for building military (marine) hospitals throughout Canada and for the healthcare of prison inmates, military personnel, the RCMP, some federal agency members, diplomatic core personnel, and indigenous people. Taking on those duties would provide a huge relief to our provincial healthcare delivery burden.

Trudeau and company have no skin in the game. They presided while healthcare delivery deteriorated from no two-tier healthcare to no healthcare available. They cannot be allowed to continue to dictate to provinces from afar. They don’t have the expertise to fix the system.

Sharing medical information between provinces is vital. Access to a central system means the person visiting another province can get proper care if the local hospital or clinic can access their records. There is no need to share the database with the federal government. It is not a primary caregiver.

No personal medical information should be shared internationally except on an authorized case-by-case basis if a Canadian is ill or injured in a foreign nation. Attempts at developing an international traveller registry are not in our interests. Our personal information is not for sale or use by unelected foreign bodies. Digital IDs are a means of controlling everything we do at some future point.

We need a citizen’s forum to oversee the revamping of our healthcare delivery. The forum must include doctors, nurses, technicians and support staff representatives. Working together, we can identify the trouble areas and produce a plan to address them. The monitoring has to be ongoing, so if a proposed fix is not working, it can be killed and replaced with a better solution.

Healthcare is everyone’s business. We are spending billions and not getting what we pay for. That must be fixed. Trudeau can stop his ‘let’s make deals’ approach, take care of his healthcare delivery duties and allow provinces to satisfy the public. We are the consumers and financial supporters. We are demanding that governments quit jawing and get on with healthcare reform.

Canadians are fed up with the endless federal-provincial tug-of-war. They are looking to provinces to fix healthcare delivery. Procrastination is off the table.

John Feldsted Political commentator, consultant and strategist Winnipeg, Manitoba

I enjoyed reading Neil Strohschein’s letters in the Banner regarding the perils of racism, but wish to elaborate on three topics from a biblical standpoint.

I) The human race has one common ancestor.

Actually, the human race has two common ancestors; that being Adam and Eve, the first husband and wife. Chapter one in the Book of Genesis provides the account:

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26,27)

I believe this to be true and reject the theory of evolution that, as I was taught in school, mankind evolved from amoeba over billions of years following countless mutations.

II) Racism

A moral evil, racism is a stain on society and should be condemned by all Christians. Allow me to provide a biblical backdrop. For centuries, the self-righteous leaders of the Jews thought themselves superior to Gentiles (non Jews) who they considered unredeemable sinners. Suddenly, a Jewish Rabbi appears (Jesus Christ) who not only associates with them, but offers forgiveness of sins and eternal l ife if they would put their faith and trust in Him as their redeemer. He sends his disciples (Jews) to preach His Gospel throughout the known world, including the Apostle Peter

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who said the following:

Repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins… (Acts 2:38)

The Apostle Paul (a Jew) wrote to the church in the province of Galatia (modern day Turkey):

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek (another name for Gentile), there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; black or white; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:26-28) [Italics added]

III) We must turn to the creator to deal with racism.

The Bible says the root of all evil is sin, brought into the world through the disobedience of Adam and Eve revealed in Genesis chapter three, followed by chapter four, where their son Cain murders his brother Abel and, like cancer, sin continues to grow; so much so that we read the following in chapter six:

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5

The one with the ability to deal with sin is the Lord Jesus Christ who, being both God and creator (John 1:1-3); became a man and dwelt amongst us (John 1:14); and died for our sins as the Apostle Peter tells us:

For Christ suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God… (1 Peter 3:18)

After Christ’s resurrection from the dead, the Apostle Paul says:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation… (2 Corinthians 5:17)

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? How can we who died to sin still live in it? (Romans 6:3,2)

In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus Christ instructs us to love our neighbour as ourselves.

(Matthew 19:19)

The Lord Jesus Christ offers the solution for racism and all other sin, for he alone reconciles us to God the Father (2 Corinthians 5:18,19), and gives us a new heart. (Ezekiel 36:26). If you have any questions or comments, you can reach me at jgklassen@icloud.com or 204-720-4383

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6.12 Riverdale Community Centre

6 .12.1 L. C. Walker Report reviewed and filed

7. UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

7.1 Animal Control Officer Agreement C REIGHTON-SMITH

Whereas D. Murray has resigned his position as Animal Control Officer effective J anuary 3rd, 2023;

review

8.3 ADM_22-01 Charitable Donation Policy –Under Review

8.4 Speed Limit – west side of elementary school – To be Reviewed 8.5 Cemetery Committee – new member committee to be established

9. CONSIDERATION OF BY-LAWS:

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SMITH-MASON

Be It Resolved That Council approve the transfer of $1,236.36 from the Cemetery Trust Fund to General O perating to cover the cost of expenses incurred at the Rivers Cemetery in 2022

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6.3.6 Road Rehabilitation

Funding

POD-CREIGHTON

Whereas Riverdale Mun received funding from the Prov of MB in the amount of $21,290.63 for 2022 for road rehabilitation, road renewal or repair;

Therefore Be It Resolved

That Council approve the

transfer of $14,484.47 of the unused portion to the Streets and Roads Reserve for use in 2023.

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6.5 Personnel Liaison

6.5.1 In Camera

MASON-POD

Be It Resolved That Council recess the regular meeting t o sit in camera as a Committee of the Whole to discuss p ersonnel issues.

Be It Further Resolved That all matters discussed are to be kept confidential.

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SMITH-MASON

Be It Resolved That Council come out of Committee of t he Whole and continue with the regular meeting.

Therefore Be It Resolved That Council approve the agreement for Animal Control Impoundment Services w ith W. Petersen to provide services for a 3 year term, effective February 1, 2023

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7.2 Wildlife feeding within town limits - with Conservation Office, Resources M anagement & Protection Division and RPS

7.3 Land Tender

8. NEW BUSINESS: 8.1 Donation

MASON-CREIGHTON

Be It Resolved That Council approve the donation of $1,338.54 to Rivers Area Game & Fish

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Councillor Creighton had to leave the meeting at 7:50 pm

8.2 HR_23-01 Service Recognition Policy - Under

9.1 By-Law No. 2023-01 –Fire Protection By-Law 9.1 By-Law No. 2023-02 – Fire Dept Personnel

MASON-POD

Be It Resolved that ByLaw No. 2023-02, being a By-Law of Riverdale Municipality to appoint Fire D epartment Personnel be given 1st reading.

CARRIED

POD-MASON

Be It Resolved that ByLaw No. 2023-02, being a By-Law of Riverdale Municipality to appoint Fire D epartment Personnel be given 2nd reading.

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10. COUNCILLOR’S REMARKS & SUGGESTIONS:

11. MAYOR’S R EMARKS & SUGGESTIONS:

12. CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER’S R EPORT: