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s r e p or t e d i n t he March 9 edition, the Grade 12 Interdisciplinary Studies in Science class 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 f ill 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.

“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-

tion to the schools. cans from the school foyer into and Chimo Beach areas for con- put away in the proper place on by the Rivert he the event munits. issedThey t he Sarah Pupils co-ordinated the entirePlosker the church basement the pop, after- provided tributions from community. shelving were dale Municipality.

Cooksecond act: there were noon of March 21, where the When all was said and done, fantastic! We are very, very month-long promotion, whichBanner Rivers scales at Riverdale Harvest pleased.” culminated in a ceremonious food was weighed and sorted. ing andtheserving were Ian three separate grass fires notedTait, a totalDave of 434 and pounds, in “a theElementary school staffthe mempresentation on March The 20 to town Although project was Dyer, a sen- Ken oftheRivers field following Riverdale Harvest president ior students brainstorm, the en- fabulous amount,” says Heather. ber/Harvest volunteer Yvonne celebrated Canada Day Lesley Creighton, and fireworks. Luckily, memtire high school was encouraged “We are so pleased they decided Crouch initiated a similar camHeather Gray and Liliane. berspaign of the with at MilDave Falkevitch. to help those weThese serve. A lot in herRivers/Daly school. That threeBecause the snow had meltedf ireworks to participate.

The collegiate Department were Fire lennium Park, on the volunteers were very busy so much, the canoe could not hosted a poor boy floor hockey of times kids don’t get enough week effort simply encouraged but this groupand of students students to leave product in be portaged across thewestern street to outskirts tournament which tohanding play, creditout ofintown, on standby and attended food canoe; side-by-side 87 pounds of food Zion Church (home of Riverathletes had to pay with food for certainly deserves some praise.

July 2 (fashionably late, withthetheir drinks, and barbecuing dale Harvest). Rather, the teens the canoe. Some students also All students stayed behind to was collected from the younger as many people make a nd snu f fer res pon se to keep up with demand. carried bags, boxes and garbage canvassed Rivers, Oak River help check expiry dates, sort and group on Thursday, March 22.

the drive to Brandon for the July 1 fireworks). The shoulder of the highway and edge of the park were lined with vehicles, with some residents watching the dazzling display from inside their vehicles to avoid the mosquitos, while others sat on lawn chairs outside.

The canoe at Rivers The gazebo near the Elementary School was old train caboose was adequately filled. filled with people grabbing free hotdogs and

Approximately 20 dozen hot dogs were ser ved up, along with an equal amount of pop. The fireworks were organized by Riverdale Municipality, with the Rivers and District Chamber of Commerce and individuals donating some funds to help offset the costs.

The fireworks display was phenomena l, but those who drove home immediately following

units. They were able to put all three fires out in a short period of time.

A huge t ha n k-you to the firefighters for their prompt action in ensuring a safe event.

The Rivers and District Chamber of Commerce organized a weekendlong scavenger hunt, with prizes to be announced later in the week.

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Where have we gone astray?

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he following quote from Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney speaks volumes about how bad things can get on so many levels. Following a shooting that injured two police officers near a Fourth of July event on Monday night, Kenney told a group of reporters that only police officers should be allowed to own guns and that he is looking forward to retiring, so he no longer has to deal with gun violence. “I’ll be happy when I’m not the mayor,” he added.

Philadelphia is not alone in violence.

Chicago is much worse, but before we get too smug, let’s understand that Canada Day and days previous in our own province yielded some hideous violence. Two very recent Ukrainian immigrants were stabbed at The Forks in Winnipeg. The murder level in Winnipeg is on track to break records. Across the province, there are deaths attributed to drug abuse. We are in no position to be smug in Manitoba.

Along with the rest of North America, we have a problem.

Philadelphia’s Mayor Kenney wants out. He deserves some empathy, but his solution isn’t the correct one. Suggesting that only police have guns is simplistic and unworkable. Gun restrictions are nothing more than a flimsy grasp at a quick fix. If only the police have guns, then the only people who have guns will be the police and the bad guys, because only the good guys will obey the gun laws anyway. The bad guys sure won’t, never have and never will.

Many mayors across North America are suggesting that police forces be de-funded.

That police forces may need to be shifted

or redeployed is a discussion that is badly needed. To suggest that we need to take money away from policing is ridiculous.

Police forces can’t cover all they are called upon to do now, even in relatively peaceful rural Manitoba.

Therein lies one root of the problem.

When cities adopt a tolerance to petty crime, people learn they can get away with bigger and bigger crimes. It becomes a big sinkhole until people wake up one morning and realize that their community is being strangled by crime. Residents need to take pride in their communities and let it be known that littering, broken windows and vandalism leads to theft, drugs and violence.

There are some politicians in the States pandering to various groups by saying the police should be de-funded. The twisted logic suggests that if the police aren’t around, then the groups who feel picked on won’t get picked on. There is a lot more to that story. Yes, sometimes groups are profiled or picked upon and that’s just plain wrong. It shouldn’t happen. However, some groups wouldn’t get picked on as much if they always obeyed the law. These aren’t foolproof solutions, but would go a long way towards more peaceful communities.

Mayor Kenney says he will be happy when he is no longer mayor. I can see why. Mayors get worn down and burnt out because they, and previous councils, let their towns go down hill instead of being pro-active. That principle applies to everything from roads, to crime, to waterlines.

Neglect breeds more neglect and that leads to devastating results.

RIGHT IN THE CENTRE

Ken Waddell We don’t need less services, we need more and smarter services. In every aspect of local government, more can be done, needs to be done and should be done. As a former mayor of Neepawa, I can sympathize with any mayor who feels pressured. Most mayors didn’t have to put up with a lot of violence, but some do and that must be a horrible experience. That said, mayors, councillors and the general public must come up with logical and reachable solutions to every problem that comes along.

De-funding the police has been suggested. So has closing jails. There are even those who want outright anarchy. We just have to study history for a few moments to understand that when a community strays away from the rule of law and good government, trouble isn’t far behind.

Much of the discussion around the need for a country to have capital punishment could be avoided if corporal punishment is enacted when appropriate in one’s early life. Parents need to understand, “If you aren’t the boss when they are knee high, you certainly won’t be when they are eye to eye”. In many of the mass shooting cases, there is often a significant failure to heed the warning signs in an individual’s life.

Boundaries and consequences need to be in place prior to a fatal incident.

There needs to be a foundation, a bedrock that we can build on. That foundation can be found in the words of Jesus in the Bible, in Matthew 22, New King James Version.

“34But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?’

37 Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38This is the first and greatest commandment.

39 And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself. 40On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”’

All laws and law enforcement needs to be based on these words. Anything that goes against these words is destined for failure.

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.

Constructive criticism, part three

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or the two weeks prior to Canada Day, I offered suggestions for ways we can share constructive criticism with those who are in authority over us; whether in government, community, church or work.

Two principles were emphasized in those columns.

First, we are to respect those in authority because of the positions they hold, even though we may not agree with how they conduct themselves in their relations with others. Second, we are to base our criticism on things they say or do and avoid, at all costs, the temptation to make assumptions about their attitudes or intentions.

Today I want to address a third (and most important) question. What standard of right and wrong do we use when evaluating the actions of our leaders?

We can choose from several options; but the standard we choose must clearly define acceptable (right) and unacceptable (wrong) actions. It must also be a standard that applies to all people equally. We cannot have one set of standards for the rich and powerful and another for the poor and powerless. We have every right to expect those in positions of authority to set a good example by obeying the same laws they set for the rest of us.

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set for us, we don’t have to put up with it. We have the right to speak up, to expose this inappropriate behavior and to ask for it to end. Nor should we feel under any obligation to believe or accept the excuses they give for their actions. They probably wouldn’t accept our excuses, so we do not have to accept theirs. What we seek is an apology that ref lects clear understanding of what has been done, a promise that it will not happen again and a visible change in the offender’s attitude and actions. We should settle for nothing less.

Then we have every right to expect out leaders to honestly answer questions they are asked. We don’t expect them to give instant factually accurate answers to every question. It’s okay to say: “I don’t know; but I will find out and get back to you.” That’s answering honestly. We have every right to expect transparent honesty from our leaders and they have every right to expect the same from us.

Finally, we have every right to expect that they will keep the promises they make. An old saying puts it best: “A promise made is a debt unpaid.” In the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, King Solomon wrote that “It is better not to vow (make a promise) than to vow and not pay.” Then he adds these words: “Do not let your mouth lead you into sin.” (see Ecclesiastes

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5:5-6) Those words apply to all of us; not just to our leaders.

Making promises is easy. Keeping them takes time, talent and money-sometimes far more than we initially thought. But when we give others our word, they trust us to keep it. They make future plans and investments based on the promises we make. If we fail to keep those promises, they pay the price; and we are to blame for their misfortune.

That’s why people find it so hard to trust those in authority. After generations of broken promises, what would you expect? It’s time for us to wake up, admit that we are partly to blame for this lack of trust, and take steps to repair the damage before it is too late.

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Home Bodies

By Rita Friesen Musings...

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s I sit at my office desk, once again accompanied by the sound of steady rain, random thoughts skitter and scatter. The rain. This rain. Enough already says the farmer/gardener.

Enough already says the homeowner and vacationer.

Simply saying enough doesn’t change the rain. Truthnothing we can do or say can change the rain. So I don boots and rain jacket and hoist an umbrella to foray forth. It is discouraging and disheartening.

My earliest years were lived in the Kane district.

Wonderful fertile Red River soil, gumbo at its best.

The area was marked by drainage ditches, essential in just level terrain; between the farm on which we lived and the village was one such ditch. The crossing was a concrete drive, allowing travel even when there was a measure of water in the drain ditch. This is an early memory, and I have precious few of those; we as a family went to visit my mother’s sister who loved in the settlement, a collection of homes between the farm and the village. I have no idea how long we had been housebound, but it must have been long enough!

Our mode of travel was the 8N Ford. Dad driving, mom perched on one of the fenders, and my sister and I standing on the hitch. Obviously dad was not

torqueing down the mud road, and today we would be horrified to see a child not safety tied in/on a piece of equipment; times were different! I have no idea how long we visited Aunt Liddy and Uncle Dave, and no recall of the ride back home. That snippet of a scene is clear and vivid.

Those ditches/drains that drew the water east to the Red were notable. The water from the fields f lowed into the drains through those culverts with f laps, opening under the pressure of the accumulated water on the fields. Family stories from the forties and fifties reveal that the pacifist community in which we lived had exceptions! If any farmer thought his field being clear of water was more important than another farmers- hot words ensued. An extreme incident apparently led to a push and a shove which sent one man into the swirling water, surfacing on the other side of the culvert. To be fair they were large culverts! Not certain that a church elder meeting was called or not!

In a dry year a forecast calling for a fifty per cent chance of rain does mean a thing and brings no hope. In a wet year, a fifteen per cent chance of rain is a guarantee that we will have more than a drizzle… At this point in my life I am a small time gardener. My rain barrels are full, I seldom need to water anything but the hanging baskets; one raised bed actually became sodden. And so my heart aches for all our farming families, all over this province.

I have been there when the stakes were not as high as they are today. It was the wet years, and the dry years, than often precipated the farm wife working away from home. Ah, my mood is a grey as the skies.

May the sun shine, soon, on all of us.

Observation

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nother month has disappeared. June has changed into July and we have now celebrated Canada Day. Some homes in my neighborhood are flying proudly the Canadian flag. Besides some complaints we live in a country where we enjoy freedom. The nature around us is beautiful. We can go booting, hiking or just be at home enjoying the sunshine and fresh air. There are many who enjoy getting married now that there are not too many restrictions.

Not everyone feels that way though. Friends are mourning the death of a child, another one is waiting the result of a biopsy of a young mother and is preparing the children for the bad news.

However we can rejoice that this is not the end of the road. When we can turn all our actions, good, bad and sad over to our Creator we will have peace. A peace that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:7).

Love at first sight….

Ask questions later?

Let’s see how far this will get us!

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By Chad Carpenter

In the real world, love requires more giving, more than it sometimes gets.

First impressions go a long way. I believed my maturity, my education and social experience allowed me to make wise relationship choices.

Set my mind on the fact? My judgement was not tainted.

How could my social history growing up have any effect on how I chose my friends, attraction to the men I would love.

Cantonese Chinese was my first husband‘s history. In an oversize suit, he came over at age 6 on a boat from China to live with his grandparents in Canada. We met at a social.

The rest is history and we had two lovely children. Racism was alive and well in public, but as well in the family.

I remember going to a high-end restaurant in Winnipeg for supper, something we enjoyed doing once a month as our date out. The servers refused to serve us so we left.

As disheartening as it was, we realized it was just part of our marriage and we faced it together. As the years progressed we were met with many challenges and eventually, some of them were too much for us. We separated and divorced after 14 years of marriage.

As a single parent, I found all the responsibilities hard.

I wanted to meet somebody who could love me, that I could build a safe family life with for me and my children.

Where would I meet someone at a bus stop? No, I started dating someone I met at a laundromat. So then a common-law relationship began. Then started the live band in full force of the abusive behaviours towards me and my children. We escaped and filled out the police report. I was pregnant with our first child. I remember sitting in the court room as his charges were read.

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Rapid City hosts MHSRA Rodeo

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Rapid City was host to a Manitoba High School Rodeo Association rodeo May 21-22 at the Rapid City Fair Grounds. Around 80 junior high and high school contestants gave it their all over the weekend event, including five participants from Rapid city: Madi and Jorja Robins, Katie and Jessica Wright, and Easton Beernaerts. Here, we provide descriptions of each of the competition events as well as profiles of the five locals.

Saddle bronc riding: The competitor is mounted on a horse and holds the reins with one hand. Simultaneously the gate of the bucking chute is opened and the horse begins to buck. The rider must stay on for eight seconds without touching the horse with their free hand. A special saddle with free-swinging stirrups and no horn is used.

What’s interesting is that the rider is scored from 0-50 and the horse is scored from 0-50—after all, one horse’s buck can be fiercer than another’s.

Bareback riding: Similar to saddle bronc riding but completely different: no saddle

or rein, but the horse is rigged up with a leather and rawhide surcingle (basically a single strap around the horse’s abdomen just behind their front legs) with something that is described as a suitcase handle for the rider to hang onto.

Saddle steer: Like saddle bronc riding except with a steer (castrated male cattle) instead of a horse.

Bull riding: The most dangerous eight seconds in sports. The rider must stay on a bucking bull (non-castrated, adult male cattle), typically weighing 1,500 pounds, with one hand tied to the bull with a rope.

The free hand is not allowed to touch the bull.

Goat tying: The competitor rides a horse up to a tethered goat, dismounts, then attempts to catch, flank, and tie the goat (tying both front legs and one back leg together).

The goat must stay tied for six seconds. This event is for youth.

Breakaway roping: The mounted rider chases after a calf and attempts to lasso the neck of the calf. The rope must breakaway from the saddle once it has gone over the calf’s nose and neck. Fastest time wins. This event is for youth or adult women.

Tie down roping: Similar to breakaway roping but after lassoing the calf, the rider must dismount from the horse, flank the calf and tie one front and both back legs, get back up on their horse and sit while the calf stays tied for 6 seconds.

Ribbon roping: A two-person (boy & girl) team event. Similar to breakaway roping but instead of a calf it’s a steer, with one mounted participant and one on foot. The mounted rider must rope the calf, dismount from the horse and run to the calf while the other contestant (the runner) must also run to the calf. Once both contestants are touching the calf, the runner pulls the flag off the calf’s tail and runs it to the end of the arena. They have 30 seconds to complete this event.

Team roping: Similar to ribbon roping but with no ribbon and both teammates are mounted, with one roping around the horns or neck, and the other roping around the hind feet. Interestingly, this is the only rodeo event where women and men compete in equal numbers.

Steer wrestling: The mounted participant chases a steer, dismounts, grabs the steer’s horns and wrestles it to the ground. There is

high-risk of injury to the participant.

Chute dogging: Similar to steer wrestling but the cowboy and steer start in the roping chute, so there’s no need to chase the steer on horseback. This event is considered a way to prepare novices for steer wrestling.

Pole bending: A timed event where the horse and rider weave around six poles lined up in a row.

Barrel racing: The competitor rides a horse around three barrels in a cloverleaf pattern. Fastest time wins. Usually an event for youth or adult women.

Cutting: A 2.5 min performance where the horse and rider demonstrate their skill at handling cattle, moving a selected cow away from the herd.

Reined cow horse: The horse and rider demonstrate their skill at handling cattle through two or three techniques: reining, “cow work”: first keeping the cow at one area of the arena (“boxing”), then running the cow along the length of the arena (“fencing”), and finally bringing the cow to the middle of the arena and getting it run in a tight circle in each direction (“circling”), and herd work.

Profiles of the five members of the Manitoba High School Rodeo Association from Rapid City.

Name: Easton Beernaerts Age: 11 Years in MHSRA: 1 Events I compete in: Barrel Racing, Pole Bending, and Goat Tying. Going to start Ribbon Roping and Breakaway My Favourite Event: Barrels and Goats One thing rodeo has taught me: Not every ride is going to go as planned, but you learn something from every ride you take. The support from all the competitors is great.

Name: Jorja Robins Age: 11 Years in MHSRA: 1 year Events I compete in: Barrels, poles, goats, ribbon roping My Favourite Event: Barrels One thing that rodeo has taught me: Favourite part is that everyone cheers for everyone and the new friends I’ve made.

Name: Madi Robins Age: 18 Years in MHSRA: 2 years Events I compete in: Barrels, Poles, Break Away, Cutting, Reined Cow horse Name: Jessica Wright My Favourite Event: Age:13 Cutting Years in MHSRA:2 One thing that rodeo has Events I compete in: barrels, poles, goat tying, break taught me: To be grateful away, ribbon roping for every opportunity to Favourite Event: poles compete in the arena and What is one thing that rodeo has taught you: to have that some of your best friends are made while sitting on good sportsmanship and there is always a “next time” the back of your horse. when things don't go as planned.

Name: Katie Wright Age: 17 Years in MHSRA: 2 Events I compete in: Barrels, poles, breakaway, reined cow Favourite Event: break away What is one thing that rodeo has taught you: don't be afraid to talk to people you don't know, you never know where a conversation may lead

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Rapid City ES memorial tribute

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On June 18, Rapid City Emergency Services held a Memorial Tribute in honour of our Fallen Fire Chief Morley Cornish who passed away in Aug. 2021. The fire department decided that the donations received in memory of Chief Cornish would go towards the purchase of a granite bench to be placed in front of our fire hall, along with a plaque.

The bench was beautifully crafted by Rapid City Memorials and put in place just prior to the Memorial Tribute. Morley was an integral part of our department as he was a member for 44 years. Chief Cornish was instrumental in the building of our new fire hall after our old one burnt down.

We invited Faye (Morley’s wife) and Amanda (Morley’s daughter) Cor-

nish to be a part of our day. At the end of the tribute, Faye and Amanda revealed the memorial bench. At the conclusion of

the tribute, Bernice Finlay recited the Firef ighter’s Prayer and Grace before we had lunch.

simply line a dehydrator tray with parchment paper, pour yogurt or pasta sauce on the sheet, then wait and let the dehydrator work its magic.

After the dehydrated yogurt, participants made an “omelette in a bag”: just add scrambled raw eggs and your choice of fillings into a Ziploc freezer bad, place zip side up in a pot of boiling water, and wait a few minutes until cooked. Michelle works at a butcher shop and brought some bison sausage to add to our bags prior to cooking. This makes for an easy, no cleanup breakfast.

We also percolated some coffee on a small propane camp burner, but personally I was a bit disappointed that

we used a regular coffee filter to line the percolator basket rather than doing it cowboy-style: just boil the grounds directly in the kettle over the fire, then, while holding the handle of the kettle, rotate your arm like a windmill as fast as you can. This will settle the coffee grounds to the bottom of the kettle, then you can pour the coffee into cups. Maybe they didn’t want to try that technique with beginners and boiling hot coffee…

Michelle and Sandra go hunting together regularly, and the meals cooked in the workshop ref lected their enthusiasm for game meat. Sandra marinated some Sandhill crane breast

Outdoor Cooking - a summer treat Sarah Plosker Rivers Banner Michelle Assailly and Sandra Rintoul taught outdoor cooking at the Becoming an Outdoors Woman event near Austin, organized by the Manitoba Wildlife Federation June 10-12. I had the pleasure of attending BOW and in particular Michelle and Sandra’s workshop. Both women have taught at BOW for over a decade, although it was their first time teaching this particular session.

Sandra learned how to dehydrate everything imaginable for her son’s camping trips when he went through Scouts. The session started off with Sandra offering everyone a sheet of dehydrated yogurt. No need for refrigeration, which is perfect for long backwoods camping trips. Dehydrated items are also extremely lightweight, which is important when you’re carrying all your equipment and food on the trail. Her dehydrated pasta sauce was a mere 63 grams; it was just over a kilogram prior to dehydration. To make,

(the “ribeye of the sky”) in sugar, salt, garlic, pepper, and sesame oil before slicing it thin, skewering it, and cooking it over coals. She cooked ground venison to add to our reconstituted pasta sauce, along with gnocchi.

Sandra stressed the importance of doing prep work ahead of time, and making sure to save your bacon grease and meat drippings for later use. She wrapped a venison loin in bacon, put it on top of some carrots and celery in a Dutch oven, and hung it over hot coals to cook. She also cooked up venison pepper steak with the backstrap, using a propane camping stove.

With a lot of hot summer

days ahead of us, no one wants to be cooped up inside a hot kitchen doing the cooking. Cooking outside, whether for a camping trip or just in your backyard, is a nice change of pace,

and challenges you to be creative. If the list of meals cooked in the workshop isn’t enough to get your mouth watering, I don’t know what will!

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Secret recipes from Rivers

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In this week’s “recipes with a story” column, we have a two-for-one special: brother and sister Leo and Jackie Chen share their favourite recipes their mom Karen makes them—how sweet!

I had to promise to print them in the same issue of the Banner so as not to play favour ites. I f you have a recipe (and a story) you would like to be featured, please email me at sarah.plosker@ gmail.com Sushi Mushi Jackie Chen just finished 5th grade at Rivers Elementary. She has the

Instructions: 1. Put 2 cups of sushi rice in rice cooker, add slightly more than two cups of water and cook (around 20 minutes).

2. Scoop rice out into a big bowl and wait for it to cool down to room temperature.

3. Add 2 tsp rice wine v inegar onto the rice and mix.

4. P ut s e awee d on bamboo roller (shiny side down) and spread your rice down on the seaweed and f latten it down.

5. Firmly add your toppings on and spread out (pressing them into the rice).

6. Hold together and roll tightly. Hold for a few seconds.

best sense of humour by far! When her brother Leo said his favourite homemade food was cake rolls, Jackie laughed and declared that sushi was her favourite. Read both recipes, make them both, and find out who’s right!

Ingredients (Most of this stuff can be found in the international aisle of Superstore) -Long seaweed (called nori) -Bamboo roller -Ziplock bag -Bowl of water -Toppings such as f ish roe, avocado, cucumber, salmon, etc.

-Rice wine vinegar

7. Cut into pieces and enjoy!

From Jackie: We first st a r ted ma k i ng sush i because my mom wanted to try something new to eat. I suggested sushi and we gathered all the ingredients to make it.

We d id n’t watch any step-by-step tutor ials; we just kind of tried our best at making it. The first time, we obviously made mistakes, but over time we fixed some things and we make it better every time we make it.

We try adding different toppings every time and it’s always delicious! Like the saying goes, “Practice makes perfect!”

Cake rolls are cool Leo Chen just finished fourth grade at Rivers Elementary. I asked him what his favourite thing to eat is and his face lit up as he said “Cake Rolls!”

Ingredients: • 6 eggs • 100 g. flour • 120 ml milk • 60 g. sugar • 300 ml heavy cream • 1 tbsp sugar (don’t mix with the other 60 g) First separate the egg whites from the egg yolks. Add the egg yolks, milk, and flour into a bowl. Mix all of it until it’s smooth.

Add the 60g of sugar to the egg whites, mix very well, until it won’t fall down when upside down. Scoop 1/3 of the egg white mixture into the

flour mixture, mix well, then add the rest of the egg white mixture. Mix it very well. Put the batter into a 7 x 10-inch pan, or similar size. Cook at 350°F for 15 minutes.

Now to make the cream filling. Add heavy cream and 1 tbsp of sugar into a bowl and mix until pasty. Spoon the cream mixture onto the cake and roll it up like sushi—no bamboo mat required (take that, Jackie!) Cut into slices.

From Leo: I went to my cousin’s house and their mom (my aunt) made these cake rolls.

I liked them so much that my mom made them at home for me and my sister Jackie to eat!

From Sarah: I don’t know why any one needs to choose between the two recipes— have sushi for supper, and cake rolls for dessert; it’s a no-brainer!

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Rivers Kid’s Park gets new sign

Rapid City Ag Fair

Chelsey Horn Rapid City Ag Society

The Rapid City Agricultural Society held is 140th Annual Fair on Sat. June 25. We started out the day with a wonderful pancake breakfast that was held at the Legion Hall and put on by the Rapid City Nursery School. After the breakfast was complete, people stayed around downtown to watch the parade. Back at the Ag grounds, the horse show and Rapid City 4H Beef Club show started at the conclusion of the parade.

The open horse show was well attended. The champions for each division were as follows: Champion Pony donated by The Royal Bank - Taci Gilchrist with her pony Butter Champion Light Horse donated by Bridgeman Land & Livestock - Ken Grainger with Myte Nice Invite Champion Miniature donated by Joe, Susan,

Katie & Jessica Wright - Susan Wright with her horse Bruce.

The open cattle show started after lunch and had a good turnout of cattle. The Best Beef Animal on the Grounds was awarded to More Bros. Simmentals from Virden.

The horticulture and ladies work show was well represented but was down in numbers.

The winners for each division were as follows: Horticulture - Eleanor Schenk-Graham Sewing-Handicraft - Bernice Finlay Myrna Bayes Memorial is presented to the highest points winner in the Senior division Bernice Finlay Best of Show for The Red River Exhibition - Bernice Finlay Bernardin Canning award - Leanne Goetz We had a great day as the rain held out until later in the day. The children had fun on the Bouncy Castle that was provided by Brandon Bouncy Castles.

Under the Dome

PHOTO BY MICAH WADDELL

Rivers and Area Lions Club partnered with Riverdale Municipality to update the Rivers Kid’s Park signage on #25 highway.

Sarah’s Science Corner

How can a person walk through a sheet of paper?

Sarah Plosker Rivers Banner In this hands-on Let’s Talk Science activity, discover how one piece of paper can go a long way. It's time to think outside the box!

This activity is best suited for grades 4-8.

What You Need • 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper • Scissors • Pencil/pen (not absolutely necessary) Safety First! Use care when handling sharp scissors.

What to do Challenge: Using only one piece of paper and a pair of scissors, can you make a hole in the paper that is large enough to walk through?

Try to figure it out before reading the solution.

Solution: There may be other ways to complete this challenge; here is one solution: 1.Fold paper in half (width-wise is easiest).

2. Cut a slit in the paper, starting from the folded edge until you almost reach the other end.

3. Alternate along your paper, cutting from the folded edge and then cutting from the unfolded edge.

4. Make sure the end cut also starts from the folded edge.

5. Cut along the fold, in between where the two arrows in the above image are.

6. Open it up. It should be one big circle!

What’s happening?

By making all of these cuts, essentially you’re making one rectangular piece of paper into a long narrow

strip that is still connected at its two ends. Even though the area of your piece of paper has not changed, you’ve now increased the perimeter of the shape that you’re trying to step through. This gives a person plenty of room to pass through.

Why does it matter?

Understanding the relationship between perimeter and area is important for many tasks. For instance, if you were putting trim in a room, a rectangular room might need a lot less trim than an irregularly shaped room of the same area.

Investigate further •Try to make as large of a perimeter as you can. How many people can you fit?

•Can you find another solution to the problem?

By Greg Nesbitt, MLA – Riding Mountain

Manitoba is poised to become a leader in mineral development, thanks to our government’s investments in our mining industry.

Over the next three years, the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce will assist in distributing the $10 million recently announced for the Manitoba Mineral Development Fund.

This funding – which is a 66 per cent increase - will help the industrycapitalizeonemerging opportunities.

This investment will allow our province to make massive strides in attracting new investments in exploration and development of mining of the abundant mineral deposits we have in Manitoba.

This funding is not the only step our government has taken to strengthen ourminingsector.

At the Prospectors and Developers Association Conference (PDAC) in Toronto, which attracted 17,000 delegates from across the world, Premier Heather Stefanson announced the approval of Manitoba’s first potash development. The Potash and Agri-Development Corporation of Manitoba, or PADCOM for short, is expected to begin production this year near Russell.

PADCOM and Gambler First Nation have also developed a partnership that will see Gambler First Nation participating as a 20 per cent equity owner. PADCOM has also committed to presenting benefit agreements to several Indigenous communities in the area, the Manitoba Metis Federation, and the Municipality of Russell-Binscarth.

The first part of the project

has been completed, which included the drilling of two wells near Harrowby to determine project feasibility. PADCOM is poised to move on to the production of potash later this year.

Over the past year, our PC Government has made historic investments into our healthcare system to address the diagnostic and surgical backlogs.

Just recently, we invested $50 million into the Health Science Centre (HSC) Foundation’s Operation Excellence, which will see a six-year capital plan that will have an immediate impact on the backlogs while enhancing our province’s diagnostic and surgical infrastructure for the long term.

Ultimately, this investment will increase our province’s capacities at HSC by around 25 per cent per year based on pre-pandemic levels.

Our government has also invested $830,000 to add 30 new nurse training seats to help increase the number of nurses working in the province. This will help provide a long-term solution to strengthen our province’s healthcare services.

Thisfundingwilladd30new seats to the nursing program at Red River College Polytechnic and will help renovate the necessary learning spaces by adding laboratory equipment and new staffing, supplies and other operational needs.

This means the program will not just add 30 new nurses to Manitoba but will equip our learning facilities to support more nurses in the future.

Throughout the pandemic, our government understood the need for virtual healthcare support across the province, which is why we used the $7 million federal investment through the Canada-Manitoba Virtual

Care Agreement to develop and improve virtual healthcare initiatives, which will especially benefit rural Manitobans.

Funding covered a variety of areas, particularly technology systems used by healthcare providers across the province, including a new project to measure, prioritize, and schedule surgical procedures to help reduce wait times.

Investments also supported remote home monitoring to allow patients to connect with their healthcare team on a regular basis. This means more communications, shorter wait times and less travel for rural Manitobans.

Our government remains committed to addressing the surgical and diagnostic backlog and will continue to make investments in our healthcare system.

I was honoured to be named the Minister of Natural ResourcesandNorthernDevelopment

by Premier Heather Stefanson, and was sworn into the Executive Council on June 9 by Her Honour, Lieutenant-Governor Janice Filmon.

This is an exciting ruralbased portfolio that is responsible for forestry, mining, oil and gas, as well as fish and wildlife, our conservation officers, and the wildfire suppression service.

I had the pleasure of representing the government at the recent PDAC mining conference in Toronto, and at the federal-provincial Energy and Mines conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Greg Nesbitt is the Member of Legislative Assembly for the Riding Mountain constituency.

He can be reached at 204-759-3313, toll-free 1-844-877-7767, or by email at: gregnesbittmla@mymts.net.