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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.

Pupils co-ordinated the entire month-long promotion, which culminated in a ceremonious 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

The canoe at Rivers Elementary School was adequately filled.

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

and Chimo Beach areas for contributions from the community.

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

“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

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

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.

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Legion Branch 75 in Rivers Manitoba recently had some upgrades done to the Cenotaph grounds. The new and updated walkways are done in grey brick and there are plans to have the Cenotaph itself sandblasted and freshened up.Grant funding was received by the legion for this project. It is wonderful to see the improvement and care for this monument honouring those who served and are currently serving.

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Good, better and best

n the background to the pre-occupation with COVID-19, life is going on.

Crops are being seeded, cattle go to market, packing plants thankfully keep producing meat. The food trucks run and people are busy as beavers building and fixing stuff.

Even further in the background, the wheels of government keep slowly rolling and that is true with changes to the department of education. Our papers have received a lot feedback about the province’s plan to do away with school boards, replace them with parent councils and introduce a host of reforms to the education system.

It’s interesting, as it is with most legislation, that the majority of people directly and indirectly involved with education say that there needs to be change. On that there is agreement. But how the change comes about is not agreed upon. Many believe that educational outcomes need to improve in some areas of learning, with some schools and with some students. That is very true. It’s also true that in some areas of learning, some schools and some are students doing very well. It would appear that change isn’t needed in every case, but rather best practises be adopted.

There is a general agreement that property taxes aren’t the best way to fund education, either. The system is unfair, out-dated and has always been a matter of contention. The fact that a people-based

service is based on land taxes seems silly.

Land based services, such as sewer, water, roads, etc. seem better based on land taxes, but education and health care, it would seem, might be better funded out of general revenue. It would seem that sales taxes or income taxes should fund people oriented services, such as health and education.

The biggest point of contention is the elimination of school boards and the creation of a province-wide authority to fund schools. It’s true that a small percentage of education funding is generated locally and so the actual clout of local school boards doesn’t seem to be as significant as it once was decades ago. It’s also true that some school divisions have trouble filling school board positions come election time.

However, the local input, local control and local caring could easily become lost if school boards are gone. We all know how badly regional control of health care went. After a number of boundary and name changes over 20 plus years, health care is now basically run by a central bureaucracy. Forced consolidation of municipalities is still being fought over and it has had mixed reviews.

To think that one large central authority can run all our schools across a wide range of geography, amongst huge differences in culture and economic well-being is a bit of pipe dream. The government says parent councils will save the day and they

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Ken Waddell might. I am skeptical. If school boards have trouble getting people to run for paid office, how much more trouble will it be to get parents to sit on a council for little or no compensation?

Hopefully, the government will look to the better run local school divisions for how to be efficient and effective. There are the statistics out there for all to see.

It’s called the FRAME Report and can be found online here: edu.gov.mb.ca/ k12/finance/frame_report/.

It explains how much divisions spend and where. The contents are pretty stark when you look at cost per student and admin costs from one division to another.

Hopefully, the government will interview lots of people and find out how and why some students, some divisions and some administrators do so much better than others. There are lessons to be learned, so hopefully, it will all work out well.

And, similar to RHAs and municipalities, some communities could lose

some services. To use a time-worn example, when the local curling rink can’t get enough teams to pay the operating costs, the curling rink closes down. Some communities simply don’t have enough students to sustain a school and that is a sad and tough problem to be faced. In an argument against school closures, some small schools get the best efficiency and education results, so it will all take a close examination to find the best path forward.

I know we won’t be going back to the one-room school house, but let’s not forget how good an education some people got in the one-room schools. Just ask my wife, who speaks proudly of her first eight years at a little school named Scarth. She received a great education there and it has stood her in a good position.

Bigger isn’t always better, smaller isn’t always better. Better is better and we need to be flexible enough to enable better to happen.

What is the church part four

Last week we looked at similarities between the New Testament Church and the nation of Israel in the OId Testament.

The church is now to glorify God through His Son Jesus Christ ( John 13:31,32; 14:13); to be Christ’s ambassadors, witnesses, and to proclaim His name throughout the world.

These are important functions of the church, but this week we need to learn the identity of the church which many are not familiar with. I’ve shown that Christ is the head of the church (Ephesians 5:23), but the most important aspect is that the church is His bride. There was even a similar relation between God and Israel in the Old Testament. ¨•Isaiah 62:5 - “As a young man marries a young woman, so will your builder marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

•Jeremiah 2:2 - “This is what the Lord says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me…’”

The relationship between God and Israel was to be intimate, one of love, loyalty, and devotion, the same as husband and wife, and last week we learned that Israel was unfaithful to God by worshiping false gods.

•Jeremiah 3:2 - “Look at the shrines on every hilltop. Is there any place you have not been defiled by your adultery with other gods?”

The metaphorical statements of bride and bridegroom in the Old Testament prepared the way for the allusion to the church as the bride of Christ in the New. The Apostle Paul confirmed this in his letter to the churches in Corinth and Ephesus.

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•2 Corinthians 11:2 - “...I promised you to one husband, to Christ…”

•Ephesians 5:25 - “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her.”

To say that the church is to know about Christ is superficial; as members of the church we are called to know Him intimately, for just as a husband and wife grow in love with each other, we are to grow in love towards Christ. The only way to nurture a relationship is by time spent together, and we spend time with Jesus through prayer, devotion, worship and reading Scripture. Any couple knows it takes effort and sacrifice to make a relationship work, and wanting to know Christ is no different. In this case, Jesus has already made the effort and the supreme sacrifice by offering His life as an atonement for the church as we read in Ephesians.

In my series of Christmas letters, we learned how marriages were arranged in ancient and present day cultures.

A father would seek a bride for his son and scripture tells us this is what the God the Father did for His Son, Jesus Christ, who said the following: •John 6:39 - “And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those He has given me…”

•John 10:28,29 - “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. For my Father has given them to me…”

•John 17:2 - “For you (the Father) has granted me authority over all people that He might give eternal life to all those you have given me.”

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•John 17:6 - “I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world…”

•John 17:24 - “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am…”

Revelation, the final book of the Bible, reveals the creation of a new heaven and earth along with the judgement of those who did not know Christ and an eternal reward for those who did. It also tells us of the wedding of Christ and His bride, the church.

•Revelation 19:6,7 - “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.”

Eternal life is available to those who desire to know Jesus Christ. I’d like to finish this series with the first stanza of the hymn, The Church’s One Foundation, written by Samuel John Stone in the 19th century.

•“The Church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord She is His new creation by water and the Word From heav’n He came and sought her to be His holy bride With His own blood He bought her, and for her life He died.”

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Home Bodies

By Rita Friesen The cemetery

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t is difficult to say the last time I so struggled to formulate my thoughts and emotions. I am surprised that one of Ken’s staff has not contacted me, reminding me of a deadline…

Those of you who know me know that I do not gladly embrace change, I am a planter of trees and a tree hugger.

When I walk through what was my familiar cemetery, just up the road from my home, my heart aches. I miss the majestic old evergreens, twisted and bent as they were. I miss the carefully sculpted trees that lined the roadways.

Saying that, I want to also make it clear that I appreciate the notices that changes were/are coming. I appreciate that none of the work was ever done under the cover of darkness!

I appreciate the history of our community, the foresight of the founders to trek to the mountains and bring back trees to be planted as decoration, as delineation and protection for generations yet unborn. They planned and executed their work well.

Times change. Yes, they do. I am trying to believe that the new format of the cemetery will be aesthetically pleasing, comforting and peace-filled for all who come with a purpose, or to simply wander. Truthfully, I think of the ancient cemeteries I have been privileged to explore. The lines were not straight, in some areas the grass was not

mowed, the headstones tilting and crypts in ruins. The atmosphere was still and awesome, the intent of the final resting place of those long forgotten still intact. I know we, as a country, are not old, barely more than 150 years old; in comparison to European and Asian countries, mere children. Also saying that, I don’t believe that we wish to see our cemetery neglected and decrepit.

Part of my high school responsibilities was to memorize poetry, a task I embraced, and has for decades, enriched my life. The lines of “Erosion” by E.J Pratt echo as I linger in the cemetery.

“It took the sea a thousand years, A thousand years to trace The granite features of this cliff, In crag and scarp and base.

It took the sea an hour one night, An hour of storm to place The sculpture of these granite seams Upon a woman’s face.”

It took the tree a hundred years, A hundred years to grow… It took the powers a single week, A single week to destroy…

My heart is heavy. The hurt goes deeper than the loss of these trees; it is for the miles of shelterbelts that have been removed to allow for larger farming equipment– we are three generations from the drought of the ‘30s, the reason many of the trees were planted– it is for the old growth forest being harvested on the West Coast, it is for the ravaging of our earth.

I shall wait, and watch, and trust. The trusting comes hard. I admit. And I shall go to the ditches and dig an evergreen and plant it– a single act, not a rebellious act, but an act filled with hope.

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ould you believe it that I missed to write anything about Victoria weekend? The month of May just seems to be f lying by and in another week, it is June. I look at some of my bills and the due date is June. The weather has been very unpredictable. I even read that it was 28° C. in Winnipeg, while Churchill got a pile of snow. We got here where I live two days of rain and the farmers are very thankful. Nature seems to come to spring fullness.

The grass is lush and green and the trees are filled with leaves. My girls put my little piece of garden in, but last night I had to take all the pots off the deck because of the threat of frost.

God is good. He has it all lined up for us so that our needs will be met. Sunshine in time, rain in time.

We just have to humble ourselves and give Him the glory because God is in control and we have nothing to worry about. Yes, “His grace is sufficient for you” 2 Corinthians 12:9.

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Name: Makayla Jennifer Bartlett Pa rent s n a me(s): Trevor and Angela Bartlett Birt hday: Apr il 12,2003 Plans for the future: Attend ACC and take graphic design First Job: Livingstone Landscaping Hobbies: Cruising around, Beer Darts and Hanging out with friends Where do you live?

South of Rivers on a small acreage In Rivers/Oak River since: my whole life Person(s) who you most look up to? My Parents Fa v o u r i t e t h i n g about attending RCI? My friends and all the special friendships I have made Drea m vacat ion spot: Bali, Indonesia

Name: Briley Wood Pa rent s n a me(s): Ted and Jodi Wood Bi r t hday: Januar y 15, 2003 Plans fort the future: Play hockey and farm First job: Raking hay Hobbies: Golfing and boating Where do you live: Bradwardine In Rivers/Oak River/Rapid City since: 2003 Person(s) who you most look up to? Father Fa v o u r i t e t h i n g about attending RCI? The sports Drea m vacat ion spot: Montana Fav ou r it e fo o d : Honey garl ic ch icken wings Favourite holiday: Easter Favourite song or artist: Eric Church When you were 12, what did you want to be when you grew up: Hockey player and farmer.

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Rivers In Rivers/Oak River since: 2012 Person who you most look up to? my friends Favourite thing about attending RCI? Learning in an environment where students are supported Dream vacation spot: Somewhere in Europe Favourite food: strawberries Favourite holiday: Christmas

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L a st wee k 's a r t ic le about CO2 just touched the surface of this marvelous greenhouse gas.

After looking through my books and articles again I realized there was a big gaping hole still to be filled – all the ways that CO2 is benef icial to man and the planet.

So here are a few of the advantages to be appreciated about CO2 plus a few links to different scient if ic associat ions list ing and discussing about 50 benefits you may not know about carbondioxide.

I. Extra atmospheric CO2 has increased Red Spruce Forest Growth 106% since 1989. ** I I . L e s s L i g ht n i n g storms on a warming

planet according to a study done at the university of Edinburgh.** (Therefore less lightingcaused forest fires) III. Increased carbon dioxide is greening deserts globally according to t he “ I nconven ient Truth” department of Indiana University. ** IV. Less starvation unless the air's CO2 content continues its upward trajectory, humans will experience mass starvation, and untold numbers of plants and animals will face extinction over the last half of the current century.* V. Health Promoting Substances – not only does atmospheric CO2 enrichment enhance the productivity of the crops

grown by farmers, it significantly increases the quant it y and potency of the many benef icial substances found in their tissues (such as vitamin C and other antioxidants), which ultimately make their way onto our dinner tables and help us better contend with the multitude of maladies that regularly aff lict us. * VI. Nectar – greater concentrations of atmospheric CO2 tend to boost nect a r product ion by f lowers, which improvement can increase the attractiveness of the f lowers to bees and other pollinators, thereby increasing pollination activity and fruit set and yield. * • * CO2 science.org/ education/book/2011/

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the Big City: Brandon, Manitoba only a month into grade one. Whew! I often the communities of Basswood, ities in the constituency with think of the rest of the children whom I left behind. But these days, more often, Greg Nesbitt, the MLA for Bethany, Beulah, Birtle, Car- greater access to timely informaI think of children in war zones or in poverty who do not have the opportunity Riding Mountain, is proud to dale, Clanwilliam, Clear Lake, tion and services at their homes to enjoy any kind of education at all. Even before COVID, 9 out of 10 10-yr. highlight the province’s recent Ditch Lake, Ebor, Erickson, and businesses.” olds attending school in low-income countries were unable to read a simple announcement to connect over Foxwarren, Harding, Hargrave, The province led a multitext, and a staggering 258 million children and youth were not in school at 125,000 Manitobans to reliable, Kenton, Manson, McAuley, stage, open competitive process all. It bears repeating: there were already a quarter of a billion children not high-speed broadband and celMinnedosa, Moore Park, New- which led to the selecting of receiving an education before COVID-19 struck. As Julia Gillard, former lular services through a memodale, Onanole, Otter Lake, the service provider - Xplornet Prime Minister of Australia, and current Chair of the board of directors of randum of understanding with Pipestone, Rackham, Sandy Communications Inc. Through the Global Partnership for Education has said, "Nothing has greater power Xplornet Communications Inc. Lake, Scarth, Solsgirth, Strath- Manitoba Hydro, the province to transform the lives and opportunities of entire generations than a quality In the Riding Mountain clair and Virden, as well as the owns thousands of kilometres of education." It isHamiota’s easy for us all to be self-absorbed in the current COVID constituency, high speed broadBirdtail Sioux, Canupawakpa fibre-optic cable across ManiNDREA environment, worrying that other countries are ahead of us with their vac- band services will be extended and Rolling River First Nations. toba, however much of the netStylist Heather Fast cinations, but let's not forget the rest of the world. Canada must invest in the to Beulah, DAMSON Decker Colony, “Our PC government recog- work is surplus, unused capacity.

Stylist Wendy Harder Actively Global Partnership for Education to the tune of $500serving million Rivers over the next Miniota, Minnedosa-based mobile dental hygienist Monarch Colony, Oak nizes the importance of expand-• Residential Through the&agreement, the govStylist/nail tech Melissa Roberds andback areainon Wednesdays Commercial five years to sustain learning and get children school!

River, Onanole, St. Lazare and ing access to high-speed ernment will&make this surplus with competitive rates.

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Home careand cellular capacity available to Xplornet 204-764-2744 Connie Lebeau as the Thursday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Canupa- services for Manitobans,” said Brandon call Bryan at - Rivers Birdtail Sioux, to expand its broadband and 204-807-9496 Saturday, 9 a.m.-noon Victoria, Canada wakpa, FUNERAL DIRECTOR Keeseekoowenin, RollMLA Nesbitt.

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