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Back row L/R: Meghan Knelsen, Erich Schmidt, Thom Heijmans, Heather Gray, Liliane Dupuis. Front row L/R: Minami Kijima, Haile Hubbard, Chassidy Payette, Morgan Ramsay, Bryce Summers, Quinn Hrabok.

Several views of the RAGF’s long awaited gun range that just opened up on Saturday the 17th located south of the tracks on the east side of the the lagoons.

Can collections for canoes

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Sarah Plosker Rivers Banner The long-awaited Rivers and Area Game and Fish gun range is now fully licensed and open for business. RAGF held a low-key new member sign-up, gun range registration and orientation Saturday Sept. 17.

Before getting a key, registrants had to sign a three page form going over rules and regulations. Mostly common-sense things like no alcohol permitted, no shooting glass bottles, and picking up after oneself.

Residents may recall that there was an unlicensed gun range operating for many years north of the train tracks, with the only shooting lane facing the tracks. The range was closed in 2019, and the gun range project began in late 2019. The process included applying for grants, changing the direction of fire, expanding to multiple lanes, and making

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Pupils co-ordinated the entire the church basement the after- tributions from the community. the shelving units. They were March 9 edition, the and gaining confidence proper open house thevery, spring in which early 2021, Buckskin volunteers for all donating many the range safe and fully licensed noonwith of March 21, where the When was said and done, fantastic!

Wein are very month-long promotion, Grade 12curacy Interdisciwas weighed and sorted. scales at Riverdale Harvest pleased.”of 2023. It should a ceremonious plinary Studies in Science class culminated before moving to the rifleinlane or summer beige andfood Melcher’s green hours ofthe their time, as well as for archery, rifles, shotguns, a total of 434skills, pounds, be “a noted Elementary on March 20 chosen to Although projectofwas equipment, a sen- noted materials, Rivers Collegiate a presentation forplanned long-range shots; it’s also that it’sschool not staff justmema being as thethe colours and handguns at and a newly project for Riverdale Harvest. Riverdale Harvest president ior students brainstorm, the en- fabulous amount,” says Heather. ber/Harvest volunteer Yvonne used for shooting small calibre gun range—it’s also an area the building.

What a fitting and knowledge. built Education Dubbed Center.the This tire high school was encouraged “We are so pleased they decided Crouch initiated a similar camBoat Load of Food, Heather Gray and Liliane.

22. There are had for archery, targetThat shootcolour The interior Anyone interested get- A lot has been a majorstudents undertaking to help those weinserve. paign in clay her school. threethe snow meltedscheme! to participate.

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Although the whelming amount of interest in tion center with 12 ft awning. complete. The range was open memberships, at 204-761-8276 and fishing conservation, and campaign was fully organized dale Harvest). Rather, the teens the canoe. Some students also All students stayed behind to was collected from the younger the range in the last fewclass, years,the original idea carried bags, boxes andfor (I’m surehelp hischeck phone is ringing more!group There other projects archerycanvassed only starting onare Thursday, March 22. garbage Rivers, in Oak River expiry dates, sort and by that with new and long-time hunttirelessly summer 2021, with a fun 3-D off the hook these days!) This in the works to enhance the came from a suggestionWorked made ers and shooters not to Volunteer members of shoot in Aug. 2021 organized project would never have come range and education center by wanting harvest volunteer Liliane Dupuis.

Brandon to RAGF worked tirelessly in in conjunction with Jo-Brook to the finish line if it wasn’t long-term. drive all the way to “I heardtheir the ideacoordination at a meet- with provincial Outdoors. The electrical in for the following grants and sight their rifle or practice RAGF would like to proing in Brandon. St. Augustine mote an upcoming rainbow aim, and the Riverdale Police and federal government to get community programs: Fish & the Education Center was School had tried Fill a Canoe officers needing to a certainwiththe inlog conjunction therange 10-daylicensed in time for completed in August 2022. Wildlife Enhancement Fund, trout harvest on Sept. 24, 9 du Voyaguer Win- With new hand- Hydro should be in by mid- Building Sustainable Com- a.m. to 12 p.m., grown in the amount of hoursFestival for handgun rifleinseason. nipeg inrange.

February.gun It was verythat have come out October 2022. laws munities Program, Manitoba dugout on RAGF member practice at a registered successful and whenever I hear The new range is in the same recently, the range is ahead of A huge thank-you to for- Habitat Heritage Grant, CN Andries Potgieter’s property, food bank, my ears always perk location as the oldup!” range (south the game in that all signage mer Rivers Police Chief Bob Railroaders in the Com- which they hope will become hasthebeen on Taylor Road, over train Shethe then brought sug- provincially and Futrell and Craige Madden munity Grant, Rivers & Area an annual youth fishing event The canoe at Riversfor getting the initiative started, gestionbut to Riverdale Harvest, approved, adhering Community Fund, Brandon & open to all interested anglers. tracks; follow signage), has federally Elementary School was which supported the idea and Area Community Fund, and First fish caught by each youth been totally revamped. There to the new laws. adequately filled. Kelvin and Heather Lamb and Photo by Heather Gray asked her to present the promo-

are three shooting lanes: one 200 yard rifle lane, a 30 yard sighting-in range, and a 50 yard pistol lane. A sighting-in range is for sighting your rifle at close range to put your shots onto paper, perfecting your ac-

Although the idea was to have the range fully operational in summer 2021, Covid-19 lockdowns certainly slowed things down in 2020 and 2021.

The Education Center was built by Johan’s Construction

Donna Morken for finding and applying for grants (a project of this size takes some serious funding!), and Roger Beaudin for his untold hours of fencing, rock picking, and other work on-site, as well as many other

Westman Communications Group. RAGF is very thankful and appreciative for these community programs and grants!

Open house RAGF plans to hold a

(under 18 years old) is free; free drinks and bait as well as a prize for biggest fish. Contact Andries for more information at 431-270-0120.

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God save the King!

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rince Charles is only one year younger than me. In our family, Queen Elizabeth and her eldest son Charles have always been somewhat of a presence. I can’t remember ever singing God save the King, even though Elizabeth’s father was still the King when I was very little. Elizabeth is the only monarch I have really known. I have great respect for her. Most years, we would listen to the Queen’s message and for the past several years I have thought inwardly, or voiced the thought to my wife Christine that this might be her last message. Turns out, Christmas 2022 was her last and I am saddened by that.

We all knew that the Queen wouldn’t live forever but her passing was still very sad and somewhat surprising. That she was still performing royal duties two days before she died was an amazing tribute to her pledge 70 years ago to serve until the very end of her life.

My first real memory of Prince Charles, now King Charles III, was an admonishment from my father when I was refusing to finish eating my oat meal porridge.

Dad said, “You eat your porridge, Prince Charles eats his.” I would love to share that little joke with the King some day, he might get a chuckle out of that.

As I watched the many hours of the Queen’s funeral I was transfixed by all the ceremony but was overcome with emotion and shed some tears near the end. The priest acknowledged the Queen’s

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passing and then pronounced, “God save the King.” The TV camera focused on Charles as the mourners sang and he never flinched. The pressure on Charles is unbelievable and while I don’t agree with all his views, he has my support.

Charles has been waiting to be king for decades but as he so aptly said, he has been dreading the day because it would mean his mother had died.

Charles has had his ups and downs for sure and some of his own making. His marriage to Diana was and always will be surrounded by controversy. He loved Camila but he married Diana. Let it be

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There is another aspect too and that is the British monarchy has been going for 1,000 years. Thank God, we have

The pressure on Charles is unbelievable and while I don’t agree with all his views, he has my support.

said, without judgment or malice, that neither Charles nor Diane are angels. As the liturgy of the Queen’s funeral stated, we are all sinners, saved by grace. Saved that is if we accept the undeserved grace offered by God through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Charles has big task ahead of him and yes, I know, he’s rich, well paid and catered to at every turn. He, and the Royal family, are very wealthy but they also employ a ton of people, buy millions of dollars of

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the monarchy, in spite of all it’s past and present flaws.

The Queen’s father helped win WWII, the Queen helped bring about great and good changes in her 70 year reign. Charles will hopefully be able to continue.

So why do I encourage the monarchy.

It’s simple and again thank God, we aren’t the United States. The US kicked out the monarchy in the 1700s. They have been successful but their political system has become disastrous. They didn’t want royalty but they have created their own

by idolizing presidents. The US made the Kennedys, the Bushes and now the Biden family into crazy entitled and unjustified royalty. The US political system is entirely based on money and influence where even a race for a state governor can cost millions of dollars.

As I said in earlier column, on a recent trip to the US, I couldn’t find aTrump supporter or a Biden supporter. There is perhaps a good reason, neither man deserves support. They are propped up old men and if the that is the best the US can do for heads of state, I grieve for their future.

Contrasting the experience of the two countries, and the state of affairs today, I can easily say our Constitutional Monarchy is a far superior system. Indeed,”May God save the King, Long live the King.”

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 staff.

Twelve MVLs, part four

t was the last week of June, 1969. My Grade 12 classmates and I were standing in the hall outside the gym at Trochu Valley School, Trochu, AB. We were about to write the last of our final exams, after which we would walk out of the school for the last time.

The ritual was the same as always. The gym door was unlocked, we went to our assigned seats and were each handed an envelope containing an exam booklet. We had two hours to complete the exam; after which the completed exams were put back into their respective envelopes and sent to a location in Edmonton for grading. Six weeks later, we each received a letter from the Government of Alberta containing a report card and, if we had passed the required courses, a High School Diploma.

Of all the experiences we shared in our final school year, writing these “departmentals” (as we called them) produced the most stress. If we passed them, we qualified for entrance into college or university.

If we failed, we might still be able to get into a trade school or apprenticeship program, but that wasn’t guaranteed. So, we had two options-rewrite the exam or repeat the course; neither of which we were all that eager to do.

In my Grade 12 year, we were fortunate to have

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teachers who, from our first day of classes, taught us the fourth Most Valuable Lesson I learned in public school: “If you work diligently during the year, you will be delighted with your final grade.”

They warned us; and then they made us work harder than we had ever worked before. Using inclass instruction, homework assignments and tests, they did their best to help us master every topic in the provincial course syllabus. We knew the final exam would cover the entire course. So we had to be ready to answer any question from any part of the course at any point in the exam. But our teachers assured us that if we worked hard during the year, we’d have nothing to worry about; and they were right.

I have applied that lesson to everything I’ve done since leaving public school. When writing these columns, for example, I take the time to state my ideas clearly and choose my words carefully. If I must be critical of people, I will identify and criticize actions with which I do not agree or attitudes with which I am not comfortable. But I will, as much as possible, always try to show the highest respect for the people whose attitudes and acts I criticize. And I hope they would show me the same courtesy.

I use the same diligence whether I am sharpening the blade on my lawn mower, loading dishes in the

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dishwasher, making a home repair or preparing a Sunday sermon. If I use due diligence in planning, preparing for and working on a project, I know I will be happy with the result. And so will those who see the finished product I produce.

Applying this fourth lesson wasn’t easy. Our class had to endure several rants from teachers who accused us of being lazy, not applying ourselves as we should have been and not taking their warnings seriously enough. Sadly, most of the time and for most of us, they were right. Fortunately, we listened.

We worked, we prepared, we were prepared, and we passed our exams. Our teachers did their jobs well-and so did we.

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Home Bodies

By Rita Friesen Something to think about…

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t is a rare morning that does not include a phone call with a grandson. Some calls are five minute check- ins, others are lengthy, philosophical ramblings- world events, faith creeds, family history or life lessons. I come away from these discussions with a deep appreciation for the younger generations thinking ability and take on todays world.

The one morning we pursued the connection between the prayer we term ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ and the content of the Ten Commandments. We start our prayer with ‘Our Father who are in heaven’ and saw a parallel to ‘you shall have no other gods before me’.

Continuing with this reasoning- ‘ lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil’ is the covering the thou shall nots, the coveting, the murdering and the disrespect of parents. The conversation included the impact of repeating by rote, and do we think about what we are saying. Then on to what would happen if we only offered the words we truly meant? I admitted that sometimes I would be tempted to leave out a line or a phrase and probably wouldn’t be alone!

The text message I received Sunday morning in lieu of the call: “ Is there a reason why church doors

are closed during service? It seems to me the best time for an open door. Had me thinking while out for a walk this morning. Heard an early morning service in progress but couldn’t hear what was spoken/sung.

I was still able to enjoy some familiar music while I sat on the bench for a bit. As I left I wondered though, how many people might be curious, lonely, you name it, and be turned away by that closed door. I got what I wanted/needed from the bench outside. I have memories and teachings to fall back on though. Had the door been open I might have poked my head in. Just a random thought is all. Me being me I have to point out there are practical reasons I’m sure like noise from outside(especially in the city) or weather/comfort.”

Now isn’t that thought provoking? The conversation following that ref lected on his grandfather singing ‘Sunday Morning Sidewalk’ and the wisdom in the words of that song. ‘There’s something about a Sunday that makes a body feel alone.’ ‘ I stopped outside a Sunday school and listened to the songs that they were singing.’ It got us wondering if he, a very slender tall young man, who has avoided hair and facial hair care since the pandemic, for mental health reasons, would have been welcomed inside? Where do we as people of professing faith put our faith into action with acceptance and inclusion?

I grow from these conversations. I am thankful for my ideology to be challenged. These check-ins are so much more than simple checking in, (though if I have not heard from him and day or two, I call - a grandma’s rights!) , they are moments of connecting, moments of affirmation and reassurance for both of us. Wait till I tell you all about today’s conversation!

Rosehip picking Sarah Plosker Rivers Banner If you’re looking for something to do, now is the perfect time of the year to go rosehip picking. What are rosehips, you ask? Rosehips are a fruit that grow on rose plants in the fall; they are red, sometimes with a tinge or orange, and darken as they become ripe. The fruit is very distinctive compared to your average perfectly spherical berry, so it’s easily identifiable and cannot be confused with any poisonous berries (unlike some of the red or black berries that grow wild in the region).

Rosehips have many health benefits. It is said that they reduce pain and stiffness, and they are therefore used as a natural pain relief and to improve mobility in those suffering from osteoarthritis. Rosehips high in antioxidants, which lower your cholesterol. They’re high in vitamin C, which boosts your immune system and is particularly important during the winter months. They’ve been shown to lower blood sugar, helping to control diabetes. Their pectin content helps aid in digestion, while their iron content helps improve circulation, and their astringent quality helps skin look more youthful.

Rosehips are often made into jam or jelly, or used in tea. If you’re interested in making rosehip jam, make sure you have a food mill; rosehips are filled with hard seeds. It is said that if they’re dried then they lose their nutrient content (like all food after some sort of processing), so it’s recommended that you freeze them for use in the winter months as a Vitamin C boost. their distinct f lavour makes a wonderful fruity tea.

Wild rose bushes grow all over Westman, so you’re sure to find rosehips most anywhere if you’re looking for them. So, get pickin’!

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Rivers United Church Fall Thrift Sale 2022

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Thursday September 28th 1 - 8 p.m.

Friday September 29th 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Saturday October 21st 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Please join us for our annual fall thrift sale.

Lots of bargains to be had.

Hand sanitizer available. All are welcome.

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Local wins Provincial trapshooting award

Sarah Plosker Rivers Banner The Manitoba Traps ho ot i n g A s s o c i at ion hosts a provincial championship weekend each season in August. This year it was held Aug. 2628 at the Winnipeg Trap and Skeet Club, with 40 some shooters participating. Richie Joynt won the Manitoba doubles championship with a score of 96/100. Congratulations Richie!

Richie’s family has a cattle farm in the Assiniboine valley. There’s him, his wife Teri, and their two children Macy and Lane. Richie started trap shooting around 2010 at the club in Virden, but didn’t start competing until 2013. Besides provincials, there are several smaller shoots hosted by various clubs in Manitoba, including Virden, Brandon, Carmen, Lun-

dar and Winnipeg’s trap clubs.

The three main events at each club are singles, doubles, and handicap (yardage event). The vast majority of people shoot single, which is shot from 16 yards. As you get better you earn yardage, which means you move back as far as 27 yards to level the playing field between shooters. Doubles is shot from the 16 yard line.

Two birds are thrown at once which adds a great deal of dif f iculty and concentration being able to shoot the first bird as quickly as possible, and be able to swing your gun and get the second bird before it gets out of range.

Just like anything in life, there is a learning curve, but it’s def initely a lot of fun.

Richie won the singles championship (199/200) in 2019. In 2018 he was the Canadian Trap Shooting

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A ssociat ion ha nd icap c h a m pion r u n ner - u p with a 96/100. Throughout the years he’s won several other shoots in Manitoba. “There are several of Canada’s top shooters right here locally in Manitoba,” R ichie points out, including Pat Lamont who is a world champion several times.

“The great thing about trap shooting is that it’s for every age,” Richie explains that we have a great youth program here in Manitoba. A lot of folks living in Manitoba who are serious about trap shooting will shoot in Canada in the summer, then go south and shoot in the USA during the winter.

Richie is a member of Rivers and Area Game and Fish. RAGF would like to congratulate him on his achievement!

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Richie Joynt won the Manitoba doubles championship with a score of 96/100.

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Canning 101

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Many people shy away from home canning as a means of preserving food.

Reasons may include the abundance of canned goods at the grocery store, the ability to freeze foods instead of canning them, the learning curve to canning (especially if they don’t have a granny to teach them!), or fear of botulism.

On the other hand, many people new to canning are wanting to try it out, for much the same reasons as above. As we’ve seen these past few years, not having a well-stocked pantry means we are at the mercy of worldwide supply chain issues. Many have concerns about food security/food shortages and skyrocketing food prices. Lack of freezer space, freezer burn issues, or forgetting to thaw things out in the refrigerator overnight lead many to see the convenience of shelf-stable food. And with so much information at your fingertips these days, it’s easier now more than ever to get access to canning guides, video tutorials, and recipes.

Let’s talk botulism. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture has a useful reference entitled “Complete Guide to Home Canning” available online.

It states “If Clostridium botulinum bacteria survive and grow inside a sealed jar of food, they can produce a poisonous toxin. Even a taste of food containing this toxin can be fatal.”

The guide states that boiling the food for 10 minutes at altitudes below 1,000 ft should destroy the poison if it is present; for altitudes at or above 1,000 ft, and 1 additional minute per 1,000 ft of additional elevation. The World Health Organization’s website has this to say: “Symptoms usually appear within 12 to 36 hours…Incidence of botulism is low, but the mortality rate is high if prompt diagnosis and appropriate, immediate treatment (early administration of antitoxin and intensive respiratory care) are not given. The disease can be fatal in 5 to 10% of cases.” So, botulism is serious, but rare, and

has a low mortality rate if proper treatment is given promptly. Don’t let the fear of botulism stop you from canning; you can minimize the risk of botulism by canning according to the USDA’s guidelines.

There are two types of canning methods: water bath canning, where jars are completely submerged and boiled in water in a large pot, and pressure canning, where jars are placed in a few inches of water in a special pot with a locking lid; the steam pressure that builds up inside the pot is much hotter than boiling water. Which method you use for canning depends on the acidity level of the food. Low acid foods (foods having a pH value higher than 4.6) are not acidic enough to prevent the grown of botulinum bacteria with straight water bath canning, so should be pressure canned or pickled.

Meat and seafood should be pressure canned; pretty much all vegetables except tomatoes should be pressure canned or pickled.

Acid foods have a pH of 4.6 or lower and can be water-bath canned without pickling. This includes most tomatoes and fruits.

The processing time is the time the jars of food boil in the water bath or remain at the desired pressure in the pressure canner. The processing time needs to be adjusted depending on your location’s elevation above sea level. If you don’t know it, look it up online.

You may have an old canning recipe passed down to you from when your family lived somewhere else that had lower elevation, and you will need to add extra time (if water bath canning) or can at a higher pressure (if pressure canning).

Three are two ways to fill your jars with food.

The raw-packing method of canning is when you fill jars with raw/fresh food whereas the hot-packing method is when you fill the jars with hot food, often food that has boiled for up to five minutes. Raw-pack is convenient but there will typically be (harmless) discolouration of food within 2-3 months of storage; it’s more suitable for pressure canning. Hot-packing helps remove air from the food

(fresh food often contains 10-30 per cent air), shrinks the food (which means you can get more into the jars), and improves shelf life. It’s the preferred method for water bath canning.

You can water bath can in any pot large enough to accommodate your jars, and tall enough so that jars can be completely submerged with enough space to allow for boiling water (without the water boiling over and making a big puddle on your stovetop).

You can usually find water bath canners at thrift shops, which are designed to be exactly the right height, and typically come with a rack insert with handles to make things easier when lifting and lowering the jars. Jars should be placed on a rack insert, if you have one, or a folded up tea towel inside the pot, so that they’re not sitting directly on the bottom of the pot. Canning jars and the metal rings/bands can be used indefinitely, until you notice knicks in the glass or dents in the bands, but new flat metal tops need to be used each time, as they contain a ring of sealing compound that help them adhere to the rim of the glass jar.

Jars should be sterilized if water bath canning with a processing time under 10 minutes. This may include some jams and jellies. Jars can be sterilized by running them through the dishwasher or boiling them for 10 minutes, with the same “1 additional minute” clause as for the botulism instructions. For water bath canning of 10 minutes or longer, or pressure canning, clean (not necessarily sterile) jars are enough.

Invest in a funnel as it will make life easier when it comes to putting the food into the jars. Many canning funnels conveniently have measurement marks to indicate headspace. Headspace is the space above the food and below the top of the jar. Different recipes call for different amounts of headspace; typically between ½-1”. Fill jars with food, remove the funnel, and wipe the top of the jar with a damp towel to wipe off any spilled food and to check for knicks in the glass.

Screw on the lid “fingertip tight”—don’t wrestle with

September 23, 2022 Rivers Banner 5 the jar to get the lid on as tight as possible. The screw bands are not actually needed on stored jars, so once the canning process is complete, and the canned goods have cooled, you can remove the screw bands for later use. Be sure to label and date your jars. You can write with a permanent marker on the lid.

Sometimes, even if you follow the recipe exactly, a jar or two may not seal. You ‘ll notice the center of the

flat lid sticking a bit outward (convex) rather than f lat or indented (concave). You can put these in the fridge for immediate use or the freezer, or swap the lid and reprocess.

You may have gotten the itch to do some canning and now want to can everything.

That’s great! But, make a plan. If you don’t typically eat jam or jelly, then don’t make it! Take stock of what you and your family eat on a regular basis, and see

if you can preserve those items. It will be much more satisfying eating your own relish on a hot dog in the summer than buying it from the store, and ultraconvenient to whip together a chili in next-to-no time after a hockey game in the winter with canned ground beef, canned tomato puree, canned beans, and some canned pickled diced jalapenos for good measure.

Pressure Canner (left) and the blue Water Bath Canner (right) are the tools of the home canning tradition.

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Rivers Terry Fox Run

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Recreation did all the leg work in marking out the trail, starting at the Riverdale Community Center, with options for 2.5km, 5km, and 10km. The route was bike, wheelchair, and rollerblade accessible.

Ashley’s son Liam and daughter Anna did the 5 km on their bikes.

Bill’s other daughter Kelsey and her husband Kyle pushed their 1-month old baby daughter Kendall in her stroller. “The little baby might be one of the youngest participants ever” Bill said, adding that she really enjoyed the movement of the ride. What a fun family event, with three generations participating. Other families participated as well, although there were many reports of the event not being well-publicized, so some missed out on the action.

Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg in 1958. He attended Simon Frasier University. Although one of his legs was amputated due to cancer, he embarked on his cross-

It was a beautiful sunny day for a 10km run on Sun. Sept. 18. Rivers has been holding a walk/run every year since Terry Fox’s 1980 quest to run across Canada from coast to coast to raise awareness for cancer and raise funds for cancer research.

Bill Kroeger of Rivers has been participating in the event for 32 straight years now, running each instance except for one year when he had to rollerblade on account of a hip operation. His daughters have joined him ever since they were little.

Bill and daughter Ashley are seasoned professionals, finishing this year’s event in around 52 minutes. “But that doesn’t matter” Bill said modestly, pointing instead to the money that was raised, which is more important. Their little group raised $270 for cancer research. Laura Gill from Riverdale

Canada “Marathon of Hope” run in 1980, starting from St. John’s, Newfoundland. He ran the equivalent of a marathon a day.

Unfortunately, his cancer spread and he was forced to stop running just outside of Thunder Bay, ON, after 143 days and 5,373 km. He died in 1981, just one month shy of his 23rd birthday. The Terry Fox Run became an annual national tradition, with millions of participants across Canada and the world participating. It’s now the largest single-day fundraiser for cancer research.

Terry Fox was an athlete, humanitarian, and national hero. He was the youngest person named a Companion of the Order of Canada and was voted second greatest Canadian of all time, after Tommy Douglas, in a CBC contest in 2004.

It’s something to be proud of that our little community continues to run every year, keeping his legacy alive.

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Dying yarn with food colouring

Sarah Plosker Rivers Banner

Given the Manitoba Fibre Festival was Sept.

9-10, I thought it topical to write about my experience a few years ago with dying wool yarn using food colouring.

If you knit, crochet, or weave, and are sick of the same old colours available in store-bought yarns, consider buying wh ite ya r n a nd t hen dying it yourself. This opens the doors to new colour shades, gradients, and speckling that you can’t find at the stores, allowing you to explore your creative side and have a unique finished product.

There are three ways to dye yarn: using food colouring, natural dyes, or acid dyes. Here, we’ll explore the use of food colour ing (also called icing colour). The nice thing about using food colour ing is t hat you can use any pots, tongs, spoons, and measuring cups you have in your kitchen. Food dye is of course food-safe (unlike acid dyes). This would be a fun way to get your children or grandchildren involved in your k n it t i n g — h ave t he m pick out the colour and help dye the yarn for the toque you’ll make them this winter!

The amount of dye you use will of course affect the strength or depth of the colour. If you want the dye to be absorbed evenly, you should mix the dye with about ½-1 cup of water before adding it to the pot of water, so it mixes into the water quickly. Presoaking your yarn in water (for at least an hour, or overnight) will help the yarn absorb the dye more quickly and therefore more evenly.

On the other hand, by not presoaking the yarn and by dipping the yarn slowly into the pot of water that already contains the dye (called a dye bath), this will create a colour gradient (dark at the ends that get submerged first, light at the ends you’re holding

that get submerged last, and a gradual transition in between). Some people like the effect of the colour gradient, while others prefer solid colours. You can go so far as to “paint” the dye directly on the yarn using a fork dipped in the dye in order to create speckling or other interesting patterns.

Dying using food dye is more of an art than a science. You may follow a r ec ipe/i n st r uc t ion s online to the T, only to have yours come out looking completely different because the person’s instr uct ions you were following lives in New York city, so they have completely different water than we do here in Westman. Those using town water will get different results than those using well water, due to the different mineral content. Some people go so far as to use distilled water every time they dye so as to get reproducible results (this is especially useful if you run out of yarn and need to dye one more skein in order to finish your garment—you need it to be the exact same as the other skeins you dyed).

Any instructions for dying yarn using food colouring will say to add v inegar to the pot of water. Many people say that vinegar is a mordant.

A mordant helps to bind a dye to fiber. Technically,

vinegar is not a mordant.

Certain dyes and fibers work best in an acidic environment. Vinegar, which contains a percentage of acetic acid, is a pH modifier that’s used to help open up certain f ibers to prepare them for mordanting and dyeing. So, vinegar helps the fibre absorb the dye, but doesn’t help the dye bind to the fibre. Potayto, potahto.

Some online tutorials use a mere tablespoon of vinegar for 8 cups of water, and 1 tsp of dye, and after about 5 minutes with the yarn submerged and the water just below a boil, the dye should all be absorbed. I used filtered rain water and I found I had to use almost a cup of vinegar, and left the yarn for over half an hour, and still had unused dye in the pot.

Dip-dying your yarn into the hot dye bath already containing the dye will allow for artsy techniques like “breaking” pur ple into blue and red. The gradient will start red and then go blue, with purple in the middle. Like the gradient method, this is a really neat effect if that’s what you’re going for.

My initial efforts using food dye was frustrating as I was expecting the same results as in the online tutorials. I wound up re-dying my yarn, and had to simmer it for

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Believe it or not, this y a r n w a s d ye d w i t h black food colouring, which “breaks” into its component colours of purple and blue, as it is not true black.

so long each time that by the end of the whole process, my once-lovely, delicate, hand-spun yarn looked pretty mistreated.

Granny’s yarn dyed using teal food colouring.

Yowza! Yarn dyed using purple food colouring, which “breaks” into red and blue, although when this reporter tried it out it turned out more like hot pink and teal.

I vowed not to use food dye to dye yarn again. If you go into it thinking of it more as an adventure, then happier than I was

with the results!

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