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The 2020 Scotties Tournament of Hearts began on Tuesday, Jan. 28, with teams arriving from across Manitoba. practising and socializing followed their arrival to Rivers. Tuesday evening the Scotties banquet was held for teams, sponsors, volunteers and spectators.

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.

The theme of this years event is railway town, Rivers, MB has always been proud to show its heritage and it is shown in the decor for this event. A lounge dubbed “the locomotive” features a train for the counter of the bar and coffee corner. In the banquet hall the you can get your picture taken sitting in the big red caboose.

The Bottom left photos are of the Rivers Community Photo by Sheila Runions Centre arena before and after the curling ice was put in, a huge change to say the least.

Can collections for canoes

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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.

Photo by Heather Gray

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Skip Beth Peterson trying to take the Manitoba title away from defending champ Tracy Fleury this weekend at the Scotties in Rivers.

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Failing to learn

hen we’re young, failing doesn’t really bother us. Babies spend months trying to turn over, sit up, crawl, stand, walk, then run and jump.

No one expects a baby to skip over this progression, we know each step is the foundation for the next. When we go to school, while we may think otherwise, we don’t know much of anything that we will spend the next 12 to 20 years mastering. We have to learn to add, subtract and multiply, to speak another language, to play an instrument or conduct a science experiment. While we may pass our tests, at the beginning, we step into the class as failures. At some point, this changes and we stop seeing failure as a sign that we’re still learning and begin to see it as something that should be avoided at all costs.

We really shouldn’t.

Last October, a paper was published in the scientific journal, Nature, which sought to predict how successful future attempts would be, based on past efforts. Spoiler alert, success is very seldom possible without previous failure.

The researchers looked at three different areas to find detectable early signals that would allow them to predict ultimate success or failure. The three areas were

Kate Jackman-Atkinson indeed different: they looked at attempts by investigators to obtain National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants to fund their research; by innovators on the way to a successful exit of their startup and by terrorist organizations to claim casualties in violent attacks. In the end, for those that failed before success, the average number of failures was 2.03 for NIH, 1.5 for startups and 3.90 for terrorist groups (a number I’m glad is higher than the others).

The research garnered some interesting findings. For example, the people who ultimately failed and those who ultimately succeed tried about the same number of times to reach their goals. The key isn’t persistence, it’s about learning from those previous failures. Scientific American interviewed Dashun Wang, a professor of management

and organizations at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and the study’s leader. He said, “You have to figure out what worked and what didn’t, and then focus on what needs to be improved instead of thrashing around and changing everything.”

The data also yielded some unexpected findings. One key indicator of ultimate success was the time between failed attempts. The shorter the time between failures, the higher the chance of ultimate success. These people tweaked and changed only what didn’t work, not everything.

Looking at the trove of data– 776,721 grant applications, venture capital startup investments over 46 years and 170,350 terrorist attacks– the researchers were able to identify a critical point, where one path leads to success and the other, stagnation. With each new attempt, these two groups increasingly diverge.

The study found that our traditional explanations for success– hard work and/or luck– really don’t hold up. In the end, it comes down to how a person fails and what they learn from those failures. Failure is a critical part of success, we need to treat it as a step, not the destination.

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n my view, there are four F words.

They are Faith, Family, Friends and Finances. And they should be kept in that order.

Many times, I have heard people understandably say that if you have your health, that’s all that counts. It is also often said that if your family is healthy, that’s all that counts. Both statements carry a lot of merit, a lot of weight. They are never more important than when one’s health fails or when a family member’s health fails.

However, our own health and our family’s health is only part of the equation.

Above all else, we need to have faith in God. Our health can change as life goes on, and let’s face it, we are all going to die at some point. As well, family, friends and finances can all come under tremendous pressure, but God never changes. Our relationship with Him may waver, or we may struggle at times with what we think God wants us to do, but God doesn’t change.

So if faith in God is so important, why is it that the main promoters of faith in God, namely the local churches, are often struggling or even shutting down? Many churches, in many communities, both large and small, are disappearing before our very eyes. Why is that happening?

There are many reasons, I guess. One is that there seems to be a reluctance to speak (preach, if you will) the simple gospel message. That message is that God created the world. People can debate all they want about that topic and can explore every avenue of geography, geology and every known science, but it all comes down to God created the world.

God created human beings. How He did it, I have no real idea, but I do know that humans didn’t crawl out of the ocean as some four-legged creature. God created all things.

God created humans with a free will.

If we weren’t created with a free will, we would be automatically programmed to do

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God created humans in His image. For one example, God is God, the creator, so we shouldn’t be surprised that all humans are creative.

The gospel message includes teaching about Heaven and Hell. As one old friend said many years ago, there is Heaven to be gained and a Hell to shun.

As much as we might struggle with the concept, God is perfect (or sinless, to use an older expression) and Heaven is perfect.

We are not perfect and never will be. God knows that.

The simplest, and yet sometimes hardest, part of the gospel message is this: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”John 3:16 NIV. Churches need to preach that message and not stray from it.

We are to love God and love one another.

So what should churches do? They need to make sure they stick to the speaking and teaching of God’s word. The Old Testament is largely a historical document that teaches in two ways. Some of the OT tells us what we should do, but much more of it tells us what we shouldn’t do. There’s a lot of stuff in the OT that we should not even consider doing.

The New Testament is the opposite. It tells us much more of what we should do

than what we shouldn’t do. The NT is summarized in Jesus’ words, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’”

Churches have attached themselves to cultural traditions, to budget draining buildings that could be used for many more activities and to out-dated thinking. They have boxed themselves into one-hour-aweek church services that are all too easy to avoid in a person’s busy life.

Churches that are growing, and there are some, are vibrant and reach out to people. They meet needs and are willing to break out of old ways. They do low income housing, street outreach and get out of the four walls and into the community. They know that the traditional Sunday morning services that the whole community pauses for are long gone. They are where the people are and when the people are available. But most of all, they preach God’s Word, not a watered down, mushy message that never challenges people.

Yes, there are four F words. Faith is the most important one and the others will follow in due course.

Disclaimer: The writer serves as a volunteer chair of the Manitoba Community Newspaper Association. The views expressed in this column are the writer’s personal views and are not to be taken as being the view of the MCNA board or Banner & Press staff.

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Jan. 28 - Feb. 2: Rivers hosts the 2020 Scotties.

Feb. 6: Riverdale Harvest Food Bank Drop-in event at Zion Church, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Feb. 8: Rivers Rage away game, Birtle, MB. Feb. 9: Rivers Rage away game, Russell, MB. Feb. 11: Rivers Rage home game, RCC. Feb. 12 - 21: Art West Travelling Gallery, at Prairie Crocus Library.

Feb. 13: Woodworth Senior Services Valentine Luncheon, Kenton Hall, Noon Feb. 14: Rivers Rage home game, RCC. Feb. 16: Rivers Rage home game, RCC. Feb. 25: Diabetes Clinic, Riverdale Health Centre, 8:15 a.m.

Feb. 26: RDHA meeting, Kiwanis Courts, 1:30 p.m.

Feb. 27: Rivers Chamber of Commerce meeting, Lee’s.

Mar. 24: Diabetes Clinic, Riverdale Health Centre, 8:15 a.m.

Mar. 25: RDHA meeting, Kiwanis Courts, 1:30 p.m.

Mar. 26: Rivers 50+ Club meeting, 2 p.m.

Apr. 16: Rivers 50+ Club meeting, 2 p.m.

Apr. 22: RDHA meeting, Kiwanis Courts, 1:30 p.m.

Apr. 28: Diabetes Clinic, Riverdale Health Centre, 8:15 a.m.

May 21: Rivers 50+ Club meeting, 2 p.m.

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Home Bodies

By Rita Friesen The humble clothes horse...

G Name: Les Wedderburn Birthday: November 30, 1960 Occupation: Farmer and co-owner of Rolling Spokes First job: Farm labour at the age of 14.

Hobbies: Curling, golf, fishing although the latter two don’t happen much.

In Rivers/Rapid City/Oak River since: My whole life.

Where do you live? In the Tarbolton area, 15 miles SW of Rivers.

Hometown: Rivers Where did you attend school? Started at Bradwardine until the school closed down, then completed my schooling at Rivers Elementary and Rivers Collegiate.

Dream Vacation Spot: I would like to tour Europe.

Favourite Food: Baby back ribs and my Mother-in-law’s butter tarts!

Favourite holiday: Christmas, being surrounded by family and friends.

Favourite Song or Artist: no favourite Favourite Sports Team: Winnipeg Jets.

Favourite Animal: Dog Favourite TV show: I always liked M.A.S.H. It’s good to have a laugh to end the day.

Favourite Actor/Actress: John Candy When you were 12, What did you want to be when you grew up? Always wanted to be a farmer.

Comment: I have always enjoyed being a part of community events and help with moving in a positive direction.

The Curling Club has helped me to do that over the years.

As we are now in the midst of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, it is wonderful to see how people pull together for a common cause. This is an event second to none and will showcase the Riverdale community for what we have to offer to our residents and those that we hope to become residents.

I have great compassion for my community and will always do what I can to help it prosper!

Rivers Community Church 447 Edward Street, Rivers

Sunday worship service/Sunday school, 10:30 a.m.

BG Club (age 3-Gr. 6), 204-412-0448 for details.

Junior youth (Gr. 5-9), 204-328-7854 for details.

Senior youth (Gr. 10-12), 204-328-7016 for details.

Phone 204-328-7882 or 204-761-2235

Donna Falkevitch Rivers Banner Doreen Bate correctly identified all the people in the photo of an unknown curling team in last week’s issue. Several of my Monday afternoon curling league could identify two or three but were puzzled over the other two. This photo was taken sometime in the mid to late 1960’s during prize presentation of the annual Rivers Legion Bonspiel. Harry Bate (far right) presents winnings to the rink of Fred Smith, June Smith, Don McEwing and Phyllis McEwing. Fred tells me that he thinks they won the C event. We could check that out in the trophy case at the Legion walkway. The Branch #75 Rivers Legion Bonspiel has been held for many, many years but entries in the last few years have waned. When this picture was taken and also when I first started curling in this spiel, the entries were cut-off at 64 teams with a substantial waiting list. Unfortunately, not the case in recent years.

rowing up, the clotheshorse was a wooden accordion-type unit. There were two, one stood taller and held less laundry and the other opened to a squat triangle that was able to support a full load of laundry, plus.

My early memories have these situated in the basement, next to the washer and dryer. Large things like towels using the outer rows, while undies and unmentionables were hung on the hidden inner dowels. It was common for a dowel to have been taped and designated light loads only.

And frequently, the rods dried out over time and swivelled in their sockets.

The majority of the drying was line drying and in winter, the stiff garments were wrangled downstairs and draped over the horses. The scent of frozen laundry is actually a warm memory, can’t say as much for hanging soaking wet clothes on the frozen line, nor bringing them in. It’s the end result that counts, right?

The units served for more than drying clothes. The neighbour, Judy, and I would work up a giant batch of noodles and use the horse to dry them. The finished unit rather looked like a very unkempt head of blond hair. There

FAITHFULLY YOURS Neil Strohschein It’s never in the past

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few weeks ago, I created and posted a social media graphic with the following caption: “Don’t let past failures dictate your future. Learn from your mistakes, put them behind you and move on.” The post got a few likes and one intriguing comment: “What if the mistake was made by someone else, but you are the one whose reputation has been damaged? How can you ‘put behind you’ the pain from an event for which you were not responsible?” Since my reply was personal and private, nothing more will be said about it here.

I will, however, speak of the impact the question had on me. It reminded me of just how difficult it can be to move on from painful life experiences. A job loss, bankruptcy, failed marriage, the break-up of a long term relationship or the sudden illness or death of a partner or close friend– these are events from which one does not recover overnight. Finding healing and wholeness takes time– sometimes, a lot of time.

But recovering from the event itself can often be the easy part. We may have to deal with people we know who, when hardships come to us, will assume things about us without first hearing all sides of the story. Then, based on their assumptions, they may say things about us that are less than flattering. We may recover from the painful experiences, but we may never live down the rumors others have spread about us.

was the season that I washed raw sheep wool– and that’s a whole other story; the smell of wet wool, the ring around the bath tub, the weight of a dirty wet fleece! Once triple washed and rinsed, the wool was slung over the clotheshorse, still not a pleasant odour! But an effective way to dry pounds of wool.

The clotheshorse I now use doesn’t look much like the ones I used years ago. It is a sleek model, the wings can fold down, so it takes up half the space, and for a busy wash day, there is another bar that extends upwards that is perfect for a dozen hangers. Again, this compact unit can dry a large load of laundry. I do have a clothes dryer and do use it.

I’d simply rather not. I no longer have any desire to hang anything outside to dry in winter, to air a comforter, yes, but nothing wet and heavy that will freeze into a board.

I am continuing a way of life that I know well. Conserve, use well, care for this precious earth on which we live. Yep, my mother washed and dried any plastic bag or container that came into the house, carefully smoothed the wax paper that the dry cereals came in, pieced scrap tops for comforters and knit scarves, sweaters, mitts and socks.

I am thrilled to watch the younger generations still caring for the earth. A resurgence of gardening, canning and freezing food, a resurgence of knitting and sewing and now, some of my young friends are into creating reusable paper towels! We referred to them as floor rags, old towels or flannel sheets torn into pieces for many purposes! While waiting for our governing bodies to take the giant steps to preserve and restore our environment, I applaud all who take the faithful little steps. Like using a clotheshorse!

So, despite our best intentions and efforts, putting some things behind us can be very difficult. We want to move on.

But as long as rumors and misinformation keep circulating, the healing we seek may take even longer to arrive than we had hoped.

We can respond to rumors and misinformation in two ways.

One is to correct falsehood with facts. The other is to simply ignore what’s been said– don’t dignify it with a reply.

Unfortunately, neither option is all that effective. If you answer misinformation with facts, some people will respond by thinking: “There has to be more to the story than what has been revealed. So what is this person trying to hide?”

If you ignore what’s been said, the same people will think: “Well– since there’s been no reply, the rumors must be true.”

This “no win situation” is never a happy place in which to be.

We can’t control what other people think or say about us.

They are free to think what they will and say what they please.

Some people excel at bringing up past experiences and making us relive them all over again. We can’t control that either.

But we can control how we live, how we think and how we speak. We can choose to respect those who disrespect us. We can choose to think positively of those who think negatively of us and we must resist the urge to “get even” by spreading rumors about those who have spread rumors about us. We must take the high road by refusing to give way to anger and bitterness and living our lives with dignity, integrity, faith and optimism, especially when we meet those who are trying to put us down and destroy us.

Our desire must be to live each day so that God is honoured and others are helped. Then, with a foundation of faith, hope and love firmly laid, we can take steps to deal with the pain of the past and ensure that the events that caused the pain don’t happen again. More on that next week.

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Previous local representation at Scotties and Lassies

By Donna Falkevitch Rivers Banner

With the 2020 MB Scotties in full swing here in Rivers this week, I thought it might be appropriate to take a brief look back at some of the local curlers who have made an appearance at this prestigious provincial championship.

When I went back as far as possible in the Scotties/Lassies archives, the first names that jumped out to me were the Rapid City provincial winners of 1953. Skip-Gladys Dick, third- Muriel Wolstenholme, second- Mabel McKinnon and lead- Sadie Pettapiece. A couple of those family names will be familiar if you have been around Rivers/Rapid City for awhile.

The fact that this team from our own rural area won the championship so many years ago warms my heart.

During the late 60’s and early 70’s, teams with familiar curling names from Brandon Curling Club were often getting their names engraved on the trophy as winners. Names that were instrumental in the development of curling in the larger area such as Mabel Mitchell, Shirley Bray, Mildred Murray, June Clark, Audrey Williamson, Flo Yeo and Dru Dickens.

In the mid 70’s a team out of Souris were back to back winners with the roster of Joan Mogk- skip, Jean Moffatt- third, Betty Devins- second and Karen Anderson- lead. It was during these years (1976) that our local Rivers team won the zone and travelled to provincials to appear at the MacDonald Lassies. Rivers Curling Club and the whole community supported Bernice Elliott-

skip, Janice Ward- third, Gerry Wood- second, and JoAnn Brandon- lead. JoAnn recalls that in those days the competition was a 32-team double knock out. So, if your team was having an off day, you wouldn’t be around too long.

From 1980 until 1995, the Ivy Heapy rink out of Oak River made an amazing 10 appearances at provincial Lassies/Scotties. What an accomplishment in curling consistency, competitive drive and desire! Ivy

remembers competing at Winnipeg three times, Brandon twice, Carmen, Gimli, Dauphin, Virden and Swan River. Her team consisted of third- Maxine Shamray and second- Denise Henry for 35 years she recalls. The lead position was filled by Jane Bridgeman for many of the early years, Penny Froese for a couple of years and Diane Brown in latter years.

Also, during the 90’s, the Maureen Bonar team from Brandon Club won in 1993 and 1996. Maureen at skip,

Lois Fowler at third one year and lead the next, Gerri Cooke at third in 96, Allyson Bell at second and Rhonda Fowler at lead in 93.

Lois Fowler took the reins in 1998 to win the provincial title with Betty Couling

at third, Sharon Fowler at second and Oak River/Rivers home-town girl Jocelyn Beever at lead. Jocelyn also went on to coach the Westman Junior team to a silver medal at Canada Games in Whitehorse and is now chief

umpire for many curling competitions on the provincial and national stage.

I would say our local curlers have represented us well over the years at the provincial level. Congrats to you all.

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(Left) Ivy Heapy team who managed to appear 10 times in the provincial Scotties over a 15 year span.

(Top right) Lois Fowler’s team in 1998 won the provincial title with Betty Couling at third, Sharon Fowler at second and Oak River/Rivers home-town girl Jocelyn Beever at lead.

(Bottom right) 1976 Rivers team made up of, Bernice Elliott- skip, Janice Ward- third, Gerry Wood- second, and JoAnn Brandon- lead.

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Rage tame the Tigers in overtime

Submitted Rivers Banner The Rivers/Elton Rage were able to hold off a late game comeback by the Neepawa Tigers on Wednesday, Jan. 22, ultimately winning in overtime 5-4. The victory appeared to be well in hand for Rivers/Elton late in the third period, at the Yellowhead Arena in Neepawa, as they held a 4-2 lead. Zane Dyck scored in the first and second period for the Rage, while teammates Logan Bayes and Austin Steele also added markers early in the second, to make it 4-2.

As any hockey pundit knows, however, the two goal lead is the hardest to hold onto, as NACI scored a pair go goals with just 1:10 left in regulation.

Though the dramatic comeback would make have made for an incredible narrative for Neepawa, it was simply not to be as the Tigers ran into penalty trouble late in the third and early in overtime, putting them at a disadvantage. Rivers/ Elton jumped on the chance quickly, with Jayden Bridgman scoring just 42 seconds into OT, to claim the 5-4 victory.

In other action for the Rage, they defeated the McCreary Mountaineers 12-3 on Friday, Jan. 24. These victories improved Rivers/ Elton record to 15-3-0 on the year, good enough for second place in the WHSHL West Division.

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Rivers Rage goaltender Ashton Wanbdiska held his own against the Neepawa Tigers during last week’s away game.

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Council Minutes

RM Riverdale Dec. 17 Representatives from Pier Solutions made presentation on bridge assessment, bridge maintenance and critical repair which will be under further review for the budget.

Fire Chief Richard Brown made a presentation on the budgetary requirements for the Fire Department.

The monthly police report was reviewed and filed A c c o u nt s t o t a l l i n g $1,411,645.92 were passed for payment.

Fire Department transfers The Fire Department has received various claims for the 2019 year and the following transfers were made: MPI – MVA claims totalling $8,102.36 to the Fire Reserve. Riverdale Splash Park Donation in the amount of $5,000 to the Rivers/ Daly Fire Department. CN track fires in the amount of

$15,564.56 be used towards operational expenses with the balance being transferred to Reserves.

Council adopted the Hiring_Step Grid Policy as presented. Eligible employees who are not issued a municipal phone are to be reimbursed $85 per month for cell phone usage as per employee contract phones.

Council approved the purchase of 1,000 municipal pins for the Scotties event.

A By-Law to provide for the maintenance of property within the urban centres of the municipality, including Rivers, Chimo, Wheatland, Bradwardine, Paradise Valley and the Aspen Road development was given third and final reading.

Councillor Falkevitchfull RCC staff coverage will be required for Scotties dedicated to cleaning and maintenance Councillor McFaddenBridge on Road 119 W

requires attention, rubber is pulling away and damaging tires Councillor CreightonRed Theatre Seating requires TLC or removal prior to Scotties Councillor Dyer-Wheelchair Access button not working at RCC entrance Mayor Gill-Utility Dispute policy discussed, contact methods for garbage pickup need to be available

RM Riverdale Jan. 7 Registered titles for the Lake Road Subdivision have been received and Way-Mor Agencies is to list for sale, the 17 – 2 acre lots on Memorial Drive, known as the Lake Road Subdivision.

Lorra Eastcott was hired as the Assistant Administrative Officer effective Jan. 13, 2020.

The CAO reported recycling numbers down for 2019 to 101,830 compared to 2018 at 109,365.

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The Ladies Auxiliary will The regular monthly meet- sponsor a team for the Scotties hygienist • Residential & Commercial the Legion Ladies Tournament of Hearts. omesing of • Farm Wiring & Trenching Auxiliary was held January Esther Krahn from Rivers 7th,2020;13 members at- Palliative Care gave a very inBrandon - Rivers 6 tended. formative presentation on the l.com 204-761-2192 Minutes and reports were different services which are read and adopted. provided by the organization. age There were no new ap- CMA A new commercial fridge for membership has been purchased for the ent. plications Shaping the Future this month. kitchen.

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As the newly elected president of the Rivers & District Chamber of Commerce I would like to thank all of the past executive, members and volunteers that have made the organization what it is today, a backbone of support for our community.

I am looking forward to working with members of our business community, non profit organizations and local, provincial and federal government representatives to support and grow our

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opportunities for education, network and expansion.

I have spent the last decade building not only my own professional education, experience and network and hope to work as both an ally and liaison for others in our area to do the same. We already are looking at community events, educational and training sessions as well as community promotions for business development.

In order to keep abreast of our activities, you can follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @RiversCoC and we are receiving propos-

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If there are ideas, opportunities or concerns you feel can be addressed by myself or the Chamber of Commerce as a group, please do not hesitate to contact me!!

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RM of Oakview council Minutes

A New Religion

RM of Oakview Dec. 3, 2019

A Trouble Maker. A Rabble Rouser. A Pot Stirrer.

How about a Movement Maker. Who comes to mind when you hear these words that some have used to describe the person that I have chosen to be a part of this letter? Martin Luther King Jr.? Mahatma Gandhi?

Adolf Hitler? How about, Donald Trump?!? Any one of these men would have been an excellent guess but it’s not a man I have in mind, it’s a young 17 year old girl from Stockholm, Sweden - Miss Greta Thunberg.

Greta has been an international phenomenon in the news for over a year due to her unrivalled stance on climate change. She started her quest by skipping school to sit outside the Swedish Parliament to protest her country’s inadequate action on climate change. She would hand out pamphlets to passersby that said, “I’m doing this because you adults are sh*tting on my future.” Though I haven’t hopped onto the climate change bandwagon, I do have to admire this young girl for taking a stand on what she seems to believe is a situation of dire circumstances.

The issue of climate change is nothing new and has been an ongoing topic for many years. Some of you from a previous generation may have an image in your minds of hippies espousing love, peace and clean air. Remember the groups or individuals that would chain themselves to trees to halt their removal so developers could, as Joni Mitchell said in a 1970 song of hers, “Put Up A Parking Lot”. These upstart environmentalists back then were often referred to as tree huggers and didn’t appear to have much of an impact. Jump ahead 30 plus years to the environmentalists of today and suddenly, as Bob Dylan sang in 1964, “The Times They Are A-Changin’”.

Some of you may have seen the 2006 Documentary by the former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, titled “ An Inconvenient Truth.” (Mr. Gore was the VP under the presidency of Bill Clinton). Using charts, graphs, numbers and data, Mr. Gore lays the blame of apparent changes to the climate directly onto us, the inhabitants of this earth. This had a huge impact and added massive amounts of fuel to the fire that appears to show our climate is changing rapidly, leading to erratic weather patterns and an overall warming of our climate.

Just as there are those who are adamant that we are the ones to blame for polluting the atmosphere and causing what would appear to be a global catastrophe, there are the naysayers who claim that what is happening is cyclical and will straighten itself out eventually. I personally believe that our climate can’t help but suffer with all the crap we pump into the air so I diligently do what I can, however insignificant it may be, to reduce my carbon footprint. The recent heat, drought and fires in Australia certainly appear to add credence to the idea of climate change. We are constantly hearing the cries of many who say we must act now to slow the effects of global warming or it’ll be too late. Is it too late? Is the world on fire as we speak? Amidst all of this worry and concern we cry out for someone to take up our cause and lead us through the turmoil. It would appear our prayers have been answered. With open arms, the new religion of climatology welcomes it’s newly crowned priestess, Miss Greta Thunberg.

As a side note, do you know what Miss Thunberg has in common with the four men I mentioned at the beginning of this letter? They were all voted Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year”. Miss Thunberg is the most recent, having received the award for 2019.

In my next letter I wish to talk about a man who never received such an award though he did receive a crown of sorts. Because he too was a rabble rouser and a trouble maker, his own people rejected him but he did manage to build a movement. Can’t wait to tell you about him!

Councillor Frank Hyndman repor ted on the watershed district meeting he attended in Glenboro.

The Report of the C.A.O. was reviewed with Council.

A public hearing was held on Dec. 3, 2019 to hear representation for or against the proposed Conditional Use Order Application No. 10-O-19-CU, being made by James Meakin on behalf of the Rapid City Co-op to provide for the addition to the store of Rapid City Co-op within the “GD” General Development Zone of Rapid City as well as bringing it into conformance with Oakview’s current Zoning By-Law. No representation was received on the proposed conditional use order application so Council approved the applictaion.

Sgt. Mark Moorehouse and A rea Commander Darcy F leur y attended the meeting at 11:10 a.m.

A questionnaire was reviewed with Council in regards to whether Council members believed that the detachment was meeting priorities of the community.

R.C.M.P. staffing; detachment locations; highway patrols; and the importance of reporting all crime to the local detachment was discussed with the delegates.

Council agreed to create a Manager of Finance position and the draft Manager of Finance job description and salary range was approved. It was agreed to transfer Diane Kuculym from the position of Chief Administrative Officer to the newly created Manager of Finance position effective Jan. 6, 2020.

Marci Quane is was hired as Chief Administrative Officer effective Jan. 6, 2020.

Rapid City fire department-two proposals were received and reviewed. The updated draft fire agreement between the R.M. of

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Elton and Oakview is being reviewed.

Reserve fund amounts to be transferred; $210,000 to the Machinery Reserve Fund, $87,506 to the Gas Tax Reserve Fund, $25,000 to the Recreation Reserve Fund, $65,000 to the Building Reserve Fund, $30,000 to the Fire Reserve Fund Council authorized the C.A.O. to transfer surplus funds of up to $35,000to the Oak River Utility Reserve Fund from the Oak River Utility Operating Fund for 2019, $2,000 from the Oak River Utility Operating Fund to the Oakview General Operating Fund to cover administration costs of the Utility, $600 to the Oak River Utility Fund and $380 to the Rapid City Utilityfund for fire hydrant rental for 2019.

Annual grants to cemeteries to be paid as per by-law No. 2016-8.

Oak R iver Cemeter y Committee $1,621.47 White Bank Lea Cemetery Committee $653.08 Marney Cemetery Committee $1,075.86 Miller Cemetery Committee $205.55 Rivers Mennonite Cemetery Committee$1,703.12 Pet t apiece Cemeter y Committee $910.20 Council agreed to pay the Blanshard CDC $2,100 to support the LSRCD office in Oak River.

Provisional estimates of all operating expenditures of the municipality for the period of Jan. 1, 20 until the adoption of the annual estimates.

Requirements Operating Fund General Government Services $ 150,000 Protect ive Ser v ices $75,000 Transportation Services $ 150,000 Environmental Health Services $30,000 Public Health & Welfare Services $15,000 Environmental Development Services $15,000 Economic Development

Services $20,000 Recreation And Cultural Services $20,000 Fiscal Services $110,000 Total $ 585,000 Requirements capital fund B or n e b y R e s e r v e s $300,000 Utility operating requirements Oa k R iver Ut i l it y $50,000 R a p i d C it y Ut i l it y $100,000 To t a l E x p e n d it u r e s $150,000 Utility capital requirements B or n e b y R e s e r v e s $50,000 Carried.

Dec. 31, 2019 for the 2019 school tax levies, the amounts due are: Public Schools Finance Board $6,297.82 Park West School Division $2,064.53 Rolling River School Division $22,645.15 Council authorized the C.A.O. to renew the oneyear agreement with the waste collection/hauling contractor J. Vassart in Oak River for 2020.

RM of Oakview-Dec. 10, 2019

The meeting was called to meet with Dale Lyle from Way-to-Go Consulting to review a report prepared in regards to organization structure and to discuss other business at hand.

Rapid City Fire Depart-

ment-Requests for proposals for a cab and chassis for the fire department and an email from department members were reviewed with Council.

Gravel purchases/crushing-Information received from a ratepayer regarding gravel was reviewed with Council and the C.A.O. was instructed to draft an agreement for council to review.

R apid Cit y la nd f i l lProposed change of notice for additional costs was received and reviewed.

Rapid City Community Complex Final sign-off for insurance claim. Council authorized the Reeve and C.A.O. to sign the final proof of loss for the outstanding insurance claim for the Rapid City Community Complex.

Councillor Hyndman reported on the L.U.D. Committee of Rapid City meeting he attended on Dec. 9, 2019. Lot development in Rapid City; garbage pick-up; policies regarding the maintenance of the black garbage bins; water and sewer line extensions; stray cats; and street lighting were discussed.

Drainage concern in Ward 3-The C.A.O. was requested to contact Water Stewardship in regards to an outstanding drainage concern issue. Reeve Fortune reported on the regional drainage meeting he attended in Hamiota on Dec. 9.

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