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P rovince unveils new p a rks licence p la te The Manitoba government is unveiling new provincial park licence plates featuring a loon, the winning design chosen by Manitobans, Premier Wab Kinew announced. “Manitobans love our provincial parks, and this licence plate will help you show your support,” said Kinew. “Thousands of Manitobans voted for their favourite design option, with the loon coming out on top. I look forward to seeing
these licence plates on cars across the province – in both English and French.” Manitobans were invited to help pick a new licence plate design in support of Manitoba Parks. An EngageMB survey ran from June 8 to July 31. A total of 62,605 Manitobans responded to the survey. Following community feedback, the licence plate will be the first Manitoba specialty licence plate to be offered in both English
and French, the premier noted. A portion of the proceeds from every licence plate sold will go to the Manitoba Provincial Parks Endowment Funds through The Winnipeg Foundation, supporting park improvements that enhance ecological integrity, improve public safety, enhance accessibility and enrich visitor experiences in provincial parks.
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Iconic loon a fitting reflection from p age 1 gional vice-president, Prairie region, Nature Conservancy of Canada. “Our natural spaces, including our provincial parks, support healthy ecosystems and connect people to nature, helping make Manitoba such a special place to live, visit and explore. This new licence plate gives Manitobans a meaningful way to celebrate and care for what is uniquely theirs, today and for generations to come.” Since 2011, Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) has administered the Specialty Licence Plate Program on behalf of the Manitoba government and currently offers 19 specialty plates. To date, more than 215,000 specialty plates have been sold, generating more than $6.4 million in charitable proceeds. The new Manitoba Parks licence plates featuring the loon design chosen by Manitobans will be available for purchase at MPI service centres and MPI brokers offices in spring 2027.
CORRECTION The article “Reuse, recycle, renew” published in the Friday, July 31 edition of the South Mountain Press made reference to “the final four years in business” of Poor Michael’s Emporium in Onanole. To clarify, it should have read “the final four years in business under the previous owners” as Poor Michael’s remains open under new ownership. We apologize for any misunderstanding this may have caused.
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Even though this black bear didn’t press the button to warn motorists on Highway 10, just west of the entrance to the Elkhorn Resort & Conference Centre, it found the painted crosswalk to be an ideal location to rumble across the road into the Riding Mountain National Park’s campground on a recent Friday morning. On the evening of Thursday, Sept. 3, a black bear was also spotted just south of Onanole trekking east, seeking food or hunting for a safe, hidden spot to rest.
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“ Are you thin kin g a boutsuicide?” – five w ords tha tcould sa ve a life, a s Sep t. 10 m a rks W orld Suicide P reven tion D a y RAC HEAL FLIN TO FT So uth M o unta in Pre ss
Editor’s note: This article deals with suicide discussion and may be triggering for some individuals.
Last August, someone extremely close to me died by suicide. I’m not writing that sentence for sympathy. I’m writing it because this past Thursday, Sept. 10, our community marked World Suicide Prevention Day, and I’ve spent a year learning that silence around this topic doesn’t protect anyone. It just leaves the rest of us missing the signs we were never taught to see. A few weeks after I lost him, I signed up for a workshop called safeTALK. I thought I was ready for something like it. But I wasn’t. It hit me harder than I expected, and it was tough to get through… a room full of people learning to ask, out loud, the question I hadn’t been able to ask the one person who needed it most. A year later, I can say this much – you never get over a loss like that. But I’ve found I’m able to sit with it longer now and talk about it more. With suicide being more prevalent now, I also walk around with the quiet fear that someone I love might be dealing with something they haven’t told me, and that one day I’ll wake up and they’ll also be gone by suicide… I’ll be left with all the things I wish I’d said, if only I knew the signs. Across our region, we’ve lost so many people to suicide. That’s why I sat down with Kim Houston, owner of Houston First Aid Training in Oak Lake, to talk about what her safeTALK training teaches, and why she believes a program built for “regular people,” not professionals, might be exactly what a community like ours needs. The program, safeTALK, isn’t therapy, and it isn’t meant to turn ordinary people into counsellors. “It teaches you how to notice when someone might be thinking about suicide, and what to do next,” Houston described. The name is an acronym – Suicide Alertness for Everyone: Tell, Ask, Listen, Keep safe, and Houston first came across the idea through a much longer, more intensive course called ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training), which she took in
the fall of 2024. ASIST is valuable, she said, but it’s built for professionals. What surprised her most, sitting in a room full of trained publicfacing workers, was how hard even they found it to ask the plain question. “If it’s that hard for trained professionals to ask about suicide,” she remembered thinking, “how is a regular person like me supposed to be able to do it?” That question sent her to New Brunswick in January 2025 for instructor training, and it’s what she wants every person who walks out of one of her workshops to be able to do… ask, plainly and without flinching, “Are you thinking about suicide?” Ask Houston what gets in the way, and she doesn’t hesitate. The biggest misconception, she said, is the fear that asking will plant the idea. It won’t. “If someone is already thinking it, they will appreciate you recognizing and asking. If they aren’t, you will not make them start thinking about it just by asking.” The second myth is just as dangerous, that you can tell when someone is struggling. You can’t, not reliably. Some people, Houston said, are very good at looking “normal.” What you can do is listen for what safeTALK calls invitations, the offhand, easyto-miss comments that are actually someone testing the water… “Would anyone even notice if I wasn’t here? There’s no point anymore. Everyone would be better off without me.” “It’s very important to take every discussion about suicide seriously,” Houston said, “and not write it off as attention-seeking.” And if you don’t know what to say next? You don’t need professional training to keep someone safe for one more night. Houston’s advice is disarmingly simple. “This is serious. I don’t know what else to say, but I am just glad you told me,” and then help
them reach 988, the Suicide Crisis Helpline, or 211, or another trusted person. The numbers back up what many of us already sense. Across Canada, roughly 4,400 people died by suicide in 2024, and suicide rates in Manitoba and Saskatchewan run higher than the national average. Men account for nearly threequarters of suicide deaths nationally, at a rate almost triple that of women. The highest rates are seen in men aged 45 to 64 and women aged 20 to 24. Rural and farming communities like ours carry an extra weight. Farmers face financial stress they often can’t control – weather, debt, commodity prices – layered on top of the isolation of working alone, the reluctance to appear anything less than tough, and long distances to mental health support. More than half of Canadian producers still don’t have reliable high-speed internet, which cuts off even virtual counselling as an option. And in small towns, confidentiality itself can feel like a luxury. The counsellor down the hall might also be your neighbour, or your kid’s teacher, or someone at your own kitchen table on a Sunday. There’s another number worth sitting with. Research consistently shows that people bereaved by suicide face a higher risk of suicide themselves. Parents who lose a child this way are more than three times as likely to die by suicide as parents who lose a child to other causes, and bereaved siblings face more than double the risk of siblings who lose a brother or sister a different way. Suicide doesn’t end with one death. It moves through a family, a friend group, a town. None of that is a reason for hopelessness. It’s the reason programs like safeTALK exist at all. Houston’s upcoming
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workshop is already full, but she does offer both ongoing open community sessions and closed training for organizations and workplaces, with safeTALK training more broadly available through trainers across the country. The newest version of the course, safeTALK 3, even comes with a license for a starter online program participants can pass along to someone who isn’t ready to sit in a room yet. The course is generally open to anyone 15 and older, though Houston is careful to note it isn’t the right fit for someone who has very recently lost someone to suicide, or who is currently in acute emotional distress. Every workshop pairs its instructor with a community resource person, often ASISTtrained, who is available if a participant needs support during the session. And for anyone who isn’t ready to
speak up in front of the group, there’s a line on the feedback sheet just for that: a place to ask, privately, for someone to reach out. What Houston hopes people leave with isn’t a certificate. It’s the ability to notice an invitation when it’s offered to them, and, maybe just as important, the ability to recognize one in themselves. She hopes, too, that more of us get comfortable simply saying the word ‘suicide’ out loud, instead of around it. If you’ve read this far and something in it feels close to home, you’re not as alone as it might feel. Almost everyone in this region knows someone – a family member, a neighbour, a coworker, a friend of a friend – whose life has been touched by suicide, whether they’ve ever said so out loud or not. Some of what people carry afterward isn’t sadness at all, but anger, and
that’s allowed too; grief after a death like this doesn’t move in a straight line, and it doesn’t ask permission before it changes shape. Depression itself deserves to be treated as the real illness it is, not dismissed as something a person should simply be able to shake off. Through safeTALK programs like the ones Houston leads, people are learning how to say the word, and to ask the question, “Are you thinking about suicide?” – safeTALK is for everyone we’ve already lost, and for the ones we might still be able to reach in time. If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, help is available 24/7. Call or text 988 (Talk Suicide Canada), or call 211 to connect with local resources and support. Information on safeTALK and other LivingWorks training is available at livingworks.net.
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T h e five m ost com m on jobs in th e Victoria n Era Would you want any of these jobs, knowing there weren’t as many labour laws in Victorian times? The Industrial Revolution completely changed many aspects of society, with one of the biggest changes being the types and number of jobs that existed. As technology advanced, workers were needed to build and distribute the latest gadgets and inventions. Also, essential jobs like farming gained new ways to work. Jobs in the Victorian Era were often dangerous and dirty. It was only thanks to the working class fighting for regulations and reform that things got better. But even the safer jobs of the time were still not glamorous, since most of the population was made up of the working class. From child labourers to poor adults, these were the most common jobs in the Victorian Era, as penned by
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fit. In 1842, the UK passed the Mines and Collieries Bill, which prohibited women, girls, and boys under 10 from working underground. After the bill passed, the number of miners dropped slightly, but because coal was needed for all of the new steam-powered machines, mining remained a common job for the poor. The number of mining accidents and deaths was still in the thousands until 1872. That’s when the Coal Mines Regulation Act was passed, finally requiring regular safety inspections by a certified inspector. S tore W orkers With the rise of massproduced products, shopping became a significant part of the culture. While men were the majority of the shop owners, noblewomen felt more comfortable with other women helping them, and the “shop girl” role rapidly grew. Shop girls worked 12 to 14
hour days, and many were required to live in the back or above the store. They were treated horribly and paid so little that a number of women worked a second job as prostitutes. Just admitting to being a shop girl was enough to tarnish a reputation as a good, Christian woman, but these women were also an indispensable part of the shopping experience. Farm ers Farm work tends to be considered secure labour because we all need to eat. Most of the farming in the Victorian Era was done by tenant farmers, workers who lived on the land of a wealthier owner, sometimes a nobleman. These farmers worked from dawn till dusk to keep the landowner’s farm running, but the landowner didn’t always take care of his tenants. The houses provided for tenant farmers were often
crumbling, leaking cabins, and the pay was so small that sometimes the entire family had to work. Women and children often tended to the animals while men plowed the fields, but harvest time meant all hands on deck. D om estic Servants The Victorian Era was still rigid in the class system, so while there were the nouveau-riche, people who became wealthy due to industrialization, there was also the noble class. The homes owned by both of these groups were large and needed a team of people to care for them. Domestic servants made up those teams. Maids, butlers, footmen, cooks, and other staff of the manors and estates of the wealthy worked long, grueling hours for little pay. They most often lived in the servants’ quarters because they were needed so early in the morning and sometimes late
into the night. Women were the majority in these domestic roles, especially in later years when men sought outside work.
During the Victorian period, fashion was just as popular and diverse as it is today. Inventions in the field of chemistry and discoveries made across the globe, Working-class fashion in the 1890s focused on durability, practicality, and affordability over the extravagant trends worn by high-society Victorians. Heavy, longlasting fabrics designed for manual labour were used rather than shifting highfashion trends.
Until next week… Inspirational quotes about history remind us that the past shapes our potential, guides our choices, and empowers us to create a better future.
H istorica l h um a n rem a ins found nea r Virden On Aug. 26, Virden RCMP received a report that a road maintenance crew had located human remains while working in the Rural Municipality (R.M.) of WallaceWoodworth. The remains are consistent with those of a historical or archaeological nature. A road maintenance crew cleaning ditches following recent flooding located two pieces of a human skull and a bone while working on Road 57 North, just east of Road 148 West. Work stopped, Virden RCMP were called and a perimeter around the area was established. A forensic anthropologist and her team were called to the scene the following morning and located a partial skull, right shin bone and lower left femur. The Manitoba Historic Resources Branch also searched the scene. Carbon dating and testing for some of the remains is being arranged.
On Sept. 1, Headingley RCMP responded to a collision involving two semitrucks in the westbound lane of Highway 1, near Road 11 West, in the R.M. of Cartier. One semi-truck was parked on the shoulder and was hit by another semi-truck that was travelling west. The parked semi-truck caught fire on impact while the other semi-truck was heavily damaged. The driver of the parked semi-truck, a 56-yearold female from La Broquerie, was not injured. The driver of the other semitruck, a 43-year-old male from Winnipeg, was treated
RCMP Briefs Provincial Roundup for minor-non-life-threatening injuries and his passenger, a 27-year-old male from Winnipeg, was not injured. The 43year-old driver was served with a Provincial Offence Notice for Driving Carelessly. Later that day, Headingley RCMP received a report of a head-on collision on Highway 2, just west of the intersection with Highway 3 in the R.M. of Macdonald. Officers learned that an SUV was travelling east on Highway 2 when it suddenly veered into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with a semi-truck. The driver of the SUV, a 25-year-old male from Winnipeg, was pronounced deceased at the scene. The driver of the semi-truck, a 32year-old male, and his passenger, a 28-year-old male, were treated for minor-nonlife-threatening injuries at the scene. Headingley RCMP, along with Manitoba RCMP Traffic Services, continue to investigate.
On Sept. 1, Brandon RCMP responded to the first of two residential break-ins that occurred in short succession in Forrest. In each inci-
dent, the suspect forced his way into residences, began yelling, then left shortly after being confronted by homeowners. No one was injured. RCMP identified a suspect in the incident and patrolled the community in an effort to locate him but were unsuccessful at that time. Later that day, the suspect was found by Brandon Police Service, who transported the male to hospital for medical treatment. The suspect left the hospital sometime later. Later, Brandon RCMP were called to the suspect’s residence in Forrest. They located and spoke with the suspect, who was in another room behind a closed door. As the conversation continued, officers became concerned that he may be armed. RCMP left the residence and set up a perimeter around the home. The suspect agreed to exit the home and was safely taken into custody. Three firearms as well as ammunition were found inside the home. A 51year-old Forrest male faces
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On Aug. 31, Dauphin RCMP, Dauphin Fire Department and paramedics responded to a report of a rollover involving a utility terrain vehicle (UTV) outside a residence in the R.M. of Dauphin. A 40-year-old male was driving a UTV with his nine-yearold daughter as the passenger. The side-by-side vehicle had made a turn while driving on the property towards the residence when it rolled. The girl suffered significant injuries as a result of the incident. Lifesaving measures were attempted by first responders. Despite efforts, the child succumbed to her injuries at the scene. Her father was transported to hospital in Winnipeg with non-life-
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On Aug. 31, RCMP responded to a report of an allterrain vehicle striking two pedestrians on the Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation. Swan River RCMP officers responded to the scene and learned the pedestrians – a 39-year-old female and 34year-old male – were walking in the community on Porcupine Bay when they were hit from behind by a male driving an ATV. The female sustained the majority of the impact of the collision and suffered severe injuries. EMS, RCMP officers and community members all performed lifesaving measures. However, despite their efforts, the female succumbed to her injuries at the scene. The male victim was taken to hospital with multiple non-lifethreatening injuries. The driver of the ATV was uninjured. He was arrested outside his house, not far from the collision, while standing
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On Aug. 31, RCMP responded to a report of a break-in at the vacant Portage la Prairie Mall. The property, located on the 2400-block of Saskatchewan Avenue West, was broken into sometime over the weekend. Once inside, a suspect or suspects caused extensive damage inside the building. Most glass pane windows inside the building were broken, a large tree was cut down, the general office and various unoccupied storefronts were ransacked, and graffiti was spray-painted on walls. More than $100,000 in damages to the building is believed to have occurred. It does not appear that anything was taken from the building. RCMP are investigating.
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in August with additional seatings slated for September. Conversation, connection and shared love of history are creating a delightful afternoon for guests, Roblin: The Review – What was believed to be a 100-bushel (bu.) crop for AJ Zachedniak, who farms along Provincial Road #583 just east of the Three Mile Shell, was found to yield solely 50 to 60 bu. Finding his light, sandy soil as hard as concrete this fall, he expressed this year is even worse compared to 2025 when he felt it was a strange one. Neepawa: The Banner & Press – The Harvest Sun Music Festival, celebrating its 21st anniversary in Kelwood from Aug. 21-23 and the Whitemud Music Festival in Arden for the fourth year, were the places to be for a variety of music genres last month. At Kelwood the special on-stage guest was Rick Neufeld, a musician and songwriter. Musicians and music lovers also enjoyed the
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If you have been good to your garden, by now, the garden will be providing you with multiple harvests of delectable home grown products. My garden was so plentiful that I am processing and storing it in a multitude of ways. Fermenting is a type of storage that I seem to be using more and more. Utilizing fermentation as a method of preservation does not require a ton of equipment but also follows some of the regular guidelines for storage. For example, using harvested vegetables that are of the utmost quality is essential for the best success. Vegetables that have just been picked will keep their texture longer and are full of vitamins and minerals. Fermentation is one of the oldest methods of food preservation. Bacteria, yeasts, molds or fungi break down carbs into acids, gas or alcohol resulting in a food product with a desirable flavour aroma or texture. This happens in an anaerobic non-oxygen environment. Some examples of common foods using this type of fermentation include fermented milks, yogurts, meats, sourdough bread, olives, sauerkraut, kimchi and many other pickled vegetables. Fermentation does not use any processing methods using heat and thus fermentation does not end the life of the veggies. Therefore, the veggies are still living foods and will continue to evolve over time. Due to life continuing under fermentation, some veggies are better to use for this process of preserving than others. All vegetables can be fermented but as their textures and tastes change over time, you want to think carefully about your choices prior to beginning this process. A hot sauce or spicy paste can use any veggie, even if they are soft. If you wish to consume crisp veggies months later, choose vegetables that keep their texture such as cabbage, garlic, carrots, beets, parsnips etc. Contrary to canning where a lot of the nutrients in vegetables are destroyed by heat, fermentation preserves the vegetables’ nutrients and even enhances the assimilation of these vitamins and minerals that are already present in the vegetable by your body. Also, the work of the good bacteria can even create new vitamins and enzymes that are benefi-
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