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Two local young men were able to grant a long-time Winnipeg

Jets fan a life-long wish to go to a game. Danny Lavigne and Steve Kush from Pine Falls, were at a Jets game last week and met Isabelle McCaffrey at a restaurant following the game. Upon speaking to her,

they realized what a big fan she was as she regaled them with her knowledge of the team and the sport.

“We were just blown away by what she knew about hockey, and she’s never been to a game, we just thought, you know, act of kindness, thought we could help her

out,” said Lavigne. So, he and Kush decided to take her along on their next excursion to the city to see a game.

So, this past Sunday on March 25th, Kush and Lavi-gne drove into the city, met up with McCaffrey and gave her a Jets jersey to wear while cheering on her favourite

team. Kush sacrificed his tick-

et for McCaffrey and had no qualms with missing the game himself. He says he was just happy he could make it work.

Lavigne and McCaffrey had a great time at the game. The Jets ended up beating

their conference rivals, the Nashville Predators, 5-4 in an overtime shoot out. So, for McCaffrey, it couldn’t have worked out better. “I’m very blessed. It’s fate that brought us together,” she said. “You know, it’s not very many young men who would take up an old lady.”

Making Dreams Come True

Left to right: Steve Kush, Isabelle McCaffrey, and Danny Lavigne

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NewsContinued from last issue

As previously men-tioned in our last is-sue, there was a large

house fire on North Shore road on Tuesday, March 13th, 2018. The home, locat-ed at 154 Northshore Road, belonged to Norman and Marcella Coss. Firefighters fought valiantly to extinguish the flames. The house had other ideas however. You see, it was a log house, which are notoriously difficult to extin-guish once they’re set ablaze. The Powerview-Pine Falls Fire department, with sup-port from the Sagkeeng fire department, used pumper trucks to provide water to their hoses. The home was somewhat secluded, and well away from the nearest fire hydrant. They fought the fire late into the night, until it was deemed a lost cause, at which time the focus shifted from putting out the blaze to en-suring in didn’t spread else-where.

The fire was caused by embers escaping through the chimney of the wood-stove being used to heat the

Family loses everthing in fire

house. Interestingly, the fire began on the outside of the structure. The couple only noticed when their yard was suddenly brightly illuminated in the middle of the night. They quickly called 911, but it was likely already too late. The entire house burnt to the

foundation, and the Coss’ lost everything. Thankfully, they were fully insured. They plan on rebuilding on the property, though this time a home of traditional construction, as opposed to a log home. In the meantime, they are residing at their son Maurice’s house.

By Don Norman

On March 19, Klondex Mines LTD, the com-pany that had owned

the Bissett Mine, announced that the bulk of it’s assets would be absorbed by Hecla Gold as that company ac-quired all remaining shares in Klondex. The acquisition included only it’s Nevada-based Fire Creek, Midas and Hollister mines.

Klondex Canadian hold-ings, which include the Bis-sett mine, will be spun off into a company called Klondex Canada. The Klondex web-site lists a Bissett number for the new company, but as of press-time, no one was an-swering the phones.

There is no indication about what this means for Bissett, but it comes on the heels of a reduction in opera-tions and a restructuring of management of the mine in

January 2018. That decision was largely based on the site’s inability to achieve planned operating and cash flow goals set out for it in 2017. Gold pro-duction for 2017 from True North was estimated to be ap-proximately 24,000 – 27,000 ounces, which is less than the 35,000 – 45,000 ounce range the company had hoped for.

The press release an-nouncing the acquisition, had this to say about Klondex Canada: “Certain members of Klondex’s board and manage-ment team will continue on at Klondex Canada. Hecla will subscribe for US$7.0 million of common shares of New Klondex in exchange for a 13.46% equity interest, based on a pre-investment Klondex Canada valuation of US$45 million. Klondex Canada in-tends to make an application to list its shares on the TSX-V.“

Ownership changes for Bissett Mine

Bissett Mine (file photo)

What was left of the Coss home after the fire on March 13

ANGLICAN PARISH OF ST. MICHAEL

April 11, 2018 will be the second Red Cross Pink Day in

Manitoba and Survivor’s Hope Crisis Centre is invit-ing local businesses to join the movement.

Every workplace in Man-itoba is invited to wear pink on April 11 and share pic-tures of all pink staff on so-cial media using the hashtag #pinkday2018.

“This year, the pink day theme is focused on #beso-meoneshero,” said Stephanie Klassen, Reaching Out Pro-gram Coordinator for Sur-vivor’s Hope. “We all have the capacity to be a hero to someone by simply saying that bullying and harassment are not okay.”

Pink shirts have taken over schools across the coun-try but children are not the only ones who should be talking about the issue of bullying.

In 2017, the Government of Canada published “Ha-rassment and Sexual Vio-lence in the Workplace Pub-lic Consultations: What We Heard.” Through these con-sultations, it was found that 60% of survey respondents

have experienced harassment at work. Sexual harassment was experienced by 30% of respondents and 3% had ex-perienced sexual violence at work. Of those who reported experiencing sexual harass-ment and violence at work, 94% were female. The ma-jority of survey respondents said that they would like to see training for all supervi-sors and employees, and that there needs to be training re-lated to existing policies and procedures.

“The recent #metoo movement and #timesup have created a unique time in our society where it is easier to start conversations about sexual harassment,” said Klassen. “We want to join this positive momentum and ensure that the conversation includes rural populations

including local small busi-nesses.”

Pink Day has become an annual event to raise aware-ness about standing up to bul-lying and supporting those who have been targeted by bullies.

Survivor’s Hope Crisis Centre provides crisis in-tervention, support, and in-formation to survivors and secondary victims of sexual-ized violence in north-eastern Manitoba. They run work-shops in schools throughout the region that aim to prepare youth for strong, healthy, and respectful relationships. They also offer crisis counselling support and information in their Pinawa office Monday-Thursday 9am-4pm. For more information, visit www.survivors-hope.ca or call 204-753-5353.

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Jesus and the Easter bun-ny. That strange combi-nation merges today as

Christians around the world celebrate Easter, which com-memorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

So, how did the Easter bunny evolve on such a holy day? We take a look at that and some other long-standing traditions of the springtime holiday and their origins.

Who is this Easter bunny? While there is not one exact source that describes the be-

ginnings of the Easter bunny, there are many possible origins of the egg-bearing rabbit. The Easter bunny or “Osterhase” (also known as the Oschter Haws) reportedly was intro-duced to America by German immigrants who shared their tales of an egg-laying hare. That folklore, dating back to the 17th century, describes the rabbit as a character similar to Santa Claus who brings gifts the night before Easter and deposits them in the hats or bonnets of young children. It’s

believed the symbolism of rab-bits and springtime dates back even further, believed to be a leftover from the pagan festival of Eostre, a Germanic goddess whose symbol was a hare.

The reported connection between eggs and Easter are just as varied as the Easter bunny, with reported connec-tions between Pagan traditions and those of Christianity. Ac-cording to multiple sources, Easter eggs are believed to rep-resent the rebirth and new life of spring, or the tomb of Jesus

Christ with either the shell rep-resenting the sealed tomb (or the stone used to seal it.) It’s believed the tradition of egg-rolling — a race where chil-dren roll hard-boiled, decorated eggs with a long-handled spoon — represents rolling away the rock from Jesus Christ’s tomb prior to his resurrection. Ad-ditionally, decorating eggs for Easter is a tradition that is be-lieved to date back to at least the 13th century and were com-monly dyed red to represent the blood of Jesus Christ that was

shed on the cross.According to the Nation-

al Confectioners Association, about 77 percent of North Americans buy or create an Easter basket for their chil-dren, with candy or chocolate dominating as the most popu-lar filling. The first chocolate eggs were made in Europe in the early 19th century, ac-cording to the association, and their popularity contin-ues to this day. Easter is the second top-selling holiday for candy behind Halloween.

So how did a bunny, eggs, and chocolate become part of Easter?

Parkinson’s is unfor-tunately getting more and more common.

Parkinson’s disease is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor

system. This causes shaking, rigidity, slowness of move-ment, and difficulty with walking.

When I was growing up in the 80s, we had never heard of Parkinson’s, nor did

we know anyone afflicted by it. When I first heard that a family member was diag-nosed with it, I thought, “Oh well, this isn’t so bad, we can beat this”. Now, three years or so after they we’re diagnosed, I have lost my dad and my sister to this terrible disease. You may not know them, but some people you do know who have Parkinson’s are: Mohammed Ali, Michael J.

Fox, and Neil Diamond, just to name a few.

This is a terrible disease to watch your loved ones suf-fer with. Doctors claim that its not a fatal disease, that it will not kill you, but I care to differ. I sat and watched this disease eat away at my father and sister. Over time it made them weaker and weaker, un-til their muscles essentially stopped working entirely.

They began having difficulty swallowing, and therefore couldn’t eat. Eventually, they essentially starved to death.

What I would like you to know is, Cancer, MS, etc, are not the only serious diseases out there. Parkinson’s is also becoming very serious. So please, in this month of April, lets show we care and let’s be aware. We may just find a cure. Kim Pakoo-Cyr

April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month


Easter ServicesNotre Dame du Laus Parish (Powerview) :Good Friday – Passion of the Lord – 3 pmHoly Saturday - Blessing of the Easter Foods and Garden Seeds – 12 NoonSaturday Easter Vigil – Resurrection of the Lord – 9 pmEaster Sunday : Resurrection of the Lord – 11 am

Paroisse St-Georges Church: Holy Thursday – The Lord’s Supper – 7pm(Bilingual)Good Friday – The Way of the Cross – 7 pmEaster Sunday – Ressurection of the Lord – 9am

Pine Falls United Church: Sunday: 10:30am

St. Alexander Parish(Sagkeeng): Holy Thursday – 7pm Good Friday - 11am Saturday - 8pm Easter Sunday - 10am

St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Par-ish (Grand Marais): Holy Thursday: 7pmGood Friday: 3pmSunday : 10am

Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Stead):Saturday: 6pmSunday: 12pm

Wishing everyone a Peaceful and Blessed

Easter Season

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By Don Norman

Candian Nuclear Labo-ratories (CNL) will be taking a group of

First Nation, Metis and local community representatives to Hallam, Nebraska April 3rd – 5th. Hallam Nebraska is home to the one of the first decommissioned nuclear re-actors using the in situ meth-od. This is the method that is being proposed for the WR-1 reactor at the Whiteshell site.

“We are going down in time to witness their annual site inspection and learn about how the site is performing,” said Mitch MacKay, Manager, Whiteshell Closure Project Stakeholder Relations with

Canadian Nuclear Labo-ratories. “CNL thought it was a good opportunity for our local communities to expe-rience and interact with the technique CNL is proposing for the management of the lia-bilities here at the Whiteshell Laboratories site.”

The delegations head-ing to Nebraska include: Lac du Bonnet MLA, Wayne Ewasko; Patricia Mitchell and Oral Johnston of Black River First Nation; Gordon Bluesky and Buddy Prince of Brokenhead First Nation;

and Marilyn Courchene and Vince Fontaine of Sagkeeng First Nation. In addition, the delegation will include representatives from Wabas-eemoong First Nation, the Manitoba Metis Federation, the Whiteshell Communi-ty Economic Regeneration Partnership; and Whiteshell Closure Project Public Li-aison Committee (PLC is comprised of representatives from across the region with a purpose to provide a forum to share information and dis-cuss the health, safety, envi-ronmental and regulatory is-sues within the scope of the Whiteshell Laboratories Clo-sure Project).

CNL has faced signifi-cant criticism from environ-mental groups for changing what was originally planned for the site, which was to re-move the core and dispose of it elsewhere. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) con-ducted its first environmental assessment for completing the decommissioning of the Whiteshell site, in 1999. That Report called for the complete removal of the WR-1, facili-ties, associated systems and components. Waste from the removal would be removed,

classified, segregated and placed in interim storage on site. The below-grade con-crete structure would largely remain in place.

At that time, AECL had little experience in decom-missioning sites and as time progressed, it became appar-ent that the risks with moving and disposing of radioactive material were greater than if they were entombed and left on site.

AECL tasked CNL (as the contractor which manages and operates the Whiteshell

site on its behalf) to find so-lutions to safely and efficient-ly decommission and close the site. CNL proposed the in situ decommissioning of WR-1 as the approach which was most appropriate to pro-tect the environment, reduce occupational health and safe-ty risks, and reduce the cost and timeframe of decommis-sioning WR-1.

So, the idea of bringing these groups to Nebraska is to quell some of the fears that people have of the in situ method. CNL believes that

the entombed reactor in Ne-braska provides a good exam-ple for understanding the in situ method and performance. “The Hallam reactor is con-siderably bigger because it was a power reactor and a different design,” explains McKay. “This means that there is significantly more radioactivity encased at the Hallam site.” The facility sits at a similar depth from the surface and soil conditions are relatively the same. How-ever, proximity to a body of water is different, WR-1 sits about 500 metres from the Winnipeg River. The Hallam site does not sit in the same proximity to a similar body of water, but there is an aqui-fer in the Hallam region that sits at about 45 metres below ground level.

“All these groups (the delegations heading to Ne-braska) have been engaged on the project and have shown interest in learning more about the in situ proposal,” says McKay. “The idea would be that these representatives would return and have an op-portunity to share their expe-riences with their respective communities.”

“This is a unique op-portunity because we will be at the site when they are conducting their annual in-spection,” McKay continued. “The group will be able to see and ask questions about the performance of the site. At the same time some local representatives will be there so the group can get a per-spective on what it is like to have this facility in the com-munity.”

Local delegates head to Nebraska to get a snapshot of what decomissioning a reactor looks like in-situ

The Hallam reactor near Lincoln Nebraska


Sports

By: Bernice Phillips

The Pineview Saints Ar-chery Club is pleased to announce that our

archers who attended the Manitoba games in Thomp-son, Manitoba gave a very good showing.

Zachary Coss thrilled the crowd by shooting nine ten-point shots (which was 3 perfect rounds) during the

Local Archers Bring Home The Gold

Pineview Saints Archery Club gave a good showing at the Manitoba Games in Thompson

medal round for a total of 142 out of a possible 150 points earning him Gold in the men’s compound competi-tion. This score was enough to beat his nearest competi-tor Sloan Scrivener from Winnipeg who scored 137, both very impressive scores. He also teamed up with Tay-lor Klimchuk from Fisher Branch for mixed compound

shoot winning them the Bronze metal.

The standing of the other members from our club are as follows; Clayton Jasper -

4th in recurve, Ethan Coss 4th in compound, Eliza-beth Phillips 5th in recurve, Jolene McKay 6th in recurve and Trinity Kleyh 7th in re-

curve! Our club is very proud

of all our athletes for all their hard work and commitment to archery.

Sagkeeng Teams Have a Great Weekend at Indigenous Hockey Tournament - Midget Girls Take Gold!

Sagkeeng Female Midget team took first place in the MICEC Tournament last weekend.

All the Sagkeeng teams entered in the MI-CEC tournament last

weekend did very well. In ad-dition to the Midget Females winning the Gold Medal, the Novice team came 2nd, the PeeWee A1 team came 3rd, the Bantam AA team came in 3rd and the Midget Males came in 2nd.

“What a great way to end the Sagkeeng Hawks hockey season at the 31st MICEC hockey tournament,” said Coach Allister Courchene on the Sagkeeng Minor Hockey Facebook page. “In all my

years in attending this tour-nament this is the best I’ve seen our association per-form, on Sunday at 12:00 pm we had representation from every division still compet-ing and vying to contend for championships.”

Courchene went on to congratulate the teams, the coaches, the players and the hockey community at large. “It is truly amazing in how our communities of Sag-keeng, Little Black River, Hollow Water, Pine Falls, Manigotagan and the Beach-es all come together as one!


Sports

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By: Vince Clark

The 22nd annual Rob Thomas Memorial Hockey Tournament

took place on the weekend of March 16th,17th & 18th. The men’s side consisted of seven teams, The Pine Falls Ol’Kings, The St-Georges Voyageurs, The Powerview Old Timers(Their real team name had to be omitted due to explicit content), The Beaches Binmuckers, The Pineview Lumberjacks, The Bannock Boys, and the Sea-ward. The games were split between Pine Falls’ Sunova Arena, and the Sagkeeng Arena Multiplex, to allow the women’s side the ice time re-quired to play their games.

The Binmuckers were the heavy favourites, having not lost a single game this year on their way to three tournament championships. However, the tournament was pretty evenly matched overall.

The tournament started off with a bang, as the Lum-berjacks battled the Ol’Kings in a feisty game. Each team had a player ejected, there were multiple 10 minute misconducts, and even a

disallowed goal enroute to a 6-5 shootout victory for the Ol’Kings.

The action continued to be fierce throughout the weekend, and, when the dust settled, it all came down to the Binmuckers vs the Sea-ward for the championship.

The Binmuckers walked through the round robin un-defeated, only needing three games to make the final. The Seaward on the other hand, had an incredibly difficult draw. After losing their first game to the Binmuckers 5-4 on a buzzer-beating goal with seconds left on the clock, they faced a daunting task. The team, which is an amalga-mation of the Lac du Bonnet Ol’Blues and the Pinawa Rats, needed to win three consecu-tive games, back to back to back, with no rest in between. Somehow, someway, they suc-ceeded, and earned a rematch with the Binmuckers, follow-ing one more victory Sunday morning.

The championship game was a spectacle to behold. The entire game was filled with tense, edge-of-your-seat ac-tion. Both teams scored early

on, and the game was tied, 1-1. Then the goalies seemed to have decided enough was enough. They made spec-tacular save after spectacular save, with the crowd com-pletely enthralled the entire way. Then, it happened. With approximately 12 minutes left in the second and final peri-od, the Binmuckers broke the tie. Just when we thought the game couldn’t get any more entertaining, the Binmuckers suddenly couldn’t stay out of the penalty box. Their penalty kill was stellar however, and, backed by goaltender Nolan Scrivens, killed three con-secutive 5-on-3 powerplays. With around three minutes remaining, the seaward pulled

their goalie, and began really peppering Scrivens and the Binmuckers. The Seaward hit the crossbar twice in the dying seconds, and Scrivens stood tall, allowing the Binmuckers to complete their storybook undefeated season with a 2-1 victory.

The women’s side con-sisted of 4 teams, The Drunk Pucks, the Lazers, the Saints, and Barky’s Younguns. The women’s side followed a dif-ferent format. Whereas the men’s was an elaborately crafted tournament bracket, the women’s was a simple round robin. This means ev-ery team plays eachother

once, and their win/loss re-cords determine playoff seed-ing. Following round robin play, the Lazers were a per-fect 3-0, The Drunk Pucks were 2-1, The Saints were 1-2, and the Younguns were 0-3.

The Lazers predictably walked through the playoffs, and were met by the Drunk Pucks in the final. The game began closely matched, but the Lazers pulled away in the second period, and won 7-3.

A big thank you goes out to all the staff at both arenas, as well as all the hardworking volunteers who helped make the tournament a complete success.

2018 Rob Thomas Memorial Hockey Tournament

Women’s Side Champion - The Lazers

Men’s Side Champion - The Binmuckers


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Recreation

Originally published by CDEM

Officially launched on March 31, 2017, RVandBee is poised

to revolutionize the RV world. What’s more, this national project, which has already set its sights on the rest of North America, was the brainchild of Daniel Picard. It’s an innova-tive idea with the potential to promote growth in Manitoba’s tourism and economic sectors.

The Airbnb-inspired principle is simple: individu-als rent their land to RVers or campers via the RVand-Bee website. “Our site is for people interested in hosting guests on their property or campers looking for a place to park other than a camp-ground,” says Daniel Picard. “60% of RVers are now cou-ples between the ages of 35 and 65. They travel without children, seeking solitude, the open road and quieter destinations.”

Daniel Picard hails from Wendake, Quebec, which is where it all started in 2015, when he had the idea for his own property. “I realized that I had a beautiful piece of land that city folk might enjoy. I’d been an RVer for more than 25 years, so I felt they were the perfect people to host.”

It was an immediate suc-cess. The pilot project took shape, and RVandBee was voted booth of the year at the Quebec Recreational Vehicle Show! While he had been planning to retire, Daniel Picard decided to start fresh and throw himself into this new business venture.

Property owners have complete freedom: they set their rental rate, which can change depending on the sea-son and the services offered. “We charge and keep very little money. Our real goal is to get people to travel and discover Canada, in French. There are so many beauti-ful spots in this country. For the past 25 years, I have been trying to convince people to explore it and to visit the most beautiful fishing lakes located in Manitoba.”

Today, RVandBee has ex-panded considerably beyond Quebec. As a partner of Joie de Vivre Manitoba, CDEM’s tourism sector, RVandBee can contribute to the economic growth of Francophone tour-

ism in Manitoba and help ad-dress some of its challenges. “It’s a wonderful project,” says Roselle Turenne, CDEM tour-ism consultant. “We’ve been trying for years to attract Que-beckers to our province. Often, it’s the fear of travelling with-out being able to speak your own language that stops people from coming. RVandBee has the potential to bring them into our bilingual communities.”

The project has also es-tablished partnerships with campgrounds. This is a big advantage for travellers, es-pecially during the summer months, when campsites are often full. “For the same rate, these campgrounds will send campers to a nearby RVand-Bee partner that has the same camping facilities and servic-es,” says Daniel Picard.

There is great potential on the horizon. Some Mani-tobans have already regis-tered and are ready to receive travellers. Take St. Malo resi-dent, Angèle Bernardin, who offers a charming spot that is perfect for enjoying summer sunsets in a secluded part of the village. “We are right next to the river and have enough space for two or three trailers. While we still have several services to set up, we are ea-ger to meet people from other places!”

The next step is to es-tablish a Francophone travel route across Canada, slated for launch in the very near fu-

ture. “We want to develop this major project so that anyone can travel across Canada in French,” says Daniel Picard.

Officiellement en route depuis le 31 mars 2017, RVandBee, s’apprête à révo-lutionner le monde des cara-vaniers. Plus encore, c’est un projet d’envergure nationale, voire nord-américaine, que Daniel Picard a créé de toutes pièces. Grâce à cette idée révolutionnaire, les secteurs touristique et économique du Manitoba pourraient faire un pas de géant.

Inspiré de Airbnb, le principe est simple : les par-ticuliers louent leur terrain à des caravaniers ou campeurs, grâce au site web de RVand-Bee. « On s’adresse à qui-conque veut recevoir des gens ou voyager, ailleurs que dans les campings, explique Daniel Picard. Le caravaning est de-venu une activité de couple, à 60 %. Ces gens entre 35 et 65 ans, sans enfants, cherchent la solitude, le dépaysement et des endroits plus tranquilles. »

Daniel Picard vient de Wendake, au Québec. C’est là que tout commence en 2015, lorsqu’il a essayé cette idée sur son propre terrain. « Je trouvais que j’avais un beau terrain et que, peut-être, les gens de la ville aimeraient en profiter. Étant caravanier depuis plus de 25 ans, ça m’a semblé idéal d’accueillir ce public.

Très vite, c’est un succès.

Le projet pilote prend forme et lors de sa participation au Salon du véhicule récréatif de Québec, RVandBee est le ki-osque de l’année! Alors qu’il allait prendre sa retraite, Dan-iel Picard a préféré repartir à zéro et de se lancer dans cette nouvelle aventure.

Les propriétaires de ter-rains sont autonomes : ils décident du prix de leur loca-tion, qui peut changer selon la saison ou selon les ser-vices. « On charge très peu et on garde très peu d’argent. Notre véritable but, c’est que les gens voyagent et qu’ils découvrent le Canada, en français. Il y a tellement de beaux endroits dans ce pays! Ça fait 25 ans que j’essaie de convaincre les gens d’aller le visiter, jusqu’aux plus beaux lacs de pêche, qui se trouvent au Manitoba. »

Aujourd’hui, RVandBee prend beaucoup d’ampleur à l’extérieur du Québec. En tant que partenaire de Joie de vivre Manitoba, le secteur touris-tique du CDEM, RVandBee contribue à l’épanouissement économique et aux enjeux du tourisme francophone du Manitoba. « C’est un très beau projet, se réjouit Roselle Turenne, conseillère en tour-isme pour le CDEM. On es-saye depuis plusieurs années d’attirer des Québécois dans notre province. Souvent, c’est la peur de voyager sans pou-voir communiquer dans sa langue qui freine les gens.

RVandBee a le potentiel de les attirer dans nos commu-nautés bilingues. »

Le projet établit égale-ment des partenariats avec les campings. Un grand avantage pour les voyageurs, surtout durant l’été, lorsque les ter-rains de camping affichent souvent complet. « Pour le même tarif, ces campings en-verront les campeurs chez un partenaire RVandBee, proche du terrain, tout en ayant accès aux mêmes infrastructures et services du camping », expli-que Daniel Picard.

Un gros potentiel est donc en ligne de mire. D’ailleurs, certains Manitobains sont déjà inscrits et prêts à ac-cueillir les voyageurs. C’est le cas d’Angèle Bernardin, ré-sidente de Saint-Malo. Dans un coin privé du village, elle met à disposition un endroit charmant, idéal pour admirer les couchers de soleil d’été. « Nous sommes au bord de la rivière, et nous avons assez d’espace pour accueillir deux ou trois roulotes. Il nous reste encore plusieurs services à mettre en place, mais nous avons hâte de rencontrer des gens d’ailleurs! »

Prochaine étape : établir une route francophone au Canada, qui sera lancée très prochainement. « Nous vou-lons développer ce projet, de grande envergure, pour que n’importe qui puisse travers-er le Canada, en français », lance Daniel Picard.

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Arts & Lifetstyle

For this month, Winni-peg River Arts Coun-cil revisits previously

featured visual artist Roberta Laliberte, who grew up Pine Falls and still lives there.

When she was young, Laliberte learned by copying. In a small community, before the internet, it was all she had. She said, “I thought my art had to look super realistic. Later on, I wanted to show viewers how I saw the world, and not replicate it perfectly.”

She began studying artists online, learning techniques and finding new mediums to interpret in her own way. In 1993, she attended fine arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, but did not complete a degree. She said, “At the time, I didn’t see the value. Now I see it.”

Recently, she has devel-oped her application process, influenced by every-day ex-periences. She prefers paper as a surface but likes mixed media, adding more of them to her repertoire, such as chalk pastels and differ-ent charcoals. Also, texture,

WRAC Featured Artist Roberta Laliberte

shape and colour inspire her. She said, “I now lean

towards semi-abstract or ab-stract landscapes and still life, with loose, spontaneous passages and thick impasto sections.”

Laliberte instructs artist in schools, private classes, and online groups with stu-dents from all over the world. She helps teachers with pro-fessional development and

has earned a Community Collaborative Arts Coordina-tor Certificate, awarded by Creative Manitoba, a Winni-

peg organization dedicated to professional artists’ devel-opment. She spent a week at the Lincoln Center in New

York, taking their Interna-tional Educator Workshop, which uses inquiry-based ap-proaches to learning.

Ballerina, by Roberta LaLiberte

Before They Migrate, by Roberta LaLiberte

Roberta LaLiberte


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WE THE PEOPLE OF THE RIVERNOUS LES GENS DE LA RIVIÈRE

Since the Industrial Rev-olution, spinning yarn and thread by hand has

slipped from being an every-day household practice to a rare skill, but it’s not a lost art. The Comité Culturel Chateau-guay put on a special work-shop @ École Saint-Georges School, on March 22nd, 2018 to prove that it’s not. The workshop was to teach par-ticipants how to spin yarn us-ing a spinning wheel but also show the steps needed to take it to that level.

Rita Caya, a former resi-dent who grew up in Great Falls was invited out with her spinning wheel to demonstrate how she makes her own yarns, and how she is keeping that tradition alive. When asked when, and why she started spinning she talked about her grandmother who used to spin and an aunt & uncle Jean-Paul and Marie-Ange Caya who at one time had close to 500 sheep on their farm here.

Rita knits her homespun yarn into gloves, toques/hats, scarves, slippers, etc. with some of her own alpaca wool, as she used to raise them on her farm in East Selkirk. Her mother Claire and sister Co-lette are also knitters and their work was featured at the St-Georges Bazaar every year and now @ the Snowflake Bazaar. Their work stands out because of its homemade feel.

Participants to the work-shop had a definite reaction to something unique when they saw Rita’s work primarily be-cause she spins delicacy and

intricacy into her own work. There’s a personal feeling that people can relate to be-cause it was handspun and handwoven.

Before spinning ma-chinery became widespread, when most people wanted new clothing, they made it themselves, a far cry from the modern convenience of to-day’s readymade items. Los-ing touch with the process that goes into creating the clothes we wear can have un-intentional consequences.

The farther away we get from how things are made, the more we lose appreciation for what we have, and then eventually, appreciation for the people who put work into making them. Everything today is manufactured, and when you don’t know where things come from, you lose appreciation for it. There’s a disconnect there. When asked why she took up spin-ning Rita said “ for me, spin-ning yarn and then using it to make other things was a way to reconnect with the old way of doing things so that it doesn’t get lost.”

Many people still do want to explore the world with and are attracted to objects that made by our hands and cre-ated with our bodies. That’s why home-improvement shows are all the rage. Peo-ple are hungry for creativity that’s self-initiated.

Some people still con-sider weaving and spinning a hobby favored by great-grandmas. Spinning is an-

cient, and something very few people know how to do any more, yet it can be fasci-nating.

Because it’s something that used to be so common-place it doesn’t have to be a lost art, because you can progress from weaving pot-holders as a child to earning a master’s degree in fine arts and fibers later on at Univer-sity, which many young peo-ple are doing today.

While people used to have to rely on knitting, weaving and spinning to clothe them-selves and make household items on a daily basis, now, the reason people do it is to enjoy the process.

Rita showed the differ-ence in feel between sheep wool and alpaca wool. She also explained and demon-strated how to create single ply and two-ply wool, using different techniques to the ap-proximately 18 people present, and not all of them were ladies folks. Wilfrid Chevrefils was there, as his mother Beatrice used to spin wool and he re-

Spinning Wheel Workshop at St-Georges School

members carding wool with her which says he did not like doing and he willingly helped his mother create the 2-ply wool fiber ball.

The workshop was timely in that the school has been providing bi-weekly knitting classes since the beginning of February. The students in the

knitting class also had the op-portunity to use yarn to create their Easter Sheep Master-pieces in their art class with Mme Trisha Dubé who talked her father into cutting out the sheep for the class project. It’s important to stay connected to how things were done so that people do not forget.

Ms. Caya operating her Spinning Wheel

Students in Mme Dubé’s Art Class

The sheep the children created for Easter


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