Oh So Lovely

They call it Oh So Lovely, and isn’t it just that: this summer, Winnipeg friends Erin Thiessen and Stefanie Hiebert are rolling their button-cute vintage trailer around Manitoba. But this is no mere road-tripping. The trailer is actually a mobile vintage shop, and these ladies are on a mission: to make everything old become new again.

Winnipeg Free Press

Oh So Lovely
Olive, the 1956 camper trailer, a mobile vintage shop.

They call it Oh So Lovely, and isn’t it just that: this summer, Winnipeg friends Erin Thiessen and Stefanie Hiebert are rolling their button-cute vintage trailer around Manitoba. But this is no mere road-tripping. The trailer is actually a mobile vintage shop, and these ladies are on a mission: to make everything old become new again. Continue reading “Oh So Lovely”

Canada Day!

Today, July 1, 2011 Canada celebrates it’s 144th year since Confederation. While Canada Day celebrates the events that occurred on July 1, 1867, when the British North America (BNA) Act created the Canadian federal government, the Kehler Clan can celebrate this day for another reason.

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Today,  July 1, 2011 Canada celebrates it’s 144th year since Confederation. While Canada Day celebrates the events that occurred on this day in 1867, when the British North America (BNA) Act created the Canadian federal government, the Kehler Clan celebrates for another reason.

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Kehler Babushka

 

Al Reimer
Al Reimer

By Al Reimer

I never knew my maternal grandfather Jacob K. Kehler, who died four years before I was born. And yet, I’ve often felt that he knew me, that he has lived inside me all these years, inspiring my love language, firing my bursts of imagination, shaping my temperament and slyly stimulating my fondness for verbal acrobatics and the telling of tall tales.

Why do I make this somewhat bizarre claim? Because the older I get the more strongly I can feel my immediate begetters, my parents and grandparents, wrapping themselves ever more tightly around my own identity–like those Russian (babushka) dolls that fit so snugly inside each other. And the more I think and learn about those begetters, the more intimate that feeling becomes. And the more richly satisfying the process of self-exploration becomes.

Read the rest of this article (in PDF), as published in Preservings, No.14, June, 1999

Hit and Run on Roblin Boulevard

 Manitoba RCMP News  – A man is in custody following a pedestrian getting struck by a westbound car on Roblin Boulevard. On April 30, 2011, at about 1:30am, Headingley RCMP were called to a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian on Roblin Boulevard, about one kilometre west of the Perimeter. A 19-year-old male was found … Continue reading “Hit and Run on Roblin Boulevard”

 Manitoba RCMP News  – A man is in custody following a pedestrian getting struck by a westbound car on Roblin Boulevard.

On April 30, 2011, at about 1:30am, Headingley RCMP were called to a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian on Roblin Boulevard, about one kilometre west of the Perimeter.

A 19-year-old male was found on the north shoulder of Roblin Boulevard that had been struck by a westbound car. Continue reading “Hit and Run on Roblin Boulevard”

Joan Doreen Reimer (1930-2011)

Joan Doreen Reimer
Joan Doreen Reimer

On April 6, 2011, Joan Doreen Reimer, nee Frederick, beloved wife of Al Reimer, passed away peacefully at the Grace General Hospital. She was in her 81st year. Joan was born on May 18, 1930 and raised in Pine Falls, Manitoba, the oldest of three siblings, and began her working career there in the office of the Abitibi Paper Mill.

In 1951, Joan married Elmer E (Al) Reimer, who came from Steinbach, Manitoba, and together they raised three children. Joan and Al lived in Toronto and New Haven, Connecticut (where Al pursued graduate studies at Yale), before they settled in Winnipeg. Continue reading “Joan Doreen Reimer (1930-2011)”

Potato Bread

This recipe makes 2 wonderful hearty moist loaves of bread. Delicious with any chowder soup or use the bread to make a sandwich. The mashed potato in this bread is the secret ingredient in this wonderful bread!

This recipe makes 2 wonderful hearty moist loaves of bread. Delicious with any chowder soup or use the bread to make a sandwich. The mashed potato in this bread is the secret ingredient in this wonderful bread!

Potato Bread

Recipe: Potato Bread

Summary: Delicious with any chowder soup!

Submitted by: Valerie Kehler Reimer

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Louise Vera Gladys Olson (1928-2011)

 

Louise Olson
Louise Olson

Louise Olson died peacefully on February 19, 2011, at the age of 82, at the St. Adolphe Personal Care Home.  She was predeceased by her first husband, Martin Giesbrecht as well as her second husband, Clarence Olson.  She will be dearly missed by her daughters, Beverly (Theo), Bonnie (Russ); her son, Nelson; grandchildren: Elena (Jason); Emmanuel (Sarka); Miltos (Neviyah); Peter; Teddy; Matthew (Mel); Joshua; Abe (Danielle); great-grandchildren: Aria; Petra; and Zamar.  She is also deeply mourned by her siblings: Al (Elmer) (Joan); Nita (Guy); Sydney (Helen) and Charlotte. Continue reading “Louise Vera Gladys Olson (1928-2011)”