Author: Berliner

Manitoba On Menu – Horfrost Restaurant

Travel Manitoba together with Jackfish Media and ITV Winnipeg review Horfrost Restaurant

Travel Manitoba together with Jackfish Media and ITV Winnipeg review Horfrost Restaurant:

Chris Kehler, a Berliner Kehler –  son of (the late) Edgar & Helen Kehler,  together with business partner Jeff Mialkowski, opened the fine dining restaurant Horfrost, in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in October 2007. The restaurant sits along River Road across from Ecole Arthur Meighen School.

Horfrost Restaurant

The End – Marjorie Anne Heinrichs

MARJORIE ANNE HEINRICHS was born in Morris, Man., on March 2, 1956, the second of six children born to Helen and Sydney Reimer, a financial adviser

 
Illustration by Jack Dylan

As published by Nancy Macdonald, Macleans – The End

After the death of her first-born, she found solace and healing with her native neighbours. She especially loved the sweat lodge.

MARJORIE ANNE HEINRICHS was born in Morris, Man., on March 2, 1956, the second of six children born to Helen and Sydney Reimer, a financial adviser. Marj, a redhead with a fiery personality and a yen for storytelling, grew up in the prosperous, conservative Mennonite community of Rosenort. She was an opinionated and curious tomboy—not your average Mennonite girl. TV and radio, the church believed, were a sin. Hard work brought you closer to God.

At 14, she met Jim Heinrichs, “the cutest boy in school,” as she described him. Gentle Jim, shy and soft-spoken, was her polar opposite. They married in 1974, after graduating from Rosenort Collegiate, and moved onto a hog farm west of town. Continue reading “The End – Marjorie Anne Heinrichs”

Christmas Baking

My sister-in-law and I were crossing into the U.S. a few weeks ago to spend a day shopping and to pick up our baking supplies for our Christmas baking. The border agent asked us the purpose of our visit and we told him about our baking supply list and he asked us if we were planning on making “divinity.”

Val Kehler Reimer
Val Reimer

My sister-in-law and I were crossing into the U.S. a few weeks ago to spend a day shopping and to pick up our baking supplies for our Christmas baking. The border agent asked us the purpose of our visit and we told him about our baking supply list and he asked us if we were planning on making “divinity.” I got real curious on this “divinity” and searched high and low for a recipe so I could try this scrumptious candy that he said was a “must” on a Christmas plate of dainties. Continue reading “Christmas Baking”