Meadow’s Park Commemorates Tyler Dyck

A unique rocket monument and pocket park was recently built by friends, neighbours and family in Steinbach’s neighbourhood park of Tyler Dyck (1985-2009).

Ty’s Pocket Park on Coral Crescent, Steinbach, MB
A unique rocket monument and pocket park was recently built by friends, neighbours and family in Steinbach’s neighbourhood park of Tyler Dyck (1985-2009). Continue reading “Meadow’s Park Commemorates Tyler Dyck”

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”

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”

The Kehler Immigration to Canada

Steam Ship Moravian No.25
Steam Ship Moravian No.25

Elizabeth Schultz (Kehler) was only 8 years old on July 1, 1875, marking the day the Aron Schultz family arrived Canada, via Quebec on the S.S. Moravian.  The S.S. Moravian had 667 Mennonites on board (Bergthal and Chortitza) under the leadership of Gerhard Wiebe. Click here to see the S.S. Moravian Passenger List, 2815 Aron Schultz.

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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”