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In conjunction with Fire Prevention Week last week, many fire departments across Manitoba held open houses. There were several throughout the southeast as well.

When you and I have a vision, a mental picture or a revelation our immediate problem is how to turn that vision into fact.

Let me tell you what I love about Netflix, it has a bunch of old TV series and movies that I watched as a kid and find appalling as an adult.

Over the course of four summers, Mennonite Heritage Village partnered with the University of Winnipeg on an archaeology project at the sites of the remains of two housebarns built in the 1870s in the former Mennonite village of Blumenhof, three miles north of Steinbach.

Are you filling up on fibre? If not, you should be! Registered Holistic Nutritionist Caroline Farquhar states, “It is recommended that people consume 25-35 grams of fibre daily for optimal health but the average Canadian gets less than 15 grams!”

Fans of the long running sitcom television show Seinfeld will remember that it was sometimes described as the “show about nothing.” It was hard not to think about that description last Sunday as the NDP brought its pre-budget consultation meeting to Ile-des-Chenes.

Our cities are crowded. And yet, there are more lonely people who live pointless, purposeless lives than ever before. Why?

Every day I witness the steady and unnecessarily fast decline of elderly folks who are admitted to acute hospital wards to await placement in Personal Care Homes.

The Manitoba NDP government has launched pre-budget consultations in advance of next year’s budget. This is an annual exercise where the government asks Manitobans what they want to see in the budget.

The Waldheim House is our oldest heritage building and the first one brought to this site. It was built around 1876 by Julius Dyck in the village of Waldheim, Manitoba, three miles south of Morden.