Community calendar for Rivers and area highlights
June events include Rivers Collegiate graduation awards at 10 a.m. and undergrad awards at 7 p.m. June 23 ACT meeting at 620 Third Avenue. June 24 meetings for RM of Blanshard council chamber and Rivers Train Station Restoration Committee at Millennium Park. Ag Society and work bee at Rivers fairgrounds. June 25 Health Auxiliary at Riverdale Health Centre boardroom. June 28 duck race at Lions Riverside Park and drift racing practice at former Rivers air base runway. July 3 Rivers in Bloom at Prairie Crocus Library. July 4 MGRA horse show. July 7 LUD of Oak River. July 8 RM of Saskatchewan. July 19-20 drift racing practice. July 26 RM of Woodworth 125th. July 27 Caledonian Games in Kenton. Aug 1-4 Rapid City/RM 125th celebrations. Sept 1 and 8 Legion and WI meetings. weekly lawn bowling Mondays and various club events. and Bingo Thursdays and Saturdays at Rivers Legion Hall.
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Riverdale District
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Lions Riverside
Rivers Air Base
Prairie Crocus Regional Library
MGRA
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Oak River
RM of Saskatchewan
Rivers Area
RM of Woodworth
Caledonian
Kenton
Town of
Rapid City
Rivers Legion Ladies Auxiliary
Rivers Legion Hall
Rivers Legion Meeting
Upper Hall
Rivers WI
Main Street
Rivers United Church
Rivers WI Outing Highlights ACC Brandon Tour
Rivers Women's Institute members and guests toured Brandon's ACC campus relocating to North Hill. They explored two floors and the nurses residence as part of the heritage site restoration and viewed the expanded kitchen. The group then visited Home For A Change tea house before returning home. Members will deliver Meals on Wheels in June and noted battery recycling efforts. The September meeting is planned at Pat Duck's home with a Manitoba Heart and Stroke Foundation speaker.
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Rivers Women’s Institute
Brandon
Culinary Arts School
Assiniboine Community College
North Hill
Brandon Mental Health Centre
BMHA
Community College
School For Culinary Arts
BMHC
ACC
Rivers WI
Basswood WI
Super Thrifty Drug Mart
Pat Duck
Main Street
Rivers
Manitoba Heart and Stroke Foundation
Sisterhood
Yvonne
Rivers in Bloom: bleeding heart plants and July meetings
Dorothy Beedie outlines the Rivers in Bloom program with notes on bleeding heart species from Dicentra, care in moist humus soil, and zone ranges 2 through 9. The group met June 12 for garden tour planning and schedules July 20, with Junk Trunk event on July 5. Next meeting is July 3 at 7 p.m. at Prairie Coccus Regional Library.
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Dorothy Beedie
Westoba Credit Union
Rolling Dale Enterprises
Rivers In Bloom
Rivers Fair
Boothman
D. Formosa
Western Bleeding Heart
Pacific Bleeding Heart
Adrian
Bountiful
Prairie Crocus Regional Library
Street Smart Kidz offers free online child safety program
Vancouver Island resident Steven Baird started Street Smart Kidz three years ago with input from RCMP OPP and child safety foundations. It teaches five to fourteen year olds how to spot predators what happens when someone has a criminal record what to do if lost computer safety running away bullying and more. Over 12 000 booklets mailed across Canada including 417 to Manitoba families now online at streetsmartkidz.ca with a free ID kit and Tip of the Week library.
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Steven Baird
RCMP
OPP
Canada
Manitoba
Streetsmartkidz
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Canadian Media Circulation Audit
Mena
Manitoba Community Newspaper Association
Ken and
Chris Waddell
Sheila Runions
Maggie Smallwood
Dianne Kowalchu
Rivers In Bloom Report
Rivers Curling Club
Lonie Pot
Westoba Rivers Credit Union
BBC
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