CARILLON SPORTS SECOND SHOTS: Aug. 20th edition

Featuring photos from a Carillon Sultans WSBL home playoff game Aug. 12, the U13 AAA and 14U Girls Western Canada Baseball Championships in Ile des Chenes Aug. 14 and an Eastman Raiders Bantam game at A.D. Penner Aug. 15.

1946 – 2026 Watching Steinbach Grow: Being a veterinarian is no easy way to make a living

APRIL 11, 1973—Interviewing Dr. Steve Sonya in spurts between dozens of phone calls and interruptions, it becomes very apparent that being a veterinarian is no easy way to make a living.

On call 24 hours a day, the rural veterinarian is constantly harried. He is expected to make house calls, sometimes 80 miles away, and is constantly roused out of sleep to attend to emergencies, and called up without regard to weekends or holidays.

But that is the name of the game as far as a rural veterinary practise is concerned, and Sonya sees it as such.

In 1972, Sonya had been the Steinbach area’s only permanent vet for over 16 years, though there were temporary assistants and summer replacements, on occasion. The reason there was onlyone vet, Sonya said, was that his office at his Reimer Ave. residence. didn’t have room for a second one.

Outgoing councillor reflects on 20-year tenure

Steinbach City Councillor Jac Siemens brought numbers and memories to the floor as he delivered the opening during Tuesday’s meeting.

Councillors in Steinbach take turns offering an opening to their regular meetings, and for Siemens this was the 61st time he had that honour.

He used the time to reflect on his five terms on council. Siemens is one of two sitting councillors who will not run again.

He said he’s run in five election campaigns, purchased 40 election signs in the first election and used them through all five campaigns.

Ile-des-Chenes mother supporting women suffering from postpartum with fundraising walk

When Reese Dyck had her daughter two years ago, she felt joy but at the same time she had a lot of anxiety coupled with intrusive thoughts. She was chronically anxious about whether her daughter Sailor Jade would still be breathing in her crib when she slept. This led to Dyck sacrificing her own sleep to check on her daughter every 15 minutes.

She also would be anxious about leaving the house or letting anyone hold her firstborn thinking they might not hold her properly, make her ill, or worse drop her. This anxiety never truly subsided and was tied to severe suicidal depression when Dyck had her son Sonnet 11 months later.

“It was, without a doubt, the worst time in my life. It makes me sad to say that because, obviously, the newborn stage is something that you want to enjoy… I don’t remember a lot of the first year of his life because I was just in survival mode,” she shared.

Through all this, Dyck tried to get help through prescribed medication and the Steinbach Family Resource Centre, but she found there was still a lack of support for mothers suffering from postpartum.

First Gardenton Truck and Tractor Pull has heart at its center

Antique and modified tractors and trucks roared into action billowing thick smoke out of their stack pipes as the first Gardenton Truck and Tractor Pull revved into gear last weekend.

The event at Gardenton Museum and Park was founded by Tolstoi resident Jake Wiebe. Wiebe, a five-year puller who owns his own construction company, decided to hold the competition in Stuartburn a year ago. Initially, he wanted to have it in his hometown, but wasn’t able to so he asked the Gardenton Museum if he could hold it on their grounds.

“I’m very grateful for the park here that we have, that we can use these facilities here. It has been very nice,” he said.

In preparation, Wiebe mowed the exhibition grounds, removed the topsoil and laid down the clay for the track, and he installed safety measures for the event. He got sponsorships from businesses in Steinbach, Grunthal, Altona, and Gardenton to help with the grounds and equipment.

Eastman Flames heading to Southeast Event Centre

The Southeast Event Centre is the new home for the Eastman Flames Special Olympics track team.

The team had been training inside the hallways of Steinbach Regional Secondary School, but will now be using the SEC’s walking track every Monday evening starting in October.

“All of our athletes and coaches are so grateful for this opportunity,” Eastman Flames head coach Lisa Zdrill said in a SEC news release.

“We want to say a huge thank you to the Southeast Event Centre and surrounding community for making this possible. We cannot wait to start training in October and will see you on the track.”

Steinbach’s Dairy Queen gives ‘Blizzard’ conditions for Children’s Miracle Network

There were Blizzard conditions in Steinbach along with a welcome response from the community on Aug. 13 as Dairy Queen in Steinbach hosted Miracle Treat Days to raise funds for the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba.

DQ owner Stewart Holditch said the annual event raised $12,604 for the charity with 2,276 blizzards sold, which is an increase from last year’s record of over $3,000 and 300 orders raised.

“It was just crazy busy back here that day. Obviously, this is one of the best days of the year for us but this year was over the top. We were just bumpin’ back here. All of our volunteers were just amazed at the turnout which was steady the whole day, with the drive-thru lined up right around the building. The community really came out to support the charity drive, and we are just incredibly grateful,” said Holditch.

Over $2 million has been raised by Dairy Queen in Manitoba since the Miracle Days drive started, and this year’s efforts will go towards funding essential research at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba centred towards fighting childhood illnesses.

1946 – 2026 Watching Steinbach Grow: Summer job pays for vet’s winter’s school

Summer is holiday time for most people, but for thousands of high school and university students across the country, summer is worktime as well. Summer is a time to accumulate that extra cash needed to carry a student through the winter and pay the next term’s university tuition fees.

Finding a job for the summer of 1968 was not easy. Across Canada there were 20,000 university students who hadn’t found a job by August and even in the busy Steinbach area, the summer employment situation was not that much better.

Ten university students and 100 high school students made applications through Canada Manpower in June and July that year.

Penner’s Tomboy employed from 15 to 20 part-time and full-time student helpers during the summer, but in 1968 the Seinbach grocer had to refuse jobs for three times as many as he hired.

La Broquerie golfers punch ticket to national championships

Eight players from La Broquerie will be representing the province, as they earned spots at the upcoming PGA Scramble National Final, which will be hosted at Cabot Links Golf Course in Nova Scotia this fall.

Paul Gauthier, Leo Laramee, Steve Hildebrand, Mitch Tetrault and PGA Professional Elijah Durksen had the low gross score at the event. That team qualified through Quarry Oaks Golf Course.

A team of Rejean Carrière, Derrek Funk, Claude St. Hilaire, Alain Beauchamp and PGA Professional Colwyn Abgrall posted the low net score of the tournament, qualifying through Carman Golf Course.

Local qualifiers are played under the traditional scramble format, where every player gets a chance to hit on every hole, with each member of a team needing to contribute three tee shots across the 18-hole round.

SPORTS FLASHBACK 1984: Saints defeat Sultans in all-Hanover final

The Ste Anne Saints came back from a five-run deficit to edge the Friedensfeld Sultans 6-5 in the final game of the 1984 Manitoba Intermediate ‘A’ Fastball championships in Steinbach.

The Sultans came back up the ‘B’ side of the draw after a 6-4 loss to the Saints in the ‘A’ side final.

Friedensfeld appeared to be on their way to a victory and another chance at the Saints in the A-B final, as they scored a run in the first inning, added one in the second and went ahead 5-0 in the third.

The Saints started their comeback in their half of the third, when they got two runs to trail 5-2 at that point.