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Providence women perfect to start MCAC season

Cassidy Dankochik 3 minute read 12:00 PM CDT

The Providence Pilots women’s soccer team didn’t take long to make a statement during their opening match of the season.

Just six minutes into their season-opener against Canadian Mennonite University, Serena Negrich had a pair of goals, and by the time she completed her hat trick in the 20th minute, the game was out of hand with the Pilots leading 5-0.

“It makes life easy for us, at least for our coaching staff,” head coach Tory Walker said with a smile after the win.

“The team’s been showing a lot of growth. This is our first game, but through pre-season I think it showed we’re pretty primed up ready for the year.”

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Oak Park dominates Steinbach in football season opener

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Oak Park dominates Steinbach in football season opener

Cassidy Dankochik 3 minute read 12:00 PM CDT

The Steinbach Regional Sabres didn’t exactly start their 2026 Winnipeg High School Football League campaign how they imagined it.

They would have always been in tough against defending champions Oak Park in their home opener Sept. 11 but when Raiders star AJ Bangura snagged the opening kick-off with a one-handed catch and took it the distance for a clean touchdown, it became clear the Sabres were in for a long day.

“It’s a tough play, (Bangura) is a special player, you saw that out there,” head coach Stephen Fedus said after the game.

“He was tough to stop.”

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Springfield Community Recreation Centre breaks ground

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Springfield Community Recreation Centre breaks ground

Svjetlana Mlinarevic 3 minute read 8:29 AM CDT

The RM of Springfield’s new recreation centre has broken ground and the mayor said it was a long time coming.

“It’s been 34 years coming,” said Mayor Pat Therrien. “That is the specific reason I ran for the mayor’s job. I was literally tired of every election…having some artist’s rendition of a future rec center, and this has been going on for 34 years, as I stated.

“And so, it’s finally up and running. I’m not giving myself a clap on the back there. It just had to focus the topic, and we have to move forward with it, and we finally did.”

The Springfield Community Recreation Centre project will be completed in 2028 and the municipality held a formal sod-turning ceremony on April 16 for the first phase of a two-phase project. This milestone represents the largest infrastructure and community project undertaken by the municipality to date, according to administration.

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Walk with Jesus to be hosted in Steinbach

Greg Vandermeulen 3 minute read Yesterday at 3:53 PM CDT

Organizers of the first Walk with Jesus, a Christian community gathering, say they hope to give people hope.

Denise Sandberg, a member of the organizing committee, said the event planned for Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the K.R. Barkman Park was inspired by the Walk for Jesus held in Winnipeg.

“We had such a great time,” Sandberg, who helped organize as a prayer intercessor said. “We said, we should do this in Steinbach.”

That Steinbach’s event is called Walk with Jesus instead of Walk for Jesus is no mistake.

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COLUMN: Carillon Flashback September 29, 2002 – Grow projects bring out the best

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COLUMN: Carillon Flashback September 29, 2002 – Grow projects bring out the best

Wes Keating 4 minute read Yesterday at 3:51 PM CDT

Throughout the Southeast, farmers, individuals and corporate sponsors are donating time, equipment and services to harvest grain for developing countries. In Manitoba, 28 community growing projects are harvesting 3,000 acres of grain for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB).

A lump rises in his throat every time he is at a harvest, according to CFGB Manitoba/Saskatchewan coordinator Henry Klassen.

“It is the coming together of all the efforts. It is a coming together of various faiths and is a Christian response to hunger.”

Klassen is amazed at how willing farmers are to leave their own fields during the busy harvest season to harvest grain for others.

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COLUMN: Grey Matters – Hoy! Come to the waters

Gary Dyck 5 minute read Yesterday at 3:42 PM CDT

“Hoy! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.” -Isaiah 55:1 (NASB)

Each year Christians around the world observe the ‘Season of Creation’, a period of prayer and reflection that begins Sept. 1, the first day of the Orthodox church calendar, and concludes on October 4, the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology. During these weeks, believers are invited to consider God’s gift of creation and humanity’s responsibility toward our common home.

Underlying this season is a profound question: Do we believe God has created a world of abundance, or do we live as though scarcity has the final word? Isaiah 55:1 offers a compelling invitation into God’s vision of abundance, justice, and restoration.

Isaiah 55 begins with a single Hebrew word, that many translators ignore. The word is ‘Hoy!’ and as an interrogative it is difficult to translate. It carries shades of warning, lament, relief, wonder, and urgent attention all at once. Messianic Jewish scholar Yaakov Brown describes it as a foreboding exclamation that combines awe and invitation.

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Pepper spray and taser used to subdue suspect

Greg Vandermeulen 2 minute read Yesterday at 3:21 PM CDT

A suspect on Roseau River First Nation didn’t go quietly when Manitoba First Nations Police Services arrived to arrest him.

Police reported that at 9:40 a.m. on Sept. 12, they arrived at the man’s residence. The 28-year-old male had an active warrant for arrest stemming from a previous incident.

Once advised he was under arrest, police say he became agitated and combative, physically resisting the officers.

“A chemical agent (OC spray) was utilized to gain compliance. However, it was unsuccessful,” they said in a press release. “A struggle continued and an energy weapon (taser) was then deployed. The energy weapon was successful, but the suspect continued to be uncooperative.”

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New-look Nighthawks looking to defend MJHL championship

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New-look Nighthawks looking to defend MJHL championship

Cassidy Dankochik 4 minute read Yesterday at 12:00 PM CDT

The Niverville Nighthawks are hoping to prove their Turnbull Cup and national championship win from last season wasn’t a fluke.

Despite key departures up front, including the graduation of their entire top line from last season (Hayden Wheddon, Merik Boles, Adam Vigfusson), the team appears ready to compete once again.

The Nighthawks played five exhibition games this year, the most of any team in the East Division, losing just a single time, their final game against the Steinbach Pistons Sept. 12.

“They’ve developed the systems really well,” head coach Dwight Hirst said after the game, noting the night’s action was about getting some last-minute looks at some younger players and seeing who is ready for a bigger role this season.

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Steinbach Pistons roster features massive turnover once again

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Steinbach Pistons roster features massive turnover once again

3 minute read Yesterday at 9:00 AM CDT

In what’s becoming a regular occurrence, the Steinbach Pistons have nearly a whole new crop of players set to take the ice for them this season.

Just eight players are returning to the squad from last year, where they finished with the second-highest record in the league.

With such a fresh roster, head coach and general manager Paul Dyck said the Pistons are a “work in progress,” noting this was the first time he’s only had a single-digit number of returnees.

“It takes time,” he said after a team event Sept. 15.

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COLUMN: Beyond the Shelter – Growing as a team

Andrea Berg 4 minute read Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2026

When people think about the work that happens at a crisis shelter, they may think about training, education, policies, and the professional skills needed to support individuals experiencing violence. While these are all important, growth within a team goes far beyond completing a training session or learning a new framework.

For this month’s Beyond the Shelter, we spoke with Agape House’s clinical supervisor, Andrea Berg, about what it means to grow as a team while doing deeply relational and often challenging work.

“Growth is much more than completing training or learning a new framework,” Andrea explains. “It is an ongoing process of reflection, noticing patterns, asking ourselves what is happening beneath the surface, and being willing to consider how our own experiences and responses shape the way we show up in our work.”

In a busy frontline environment, learning does not always happen in a classroom. Sometimes, it happens in small moments throughout the day. It can look like pausing after a difficult interaction, reflecting on what happened, talking with a colleague, or asking ourselves what we might do differently next time.

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COLUMN: Arts and Culture – Local artist Marilyn Broesky exhibits ‘Diversity’ at the SAC

Steinbach Arts Council 6 minute read Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2026

Starting Sept. 11, the Steinbach Arts Council (SAC), invites you to experience Diversity, a solo exhibition by local artist Marilyn Broesky. From crafting paper dolls and custom fashions as a child to mastering oil painting on canvas, creativity has been Broesky’s lifelong journey. As a self-taught artist driven by intuition and imagination, her multi-style collection explores a range of mediums and disciplines.

Through rich textures and vibrant colors, Diversity offers an uplifting visual experience that celebrates human connection, emotion, and the beauty of continuous artistic growth.

Plan your visit to the Hall Gallery at SteinbachArts.ca/Exhibits.

For nearly 30 years, SAC has showcased local and regional talent. While admission is free, donations via our hallway drop box, cheque, or credit card directly support community arts and culture.

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Carillon Sports Second Shots: Sept 10th edition

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Carillon Sports Second Shots: Sept 10th edition

Cassidy Dankochik 1 minute read Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2026

Featuring pre-season football in Springfield and pre-season hockey in Steinbach.

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New candidate enters Ward 1 election for Hanover school board

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New candidate enters Ward 1 election for Hanover school board

Svjetlana Mlinarevic 6 minute read Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2026

Paul Lavin has thrown his hat into the ring for trustee of Ward 1, going up against incumbent Jeff Friesen.

“I’m just a regular guy who wants to see the division succeed,” he said.

Lavin is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. He grew up just outside of Chicago, but spent most of his adult years in Atlanta and Tennessee. He met his wife Jennifer, a Niverville native, in the United States and as their son Cooper got older, the couple decided to move to Canada to raise him. He has spent 14 years in Niverville and is an IT professional, and worked in the Hanover School Division for 10 years in its IT department.

After Hanover, he moved to the Seine River School Division to work as an IT specialist in order to further his career.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: What constitutes criminal justice?

Dennis Hiebert, Steinbach, MB 4 minute read Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2026

The controversial high-profile judicial declaration last week of a mistrial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children while suffering postpartum psychosis ironically came days after a Sept. 3 column in The Carillon entitled “Murderers should be locked up for life,” (Think Again by Michael Zwaagstra). As both the court case and the newspaper editorial manifest, debates about what constitutes criminal justice persist.

A crime is a violation of law in which the offender must have acted voluntarily, with intent, and with no legally acceptable excuse or justification, such as being diagnosed as mentally “not criminally responsible” (NCR). The criminal justice system is an institutional response to violations of law by police, courts, and prisons, employing four differing rationales for its response to crime.

Retribution is a punitive function, operating as moral vengeance by which society subjects an offender to suffering comparable to that caused by the offence, capital punishment being the ultimate. It may also, where possible, include restitution in which offenders compensate their victims. As the oldest justification for punishment, retribution is a form of public revenge and retaliation intended to restore “moral balance” to society.

Deterrence is a preventive function, attempting to discourage criminality by imposing severe consequences for committing crime. Specific deterrence causes the individual to think twice about whether it’s worth the risk, whereas general deterrence makes an example of offenders that coerces others to obey the law. But deterrence assumes that criminal behaviour is always rational and calculated, which it clearly is not. And research suggests that deterrence is effective only when punishment is certain, severe, and swift, which it clearly is not.

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COLUMN: Report from the Legislature – Constituency barbecues approaching

Bob Lagasse, MLA for Dawson Trail 3 minute read Tuesday, Sep. 15, 2026

And just like that, September has officially arrived and the summer season has come to an end.

This summer was full of so many great community events. I had the opportunity to participate in both the Landmark Friendship Festival parade and the Richer Roughstock Rodeo parade. Both of these events are wonderful celebrations, full of fun activities for the whole family. I look forward to these events every summer, and I’m so glad I could take part in the festivities once again.

I’d like to thank all of the incredible organizers and volunteers who put their hard work, time, and effort into making these wonderful events possible.

There are some very exciting events coming up that I am looking forward to. Firstly, I will be hosting a couple of constituency barbecues in the coming weeks. More information will be coming regarding the details of the events, so stay tuned for that. I always really enjoy hosting these barbecues because they’re a great way to get out in the community and interact with constituents. I hope you’ll be able to join me for some lunch and a chat!

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1946 – 2026 Watching Steinbach Grow: K.R. Barkman Centennial Citizen of the Week

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1946 – 2026 Watching Steinbach Grow: K.R. Barkman Centennial Citizen of the Week

Wes Keating 4 minute read Tuesday, Sep. 15, 2026

Former Mayor K.R. Barkman was named by The Carillon as the newspaper’s first Centennial Citizen of the Week in January of 1967, for his contribution to the early development of the Town of Steinbach.

Before Barkman became Steinbach’s first mayor in 1947, its affairs were run by a board under the municipality. Actually, he was elected by acclamation in the fall of 1946, but didn’t take up his duties until the new year.

For a while, the new town council set up office in a part of the old credit union building. Later, part of the Goossen block on Friesen Avenue was rented. In these inauspicious surroundings, Barkman led the formation of a new system of town administration.

Born and educated in Steinbach, he also attended the Mennonite Collegiate Institute, but Barkman claimed Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, was the place where he really got the education he needed for his position as mayor of a town. Barkman and his wife, the former Maria Fast of Steinbach, made their home at Foam Lake for 23 years, and for 18 of these years, Barkman served on the town council there.

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