Providence women ranked in nation-wide top 10

The Providence Pilots women’s soccer team continued their winning ways with a bang, improving to 4-0-0 on the season with a pair of strong victories at home Sept. 19/20.

The Pilots opened the weekend with a demolition of the Assiniboine Cougars 11-0, before defeating St Boniface 2-0 the next day. Six different Providence players scored in the 11-0 win.

The women’s team were ranked 10th in the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association rankings released Sept. 22.

On the men’s side, the Pilots found the win column for the first time this season, beating Assiboine 6-0 thanks to a two-goal performance from Ronnie Gibson.

1946 – 2026 Watching Steinbach Grow: Huge crowd attends Tom-Boy opening

FEBRUARY 5, 1960 - Traffic almost came to a halt along Steinbach’s Main Street, as hundreds of cars proceeded to the official opening of Steinbach’s new Tom-Boy store. In spite of the wet snow, hundreds of people stood out in front of the new super-market to await opening ceremonies at 10 a.m., Thursday.

Proprietor Jac A. Penner welcomed the guests and well-wishers who, made this venture possible. He introduced Roy O’Neil, manager of Western Grocers, and Jack Rempe[, who had acted in an advisory capacity in building the new store.

“Steinbach has become known as the Automobile City,” said Jack Rempel in his remarks. “Cars with Steinbach labels can be seen in every part of the province. Steinbach transport trucks reach out to every part of the North American continent. Millwork from Steinbach is sold all over western Canada. The opening of Jac Penner’s new store will help to provide still another service in Steinbach.”

Rev. Henry Rempel dedicated the building to the community.

Hanover School Division to expand administrative building

The Hanover School Division administrative office is getting a $4.7 million facelift that will house about 50 additional staff.

“It’s exciting. I mean, we know that our division continues to grow, and we have emerging needs for more office space with the expansion that the board has approved,” said superintendent Joe Thiessen to the board of trustees during the last board meeting.

“We’ve been in this current space for approximately 18 years, if I got that right, and with the continued growth we need the office space.”

The 12,200 square-foot two-storey addition will centrally house about 50 additional staff, such as clinicians, student services, support staff, senior administrators, and learning coaches. As student services will be housed at the new addition, it will leave its current space next to Stonybrook Middle School. The office space at the school will be used for classrooms.

Adoption to permanent Daylight Saving Time 28 years in the making

Come November, Manitobans will stay on Daylight Saving Time as they will no longer have to set their clocks back one hour due to the province’s decision to abandon seasonal time changes, which one MLA said is a long time coming.

“I’ve been at the legislature for 28 years, and we have talked about it and studied it and debated it and discussed it for 28 years, and Manitobans every year say, why are we doing this?” said Springfield-Ritchot MLA Ron Schuler, who has been advocating for the change since the last election.

“Do I view this as a personal win? I would say this is more of the public has really pushed for this, and they’ve been patient, and they’ve pushed hard for this, and it is, I think, the public’s win,” said Schuler.

Schuler brought the matter of not changing the clock in March and November after being lobbied by constituent Neil Van Ryssel, a dairy farmer in Oakbank.

Walk For Hope raises more than $58,000 for Southeast Cancer Support Services

The second annual Walk For Hope has surpassed last year’s total of $45,000.

Southeast Cancer Support Services (SCSS) executive director Cindi Rempel Patrick said that despite the rain this year, more people came out to this year’s fundraiser compared to 2025.

“There’s over 200 walkers and there’s 100 volunteers and then there’s all their families and friends, so there’s hundreds. And we’re thrilled because it’s raining less than it did last year. And even last year when it poured, people still came out,” she said.

Walk For Hope raised more than $58,000 this year with all money going towards transportation costs associated with driving cancer patients to doctor’s appointments. SCSS serves 88 communities in the Southeast and currently has 105 clients that receive transportation. About 150 survivors walked this year.

1946 – 2026 Watching Steinbach Grow: Car break-down leads to Auto City grocer’s career

A beat-up old Whippet rattled along a dirt road in central Saskatchewan, where dried up tracts of prairie stretched out on either side. The old machine shifted into low gear and crawled up a hill, barely making it to the top. It was the summer of 1935, midway through ‘the Dirty 30’s.

Inside the car was Jac A. Penner and Esther, his bride of two days, both clutching the sides of the car for dear life as they began to roll down the other side of the hill. About halfway down, the couple in the car were startled to see their back wheel pass them on the road and go rolling off onto a field.

It looked to young Penner and his bride as though the ultimate calamity had overtaken them. They were on their way from Herbert, Saskatchewan to visit relatives at Waldheim and were not prepared for a catastrophe like this.

As they were sitting there a little dazed by this sudden turn of events, a late model car drove up and offered to take them on their journey the rest of the way. Their benefactor turned out to be a man who was connected with a large chain of grocery stores and learning that Penner was a grocery clerk, he made a note in a little book he was carrying. He dropped the Penners off at their destination, and went on his way.

COLUMN: Village News – Walking in the shoes of another

Humans have a tendency to be preoccupied with their own lives. We create schedules for ourselves in order to remind us of our daily responsibilities and personal goals. We examine ourselves in the bathroom mirror before we venture into our daily routines to assess whether we are presentable. And we evaluate whether we have had a ‘good day’ based on how successful we were in ensuring that all activities and interactions with others were favourable for our own lives.

But what does it mean to ‘walk a mile in someone else’s shoes’? It is natural to think about ourselves and our own challenges and feelings. It takes more effort to imagine what others are experiencing: to look at the world through someone else’s eyes instead of just our own; to stop and think about why a person acts or speaks a certain way; or to acknowledge that everyone carries burdens and faces battles that we cannot see.

In the service industry, an important aspect of good customer service is walking to the ‘other side of the counter’ to experience what customers are experiencing when requesting service. It’s not good enough for an employee to be competent in the knowledge of the product that they are selling or the service they are providing. They also need to ensure that the customer or client is able to understand what is being offered to them. Both perspectives are necessary for a successful transaction to occur.

At Mennonite Heritage Village, we share stories of the early Mennonite settlers to Manitoba. It is important to highlight successes, struggles, and changes in Mennonite communities. We also acknowledge that our ancestors did not land in Manitoba alone. There were other settlers who began farming at the same time as the Mennonites. There were Metis communities that predated the Mennonite settlements. And there were Indigenous groups inhabiting many of the same areas that became productive farmland for the Mennonites. What would it have been like to ‘walk in the shoes’ of any of these other groups? What would they have experienced in relation to the Mennonites who were newcomers? MHV is interested in these stories as well, so that we can share a more complete story of Manitoba history and Mennonite settlement.

SRSS Sabres drop to 0-2 on the season

The Steinbach Regional Sabres varsity football team went to Brandon Sept. 18, but couldn’t come back with a win.

The Sabres fell 20-7 in a hard-fought contest, as a late fumble on a third and short play with the visitors down just six points dooming any chances of a comeback attempt.

“The game was sloppy for both teams,” program coordinator Jamie Peters said in his game recap, citing some mental mistakes throughout the game as the reason for the loss.

“The field was soft, the balls were wet, the cameras didn’t work, and it was back to old-fashioned, smash-mouth backyard football. Unfortunately, the Sabres were unable to match the physicality of the Vikings.”

CARILLON SPORTS SECOND SHOTS: September 17th edition

Featuring Eastman Selects AAA training camp, a Hanover Kickers game in Winnipeg, the SRSS Sabres football home opener, Providence Pilots soccer games in Otterburne and the final pre-season game for Niverville and Steinbach in the MJHL.

RCMP presence increases in Steinbach

Steinbach residents will notice a more visible RCMP presence in the community, according to Staff Sgt. Mike Maxwell who presented their annual report to city council on Tuesday.

He said they are fully staffed, something that has not been true in the community for years.

Staffing challenges impact how people see police since the local traffic unit was not present at all times.

The policing report dated, Sept. 15, showed that calls for service this year total 4,716. That’s on pace with recent years that had year-end totals ranging from a low of 6,365 in both 2022 and 2025 and a high of 6,949 posted in 2021 at the municipal level.