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Janssens to host book launch Emily Janssens, 22, has always wanted to write a book. She accomplished this goal recently with the publication of her novella “Coming Home”. A book launch will be held at The Country Garden Inn in Deloraine on Thursday, February 18, from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Janssens actually started writing a book in high school. “It’s a much longer story than Coming Home, so it’s still a work in progress,” she said. Janssens also has a few other story ideas written down - she’s not sure yet if they’re going to be future books or just short stories. Janssens is currently finishing up a joint degree with the University of Winnipeg and Red River College in Communications. One of the classes in the course is called the Independent Professional Project. “In a way this novella is a requirement for my course. My classmates and I each had to come up with a yearlong project with a workload equivalent of a college course. Because I’ve always wanted to write a book, I decided to use this class to do it,” she said. Janssens hopes her Communications education leads her to a career in public relations. “I’m thinking I’d like to work at a non-profit as there’s more opportunity to use all of the skills I’ve learned at school.” Janssens explained how a novella differs from a book. She said that novella is just a fancy word for a short novel. Book classifications go by word count. The length of a novella is 20,000 to 40,000 words, whereas the length of a novel is anything more than 40,000 words. “Coming Home” is historical fiction, which Janssens had never considered writing about until the last couple years. In 2014, she read a few historical fiction novels and that sparked her interest in the genre. The inspiration for “Coming Home” came from
Janssens’ rural background. “Since moving to the city, I’ve found that I have a new appreciation for where I grew up. When asked about inspiration, a lot of writers will say it’s easiest to write about what you know, and it’s true. Not everyone experiences what it’s like to live in a small rural town, so I just started with that. I decided to go with historical fiction because it really complemented the story,” said Janssens. What about a sequel or other books? “I think with the way “Coming Home” ends, there’s definitely room there for a sequel. I have no plans to write a sequel to it right now but maybe some day. I really enjoyed writing this novella and would love to write another one, so I hope there will be other books in my future,” she added. Janssens considers everyone who encouraged her to be creative when she was growing as a mentor to her in some way or another. “For this novella specifically, I’ve been working closely with my instructor Emily Cain, who has been a huge help to me in writing and producing Coming Home,” she adds. Can you offer any advise for any fledgling writers out there? “I think the best advice I can give is to focus on the story. No matter what you’re writing about or what genre you’re writing in, people want to read a good story. It helps to read a variety of authors to see how other writers build their stories. It also helps to write about something you’re interested in. Oh, and also learn the rules of grammar because it makes writing so much easier,” concluded Janssens.
“Coming Home” is a novella written by Emily Janssens who is finishing up a degree in Communications. A book launch will take place on Thursday, February 18, at Country Garden Inn, Deloraine. PHOTOS/JUDY WELLS
Municipality of Deloraine-Winchester A regular meeting of Council was held on February 3, at 4:30 p.m. in the Muniplex Council Chambers. Present were Reeve G. Weidenhamer, Councillor C. Kirkwood, Councillor W. Cheyne, Councillor D. Vancauwenberghe, Councillor J. Johnston, Councillor J. Redden, Councillor J. Bell, Councillor B. Franklin, B. Janssens and Chief Administrative Officer P. Hainsworth. The agenda was adopted as circulated and the meeting came to order. Council waived the reading of the minutes of the January 13 meeting and the minutes of this meeting were approved as distributed and amended. Council authorized the Urban and Rural Public Works overtime was re-
viewed this date. Council authorized the acquisition of a TD Business Visa with a $10,000 limit. Council gave third reading and passed By-Law No. 16-001, being a by-law for payment of Municipal Employees. FOR: Weidenhamer, Johnston, Redden, Janssens, Bell, Franklin, Kirkwood, Cheyne, Vancauwenberghe. OPPOSED: None. The General and Utility accounts were read and referred to the Finance Committee. Council approved the January 2016 Municipality of Deloraine-Winchester Water & Sewer accounts in the amount of $12,675.99 (Cheques 340-346) and Municipality of Deloraine-Winchester
General accounts in the amount of $313,859.37 (Cheque # 3635 - 3810 and 21632 - 21663) and the Reeve and CAO were authorized to issue cheques for same. The following budgets/grants to organizations for 2016 were authorized: • Turtle Mountain Souris Plains Heritage Region - Grant -$.50/capita; • Del/Bren/Win Fire District - Total Budget -$127,300; • Prairie Mountain Health RHA Camp Bridges - $250; • Manitoba Agriculture Hall of Fame - 2016 membership - $200; The following reports were accepted as information: • Turtle Mountain Souris Plains
Heritage Association annual report. • Recotourism January report. • BDW Centennial Library minutes; • DBW Fire Board minutes. Council recessed and sat as a Committee of the Whole and matter discussed in the Committee of the Whole remains confidential to this Committee until such time as the matter comes to the table at open Council (Sec. 94) (l) (h). The Committee recessed and returned to sit as Council and continue their business. No delegations. The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 p.m. Next regular meeting will be February 17, at 4:30 p.m.
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