EnRicher March 2021

CELEBRATING OVER 20 YEARS OF RICHER NEWS!

Volume 23 Issue 9

March 2021

Rink Holds Up to Mild Temperatures

The Premier Tech Multiplex in Richer is creating the perfect place to lace up the skates as it is protected from the sun and milder temperatures giving the community more time to experience some outdoor recreation.

FOOT CARE SERVICES - Lilli Langemann is a certified Foot Care Nurse who has clinic days in Ste-Anne and La Broquerie every 68 weeks to offer foot care. If you wish to register for appointments please contact the resource coordinator, Melanie Bremaud at 204424-5285.

Are you a senior in the area and would like some assistance or information? Feel free to reach out to Seine River Service for Seniors.

Email: labseinerss@gmail.com Ph: 204-424-5285

Dawson Trail Museum The Dawson Trail Museum year end is March 31st, so we are working on a new budget for 20212022. We planned all our activities as usual but will evaluate all fund raisers on a monthly base according to the Covid 19 pandemic protocol. The museum has applied for grants which will include painting the Bell Tower, niches, windows and doors during this summer. We have also applied for summer students.

Due to the Covid protocols we are holding virtual meetings until further notice. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call Yvonne at 204 422 9369.

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Richer Community Club AGM... March 11, 7:30 pm. Zoom Virtual meetings until further notice.

Email dan@richerrodeo.ca if you wish to observe, participate or present.

Monday, March 29: Deadline for submissions for the April 2021 issue of the EnRicher.

Richer’s Unstoppable Force

By Red River College student, Nicole Brownlee Dan Guetre is seen as an unstoppable force in Richer. According to some community members, his dedication borders on “insane.”

Not even a bout of kidney stones can keep Guetre from being involved. The night Guetre began treatment, he remembered he had

a community club meeting and without hesitation he snuck out of Ste. Anne Hospital and drove to Richer.

“I was in my hospital pyjamas and I sat there and smiled through the whole thing,” says Guetre. “I never miss a community club meeting.”

Guetre was first inspired to volunteer in his late teens when his father brought him to Black Bear Days, a beloved Richer festival. Now, Guetre carries his father’s spirit when he helps organize each of Richer’s community events, many of which could not be celebrated without Guetre’s contributions.

To help his community he has shaved his head for cancer, raised over $400,000 for Richer’s ice rink covering, and immediately jumped on board and helped organize his own personal favourite festival, the annual Richer Rough Stock Rodeo.

“It’s a privilege to be in a community where people care,” says Guetre. “It is easy when you have a bunch of people who stand beside you and not behind you.”

While Guetre is planning, organizing, and fundraising for Richer, he also runs his own businesses, acts as president of the Dawson Trail Community Development Cooperation, and is a director of the

Dan Guetre with his grand daughter. He is hoping the generations following him commit some time to their community. His son has already jumped on board and sat beside him as they had their heads shaved raising money to help support those going through cancer treatment.

Richer Community Club and to ensure his sanity is never questioned he was the founding president of the Richer Daycare and a former board member of the Richer School Parent Advisory Committee.

He was just awarded the Manitoba 150 Medal to recognize his efforts. Along with the medal, Guetre also receives $500 to donate to a non-profit group of his choice.

“That was easy, the Richer Community Club was my choice,” said Guetre. “They are truly a dedicated group and are always here for the community.”

From The Pastor’s Desk...

Life Is A Journey

By Ben Funk Festivals – Yes festivals? How many have you attended this winter? Exactly! That is what I thought. Now, when we think about that for a moment, we realize the fun we have missed. Actually we have lost a great deal of mental defragging by not attending the events of choice. You might say, what do you mean by “defragging”? You see those events take our minds off of the daily grind of the mundane. Often we attend these events with friends or other family members. This affords conversations and possibly empty chatter that eases the mind from the stresses of life, if ADVERTISE in the only for a little while.

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creative ways. That, to, is a journey with some twists and turns, but a journey none-theless. It is a way of deflecting our attention away from the frustration of isolation to excitement and enthusiasm. Who doesn’t like joy and laughter in their lives? If we engage in the positive side of the ledger by laughter and exciting entertainment outside of what we called the norm.

The journey we find ourselves on at this time may be an invitation for reflection and introspection on the spiritual side of our reason for being. You see, God is still interested in our journey. In Scripture, faith and journeying are closely linked. We find God meeting people while they are on their journey. Life’s journey is not always smooth and or convenient. We have opportunity to struggle, which builds character, and all the while we try and make sense of it all. There was a fellow named Abraham who received instructions from God to go on a journey and leave country and family. But, God also informed him that He would be on that journey with him. So it is with all of us, God is with us on our journey if we invite Him to be there to encourage us in the adventure along the way.

From Richer Fellowship be encouraged on your journey. We invite you to join us every Sunday at 10:30am and Wednesday at 7pm on our YouTube Channel “richer fellowship”. God bless you.

Ben Funk is the Pastor of the Richer Fellowship Church.

Across 2. How old was the Dawson Trail Park in 2020?

3. Abundance of wild berries around Richer can be turned into this.

5. We try to avoid them on roads leading to and from Richer.

7. What is the second most common language spoken in Richer after English?

9. An annual activity in Richer.

15. The historical culture of Richer a mixture of French and what?

17. This was established for the first time here in 1905 due to population growth.

20. A summer treat at Timberline Restaurant.

22. When you get to Richer, heading east, you are leaving the?

24. Ancient lake bed Richer sits on.

28. What the RM of Ste. Anne collects from us.

30. What is the heritage breed of the horses used for wagon and sleigh rides at the park?

31. Name of the Catholic Church before it became a museum.

32. This is hosted Monday nights at the Young of Hearts Club.

Down 1. First name of the community of Richer.

4. Road construction used in the 19th century. The Dawson Trail used this method.

6. According to the 2016 Census, Richer has more of this than the other.

8. The acronym of this committee that looks after the community’s infrastructure.

10. 60 kilometres from Winnipeg city centre in this direction leads you to Richer.

11. Settlers originally made this area home because of the abundance of producing what?

12. A local company that has special interest in dirt and now, strangely enough, ice!

13. Sometimes they run loose in Richer.

14. How many years has the Richer Rough Stock Rodeo won Rodeo of the Year?

16. Our only woman elected as Reeve of the RM of Ste. Anne.

18. She was an internationally published author who resided in Richer.

19. Archery club and that shoots in the Dawson Trail Park from May until September.

21. A historic common mode of transportation along the Dawson.

23. Not much time left to do this.

25. The most common commodity to get at the Husky.

26. The name of one of the black horses that pulls the sleigh and wagon during Richer Community Club events at the Dawson Trail Park.

Hint: A name associated with Star Wars.

27. Something Burnell’s Food Plus sells at their deli counter.

29. You can get this ice cold from the Richer Inn.