EnRicher September 2021

MARK YOUR

CALENDAR!

Richer Community Club monthly meeting...

September 8, 7:30 pm at the Dawson Trail Museum.

We ask everyone to follow Provincial Health Orders.

Email dan@richerrodeo.ca

Le Rendezvous - multiple locations in Richer!

Sept 17-19, 2021. See back page for details.

EnRicher deadline: Wednesday, Sept 29 is the deadline for submissions for the EnRicher.

September 2021

Volume 24 Issue 3

Le Rendezvous Just Around the Corner

Le Rendezvous, to be held September 17-19 will be a celebration of cultures with music, displays, activities and food hosted at multiple venues in the community.

The Dawson Trail is celebrating 150 years this year and what better way to recognize that but with a new festival.

Celebrating the heritage of the region, the Métis, Indigenous and Francophone cultures will be on display through music, sound and taste as this event With funding made available from the Province of Manitoba, the RM of Ste. Anne and the MB150 committee along with local business sponsorship, the Dawson Trail Park will feature two stages of entertainment and lots of food. A historical interpretive display will also be set up along with interactive crafts and workshops. The Dawson Trail Art & Heritage committee and the Dawson Trail Museum will also host entertainment and activities over the weekend.

The museum itself will be creating a community fall supper at the Richer Young at Hearts Club along with museum activities including music, and a farmers market with a large craft component.

The second leg of the re-creation of the Red River Expedition which features traditionally built red river carts, wagons and horseback outriders and will be arriving at the park on the Friday around noon.

There are pancake breakfasts planned, along with a Friday evening and Saturday evening live music on the mainstage.

So far, the group has been able to keep the costs for entry to the park to $5 for the entire weekend for adults! Students and other youth will get a free weekend pass. To keep the event inexpensive for families, and to celebrate both MB150 and the 150th Anniversary of the Dawson Trail, organizers will also be handing out $10 food vouchers to kids while supplies last!

SEPTEMBER 17-19

Richer Community Pulls Together for Vaccination Clinic The Richer Community Club (RCC), in partnership with Premier Tech Horticulture, held a pop-up vaccination clinic at the Premier Tech Multiplex in Dawson Trail Park in mid-August.

Organizers said the clinic was held in the spirit of pulling together as a community and “Getting back to what matters.”

Volunteers donning the green shirts were busy handing out burgers, popcorn, brownies and drinks at Richer’s Pop-Up Vaccination Clinic.

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Farmers Market Rain or Shine

Farmers Market outdoors at the Dawson Trail Museum on Saturdays until September 25th from 10 am to 2 pm. If you wish to participate please contact Lynne Robson the market Coordinator at lynne@crazychameleon.ca for more information. Due to the pandemic restrictions all protocols will be followed outdoors.

Summer Students at Museum Kept Busy The Dawson Trail Museum Committee would like to thank Zoé Lessard Kulchyski and Hope Brown for their outstanding work at the museum, cataloguing the artifacts and participating on Saturdays at the Farmers Market among many other tasks. We wish them success in their studies.

From The Pastor’s Desk...

Annual Cycle

By Pastor Ben Funk In the events of our unbelievably crazy times there is always opportunity to be creative in what we do in our lives. The annual seasonal cycle reminds us that there is opportunity for harvest. When gardens begin to mature and bear fruit of the labour expanded by putting it into motion, like spring seeding. Marjorie and I got on our Harley’s and went on a three day ride around the outside perimeter of Manitoba a couple of weeks ago. Crops and gardens had matured and were maturing in and around each community. So, there is seed time and harvest which produce for us sustenance for life as we enjoy the taste of home grown fruit and vegetables. The annual cycle introduces us to an end of one season and the beginning of another. It seems that we celebrate primarily two of those seasons, even though there are four seasons. Now I can see that spring time is the reminder of new life to come. This new life introduces us to summer, the joy of growth in plants and wonderful creative gardens, representing a variety of structured beauty.

Life is very similar. It has a beginning, when parents are excited for future potential of the new born human being and what it will become.

Parents pour their lives into this child watching it become an independent person and a value to the community. At this time of year parents are preparing their children for another year of school, trusting others to train their children in the direction their children will be headed as they grow through their academic journey. I to have enrolled in a school of higher learning for the purpose spiritual formation and development in my own life. I am one who is interested in keeping the mind fresh and develop the heart and the spirit to influence my life’s journey.

It is important to always challenge ourselves to grow in elements that influence our lives in order encourage others to do the same. God is also interested in seeing us grow and mature in our spiritual journey.

The idea is to be a valued contributor to His Kingdom here on earth.

This is why Jesus came to offer humans the opportunity to be redeemed from the burden of sin and released to bring peace to this crazy world of unrest, fear, and uncertainty. We can have certainty in Jesus when we place faith in Him to guide our journey.

Richer Fellowship Church invites to come and learn more about the life of Jesus in us. We meet each Sunday morning at 10:30am at 50 Southeast Drive in Richer Manitoba. You can also join us live on YouTube at that same time. “Richer Fellowship” is the name of our channel.

We are also on local radio – 101.9fm at 10:30am Sunday Morning.

Dawson Trail Museum Mark your calendar: On Monday, September 13 the museum committee will hold their monthly meeting at the museum at 1 pm, everyone is welcome.

The museum will hold their annual AGM meeting on October 14 at 1 pm at the museum. The museum is looking for new board members to join our team. If you have an interest to give back to your community and would like to participate in activities and fundraisers, we welcome your talent and ideas as we move forward.

Fall Supper

The Dawson Trail Museum committee will host their annual Fall Supper on Sunday, September 19 at the Richer Young at Heart Hall. A roast beef dinner “TO GO “ will be prepared with all the trimmings from 3 pm to 7 pm. Tickets are available at the door, cash only: 13years and over $15.00, 6 years to 12 years $7.00 and children 5 and under dine free.

Since the province requires that everyone wear masks in public indoor settings, a take-out service will only be available. Please wear a mask when entering the hall to pay and pick up your meals. Come support our Heritage Museum along with your family and friends. All profit goes toward the museum maintenance. For more information, please call Yvonne at 204- 4229369.

Richer Husky Scene of Movie Shoot

A movie shoot took place in early August at the Richer Husky.

Cast and crew took over the station’s sign as many baffled customers looked on.

Photos by Dan Guetre

Motorcycles Rumble into Richer The “Thursday Night Riders” made a pit stop at the Dawson Trail Park on August 21 during their poker run to raise funds for the Children’s Wish Foundation. There were about 150 participants involved with just over 100 bikes.

Photo by Carole Lanouette

FOOT CARE SERVICES Lilli Langemann is a certified Foot Care Nurse who has clinic days in Ste-Anne and La Broquerie every 6-8 weeks to offer foot care. If you wish to register for appointments please contact the resource coordinator, Melanie Bremaud at 204-424-5285.

Are you a senior in the area and would like some assistance or information? Feel free to reach out to Seine River Services for Seniors. labseinerss@gmail.com Ph: 204-424-5285

Bell Tower Receives Facelift The Bell Tower is receiving a much needed facelift. The tower shelters the bell obtained from the Cote des Neiges Parish in Montreal in 1940 by the actions of Father Xavier Normandin. The steeple, covered with tin, is in an octagonal shaped pyramid with four triangular based facades oriented north, south, east and west. On top of the steeple covers (sphire) is a steel cross sitting on the ball. The steeple covers the bell tower where it is surrounded by wood and covered with spruce drop siding. There is no date found of the last time the bell tower was restored. As we are celebrating the Manitoba 150 the bell tower will be glorious once again in its original state.

The Dawson Trail Museum would like

Photo by Yvonne Fontaine Godard

to take this opportunity to thank RVP Projects for their continued support to make this project possible, the volunteers Claudette Nault, Hazel Paquette, Zoe Lessard Kulchyski and Hope Brown for painting all the tower siding. Job well done. Thanks to Norm Bremaud and Denis Jobin for accomplishing this outstanding project.

Photo by Dan Guetre

RC Cars Take on BMX Hill Challenge!

Have an RC car? Bring it to the BMX Hill at the Dawson Trail Park and try out your skills.

This creative use of the hill and track is the perfect opportunity to add hours of fun!

Photo by Darson Dueck

RCC Summer Students Appreciated A big thank you to the Richer Community Club’s summer student crew… Scott Allen, Adrianna Gaston, and Sydney Ouellet.

They worked hard on keeping the Dawson Trail Park maintained.

For the past two months they have raked, painted, cleaned and weeded through endless blazing hot days.

Thank you for your work and making the park look amazing for our community to enjoy.