InSeine March

Celebrating 13 years!!!

Congratulations to Ste. Anne Curling Club Juniors

Both Tyler Graham and Jadyn LaPointe participated in the Provincials Hit Draw Tap competition this past weekend in Neepawa in their age category.

Congratulations to Tyler Graham who took first place his age category This is Ste. Anne’s 2nd year having 2 junior members go to Provincials and win the same age category.

Ste. Anne Taekwondo Students

Compete in Manitoba’s Winter Classic Taekwondo Tournament

On February 18th these seven young students competed and brought home 8 medals, including 2 Gold Medals, 4 Silver Medals and 2 Bronze Medals accumulated in the patterns and sparring events. Amazingly, 5 of the 7 students were first time competitors. Congratulations to all.

Clearview Co-op Food Store Coming to Ste. Anne

Ste. Anne is where it all began for Clearview Co-op, from one location in the community in 1931 to now spanning southeastern Manitoba and Fort Frances, Ontario with 21 locations. Ste. Anne is a town that has seen much growth and continues to grow, with changing needs.

Clearview Co-op has decided to add to its presence in Ste. Anne by constructing a new grocery store, scheduled to open in mid to late 2024. The store will be on Traverse Road, just south of Main Street. This represents a return to Clearview’s roots, located in the same community where the Co-op began. The store will focus on fresh, locally sourced products, providing customers with high-quality food options that are both healthy and sustainable.

According to Henry Nickel, the General Manager of Clearview

Co-op, “We’re excited to continue growing in Ste. Anne, where it all began for Clearview. We’re committed to the community and surrounding towns, providing them with fresh, wholesome food that supports local farmers and producers.”

Clearview Co-op is confident that the new grocery store in the community of Ste. Anne will be successful and well received, offering many new jobs to people in Ste. Anne and surrounding communities. With a deep understanding of the needs and preferences of its customers, the store is positioned to become a go-to destination for residents seeking healthy and sustainable food options.

They believe that a Clearview Coop grocery store will be a valuable addition to the community, and they look forward to serving all their customers for years to come.

Overcoming Burnout and Cultivating Well-Being

Burnout is a pervasive and chronic stress response. It can feel physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually exhausting. It can leave you unable to access inner resources, and it can erode your self-confidence and trust in the world around you. It can happen to anyone. Perhaps it is happening to you.

You are not alone. In 2018, Deloitte conducted a burnout survey finding that, “77 percent of respondents say they have experienced employee burnout at their current job, with more than half citing more than one occurrence.” Employees, parents, homeschoolers, caregivers, and volunteers can all experience burnout. Burnout can even happen when you love the work you do.

There are steps you can take to prevent and recover from burnout, shift your relationship toward your work, and actively engage with your own well-being. Well-being is a skill that can be learned. That’s what the research of neuroplasticity experts Drs. Cortland Dahl, Christine Wilson-Mendenhall, and Richard Davidson found. In a 2020 study, they laid out four pillars of well-being: awareness, connection, insight, and purpose – that can be cultivated through intentional mental training and by learning innovative solutions to strengthen the skills of well-being.

Consider the following areas to explore in getting started:

1. Take an emotional and physical inventory. Regularly checking in with yourself about your feelings and emotions can help you to increase self-awareness skills and identify the stressors that can lead to burnout.

2. Create and maintain healthy boundaries. When you are more aware of your emotions and reactions to situations and high-stress events or interpersonal conflict, you can better prepare for future challenges.

3. Embrace lifestyle changes to empower yourself to choose daily habits and routines to help you combat burnout.

4. Make a life change. Although change can be scary, sometimes changing your life circumstances is the best way to treat and prevent burnout. Removing yourself from an unhealthy relationship or toxic work environment can be an essential step to recovering from burnout. If you are feeling ready to consider getting help to manage feelings of burnout and overwhelm, please reach out for support. Working with a life coach can provide clarity and an empowering focus to create a strategy that best suits your strengths and vision for the life you want and deserve.

Author: Stephanie den Hollander Phenomenally You Life Coaching www.phenomenallyyou.ca

Amazingly Easy Irish Soda Bread

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a large baking sheet. Mix flour, softened margarine, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Stir in 1 cup of buttermilk and egg. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead slightly. Form dough into a round and place on the prepared baking sheet.

Combine melted butter with 1/4 cup buttermilk in a small bowl; brush loaf with this mixture. Use a sharp knife to cut an ‘X’ into the top of the loaf. Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Check for doneness after 30 minutes. You may continue to brush the loaf with the butter mixture while it bakes.

How to Store Irish Soda Bread

Wrap the cooled Irish soda bread tightly in storage wrap or place it in an airtight container. Store at room temperature for up to four days.

Ingredients

4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup margarine, softened

4 tablespoons white sugar

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup buttermilk

1 egg

1/4 cup butter, melted

1/4 cup buttermilk

Can You Freeze Irish Soda Bread? Wrap the cooled loaf tightly in a layer of storage wrap, then follow it up with a layer of aluminum foil. Freeze for up to two months. Thaw in the refrigerator overnight. Soda bread became incredibly common during the Irish Potato Famine, as you can make it with only four ingredients: flour, salt, an acid, and baking soda.

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Whose cruel idea was it to put an “s” in the word “lisp”?

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

Why is it that, no matter what color bubble bath you use, the bubbles are always white?

Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

Why do people run over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?

How do those dead bugs get into enclosed light fixtures?

Why, in winter, do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?

How come you never hear fatherin-law jokes?

Little Funk Library

Hi All,

March is the first month of spring ! Also Daylight Savings falls on March 12. Many of us find the time-change hard. To help adjust, try turning off your screens an hour before bed and do something calming like reading, yoga/mediation, quiet expressive activity or prep/tend to your indoor garden.

Spring cleaning is also a highlight of the month. Do you prep a to-do list? Decluttering appears to be a very common topic right now. A book I enjoyed was The LifeChanging Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. The Kon Marie Method really helps change the mindset because the things around you should spark joy not just fill space.

Don’t forget March 31 is back up day! Back up all your computer files and important documents.

Are you a green thumb? If you are also a procrastinator you might want to rush to get those seeds at the store before they are gone! Many indoor gardens will be started this month. I am predicting that many new gardeners this year will be attempting to grow their own food as the prices of produce continue to rise. Gardening books including space saving ideas are a hot topic right now.

For a fun St Patrick Day activity, read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss and make the meal to go with (use a little green dye). What do you think... Will your kids eat it?

Spring into reading!

Rhonda Funk - steward The Little Funk Library #

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Irish soda bread made with buttermilk and basic ingredients. The buttermilk gives this crusty loaf a good flavor. It’s the best Irish soda bread around!