Gimli News

Manitoba speedsters were once again off to the races for the first event of 2012 at Interlake Dragway during May long weekend.

As many as 700 motorcycles cruised down Portage Avenue bound for Gimli as part of a fundraiser for prostate cancer research.

A sod turning ceremony was held at the Gimli Recreation Centre on May 25 for a new 28-unit affordable housing complex to be built in Gimli beginning in July 2012: : Gimli CAO Joann King, Gimli Mayor Lynn Greenberg, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger and James Bezan, M.P. for Selkirk-Interlake. PHOTO by MICHEL FOREST.

Gimli was jazzed up on May 23 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. as the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra and the Gimli High School Band performed their harmonies to the body swaying toe-tapping crowd.

Peris Riding School is offering their first Canadian school on July 5th and 6th in Gimli, Manitoba.

The beautiful women of Gimli and Winnipeg Beach 'strut their stuff' with confidence, smiles and panache for the sold out audience of the Gimli Seniors Resource Centre's Dinner and Fashion Show Fundraiser on May 18.

Miami School's Jordan Madill served up a solid season on the badminton court and was rewarded when he was named as the Tri-Star Rural High School athlete of the week.

In 2009, the Interlake RHA released its Youth Health Survey report that summarized the findings of a survey distributed to Interlake youth in grades 6 to 12.

Even though lawn bowling's documented history can be traced all the way back to the late 12th century and perhaps even deeper into the annals of time, making it one of the older recorded sports in history, today it is a game for people of all ages.

"Today we gather to bless these ships and these boats, those who work on them, those who protect our country and citizens, those who provide food from these waters and those who use these waters for family and pleasure..." The quote is from the Prayer of Blessing - adapted from the Mission of the Seafarers, an international not-for-profit charity ... (more)

Armand Belanger, East Interlake Conservation District manager, inspects a willow stand that has stopped erosion on Lake Winnipeg, in Hnausa Provincial Park.

The renowned Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra will be performing at the Gimli High School on May 23 at 7 p.m. Dr.

THE body of a pilot whose float plane crashed into a lake in northeastern Manitoba was recovered by RCMP divers late Sunday afternoon.

Nurses in Manitoba's Interlake and elsewhere are in the spotlight this week as Canada celebrates National Nurses Week, May 6-12. Julie Kumps graduated from Misericordia General Hospital nursing school as a registered nurse in 1980.

RCMP have launched a recovery operation after an 81-year-old man died when his plane crashed into a remote Manitoba lake.

Jennifer Kahler, student and Board representative for Gimli High School, presented an action packed day to the Evergreen School Board.

One of the recurring themes at local town council meetings of late has been the crusade of a certain number of citizens who are opposed to growth, whether it be new land development, the building of a new restaurant, or the expansion of an RV Park that has been there since the first half of the last century, for example.

On Tuesday, May 1, the Thomas Sill Foundation hosted a luncheon in Gimli in order to announce the foundations that are funding the 2nd phase of its long-standing partnership with the Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium that is managed by local scientist Dr.

MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Sean Best in one of the rooms of his medical-marijuana grow-op on his familyi 1 2s Interlake farm.

MANITOBA stood out among other provinces with a rise in anti-Semitic acts of violence in 2011, said an annual report released Monday.