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For more photos, see Pg. 10. news > sports > opinion > community > people > entertainment > events > classifi eds > careers > everything you need to know 2 The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, September 6, 2018 Community rallies behind family touched by tragedy By Lorne Stelmach and 13 survived the accident and at years ago. ily members, concerned citizens who last report were in stable condition in Unrau’s attention has immediately can help guide and direct ... so that People are rallying to support three hospital after undergoing surgery. turned to helping address the future the money gets spent appropriately young boys who survived a car crash “It’s just one of those things that needs of the surviving Peters boys. and responsibly,” Unrau added, not- that killed their parents and a sibling. kind of hits you when you hear one “It’s going to take some help to get ing they will also be organizing some Corny and Mary Peters, formerly of of your former employees is involved the boys transitioned into their new fundraisers for the family. “We’d love Winkler, were travelling to visit fam- in something like this,” said Chris Un- life,” he said. “There’s lots of family to see the boys have access to a good ily in Mexico when their vehicle was rau, who had Corny as an employee that wants to help, but I think also it’s education. I think that’s critically im- struck by a truck on Aug. 19. at Winkler Canvas last year. a spot for our community to step up portant.” Mary, 33, and the couple’s six-year- “It kind of parallels a tragedy from and help out as well. A GoFundMe campaign is also in old son were killed in the crash. my family, so it hits close to home,” “They say it takes a village to raise place to help cover the medical and Corny, 36, later died in hospital. added Unrau, who had a brother and a child and I think especially without funeral expenses for the Peters fami- Three other siblings aged two, 10, nephew killed in a car accident a few parents the responsibility is on the ly. Any excess donations will be given community to help out.” to the three surviving boys for their A trust fund has been set up at Ac- living expenses. City of Discovery cess Credit Union for anyone who As of Monday the campaign had would like to donate. nearly doubled its $10,000 target. 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Excludes Graber Simple Selections 600 Centennial St., Winkler, MB and commercial orders. The Winkler Morden Voice Thursday, September 6, 2018 3 Winkler Heritage Society in desperate need of volunteers By Ashleigh Viveiros interests. keep the museum open Thursday and volunteers to man the information That’s meant the museum has been Friday evenings and Saturdays. booth they had hoped to have at the The organization tasked with pre- unable to be open Friday evenings, “It would be great if we could keep local festival last month, striking that serving Winkler’s heritage could be since June. the doors open more hours, but we’re initiative entirely. history itself one day soon. Joanne Bergen, the society’s lone very limited now in what we can do,” It’s really a frustrating position for The Winkler Heritage Society is in paid employee, mans the desk dur- says Rietze. the organization to be in, Bergen says. desperate need of new volunteers. ing the day but relies on volunteers to Similarly, WHS struggled to fi nd “You want to grow, you want to get A dedicated core group of people the word out there, but you need vol- has kept the society going for the past unteers to help you with the fund- 19 years, leading the charge behind raising and everything else. And we the creation and ongoing operation just don’t have the manpower.” of both the Winkler Heritage Mu- seum in the Southland Mall and the Continued on page 8 Winkler Archives at the library. But as those volunteers age and start to scale back their involvement, no one is stepping up to replace them, says board chair Randy Rietze. “We’ve lost a few volunteers recent- ly and we’re losing another key one at the end of this year,” he says, re- ferring to the retirement of longtime board member Ed Zacharias. “We are an older group. People re- tire, people unfortunately pass away,” Rietze says. “We’d like some younger blood. But I know everybody’s busy, that’s the thing. There’s so many vol- unteer organizations in the commu- nity and there’s only so many people that take these kinds of positions. It’s PHOTO BY ASHLEIGH VIVEIROS/VOICE really tough.” Staffer Joanne Bergen at the Winkler Heritage Museum’s welcome WHS was hit especially hard at the desk in the Southland Mall. 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The City The fi nancing plan is now set af- of Winkler ter Winkler council last Tuesday ap- hopes to proved the local improvement bylaw put shov- for the project. els in the The bylaw passed fi rst reading af- ground on ter a hearing that attracted no one the Merid- to speak either for or against, which ian Exhibi- Mayor Martin Harder sees as a good tion Centre sign. this fall. “One of the positive things that this tells me is we’ve had plenty of input CITY from the community as we were go- OF WINKLER ing forward,” he said. “We’ve revised the centre according to what the ma- jority of the people wanted. will take approximately 18 months. and exhibition hall to the current In a letter to the city, area represen- “I think we’ve addressed the things The local improvement bylaw esti- Winkler Recreation Complex is near- tatives say heavy rains cause water to that there were questions about it,” mates total project costs could reach ing completion at a cost of just under back up from South Railway Ave.