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Serving the Areas of: Emerson, Morris, Dominion 204-746-5487 City, Lowe Farm, Rosenort, Ginew, St. Joseph, St. Jean Baptiste, Tolstoi, Rik Letellier, Ridgeville, Woodmore, Sperling, Aubigny, Dufrost,Carlowrie, Edel Greenridge, Arnaud, Riverbend Halbstadt, Rosa, Roseau River Realty VOLUME 31 NUMBER 2 ~ VERIFIED CIRCULATION ~ JUNE 17, 2021 [email protected] Emerson Legion Places Flags in the Cemetery Like everything else, Legion, Emerson Branch Hall and laying wreaths honour the veterans and year Legion member the cemetery easier. the annual celebration #99 honoured the at the Cenotaph. past members by placing Robyn Copeland As with other events, of Decoration Day has memory of past veterans This year the crosses and Canadian upgraded the crosses the Legion hopes to been cancelled due to marking graves, holding gatherings associated Flags on the graves of using improved material. hold a more traditional the ongoing Coronavirus a ceremony in the with Decoration Day former Legion Members. The placement was Decoration Day next pandemic. In past years, cemetery and another were cancelled, but the This has been done in changed where possible year. the Royal Canadian at the Cenotaph at Town Emerson Legion did past years as well. This to make maintenance of THE SOUTHEAST JOURNAL June 17, 2021 Pg.2 University of Manitoba to the outside of the Dominion City News this past week. Uptown Cafe & Bakery. HEAR YE! HEAR YE! By Shirley Berrington Due to Covid The flowers are starting to restrictions, it was a bloom in the boulevard Southeast Billboard Recent rains and heat were excellent. We will Sponsored by have sure brought on the miss you Dave. Rest easy virtual convocation. Yay planters, and work is gardens, flowers, trees my friend. Stacey! She even pulled hopefully starting soon Emerson Duty Free and crops. It is so nice to It’s so nice to see off straight “A’s” in her on the daycare center as Whats happening in your community. see greenery replace the some people take such last term. they cleaned up their lot Active Aging in Manitoba presents the Manitoba dry brown grass and the great pride in their yards. We have started this past week. 55+ Virtual Games. Games are from June 14 to July leaves on the trees spring There is something so part of our Uptown Covid restrictions 16. Choose from the available events, register, keep to life. My tomato plants rewarding to see flowers Beautification Project. have eased a little track of your activity and let us know. Registration were so droopy and in bloom, enjoy the smell of We planted 4 flowering in Manitoba as our is free. www.activeagingmb.ca danger of not making freshly mowed grass, and ming cherry trees, have numbers start to decline , July it until we got the rain. seeded gardens yielding 3 linden trees ready for and more people RVC/RVS 50th Anniversary/Homecoming 28- August 1, 2022, Join us on Facebook or email- Somehow Mother Nature fresh produce. It is very planting that are already become vaccinated. I’m [email protected] for info. always does a better job therapeutic during these paid for with personal excited to get my second of watering things and covid restrictions. donations, and will be one this week and Bev as *Alumni volunteers gratefully accepted * making them grow. The Hats off to our planting amur maple well as quite a few others summery temps have municipal workers, Hauk trees for the rest of them in town have already been lovely but those Edbom and Rick Rettaler, on the boulevards. Some been double vaccinated. terrific winds we could who did a super job will provide shade as well I’m hoping hairdressers certainly do without. mowing and trimming as beauty and colour to will be able to open soon, It is with heavy hearts up the local cemetery! our main street of town. otherwise I might have that we received news It was very impressive We can hardly wait to to go to a pet groomer, of the passing of David to walk through, with add the others to the as they are still able to Spence on Monday the Canadian flags boulevards. If you would operate. morning. Our heartfelt waving on the veteran’s like to make a donation Well, we still have The Municipality www.facebook.com/ sympathy goes out to his graves crosses, that were to this project, you can one team in the running of Emerson-Franklin redriverrec Check out wife Darlene, his sons placed there earlier this make a donation at the for the Stanley Cup, the Recreation & Wellness the latest zumba link and family members. spring. Many of the Municipal Office and Montreal Canadians, Department will every Wednesday June David was a quiet soft- grave sites have been receive a tax receipt. It so even though they be offering Free 2-23. spoken man with a very lovingly attended to and is a matching grant that beat our Winnipeg Jets, Virtual Courses & Have a great week generous heart and a maintained by family we have applied for and I guess we’ll have to Entertainment. Stay up everyone! Stay safe and very hard-working ethic. members. are impatiently waiting cheer for them, Price was to date on what we are enjoy the last few days He was so handy and It is with a great word on it. excellent in goal in their offering by checking of spring as we head into could turn his hand to deal of pride that our Other things are first meeting against out the Municipal summer. Happy Father’s any trade. When we were oldest granddaughter, happening to spruce up the Vegas Knights, but website: http://www. Day to all the fathers out neighbours, I would call Stacey Leigh Berrington, our main street of town. they were outscored and emersonfranklin.com there! on him often to help me graduated with a degree Todd & Liz Nichols have Vegas took the first game and follow us on out. His carpentry skills in Architecture from the done some landscaping rather handily. Facebook: https:// Inside the Dike last week in Red River mention of them after The Southeast South which consists of the treaties were signed, the Rural Municipality not much before that. By Don Piett of Montcalm and Residential schools Journal the Municipality of and the damage they Emerson-Franklin. have done to first nations 108 Church St, Emerson, Manitoba people and communities Ph: (204) 373-2493, Emerson The number of new active cases. Residential Schools Fax: (204) 272-3492, E-mail: [email protected] is disgraceful and cases of Covid-19 in In the Southern- are Canada’s shame. www.southeastjournal.ca criminal. The cover Manitoba is continuing Santè Sud Health Region History they say is Publisher: Brenda Piett Editor: Don Piett up of what happened to drop. Whether this is there were 28 new cases written by the winners. I Advertising: Don Piett, Brenda Piett in those schools is the result of the health and 329 active cases. 52 don’t know if that is true, Box 68, Emerson, MB, R0A 0L0 also disgraceful. The orders, more people people were in hospital but it is certainly written government of Canada getting vaccinated, or with 40 of them having by those in power. When The Publisher reserves the right to refuse any or all advertising for financed those schools any reason, stated or unstated. Advertisers requesting publication just the better weather active cases of covid. I was in school, I took for over 100 years and of either display or classified advertisements agree that should or a combination of The number of people in Canadian history a eventually took over the advertisement be omitted from the issue ordered for whatever all three, it is welcome Intensive Care from the number of times, even administration of the reason, The Southeast Journal shall not be held liable. It is also news. The number of virus was 8, with 7 having at the University level. agreed that in the vent of an error appearing in the published schools. Some people new cases in Manitoba active cases. Never, in any of those advertisement, The Southeast Journal accepts no liability beyond in government had to the amount paid for that portion of the advertisement in which the on June 15th was 116. In our local health courses back in the know what was going error appears or affects. Claims for adjustment are limited to errors The total number of districts, the number sixties was Residential on, or if they didn’t appearing in the first insertion only. Advertising copy deviating in active cases was 2972 of active cases were Schools ever mentioned. they were hopelessly any way from the regular classified style will be considered display with 1756 (59%) of them Altona- 20, Morris- 4. My memory may not be and charged on that rate scale. incompetent. I think being cases of variants of Red River South- 29, perfect, but the history Printed in USA concern. There were 266 and Rural East- 7. This we learned of the first Continued on Page 11 people in hospital, 186 is a big increase from people of North America was very limited. No Phone 1-204-373-2493 THE SOUTHEAST JOURNAL June 17, 2021 Pg. 3 y Emerson Seniors Corner IN MEMORIAM By Cheryl Wiechern KNUTT- In loving memory of our dear brother Arthur who passed away June 15th, 1995 I will be getting my and possibly anxious Precious memories of our beloved brother second shot and be and/or depressed. Deep are the memories fully vaccinated this Southern Health-Santé No passing of time can take them away week.

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