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The Association of Community Living Interlake (ACL) is enjoying a sweet new acquisition as the owner of D&D Cakes. The business venture proved to be a perfect fi t for ACL, a non-profi t com- munity organization dedicated to building an inclusive community for people living with mental disabilities. Executive director Tara Smith said they had been planning on operating a café to give clients an opportunity to learn new skills, similar to the opera- tion of Global Garage. When offered an opportunity to take over the well- known local bakery, they jumped at the chance. “They had actually come to us and asked us if we’d be interested, so it was a really great opportunity for us,” Smith said. “There’s a ton of skills that you can learn in the bakery from doing coffee to cleaning fl oors to shoveling and di- viding up all of the baking goods. It’s great.” TRIBUNE PHOTO BY JENNIFER MCFEE D&D Cakes began as a mother- ACL Interlake is pleased to be the new owner of D&D Cakes. 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There are A local history buff is hoping that been moved from a farm site a few no indicating marks on the back of the someone knows the bigger picture miles east of the location (NE 8-14- photos. about some mysterious wedding pho- 2E). “I’ve been going through some of tos discovered on her neighbours’ “The person who moved it there the local history books from all over property. bought fi ve houses in Winnipeg from — Rosser, Teulon, Lower Fort Garry As a member of the heritage com- the lady who was building the Downs — just to see if I could recognize any- mittee that works out of Quarry Park, Village Motel, so the house did not body,” Willis said. Cheryl Willis is steeped in the history come from the local area,” Willis said. Anyone with information about the of the area. So when neighbours ap- Nonetheless, Willis hopes the pho- photos can contact the Stonewall Teu- proached her with a mystery to un- tos can fi nd their way to the descen- lon Tribune at news@stonewallteulon- ravel, she set to work at the task. dents of the unidentifi ed brides and tribune.ca or 204-467-5836. Her neighbours found four histori- grooms. cal wedding photos in a building that “It would be a shame if someone in they had moved to the property of the family couldn’t get them back,” Centre School, the former one-room she said. “They’re a really nice keep- schoolhouse located four miles north sake.” of Stonewall right on Highway 236 Three of the photos depict wedding (NW 18-14-2E). During renovations, parties while the fourth shows a bride they uncovered the photos under standing alone. Willis believes the some old boards in the attic. photos are from the 1940s, possibly An early spring predicted TRIBUNE PHOTO SUBMITTED While winter has been somewhat of a roller-coaster this year thanks to El Nino, Oak Hammock Marsh’s Manitoba Merv, the resident spring forecasting rodent, made his offi cial announcement Tuesday morning shortly after sunrise. Manitoba Merv came out of the viewing blind at the end of the boardwalk, looked around and saw no shadow, indicating that an early spring is on its way for Manitoba. While Manitoba Merv’s track record is almost impeccable for the past 22 years, an erroneous prediction two years ago made some people doubt his forecasting ability. Manitoba Merv had announced that an early spring was on its way, but winter seemed to last forever. Luckily for him, he regained the confi dence of his followers last year by correctly predicting an early spring. Tracey Malone What are you Financial Advisor saving for? 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The initiative started after local fi re- fi ghters noticed an increase in the number of house fi res where children were not getting out in time, including the house fi re that killed four brothers in Kane, Man., last February. “There have been a couple of really bad incidents involving children and you have to wonder if children are able to get out of their house or if they can even hear the alarms. There have been a signifi cant number of those types of calls,” said fi refi ghter Robin Halabicki. “Every year, we go into schools and give a lot of education about what to do when the smoke alarm goes off, During his visit to Teulon TRIBUNE PHOTOS BY NATASHA TERSIGNI but what happens if there isn’t one, if Elementary School last week, Students in Grade 1 at Teulon Elementary School proudly show off it is not working or the child doesn’t fi refi ghter Robin Halabicki spoke hear it?” their very own smoke alarms that were given to them by the Teulon- to students about the importance According to Manitoba’s Building Rockwood Fire Department. On hand to deliver the smoke alarms of having fi re alarms in every Code, every bedroom has to be outfi t- and to provide fi re education were fi refi ghters from the department ted with a smoke alarm; however, the bedroom in their house and including Robin Halabicki and Rey Girardin. The project was funded by law is retroactive and hard to enforce ensuring that they are always in the Teulon-Rockwood Firefi ghters Association, Rockwood Lumber and in older homes. This initiative ensures good working order. One Insurance. that children who live in Teulon and and it made sense to partner with the surrounding areas have access to a fi re department for this project,” said working smoke alarm that can be in- Rey Girardin, who is a fi refi ghter with stalled in their bedroom that could the local department and a director at looking possibly save their life. One Insurance. Teulon Rockwood Fire Next year, the depart- Department, One In- ment plans to hand out ‘fore’ surance and Rock- fi re alarms to students wood Lumber in grades 1, 3 and 6 a way to sponsored the at the elementary smoke alarm school and then initiative.