http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/b_redekop en-gb Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:39:58 CDT CARMAN -- Watching a sunset, or watching a baseball game in the distance, or just breathing in fresh air and listening to songbirds -- while working out. That's the concept in Carman where people are discovering that while exercise is good, exercise and fresh air is better. Carman has built one... Fri, 7 Jun 2013 08:23:47 CDT NEUBERGTHAL -- It turns out some people weren't slipping into the barns just to check on the livestock after all, a century ago in this heritage village. Neubergthal, renowned for its Mennonite house barns, once had a liquor problem. Not only was alcohol the ruin of several farms, but at least Fri, 24 May 2013 11:19:19 CDT GRAND MARAIS -- There's the Call of the Wild in the birch syrup produced here. It doesn't have that saturated sweetness of mass-produced syrups. An apt comparison might be wild game versus store-bought meats. Beyond the wow factor, birch syrup has a sweet tang that lingers, similar to a wine. Fri, 17 May 2013 08:12:35 CDT ROLAND -- That this small Pembina Valley village holds bragging rights as the oldest 4-H club in Canada is an honour, indeed. But less mentioned is that Roland was Canada's first 4-H club by just a matter of days. Seven other 4-H clubs started up in Manitoba that year, 1913, in the towns of Mon, 6 May 2013 09:02:20 CDT BIRTLE -- If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy, in the immortal words of Red Green. That could also be the motto at Birtle Collegiate. At the Grade 7-12 school in Birtle, 300 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, wood shops isn't just about making pen holders Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:37:38 CDT When some Mennonites arrived in the Ukrainian village of Molochansk in 2000, local people were suspicious. In the Russian Revolution and Second World War, the 80,000 Mennonites living in Ukraine were completely displaced: killed, or shipped to Siberian gulags, where scores died; relocated to the Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:17:37 CDT SAGKEENG FIRST NATION -- Treaty number, please. Ummm... Yes, a large coffee (double cream) goes for just $1.68 tax-free here with a treaty number, $1.88 without. And, yes, this reporter was pleasantly surprised by the request for his treaty number despite his pink, bordering on blush-red Sat, 9 Mar 2013 06:02:36 CST BRANDON -- During Prohibition, some people could still obtain alcohol legally, only not through the local pub or liquor store. They got it from a pharmacy. People would go to a doctor for a prescription to consume liquor for, ahem, "medicinal purposes," wink, wink. Almost a century later, Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:10:04 CST The punctuation mark on our family Christmas always came right after we opened the last present. That's it, our dad would proclaim. It's over for another year, he'd say, as if he'd timed it with a stopwatch. All that planning and preparation, he'd say with private amazement, over in a brief Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:26:47 CST ST. MALO -- In the early 1960s, a young Louis Gosselin of St. Malo was looking to get a loan to buy his dream car, a blue Dodge Charger with dual exhaust and a 440 Magnum under the hood. But the Caisse populaire de St. Malo, the first credit union ever created in Manitoba, had been founded by a Mon, 10 Dec 2012 06:47:36 CST