
Weldon Rinn
St. Vital community correspondent
Weldon Rinn lives, writes, and enjoys living in St. Vital. He can be reached at weldonrinn2@gmail.com
Recent articles of Weldon Rinn
Rambling with… Community Futures
2 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2022Ramblin’ along with… Look Music
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jun. 15, 2022Rambling on down to… Planet of Sound
2 minute read Preview Wednesday, May. 4, 2022Rambling with… Woofs ’n Wags
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2022Food for Thought
6 minute read Preview Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022Rambling along with … The Unexpected Gift
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021Rambling with… Body Measure
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021Rambling along with 204Comics
3 minute read Preview Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021Rambling on with Farmery Estate Brewery
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2021Rambling with… Joe Daley Sports and Framing
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021Ramble on over to Rave Massage
3 minute read Preview Monday, Aug. 9, 2021ImagineAbility… if you can
4 minute read Preview Thursday, Apr. 29, 2021Rambling with… Past N Present Games
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2021No argybargy at Argy’s Records
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2021A little rambling with Weldon Rinn
2 minute read Preview Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021I got a knock at my door a few weeks back. It was my next-door neighbour, Sandy. We live in a three-storey apartment block in the heart of St. Vital and he had a package for me.
He said that some packages had been delivered to him and others while they were outside enjoying the warmer weather at the time. Sandy explained that he’d thought I might like one and he set a black grocery bag on the floor.
The inscription in orange lettering on the black grocery bag read Dakota Community Centre.
I felt the rumblings of ramblings stirring so decided that this generosity warranted further investigation and what motivated the kind folks at Dakota to provide us with such, well, generous gifts…
Rambling on about … 007 and COVID’s sad toll
2 minute read Preview Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021A satisfied Riverview Health Centre patient
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020Dakota Family Foods delivers in many ways
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020“Sorry I missed deadline, but…”
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020It has been a while since my last column. I missed a few deadlines and I apologize. I’m guilty, but I have an explanation.
On Jan. 14 to 15, I suffered a heart attack and, they tell me, a stroke as well. As if one wasn’t bad enough by itself…
I have no memories of any kind of the days leading up to these episodes nor the weeks following. I spent until April 15 in hospitals — first St. Boniface, followed by Riverview Health Centre.
My mobility, vision and speech are all restricted with no deadline in sight (pun intended) for recovery of any or all faculties. I count any and all progressions as successes, regardless of magnitude, and celebrate them as successes.
Chicken Chef dinners just around the corner
2 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 13, 2020A new Chicken Chef is coming to the corner of Bishop Grandin and Island Shore boulevards.
Personally, I have never met a chicken piece, slice or wing that I haven’t liked. I was living in Virden when I first noshed on Chicken Chef with the original owners, Greg and Janice Jackson, who opened that location in 1981.
The first Chicken Chef opened in Carman in 1978 and over the years the number of franchised locations has grown to 37, with the 38th location slated for opening this month.
Chicken Chef Canada Ltd. (the franchisor) is currently owned and operated by Jeff Epp, Ryan Thorgilsson and Ivan Bogovic.
Show some respect during anthems, folks
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019All right, folks, I have officially had it with one particular rude habit of people (mostly men) that I have seen at concerts, sports events, and other social functions.
I’m talking about the wearing of hats during the nation anthem — any country’s national anthem for that matter. This is a phenomenon that should stop.
I know there are exceptions to this customary show of respect — for members of the military, for example, which I get — and women’s headwear in most instances is also accepted during anthems. This last one dates back many decades ago, when women would put decorations, hat-pins, flowers, in their hats and would interweave their hair with their headwear. (Miss Manners even acknowledges it.)
However, even women, if wearing baseball caps or other easily removable hats, should also remove their caps during a national anthem, unless of course they have the ponytail thing happening out the back expansion hole or their hair is somehow woven through the hat.
Dancing Gabe is a local sports legend
3 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 18, 2019Passages.Life preserves memories for generations
2 minute read Preview Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019Passages.Life is a website you truly have to peruse and take time with to truly appreciate.
Basically, www.passages.life is an online platform where loved ones who have passed away can be remembered through storytelling.
Visiting will give you a better understanding of what the platform has to offer, not just as a memorial to your loved one(s) but also a legacy — a permanent online memoriam that can be added to as time goes on. Stories, pictures, events and great memories can all be added as they are recalled.
It’s a record that enables people to go back to time and again to “visit” the dearly departed. In a way, you are keeping not just them but their memories fresh and alive for friends and family to visit and cherish.
Zipper-merging, traffic circles and safe driving
3 minute read Preview Monday, Sep. 16, 2019After my introductory article last month, I had two articles begging to be written.
The first concerns a tremendous end-of-life service called Passages.Life, operated in part by a former student of mine from Morris, Man. The other involves trying to educate drivers in our lovely area of the city (in fact, drivers in all areas of the city). Inform, embarrass — call it whatever you wish, but I like educate. It is a much more user-friendly term.
I decided to write the driving article first because if we all just follow some simple rules and laws of the road then we won’t require the end-of-life services offered by Passages.Life until a natural cause removes us from this mortal coil called Earth. Dying in an automobile sounds just so, well, messy…
So, as I roll around southeast Winnipeg, and other areas of the city there are a couple of habits of drivers that drive me, and many others, bat-crap crazy.