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Keeping current in a small community is im-portant to the health, welfare and livelihood of that community. More and more often, small town see their residents head off to bigger centres to enjoy cultural activi-ties and that hurts local business. Some accept it as a sign of the times, but others, like Souris, Mani-toba see it as a challenge, a challenge to create events and activities to spur on interest in their own town.

The Souris Events committee does not have a “roll over and play dead attitude,” you can bet your life on that. They are actively searching for events that will give their residents a reason to stay home. And it’s not just their own residents that they are trying to keep interested. This commit-tee is determined to cre-ate something so good that people will come from miles around just to take part.

They have done it for that past three years and this year is no differ-ent. Country star, Chad Brownlee will be per-forming at the Souris me-morial Complex on May 21 and tickets are on sale now.

The Souris Events

committee is comprised of four Souris Glenwood user groups, the Cham-ber of Commerce, the Memorial Complex, the Agricultural Society and the Fire Depart-ment. Each of these organizations puts up seed money and sup-plies volunteers for the labour intensive plan-ning that goes into an event as big and popu-lar as a Chad Brownlee concert. They are not strangers to this type of work by any means. They have held con-certs in the past. Some, Like Doc Walker and Aaron Pritchett were wildly successful and others, like Beverly Mayhood and Nazareth were less so but accord-ing to Souris Glenwood Economic Development officer, Lon Turner, it isn’t always about mak-ing money. “I am fairly new to this position so this is my first concert. I know they didn’t make money at a couple of the past ones and that they did on a couple more, but that’s not why they continue to do it,” Turner explained. “This committee believes that they are working to promote the communi-ty of Souris. They want to bring people here to let them see that this is a community worth fighting for.”

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Souris Events, strivingfor success in a small town

Country music is high on the popularity list in and around Souris, Manitoba and judging from the success of past concert like Aaron Pritchett and Doc Walker, the up-coming Chad Brownlee concert is sure to please any discerning country music fan. Brownlee, accompanied by Manitoba favourite, Ryan Keown will be in Souris May 21.

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Continued from page 1Indeed Souris does

have much to offer. People who come from far away to attend one of these concerts sees �irst hand what it is like here and they often come back. The campground is �irst class, there’s a brand new skateboard park and the pool, with it’s beach entry and waterslides for young

children and larger ones for the more adventur-ous, is amazing for fami-lies. With great eateries such as the unique Wood-�ire Deli, Sun�lower Tea House, Chicken Chef, Mur-phy’s Irish Pub, Tak Lee Chinese Restaurant and Par West Drive In, tourists certainly �ind things to �ill their days. There are three amazing museums

and of course, the newly designed Swinging Bridge that is a must see. When you factor in the beauti-ful gold course, and park then you have enough to occupy even the most dis-cerning travelers.

It all begins with initia-tive of those who care. It’s not about making mon-ey because every cent earned is kept with Souris

Events so they can bring bigger and better events in the future. For now they are focusing on sell-ing 2300 tickets at $45.00 each for the Chad Brown-lee concert. With Ryan Keown, who in his own right is a star on the Mani-toba country scene as his opening act it should be an event worth seeing. Both of these guys are

popular with their high energy and quality shows, we can’t wait for May 21.

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The Souris Events committee knows the importance of keeping a small town current and they do this by arrang-ing concerts that attract a lot of attention not only from within the town’s boundaries, but far and wide as well. In 2014 Aaron Pritchett played a wildly successful con-cert at the Souris Complex to a sold out crowd. He is seen here making his mark of the new, state –of-the-art Souris Swinging Bridge.

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The fastest growing sector of the global food industry – organic - is the reason for the neat little red of�ice based in Miniota, known as OPAM. The Organic Pro-ducers Association of Manitoba, started with an of�ice in Virden in the summer of 1988. Twenty-eight years later the business is showing steady growth and staff are very busy this time of year.

A group of people, with a mandate to de-velop certi�ication for organic producers, was on to something all those years ago. The public’s appetite for organic food has continued to grow, evidenced by organic certi�ied products in regular grocery stores in regular towns such as Virden, where the Valleyview Consumers Co-op food store carries organic dairy, fruit, veg-etables and processed products. Organic meat products are sometimes available there as well.

Initially, these items were strictly the pur-view of specialty stores, markets and farm-gate businesses, but growing consumer demand has elbowed room on main stream grocery shelves for organic certi�ied food.

A study in 2013 re-veals that Canada’s or-ganic market grew to $3.7 billion in 2012.... The value of the Canadi-an organic food market has tripled since 2006, far outpacing the growth rate of other agri-food sectors according to the Canadian Organic Trade Organization.

With as many as 58 percent of all Canadians

buying organic products weekly, who is growing these products? Aside from the exotic fruits such as organic bananas, and off-season vegeta-bles, Canadian growers are taking up the chal-lenge.

Laura Telford, with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Develop-ment, is an organic mar-keting specialist based in Portage La Prairie at the Food Development Centre, and a valuable support for Canada’s or-ganic industry.

OPAM, out of Miniota, is the only certi�ier with an of�ice in Manitoba, and offers professional organic certi�ication ser-vices to Canadian clients wishing to market prod-ucts in Canada, the US and Europe. They �ield a number of inspectors who tour producers and processors, as a means to validate the organic certi�ication.

Melanie Rivard, OPAM’s Certi�ication Co-ordinator says, “Organic certi�ication has gotten slowly busier with inqui-ries year after year. This year, it’s crazy. People are really looking into becoming organic.”

At one point, about �ive years ago, OPAM was struggling. Staff was cut and the of�ice moved from Virden to Miniota. “We had a tough time when moved. But with the demand for organic so much bigger than the suppliers, we managed to weather the storm,” she says. The of�ice also employs Tiffany Priestly, and Linda Rogalsky-Tapp an administrative assis-tant.

At this point, there are only about three certi-�ied market gardens in Manitoba. OPAM is the certi�ier for a grower at Notre Dame De’Lourde.

Whereas it used to be dif�icult to �ind a seed cleaner or a livestock processor, now there are more being certi�ied ev-ery year, “all driven by demand, on both ends”, says Rivard.

The innovative compa-ny, Canadian Prairie Gar-den Purees, a processing plant at Portage La Prai-rie, is OPAM certi�ied. The Food Development Centre at Portage, serv-ing as a one-stop shop for research and prod-uct development, is also OPAM certi�ied.

“It’s a very exciting year for us. Last year we ended up with a net growth of three pro-ducers – a four percent increase. This year we anticipate up to a 10 percent growth,” says Ri-vard.

OPAM takes no part in the marketing aspect of the business, but does guide members toward conferences and work-shops. A potluck meal held at Rapid City this February brought grow-ers together and later on, the yearly �ield day gives producers an op-portunity see each oth-er’s businesses at work.

OPAM now serves an expanded area beyond

Manitoba, including Al-berta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario. At the annual meeting held March 12, in Brandon, new board members replaced those stepping off the board of directors. After six years on the board, Glen Elliott from Pipestone and Glen Echert from Wappella stepped off, but remain producers.

David Stronciski from Grandview, and from the Gladstone area, Agabus

Neuschwander (origi-nally from Germany) are both beef producers and have become the new board members. The ex-ecutive saw no changes with John Finnie of Cro-cusview Farm near Ken-ton remaining as presi-dent.

OPAM has made it easier for smaller or intensive producers to become certi�ied. “For a quarter section or un-der, there is a signi�i-

cantly reduced rate. Be-fore that, basically if you had a small operation it didn’t make sense,” explains Rivard. “What we’re �inding is that a lot of young people are get-ting interested in organ-ics. They may not have as much land to work with as they might like.”

“Some people who haven’t been to a meet-ing in a long time were kind of amazed at where we’ve got to,” she adds.

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An outside view (looking south) of the new water plant in Deloraine. Construction is near completion.

Kent Corkish, Deloraine Water Plant manager, stands in the electrical room of the new water plant.

“We will start com-missioning and running water through the new plant on May 16. Then it’s about a 30 day pe-riod before we will be switching over to the new plant,” said Kent

Corkish water plant manager.

The existing water plant in Deloraine was built in 1962. “Basi-cally very little repair has been needed on the original plant in all those years,” added Corkish.

However, the old plant does not meet the new standards set by the

Province of Manitoba. The new plant comes with a $6.9 million dol-lar price tag; cost shared three ways between the local, provincial and fed-eral governments. The money comes from the “Building Canada Fund.”

“We will still be draw-ing surface water from the reservoir. The new plant will utilize two UF (Ultra Filtration) mem-branes followed by two

Reverse Osmosis mem-branes. The existing plant was a lime soda ash style plant.

“In recent years mem-brane technology has changed (to deal with surface water), so to deal with the current water standards, our engineers (Aecom) decided to go with this technology to remove organics,” said Corkish.

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of the new plant will be double that of the old plant. “The �low rates will allow us to make water faster. For exam-ple, the old plant was capable of making 7.2 liters/second while the new one will be capable of between 12-15 liters/second,” added Corkish.

If there is a power out-age, the generator will start up automatically. Also, there will be water

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Dan Reaves, Sales Man-ager with Precision Ag, explained, “This is a long term investment for Pre-cision Ag has ever made and we are passionate about it because our cus-tomers are extremely ex-cited about it.”

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Reaves says that he has been in the agricul-ture industry for the past 26 years and it has only been in the past �ive or six years that he’s seen advancements in fertil-izer innovations.

“There have been excit-ing new products coming out that will allow us to provide a better blend for our customers,” Reaves explained. “We take the lab recommendations of soil samples and look at pH, organic matter, min-eralization of the soil, cation exchange capacity, and base saturations to understand the medium [soil] we’re in, so the pur-chase our customer is making is positively im-pacting the soil.”

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shown a 3-5 bushel in-crease by using the new-est bulk fertilizer versus regular commodity Ni-trogen and Phosphate fertilizers.”

“To properly recom-mend the right fertilizer blend then you need knowledge,” Reaves stated. “To do that we have 11 years of Ag-riculture secondary school in this office, one degree – Bachelor Science of Agriculture, three diplomas in Ag, one Professional Agrol-ogist certification, and one CCA (Certified Crop Advisor).”

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The fertilizer plant – a 6,000 metric tonne shed – has recently been built at Precision Ag in Carlyle. “The old plant took time to blend and load,” Dan Reaves, Sales Manager, explained. “In a season farmers have about 20 days to seed and they don’t want to waste those days. This system is unbelievably fast. On the old system, depending on the mix, 30 metric tonnes took about half an hour to load. The other day on our new system we did that in seven minutes.”

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$33,995 or $277 Bi-weekly

2011 Edge SEL AWDStock #4086A

$20,995or

$199 Bi-weekly

2014 Escape SE 4x4Stock #4878A

$22,995or

$166 Bi-weekly

2015 Ford Focus SEStock #3842

Heated steering wheelMSRP $23,414CLEARANCE PRICE


2015 Ford Mustang GTStock #38775.0L, 6 Speed

MSRP $47,549CLEARANCE PRICE


2015 Ford Taurus SELStock #3843

Heated Leather InteriorMSRP $38,549

or $212 Bi-weekly

2016 Escape SE 4x4Stock # 6028

MSRP $34,389LEASE

$194 Bi-weekly

2016 F-150 S/CAB XLT 4x4 XTRStock #6012

MSRP $50,949or

$267 Bi-weekly$43, 596

2016 F-150 S/CREW XLT 4x4 XTRStock #4094

MSRP $48,949or

$269 Bi-weekly$43,687

2016 F-250 XLT 4x4 Diesel

Stock #4065

MSRP $65,914LEASE

$395 Bi-weekly$58,995

2016 Edge SEL AWDStock #6029

MSRP $45,839LEASE

$278 Bi-weekly

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$30,995$253 Bi-weekly

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TRUCKS 2014 GMC 1500 SLE Crew 4x4, 46,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $31,500 or $284 b/w

2013 GMC 1500 SLT Crew 4x4, 106,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $26,900 or $243 b/w

2012 Chev 1500 LTZ Crew 4x4, 84,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28,500 or $299 b/w

2012 GMC 2500 SLE Crew 4x4 diesel, 71,000 kms . . . $45,900 or $411 b/w

2012 GMC 1500 SLE Crew 4x4, 71,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28,500 or $299 b/w

2012 Ford F-150 XLT SuperCab 4x4, 121,000 kms . . . . $19,900 or $186 b/w

2011 Chev 1500 LS Ext Cab 4x4, 81,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,900 or $220 b/w

2011 GMC Canyon SLE Ext Cab 4x4, 193,000 kms . . . . . . . $9,900 or $107 b/w

2008 Chev 1500 LTZ Crew 4x4, 148,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,900 or $275 b/w

2008 Dodge 1500 SLT Quad 4x4, 107,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . $17,500 or $289 b/w

2007 GMC 1500 SLE Ext Cab 4x4, 152,000 kms . . . . . . . . . $15,900 or $240 b/w

2002 Ford F-150 XLT SuperCab 4x4, 173,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,900

CARS 2015 Chev Malibu 1LT, 27,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,900 or $153 b/w

2015 Chev Cruze 1LT, 28,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,900 or $129 b/w



2015 Ford Taurus SEL AWD, 9,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $26,800 or $215 b/w

2015 Chev Cruze LT, 18,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,900 or $129 b/w


2011 Chev Impala LS, 87,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,900 or $117 b/w

2010 Buick Lucerne CXL, 128,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,500 or $113 b/w

2009 Nissan Altima 2.5S, 114,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,900 or $117 b/w

SUVS 2014 Buick Enclave, leather, 78,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $34,900 or $314 b/w

2014 Ford Expedition Max Limited, 93,000 kms . . . . . . . $43,900 or $394 b/w

2014 Dodge Grand Caravan SE/SXT, 26,000 kms . . . . . $19,900 or $181 b/w

2013 Chev Equinox 1LT AWD, 32,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23,500 or $213 b/w

2012 GMC Terrain SLE2 AWD, 117,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,900 or $179 b/w

2012 Chev Equinox 2LT AWD, 107,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,900 or $199 b/w

2011 GMC Terrain SLT1 AWD, 96,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,900 or $179 b/w

2011 GMC Terrain SLT1 AWD, 115,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,600 or $176 b/w

2011 Chev Equinox 2LT AWD, 79,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,500 or $199 b/w

2009 Chev Traverse LT AWD, 147,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,900 or $154 b/w

2006 Chev Uplander LS, 201,000 kms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,900

2015 GMC Acadia SLE2 AWD, 20,000 kms

$37,900 OR FINANCE FOR

$ 302 bi-weekly T16-104A

2016 Chevy 1500 Dbl Cab 4x4 1LT V6, WAS $46,375

CASH $34,736 OR FINANCE FOR

$ 251 bi-weekly T16-063

2016 GMC 1500 Crew SLE Kodiak 4x4, WAS $53,930


$ 305 bi-weekly T16-066

2016 Chevy Cruze 1LT Limited, MSRP $26,610


$ 155 bi-weekly C26-007

2015 Chevy Camaro Convertible, 2LT, 19,000 kms

$31,900 OR FINANCE FOR

$ 255 bi-weekly C26-022A

2016 Chevy Equinox LX FWD, MSRP $28,695


$ 165 bi-weekly T16-003

2016 Chevy 2500 HD Crew 4x4, LTZ Duramax, WAS $81,120


$ 483 bi-weekly T16-037

2016 Chevy Impala SLT, MSRP $35,900


$ 230 bi-weekly C26-012

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