After things have finally thawed I took a tour to the beach. The water level was lower than the years before. It looks really promising for this summer – something we can all use after the long winter. Now all we need is decent weather – some more sun. Maybe Read more…
The Idle Thyme Restaurant in Traverse Bay, Manitoba, will be open from 8:00 am until 7:00 pm on Monday ,Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.
and Friday and Saturday they will open at 8:00 am and close at 8:00 pm.
Environment Canada has issued an extreem Windchill and Severe Weather Warning for the Grand Beach area for tonight and Sunday!
Weather forecast called for a high of 11 today. Thats about where it’s at. They also predict a chance of snow by tomorrow morning and a lot cooler weather with frost at night for the coming week. So enjoy the rest of today, it might not get this warm again Read more…
This week-end at the Lake is expected to be perfect Fall cottage weather. Mainly sunny on Saturday with 0% chance of percipitation and sunny on Sunday.
The festival was started in 1982 by the Manitou Rapids Art Council of Pine Falls / Powerview and is dedicated to Paper, Power, Pea and Pickeral. Thus the four Ps.
The rain has let off and it will be sunny for the next few days at least.
So everybody grab your beach gear and off to the cottage.
A radius of 1.6 km around the Sunrise Propane Industrial Gases was evacuated by the police this early Sunday morning. Many residents are elderly, some have cuts and light injuries, . Even after 5 hours two big propane containers are still burning!
A 29 year old man was fatally injured in what was called an altercation on Third Avenue about 3 a.m. Sunday, leaving him laying there bloody and beaten. Marking a tragic conclusion to the Gimli Icelandic Festival
August and early September are the perfect time to go to Manitoba’s Beaches! Weather is warm, mid to upper 80s, it is the sunniest time of year and the mosquitos have quieted down. Enjoy the summer by renting a cottage for a week.
Looks like this week-end will be nice and warm, but not too hot for the Eastern Beaches Area of Lake Winnipeg.
The Icelandic Festival or Islendingadagurinn starts today in Gimli. It is the 119th occurance of this annual festival.
The event will culminate in the annual parade on Monday. The parade will start at 10 am and will be attended by Iceland’s foreign minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir who is expected to toast Canada.
One of the goals of the concert was to raise funds to repair the recent vandalism. Some of the profit was to go towards the upgrade of the baseball park and skateboard pad and the purchase of sport’s equipment.
It featured childrens activities food stands and a skate-board park. – and of course: Dr. Rage & The Uppercuts.
Over exposure to the UV rays of our sun can lead to sun burns, which in turn are partly blaimed for skin cancer – melanoma. So let’s play it safe, wear a hat at the beach and no skinning dipping before sunset!
The Festival was ended with former Kinks frontman Ray Davies playing his Waterloo Sunset as a kind of swan song to a great party and a great fesitval.