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Manitobans Paul Dueck, second from left, and Darryl Neustaedter Barg, third from left, are part of the Mennonite Song and Worship Committee. (Supplied)
More than four years of work by a volunteer group that includes two Manitobans culminated last year with the publication of a hymnal that will be used in Mennonite churches throughout North America.
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More than four years of work by a volunteer group that includes two Manitobans culminated last year with the publication of a hymnal that will be used in Mennonite churches throughout North America.
Paul Dueck of the RM of Cartier and Darryl Neustaedter Barg of Winnipeg have been a part of the Mennonite Song and Worship Committee, the 13-person binational group tasked with curating the hymnal, since 2016.
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WHY was the COVID-19 pandemic so devastating for older people in personal care homes? What can be done to prevent it in the future? And what is the role of faith groups?
WHY was the COVID-19 pandemic so devastating for older people in personal care homes? What can be done to prevent it in the future? And what is the role of faith groups?
Tackling those questions is the goal of Who Cares? The Elderly Among Us, an online forum Wednesday sponsored by Canadian Mennonite University. It’s not that cracks in our care for the elderly weren’t there already, said Heather Campbell-Enns, a professor of psychology at CMU who is hosting the forum. We’ve known about them for decades. The pandemic exposed them.
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Prospective students taking part in the virtual career fair can access online tours of the University of Manitoba campus.
The annual Rotary Career Symposium at the RBC Convention Centre had been scheduled just as the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic set in in late March 2020, and had to be cancelled.
The annual Rotary Career Symposium at the RBC Convention Centre had been scheduled just as the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic set in in late March 2020, and had to be cancelled.
But the job market is not actually dead, even though many young people may have had to put their own launch dates on hold.
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In March the COVID-19 virus began to affect more and more Manitobans. But it also meant people stepped up in unique ways to show love to their neighbours and welcome others home. And the pandemic put prayer at the forefront of the fight.
The Province announced mandatory closures and restrictions on all businesses deemed as non-critical as 24 additional cases of COVID-19 were announced in late March, bringing the total number of lab-confirmed positive and probable positive cases to 96 in Manitoba, at the time.