Stopping animal abuse, educating the public.The cloud cover and cooler weather worked out well for the third annual Walk to Stop Animal Abuse. This year's event took place Saturday morning in Steinbach with dogs and their handlers coming together for a few hours to walk Pistons look primedEnlarge Image.The Steinbach Pistons now have their new logo painted onto centre ice at Centennial Arena. The team's rookie camp begins on Saturday. Tweet Post ShareThisCruisin' for a CauseEnlarge ImageJUDY PETERS|THE CARILLON Show/Hide captionJanna Penner and her daughter Allegra visit the Steinbach A & W on Thursday to support research into a disease that affects approximately one in 330 Canadians. There is no cure for Multiple Sclerosis, a disease that is complex and unpredictable. It affects vision, hearing, memory, balance and mobility. A & W's Cruisin' for a Cause raised $1.5 million last year at its locations throughout Canada.
Grunthal was first settled in 1876 by Russian Mennonites who had come to Canada in what is referred to as the first major wave of Russian immigration. James Urry, in his book None But Saints, defines the three big immigration movements of Mennonites from Russia to America. The first was in the 1870's when Alexander II (then Czar) voided the charters that provided Russian Mennonites from Religious Freedoms and self-determination of their communities. From 1873 to 1884 about 8,000 Mennonites migrated to Manitoba, with another 13,000 settling in the mid-western United States. The second major wave of Russian Mennonites migrated to Canada soon after the Russian Revolution in 1919.