Connecting Past & Present - Selkirk

1 Connecting past & PresentChair had bird s eye view to volunteers transforming communityWhen the volunteers of Homes for the Holidays realized their house and heritage tour was going to be a great success, they knew they needed to find a way to share the just two years, the volunteer team had managed to pay all their bills, make a do-nation to Nova House Women s Shelter for its new building and still have some money left over. The group exceeded its goal when philanthropists Jim and Betty Ann Gay-nor became patron sponsors of Homes for the Holidays 2016 and pledged $1 for every $2 donated by other after two years of hosting 1,500 tourists through 19 different private homes, heritage sites and churches, a new fund was created at the SDCF with $20,000 seed money.

2 The fund is called Homes for All and will allow non-profit groups that provide safe and affordable housing to apply for grants. Those of us on the tour are fully aware that we are luckier than some. We have warm, safe homes to raise our families. Not everyone has that, said co-founder of Homes for the Holidays Shirley Muir. We know there are many hard working community groups in our region whose staff work hard to provide that same comfort for those less fortu-nate. This fund will be one place they can ask for financial help to repair a roof, put in a wheelchair ramp, buy a new stove or buy bed-bug proof furniture among other things, said of the highlights of Homes for the Holidays 2017 was the Fire Heart Women s Traditional Hand Drum Group and Elder Ruth Christies story telling at the historic St.

3 Peter Dynevor Old Stone Church, where Chief Peguis is buried. Volunteers transform communities. The Selkirk & District Community Foundation has certainly known this to be true over the last 22 years. From past to Present board members, volunteers and grant recipients, it has been incredible to see the difference this organization has made over the years. It is the dedication, tenacity and commitment of this wonderful community that has secured our stature as Here for Good .Over 22 years ago, Hugh Arklie, Executive Director of the Thomas Sill Foundation said, "Just wait and see what hap-pens with this foundation twenty years from now". I don't believe anyone would have imagined that we would be granting over one quarter of a million dollars to our com-munity annually by 2017.

4 We have also been able to add a Finance Manager, Eileen Janowski to our hardworking team, consisting of Bev Clegg, our Executive Director and Carole Wiedemann, our Donor Services Representative. Various Board, Board Chairs and dedicated staff over the last 22 years have moved us from a grass root level foundation to a well-respected one within the Community Foundation of my tenure as Chair of the Selkirk & District Community Foundation comes to an end, I look forward to the future, as I know it is so very bright. I can hardly wait to see where we can go in the next 20 years. Kelly Lewis, Chair SDCF BoardHomes for All FundThe 2016-2017 Board of Directors and staff front row: Doug Chorney, Heather Hogg, Stan Halbesma, Terry Neplyk.

5 Back row: Eileen Janowski, Rosalyn Ferguson, Deann Lane, Gord Henrikson (Vice Chair), Kelly Lewis (Chair), Bev Clegg (Executive Director), Carole Wiedemann, Michele PolinukSave the Dates!Bob Jefferson Memorial Golf Tournament presented by Investors Group Thursday, September 7, 2017 Citizen of Year 2017 Banquet: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Nomination deadline: Monday October 2, 201724 Hour Giving Day Saturday, November 18, 2017 Grant Application Deadlines Monday, October 2, 2017 Wednesday, February 28, 20182 / SDCF Community Report 2016 2017 Construction of a church on the east side of the Red River, three miles north of Selkirk where Cooks Creek meets the Red, began in 1852 and in 1853 it was blessed and named Saint Peter by David Anderson, Bishop of Rupert s storied church is now com-monly known as St.

6 Peter s Old Stone Church, and remarkably, it is still in use by its congregation today. There may some divine intervention aiding the church in its longevity, but just to be safe, there s also the Chief Peguis Heritage Park Endowment and Managed Funds. According to Tom Serger, Peo-ple s Warden with St. Peter s, Lorraine and Don Swanson were instrumental in the creation of the fund in June Swansons helped Parish-ioners overcome some of the barriers they had when trying to raise funds, like the Anglican Church s desire to avoid tradi-Long-term vision pays off for Old Stone ChurchThe Selkirk and District Commu-nity Foundation, together with the Community Fund for Canada s 150th, the Government of Canada and extraordinary leaders from coast to coast, are proud to an-nounce three local recipients of Canada s 150th community volunteers from Homes for the Holidays.

7 House and Heritage tours will bring Lighting the Night for 150 to Selkirk s Manitoba Avenue East the first week of December and turn it into Holiday Alley. This will be a legacy project so that there will be lighting avail-able to local shops every year starting on Canada s 150th, says Homes for the Holidays co-found-er Shirley $15,000 Canada 150th grant will allow businesses on Manitoba Ave. East to buy outdoor Christmas lights through Holiday Alley and decorate their store front for Light the Waters of the Selkirk Community Arts Centre says their project, 4 Doors Aboriginal Arts & Film Festival, will bring people together to watch several films, including Elder in the Making and Two Scoops.

8 The films were created by Aborig-inal artists and offer their view of traumatic events in their, and our, Canadian history. It s Canada s 150th, so it s a birth-day for Canada but it s not neces-sarily a celebration for our Indige-nous people. We re a community arts centre and art is about growth and change and finding deeper meaning, Waters says. We felt this would be a perfect time to share with the community, expand our relationships within our community, and with each other through education. These films are educational, but they re also about connection. The film festival, which received $6,100, takes place June 16-18. It in-cludes a showing for students at the High School and the public showing at the Gaynor Family Regional Marine Museum of Manito-ba received $8,900 to create exhibits on the passenger deck of the historic ship Keenora.

9 "The Canada s 150th grant provides the Marine Museum an opportuni-ty to develop more effective inter-pretative exhibits to portray the maritime heritage of our com-munity, says Fraser Stewart. This region was initially devel-oped on the fishing and water transportation industries of our waterways. We plan to tell more stories of the Indigenous and the newly immigrated peoples who had a major influence on who we are today, said Lockport Heritage Park Project will give us all a new perspective on the way First Nations people lived near Lockport some 400 years before the first European settlers arrived on the scene. Leigh Syms, Curator Emeritus, The Manitoba Museum and Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, said the project shows that local First Nations were far more sedentary than once thought, and that they were growing their own crops and making storage sites in the school of thought had them fishing and hunting, following their food sources, bison, rather than spending time in one location.

10 Syms said even Elders from Peguis said they had no idea they were so involved in growing their own crops. You get a sense of wow this is exciting Some 400 years before the first Europeans were here, (local First Nations) were busy, involved in practicing cultivation, Syms said. They were also planting crops, corn and beans and other plants and had sufficient successes that they were building storage bins. The Selkirk and District Community Foundation provided a grant of $10,000 to the project, to help facilitate scientific analysis of materi-als discovered at the site and a TV documentary that is being filmed. University of Manitoba students gathered artifacts from the site this past summer, following up on research done in the 80s that showed the First Nations had constructed storage bins.