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🕊️White mom, teacher, story seeker on Treaty 1. 🌻 | 📻 | B.A. lit & history, B.Ed., M.Ed. (U of MB/Brock U).📚| Intermenno 97-98 🇳🇱 | MCI 96 | 👍🏻 YWG✈️🌱🫙🐾🐂🌈✊🏿🇺🇦
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Zelenskyy says ‘no rules broken’ after Olympics bans Ukraine racer
Vladyslav Heraskevych prevented from starting his race as his helmet did not comply with the rules, the IOC said.
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February 14, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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'We thought it was worth celebrating,' Altona MCC Gift & Thrift Store hosts grand re-opening
After a round of updates and renovations over the last six months or so, the Altona MCC Gift & Thrift Store held a grand re-opening Wednesday morning.
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February 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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From TMR, Apr 1938: From Nikolajewka, Ignatjewo Colony, Southern Russia,
news has now arrived that all the men have been sent into exile; only women and children remain in the village.
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February 12, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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From TMR, Jun 1924: The Emigration.
On May 7th, a council meeting was held in Tiege Orloff, Molotschna.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Dietsche Mejal wondering why hair colouring is considered ok but not makeup: vt.tiktok.com/ZSmNYQGHm/
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February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Jacob Schierling #1037460 and Gerhard P. Fast #?
This Jacob Schierling couple, from Fuerstenwerder, went to the United States for a while, intending to homestead, but they changed their minds and went back home.
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February 8, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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Manitoba reports 74 measles cases in January, highest monthly case count of latest outbreak | CBC News
After a year of measles circulating in Manitoba, the number of confirmed cases continues to grow, and there's no sign the spread of the highly contagious illness is slowing down as the province breaks...
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February 7, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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From TMR, Jul 1893: At Pentecost, seventy young people, both men and women, were received by holy baptism
into the Reinländer Mennonite congregation in Manitoba.
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February 5, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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From TMR, Jul 1893: On Tuesday, July 4th, Gretna and the surrounding area were struck by a severe hailstorm;
half a mile west of the town, the hailstorm was so heavy that it severely damaged hundreds of acres of fine grain over a width of one to two miles, destroying much of it completely.
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February 5, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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These young brothers sacrifice normal teenage life to be full-time ICE watchers in Minneapolis — and say they won’t regret it | CNN
The teenagers’ names are Sam and Ben, but to the federal immigration agents they interact with daily, the two boys wielding cell phones and taking down plate numbers are a duo known as “the brothers.”
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February 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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“I’ve been teaching in the Columbia Heights Public Schools for 33 years,” teacher Peg Nelson said, “and in the past 33 years, I’ve never experienced any disruption or danger to students like the current ICE occupation of Minnesota.”
Minnesota schools in ‘crisis mode’ scramble to support students amid ICE surge
Across Minnesota, school staff who were already overwhelmed are mobilizing to help families affected by immigration enforcement.
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January 30, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Students at Meadowcreek High School in Norcross, Georgia WALKED OUT in protest of ICE. This is part of a growing wave of actions nationwide in solidarity with Minnesota’s general strike.🙌🏽🙌🏽
January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Schoenthal display at Altona Mall (Manitoba) 🌻
Courtesy of the Altona & Area Archive.
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January 30, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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🇨🇦 We love Minneapolis. 🇨🇦

ICE out!
January 26, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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From TMR, May 1893:
Jacob Thiessen [#87713], Neuhochfeld, Alexandrowsk District, Ekaterinoslaw Gouv., hereby informing you that father, Franz Epp [#1450719], was my cousin in Schoenau; he was the son of my late father's ...
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January 25, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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From TMR, May 1893: —Rosenfeld is underwater,
a visitor from the area reported last week—and for the time being, many of the local farmers won't be able to even think about seeding.
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January 25, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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From TMR, May 1893: RUSSIA. The recent renaming of the city of Dorpat to Jurjew prompted the colonists (Mennonites) of Schöneberg to issue the following resolution:
“Since we see from that renaming that it pleases His Majesty the Emperor that the belonging of Russian settlements in Russia to the entire empire be outwardly documented by their names, and considerin...
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January 25, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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From TMR, Apr 1893: The New Testament is now also printed in Low German, specifically the Schleswig-Holstein dialect.
The editor is Rev.
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January 25, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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From TMR, Apr 1893: A group of Mennonite emigrants intended to travel from Russia to America via Constantinople
to avoid the difficulties of crossing the border.
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January 25, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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From TMR, Apr 1893: Morden, April 5. One often reads in the columns of the "Rundschau" about old Bibles and books;
recently again about a Bible from the year 1666.
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January 23, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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From TMR, Mar 1893: February 18th - On Thursday the 16th of this month, the school in Steinreich where I was employed
as a teacher burned down.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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From TMR, Feb 1893: Chortitz. Bernhard B. Friesen, from Silberfeld, Gretna, Manitoba, arrived safely in the Fuerstenland region for Christmas.
He came to visit us on December 31, 1892, where he was a very welcome and unexpected guest, especially for me.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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From TMR, Feb 1893
- The German threshers in the western Mennonite reserve will hold a meeting on March 18 in Blumengart near Plum Coulee to discuss various matters.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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January 20, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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From TMR, Feb 1893: I would be pleased to receive letters from our relatives in Russia; namely from Uncle Heinrich Klassen
and his children, to whom I recently wrote; Uncle Gerhard Wiebe and his children, both in Alexanderthal.
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January 19, 2026 at 11:31 PM