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The Ste. Agathe CDI recently hosted their AGM in early December. The event showcased the community’s spirit of giving by announcing record breaking donations for our community. Officials were on hand to present cheques to local groups: Ste. Agathe Women’s Hockey, CPEF Sainte-Agathe, Le Coin Magique, Ste. Agathe Arena, and the Ste Agathe Cultural Centre. The donations were generated through the Ste. Agathe CDI Golf Tournament and Francofonds.

 

 

 

 

The Ste-Agathe Community Development Inc. (CDI) will be hosting their annual general meeting on Monday, December 5th at 7:00 pm at the Ste-Agathe Community Hall. This meeting will be immediately followed by the Ritchot Community Development Corporation (CDC) annual general meeting. Please visit the links here for a copy of the proposed draft agenda for the Ste-Agathe CDI AGM as well as the Ritchot AGM invite and amendments. Everyone is welcome and please feel free to forward this invitation to any interested parties.

The Ste. Agathe CDI works on a variety of community initiatives. Projects include fundraising for local community groups, enhancement and maintenance to Cartier Park, and the attraction of new business to Riel Industrial Park. The volunteer committee also promotes tourism and local business.

The RM of Ritchot is hosting a Main Street Revitalization Workshop on Tuesday, November 14th from 7:30 – 9:30pm at the Ste. Agathe Community and Cultural Centre. Community stake holders and citizens of Ste. Agathe are invited to attend, refreshments will be served. Please RSVP Lesley at cedo@ritchot.com, call or text 204.803.2871.

Share your thoughts for Pembina Trail and ensure it remains a vibrant business district. The project will explore design features that enhance walkability and flow for multiple modes of transportation such as cars and bikes. The goal is to design Pembina Trail so that it brings the community together and helps drive economic growth. The RM of Ritchot has hired HTFC Planning and Design to help us create a unique sense of place for our main street. HTFC will guide the workshop and help Ste. Agathe in reaching consensus around the direction of preferred development. We encourage everyone to attend, transportation can be arranged. The design phase will reach the greatest success level with everyone’s input.

 

The Ste. Agathe Cartier Park is getting ready for the summer and we’re anxious to host the Cheyenne Family Fest, a Ritchot Chamber of Commerce event, campers, family functions and a couple of weddings. The park has recently purchased a new commercial lawn mower that will prove to make the park upkeep quicker and easier for our volunteers. We have also just been approved by the Ste. Agathe Community Development Corp to commence the construction of an interlocking patio and fire pit area that will surely be a beautiful feature and be an excellent feature for the renters.

The park is in need of a couple of things, although our volunteers do an excellent job at maintaining the yards, we need to trim trees along Hwy 305 to make it easier for tilling the soil and it would be a tedious task with only a few people. We are looking for twelve to fifteen volunteers to help us on Thursday May 19 from 6:30pm till approximately 8:30pm. We would need four chainsaws, branch shears and saws to do this job quickly and efficiently. Please respond to alain@steagatheservice.com if you could lend a hand and weather permitting we’ll complete this task on that day.

Also, the Cartier Park is looking to hire a part time summer student to work at the park. The tasks would include grass cutting, yard maintenance, camping fee collection, garbage maintenance, cleaning etc. The hours will be flexible and some occasional weekend work will be required. The student would be working alongside volunteers as well as alone. We require an employee between the ages of 15-19 years old that has experience with lawn maintenance equipment, hardworking and dependable. If you know of any students that would be interested please contact Alain Robert @ alain@steagatheservice.com or text to (204)746-5737. We will hire a student before the end of May.

Ste. Agathe Arena’s famous Club 400 cash raffle is back this year. There’s only 400 tickets to be sold and they’re going quick. The $1,000 early bird draw is scheduled for December 20th … just in time for Christmas. This year’s grand prize is a whopping $4,000.00 with 16 additional prizes of $200. Tickets are $40 each and support the community. Keep those tickets handy, you can win more than once with the same ticket. Contact the Arena for more information (204.882.2440) or see one of our sellers: Martin Lemoine, Nicole Sorin, Alain Ouimet, Marc Chateau, Yves Lapointe, Russ Smith, Jeff Wallace, Russ Lapointe, and Sylvain Lemoine. Lottery Licence LGA 1782-RF